Like many a Fan-fiction author, I occasionally write drabble-like things: short, sweet and to the point. Also I do not see the point in creating a new story for every small mini one-shot/drabble. So I have made one story for any drabble that I write. This story will be updated approximately once a week. These stories will rarely be an exact 100 words and will be more often than not longer. The title refers to things that unless we delve into the hearts and brains of our beloved Yu Yu Hakusho Cast, we would never learn, at least from my point of view.


Family

By: Vetgirl1205 (Emily)

Special thanks to my Beta-reader: TheVampireSophia


Family.

Such a strange word. Depending on whom you asked, it could invoke such emotions. Someone with a happy family would simply smile, memories jumping into their mind. One with a tragic family would get quiet, suddenly filled with despair.

Hiei knew neither response. He never had a family. Never had a mother who would sooth away tears and the harsh words that came from being forbidden. Never had a father who taught him to fight or chased away the monsters in his closet, because demons had those too. He didn't grow up with his sister playing tag in the icy depths of Glacial Village.

He grew up with bandits and thieves, with whom he knew he could never let his guard down, even when he considered them family. When he was young and foolish, now that he looks back, he yearned for a normal family. For the mother who cried him a tear gem and the father he never saw in his infancy.

Hiei knew better now. He didn't need a family. He had something better, something that was like a family (though not quite), a dysfunctional one, but yes a family.

He had friends.

He snorted, not that he'd ever tell them so.


This drabble was the product of a YYH100 Livejournal challenge, this was Challenge #2.

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