Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Young Immortal ❯ Chapter 15

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-Telepathy-


(Thoughts)


Chapter 15


They waited, for the whole five hours until dark, surprised that Raimeihi didn't find them.


As soon as it got dark enough to where Shiroi was sure her father couldn't see; Hiei began to lead her through the forest, but not back to the temple.


"Where exactly are we going?" Shiroi asked.


"I can't take you back to the temple," Hiei replied. "It'll put too many of the others in danger. I'm taking us to a cave I hide out in during foul weather, it's pretty far, but unlike your father I can see like an owl or any other nocturnal creature in the dark."


Shiroi nodded, she knew that this demon's sight was almost the best there was. They walked through the forest, Shiroi stumbling every so often because she couldn't see as well.


When they finally made it to the cave, they went inside and went as far back as it went. It wasn't very deep, so they could still see the entrance easily. There was a dead fire pit that Hiei did not light when they got there.


"If I light it, Raimeihi will find us in a matter of minutes," Hiei explained. "I'm sure you know that."


Shiroi nodded. She felt empty, she couldn't feel her fear anymore, and she was slightly drained of her spirit energy, which left her feeling like an empty, hopeless shell.


"Why did you take me here?" She asked.


"Huh?" Hiei asked. "What do you mean?"


"Why are you still protecting me?" Shiroi asked. "All it will do is ensure that my father will kill you sooner or later. Now that he's here you should just leave me alone, that way you won't endanger your life on a useless girl." She sat down, half trembling from the fear she finally felt again, and shivering from the nighttime cold.


"I'm only doing this because I know what your father is doing is wrong," Hiei answered. "A demon like him shouldn't be tried, just put down like a mad dog, since he is worse than one of those any way."


"And you'll risk you life for that?" Shiroi asked. "Why? If Koenma had never mentioned me to any of you, none of you would have every gotten involved. I'm not worth anyone's protection, I should just be left to my father's choices."


Hiei felt like punching the wall, but he knew if he did he would cause the cave to collapse, so he didn't. But he did glare at her enough to let off his anger, luckily she didn't noticed, or she would have run out of the cave.


"I don't know how long we're going to be here," Hiei said. "Probably all night, but we'll leave pretty soon and head back to the temple." As he finished his sentence, a loud clap of thunder roared and a downpour began. "Or maybe not."


"Well my father can't work the weather," Shiroi said, "So this is just bad luck."


"At least that," Hiei said as he sat down. "So, while we're waiting, did you know you have a link to your father through your fire abilities?"


Shiroi shook her head, "If I had, I wouldn't have tried to summon it in the first place."


Hiei thought for a moment, "So, you're connected to him through fire, probably your lightning too. So as long as you don't use them he can't track you."


"That won't be hard," Shiroi, replied, "My spirit energy is nearly dry any way."


Hiei nodded, "You've done a lot today. Probably more than anyone would have expected."


Shiroi didn't know if it was a compliment or an insult, so she didn't reply.


They sat there silently for nearly an hour. The rain didn't slacken in the least; in fact it only got harder. Suddenly Shiroi felt something approaching.


"Someone's coming," she whispered.


Hiei got his feet, realizing that he had yet to retrieve his sword from where ever it had landed after he had thrown it. He got in front of Shiroi and peered out into the rain. He could also sense someone approaching, but the rain made everything confusing and hard to read.


Finally a silhouette appeared, and it was not of a human. It had five tails, and seemed to be canine.


"It's Kurama," Hiei said with a sigh of relief.


"Kurama?" Shiroi asked as the fox came into better view. She had never seen Kurama in his spirit fox form, nor in his demon form, so this was a new thing, and didn't make her feel any better about the situation.


When he finally got into the cave, he stayed near the entrance and shook himself to rid his body of the rainwater.


"How did you find us?" Hiei asked.


-Easy, - the spirit fox mind spoke, -I saw where you had landed and I followed. I kept my spirit energy down and stayed in the shadows so Raimeihi wouldn't spot me. I knew once you had left the spot you had landed in you were headed here, so I followed. -


"What's wrong, did the rain clog your nose?" Hiei asked.


Kurama sneezed, turned around, and lifted his third tail at him. Hiei smirked, and Shiroi caught the meaning, but didn't laugh, still something she couldn't do.


-I don't know how to contact the others, - Kurama replied. -Perhaps you could through telepathy, Hiei. -


"Sorry to interrupt," Shiroi said timidly. "But my father is also a telepath, and he could be searching for mind sent messages through long distances. So you may not want to contact them through that method."


-It's good to know, - Kurama said. -Thank you for warning us. - Shiroi blushed slightly and nodded. Kurama noticed the girl's shivering, and whipped Hiei in the shins with his tails.


"Hey!" Hiei said as he jumped. "What was that for?"


-I know you're not blind, - Kurama said, speaking to him privately. So why is it that you can't seem to see the girl is shivering?


-I can see, - Hiei retorted, also in private telepathy. -What do you want me to do? -


-Well something at least, - Kurama said. -You know it's not only the cold she's shaking about; you know she's got to be terrified. -


-Of course I know that. -


-Then why didn't you try and comfort her? -


-Do I really look like that kind of guy? - Hiei asked.


-No, - Kurama answered; -but you could try. - He sneezed and padded over to the girl, who had been watching them with a confused look on her face. -By the way Hiei, - Kurama said as he turned around quickly to look at the demon, also in open telepathy, -did you know that Shiroi is also a telepath? -


Hiei stared at him dumbly while Kurama sat down by the girl. The fox smirked aloud at the demon's face, and then turned to Shiroi. -Are you doing okay? - He asked her.


"Huh?" Shiroi felt dumb speaking to him aloud, even though she knew who he really was, so she tried her own telepathy, in private mode. -I'm fine, I guess, besides the fact that my father is after me. -


Kurama was slightly surprised that she had answered in telepathy, but recovered quickly. -You're not all right, you're afraid, and you have a right to be afraid. -


Shiroi blushed, -I know, but... well... -


-You don't have to say it if you don't want to, - Kurama said, -you may not know how to say it. -


Shiroi nodded, still blushing.


Hiei asked, "Shiroi, what will happen to you if your father catches you?"


Shiroi's blush vanished as she paled, "He'll kill me."


"What?"


-You don't know that for sure do you? - Kurama asked, just as stunned as Hiei was.


"I do," Shiroi said. "He said if I ever ran away, as soon as he found me he would kill me. Know him though, he'll torture me for a while before ending my misery."


"Sick," Hiei spat, "He's just plain sick."


-Yes, - Kurama added, but then curled up and began scratching himself behind his right ear. -Something's there, it's been bothering me ever since I got into the forest, but I haven't touched anything. -


Shiroi couldn't help but smile at Kurama's position, and Hiei was trying to suppress his laughter, but was losing that fight faster than he would lose against Raimeihi.


After a minute Kurama still hadn't gotten rid of it, so Shiroi tried to help him. "Let's see," she said as she searched behind his silver-furred ear with her fingertips. Her fingers found something where Kurama's paw wouldn't reach, and had to yank it off. "Sorry!" she squeaked as the fox yelped. She looked at what was in her hand. It was black with two prongs on it so it would stick to something, other than that, it looked like an ordinary piece of plastic.


Hiei stooped down and stared at the thing in the girl's fingers. "It's a transmitter from the spirit world," he muttered. "Are you sure you didn't come in contact with anything or anyone?"


Kurama let out sigh that sounded like a dog's whine. -Botan grabbed my ruff just before I left. She told me not to come back until I find you two, alive. I guess that's when she planted it. -


"Sneaky," Shiroi said as she examined the transmitter, not at all seeing how it could be one. "How does it work exactly? I don't see how it could."


Hiei sat down and took the transmitter from her. "I'm not an expert on anything really technological, so what I'm telling you may not all be true." He examined the thing a bit. "It's one of the newer ones, how Botan managed to get her sneaky paws on them I will never know, but since it is a newer model, I can't tell you anything about it."


"Oh well," Shiroi said. "Botan will probably know. I'll ask her, if I live that long." Hiei and Kurama both couldn't help but cringe. Suddenly Shiroi looked up, "A group of people are coming."


-When did you learn to sense spirit energy? - Kurama asked.


Shiroi thought for a moment, "I think just before my first lesson with Hiei. I needed to follow him, but I couldn't see him."


"Well lets see whom you've sensed," Hiei said as he got to his feet. A large silhouette appeared, and then individual ones. Finally Yuseke and the gang were in plain sight.


"You just had to pick a night when it was raining to go and hide out in cave," Yuseke said as he shook off his raincoat.


"I see the transmitter worked," Botan said as Shiroi handed it to her. "Sorry I made you the guinea pig Kurama, or should I say, guinea fox."


-Ha, ha, - Kurama mumbled. The fox closed his eyes and he began to glow a bright white. When the light cleared, the human Kurama was sitting in front of them. "Did any of you know that Shiroi learned quite a bit today?"


"Like what?" Yuseke asked as they all sat down. The whole group was there, Botan, Yukina, Hinigeshi, Kuwabara, and Genkai.


"Why don't you tell them Shiroi?" Kurama suggested.


Shiroi was silent for a moment, but then said, "Telepathy and spirit energy sensing"


"All that in just one day?" Yuseke asked. "Man, it took me weeks to learn spirit energy sensing, and telepathy has totally passed me by."


"I didn't learn it in a day," Shiroi said, "I learned in a few minutes, first the energy sensing, and then the telepathy. Kurama was the first one I spoke to in telepathy, so of course he knew."


"A few minutes?" Kuwabara asked. He turned to Genkai, "Is that possible?"


"She did it," Genkai said. "Therefore it probably is. Of course, Shiroi's no ordinary apparition."


"Yeah, we remember all that mumbling about ultimate level stuff that Kurama said," Yuseke said. "But what does it mean?"


"Exactly what it says," Kurama retorted. "Shiroi has the ability to learn at a startling rate, and mastering them in nearly the same amount of time." He turned to Yukina. "Yukina, would you have been able to heal, and do a little bit of fighting, all at the same time?"


Yukina shook her head, "No, I don't have enough spirit energy to do that."


"There's the difference," Kurama said. "Shiroi has enough spirit energy to do that. The only other person in this room that may be able to that is Genkai."


"I would be," Genkai, said, "in my younger years, I could. But now, since I gave my orb to Yuseke, it isn't possible anymore."


"But," Kuwabara stammered, "You're a human though."


"I know," Genkai, said, "I just had a lot of spirit energy. But Shiroi is different." She looked at Kurama, "You noticed right off the bat that she was able to do more complicated tasks without so much as a breath."


Kurama nodded, and looked at the apparition he was sitting next to. The girl had the most confused look on her face that he had ever seen. "It seems to me that you weren't informed of this were you?" Kurama asked her.


Shiroi shook her head, "No, am I really what Yuseke said, an ultimate level?"


Genkai nodded, "It's in the gene pool. Demons and apparitions born with white hair are naturally more powerful. Tell me, were there any other white haired people in your village besides your mother?"


Shiroi shook her head, "No, just me, and her until she died. We don't even know what caused it."


"The same thing that made her who she was," Genkai said. Shiroi looked at her. "Your mother must have been somehow losing her control over her power, so it slowly consumed her. That's what happens to ultimate levels when they are not properly trained. Not that I'm saying your mother wasn't properly trained, she just wasn't made of aware of what might happen to her if she began losing control of her power."


Shiroi nodded, it was a reasonable explanation, but how had she begun to lose control in the first place?


"Well however it happened," Yuseke said, "it certainly didn't do any good for you."


"I don't think she needs to be reminded," Kurama replied.


Suddenly, from behind them, the unused fire pit burst into flames.


They all shot to there feet. Yuseke asked, "Uh, Hiei, Shiroi, did either of you two do that?"


"No," Hiei answered.


"I can't," Shiroi added.


An evil and familiar laughter filled the cave. "You thought you could hide her from me?" Raimeihi's laughter filled the cave again as the flames erupted and blew at them.


When the fire cleared it had gone out completely, leaving the group in a dark and cold cave.


Hiei was the first to recover, since the fire had affected him the least. He looked around, no one was hurt, but there was a very important person not there. "Shiroi's missing!"


Author's Note: Ah! Shiroi was captured, what's going to happen to her. Te-he, I know. Well, I shouldn't be laughing, it isn't very pretty, but there will be an interesting part to the next chapter, something that makes Hiei want to kill Kuwabara and Kurama. Review me and tell me what you think so far.