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Welcome Home
(Hiei's POV)
I sit here on these blackened shores alone.
Blackness.
Yes.
I raise my katana to my heart and pierce it as I see the blood gushing from the open wound and onto the ground. I gasp as I realize I'm finally free from my pain and anguish and I can finally live and breathe peacefully again.
That's it. That's what I thought but it's not happening. Now that I close my eyes, a black swirling mass of nothing swallows me daring all that enter its clutches to try and become free of its icy clutch.
Like me.
My eyes are closed and I feel cold. I feel air rushing past my head as I fall and darkness surrounds me. Going down, going under.
Is there anyway to erase this feeling? This feeling of regret, of guilt, of nothingness. I am worthless, therefore I deserve to feel this.
Chains.
I hear them, I feel them attach themselves to my wrists and ankles bounding me leaving me no escape.
I see a glass appear in front of me mirroring my emotionless face along with the deeds of my past.
Along with everyone else I ever knew and treated.
I scream my lungs out as everything I knew and everything that was familiar to me passes in front of my eyes.
My birth.
My growing up.
My spirit detective years.
Up until the events of now.
I feel tears streaming down my face.
They're not dead, I think. They're not dead.
Help me someone, please. I'm trapped and alone. I can't move my limbs but I have to.
Mustering all the strength I have left, I cry out and will myself from the chains.
There.
I'm falling all over again, going down, down, down. When will this stop?
A barrier rises up around me and once again, my anger surfaces. I punch it, kick it, try to do anything that will break it.
"Please someone! Help me!"
I look up and see my body lying lifeless on the beach. I look down and see a light.
Glorious light.
I want to go home.
I want to go home and sleep.
I've got to break through this thing that's holding me back.
A din of voices closes in around me. "You can't boy! You're soul is broken, your life tainted. There's no going back!"
They laugh at me and my pitiful plight but I refuse.
"Scream all you want! Do it, do it! I'm so far away, nothing can help me! I won't be broken again! My friends, my life, they won't be taken away from me again! This has to stop! I want to go home dern it, I want peace again! I won't keep falling!"
"Let him go!" a high pitched girl's voice shrieked from above.
What's that? Is someone asking a favor on my behalf?
"He's my brother!" it yells again.
"He's our friend!" a few other voices shout together.
The voices continue to laugh and argue but I am determined to prove them wrong. Someone wants me though I'm not sure who. The voices sound so familiar though... My head slams into the barrier breaking it and I go through, cutting myself up in the process.
I feel myself floating up and I feel... peaceful.
What's peace?
A strange thing I've never felt before.
I've always felt... weary... tired...
Now I feel... happy?
A smile touches my lips as the light at the bottom draws closer but now I realize I'm floating up.
A blinding beam of light comes down and strikes my tear gem, throwing rays in all direction and throws my head back.
My hair and cloak blow off of me as I realize they're being replaced with...
A white gown?
What's this? What have I done to deserve this?
"Everything Hiei... You fought for us, protected us, and avenged us. That's what matters."
That voice... it sounds familiar to me... where have I heard it?
"Hiei..."
"Shrimp..."
"Friend..."
"Brother..."
The darkness around me is fading into light and I feel other people around me.
Hesitantly I look up.
And see Botan's face.
And around her are Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Shizuru, Keiko and Yukina.
They're smiling at me. They want me.
"You guys... you're here?" I ask.
Botan's hand reaches out to my outstretched hand and whispers soft words to me...
"Welcome home, Hiei."
And now, I feel my first peaceful sleep coming to me.
AN:smiles happily: Well, not bad if I do say so myself. I for one rather enjoyed this one even though it is a mite strange.