Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Youko's Forgotten Past ❯ Fight With The Heart ( Chapter 5 )

mukuro5: Hey, Hiei! Did you check the reviews yet?

 

Hiei: What makes you think that I would help you?

 

mukuro5: Cause you promised.

 

Kurama: Actually Yusuke volunteered him.

 

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Kurama: I did it since I knew you would start crying if no one did.

 

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Chapter 5: Fight With The Heart

 

“Youko, that red head is your form, isn't it?” May asked hoping that somehow it was not true.

 

“Yes,” Youko answered as straightforward as the situation could take.

 

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

 

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

 

“Can't we just forget this one?” Kuwabara asked, turning to Yusuke.

 

“Without Shuichi I won't be able to live any longer,” Youko stated to May.

 

“So we're enemies. Better give me your best fight,” May warned, turning to Youko with a smile.

 

“Youko, she wants to kill me so we are switching,” Shuichi said in Youko's head.

 

“No! I'm fighting her,” Youko ordered his other self.

 

“She means a lot to you, doesn't she? Very well I'll stay out of this fight.”

 

“I have found out through the years that I have many new powers. You better be on your toes at all times. All of you,” May warned, looking at everyone.

 

“They'll stay out of this fight. It's just you and me,” Youko stated.

 

“Fine with me. Let's get to it.”

 

May placed her right foot in front of her left and put her left hand in front of her. Youko pulled out a rose from his silver hair. May gave a slight smile before she gave her old savior some advice.

 

“You're plants won't work in this fight.”

 

Youko transformed his rose into his famous Rose Whip. He immediately whipped it at May. That didn't effect May at all; she dodged before grabbing the middle of the rose whip. As a result of doing so blood trickled down May's arm from the wound on her right hand that was formed by the thorn that now punctured her skin. Youko pulled the Rose Whip back to him. May allowed the thorn to continue its damage as it got ripped out of her tightly gripped hand.

 

“What is she planning?” Youko thought to himself.

 

“Ready for the fun?” May asked, making a fist with her right hand.

 

Drops of blood fell to the ground as May closed her eyes. Youko pulled out a seed from his hair and held it in his fist. He, too, closed his eyes.

 

A few moments later they simultaneously opened their eyes. May blew a ball of fire into her right hand. The blood started to mix in with the fire, making the color turn into a dark purple. Youko let several razor-sharp vines fly through the air and towards May.

 

“What is he thinking? I can kill his plants easily with my power. What is his plan?” May thought, watching the vines close in on her.

 

May put her left hand over the top of the fireball, making it grow another an inch and a half. Once that was finished she threw it at the plants that were a few inches from her. Youko smirked as May's fireball only singed the vines' edges.

 

“What's this?” May asked out of surprise.

 

May jumped to the right in an attempt to dodge the vines. When she landed a few feet away a jolt of pain went to her brain from the nerves in her left leg. She looked down to inspect what caused this sudden pain only to see one of the razor-sharp vines went through her lower left leg.

 

“I strengthened these vines with my own ki. You won't be able to burn them so easily,” Youko explained to obviously confused May.

 

May growled at Youko before getting down on her right knee. With one swift pull on the vine, blood splattered all around her. She dropped the blood soaked vine onto the ground. Blood continued to flow freely from the hole in her lower left leg.

 

“If I don't kill her with my plants, blood loss with be her undoing,” Youko thought, watching May stand once more.

 

“I guess I underestimated you. I won't do it again. I promise you that,” May stated, smiling at Youko.

 

May coved the front part of the wound with her right hand and the back part with her left. Youko watched as May's hands started to glow a light teal. After a moment May took her hands off her leg. Youko's eyes widened when he was what May actually did.

 

“What are you thinking?” Youko asked, trying to not yell at her.

 

May grinned at her old savior. The blood that was once flowing from her open wound was now frozen. The internal veins and organs were frozen as well. Small ice particles formed around the wound itself.

 

“It's a quick fix while in a battle. It will keep me from bleeding to death,” May explained unnervingly calm for what she just did to herself..

 

“Doing that will kill you as well,” Youko warned, keeping his worry inside.

 

“Well I wouldn't have to do this if you would let me kill you. But if you did than you wouldn't be the fox demon I look up to.”

 

“I thought you were going to give me your best. With your leg frozen you will not be able to dodge quick enough.”

 

“Youko, I've gotten use to doing this. Since you left I've been having to defend myself all alone.”

 

May bent down to plucked a blade of grass from the ground. Youko watched May intently as she got back up with the small blade of grass. May smiled as the grass blade grew to at least three feet long and start to glow a dark black.

 

“She can control plants as well,” Youko thought, impressed at how much May as learned in the fifteen years since they last saw each other.

 

“As, I am sure, you can tell I can also control plants. It's my way of honoring you, but, of course, I can't control them as well as you can. I can also control some darkness,” May explained some of the powers she now possessed.

 

“Makes it more interesting this way,” Youko stated.

 

Youko willed some vines to wrap around his right arm and it started to grow into a point away from his hand. May grinned, as she knew this was going to be a sword fight. She liked being up close and personal in her battles. It's how she lived for so long.

 

May ran full speed towards Youko, ready to attack. Youko stood still, his vine sword at his side. May brought her sword above her left shoulder. Directly after she swung her sword straight at Youko's throat. Youko, in the last second, brought his sword up to block May's attack. May growled when she realized Youko was using little to no energy to keep her sword at bay.

 

“He's toying with me!” May growled in her mind.

 

“This is a joke. May is clearly no match for Youko,” Hiei said from the sidelines.

 

May's ears perked up before she showed her sharp fangs. Youko watched as May jumped back a few feet. It was obvious to him that she was not interested in their fight at the moment. May turned her full attention to Hiei. Youko stood there as to allow her to get her anger out before the fight continued once again.

 

“I'd like to see you do better! Youko is way stronger than any of you! So shut up and let me fight in peace!” May ordered fiercely.

 

Youko gave an almost invisible smirk. He would never admit it, but he was very proud of May. He watched with great pride and happiness as May and the other three exchanged a few more words.

 

“Are you sure you want to fight her, Youko?” Shuichi asked, noticing his demon side's change in attitude.

 

“Of course, I do! This is just like every other fight for my life,” Youko responded.

 

“But she's not like every other enemy. You can't kill her.”

 

Youko let some of his energy escape. May turned her attention back to him with a sweet smile. The others turned their attention to the fox spirit as well.

 

“Sorry. I got side tracked again,” May apologized sweetly.

 

May's smile withered till it was quickly replaced with a serious frown. She held up her grass blade and was ready to charge Youko once again. Youko allowed his vine sword to diminish till it was completely gone.

 

“What is he planning now?” May thought as she watched him reach for his hair again.

 

Youko pulled out a small red seed. May's gaze fell upon the seed he held in his hand. Fear raced across her face. She knew what he was planning and she knew if she didn't do something fast she was going to die. May ran at Youko with less than impressive speed. She tried to cut Youko's right hand off, but tripped and fell to the ground before she even reached her target. At this point May started to feel the full affect of freezing her leg. May propped up the upper half of her body with her left arm.

 

“My wound has never been frozen for this long in any of my prior battles. My internal organs are starting to slow down significantly. If I don't end this soon I'll die,” May thought as the anxiety started to multiply.

 

“We have to hurry and heal her. If we don't she'll die,” Shuichi chimed in with the obvious thought to anyone else.

 

“Shut up already!” Youko snapped at his human part.

 

Youko closed his left palm as it started to glow a dark shade of red. May watched from where she was lying on the ground. May used all her strength to lift herself to her knees as several shocks of pain went though her entire being. She was able to leap out of the way of the sharp vines that were flying at her. All she could manage to do was land on her right side a few feet away.

 

“Impressive. I'm surprised she could even move let alone dodge that quickly,” Youko thought with some delight showing.

 

May got to her feet with immense difficulty. She struggled just to keep herself on her feet. Youko took out another seed and threw it straight at May's throat without a second thought. May easily caught the seed and held it tightly in her right hand. She brought her lowered head up to glare at Youko.

 

Her normally calm blue eyes now exhibited complete and utter hatred. She allowed her facial expression to convert to one that was dark. Youko watched as she allowed her full feelings to take over.

 

“How dare you! Do you find me that weak?!” May growled, tightening her grip on the seed.

 

Youko let a smirk creep onto his lips. May's anger diminished as Youko's playful eyes turned cold. May than realized what was going on. She quickly opened her right hand so the seed would fall to the ground.

 

“Too late,” Youko stated to his adversary.

 

And he was right. In the middle of May's hand, where her wound was from the rose whip, was where the seed had already taken root. Vines started to engulf her entire hand. Even though May desperately started to claw at the vines, they kept growing. Her entire arm was covered in mere moments. The vines wrapped around her waist and then her legs. The vines began to get farther apart when wrapping around the rest of her body, but they were strong. Blood started to flow from where the vines started to burrow into her body. May tried to freeze them from the inside out but it didn't work. She even tried to burn them. All her attempts to free herself failed.

 

“It hurts…It burns…” May thought weakly.

 

May looked up from the vines to Youko. He stood there with that cold stare that May only knew him to give to his most horrible enemies. It broke May's heart to see that stare being directed towards her. Even though she wanted to shed the tears that had build up in her eyes she knew she couldn't.

 

“If I'm going to die, then I'm going to show my Youko how strong I am. I will not cry,” May decided on.

 

“How can you just stand there and watch her die?” Shuichi asked, sounding angry with his other half.

 

Youko didn't answer as he watched May fall to her knees and then slowly to the ground. Blood surrounded her frail form on the grassy area they were in. With the last ounce of her energy, May lifted her head to get one final glimpse of the one she always wanted to be with.

 

A seven year old May came limping into the bandits' hideout. Her left arm was broken, a slash went from the upper right part of her forehead to her lower left chin, and her left eye was surly going to be black in the morning. A trail of blood followed her from the various cuts all over her body. Several demons watched her limp her way to the dojo. They whispered various things to each other, but May ignored the gossiping bandits. She continued towards the dojo, eyes completely blank.

----Inside the Dojo----

 

Youko was in his room having his seventh meeting of the day. Even though he was the one that scheduled the meetings, he wished he didn't plan so many for the day. He felt like it was the tenth meeting of the day, but he knew there were several more to come before the day was done.

 

Two bandits were bickering outside Youko's bedroom door, which had a conference room adjacent to it. Kuronue was there as well but he was not fighting with the two.

 

“If we don't tell him you know how made he'll get,” said a demon with long blond hair and piercing brown eyes.

 

“I'm not going to get my head torn off to tell him about that stupid brat!” stated the other demon that had short light blue hair and even lighter blue eyes.

 

“Get out of the way then,” Kuronue ordered, forcefully pushing the two bandits aside.

 

Kuronue slide open the right of the two sliding doors that led to the conference room. A demon with black eyes, dark blue hair, a scare running from an inch above his left eye brow to about three inches under his left eye was sitting on royal blue cushions in front of a table in the middle of the room. Youko was facing the doors so only the unknown demon had to turn to see who was interrupting their meeting.

 

“Sorry to interrupt, but May is passed out in the middle of the village,” Kuronue explained, leaning up ageist the right part of the doorframe.

 

Youko gave Kuronue a cold glare that Kuronue knew was used to say `leave'. Kuronue just put his left foot up on the doorframe and crossed his arms in front of himself.

 

“She's bleeding severely. She's a mess of blood and flesh,” Kuronue elaborated on his prior explanation.

 

Youko got to his feet before swiftly, but coolly, exiting the conversance room. Kuronue grinned at the new demon before putting his left foot back on the wooden floor and turning towards the demon.

 

“The meeting is officially over. Follow me,” Kuronue ordered.