Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Walking on Water ❯ Background Info and Introduction ( Chapter 1 )

By: XScreamingxInxPillowsX
~*~I shall begin the tale far back in the past where nothing but death continues so let us fall into the darkest, coldest pits of shadows and let no fear be shown.... for there is no escape of death...as it has become a part of this one girl’s life...so has the anger and sorrow she has been forced to endure...so let us travel into her past.....let us be plunged into the fiery depths of hell.... ~*~

“AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! *heavy breathing* ”

The woman’s screams of bloody torture and entrapment in her own suffering were almost too much to bear. Again the struggle for air continued as the newborn girl surfaced from her mother’s womb. Sweat drowned down the woman’s face as she barely managed to smile down at her giggling baby girl. The child was properly cleaned and the cord had been cut as the doctor wrapped it in a cloth, handing it to the father. He was a tall, well built man with short reddish hair, and golden eyes that gleamed in amazement looking down at her, his little girl, as he cooed and cradled her. “Let me see her, dear.” The mother behind barely managed to whisper. The woman had long, flowing black hair and grayish eyes that seemed to be losing their color from her condition. The man smiled, “Of course, dear. What shall we name her?” he asked as she finally held her child in her arms. The child let out a small giggle staring in amazement at a strand of her mother’s hair that swung back and forth above her curious, gray eyes. She smiled, weakly, and released her hair from the child’s grasp leaning closer to kiss her forehead. She leaned beside the child’s ear and whispered just loud enough for the father to hear,

“Rayne, my little girl.”

Tears streamed down the mother’s cheeks as her eyes became too heavy for her own strength, and every so slowly, they closed and never opened no matter how much the father shook her, begged her, to wake. The child began to cry, almost in screeches, as if knowing exactly what is going on. Her screams reached every hallway of the hospital, so that the world would know. Her mother had died, so that she could live. The father who had knelt beside the woman, holding her hand and murmuring a prayer to her, stood, releasing his grasp on the woman’s hand as he picked up his child and left the room in tears as the child continued to scream.

Three long years past as the father raised his daughter and kept his promise to his little girl that he would raise her, caring for her, and making up the love for both him, as a father, and for the mother. The young toddler of three did not seem to notice or care, as she remained innocent and naïve to the world. The father smiled down at his daughter watching her grow so fast was almost too hard to bare for him, it was her uncanny resemblance of her mother that caused him such pain, but still he managed to smile at her. He was always worried for her; concerned that something may happen to her when he is not around. So that is why he got her a gift. It was a full-bred wolf demon with silky black fur and ruby colored eyes. Rayne jumped up and down in excitement as she ran up to her father, embracing him tightly.

“Thank you, daddy!!” she squealed as she ran over to her new friend.

“Anything for my little girl.” Her father started to say with a smile but it was quickly replaced with a stern expression. “Now, Rayne, that wolf is a very rare, very strong breed of demon and will be helpful to you if you are ever in danger. Think of him as your guardian.”

“Kay!” the little girl said aloud still clinging to the wolf that she decided to name Midnight.

The father smiled at her innocence and nodded. “Well I’ll be on my way then. I have some business to take care of in town, Midnight will take care of you until I return, okay?” The girl smiled at him nodding and he nodded back as he turned his back on her and left.

The girl watched him leave for a moment, before running off bouncing her toy ball along the ground as Midnight walked next to her, observant at first, with his eyes gleaming with curiosity. The girl giggled and threw the ball at him, it smacking him clear in the nose as she roared with laughter behind. He let out a small growl as he tackled her to the ground, staring at first, but then began licking her face. When she finally sat back up, she looked around for her toy ball to spot it ahead rolling into the forest of trees.

“There it is!” she squealed as she ran after it, Midnight close behind. The ball rolled down hill, making it harder for her to keep up, but she managed to at last find it by a beautiful river. The girl screamed in joy as she ran into the stream, finding herself able to walk on the water. Her eyes twinkled with amazement as Midnight’s were the same. He tilted his head confused, and tried to see if he could do the same, but only found himself falling into the pool of water. The girl laughed at his feeble attempts as she allowed herself to fall in the water so that she could play with her friend. The sun had risen high during their hours of play, so the girl waded out of the water beginning to walk in the direction of home with her companion at her side. Suddenly Midnight froze, sniffing at the air as he took a few steps back. The girl stopped too looking at her friend curiously until her question was answered. A demon, a poisonous one, had risen from its hiding and faced her as Midnight bared his teeth and pushed Rayne in the opposite direction, pleading her to flee as he held his ground.

“Nah-uh! I won’t go!” the little girl yelled shaking her head stubbornly refusing to leave him. The wolf rose his head and seemed to glare at her a moment before pushing her farther away. The girl bit her bottom lip, sniffling, and left in tears. She kept running, tree branches scrapping at her clothes, as she went threw the thick forest of trees until a loud, pain filled howl made her freeze. Her teeth were grinding in her mouth as she ran back, letting the sound of the echoing howl guide her. She came back with wide eyes finding the demon stone dead on the ground and Midnight lying in a puddle of blood near him.

“MIDNIGHT!” she yelled frantically running over to him, but tripped and landed next to him. Still weak, she lifted her body up with her arms and crawled over to him, petting his soft fur coat whispering to his motionless body. “You’re going to be alright...aren’t you Midnight? Midnight please!” tears streamed down the toddler’s face as she crept closer and embraced her fallen friend, ignoring the blood on him staining her clothes. Her eyes remained firmly closed as she cried silently, hugging Midnight tighter and tighter until she felt a drop of water splash on her nose. She slowly opened her eyes to see that it was a drizzling rain, but that isn’t what made her stare with wide, unbelieving eyes. A ghostly figure.....a wolf.... Her eyes widened even more.

“......Midnight...?” she barely murmured and the figure nodded its head firmly.

A smile once again returned to her face as she began to run to him, but passed right threw and he shook his head approaching her instead. He hovered over her and licked her face, and she felt it and grasped her cheek. Midnight sat back down on his rear, lifting his head, and released a long, beautiful howl as she watched in amazement. When at last he had finished, he stared at her with his two ruby orbs for a moment until closing them tight and he began to rise from the ground. Rayne stood up, about to run for him, but froze when she heard a voice in her head and by his direct staring, she could tell it was Midnight.

*I leave my power of both wolf and unknown to you, I trust that you will use these powers wisely.....my friend.*

*I.... I...understand.... Midnight,.... but why me? And what are you saying? Unknown? *

There was silence within the young girl’s mind before at last Midnight spoke again to her.

*......I know I have not known you long....but I feel that I can trust you.....you were like my own pup....I am so glad that if I died, I died knowing you were safe....but still I have to wonder what will keep you safe while I am gone....so that is why I’m staying....but inside you.*

Hearing this, the girl’s small eyes widened.

*My powers of that of a wolf demon will be transferred to you, but still.... I am only half wolf inherited from my father.....I have no idea what I received from my mother....I was abandoned when I was still a pup so you will have to figure that out on your own....I’m sorry...my time is short. I must hurry. * And with that there was silence within the young girl’s mind as Midnight's spirit rose above her head.

*This may hurt, get ready* the voice instructed and Rayne stood, nodding that she was ready.

He nodded too and came down at her with impeccable speed that smacked into her so quickly; it was too hard to bear. She fell to her knees holding her head, screaming. She screamed on and on, with her eyes flashing red until finally a bright light escaped from her body and she fell to the ground unconscious.

She awoke the following day in her own bed and sprang up only to have her father lay her back down.

“Rayne, please stay still, you’re still recovering.”

“But.... But...daddy.... Midnight.... he’s...”

“Dead. I know. I buried him this morning near the river when I found you. You were laying on the ground hugging him with blood from him staining your clothes, I had to throw those away from all the tears they had in them.”

Rayne sat up sniffling, rubbing the tears from her eyes with her sleeve. “Thanks dad.”

“Anytime.”

And with that, time began to move around the girl with remarkable speed again. She found herself now a teenager of thirteen years old. It was during the past five, long years her father began to train her in Martial Arts where she learned that she was a master at speed. Her reflexes had improved, being able to block and counter in any way in order to win as well as being able to deliver a punch and kick that could really send someone to a hospital. Training also revealed her demon powers that had at last awakened. From her mother’s water/ice demon side, she is able to control the movement of water, walk on water as she discovered as a child, create water spheres (water balls) blizzards, and reigns of icicles. From her father’s shadow/ghost demon side, she can control darkness, take over nightmares, create spheres of dark energy (orbs of sparking dark energy), shadow walk where she is teleported from one place to another, manipulate the mind’s of other’s as well as communicate telepathically, walk threw walls, and her body can become transparent like a ghost’s. And lastly, the abilities she obtained from absorbing Midnight, from his wolf demon side is that her senses have picked up, she now has small fangs and claws that she can summon, she can howl that releases an echoing screech, and, most of all, every full moon she becomes a black wolf with her gray eyes for one full night until the sun rises, call it a sort of curse. However, her father also has her practice with nearly every kind of weapon known, but her favorites so far are the black katana she can make with her dark energy attack, shurikens (throwing stars), and she also has learned to use a handgun but only uses it to better her aim. But once Rayne completed the training she was told to endure without questions, she approached her father and he smiled proudly at her.

Rayne and her father sat down for a long, long talk about their family history and Rayne’s eyes continued to grown in amazement at finding out that she was in a long line of thieves. So all that training was to prepare her, as she found out they were going on their first mission tonight to steal a priceless portrait. They came back with it in triumph and in the following years after since then, she has learned what it is really like to be a thief; and a good one too. Her family is very wealthy, having a home filled with priceless and ancient treasures forgotten since long ago. But as of now, the only thing on the nearly fifteen-year-old girl’s mind is tonight. Rayne and her father prepare to leave again, but sweat drowns down their faces knowing this time it will be harder than all the rest. The mission seemed simple enough, sneak into a very wealthy light demon’s estate without being noticed and find the vault. Inside are unimaginable treasures, but the one they have their eyes on is a particular gem, a light gem that’s value is incredible. It was easy enough for them to creep by the guards, and fining the vault wasn’t much of a difficult task either...or so they thought. Invisible lasers surrounded the vault and Rayne lost her balance and fell onto one as the alarm roared. With nowhere else to turn to, they ran the way they came only to find thousand upon thousands of guards approaching them. As they ran farther, trap after trap is set off, and using his own body as a shield, Rayne’s father takes all the hits while Rayne remained unharmed, but very concerned. The guards finally had surrounded them both and her father embraced her tight, kissing her forehead.

“I love you.” Was the last thing he said to her before all of a sudden he plunged her into a void of darkness as the guards captured him despite his efforts to pull free.

Rayne’s eyes slowly opened what seemed like hours later seeing she was hidden in a bush just outside the courtyard of the estate where her eyes widened in fear noticing two of the guards hauling out her father in front of another demon. Rayne clenches her fists as she is about to run to her father but she hears her father’s voice in her head and freezes.


*Don’t you dare take another step Rayne!! *

*But, dad, they’ll kill you if I don't do something!!! *

*I don’t care!! This is my decision, not yours! You think killing you and me would make mother happy?! She died for you, and I will die for you!!! NOW LEAVE!! *

His voice echoed in the far corners of her mind as she closed her eyes, turning her back on him, as she began running and the sound of her father’s death cry only made her run faster leaving a stream of tears falling behind her.

~*~Now that you have faced death, and have witnessed pain and suffering, and countless tears.... you may now fall into what is today...~*~


The girl now was now a sixteen-year-old (or at least in human years) living in the Living World, and thanks to the absolute wealth of her family, she lives alone in a large estate of her own. With everything that was ever important to her taken from her, she went into a violent fit. She could not control the sorrow that stabbed at her throbbing heart and couldn’t stop the tears from falling or at least until she found a cure. She discovered that by concentrating only on all that pain, all that misery alone, she could absorb it from her and let it seep into her shadow. So she did so, but it made her shadow come to life, it sprang up leaving her without a shadow, and was in the form of a black cat. Originally, she named it Shadow and it, well he, became her only companion. Without that feeling of absolute sorrow to dwell on, it seems she has lost all her emotions, and others have placed the label “Punk” or “Goth” clearly on her. Living in her estate, she designed herself in black, red, gold, and silver with different designs throughout, it is filled with hallways and corridors that have varieties of weapons hung on the walls as well as paintings and poetry that she has framed. And, of course, there is a very large backyard where there is a track and training arena filled with a thick forest of trees behind that she practices in each and every day enhancing her skills and strength.

So NOW it is really time that I bring you to the actual story...

RING. RING. RING. The phone continues to ring as Rayne slams a pillow over her head, refusing to wake up. RING. RING. RING. The phone still continues and her arm comes out from under the covers reaching around for the phone until she finally has it, bringing it to her ear. “Who the hell is it?!?!” Rayne screams into the phone, very annoyed she had been woken up. Her eyes widen ever so slightly hearing the angered voice of her school principle. “Rayne you don’t want to be expelled again now get a move on or you’ll be late!!” he yelled instantly hanging up. “This is not how I wanted to wake up...” she murmurs falling back onto the bed with a sigh. *Guess I have no choice* she thinks to herself jumping off the bed and toward the bathroom for a long shower. After, she dries herself quickly and puts on a black t-shirt with the words “We used to have a split personality.... but we’re ok now,” inscribed along the front with baggy jeans and a chain. Then she walks over to her dresser where she puts on her other accessories, spike bracelets lined up each arm, a dog choker-like collar with a small license in the shape of a bone, what little of mascara and eyeliner she applied, and left her long raven black hair with three red streaks down like usual. She had gotten taller over the years, but not as tall as she had hoped. She was pretty short, but acquired her mother’s beauty. Her skin was pale toned and she had an amazing figure like an hourglass, but what really puzzled her were the two tattoos she has had since she was born. One, right under her left eye, is a small red teardrop, and, covering her entire back, a black dragon with enormous stretching wings. She managed to ignore it and have a little fun in the Living World by learning to skateboard and roller blade, sketch (or any other form of art), and play the guitar along with the only friends she has who’ve started a band they call “Satan Calling.” Rayne looked down at her watch cursing under her breath as she grabbed her skateboard and backpack, almost literally flying out the door. She looked down again noticing she had only five minutes before the bell and came to a stop looking around her cautiously. A grin curved around her lips noticing not a soul was around and she put her palm above the ground and concentrated. A void began to form and when it was big enough, she leaped in and came out just a couple feet from the school hidden behind a car. Immediately, she jumped back on her skateboard and headed toward the building. But, as she did, a group of four teenage boys her age appeared seemingly out of nowhere just ahead of her. She yelled for them to get out of the way, but when she asked nicely and it didn’t work, she went back to her usual methods.

“MOVE YOU JACKASSES!!!!” she screamed at the top of her lungs but they didn’t even flinch.

Turning red from anger, Rayne clenched her fists beside her until she noticed a car parked just beside them and smirked. As she did come to the car, she jumped on, railed, and flipped over one of their heads that was in the way before landing and riding on. She arrived inside at her locker moments later and made a swap for books before heading to her first class, history. She came into the room only to be handed a detention slip and a lecture for being tardy by her teacher. She stared at him straight in the eye in an emotionless daze until his useless racket was complete, where, then, she headed to her seat, which, as usual, was empty, and so were the four seats surrounding it. As she took her seat, she began to lose herself in a daze looking outside the window as class discussions continued. Her trance was disturbed, though; midway threw the discussion when the door creaked open. Rayne blinked and turned her head letting her gaze meet the four boys from earlier this morning. One of them stepped forward giving the teacher a slip of paper he read to himself, looking back up at the four boys with a smile.

“Class, we have new students today! WELCOME! I hope that you all will find it easy to settle down here.” He began to say then pointed at one of the boys starting to say as he quickly read the paper, “They are....”

“The deaf jackasses.” Rayne finishes for him still annoyed from earlier, glaring up at the four boys.

“Ms. Kikuchi!! Learn to bite that tongue of yours, I will deal with you later!” he steams.

Rayne only blinks looking back out the window muttering a “Hn” Below her breath.

The teacher sighed, turning his attention back to the four boys. “Well then, why don’t you boys take your seats there around Ms. Kikuchi seeing as how you all seem to know each other so well.” He finished making a loud gasp echo around the room from all the other students. They held their breaths as the four headed in Rayne’s direction murmuring things like “Dead men walking.” As they passed, but Rayne did nothing but glare at them at the corner of her eye as the four took their seats. That shut them up. Rayne remained in her own little world, gazing off, not looking away from the window, until a hand waved in front of her face. Surprised and annoyed at the same time, she grasped it, twisting the hand around, and turned to give ‘whoever it was’ a piece of her mind, but found it was only one of the four boys. He had long, mid-back reddish-pink colored hair and powerful emerald-green eyes that Rayne could swore she saw flash golden. He gave a very nervous laugh and she let go of his arm, turning back around with another “Hn.” She heard him give a fairly loud sigh and whirled her head around, glaring at him. “If you got something to say, say it.” She told him coldly. He barely kept his weak smile.

“Yes, well...I am Shuichi Minamino, and I’m terribly sorry about what happened earlier, we were caught up in something...” he said beginning to trail off. Rayne raised an eyebrow, intrigued. “Eh heh.... well! You know my name, but I have yet to learn yours Ms. Kikuchi.” He said in a nervous tone.

Rayne felt her demonic aura start to slip in her fury. Hearing her last name after such a long time, memories threatened to drown her, but she managed to grind her teeth inside her mouth. “It’s Rayne.” She said in a cold, murmur as she went back to her trance outside the window. Hardly a moment passed before the teacher beckoned her.

“Ms. Kikuchi!!! Are you paying attention?”

Rayne blinked staring emotionlessly straight at him. “Well wadda yah know.... I’M NOT.” She finished with a smirk plastered across her face.

“Just answer the question.” He said beginning to smirk himself. Rayne raised an eyebrow and began to read what laid within his mind.

*She’ll never get this one right....heh....finally I can get this brat expelled for good! She’ll never guess the answer is...* she heard smirking inside her own head until going back to her usual dazed, expression.

“It is the Kamakura Period of Japan, years 1192-1333, am I right?” she answered with that same, sly smirk of victory.

“Co....Correct...” he answered bewildered as the bell finally rang and everyone packed up their things, exiting the classroom.
Rayne lost time as the day moved fast around her and she now found herself at lunch. Rayne never really had much of an appetite but took bottled water with her as she jumped into the tree farthest away in the schoolyard near a small lake. She landed seconds later on one of the highest branches, putting her backpack down and taking a few sips of water. Seconds later she removed her mouth from the bottle and gasped for a breath of air in relief as the wind nipped at her raven hair. Caught in the moment, her eyes remained closed absorbing every moment of this peace until the branch suddenly vibrated which caught her off guard and sent her falling straight down on her butt. Her eyes clenched shut from the impact but quickly opened not but a second later to see Shuichi and two of the other boys next to him standing above her with “sweat drops.” She stood, regaining her composure, as Shuichi began to introduce the boys standing next to him.

“This is Yuskue Uremeshi.” He says and a boy barely shorter than Shuichi takes a step forward giving his own greeting.

“Sup’?” he says, and Rayne immediately takes him as the muscle-head punk, rolling her eyes inside her head. He has black, short hair that is slicked back with at least two bottles worth of hair gel it seems, he has chocolate brown eyes, and he is wearing a green uniform. Rayne nods at him as Shuichi points to the other.

“This is...”

“Please hold your breath Shuichi! I can say it myself! For I am Kazuma Kuwabara......” he goes on and on and Rayne can easily tell she has not only another muscle-head in her hands but a big doofus too. He is the tallest of the four idiots, and about the ugliest human Rayne had ever seen. He had orange hair in an Elvis style of its own, he had what looked like brown eyes, and he wore a blue uniform. Rayne nodded her head once more as Shuichi took a step toward the tree she fell out of moments before pointing up into it.

“And that’s Hiei Jaganshi.” Rayne looks up into the tree to see this ‘Hiei’ coming out of the shadows cast by the tree. He was barely taller than her by an inch or so, wearing nothing but black including his black cloak hung over his shoulders with a white scarf dangling around his neck, he also wore a white bandanna tied securely around his forehead over his amber colored eyes, and then there was his gravity defying hair. His jet-black hair was spiked from beginning to end with a slight blue trim to the side, and a white outburst in the middle. Rayne blinked and turned back to Shuichi.

“Wait, he is the baka that just knocked me out of my tree, right?” Rayne asked staring blankly at Shuichi.

“Uh.... yes?”

“Good.” Rayne said and the next thing they knew, she had disappeared and reappeared on the tree branch next to Hiei. Hiei’s eyes widened for a split second before Rayne’s fist met his jaw and he fell to the ground face-first.
“Just remember; this is my tree.” Rayne said glaring down at him from up in the tree.

Hiei stood up and slowly turned his head to face Rayne, glaring with a fiery passion at her, and yet she glared right back meeting his challenge as the other three gave “sweat drops.”

“Very bad mistake, human.” he said in a bone-shilling tone.

Rayne cocked an eyebrow. *Human?!?!? I’ve never been so insulted in my life!!.... No wait there was that time in Bombay where that.... *shakes head* w/e but I guess it's a good thing I have masked my aura, or he might have known I wasn’t a human...that would get ugly.... even if he isn’t human either...* Rayne thought to herself but quickly stopped sensing that someone was trying to pry into her mind.

“Hn...like I care...” Rayne said switching back to her usual, emotionless, self turning away from them and looking at the lake nearby. It looked so magnificent this time of year; it was practically begging Rayne to sketch it so she reached into her backpack and retrieved her sketchpad and pencil, switching to a clear page. She did the basic outline of the lakeshore and the small shrubs and trees surrounding it, before going into detail, but then it dawned upon her, that someone was right behind her. She looked behind her to meet Hiei’s blank expression hovering over her. Her eye twitched as she closed her sketchpad and jumped down from the tree, landing by the others.

“Class should be starting again soon...” Shuichi said noticing the other students packing up.

Rayne nodded slightly as she kneeled down next to her backpack, digging inside it looking for her art case to put away her sketchpad in. As she searched, though, Kuwabara could not contain his own curiosity and picked up her sketchpad. Hearing the pages flip, she turned her head slowly around finding all four of the gang gawking at her sketches and she clenched her fists, walking up and snatching the sketchpad from him, narrowing her eyes evilly at him in loathe.

“You know what they say about curiosity and the cat....” was all she said before landing a powerful uppercut punch striking below the very chin of Kuwabara as he flew for a straight course into the lake.

“Just be glad it didn’t kill you.” Rayne said slinging her backpack over her shoulder and headed for the school building as the bell began to chime.
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~*~And that is the ending to the first chapter of my tale, I am proud that you have faced the mighty jaws of death, endured absolute pain and suffering, ...loss...and I’m happy that you got to meet what an independent -my own me- hard-to get- tomboy- bad ass- girl that the character I created turns out to be. But do not fret; this is only the beginning. Fare well. ~*~

Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Comedy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.27.2005 | Updated On: 01.29.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 6.9K | Visits: 296 | Status: Completed