I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. At all.
*Hiei's POV*
I clenched my fists, gritting my teeth.
The cold winter wind tugged at my cloak and hair, and it brought snow that erased my footsteps behind me.
I was standing outside Genkai's temple, where Yukina stayed permanently now.
I stared at the temple doors.
I couldn't put up with the taunts and references to her and I being siblings anymore.
I couldn't put up with her confused looks whenever Yusuke or Kurama laughed when she talked about her brother.
When she talked about me.
I needed to tell her.
I imagined telling her about me, her reaction.
"What? You're my brother?" Yukina would say, a look of hatred and rejection in her eyes. "Why?"
I wouldn't know how to answer to that. I would stare at the ground without speaking.
"No, I don't believe it. Not someone like you, you can't be my brother."
"Yukina, I-" I would try to answer her, but she would turn away from me, freezing the air around her.
"No! Go away. I don't want to see you anymore."
I could feel tears accumulating at the corners of my eyes.
'Damn it, why the hell am I crying?'
My nails dug into the skin of my palm as I clenched my fists tighter. Blood tricked through my fingers, staining the white blank surface of the ground.
Two glittering teargems fell onto the ground. Their ebony black color showed up easily on the pure white of the snow.
"Hiei?"
I turned around in shock. I hadn't noticed her approach, her energy blended in so well with the feel of the falling snow around us.
"Yukina." She looked like an angel, standing there in her kimono with the snowflakes swirling around her.
I ran away from her, leaping into a tree where I could see her, but she couldn't see me.
For the first time in my life, I felt weak. I felt weak because I couldn't even face my own sister.
Yukina approached where I had been standing, then knelt down to examine one of the black gems near my footprints.
I could see her eyes widen in surprise.
She smiled, tears of her own joining mine on the ground. They glittered in the winter sunlight, plain to see on the ground.
"Hiei. I know you're watching me."
I held my breath, ready to run to Demon World if needed. I never ran away from anything, why was I running away now?
"I'm glad you're my brother, Hiei."
I let out my breath in relief, but didn't move from my perch on the tree. "Keep them."
I was happy, truly happy, that she had accepted me.
"What?" Yukina looked confused now.
"Keep the gems."
She stood, looking in the direction of my voice. She clutched the gems close to her heart.
"Thank you, Brother."
Okay, then. I like how this turned out. Let me know if you like it, too.
