Welcome everyone to some of the things that goes on in my head. This is alternate universe. I just thought of it and ran with it. I hope it turns out well, at least.
I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, and we know that, none of us do. We would wish but how can so many people own such few Titans. Anyway, I shall carry on with the story.
Awaiting Destiny
Chapter one
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It was a quiet, peaceful day in the orphanage. The orphanage was similar to a boarding school with the age group of eight to fourteen. Most of the children were in class and after class; some would play on the grounds whether in the garden or in the playground, others would visit the library, relax, and do extracurricular activities or just sail on the lake nearby.
There was one student, however, that wasn't eager to participate in anything with the other children, his name was Hiei. He would normally sit by himself in the cafeteria, avoid group work in the classes and just go to his room and read his manga. He was almost a typical ten year old boy, but he hated the others in his age range, well not just in his age range. He seemed to hate everyone. His reasons were that, they were too soft, lame, ignorant, obnoxious, inquisitive or just wasn't worth his time. His time was the most precious thing to him now since he was sentence here after his mother, Hina, died of heartbreak.
Who knew one could actually die from a broken heart. It was his entire father's fault that he did not have his sister now and never knew his mother. After that tragedy, he was taken in by his 'aunt', Rui and she informed him about what happened when he was old enough to understand and comprehend.
His father was betrothed to another woman and he never told Hina, until she told him she was pregnant, with twins. Her life turned up sided down ever since then. When she found out about the pregnancy she was ecstatic, hoping that the news would give him a push to finally propose to her. They had been together for five years and things seemed too good to be true. She never guessed that he would blame her for the pregnancy as if it was only her doing. He then told her that he was engaged to be married to a woman his parents chose for him, also he was in love with her and this news would have been a disgrace to his family and it would spoil the family name, also that she was a mistake that he regretted. That day he left her and never turned back. She lost all contacts with him as if he just disappeared out of her life and the world.
Hina cried throughout her whole pregnancy, and she cried more when she gave birth because she realised that her son was the splitting image of his father. Seeing her son, brought back painful memories and happy moments their once shared and she could not handle remembering it anymore, because it was a lie. When her son and daughter were born, she began to have heavy bleeding because of her sorrow. Her mental health was deteriorating and it was affecting her physical health. Rui was with her through everything but she felt helpless because she could not help. She tried but nothing worked and it pained her to see her best friend life slowly trickle away because she fell in love with a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Hina was hospitalised for five months before she died and Rui took Yukina and Hiei in as her own. Eventually she let go of her sorrow of losing her best friend and began to date. She eventually got married, but she became pregnant and then both she and her husband lost their jobs. They could not support the twins anymore so they had to place them in an orphanage. Rui made sure that the orphanage had a great reputation because she wanted them to blossom in the world for the sake of their mother. She made sure she told them why she was doing it so in the future they would not blame her but see it as a chance for them to prosper because they deserved better.
Hiei never blamed Rui for what she did but was rather grateful. She wanted the best for them but he would never forgive his father. He vowed that he would never be like him. His father was not a man but a coward that could not stand up for his own actions and take responsibility for the repercussions. He was weak and ran away but then Hiei realised that even if you trust someone they could always do something unthinkable that was one other reason he distanced himself for the other children. He didn't want to be used and they all seemed synthetic and were not worth his time, patients and precious feelings that was in short supply. Usually he would try to be nice to newcomers, but when they fully assimilate into the 'community' they would usually leave him and join various clicks and pretended that he didn't exist.
At first he never bothered because he had Yukina, but a few months after they were accepted into the orphanage, she was adopted, because couples just love cute little well mannered girls in pony tails.
"They are all worthless." He said as he passed by the playground as one of his former friend passed him almost running into him, and then just ignored him and ran to the group near the swings in the playground. Hiei continued to walk to the library to collect a book that he was required to read for class.
On his way back, he saw a car drove up to the front of the administrative building as he saw a lady with jet black hair, coercing a boy to come out of the car, and eventually the boy did. Hiei took a good look at him. He had short red hair and the saddest emerald green eyes he had ever since. The boy looked around his age, but these days you never know.
"Hn, fresh meat." He commented darkly as he continued to walk back to his room.
When he finally made it to his room, he sighed contently. His room was his sanctuary, his safe haven where he was free to do as he pleased, to have his freedom where no on judged and expected anything from him, because it was just him. His bed, nor computer and furniture could not dominate him. He was in control of everything he did without being scrutinised.
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The next day was classes as usual, so he went to his first period class, Calligraphy. At first he didn't wanted to attend because he knew how to write but their sensei taught the discipline of writing in ancient Japanese, something he learned to love. He even picked up on the extracurricular activity of paper making, with the same sensei so he could create his own scrolls, then bless it with his own calligraphy. It was something he was very proud of because it was his creation form beginning to end. He was Genkai-sensei favourite student because she saw the agility and gentleness that went into his creations, juxtapose his rough exterior. She always told him that if he chose this path in life, his work would be known for its high quality and first class craftsmanship.
On his first birthday in the Orphanage she was the only one who remembered and she gave him an ink set with different size brushes, and that became one of his prized possessions.
He sat in class, near the window in the middle of the class, where he can stare out at the peaceful lake before the rowdy students arrive and disrupt his concentration. When everyone was seated, he was happy no one sat near to him. He took pride in chasing them away, and eventually he just created an environment around him that repelled them. They gave him looks, but he would sacrifice that for his inner peace, sanity and personal space.
'If only they knew.' He thought as he looked up at Genkai-sensei when she walked in with the new redheaded boy he saw yesterday.
"Good morning class, this is our new student, Minamino Shuichi." Genkai introduced and Shuichi bowed shyly and then he just watched her.
"You can have a seat in that empty chair near Hiei, the boy with the black spiky hair near the window, he's nice." She whispered softly to him and he nodded.
Hiei saw that the boy was walking towards him, but he couldn't act mean towards him, he was new and possibly traumatised especially remembering the look on his face just the day before. Hiei watched as the boy gave him a shy smile as he slid in the seat next to him.
At the end of the day, Hiei realised that this new boy was in three out of eight classes he had and the boy insisted on sitting next to him in all three classes. Maybe because he sat with him in the first period and it didn't hurt to do it again.
During dinner time, Hiei retrieved his lunch as was on his way to the table he placed away from the other students. The first time he took the spare table from the hall way with a chair and placed it in the furthest part of the dining hall, he thought the headmaster would have scolded him but neither he nor the teachers did anything. After that he just kept eating there ever since. He believed it was because he was a good student therefore he kept that up when he realised that he could get away with more things than the delinquents.
As he sat, he looked at the food and sighed. It wasn't that it was bad, the food was good, it was just that he carved more variety. He stared at the food and poked at the fish.
"Hi...Uh may I join you?" A soft quiet voice broke him out from his stabbing. He looked up and saw that it was the redhead. It wasn't that he disliked the boy. It was that he loved his solitude. He just leaned his head over to a spare chair near the wall, hinting that he could bring it over.
"Thanks." The boy said as he placed his tray on the table and went to retrieve the chair. When he sat down on the opposite side of the square weathered table, he smiled.
"Yoroshiku, Shuichi desu. I am in your calligraphy, maths and general science class." His childish voice squeaked out.
"I know." Hiei said as he glanced at the boy then back at his meal, where he started off with his rice.
"May I have your name? Genkai-sensei told me but I forgot." He said with a shy smile.
"Hiei." He said as he went back to eating. He heard that the boy was going to say something else so he looked at him.
"Are you going to eat or talk for the whole time." Hiei snapped at the boy as the boy immediately pressed his lips together and looked down at his food.
"I'm sorry." He said in a timid voice as he continued to stare at his food. "It is just that I am scared and Genkai-sensei said that you're nice." He finished as he looked at him with his big sad green eyes.
Hiei felt bad that he snapped. He was nice, it was just to whom. "Hn, just eat. Don't worry about it." He said hoping that the boy would feel better.
"How old are you anyway." Hiei asked in the middle of dinner.
"I'm nine, and you?" he asked kindly as he looked up from his bowl of rice.
"Ten."
"Oh we are almost the same age. Do you have other friends here?" he asked hopeful.
"No, I hate all of them." He said somewhat bitterly.
"Why, they seem alright." He gestured to the crowds.
"Looks are deceiving." He warned.
"How?" Shuichi gave him a questionable look as he raised a brow.
"You'll become like them eventually, so why should I bother." He said as he finished off his vegetables.
"What do you mean?" he asked with a confused look.
Hiei sighed. 'I might as well.' He thought as he turned to the table nearby. "You see that table." He paused and Shuichi nodded. "When they first came here, one by one, they befriended me until they got accustom to this place, then they joined new groups and pretended they never knew me, so now I will not waste any time with any newbie's." He finished as he drank his juice.
"I will not be like that, I promise." Shuichi smiled as him.
"I doubt it." he said as he folded his arms and looked away.
"No I will. My mum always told me to keep a promise to a friend." He said as his mood saddened.
He turned sharply when he heard him. "Huh, a friend, you don't know me."
"Yes, I think you are nice so I want to be your friend." Shuichi continued sadly as he looked down as he fidgeted with his hands in his lap.
"Why are you here?" The shocked look Shuichi gave him made him add to his question. "I mean what happen that they put you here?" he asked gentler.
"My mum was in a car accident a few weeks ago and I really never knew my father. My mum told me a long time ago that he went away to the military and never came back. She said he found a better place, but I knew she was lying." He said with teary eyes. "They all died." He said as he sniffled and tried to keep his emotions in.
"It's not good to keep it in. If you want to cry you should." Hiei said as he handed him a handkerchief from his pocket.
"I don't like to cry in public, but she died too recent and it was so sudden." He said as if he was trying to reason with himself as he dabbed his tears with the kerchief.
"I can bring you to a place that I like to go. It helps me." Hiei said as he looked at the sad weeping redhead who just nodded and got up to put away their tray, and then he followed Hiei out.
They walked towards the library and Hiei guided him up the grand stairs to the upper most floor of the library to the clock tower.
"No one comes here because most of the children here are morons and they do not read. They rather play and stuff, rather than stay in this 'old boring building' as they put it. I have lots of hide outs here."
"That's why you talk like one of my older cousins." Shuichi said as he followed Hiei to the face of the clock as they looked down and saw the children in the dim light as the sun sets, playing and some going back to their rooms for the night.
They sat down on the piece of velvet cloth that Hiei had there that was spread out on the floor.
"So what happened to you?" Shuichi asked suddenly.
"Mother died at childbirth because father was a bastard." He said nonchalantly as he stared into the night sky.
"Really so you were here for ten years?" He asked astonished.
"No, only for two years. My mother's friend took us in but she had to give us up because she and her husband lost their job and then they found out that she was pregnant. They couldn't afford to keep us." He said in a smooth flow of words.
"Who are 'us'?" Shuichi asked as he was now resting his elbows on the duty floor which propped up his chin.
"I have a twin sister, but she was adopted a few months after we came here. The girls go fast." He said as he leaned against an old book shelf.
"Oh, so what do you do when you're not in class?" Shuichi asked nonchalantly.
"Read almost anything, especially manga, make scrolls a..." he was cut off by an excited voice.
"YOU MAKE SCROLLS, THAT'S FANTASTIC." He yelled out gleefully.
"Yea." Hiei replied sheepishly.
"I would love to learn to make my own." He informed with a smile.
"It is an extracurricular activity with Genkai-sensei. When we make the scrolls, we then use our calligraphy skills from class and finish our scrolls with ancient poems, phrases in history, parables or proverbs." He said to the ecstatic redhead.
"Can you take me there tomorrow, please." He begged with hands clasped together with pleading eyes.
"Fine you don't have to beg." Hiei said with a small laugh.
"Thank you thank you." He said happily.
"Yea yea, calm down. Just meet me after your last class in our calligraphy class room."
"Alright. " He grinned.
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End of chapter one