Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden Youkai no Noroi: Zasshu ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

“The Noroi's here!” “She's come for us!”

The teenage demon walked towards the screaming masses, accompanied by an inu youkai clothed entirely in black. A maniacal grin was plastered on her face as she stalked towards the crowds, as though she was having the time of her life, as though she enjoyed the terror she was instilling. She came upon the village leader, who cowered in front of her on his knees, attempting to appeal to her sympathy.

“Stop! We'll give you anything, just spare us, please!”

“You do realize that you brought this upon yourselves?" The grin disappeared, replaced by a morose stare that was equally frightening. "There's no use trying to bribe me with 'anything,' because I know why you have 'anything' at all."

"Please-!"

A blue-white light surrounded the girl, engulfing the entire village.

When the dust settled all that stood were the three lone figures in the middle of a once bustling village. The smallest fell, and was caught in the arms of the inu youkai, who picked her up and carried her of into the forest, trailed by the other shadow.

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TWO WEEKS LATER

“Hiei! Hiei, please, listen to me! HIEI!”

“Will you leave me alone!”

“Only if you hear me out!”

“Hiei, just listen to what she has to say.”

“Alright!”

Hiei jumped down from the tree to join Kurama and Botan, who had been chasing him down on the Ferry Girl's oar for the past few miles. “Make it quick.”

“I need you to find someone for me,” she said in a hurry before he ran out of any sliver of patience the Koorime had, “a girl, a demon girl named Rai. Hiei, please, I need your help!”

Desperation. Fear. Anxiety. Botan reeked of these. For a brief instant, Hiei allowed pity to rule him and listened to her plea.

“Sixteen years ago I went to guide the soul of a rai youkai who begged me to rescue her child from the same fate. I did, and I left her with a woman living in Tokyo. That woman, Eri...she dieda fewmonths ago, and the child- Rai, I mean- disappeared-”

“And you want Kurama and I to find her so you can hide the fact that you went against the laws of Reikai and intervened to stop another's death,” he finished for her.

“No! I...I want to protect her! I've protected her all her life and now I can't because I don't know where she is!” Botan was in tears by now. “You didn't see it! You don't know what they were going to do to her!”

“Tell me why I should do this for you.”

Botan, though she had anticipated this question, had no incentive lined up. “Can we talk about that later? After you find her?” Hiei didn't say a word, but Kurama lightly touched her shoulder and asked, “Did you already make a breech in the barrier for us?”

“Hai,” she answered, wiping her eyes on her kimono sleeves. “If you come with me I can take you to it.”

With Kurama and Botan on the latter's oar and Hiei close behind, she lead them to the building where Yuusuke and Kuwabara had gone through on the first mission the four of them had gone on together. Botan didn't even have to look for the breech this time- she simply crossed over to the farthest corner of the basement and pried off a tile, revealing a gaping whole filled with greenish smoke. “Here,” she said, handing them each a communicator. “Contact me if you need anything. This should land you right outside of the city. The nearest raiden youkai village is about a day from there.” She sniffed and turned away from them to hide the tears that were again brimming in her lavender eyes. Kurama threw her a sympathetic glance before jumping into the vortex, and after a moment's hesitation, Hiei went in after him.

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“As you can see, this girl is manic, almost bordering on psychotic. It is imperative that you bring her in before she does some real damage,” Koenma's voice told them as they watched the village obliterate on Kuwabara's television.

“Damn. I'm almost afraid to go after her,” Kuwabara muttered.

“I'm not. We've kicked the crap out of worse.”

“Do we have a test in English tomorrow?”

“Yep.”

“Well, no better time than now to go, I guess.”

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Somewhere in the Makai, a small, dark-haired teen being carried to bed by her older brother watched through her window as two star-like spheres of energy appeared in the sky and dipped below the trees. She silently made a wish before sleep mercifully overtook her.

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A revision. Sorry for all the alerts.

ChaosMage