Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Ice Meets Wind ❯ Two Shinobi and Touya ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Hello. So, now Jin's and Touya's pre-meeting-each-other pasts have been revealed. Now, it's time for them to actually meet each other. These chapters might be shorter than the first two, no guarantee. Read on!

 

I make it sound like Touya found the shelter immediately after the fall, but he really found it a few months later. The forest was really big and he got lost a lot.

 

Ice Meet Wind Ch. 3: Two Shinobi and Touya

 

After Touya had been thrown off the cliff, he fell for an entire day before connecting with the ground. However, the force of contact that should have killed him did nothing to harm him. Touya was unscathed, but only physically. Emotionally he was a complete wreck. It was because of those emotions that he crawled into the forest and wandered aimlessly until he found some form of shelter. The shelter was a cave deep in the woods. Seeing the shelter, Touya ran for it and soon entered the mouth of the cave. Touya had thought he was alone, until a soft voice spoke behind him.


"Boy, what are you doing out here in this cold?" Startled, Touya twirled around and faced the speaker.


The man who had spoken appeared at a glance to be middle age, with long silvery-blue hair and liquid light brown eyes. He was sitting by a small fire wrapped up in his traveling cloak. The way he was looking at Touya caused the boy to give an involuntary shudder. Raising a hand, the mysterious man beckoned Touya forward with a long, slim finger.


"Who are you, boy?" His voice had a slightly brittle quality under it's softness. Almost as though ice crystals had formed in his throat.


Touya hesitated before answering simply, "Touya."


"Touya, huh?" the mans eyes looked over Touya once again. Then, to Touya's utmost surprise, took off his traveling cloak and tossed it to him. "Here, you look cold."


"I'm not cold. The cold has never bothered me," Touya said, giving the cloak back to the man. He received the cloak, giving Touya a smile.


"Really? A rarity among apparitions. Most can't stand the cold, so the wilderness is normally abandoned during the winter season." The man stood up, and Touya saw that he was easily six feet tall. His head almost brushed the ceiling of the cave. "Come closer, Touya."


Touya obediently went over to the man. Why do I trust him so much? I just met him, and he speaks to me like he's known me forever. When Touya got closer, the man grabbed his hand and pulled him down to his eye level.


"You have good eyes," the man muttered, looking deep into his eyes. "You have the ability to become an ice master someday. Quite possibly a very powerful one, judging by what your eyes bear."


"Ice master?" Touya's eyes had widened at those words. Father.They had said he was a minor one. "Me, and ice master? I don't think I have enough strength too."


The mysterious man cut him off. "Strength is in the heart, not in the muscles. When you meet someone or something which or whom you connect to, your strength will be unleashed. Touya, that is when the true training of any type of master begins." he paused and starred at Touya again. He looked like he was contemplating something important. Finally, he spoke, "I myself have been looking for a student to teach before I pass on, and I do believe you will do nicely. Well, young Touya, would you like to be trained in the art of ice?"


"Huh?" Touya blinked, thinking he hadn't heard correctly, "You're an ice master?"


"Yes, one of the most powerful alive. I am Shirikubo, (pronounced shar-e-ku-bo) ice master of the Shinobi of the Makai. I only told you that because I hope for you to be my student. If you accept my offer, I will teach you all I know. You may add moves or change them once you complete the training. Now," he said as his liquid eyes continued to stare into Touya's icy blue ones. "My question is, do you accept my offer?"


Touya was quiet, thinking things over. Father was a minor ice master. So, he was a weak one. Touya almost said no until the memory of what happened to his family filled his thoughts.

 

Folding his hands into fists and squeezing them, Touya finally said the answer, the one he felt was the right one.


"Yes, I accept your offer. I promise to train as hard as I can." So I can kill off those damn Ice Maidens for what they did to my family. he finished in his thoughts.


Shirikubo smiled. "Excellent. However, you remember what I said about connect to someone or something?" Touya nodded. "I can tell by how you are now that you haven't connected to that special person or thing yet. You must do that before your training officially starts. Until that day, however, you are more than welcome to tag along with me in my travels. I must admit, I would enjoy some company."


"Thank you so much," Touya barely held back the tears. Someone actually wants me around!! I can someday be useful! "I promise, I will work hard. For as long as necessary."

 

7 years have passed since that day. Touya was no longer a small, six year old child. He had grown up into a well built teenager; his form had filled out and he had gotten taller (but not by much). The only things that stayed the same about him were his eyes and hair. His eyes were still icy blue and his hair still had those unusual green spiked bangs.


Touya never found whatever or whoever he was supposed to connect to, so he never began the true training. Shirikubo took some pity on the child and taught him some minor healing abilities. It turned out Touya had quite a bit of talent with healing. If things had gone differently in his life, he could have easily become one of the greatest healers ever born. But, as both master and pupil knew, that was not possible.

 

"Come along, Touya. We are almost at the cabin." Shirikubo had suddenly decide to take Touya with him on a trip to visit his friend. Touya had no idea who this friend was, and the curiosity was killing him.


"Sensei," he said timidly, looking up at his master whom was walking beside him. "Who is this friends of yours? I mean, what's his name and what does he do?"


"I figured you'd ask that eventually," Shirikubo smiled at Touya. Shirikubo had become something of a father figure to Touya ever since he had adopted the Forbidden Child as a student. He always encouraged Touya to ask questions, he said they helped to broaden ones' mind. "Kyoko is one of my teammates in the Shinobi. He's the master of wind, and mind you, he's a master of all the wind. Kyoko always has amazed me at how he could just listen to the wind and determine anything. Where enemies are, how far something is, he even got the wind to sing us all to sleep once! He's amazing, and don't you dare think about leaving me and becoming his student," Shirikubo added, smiling at Touya. It was obviously a bit of a joke.


"You know I'd never leave you until I become a master of ice," Touya said huffily. Then he added with a smirk, "Then maybe I'll leave you and become a master of two elements."


"Sure you will," Shirikubo laughed out loud. "You'll become the greatest Shinobi of all! One of two element, wind and ice!! Make the wind carry your snow to your enemy and dump it on their heads!!!"


Their laughter was heard throughout the wilderness, and by the wind.

 

Kyoko was about the same age as Shirikubo and had known the ice master for many decades. He too was looking for a student, but none could stand the way the wind master taught. Kyoko was a bouncy, always cheery master who found anything amusing, especially a good fight. He was tall, had cerulean hair that was pulled back into a low pony tail, tan skin, and had a set of very long, pointed ears. A good set of ears was essential to being a wind master, for the master must always catch what the wind is saying, even in a light breeze. Kyoko always listened to the wind, for updates, news, anything. Today it brought him some very good news.


"Eh?" Kyoko twitched one ear in the direction of the blowing wind. His British accent was out of place, considering it made him sound more regal than he really was. "Shiri's coming?! WOO HOO!" He jumped out of the window he was sitting by and zoomed off to greet his old friend.

Touya was completely unprepared for what kind of greeting they got from Kyoko. One minute his sensei was standing right beside him, the next he was tackled to the ground by a speeding mass of cerulean.


"Shiri!!" screamed the cerulean blob, hugging Shirikubo tightly. "So glad you made it, mate! It's been ages!!"


"Kyoko, I know," Shirikubo's voice was muffled because his face was pressed into the wind master's chest. "I can't breathe."


"Oh, sorry!!" Kyoko let go of Shirikubo and held him out at arms length, "Been far too long. I haven't seen you in almost a decade! What's been keeping you?"


"I got a student," Shirikubo motioned Touya over. "This is Touya. Once I believe he's ready he will learn all that I know about ice. Touya, this is Kyoko, master of the wind."


Touya was still in shock at the other master's attitude, but still politely extended his hand out to him. "Nice to meet you." he said quietly.


"Now, none of that!" Kyoko swept Touya into a bone breaking hug. "You're Shiri's new student!! Let me take a look at you," he held Touya out and looked into his eyes, "Yep! You'll make a great ice master! You start training yet?"


"He hasn't found his source of strength yet, I'm afraid." Kyoko looked at Shirikubo as he spoke, a look of surprise on his face. "I will stay with him until he finds it, though. I see great potential. Kyoko," Shirikubo said to Touya. "Was my source of strength. We both grew up together, and understood each other perfectly. I was always quiet while he was outgoing. When we met our masters, they saw that we were connected and trained us together. Even in battle we worked separately from the others. Bit of outcasts, really."


"Now, now," Kyoko cut off Shirikubo with a wave of his hand. "Outcast is such a strong word. Besides, we got the job done. Now we are masters looking for students to pass on our knowledge to. Shirikubo made an excellent choice, and now I must find a student as well." Suddenly a gust of wind ruffled their hair. "Brr! A blizzard is coming. Let's go to my cabin before the storm hits."


They trudged off through the wilderness to the wind master's cabin in the clearing. The wind was gusting so loud in their ears that they never heard the thump of a body hitting the ground.

 

 

Yup. More to come, stay tuned, and read and review. Yes, I know Jin acts just like Kyoko. Where do you think he gets it from?