Disclaimers:

I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. It rightfully belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi. This story is fictional and was just a work of my imagination.

Before Notes:

Thanks for all those who supported and reviewed my story! You helped me a lot by posting your comments and suggestions! Hope you'll be there till I finished my story. Once again, I know, there were only few people who like Mukuro and Hiei as a couple, but please be kind to understand this fic! I love the two of them together as a couple because I know and I believe that they were meant for each other. Gomen nasai to those who don't like them! Once more, this is Flowing River saying, Ja! and Enjoy!

KISS ME NOT

Chapter III – The Secret

Mukuro can not speak. She was very serious and thoughts seem to enter her mind. What am I gonna do? Just stare at them like this? Dammit! I don't know what's happening and I can do nothing but watch the two of them!

"Don't you have ears, I'm here to fetch you up, so would you mind if you come with me." the guy said in a shivering cold voice.

I looked at Mukuro. Her vision was focused at the young guy. After a moment, she bowed her head low and walked by the guy's side.

"I'll go with you." she said softly with head still focus downwards. The guy with the bluish-white hair started to walk. Mukuro followed. I wasn't moving. They passed by my side as if I was no one. I can not do anything. Or should I say I don't care to do anything?

They continued walking. I can say that they had no conversation. They kept far from each other. A question was stocked in my mind. Who is he?

I entered the gates of my school. It was early and only few students were in the campus. I went straight into the rooftop. It's not that good to start the day. I mean, it's really a mess.

I stayed at the rooftop the whole morning. There, no one will disturb me. No one would care to talk to me. I am free to be myself. In the rooftop I find everything that makes me complete.

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Two days had passed but still, there was no girl with a light orange hair and beautiful lips entered the class. She was nowhere to be found. Darn, that guy… What had he done to her?

I tried not to think of her this passed few days, but somehow her pale face and that guy, always seemed to invade my memory. At last the day came, she went to school…

That time, the leaves were falling smoothly into the ground. It was fall and a somewhat feeling of loneliness touched every student's heart. She was still the Mukuro I knew two days ago. The girl with pure actions, no smiles and deep serious eyes that were creepy at times.

She didn't seem to change. Her gaze and aura was still cold and unlively.

"Miss Koishiwa, will you please answer the question on page sixty-nine number twelve…" the teacher called her. But still, she didn't move. She just stared at her book. I thought she didn't understand what the teacher was saying or she didn't even hear or notice it at all.

"Miss Koishiwa!" the teacher shouted. She gained her presence of mind.

"Oh my! I'm sorry Ms. Himekawa!" she said as she stood and held her book towards her hand. "What was it again, Ma'am."

"You seemed uninterested in the subject matter, Miss Koishiwa…!" the teacher looked at her with angry eyes.

"Pardon, ma'am." she whispered as she focus her vision downwards again.

The teacher spoke once again proving that she has accepted her apology, "Ok, for your benefit Miss Koishiwa, I'll repeat what I've said earlier. Will you please answer page sixty-nine number twelve on the board."

She moved and walked towards the board and copied the equation to be solved. She wrote these things and then stopped:

x2 + 23x –47 = 24x – 27

x2 – x – 20 = 0 .

She stared and looked at the board as if an answer would popped out from it. And after a few seconds she talked…

"I'm sorry, Ma'am… I don't know what to do next." The teacher became angry at what she saw.

"Miss Koishiwa, that topic was just a review! It was tackled since you were in first year! You just need to factor it out ok!"

"But, Ma'am! It's not my fault if I don't understand it! Teachers were the one responsible for what is happening with their students!" she shouted at the teacher with firm and almost unyielding voice.

Everyone was quiet. We don't expect her to answer back our teacher. Silence took its place in the entire classroom.

"Get out of this room, Miss Koishiwa." the teacher said in a calm voice trying to control her temper. Mukuro went out of the room quietly and silently. I was surprised with what had happened. I don't expect her to do that. She was normally quiet and she belonged to the list of students who were great achievers. But how come? How come she didn't know the answer? Now, I know. She has a problem. And I know that that guy has something to do with it.

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The classes soon ended. I went into the school grounds to have a break. In the school grounds were only few people or almost no people. The rooftop was not available for it was subject to cleaning and renovation. The grounds were another place as peaceful as the rooftop.

The grounds were actually not yet opened for students like me but I knew the manager and the caretaker of it so he let's me in. It was full of trees and grass grew all around it. Flowers were also found. It was like a small garden.

I asked first for the permission of the caretaker. "You can certainly enter the grounds but there was another person staying there."

"Only one?" I asked.

"Yes." he replied.

"That doesn't matter." I agreed as I entered the gate leading to the small garden.

I entered and saw the beautiful scenery once more. It was right that they shouldn't open this to students. It will be destroyed.

I leaned into the trunk of a tree. I thought again of what happened to Mukuro. I find her very mysterious… to good to reach… And then… I… I…fell asleep…

When I woke up, I saw a figure. It was tall…and standing straight in front of me… who is she? As my vision cleared, I found out that she was the person I thought earlier…Mukuro…

Upon realizing that I woke up, she tends to run but I stood fast and caught her right arm with my hand.

"Stay…" I said to her. She didn't say a word but stopped moving. I sat on the ground and she followed me. Silence accompanied us again. I was the first to break it.

"You know the answer, right?" I said.

"What do you mean?"

"A while ago, the answer to the equation."

"I don't know what you're talking about." she denied.

"…" Silence once again took the way. This time she was the one who broke the silence.

"I hate myself… my life… this life…" she murmured while looking at me with lonely deep eyes.

"Did you hear me?!" she said this time louder. "I…hate… this life!" she shouted with all her might.

"But…" was the only word I said.

"You don't understand!" she yelled.

I held her by the chin and said, "Maybe I don't… but it doesn't matter… I don't care about your past! I can accept it… no matter what… " I whispered at her looking straight in her eyes. For a moment and a second, we looked at each other… our faces getting closer… feeling each other's breath.

She then raised her arms and wrapped it around my neck. The force was too great. Her weight and force surpassed my balance. Then, I saw myself lying on the ground. Her body was over mine.

She transferred by my right side and looked at me with lucid wet eyes. "Why…" she said. "Why did you always managed to help me despite of the fact that you don't know me… I… I… I don't understand…" she said.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I said as a reply to her.

"But…" she protested.

I held her right hand by mine. I turned to my right and managed to went over her small body. Now I felt everything was real. I felt her breath. I smell her perfume once again.

I held her hand tighter. I moved my head closer to her. I gave her a light kiss, which lasted only for about half a second. Our faces were even closer.

"I don't need your words… I need YOU… Mukuro…" I whispered passionately to her.

I move my lips again closer to her. It touched her lips tenderly. One more time, I kissed her again but now it wasn't a light kiss. It was so precious, so delicate… it was long… as if our world stopped from revolving…

We didn't feel our troubles… our worries… all we felt was a new feeling… a different feeling that we can't resist. It makes our heart beat faster… it was too strong to oppose… we can never do that… for we never wanted to. All we wanted is to stay like that… endlessly… unyielding… forever…

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We sat under the tree. Our backs leaning on its strong and woody trunk. Her head was lying at my neck. Our legs and feet lay straight in the ground. She was at my right side. My right hand enveloped her waist while my other hand was positioned between her neck and her right cheek. All was quiet… the place was in the state of equanimity…

"I would love to be like this forever…" she started the conversation

"I also would." I said to her in reply.

"I'd tell you everything…" she stated.

"You don't need if you don't want to…" I said.

"The guy you saw was my fiancée…" she said. Somehow her statement surprised me. "His parents were close friends of my mom and dad, so that makes the score to settle our marriage… But it doesn't mean that I want it… nor it doesn't also mean that I don't like it… it's fine for me as long as I will like the guy. I thought that it would be like that…"

"…"

"Don't you have any reactions?"

"…"

Seeing that I don't speak, she continued her story. "We were not yet married but we lived in the same house. But don't get me wrong… nothing happens… We were just… friends… well that was just at first…"

She stopped. I looked at her. "Then what happened?" I asked.

"One night, I was sleeping peacefully at my bedroom…but then… he… he crept in… and… and… and…" she didn't continue… tears were falling from her eyes. I already knew what her point was. I was filled with remorse towards her.

She even cried more… remembering her bitter past was like a nightmare to her… a nightmare that she couldn't wake up and get over… I hugged her tightly because I didn't know what to do… I didn't expect her to have such a sad past like this…! Damn that guy! He's a devil! He deserves hell or greater than that! I'll get revenge over him! I swear! I swear!

"Don't cry…" I said.

"I… I shouldn't run away but when I realize that my parents didn't believe me for those impurities that he had done to me… I can no longer stand it! I already wished to die! And I tried to! And I should have successfully done it…Look…" She showed me her right wrist. They were full of marks… marks of attempted suicide…

At that time, my tears dropped. I was already dumb and frozen. I held her by my arms and embraced her tightly… You jerk… You'll pay a high price for what you've done… you certainly will… you little crap of shit!!! Darnnit! Darnnit!

I turned her face upwards towards mine. I looked at her with dark deep eyes of vengeance… She stopped crying for a while and listened to me.

"No need to worry… I'm here for you…"

I laid her head towards my left shoulder and enveloped my arms around her as tears came rushing down to her cheeks.

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I decided to keep her in my house. She would stay there in my protection. That jerk would never ever lay a finger on Mukuro. We exited the mini-garden… It was already 5:30 in the afternoon.

I held her hand and we stopped.

"Stay with me." I stated firmly.

She smiled wryly with mixed emotions of loneliness and happiness. She then pressed my hand and said, "I will."

We walked towards the gate. But then, a surprise awaited us. A man with bluish white hair stared at us with eyes, which I thought looking for trouble or a battle…

Mukuro looked at me. I smirked at her that was like saying, "I won't let him…"

"No!" she said. But she can't do anything. Our fight will start.

******Hiei*****

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After Notes:

So! Thanks for going as far as this! I deeply appreciate your determination to read this! Maybe others may think that Mukuro wouldn't do these things that I wrote but remember that they are in the modern world! No more powers and dragons! And besides, I showed this because I want all of you to know that tough women like her has also a soft side! No one is a piece of stone or an island, remember? You've already know her secret…

So please tell me what you think about it!!! Please!!!! Pretty, pretty please! To tell you honestly, I wasn't too confident with what I wrote here! So please tell me whether it's a bad one! I'm telling you I'm only a 4th year student!!! AmBeR_a_lin and my other reviewers and friends! I need you in situations like this! Love lots to all of 'ya wish you all the luck as a writer if you wanted to be one like me! God Bless! See you again next chapter! ^_^