Well here it is, chapter two! I had a bit of trouble out of this as it didn't want to go the way I wanted it to, but I hope it's good all the same.
Also this was forgotten in the last one so it's going to be here:
Disclaimer: I do not own, Yu Yu Hakusho or it's characters. They belong to Yoshihiro Togashi.
I stood there frozen in place for what seemed like an eternity after the light left his once bright green eyes. My told myself over and over again that this was just a dream and I'd be waking up at any moment now, but it never came. I fell to my knees beside the lifeless fox, I just wanted to stay there and will myself out of a nightmare that had just become reality. Something in my mind clicked and I knew I had to tell some one about what happened. I could go to his mother, how in the three worlds was I going to tell her, her son just died from being impelled by a sword. No that wasn't an option, I thought it over for a while until Yusuke suddenly come into my mind.
I stood and picked up Kurama's limp form, I couldn't take him with me, but where was I going to put him, I saw a tall tree nearby I'd put him there and then bring Yusuke here. I flitted to the tree and gently laid him in it. If I hadn't known better I would have said that he was sleeping, the only real give away was the blood stain on his shirt. I wipe unshed tears from my eyes that until now I didn't know were there, and flitted off toward Yusuke and Keiko's place.
I waited outside one of the windows until Yusuke came out of the house to get me. "What the hell are you doing just sitting outside my house?" He asked as I look down at him, with in a blink of an eye I'm in front of him. "You can just walk in, you know your welcome here." He smirked but my face told him to wipe it away or I'd do it for him.
"Come with me." I said simply and my voice held nothing behind it, it was blank. He looked at me for a moment before he nodded. He stuck his head have through his front door and yelled to Keiko that he was leaving with me. With that done I flitted off with Yusuke hot on my heels, being a half-demon he could now keep up with me.
I led him to the forest in a matter of seconds and Kurama's still form was as I had left it. I glance back at Yusuke whose eyes had landed on him the moment we got there. "Please tell me he's sleeping." He asked and I didn't answer. Yusuke made to move but I was quicker and was at Kurama's side with in a half-second.
"Hiei…What happened?" He asked and I turned to him, my ruby eyes shining with hatred for the female kitsune who had fallen my closest thing to a friend.
"A female Youko happened." I said as I pointed in toward where she lay. Yusuke glared at her dead form though there was nothing he could do now.
"What are you going to do?" He asked and I was starting to get annoyed by his questions.
"I, am doing nothing," I said as I turn my gaze away from Kurama to Yusuke, "you on the other hand will be the one to tell his mother." I said as I left.
I didn't go far just far enough to where I knew he wouldn't sense me, and even then I masked my energy. I couldn't stand to be near Kurama any longer.
A few days later Shuichi's wake was held I watched from one of the trees outside the building as many people came and went. Yusuke, Keiko, Kuwabara, and even Genkei and Yukina came. All of them sent silent glances at me as they left. After an hour or two I left and headed for Genkei's temple, I'd stay there for the night.
Upon arriving there Yukina stepped out to greet me. "How are you Mr. Hiei?" She asked and I told her I was fine. She nodded though I could see she knew it wasn't the truth.
"Well…" She paused as if to think something over. "I am sorry for your loss." She offered me a weak smile, and then she surprised me by wrapping her arms around me in a hug.
"I can't believe he's really gone." She said as I heard the sound of the tear gems hitting the ground. I, not knowing what else to do, wrapped my own arms around her and rubbed her back in soothing circles.
After her crying came to an end, she left to go back into the temple, and I couldn't help but notice the slight bum that was now forming on her stomach. I sigh and lean back into the tree I was sitting in. I knew this time would be coming soon, but I didn't think it'd be this soon. I glance toward the temple before I stand in the tree, turn and jump from the branch and flit off.
I find my feet taking me to Kurama's house, most likely out of habit. I stop in the tree outside the window and frown, the room was no difference everything was in its place just as he had left it. The only thing out of place was a vase of flowers on his desk, looking closer I could see a note on it. I open the window slowly and soundlessly so not to alert Shiori. I pick up the vase and look at the note; it was from some kid he had known in his school, although he and most likely this kid were now no longer in school.
I heard the sound of steps on the stairs and leave the room in a flicker of black as Shiori entered the room; she looked around the room for a minute before sitting on the bed and holding her hand to her mouth as she cried. My gaze flicked around the room before coming to settle back on her. Not being able to watch her cry anymore I turn to leave but her voice stopped me.
"Hiei?" Her voice was still heavy from her crying a moment before. "What are you doing in the tree?"
I start to glare at her, but the look on her face stopped me, and I look the other way. At first I say nothing, but I knew if I didn't she wouldn't leave me alone. "I always used to sit here, and watch Shuichi do his homework." I said as my gaze turned to the desk a little ways from the window.
She gave a weak smile, and nodded. "I know, it's so hard to…believe…" She couldn't finish her words before another wave of tears came over her. I felt the need to comfort her in some way, maybe hold her like I had Yukina, but I wasn't used to this feeling so I stayed where I was.
Before I had the chance to do anything or think it over more her husband came in, Kazuya I think that's want Kurama had said his name was. The moment the man's eyes landed on me however they narrowed and he frowned at me coming over to his wife and gently pulling her from the window. "Who are you?" He asked me as I came closer to the windowsill. Shiori looked up at her husband and then back at me.
"This is Hiei dear, he was one of Shuichi's friends." She said as she finally pulled herself together. Kazuya didn't seem to accept that as an answer.
"Most of not been much of a friend, I didn't see him at the wake." I growled at this and slipped through the window to stand in front of them both, my glare toward the man would have seen even some of the more stronger demons packing, but this man didn't even falter.
"I was there, I was there the whole time, I just chose to stay hidden." I said through clenched teeth, and Shiori stepped in between us.
"Now there will be none of that! Kazuya, he was there, I saw him myself. And all have you know he happened to be very dear to Shuichi, if there was anyone other then myself that I trusted to watch over him it was Hiei." She said as she gave me a glance and I nodded to her. My nose catches the scent of roses and I suddenly realize I am in Kurama's room.
I close my eyes to fight the tears I hadn't known were there until now, but one slipped and hit the ground as a black and red swirling gem. Kazuya noticed it before I had the chance to grab it, and picked it up as it had rolled toward his foot. "What is this?" He asked, his face now softer then before, but I could tell he was still wary of me.
Shiori looked it over, then looked over at me. "Hiei, is this yours?" She asked kindly as I step forward to take it from Kazuya.
"No, well yes. It's something I had given to Shuichi. That's one of the reasons I had come here was to get it back." I wasn't truly lying. Kurama did have one of my tear-gems, but not this one. As far as I knew Kurama still had the one I gave him around his neck, just as I now wear a fox-fang along with my mother's tear-gem.
"Oh well, here." She said as she took it from her husband and handed it to me. "I'd better go and start Dinner, The wake lasted longer then expected and I haven't had time to make anything, Hiei would you like to join us?" She offered me a smile that held a sad hint behind it, even if she seemed calm, and somewhat happy on the inside she was still the crying wreak she had been when she first noticed me here.
Just as Kazuya was going to protest I shook my head. "No, I'd best be heading back home myself." She nodded, and she and Kazuya left. I then turn to the window, and flit out it and back toward the temple.
Well there you have it, stay in toned for the next chap, review if you wish, but it is by no means mandatory, I am writing this and posting in the hopes other's will like it just as much as myself. Well until the next chapter,
~Fox.
