Worlds clash

“Ku... Suichi? What is going on? Do you know her?”

“Unfortunately yes I do, Yusuke. She was Kuronue’s fiancée.” He stood where he was. She looked straight at him. She turned to the small child and started making movements. ‘Shit…’Kurama decided to turn to his friends and quickly said. “Remember I am Shuichi… Slip the name Kurama and I will make your life hell.” His eyes flashed golden. They nodded and he calmed down.

Just then the little girl was tugging on Kurama’s kimono. “Do you know a kitsune named Youko? Or a bat demon named Kuronue?”

“I have heard of them. Why do you ask?” He got down to eye level with her.

“Shizuka says you smell of Youko.” She turned and made some movements to Shizuka, who made some hand movements back. “She wants you to come to her.” He swallowed hard this was not going to be good. “By the way, my name is Hotaru.”

The gang froze. She was the little girl they had to protect and the demon she is protected by was a friend of Youko. This was too easy. How could they find her after one day?

Shizuka looked at them. Why did they stop? Why aren’t they coming? Kagome come out with InuYasha.

“Are those your friends, Shizuka?” She shook her head. Then touched her nose and made a sniffing sound. “They smell like them?” she nodded her head. “I think I am starting to understand you.” Shizuka never took her eyes off the group that was looking at her and Hotaru. Shizuka then picked up on whisper between the one with orange hair and the one with the slicked back hair. Shizuka clapped her hands and Hotaru came running back to her.

“Yes Shizuka?” She did some hand movements. “I understand.” She took her hand then moved toward the group of boys.

Kurama was getting nervous. Shizuka had such a keen nose. She smelt his spirit in me. She used to be able to smell blood two miles away that was washed away by the rain last week. He tried to suppress Youko and for once Youko was agreeing with him to hide. He began to panic but remained looking calm. Hotaru let go of Shizuka’s hand and stayed beside her as her voice as she had done for the years that she had been with her.

Shizuka took a step closer and walked right up to Kurama and took a deep whiff. Her eyes grew wide and she took a defensive stance, pulling Hotaru behind her. She made some hand movements. Hotaru looked at them and then grew angry.

“Why do you have the stench of Kuronue’s blood on you? Why do you stink of his blood?” Hotaru shouted from behind Shizuka. Kurama stood where he was. Hearing the shouting InuYasha and the gang ran to her to help her. Hotaru turned to them. “This is her fight. He stinks of Kuronue’s blood.

Sango turned to Kagome. “Isn’t that her fiancé?” Kagome nodded and glanced at InuYasha who was listening in.

“So that man smells of the blood of her fiancé. So he is dead.”

“Or injured.”

“If he stinks that much of his blood for her to smell it and not me then he is dead. Not even a demon can survive that much blood loss.”

“Poor Shizuka.” They turned to listen to hear the response of the strangers.

Shizuka stared into the eyes of the man before her. She could see it in his eyes he was dead. The man she had promised herself to has died, and she wasn’t there for his final breath. She would never mate with him. She would never have pups with him. Never grow old with him. Tears brimmed her eyes. This man must have know how he died. He was there. She made a hand movement to ask how he died and Hotaru was about to say what it meant when the man spoke.

“He and Youko had gotten the painting that they stole and had made it out. While escaping, the necklace got caught on a branch and he went back to get it. A bamboo spear stabbed his leg. He shouted for Youko to run and save himself. He died holding the necklace.” Shizuka listened to his words and the tears began to fall. She tried to choke back a sob, but it did nothing. She regained enough composure to make the hand movement to ask what had happened to Youko. “Youko went into a depression and couldn’t face you. He went on thieving trying to forget his pain. One day, about 3 months after Kuronue’s death he was killed by a bounty hunter.” Her family was gone. All gone. She was alone again. She sunk to the floor and just let the tears flow. The two gangs could do nothing and just watched her let all her emotions flow down her face and into the earth through the tears that she cried. Hotaru though had been thinking. How did this human male know about the great thief’s demise and Kuronue’s death? Knowing his last words and where he was stabbed? How did he understand her hand movements? Something was off here and she would find out what it was.

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Sorry it took so long. i have been having alot to deal with my aunt is getting married soon and my studies have been working me really long.