Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Save Me ❯ Planning ( Chapter 4 )

Here is Chapter four!! Please tell me what you think!! R&R!!

 

I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho... just my own character, Kiarra.

 

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About three hours later, Kurama stood up with a sigh. “She's healed now. She just needs some rest to recuperate.”

Hiei stood off to the side. Yukina was long gone, having exhausted her healing ability only an hour after entering the room with the fox demon and the young woman. She had gone off to get some sleep... something the fire demon thought Kurama could use now.

“Get some sleep, Kurama. You used up too much energy healing her.”

He shook his head. “She will likely be upset when she wakes up. Someone should stay with her...”

“I'll stay. Just go.” Hiei said with a shrug.

Kurama frowned at him slightly. “No offense, Hiei, but you're not exactly an expert when it comes to comforting a distressed human female. In fact, you tend to be more cruel than anything when situations like this one arise.”

“Hn. I think I can hold myself back from being disgusted, Kurama. Besides, if worse comes to worse, I can always get someone else in here. You don't honestly think that I'm going to deliberately hurt her, do you?”

The fox demon looked at him for a long moment, and then sighed in resignation. “All right. You stay with her. She should rest for around ten hours. If she wakes up before then, use your jagen eye to get her to sleep again. She has used up a great deal of her energy and needs as much sleep as she can get.”

The fire apparation nodded, his arms still across his chest. When Kurama left the room, Hiei pulled a chair up beside the bed and sat down, waiting patiently.

About six hours later, the girl stirred and her eyes opened a little blearily. Hiei opened his eyes, sensing her movement and he looked down at her. Her eyes went huge, seeing the unknown figure at her bedside before her eyes met his and she realized who it was. She just looked at him for a few seconds before she looked away and shuddered.

“I killed him... I didn't mean to, but it just happened...”she said, her voice shaken and a little constricted... evidence that she was trying not to cry.

Hiei was barely able to keep himself from snorting. “If you hadn't killed him, then he would have killed you. Your power activated right in time, even if it did go overboard. Don't cry over scum like him.”

She took in a deep breath and nodded. “I guess you're right.” she said quietly. She couldn't look at him. His red eyes were too intense for her. Images from her past flashed through her mind, but she quickly shoved them aside. She was scared enough without thinking about the possibility of one of those scenario's occurring here.

The fire demon looked at her for a long moment before sighing in resignation. He leaned back in his chair. “Listen... I'm no good at... consoling people. It's just not something I've had to or really CARED to do before. Kurama used up a great deal of his energy healing you this last time, and so I told him to go get some sleep and offered to stay here with you. If you would prefer someone else be here with you, I'll go get someone else...”

Her eyes widened a little. “You don't have to do that. I don't need anyone to hold me or anything like that. Just having someone here in the room with me is enough, Hiei.”

He looked at her for a long moment once more, his eyes looking straight into her own. She felt a chill race down her spine. She found herself desperately pushing paranoid thoughts out of her mind once more.

“You should go back to sleep. Kurama told me you should sleep for no less than ten hours and it's only been six.”

Kiarra had a small flash of the days events, and shivered. She didn't think she'd be able to get to sleep with what had happened. But then, as if he was reading her mind, the fire demon spoke up again.

“I'll get you to sleep.” he said. She looked up and blinked when she saw him reach up and remove the headband. Then she saw a thin line that opened, revealing a third eye in the center of his forehead. Her eyes went huge.

“It's called a jagen eye, and it grants me additional abilities and increases my strength. One of those abilities is to enter another person's mind.” He saw a small measure of uncertainty and fear. Acting more on instinct than on rational thought, he reached forward and gently touched her cheek and he felt a gentle smile come to his lips. The woman stiffened immediately, her eyes going slightly wider. “Don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you, Kiarra.” Then he activated his power.

When Kiarra saw the third eye in the middle of his forehead and he explained what it was, she was still more than a little uneasy. The third eye, combined with his already unsettling crimson eyes, made him look scary. Not to mention she wasn't sure if she wanted him to see the memories that had been flashing through her mind since she had woken up with him at her bedside. But that fear turned more intense when she saw his expression soften as he looked at her, his hand coming forward to gently touch her cheek. Then she saw those ever frowning lips curl up into a smile that somehow reminded her of Kurama. “Don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you, Kiarra.”

Then she saw the third eye in the center of his forehead glow a light blue as his fingers found her temple. Before she could allow her paranoid thoughts to become any more extreme, the world spun around her and she was in a deep, dreamless sleep.

 

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While Hiei was with Kiarra, Yusuke and Genkai had summoned Botan to take them to see Koenma. The two of them were NOT at all impressed with the toddler.

Koenma was looking more than a little uncomfortable as Genkai dug into him. Yusuke blinked and then grinned, deciding to just let her have her fun instead of wasting his own breath.

“DON'T YOU EVER WITHHOLD INFORMATION LIKE THAT FROM ME AGAIN, YOU LITTLE BRAT!!! DO YOU REALIZE THAT SHE COULD HAVE DIED? AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IF SHE HADN'T THRUST HER ARMS OUT, SHE COULD HAVE DESTROYED MY ENTIRE TEMPLE AND KILLED EVERYONE INSIDE IT!!!!! I'M NOT SO CRUEL AS TO BRUSH OFF SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH STRENGTH TO BACK UP THEIR SPIRIT ENERGY!!!”

Koenma sighed when she finally finished screaming at him. “All right. I admit I should have told you, but I felt it would be best if you saw how extreme her situation is for yourself. That girl destroyed ten city blocks in less than a minute, completely by accident, Genkai. And that was with a relatively small burst of anger. If she ever becomes enraged... I don't think I have to tell you what the possible ramifications could be.”

Genkai's face was a hard mask. “I would have taken her in without putting her through those tests if you had told me everything from the start, Koenma. The next time you need my help in matters such as this, don't you DARE withhold information like that from me!”

The infant sighed again. “I admit that I was wrong, Genkai.”

The woman nodded. “Let's go, Yusuke. We have lots of work to do.”

Nodding, the boy followed her out of the room where Botan was waiting for them.

 

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The next morning, while Kiarra was hanging out with Yukina in the Temple's gardens, Genkai was seated with the Spirit Detectives in the dining hall.

“I want you boys to tell me everything you know about Kiarra. If I want any hope in helping her, I'll have to try and understand her first. She seems to be very withdrawn and self conscious. Her aura is always close to her, as if she's enfolded in it like a security blanket.”

Kurama nodded. “Yes. I noticed that as well. I believe it has to do with her past. Koenma told us that she was NOT treated well throughout her life and she likely has a difficult time trusting people.”

Genkai's eyes narrowed slightly. “What do you know about her past?”

Yusuke shrugged. “No details, but we know that she was abandoned at birth. She was found in a trash dumpster when she was only a few hours old. She spent her entire life going from orphanages, to foster care, to the streets and back again. And according to Koenma, in most of the homes she was in, she was abused. I'm guessing the same thing may have happened to her on the streets and even possibly in the orphanages themselves. In fact, her power activated for the first time because her current adopted father was beating the crap out of her. I guess she finally snapped and it unleashed.”

Hiei spoke up then, to their surprise. “There's more to it than that, even.” He looked at them. “When I was with her the other night, she woke up briefly. When she saw me at her bedside, I sensed a cold terror run through her for an instant, and then, when she realized it was me, it tapered off into a feeling akin to apprehension. When I used my jagen eye to get her to sleep again, I found that she was afraid of rape.”

Their eyes all went huge. “Rape?” Kuwabara asked, his eyes wide. Then his hands balled into fists. “Do you mean to tell me that someone raped her?”

Kurama looked at him. “How much... did you learn, Hiei?” he asked, not quite sure if he really wanted to know or not, but knowing that it was a question that had to be asked.

“A great deal, actually.” he said. “And to be perfectly honest, it left me feeling disgusted. Even now I'm ready to say fuck it to our agreement with Koenma and go on a little human killing spree.” His red eyes met their own. “She was raped for the first time when she was six years old by a pedophile who adopted her into his home. From that time on, the abuse happened in a total of thirteen different homes over the course of the last eleven years.”

Kurama's expression was carefully composed, but they saw a rage burning in his eyes. “And where did you say these homes were located, Hiei?”

Yusuke nodded. “Count me in.”

Kuwabara's teeth were gritting together. “Lead the way, small fry. I could stand to pound in a few heads right now...”

“Enough!” Genkai said. She was standing at the head of the table. Her own jaw was set and her eyes were filled with as much fury as their own. “I want to go on a killing spree as much as you do right now, but you know that we can't. It would not help Kiarra to do that. We now know the source of her insecurity, but now we have to figure out what to do about it.”

They were quiet for a long moment before Kurama finally spoke up. “I think the first thing we should do is teach her how to control spirit energy. Once she has some degree of control over her power, her confidence might build up a little.”

Kuwabara looked at him. “But if she's afraid of us...”

He shook his head. “That fear will gradually leave her, Kuwabara. She is desperate right now and so she will stay with us, even though she doesn't know us. And besides, with Genkai and Yukina here, it will make her feel safer.”

Hiei nodded. “Yes. Although there WERE women in most of the homes she was in, none of them were around her age, for one thing, and for another, few of them seemed to have an interest in forming a friendship with her. And when she attended school, she shied away from everyone, rather than risking someone discover what her life was really like. I think she could use some female companionship.”

Yusuke grinned. “I have a feeling that Genkai's gonna become her new mother figure.... or should I say grandmother figure?”

She glowered at him. “Don't push your luck, boy...”

Kurama chuckled. “Well... I suppose with that done... we should begin training her tomorrow. Any objections?”

The four of them shook their heads, and then Genkai nodded. “Yes. The sooner we start, the better. But for today, we'll let her get her bearings and perhaps make a friend in Yukina. I'm sure she must be relieved to have someone to talk to after such a long life of isolated hell.”

The fox demon nodded immediately. “Yes. So... if there is nothing further to discuss?”

The others all cast questioning looks at Genkai who shook her head a thoughtful expression on her face. “Nothing at this time. I believe that will conclude our business for now.”

Nodding the rest of them got to their feet and set off to do their own things.

Kurama and Hiei headed for the gardens, while Yusuke and Kuwabara headed out back to spar.

 

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Okay, in the next chapter, our two demons hear a conversation between Kiarra and Yukina, where the girl reveals some specifics about her past. R&R please! ^_^