This is just an idea that's been floating around my brain for awhile. Pairings will be Hiei/Kagome. Read and enjoy, review if you feel like it or if you would like to see me continue the fic. Will contain lemons in the future.
Oh yeah, I don't own InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.
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It was freezing. No, freezing doesn't really do justice to the mind-numbing, finger biting, it-hurts-to-breathe frigidity in the air. Kagome had surpassed being merely cold days ago. In fact, it had probably been right when she had first set foot on this God-forsaken mountain.
The rumor of a jewel shard had sent them much further north than in the past. When they had arrived at the base of the mountain, she had been sure she sensed a shard nearby. They decided the shard was probably somewhere on the mountain and they would have to climb up and retrieve it.
After they had climbed for three days and had only gone a quarter of the way to the top, Inuyasha decided to leave Sango and Miroku behind. He could easily carry Kagome and they could travel much faster without the additional humans. That was two days ago. It seemed like two years had passed.
Yesterday it had started to snow, big, fluffy flakes that soon turned into a driving blizzard. Kagome was clinging to Inuyasha's back by sheer willpower alone. Well, that and the fact that her arms seemed to be frozen around his shoulders.
Suddenly she perked up. The jewel shard was coming in their direction. "Inuyasha! The shard is heading this way!" she screamed over the sound of the blizzard.
"How are you going to fight? I can't see anything in this storm," Kagome asked him while trying to see anything other than white.
"Keh, of course you can't! Weak human eyes. I can see fine," he lied. He didn't like lying to Kagome but he didn't want her to know that he was almost as blind as she was. This was going to be a difficult fight.
He pried Kagome's arms off of him and set her on the ground. 'She's going to have to get off of this mountain soon or she will get frostbite,' he thought. He didn't like the blue tinge he could see forming around her mouth, even though she had on a "par ka" as she called it.
"Inuyasha," she whispered, "the jewel shard is really close but it doesn't seem to be moving any more. What's it waiting for?"
Inuyasha had a feeling he didn't want to know. He looked around, trying to spot the elusive demon, or at least smell where he was, but the blizzard was not helping. Suddenly he felt the barest brush of icy fingers across his neck and he heard a grunt from Kagome's direction. He quickly spun around, only to find Kagome missing. "Kagome? Kagome!?! Where are you? Are you ok?" he continued to yell, even though he wasn't getting a response.
Malicious laughter assaulted his ears. "Are you calling for your precious miko? I'm afraid she took a little dive off the cliff, such a clumsy girl. Oh well, it's just you and me now, hanyou. Prepare to die!"
Inuyasha no longer cared about the stupid demon and the shard, he was desperate to get to Kagome. After all, it's not every day you learn your best friend has just been chucked off of a cliff. He made a dash for the edge of the cliff but was harshly thrown back.
"Ah ah, hanyou, you can't run off yet. We haven't even had a chance to be introduced. I am known as Shinbuu. Welcome to my home."
Inuyasha finally got a look at the youkai. He was tall, but not as tall as Sesshoumaru. He had short, spiky white hair and his skin seemed translucent. He had on a thin white shirt and white pants. He was also barefoot. He didn't seem to even notice the biting cold. Overall, he blended into the blizzard much better than Inuyasha would have liked. The only thing that stood out clearly was his eyes. They were like the deepest ocean green and the only color on the youkai. They seemed to glow in the gloom of the blizzard.
'Well shit. I need to beat this guy fast so I can find Kagome, if she even survived the fall from the cliff. Gah! Don't think like that, she is fine. The bitch is too stubborn to die, especially at the hands of a weak youkai like this guy.'
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Kagome was having a decidedly horrible day. Yes, she was alive; well she thought she was at least. It was hard to tell, since she really couldn't feel most of her body anymore. Luckily, she had been practicing how to cast protective barriers with her miko power. She didn't want to worry about Shippo while they were fighting, so she learned how to create a barrier to protect him. It just so happened, in her frazzled state of mind, that she cast a barrier around herself while she was plummeting from the cliff. While the barrier didn't entirely protect her, it did turn the fatal fall into a "that would probably really hurt if I could feel my body" kind of fall.
When Kagome first looked around all she saw was white. It took her a second to realize that she was buried in a snow drift. So, here she was, covered in snow, and finally warm for the first time in what seemed like years. Her brain knew that she was still freezing, but her body didn't believe it. It was only with supreme effort that she managed to drag her body from the drift. As she looked around, she noticed that while she had fallen quite a long ways, she was not at the bottom of the ravine. She had fallen onto a narrow ledge. She knew that she must be hallucinating because she spotted a cave opening that looked like it was lit from the inside. Figuring that any shelter had to be better than the blizzard, she began to crawl toward the entrance.
It was only after Kagome had crawled most of the way into the cave and spotted the fire, did she begin to realize that at least one other person had to be present to keep the fire going. It was with this realization that she finally figured out what her miko had been trying to tell her all along: there was a youkai in the cave, and a powerful one at that. However, Kagome was never a girl to just give up. She had come this far and with heat only a few feet away, she wasn't going to let any youkai keep her from it. She just hoped it was a friendly youkai or at least that it didn't like to eat human women.
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Hiei awoke with a start. Apparently something or someone had just landed on the ledge outside of his cave. Normally, he would rush out and dispose of whatever creature had disturbed his rest; today, however, he was feeling rather lazy and decided to see what became of it. He figured the fall had probably killed whatever it was in the first place. Needless to say he was rather surprised when he heard what sounded like someone crawling in his direction. He had been pseudo-masking his youki to avoid detection, but now it unleashed it in an obvious warning to lower-level youkai to steer clear of the powerful demon housed in the cave.
Whatever was crawling toward him obviously had a death wish, since the increase in youki didn't even cause a pause in the steady crawling. Now Hiei was extremely curious who would bother a high class demon when all they were able to do was crawl. He leaned back against the wall and feined sleep. When he saw the human woman crawl into his cave, he almost swore his jaw hit the ground. Luckily, she appeared entirely oblivious as she continued to crawl into the cave.
Suddenly she stopped and looked around. Hiei didn't know what spooked her, but decided maybe her survival instinct was finally kicking in. Deciding to sit back and watch the show, he continued "sleeping." He could see the girl staring lustily at the fire and he knew from the blue tinge on her lips that she must be freezing. He wondered if she would be stupid enough to try and stay in the cave, but his questions were answered when he heard her muttered "Maybe he's friendly. Yeah right, I just hope he doesn't like the taste of humans."
After muttering some more under her breath, the girl continued to crawl into the cave, curl up by the fire, cast a miko barrier around herself and promptly fall alseep. 'Wait a second! Miko barrier!?! So, that's how she managed to survive the fall. You would think a miko would have more sense than to invite herself into a cave inhabited by a strong youkai,' Hiei thought to himself. 'Stupid girl,' he muttered, only to be surprised when she responded with a sleepy "sit!"