Opposites Attract
Ch27: The Greater Sin

Amaya's POV

He broke his promise. I deserved it; I deserve all of this, I deserve to be punished. To hear, to feel his claws graze harshly against his mark on my neck tore me apart. He listened to Jeiryo's I lay here in this cold stone cell beaten, broken, violated, burned, bleeding, dirt is beginning to cake around my wounds, infecting them. I can barely breath, barely see. I want to cry out for him, but I know he won't hear me. "H-H-Hiei." I struggle to get his name out of my drink denied throat. I want to see him so bad, I want him to hold me in his tender embrace and whisper in my ear and tell me everything's going to be alright.

It hurts to move. I'm so tired. My bloody hands are clasped in shackles, usually I could break them off, but now I just don't care and I'm too weak and tired to try. I look around the cell with hardly any eyesight and a black eye. Red tears run down my cheeks, they prove that I'm innocent, but Hiei will never see them, my friends will never see them. I try to curl up in a ball, "Aaah." But even that's too painful to try. "H-Hiei." I call to my fire demon telepathically but he doesn't answer me. I told myself when Jeiryo brought me here that I wouldn't cry, but now… I let the tears flow; I don't care anymore, I just want to die, but the worst part of that is I can't.

Team Urameshi's POV

A week has passed since Jeiryo took Amaya and the team has barely said her name at all. The guilt was killing them. Yusuke missed his 'sister'. Botan missed making fun of the boys with her best friend. Kuwabara just missed Amaya in general. Kurama felt guilty for giving Jeiryo the cub his other self raised and lost his body trying to protect her from the very demon they handed her over to. And Hiei… felt torn; he could feel that void that had been on his heart for years suddenly reopen and Amaya wasn't there to seal it back up. His head told him that Amaya deserved what was coming to her, but Hiei's heart kept telling him to go after her, rescue her from her murderer. Hiei had a sickening feeling in his abdomen that was driving him crazy; the guilt that he was feeling was something he couldn't ignore.

Suddenly Shizuru, Keiko, Yukina, and Ren came busting through the front door of Kurama's house, "How could ya'll do that to her?" Shizuru raved; she looked at Hiei, walked over, jerked him up off the couch by the collar, and stared him in the eye furiously.

"Onna…" Hiei warned.

"Shizuru let Hiei go." Kurama said.

Shizuru ignored the red head, "How could you just let that monster take her?"

"Shizuru…" Kuwabara started as he walked up to his big sister.

"Shut it Kazuma, I'm workin'." Shizuru snarled. Kuwabara backed up with his hands up in defeat.

"She's your teammate," Shizuru released Hiei and turned her rage on all the team, "You're supposed to protect her, not sacrifice her life just because you're angry with her. She trusted you guys… "

"We trusted her…" Yusuke butted in.

But Shizuru kept going like she didn't even hear Yusuke, "She trusted you to accept her for what she is and who she is and what do you all do? You turn your back on her."

"How could you guys do something so heartless?" Keiko asked.

"Shizuru, she lied to us. She pretended to be something she's not." Kurama stated.

"But what's the greater sin Red[1], Lying or betrayal?" Shizuru demanded. Kurama didn't answer because he knew Shizuru was right; he was the one, along with his teammates, who committed an unforgivable sin against the very reason that they were alive, the very reason that they made it out of that fight alive.

"And you…" Ren turned her attention to Hiei, "Hiei she loves you, and she just wanted someone to love her. She told me that everyone's pushed her away because of what she is and because they're afraid of her except you and all of us."

"…" The team was speechless.

Suddenly Amaya jolted awake with a scream in a cold sweat, panting. She found herself in Hiei's room, bed. Amaya looked around then froze when she saw a figure in the darkness coming towards her, Amaya screamed again, turned, closed her eyes and waited for the blow to come. A pair of strong arms brought her close to a toned body, a voice spoke soothingly, softly, gently against her ear, "Shhhh, it's alright, it's ok. Shhh." It was Hiei. Amaya trembled in his arms, she let out a shuddering breath, "Shhhh."

Amaya turned around in the hug and wraped her arms Hiei's shirtless(srry couldn't help myself) torso, and cried into the crock of his neck, "I'm sorry."

Hiei didn't understand why she was apologizing, "A-Amaya it's okay; you didn't do anything wrong." He brought Amaya closer.

"I'm sorry." Amaya repeated. The door to the room opened, the light from the hallway shone into the room, it was the others.

"Hey, what's going down in here?" Yusuke yawned as he tried to rub the sleep out of his eyes.

"Yeah ya'll everything okay? We thought we heard someone scream." Keiko stated with Puu in her arms stil asleep. (how i could forget Puu?)

"Amaya had a nightmare." Hiei stated as he rocked back and forth in order to soothe the shaking onna in his arms.

"Oh." Yusuke and Keiko said in unison.

"Let's go we need to go see Koenma." Botan ran to her room to go get dressed.

"W-Why?" Amaya wiped away her tears as she and Hiei walked to their friends.

"Fox-Boy's got something to tell the toddler and he says it can't wait." Shizuru huffed on her cancer stick.

The team groaned but they got ready anyway, "Right."

To Be Continued...

[1] Shizuru's personal nickname for Kurama

For all u OA luvers, make sure u read the next chpy and don't get pissed at hiei... it gets better i promise! Review!