-I don't own YYH or any of its characters...I own only Kaliope, Kira and some other characters (those made up). I also own the plot of this fic...read and review...enjoy-
Perfect, but in another way
Chapter 6: Dark roses
"New wind brings new problems, new problems always seem to bring the old ones too" she said as she started to walk towards were she could feel now a fight.
Kaliope was walking when she felt Hiei's energy.
"What the fuck?" she said as she jumbed in a tree to see better. She was running and jumping from tree to tree when she finally got to the point. "Holy hell!" she whispered as she tried to understand the situation. There, in front of her, there was Hiei and her step-brother fighting. Not one with the other...but...HELPING EACH OTHER IN A FIGHT.
'KIRA!' Kaliope yelled in her mind.
"Yeah? People are trying to sleep here" Kira answered in a sleepy voice.
'Move your lazy ass and tell me if those are the ones that killed you!' Kaliope yelled and let Kira see threw her eyes.
"Yeah" Kira said when they switched back to 'normal' (Kaliope in the body and Kira somewhere in her mind).
'Okay now you can go back to sleep' Kaliope said and got out of her conversation with Kira.
'Now let's revenge my best friend' Kaliope thought. "Hey Cheen!" she yelled as she jumped from the tree. She landed exactly in front of Cheen and Hiei. The attackers were mouth opened to see such a beatiful girl like Kaliope.
"What the hell are you looking at?" she asked her eyes a deep green.
"Kali!" Cheen yelled.
"Yeah yeah that's my nickname" she said turning to face her step-brother.
"Oh, hello Hiei" Kaliope said sarcastically.
"Hn" he said.
"You two know each other?" Cheen asked.
"Yeah..." Kaliope said sadly but she turned her gaze back to those who attacked her big brother.
"Who the fuck are you?" she asked pissed.
"Your worst nightmare" one of them said.
"Oh yeah?" she said.
"Yeah" mocked the same one. He seemed to be the boss.
"Kali...I need to tell you something..." Cheen said sadly.
"What?" she asked already knowing what he would say.
"Kira...died" he said sadly.
"I know...she came to me..." Kaliope said.
"That means that she?" Cheen said, hope in his eyes.
"No. She is dead. But she stays in my mind...we kind of share my mind" Kaliope said.
"Uhmm...ok...back to the fight" Cheen said.
Kaliope's gaze again returned to those who attacked her. They looked like thieves. Perhaps a rival band.
"Wanna have the same faith as your little friend that died?" said the boss smirking perverted.
"I think the one that will have her fait is you, bastard!" Kaliope said calmly.
"You have a hell of a mouth. I wonder how good you are..." the man said. Hiei growled undetectable at his statement.
"As good as I can be" Kaliope said.
"Perhaps if you come with us you won't die...but I can't say the same about the boys" the boss said with a smirk.
"I must declain your offer" Kaliope said.
"Why?"
"Because the only band of thieves I would be in is Youko Kurama's and you aren't him" she said.
"So you are a bandit too?" the boss said.
"Yeah and I am better than you, jerk" she said.
The man didn't wait for another word from Kaliope and charged. In Kaliope's right hand appeared her dark sword and it ended in the stomache of the man. He died as he slipped from her sword.
"Who's next?" Kaliope said smirking evilly and the other thieves charged. So did Kaliope. Hiei and Cheen wanted to but they found a shield of energy surrounding them. Kaliope's sword dissappeared as she reached for her two knives. She took them out, their blades shinning in the morning sound. Each blade reached its destination. The belly of all the thieves. After she finished, Kaliope looked at her knives.
"Damn...I forgot my cloth..." she cursed while placing the two knives in their pockets from her boots. Then she looked at the two boys that had weird expressions. Cheen was bored and Hiei was sending Kaliope a death-glare. "You can move now" she said. Cheen rised and went near her.
"So, sis, how've you been?" he asked.
"Well...I was in Ningekai. Came back last night because I was bored there. Foud the village just to see that some unknown bastard killed my mom and all the other maidens. Met a boy here that took me to Ningenkai and introduced me to his friends. Met another Ice-maiden and one of the Grim Reapers, Botna. Ohh and you have 100 guesses to say who I met" Kaliope said smiling.
"Who?" Cheen asked looking at his step-sister.
"Koemna" she said.
"Yeah? How is he?" Cheen asked.
"As muron as ever" Kaliope said smiling. "Oh yeah. Cheen he is Hiei, one of those I met in Ningenkai. Hiei he is Cheen, my step-brother" Kaliope continued.
"Hello" said Cheen.
"Hn" said Hiei.
"Don't worry he always does that" Kaliope said sending Hiei a death glare.
"Ok...Kali...I must tell you something...but please don't be sad..." Cheen started.
"What?" Kaliope asked.
"Father...Kana...died..." Cheen said.
Kaliope's eyes turned the deepest shade of brown ever.
"What?" she cried in a teary voice.
"Yes...they were cought in an ambush and sliced to pieces" Cheen said.
"Sliced to pieces..." Kaliope whispered remebering her dream when Hiei slashed her entire family.
"Sorry" Cheen said hugging his sister.
"It's not your fault" Kaliope aid when they broke the hug. "Who did this?" she asked her eyes turning the deepest shade of green.
"Some thives. We cought them and they are in the hideout's prison. We didn't know how to find you...so we waned to kill them tomorrow...but now that you are here...you can kill them together with me...we have the right to revenge Ryouko and Kana" Cheen said.
"Right" Kaliope said turning to face Hiei. "I will go to the thieves. if you want come, if you don't then don't come. If you go to Ningenkai please tell Koemna that I am fine..." Kaliope said to the Koorime.
"Hn" he said and turned around.
"If you want I can make a portal for you to go in Ningenkai" Kaliope said and her voice was even sadder than before.
'What the fuck? I can't leave her all alone when she has so many things on her head...HEY! Why do I care? I mustn't care!' some seconds past before Hiei's thoughts continued, 'Oh hell I just can't stop caring for this damn onna! Oh damn! I've admitted! DAMN IT!'.
"Who said I am leaving?" Hiei said coldly.
"Then...are you comig with me?" Kaliope asked.
"Hn" he said and came near her. She smiled in her mind but her face was still sad.
"Kaliope!" Kira's voice yelled in Kaliope's mind.
'Yeah?' Kaliope answered in her mind.
"He is coming with you?" Kira asked happy.
Kaliope looked at the Koorime that was near her.
'I guess so' Kaliope answered to Kira in her mind.
"He likes you" Kira said.
'What can he like at a half-bread?' Kaliope said in her mind to Kira.
"Stop calling yourself like that. I know you aren't a full demon or a full maiden but you are you. And yes, he has many things to like at you!" Kira said in a serious voice.
'Like what?' Kaliope asked her.
"Well...you are smart, poweful, stubborn, mean, evil, you control Darkness...and...you know how to care for someone, you know how to love and you may teach him how to care and love" said Kira.
'Kira...' Kaliope said.
"Yes?" Kira answered.
'Tell me were is your grave and I will try to ressurect you' Kaliope said
'Neah...I don't want to live again. I am fine in your mind. If you are fin with it I would like to remain here' Kira said in a happy voice.
'Fine with me. Thank you a lot for being my best friend' Kaliope said to Kira.
They both stoped the mental conversation and Kaliope realized where she was. In her left was Hiei and in her right was Cheen. They were very close to the hideout.
"Cheen" Kaliope said as a whisper.
"Yes, sis?" he said.
"Where is Kira's grave?" she asked.
"I will show it to you when we reach the village. Why?" Cheen said.
"She was and is my best friend. All those who were and still are important to me, even though they are dead, desirve my protection and friendship forever" she said smiling.
"I got your point, Kali" Cheen said. Kaliope's eyes widen when she saw some big, black walls in front of her. That was their hideout. In the middle of a forest, hiden from unwanted glares, hiden from anyone that would harm it.
'I never realized how glad I can be to see those walls' Kaliope whispered in her mind and Kira agreed to her.
"Here we are, sis. Wanna do the honours?" Cheen said. Kaliope nodded and steped forward. She placed her right hand on the hideout's doors and closed her now black eyes. Black energy surounded her hand and from it, it went like a little river but against gravity, up the door. When it reached the top the doors opened with noise.
"Come on" she said to Cheen and Hiei and they both followed her. She entered the hideout. It was like a village. Little houses were everywhere and in the middle of the hideout was a bigger house. It looked like a Japanes mansion but it had rock walls. Its walls were painted in black and red. Kaliope was walking to the house when a little girl with black raven hair came to her. It resembled a lot the girl from Kaliope's nightmare (the one where Hiei kills her family).
"Onee-sama!" the girl yelled and threw herself in Kaliope.
"Dafne!" Kaliope yelled as she hugged the girl.
The little child didn't seem older than 5 years. Kaliope hugged the girl and when they broke the hug, black met dark blue.
"Onee-sama you came back! I am so happy!" the little girl yelled.
"Dafne, I am happy to see you again" Kaliope said to the girl.
"Onee-sama, brother didn't let me go hunting with him! He was mean with me!" Dafne said pointing at poor Cheen. Kaliope started laughing. It wasn't a mean laugh. It was the laugh of a big sister that tries to make her little brothers stop arguing. Hiei noriced that.
'How can she laugh at this sutpid thing? Now that I look better at her she doesn't laugh at the thing itself...but at how the girls said the words' Hiei thought.
"I am not away even a week and you two are already arguing..." Kaliope said laughing.
"Gomene (sorry), onee-sama (big sister)" Dafne said a little sad.
"Hey, Dafne. It's not your fault. If you want to, we can go and hunt together" said Kaliope.
"You say that you stay here sis?" asked Cheen.
"A few days" said Kaliope looking at Hiei who 'hn'-ed and dissappeared into a tree from the forest inside the hideout (the forest was Kaliope's thing...she hated places without forests...so she stealed some magic seeds and made the forest).
Kaliope sighed. She knew he didn't like to stay there.
"When can we go, onee-sama?" asked Dafne with puppy-eyes.
"Tomorrow?" asked Kaliope.
"Yay!" yelled Dafne as she hugged again her step-sister.
"Kali, are we going to Kira's grave?" asked Cheen.
"I wanna come too, please onee-sama?" said Dafne with a pleading voice.
"Ok" said Kaliope smiling.
The three of them started walking to the graveyard of the hideout. Dafne took Kaliope's and Cheen's hands. Kaliope was in the left, Dafne in the middle, and Cheen in the right. They looked happy as they walked. They were the perfect brothers. Cheen cared for his sisters, even thought none was his blood-sister.
Cheen and Kaliope, when they were 10 and 9, found the newborn baby Dafne. They took her back home and Ryouko and Kana adopted her as their daughter. Kaliope and Cheen acted with Dafne as if she was their real sister. They were real brothers, but the only thing was that they didn't share the ame blood, but for them that wasn't important. They loved each other they way he/she was.
The three brothers walked until they reached a graveyard. Dafne shivered and Kaliope took her in her arms.
"There is nothing to fear, Dafne. I am here and I will kick anyone's butt if it tries to tough you, princess" Kaliope said to her little sister.
"Thanks, onee-sama" Dafne answered and broke the hug. The three brothers entered the graveyard. They walked some more and reached a grave. Cheen said to Kaliope that it was Kira's grave. Kaliope sat down on the grass near the grave, Cheen and Dafne left her alone some minutes. They were looking for Ryouko and Kana's graves.
'Hey Kira' Kaliope said in her mind.
'How weird it is to see your own grave...' answered Kira.
'Yeah it is...Now...enough crying because you aren't really dead. You are here and we are best friends like allways. Ohh yeah. We are and we will remain forever sisters-in-law' Kaliope said.
'But Cheen will find another woman and he will forget about me...I bet...' Kira said sadly. (yeah Kira and Cheen were lovers).
'Yeah maybe the thig with finding...but the thing with forgetting you won't ever be true! I will take care of that!' Kaliope said laughing. Kira started to laugh too.
'Now it's time for work' Kaliope said to Kira in their mind when both of them finished laughing. Kaliope placed her right hand above Kira's grave and closed her eyes.
'My best friend. I am sorry I couldn't help. It must have been awafull what you went threw but now it is all over. Glad you could use your powers and come on my mind because we can be best friends even after death. Someone was right when said: "Real friendship lasts even after one dies". We prooved that' here black energy surrounded Kaliope's right hand. 'A dark rose made from darkness will keep you safe. A dark rose will keep away anyone that tries to disturbe your grave and your peace, not that you enjoy peace. A dark rose that will protect...'. The energy around Kaliope's hand became a dark rose that was hanging on Kaliope's hand.
"My best friend forever" Kaliope said aloud and the rose went from Kaliope's hand to the grave and placed itself there, never to be disturbed, never to die, never to fail its mission. Kaliope smiled sadly as she raised from the ground. She looked around and saw her brother and sister smiling towards her. She went to them and the three of them went to the grave of their parents.
Kana and Ryouko had their graves one beside the other.
Kaliope kneeled between the two graves with her right hand over Ryouko's grave and her left hand over Kana's grave. Kaliope closed her eyes.
'You raised me since I got borned. You saved me. You cared for me. You fed me. You kept me warm when I was cold. You were my mom and dad. But I felt in protecting you. I wasn't here to save you. I failed to keep alive those that kept me alive. I swear kill those who dared to touch you. They wiill die by my and Cheen's hands. Their death for yours. It isn't a great thing but that is all I can do. Sorry mama, sorry papa. For not being here I blame myself. Dark roses I order you to protect...' Kaliope said in her mind and two black roses (one in her left hand; for Kana; one in her right hand; for Ryouko;) appeared. They were hanging on her hands.
"My mom and my dad for eternity" she whispered and the two roses felt on the graves, cursed never to be mooved, never to die and respect their master's will for eternity.
Kaliope raised from the ground and turned to face her brothers. They smiled sadly at her and she smiled sadly back to them. The three brothers came back to the big house (there was were they lived). When Cheen and Dafne wanted to enter the house Kaliope stoped and looked towards the forest where Hiei went.
Cheen came to her and put an arm on her shoulder.
"Hey sis. Wanna go after him?" he said.
"Uhmm...kind of...I feel bad that he stayed here even though he doesn't like it" Kaliope said.
"He choosed to stay not you" Cheen said.
"Uhmm"
"If you want to go and talk to him go" said Cheen with a smile on his face.
Kaliope hugged him and she went towards the forest.
She was running threw the forest trying to sense his aura but the damn jerk was hiding it.
'Argh...Hiei you know how to piss someone!' yelled Kaliope in her mind.
'He knows how to piss you that's the thing' said Kira.
'Yeah...you're right...' Kaliope said but before she could continue she saw the Koorime in a tree.
'GOT YOU!' yelled Kaliope and Kira in their common mind in the same time.
They broke the conversation and Kaliope looked up to Hiei. He was sleeping. Kaliope sighed.
"At least he is not in a fight...or killing someone. I think he's bored..." Kaliope said under her breathe and closed her eyes. She turned around in order to go back to the hideout but when she opened her eyes again she saw Hiei in front of her.
"Something wrong, Hiei?" she asked trying to mask the fact that she came to find him. She did a great job in masking.
"Nothing. What are you doing here?" he said, cold voice like always.
"Nothing. Just walking" she said.
He didn't say a thing. They were starring in each others eyes.
"Well...uhmm...Hiei...do you like it here?" Kaliope managed to ask what was in her mind since they reached the hideout.
Hiei took his gaze away.
"Hn" he said jumping in a tree.
"Gues not..." Kaliope said under her breath sadly and starting to walk.
"If you want so much to know...I like it here" Hiei said behind her. She stoped and turned around. Her eyes a deep black.
"Really?" she asked.
"Hn" he said.
Kaliope's eyes became a mixed shade of brown and black.
'Oh fucking hell! What the hell does he mean? He likes it or not?' Kaliope yelled in her mind.
'Kali! Chill out! My ears are more sensitive than his! If you yell like this he would hear you too!' said Kira laughing at the las part.
'Sorry Kira but I am pissed!' said Kaliope.
'Okay Kali but now be the good hostess you aren't and ask the damn Koorime where would he sleep' said Kira joking.
'What? I won't ask him that!' said Kaliope.
'Why?'
'Because normal beings would think bad about the question!'
'He is not a normal being'
Before Kira could say anything else Kaliope broke the conection. She looked up to see Hiei starring at her.
"What?" she asked.
"Hn" he said jumping from is tree.
"What?" Kaliope asked again.
"You were talking telephatic with someone" he said.
"Yeah and?" she asked.
"Who?" he asked.
"What do you care?" she asked in a meaner voice than she wanted.
"Don't answer me with questions" he said.
'Smart boy' Kaliope thought.
"It's none of your business with whom I was talking" she said turning around (again...). She made a few steps but heard only her footsteps and stopped. She didn't turn around to face him.
"Aren't you coming?" she asked.
"Why should I?" he asked.
"Are you going to sleep in a tree?" she said still not turning around.
"That was what I had in mind" he said.
"All right then. See you in the morning. If you want something to eat you find me in the mansion" she said starting to walk again. Her ears picked the noise he made when he jumped back in a tree. Kaliope smiled.
"Hiei..." she whispered so softly that the wind took her words and carried them away from the hideout. Away from Makai, away from Ningenkai. The words stopped at the ears of a girl that lived in Rekai. She had black hair with dark blue strikes. Her eyes had the colour of fire. In her right hand she had a black and red rose. It was made of pure energy. Dark and Fire energy.
"Hiei..." the fire-eyed girl took Kaliope's words further. She whispered the boy's name as she looked at the rose she had in her hand.
-okay so here is chapter 6...in order to update chapter 7 i want 6 reviews...doesn't matter if they are from the same person...hope you like the fic...ja ne-