One-shot from Kuronue’s POV
Warnings: Slight Yaoi.
The day that I died. I remember it so vividly. The frail chain snapping. Kurama’s pleading voice trying to stop me. The trap. The bamboo piercing my skin. Myself telling Kurama to run and save himself.
At the time I didn’t have enough strength to tell him I would try to come back to him. I wish I had.
Sometime later, I gather, a Reikai bounty hunter killed him. But, as rumors say, he showed up the Dark Tournament in a human boy’s body. The fox girl announcer was said to have proclaimed him a dream. I personally don’t blame her.
I thought he was a dream, too. The perfect thieving partner. Skilled, sneaky, sly, just to name a few descriptive words off the top of my head.
Not to mention he was drop-dead gorgeous. The long silver hair, glinting gold-amber eyes, tall, lithe, and immensely powerful. I don’t think he knew how I felt. I don’t think he felt the same way.
I don’t know how long I was adrift as a soul. All I remember was thinking about Kurama and hoping he made it to safety.
I often thought he had moved on and got a new partner. He was already a legend when I teamed up with him. Or even maybe he settled down with a pretty girl and had a family. Ha, as if. I don’t think he could settle down and be with one person.
I don’t know how I was returned to my body or given a body. All I know is I somehow regained my old form and power. I found that pendant of mine, too. That thing cost me my life, but I am rather attached to it.
I began my search for Kurama. I explored the entirety of the Makai. He wasn’t there, that sneaky fox. I wasn’t about to go to Reikai. Uh, uh you couldn’t pay me to go there. Those people have a bounty for my head the size of Mount Fuji. That left Ningenkai.
Now, I really don’t know how I was supposed to fit in. I really didn’t think Ningens saw a tall man with wings walking down their streets daily. I decided if it came down to it, I could claim it was a costume.
So somehow I snuck into Ningenkai, without being noticed. Or so I thought.
The Reikai has upped its defenses and shields since that heist where all three sacred artifacts were stolen. I didn’t understand how a human and two demons pulled it off. They said that the first demon was killed, and the second captured. The human used the mirror to save the life of his mother. Go figure.
Well, anyway I was just sneaking through the portal. I stepped out and the Spirit Detective and friends were there. Joy.
I told them that I meant no harm to any humans and I just wanted to see Ningenkai. I looked each one over.
The leader was a human with slicked up hair and an attitude. The next was a stupid looking human with orange hair that I wouldn’t make anyone suffer through. And the last was a short human-looking fire demon. Wait, one two three, I was told there were four detectives. Another human, the one who saved his mother.
Oh well, one less to deal with. They were all eying me, like they had seen me before. Hello, I died before they were born. Well maybe not the fire demon, but before the humans.
They interrogate me. Fun Fun. They finally realize I’m not in Ningenkai to go rampaging and kill everyone. They decided to let me go, and they say they will be watching me.
I didn’t tell them I was looking for information on a silver fox. Don’t want to attract too much attention. I would hate to have to face all four of the detectives on my own. The three there seem to be very powerful.
Well, I set out into the human cities. I get so many stares it isn’t even funny. The things I go through for you, fox.
I think about asking a human, but decide against it. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to walk into a building and ask if they have seen a tall guy with long silver hair, a tail, and gold eyes? Can’t see myself doing that. Not yet, at least.
So I just wander a bit, searching for the specific Youki signature of my partner. I found it, surprisingly. But it was tainted with Reiki. Bleh. Human energy. The poor fox.
I trace its source to a house. Inside was a human family. The mother, father and young son seemed normal enough. It was the redheaded older son that caught me off guard. He was the one emitting the energy.
I decided then to approach him the next day. I slept in the park a few blocks from his home, on the way to the closest human school. I figured he would go there.
He did, thankfully. The next morning he was walking along silently. I called out from the shadows. His hand went beneath the curtain of hair. I stepped into the light and he faltered.
“Kuronue?” He asked timidly.
“Yeah, that’s my name. Your energy is that of Youko Kurama’s,” I answered, wanting to keep the public conversation short.
“But you’re dead,” He said incredulously. I rolled my eyes.
“Was dead,” I responded, “Now explain how you have the energy of my thieving partner.”
“I am Kurama, Kuronue. I was gravely injured by a bounty hunter and escaped to Ningenkai. I was reborn in this body,” He calmly explained.
“Come back to the Makai with me. We can do every thing we did before,” I said.
“I want to live out my human life, Kuronue,” Kurama explained. I raised an eyebrow at that comment.
“Why?” I asked, dumbfounded.
“Because I can’t leave my human mother. She did so much for me. Maybe I will return when her life comes to an end,” He said.
“Alright then,” I said, feeling rather dejected. A human woman had been chosen over me. It’s not fair.
“Human lives end quickly. Try to keep yourself alive and soon I’ll join you,” Kurama said. I nodded and left. I was at the portal with in moments.
*Fifteen years later*
I had been watching him secretly, making sure he was kept alive. His mother died exactly fifteen years after I saw him. He kept his promise. He went to her funeral and mourned a few days.
He showed up at my door. In Youko form.
“Well, you got the plans for tonight’s heist?” He asked jokingly. I nodded and proceeded to tell him what we were going to steal.
It’s back to the same old humdrum. Though, now, we are much more careful of traps and bounty hunters.
Author’s Notes:
Meep. I brought back Kuronue. Hope no one minds. And if they do, it’s there own problem. Kuronue was a bit sarcastic, but I never really saw him. Cause the Kuronue on the movie was a fake. Review, please.
Disclaimer: Don’t own ‘em. Wish I did.