Blindness
By Gozilla
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This is the sequel of my previous Yu Yu fics "Burden of Sin" and "Dragon of Fire and Ice". If you haven't read the two stories, I would recommend you to read them first, though not necessary. ^-^
Just a hint of the background for those who haven't read the previous two fics. In this story, Yukina knew Hiei was her twin brother. Also, Hiei had his own Reikai beast, Blackie, a small dragon with black and white strip pattern over its body and with the power of fire and ice.
OK, enough talking. Please enjoy the story! ^-^
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything (except for the cute little Blackie, please don't take it away from me) and I don't have anything. So don't sue me!!
Please excuse my poor English!
Enjoy!
Reviews are welcomed!
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"crap" - conversation
*crap* - thoughts
(crap) - author's note
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Chapter 1 : Assassination
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~Somewhere in Makai~
An insect-like vehicle sped across the open plain in Makai, creating a huge dust cloud behind it.
A small figure dressed in black sat comfortably near the front tip of the vehicle, his eyes closed as if he was sleeping.
A wolf demon kneeled beside the small figure, shouting against the strong wind, "Captain Hiei, we found no trace of any ningen intrusion today. It has been ten days since the patrol started and it is about time for us to return to the base. Please give your order."
Hiei slowly opened his crimson eyes, looking at the scene in front of him, "Hn. Let's return."
"Yes, Captain." the wolf demon replied and walked towards the pilot room of the vehicle.
Instinctively, the fire demon reached for the two tear gems attached to the necklaces hanging around his neck. He took them out of his cloak and looked at them. The two gems, one from his mother and the other from his sister, shone gently under the Makai sun.
It had been two years since the fight with the water demon Akana. Hiei, once again, returned to his job in patrolling Makai, making sure that no ningen was strayed into the demon world.
He visited the Ningenkai occasionally to see his twin sister, Yukina, and his dragon, Blackie, which lived with Yukina and watched over her for him. However, he spent most of the time in Makai, more specifically, with Mukuro.
Over the last two years, Hiei felt more and more comfortable with the presence of Mukuro. Though he would never admit it, her presence gave him a feeling of belonging and peacefulness, a feeling very similar to what he could feel when he looks at his mother's tear gem.
He looked at the tear gems for a while before putting them back behind his cloak. He stood and untied the bandana around his forehead, revealing his jagan. The fire demon closed his eyes and concentrated on the jagan, which started glowing with purple light, searching.
Suddenly, something not far away caught his attention, it was a flash of blue light. The fire demon got up and disappeared from the speeding vehicle in a blur of black.
A black shadow stopped in front of a dark cave. The fire demon surveyed the area and went inside the cave, with his jagan glowing in purple light.
Deep inside the dimmed wet cave, Hiei found the source of the light. It was a small, coarse, but beautiful blue crystal, half revealed from the dirt of the ground due to a recent collapse of the cave wall. The fire demon dug it out and looked at it for a while before disappearing from the spot.
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~6 hours later~
~Inside Mukuro's mobile castle~
Mukuro walked silently along the corridor. She had just finished a meeting with Enki (A/N: Did I spell it right?), the current official ruler of Makai, and Yumi, one of the three former warlords of Makai.
Although after the Makai tournament, Enki was appointed the ruler of Makai, he relied a lot on Mukuro and Yumi, who remained the most influential demons in Makai, to run the demon world and to keep things in order.
Mukuro didn't mind the job as, after meeting the young fire demon, she had lost almost all her monstrous desire to kill. She was actually a bit happy to have something to do to kill time without much hassle.
Mukuro went into her room. Immediately she noticed a small pack placed on the table in front of her bed. She approached the pack carefully and smiled as she saw it more clearly.
It was a small bag made of some black fabric with something of the size of a ping-pong ball inside. It was not the first time she received such a surprise pack without a note or letter from the sender.
Mukuro gently opened the bag and found a clean coarse blue crystal inside it. The crystal shone with gentle waves of blue light. She smiled as she felt her heart warmed by the cold beautiful blue colour of the crystal, or more precisely, the heart hidden behind the cold mask of the sender, a young fire demon.
She took the blue crystal and walked towards her bed. She opened the drawer closest to her bed. There were already a few items inside it: the horn of a Makai unicorn, a piece of raw crimson-gold nugget, a crystal- clear fang of a Makai shadow lion, and a few other rare and valuable items. She put the blue crystal inside the drawer and looked at it for a while before closing the drawer.
"Servant!" Mukuro shouted.
"Yes, my lord." an eagle demon opened the door and kneeled outside of the room. The eagle demon did not dare to lay a foot in the warlord's room as no one was allowed to enter Mukuro's room without her permission. (A/N: except one special fire demon, of course. ^-^)
"Go and tell Hiei that he is invited to have dinner with me tonight." Mukuro said before waving her hand at the eagle demon, indicating his dismissal.
"I understand, my lord. Please excuse me." the eagle demon said as he closed the door. Once the door was closed, a wave of nervousness flashed across the eagle demon's eyes. "This is unexpected... but it should be alright. I will accomplish the mission. It should be alright..." the eagle demon murmured as he disappeared into a dark corner of the corridor.
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~Night time~
~Inside the dining room of the mobile castle~
Mukuro sat at one end of a huge dining table, reading through documents regarding an intelligence report regarding the far west part of Makai. She raised her head as she sensed the approach of a familiar ki.
"You should not bring work to the dining table." came a deep voice.
"You are late." said the warlord, smiling and without a trace of real annoyance.
"Hn." Hiei replied, sitting at the opposite side of the table.
"Let's start." Mukuro said, "I am starving." as she snapped her fingers.
"Yes, my lord." the eagle demon said as he bowed to the warlord and left the dining room.
"So, what's new?" the fire demon asked.
Mukuro threw a piece of paper towards Hiei, which landed right in front of him.
Hiei picked up the paper and read through it. He frowned slightly as he read on, "Hirota? I heard of this name quite a long time ago. The rumours said that he is the 'fourth' warlord in Makai after you, Yumi and Raizen."
"Yes." Mukuro said, "Hirota, the lord of shadow. About 800 years ago, the four of us fought for the rights to control Makai. He was the weakest among us and lost his share of control over the demon world. Since then, he stayed in the far west part of Makai, a remote area in the border of the areas controlled by Yumi and myself."
Interested, Hiei listened carefully to the warlord, imagining how destructive were the fights between these extremely powerful demons.
Mukuro continued, "Hirota has been very active since the death of Raizen. It seems that he wants to take back his share, or even more, to control the whole Makai. There are reports that there are minor rebellions and abnormal military activities in the far west. Intelligence said that there will be a major rebellion in the next few days. That's why Enki has assigned me to form a team to investigate Hirota to see if he is behind all these abnormal activities and to stop him before anything serious happens."
"Sounds boring." the fire demon put down the paper, "Have you decided the members of the investigation team?"
Knowing the fire demon well, Mukuro interpreted the question as, 'I am interested. Can I join?'. She smiled and asked, "Not yet. But I think you could be a very good candidate. Interested?"
"Hn." was the reply.
"I take it as a 'yes'. I am planning to get Raizen's son in the team as well. And we have to act quickly before the rebellion starts." Mukuro said before stopping the conversation on the topic as the eagle demon returned and a servant started bringing food to the dining room.
The eagle demon signalled the servant to bring the food to Mukuro. The eagle demon took a bottle of pepper and walked towards the warlord.
The servant brought the plate covered by a silver cover and placed it in front of the warlord. He lifted the cover. There was no food on the plate, but a silver dagger.
"What the..." Mukuro could not finish the sentence as the eagle demon threw a cloud of pepper at her face. She could not open her eyes and choked on the pepper. Instinctively, she jumped away from the attackers.
"K'so!" Hiei cursed as he threw a fireball at the servant standing next to Mukuro, turning him into a pile of ashes instantly.
The eagle demon took the silver dagger and threw it towards heart of the temporarily blinded warlord.
The fire demon leapt towards Mukuro at his maximum speed. As he did not bring his sword with him (A/N: who would bring a sword to your boss' dinner? ^-^), he used his arm to shield the dagger from the warlord. The silver dagger sunk deep into his left forearm.
Knowing the mission had failed, the eagle demon transformed himself to a large eagle and fled the scene.
"Damn!" Hiei cursed, hesitated to leave the temporary blinded warlord alone, he handed a bowl of clean water to Mukuro to wash away the pepper in her eyes.
As Mukuro slowly regain her sight ability, she gasped as she saw Hiei pulled the silver dagger from his forearm and blood started pouring from the wound.
"Hiei." said the warlord, concerned.
"I am fine." the fire demon replied as he put bandages around the wound. "Who do you think would send an assassin to kill you?" he asked as he finished wrapping his arm.
Mukuro kept her eyes on the fire demon, "If I am not mistaken, it is Hirota. He has been wanting to get rid of me since centuries ago."
Slowly, she put her hand on the fire demon's damaged arm, carefully not to touch the wound, her voice filled with confusion, "Why did you do that?"
"Do what?" asked the fire demon, confused, but did not reject the gentle touch of Makai most feared warlord.
"Why did you risk your life to save me?" Mukuro asked.
The fire demon looked at the warlord and thought for a while, "I don't know. Maybe I am infected by those stupid ningen detectives." as he looked away, avoiding eye contact.
Mukuro retrieved her hand, having a weird sensation in her heart. Didn't know what it meant and what to do, she walked out of the dining room, "Go and get some rest. We will be leaving for the investigation job tomorrow."
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~Later that night~
~Inside Mukuro's room~
The warlord stared at the ceiling of the room, her mind in a war of confusion.
She couldn't understand the fire demon actions back in the dining room, *Why did he risk his life to save me?* The question rang through her mind over and over again.
She knew that her warriors were loyal to her. They would obey her orders and fought at her commands. But she knew very well that they would not risk their lives to save her.
*What does it mean?* she thought, lost in the question as she slipped into a dreamless sleep.
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~Outside of Hiei's bedroom in the mobile castle~
A small figure tossed and turned on a thick branch of a tree. A burning feeling on his left forearm had prevented the fire demon from getting any sleep.
Annoyed and exhausted, Hiei got up and leapt out of the tree. He went to a stream nearby and started unwrapping the bandages on his left arm. His arm was severely swelled, almost twice its normal size.
The fire demon checked the wound for any sign of poison but he found nothing. *Maybe it just got infected...* he thought as he put his arm into the water. He felt the burning feeling subsided as the cool water surrounded the wound.
Unknowingly, the fire demon slowly slipped into unconsciousness and fell to the ground.
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End of Chapter 1
I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Please feel free to review and comment!
By Gozilla
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This is the sequel of my previous Yu Yu fics "Burden of Sin" and "Dragon of Fire and Ice". If you haven't read the two stories, I would recommend you to read them first, though not necessary. ^-^
Just a hint of the background for those who haven't read the previous two fics. In this story, Yukina knew Hiei was her twin brother. Also, Hiei had his own Reikai beast, Blackie, a small dragon with black and white strip pattern over its body and with the power of fire and ice.
OK, enough talking. Please enjoy the story! ^-^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disclaimer: I don't own anything (except for the cute little Blackie, please don't take it away from me) and I don't have anything. So don't sue me!!
Please excuse my poor English!
Enjoy!
Reviews are welcomed!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"crap" - conversation
*crap* - thoughts
(crap) - author's note
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 1 : Assassination
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~Somewhere in Makai~
An insect-like vehicle sped across the open plain in Makai, creating a huge dust cloud behind it.
A small figure dressed in black sat comfortably near the front tip of the vehicle, his eyes closed as if he was sleeping.
A wolf demon kneeled beside the small figure, shouting against the strong wind, "Captain Hiei, we found no trace of any ningen intrusion today. It has been ten days since the patrol started and it is about time for us to return to the base. Please give your order."
Hiei slowly opened his crimson eyes, looking at the scene in front of him, "Hn. Let's return."
"Yes, Captain." the wolf demon replied and walked towards the pilot room of the vehicle.
Instinctively, the fire demon reached for the two tear gems attached to the necklaces hanging around his neck. He took them out of his cloak and looked at them. The two gems, one from his mother and the other from his sister, shone gently under the Makai sun.
It had been two years since the fight with the water demon Akana. Hiei, once again, returned to his job in patrolling Makai, making sure that no ningen was strayed into the demon world.
He visited the Ningenkai occasionally to see his twin sister, Yukina, and his dragon, Blackie, which lived with Yukina and watched over her for him. However, he spent most of the time in Makai, more specifically, with Mukuro.
Over the last two years, Hiei felt more and more comfortable with the presence of Mukuro. Though he would never admit it, her presence gave him a feeling of belonging and peacefulness, a feeling very similar to what he could feel when he looks at his mother's tear gem.
He looked at the tear gems for a while before putting them back behind his cloak. He stood and untied the bandana around his forehead, revealing his jagan. The fire demon closed his eyes and concentrated on the jagan, which started glowing with purple light, searching.
Suddenly, something not far away caught his attention, it was a flash of blue light. The fire demon got up and disappeared from the speeding vehicle in a blur of black.
A black shadow stopped in front of a dark cave. The fire demon surveyed the area and went inside the cave, with his jagan glowing in purple light.
Deep inside the dimmed wet cave, Hiei found the source of the light. It was a small, coarse, but beautiful blue crystal, half revealed from the dirt of the ground due to a recent collapse of the cave wall. The fire demon dug it out and looked at it for a while before disappearing from the spot.
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~6 hours later~
~Inside Mukuro's mobile castle~
Mukuro walked silently along the corridor. She had just finished a meeting with Enki (A/N: Did I spell it right?), the current official ruler of Makai, and Yumi, one of the three former warlords of Makai.
Although after the Makai tournament, Enki was appointed the ruler of Makai, he relied a lot on Mukuro and Yumi, who remained the most influential demons in Makai, to run the demon world and to keep things in order.
Mukuro didn't mind the job as, after meeting the young fire demon, she had lost almost all her monstrous desire to kill. She was actually a bit happy to have something to do to kill time without much hassle.
Mukuro went into her room. Immediately she noticed a small pack placed on the table in front of her bed. She approached the pack carefully and smiled as she saw it more clearly.
It was a small bag made of some black fabric with something of the size of a ping-pong ball inside. It was not the first time she received such a surprise pack without a note or letter from the sender.
Mukuro gently opened the bag and found a clean coarse blue crystal inside it. The crystal shone with gentle waves of blue light. She smiled as she felt her heart warmed by the cold beautiful blue colour of the crystal, or more precisely, the heart hidden behind the cold mask of the sender, a young fire demon.
She took the blue crystal and walked towards her bed. She opened the drawer closest to her bed. There were already a few items inside it: the horn of a Makai unicorn, a piece of raw crimson-gold nugget, a crystal- clear fang of a Makai shadow lion, and a few other rare and valuable items. She put the blue crystal inside the drawer and looked at it for a while before closing the drawer.
"Servant!" Mukuro shouted.
"Yes, my lord." an eagle demon opened the door and kneeled outside of the room. The eagle demon did not dare to lay a foot in the warlord's room as no one was allowed to enter Mukuro's room without her permission. (A/N: except one special fire demon, of course. ^-^)
"Go and tell Hiei that he is invited to have dinner with me tonight." Mukuro said before waving her hand at the eagle demon, indicating his dismissal.
"I understand, my lord. Please excuse me." the eagle demon said as he closed the door. Once the door was closed, a wave of nervousness flashed across the eagle demon's eyes. "This is unexpected... but it should be alright. I will accomplish the mission. It should be alright..." the eagle demon murmured as he disappeared into a dark corner of the corridor.
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~Night time~
~Inside the dining room of the mobile castle~
Mukuro sat at one end of a huge dining table, reading through documents regarding an intelligence report regarding the far west part of Makai. She raised her head as she sensed the approach of a familiar ki.
"You should not bring work to the dining table." came a deep voice.
"You are late." said the warlord, smiling and without a trace of real annoyance.
"Hn." Hiei replied, sitting at the opposite side of the table.
"Let's start." Mukuro said, "I am starving." as she snapped her fingers.
"Yes, my lord." the eagle demon said as he bowed to the warlord and left the dining room.
"So, what's new?" the fire demon asked.
Mukuro threw a piece of paper towards Hiei, which landed right in front of him.
Hiei picked up the paper and read through it. He frowned slightly as he read on, "Hirota? I heard of this name quite a long time ago. The rumours said that he is the 'fourth' warlord in Makai after you, Yumi and Raizen."
"Yes." Mukuro said, "Hirota, the lord of shadow. About 800 years ago, the four of us fought for the rights to control Makai. He was the weakest among us and lost his share of control over the demon world. Since then, he stayed in the far west part of Makai, a remote area in the border of the areas controlled by Yumi and myself."
Interested, Hiei listened carefully to the warlord, imagining how destructive were the fights between these extremely powerful demons.
Mukuro continued, "Hirota has been very active since the death of Raizen. It seems that he wants to take back his share, or even more, to control the whole Makai. There are reports that there are minor rebellions and abnormal military activities in the far west. Intelligence said that there will be a major rebellion in the next few days. That's why Enki has assigned me to form a team to investigate Hirota to see if he is behind all these abnormal activities and to stop him before anything serious happens."
"Sounds boring." the fire demon put down the paper, "Have you decided the members of the investigation team?"
Knowing the fire demon well, Mukuro interpreted the question as, 'I am interested. Can I join?'. She smiled and asked, "Not yet. But I think you could be a very good candidate. Interested?"
"Hn." was the reply.
"I take it as a 'yes'. I am planning to get Raizen's son in the team as well. And we have to act quickly before the rebellion starts." Mukuro said before stopping the conversation on the topic as the eagle demon returned and a servant started bringing food to the dining room.
The eagle demon signalled the servant to bring the food to Mukuro. The eagle demon took a bottle of pepper and walked towards the warlord.
The servant brought the plate covered by a silver cover and placed it in front of the warlord. He lifted the cover. There was no food on the plate, but a silver dagger.
"What the..." Mukuro could not finish the sentence as the eagle demon threw a cloud of pepper at her face. She could not open her eyes and choked on the pepper. Instinctively, she jumped away from the attackers.
"K'so!" Hiei cursed as he threw a fireball at the servant standing next to Mukuro, turning him into a pile of ashes instantly.
The eagle demon took the silver dagger and threw it towards heart of the temporarily blinded warlord.
The fire demon leapt towards Mukuro at his maximum speed. As he did not bring his sword with him (A/N: who would bring a sword to your boss' dinner? ^-^), he used his arm to shield the dagger from the warlord. The silver dagger sunk deep into his left forearm.
Knowing the mission had failed, the eagle demon transformed himself to a large eagle and fled the scene.
"Damn!" Hiei cursed, hesitated to leave the temporary blinded warlord alone, he handed a bowl of clean water to Mukuro to wash away the pepper in her eyes.
As Mukuro slowly regain her sight ability, she gasped as she saw Hiei pulled the silver dagger from his forearm and blood started pouring from the wound.
"Hiei." said the warlord, concerned.
"I am fine." the fire demon replied as he put bandages around the wound. "Who do you think would send an assassin to kill you?" he asked as he finished wrapping his arm.
Mukuro kept her eyes on the fire demon, "If I am not mistaken, it is Hirota. He has been wanting to get rid of me since centuries ago."
Slowly, she put her hand on the fire demon's damaged arm, carefully not to touch the wound, her voice filled with confusion, "Why did you do that?"
"Do what?" asked the fire demon, confused, but did not reject the gentle touch of Makai most feared warlord.
"Why did you risk your life to save me?" Mukuro asked.
The fire demon looked at the warlord and thought for a while, "I don't know. Maybe I am infected by those stupid ningen detectives." as he looked away, avoiding eye contact.
Mukuro retrieved her hand, having a weird sensation in her heart. Didn't know what it meant and what to do, she walked out of the dining room, "Go and get some rest. We will be leaving for the investigation job tomorrow."
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~Later that night~
~Inside Mukuro's room~
The warlord stared at the ceiling of the room, her mind in a war of confusion.
She couldn't understand the fire demon actions back in the dining room, *Why did he risk his life to save me?* The question rang through her mind over and over again.
She knew that her warriors were loyal to her. They would obey her orders and fought at her commands. But she knew very well that they would not risk their lives to save her.
*What does it mean?* she thought, lost in the question as she slipped into a dreamless sleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~Outside of Hiei's bedroom in the mobile castle~
A small figure tossed and turned on a thick branch of a tree. A burning feeling on his left forearm had prevented the fire demon from getting any sleep.
Annoyed and exhausted, Hiei got up and leapt out of the tree. He went to a stream nearby and started unwrapping the bandages on his left arm. His arm was severely swelled, almost twice its normal size.
The fire demon checked the wound for any sign of poison but he found nothing. *Maybe it just got infected...* he thought as he put his arm into the water. He felt the burning feeling subsided as the cool water surrounded the wound.
Unknowingly, the fire demon slowly slipped into unconsciousness and fell to the ground.
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End of Chapter 1
I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Please feel free to review and comment!