Because She Died
Dane Soar
As said in the summery, this is a rewrite of an older story, in fact the first one I ever wrote. But because the old one lacked both plot and point it's been drastically changed here. The chapters are meant to be brief, the style I was going for was short, sharp shards of scenes. Because of the shortness of the chapters, I plan on updating more frequently than I usually do, on weekends and Wednesdays.
Please drop me a review, I really want to know what you think.
Prologue
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The room was burning, thick smoke filling the air and Hiei was stood, torn. There were two there, Yukina, who coughed too hard to run, the smoke disagreeing with her lungs and Kurama, who was still dead to the world.
Who to help? His sister or his teammate? Neither would get far without help and not even a demon could survive a burning house falling on them. Who to choose? Who?
Like almost everything Hiei did, when he choose, he choose fast.
Part 1
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"Well, shit," Yusuke said flatly. "that sucks."
"That's an understatement," said Kuwabara, picking up a few papers from the mess and dropping them again with frustration. "This really, really, really sucks."
"I mean, of all the crappy things that could have happened, why this?" Yusuke kick a piece of debris. "If we hadn't been on a mission, maybe he would have been here, and then, who knows? Maybe this wouldn't have happened."
"Like maybe is going to help anything, Urameshi. There's nothing we can do."
"You're right. Probably as soon as he saw this, there'd be nothing we could have done to stop him."
A blur resolved itself into Hiei. "I lost him."
"What?" Yusuke groaned. "How hard can Kurama be to follow?"
Hiei narrowed his eyes. "Hard. He was a thief after all; he knows how to lose a track."
"Was there any sign he was tracking the ones who did this?"
"No sign, but he most likely is."
Yusuke covered his eyes briefly, then looked at the wrecked room again as if he hoped if it had disappeared while he wasn't looking.
It hadn't.
The body of Shiori Minamino was still on the floor, a shocked expression forever frozen on her face.
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TBC