Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Tales of the Sapphire Star ❯ I don't wanna leave! ( Chapter 1 )

Hoshi: My first story!

Flame: Yup.

Hoshi: All about our favorite mini-kit...

Flame: Yup.

Hoshi: So one of us has to do the disclaimer...

Flame: Yup.

Hoshi: Is that all you can say?

Flame: Nope. Hoshi does not own anything but herself...And a Dum-dum sucker...Doesn't that fit her well?

Hoshi: Gee...Thanks... This= thinking, "This" also= Youko talking back to Shuiichi.

So here I'm...Sitting outside my "dad's" office...Listening to him "speak" with an "employee". Dad meaning the chibi ruler of spirit word KoEnma, speak meaning argue, employee meaning one of the detectives...And what's worse is that I can hear my name being said, great. I still wish I knew what they were talking about, I know that KoEnma can't take care of me as well as he wishes...He's too busy, I ran away once and hid in the castle, he didn't know I was gone for a month! And it took him about two more weeks to find me... Why am I still here anyway...? I know that Botan found me half-dead, but why did she save me? Why me, I'm just a small child...Maybe it has to do with the pendant on my neck...

"I need you to take extra good care of Hoshi, Kurama... That pendant is more important then she knows..." KoEnma was instructing Kurama on proper care of the fox's new responsibility...

"Ah, yes...The Sapphire Star Pendant...Now that the Jewel of Four Souls is rendered useless thanks to it being purified, the Star pendant has taken its place...And this Hoshi girl is the only one who can wear it without feeling the effects, ne?" Kurama replied informing KoEnma for the umpteenth time that he knew what was at stake...Other than the life of a small child...

"Exactly, but be careful with her...It will be hard to gain her trust, she's gone through too much...Her mom was lost in a fire, started by demons after her pendant. Hoshi was shoved into a small trap door, and came out to find her mom's body...She now has a fear of fire, reason A. why she isn't with Hiei...But give her time, she'll come to like you..." KoEnma sighed and turned to the intercom on his desk, "Botan, bring Hoshi in here at once."

Hoshi looked at the man in front of her, taking in every detail with her golden eyes, "So this is the famed Kurama? Pleasure."

"And you are the young kit I'm to take care of?" Kurama smiled, emerald eyes dancing with amusement, "Pleasure."

Hoshi just looked at him, trying her hardest to have no emotion in her eyes, but failing miserably, "Why do you want to take care of a small, annoying fox child...Is it because there is something special about me?"

Kurama didn't answer for a while; the skepticism of the young child's accusation was... Unexpected, albeit unnerving..."Only because you need some one else who can care for you, not to mention train you in using your powers over plants...I can do both." He finally stated waiting for another skeptical remark.

Hoshi just looked at him; using the laptop KoEnma gave her a year ago, she "looked" into his file in ReiKai...Can I trust Youko Kurama the fox child thought. "How can I trust you? Your criminal record is nearly over a hundred pages long...Typed in small print." She stabled her voice, which sounded like a low soprano compared with his medium tenor...

"I assure you, your father would not have appointed me if I were not trust worthy. You are very valuable after all." Kurama tried his best to seem friendly; his freedom depended on her happiness.

Then Botan burst in, blue hare streaming behind her and lavender eyes glittering with a cross between excitement and happiness, "Hoshi, the other ferry girls and I are throwing a party for you in the main break room! Come on!" Botan then rushed in and picked up the stunned child, leaving a confused Kurama, and KoEnma in the wake of her.

"I'll miss you sooo much!" whined Hinageshi as she hugged Hoshi, leaving the small child with little way to breathe air.

"Let her breathe Geshi-chan!" laughed Ayami. Hinageshi let Hoshi go, gently putting the young fox girl on the floor.

"Thank you for all of this...But if I have any say in this, I'm going nowhere." Hoshi gave a determined look to all of the girls in the room, and then Botan spoke up...

"That's just it Kit-chan...You don't have a say in this...You'll have to go no matter what you want...You need training, Kurama's the only one who can train you. He has a mom in the ningenkai who he can't leave, so he's not staying here. It would be too much of a task to keep a portal up to send you there all the time...You have to stay with him. There is no other way. I'm sorry..." Botan looked away when Hoshi's eyes welled up with tears, the other ferry girls didn't even try to stop the small girl when she ran off to her room...

This isn't fair! I was just getting used to living in ReiKai, when they send me to live with some thief with a record about a mile long! Hoshi was sobbing into her pillow, I won't go! They can't make me...I'll run away first, who cares about how dangerous the Makai is? They'll never find me; I'll be able to live how I want to...she then began packing her backpack...

Kurama was standing outside, waiting for Hoshi to try to run away, Maybe we should tell KoEnma we can't take her...

"Are you kidding me? This will mean I can destroy, steal, and do what ever I want! And that pacifier loving midget can't do a thing about it! Let the kid stay!"

I don't believe you sometimes, using a small child for your advantage, to do what ever your black heart desires. That's really low Youko.

"And I would care, because?"

Forget I said anything... I'll never get it through your half of our head.

"That's the spirit!"

Wait, here she comes... Kurama looked at the door and saw Hoshi cautiously trying to sneak out, "Hello Hoshi." Spoke the teenaged red-head while smiling at the young child.

Hoshi was dumbstruck, "How did you-? When did you-? Did Botan tell you I left the party?!" The small fox's eyes were wide open, along with her mouth.

"No. I guessed... Word of advice, never try to sneak away from a thief, the thief will always is better at it."

Hoshi blinked, and then glared her best, "Jerk. I don't need anyone to train me, especially you."

Kurama just chuckled a little, "I know you don't trust other demons well, but I can promise you that I won't hurt you. On my honor..."

Hoshi gave him a blank look, "Do you have honor to promise on?" just a simple child's question. Nothing more, nothing less...But still enough to cause Youko to stop smirking at the thought of being able to run amok again...

Shuiichi looked at the child who silenced his other half, "Yes. Yes I do. As much as it seems like I don't, due to what my records say, I would never harm you...And if you don't believe my promise on my honor...I shall swear on...Kuwabara's honor, and he has an unbreakable code of honor..."

Hoshi looked at Kurama for a moment longer, and then sighed, "I really have no choice... I guess I have to believe you... But I won't hesitate to call back here if I feel threatened." She then ran back to her room and slammed the door.

That is one confusing child...

"I could tell..."

Hoshi: BooYaa! I got my first chapter done!!!

Flame: waves little flag Yay.

Kurama: I think I was a little OoC in this chapter...

Youko: So was I!

Hiei: Hn.

Hoshi: That means Read and Review!

Hiei: ...Hn.

Kurama: That means No it doesn't.

Hoshi: Read and Review anyway!