Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Scared ❯ Dreams of the Past ( Chapter 1 )

H/N: …This is sorta an alternate uni… I think…you tell me…And Ama is grounded for bad grades again! And the Makai stuff is being pushed back so Yusuke will be 18 when this is ova…(this Prologue)

Scared

Prologue

./` At night I hear it creeping, at night I feel it move ./`

I could hear you come up. The creaks of the wooden stairs were heavier than normal. You were carrying something. I stayed in bed and kept my eyes shut. I didn't want you to be angry at me. The night was cold and I only had a thin blanket to keep me warm along with the sheets under me. I heard my door slowly opening, heavy thuds of footfalls stumbling through the doorway. My mind begged it not to be real as my heart lurched forward. The sound of heavy breathing came from next to my small bed.

./` I'll never sleep here anymore ./`

I nearly yelped as the blanket was torn away from me. "Get up boy…" I hear you say gruffly. I obediently obeyed and sat up not wanting to make you mad. "Com m'ere!" You slurred out as you grabbed my ear and dragged me out of bed. Mom wasn't here to stop you because she left me all alone. Alcohol was perfumed all around you. I gagged. That's when you backhanded me to the ground. "I told you to make sure my dinner was warm when I came home! The only reason I keep you is because you can cook better than me!" You bastard…" I knew what you meant…I wasn't really your child. You had dark blonde hair while I had black. You had green eyes while I had brown. You then struck me again leaving me on the floor.

./` I wish you never told me, I wish I never knew… ./`

You started to whip my back with excruciating painful strength. I gripped the sheets under me tightly. My head turned into the pillow to muffle the low cries I unconsciously gave. You continued your beating until my back was full of cuts and bloody. You then pulled my head back by my hair. "You better clean yourself up by the time you have to go to school..." You breathed into my face. Your breath held the stench of cigarettes and alcohol. I nodded slowly. You threw my head back into the pillow and promtly left my room. I slowly sat up and pulled out the medical kit from under my bed. I stared blankly at the kit as I pulled out everything I need. This has happened day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. When will this stop? I ackwardly bandaged my back up, then took the sheet off my bed and put them into the hamper I have in my closet. I took my torn shirt and threw it into the corner of the closet.

It was already thirty minutes before school, which meant I had to leave now. I quickly threw on a white sweater Keiko had given me for my birthday. I also had to change my jeans because they were bloody. Yes I sleep in my school clothes so I could get up and leave as fast as I could. Which is what I did this moment. As I walked to school I heard people's voices echo around me.

./` So real these voices in my head ./`

"Look, there's Yusuke...look he got into another fight." Some said. "You know what I heard he is a bastard child." A woman at the said in anything but a whisper. "If I were him I'd just kill myself, I mean I heard he doesn't even win the fights." Some boys said as I entered school grounds. I didn't bother to lift my head to object. It was all true, the person I lost my fights to were to my father.

./` When it comes back you won't be, scared and lonely ./`

"Yusuke!" Keiko yelled as she ran toward me. "Hey, where were you yesterday?" I blinked at her. Yesterday? Oh yea...My father dislocated my arm and it took me the whole day to relocate it.

"I was sick, what's it too ya?" I lied acting all tough.

"Sick my butt!" A boy said as he walked up to us. Keiko hid behind me afraid of the boy. I looked at him with a blank expression. "I bet Urameshi was ditching! So he could do illegal things like his mom! I hear she is a drunk and a prostitute!" The boy started to laugh with his friends. "Urameshi is such a loser!" I don't why, but I felt myself get extremely angry.

./` You won't be scared ./`

"Yusuke-kun..." Keiko gripped the back of my sweater as I took a step forward. "Don't..." She whispered to me.

./` You won't be scared and lonely ./`

"Looks like witty Yusuke wants to play." The boy said I dropped my bag and gently pushed Keiko away. My mistake was when I had my back to the boy. He tackled me to the ground making me jar my back. I yelped in pain as he punched me. I put my foot on his chest and pushed him off of me. Rolling up I looked at him as he came at me and tried to punch me again. I ducked under it and punched him in the stomach. I didn't hear Keiko yell that there was blood seeping through the back of my sweater as I got punched in the eye. I gave the kid an uppercut and a punch to his face. The kid kicked me to the ground and started to kick my back. I didn't yell but I stayed on the ground in pain. I then turned and grabbed his foot and pulled him to the ground too. I got away and stood up as did he. We then went at it again. For a couple minutes it was like that with kids gathering around us. I stopped when I heard someone shout adults. The boy though didn't and decide to cheat. He punched me so hard that I spun around into someone.

./` You won't be scared You won't be lonely ./`

"Yusuke!" A older female voice said as the person held my shoulders knelt down. I looked at the brown haired woman. She smiled at me as she took a hankerchief out and started to wipe off the blood from my face.

"Mommy?" I blinked at her. She nodded and looked at the principal as he reprimanded the other kid. "Why are you here?" I asked her. She smiled at me.

./` I think there's something out there, I think I heard it move ./`

"I am fighting to win your custody Yusuke." She replied as Keiko walked over to her handing her my bag. "Thank you Keiko..." She took the bag and then looked at me. "I know I might not be the best mother Yusuke, but I am a better parent than that man. I won't let him hurt you anymore." I stared at her for a long time before flying into her arms hugging her. She hugged me back. "So what started this fight?" She asked.

"The other boy said bad things about you mom!" I said as I turned and glared at the boy. I felt proud when I saw his bloody face but didn't show it. I turned to mother. "Do I have to go home to dad?" I asked quietly.

./` I've never felt like this before... ./`

"No, I came to pick you to go to the court right now..." She said as she lifted me up. The principal looked at me and crossed his arms.

"Yusuke...just so you know, for fighting in the name of your mother, I will only suspend you for three days. Okay?" He said. I nodded and apologized for fighting. Not like I meant it. My mother apologized too and then left taking me to her car.

./` I wish you never told me ./`

At the court my so-called father was glaring at me the whole time. When I went to sit in the box next to the judge his glare darkened. I looked down as the man in a gray suit, my mommy's lawyer started to question me.

"Now Yusuke, may I call you Yusuke?" I nodded to him. "I'm Mr. Mito, I would like to ask you a few questions is that okay?" I nodded again. "I noticed in your medical records that you've been to the hospital quite a few times. Why is that?"

"Because daddy said I was bad..." I said loud enough for them to hear.

"Bad? Do you mean he put you in the hospital?" Mr. Mito asked. I nodded slowly. "Yusuke, what does your father do at home?"

"Nothing...he drinks, smokes, and watches TV. He makes me do everything and if I don't do it right I get punished." I answered.

"In what way does he punish you Yusuke?" Mr. Mito asked.

"Objection!" Daddy's lawyer shouted.

"Overruled!" The judge said. "Yusuke will you answer the question?" I nodded.

"He would either leave me to sleep in the cold, or make me miss a meal...most of the time he just beats me." I said with a little courage. Anything to get me out of his house...

"Do you have any proof of the beatings Yusuke?" He asked. I nodded and stood on the chair. I turned my back to Mr. Mito and took off my shirt which I had change into after the fight at school. I showed him the scabs that were left from last nights beating. And scars from old beatings. "Dear god..."

./` I wish I never knew ./`

"Yusuke, you say your father did this to you?" The judge asked. I nodded and put my shirt down. The judge looked down at my father. I thank the gods that he didn't have the same last name as I did. "Mr. Takimori is this true?"

"The boy is obviously lying, don't you know his repuation? He gets into fights on the streets." My 'father' said. I glared at him and leaned on the railing from the chair.

"LIAR! You call me a bastard child and whip with your belt as you did last night!" I shouted at him.

"Why you little brat!" He lunged over his table and came at me. My eyes widened as he came. But my mother got in the way and held him back.

"LEAVE MY SON ALONE!" She shouted. The judge slammed his hammer onto his desk shouting 'ORDER, ORDER IN THE COURT ROOM!'.

./` I wake up screaming ./`

The guards were able to subdue my father. My mother took me into her arms and led me away from him. The judge nodded and slammed the hammer on the desk again. We looked up at him. "I here by give full custody to Mrs. Urameshi. As for Mr. Takimori, you will be sent home for the night, before returning tomorrow when I will decide your fate. Yusuke, the police have already given your mother your belongs. So you may go home with her." I nodded and thanked the judge. My 'father' glared at my mother and me as we walked out of the courtroom.

./` It's all because of you... ./`

That night my mother and I where watching the news when we saw it. My mother covered her mouth as I stared in shock. The news reporter was talking about a car crash then showed his face. My father's photo appeared on the television. "His car ran through the railing and off the cliff killing him. No one knows why, but there is residue of alcohol there." I was glad he did, though not so soon.

At his funeral, I stared blankly at the coffin as it was lower into the ground and buried. That was the last time I ever saw my father.

./` It's all because of you..... ./`

I jolted awake my body sweating and my breath ragged. "Holy shit..." I said. Why would I remember that stuff now? It's been a few years after beating Sensui. I was 18 now and I was having dream from when I was six. I ran a hand through my hair and sighed. What a way to start the day...

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TBC

what do you think? This will be my first yaoi!