Okay here's that sequel I've been bragging about so much, now in my opinion it should be one of the best chapters I've written only because I've put as much detail as I can into it and even went back and edited it myself literally four times, this is something I think can be called one of my best chapters and I'm proud to say that because usually I hate my writing!
Summery: In a place where a second can last a lifetime, and a single moment lasts forever, one incident that can tip the scale and break an unearthly armistice. Years of blood, war, and history brought forth into a single second can undoubtedly break a soul, but what if the soul is all you have left? Sequel to Changing Decisions, HieiOC
Disclaimer: I do NOT own YYH, E.A.P, HIM, or any of their music no matter how beautiful it is! Oh, I'm just to excited to go more into detail right now!
Okay without any more distraction here's the sequel…
In Joy And Sorrow
Chapter 1: The element war.
Nevermore… it had been almost a year… a year since that dark time… that dark time where Leleel had allowed herself to be taken over by the mere wonder of her foresights.
What had happened at the time, what she was thinking had become nothing more than a blur to her sharp memory, everything had fallen apart since her and the rest of the light demon's departed from the Ningenkai for their own domain of Komorum.
She sat now at her white marble table in one of the many rooms in her large home, alone, consumed in her thoughts about everything as she did every day. Why so badly had she wanted to change and possibly kill her own twin?
Sure she was looked down upon by many other higher ruler figures because of it, but at the end of the day, did that really matter, did she really care that much?
"Leleel?" Topai's voice knocked her back to reality, though she felt more like nothing was in a reality anymore, not for her anyways.
"I'm sorry to disturb you." He said walking in and closing the elaborately designed cherry wood door behind him. "It's okay Topai, what is it?" She asked in a halfway drowsy tone.
Topai looked at his leader in a concerned manor, every light demon under her rule knew she was in an almost depression state, they could feel it. It worried him most of all though to see her growing more and more upset over something she nor he had a remedy to.
They could only stand by as if nothing was happening.
"Juhani and three of his committee members are here for the meeting with you." Leleel rubbed her temples yet stood up with a sigh.
Honestly she wasn't in the mood to be dealing with the shadow demon ruler and whatever was so important to call a meeting in her territory.
"Fine, let's go." She walked past him out the door. "Are you going to take it alone?" Topai questioned following behind.
"No." The bridge the two walked down was open on both sides facing out at the beautiful city below that had been built into a steep mountain plane, though much deceiving to the eye as much of the dwellings had been made directly into the mountain.
On a normal day any ningen who may somehow come to see it would think of it as the closest thing, if not the exact thing, as Rome. With buildings all linking together made entirely out of white slick marble in a beautiful manor that must have taken hundreds of years to make so perfect.
But today the deities were upset with them for whatever reason it may be. The sky was a thick black color with large bolts of lightning streaking from every direction; then the crash of thunder to break the unusual silence the city gave off as the inhabitants had taken shelter in the city.
"No, you and Iiro are coming with me, this meeting won't last long."
"But what if they press for it to be? You know they like to drag things out." Leleel looked back at him with deviance and hate filled crystal blue eyes, the hatred was directed to Juhani he knew, she had an obvious grudge against that man.
"They will do nothing of the such if they are smart, they must remember they are in my territory and I shall have no remorse on issuing an attack." Usually their own ruler would be rational on such an occasion, but with the events that had happened before Topai had no doubt her patience with shadow demons had faded to almost nothing.
"So you two will be the ones to join me, as a protection matter." He nodded but then remembered being behind her; she couldn't see it. "Yes ma'am." She paid no mind to his last statement, his choice of words no longer was in her hands, if he wanted to refer to her as such she wouldn't waste her breath repeating the order that he didn't need to.
The two light demons walked in this matter threw the covered bridge and then down a perpendicular one leading to a more formally engraved area restricted only to rulers and committee members, though in this time Leleel was making an exception for Topai and Iiro.
"Topai, go get Iiro then come to the meeting room immediately." She ordered when they reached a pair of large wooden double doors. "Alright." Then he turned and proceeded away with his leader watching him.
Just then her white Henki's appeared beside her. 'This is going to be hell I know it, I should just order the attack now and be done with it.' She thought though dared not speak, who knew how well of hearing those inferior beings had.
Quietly she walked into the silent room, it was a semicircular shaped room with every wall being carved out as archway windows to display the surroundings of both the long range of mountains and the flat planed area, a black slick table sat in the middle, half was consumed with shadow energy she knew oh so well, but it was one demon that she locked eyes on.
Juhani, the ruler of the shadow demons.
He starred back at her with dark gray emotionless eyes. He was about as old as Leleel, for some odd reason the leaders of both groups seemed to be about the same though complete opposites, a paradox Leleel had come to loath.
He wore fancy black robes with gray stitching of silk, he was full shadow demon nothing else, a pureblooded beast she knew personally. Unlike him she still had those traces of shadow demon in her allowing her to adorn black into her attire.
Juhani was one of the demons that had knowledge of her and her sister's past and being as he was he used that information to his advantage any time he could. Leleel hated that he had as much of knowledge as she did; they fought verbally every time they were put in the same room.
Though he fought to get her on his side, she fought to keep him away, it was all she could do to keep from decapitating him.
"It's been to long Leleel dear." And so it began.
"I'd like it to be longer." She sat herself down on the opposite end of him keeping their look locked. "What concerns you so much Juhani that you dare come onto my land willingly?" She decided to ask to get to the point of his visit. 2
"Well I heard you and your people were in the Ningenkai a while ago. I was only wondering if you survived such an experience." She growled warningly, she dared him to ask what she had been doing there.
At this he chuckled, "everyone knows, you don't have to be defensive. Stories about how you killed using human weapons is spreading like wildfire, what brought you to administering such a move?"
She slammed her hands on the table, "just tell me why you're here so we can get this over with!" She shouted. He didn't falter, simply smirked.
"A war has brought me here." She stopped suddenly. "Nani?"
"You heard me, a war has brought me to you… again." She ignored his last statement though he intervened before she had a chance to speak again. "Your sister… brings me to you." Leleel tried to keep her eyes from widening to show any weakness.
The door opened, Topai and Iiro entered silently then noticing the hatred brewing in their leader sure that Juhani could see it also and was using it to his advantage.
"Tell me what you're talking about now." She demanded venomously, her hands twitched from where they were firmly laid flat on the cold table. He stood up in his seat with the same smirk on his face. "Another war has started between your people and my people.
"Though this time it's not so independent on the inferiors." She dared state that he was the inferior here but opted against it, she needed the facts about this now.
"It'll be as big as the last one that happened, years and years ago before any of us here were even thought of."
"What does that have to do with my sister?"
"Shi, your sister, is a shadow demon though having a light demon father she has traces of that also, she is both shadow and light though shadow is the dominate gene in her.
"Shi is fair game." His smirk intensified and she knew what he meant, he wanted to get her on his side, against her and no doubt she would be stupid enough to agree.
"Leave her out of this."
"I'm sorry Leleel but I can't let her power go to waste when it could be used, quite effectively to." He moved from around the table heading to the door, she followed.
"The war will begin soon," his three committee members as well as Topai and Iiro went out of the room leaving both rulers in privacy.
Juhani came closer to Leleel, she felt numb, unable to move from her spot. His eyes softened and his deviant smirk molded into a true smile that even then held the darkness from within him in it, one thing she actually did like seeing from him.
"Leleel, it's been to long." His hand came up and gently rested on her cheek. "Not everything has to change, you know it was meant to be." He came forward placing a soft kiss on her lips.
She deepened it then realized what she was doing and pulled away quickly turning from him so white hair blocked his view of her. "Juhani you and I both know this would be as wrong as before, I can no longer be as it was."
He was quiet. "You don't have to hold that façade around me, you should know that by now." Blue eyes slowly looked up at him wondering whether she should let it fall.
"What shall happen if one of our empires falls? Why can there not be peace or at least a armistice in this ongoing fighting?"
"There has been an armistice," he explained. "But an armistice is only temporary, our pasts clash to much to be so easily forgotten, we will deal with falling empires if… or when it happens rather." His black hair fell before his eyes making him look positively beautiful in her eyes.
She wasn't sure if she should hate him for making her feel this way or let it just simply feel right.
"All assaults will be taken to your empire, I will allow nothing to happen to you." She reached up to gently brush the hair out of his eyes as he spoke. "I don't want this to happen, it can't."
"It must and it will, fear not of what lies ahead, the darkness that I know lies within you will not let you fall." Though numb Leleel could feel a familiar warmth wrap around her, she confirmed it to be his arms linking together around her.
She looked down fully for a moment finally letting that solid look fall from her face she had held so long in exchange for a look only he and one other person had seen, feeling so safe and warm in his now embrace she couldn't control her boiling emotions let alone help herself from this.
"If… if you love me the way you show it, the way you say and the way I know you do… you'll leave Shi out of this." The words hit a sensitive spot with both her and him yet his true look held back the signs that it had done anything to him.
"I can not do that Leleel and you should know that. This will happen though remember my words." He let go of her after placing another kiss on her lips and moved out of the room silent as the night leaving her alone… alone again.
When the door closed she fell to her knees, it was so sinful for the actions she took. Cold fingers reached up to her lips, he said not to fear what lies ahead… though she couldn't.
Another streak of lightning lit the room with light that blinded her sight for a moment then met with the sound of thunder, her figure stayed perfectly in place, years of training would not let her flinch or make a single move at such a incident as mere lightning.
It wasn't the future that troubled her so, it was the past, her past actions. For the smoldering kisses he had left on her had long since died away leaving her empty and desperate… craving for more.
She knew this war would start, but she could not allow her sister to be brought into this, for she knew her… Juhani's plan, drive her away from the other Forbidden, from Hiei for whatever purpose he had in store.
The gray in his eyes, the years of merciless training had molded him into what he was now, she nor anyone else could depict any of his plans, only that he had on in mind.
For once she wished to be blessed with a foresight for she knew not what direction to take, she could not let that happen... let them all fall into place.
A torrential amount of rain was suddenly dumped from the sky after her one thought as anyone could have predicted it would in due time, her body moved forward slightly. How she detested being brought down in a way only he knew how to do to her.
'I need help.'
A/N: Okay that was the first chapter and I REALLY hope it makes you want more cause I want to write more and without the awesome reviews you give me I can't do that! Well anyways the next chapter will come back to Shi and Hiei and what's been happening with them for the year I skipped, I feel so powerful again skipping forward in time!
1: This is going to be a long story I guarantee you, but for that first paragraph I highly advise you to remember it well… it may have a key role in the rest of the story. I'm not telling it's origins or why I'm using it or anything. It's like in the last story where Leleel had that one premonition and after like 15 chapters you finally figured out what it meant. Always have to have something to keep you interested!
2: While I was writing that part I realized that Leleel and Shi have the same personality! Like… both can be really hateful but still can't have people mad at them, I thought that was really weird because back in the first story I never intended for Leleel to BE Shi's sister that just kind of happened after I listened to Sigillium Diaboli but still it JUST dawned on me that they really do have the same personality! I never ever planned that, how weird is that right? … Something tells me I'm doing these little 1 things wrong.
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