Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Lost and Found ❯ Baby's Firsts/ 16 months/March ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 11: Baby's Firsts/ 16 months- March

The gloomy camp became brighter as the months past. There was still some gang fights but not as serious as before. It still wasn't safe to go outside alone at night. Some demons don't have the heart to be nice to anyone but they kept their fights to a minimum. But other than that the dim prison camp became a community.

In Shuichi's hut things weren't so well. She had taken Shinta and Shinken in but the former wasn't very happy about it he didn't want himself or Shinken anything to do with demons and the fact that Shuichi was also human puzzled him. He went with Shuichi because her hut was better and she could protect them better than he could. He had recovered fully from the freeze fever with slight headaches but Shuichi told him they would pass and they did. Now he was fully capable to help his sister and Shuichi in the mines that the Koorime made the prisoners work in.

Meanwhile Shuichi was trying to discover Rahne's power. The one year old could already walk and it was time to develop her powers. Shuichi was hoping her daughter would have plant powers but in a way she wished Rahne had fire powers like her father. She was happy to see her daughter grow up like her, kind and considerate to others, but she also had some of Hiei's qualities. Once she saw Rahne pick up a discarded pipe and swing it like a katana. She couldn't help but laugh at her daughter's playfulness, and sigh ay the likeness between father and daughter. Like Hiei Rahne wanted to be left alone most of the time and didn't accept help. When someone tried to help her Shuichi could see Hiei's red fire glow in her daughter's eyes. It was then she realized she missed Hiei and wished to return to him but she had a disadvantage with the Koorime and had to stay. But she promised Rahne and herself that they would get out someday.

They were working in the mines one day when the cave trembled. Shuichi and Rahne had been gather the jewels the Koorime sent them to dig and collect. When the cave started to shake she grabbed Rahne and ran toward the entrance, Shinta and Shinken behind her. Blocks of ice and rocks fell around them as they ran.

"The exit!" yelled Shinta as ice and rubble blocked it.

"We're trapped!" yelled Shinken who started to cry. Shinta held his sister and looked at Shuichi.

"How do we get out?" he asked.

"I guess we'll wait till they dig us out," she said.

"But that could take hours," whined Shinken. "We'll suffocate by then!"

"Not if we whine and cry like new born kits. So just sit down and breathe. Crying and laboring will waste us air and we can't afford that. So sit down and wait."

"You don't have to be so hard on her," said Shinta. "She's just scared."

"So's Rahne but she isn't crying. This is the Makai, kid. I know you haven't seen past these walls but even here the strong survive. You've obviously learned that?" Shinta nodded. "Good, now sit and stop crying. It wastes air."

They sat on the rubble and waited. A half hour past, then an hour. Air was getting thinner and Rahne was close to passing out, being the smallest of the group. The others were having trouble too. Shinken was wheezing and Shinta was taking hard breathes. Shuichi told them to take slow easy breathes and they did, but it was hard to fight the instinct to take long breathes in a slowly air depleting space.

"This is ridiculous," wheezed Shinta for lack of air. "They think we're dead so they're going to let us die!"

"You may be right, Shinta. We'll have to move the rubble ourselves."

"But that could take hours," said Shinken.

"Better than sitting here waiting to die. Let's get started."

Shuichi tied Rahne to her hip and started moving the rock and ice. Shinta and Shinken helped. Carefully they shifted and moved the rocks to try and get out.

"Look," said Shinken, "sunlight!"

It was a small sliver of light but it lifted their spirits. They reached for the surrounding rocks and tried to move them but the shifting caused the surrounding rocks to fall around them thus burying them further in the cave.

"Damn it," yelled Shinta smashing his fist into a rock.

"We're going to die," said Shinken.

"Ma . . . Ma . . . "

They looked down at Rahne on Shuichi's hip. She was tired from lack of air but looked at them with wide eyes.

"Mama, `elp," she squealed.

"What did she say," asked Shinta.

"She want's to help!" exclaimed Shuichi and set the toddler down. Rahne took timid steps toward the rubble and placed her hands in front of it. Shuichi gasped when her daughter's ki rose to considerable heights and black flames surrounded the white youko kit, melting the rock and ice.

"What is that?!" yelled Shinta.

"Makai flames," said Shuichi. "Only one other person can control those dangerous flames!"

"Who," asked Shinta.

"Her father."

"Looks like she can too," said Shinken.

The rubble had melted to reveal the entrance and the astonished faces of the other miners, the water from the melted ice cooled the heated rock.

Rahne looked at Shuichi and said timidly, "Mama, me right?"

"Yes, Rahne," said Shuichi picking her daughter up. "You did right."

They walked out of the cave and to their hut to rest.

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Hiei stormed into Mukuro's palace like a thunderstorm over the desert, angry at being called off his search for his fox. He and Tina had been searching the Koorime territory for the past few months to find nothing but Hiei had to find Tina's mistress, Shuichi, and get the information from her so he could find Kurama. But so far they had found nothing but a lot of snow and dead ends. Once a Koorime guard found them but she didn't live to tell a report. Now Mukuro wanted to talk to him and even forced the order! Hell was going to pay! With Tina behind him he threw open the doors and walked in the room toward Mukuro.

"What the hell is so important that you had me escorted here?! With fifty guards and warded! You have some explaining to do, Mukuro!"

"Hiei, I want you to stop searching for that youko. It's been a year and you still haven't found him."

"He has a name, Mukuro, it's Kurama and I made a promise! To Shiori and myself!"

"You're a youkai, Hiei. We break promises every day. This one's no different. Stop this search and stay here."

"With you?"

"With me."

"Sorry but no."

"Why not? Why are you so intent on finding that fox?"

"Because I love him! Even you've got to understand that!" And he turned to leave.

"Hiei, if you walk out that door, I'll have you arrested by security and I don't want to do that."

"Oh," said Tina, "you mean *that* security?" She pointed at the dead guards on the floor. "They looked at me in a way I didn't like."

"Whether you like it or not, Mukuro, I'm going to find Kurama. And I'll kill any one of your guards who try and stop me. Come, Tina."

They walked out the throne room, ignoring the yelling the demon Lord admitted.

"Hiei, get back here! Hiei!"

They walked out the palace and resumed their search.

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WHOOO HOOOO!! That one was longer than the last chapter but I still have a bit of writer's block. I have up to chapter 13 done then I got lost. I think I need a break from writing.