Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Memories ❯ Sleeper Awakes ( Chapter 3 )

For a week, the group went about their appointed tasks. Kuwabara sat in Kurama's room, watching the unconscious girl, unsure of what he was guarding her from, but determined to fulfill his task. Kurama read through Bekka's book, Yusuke asking him questions about what was written in the book, forcing Kurama to look deeper into the various spells and comments. It was becoming more difficult to determine what the diary portion was and which portion was actually spell work. Botan spent most of her time in the archives, occasionally consulting with Kurama and Yusuke, trying to correlate any information. Hiei spent several hours each day sitting on the foot of Kurama's bed, watching the girl, trying to read anything from her, but finding nothing other than the vague sense that her mind was there…somewhere, but not quite reachable. As the week progressed, her mind came closer, but remained occluded. Loki was conspicuous by his absence, which suited the others fine.

Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara and Hiei almost jumped out of their skins when Bekka began screaming, "Nein, Nein, NEIN!" The three ran over to the bed, Hiei already being there. She sat up, looking around wildly, "Sie schreien, sie schreien mir auf." Her eyes lit on Kurama, not focused, wild, "Bitteschoen, helf mir, bitteschoen. Die Stimme sind sehr laud. Bitte…" her voice trailed off and she appeared to wilt back onto the bed, her eyes remaining open, her mouth continuing to work. The boys looked at each other, utterly confused.

Behind them, Loki spoke, "She said, `They yell, they're yelling at me. Please, help me, please. The voices are very loud. Please…'"

They all turned, Kurama fining his voice first, "Good of you to show up, Loki. Why can't we understand her anymore? She could talk to us before."

Loki glared at the boy, "Ungrateful Fox. She was in Germany before. I put the language of where she is in her mind, but I couldn't reach her mind, remember?"

"So, we're going to need you to translate anything she says, then?"

Loki looked unhappy and uncomfortable, "And to talk to her, unless one of you speaks German….?" None of them were eager to take up the offer, however.

"Ask her what the voices say to her. We've run across a couple of descriptions of voices in our different courses of study."

"Was sagen die Stimme?" Loki addressed the girl. (what do the voices say?)

Her eyes focused on him, "Monstrum! Du…du….Monstrum!" She struggled to push herself away from him, pushing herself up against the wall at the head of the bed.

Loki backed away from the bed, actually looking hurt. "She thinks I'm a monster."

Yusuke muttered, "Not far off, is she?"

Loki glared at Yusuke, angry at his impudence but any comment he would have made was cut off by Kurama, "How are we going to communicate with her since it's obvious she isn't going to talk with Loki?"

"I could make one of you speak German," Loki offered, looking pointedly at Yusuke.

Kurama ignored him, "Hiei, can you reach her mind?"

The black haired demon shook his head, "It's closer, but still not reachable. I can almost hear the voice's she complaining about."

Kurama dropped his eyes, thinking. "Loki," he began slowly, turning to face the god, "what is involved in causing one of us to be able to speak German?"

The god shrugged, "Just letting it happen."

"And I'll still be able to speak to everyone else?"

"You're not gonna let him mess with your head, Kurama?" Yusuke burst out.

Kurama looked at Yusuke and turned a stern eye on Loki, "He won't do anything other than let me be able to talk with her so that we can help her. Isn't that right, Loki?"

"Yeah, yeah," the god replied irritably.

Kurama allowed an evil grin to touch his lips. "You have to help us. You don't have a choice. You can't do anything to hinder us. Isn't that right, Loki?"

The god looked thunderous, not answering.

"Uh, guys," Kuwabara finally spoke up. They turned to see him holding Bekka's head, fore and aft. "Could you hurry it up? She's trying to brain herself." They could see both of them struggling, him to hold her head, her to get away, presumably to hit her head against the wall.

"Loki, hurry up already, wir muessen ihr mitsprachen." Kurama was surprised to hear the unfamiliar words come out of his mouth. (we have to talk with her)

Bekka stopped struggling, "Kannst du mir helfen? Kannst du die Stimme anhalten?" (Can you help me? Can you make the voices stop?)

"Was sagen die Stimme? Wir wollen dir helfen." (What do the voices say? We want to help you)

"Sie schreien wie Todes. Sie sagen nichts, nur schreien. Bitte, halten sie an." (They scream like death. They don't say anything, only scream. Please, make them stop)

Her eyes begged for him to help. They were haunted and vacant, lacking the sparkle that had been there when he last saw her. For some reason, this bothered him more than her begging. Pity moved his hand to her forehead, gently placed his fingers on her eyebrows. "Schlaf, nur schlaf, Bisschen." (Sleep, just sleep, little [one]) Her eyes grew heavy and she slumped over on the bed. His eyebrows shot up and he stepped back from the bed. The others looked at him in surprise and confusion.

"It seems she was right about you, Fox," Loki spoke up. Kurama looked at him sharply. "She gave you her book because she thought you could use it. Well, now that you have what you need…" his voice trailed off as he vanished.

Yusuke finally spoke up, "What did she say?"

Kurama shook his head, "She said the voices screamed like death."

"What did you do to her?"

"I…uh….I put her back to sleep."

"How?"

"I…told her to sleep..." his voice was uncertain.

Yusuke, trying to lighten the mood, glared at Kurama in mock ferocity, "Better not try that on me!"

Kurama managed a half-hearted smile, "I can think of better suggestions to use on you."

Yusuke ignored this comment, "Hey, didn't we read some stuff about death screams in that book of hers?" He walked over and flipped through the book. "Ummm….'the banshee are said to be able to bring death with their voices…' not that…'…to hear screams of death in dreams is the hallmark of most black magic curses…' well, that narrows it down…'the mind tormented by death is subjected to torments not meant to be borne by the human soul…' this sound promising…'to find the cause, the other symptoms must be correlated with known pathogens and curses…' She's got a long list of things here." He looked up to see the surprised faces of his friends. "What?" he asked defensively.

Kurama shook his head, "You never cease to amaze me, Yusuke."

A/N In case you couldn't tell…the italics are the translation of the German I used. If anyone reading this actually speaks German, please forgive and politely correct any mistakes I made…it's been 6 years since I had it in school…ever soooooo long when you don't practice. (Oh, I don't think Bekka will be awake too much, either…it's difficult resurrecting a six year dead language from an over taxed brain [ahhhh…finals are looming])