Bwahahah. I have finally wrote down the most stubborn story that does not want to be written! Anyway this chapter is surprising and sad. Do not give me a flame for this. I already have a resolution for the problem, it's one the glue of the whole damn story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.
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Fireflies Ablaze
Chapter One
Yukina softly blew on her cup of tea before she took a delicate sip. As she lowered her glossy clay cup from her mouth the koorime sighed with bliss and smiled to girl in front of her. The person too, smiled back at Yukina.
"Yukina-chan, thank you for letting me stay over even though it's so late." The girl glanced at her watch on her wrist and did a double take.
Looking up again she corrected herself. "I mean this early…"
Yukina shook her head and placed her cup of tea onto its small plate. "Oh no, it's no problem. You were great company Keiko-chan, and its so lonely here; especially with Genkai gone."
Keiko nodded her head in sympathy.
"By the way, where did Genkai-sama go? She told everyone, but I can't seem to remember what she said."
Yukina smiled again and tilted her head slightly to her left. "Genkai-sama said that she was going to meet one of her old acquaintances."
The brown haired girl brightened up and she clasped her right fist into her left outstretched hand. "Ah, I remember now! She also told Yusuke to bug off and mind his own business when he asked about it."
Keiko and Yukina both giggled at the memory of Yusuke's face when his mentor had told him off.
When Keiko's giggles subsided, she glanced at her wrist watch again and got up from her kneeling position.
"I think I should go now. No doubt my parents are leaping around in worry." She smiled at the girl still seated, "Yukina, you don't need to get up. I'll just take myself out."
"Are you sure?"
A small giggle, "Yeah, I'm sure. I'll see you tomorrow Yukina. And go to sleep soon."
With that, Keiko walked off. Yukina sighed and smiled after her ningen friend.
Patiently she listened for the shutting of doors and to Keiko's footsteps down the concrete steps until she could hear no more. The small girl then sat there on her mat, and lifted to drink her cooling tea. Sipping soothingly, she then heard the doors suddenly snapping open. Surprised, Yukina moved to get up, when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
She blinked and looked up to see Keiko smiling at her, but brown bangs were covering her friend's eyes from view.
Light blue eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'I didn't hear her walk into the shrine…'
"Keiko-chan? Is anything wrong?"
There was a few seconds of silence that made Yukina's skin crawl.
Run…
"No. Nothing's wrong... I just can't decide where to start eating you first…"
Red eyes widened and she slapped away the now clawed hand on her shoulder. Yukina quickly stood and inched backwards; in front of her Keiko was slowly shifting into something much taller and male. A deep cold laugh spilled from his mouth as Yukina stared frighteningly into his flashing gold eyes.
He spoke, "Are you scared of this hungry youkai, little onna?"
The youkai took an intimidating step toward her, causing his purple bangs to swish in front his eyes. He flashed a small grin and with a sudden burst of speed he was in front of her.
Yukina screamed and started running for the main front doors, but was stopped short when a hand grabbed her pale arm. She swiftly turned around, causing a whiplash to hit her cheek, to see the man grinning evilly with half of his face covered in shadow, nose to nose with her. Yukina whimpered and felt tears fall from her face.
Before they could fall to the ground, telling their presence as jewels, his mouth widened and bit deeply into her shoulder, yukata and all. Her head flung backwards silent in pain, her mouth opened slightly mouthing one word that instinctively came to her panic filled mind.
Onii-sama...
Yukina wordlessly screamed when she felt fangs go deeper into her shoulder, cracking and shattering bone.
They both heard the tinkling of her tears as they fell to the ground.
She felt herself sigh painfully as the purple haired man swiftly lifted his head completely bitting off the skin, muscles, and bits of broken bone from her shoulder. Her left arm hung awkwardly from its place that was connected to her person by her armpit.
The youkai then let go of her, causing her to fall listlessly to the ground. Her pale eyebrows furrowed as she heard the man swallow before spitting out a word distastefully, "Youkai."
'He didn't know I was a youkai...?'
Yukina weakly stared ahead at the dark early morning sky as she felt a rush of air pass her, signaling the disappearance of her attacker. She felt a sudden tiredness overcome her along with a rush panic.
'Is Keiko okay, did he do anything to her?
What is Genkai going to do when she finds out I'm dead?
Am I never going to see Kazuma and his friends again?'
She felt herself smile sadly.
'Was my wish to meet my brother in vain?'
She felt herself detach from her body, beginning to feel numbness with no pain.
'Is this how it feels to die? I'll get to see Botan though right?'
Yukina however, was not to meet Botan for a long time to come.
-4:00 a.m. Urameshi Residence
Yusuke fell on top of his bed with a sigh of content, as his friend Kuwabara thumped down on a chair across from him. Kuwabara straddled the back of the chair as he faced Yusuke, with his head resting on his crossed arms. He started to doze slightly with his head tilted.
Near the door Kurama leaned against the wall, his own arms crossed. The red head had his chin to his chest as he too let himself rest. On the window sill over the bed, sat Hiei. And it seemed that he was exhausted like his teammates, with his eyes nearly closed. The team leader was the first on to speak.
"That was an evil bugger of a mission, eh?"
Kurama chuckled, "Yes, it was. But it left us all satisfied, did it not?"
Both Yusuke and Hiei smiked as their answer. Kuwabara, however, straightened up imediately.
"Yukina..."
Everyone's eyes widened and shifted to the bleach haired teen on the chair. Kurama immediately noticed the blankness in his friend's brown eyes and stopped Yusuke from hitting him with a sharp shake of his head. Yusuke nodded.
"Hiei..."
The fire youkai was ahead of Yusuke and had already ripped his headband off. The purple jagan shifted around in it's place while it glowed green, after looking off to the general direction of the shrine it closed while the two other eyes widened. Hiei then disappeared leaving his friends to guess where he had run off too.
The two looked at each other, "Baba's place." before zooming off themselves.
Kuwabara rose slowly from his place on the chair, with his head bowed down. A drop of water fell from his face to hit the carpet floor. Then more fell making an unending flow of tears. A cracked sob came from him and he lifted a hand to his face. He was alone in the shadowed room filled with his growing despair.
From the bottom of the stairs, Yusuke and Kurama had felt the sting of Hiei's youki thrashing around the property. With growing alarm, Kurama also noted the heavy scent of blood floating along the early morning breeze.
They both ran up the stairs until they reached the top covering their faces from the onslot of energy smacking against them. Once they reached the top a quick look at the scene caused Kurama to bow his head slightly while Yusuke turned to the side taking out his contactor.
Hiei stared blankly ahead at the corpse in front of him.
It was laying on its back with its blank open red eyes staring at the dark morning sky. It had a large chunk missing from its shoulder, and around it there were small round jewels that had fallen around randomly. A tear still in water form was on the verge from ralling of its cheek.
How funny, it was the same with his own cheek.
When a tink sounded, Yusuke paused in his conversation with Botan on the contactor while Kurama flinched.
A growl exploded from Hiei's small frame and his clawed hands clenched tightly.
"YUKINA!"
-A/N: I know, it's slightly dark, but don't worry! Everything will be figured out in the next couple chapters.
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