Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Hanyou ❯ Chapter 21 Sacrificial Spirit ( Chapter 21 )

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Desota has been exhausted to her limits and has chosen a lifes end to help further the spirit detectives cause by cutting off her life force from Sensui. in doing so, Kurama must be forced to give up the one he holds closest to his heart....

Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Drama / Adventure / Action / Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.14.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 9.7K | Visits: 352 | Status: Work In Progress

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Chapter 21- Sacrificial Spirit

Desota was fading once more. In and out of consciousness she straddled the thin line between the world of the dream and the world of the aware. She just felt so drained even though her mysterious power surged on ward like a golden flame as it wrapped around its current consumer, Sensui. She was able to hear only bits and pieces of what they were saying, if they even spoke at all during their fight that is.

But one thing was caught on her near deaf ears:

“I am merciful so I shall put you out of your misery once and for all,”

Blue eyes shot out of her hazy daze her weakness had created around her and became almost fully aware. Her fight against whatever held her down doubled as she strove to push those already strained boundaries her body was experiencing as she got to her hands and knees from just behind Sensui who stood ready to give the final blow on her friends.

“Se….Sensui,” her throat hurt but she was able to call to his back.

The man turned around to her in shock that she was even conscious again let alone trying to stand and speak against him, “Are you so eager to kill yourself with all that staining your putting yourself through, Hanyou?” his voice was like a lightly scolding father to an unknowing child.

“You…. You will not….. Will not h-harm them.” She managed to get out as she tried again to fail, only to fall to her knees simply out of energy loss.

“I don't really think you realize words do not have any affect on me. The only one who could pose as a similar equal to my power is now dead.” Sensui reminded her, “Now rest on the ground before you kill yourself!”

Although he was also at the end of his own rope, Kurama lifted his silvery head as his heart skipped a beat when he saw Desota trying so hard to protect them. She looked as if she was fighting to keep conscious while she made her way to stand between them and Sensui hunched over like a beaten child. Her legs shook with strain and soon as she stopped walking, she fell once more to her knees and hugged herself as she let her blue eyes stay on Sensui, begging him not to take their lives. She was filled with tears of pain and fear and her fox ears were hanging almost dead in a drooping way behind her.

“Please, I'm begging you to stop! I will not yield to you ever! Do not take their lives! Do not take the lives of those on the other side of the barrier! You're the one who wishes to purify the pain and suffering out of this world, yet it is you who escalate the so called cycle of human nature to bring it about!” her words were coming easier to her as her resolve pushed her to act mind over body. The golden aura around her spiraled as it reacted to her determined emotions. Its flame shone brighter than before, “Pain and death only bring one of the same: Pain and death. You do not have to send them to Yusuke in spirit world to end their rage of his death! Yusuke isn't dead!”

“What the hell are you going on about!” Sensui demanded as he snagged her hair to bring her eye level with him. She winced in pain and Kurama doubled his efforts to get back up tenfold with a snarl ever present.

Desota once again looked him straight in the eye although tears were weeping from her own blue ones, “Ryu's soul wasn't absorbed by you alone. He gave part to me and Yusuke because he knew I would need him to keep consciousness. It is his power that helps me fight this “Source” power you go on about. That is why I'm still awake and kicking, but with Yusuke, he wanted something else to awaken. Something he and I have in common; His demon blood.”

“Enough of this!” Sensui was raged that the dragon had escaped him so narrowly like that. He yanked the hold he had on Desota's hair to make her arch painfully back ward to stop her slow twisting as she fought to escape his painful grasp on her hair. She let out an ear piercing scream that echoed the entire plane of Demon world with it's almost sonar like wake as her body was finally showing it's breaking point to all the strain.

“Worthless wench!” he snarled at her and was about to back hand her when a fire ball of dark green and black flames stopped his hand from swinging at her. He looked up to see the Calvary had arrived. A giant Phoenix known as Pu sore above them with Kyo surrounded in golden flames that allowed him to fly at his side. The zhorse's eyes bled red as he charged down ward straight for Sensui with a flame fisted wolf demoness pissed as the hounds of hell themselves!

“Urameshi!?” Kuwabara gasped as there behind the charging Calvary was Yusuke himself and Koenma as well.

With his focus on the charging clash of raged flames and hooves, Sensui wasn't prepared for when Kurama suddenly appeared in front of him, chin hooked him sharply with a bladed leaf between his clenched fingers and snatched Desota out of his grasp and to his own before leaping away. He gave Sensui no time to react to Desota's sudden absence because not a second later did Yumi engulf him in flames as Kyoma rammed into his chest.

Sensui was sent to the other side of the plateau and wasn't getting up as quickly as before. Unlike the others, Kyo's energy was also holy so when he used a portion of it to intense the force he had used to slam into Sensui. Shinobu's own Holy energy did nothing to repel it like it had been with the spirit energy and demonic energy.

Kurama made sure Sensui was immobile for a moment before his attentions focused on Desota who la y limp in his arms. With out his enhanced hearing, he wouldn't be able to tell if she was truly alive with how shallow and slow she was breathing. Her heart beat was still persistent but it wasn't loud. It was barely a faint whisper in her chest.

“Desota,” he called her name softly. Even in this form, he felt his own heart go cold as her condition hailed the truth to him. If she were to fall asleep…. She probably wouldn't wake up. He shook her gently in his arms to try and rouse her, “Desota, listen to me. Don't fall asleep!”

“What's wrong with her?” Hiei asked as he and the others kept a watchful eye on the yet to arise again Sensui.

Yumi looked down at her side as she dismounted Kyo and watched the proud stallion was reduced to a sickly looking chibbi animal exhausted as he sprawled himself out on the ground with his tongue rolled out like a tired dog.

“Nanda Shina Matanny” he sighed as he panted for breath. His golden fire was only kindling now as apposed to the still bursting flame that now surrounded both Kurama and Desota as the fox demon held her close trying to awaken her.

“She's…. she's fading.” Koenma barely said, “Sensui has been draining her all this time…. Non-stop even. It has to take its toll on something.”

“I thought you said it was an unlimited source! That's why everyone wants it!” Kurama snapped up at the prince, venting somewhat while he could.

“For the consumer, yes. For the host body….,” Koenma didn't want to finish that.

“wait a minute… you're not saying…,” Yusuke's brown eyes widened as he looked down at his friend who held the hanyou as if she were part of him, “She cant die!” he shouted then turned on his heal to face Sensui, “This is the part where we kick that bastards ass! There's no room for her to have to die because of him!”

“Yusuke!” Yumi called out as the boy started for Sensui with renewed ambition. She started to go after him but Yusuke shouted back at them to stay out of it.

“Like hell! You're not the only one who wants a piece of him to chew out on!” Yumi stubbornly tried to follow, but her mate, Hiei, stopped her. She snarled back at him traitorously as he refused to allow her to participate in the battle Yusuke and Sensui were now in, “You can't tell me you don't want to rip him in shreds by now, Hiei! So don't hold me back!”

“Even in you were to help out, with their power as great as it is separately, their auras even spark flames when they are up against each other like this. If you were to try and help Yusuke out now, his own power would burn you alive with out his own consent or Sensui's would purify you and you'd never make it to spirit world! I'm sorry but I will not let my mate run into her own death like this! Besides, it's Yusuke's fight!” Hiei's commanding voice made her yield to his consent, but she still wanted badly to rip the guy to shreds herself. Death penalty be damned!

The explosive energy was starting to split the rock under them alerted the group it was time to find high ground. Yusuke even felt it through his haze of fighting lust, “Pu! Get them to higher ground!”

Pu squealed in his answer obediently as he allowed Koenma and Kuwabara get on his back. Yumi hooked her arms with Hiei's and flew into the air with her dark, angelic like wings as she bent the air around them to speed up lift off. Kurama used the same glider plant as before to take him and Desota up after them. Kuwabara was holding Kyo in his arms since Yumi's hands were full with Hiei. No sooner had they left ground, did the entire plateau collapse from the power pressure of the S classed auras.

“Too close for comfort!” Kuwabara eeped as he realized he could have just died. Not that it was a new feeling to him.

“I can't stay in the air with Desota! Her human half is too weak to handle the pressure up here!” Kurama called over.

“Then get as far away from here as you can! While you take care of Desota, Hiei and I'll fend off any demon that comes too close.” Yumi called back before turning to her father, “Look after Kyo and Yusuke! Desota needs to be stabilized!”

“I understand! They'll be fine, just stay out of the cross fire and keep to the forests edges! Sensui will avoid them if at all possible!” Koenma called back.

With that, Yumi struggled after Kurama who was already landing just out of the Barren lands of Demon plane where he was familiar with the healing pant life that thrived in the boarders of a dead and enriched land soil. He laid her down gently and put his ear up to her chest to listen to her heart beat.

“She's getting worse?” Yumi asked.

“Not for long!” Kurama sounded determined.

A loud explosion made Hiei and Yumi jerk away and look up at the demons that gathered to enter the portal. Only to see that Yusuke and Sensui had carelessly slammed into the tower they'd made and created a rain of demons coming toward the ground and more specifically; them.

“You feeling energized yet?” Yumi growled back at her mate.

“Venting points seem to arrive at the oddest of times, ne?” Hiei replied before he and his mate flashed into attacking the horde of demons that came too close to Kurama and Desota.

Kurama was panicked. His energy was too drained to do much and his rapidly beating heart and fear for her well being was overwhelming him.

//Damn it! Which one was suppose to slow down death effects? The red or the black one?! One causes it to speed up and one slows it down! I can't think under this pressure Kurama! Calm down already!// the fox failed to notice that it wasn't only Kurama's anxiety that handicapped them.

`We can't just sit here!' Kurama held a hand over her heart and did the only thing he could do, he started to use the last of his Yoki to fight off her quickly approaching death before a soft, small hand was placed over his. Kurama looked at her face to see half-lidded blue eyes shinning at him.

“I know what that'll do to you in the long run, Kurama. Don't end your own life because mine is dimming.” She smiled at him softly.

“Don't say that! I'll gladly die for you if it keeps you here!” he was starting to go hysterical now.

Desota shook her head, “No, Kurama. If you were to die in my place, your family would lose apart of themselves. I know what its like to lose someone like that. So please don't do that to Shiori. Besides, what about Yusuke and the others? You're Hiei's closest friend and a big brother to Yumi. I can't ask you to throw that all away…. Besides,” she cupped his cheek weakly and still she never let her smile leave her face as her eyes started to get heavier. She felt so sleepy suddenly, “I have nothing. They will mourn me, but they didn't know me. Not like a family. I know that someday I probably could earn that right with them, but if you were to take my place, you'd break my heart for taking what means so much to me. I love you Kurama.” There she said it. All though they had made love and they had mated, neither had ever uttered those words, and to hear them fall from her lips as she was drawing her last breath, Kurama couldn't bare the pain any longer.

Streams of tears leaked his beautiful emerald eyes as her hand started to fall away from his cheek. She leaned up and kissed his quivering lips one last time before laying back in the soft grass the plant life had enhanced for her at Kurama's call. Her blue eyes were unable to see him any longer as her hand started to release his cheek.

Kurama held fast to her hand and held it to his cheek a little longer as the warmth from it left slowly.

A blast of energy shook the earth around him as Yusuke's spirit gun was unleashed a second time at Sensui who his demonic self had just thrown in the air like a rag doll. Kurama didn't even look back as the blast came disturbingly close to where he and his deceased love lay. The wave cut through the trees like butter for miles on in the forest. He could barely register that Yusuke had just ran after it with an aura of shock in him and fear. Why for that bastard, Kurama didn't want to know. It was that man's fault Desota was gone now. He only wished Yusuke was harder on the man.

Pu flew by with Kuwabara and Koenma on his back as they raced after Yusuke. Yumi and Hiei sprinted after them as well, but Kurama cared not. He felt hallow, like this was unreal. She looked like she was only sleeping peacefully with her skin a little pale. That was all. She couldn't be dead…..

“Desota….,” his shoulders shook as his sobs became unbearable to hold in as he gathered her in his embrace and took in her hair's scent. If nothing else, that was all that was left of her, but even that was marred with the scent of death in it. His sliver ears plastered themselves to his skull as he let his tears over take him. If a demon were to find him with the intention to kill him at this point, he'd thank him and ask him to do it slowly and painfully. That was what he deserved for being unable to save her. Yet she stood to keep him from Sensui's wrath to the very end.

And now…..

“DESOTAAAAAAAAAAA!” He howled mournfully to the skies above that clashed in lightning and thunder as the demon realm always did. They were befitting for his mourning soul as they clashed with his howls to them in the name of his deceased love. There was no difference between Suichi Kurama and Yoko Kurama as they mourned over her. Once more they were blended together for her.

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The others looked back when Sensui was taken away to live in solitude with Itstuki through a portal when they heard a pained howl.

All the demons could sense the pure sadness and sorrow that laced that howl. And they looked at each other worriedly.

“Isn't that where you left Yoko Kurama?” Koenma asked.

Yumi gasped, “Desota! Something happened to her!” she sprinted off for the place she and Hiei left Kurama with out looking back to see if the others were waiting.

Pu moaned sadly and rested his beak over Yusuke's shoulder, “does…. Does this mean that she really is….. She's gone?” Yusuke whispered.

“It would appear that way.” Hiei said just as softly. For once, those ruby eyes were knotted in barely held in pain, “Yoko doesn't just howl away at the moon because it's there. There fore something must have happened to Desota.”

Kuwabara shook his head, “No…. no you're wrong Hiei! She's not…. She can't….. Damn it! How do you know she ain't just taken a snooze?! She tends to lie around anywhere to do those `cat naps' all the time!

“If that were true we wouldn't have heard Yoko cry out like that! She's not napping, you dimwit! She's dead!” Hiei snapped with a deadly glare at the annoying human, “The quicker you accept it, the easier it will be for her death to pass!”

“She's not just any lame bitch we just met, Hiei, that girl was Kurama's mate and one of us!” Yusuke hissed.

“One of you?” came a soft, suave voice from the trees.

The boys stood tall and ready to fight as they jolted in shock that someone managed to sneak up on them, “Who the hell are you! Show yourself!” Yusuke demanded, “Do it now or I'll blast ya, no questions asked.”

“I have nothing to hide, Mazuku, so be still.” They stared in mild surprise when they saw a large, muscular horse with a black horn on his forehead step out of the foliage. His coat was coal black while the mane was pure white. The eyes were blazing neon green as they calmly took in the sight of the small group. Koenma's mouth was a gapped.

“He's a…. It's a…”

“What is it, a Unicorn or something? He's got the horn to boot.” Kuwabara remarked.

“You idiot, that's exactly what he is!” Koenma scolded him, “You think Yusuke and Sensui are bad? This creature is an Ancient like Ryu was!”

“Ryu?” the horned horse tilted his head, “ah, so it is his deceased spirit that calls me here. You said something of a hanyou?”

“I don't care if you're a pony with a twig on its head, who the hell are you and what do you want with this hanyou? How do you know Ryu anyways?” Yusuke demanded.

“Do you want to be purified?!” Koenma shouted at his employee.

“So long if you don't mind walking while we talk. I sense I am needed urgently.” The unicorn complied, “I am Hakkuto and this is my forest. I am the demon Unicorn, out cast by my own clan long ago for my alliance with the dragons when I believed that the blood war shouldn't be going on any longer. Ryu and I are old friends. I sensed his passing in my realm and he paid a visit to me before his whole spirit was released and sent to the dragon's resting place in the stars. He knows the hanyou is dieing now. I have the power to bring her back, but it's very limited.” Hakkuto answered all questions he could.

“Are you sure you can bring back the dead?” Kuwabara gawked.

Hakkuto tossed his mane, “It's absurd to think a unicorn cant. I can bring her back because she was in a suffering death. Unicorns exist to purify pain and suffering to life and fulfillment.”

“Sounds like my hell,” Hiei mumbled.

“Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, he who sulks a lot.” The Unicorn smiled as Hiei glared at beast, “Besides, if Desota's spirit was truly lost and gone, your little friend up there wouldn't still have that flame on his hooves.”

“Hey he's right! It's only little sparks, but Kyo still has something left over from the power! So she's not dead!?” Kuwabara got excited.

“No, Heavens above, she's dead as a door knob, but so long as Kyo has flames, I can bring her back.” Hakkuto nodded as they made their way quickly now to Yoko and Desota after Yumi.

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Yumi stood on the edge of the tree line of the small clearing Yoko Kurama was in with her wide forest eyes over flowing with tears as she brought a hand up to her lips. He looked so broken that he didn't even bother to hide the tears that fell from his eyes when he looked up at her approach. He only glanced up at her before turning those heart broken eyes back down to his silent mate and nuzzled his tear stained cheek on her crown. His bone wracking cries were merely reduced to varied volumes of whines and whimpers as he held the hanyou to himself.

Her knees felt weak. This just didn't seem like it could happen. No one ever thought that…. That Desota could die…. She was only 17 for crying out loud! It wasn't her time! The wolf demoness slowly slumped to the ground after she took a few more staggering steps toward him. Her shoulders started to shake as her own sobs were making themselves known while she got a better look at the fallen hanyou in Yoko's arms from this point of view.

She didn't even seem dead! She was just asleep and her skin was a little on the pale side, but otherwise, the fox hanyou's eyes were relaxed and her expression was that of calmness. She didn't look afraid any more. She didn't look like a caged animal that had been neglected. She just looked like a child taking a snooze in Yoko's arms.

“Why …,” Yumi sniveled then jerked in surprise when she felt a rain drop fall on her cheek and the gentle roll of thunder finally reached her deafened ears. How befitting for a demon of the storm elements to die with rain as her final passing gift.

The rain wasn't like normal Demon Realm rain. It wasn't cold and harsh as it slapped against ones' face while the wind howled around you and thunder and lightning flashed above you. No. this was warm, and although heavy, it held no ill will behind it. No raging wind and no piecing feeling of being bitten by the harsh weather was behind the shower. Just the steady fall of the warm rain and the gentle roll of the thunder up above in the heavens.

Yumi could remember Desota smiling warmly the last time it rained like this in Human realm just before they got too involved with Sensui and the tunnel. Those expressive blue eyes laughed when ever the thunder rolled by in the skies above and she had stood with her arms out and face to the sky in the rain on the roof of Kurama's mothers' apartment. It was one of the first times Yumi saw a true smile of happiness on the hanyou's face.

`Why do you like the rain so much?' Yumi had to ask.

Desota smiled in her wise-beyond-her-years way and answered, `It feels like every time it rains, I am able to let go of all the burdens life holds me down with. Like the clouds do. They gather up water when it evaporates up to them and when they become too heavy, it rains like this. It's a wonderful feeling mother nature gives us to remind us it's good to sometimes just live in a bliss and let your worries come later.'

Yumi smiled inwardly at the memory. It was just like that hanyou to let the heavens open up like this when she died. In a way, telling them she was finally freed from all that held her so heavily here on this cruel world at times.

A figure clad black pants knelt down beside the dismayed wolf demoness and laid a hand on her shoulder to offer some type of comfort. Yumi gladly took in his presence and launched herself into Hiei's arms to cry into his chest quietly. Thankful that the fire demon wrapped his strong arms around her and rubbed his cheek against her hair soothingly, showing tender affection even with the others that were with him present. Not to mention a being he had only just met not 15 minutes ago.

Soon as Hakkuto entered the clearing, a wave of soothing pure energy flooded out along the ground around Yumi and Yoko. Kurama looked up in alarm and Yumi in surprise as the black coated, white mane Unicorn reverted to an average height handsome young man with gentle neon green eyes. His waist length silver hair had black roots and tips and held in a very loose ponytail while his attire was that of a samurai nobleman. His flowing robes were pitch black and silver silk. His presence around him had a purified aura that could heal or destroy anyone of them.

The Unicorn was unbothered by the lack of conversation. He merely ignored their stunned stares as he approached Yoko while looking intently upon the girl in the fox demons arms.

“She surprises me. In all my life I have never seen a hanyou take this course of life and remain so…. Untainted by anger and lust for revenge. She is truly someone special.” The Unicorn made a point to look the male Kitsune in the eyes then and saw the wiriness in those now golden orbs then smiled, “I am here on request of a dear friend of yours Kitsune, but I'm afraid I'll need you to let go of her if I am to do anything for her.”

Yoko's eyes narrowed as he tucked the body closer to him unconsciously, “Dear friend?”

“Surely you have not forgotten about that foul mouthed Dragon friend of yours that just passed away. His spirit visited me just after departure to the heavens not long ago and asked me to return a favor for his unyielding alliance with myself after we were both cast aside for various reasons. I am here to grant this girl her life back.” The Unicorn waited patiently as he knelt down on one knee beside the Kitsune looking the male in the eyes to show he had nothing to hide.

`Why would he help us?' Kurama thought.

//Does it really matter now?// Yoko's voice was uncharacteristically mellow with the haze of sorrow in it //If what he says is true, then she's really not gone just yet. It takes longer for spirits to get to spirit world from demon world than in human world. If he says he can bring her back, then we can let go of her for just a minute to get her life back.//

Kurama hesitantly handed Hakkuto the young girl in his arms and didn't take his green eyes off her as the Unicorn situated her so that she was lying in his lap with his hands hovering over her chest. The blue silver haired man bowed his head and took a deep breath as a gentle golden light engulfed him.

“It will all be over soon..,” he whispered.

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Desota was sitting on a bluff of long green velvet like grass that tickled her skin every time the wind danced over her. Her long black tresses would dance along with the grass when the breeze swayed around her. She took a deep refreshing breath, trying to take in everything around her.

She could see everyone playing on the beach at the edge of the grassland bluffs not far off. Everyone she had come to know was there. Yusuke, Keiko, Yumi, Hiei, Shizuru, Kuwabara, Kyoshi… everyone. Even Kurama was there laughing along with them in the waves of the ocean. A part of her wanted to go to them, but for some reason, she felt content to just sit here and watch from a distance. Something told her she was no longer allowed to go near them. She could only sit and watch over them like this.

It should have made her feel hole again. She knew Sensui was gone. She knew the human realm was once again safe and that that “Source” power that was inside her was either gone or heavily dormant in her once again. So why did she feel like something inside of her was missing? Something inside her had died…. She felt grounded to this peaceful spot and didn't believe she would be able to get up and run down to join her new family even if it was the last thing she desired.

She sighed in reminiscence of the dream Soukou had forced on her in order to release the “source” inside her. These feelings felt so much like it, yet it was more pleasant. There was no fear behind the haze she felt. It just felt like…. The end.

`Am I dead? Is this my heaven?' she looked longingly at the rolling bluffs around her and let her fox ears lay down to her skull and her tail wrap around her for self-assurance, `or is this my hell? My punishment?'

“It is a beautiful limbo your soul has created here. A soul wishes to see what it holds the most dear for as long as possible before it is rounded up to either heaven or hell, so they created to the best of their power a limbo of dreams.” Came a soothing tenor voice at her flank, “a sort of paradise if you will.”

Desota slowly turned to the unfamiliar yet pleasant voice to see a man with long blue silver hair that resembled Yoko's very well. He had these neon green eyes that glowed as sharply as a wolfs' eye yet held no predatory gleam in them. He wore white robes like he was an angel or something and the way he stood solemnly at her flank looking out across her `paradise' with a melancholy expression held a sort of majestic power to his aura.

Desota smiled morbidly, “So it's true then. I really am dead. Are you the angel sent to take me to where ever it is I am to be placed?” she turned around and didn't bother to look back at him as she conversed.

Hakkuto was slightly taken aback that she thought he was the `angel of death' here for her soul, but looking down at her with her back turned to him as she sat with her legs folded at her side and her arm bracing her to sit up, he didn't really blame her. `With all this white I tend to sport in this form, I'd be surprised if anyone didn't take me for an angel of some kind.' He thought with a shrug.

“It is strange,” he started, “how one so young as you has come to take things like this in stride. Most people would be begging at an angels knees for them to go back to their life, yet you're here acting as if it's just another day in paradise.” Hakkuto knew the others were waiting in the living world, but this girl intrigued him. He had to wander if he was feeling what Ryukunai felt around her.

Desota shrugged, “then I'm just proving a trend that I've lived all my life. I grew up with the hard truth that I belong in neither the human nor the demon realm. While I am both, I am neither.” She replied.

“And what about your friends? Do you belong with them?” Hakkuto asked as he looked down at the sandy beaches with little surprise to find the same friends he had referred to laughing and frolicking in the water. Mere illusions, but if felt so real even to him…

He didn't miss the way the hanyou's back hunched over a bit and the sudden tightening of her Ki from its relaxed disposition.

“No matter how much I wish and dream to go back to them…. I can't. Something is holding me away from them… like even if I am with them in their presence… a wall will always be between me and them. If I were to return I'd be a caged animal in a forest full of wild life.” She brought her knees to her chest and hugged them with a deep look in her blue eyes, “something tells me this is what I have come to be. And I feel dead already and I long for something I don't know if I should or can grasp.”

“Do you remember how you died?” Hakkuto knelt down at her side and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

Desota looked over at him and nodded, “Sensui…. Soukou had released the “source” inside me prematurely and my body was too weak to withstand the strain from Shinobu Sensui using it for such a length of time and with such force.” She recalled then looked down at the waves of the water, “the last thing I remember is telling a dear friend of mine good bye as he tried to save me. He wanted to use the last of his own demonic energy or anything he had left to jumpstart my life force, but I didn't let him. He has a human family out there still and I know more than anyone how it's like to lose someone like that.” She wanted to cry as she relived memories that were still so fresh in her mind, but refrained from doing so.

Hakkuto's brow's knotted, “A friend? Is that all he was to you?”

Desota looked up confused at him, “What else would he be? Kurama and I just met a little while ago, but already we're like brother and sister.”

`I'm sure he'll love to hear that….' Hakkuto sighed mentally, `This is going to make things more complicated. This isn't amnesia she's experiencing. Something has completely deleted the feelings or the memory of her romance with Kurama. She will never know those feelings of love again unless she falls in love with him again. I doubt she even remembers their mating'

Desota poked the stranger in the arm when he sat back and stretched his legs looking like he was calculating something troubling, “hey? Are you okay in there Mister Angel guy?” she asked concerned.

“Hm? Oh it's nothing.” Hakkuto shook his head as he filed this newly learned fact away and tried to think up an alternate way of bringing her back incase this so called curse affected his intentions as well, “Wait, Angel guy?”

Desota smiled at his inquiring face and giggled, “Well yeah! Isn't that why you're here? You're an angel aren't you? I didn't know angels spaced out like that too, and you haven't exactly given me a name to work with here.”

Hakkuto sighed at her behavior, but he was starting to see how the cold hearted dragon price had opened up his heart to this girl, “I'm not an Angel, Desota. I'm a Unicorn of the demon realm.” He explained.

Her ear's perked as she tilted her head, “You don't look like one. Where's your horn? And how come you know my name but I don't know yours?”

This was going to waste time, but Hakkuto needed to kill a few minutes anyway so he could think this through, “Fair enough, I'm Hakkuto of the Lunar clan. And I don't have a horn in my human form. No Unicorn is stupid enough to give themselves away in this form when it's suppose to be a disguise.”

Desota made a small “o” with her lips and nodded slowly, darting her eyes from him to the beaches below, “So if you're not here to take me to heaven or hell, then why are you here?”

“I'm so glad you asked.” He replied as he finally made up his mind how he was going to do this and be prepared for any mishaps, “I'm here to take you back to the living world. Your time is far from over and quite frankly it was very rash of you to throw away all of your friends sacrifices to keep you alive with them.”

Desota seemed startled at that. She was going back? Really!

“Then…. Are they near now?” she asked quietly with hope nearly misting in her eyes.

Hakkuto smiled; happy he could bring her joy like this when she seemed so down, “Sure they are! They're waiting for me to take you back to the living world.”

Desota looked to the ground; she could barely contain her joy! She wanted to leap up and cry out like a fool, or crow like a rooster! Something! This was just too good to be true!

“But wait, what about this… feeling that's holding me here?” she asked slightly crestfallen, “is that normal?”

“Nobody wants to leave their lives to die. Of course that's normal.” Hakkuto nodded.

“Alright then,” Desota shifted to where she faced him on her knees, “Then take me back.”

Hakkuto smiled with a determined nod, “Thought you'd never ask.” He reached for her, “Lie down on your back and rest your upper back on my lap.”

He folded his legs under him to sit on them while she did as instructed and laid down with her upper back on his lap.

“Good, now, close your eyes and let go of any emotion you have except for what ever you feel when you can imagine yourself reunited with your friends again.” He told her.

With her eyes closing, Hakkuto rested his hands just off her upper stomach and concentrated. The dull glow of gold started to engulf them as her life aura started to revive it's self and brighten from its darkened purple state to its usual brilliant blue again and it started to flare and spark against his own in excitement at being alive again. Now for the heart beat….

Hakkuto's brow began to sweat when he felt resistance as he tried to restart her heart beat to awaken her body to her spirit once again. He exerted more power than necessary in his haste and froze in shock when he heard 2 heart beats. The 1st was strong and he could tell it was her own, but the second one seemed so small…. Like it wasn't supposed to beat just yet.

Hakkuto opened his eyes and looked her over with his spiritual awareness to see if she was possessed or if Ryu had returned, but was once more surprised to see that she had indeed made too hasty a decision to die like that. If he wasn't reviving them BOTH she'd have to live with the knowledge that she died while taking an innocent child to the grave before he was even born.

Desota was pregnant with another Hanyou child….

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