Souls and Spirits
By Youko Alexandra
Sequel to Secrets and Lies
Part Two Of The Midnight Room Series
A/N: The sequel is here. This is a Kurama fic. Angsty. Possibly hints of shounen-ai (Kurama/Hiei), depending on how much you like the couple and how you interpret the fic. Hope you like it!
Note also: Warning, a kind of Kurama/Yukina fic.. go figure. I think they're cute together.
**********SOULS AND SPIRITS************
He felt the shattering in his soul at the same time he felt his best friend's ki dissappear.
"Kurama, what's wrong?" Yusuke asked. Kurama couldn't answer.
He nearly fell over, the pain in his heart and mind was too great. It burned like a fire.
"Hiei.." He managed to choke out. "Hiei's ki is gone."
Yusuke didn't react well to this at all. "What do you mean Hiei's ki is gone?"
"He's gone, he's gone." Kurama repeated it a few times, standing there in the middle of the kitchen, tears streaming down his face, green eyes half-closed. "He's gone."
"Gone as in.." Yusuke paused before continuing, "dead..?"
Kurama nodded weakly. He leaned against the counter for support, sobs wracking his body even as he didn't want to cry. Hiei would've smacked him for crying like this.
Dimly he wondered if Hiei would have cried if he had died.
"Where's the shrimp at?"
Oh, dammit Kuwabara, Yusuke thought, now is NOT the time.
Too late. Kurama ran off in the direction where he had last felt Hiei's ki, leaving Yusuke and Kuwabara far behind.
She didn't move when the door of the shack opened. Nor did she acknowledge Kurama's prescense. Her forehead leaned against her brother's cold hand, and she could see the turqoise tear-gems she had cried. There were many of them.
Kurama's own, liquid tears joined hers on the bed as he saw his ravaged friend's corpse.
"Gods, what happened to him..?" Kurama asked her in a strangely hoarse voice. She did not reply.
Their silence together in mourning was almost a physical thing. Their sadness was together. They were together, mourning for a lost love, a lost friend, a lost brother.
"He was helping me.." She finally spoke, her voice raspy, as though she had not used it for a long time. "He was helping me.. it's my fault.. it's my fault he died.."
"It's no one's fault." Kurama wiped futilely at his eyes with his shirt-sleeve as he spoke. "No one wanted him to go. It's no one's fault."
He put a hand on her shoulder, and both of them were crying. They were one in their misery.
After a while Kurama looked at the sky through the window. He pointed out it so Yukina would look.
"Now his soul is in Heaven, and his spirit is here.. he will always be with us, Yukina-chan. Always." Kurama didn't know why he had felt compelled to use the suffix "-chan" with Yukina, but it seemed right. They had a bond now. They were bonded by sadness and death.
"He promised that he would never leave me.." Yukina sobbed, "he said that he would always be with me.. he is my brother, Kurama! My brother! I was looking for him all this time and he was right here and I.. never.. knew.."
She trailed off into sobs again.
"He told me once," Kurama got a faraway look in his eyes at the memory, "that he made a promise never to tell you that he was your brother.. he couldn't tell you, Yukina. That's why he didn't say it. But I know that he loved you.. He used to dream of ways to tell you without breaking his promise, ways to let you know.. but he never did, because he thought that you would hate him for who he was, for how cruel he was.."
"I could never hate him!" Her sobs took her over again, and she and Kurama cried together for a long while.
And then, when the sun rose once again, and all their tears were dry, they set off to tell the others what had happened.
By Youko Alexandra
Sequel to Secrets and Lies
Part Two Of The Midnight Room Series
A/N: The sequel is here. This is a Kurama fic. Angsty. Possibly hints of shounen-ai (Kurama/Hiei), depending on how much you like the couple and how you interpret the fic. Hope you like it!
Note also: Warning, a kind of Kurama/Yukina fic.. go figure. I think they're cute together.
**********SOULS AND SPIRITS************
He felt the shattering in his soul at the same time he felt his best friend's ki dissappear.
"Kurama, what's wrong?" Yusuke asked. Kurama couldn't answer.
He nearly fell over, the pain in his heart and mind was too great. It burned like a fire.
"Hiei.." He managed to choke out. "Hiei's ki is gone."
Yusuke didn't react well to this at all. "What do you mean Hiei's ki is gone?"
"He's gone, he's gone." Kurama repeated it a few times, standing there in the middle of the kitchen, tears streaming down his face, green eyes half-closed. "He's gone."
"Gone as in.." Yusuke paused before continuing, "dead..?"
Kurama nodded weakly. He leaned against the counter for support, sobs wracking his body even as he didn't want to cry. Hiei would've smacked him for crying like this.
Dimly he wondered if Hiei would have cried if he had died.
"Where's the shrimp at?"
Oh, dammit Kuwabara, Yusuke thought, now is NOT the time.
Too late. Kurama ran off in the direction where he had last felt Hiei's ki, leaving Yusuke and Kuwabara far behind.
She didn't move when the door of the shack opened. Nor did she acknowledge Kurama's prescense. Her forehead leaned against her brother's cold hand, and she could see the turqoise tear-gems she had cried. There were many of them.
Kurama's own, liquid tears joined hers on the bed as he saw his ravaged friend's corpse.
"Gods, what happened to him..?" Kurama asked her in a strangely hoarse voice. She did not reply.
Their silence together in mourning was almost a physical thing. Their sadness was together. They were together, mourning for a lost love, a lost friend, a lost brother.
"He was helping me.." She finally spoke, her voice raspy, as though she had not used it for a long time. "He was helping me.. it's my fault.. it's my fault he died.."
"It's no one's fault." Kurama wiped futilely at his eyes with his shirt-sleeve as he spoke. "No one wanted him to go. It's no one's fault."
He put a hand on her shoulder, and both of them were crying. They were one in their misery.
After a while Kurama looked at the sky through the window. He pointed out it so Yukina would look.
"Now his soul is in Heaven, and his spirit is here.. he will always be with us, Yukina-chan. Always." Kurama didn't know why he had felt compelled to use the suffix "-chan" with Yukina, but it seemed right. They had a bond now. They were bonded by sadness and death.
"He promised that he would never leave me.." Yukina sobbed, "he said that he would always be with me.. he is my brother, Kurama! My brother! I was looking for him all this time and he was right here and I.. never.. knew.."
She trailed off into sobs again.
"He told me once," Kurama got a faraway look in his eyes at the memory, "that he made a promise never to tell you that he was your brother.. he couldn't tell you, Yukina. That's why he didn't say it. But I know that he loved you.. He used to dream of ways to tell you without breaking his promise, ways to let you know.. but he never did, because he thought that you would hate him for who he was, for how cruel he was.."
"I could never hate him!" Her sobs took her over again, and she and Kurama cried together for a long while.
And then, when the sun rose once again, and all their tears were dry, they set off to tell the others what had happened.
