Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Hidden Past, The Hopeful Future ❯ Memories Deprive Sleep ( Chapter 16 )

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AnimeFox1940: Hola Again!!! I'm glad you guys like the chapters. Oh, and Tsuki-Tora , if you're reading this, I don't know where I get the time either. @,@

BlackCat116: I do. During classes as the teachers glare, probably plotting your death.

AnimeFox1940:..Depressing. Anyways, here's the next chapter!!! Hope you like!!!

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It was awkward when Kena came back. She could literally taste the thickness of something between her and her roommate when she got back from her little adventure in the wood. Turns out, her little hide out wasn't very far from Genkai's, and was still on Genkai's land.


But now, Kena lied in bed, on the very edge, almost fearing she was going to tumble off the side and hit the hard wooden floor of Kurama's room if she did. Her eyes scrolled back to where his computer had been. 'Kami...I still feel SO bad for that...' She thought. She was really going to buy him one, but she thought it would be better if he went with her, so HE could pick out a computer HE wanted, and she would quickly buy it. She actually felt guilty about it.


Kena nibbled her bottom lip again, wanting to bite down on her lip hard but not allowing herself. 'No need for punishment. Guilt is enough.' She thought, wiggling just a bit under Kurama's dark grey blankets, careful not to wake her roommate, for he was sleeping on the same bed, his back torwards hers, him on the other side of the bed, close to the wall.


Kena thought he was sleeping, but, apparently not. Yoko wouldn't sleep, nor hush, so now Kurama was still awake. Not only that, but he thought Kena was sleeping next to him, but he didn't want to check.


*Now.* Yoko said, just as Kurama's eyes closed, causing them to open back up again.


'Now, what?' Kurama asked back, wanting to sleep and drift off to dream world.


*It's the perfect time.* Yoko chanted.


'Perfect time....for what?' Kurama asked, truly confused.


*It will be so easy.*

'What will be easy?!' Kurama asked, starting to get annoyed. Well, starting to get very annoyed.


*Kill her!!!* Yoko then yelled, jokingly.


'Let me sleep.' Kurama chimed back.


*Don't you hate her?* Yoko asked curiously.


'What do you mean? Kena?'


*Yes. Do you hate her? You know, the girl sleeping next to you, who isn't even sleeping?*


'She's not sleeping? I thought she fell asleep.' Kurama yawned mentally. 'I'm tired, Yoko. May we continue this conversation tomor-' Yoko cut him off.


*Stop changing the subject, Kurama.*


'Well, no. I don't hate her. She doesn't seem that bad and-' Yoko cut him off again, continuing to feed this fire. He was in the mood to argue, unlike his other self, known as Kurama.


*What do you mean 'I don't hate her'? Didn't she brake your...what did those baka humans call it? Oh, yes. Computer. The brand new one.* Yoko said, smirking.


'It wasn't entirely her fault. Not only that, but she seems to feel really bad about it and--'


*She's evil.* Yoko then chirped happily. Kurama sighed.


'Fine. Good night.' He wanted to sleep so badly.


*So you're agreeing, she's evil?* Yoko asked, wanting to hear Kurama say it himself.

'If I say yes, will you let me sleep?' Kurama sleepily asked the very energtic Kitsune.


*Possibly.*


'Fine. She's evil. Now hush.' Kurama closed his eyes and relaxed. He could slowly feel himself drifting off when....


"Kurama....?" Came a very soft voice.


Kurama sighed again. He knew it was Kena. But he kept his eyes closed. 'Maybe she'll think I'm sleeping and leave me alone...'


"Kurama?" Came her voice again, braking off the steady silence of the night.


"Yes?" He quickly asked, still in a half sleep state.


"Are you awake?" She then asked, her voice in a whisper.


Kurama paused and then decided to answer in a blunt voice, "No, Kena. I'm sleeping, and yet I'm still having this very conversation with you and answering all the questions you ask. But, I'm sleeping. Don't be fooled by my talking back."


Kena sucked in air slowly, then blew it all back out. "I'm sorry." She then muttered.


Kurama listened to the silence then he said softly himself, "It's okay, Kena. It's getting late." His eyes glanced around, and then saw the clock, which read 12:44.


"Sorry, again...." A much longer time passed, and Kena closed her eyes, pulling the blankets up past her eyes, adding to the darkness. It was so quiet, and yet she seemed so restless. And she could sense he was still awake, but she left him alone as thoughts stirred in her head. Memories. She had called her mom earlier that day, and her mom had mentioned a very familar name, and now the memories of the keeper of that name came flooding back, as though they just needed that little name to set them back, bring them afloat.

She shifted many times, trying to find sleep. It didn't come. And her moving and shifting caused Kurama to stay awake too.


*Aw. How cute. I think she's having a bad dream.* Yoko said, a smirk plastered on his lips.


Kurama thought about it. Maybe she was. "Kena?" He then asked. He looked over to the clock. It now read 1:16.


"Yes?" Her voice quickly asked. They were back to back, but then Kena flipped from her side to her back, resting her arms on her stomach. And after a few seconds, Kurama did the same, deciding sleep was not coming.


"What's wrong?"


Kena paused for a long while. "I don't think anything’s wrong. I've just been thinking a lot."


"May I ask about what?"


Kena paused yet again, looking at the many jumbles of words she could use. She finally said, "About my friend."


*She has friends?*


'Hush you, Yoko.'


"What about your friend?" Kurama asked, hoping that maybe if she talked about it, they could both get some well deserved sleep.


"Her name was Kanna. Well, is Kanna. I haven't seen her in a very long time." Kena looked at the ceiling and didn't noticed when Kurama's green eyes scrolled over to her form.


"In how long?" He just had to keep her talking, and she would spill out, empty everything she wanted to. And he knew that.

"That last time I saw her...was when I was nine." Kena took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "You see, I never always lived in Paris. I actually lived in another city before that. I don't remember the name, though, I just know it was very close to Paris. And, I met her on one of the most normal days of my life..."

.::Flash Back Kena's POV::.

"It's freezing!!" I complained to the teacher as she gently lead me outside, no matter how much I struggled against her grip. I was wearing a thick coat, but the cold just seemed to seep though the many layers, seemed to just get past anything else, just to purposly freeze me. "We shouldn't come out here! We could get sick!!" I then yelled to her, my five year old grip tugging against her much older grip, quickly losing before the battle started.


"Kena, It's only snow..." She coaxed over to me.


'I don't CARE! It's COLD!' I so badly wanted to scream at her again, yell and kick, or at least ask if she was insane. Anything. I had just barely started Spirit Detecting, and I had just barely been adopted, along with my sisters. I though, went to a different school then they. I stood by the teacher, my bare hand in hers.


"Go on," She then said, gently pushing at my back, thinking I was just shy or something. Well, that was the usual idea you get when you find the last kid in the room hiding under a table while the rest were playing outside. 'She acts like it's my very first day here. I've been here for a week now, thank you!' I thought, killing the urge to glare back at her. But then I concentrated on keeping myself warm. I had the element of fire, and I was normally used to being warmer than usual people were. But, during school and off of missions, I couldn't use it. I couldn't use my fire because they were afraid that I would waste too much energy, then an emergence would come. And they didn't want that.


I pushed my hands deep into my jean pockets and shrugged my shoulders up to my face, trying to cease the effect of the cool air passing by. I glanced over to my side when I heard kids laughing, and saw most of them playing on the monkey bars, some also sliding or swinging, all ignoring the cold.


'How can they DO that?' I thought in almost vain. Giving an emotionless expression, I let my eyes glance around else where. They stopped on the far corner of the playground. Where the school wall and fence met. There was a girl sitting there with her knees pulled up to her chest, and she had her wrist out, a rubber band on. She kept pulling it back and letting it go, causing it to snap roughly on her wrist.


I blinked as I watched her do this from afar. She also seemed to not be effected with the cold. She was also wearing a very thin, light jacket. She had dark blue hair and dark pink highlights it seemed.


"Wow. You don't see that everyday." I wanted to look away from her, to just ignore her like I was all the other kids. But I couldn't. I just watched, leaning my head to the side as I was doing so. Then, I heard shouting. I let my dark purple irises move towards the sound, only to see 3 boys, all around the same age, running to the girl. I smiled a bit, 'Well, that's good to know. She has friends. She looked so...lonely just sitting there like that. It's just funny--' I stopped my thoughts to see what would happen next, my senses telling me to watch closely.


So I did.


The 'Leader' of the group threw a snow ball right at the girl, then he and his crew started laughing loudly, pointing and snickering. And the girl, she just sat there, only looking up after a second, then going back to the rubber band and her wrist.


And I just stood there, with something now starting to boil within me. Something made me tick when I watched that happen. And before I could properly think things over, my feet started moving, as though I almost forgot the cold around me, and something was taking over. I didn't really have any say in what was going on until I found myself standing right there, a few feet away from the girl and the boys.


My eyes scrolled from the girl, who was staring at me, to the boys, who were also staring at me. but, I particularly kept my eyes on the leader of the boys. He had the same dark blue eyes as the girl, the same hair. They shared some major features. 'They must be related.' I thought. My thoughts quickly snapped back to my own sisters. Sure, we often got into little arguments, but it never really lead to this.


Okay, maybe Mimi and I had really gotten into a fight, fire against ice, neck at neck, that kind of thing. But, that was only once. Twice tops. Maybe 3 times. But that was it. No public confrontations like this.


"What's going on?" I asked the leader, slightly glaring.


"They're being a load of bitches, like always." Spoke the girl next to me in a hoarse yet rough voice.


I bit my bottom lip at her choice of vocabulary, but I ignored it, then I looked back to the boys, giving them another glare. "I suggest you leave." I then heard myself say. I had no real control now. I just knew I was angry, and my anger was taking over.


The leader snickered. "Come on guys, before the little girls start crying." And they walked off. But they fed the fire in me. I wanted so badly to attack them from behind, but I knew that was a total dishonor. I quickly looked back to the girl.


"So....they're always like that?" I asked her, the anger still flickering like a steady flame.


She laughed bitterly. "You must be new here." She told me, giving me a small smile.


I returned it. "I'm not that new. I came here a while back. Been here a week."


"Hm...Is that your real eye color?" She then asked out of no where.


I almost glared at her. "What makes you think it isn't?" I quickly asked. "Purple eyes aren't as usual than blue and pink hair. Care to explain that?"


"This is my natural hair color. It's not from my mom, thank gods. I hate her. And I don't know my dad. Never really did." She pulled back the rubber band and let go, causing it to spring forward and snap against her wrist yet again. I looked at her wrist. The skin was pink, which meant that she probably did this often. I bent over and grabbed the rubber band, and pulled it back with enough force that it snapped in half. I twirled it in my fingers.


"Purple is my natural eye color too," I started as she yelled at me for snapping the rubber band. I just continued,"But, I never knew my parents either. They died when I was little. 2, I think. Then I was sent from Japan to here, thinking I had relatives to take me in. I had relatives, they just didn't want me. So, I was sent to the orphanage. Once there, I lived there for 3 years with some friends and the evil Mother of the house. Then I was adopted this year, and here I am." I looked back to her, another rubber band was now around her slim wrist, which caused me to sigh.


"Wow. That sucks." She said in a bland tone. I quickly leaned forward since I was already bent down, getting ready to snap this rubber band as well. But she pulled back to quickly. "I learn from past mistakes." She then snapped.

..::Interruption in Flashback::..

There was silence again.


"Then?" Kurama asked.


"Then....what?" Kena quickly asked back.


"Then what happened?" Apparently he was drawn into the small story. "Is that the end? Because it doesn't really sound like an ending--" Kena cut him off.


"No, there's more." There was again silence as he waited.


"Well?" He then asked, getting tired of waiting.


"Well...what?" Kena asked in an irritated tone.


Kurama sighed. "Well, continue!" He then said.


Kena paused. "Later." She then told him, letting herself drift into a soft sleep. "Tomorrow. I promise."

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AnimeFox1940: Yay!!! Sorry for such a long wait. You guys probably thought I was dead or something. Well, I'm not!!! ^-^ Also, I wanted to make this chapter a little bit longer than usual, because I just noticed that if I liked a story and they only posted a little chapter, and made me wait for another chapter, only for it to be little and short again, then I'd be sad. So, sorry! Please review!!!

BlackCat116: If you haven't noticed, Kanna is now being introduced to Pia's story.

AnimeFox1940: Yep!! And I'll try to write longer chapters from now on!!

BlackCat116 & AnimeFox1940: Review please!!! Ja ne!!!