Comprehension
This is probably the shortest story I've ever written and I am ashamed for it. Please attempt to enjoy it anyway.
Disclaimer : I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, that pleasure belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi.
"You talk too much." Hiei told her once and she just smiled.
"Words are important to me; I think when people communicate, they understand just a bit better." He crinkled his nose at her tidbit.
"Pointless." He leaned back on his tree trunk, comfortable in the cool shade of the tree. He could hear her laugh.
"Maybe you should try it before you knock it out." She wore that accursed smile again, making Hiei's eyebrow twitch in annoyance.
What a foolish girl she was. But he reasoned that it was just in her nature to be open and naïve. However he seemed be wrong in a multitude of things concerning her.
When they were initially introduced, he thought a grim reaper to be cold and melancholy; he was surprised to discover her to be vivacious and quite kind, displaying this benevolence to everyone she came into contact with.
Hiei had seen her violent (mostly in concerning Yusuke) and at times, desolate. She could be fully knowledgeable in one subject and completely oblivious in another. The woman also seemed to be wise in life but oh so lost in death.
The ferry girl was fickle in trivial things such as the foods she ate and the clothes she wore (he remembered her telling Yukina that she had changed five times in one morning). However she was loyal to a fault with people, known for sacrificing herself for others no matter the repercussions afterwards and having faith in others even when the chances of something positive happening were slim to none.
Even the aspect of her appearance was puzzling. Her perky amethyst eyes contradicted the things she must have seen and her lively smiles seemed to possess just a bit of sadness in them. Her face was like open book in matters like her everyday ramblings yet she was as shut up as a clam when there was something deeper like her troubled past. She could do peculiar things such as cry without tears and glow without light.
And now she had said she liked to converse, yet she was completely silent. What a strange creature she was.
He could hear her breathe deeply and the wind sweep through Genkai's shrine-like courtyard. "It's beautiful up here." She softly announced with awe present in her voice. And she was right, with the old woman's house up so high; there was a clear view of the plush green trees and of the quiet town below. Not to mention the bright cerulean sky.
"What do you want?" He finally asked, completely bothered by her overall presence and the odd warmth she carried with her. The ferry woman just stared at him for a long time, her magnificent eyes wide and shining and completely unreadable.
"Nothing." She answered with a meek look upon her face and floated away on her oar with a pleasant farewell. He waited until her could no longer see her pink kimono in the distance before slumping in his spot. The fire demon groaned, reluctant to acknowledge that her stare had embarrassed him quite a bit.
If Hiei was certain in one thing, it was that Botan had been wrong in her previous statement; words had been said between them and still he did not understand her at all.