READ-AUTHOR'S BABBLE: Ok ppls. the reason I put my babble at the beginning instead of the end is because I'm getting no reviews and figured one of the reasons why is because it's classified as an HK fic and I do understand that the first few chappies are a bit misleading. However, this IS AN HK FIC. Just trust me. I do introduce an OC for creative purposes only. She kinda moves the story line along and you will understand in later chapters. Hiei and Kurama are the lovers in this story it's just that I don't want them to be OOC so just bear with me and my story line and you will see the HK. Promise! This is only a teaser so I don't really introduce Kurama in this, that's why I posted the second chappie along with it. Just R&R and enjoy. the romance is soon to come!
Restless
Chapter One
"Help me….someone…..PLEASE….Help….me…"
Hiei's ruby eyes opened, scanning the dense foliage around him for life. There where animals here at Genkai's compound where he now called home. But in this part of the forest, far from the comfort and warmth of the main house there were no humans or demons. He stood and tuned his ears into the quiet whisper of the forest around him. He heard the murmur of the wind and felt it gently brush against his face as if it where fingers on his pale skin. A small animal stirred in the brush, peeking at him with large and skittish eyes, but the voice was silent.
That voice had been a woman's, quiet and gravely, the feminine tones only garnishing the edges of her whisper. He was tempted to let it pass as a dream. Only a conjuring of his imagination, nothing more, but the way she had called to him so desperately drew him. But, though it drew him, what convinced him to flit silently from the branch on which he stood was intrigue. What kind of creature could exist in Nigenkai who could so easily breach his consciousness, and what could cause her to seek help through him?
He flitted silently through the treetops not quite knowing where he was going and not quite knowing why he was going at all. All he knew was that there was a strange energy that was flowing from the city. It was a little like the feeling he got while in a psychics territory….but not quite. The energy he felt seemed dark and dangerous. It surrounded him until he felt as if it might swallow him whole.
Soon the trees ended and where replaced by buildings, some reaching far up into the sky, grabbing greedily at the clouds. The odd, black energy continued to lead him to a destination even he was not sure of. The nature of this chase made him uneasy but still he followed, ignoring the foreboding feeling in the pit of his stomach.
The energy he had been following suddenly unwound itself as he was passing over a particularly uninviting area of Mushiori city. Hiei slid to a stop, his crimson orbs scanning the rooftops first, and then the foreboding streets of the slums where he had lost his trail. Small houses were falling to ruins, silently rotting away. In the alleys cardboard and bags created makeshift homes. His eyes stopped and narrowed at a young woman who seemed strangely out of place in this all-but-deserted alleyway. Long, matted black hair feel limply to her hips and her jeans and white oversized T-shirt hung from her tiny body in tatters. Hell, she couldn't be any older than 14!
Hiei moved, to quickly to see, to the girl's side. "You should go home." He warned quietly, never looking to her face, awaiting her reaction. "This is no place for a young girl to be at night."
"…"
When she didn't respond Hiei looked over to her, only to see a broad smile sretch over her cracked and bleeding lips. His eyes narrowed. "What seems to be funny?"
A laugh, sinister and quiet bubbled up from her long pale throat and she looked up to Hiei. He almost let out a gasp and his eyes widened at the creature in front of him. Her large, black and nocturnal eyes were empty and devoid of life.
"What the hell are you?" Hiei questioned his tone forceful and demanding.
The girl rose silently, her movement loose and snake-like. "I think the question is," the deep gravely tones where the same ones that had called to him in his sleep. "Who are you to care?"
Hiei's eyes narrowed at the cocky creature before him and he moved his hand quickly to his sword.
"Now, swordsman, remember that this girl is human. Killing one is strictly forbidden by our dear spirit world." Hiei did not miss the demon's sarcasm. "After all," He lifted his hands mockingly to the clouds. "That is how I ended up in Limbo."
Hiei could not keep the surprise from his face this time. Spirits of the dead where more common in Nigenkai than most believed. Psychics like Kuwabara could sense this. However, for a spirit from Limbo to escape would be nearly impossible. In Limbo no one came without Koenma's seal and no one left until their sentence was completed.
"I mean, imagine my surprise when a wonderfully dark energy enters my hell and opens a nice big door for me! I couldn't resist…..Her power was just so….intoxicating!" The demon looked down, gazing at the body that he had requisitioned. "I mean, who would have thought such a little human girl could have such an amazing power?"
"Power?" Hiei asked, now intrigued.
"Ya…." The demon's smile grew. "she just needed someone to use it for her."
Hiei shook his head. "Hn. Pathetic. You don't have enough energy on your own….You need to use a human's ridiculous little power. Now you foolish spirit this is your last warning: Get out of her body."
The demon's smile faded quickly. "And go back to hell? No. But I think I will send you there."
The demon ran at him, too quickly for a normal human body to withstand. Hiei easily evaded the strike, smiling as the demon stumbled, struggling to regain his balance.
"Damn you…." The demon spat. He straightened, regaining his composure. "No matter. I told you this girl had power…..Now I just have the opportunity to show you."
The demon lifted his arms and looked to the sky, concentrating his energy. Hiei could feel the girl's dark power surrounding him, choking him. Every second he stood watching the energy became thicker, pooling and pulling tight like a rubber band, ready to snap. Just as it became so thick that he felt he might suffocate he felt the great mass of power release. It felt as if the three worlds had been sliced clean through.
The demon let a laugh creep up his throat and his eyes fixed on the clouds above them. "And now…You die."
Hiei followed the demon's eyes into the sky and he shuddered in disbelief. Spirits began pouring out of a hole resembling a great cut in the sky. This girl…..could open the dimensions…..and the demon in control of her power had just opened Limbo, allowing hundreds of the universe's most vile spirits to come pouring through to living world.
"You fool! You realize that this body you love so much is going to be destroyed?"
"Oh? Now who's the fool? This girl doesn't know it but her power allows her to control the spirits from Limbo. So you see, it is only you who will die today."
Hiei reached for his sword. If he killed the girl he would certainly be punished, but if he didn't these spirits would most certainly drag him to their cursed abyss. These creatures where nothing like the souls conjured by Shi Shi Wakamaru's Banshee Shriek, these where the vengeful spirits of the strongest and most vile creatures to have ever existed in any of the three worlds.
Hiei ran toward the demon, the spirits tearing at his clothing and ripping his flesh as he moved. They would tear him to pieces if he did not act quickly. He unsheathed his sword, flipping it so the blunt side struck the back of the girl's neck. Her eyes widened for a moment and she fell, her giant nocturnal gaze slowly being hidden by thin, vainly lids.
By the time her fragile body hit the ground all of the spirits she had unknowingly conjured had been sucked into the closing hole of Limbo. Just as he had hoped; the girl's powers faded when she lost consciousness. He scanned the body of the girl. Her body was tiny and emaciated and she was even shorter than him. Looking at her he realized that his first guess at her age had been a faulty one. Her baggy clothes had been hiding her small, yet mature curves. Seeing her now he assumed her age to be around twenty. Her fragile, milky skin was covered in bruises and cuts, some old and many fresh and her breath was shallow and ragged.
He hurriedly gathered her into his arms. She was weightless. Her bones where thin and seemed to be the only thing making up her tiny frame. Hiei wondered how this fragile thing with such frail bones and delicate skin had survived the hell the demon spirit had just inflicted on her body. Hopefully the injuries she had sustained where only minor and Genkai and Yukina could help her.