Blindness
By Gozilla
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything (except for the cute little Blackie, please don't take it away from me) and I don't have anything. So don't sue me!!
Please excuse my poor English!
Enjoy!
Reviews are welcomed!
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"crap" - conversation
*crap* - thoughts
(crap) - author's note
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Chapter 7 : Dream
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"What?" Yukina said in shock.
"Yes, your life." Hirota said in victory, "You are always the one on my way to the peak of power. Now that damned fighting madman is dead..."
Yusuke shouted angrily, "Who are you to call my father a fighting madman??!!" as Kurama and Kawabara sweat-dropped and struggled hard to stop him from attacking Hirota.
Hirota ignored Yusuke and continued, "... The blinded thief is no threat to me as he has dismissed his guards. Partly thanks to Youko Kurama." as he looked at Kurama.
"I never thought I was doing a favour to a person like you." Kurama said coldly, "If only I knew, I would seriously re-consider my plan."
Hirota laughed, "You are the only one left who can stop me. That's why you must die. I was planning to use the poison to weaken you so that I can kill you. I didn't expect this fire boy would get in the way. I thought the whole plan was ruined."
Hirota continued, "But I was lucky to received intelligence that you are looking for the fire boy. Then I knew my dear lady has a weakness and I decided to make good use of this weakness."
"I am not her weakness." Hiei struggled to murmur the words.
Hirota laughed evilly, further tightening his grip on the fire demon's neck, "No matter if you admit or not. She will die because of you. Now, my dear lady. Would you do it yourself or I should take the pleasure of killing you myself?"
"Don't even think about laying a finger on me." Mukuro asked deeply. Hesitantly, she put her hand on her chest, right in front of her heart, *Goodbye, Hiei. I don't know why I am doing this. I just don't want you to die. I would do anything to save you. I just want to know that you will live...* she thought as she formed a ki ball with her hand.
*No!! I won't allow this!!* Hiei screamed in his mind. He couldn't say a single word as he was suffocating from the iron grip of the shadow demon. He gathered every single drop of youki he had, silently calling upon the dragon of black flame.
"What?" Hirota sensed the rising of the fire demon's ki and stopped laughing, *It can't be. But how? The poison should have eroded most of his ki. He should be at the edge of his death by now.*
Mukuro also stopped in shock, "Hiei! No! Don't do that! You are too weak to do that!" she shouted
*I won't let you die!!* his mind screamed as he released all his remaining youki as a bait to the dragon of black flame.
"What?" Hirota shouted in fear as the earth beneath him suddenly crack opened and a gigantic black flame dragon emerged from the opening, swallowing Hirota and Hiei with its huge flaming mouth. The heat of the dragon burnt the hut into ashes in a matter of seconds.
"Hiei!!!" Mukuro shouted as she charged towards the dragon and force opened its mouth.
The dragon struggled violently, trying to shake off the Makai warlord from its mouth.
"Reigun!!!" Yusuke shot a gigantic ki ball and hit directly at the dragon. Without the powerful youki of the fire demon to support it, the black flame dragon started to collapse and two figures fell from its disassembling body.
The group rushed towards the two bodies. They inhaled deeply as they found two badly burnt demons lying on the ground. Mukuro gently lifted the unconscious fire demon, who was slightly smoking.
"I don't get it." Yusuke asked, poking the unconscious Hirota, "I knew that the Makai black flame is hotter than any fire in the Ningenkai. So I am not surprised that Hirota got all burnt up. But why is Hiei hurt as well? He used to be able to absorb the black flame dragon without any physical damage."
"Because he is too weak to withstand the heat." Kurama said as he looked sadly at his unconscious best friend, "He used all his youki as a bait to the dragon, leaving none to protect himself. Now... he is... dying..."
"Oniisan must not die." Yukina said. She held one of Hiei's hands and said to Mukuro, "Please let me try to heal oniisan."
Mukuro nodded and put the fire demon on the ground. Yukina concentrated and put her hands on Hiei's body. Bright blue light started to glow beneath her hands.
After a few moments, a few of the burnt on the fire demon's body began to heal, but most of the wounds remained. Yukina collapsed to the ground, exhausted, "I... I am so useless. I don't have enough youki to heal all of the wounds. What should I do?"
Silence fell as the group failed to find any other practical ways to save their friend.
Suddenly, a female voice came, "I think we can help."
The group turned and looked for the origin of the voice. There was no one but the group of koorime fighters.
Kawabara eyed the group with suspicion, "I thought you koorimes swore to kill the Forbidden Child since his birth. Why do you want to help him?"
"Because he saved us once from a group of killer seagull demons." Rain stepped forward and said, "He proved himself to be harmless to the koorime tribe. And we want to repay him."
"Captain Rain..." Yukina said, her eyes filled with appreciation.
"Sorry, Yukina." Rain replied, her eyes softened, "I didn't know you are bringing them to save the boy. But I hope that you still remember what we have taught you and that you won't repeat your mother's mistake."
Yukina lowered her head, not saying anything.
Kawabara was about to explode and Kurama stopped him by covering his mouth in time.
"This is not a good time to argue about this topic." Kurama murmured to Kawabara. Kawabara swallowed every word he was about to say back to his stomach, though still eyeing the koorimes angrily.
Rain approached the fire demon and held out a hand on top of his badly burnt body. The other kooirmes followed formed a circle. Bright blue light started glowing at their palms and a cloud of light surrounded the fire demon.
The group watched in amazement as the wounds on Hiei's body slowly mended like magic. A few minutes later, all the wounds were healed and the koorimes retrieved their hands. Some of them turned to Rei and started healing her.
Kurama inspected his friend, who was still unconscious. Puzzled, he asked Rain, "Why is he still unconscious?"
Rain replied, "We koorime can only heal physical wounds and damages. However, we can't clear the poison inside his body. We must get the antidote or he will die in the next few days."
Yusuke rushed to the unconscious Hirota, slapping him, "Wake up you half roasted pig! Give me the antidote or I will make sure you become a well- done pork chop!"
Hirota slowly came back to consciousness. He smiled evilly, "There is no antidote on the poison. I had not intention to let Mukuro to stay alive in the first place."
Yusuke hit Hirota hard on the head, who fainted again, "Then what shall we do?"
"I have an idea." Mukuro said calmly.
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In a dark forest, where gigantic trees stood hundreds of feet tall, sound of a child's crying echoed across the area.
In a corner of the forest, there was ancient tree. The sound of crying came from a tree hole at the bottom of the ancient tree.
Inside the tree hole, a child sat in the deepest part of the dark hole, curled tightly as a ball and crying sadly. The child had black flame-like hair with a strip of white hair forming the shape of a half-star near his forehead. He was dressed all black with a white scarf around his neck.
There was no other sound except for the child's cry.
Suddenly, a girl's voice came from the opening of the tree hole, "Why are you crying?"
The child stopped crying and looked up. He saw a girl with brown hair and dressed in a soft white dress looking at him.
"I don't know where am I." the child replied, "I am lonely and scared."
"You are not alone and you don't have to scared." the girl said softly. She held out a hand towards the child, smiling, "We are here for you. Please come out."
"But..." the child hesitated, fear of the world outside.
"It's OK." came the voice of another girl. A girl with green-blue hair and dressed in a kimono appeared beside the brown-haired girl, also smiling, "You will be fine. Please trust us." as she held out her hand towards the child.
For some reason, his heart filled with an unfamiliar feeling... warmth. Slowly, he reached his hands to the outstretching hands of the two girls.
Gently, the two girls pulled the child out of the deep, dark tree hole. The child closed his eyes as they met the strong sunlight...
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Hiei slowly opened his eyes. Still, he could see nothing, but it was not total darkness anymore. There was a dull light dancing in front of his eyes. He could feel that there was a fire burning in front of him, sending the must needed warmth to his body. He felt so weak that he didn't even want to move a finger.
Then he realised that he was half-sitting and leaning on something... something soft and warm. He tried to get up but there was no energy left for him to move.
Suddenly, a deep female voice came from behind, "You awake?"
"Hn." the fire demon blushed heavily as he realised that he was leaning on the Makai warlord. He struggled harder, trying to get away from such close contact with Mukuro, but only resulted in falling to the side.
"Just stay and relax." Mukuro gently pull the fire demon back to her embrace, her arms circled around his body, "I am transferring my youki to you so that you can stay alive and fight the poison inside your body. You will recover and your eye sight will be restored in a week or two."
"What?" Hiei asked weakly in shock, "Stop it right now. Transferring your youki to me will make you vulnerable. You may die if someone attack you now."
Mukuro smiled warmly, "Don't worry. Your Ningenkai friends are guarding us outside of the hut. They will fend off anyone who try to come near the hut."
Without any choice, Hiei relaxed and rested in Mukuro's warm embrace. Only by then he noticed that someone was holding his hand. Sensing the youki of the owner of the hand, he found that it was his twin sister, who seemed to be sleeping peacefully beside him.
"She tried to transfer her youki to you too." Mukuro said, "But she was exhausted healing your wounds and she fell asleep."
The two were quiet for a few moment before the fire demon broke the silence, "But why wasting your precious youki on me? You can always find a better warrior with ease."
Mukuro thought for a while, "Do you remember that I asked you a similar question after you blocked the poisonous dagger aimed at me?"
"Hn."
Mukuro looked at the fire, emotions flashed across her usually calm eyes, "I will give you the same answer you gave me. I don't know. I just don't want you to leave me. That's all."
"Hn." was the response from the fire demon. Hiei felt his heart filled with a strange feeling of warmth, the very same feeling he had in his dream. The comfortable feeling and his weak body dragged him to the first peaceful sleep for weeks.
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The happy laughs of the children filled the once lonely dark forest.
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The End
Thank you sooooo much for your patience to read the whole fic. This is the longest fic I have ever written. I have encountered the most evil writer's block with this fic and I have almost given up. (FYI, I always try to have a complete draft of the fic before posting it to the net. I don't want to give my precious readers an incomplete piece of work. ^-^)
I guess some of you may be confused with the part of the "dark forest" and the "children". I want to try something new here by describing the spiritual / mental connection between Hiei, Yukina and Mukuro in a more "imaginary" way. I know I did a lousy job on this...
Anyway, I am sooo glad that I finished the fic. I hope it is not just a mess of rubbish.
Hope you enjoyed the story!
Please feel free to review and comment on the story!! ^-^
Ja ne!
By Gozilla
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything (except for the cute little Blackie, please don't take it away from me) and I don't have anything. So don't sue me!!
Please excuse my poor English!
Enjoy!
Reviews are welcomed!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"crap" - conversation
*crap* - thoughts
(crap) - author's note
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Chapter 7 : Dream
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"What?" Yukina said in shock.
"Yes, your life." Hirota said in victory, "You are always the one on my way to the peak of power. Now that damned fighting madman is dead..."
Yusuke shouted angrily, "Who are you to call my father a fighting madman??!!" as Kurama and Kawabara sweat-dropped and struggled hard to stop him from attacking Hirota.
Hirota ignored Yusuke and continued, "... The blinded thief is no threat to me as he has dismissed his guards. Partly thanks to Youko Kurama." as he looked at Kurama.
"I never thought I was doing a favour to a person like you." Kurama said coldly, "If only I knew, I would seriously re-consider my plan."
Hirota laughed, "You are the only one left who can stop me. That's why you must die. I was planning to use the poison to weaken you so that I can kill you. I didn't expect this fire boy would get in the way. I thought the whole plan was ruined."
Hirota continued, "But I was lucky to received intelligence that you are looking for the fire boy. Then I knew my dear lady has a weakness and I decided to make good use of this weakness."
"I am not her weakness." Hiei struggled to murmur the words.
Hirota laughed evilly, further tightening his grip on the fire demon's neck, "No matter if you admit or not. She will die because of you. Now, my dear lady. Would you do it yourself or I should take the pleasure of killing you myself?"
"Don't even think about laying a finger on me." Mukuro asked deeply. Hesitantly, she put her hand on her chest, right in front of her heart, *Goodbye, Hiei. I don't know why I am doing this. I just don't want you to die. I would do anything to save you. I just want to know that you will live...* she thought as she formed a ki ball with her hand.
*No!! I won't allow this!!* Hiei screamed in his mind. He couldn't say a single word as he was suffocating from the iron grip of the shadow demon. He gathered every single drop of youki he had, silently calling upon the dragon of black flame.
"What?" Hirota sensed the rising of the fire demon's ki and stopped laughing, *It can't be. But how? The poison should have eroded most of his ki. He should be at the edge of his death by now.*
Mukuro also stopped in shock, "Hiei! No! Don't do that! You are too weak to do that!" she shouted
*I won't let you die!!* his mind screamed as he released all his remaining youki as a bait to the dragon of black flame.
"What?" Hirota shouted in fear as the earth beneath him suddenly crack opened and a gigantic black flame dragon emerged from the opening, swallowing Hirota and Hiei with its huge flaming mouth. The heat of the dragon burnt the hut into ashes in a matter of seconds.
"Hiei!!!" Mukuro shouted as she charged towards the dragon and force opened its mouth.
The dragon struggled violently, trying to shake off the Makai warlord from its mouth.
"Reigun!!!" Yusuke shot a gigantic ki ball and hit directly at the dragon. Without the powerful youki of the fire demon to support it, the black flame dragon started to collapse and two figures fell from its disassembling body.
The group rushed towards the two bodies. They inhaled deeply as they found two badly burnt demons lying on the ground. Mukuro gently lifted the unconscious fire demon, who was slightly smoking.
"I don't get it." Yusuke asked, poking the unconscious Hirota, "I knew that the Makai black flame is hotter than any fire in the Ningenkai. So I am not surprised that Hirota got all burnt up. But why is Hiei hurt as well? He used to be able to absorb the black flame dragon without any physical damage."
"Because he is too weak to withstand the heat." Kurama said as he looked sadly at his unconscious best friend, "He used all his youki as a bait to the dragon, leaving none to protect himself. Now... he is... dying..."
"Oniisan must not die." Yukina said. She held one of Hiei's hands and said to Mukuro, "Please let me try to heal oniisan."
Mukuro nodded and put the fire demon on the ground. Yukina concentrated and put her hands on Hiei's body. Bright blue light started to glow beneath her hands.
After a few moments, a few of the burnt on the fire demon's body began to heal, but most of the wounds remained. Yukina collapsed to the ground, exhausted, "I... I am so useless. I don't have enough youki to heal all of the wounds. What should I do?"
Silence fell as the group failed to find any other practical ways to save their friend.
Suddenly, a female voice came, "I think we can help."
The group turned and looked for the origin of the voice. There was no one but the group of koorime fighters.
Kawabara eyed the group with suspicion, "I thought you koorimes swore to kill the Forbidden Child since his birth. Why do you want to help him?"
"Because he saved us once from a group of killer seagull demons." Rain stepped forward and said, "He proved himself to be harmless to the koorime tribe. And we want to repay him."
"Captain Rain..." Yukina said, her eyes filled with appreciation.
"Sorry, Yukina." Rain replied, her eyes softened, "I didn't know you are bringing them to save the boy. But I hope that you still remember what we have taught you and that you won't repeat your mother's mistake."
Yukina lowered her head, not saying anything.
Kawabara was about to explode and Kurama stopped him by covering his mouth in time.
"This is not a good time to argue about this topic." Kurama murmured to Kawabara. Kawabara swallowed every word he was about to say back to his stomach, though still eyeing the koorimes angrily.
Rain approached the fire demon and held out a hand on top of his badly burnt body. The other kooirmes followed formed a circle. Bright blue light started glowing at their palms and a cloud of light surrounded the fire demon.
The group watched in amazement as the wounds on Hiei's body slowly mended like magic. A few minutes later, all the wounds were healed and the koorimes retrieved their hands. Some of them turned to Rei and started healing her.
Kurama inspected his friend, who was still unconscious. Puzzled, he asked Rain, "Why is he still unconscious?"
Rain replied, "We koorime can only heal physical wounds and damages. However, we can't clear the poison inside his body. We must get the antidote or he will die in the next few days."
Yusuke rushed to the unconscious Hirota, slapping him, "Wake up you half roasted pig! Give me the antidote or I will make sure you become a well- done pork chop!"
Hirota slowly came back to consciousness. He smiled evilly, "There is no antidote on the poison. I had not intention to let Mukuro to stay alive in the first place."
Yusuke hit Hirota hard on the head, who fainted again, "Then what shall we do?"
"I have an idea." Mukuro said calmly.
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In a dark forest, where gigantic trees stood hundreds of feet tall, sound of a child's crying echoed across the area.
In a corner of the forest, there was ancient tree. The sound of crying came from a tree hole at the bottom of the ancient tree.
Inside the tree hole, a child sat in the deepest part of the dark hole, curled tightly as a ball and crying sadly. The child had black flame-like hair with a strip of white hair forming the shape of a half-star near his forehead. He was dressed all black with a white scarf around his neck.
There was no other sound except for the child's cry.
Suddenly, a girl's voice came from the opening of the tree hole, "Why are you crying?"
The child stopped crying and looked up. He saw a girl with brown hair and dressed in a soft white dress looking at him.
"I don't know where am I." the child replied, "I am lonely and scared."
"You are not alone and you don't have to scared." the girl said softly. She held out a hand towards the child, smiling, "We are here for you. Please come out."
"But..." the child hesitated, fear of the world outside.
"It's OK." came the voice of another girl. A girl with green-blue hair and dressed in a kimono appeared beside the brown-haired girl, also smiling, "You will be fine. Please trust us." as she held out her hand towards the child.
For some reason, his heart filled with an unfamiliar feeling... warmth. Slowly, he reached his hands to the outstretching hands of the two girls.
Gently, the two girls pulled the child out of the deep, dark tree hole. The child closed his eyes as they met the strong sunlight...
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Hiei slowly opened his eyes. Still, he could see nothing, but it was not total darkness anymore. There was a dull light dancing in front of his eyes. He could feel that there was a fire burning in front of him, sending the must needed warmth to his body. He felt so weak that he didn't even want to move a finger.
Then he realised that he was half-sitting and leaning on something... something soft and warm. He tried to get up but there was no energy left for him to move.
Suddenly, a deep female voice came from behind, "You awake?"
"Hn." the fire demon blushed heavily as he realised that he was leaning on the Makai warlord. He struggled harder, trying to get away from such close contact with Mukuro, but only resulted in falling to the side.
"Just stay and relax." Mukuro gently pull the fire demon back to her embrace, her arms circled around his body, "I am transferring my youki to you so that you can stay alive and fight the poison inside your body. You will recover and your eye sight will be restored in a week or two."
"What?" Hiei asked weakly in shock, "Stop it right now. Transferring your youki to me will make you vulnerable. You may die if someone attack you now."
Mukuro smiled warmly, "Don't worry. Your Ningenkai friends are guarding us outside of the hut. They will fend off anyone who try to come near the hut."
Without any choice, Hiei relaxed and rested in Mukuro's warm embrace. Only by then he noticed that someone was holding his hand. Sensing the youki of the owner of the hand, he found that it was his twin sister, who seemed to be sleeping peacefully beside him.
"She tried to transfer her youki to you too." Mukuro said, "But she was exhausted healing your wounds and she fell asleep."
The two were quiet for a few moment before the fire demon broke the silence, "But why wasting your precious youki on me? You can always find a better warrior with ease."
Mukuro thought for a while, "Do you remember that I asked you a similar question after you blocked the poisonous dagger aimed at me?"
"Hn."
Mukuro looked at the fire, emotions flashed across her usually calm eyes, "I will give you the same answer you gave me. I don't know. I just don't want you to leave me. That's all."
"Hn." was the response from the fire demon. Hiei felt his heart filled with a strange feeling of warmth, the very same feeling he had in his dream. The comfortable feeling and his weak body dragged him to the first peaceful sleep for weeks.
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The happy laughs of the children filled the once lonely dark forest.
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The End
Thank you sooooo much for your patience to read the whole fic. This is the longest fic I have ever written. I have encountered the most evil writer's block with this fic and I have almost given up. (FYI, I always try to have a complete draft of the fic before posting it to the net. I don't want to give my precious readers an incomplete piece of work. ^-^)
I guess some of you may be confused with the part of the "dark forest" and the "children". I want to try something new here by describing the spiritual / mental connection between Hiei, Yukina and Mukuro in a more "imaginary" way. I know I did a lousy job on this...
Anyway, I am sooo glad that I finished the fic. I hope it is not just a mess of rubbish.
Hope you enjoyed the story!
Please feel free to review and comment on the story!! ^-^
Ja ne!