Light in the Shadow
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Disclaimer: I do not own Hiei, Yu Yu Hakusho or other related themes
Warning: May have some disturbing images, adult language, and some [as in a little bit not like heavy] sexual content [sorta kinda like kissy kissy stuff] in later chapters. =D
Author: ‡ Mercury Mechanics ‡
IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE: Hey people! I've decided to revamp my story! It's got new parts, more descriptive background and character strengthening. I was speaking with my older brother and he helped me jog my brain for ideas! I like where this story is heading and am going to continue to write in it but I believe while I'm where I'm at, why not retrace my steps and redo the chapters I've already done. Anyway...I hope you all like it still!!
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Chapter 1 'Rainy Day'
The day was cold and the rain ravaged the earth as though it were screaming for vengeance. Thick fog clouded the paths of the Dark Forest and thunder rumbled in the dark sky above. Lightning cracked like the malicious whip of a slave driver, lighting the gloomy evening with a golden hue.
'Death is amusingly painful...' Hiei thought as he dragged himself onward through the forest, leaving a dark trail of blood behind him.
The hot, crimson liquid dripped down his face and off his fingertips. His wounds, now swelling with black puss, stung with a driving force that caused his legs to feel weak and his vision to blur. He had received these wounds from a group of demons that had ambushed him while he traveled through the forest to meet with a friend from long past.
Hiei had been out numbered four to one. Though it seemed as if it were not a worrisome thing in the beginning, he soon realized their identities by their attack patterns and the weapons they used that bore the crest of the Demon King Taioni. The demons that had attacked him were no thugs, yet, assassins sent by one of the most feared and highly revered assassin troupe in all of the Spirit Realm. They were the Onioji, or Devil Princes.
Yet, Hiei, being the demon that he was, would not subject his life to be stolen by the likes of the abominable fools who dared to challenge him. Though he had indeed dispatched all four of the assassins, he had not escaped unscathed. Reluctantly he admitted that the rouges had fought skillfully and tore gashes in his body, but more importantly, he could relish the fact that he had thwarted their ultimate goal of his immediate demise. Hiei could not envisage a reason as to why the Onioji were after him. What would they have against him? He bore them no ill will...well, at least, that was until they attacked him.
With a morbid smile, Hiei stumbled as the pain that seized his body caused his knees to buckle. He had been acquainted with pain many times before, but this occasion was one of the most worthy to be labeled as a "painful" one.
Cold and worn, Hiei could tell that his tattered body was weak and that he would not last much longer. Taking yet another labored step he slipped on the blood slicked grass and fell onto his knees, catching himself with his hands before he fell completely onto the scratchy carpet of grass beneath him. Sitting back on his calves he up turned his face towards the dark sky and slowly closed his eyes as the cool rain washed away the blood that stained his face.
For a fleeting moment Hiei felt no pain, only peace.
As a searing ache tore through his abdomen, he collapsed forwards and gritted his teeth. Setting his forehead on the grass he held his stomach as blood seeped through his shredded clothing and drizzled over his arms. He did not attempt to move.
As a morbid grin upturned his lips, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "So this is what a slow death is like?" He mumbled quietly into the ground.
Feeling as though his last breath would come imminently, he found that it did not. As the pounding force of the rain was lifted from his back and soothing warmth replaced the frigid cold that consumed his body, the stinging of his wounds was abated.
Leisurely he opened his eyes and looked upwards to be welcomed by the alluring face of a young girl who stared down at him with bright blue eyes. The luminous glow that loomed about the girl stung his eyes and caused them to water. She seemed to be some sort of a light sprite from her outward appearance.
As he forced himself to sit up, he pressed against his good wrist. Hiei tried his hardest to look up at the girl yet he found that every time he moved more and more pain seemed to swell in his stomach, gradually making him sick. Watching through a squinted gaze as she reached out to him he listened as she spoke in a soft tone,
"Don't' move. I'm here now."
Hiei hissed and his eyes grew dark. He did not need her assistance. 'What is this wench doing?' he thought angrily. "Back off, woman. I don't need your help," he snapped.
She shook her head no and her wavy locks of silver hued hair lightly bounced around her face. "I'm sorry but I can't do that," she retaliated softly as she held out her hands and touched him on the shoulder.
As a numbing chill shot down his spine, he lost all feeling and his muscle suddenly became flaccid. Falling sideward he gritted his teeth as his body adapted to the new position. Looking up through hazy eyes he observed as the young girl leaned over him and brushed the hair from his forehead. "It's alright, you may sleep now," the apparition spoke, her voice sounding faint as Hiei's senses began to fade away. Watching as the young girl leaned over him and brought his forehead to her lips by placing her cool hands on his fever heated cheeks, Hiei attempted to blink away the shadow that had begun to erode his vision. As slowly encroaching drowsiness prickled at the back of his neck, his eyes reluctantly began to close as he felt her warm lips touch the skin between his brows.
"Sleep and be at peace..." the young girl whispered as she smiled a reassuringly.
As shadow devoured his vision into nothing but a black void and he heard nothing but still silence, Hiei allowed his scarlet hued eyes to fall closed and the little strength he held onto slip from his grasp... He would soon find his rest in eternal sleep.
'Death couldn't be too bad,' he thought as his mind fell pray to the shade of the pain that wreathed his body in a vice like hold. 'You never...know...It could be...nice.'
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Well that was the end of CHAPTER 1 'Rainy Day' REvamped. I hope you still like it; I think it reads a lot better than the first. ANYsnoo, I'll get right on to working on the next chapters and I'm also working on the fifth chapter where very bad things begin to happen. =3
‡ Mercury Mechanincs ‡