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Yu Yu Hakusho: Rise	By : Demonic_Host Category: Yuyu Hakusho > General Views: 672 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Yu Yu Hakusho: Rise
Chapter 8

The house was quiet, the sun had not yet started it's assent into the sky. Which meant that the darkness and shadows around you only made it that much harder to wake up. You tried pushing yourself up from the prone sleeping position you'd been in though you didn't get very far. Your arms shook trying to hold even a part of your weight up. Given the futile nature of the attempts, you ended up giving up. Unhappily you laid on your side and glared out at everything around you. And that was how you stayed until the sun rose above the horizon. At which point you slowly turned over onto your back and flared up at the unfamiliar roof.

You knew it was pointless to be angry. There was nothing your anger could accomplish in that moment. Anger couldn't help you heal quicker. Anger wouldn't help you remember more. All anger did was sap your mental energy. It clouded your judgment and could potentially lead to poor decisions.

Still...it felt better than despair...

You took in a deep breath and centered yourself. You relaxed the controls on your energy and let it waft out of you like smoke. Anyone with even a small amount of spirit awareness would have seen your spirit energy like a fog as it swirled around you.

With the slack in your energy you let yourself mentally and spiritually walk about the place. It wasn't like you could see the buildings around you. More like you could feel them, feel the trees and stone they used to be. You could feel those that had walked the halls. Not every person that left an impression had been benevolent. This refuge had seen a lot in its time; far more than any living person would ever know. Far more than you'd have been able to figure out on your own. There was still more to come too - more life left for the area to witness before nature reclaimed the buildings.

Farther away from your own room, there were even people still in residence. Not Yomi and his son of course. They were in a room near your own. You explored the other people's energy signatures as the sun leaked in through the cracks of the shoji door. One felt weak and strong at the same time - a soul reaching their end. It wasn't that the person was dying of any wound or illness so much as the human was sufficiently old. The other person was a demon. Surprisingly they had a much softer signature. But it was crisp and clear, almost cold in a way.

You didn't linger on the two of them as you swept through the rest of the area like a phantom breeze. There was a forest far older than the building. The only thing older in the area was the very mountain that sustained it. Inside of the forest was darkness and wildness. Lower Spirits, demons, existed in something nearing harmony.

As you passed your senses through at a distance and accuracy that surprised even you, you could feel the demons shuttering in discontent. They were weary of what you were doing. Afraid even. Which was odd for you. It was almost like they had never felt someone searching the area with their spirit before. Maybe the area you were in was just not very accessible to humans. That would explain why you had only felt the one other person. You came back to yourself, pulling away from the demons and the forest to remember your current confinement.

"Still in bed at this hour?" Yomi's voice called out in something adjacent to amusement.

You turned to watch as he slid the door open. He was a tall demon with such strikingly sharp features. The way his back was to the rising sun gave his dark, sleek hair a sort of divine warmth. Which only emphasised the lightness of his skin.

"I was exploring my surroundings," you told him calmly.

"My mistake," Yomi said as he walked a few steps closer. "What did you discover?"

"Another higher demon, aside from yourself and your son. Another human than myself. A forest teeming with life; demon and mortal alike."

"How far did you go?" Yomi asked with interest as he kneeled.

"A quarter of a day's walk," you answered, having a hard time putting the distance into words.

There were so many words in so many different languages battling for a spot to help describe the distance. It was dizzying. You closed your eyes and took in a deep breath, trying to relax your mind. Too many thoughts...too much information...

"Are you ready to go for a morning walk?"

"I can not walk," you said simply as you opened your eyes.

Yomi's smile was calculated. It wasn't unkind by any means, it just was restrained. Almost polite with the softened look on the rest of his face. He leaned towards you, hands gently rolling your blanket down. He moved in closer, going to one knee, before lifting you up into his arms. Yomi stood up as he carried you all in one smooth motion. Considering how tall the demon was you didn't have to worry about anything dragging the ground.

It took you more than a couple minutes to get comfortable. Mostly though the fear that your throat was so exposed kept you from being truly comfortable. Yomi had given you no reason to distrust him but still...

By the end of the walk, when he helped you sit on the raised hallway while using one of the beams to help support you, you'd finally got that nagging instinct to relax.

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"Yo."

Kurama looked to the young man standing before him. Yusuke hadn't really changed a bit in the last couple of years; some of the rough edges that had been sharpened through pain and anger had been slightly smoothed over but he was still the same man through and through. He was the same young teenager that had put his own life on the line to save another he barely even knew. The same one that risked the fate of every human on the planet in a tournament. Which was exactly why Kurama couldn't help but feel skeptical as he let him into the small apartment.

Once the door was closed, Yusuke rounded on his friend. "So what'd you do to piss off Pacifier Breath so much he'd come see me?"

Kilurama let out a deep breath as he shook his head. He moved over to the kitchenette and pulled out a drink he knew Yusuke favored, silently offering it to the younger man.

"I told him the truth."

"Yeah well you know he doesn't handle that well," Yusuke said with his signature short laugh. "So what truth are we talking? Do I need to get ready to crack some heads?"

"Hopefully not," the redhead assured with a nervous chuckle.

"Okay so then what?"

"He put my...soulmate in Yomi's hands," Kurama disclosed in a quiet voice. "I simply enlightened him to the size of that mistake."

Yusuke spat out the drink he'd started on. "Soulmate?!"

Kurama nodded, waiting for Yusuke to regain his compunction. Though Soulmate might not have been the right term to use it was as close to the truth as he was willing to give. It was a term he knew that Yusuke would at least understand and accept. In the moment the omission of the full truth seemed acceptable.

"Wait...you're telling me Soulmates exist?" Yusuke's question received a slight nod. "And that Yomi...what? Kidnapped yours?"

This time Kurama shook his head no. "Yomi liberated her from Spirit World. In a way I'm indebted to him but I, more than anyone, know how dangerous she can be to the stability of the world if she's under the sway of another."

"Yomi...one of the old rulers, Yomi...rescued your soulmate from Spirit World? ...I didn't think he even liked humans."

"She's an acception," Kurama said in a quiet, bitter tone.

"That he cared enough about to pressure Koenma into handing her over? Damn she must be some woman. What she do—steal all of Toddler's blankets?"

"No Yusuke. She was used as the conduit for the Kekkai barrier."

"How about you explain it for those of us that skipped a couple of classes."

"They used her body to create and maintain the Kekkai barrier. Without her they would have never been able to maintain the separation of the three worlds."

That seemed plain enough for Yusuke to understand. The gravity of it all weighed on him. The eighteen year old knocked back a drink as he stared at his long time friend. Then it dawned on him.

"You said she was human right?...But that thing was put up 500 years ago. No way she's still alive."

"I assure you she is. Alive and well and in Yomi's hands. He will manipulate her to his own means. That is part of the truth that Koenma wasn't fond of hearing."

"And the other part?"

"I declined to protect him from her," Kurama said simply. "I will not fight her, nor will I assist her. I must remain neutral in the upcoming struggle...he was not pleased with my stance."

The low whistle that sprang from Yusuke's lips seemed fitting somehow.
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