Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Running From You ❯ Chance Explination ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: Chance Explanation

 

 

The snow began to fall gently on her forehead as she ran beneath the Ningenkai's first snow of the year. It was light flecks of white that made her shiver as they touched her bare skin. She quickly grabbed her arms and held tight to herself to try and keep warm. So far, it was successfully failing. The cold winter sky nipped at the stars above as she squirmed in between two trees to find a small opening. It was leafy and quickly becoming frozen water. Hesitantly, she crawled into the small opening and huddled there. It had been years since she had seen this place, many since she slept here, and forever since she had a chance to spruce it up a bit. The weather grew worse as she wasted away in the cold. Her hands had lost their feeling, and her body was quickly stopping it's shaking because it could no longer feel. For sure she thought this was her last breath as she inhaled. A small tear fell from her eye as she laid her head to rest.

 

“Quickly!” A voice echoed in her head. A familiar voice that she had heard before. It had a name to it, but at her state she couldn't put a name to it. Warmth enveloped her and held her tight to its chest. Perhaps mercy had looked upon her.

 

“Why are you out here you stupid girl? You could have frozen to death!” The voice said. It was harsh, and yet concerned about her. Right now it didn't matter. What mattered was that someone had found her. This could be bad, very bad for her now. She tried to open her closed eyes to identify the person by his or her face. Her eyes opened slowly but only found a blur of green with black fuzz on top. Even without trying, she quickly remembered the name of the voice. It was Yusuke. The boy who had saved her once again.

 

 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Temple ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

 

Yusuke carefully held a warm cloth to the girl's head to keep her body temperature normal. Slowly her body was heating up and her skin gained some color back. Of course, Yusuke had to ask Botan, Yukina, and Keiko to wash the girl because she was caked in dirt and filth and looked horribly mistreated and abused. The dirt hid all of the girl's wonderful features. She had a short slender body, with long legs. Her height, Yusuke guessed, had to be around Hiei's or maybe shorter. She looked no older then 13, but, something about her was very old.

 

“Who did this to you?” Yusuke wondered out loud. Certainly that weak demon didn't cause all the abuse to this girl by him. He was easy to defeat and his minions weren't brave at all. They had fled after they saw Hiei kill the master with three sweeps of his katana. No one wanted to be near Hiei and his katana.

 

Yusuke brushed back some ivory colored hair with his free hand. So pale was the hair that it seemed like snow to him, just an off color, like a dirty snow. He laughed at the thought of dirty snow, actually coming up with yellow snow instead. Slowly, he looked over the girl once again. She was very pretty. Pretty enough that if he didn't have Keiko, this would be his supreme choice, but he had Keiko.

 

“How is she doing Yusuke?” A calm voice asked from the door way. Yusuke looked up to see his friend Kurama looking at the girl with a sad look on his face. Kurama quietly walked over to Yusuke, like he always walked, and looked at the girl. He too marveled at the difference of when she was covered in rags compared to when she was dressed in a large white t-shirt that Kuwabara had brought with some spandex shorts and a bra and underwear. His sister Shizuru said that a girl looking 13 could only probably be an A cup, so she gave him one of her old bras that didn't fit anymore. Keiko and the girls had dressed her. Kurama checked her forehead and pulled the blankets back only to find that she was still freezing only now she was sure to go into shock. Slowly, Kurama undid the buttons to his shirt and pants. He silently took them off in front of a very surprised Yusuke.

 

“What the hell are you doing Kurama?!” Yusuke jumped at the fox that, in his rose boxers, climbed into bed with the young girl, holding her tight.

 

“If we don't get her body temperature up to normal, she will go into shock from the temperature changes being so drastic. This cold will kill her.” The fox explained. Yusuke looked relieved and then looked around the room.

 

“So why did you get undressed?” Yusuke said, very puzzled. Kurama laughed as he held on to the girl. Her body was warming up quite nicely, as it was supposed to. Kurama forced himself to continue holding on to the girl, even though her body was very cold. He looked over the girl's body and when he felt that she was going to be fine on her own, he let go. Quickly before she woke up, Kurama got out of the bed and pulled his shirt and pants back on.

 

“She should wake up soon. I've transferred some of my body heat to her.” Kurama nodded. Yusuke looked at the lovely girl as her eyes started to open. Just before they were open, everyone rushed into the room. Hiei stayed towards the end, watching all exits like he was told to do.

 

 

“Hmmm…” The girl yawned. She stretched her arms and sat up in the bed. Everyone watched silently from a distance as Kurama and Yusuke stayed near. The girl's eyes slowly opened in front of everyone, and to their surprise, her eyes were a light purple, a lilac color. She looked frightened and crept back to the head board of the bed.

 

“Hey. Don't be scared. We just saved your life.” Yusuke said rather harshly. The girl nodded and her hair flew in front of her face.

 

“Why don't you tell us your name?” Kurama urged. The girl looked at him and recognized him as one of the fighters from the arena. In fact, all four of them were there from the little forest arena match against him.

 

“Kioko.” She said quietly. Kioko was suddenly aware that she could be in trouble. She mentally noted that she should be more careful running away this time so as not to leave them a trail.

 

“Relax then Kioko. Want some tea?” A female said from behind the group. Suddenly they parted and an older woman with wavy pink hair stepped forward. She wore fighting gear and looked like she had trained her whole life. The lady seemed friendly so Kioko tried to relax a bit.

 

“I will let the boys get you introduced to everyone later…..right now I would like to know if you would like to have tea with me: Genkai.” Genkai said as she motioned for Kioko to follow. Kioko slowly got up, but fell over when she tried to walk. That was when she could see the color of her skin and her hair, and she could even see the clothes that she was wearing. For a second she wasn't sure if she was still alive. She had ivory colored hair and wore a large white t-shirt with no marks. Suddenly Kioko blushed as she only saw that she was wearing a large white t-shirt. She quickly checked to make sure she was wearing pants before she tried to get up. Yusuke and Kurama went to help her, but when they went to go and touch her arms to pull her up, she flinched and pulled back. Kurama nodded and pulled Yusuke away so as not to scare the girl. Kioko opened her eyes and saw that the two boys had pulled back so she could get up on her own. Her body had to get used to walking by its self, and it might take a while.

 

“Where is this place?” Kioko mumbled as she followed the woman she assumed would be her master. Never intending to say anything rude, she realized that she shouldn't have spoken. She was expecting to be hit, but when it didn't come, she opened her eyes and looked at a table set with tea and some food for her to eat.

 

“Kioko, you are in my temple. You're safe from the one who was after you because he isn't among the living anymore. You fortunately, can stay here, among us.” Genkai said as she handed Kioko some treats. Kioko looked at the food strangely, as if she hadn't ever seen it before. Genkai looked the girl over and felt her heart grow hatred at the demons that enslaved humans.

 

“Where is your family?” Genkai said with relief. Kioko looked up from battling with the chopsticks. She squinted her eyes for a second and then tried to recall.

 

“My parents died, I think.” Kioko breathed. She looked at the pieces of wood that she was given to eat with. Genkai watched the girl try to figure out how to use the chopsticks to eat the food. Inwardly Genkai laughed at the girl, watching her squish the food trying to stab it onto the sticks. After twenty or so minutes of watching Kioko struggle and end up using her hands to eat the foot, Genkai patiently taught her how to eat with the strange utensils.

 

Once Kioko finally learned, eating was a breeze, except for the food. Kioko would look at something for a few moments, pop it into her mouth, and then give a look of over delight or extreme displeasure. It was humorous to see the girl eat. Yukina had been going back and forth with food, gathering Yusuke's and Kuwabara's attention as they drooled with their stomachs yelling for filling. Kurama and Hiei held the two detectives back and watched as Genkai surveyed the girl with anticipation.

 

“There is something about her, fox. I think I have seen her before.” Hiei whispered to Kurama so only he could hear as he watched the ivory haired girl make a fool of herself eating with those pieces of ningen wood.

 

“She does look familiar, doesn't she Hiei?” Kurama noted to his Koorime friend. Her movements and manor all were electrocuting Kurama's mind with memories he couldn't keep up with. The kitsune was sure that this girl had something to do with one of the people in the Makai; after all, she had the aroma of the demon air about her. But if she was a human; which he was almost positive she was, he wondered how she could have survived in the Makai. Surely she would have been dead. Wouldn't she?

 

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Yusuke: this is boring *snores*

 

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