Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Reikai Tantei's Yu Yu Hakusho ❯ The Yomatsu Hara-Sakai, part 3 ( Chapter 4 )

Hi! I'm Yo-ma! I'm using characters from various Fanfiction and will give the authors credit in the chapters they appear in. The next few chapters will introduce some characters from Korogi. Please don't get angry with me for using your character, Yo-mawari. If you want me to take the story off of FanFiction.Net, please tell me.

This is my story, it is YAOI (meaning male/male relationships for those unused to the anime world.) If you don't like it, don't read it! Got that?

I DO NOT OWN YU YU HAKUSHO!!! So don't sue me I don't have any money.

This occurs after the movies and ovas.

Thoughts are in Italics. ***** means change in scene.

Please Read and Review! I would love to hear anything you have to say! Flames are even accepted!

To Mistal, Autumn Priestess: I have to thank you! You inspired me to write this chapter. So, this chapter is for you! I hope you like it.

To Night Light Fairy: I'll have an explanation on who Yo-mawari is at the end o this chapter. I wasn't going to tell you the story until you meet Keine, (he doesn't come until much later), but I'll put a small amount at the end. Kurama and Hiei are still in a relationship, although I agree it is a little confusing so far. I'm starting to focus on others characters too, so I won't showing it off too much. Plus, Yuusuke and the others don't know yet, so Hiei wouldn't be openly worried about Kurama around them.

On with the story!

The Reikai Tantei's Yu Yu Hakusho

Chapter 4 The Yomatsu Hara-Sakai, part 3

Koenma and Hiei each exchanged a glance. "There's another plain of existence, isn't there?" Koenma asked silently through the wet streets of night-time New York City.

Hiei nodded. "I heard about it in legends long ago. There was a plain that once existed called Yoru no Kuni ... the Lands of Night."

He took a deep breath, though he was never one for story telling and quickly tried to change the subject. It was all he could muster to keep from falling asleep when the group started up on their stories of past battles and the whole lot.

"Go on ... " Koenma beckoned.

Hiei glanced to Yukina quickly ... maybe this wasn't the brightest idea. He was sure she would have heard the legends too, long ago from the ancestors in their tribe ... finding out now that HE was her lost brother would most likely devastated her.

"Hiei!" Kuwabara yelled, bonking the little guy on the noggin.

He snarled up to the tall man, receiving a comforting hand on the shoulder from Kurama. Hiei desperately put his anger to the back of his mind and began.

"Back at the creation of the world, the Yoru no Kuni was the entire underground of the universe ... housing the Underworld and all the evil. It was split apart by fighting demon generals ... from that came Makai, Meikai and a number of other separate underworlds. But when the demon generals began to invade Ningenkai, their homelands were also invaded and thought to have been destroyed ... leaving only Makai and Meikai intact."

He raised a cautious eye to Yukina who appeared to be clueless at this point in time, listening on intently. "The boundary between the other two worlds that were supposedly destroyed was Yomatsu Hara-Sakai ... the Bounds of Night. That was where the demons, spirits and other creatures gathered when their worlds were destroyed. It was a place that my ancestors couldn't describe ... but from what I could guess, it's nothing like anyplace I've ever seen. There was a demon picked from the demons, to be the sole guardian of the Yomatsu. He was to have power over every living thing on his land. The guardian of the Yomatsu wa like a ruler, for he knew when there were intruders in the Yomatsu, yet he was friendly with all of the inhabitants."

Kurama ran a finger across his forehead, glancing down to the human girl beside him, holding the glowing gem tightly. "That's where this comes from?"

I could swear I've heard this story before, but where? Kurama though to himself. During the last battle he hadn't been able to get a good look at the figure in black, but still, for some reason he was still oddly familiar. Worse he was beginning to this that odd shuriken was familiar too.

Kurama shook his head slightly, No matter, It'll all be cleared up soon.

Hiei neither answered or moved ... instead, he stared blankly in concentration down the street and into the darkness, his mind searching through the strange city.

"What is it?" Yusuke asked, looking off into the night with him.

He shrugged. "Dunno. Strange, flashing lights and odd ningen noises."

A siren burst suddenly into existence, filling the street with a pulsating red and blue light. Hiei drew his sword, aimed toward the odd lights and sounds and snarled, ready to pounce.

Karyn huffed. "Cops ... they're never around when you need them, and always too late when you do need them," she said, shoving the gem over to Koenma.

"Cops?" Koenma asked, taking it up carefully. "What are those?"

Karyn eyed him. "You from Mars or something? Police men!"

"I think we should make a quick get away," Yusuke said. "Hiei, take us to Makai ... Yukina, Kieko ... you stay here with ... uh, what was your name?"

"Karyn."

"Right!"

*****

The policeman stepped heavily out of the car, his figure graced with one too many donuts. He pulled out his flashlight and shone it down the street. It glanced off light poles and followed across the street until three girls popped into the light. He wrinkled his nose and began forward. "You girls heard any screaming around here?"

The group collectively shook their heads.

He clicked the flashlight off and walked up to them mumbling about his interrupted coffee break.

He looked around the group ... Karyn, Yukina, Keiko. His gaze fell back to Yukina, and she flinched, drawing back.

"What's with the hair, girl?" he pointed to her streaming blue locks.

Karyn laid a hand on her shoulder. "Too much chlorine in the pool water."

The cop eyed her. "You girls mind telling me what's been going on down here?"

Keiko shrugged. "Maybe if we knew. Too bad you're too late," she emphasized, drawing a look from the cop. "There was some sicko with a sword here about ten minutes ago, but he ran off. Could be halfway to Tokyo by now!"

*****

Botan shrugged. "Search me! I didn't even know other realms existed .. let alone gateways to them." She floated about a foot off the ground, seated comfortably on her oar. "Who told you this?"

Yusuke shot a finger back to Hiei who glared a hole through the back of his head. "Anything odd surfaced lately in Reikai?"

"Absolutely nothing ... no spirits, no nothing! It's completely quiet around there.

Koenma held up the red jewel given to him by the human. "Maybe we can use this somehow."

"How exactly would we do that?" Kuwabara asked, fidgeting with a stray curl of his red hair.

Kurama took the jewel and held it in his hand, moving around in circles. The energy it put off came at him in waves, growing strongest when he pointed it towards a line of dying trees. He lowered it and looked off. "Hmm ... works just like a compass."

"A what?" Hiei answered as the group started off. He looked up to Kurama who only smiled, looking off to the dying trees.

The gem lead them on for about two miles through the gnarled forest. Although Hiei was quite at home, Kuwabara would jump at every little thing that moved. He peppered the entire trip with panicked shouts as odd animals scurried by and tree limbs bent down to whap him in the nose.

He rubbed his sore nose intently, contorting his face into odd glares and glances until a hand reached out and grabbed his shoulder. "AH!!!"

Kurama threw him a crooked look as his friend jumped about ten feet. "This things stopped putting out energy," he tossed it to Yusuke.

"Maybe we're right on top of the gateway." He looked up to the dark, murky blue that could pass for 'sky' and searched.

"Maybe you broke it," Hiei said.

"Maybe it saw YOU and died of shock!" Kuwabara put in quickly.

"Why you ... "

"THE GROUND!!!" Botan yelled, pointing down to the forest floor.

It turned suddenly to quicksand, sucking them all down up to their shoulders before they could react ... then the floor opened up in a spinning vortex of light, engulfing them totally in an instant.

Botan reeled back, shielding her eyes from the light. "Oh no," she whispered, watching on expecting them to come leaping back out.

But they never came. She looked down into the vortex, clutching the oar handle firmly.

"Well ... no sense being left out ... " and she flew down into the vortex.

*****

Karyn quietly pushed the door to her parent's apartment opened and stepped inside. The Elvis clock on the wall read 9:25, the hips shaking back and forth as the seconds hand circumnavigated Elvis' chest. "I'm home," she called softly.

There was a groan from the couch, and her mother raised a hand, waved and went back to sleep. "Mom? Is it okay if some friends stay the night?"

There was an affirmative groan.

Karyn turned out the door and motioned Keiko and Yukina to come in. The two entered neatly in the house, kicking their shoes off at the door before being motioned up the orange, shag- carpeted stairs.

*****

It was a totem pole ...

No ... a wooden statue ...

No. The more Yusuke looked at the thing staring down at him, the more and more odd it became. He picked himself carefully of the floor of a dim forest. He was alone, as far as he could tell ... standing in front of a tall wooden ... thing in an unknown and silent land.

"DON'T STARE!!" it yelled back to him.

Yusuke stumbled back, tripping over fallen branches to land back on his butt.

"IT'S VERY RUDE TO STARE!!" the tree yelled back to him.

"Yeah, what ever," he snorted, getting to his feet, feeling oddly embarrassed to have been caught off-guard so. The tree shifted in place and lumbered forward a few paces.

"What are you? You don't look like any creature I'VE ever seen!"

"Same to ya, pal. Where am I?"

"OH!! How noble of you! First you come crashing onto me from the sky ... stare at me like I'M the freak of nature here... and now you want directions! Hmph! Typical! I should have walked all over you when I had the chance!"

"Look, friend. I'm sorry. I was just sucked into some odd portal and ended up here. It wasn't my choice."

The tree glared down to him. "You from Over-World? You are, aren't you! You and your com-pu-tors and auto-mo-biles. Ningen?"

"Sort of. Who are you?"

The tree shook proudly. "Zurui. And you?"

"Yusuke Urameshi. Could you tell me where I am?"

"Sure thing!" The tree's 'face' contorted into what could pass as a smile as it suddenly changed moods. "You're in one of Yomatsu's forests."

"THIS is Yomatsu Hara-Sakai?"

The tree rustled.

"What happened to the others?"

"Others? Hmm ... could be anywhere. Yomatsu portals are very random, Ningen." The tree rustled and settled down

"Great," he huffed silently to himself.

*****

"HELLOOOOOOOOO!!" Kuwabara yelled to the dim, pinkish-blue sky. He found himself in an odd foresty place, dumped here by the vortex from Makai. Around him, strange noises echoed off the almost stone-like trees, coming at him from all corners of his perception.

He shivered slightly and tried to stand up, only to feel a searing pain in one of his legs.

He was lying on what looked like a road, snaking through the woods, beaten down by travelers. The entire environment reminded him of something out of a bad horror flick.

Something rustled off in one of the tree tops as if in response to his frantic mind. His head whirled around to see a black shape, wizzing from limb to limb, circling around him.

"Hiei! S'that you?"

"Does it matter, baka?" Hiei blinked into existence on a nearby tree branch, glaring down to him. "Where are Kurama and the others?"

"Like I should know!!" Kuwabara rubbed his head, looking around at the forest. "Igh ... place is even more creepy than Makai."

"Well you're useless now, as usual. I'd leave you here but Yusuke and the others would be pissed. Not that I care." Hiei reached into his shirt and pulled out a mass of bandages. Throwing them to Kuwabara, he flicked out of sight, reappearing in a tree. "Hurry up and wrap that wound baka. I don't have all day."

"OI!! Just wait till I can stand shrimp!! I'll plummet you from here to high heaven!"

*****

Koenma shook the stars from his head only to see Botan floating calmly before him, glancing around. "Rough fall?"

He nodded, picking himself up. "Where the heck are we?"

She shrugged. "We couldn't still be in Makai." She gestured to the sky and trees. "Strange place."

"I wonder if this is that Yomatsu Bounds Hiei was talking about."

"Why don't we look for them and find out."

Koenma looked around the dense, forest region, realizing it was only himself and Botan there in the dense foliage. The trees seemed to close down in on him ... he began to mentally kick himself for agreeing to come on this mission.

*****

Kurama brushed the grass and leaves from his shirt and hair, running his fingers through it to calm the rats and tangles. It was an odd part of some forest he found himself in. It was a large, circular area ringed with the forest, so dense that he couldn't see beyond. It reminded him of one of those Greek Amphitheaters he had read about in school.

"Hello?" he called to the forest, circling around to search. He felt a strange hint of energy floating just outside the ring. It would move occasionally, hiding behind a different tree every so often. "Hello! Who's there?"

The energy source flipped to radiate behind him quickly, and Kurama whirled around. Standing just inside the circle, the one-armed tengu snarled at him, reeping scythe still in his grip.

"You," it growled, fixing him with a deadly gaze. "Woman. Give me the jewel."

"I don't have it," Kurama said, pulling out a rose from the depths of his shirt top.

"YOU LIE!!" it screamed leaping into the air, scythe ready.

The Rose Whip burst into existence in his hand as he dove for the ground, the scythe slicing into the firm earth just inches from his face. Kurama struggled to his feet, reaching with his mind out to the trees around him ...

... but nothing happened.

Another sideways blow caught him painfully on the shoulder, flinging him halfway across the circle, landing roughly on the ground. And the trees mearly stared back at him, despite the effort he put into calling to them. "What is going on!" he cursed, lashing the whip before him. The tengu kept his distance from the whip as he watched the red-headed woman struggle to her feet. It smiled a razor-edged grin, watching as Kurama's shoulder split open and began to bleed profusely.

Kurama bit back a cry of agony, slipping down to his knees, holding his aching shoulder. His vision began to blur and his head spun in circles, greatly disorienting him.

"Poison," he whispered to himself.

"The jewel, woman!"

"I told you, I don't have it!!"

Again the tengu lept through the air as Kurama made it to his feet. He had no chances of stopping the attack, but he managed to shrug off another blow from the scythe, the Rose Whip wrapping around the broken hilt and jerking it to one side.

Instead, the tengu hit him full force, pounding Kurama back into the hard ground, spliting his already gaping shoulder even further.

He sreamed in pain and laid dazed ... the wind gone and the poison slowly over taking his body. The world before him was a complete blur as if he was looking through water. He tossed his head about, and managed to get his good arm under his body, struggling against pain and fatigue he sat up and laid eyes on the snarling creature.

"Quite strong for a woman." Kurama only snorted, pulling himself to his knees, wincing in pain. "Very well, then. You who fight in battle as a man ... " he raised the scythe menacingly over his head ... "shall die like a man!!!!"

Unable to move, Kurama forced his eyes shut and braced for the blow, preparing himself for the seering pain that would follow. He felt the wind from the blow before his face ... heard the scythe cutting through the air...

He waited, breathing heavily ... but nothing more ever came... the environment fell deadly silent.

Am I dead already?

He looked up from his pained vision to see the tengu lying at his feet, dead. Looking up from the body he could see the man in black standing before him.

Shit, now I have him to deal with. The figure kneeled down next to him and grasped his shoulder, looking at it with pitch black eyes.

Kurama could see his face clearly now, and all he could do was stare. As memories triggered in his head, he had to bite his lip to keep from screaming as his brain was roughly assaulted. He knew he was missing most of his memories from his life as Youko Kurama, but this was too much.

His brain was receiving all of his memories and the short life he thought he had as a Youko began to lengthen into thousands of years.

Is this an effect of the poison? He thought as he could feel his consciousness slipping.

Right before he blacked out, he managed to whisper a name that seemed to shock the man in black.

"'Wari..."

*****

Kuwabara grumbled to himself as he fumbled with the bandages. Taking a good look at the wound, it was all he could do to stop from wincing away. Man, this looks bad.

Suddenly he lifted his head up, hearing voices. Turning, he breathed a sigh of relief as Koenma and Botan emerged from the foliage.

Both of them stopped in their tracking when they saw him.

"Oh my god! Kuwabara, you're injured. Here let me help you." Botan ran over to him, kneeling down in the dirt. Koenma followed silently and stood next to her as she worked.

There was a rustle in the bushes from the other side of the road, and they all stopped to stare. Holding their breath and hoping it wasn't an enemy.

The three of them let out a relieved sigh as Yusuke emerged from the forest. He stopped and blinked astonishingly at them.

"So you three made it here too?" he asked them.

"Yeah, though Kuwabara seems to be injured." Koenma replied, stepping across of Kuwabara to face Yusuke.

Yusuke turned around, looking into the forest. "Doe anyone know where Kurama and Hiei are? I hope they're okay."

"I'm right here." Hiei replied out of nowhere, startling Yusuke, Koenma and Botan. "Where do you think the baka here got his bandages from?"

"Don't startle us like that!" Koenma and Botan yelled at the same time. "You scared the living daylights out of us!"

Hiei didn't have to time to answer as a soft, female voice laughed from a tree top.

"Strangers to this land ... do you require assistance?" the small voice sung, echoing around them.

The tree tops seemed to swirl around them in a great tornado of leaves as the small voice floated in.

It continued for ten seconds, then abruptly the entire forest fell silent in a rustle of settling leaves.

A nearby tree branch bowed slightly and a sliver figure appeared, drawing the group into defensive positions around Kuwabara. The female figure laughed again.

"What do you want?" Yusuke yelled to the tree.

In a brilliance of little lights, a small glowing globe of energy popped into view before Yusuke and the others. It hung simply in the air as if studying the group, bobbing up and down occasionally.

Hiei took out his sword and Yusuke readied his hand to shoot whoever it was.

It flickered in response, floating forward. "Put away your weapons."

"Make me," Hiei growled in that low, penetrating voice, stepping forward.

The light flickered again ... and Hiei's sword exploded into tiny, glittering lights. He fumbled forward through the air with his hands, right where his sword just was.

Again, the light flickered, growing long and slender down to meet the ground. It filled out and dissolved into a young girl, silver wings prouting from her back, smiling gently back at them all.

"It's a ... a yosei ... a fairy!" Yusuke breathed, dropping his hands.

The yosei nodded, stepping back. Before Hiei, his sword sparkled back into existence, floating obediently before him. He reached out and slowly took it back, keeping a close eye on the young girl before him.

"Who are you?" Koenma asked, shadowed by Botan.

She smiled over to him and bowed her head. "I am Kagayaku." She turned blank, blue eyes down to Kuwabara. "Your companion has been injured. Come. We will help you."

"We?" Kuwabara inquired.

The trees surrounding the grassy ring were littered with about twenty of the silver yosei, giggling and conversing quietly among themselves.

*****

BBBBRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!!

"WAH!!!!" Yukina and Keiko sat bolt up-right on the floor beside Karyn's bed, panicked.

"That noise!" Yukina whined, pressing her hands over her ears. Karyn reached a lazy arm over and swated the alarm clock into silence, yawning.

Keiko groaned and rubbed her eyes. "Where's the fire?"

Karyn groaned in a responce. "Gotta go to a Girl Scout meeting."

"What the heck's a girl scout?"

Karyn fell back in bed, rubbing her tired face. "Believe me ... you don't wanna know."

Keiko sighed, looking out the window at the rising sun. "I wonder how Yusuke and the others are doing."

*****

Yusuke stared down into the brownish tea. It tasted funny ... not like tea normally should... but more like dirt.

He leaned his elbows on the edge of the wooden table he sat at in a white marble hall, spinning his tea cup around. The contents shimmered for a few seconds like the rising sun would on the ocean back in Japan, and died down into the brownish liquid.

"So HERE you are!"

He looked up to see Botan strolling into the hall, ploping down across the table from him.

"How's Kuwabara?" Yusuke inquired, watching the woman cross the dining hall.

She shrugged. "Don't know. I haven't been able to se him yet. Koenma should know though." She reached across the table and took the tea cup, taking a sip. "Oh, and Hiei is getting impatient. Kurama is still out there you know."

"I know. I'm gonna go check on Kuwabara. When he's healed we'll go look for Kurama. You coming?"

"Sure."

*****

Kurama's eyes fluttered open, the blurriness clearing to the point he could outline figures. His entire upper body ached in a dull throbbing pain, radiating from his shoulder. He was more stiff than sore he found out, as he flexed the muscles in his stomach and sat up.

He was met by a pair of black eyes and a face to like his own to be funny.

Blinking the blurriness away, he could see the man in black sitting across from him. He himself in a bed with pitch black sheets.

Memory started to come back to him, the fight, the wound, and...the memories.

Before he could say anything though, the man across from his spoke up. "Who are you? How did you know my name, ningen? Only the people of the Yomatsu know who I am."

Kurama looked at the man, he was wearing all black. Loose fitting pants and Chinese shoes with a Chinese long sleeved shirt and sash, just like what he himself usually wore.

He hasn't changed a bit since the last time I saw him, nearly 17 years ago...

Kurama blinked himself out of his daze, realizing that the man was waiting for an answer from him. "My name is Kurama, Yo-mawari."

The man, now known as Yo-mawari, stood up in anger, the chair he was sitting on tipping over.

Roughly grabbing Kurama by the scruff of his neck, eyes narrowed in anger. "How dare you use that name in front of me. No human is named Kurama."

Kurama winced as Yo-mawari tightened his grip on him, making his shoulder send shooting pains across his body. "I'm not entirely human, 'Wari."

Yo-mawari's grip tightened, "Don't call me by that name, you should know your place here, ningen."

The pain in Kurama's shoulder doubled and he had to concentrate to think clear. "You could at least call me by my name."

"I won't defile my twin's name by calling you it."

Kurama allowed a pined smile to flash across his face. "But I am your twin 'Wari."

Yo-mawari's face darkened. "Don't lie to me, human. My brother's dead, shot by a hunter."

Kurama didn't do anything, calmly staring at the other man as he changed into his youko form. "Do I seem dead to you, 'Wari?"

Yo-mawari's eyes widened, his face becoming deathly pale.

"Kyodai-kun. What?....How?"

"Speechless are you? I've only been able to do that too you once and that was concerning bad news."

"Shut-up Kurama." Yo-mawari managed to gasp out as tears made their way down his face. He grasped Kurama in a hug, squeezing so hard Kurama began to choke.

"'Wari, I can't breathe."

"Ooops." Yo-mawari murmured and released him as his own hair became silver, his eyes gold. Soon the two Youko's looked exactly alike down to the very clothes they wore.

"Now, you owe me an explanation."

*****

Yusuke and Botan passed group after group of the fairies, each slipping into silent conversations and avoiding them as they passed.

Botan tugged on her friends arm, bringing Yusuke down so she could whisper in his ear. "Have you noticed that these yosei are all female!" she whispered.

"So? What's the big deal," he shrugged, leading her down a separate hall, void of the giggling women.

"I don't know ... kind of makes me nervous. Like their plotting something."

Yusuke shook his head sadly, "You and your ideas..." he stopped as they reached the door to Kuwabara's room, hearing raised voices.

Looking at each other they opened the door and went inside.

To be continued...

Translations:

Baka-idiot

Kyodai-kun- 'Wari's nickname for Kurama

The Explanation:

Okay, here's a short summary on Yo-mawari. Kurama's parents had a pair of twin boys. Their father didn't want two boys, so he chose one to keep (Kurama) and one to abandon (Yo-mawari). Yo-mawari was found in the woods by the previous guardian of the Yomatsu. And thus for two hundred years they were raised apart. Later, 'Wari went to get revenge on his father for abandoning him. H met Kurama on his way to his father's house, and he told him that his father was very abusive. Yo-mawari explained about what happened to him to Kurama. They then went and killed their father.

Kurama had lost most of his memories when his soul transferred to his human body, so he doesn't remember major parts of his life.

SPOILERS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER AHEAD!

BE WARNED!

One more thing, in the next chapter you will find out that Hiei is 'Wari's Mejin (Master). (This information will also be posted on the bottom of the next chapter, so you don't have to read it at this moment.)

I don't properly explain it there, so I'll do so here. You know how Kurama lost most of his memories? Well so did Hiei, only it was during a fight with another Jagenshi (a demon with a Jagan). A long time ago, Hiei found himself in the Yomatsu, where he met Yo-mawari and managed to defeat him in a fair battle. (That meant that Yo-mawari didn't use his guardian abilities.) As I said a chapter or so ago, when one demon defeats another, the defeated demon becomes a servant to the victor. So, 'Wari then took Hiei to meet Kurama and Kuronue, (He was alive then) and the four of them formed the Genai Rhyodan. (means the phantom brigade) They turn out to be the greatest group of thieves in the Makai. The other two members of this group will remain a secret at this moment in time.

That's the end of chapter four. I hope you liked it. I can't wait for your reviews!

Oh, and flames are accepted. I would like to know how to improve my work you know. Plus they make a warm fire in the winter.