Impressions

Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Yu-Yu Hakusho, I just torture the smexii characters

Also, I do not own the lyrics to "I feel you" by Three Doors Down. I am simply not that talanted

Chapter One: "I Feel You"

"They gave me a life that's not so easy to live
And then they sent me on my way..."

It was a Tuesday, in Ningenkai, Hiei guessed, when he first saw her. She was swinging on a small red swing that hung from a giant Sakura Tree that was in the middle of a small playground that connected to a larger building. Her name, was Reese.

She had caught Hiei's attention, because she was the only one playing away from a large group of small ningens like herself. She was also the only one that had her shoulder length black hair pulled back into childish pig-tails. She wore a soft pink tank top with a small jean skirt and white sneakers, that had the curly little shoestrings hanging off them, so she would not have to tie them.

"I left my love and forgot my dreams
I lost them along the way..."

Hiei watched her intently from the tall tree he was hiding in the shadows in. He watched as she stop pumping herself on the swing and allowed herself to come to a stop. Her small frail body slid from the swing and onto the rubber ground. Skipping, she went over to the large group of children. A huge smile was on her face. She first went up to the section that were of girls her age. Hiei went to the edge of the branch so she could hear what was being said.

"Hi. My names Reese. Do you mind if I play with you?" Reese asked this of course, with the huge smile that always adorned her face. Her two front teeth were missing.

With sweeping glance from a girl that was larger then her, a curt reply was heard. "No"

"Those little things you say
When words mean so much.."

Reese's smile never left her face, but a sadness that only Hiei seemed to notice crept into her eyes. "Okay. I'll be on the swings if you change your mind!" With a small wave she skipped back over her swing, climbed back on it, and began to swing again.

Hiei watched her. Why did the other children reject her?

"Children, Snack time!!!" A woman's voice called out around the playground over the children's laughter and screams.

All the kids went running towards the open door that lead into the building, Reese skipping there, already last in line.

As she grabbed her napkin full of saltine crackers and a spoon of peanut butter, she went back over to her swing, sat down on it, and licked the peanut butter from the spoon before touching the crackers.

As Reese enjoyed her treat, the girl Reese had approached earlier was coming up behind her. She tapped Reese on the shoulder.

"Hey Reese. I decided you can play with me. Since your not swinging on the swing, may I swing on it and you push?" The girl asked. Even from where Hiei was, he could hear the deceit dripping from he voice. .

Reese finished the cracker in her mouth and gave the girl a smile. "Sure!" She said, jumping off the swing. The larger girl climbed onto the swing, and Reese went behind her.

Reese gave the girl a gentle push to begin with, and suddenly the girl flew out of the seat, face planting on the ground.

A shrieking wail split the air.

"AHHHHHHHH! REESE PUSHED ME OFF THE SWING!!!!" More cries followed. Reese stood there stunned, her arms still out in front of her as if she was going to push the swing again.

A low growl came out of Hiei as he watched two women run over. One to the fake, crying girl, and the other one over to Reese.

"Reese Blood! How could you!" The other woman scolded as she grabbed Reese's arm and began to pull her over to a corner.

"But I-" Reese tried to protest, but was cut off from another loud wail form the other girl.

Reese swallowed hard as the teacher looked down at her with a glare. She sat Reese down in the corner.

Even though Hiei could not hear it, he could smell the salt from where he sat.

Reese Blood sat in the corner the entire time during recess.

Hiei slept in the tree while Reese went inside the large building. He awoke when a piercing ring ran through out the air.

On his guard, he watched as some small, some larger kids filed out through the main doors, all walking to either buses, or to their parents that stood outside.

Reese was once again the last one out of the mob. Her childish pigtails swung from side to side as she held the straps of her backpack. Hiei watched as her smile met her eyes for the first time that day, as she ran to a man.

"Daddy!" She cried as she wrapped her arms around his legs. He gave the girl a small affectionate pat on the head, and then took her hand guiding her down the sidewalk.

"How was your day?" He asked the small girl. She smiled and rambled on about her day, Hiei following watching, and listening. from the trees. He had found his target. Finally.

"You never back down
And they all shy away
You always listen to me..."

As Hiei listened to the girl rambling on about her day, he noticed she left out the part about the girl denying her to play with her, and then framing her.

A small beeping tune made the girl stop mid-sentence about the dolls she had played with that day, and a small true, frown appeared on her face. Her father threw her an apologetic look.

"Work?" The small word the girl uttered held a million emotions.

Her father nodded. "Listen hunny, you know I have to go. Mommy's home waiting for you. You can get back yourself, can't you?" He paused as she nodded her head. "That's my girl. Love you. See you tonight!"

He kissed the top of Reese's head and ran off in the opposite direction that were heading. "Love you to Daddy!" She stood there and waved at his retreating figure until she could no longer see him.

"And what do I get,

to get me through these sleepless nights?..."

Hiei watched as she clutched the straps of her backpack tighter, her head hung on her chest as she began walking.

They were walking through a park now, well at least Reese was. Hiei was still following from the tree tops.

Reese suddenly lifted her head, as if in anticipation of something, and then started skipping. Hiei looked ahead from his perch, to see what could have gotten the girl in such high spirits.

It was an ice cream vendor.

Hiei sat in a tree, across from the vender as the small girl paid for two cones of ice-cream, and started walking again. One cone in each hand, she only licked the white colored one.

"And what do I have,

to hold when no one's there to hold me tight..."

Reese sat down on a bench that was near a lake. No one was around, and Hiei settled in a tree that was directly above Reese.

"You can come down now, ya know."

Hiei raised an eyebrow, wondering who the girl was talking to, until she looked directly up at him, locking his eyes with hers. He then noticed her eyes were a light shade of purple. Odd..

"Yes, you. The one in the trees whose been following me all today. Do you want some Ice Cream? I can only give it to you if you come down." She then moved her back pack onto the ground, so there was enough room for Hiei to sit down.

He dropped from the branch and onto the bench. Reese never looked at him as he did this. Her only interest at the moment seemed to be the heavenly white goodness in her hand.

"How did you know I was there?" Hiei asked gruffly as he settled down into the bench.

She shrugged. "I don't know. I just sort of...felt you. Want your ice cream now? Hurry before it melts."

Hiei stared at the onna, and then took the ice cream from her hand.

"And what do I see?,

The only thing that gets me through this,

is what I feel and I feel you..."

Hiei glared at the sticky, dripping, cold, "Chocolate Ice Cream" that Reese had called it. Hesitantly, he stuck his tongue out and tasted it, as he had seen Reese do.

That was where his addiction had begun. He then licked at the ice cream, as if it was his last meal for awhile.

"So what's your name?" Reese asked as she took a bite out of the cone.

Hiei stopped for a second to answer, he paused, and then answered. "Hiei"

"Hiei..." Reese repeated, allowing it to roll off her tongue. She nodded in approval. "Hiei. I like it."

Hiei started at the small onna next to him. He bit into the cone, as she had done. "Were you judging my name?" He asked.

Reese finally turned her head towards him and smiled. "Of course. A name is a very important thing!" She exclaimed.

"And what if you hadn't liked it?" Hiei asked with a small frown. His 'sweet snow' as he had now dubbed it, was gone. And he wished for more.

Reese studied his for a moment, and then handed Hiei the rest of her cone. "I would have nicknamed you of course" She said softly.

Hiei stared at the onna, trying to figure her out. Eyeing her once more, he took the rest of her cone, and continued to eat it.

She smiled as she watched him, and leaned back on the bench, watching the clouds pass overhead.

"Onna...that girl at school...why was she-"

"Mean to me?" Reese cut him off as she sat back up, offering him a small, sadder, smile. He nodded and finished off the ice cream.

She sighed and jumped up off the bench and pulled her backpack onto her back. "Walk with me?" she asked, and then left no room for argument as she began walking in the direction of her house.

Hiei growled aster the onna, but let out a soft "hn" and followed her.

"And this ain't no bed of nails
But there not roses just the same ..."

"I'm not normal" Reese started off the conversation like that. Hiei stuffed his hands in his pockets, and waited for the onna to continue.

"I...see...yes, I guess that's the best way to explain it, I see things people can't. People's...aura's. I guess are what they're called." Reese trailed off into thought. '

Hiei looked at the onna. She was a ningen, and only at the young age of, 7, Hiei guessed, was she so intelligent.

"Well anyways, I used to tell people what color their aura was, and they'd...freak out. That was how I first began my reputation. Then one day, a man came by and started talking to me. His name was Nick. He was really nice. When I introduced him to my teachers, they all told me no one was there. It was then that I realized I could see and talk to...ghosts." Reese paused in her story as she looked up at Hiei, who had his eye brows raised.

She laughed a little and then smiled. "You must think I'm crazy, don't you?"

Hiei shook his head. "Hn." He figured since there could be demons, there might as well be ghosts.

Reese sighed. "Well, you're the only one. I convinced my parents that I do not see them anymore, but everyone else... won't accept me." A forlorn look came into Reese's eyes. And for a second, Hiei felt pity for the girl. But only for a second.

"God this road sure can be long
Another endless day,

another seven hundred miles that'll take me further from my home..."

"Why don't you fight back, onna?" Hiei asked as they came out of the park.

Reese laughed. "And what would be the use of that? It would just get me more in trouble. And besides. Why should I punish them for something I can't understand? Just because I'm different and they won't accept me, even though they should, its just because they don't understand. And they're afraid. No one should be punished because they are scared."

Hiei scoffed, but saw the logic of the girl. Even though she was young, her wisdom surpassed his in years.

"Wise of you onna. Age is not everything, you are proof."

Reese smiled. "Thank you, Hiei. That meant a lot."

"Those little things you say
When words mean so much.."

"You know..." Reese ventured as they continued walking. "You're the first person I have talked to that hasn't run away, or called the people in the white coats. Thank you, also, for that." Reese smiled Hiei's way.

"Hn"

Hiei only believe Reese, because he himself had been told that spirits ghosts do exist. It could also be the fact that he was a demon himself.

Reese suddenly stopped, and turned to face Hiei. He stopped and faced her as well. He then noticed the height difference. She was a head shorter then him.

"Why?" Reese asked, wanting to know for all the world, why he was the one should being, that listened to her. And possibly believed her.

"You never back down
And they all shy away
You always listen to me..."

Hiei raised an eyebrow at the onna, and then continued walking. "Hn. Baka onna."

Reese watched him for a few seconds, and then giggled. She ran to catch up with himand when she did, she jumped up and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

It stopped Hiei frozen in his tracks.

"Thank you, Hiei. For believing me. Even though you won't tell me why you do..." Reese trailed off.

Hiei was trying to mask the heat that was spreading to his face.

Reese looked towards the setting sun, where her house sat just beyond that. "I have to get home now, Hiei. It was nice meeting you." She looked towards Hiei, and found he was gone.

"Hm. What a strange man" Reese concluded as she walked up the hill towards her house.

"And what do I get,

to get me through these sleepless nights..."

Hiei quickly found Reese's house. After going over the hill, there was a small path way that lead to a small cottage on the out skirts of town. No one else lived near. Hiei walked up to the front door, and tried the handle. It was open.

He walked in and shut the door softly behind him.

A small tune met his ears. A woman was in the kitchen cooking. It was Reese's mother. He drew the Katana from the confines of his cloak.

"Reese, dear, is that you?" The woman called out, her tune stopping She came out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a towel.

She instantly saw Hiei. She frowned.

"Oh. Sorry dear. Are you a friend of Reese's? Is she here?" Her mother asked, a small smile lighting her lips.

Hiei closed his eyes for a split second, and then re-opened them.

The woman never saw the flash of the Katana. He granted her a swift and quick death.

Cleaning off his Katana, Hiei headed off in the direction Reese's father had taken off in.

He closed the door behind him. Knowing the woman's head that was rolling farther away from her body, still had the soft smile on it from thinking of her daughter.

"And what do I have to hold ,

when no one's there to hold me tight.."

Reese smiled as she saw the smoke pouring out of the chimney from her home. It was small, but it was home. She inhaled the delicious aroma in the air. Even from so far away, she could smell her mother's delicious cooking. She only hoped her daddy would be home to enjoy it to.

As she took her time to her house, she felt Hiei's presence again, but only for a small second, and then it was gone. Curiosity got the best of her and she turned to look over her shoulder, and found nothing.

Shrugging, she continued on.

"And what do I have to hold,

when no one's there to hold me tight..."

Reese's thoughts then went to her new friend she had met today. Hiei.

She had felt his powerful gaze on her when she had gone on the swing. He had been sitting in a branch in the large oak tree over the playground of her school.

The first thing that had gotten her attention to him, was his strange Aura. His main aura was a light reddish blue. Almost a purple. It seemed as if two different auras were conflicting against each other.

She had never encountered that before. But to top it off, it seemed as if his strange aura was tinged with black. That was what had stumped her.

The second thing that caught her attention was the fact he was sitting in a tree. But she hadn't dwelled much on the fact, seeing as she did it many times to. And the final thing that caught her attention, was the fact she seemed to be the one that held his total attention.

That had been the clincher.

Reese was glad he had followed her and that she had been able to talk to him. She had made her first friend.

And with a blush she remembered giving him the small peck on the cheek. Maybe she should leave that out when she told her mom.

Reese turned the brass knob, and opened the door, a smile lighting up her features.

"Momma I'm ho-"

Reese took one look at her mothers decapitated body, and fell to the floor.

A scream that made the dead turn in their graves shook the setting horizon.

"And what do I see?

the only thing that gets me through this,

is what I feel and I feel you..."

Hiei felt the scream rattle his bones as he took his Katana from the dead body of Reese's father.

He had forgotten Reese would see her mother. How could he have made a terrible mistake? His mission was to not harm the girl, but her parents.

His mission was to not also talk to the girl. To late for both.

Hiei closed his eyes in regret, and plunged his Katana into the blood soaked grounds. He fell to his knees, the sword being the only thing holding him up.

He knew the girls life had just gone from bad to worse, and he had been the cause of it.

A weird feeling tingled from his chest to his face.

"Good work, Hiei Jaganshi. You have earned your bread." Hiei never turned to face his boss, the leader of the gang of thieves Hiei had been taken in by.

"Hn" Hiei mumbled.

"Return with us to Makai, and join us in a feast of the great fall of Spirit Detectives" Hiei's leader commanded. Hiei nodded and got to his feet, heaving his Katana out of the ground and walking towards the portal.

With a pained look, he watched as Reese's fathers blood soaked into the ground, and lifeless eyes looked up into his.

Hie heart went out to the girl, and he jumped through the portal.

"I know what you're going through now
Believe me I live this..."

Reese closed her eyes as she finally made it to the scene where the 'presence' had taken her.

To her fathers murder scene.

She was parentless. The only people she loved, were gone. She was abandoned, hopeless, dreamless, and unloved now.

She was a lost cause. A disaster.

She was parentless.

Reese's small frame racked with sobs as she threw her body onto her fathers cold dead one, soaking herself in his blood. She prayed to see their ghosts, but she would never get her wish.

After hours of crying, her tears stopped, though the skies now cried their own.

One last tear fell. She had no one.

"And what do I care to get me through these sleepless nights"

She was alone. Utterly and absolutely, alone.

"And what do I have to hold when no one's there to hold me tight"

She felt his presence still. Their murder's presence. She felt him. But did not know who or what was him. Because certainly, a human could not have done this. No. No, it had to have been a demon.

A glint to her left caught her eye. It was the presence.

She lifted her hand to the small crack in the ground, and fished through the puddle till she held something in her hand. The presence was over whelming her now. She opened her small palm.

It was a black tear shaped gem lined in blue.

She held it close to her heart, and wished with all her might, this presence would just go straight to hell.

She could feel him.

And it killed her.

She would kill him.

"And what do I see the only thing that gets me through this is what I feel

and I feel you."

A/N: tell me if i should continue or not? it will take an entirely different way in the second chappie

thanks