*sighs* Ya'll know me. I do all the action first and THEN the romance is in the last chapter. So enjoy!!!!
Note: Yes, I have never had a boyfriend and have never kissed anyone, done anything with a guy, so I don't know how well this will be done. I tried my best. Hope it goes well.
Disclaimer: I do not YYH. I do own Bronwyn and the plot to this story and all the other characters who I am too lazy to mention. There.
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A week later.....
Bronwyn pulled the peach-colored sundress over her head roughly, grumbling about Kurama's evilness. Ever since she confessed her newfound secret to him, he just couldn't leave her alone about it and it was wearing on her last nerve.
I have to get out of this house.
She winced as she yanked the dress down her body, where it brushed against the white bandages wrapped around her chest tightly. Even though she was making a better recovery than expected, it still would be quite a while until she was completely healed.
When the dress was finally fitted over her figure, she began to smooth out the many wrinkles. Why can't Botan ever lend me anything GOOD to wear???
But as her hands ran over the material, something felt somewhat...similar about it. She glanced down at the dress curiously, and repeated the motion carefully. That's odd...I've never worn this before, so why does it feel so familiar???
She moved over to the full-length mirror and glanced into it nonchalantly, and immediately backed away. She had suddenly remembered where the dress was from.
When she had first looked into the mirror, she hadn't seen herself in the bedroom. She had seen herself in the forest, drenching wet, grasping someone's hand cautiously....her dream from a couple of weeks ago.
She shook her head angrily. A stupid coincidence.....
She yanked the door open and slowly pulled herself down the stairs. It was still slightly difficult to walk because of her wound.
Finally reaching the bottom step, she immediately noticed Kurama reading a book in the living room intently. He seemed too absorbed to even notice Bronwyn's presence. She cleared her throat loudly, trying to get his attention.
Kurama glanced up frustratingly, clearly enjoying his book and angry at being interrupted. His mood changed, though, when he saw that it was Bronwyn who was standing impatiently at the foot of the stairs.
"So, you've finally decided to venture downstairs after a full week up there. Feeling alright?" He asked, smiling slightly, setting down his book on the side table.
"Yep. I think I'm going to take a walk." She said quietly, walking towards the front door.
"Are you sure that's wise? You are still weak." Kurama whispered nervously.
Bronwyn turned her head to look at him as she twisted the doorknob. "I'm not a wimp. I can handle myself just fine." She headed out the door slowly, Kurama's concerned voice following her. "Okay, but be careful. It looks like it's going to start raining." He yelled.
"I'll be fine!!" She called back angrily , glancing up at the sky for a second. Dark clouds were gathering together angrily, small rumbles of thunder sounding periodically, warning of the storm approaching. It does look like it's going to start raining....oh well, A little rain never hurt anyone....
Sure enough, after a few minutes of scurrying footsteps down the sidewalk, drops began to splatter the ground, at first light and refreshing but soon turning brutal and rough.
Okay, so maybe this wasn't the greatest idea....She grumbled silently, raising her arms over her head protectively. It wasn't doing much good, though. Within minutes, she was throughly soaked to the bone, and the rain just kept coming down, each drop harder than the one before it.
Glancing around for some kind of shelter, she noticed that the edge of the forest was just across the street. After a walk across the road, she was able to get a small bit of relief under the trees, even though it wasn't doing as much good as she had hoped it would.
She began walking, trying to stay away from the path, instead walking under the trees providing cover. After a while, she finally settled down under a large oak tree, and listened to the rain pounding on the dirt ground. She sighed heavily. Well, unless I want to drown, I'm stuck here.
She glanced around hurriedly, since even though the tree was pretty dry, she was still wanting some better shelter. But her eye caught something else instead, a clearing about ten feet ahead. Now, normally this wouldn't be anything interesting to Bronwyn. But something seemed very....similiar about it. Like she was supposed to go over there.....
The urge being too strong to fight, she used to tree to pull herself up, and began to wade her way through the bushes over to the open spot in the forest. Walking out into the center, she glanced around expectantly, as if she was waiting for something to happen that explained why it was so familiar.
I guess it's nothing....I need to get back under the trees....
A loud roar of thunder snapped Bronwyn out of her thoughts. She glanced up towards the dark sky just in time to see a bright flash of lightning. It was so close....
Closer than she thought. It had struck a large tree fifteen feet away from her. She didn't notice until the tree began to crack under the pressure of the strike from the lightning.
Oh my god....She thought in horror as the tree began to fall....on her. A loud screaming voice in her head was telling her to move, but it felt like her legs were paralyzed. She couldn't think. The only thing she could do was close her eyes, waiting for the crash.
But...she suddenly felt herself being shoved aside roughly to the ground, and then there was a deafening thud as the tree hit the forest floor, seeming to be only a few feet away from her body.
Silence. Bronwyn opened her eyes cautiously and could see that the tree had barely missed crushing her legs. Trying to sit up, she let out a loud cry of hurt. The bandages around her waist had become slightly undone at her fall. She also noticed that the dress she was wearing was now splattered with mud..
Rubbing the dirt out of her hands, she pulled herself up slowly, trying to wipe some of the mud off her dress, but immediately stopped when she noticed the person standing in front of her.
Hiei.....
He was watching her, not doing anything, just staring. She noticed that his clothes were covered in mud also. He must of been the one who pushed me.....
Bronwyn hadn't seen him since the fight in the forest, and she was overcome with such a sense of relief that he was alive after thinking him dead for a couple of days, she felt slightly weaker in the legs.
"It's not safe to stand out here." He said, but something sounded different about his voice. It was quieter, more...more....kind.
The sound of his voice, though, brought back something to Bronwyn. It sounded like...like...the one in her dream. So it WAS him. But this is a lot different than my dream.....
Hiei opened his mouth as if he was about to say something else, but Bronwyn raised a finger to his mouth. "Don't say anything else." She said sternly.
"And why not?"
"Because...you know, you really scared me....I thought you were dead...buried...."
"I know." He spoke simply.
Bronwyn's expression turned into a confused one. "What?"
"I looked at your dream."
"Well, that was rude of you." She whispered, though a smile was on her face. But the fact that he looked at her dream, brought her to thoughts about the jagan eye, which then led to her own eye glowing a week ago, which caused her to remember....
Taking a deep breath, she lost the smile. "Did...did...you...hear what I said to Kurama a week ago?" She asked, praying for a 'no'.
Hiei's expression turned serious. He nodded slightly. "I heard everything."
Damn....She immediately turned away from him, trying to stop herself from turning red. "I need to go. You know, Kurama will worry about me if I don't get back soon..." She said, beginning to walk away. But Hiei grabbed her shoulder. "Wait."
She turned her head, waiting to hear some kind of insult, putdown....
"I....I...feel..." Hiei had definitely never felt this way before. He felt....nervous. A first for him.
Bronwyn was growing more confused by the second. What is it? What is he trying to say? He can't....possibly....
She turned around completely, but made the mistake of looking at his eyes. Oh, shoot, I'm getting that feeling again...Remembering that before all of this happened, in the bedroom, on the floor.....But....I can't....
But it was getting harder to fight. She watched as he kept trying to say something, but couldn't seem to get the words out.
I WON'T.
Hiei's problem with talking and Bronwyn's inner battle went on for a couple more minutes, each not really knowing what they were supposed to be doing.
"I can't take it anymore!!" Bronwyn finally broke the silence, looking very angry with herself. "I have to do something."
Putting her hand on Hiei's shoulders, she kissed him. For quite a while.
When she finally broke away, she took a deep breath and smiled. "I feel a heck of a lot better." She said quietly.
Hiei smiled slightly also. He reached up and brushed a stray piece of hair away from her face. "You need to put your hair up. It gets in the way of your advance."
She just stared at him with a look of faint surprise. "Do you....feel....the same way?" She asked, hoping for a good answer, her hands having never left his shoulders.
He nodded slightly, and Bronwyn was overrun with a wave of happiness. I guess it's okay, then....to do this....
"Well, in that case..." Removing her hands, she shoved him back against a large oak tree, which caught him off-guard.
Moving forward swiftly, she began to kiss him again, but now since she knew that he felt the same way, it was a little more powerful. But when he put his hand on her neck, his touch immediately reminded her of the way Aiku used to touch her neck. And that brought back all the horrible things that had happened after that relationship started....
Do I really want to risk having to go through that again?
She broke away immediately, a look of pure worry in her eyes. "I....don't...think...I...can...do...this." She gasped, trying to take a deep breath.
"Why?"
"Because something bad will happen. I know it will." She whispered, stepping back a foot. "How do I know that you won't use me just like Aiku did?"
"Who's Aiku?"
"My old boyfriend."
"You don't know. You have to trust me."
Silence. Bronwyn wasn't really sure what she was supposed to think about him for a minute, but something in his eyes...it was telling her that he would never do something like what Aiku did....
"I trust you."
Hiei moved forward and they began to kiss again, with just one thought running through Bronwyn's mind....
I'm giving myself to him....and it feels right.
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The next day.....
Ring....
Ring...
Ring...
"What?" Yusuke groggily snapped. It was eight in the morning on a summer day, and he usually liked sleeping in.
"Yusuke, It's Kurama. I was just wondering if you had seen Bronwyn. She went for a walk yesterday and never came back." He asked quietly, a worried tone in his voice.
"Can't say I have." He heavily yawned, rubbing his eyes. "But I'll help you look at A REASONABLE HOUR!!!!"
"No need to scream, Yusuke. I'll call you a bit later when you're not so cranky." Kurama whispered in a slightly offensive tone.
"Good." Yusuke slammed down the receiver angrily.
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"Bronwyn! BRONWYN!!!" Yusuke called as he, Kurama, and Kuwabara walked down the forest path. They had been all over town, the neighborhood, pretty much everywhere. The forest was the last place on their list to look, so here they were, calling her name, getting more worried by the second.
"What do you think could of happened to her?" Kurama asked, glancing around the forest area.
"Who knows?" Kuwabara said, shrugging. "Hey, has anybody seen the shrimp? He could be helping us look, you know...."
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Hiei either." Kurama said curiously.
There was silence for a minute as the trio continued walking down the beaten path. Yusuke glanced up toward the sky angrily. "I sent Botan to look for her almost an hour ago. Where the heck is she?"
But no sooner than he had gotten the words out, he felt a tap on the shoulder. "No need to get angry, Yusuke, I'm right here." Botan was floating a few feet off the ground on her oar, smiling brightly.
"Did you find her?" Kurama asked.
Botan just stared at him for a second, and then began to giggle loudly. It took a few seconds for her to regain her composure.
"What's so funny?" Kuwabara asked, looking confused at Botan's laughter.
"Nothing. But I did find them."
"Who's them?"
"Bronwyn and Hiei."
"You mean...they're together?" Yusuke asked, scratching his head.
Her smile grew, and she let out another giggle before nodding. "Follow me." She whispered, and rose a few feet higher into the air, and flew down the path. She was out of sight in minutes.
"Hey, wait for us!!" Kuwabara screamed after her, and the three began running after the blue-haired girl.
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"Aren't they adorable?" Botan chirped.
Botan had led the group to a large tree, where they had all managed to climb up it, even though Kuwabara had some trouble, having lost his footing twice on the way up.
Now, they were all staring at the two on the branch.
Bronwyn was curled up, her head resting on Hiei's shoulder comfortably, her hand clutching onto his cloak to keep herself from falling over. Hiei's arm was wrapped around her waist to keep her on the branch, and his head was slightly resting against her's. They were both fast asleep.
"You know, this just screams "couple"." Yusuke said, trying to keep himself upright on the branch across from their's.
"Yes, I don't see how they could of gotten into this position any other way." Kurama said contentedly, happy at seeing them together. He had always thought that they would go good with each other.
"Uh, shouldn't we wake them up?" Kuwabara said, reaching a hand out, "They're both covered in dirt."
Kurama grabbed his hand before it could reach them, though. "I think it's best that we let them sleep." He said in a whisper, starting to climb down from the tree, followed by Yusuke.
"Yeah, Kuwabara, they look pretty worn out." He motioned for Kuwabara to follow him down the tree, which he did, still wearing the same confused look.
Botan joined them on the ground as they began to walk away.
"What did I tell you? I knew they were going to get together someway or another, didn't I? Didn't I?" She said eagerly, waiting for an answer.
"Yes, Botan." The three boys answered in a dull voice, in the same fashion one would address a bragging child.
"I knew it. They're perfect for one another...."
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July 20
Kurama gave me this book....thingie a while back. He called it a diary. He said that's it's a good place to talk about your feelings, to express yourself, to write down things that you can't say outloud. That's the way he is, caring like that.....Well, anyway....
He said to start with a small profile, so here we go....
Name: Bronwyn
Last Name: .....I don't have one.....
Age: Eighteen, I think.
Height: I don't really know....I'm pretty short....
Weight: I don't know this either.....
Okay, that's done. Then he said that If I can't think of anything to write about, I should start with a day that's significant to me. Hmm.....
July 12.
That was the day when I found out that I was two different people, that I had two different sides of me....a very important day...
My first side, the one that's been in control all my life but these past three weeks has been overpowered, is the assassin. The cold one. The one who wants to not feel anything, be alone for the rest of her life. The one who is a heartless killer, can do anything without any conscience whatsoever. Miss Independent.
Then there's the other side, which is now in control and the one I hope that always will be, is the afraid, insecure, women who is just crying out for someone who cares. She wants people to want her, and used to use her other side to cover up that, because it made her feel weak.
Yep, that's me.
That was also the day that I began my new life. Without Zink. Without the demon world. Without the killing, the assignments, the blood.....none of that. It's gone, and I never want to see it again.
And one day, I promise that I will have my revenge on Zink. I will kill him. Make him pay for what he did to me. What he made me go through. I came to him an afraid, worried girl and he warped me into a heartless killer. He wanted me to kill Hiei. He wanted to change me into something horrible, a monster.
And he almost succeeded. If I had made the choice to kill Hiei, I'd still be working for him, probably already on another assignment.
I feel bad just thinking about it.
But I didn't make that choice. And now here I am, probably happier than I've ever been in my ENTIRE life.
Kurama said that I could have his room permanently. He told me that he had become accustomed to sleeping on the couch anyway. I argued with him for a while about it, since I've slept on the floor all my life, pretty much, but he wouldn't hear it. So, here I am, laying on the bed, writing in this diary-thing, which is actually pretty cool. I should do it more often.
I explained everything to Hiei, since he was still a little bit in the dark about Zink and what had happened between him and I. He told me what Zink had told him, about him sending more assassins after him. Zink will do anything, absolutely anything, to become a legend.
Zink doesn't lie about things like that. They will be coming soon. And even though I know for a fact that Hiei could handle them fine if he knew who they were, they're hard to just pick out from a crowd.
Zink disguises all of his assassins as ordinary humans, the ones that are of demon race. They can blend in well with the other humans, and all have perfect ambushing skills. Since I trained with Zink for six years, I know how an assassin's movements are supposed to be like, what clothes they're supposed to wear, what most of them look like. That's why I'll be keeping an eye out for them.
And since Zink believes me to be dead, he won't know that I'm helping Hiei. It works out perfectly.
I've been so happy lately. It seems that I don't need to be worried about Hiei and our new relationship. He doesn't force me to do things (Like Aiku did), he doesn't try to seduce me (Like Aiku did), and he doesn't insult or hit me when I don't do what he wants (Like Aiku did).
I really do love him.
I definitely made the right choice that day in the forest.....
*Bronwyn*
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS IS FINALLY DONE?!?!?!?! I actually finished it!!!
I know that I said I was going to put the song "Miss Independent" At the end of this story, but it didn't really seem to fit the mood of it anymore, so I decided against it.
Now, I'm a lot more in tune with this story than I am with "Girl In Love" (If any of you read that) so the sequel to this will probably be coming out before the sequel to that. Just letting you know...
I've already got the first two chapters written, so this will probably be out in a week at the most. This story is just calling to me....
"Always"
It's been three months. Zink's sending assassins, but so far, Hiei and Bronwyn have managed to take care of every one of them. But when someone from Bronwyn's past returns, it's going to turn her world upside down. And what's with these weird dreams she's been having of Hiei being brutally killed by someone who she cannot see?
Tell me what you think about my finished story!!!!!
