Bound

Disclaimer: I do not own any character that appears in YuYuHakusho, anyone else, yeah their mine. Anyway, this is my only disclaimer, try and remember it.

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We hadn’t expected to be ambushed, I mean, no one expects to be ambushed, anyway, we were in shock when the three men grabbed us. They were huge, each of them, and when they grabbed us, I got groped, I was pretty sure Maggie and Alan did too, but none of us made much of a sound with the large hands holding our windpipes shut. I kicked and thrashed as my vision blackened. I opened my mouth, trying to gasp when something was shoved in and then strapped around my head. My arms were both brought behind my back and I as shoved by them into the back of a van. I was forced to the floor, handcuffs suddenly appeared on my wrists and a foot appeared between my shoulder blades. There was a thud and I looked to see Alan, he looked a little more worse for wear, his long blond hair was messed up worse than normal, his pale skin was flushed with rage, between his lips was what looked like a ball gag, and his normally cool blue eyes were burning with rage. A foot landed on his back and he grunted before there was another thump, but I couldn’t see beyond Alan. The van started up and began to move.

“Chain them down,” a voice ordered and I began to scream beyond my own gag as chains were used to pin me to the floor at my neck, shoulders, elbow region, knee region, and ankle region. “Strip them.”

“With pleasure,” a voice laughed behind us. One of the creeps grabbed the back of my shirt and I gasped as something began to cut the fabric, a sharp point gently grazed by skin. The point went straight down my back before starting on my sleeves, cutting my shirt off of me, then my bra, next came my pants, my shoes and socks were ripped off, and then my panties were sliced off. “Nice, all three.”

“What’s the inventory?” the first voice asked and I felt a hand stroke my cheek, through the whole thing I hadn’t seen our captors past their knees. I still couldn’t and it began to scare me more that I couldn’t see their faces.

“One brown haired female, large tits, trimmed carpet, long legs, three noticeable scars, ears pierced once in the normal location for humans, blue eyes, and she smells untouched,” a voice behind me said as its hand ran along my legs, cupping my sex and making me scream around the gag, really only making a keening sound.

“One yellow haired male, not bad for a human in cock size, slight muscle intonation, he’s never been taken, seven noticeable scars, strong legs and back,” a voice stated and I heard Alan scream as he struggled.

“One black haired female, medium tits, no carpet, rather short, hour glass figure though, two noticeable scars, ears pierced in the normal human location as well as one on the ridge of the left ear, she’s mated with the male, but untouched in other areas,” a third voice chuckled and I could hear Maggie scream as well.

“Not bad, three good ones for sale,” the first voice chuckled. “You know the drill, give them the injections and we’ll move them.” I struggled and tried to scream behind the ball gag before I felt the sharp sting of the needle into the meat of my butt. I felt groggy as I heard the others struggle, but somehow it didn’t matter as I lost consciousness.


~*~


The Spirit Detective Team was assembled beyond what it had been back in the start of the whole damn thing. Yusuke was pissed, but fear had drove him here, the fear that someone had found a direct path between the human and youkai realms. On the monitor were the faces of thirty young woman and men: all smiling, all happy, and all full of life. The image changed to four bodies that had been found within the past month. One male, three female, one female had died of exposure in the youkai realm, meaning was found and devoured by a youkai, she showed no signs of struggle. Another female was found alive, she had died do what Koenma called, soul starvation, basically her soul had been removed and the body had no source of spirit energy, dying of spiritual starvation. The male and the last female, had been found, in lack of a better term, raped to death, both containing fluids from various youkai in their stomachs and…other areas. The screen flipped back to the thirty missing, four images blacked out, replaced by three more images. Two girl and a guy, they were in the same pictures, roommates apparently, one girl was dating the boy and the other girl was renting the apartment with them.

“Gentlemen, it’s getting worse, we’ve manage to decrease the number of abductions, but they’re still occurring, we’re in a desperate situation,” Koenma stated, he was in teenage mode as he walked passed the two teams of detectives, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, Jin, Touya, Rinku, Suzuki, Chuu, his father’s team of detectives. “We can only do so much defense, Father believes it is time we take this matter to the top.”

“And that would imply…” Yusuke prompted.

“Shut up, dimwit, we need to go to where these people are been abducted and find who wants humans,” Genkai snapped as she appeared, obviously returning from a fight. “Boton, bring it in!” With that, said ferry girl came flying in with a bound youkai hanging from her oar.

“Where did he come from?” Koenma asked and the old woman fixed her hair.

“I found him near my temple trying to take a schoolgirl, she saw nothing,” Genkai reported and Yusuke smirked at Chuu and Kuwabara as the three began approaching the defenseless youkai. His beady, little bird eyes widened as he began to squawk.

“Don’t hurt me! I’ll tell you what you want to know!” he shrieked in terror and the group looked at him with a smile. Koenma stood front and center.

“Why are you abducting humans?” he demanded and the youkai took in a few breaths of relieve as the three backed off.

“There’s a huge demand for them, people looking for bed-slaves, with Naku’s technique humans are back in style,” he stated. A few humans and demi-humans had to be restrained from attacking him. Koenma’s eyes narrowed.

“Who is this Naku and what technique is making humans so trendy?” he glared at the youkai, he really despised slave traders.

“Naku is a powerful youkai, no one knows what he is all they know is he uses strong magic, he can bend your mind to serve his desires and he loves manipulating people until they forget what it is they want and what it is he wants, making the most free mind his slave,” the youkai stated.

“So…how’s this creep making youkai want people all of a sudden?” Yusuke demanded and the youkai jumped and sweatdropped.

“I don’t know how he does it, but he calls it Binding, the humans are turned into Bound. When you buy a human you take it to him and he does something to them, once you take the human back it is a Bound and will do whatever you want when you want,” the youkai cried in fear. The group looked around, trying to digest what the youkai said.

“What happens exactly to the humans, explain, in great detail,” Kurama asked and the youkai was near tears.

“Naku places his hand on the human, anywhere really, he does something and the human begins to glow blue. Then he orders the owner to touch, kiss, caress, come into contact with the human. When they do the glow moves over the owner before vanishing. Sometimes the humans don’t act any different, sometimes they do. Like if you have a fighter they pull away from the owner at first, but Naku states once you have Bound they have no choice but to obey,” the youkai whimpered and Kurama’s eyes widened.

“What are the special rules he tells them!” Kurama demanded, eyes wide in a way that made various other members wonder what was going on.

“He tells them they have to come in contact with the slave once a week, beating them up doesn’t count but mating with them does. You just feed them, keep them clean, and give them lots of orders,” the youkai stated and when Kurama advanced. “That’s it, if he tells them anything else he don’t tell it to me! Ya gotta believe me!” Koenma looked at Kurama.

“What’s going on?” the godling asked the reincarnate fox.

“I knew an ancient spider youkai, so talented she claimed she was able to tie the strings of souls together. She fancied herself quite the matchmaker, but spoke of the dangers of her kind. They could also be horrid slave master and that was why many of her kind were gone. She stated of only knowing herself in existence. She died before I had been caught,” Kurama stated. “This Naku might be the one that destroyed her, learning her secret with tying souls. It’s irreversible if done right.” There was a collective grunt of acknowledgement of the shit meeting the fan.

“Where can we find this Naku?” Koenma asked and the youkai gaped before yammering incoherently.

“Hey, I’m sure we can get him to talk,” Yusuke cried and the youkai turned blue in the face.

“He’s part of a nomadic camp! He wouldn’t let any partially human creature near him unless it’s chained up and ready for Binding. His troop is moving north along the Jaja Mountains!” it was the last thing the creature ever spoke and the group looked at Hiei.

“We have a job to do. Those of us who are full youkai will go, Kurama, you will be back up with the humans, once the battle begins, you will be expected,” the small fire koorime ordered and the group nodded, there was no denying, time was of the essence in this matter.


~*~


The small space was filled with about ten other people, four guys and six other girls, we looked like rejects from a bad porno. All of the girls were wearing skintight dresses that were short enough for people to see our underwear, the guys were all in speedos. I tugged at the ropes holding my arms behind my neck while gnawing on the rope that was used as a gag. I was one of three tied up in such a style, the other two were guys. Most of the others were curled up, it looked like a few were in shock. Not that I blame anyone for being shocked at seeing real, live youkai, but I wasn’t going to let them do as they willed and I had a very good idea what they willed if we were dressed up like this. The cart we were being hauled around in jerked to a stop and I hit Alan’s shoulder and he grunted, holding onto Maggie tighter in the darkness.

“We’re here, Naku should be pleased,” a voice called and I closed my eyes as light shone in, several people crying out in horror as various youkai began dragging us out of the cart. I was hobbled, the rope around my ankles keeping me from making long strides, again it was me and the two guys. We were pulled to the side as the others were dragged along. I looked around to see an almost nomadic encampment. It was clearly setting up for a little while as we arrived. I watched as the others were taken to a large tent in the center and I found my heart screaming out in terror as we were marched toward it. It was black as night, the dust not even settling on the material.

“Man, how does he make that damn tent look so foreboding?” the youkai holding my bicep asked, his grip tightening as he stared and I glared at him before being dragged inside. There were actually rooms in the tent, it was unbelievable as we entered the second chamber to find a huge stage, it wasn’t possible to build that! I watched as a tall, incredibly handsome youkai stood there, watching as the others were placed in a cage. The cage was closed and I looked to see three stakes, as big as trees, with chains hanging from them. I look watched as the other two were chained by their ropes and I struggled, trying to resist only to end up like all the rest, trapped.

“She is spirited,” the handsome youkai said with a voice as smooth as silk.

“Yea, Naku, she’s a pain, only female that actually put up any fight,” one of the handlers stated and I glared at him. “Strong though, could be used by one of the whorehouse owners or even the private whore of a private owner.”

“Yes, sometimes spitfire is good, but not everyone seeking me out is seeking for a fighter. We will see who buys her,” the creature said as he looked at me and I stared at his eyes, they were completely black, no white at all. I locked eyes with him and I felt the nothingness of him, I turned away growling. “Not bad.” With that we were left, waiting for what would probably be a disgusting display of us being sold and then…what did they call it…binding?


~*~


Hiei entered the camp alone, he was wearing a cloak to conceal himself, Chuu was also coming alone while Jin and Touya entered together. The place was filled with merchants, Naku apparently drew quite a crowd, it would mean that more than thirty were missing. Kurama had warned him about Naku, it would be quite interesting to see this soul binder, they were after all a dying breed.

A nearby figure bumped into Hiei and he glared at the one so stupid as to touch him, he felt sick when he saw the sickly human youth. The scent of youkai seed on him was quite sickening. The youth bowed.

“Sorry, master,” he muttered before continuing to set up a tent. Hiei stared at the boy, his Jagan flashing under his bandana, it was as if the boy was a machine.

‘Set up tent, Set up tent, Set up tent…” it repeated over and over in the voice of another in the boy’s head. His eyes were voids, no light or emotion, and his scent spoke of his suffering by youkai hands.

“You like him, skilled little whore,” a voice stated. Hiei turned to see a large youkai, it was not that powerful, but finely dressed. The scent of sex and musk was heavy and Hiei felt disgusted again. “I have great deals.” Hiei walked off, ignoring the pimp. “I have women too if that’s what you like, human and youkai!” Hiei continued, it was disgusting, everywhere there was the scent of human and youkai, the scent of youkai musk. He passed Jin and Touya, not openly glancing at them, but it was clear, the normally good natured wind user was very irritated.

“All here for the sale please come to the main tent!” a voice called and Hiei looked for the main tent, the large, black, ominous tent was before them. He headed towards it, the familiar youki of the elemental users and the Australian were a mild comfort as they entered the tent. Once inside the reeking scent of human fear filled his nose. Normally it was pleasant, but this was overpowering.

Youkai of all types were present, it seemed the population of prospective buyers was large, Hiei would kill many of them as he looked up to see the stage. There was a cage filled with humans, male and female alike. Three stakes were set up with three humans that were attempting to break free. The two males shackled to the stakes were fighting and yelling while the woman was working the rope in her mouth, snarling here and there as she kept her legs firmly together against the leers of the crowd.

Hiei was disgusted as he took in the pathetic wardrobe, the women looked like dolls with overdeveloped bodies while the boys were completely exposed. It was pathetic and he would truly enjoy taking out his aggravation on this crowd. He watched as a male youkai of no clear origin stood up, his dark hair down to his shoulders, he was dressed in leather, armor, and there was the scent of silk.

“We’ll start the bidding,” he declared and the room became silent.

‘Kurama, I’ve found what may be Naku. I’m not certain yet, I’m going to hold off until this so called Binding event before attacking,’ Hiei telepathically spoke to the transformed kitsune before informing Jin, Touya, and Chuu of the same.


~*~


I watched as one by one everyone was taken from the cage, sold and then placed back in. Maggie and Alan had been bought by the same hideous creature that was about seven feet tall, three hundred pounds of defined muscle, and with lots of phallic shaped tails. I did not envy them as the two men beside me were sold. I watched as Naku approached me, gently stroking my face before holding my head so the audience could see me better.

“This female bit four handlers, kicked seven in rather tender areas, and managed to punch one across the jaw getting her here. As will all, when you come to claim her, you have the option to Bind her, or simply break her the old fashioned way,” he whispered as he stroked my neck, making me thrash as I glared at him, my back teeth almost done ripping through the rope. I had been gnawing on it since it was placed in my mouth two days ago, it was almost gone. “I have to warn you, I’m almost tempted to buy her myself.” There was laughter and he chuckled as he nuzzled my cheek as he had a few other females.

I didn’t listen to the numbers as I continued working on the damn gag. I was so close when I heard myself marked sold I looked into the crowd, watching a rather handsome youkai smirk victoriously as he glared at another. I gulped as I looked at the single horn in his red mop, large elf ears, and the huge muscles. I shuddered in fear as I thought about how my life was going to end up with someone with that many muscles.

“Bring out of the first bid, it is time to perform the Binding,” Naku stated and I watched as Maggie as dragged out of the cage and her buyer stepping forward. “For those of you that don’t know what Binding is, it is the process of forcing a weak human soul into your body, giving you control of the human, how they act, what they say, how they feel, everything. Once you house their soul, they will become what you want them to be. Whore, slave, pet, whatever purpose you have need for. It is nothing to you. You simply must exchange physical contact long enough for the body to receive soul energy, once a week is fine. If it dies, you feel nothing, if you die, so will it.” I felt my heart race as I watched the buyer ask for Alan as well. They were going to be nothing more than living puppets!

Everything started to happen so fast. Three or four youkai began tearing everything up and people began screaming. Maggie’s buyer grabbed her and Alan. He was going to try and get them Bound before whatever happened! I quickly bit through my rope and pulled my feet up, managing to get my hobble off. I pulled on my binding as youkai screamed and I looked to see a knife imbedded in the wood by the chain, I pulled it out and used it to cut the ropes, dropping free and using the knife to stab the buyer in the back of the neck! I took a step back as he fell to the ground dead. Maggie and Alan screamed before running back into the cage and I stared at them, what the hell? Then cold hands wrapped around my neck as my face was turned to face Naku.

“So, you dare to kill one of my best buyers? You will suffer for that, I will take you, housing your soul in my body, using your body when, how, and giving it to who I like, keeping your mind captive for all eternity,” he hissed and I felt something happen as I stared into those black eyes. He placed me down and began to chant.


~*~


Hiei looked to see the one called Naku with one of the humans, at their feet was the body of one of the slavers. So Naku was going to punish the wench for attacking a buyer, Hiei smirked. The youkai would be dead before he caused anymore harm. Hiei’s eyes widened as the girl began to glow, her soul escaping in the form of blue flames, flying around her body, with speed only Urameshi had defeated, Hiei flew, slicing through the youkai who had bound humans to youkai as slaves. The youkai fell back, only struck, Hiei flew again and this time the offending youkai’s head hit the ground. He turned to see the girl standing there, looking at the spot where Naku’s eyes had been. Hiei would worry about that later.

“Hiei! Look out!” a voice cried and a towering support began to fall, the humans were following Chuu out of the tent, leaving only the girl. Hiei ran to grab her as the stage began to buckle, throwing her forward like a limp doll, her lips hitting his as he caught her and suddenly, there was the feeling of someone else in his mind and Hiei hissed as the blue flames leapt around him before vanishing into his body….Koenma was going to be pissed. Hiei pulled back as he flew out of the tent the girl in his arms slowly coming to life. He just wanted her to be still.


~*~


I felt horribly empty and weak, as if something had been ripped out of me, but was still close, kind of how I imagined the guy who had his heart ripped out in that Indiana Jones movie probably felt. I felt my eyes roll around my head as I tried to open them, but it was as if they weighted a million pounds. I tried to do something anything, but my body refused, as if waiting for some sign from the missing part. I couldn’t move and it scared me.


~*~


Hiei placed the woman down as he reached the group, everyone looked fine enough, there were several dead and dying youkai.

“What happened to Naku?” Kurama asked and Hiei snorted.

“What Hiei’s trying to say is that Hiei happened to Naku,” Chuu chuckled and Kurama.

“Allow me to guess, you killed him,” Kurama sighed as he returned to his Shuichi form.

“You said it was irreversible, why would we need him?” Hiei asked, sort of wishing he hadn’t now that he was pretty certain he had a human’s soul in him.

“It may have been, let us hope one of the ones we apprehended might know of the way to reverse it,” Kurama stated before noting the woman on the ground. “What happened to her?” It was at this point that Hiei turned around, muttering something and the group suddenly leaned closer.

“Sorry Hiei, we didn’t quite make that out,” Yusuke stated and the fire koorime huffed before turning around.

“Naku was stealing her soul, when I went to intercede the support collapsed, while pulling her out of danger…I absorbed her soul!” he snapped and the group looked shocked.

“That wasn’t quite the plan of action we agreed on,” Jin sighed and Hiei glared.

“As I recall you bought her!” he snapped and Jin shrugged.

“Touya and I weren’t sure where the Binding was going to take place, in case it was in another room, I decided I may need to pretend to purchase one,” Jin stated with a shrug.

“Hey guys, she’s awake but she’s not responding or anything,” Kuwabara stated and the group moved towards the girl, her eyes open, but almost unseeing, empty. Kuwabara shook her shoulder and it was like shaking a sleeping person.

“Woman, get up you’re undamaged!” Hiei snapped and the girl actually did. Hiei felt an eye twitch, did taking their souls make humans mindless zombies? The girl stood there, facing Hiei, eyes till blank, face emotionless.

“What did you do to her?” Yusuke cried and Hiei snapped.

“I didn’t tell her anything!” he growled.

“Hiei, tell her to act as she would before Naku attacked her,” Kurama stated and the fire koorime’s eye twitched.

“Woman, stop this stupidity, behave normally!” Hiei cried and the group watched the girl shake her head before rubbing her head, she looked a bit dazed.

“Are you alright?” Kurama asked and the girl shook her head.

“No…I feel…empty…” with that the woman passed out.


~*~


The woman was sleeping peacefully in the other room as various suspects were grilled and the team rested in Koenma’s office as the godling inspected the girl.

“What’s going to happen to her if they can’t get her soul out of Hiei?” Kuwabara asked and several turned away, including Hiei.

“She will probably have to return to Mukuro’s castle with him,” Touya stated and the group gawked at him. “She needs her soul energy, without it she would slowly die. Hiei isn’t always available to cross the realms to give her a weekly recharge.”

“True, Hiei could always come and live in the human world of course,” Kurama teased. The fire koorime looked pissed as he glared at them.

“As if I want a stupid human woman dependant on me!” Hiei cried.

“Shut up, you, at least you got to keep your soul. And this ‘stupid’ human woman doesn’t really like the idea of being dependant on a pintsized hot head like yourself!” a voice snapped. The woman was standing there with Botan behind her trying to get her to leave.

“I see you’re feeling better,” Kurama stated and the woman shook her head.

“Get off of me! I think I deserve to be here a bit more than some of these guys, after all, I’m minus one soul which is apparently very important to my survival. So, missy, I suggest you find me some real clothes because I’m not leaving until I get some answers,” she stated and the group watched as a gaping Botan was shoved out the door. The woman walked over to Hiei and looked at him, studying him hard.

“What are you staring at?” he snapped and the woman glared at him.

“A midget with an ego problem,” she snapped back and a few people had to bite back a laugh.

“I should have let Naku have you,” he growled.

“Well at least he was taller,” she retorted before looking at the group and bowing. “I’m sorry, I should be thanking you all for your help. I have no doubt I probably wouldn’t be so well off if you hadn’t been there. Thank you. You too, Midget.”

“I do have your soul woman!” Hiei snapped and the woman looked at him.

“After saving me are you really going to be so unethical as to kill me?” she asked and there was another ending of chuckles.

“No, but I can order you not to call me midget,” he snapped.

“I can use more colorful language if you like!” she snapped. The two were practically nose to nose when Koenma entered in his teenage form.

“Kai Tsune, twenty, college student working on archeology degree, former street brawler and thief,” Koenma read from a packet and the girl’s face turned bright red. “Ran away from home thirty times from ages twelve to sixteen, succeeded in getting a job and apartment as well as graduating in the top of her class.”

“Oh dear God,” the girl muttered.

“Avid collector of mythological art, owns many collections of mythical texts, and rather skilled with a bokken,” Koenma stated as the girl stood there as red as Jin’s hair. “So, what do you know?” The girl sighed.

“Three days or so ago, my roommates and I were going home when we were jumped, gagged, tied down, stripped, we were drugged and woke up in the back of a carriage about two days ago. This morning we arrived at that camp and were shuffled into the stage area before being left till whenever. We were going to be sold to youkai as what I guess could be best described as completely controllable slaves. These guys busted it up and because of a slight mistake my soul is now in that,” she stated, pointing at Hiei, who glared menacingly. “I have to remain close enough to him to get energy from my soul or I die…oh, and I’m pretty much never going to get my soul back.”

“Sadly,” he stated and then looked at the girl, she was staring at the floor in concentration. “Are you alright?”


~*~


I looked up at him, what a stupid question!

“Am I alright? Right, I’m fine, I’m soulless unless he takes pity on me and gives me enough energy to survive,” I stated. “I’m fucking perfect.” I stated as I glared at him and turned, heading out.

“Stop right there,” a voice stated and my body did just that and I fought against it. I didn’t move. “Get back here, we’re not done.” With that my body began to slowly head back, I actually began to growl as I tried to stop myself. I was breathing hard, all the eyes on me were not helping. I was back where I was gasping for air.

“Hiei, that wasn’t necessary…” the guy with the pacifier stated, but didn’t get to finish that though since my fist connected with the shorter man’s chin.

“You asshole! How dare you! Who the hell do you think you are?” I screamed, the tears running down my cheeks as I glared at him. “If I want to go marching out of a room so I can accept that I’m stuck with you for the rest of my life, I can!” I screamed.

“You are overemotional, do as you wish,” he snapped as he appeared in front of me and I turned, marching out of the room.


~*~


“That was beyond unnecessary, Hiei,” Kurama stated.

“Yea, normally I get your attitude, but she’s messed up, you didn’t need to do that,” Yusuke stated.

“I will deal with her,” Hiei stated. “Besides, she and I are going to have to learn to…deal…with this situation.”

“Hm, Hiei being reasonable, this has to be a rare occurrence,” Jin chuckled as he and the extra detectives headed out, leaving the fire koorime and his team to talk.

“She’s kind of got your temper,” Kuwabara stated and Hiei felt his eye twitch.