Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Innocence ❯ Demon's Exist? This Can't Be Good ( Chapter 2 )

Author's Note: Well, this is the next part and we get to find out just what heartless creep hurt Alexi…fortunately I don't own the guy. The Spirit Detectives make an appearance along with a few other… surprises. Most all of the characters are probably OOC, so don't flame me and say that. I need them this way for the story and I am intending no disrespect to any of the characters…many, anyway. Well, enough with my babbling, here's part two:

Alexi lands with a thud on the ground. Had he somehow tripped and fallen? That didn't make sense to the red haired youth. He looks around and realizes that he doesn't recognize his surroundings. Slowly, he stands up and winces as he puts pressure on his left foot. He looks around while balancing on his right foot to see if there were any familiar landmarks nearby. "How did I get lost?" he wonders.

"Well, this is interesting. A lost human is wandering around," a rather eerie voice says. Alexi spins around to come face to face with a rather strange creature.

"What the hell are you?" he blurts out before he can stop himself. The creature laughs unpleasantly.

"I am a demon. Have you never heard of one?"

"Last time I checked, you don't exist."

"Well that, human, is where you are wrong, very wrong."

Alexi starts to become rather concerned now. If this…demon was speaking the truth then he was more then likely in a lot of danger. "Y-you're lying," he stammers. The creature laughs.

"No, child, you're just in denial." The creature walks closely to him and sniffs him. Alexi is beginning to wonder what he's looking for. The demon looks at him strangely. "You have…his scent all over you." Alexi hears the fear in his voice and wonders who he's talking about. "Th-that's impossible, he's dead. He's been dead for five years now."

"What are you talking about?" Alexi demands wondering what this creature's problem was.

"Sakyo," the demon answers, "You have the scent of the owner of a team of demon's who were very notorious. He was a human gambler." The name freezes Alexi's blood. That was the man who had kidnapped him. He rubs his arms vigorously to try and keep himself warm. The man owned a team of demons? That was a very scary thought.

"Well, he's obviously not dead. I have been with him the past four years," he retorts trying to sound calmer then he felt at the moment.

"How did he survive it?" the demon mutters to himself as he turns and walks off leaving Alexi alone once more with more questions then answers about the man like why in the world would he own a group of demons. Was he really that insane? That's when the realization sinks in concerning his location. He was in a demon world! His gray eyes fill with fear and he wonders if there was a way to get out and back to his home. He decides that standing around isn't going to help him so he sets off in the direction the demon had gone in and hopes that it leads to a civilized area. His mind is still reeling from the realization of being told that demon's exist. He had always been taught that there was no away they could be alive. Now he had seen one for himself and he truly doesn't want to see another one as long as he lives.

His wanderings bring him to the middle of the woods and he finds himself becoming rather scared. He doesn't like being in strange places especially after having been with Sakyo for four years. He trembles and wonders if he should have stayed back where he was. "Are you lost?" another voice asks. He spins around without thinking and crumples with a sharp cry as he puts pressure on his injured ankle. "You're hurt, how delightful." Alexi trembles recognizing the tone of voice and yet another demon steps out from between the dark trees. Alexi shivers, realizing he's defenseless. The demon walks towards him smirking evilly.

"N-no, please," he whispers, "not again." The demon gets two more feet when eh stops suddenly and looks around as if hearing something. Shrugging, the demon continues but before he can reach Alexi, a large plant bursts from the ground and devours him.

"Are you all right," a soft voice asks. He looks to see another red haired teen standing nearby though his green eyes seem older then his years.

"I hurt my ankle," he responds and the stranger hurries over before kneeling beside him. Alexi winces as the stranger puts pressure on his injured limb.

"It's sprained," the green-eyed teen announces, "I'll help bring you to someone who can heal it."

"Did you send that plant?" Alexi asks him as his curiosity gets the better of himself.

"Yes, that was I," he responds, "My name is Kurama."

"Are you a demon?"

"Yes, I am a Kitsune or fox spirit. Well, we had better get you to safety and take care of that ankle," Kurama tells him. Alexi nods and leaning against Kurama, he hobbles to their destination.

It doesn't take them long to arrive and once they do, Alexi quickly realizes that something is wrong. He can hear two voices arguing from within the building though it was clear that all the windows and doors were shut. "I am NOT working with him!" a voice yells from within. The vocal quality suggests someone who was around Alexi's age.

"Urameshi, I don't want to work with you either!" an obviously older, man retorts. Alexi looks at Kurama who gives him a sympathetic smile before helping him inside. The arguing only becomes more pronounced and a whole lot clearer.

"Oh shut up, Toguro!" the teen yells back. Alexi cringes slightly worried about getting in the middle of the obviously explosive argument. Kurama murmurs something under his breath before helping him into the room.

"Yusuke, leave Toguro alone!" he says sternly, "I need you to go and fetch Genkai." The black haired teen looks in their direction and his brown eyes widen as he notices Alexi.

"What is a human doing here," he asks Kurama.

"He feel into this world, Yusuke. His ankle is sprained," Kurama answers.

"You'd think people would avoid portals," Yusuke mutters.

"I-I didn't see it," Alexi tells him.

"How could you NOT see it?" he demands.

"I was merely walking and when I took a step forward, the ground wasn't there and it had been only moments before," Alexi responds almost hurt at the insultive tone. Yusuke scoffs but he disappears out of the room.

"Don't mind him. He's been irritable for quite some time," Kurama says gently as if he senses the pain Yusuke had caused.

"I don't necessarily blame him," a new voice pipes up, "'cause in all honesty, I don't relish working with them but I don't think Urameshi needs to be so much of a drama queen.
"I agree wholeheartedly, Kuwabara. Yusuke does need to find a different way to get over his displeasure at the present circumstances," Kurama answers.

Alexi keeps quiet knowing instinctively that it is none of his business to intrude. "Oh, my apologies. I have yet to ask you your name," Kurama says turning his attention back to him.

"That is quite all right. My name is Alexi," he answers.

"Well, Alexi, it seems like you need some help with that leg," a new voice remarks. He turns to see a petite older woman with graying pink hair. She smiles kindly at him before walking over. "This shouldn't take very long." Gently, she places her hand on his ankle and within mere moments it's healed. The woman, whom he presumes is Genkai, looks highly disturbed, however. She looks up at him and her eyes lock with his and he realizes that she knows. He looks down unable to meet her gaze. "I am sorry, Alexi." Three words are all she says about it, but for Alexi, it speaks volumes. He gives her a weak smile in return.

"So when do we send him home?" Yusuke demands, breaking the silence, "I already have to deal with four demons I honestly can't stand. I don't want to watch a stray human who has inadvertently fallen where he doesn't belong…