She Finds Out: Hiei
Genre: Angst/drama
Summary: Hiei has disappeared and Yukina finds out that he is her brother. When she takes his not telling her the wrong way and he's not there to clean up the mess, what happens? PG13 for death suggestions and violence
NJ: I thought I might try my hand at one of these...though not very original, I know...Also if you think I should change the rating tell me cause I'm not sure...
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu, you or you! If I did, then Hiei would have told Yukina long ago that he was her brother.
----Beginning----
Yukina waited patiently on the temple steps for some sign of her saviour. Earlier a group of youkai had come in an attempt to kidnap her, but Hiei had been there and had saved her. It seemed as if he knew them though, as if they were being punished just for disobeying his orders. And after giving Yukina strict orders to wait inside for three days or his return, Hiei left with what was left of them to do who-knows-what. It had already been three days and Yukina knew that Hiei was always punctual unless something was really wrong, so she began to worry as the sunset and Hiei didn't turn up,
'Maybe,' she thought anxiously, 'Maybe he's up in his tree and hasn't come down...I hope so...' her thoughts were hopeful but foolish and unfounded. She walked over to the familiar tree and called up it, when she received no answer she began to climb up just to convince herself that he wasn't there, and quickly found out how hard kimonos made climbing tall trees. Reaching the top with a relieved sigh, she examined her surroundings; many tree branches and leaves, and some flowers already blooming met her eye, but the not the short fire demon she was looking for. Sighing again she began to make her way back down, grabbed an unstable branch and began to topple backwards. She fell and screamed until she hit a springy bush on the ground and heard a thump next to her.
'Thank goodness for this bush! I'm glad I didn't cut it after all...' she thought and with shaking hands pushed herself up and began to worry again,
'He's not there, so where can he be?' Glancing for once in the direction of the noise that had accompanied her landing, she was surprised to see a wooden box with a curious golden keyhole, lying at her feet. She picked it up and fingered the gold, then gasped when the box lid flew open at her touch and revealed a tear-gem, like the one her mother gave her and her brother. She choked for a moment, before trying to figure out just what was going on – it suddenly hit her; all the hushed conversations, why Hiei sometimes gave her odd glances, his crimson eyes so similar to her own, his short stature, the way he would glare at anyone if they slipped a bit of information to her, the way everyone tried to hide her brother's whereabouts', everything...more tear gems spilled to the ground as she started to run, box in hand, to a sanctuary, somewhere. Yukina bumped Botan on the way, but she didn't stop to talk, she just ran on, trying to go somewhere where no-one would see her cry, where nothing would try to cheer her up, where she was alone... Botan saw the little box in the koorime's hand and shook her head sadly, she had seen Hiei occasionally handling that box and hastily put it away when he felt her presence nearby.
"After all this time, she finds out when Hiei isn't even here..." she murmured quietly to herself before flying away to find the other half of the pain...
-----With Hiei-----
Hiei was fighting and had been fighting hard for three days straight without rest and he had long since past his regular fight time. The demons he had been fighting seemed to regenerate each time they hit him and, with the amount of them trying at once, avoidance was impossible for more than a few seconds. He was exhausted, not being in the best shape to begin with, he was reluctant to fight, but with Yukina's life on the line, he really had no choice, so he fought with all he had.
The demons swarmed over him the second he let his guard down and thrust their rusty weapons at his blurring frame, as he attempted to retreat just enough to get his katana moving again and decapitate some over confident foes. There! That one didn't have a head a second ago! It just grew back like some sort of plant on a high-speed growth film! Hiei growled, for once in his life, he didn't know whether this was just a trick to get him away from Yukina or whether this was an honest attempt to kill him by sheer outnumbering, because these beasts didn't seem to have minds to read and no doubt if they did, they wouldn't know what was going on any way.
Suddenly, a demon four times as tall and six times as wide as Hiei, swung his clawed limb at him successfully paralysing Hiei's right arm.
'That's not good...huh?' three demons vanished, 'There are considerably less youkai now than when we began...Damn it!' Hiei had figured it out. He had figured out how they planned to kill him. It was a good plan...maybe too good. For a moment he stopped dodging and was bombarded with cuts deep and shallow alike, but he ignored the pain and watched the other demons as some froze in their onslaught and vanished into wisps of smoke. He had been right; the youkai dwelled upon his energy, so as long as he had enough energy to sustain them they remained.
So Hiei fled. He had heard about these beings when he had been younger but had never encountered them. It was said that they would follow their quarry like seeker missiles to their deathbed, and it appeared that they would. The trees were no obstacles to them; they just ripped through the forestry like horrendous carvers knives through butter and Hiei knew the only way to destroy these beings was to die himself. There was no shelter to protect him from these immortal foes that would hold and he wasn't willing to be murdered by such low rank creatures.
Glancing left and right he ascertained that he was going in the right direction. The familiar sights did nothing to ease his sorrow as he thought about Yukina and how he had never told her, and how he would no longer be there to protect her... the steep climb was up ahead and he needed to focus on reaching the top before thinking about regrets; he would have plenty of time for that at the cliff-face. The youkai were closing in on him and he kicked a few out of his way as he could no longer wield a sword in his condition and he had already used his black dragon technique but to no avail, they still came.
-----With Yukina--------
Yukina sobbed into her pillow as the stars twinkled brightly at her, urging her to get up and smile. No such notions came to her but when she ran out of tears to shed, she settled for getting up and staring at her mirror instead,
"Why does he hate me so much as to never let me know?" she asked her reflection. "Is it because I'm pathetic? Or ugly? Or weak? Am I an embarrassment to him? Is that it? To him I'm a failure? Should I just solve his problem for him...and die...?" A knife-edge gleamed appealing to her in the soft glow of the moonlight. Picking it up, she examined it and turned it over. It had been Kazuma's and he had carelessly left it lying about, so Yukina looked after it until he returned to collect the dangerous object, but now, to her, it had become a relief, a view into heaven from hell, from a fiery heat to the cool, calming water. The box lay on the window seal, apparently forgotten, as Yukina fingered the knife and made her decision, steeling her nerves...
The cliffs edge came into view and he pushed himself harder, his figure blurring with the last blast of speed he could muster and he leapt from the edge. Twisting in the air like a cat, Hiei was determined to see his would- be-killers fall to their death before him, while he enjoyed the soaring sensation before plummeting to his death along with them.
'I'm sorry Yukina, my sister...' he closed his eyes and began his descent...
'I'm sorry Hiei, my brother...' Yukina closed her eyes as the cold, sharp object caressed her wrists with the flat edge...
A blade was twisted and conscious thought was lost from two koorimes as they spiralled into the Eternal Darkness, lost to all but each other...
Owari...or is it?
NJ: This will be a one-shot unless someone demands the next part (which I have in mind) with a happy ending, so R&R and no flames!
Genre: Angst/drama
Summary: Hiei has disappeared and Yukina finds out that he is her brother. When she takes his not telling her the wrong way and he's not there to clean up the mess, what happens? PG13 for death suggestions and violence
NJ: I thought I might try my hand at one of these...though not very original, I know...Also if you think I should change the rating tell me cause I'm not sure...
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu, you or you! If I did, then Hiei would have told Yukina long ago that he was her brother.
----Beginning----
Yukina waited patiently on the temple steps for some sign of her saviour. Earlier a group of youkai had come in an attempt to kidnap her, but Hiei had been there and had saved her. It seemed as if he knew them though, as if they were being punished just for disobeying his orders. And after giving Yukina strict orders to wait inside for three days or his return, Hiei left with what was left of them to do who-knows-what. It had already been three days and Yukina knew that Hiei was always punctual unless something was really wrong, so she began to worry as the sunset and Hiei didn't turn up,
'Maybe,' she thought anxiously, 'Maybe he's up in his tree and hasn't come down...I hope so...' her thoughts were hopeful but foolish and unfounded. She walked over to the familiar tree and called up it, when she received no answer she began to climb up just to convince herself that he wasn't there, and quickly found out how hard kimonos made climbing tall trees. Reaching the top with a relieved sigh, she examined her surroundings; many tree branches and leaves, and some flowers already blooming met her eye, but the not the short fire demon she was looking for. Sighing again she began to make her way back down, grabbed an unstable branch and began to topple backwards. She fell and screamed until she hit a springy bush on the ground and heard a thump next to her.
'Thank goodness for this bush! I'm glad I didn't cut it after all...' she thought and with shaking hands pushed herself up and began to worry again,
'He's not there, so where can he be?' Glancing for once in the direction of the noise that had accompanied her landing, she was surprised to see a wooden box with a curious golden keyhole, lying at her feet. She picked it up and fingered the gold, then gasped when the box lid flew open at her touch and revealed a tear-gem, like the one her mother gave her and her brother. She choked for a moment, before trying to figure out just what was going on – it suddenly hit her; all the hushed conversations, why Hiei sometimes gave her odd glances, his crimson eyes so similar to her own, his short stature, the way he would glare at anyone if they slipped a bit of information to her, the way everyone tried to hide her brother's whereabouts', everything...more tear gems spilled to the ground as she started to run, box in hand, to a sanctuary, somewhere. Yukina bumped Botan on the way, but she didn't stop to talk, she just ran on, trying to go somewhere where no-one would see her cry, where nothing would try to cheer her up, where she was alone... Botan saw the little box in the koorime's hand and shook her head sadly, she had seen Hiei occasionally handling that box and hastily put it away when he felt her presence nearby.
"After all this time, she finds out when Hiei isn't even here..." she murmured quietly to herself before flying away to find the other half of the pain...
-----With Hiei-----
Hiei was fighting and had been fighting hard for three days straight without rest and he had long since past his regular fight time. The demons he had been fighting seemed to regenerate each time they hit him and, with the amount of them trying at once, avoidance was impossible for more than a few seconds. He was exhausted, not being in the best shape to begin with, he was reluctant to fight, but with Yukina's life on the line, he really had no choice, so he fought with all he had.
The demons swarmed over him the second he let his guard down and thrust their rusty weapons at his blurring frame, as he attempted to retreat just enough to get his katana moving again and decapitate some over confident foes. There! That one didn't have a head a second ago! It just grew back like some sort of plant on a high-speed growth film! Hiei growled, for once in his life, he didn't know whether this was just a trick to get him away from Yukina or whether this was an honest attempt to kill him by sheer outnumbering, because these beasts didn't seem to have minds to read and no doubt if they did, they wouldn't know what was going on any way.
Suddenly, a demon four times as tall and six times as wide as Hiei, swung his clawed limb at him successfully paralysing Hiei's right arm.
'That's not good...huh?' three demons vanished, 'There are considerably less youkai now than when we began...Damn it!' Hiei had figured it out. He had figured out how they planned to kill him. It was a good plan...maybe too good. For a moment he stopped dodging and was bombarded with cuts deep and shallow alike, but he ignored the pain and watched the other demons as some froze in their onslaught and vanished into wisps of smoke. He had been right; the youkai dwelled upon his energy, so as long as he had enough energy to sustain them they remained.
So Hiei fled. He had heard about these beings when he had been younger but had never encountered them. It was said that they would follow their quarry like seeker missiles to their deathbed, and it appeared that they would. The trees were no obstacles to them; they just ripped through the forestry like horrendous carvers knives through butter and Hiei knew the only way to destroy these beings was to die himself. There was no shelter to protect him from these immortal foes that would hold and he wasn't willing to be murdered by such low rank creatures.
Glancing left and right he ascertained that he was going in the right direction. The familiar sights did nothing to ease his sorrow as he thought about Yukina and how he had never told her, and how he would no longer be there to protect her... the steep climb was up ahead and he needed to focus on reaching the top before thinking about regrets; he would have plenty of time for that at the cliff-face. The youkai were closing in on him and he kicked a few out of his way as he could no longer wield a sword in his condition and he had already used his black dragon technique but to no avail, they still came.
-----With Yukina--------
Yukina sobbed into her pillow as the stars twinkled brightly at her, urging her to get up and smile. No such notions came to her but when she ran out of tears to shed, she settled for getting up and staring at her mirror instead,
"Why does he hate me so much as to never let me know?" she asked her reflection. "Is it because I'm pathetic? Or ugly? Or weak? Am I an embarrassment to him? Is that it? To him I'm a failure? Should I just solve his problem for him...and die...?" A knife-edge gleamed appealing to her in the soft glow of the moonlight. Picking it up, she examined it and turned it over. It had been Kazuma's and he had carelessly left it lying about, so Yukina looked after it until he returned to collect the dangerous object, but now, to her, it had become a relief, a view into heaven from hell, from a fiery heat to the cool, calming water. The box lay on the window seal, apparently forgotten, as Yukina fingered the knife and made her decision, steeling her nerves...
The cliffs edge came into view and he pushed himself harder, his figure blurring with the last blast of speed he could muster and he leapt from the edge. Twisting in the air like a cat, Hiei was determined to see his would- be-killers fall to their death before him, while he enjoyed the soaring sensation before plummeting to his death along with them.
'I'm sorry Yukina, my sister...' he closed his eyes and began his descent...
'I'm sorry Hiei, my brother...' Yukina closed her eyes as the cold, sharp object caressed her wrists with the flat edge...
A blade was twisted and conscious thought was lost from two koorimes as they spiralled into the Eternal Darkness, lost to all but each other...
Owari...or is it?
NJ: This will be a one-shot unless someone demands the next part (which I have in mind) with a happy ending, so R&R and no flames!