As the words left the twin's mouth almost everyone silenced. Hiei stared blankly at Yuusuke's limp body in his arms. His tear gems almost as black as the hole in his chest as they lay on the ground. Little noises still being made as they fell. The words he heard, the meaning he didn't understand. It was almost as if someone was messing with him. He saw it with his own eyes just as everyone else did when they had arrived to see Yuusuke on the ground. Yuusuke was dead, he was sure of that. The boy had been killed saving…him from death. It took all of Hiei's will power and more not to slit his own throat then and there. His mate, HIS Yuusuke, his…savior was dead and all because of him. If he would have saw it for what it was. Yuusuke would sill be alive, he should have stopped him, it should have been him, not Yuusuke, him dammit.
"Come back Yuusuke, Dammit, you weak ningen. Don't die on me now. I need you dammit." Hiei yelled as the tears continued. It didn't matter, let them hear. He thought, he wasn't anything without that damn human. He HAD nothing without him.
"Then you go and fucking die. I should have killed you myself because that's how it feels." Hiei hugged Yuusuke to him tightly. It didn't matter, not anymore. Hiei held Yuusuke as tight as he could. Thinking somehow it would bring the boy back, but it didn't and he continued to cry.
"Dammit Hiei look at me." Kurama yelled grabbing the fire koorime's hair and jerking his head up. Kurama slapped Hiei as Hard as he could. Staring defiantly into death's eyes, Kurama attempted to take Yuusuke form Hiei. He was expecting a fight, probably to the death for the boy's body. He could see it in Hiei's eyes. What he wasn't expecting however was the look of pain and nothingness in his friend's eyes, and when Hiei opened his arms Kurama almost gaped. Slowly and cautiously, as if approaching a wild animal, Kurama took Yuusuke from Hiei, barely flinching as the look of utter defeat on Hiei's face.
It hurt to see Hiei like this and it hurt everyone even more to see Yuusuke dead. Although by their standards the boy had died many times, yet somehow they all thought that he would always be there for them, always be their savior. They thought he was invincible, that he would be there forever. They were wrong.
"So that is it the, he's dead." Hiei whispered out brokenly, his shoulders already starting to shake again. The entire time at some level in his complex mind Hiei knew Yuusuke was dead, but it took his best friend pulling his mate's dead body out of his arms for it to finally and fully set it. Kurama stared in amazement as Hiei's power went unchecked; Hiei had lost it all after gaining so much. Someone he loved who in turn loved him.
"I see you've found your pet." Sensui cooed like the megalomaniac he was. Hiei lifted his head slowly and stared at the man before anyone could even blink though he was gone, and Sensui's face was in the dirt. Hiei's hand wrapped in his hair tightly as he held a sword in the other.
"You killed him, again. I didn't let you leave a live the first time, and I'm sure as fucking hell you won't be leaving a live this time." Hiei's arm flared with power as his bandages burned away, and before anyone could even do Anything Hiei had set his dragon on him. The difference this time was that Sensui didn't know what to expect, and he pulled the same idiotic move that Yuusuke did, and he realized it to late, because his skin was burning away and he felt the same excruciating pain that Yuusuke had only minutes before.
Kurama stood there and watched, holding Yuusuke's body as one of his best friends killed himself from the inside out as he slaughtered his lover's murderer. How could you Yuusuke, how could you do this to Hiei? Kurama thought in jealous rage before he finally understood what had transpired.
Yuusuke died for Hiei, Hiei thinking Yuusuke was real when he was playing the role as Sensui's pet. He had gone from loving the detective to hating him as he died to save him, when Yuusuke was acting the entire time. Yuusuke had died thinking Hiei hated him. Hiei's cries rang through the debris as his emotions ate away at him.
"I wasn't weak, you made me like this! I HATE YOU!" he yelled tears rolling down his face again as his power slowly engulfed him to the point he was surrounded in a purple youki. As a light blue almost white twined through it.
"How the hell could you do this Yuusuke? Every time you do something for yourself, you go off and die like a repent almost! I hate you. I hate you!" Hiei cried, decades of emotions flowing through his body, over whelming him.
Blood red gems hitting the floor as the youki around him ran through them. Kuronue walked up behind Kurama, carrying Serenity and Tranquility, who were trying to get as close as they could to Hiei and Yuusuke. Kuronue came to a halt as the twins ran their hands over Yuusuke's forehead.
Kuronue and Kurama both felt the jolt of reiki zap Serenity and Tranquility. At the insistent tug of his vest, Kuronue finally let the children down. The twins stumbled slightly, pushing Kurama and Kuronue's help off as they walked straight for Hiei. The fire koorime's energy, unlike with Kurama had not pushed them away. Or throw them back. It let Serenity and Tranquility pass by unscathed.
"Hiei," They said, but it wasn't really them. They sounded different, a lot different. The twins looked lucid to the demons standing behind them, as they walked blindly towards Hiei. His energy flowing rapidly as Serenity and Tranquility approached him. The purple changing to mix with the more rapidly growing blue. Hiei was still roaring in pain, stones everywhere as Serenity and Tranquility were but a foot away from him.
"Hiei," They called again. Their voice not their own. "Young koorime who wields towards himself." They said as one. He turned his head to stare into mismatched eyes, as Tranquility and Serenity were no long two twins.
"What do you want?" He asked sullenly. Watching the 'two' as if he was a caged animal.
"We want to help you, a savior like Yuusuke and yourself should not live a life of misery. Nor should the fates begrudge you." They said as they came face to face with Hiei. The energy flaring around them a light blue mixed with purplish black.
"What are you talking bout, he's dead, can't you see that!?" Hiei practically yelled, frustrated. His only emotion anger as he stared fiercely at them.
"Yes, he is clearly dead, as clearly as I am not whom you think I am." They answered, causing Hiei to stop short in his verbal attack.
"Who are you then?" He growled, looking at the two as he saw them as one. There was a full moon upon their forehead, and the hair now became silver, a perfect mix of their black and white hair.
The eyes where mismatched, and they were…not man or woman. They were just there.
"I am Midoriko." Kagome gasped as she leant against Sesshomaru. "Yes, young Miko. I am the lady of legend. And as I stand here before you, I am the jewel. Everything that you've worked so hard to keep safe, and that which vanished for years, was under your protection to this day."
"That doesn't answer my question woman." Hiei hissed.
"It means, young Koorime, that I am the power that will bring this young hero back. He is too…pure and free to be killed. He is one of the few people who I've seen through History who hasn't been corrupted by the power he has be given. He hasn't been tainted, so now, he won't be tainted by death either." Hiei looked down at his hands and slowly the blue became stronger and the purple faded out.
Kurama couldn't even stop Yuusuke's body as it left his grasp. It was silent as everyone watched the woman beckon Yuusuke's body towards her. Her hands laying on his chest as she forced the jewel out of her body and into his, as soon as the jewel left Serenity and Tranquility collapsed to the ground in two. Yuusuke soon following as he screamed, the blue power seeping into his body.
"Hell, I hate dying." He groaned turning over, curling in on himself to the pain.
And belatedly, Hiei realized that even in Death Yuusuke had been protecting him, even from himself.
OWARI
