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Double crossing backstabber
She saw him. Her big doe eyes stared down his frustrated red gaze. She frowned, her hand went to her back under her shirt she ran her fingers over it. It had healed over, the wound; all that was left was the small slit of a scar. It still hurt though, when she thought about it she could feel the blade penetrate her flesh she could feel her hot blood pooling onto the dirt. 'leave it to hiei to take the phrase backstabber literally' She sneered no longer was she in Byakko's layer her mind was elsewhere, back in the demon world back years ago, when she and Hiei were just children, no they weren't children there was no time to be a child in the thick forests of demon world. They had set up camp. She was just laying there she felt content and warm as the sun beat down at her cheeks. She laid there for a half an hour or so till she felt a shade cloud over her. Opening her eyes she could she hiei standing above her. She sat up, he looked very serious, he always did but still it was a different kind of serious, like he was trying to solve a puzzle or something. "What?" She frowned. "Am I sunburned?" She put a hand to her face. He just blinked. "Say something idiot!" She sat up getting ready to walk off.
"Raven" He was still studying her face.
'What?!" She snapped. He pulled at her collar their faces were close real close. "Hiei what in the hell is wrong with you". He kissed her, clumsily with force, neither of them had much experience with the tenderness of affection all the same it was raw and it was wonderful. Her eyes were open with shock, his with determination. When Hiei let go of her collar they just stood there.
"You'll be angry with me soon" He walked over to the other end of the camp. "I wanted to…" He stopped he wouldn't say it he would do it but he wouldn't admit it.
"You kissed me" She said with a question in her voice her fingers at her bruised lip. 'Why would he…' "Hiei you bastard what kind of cruel joke is this?" Her face was red. He didn't say a word. "Damn right I'm angry with you. You shouldn't do that Hiei, kiss people when you don't mean it." She ran out into the woods. She didn't remember if they had followed her or she stumbled upon them she was too angry at the time to know. It took a moment for her anger at Hiei to be overcome by the fear of what had circled her. They were at one time her family, her neighbors her friends, but it wasn't to be. For she wasn't born a fire demon like the proud tribesmen around her, she was born a half breed her mother was from, she was from wherever she stood she belonged to no one, nowhere. Those family members those friends wanted to cage her up like an animal to keep her from disgracing their breed. She had escaped once but they had found her how had they found her. It hit Raven like a ton of bricks "Hiei" She spat at the floor.' You'll be angry at me soon' she remembered the words. "A kiss of death huh".
"Don't be so full of yourself. To think that I placed my lips on a creature that can't even walk into the forest alone without getting caught in a trap" He had his sword drawn. He was grinning ear to ear.
"I'm sorry I don't live up to your high standards" Raven was afraid, she was terribly afraid she didn't want to go back with them. She looked at Hiei trying to cover panic with a sly remark.
"Here thief" One of the nameless faces threw a bag of coins and metals, shiny and valuable gleaming at Hiei's feet. She couldn't believe it she couldn't believe that he would set her up giving her to the highest bidder. Raven turned around and threw a hard punch at hiei. He caught her hand in his. "Come now. Don't get mad get even, they can't hurt you or are you not only clueless but willess" he whispered in her ear. She was fuming flames building under the surface ready to ignite her fists were clenched hard.
"You bastard" Her teeth were grinding. 'Once I get out of this I'll kill you" She swore.
"I'll share the spoils with you" He shrugged. Maybe he didn't understand how much these people haunted her dreams.
"Take your payment and leave Thief" But hiei didn't move his hand just twitched over the handle of his blade.
'I'll be taking it. But I don't exactly plan on holding up my end of the bargain. You call me a thief for a reason, fools, now I see where she gets it from" He sneered. The fight began, they would take her by force if need be. There was death and sweat and blood anger and chaos. And a midst all that Raven made the mistake of tripping backwards as she fell her arm went out to grab out at hiei's shoulder. His fighter's instincts took over and he blindly stabbed backwards.
"Hie.." the name got lost in a scream of anguish Her eyes grew large tears of pain pushing out of the corners her knees buckled she grabbed at her abdomen as she fell to the forest floor. Her blood was so hot as it seeped out of her, Hiei's sword so cold so evil such a bastard it eventually fell from her motionless form. Her thoughts swirled and jumbled. Someone, two people grabbed at her pulled at her she was in a headlock and she doesn't remember anymore she had closed her eyes in hurt both physical and emotional and everything blackened.
"Raven did you see that! I was pretty amazing wasn't I" Kuwabara had a goofy smile on his face he breathed hard and had an air of confidence about him.
"Hmm what?" She looked up from her feet pulled her hand from her scar. "Oh yes. Very good kuwabara very impressive' she walked over, somber and slow. She shook her head 'doesn't really matter now…it was a stupid time and place'. "Hooray kuwabara." She hugged him.
"Geeze Raven do you have fever? You're burning up" He could feel the outrageous heat emitting from the girl. She had been so angry at the memory that her spirit energy burned and smoked beneath her skin. They walked their way in the direction of the next saint beast (I know kuwabara fought Byakko twice but I really have no desire to write about it). Raven was watching chimera weave between her feet as she walked. The cat stopped and so did she. A katana was unsheathed sliced at demon flesh and was dropped to the floor. Everyone turned, there on the floor laid one of the animals that stemmed from byakko's hair, one that had escaped the collapse of the tower. Hiei picked up his sword and turned to Raven, she had been quicker, she had taken his weapon she dropped it to the ground in spite. He swung his sword at her. A smug look was on her face she was crouched on the length of hiei's blade like it was
a wall. She went to kick him but he grabbed her hair and pulled her to the floor hard. Raven spat dirt out of her mouth. She laughed, it was a bit of a release to get some of her anger out she got up and ran at him, but he was gone he was behind her his blade at her throat a smile on his face as well. She reached in her pocket running her hand among the marbles in her pocket. 'Those stupid stones' he chuckled in her head. He pulled off his bandana. They were 'playing' they played harsh and rough the only way they knew how. Friends go to movies and hang out over pizza but Hiei and raven weren't friends. They couldn't completely grasp the word, they were loners and outcasts and bastards and half breads. They were brought together by the fact that they were pushed apart from the rest of the world. They didn't hang out but coexisted and sometimes just sometimes that coexisting was… fun.
'Tell me Hiei what would happen if I punched you square in that stupid jagan of yours' she looked at him mischievously.
'Try me' the blade pulled harder at her neck. It might seem hard to understand how Raven who just relived the stabbing at hiei's hand could spar playfully with the demon but as previously stated she was screwy. The girl didn't want to be gloomy she didn't want to be held back by a memory she'd be no slave to her thoughts. But the memory wasn't done for the day it just skipped hosts.
"Stop it you two" Yuske snapped they had to get going there were still more saint beasts to fight.
"You could hurt someone just attacking people like that. Geeze hiei that's not a toy you could really hurt someone swing that sword around". Kuwabara was right as hard as that was for hiei to swallow the blade he held in his hands had already hurt her horribly.
He had watched her sun bathe she looked so peaceful he saw her innocent pleased smile curl over her lips. He was having regrets. They had found him the day before while he was walking the forest's edge. A small group of fire demons part of a tribe a society of a particular breed. They smelled familiar they smelled like his companion, like raven. They had a proposition for him all he had to do is stay in the area with the 'mutt' that's what they had called her. They would come and take their mutt back to its cage and in reward Hiei would be compensated with precious stones and metals. He thought them to be dimwitted fools did they know who he was? The forbidden child, himself half fire demon, half ice apparition they would die at his feet. He would give Raven the revenge she deserved. But as he watched her in the sun his stomach knotted what if she didn't find his trick cunning and acceptable. Would she think of him as a double crosser for accepting their bribe even with no intention of letting her go? What would he do if she left? The muscles of his group of thieves were good only for that, muscle he had relied on raven to keep his mind from going stale. He needed her to balance him he was far better with her than without, even his fighting had improved through their constant quarrels and fights. He needed her, the thought paralyzed him. He walked over to her, blocking her sun. Raven's eyes fluttered open staring at him. She looked so concerned. He was so angry with himself; he had been short sited and hadn't thought of what the repercussions might be. He could lose her. This stirred feelings in the demon they too made him angry, she did that from time to time she made him feel. He hated that about her, feelings were for the weak. But for just a moment he could be weak this might be the last moment he
shared with her. He pulled her close to him. He could feel her body tense she was unsure of what was going on. And so was he, but one of those feelings overcame him and he pressed his lips hard to hers. It felt like a damn broke he felt warm and hungry and he wanted her it was animalistic and laced with those cursed feelings. She thought he had been joking. Indeed that would've been a cruel joke to play. "But it wasn't a joke. I did mean it." he watched as she huffed her way out into the wilderness. He let her go he sat arms folded tucking his feelings away they brought nothing but trouble. But then he remembered with a jolt he stood. The whole reason this had started, the fire demons. He ran after her hoping he wasn't too late. He saw Raven realize what he had done, she was hurt and angry and she would never forgive him. But he would drag her back to camp if he had to, force forgiveness down her throat. He still wanted her, needed her. He told those wicked demons that he had double crossed them. He hoped that calmed her down just a bit, but he had begun to ice over again he had started to calm he didn't wouldn't care so harshly about her thoughts of him. The fight quickly broke out this brought him out of his weakness his hunger for fighting was stronger than any other hunger he could have. Something bumped into him a foe trying to attack him from behind. Hiei didn't even turn thrusting the sword back he felt it connect as he pushed it straight through the flesh he had skewered. His ears rang as he heard the beginning of him name then a trembling yell. He turned, her knees crumpled then down to the earth Raven fell, there was so much, too much blood. And there it was his sword that he had so powerfully attacked with was sticking tauntingly out of her tense and battered body. He was frozen in place by what he had done. Noticing too late that a fire demon had lifted her up.
"Get your hands off her. Don't you dare touch her. I'll kill anyone that moves" he grabbed at Raven's shirt trying to pull her away his teeth clenched as he saw her mouth begin to stain with blood. The fire demon had her in a headlock as he pulled her away from hiei. He couldn't kill him without killing her and the despicable enemy was counting on it for sure. Hiei stood still in a fighting stance as he watched Raven battle for consciousness…she lost. They disappeared into the forest and Hiei was left with a few dead bodies and a pool of Raven's blood that had smeared over his 'reward'. He was as bad as his enemy, worse he had created the whole situation and then he had stabbed her ruthlessly in the back. But he would fix it he would kill them all; those demons would be extinct before they put her in a cage. He would make sure of it.
'Raven I' once in the present he looked at her. She might not have a jagan eye but she knew what he was thinking of.
'Hiei no apology will ever do' she looked over to the nearest door. 'But I don't hate You Hiei jaganshi; I would've died long before without your help and security that puts me in debt to you, you bastard. Guilt tripping will get you nowhere maybe that sword of yours is better suited for a saint beast's flesh' She walked away leaving Hiei to question where they stood and where that positioning would lead them. 'Hopefully nowhere' as burdening as this standstill was, moving forward or backward could damn them both. He scowled 'I won't be weak not again not ever'. He followed behind the group.
'Who said anything about an apology I couldn't pretend to care about your opinion of me'. 'It was your fault in the first place' He was cold and emotionless; he would remain that way forever. She spun around.
'You're right it was my fault for not seeing you as the bastard you are. I change my mind I do hate you why try to be civil and understanding when the person can't care less. I'm sorry hiei for ever thinking you were anything more than a thief a killer. I really am an idiot for thinking you…you cared for anyone but yourself. I'm a fool I really am I didn't hate you all this time cause I didn't want to I really liked you hiei and as fake as that kiss was it meant something to me. But I was wrong, I was hopeful. But hope like luck is for the weak. Looks like I'm shit out of both. Maybe now I can be strong like you. Only the strong can stand alone' She passed the whole group storming to the door.
So what'd you think? I fairly like this chapter. Well anyway as per usual I would love comments good bad or indifferent about the story. Next chapter will be coming…whenever the hell I feel like it.
