Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Youko's Forgotten Past ❯ Cry Wolf ( Chapter 4 )

Kurama: mukuro5, can we get on with this. I need the laptop back.

 

mukuro5: Why? You're not going to be sending bad e-mails to Yusuke again, trying to get me in trouble, are you?

 

Kurama: Hiei was the one who did that. Not me.

 

mukuro5: Anywho-didle-de-do, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Review would be appreciated.

 

Hiei: And mukuro5 does not own Yu Yu Hakusho

 

Kuwabara: Just…Ahh….

 

Yusuke: She owns May Hana.

 

Chapter 4: Cry Wolf

 

Another shot rang out through the forest. Youko dodged this one and kept running. The hunter followed suit. Youko started to pull out his rose when a bullet went through his upper right part of his chest.

 

He went on with transforming his rose. Youko kept running through the forest with the hunter on his tail. When Youko was about to slash the hunter a bullet grazed passed his left ear.

 

“This hunter isn't like the other. This one aims to get its target without fooling around. I have to finish this,” Youko thought.

 

He jumped onto a tree branch and whipped his rose whip at the shadowed hunter. At the same time May ran to the hideout and banged on the gate.

 

“He needs help! Help!” May yelled, continuing to bang on the gate.

 

One of the bandits opened the gate and almost got knocked down by May running passed him. She didn't stop running till she got to the middle of the village.

 

“Youko needs help! He's hurt!” May yelled with tears threatening to coming to the surface.

 

“May, stop messing around. We're trying to get ready for a heist,” ordered one of the bandits.

 

“I'm not joking. Youko is in serious trouble!” May said, lifting her arms.

 

“We don't have time for this, brat,” another bandit said.

 

“Fine! If you won't help Youko, I will!” May yelled at them as she ran out of the hideout.

 

Youko made a wall of vines grow while he kept running. His beautiful white outfit was now stained with his own blood. When he looked back the hunter cut through the vines.

 

“This guy doesn't give up! I don't know how long I can keep going,” Youko thought, barely dodging another bullet.

 

A few more minutes passed with shooting, dodging, and slashing. Then all the sudden water shot out of nowhere. Youko stopped on a tree branch to look down at the hunter frozen in ice.

 

“May?” Youko asked quietly.

 

May walked out of the shadows with an enraged expression upon her face. Youko looked down at May with his emotionless expression as May walked over to the hunter.

 

“Don't you ever touch my Youko again!” May threatened.

 

“May, I told you to go back to the hideout,” Youko stated coldly.

 

“I did.”

 

The hunter's fingers started to move. May didn't notice this but Youko did. May continued to talk while Youko watched the hunter start to break out of his ice containment.

 

“May, get out of here now,” Youko ordered.

 

“I'm not leaving you, Youko,” May protested.

 

The hunter broke out of the ice and grabbed May's neck. Youko jumped off the branch and brought down his rose whip on the hunter's arm. The hunter dropped May to save his own arm.

 

May fell onto her knees, gasping for air. The hunter shot at May, but Youko jumped in the way of the bullet and picked May up. Blood splashed onto May's shocked face.

 

“When I put you down I want you to run as fast as you can back to the hideout. I don't want you to look back until you are in the hideout. Don't come looking for me. I'll come back to the hideout as soon as I can,” Youko ordered.

 

“I'm not leaving you,” May argued.

 

Another shot was heard, but Youko dodged this one. The hunter shot his gun again. Youko dodged but the bullet grazed his leg.

 

“May, do as I say,” Youko ordered.

 

“Promise you'll come back soon?” May asked.

 

“I promise,” Youko reassured her while putting her back on the ground.

 

May took a few steps back while she looked at her blood soaked savior. A tear rolled down her left cheek, which mixed with Youko's blood that was on her face.

 

“Don't cry…I don't want you to be hurt. I'm sorry, May,” Youko thought, turning to face the hunter.

 

May let another tear run down her cheek before turning around. She took off through the forest as fast as her legs could carry her. Youko took off in the opposite direction with the hunter on his tail.

 

May transformed into her cat form and made it to the hideout within a few minutes. It didn't seem that short since May was lost in her own thoughts the entire time she was running. When she reached the gates she transformed back to her human form. The gates opened and the upset May walked in with a blank stare. She ran passed everyone and went straight into the dojo.

 

May shut her door and silent whimpers were heard. She sat on her window seal looking out at the sky. Tears streamed down her face like rivers down a mountain. When May wiped the tears away she notice there was now blood on her hands.

 

A few days passed without a sign or even a message from Youko. May never left her spot on the window seal. The bandits started to forget about their leader slowly but surely.

 

“Youko, today is the day I came to live with you. Remember? This day exactly five years ago,” May thought as she stared out the window at the stars in the midnight sky.

 

The door slid open and then shut. May turned to see several bandits surrounding her. May's eyes grew wide as two of them grabbed her arms and forced her to the ground. The others surrounded her with an evil chuck from most of them.

 

“No!! YOUKO!! Help!!” May cried out.

 

Her cry echoed through the entire village and the forest that surrounded it. The sun started to rise as the bandits dragged May out into the dirt street in front of the dojo. They threw her weak, battered body wrapped in her tattered garments to the ground. The other bandits from the village surrounded her.

 

They started to kick and cut her with their weapons. They spent an hour or more beating May to a bloody pulp. One of the bandits kicked her in the side with all his strength. Blood poured from the wounds on her face and all over her body. They continued to cause more pain to her even though she was almost dead as it was.

 

“Youko, help me. Youko, what about your promise? I need you!” May thought with desperation.

 

May blacked out from the pain, but the bandits continued to beat her ruthlessly. Something clicked deep inside May. She stood up clumsily and looked at her attackers. She blew the fire that formed in her right hand at the bandits and it successfully set fire to five of them. Their bodies fell to the ground, charred and dead.

 

The others backed away from the girl. She continued to kill the bandits one by one. Several of the huts caught on fire during this attack of revenge. A few minutes later the entire village was up in flames. May walked out of the village with a smug grin on her face. She walked a few feet into the forest before collapsing onto the ground.

 

As the sun was high in the sky May started to twitch. She sat up quickly and saw the burned down village. She looked at her hands and then at her blood soaked body. It was hard for her to even think about leaving her home, but she stood up and limped deeper into the forest. She couldn't do anything about her home now and staying would just be even worse.

 

May finally made it to the clearing where Kuronue was buried. She walked over to the small spring. She took off her blood soaked, ripped garments before getting washed up. After she was done getting all the dried blood off, she stared into the water. The sun hit the diamonds on hair tie in her hair. May took it out and held it her hands gentaly. She cupped it in her hands and brought it up to her heart while lowering her head. Tears streamed down her cheeks and no matter how much she tried to stop them they just kept coming.

 

-----15 Years Later----

 

The woman dodged the attack from Hiei. She skid to a stop a few feet from the four boys.

 

“Who are you? And what do you want?” Kuwabara asked.

 

“My name? People call me `Beautiful Death' and I'm here to kill the red head,” the woman answered.

 

“Why?” Yusuke asked.

 

“My boss just wants him dead. I have no business with the rest of you,” the woman answered.

 

Again the woman ran at Kurama with her kunai knife out. Kurama blocked it with his rose whip again. Yusuke shot his spirit gun at the woman. She gave up her attack on Kurama to dodge the spirit gun.

 

The three companions of Kurama started to attack Beautiful Death. The sun caught a beautiful ruby flower that was on her diamond hair tie. Kurama noticed it as she ran at him.

 

Their weapons clashed once again. Kurama wrapped the end of the rose whip around the woman's ankle. Beautiful Death looked into his eyes to try and find a weakness.

 

“May?” asked a cold voice inside Kurama's head.

 

“Youko?” Kurama asked his demon half.

 

“Sorry for this Shuichi,” Youko said.

 

Kurama's hair started to turn silver, he grew silver fox ears and a matching tail, his eyes started to turn gold, and his cloths turned into white garments.

 

The woman's eyes started to widen as the transformation took place. The others watched, as the transformation from Shuichi to Youko was finishing up. Beautiful Death jumped back, but the whip wrapped around her ankle made her fall to the ground in mid-jump. She landed on her back when she hit the ground.

 

Youko started to walk over to the woman who was still on her back. He looked down at her with a frown as soon as he was standing over her. She just looked up at him with her hands at her side.

 

“I can tell you're not weak anymore but you're still a klutz,” Youko stated.

 

“It's you,” Beautiful Death said loud enough for only Youko to hear.

 

Youko gave her a small smile. Beautiful Death jumped up and landed a foot or so away from Youko. She took out another kunai knife and started to attack Youko. Youko dodged each attack gracefully while still allowing Beautiful Death to attack him. The others started to join in when Beautiful Death threw a kunai knife at them.

 

“Stay out of this,” Youko ordered.

 

“No way! We're in this together,” Kuwabara said.

 

“This seems to be personal. Leave him be,” Hiei stated.

 

Youko grabbed Beautiful Death's left wrist, but she kept attacking with her right. Youko just kept moving the parts of his body he needed to.

 

“I hate you! I hate you, Youko!” Beautiful Death yelled.

 

Youko knocked the kunai knife out of her hand. She punched him in the gut and continued to punch him in the face.

 

“You abandoned me! You broke your promise! You allowed them to do what they did to me! YOU TRATOR!!” Beautiful Death yelled at him.

 

Youko let go of her left wrist and continued to stand still. No matter how many times she punched him, he continued to look straight into her eyes. Beautiful Death's punches started to become weaker and weaker. Tears rolled down her cheeks as her punches stopped completely. Youko kept looking at her even after she stopped her onslaught of punches. Beautiful Death's watery eyes looked into Youko's golden ones.

 

Beautiful Death collapsed into Youko's chest. Youko started to stroke her hair with his right hand and held her with his left. Beautiful Death cried into his chest as she wrapped her arms around Youko's waist.

 

“I'm sorry. I…you…” Beautiful Death tripped over her words.

 

“It's okay, May. It's okay,” Youko said, stroking her hair.

 

The others looked on confused. Youko didn't look up at them he was more concerned with the girl in his arms. May continued to cry into Youko's chest.

 

“Who's this?” Yusuke asked, interrupting them.

 

May stopped crying and whipped her tears way. She looked back at the other three by standards. She then let go of Youko and stood up straight. Youko looked her over twice.

 

“You're not the little demon I use to know,” Youko stated.

 

“I've grown…a lot. You haven't changed one bit though. You're still the same demon that I remember,” May said.

 

“Still have no idea who you are,” Yusuke said again, trying to get some answers.

 

May turned to them with a smile. Youko looked at the three as well.

 

“My real name is May Hana,” May answered.

 

“How do you two know each other?” Kuwabara asked.

 

“Youko saved me from his bandits,” May answered.

 

May turned back to Youko with a sad expression. “Where did you go? You promised you would be back at the hideout. I waited for you,” May asked.

 

“I had to lay low and when I went to steal again the hunter got me,” Youko explained.

 

“Youko, that red head is your other form, isn't it?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Sorry to break this up, but Koenma sent us to capture this demon,” Yusuke reminded them.

 

“And I have been given orders to kill your red headed self,” May added.