Title: Burn
Author: Yoko-cw
Anime: Yu Yu Hakusho
Date Written: 12/10/09
POV: Hiei
SDA
Fire. Why did everything have to burn? I flexed my fingers, feeling the charred skin split and blood soaked into the pathetic excuses for bandages. I looked out at the human world, perched atop a hospital; cars with bright lights, people crossing the roads, confident that they wouldn't be killed by a lunatic.
Safe, and dull, compared the the demon realm. ...And I imagined it burning brightly, falling to the ground in great piles of ash. My mouth curved into a bitter smile; would the surviors mourn? Would they try to rebuild it? My hatred for them was unreasonable, but undeniably there. Perhaps it was their naievete, their happiness. Or perhaps it was merely because they were idiotic.
"Imiko" they called me; Forbidden One. I recalled the old woman calling me a beast; but tossing an infant over a cliff was surely more barbaric than simply being a male. Did it hurt my mother to hold me in her stomach; I was smoldering, wrapped in seals before I even took a breath. Did I burn her?
I often dream of destroying that place, let it fall to the earth in silence. Let those old women suffocate in blackness, ash, and smoke. Resentfully, I dream of destruction.
...It all has to burn.