Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Pine, Roses and Lavender ❯ The Chase Continues ( Chapter 1 )

Pine, Roses and Lavender

By: Saiyan Kitsune Foxfire

Disclaimer: I don't own them, please don't sue. I do own Kira and Rosa though.

Pairings: Hiei/OC, implied Y/Keiko and Kuw/Yukina

Chapter One

Hiei felt the youko's ki rise up in anger but then disappear completely. His jagan glowed purple as he searched again. She was still down there but somehow her ki signature was being blocked. He sensed his friend and carrot top approach and decided to join them.

"The youko we are after is down in the gorge. There are a few weak youkai's down there also." Hiei informed his fellow tantei.

"A youko?" Kurama asked raising an eyebrow. Hiei nodded and went to the edge of the gorge. The others followed.

"Wait shrimp, how did she get down there?" Kuwabara asked. Hiei growled low in his throat about the insult but answered.

"She jumped."

"It's a she?" Kurama questioned, his eyes became unfocused as if he was far away or remembering something. There was very few female youkos left, Kurama's twin and younger sisters being ones of the few. Hiei watched his friend and remembered a conversation he had years ago with him about regrets. Kurama had told him that the only thing he regretted was leaving his sisters over in the Makai. He put a hand on Kurama's shoulder to bring him back from his thoughts while Kuwabara muttered something. Kurama looked down to his friend and smiled. "Gomen, just remembering Kira and Rosa." Hiei nodded.

"Come on before she gets further away." Yusuke said as he started into the gorge. Kurama and Hiei flitted down and waited for the two ningen tantei to catch up.

"Fox, why haven't you ever come over here to the Makai to search for you sisters?" Hiei asked. Kurama tensed, he himself didn't know the answer to that question.

"I don't know Hiei-kun, I really don't know. I guess I couldn't take the rejection of them if I found them… or something. " Kurama said as he looked longingly at the sky. It was almost dusk before Yusuke and Kuwabara joined them and they headed to the cave Hiei saw the kitsune run into. His jagan glowed purple as he caught the faint traces of the youku that they were chasing. They found the door and entered the dim chamber silently. Kurama slipped in something on the floor but didn't fall. He bent down and inspected the liquid. Blood. A youko's blood. "It's blood." He said when he stood up, "Youko blood." Yusuke traveled forward only to trip over something.

"I'm going to check over there." Hiei said before he flitted off. Kurama nodded and went to check on Yusuke. He was alright.

"Yusuke? Can you use your ki ball to light what you fell over?" Kurama asked. Yusuke obliged and Kurama let out a sound like a cross between a gasp and the sound a wounded animal makes.

"Kurama? What is it? What's wrong?" Yusuke asked. Kurama said nothing and just stared at the body of the small female youko with a partially severed head. Kuwabara came over too, wondering what was wrong with Kurama. Kurama reached out and pushed a red tress away from the girl's face.

"Rosa." He murmured. He didn't check for a pulse because he knew she was already dead. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at each other with questioning looks. Hiei flitted back over and glanced at his friend. He could feel the sadness roll off Kurama's body.

"There's nothing but a warded cage over there." Hiei said before he slipped into a defensive position, his katana in hand. Kurama sensed the youki also and pulled a rose from his mane.

"Yare, yare, yare… if it isn't the traitors of our kind and the Reikai Tantei." The leader's voice sounded. "Hn, I see you found your present Yoko Kurama. Too bad I didn't have the other's body here too."

"What did you do with Kira?" Kurama spat.

"Oh, hmm what did I do with that little mesunokitsune? Ah yes, right here." The leader said as he pulled the chain that had Rosa attached to it. Kira stumbled into view. From what little light there was in the cave and what the torches provided, Kurama saw his twin. She looked like she was in pain. Dried blood stained the front of her torn tunic and gi pants. Anger filled Kurama and Hiei's eyes when they saw how bad Kira was treated in the last ten hours.

"What did you do to her?" Hiei asked though gritted teeth.

"I punished her for her slip up."

"Slip up? What slip up?"

"The one she made that killed little Rosa there. Now she has so humbly volunteered to take Rosa's place by my side." The leader roughly petted Kiri's head causing Kiri's ears to flatten in anger. "She's such a feistier pet than Rosa ever was."

"Kisama, Omae o korosu... ROSE WHIP. "The rose Kurama held swiftly changed into its deadly form. Naugt pulled Kira in front of him as one would a shield.

"Uhn, I wouldn't do that if I were you, unless you want her to meet the same fate as little Rosa." Naugt sneered. The other demons in the cave attacked the Reikai Tantei while Naugt grabbed the vase and dragged Kira with him as he used a back exit to the cave. The fight between the demons and the Reikai Tantei was short lived.

"Hey where's that reptilian dude that had that hot chick?" Kuwabara asked as they looked around at all of the fallen demons that littered the floor. Hiei nearly pounded him into the floor for reasons he didn't know nor understand.

"We have to follow him, he's got my twin." Kurama said before he ran off towards the entrance of the cave.

"Twin? That girl is your twin?" Yusuke shouted after Kurama and Hiei left the cave. Kuwabara and Yusuke on their heels.

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Naugt just reached the top of the gorge when Kira started to struggle.

"Settle down wench or I'll take you right here." Naugt hissed as he backhanded her. Kira staggered backwards but didn't fall.

"Kisama, I'm going to enjoy killing you." Kira said quietly.

"Oh and how do you think you are going to pull that off?"

"Never underestimate a plant manipulator especially when you are on her turf."

"Oh it seems you forgot something, my dear. You are warded and can not harm me." Naugt sneered.

"Oh you mean this ward?" Kira asked innocently as she held out the paper ward that was on the back of her neck. Naugt cursed some chose words in makaigo and lunged at Kira. She dodged and he fell flat on his face. Kira noticed the vase, which was set down some time before, and grabbed it before she went to the edge of the gorge. Naugt move to get up but stopped when Kira held the vase out over the gorge.

"Stop, or I will drop it. I swear to Inari I will." Kira threatened (1). Kira glanced back into the gorge as some movement caught her eye. Naugt took this moment's distraction to unleash his hidden technique, a dopplergranger attack. When Kira looked back at her captor, she realized that she just did a deadly mistake. Naugt had eight solid copies of himself surrounding Kira and threatening to come closer. Kira had to think of something fast then she remembered that she was holding the vase and a smirk appeared on her face. She fed the vase some of her youki as she let the vase drop to the bottom of the gorge. Naugt gave a strangled cry and dropped out of the dopplergranger as he watched the priceless vase drop to its `doom'.

"You've just condemned yourself to hell for that little stunt." He spat.

"Hmm… if that's true then I guess I will see you there, ne?"

"Ha ha ha. If you say so Kira. Too bad you have to die now; I would have loved to get to know your body a lot more." Naugt said before Kira felt something prick her neck. She grabbed the obtrusive object and brought it to her nose.

"Sumacc and Hembane?" Kira said as she realized what the two plants she smelled on the poisoned dart she held in her had were. Naugt just smirked evilly but that soon turned to a frown when he heard Kira's laugh.

"What's so damn funny?"

"You are. You yet again underestimated me." She said as she fed some of her draining youki into the dart. "I guess I will be seeing you in hell." Kira flung the dart back at its owner with the help of some vines from a nearby tree. The dart got her captor right in the heart as the vines, that helped it to its target, wrapped themselves around his arms and legs.

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Kurama, Hiei and Yusuke watched as Kira dropped the vase over the side of the cliff. Something was wrong with the vase, half way down it turned green like a plant, and by the time it reached the bottom it was just a seed.

"Oi, Kurama, I think you should look at this." Kuwabara said. Kurama came to investigate.

"Oh she's clever, very clever." Kurama said out loud.

"What do you mean?"

"She used a tsuki kagami shokubutsu."

"What's that?"

"Well it takes a form of something, a kind of shape shifting plant that only grows in the Makai." Kurama picked up the seed and went back to the other two tantei. A few seconds later, Hiei gave the all clear to go up there. Kurama and Hiei were the first to reach the top. When they got there, Naugt was dead and Kira was just hanging on. A nearby tree extended its lower branches and caught Kira before she fell to the ground. Kurama went to his twin's side.

"Kira?" Kurama's voice was laced with worry. The sumacc was already affecting her eyes so she couldn't tell who just called her name. She just whispered `Sumacc and Hembane' before she passed out.

Tbc…

There's this Tom and Jerry (which I do not own either) where Tom's owner said that if one more thing breaks in the house Tom will be finding a new place to live. Anyways Jerry hears this and decides to `help', if you can call it that. There is one scene where Jerry is holding the crystal glass over the edge of the table threatening to drop it if Tom tried to come any closer. That's were I got the idea for that and wanted to give credit where credit is due. Thanks MGM and who ever else owns Tom and Jerry for the wonderful idea.

Glossary

Yare, yare, yare- well, well, well

Mesunokitsune- Vixen

Kisama, omae o korosu- Bastard, I'm going to kill you

tsuki kagami sokubutsu- moon mirror plant

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Kitsune_Foxfire: Well that is the end of chapter one. What do you think will happen to Kira? Please Read and Review.