Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Tales of the Sapphire Star ❯ Childhood Tales ( Chapter 4 )

Hoshi: Okay my *loyal* reviewers…You all get a doll…

Flame: *digging around in closet* I found a Bierrez doll for Tuatha! *hands it to her*

Hoshi: Good, now to answer some of the Reviewer questions, no, there will be no romance in this story... The sequel maybe, nevertheless, I am not telling whom it involves…But I will say that it is one-sided… Like a crush.

Flame: *gives Maki her doll* Mooch.

Hoshi: Flame, you baka, be nicer to the kind and non-flaming reviewers!

Flame: Yeah, yeah…*hands Bloom Flower a Kurama doll* I must agree with Bloom. Hoshi is now in very good hands…

Kurama: Sorry to disappoint you, but Hoshi and I are not related KaraKurama; she is what I would like to call a water-fox, more on that later this chapter though…

Hiei: May I kill this “Chicken-boy”, he has a stupid name, and do not encourage her Yuki.


Flame: Be nice Hiei, people like Yuki and Feda are the reviewers everyone wants to see. Go on Hoshi say it.

Hoshi: I own nothing… Except me…*pouts*
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Kurama entered his room, “Where are the blankets, Kurama?” asked Hoshi sweetly, “I thought you were going to grab some for Hiei.” she had hoped that he had merely forgotten them, but alas, she was wrong.

“I'm sorry Hoshi I forgot to tell you that you and Hiei would share a room tonight. I hope that won't bother either of you.” Kurama was unsure of the look that the young kit gave him, but she smiled at him after a while.

“That's fine Kurama, I'm sure Hiei is nice once you get to know him…” I hope. she thought, before running off to the room she called hers.

“Hn, I could care less fox,” stated Hiei before walking to the former guest room.

Hoshi gulped and followed, “Kurama, why are you doing this? He's dangerous, I don't think this can count as keeping me safe.” By the time she made it to her room, Hiei was laying on the floor. “Might as well, I can't be harmed by him.” She took a running start and, using Hiei as a springboard, jumped onto her bed.

Hiei growled, “If you weren't such a runt of a fox kit that might have hurt. Good thing for you that it didn't, or I'd have to hurt you back.”

Hoshi gulped, “Sorry…” She mumbled before curling up in a ball to sleep, she and Hiei had just become enemies, and Hoshi had no clue about it. The kit yawned before falling fast into her dreams.

“Mommy, why do I have to go into the cellar?” A younger Hoshi stood next to a pure silver vixen, both had tears running down their faces, “I wanna help you fight them off!” Hoshi was clinging to the woman with fear and determination in her eyes.

“I'm sorry sweetie, but you have to stay down there and protect the pendant you're wearing. You must stay there, promise me you will.” The vixen set Hoshi on the steps leading into the dark abyss, “Promise me.”

Hoshi wiped her eyes, “I will mommy, I will…” both foxes heard a door smash in. Hoshi's mother shoved her into the darkness and shut the heavy metal door. “Mommy…MOMMY!” Hoshi began sobbing, soon the room became nearly unbearably hot. Once the room had cooled Hoshi struggled to move the door, once out of the way, she ran to her mother's body and sat down next to it sobbing…

“Kit? Kit, what's wrong?” Hoshi looked back to see Botan shaking her shoulder.

“W-who are you?” she sobbed, looking back at the person behind her.

“It's me Kit, Kurama…” as she says this, Hoshi's dream fades and the person shaking her shoulder is no longer the ever-happy Botan, but the newest person in Hoshi's life, Kurama.

“What? Why are you here? Nevertheless, my mom was there- And I was-” Hoshi shook her head clear, “Never mind.”

“No, I would like to know about this, and I'd like to know now, thank you very much.” Kurama looked at Hoshi with disbelief in his emerald eyes, even Hiei had a look on his face that plainly said, “Right…And I take ballet” on his face. “Tell us now Hoshi, what did you dream that was so bad you were sitting up and crying while you were still asleep?”

She looked away from him, silent tears still streaming down her face, she turned her head back to let him see the rivers of salt water running down her face. Then she spoke to him, in a whisper-dusted tone quite different from her normal happy soprano gained from being around Botan too long, “My mommy…” she whimpered under her breath.

“What about your mom, Hoshi-chan? What happened?” Kurama knew he should not press her like this, but it seemed important and if he truly were to care for the child, he would need to know why she seemed so distraught by the dream that must have involved her past.

“This thing whines too much Shuiichi, make it stop.”

Youko, be nice.

Hoshi sniffed a little, “Okay.” she sighed, emotional battering rams having broken down the wall of protectiveness allowing what she did not want him to see before come into her golden eyes. She was only a little girl, a frightened little girl who did not want the world to know what was within the mind she had. “My dream was a memory, I was only five that day…” Hoshi wove her story around Hiei (A/N: He is still there!) and Kurama as a spider would ensnare her prey. They could feel the emotions she felt, the heat from the fire that burned above her head as she sat in the black hole protecting her, “Then once I was able to get out of the pitch-black hole we called a cellar, I saw my mommy. I ran over to her thinking that she might still look okay, but when I got there, I say her body, better than I wanted to… she was- she looked-“Hoshi broke down there and wrapped her frail arms around Kurama.

“She was not a pile of ashes, was she? She was charred yet still had cooked flesh on her bones. Is that right Kit?” Hiei spoke, the narcotic effect her story had over him, dissipated his words were harsh. Yet, there was a veiled sympathy behind his words as well.

Hoshi nodded, “T-that's it. That's exactly it.” Thanks to her, Kurama's pajama shirt was soaked through in one spot, but he did not care. No child should have to see that, not at her age at least.

“Get over it Shuiichi, that is how it works in the realm of the Makai. This child was lucky; there are worse things she could have seen.”

“Would you like to spend the night in my bed for tonight Hoshi-chan? It might calm your nerves.” Kurama spoke softly to the child before him, she need all the comforting she could get. However, he did not know that Hoshi always slept in the same bed as someone else or she had nightmares about the worse times in her past.

Hoshi nodded, “Yes, I think that would be helpful…” Hoshi looked down, she did not have to tell him that it would become an every night thing.

“Then why don't we all stay in my room tonight. Hiei, grab your stuff and bring it to my room.” Kurama picked Hoshi up and began to walk to his room, “Now Hoshi-chan, you must get some sleep tonight, tomorrow I'm taking you to meet the rest of my friends, okay?”

She nodded and mumbled an "okay" punctuated with yawns, and fell asleep in his arms.

“Good night Kit.” He whispered into her ear, “And good dreams…”
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Hoshi: Yay, another chapter has been finished!

Hiei: You made me seem like a weakling.

Kurama: I think she did quite well this time; it is her best chapter yet.

Flame: Too bad, it took so long to put up; shame on you Hoshi, making your reviewers wait like that for this chapter.

Hoshi: Oh well, I did get it done, right? Therefore, that is good!

Hiei: No, that is bad. You should take this story down now, no one cares.

Hoshi: Okay my loyal reviewers show Hiei you care by reviewing!