Song Choice: Fine Again~ Seether


Chapter Eight: Fiadhaich Cridhe (Untamed Heart)

"Miss Sinclair, I'm sorry but I am too weak to get up to greet you," Mr. Tanaka said, laying on his futon.

Abhaya smiled down to him and sat cross legged onto the tatami mats. She opened up her pack and bought out strange glasses with magenta lenses. Kurama sat near the door watching Abhaya was she worked. "It is fine. Please, just relax. Looks like you fell quite hard. May I take a look?"

Mr. Tanaka gave a curt nod and Abhaya pulled the sleeve of his shirt down over his dislocated shoulder. "Why didn't you go see Dr. Makita?"

Kurama could sense worry in Abhaya's voice. "He wouldn't be able to help me, Miss Sinclair."

Abhaya said nothing as she put on the glasses and took out a note book from her pack with a pen. She started to write somethings down, a frown covering her face as she concentrated. "Is there any other problem areas right now?"

"My lower back is the main issue. I can't move because of the pain."

"Alright. Shuichi? Could you come here for a moment? I need your help," Abhaya said, calling over her shoulder.

Kurama stood behind her as she spoke. "Could you help me lift him? I need to reset his shoulder and then I would like you to help me flip him over."

Kurama braced the man as Abhaya numbed his shoulder with her energy and swiftly popped it back into its socket. Mr. Tanaka let out a small grunt, but did not flail. Abhaya placed a small hand on his side, pushing some of her energy into him to numb his back. Kurama and Abhaya then lifted him onto his stomach. Abhaya lifted his shirt halfway up his back and then wrote something into her notebook once again.

She took out a salve and bandages; laying them on the tatami mat as she reached over to touch Mr. Tanaka's lower spine. Her brow furrowed as she delicately rubbed around the black bruise that spread over his lower back. She then stuck her finger into the salve and wrote a strange symbol onto the wound. Kurama recognized it immediately as a Reiki Cellular healing symbol. Abhaya then rubbed her hands together in a fluid motion, until they glowed with a warm purple light. She then placed her hands on his back, the bruise almost instantly receding into the size of a thumbprint on his back.

'Hiei,' Kurama called in his head.

'Hm?'

'You were wrong about how much power she possesses. She just healed a spinal bruise like it was a papercut. It was the size of six of her hands and now it looks like a thumb print.'

'Hn. She still isn't much of any use to us if she can't even use the most basic of her spells.'

'Hiei? What did you see when you read her mind?'

'A tiger and a child.'

Abhaya dug though her medicine bag once more and bought out a roll of medicine. They were formed into little triangles and bundled together with leaves. "Mr. Tanaka, please take this once daily in a tea form. Take them until all twenty are gone. I can't wait to see you better and please be careful next time."

Abhaya bowed and sat the medicine by his head. "Try to take long baths with sea salt in it, however, for today I would like you to just sleep. You might not feel any pain right now, but you will be sore tomorrow."

"Thank you, Miss Sinclair."

Abhaya smiled down at him. "It was my pleasure. I just hope you recover soon."

She bowed once more and put all of her tools in her medicine bag. Abhaya then slung it over her shoulder and walked out of the room. Kurama followed behind her. He then watched as Mrs. Tanaka laid out Abhaya's payment. "Mrs. Tanaka, this is too much!" Abhaya said.

"No, please take it. You need this more than we do."

Five enormous daikon radishes wrapped in a bundle, a large bottle of sake, a basket of yuzu fruit, and a bundle of clothes sat on the table for Abhaya to take. Abhaya told her what to do for her husband and Mrs. Tanaka gave her a warm hug. Abhaya stiffly hugged back. "Thank you for helping us. I don't know what we would have done without you here," Mrs. Tanaka said.

Guilt flashed before Abhaya's eyes, not going unnoticed by Kurama. She then smiled weakly. "Thank you."


Elias sat in his small study trying to read about the different implants when a knock came on the door. "Yo! Can I come in?" Yusuke said.

Elias turned to him and nodded. "What cha doin'?"

Yusuke leaned over Elias's shoulder, looking down at the book that was written in Abhaya's father's handwriting. "Abhaya told me to learn about the different implants."

"Implants? Geez, how can you read this?"

"Abhaya taught me Gaelic at a young age. English and Gaelic were the two languages I grew up using. It's normal for me."

"Well that's fine and dandy, but she's gone right now. You wanna hang out with us downstairs?"

"And do what? You don't honestly want to be my friend do you? You don't even know if you can trust us yet."

Elias glared at the demon king, yet Yusuke just wolfishly grinned. "Maybe not, but I trust you both now. So, what'd ya say?"

Elias reluctantly got up from his chair and followed Yusuke down the stairs. He was met with both Kuwabara and Botan's warm smiles. "Hey! Look who came to join us?" Yusuke said, grinning over his should at Elias.

Elias huffed awkwardly. He had never really gotten along with other people and always felt awkward with small talk. He sat down next to Kuwabara and watched as Yusuke sat down at the table. "So Elias? What do you like to do for fun?" Botan asked, smiling at him from across the table.

Another huff escaped his lips. "Spar with Abhaya, watch British movies, listen to music. That sort of thing, I guess."

"British movies? Like what? Monty Python and shit?" Yusuke said.

Everyone stared at him with disbelief. "What? Keiko made me watch a few with her."

Elias chuckled. "Yeah, Abhaya and I both love them. The Holy Grail is amazing, but no I really like The Elephant Man. It's one of my favorites."

Botan's eyes grew wide and then they saddened. "Did Abhaya show you that movie?"

Elias met her eyes and then nodded. "She said that it was required for every person to see it at least once."

"Why? What's so great about it?" Kuwabara said.

Botan spoke up, her voice quiet as she solemnly look at Elias. "It shows how cruel humanity can be. How they see one thing wrong and they point and call 'monster'."

Elias gave a curt nod, watching the two boys give worried glances. Botan continued. "Is that what they did to Abhaya?"

Elias's yellow eyes grew wide. "How. . .?"

"Botan? What do you mean?" Yusuke said, his voice almost a hiss.

"I read something about her before we came. Lord Koenma said that I should understand what she was before I came."

"And you didn't tell us!? What the fuck!"

Yusuke had risen from the table, snarling down at the blue haired reaper. "When I was really young, we moved to England. I couldn't even speak then, let alone change into a human form. Abhaya was ten and she bought a house in the countryside where we wouldn't be disturbed. At least that was what she thought. A few months went by with nothing happening, but one day we were working in the garden and this group of kids showed up from the forest. They started to mock her, telling her to go back to where ever she was from. She ignored them; they didn't like that. They started to throw stones at her and me, yet she didn't cover herself. She just protected me with her own body."

Botan stifled a sob. "So, what did she do? Did she hurt them?" Kuwabara said.

Elias shook his head. "She scooped me up and held me in her arms as they kept throwing rocks at her. They did that until they got bored. She then took me inside to make sure that I was okay."

Yusuke slammed a hand down onto the table. "That's bullshit! Why didn't she fight them?!"

Elias shrugged. "She's always doing stupid stuff like that. She puts everyone else before herself, even when she doesn't want to."

Kuwabara folded his arms over his chest. "So she's got an honor code?"

"Yeah. She's normally very docile, however, Hiei seems to bring the worst out of her."

"Heh, seems the shrimp has made an enemy out her."

"No, if she wanted him dead; he would be."

Everyone turned to Elias, their eyes wide. "What do you mean?"

"She probably respects him in some odd way. I've seen her even in this state rip apart demons that make her mad enough. She never gives her all; ever. But when she gets close to it; she's scary."


Abhaya and Kurama climbed the path that they had left a few hours ago. Kurama carried most of the gifts in a sling like pack, given to them by Mrs. Tanaka. Neither of them said a word as they came to the clearing that lead to the cabin. Abhaya opened the door to the cabin and smiled at the four people sitting at her dining room table. "Hey," She said nonchalantly.

She moved past them to set down her pack onto the floor. "Kurama, you can just set your pack anywhere. Thank you for helping me carry it."

Kurama sat the pack down beside hers and smiled down to her. "It was my pleasure."

"How did it go?" Elias said, smiling at his master.

"All is well."

"So, what was wrong?" Yusuke said, resting his head on the table.

"One of my patients had fallen at work. He dislocated his shoulder and had an enormous bruise on his lower back. It bruised his bone in fact. He's fine now, he just needs rest."

"That's cool. Hey, Elias was telling us that you play instruments and sing? Can we hear?"

Abhaya shot an irritated look at Elias who shrunk at the weight of her glare. "Maybe. We shall see if I feel up to it."

Abhaya ripped off the boots that covered her feet and threw them to the ground with a groan. "Shoes are torturous."

She happily wiggled her toes, feeling them pop as they touched the wood floors of her home. "So what does it feel like to use magick?" Yusuke said, grinning at her.

Abhaya took the pack of gifts and sat it onto the table. "It depends. If it is a small bit of magick, it is a small warm shock. However, if it is a ritual or spell, it's like being everything all at once. You can feel everything around you, and you are everything at the same time; within and outside. It's warm and comforting, yet you are bubbling with all walks of life. At least that is how it is for me."

"It sounds painful," Kuwabara said, his face twisting with disgust.

Abhaya gave a small, warm smile to him. It caught Kuwabara off guard. "No, it's not quite painful. But rather exhilarating and addictive."

"How about when you sealed your power?" Kurama said, folding his arms over his chest.

Abhaya eyes darkened as she remembered the searing pain that rippled through her body and the absence of the presence of the earth. She gave a small sigh and began pulling out her payments from the pack. "It felt like I was dying, like my body was withering as the earth left me. It started out as a dull throb in my ankles and then a searing pain. I became so warm that I had to pack snow around my body and then I slept there. Elias took me back inside the next morning when he found me. I could barely stand from the pain."

Everyone sat quietly as Abhaya spoke, yet Yusuke was the one to speak after a long period of silence had washed over them. "Why didn't you stop?" He said, pity flooding over his eyes.

Abhaya scoffed. "I do not deserve that much power to use as freely as I once did," She said, her words filled with animosity towards herself. "I abused it and felt that I needed to be punished. That is all."

Abhaya pulled out the bundle of new clothes and sat it in front of Elias. She then smiled at him. "It's from Mrs. Tanaka. We finally get new clothes."

Elias took the bundle a rifled through it with a smile. He then watched as Abhaya took her pack from the ground and gracefully went up the stairs, leaving all of them at the dining room table.

Hiei watched from one of Abhaya oak trees, his eyes narrowing at Abhaya's words. He watched her as she climbed up the stairs and closed the door to her room. Abhaya's smile faded and she stared at the ground with an empty look on her face. Hiei slipped into her mind, watching as she stiffened and glared at him through the window. "Out Hiei," She growled, her eyes meeting his.

Hiei sneered, his glare not leaving hers. He was not about to back down. 'Make me, stupid woman,' He projected into her mind.

She pressed her mind harder against his, still falling short. Abhaya mentally kicked herself for letting down her fall for a moment. Abhaya then scoffed and folding her arms over her chest in disgust. "You're like a fucking leech, you know that right?"

Abhaya could hear his dark laughter roll in the back of her head; she hated him in that moment. 'Oh? I thought you were above hate, woman. Did you change your mind? Or maybe you are finally getting rid of that mask you wear?'

'Just get out of my head glogach deamhan!'

Hiei growled at her other nickname for him; knowing what it meant now. His smile was dropped and he glared at her through the cover of her trees. She then sneered at him, realizing that now he knew what it meant. "What? You don't like being called that, Glogach deamhan?"

Abhaya taunted him, feeling his anger rise. She took out a large, Cuban cigar and cut off the end. She then resting it in between her lips and lit it; taking a huge drag. 'Why do you smoke those?' Hiei said in the back of her mind.

"Shouldn't you know? You did rifle though my thoughts and memories last night."

He scoffed, 'Let me in.'

"Why should I?"

'That was an order, not a request woman.'

"Too bad I don't take orders."

Hiei growled as she turned from him, a cloud of smoke following her as she sat down her medicine pack by her feather bed. She then flopped down onto the bed with a satisfied groan. 'You're thinking about them.'

"I am."

'Why?'

"Because I miss them."

'Hn. How pointless. You just keep reopening old wounds.'

"No, the wounds never healed. I kept picking at them to the point where they won't ever heal."

'How foolish of you. If you really want to die than kill yourself. You'll be doing everyone else a favor.'

Abhaya rolled her eyes. "Look who's talking. I don't need advice from a demon who can't even tell his twin who he is. At least my sister knows how much of a screw up I am."

Abhaya could feel his anger radiate off of him as she sat up from her bed. She didn't care that she had made him that way, he deserved it for using her past against her. 'I dare you to say that my face, you stupid wench.'

"Nah. You aren't worth my insults or my energy, glogach deamhan."

'You're coward. Just like Koenma.'

Abhaya gave a furious hiss at the sound of Koenma's name. "Don't compare me to that insolent brat!"

'Then face me with honor, woman.'

"You wanna spar with me again."

It wasn't a question; Hiei wanted to do more to her than spar. He wanted to cut off her head and burn every inch of her until she was a pile of ash and charred bones. 'I want you to not hold back on me.'

"You want all I can do right now? Fine. I need to change though."

Abhaya ripped off her jeans, not caring about the fact that Hiei was still watching her. She pulled a pair of baggy black pants over her legs and then took off her shirt, leaving only a sports bra on. She then collected her hair into a pony tail and put it high on her scalp.

Abhaya put her sword in the belt around her pants and swiftly padded down the stairs. Everyone was where she had left them and she was happy to see that Elias was getting along with them. Yet as soon as she passed them, they grew silent.

Hiei waited for her, leaning against a tree with his arms folded across his chest. Darkness had started to creep over the horizon as their eyes met. Abhaya's eyes narrowed at the demon. 'Follow me. This isn't a good place to spar.' She projected.

Hiei grinned. 'Why is that? You don't want the others to see how much of a monster you are?'

'No, they will see it eventually. However, I really don't wanna break my house in the process of our fight.'

Abhaya started up the mountain, Hiei trailing behind her. She smoked the whole way until she found a clearing that was far enough from the cabin. That was when she turned to Hiei. His eyes narrowed at they met the now electric purple eyes of Abhaya. "What did you mean earlier when you were talking to Kurama? You were both insinuating that you wanted me to take off my seals." She said, watching him.

Hiei gave a cruel sneer. "That's none of your business woman. We will tell you when you need to know."

Abhaya growled, cigar dangling from her lips. Hiei watched as Abhaya became almost relaxed with a small amount of fascination welling up into his chest. He watched as she popped her knuckles against the palms of her hands and stretched her back, bones popping back into place. She then straightened up, getting into a stance similar to the one Elias had been in. Yet there was something entirely different to hers.

She watched him without blinking, waiting patiently for him to make a move. Hiei withdrew his sword, throwing the sheath to the side lines. Abhaya sunk deeper into the stance and Hiei lunged for her.

Abhaya slammed her fists down towards the ground, two large iron hammers morphing from the ground below her. She caught them just as Hiei came upon her, blocking his sword from cutting off her head. "You kept your hair up," He said, as she pushed him back with the hammers.

She followed him swiftly, lunging at him with the hammers. Abhaya grazed his cheek, yet that was when she lost sight of him. He was behind her before she could register it. Hiei swung his sword, grazing her cheek as she dodged his attack.

"You're not giving it your all," Abhaya growled, her chest heaving a little.

Hiei was not phased. "Of course not. I would kill you, stupid woman."

Abhaya sneered, letting the hammers turn to rubble and crumble onto the grass. "I'll get serious then," She said, grinning wildly.

Hiei watched as the wind ripped around them, swirly around her dangerously. Electricity visibly shot out from her arms and back. That was when he noticed the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. She lunged for him, cigar discarded on the grass. Abhaya tried to give a right hook to the face, however, Hiei dodged and instead she left a crater the size of her whole cabin in the grass.

He stood above it, staring down at the monstrous woman who glared up at him. She was enjoying this, he could tell, and if he was honest with himself; so was he.

Abhaya lunged for him once more, yet Hiei caught all of her punches and kicks. The electricity coming from her attacks left him a little jarred, but he countered with hitting her shin hard enough to break it. She let out a small grunt and slammed a fist down on his shoulder, dislocating it once more. The electricity ran through him harder than before, knocking the wind out of him. Hiei knew that she was almost finished as she kneeled down onto the ground. He popped his shoulder back into place and lunged for the last time; striking her in her sternum and sending her flying into the tree line.

The impact knocked Abhaya out and she slumped against the tree. Hiei smirked at the sleeping mage. 'She might be a formidable opponent without the seals. More of a reason to take them off I suppose,' He thought, slowly walking to the woman.

He could feel the others making their way over to them as he picked her up. 'She's cold. . .'

Hiei's thoughts were interrupted however by his comrade's protests. "Hiei! What the hell!?" Yusuke said.

Hiei only rose an eye brow, feeling Abhaya rest her head on his chest. Elias shook with fury, his eyes murderous as he looked at Hiei. "What hound? Do you wish to rip me apart?"

"That is an understatement. I would love to rip off all of your limbs and torture you to death. How dare you touch her! You fecking piece of shit!"

Hiei scoffed. "We needed to see what she was capable of and she isn't powerful enough as she is now."

"So you fought with her to see if she was capable!"

Hiei ignored the hounds protest and turned to Kurama. "We should take her to Genkai's as fast as we can. The faster we get this done, the faster she will be of any use to us."

"How good was she at fighting, Hiei?" Yusuke said, eyeing the woman in Hiei's arms.

"Hn. Good enough to land a few good attacks on me in her state."

Elias growled, his anger cooling just a little. "You're taking her to Genkai's?" He turned to Kurama as he said it.

Kurama nodded. "We have a gifted healer there and Genkai will know how to get the seals off without hurting her to severity."

"Let me go with you all. I don't trust any of you with her safety."

They all nodded in agreement. They gathered their belongings and left for Genkai's.


Hellooooooooo readers! So I hoping that you guys liked this chapter. Hiei finally got some revenge lol. Abhaya just needed to get her ass handed to her, but she respects him a lot more now. Thank you for all of the reads and favorites. It means the world to me. I really want to hear what you guys thought of this chapter though. Please review or favorite or both! Thank you! ~ELA