Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ To The Rescue ❯ Beginnings ( Chapter 12 )

 

 

Chapter 12: Beginnings

 

 

Koenma and Botan came rushing out of the temple alongside Yukina and Keiko. The girls fawned over everyone, making sure they were all okay. Yoko held on to Kurama's arm, trying to gather back her strength. Genkai walked out of the temple door and crossed her arms.

 

“Are you killing people in my back yard?” She yelled. Yusuke rolled his eyes. He knew she was going to bitch about that.

 

“Shut up ya old hag! He didn't die!” Yusuke yelled back. Genkai smirked and went back inside. Koenma walked up to Yoko and looked at her.

 

“You were supposed to let them fight. I can't have you dying!” Koenma yelled at Yoko. Yoko sighed and didn't speak. Kurama looked at Yoko and realized that she was too tired and her mind was else where.

 

“How about we go inside, huh, Yoko?” Botan asked the water demon. She looked at the distressed demon and noted that she looked like she had been through internal AND external hell. Yoko nodded and Kurama helped her walk towards the temple.

 

 

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The gang sat down around the table and was happy to see a big meal set out. Koenma beamed, very proud of himself. Kurama pulled Yoko close to him when they sat around the table. Everyone was ready to celebrate Yoko's victory over Yasashiku. They ate fast and talked faster about the day's fight.

 

“So why is it a big secret that you are a princess, Yoko?” Botan asked loudly. Yoko shivered as she set her chopsticks down. Everyone stopped eating and looked at the water demon, who had regained some of her strength.

 

“Uhh… it's a long story?” Yoko laughed nervously. Yusuke rolled his eyes.

 

“Get talking!” Yusuke ordered. Botan smacked him. “OUCH! Not you too Botan?!”

 

“What I would rather know,” Yoko began. “Is which one of my friends leaked the secret…??” Yoko glared at Takara. The dog demon shrugged and shook her head.

 

“Not I.” She said.

 

“I did.” Hiei spoke. Yoko looked at the fire demon. She glared fiercely at him, like he was the next course for supper. Hiei shrank away from where the water demon was sitting. Takara pulled Hiei close and pouted.

 

“So he's an eavesdropper.” Takara admitted to Yoko. She growled at Hiei. He didn't notice too much; he was much more taken with the fact that he could smell the dog demon's perfume on her collar bone. Takara finally released him when Yoko gave up her glaring. Hiei wanted to start pouting but didn't.

 

“Seriously, why didn't we know this?” Yusuke asked honestly. Yoko shrugged. She looked at Koenma for some help. He had been sharing in the secret for a while now. The Prince of the Reikai didn't offer any assistance to her.

 

“I suppose I have to tell you then…” She finally admitted. Yusuke nodded, particularly worried that there might be some other clause that the Tantei wasn't in the know-how about. Protecting a Princess was bigger news than just a mission; but if there was more than this, he wasn't sure that the Tantei could handle that.

 

“My family didn't think it was important to keep the Reikai informed of everything…” Yoko said. “Besides,” Yoko laughed. “Your father was busy with potty training you, Koenma!” Yusuke and Kuwabara broke out in laughter as Koenma sank low in his seat. Keiko held her hand over her mouth as she tried not to laugh. Even Takara and Hiei were slightly smiling.

 

“Yoko, are you saying that you are OLDER than Koenma?!” Yukina asked, surprised.

 

“Yes, I am. Only by two hundred years though.” Yoko replied.

 

“That means…” Kurama's eyes were widened. Yusuke and Kuwabara continued to roll on the floor laughing.

 

“Yes, I knew who your great-grandparents were, Kurama. I am WAY TOO old for you.” Yoko smiled. Takara looked at the kitsune and laughed. Hiei was baffled by the whole situation.

 

“She's got the worst memory too!” Takara cracked up and fell onto the floor, where Yusuke and Kuwabara were wiping there tears from laughing so hard. Koenma still hadn't gotten over the potty-training joke.

 

“How do you stay so young?” Hiei asked. Yoko grinned mischievously.

 

“Cats have lives; foxes have tails…” Kuwabara said. Kurama nodded in agreement.

 

“You've never seen her true demon form…” Takara said; her voice laced with fear. Yoko's eyes hardened and she looked down at her food. Kurama hinted some long story about why that had never occurred.

 

“Are you ugly like the old hag!?” Yusuke laughed more. Genkai threw food at the detective and hit him in the face.

 

“You idiot.” Genkai said. “It was rumored that water demons could internalize their age. It would manifest in different ways.” Yoko smiled.

 

“I guess. The point is, I am one of the only remaining witnesses to the creation of the modern known Makai.” Yoko said proudly. Kurama tilted his head, intrigued by something he didn't even know.

 

“OH! Remember how I told you about that book I read? About the 5 different sections of the Makai? The Kazekai, Mizukai, Hikai, Tsucikai, and Koorikai? Well, they were all different, but they become one…. More or less…” Botan said excitedly. Yoko nodded.

 

“Yes.” Yoko agreed.

 

“But you know the REAL story?!” Botan practically shook Yoko to death.

 

“Yeyeyeyyesssssssssssss” Yoko tried to say. Kurama pried Botan's hands off of the water demon. Yoko shook her head and let her eyes re-focus. Kurama placed his hand on the top of Yoko's thigh, palm up. She pressed her hand against his.

 

“Each one controlled its own element and their demons came from that. Kazekai had wind demons. Tsuchikai had earth demons. Hikai had fire demons. Koorikai had ice demons. And the Mizukai had my kind; water demons.” Yoko began. Hiei felt his glance look over to Yukina. She was completely into the story that Yoko was about to tell.

 

`Is she the part of your heart that you cannot forget?' Takara asked.

 

`What?' Hiei replied.

 

`You look at her like she's your sister…' Takara mentioned. Hiei looked at her.

 

`That's because she is.'

 

“There was a lot of fighting going on a few hundred years before I was born, when my grandparents were the rulers of the kingdom. Each of the leaders decided to marry off children in 2 generations. The Kazekai and Mizukai decided I would marry their eldest; Raidon. My eldest brother was to marry one of their many daughters. Unfortunately, the Hikai also had a problem with us, and my sister was to be married to one of their boys. Sadly, no one could survive the Koorikai, and eventually it became the Koorime. Your home, Yukina.” Yoko said as she looked at the ice maiden. Yukina looked at Yoko with a hope that had been lost once.

 

“That explains a lot. Thank you.” Yukina said gratefully. Hiei felt relieved that his sister had some partial answers to her questions.

 

`Does she know?' Takara asked him.

 

`No. And it'll stay that way.' He replied.

 

“But what about your family?” Kuwabara asked. Kurama squeezes Yoko's hand under the table. She looked at everyone.

 

“My father didn't agree with what his father had set up. He planned on calling together a meeting to disband what had kept the fighting at bay…” Yoko stated. “But the Kazekai had been brain washing their children into thinking that the Mizukai was going to take over their small island. When they got word that my family was going to call off the engagement, they started to gather troops. Raidon's sister didn't want my brother as a husband, but a part of Raidon wanted an invasion to run smoothly; so he demanded that I be left untouched so that after we married, it would look like he had come to rescue me from the horrible Mizukai kingdom…” Yoko looked down at the table. Her eyes were full of pain and Kurama didn't know what would make her feel better.

 

“Didn't anyone survive?” Botan asked as she took notes to re-write history. Literally.

 

“If they did, they died soon after, when Takara's mother and father rescued me, the kaze-youkai couldn't sustain my home land. The island sunk. Humans call it Atlantis.” Yoko stated.

 

“So your home is under the black water of the Makai, Yukina's home floats about it… What about the rest?” Kuwabara asked softly.

 

“When the Mizukai sunk, the Hikai ended up marrying Tsuchikai; which became the literal Makai. Fox demons, dog demons, and fire demons are all from the Tsuchikai and Hikai marriage: literally. The Kazekai is a floating island; very desolate because it is hard to get up there is you are not accompanied by a wind demon. Many kaze-youkai married tsuchi-youkai. It seems simple, but it threw off the natural balance.” Yoko ended. Koenma looked sad.

 

“I remember my father complaining about the horrible influx of paper work…” Koenma said to himself.

 

“How sad…” Botan looked up from her notes and felt bad for the sole-survivor of the island of “Atlantis.”

 

“Yoko, I think we should call it a night.” Takara mentioned. Yoko yawned and Kurama scooped her up.

 

“Yes, bed time.” Kurama smiled. Hiei held Takara back as she growled. Once the two were out of sight, Takara spoke.

 

“My mother and father had nightmares after rescuing Yoko. I promised them I would protect her until the end. Whether that end meant mine or hers. She's never even told me all of this. Consider yourselves lucky.” Takara got up and walked away.

 

 

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WOW. This has to be my favorite chapter so far. HAHA.

I like it because it all of a sudden gets you so wrapped up in all the info!

It was hard to plan out because all the details had to mesh perfectly.

 

Let me know what ya think!

 

Lovels, Bunny!