To He Who Broke My Heart
By: Demon Hiei's Girl (Demon Usagi)
Chapter Seven
Standard Disclaimers Apply
Author's note: I didn't forget about this fic. I'm still here. :D
Keiko bolted off running. She didn't know where she was going, but she did know that she had to get out of there fast...especially before the girls had a moment to question the poor brunette. Random thoughts entered Keiko's brain at an alarming rate. Most of the many questions that had been floating around her head started with the word 'why'.
She couldn't stop the tears that were falling freely from her pale cheeks that became increasingly pinker with each hot tear that rolled down her delicate face. She used the back of her dirty sleeve in attempt to wipe them away as she skidded passed many pedestrians on the sidewalk. She was almost home.
The front door slammed open, then closed, as Keiko's furiously hard footsteps came booming through the house to her room. Her parents gave each other a curious look before Mrs. Yukimura decided to go comfort her daughter. She seemed distraught lately, but not that distraught.
"Keiko?" the woman asked, lightly tapping Keiko's shut, bedroom door. "Keiko, open up."
"It's over!" she shouted, though her voice seemed muffled as if she was face first in her pillow. Mrs. Yukimura heard that her child was still crying, and that the young girl's chest was heaving with uneasy breaths.
"What's over, dear?" Mrs. Yukimura tried to comfort, silently wishing the door wasn't locked.
"Yu...Yusuke..." Keiko tried to huff out as her crying started to die away and her body started to calm down. It felt so hard to breathe...
"Yusuke?"
"Yes! It's over! I'm done! He's done! I..." Keiko swallowed a fresh flow of tears. "I don't care anymore!" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Luh..." Botan tensed. "Love? Are you insane? I think you must be drunk." Yusuke groaned now himself. How dense his team could be. Speaking of his team, Kuwabara and Kurama, although originally too far away to understand the complete just of what was going on, started inching closer to the women, Yusuke, and Hiei. The two stopped moving when they were directly behind their male comrades, where as the girls were in front of them. Kuwabara suppressed the urge to ask Urameshi why he had his arm wrapped around Hiei protectively.
"Who's drunk?" he managed to ask instead. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife, and everyone present knew it.
"Yusuke obviously since he's sputtering out nonsense!" Botan spat with a touch of hysteria in her voice. How could Yusuke do this to Keiko?
"Nonsense?" Kurama questioned, raising an eyebrow to the group. "Elaborate."
"He says he's in love with Hiei and not Keiko! Ridiculous isn't it? What have you been smoking, Yusuke, really?"
"Ahh. I thought so." Kurama mused to himself. Kuwabara looked at Kurama like he was a three headed alien.
"What do you mean, 'thought so'?" Kuwabara asked flabbergasted.
"Nothing," Kurama replied, scratching the back of his head. "I just assumed Yusuke had a thing for Hiei. And I guess I was right."
"What a horrible thing to say!" Botan shouted at the fox, eyes brimming with tears. "Don't any of you feel sorry for Keiko who had to witness this?"
The other girls had kept their mouths shut while Botan ranted, which wasn't unlike her really. But Yukina couldn't help but cough up an 'ahem'. Botan eyed the girl curiously and the shy girl put her hand up to her chest in her trademark pose.
"Botan," Yukina started, shifting her weight. "Keiko is not the only one among us with feelings."
Botan gave Yukina a skeptical look, and Yukina bit her lip. "I'm just saying, it's not up to you who and who can't mate with Yusuke..."
Yusuke couldn't suppress the grin that formed on his lips. Even Hiei looked up to his sister with that comment.
"Good point." Kurama said with a half smile, eyes beaming at the Koorime woman before them. For someone so naive, she sure was mature.
"Geez, Urameshi, do you always hafta be an oddball." Kuwabara sighed. "You never were one to conform to the standard 'normal'." Both Kurama and Yusuke chuckled at that. Botan, however, did not see the situation as 'funny'. Somewhere her best friend was suffereing while the one who caused her such misery was laughing with his buddies. She knew deep down Yusuke must still have feelings for Keiko. He was probably just acting out as a horny teenager. Which could only mean the one at fault must be...
Botan, though not at hard as she could have, whiffed Hiei across the face with her outstretched open palm. All attention immediately returned to her. Hiei slowly brought his own hand to touch the reddening mark on his cheek. His eyes were focused elsewhere like they had been the entire time. He knew Botan was going to hit him, but didn't dodge it. He couldn't comprehend why Yusuke was taking this so lightly...why any of them were taking this so lightly...Except Botan, of course. Hiei figured he deserved what he got. Yusuke's eyes widened at Botan.
"You knew he had Keiko, Hiei. You had no right to advance on him like that." Botan said, voice cracking despite her calm demeanor.
"Actually," Yusuke growled, cradling Hiei in his arms, "I put the moves on him, not vice versa."
"You're lying," Botan said, eyes still weeping out miniature streams. "You wouldn't do that to Keiko!"
Now Yusuke's eyes looked distant. "She'll be better off without me."
Botan shook her head, and turned around bolting towards the direction Keiko went off earlier. Once she was out of sight, Yukina crouched down to her still-seated brother.
"Does that still hurt?" she asked quietly, referring to the mark Botan left of Hiei's face.
"...no."
"Are you sure? I'll heal it for you." Yukina comforted. She didn't like the look in her twin's eyes, but couldn't help but think he looked safe in Yusuke's arms. How she wanted to make sure he'd always be safe now that she had him again after so many years of separation...
"No. Let it stay there. I deserved it."
Yusuke gaped. "You don't mean that! Botan was being bitchy, but it's nothing too terribly unlike her. She'll come around; she's just worried about Keiko."
"I shouldn't have interfered..." Hiei rested his other cheek on Yusuke's chest. Yusuke sighed. The one who shouldn't have interfered was Botan...
End chapter seven
Author's note: Short ass chapter? Why yes it is! But I hope you liked it nonetheless. XD Feedback always welcomed. See you next chapter!
