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AN Er... hello. Gomen for the long wait, I'll try to make my updates faster. This wasn't nearly as long as I hoped it would be, but that's just the way the planning went. Oh well. So, in this I explain about Yukina's past, add a little action and introduce something new about Kurama. ^__^ Quite a successful chapter. Go ahead and read.
I'll wait for you're reviews (granted this is good enough to get them).
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Part 4: Ill Omens
In a fairly small and uncomfortable room in the lower levels of the Makai Sailor, a girl with power over ice carefully stroked the silky fur of the five tailed fox in her lap. Yukina would never have guessed that Kurama would suffer from sea sickness. She knew that Hiei was claustrophobic and panicked in large crowds. Yusuke had told her that he feared flying - but she never would have thought that Kurama wouldn't tolerate something as simple as motion sickness.
The door of the room creaked open and Yusuke entered, sending a curious look over at the silver fox. "Is he any better?" The delinquent asked, sitting down on the 'table' that the room came with.
Yukina shook her head, still petting Kurama's slightly green form. While she ran her fingers through his fur, the young looking girl focused one of her 'quirks' into her hands and allowed something akin to 'healing powers' flow into the fox. "No," she finally said softly. "But he hadn't gotten any worse either."
The green tinted silver fox gave a pitiful little barking moan, snuggling a little closer into Yukina's cool lap. His five tails twitched feebly, while two furry ears drooped.
"Where's Hiei?" Yusuke asked, trying not to laugh at how truly pathetic Kurama really looked. "It's getting dark, and cold."
"He's probably on the top deck. Hiei hates enclosed and crowded spaces." Yukina told him. "I'll go up and get him in a minute or so. Just as soon as Kurama can manage to switch forms without rushing for the bathroom."
Yusuke snickered.
===
Hiei stood silently, staring out to sea and up at the stars. He felt calm inside, peaceful - which was a feeling that came to him very rarely. The freezing night air whipped his dark clothing back as though trying to rip it from his slender frame. His hair ruffled back, but he wasn't cold. The others on the deck, looking up at the magnificent view of the stars were shivering from cold, but not him. The fire in his blood kept him plenty warm enough.
"Hey kid. Aren't 'ya cold?"
The Jaganshi turned slowly to the human who was standing behind him. The man, obviously one of the sailors seeing how there were no other passengers on the boat, looked about middle aged and freezing cold. He was bundled up so tightly that it was a wonder his blood could still circulate through his body without problems.
The boat that they had chosen wasn't exactly small, but it was fairly cramped and dirty. The crew alone was small, with the addition of the four passengers it was downright cramped. Behind his bandanna, Hiei's Jagan glowed dimly, reading the man's aura. This man must be a part of one of a small family, he had two kids back in Japan, which gave him all the more reason to want to baby somebody.
"I'm not cold." Hiei quite bluntly said in response to the man's question. Turning away both literally and figuratively. The glow of his Jagan faded as he let his 'sight' slip away.
"Are you sure? You aren't wearing clothing fit for this weather." The man insisted on questioning Hiei, making the small figure very irritated, and very uncomfortable - part of the reason for irritation. The man placed one of his frozen hands on Hiei's bare arm, and Hiei hissed in both surprise and sudden fear. He hated it when people he didn't know touched him. Just as Hiei was tensing, reaching for his sword - his sister found him.
"Onnisan." the girl beamed, as unaffected to the cold as her brother was. "There you are! Shuu-chan and Yu-chan were worried because it's gotten so late and you still hadn't come back to your quarters yet." In other words Yusuke and Kurama were getting worried. The three experiments had taken Yusuke's advice in not calling each other by their real names in public. She made her way to her brother's side and discretely pushed the katana back into its sheath.
"They shouldn't be worried." Hiei muttered. "I'm fine."
The man behind the two seemingly children cleared his throat and removed his hand from Hiei's arm. "You kids should get down below with your friends before you catch a cold."
Well, it would have been good advice if the man hadn't been taking to a boy with fire in his blood and a girl with ice in hers. The two exchanged glances and decided to humor him. Better to have one man think he did a good deed then a suspicious ship load of people. Yukina bowed politely to the man, took a hold of Hiei's hand in her own mittened one and pulled him to their quarters. Kurama was sleeping, once again in his full human form and Yusuke was reading one of the novels he had brought when Hiei and Yukina entered the small cabin.
The blue haired girl went straight to Kurama's side, resting her cool hands against his fevered brow. Hiei's eyes remained locked on the book in Yusuke's hands.
Yusuke obviously noticed his gaze and looked up with a smile. "Would you like to learn how to read now?"
The Jaganshi nodded eagerly, darting forward to sit at Yusuke's side. Yukina giggled softly, trying to disguise her humor as laughter directed at Kurama.
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A few hours later, well after midnight, Hiei woke with a start. He was being held tightly, but it wasn't in Kurama's familiar arms. He could just barely see Kurama's body still lying on the cot he had been sleeping in before Hiei himself had fallen asleep. Hiei flushed upon realizing that it was Yusuke who held him in such a comforting and strong grip. He and Yusuke were curled up on the floor in the general place that the two had been reading before they had fallen asleep. Learning to read, Hiei had been depressed to discover, was going to take a very long time. He had only managed to learn the alphabet, the sounds that each letter made were still a mystery to him. Shaking himself from his thoughts, Hiei scanned the room again, looking for his sister. But Yukina was no where to be seen.
Thinking that his sister had probably only gone to the bathroom, Hiei turned his mind back to the dream he had been having before waking. No, it wasn't a dream. It had been another vision. But the vision had been the strangest one yet. Everything in it had been red, the color of Hiei's eyes, the color of blood. It gleamed wetly as though dripping down a wall, dripping into Hiei's Jagan. And from the blood had emerged a large bird, most likely a bird of prey, with black eyes that continuously roamed, searching for *something*. Hiei had watched as the bird swooped, dove and circled over large cities and empty waters. The bird flew with power, grace but also danger. The gleaming talons of the bird's claws were silver tools. Its beak was a vial for poisons. The bird itself was a weapon of destruction, searching for those it would ultimately destroy. And then the bird, while looking in another direction crashed into a four paned window - sending glass and blood everywhere. More blood dripped down the walls, into the Jagan, out of cuts on Hiei's skin.
And that had been when Hiei woke up.
Shaking himself from his thoughts, Hiei frowned upon realizing that Yukina still hadn't returned. He wiggled free of Yusuke's grasp and hit the ground with a decent sounding thump. Seconds later, he was standing on the top deck of the boat, bandanna off of his third eye, searching for his sister. He "found" her in the lowest deck of the boat, surrounded by a group of very drunk men. Such was the extent of his Jagan. With it he could see over great distances, it was almost like have a security camera and microphone wired right into his forehead. An excellent way of keeping tack of the people he needed to protect. And right now, he *needed* to protect Yukina. She was on the lowest deck of the boat, surrounded by a gang of men who were slowly inching closer to her. One was holding a long, jagged looking knife, others had bars of metal or stakes. They seemed determined to hear the pretty girl scream.
Hiei very nearly burst into flame. Lucky he didn't because the boat was made of wood and nothing would survive. With an annoyed twitch of his right eyebrow, Hiei made his way to his sister's side in the amount of time it would take to blink. He knew his sister probably wasn't in any danger, but he had promised that nothing bad would ever happen to her, and he intended to keep that promise. The fire controlling experiment paused outside the 'door' to the ships equivalent to a basement. The cold coming from inside the boat was enough to make even *him* shiver. It also meant that Yukina was either very scared, or very angry. And neither of which were good things.
"Imouto-san?" He called somewhat hesitantly. The last thing he needed was for his sister to layer him in ice. When she was angry, nothing short of unconsciousness could calm her. Hearing no reply, Hiei carefully took a few steps, making sure to remain as quiet as possible. With a sigh of relief, Hiei realized that Yukina wasn't angry enough to attack him without reason and moved to stand at her side.
"Calm down, imouto-san," he said softly, trying not to wince as he placed his hand on hers.
Yukina blinked, her eyes clearing. The room temperature, however, remained the same, instead of steadily decreasing. The men standing in what could have been threatening poses around her collapsed to the ground. It seemed that they wouldn't be moving any time soon, due to the fact that their feet were frozen to the ground.
"She's a witch!" One man shivered out, pointing wildly.
Another gasped against the cold, his skin nearly blue. "What is she? How did she do that?"
"Sound the alarm! Get them off this ship!"
Hiei grunted, steeled his nerves and lifted his frozen sister into his bare arms before disappearing back into their room. Kurama was already awake, looking slightly better then he had before. His green eyes narrowed slightly when the two suddenly appeared in the room.
"What did you do?" He asked suspiciously.
"Not now, Fox." Hiei said softly. "There's been a slight change in our plans. We have to get off of this boat now. Right now."
Kurama blinked before glancing over at Yukina, who returned his look with a guilty one of her own. "I'm sorry, Kurama." She said softly. "I was scared."
Kurama sighed. "Alright. Yukina, you go secure one of the life-rafts. Lower it as far as you can. I will pack what ever we might need and try to wake Yusuke. Hiei, you raid the kitchens for what ever food you can find. We'll meet up on the top deck in two minutes." The other two nodded and disappeared.
===
Waking Yusuke was a task easier said than done. Kurama ended up dowsing the teen with a bucket of water. A very cold bucket of water.
"There's an emergency," the red head explained. "Hiei and Yukina are waiting for us up top."
Yusuke blinked, shivered and scrambled to help the red head gather their things. The two then silently made their way to up the narrow stairs. Kurama hurried them towards Yukina, who was systematically freezing the chains holding a life boat in place. Such was the cold of her ice that the solid metal chains became brittle and snapped at the light pressure she used to break them apart. The boat she wanted sprung free just as Hiei appeared, seemingly out of nowhere at all, and the three boys tipped the boat over the side of their ship. Just as it splashed below, a group of sailors rushed onto the deck and spotted them.
Hiei recognized them as the ones from down below.
Yukina gasped, her hands flying up to cover her mouth. But before she could move, or the group of people could charge - Hiei raised his hand and a pillar of black fire separated the two groups. Kurama turned to Yusuke, gave him a few simple instructions, grabbed their bags and hopped over the edge. Yusuke made sure Kurama got to the boat before grabbing Yukina's hand.
"Don't let go!" He instructed just as they jumped. To his amazement, they didn't land on open water like he expected. But ice. It wasn't slippery ice that was beginning to melt, but something that his shoes could find traction on and grip. And inside the ice were sturdy looking branch and vines. "How..."
"Hiei and I are opposites," Yukina said briskly as she froze more of the water around the strange plants into that easy-grip ice. "He is of fire and destruction, while I am of ice and healing. The doctors had a great fascination with twins."
Yusuke nodded and clambered into the boat Kurama was already seated in. Seconds later, Hiei had joined them. Kurama glanced first at Hiei, then at the burning ship. He sighed, running his hand though his hair. Then, to Yusuke's complete amazement, something began growing in his hand. It was some sort of plant. Before the boy could get a good look, Kurama thrust the plant into the water and their little boat began speeding away.
"I have a gift over plants," Kurama explained shortly. "It was given to me after I had recovered from the personality splitting. This plant works like a motor, we will reach a shore soon."
Yusuke nodded.
While they sped along, Yukina began explaining her past to Yusuke, hers being the only one that he didn't know about.
"When Hiei and I were born," she began, watching with a sad sort of amusement as her brother carefully avoided eye contact with anybody. "The Doctors kept us together to see how similar and different we were. During our mother's pregnancy, they had injected us with chemicals to quicken our learning processes - the both of us could walk and talk within four months of birth. But because of those chemicals our growth had been stunted. After two years of being together, we were separated for individual testing. I was injected with chemicals and formulas to lower my body temperature. I can create ice from nothing, just as I can freeze any liquid by touching it. After they finished testing on me, I was sent to a strange chamber and injected with yet another chemical. It was designed to help me heal by using just my control over ice. That is why my hair is this color." Yukina sighed and touched her teal colored hair, "a result of the chemicals already in my body and those injected later on strengthened my aura until I could force it into somebody and in a sense, heal them."
Yusuke blinked, suddenly noticing that tears were streaking down the pretty girl's face. Because of her body temperature, the tears froze halfway down her cheeks to land on the boat floor - hard and beautiful as gems.
"Years and years later, I was brought back to where Hiei and I had been separated and I barely recognized him. We tried to embrace, but with the changes made to us, if we held each other for too long, we would die. My ice was much too cold for him, and his fire was too much for me. The Doctors gloated, saying twins were the best for testing. Opposites, they said, instead of identical. But there was something they didn't take into consideration, even though Hiei and I couldn't hold each other for comfort, we still loved each other. We would still protect each other. That made the Doctors angry and they separated us again. They told me that they had killed Hiei. I didn't know he was still alive until he came with Kurama to break me out."
Yukina's eyes watered again, but this time her tears were based on joy. The frozen tears clattered on the bottom of the boat. Kurama reached his free hand over to the girl, gathering her up in a one-armed hug. Hiei, on the other hand, turned to Yusuke. The delinquent was shivering and slowly turning blue because of the water Kurama had thrown on him to wake him up. The small fire-starter pulled Yusuke in a hug similar to how Kurama was holding Yukina. And almost immediately, Yusuke's shivers began to slow.
The rest of the trip was in a comfortable silence. Yusuke, Hiei and Yukina falling asleep while Kurama directed their boat to where he could feel the aura's of plants.
Surprisingly, they reached shore about two hours later. Kurama landed the boat on a dirty beach a few miles north of the main docks, pulling his motor-plant out of the water as he did so. The plant remained in his hand for a moment before almost un-growing, shrinking until it was once again just a seed. Hiei torched the boat and the group began walking towards the nearest town.
And in the sky, not too far behind them, a hawk flew, its black eyes searching.
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~Quick Dictionary~
Imouto-san: I'm told means little sister.
Oniisan: means older brother
AN Er.. Again sorry for the long wait. I'll try to post faster next time. Review and I'll update.
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AN Er... hello. Gomen for the long wait, I'll try to make my updates faster. This wasn't nearly as long as I hoped it would be, but that's just the way the planning went. Oh well. So, in this I explain about Yukina's past, add a little action and introduce something new about Kurama. ^__^ Quite a successful chapter. Go ahead and read.
I'll wait for you're reviews (granted this is good enough to get them).
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Part 4: Ill Omens
In a fairly small and uncomfortable room in the lower levels of the Makai Sailor, a girl with power over ice carefully stroked the silky fur of the five tailed fox in her lap. Yukina would never have guessed that Kurama would suffer from sea sickness. She knew that Hiei was claustrophobic and panicked in large crowds. Yusuke had told her that he feared flying - but she never would have thought that Kurama wouldn't tolerate something as simple as motion sickness.
The door of the room creaked open and Yusuke entered, sending a curious look over at the silver fox. "Is he any better?" The delinquent asked, sitting down on the 'table' that the room came with.
Yukina shook her head, still petting Kurama's slightly green form. While she ran her fingers through his fur, the young looking girl focused one of her 'quirks' into her hands and allowed something akin to 'healing powers' flow into the fox. "No," she finally said softly. "But he hadn't gotten any worse either."
The green tinted silver fox gave a pitiful little barking moan, snuggling a little closer into Yukina's cool lap. His five tails twitched feebly, while two furry ears drooped.
"Where's Hiei?" Yusuke asked, trying not to laugh at how truly pathetic Kurama really looked. "It's getting dark, and cold."
"He's probably on the top deck. Hiei hates enclosed and crowded spaces." Yukina told him. "I'll go up and get him in a minute or so. Just as soon as Kurama can manage to switch forms without rushing for the bathroom."
Yusuke snickered.
===
Hiei stood silently, staring out to sea and up at the stars. He felt calm inside, peaceful - which was a feeling that came to him very rarely. The freezing night air whipped his dark clothing back as though trying to rip it from his slender frame. His hair ruffled back, but he wasn't cold. The others on the deck, looking up at the magnificent view of the stars were shivering from cold, but not him. The fire in his blood kept him plenty warm enough.
"Hey kid. Aren't 'ya cold?"
The Jaganshi turned slowly to the human who was standing behind him. The man, obviously one of the sailors seeing how there were no other passengers on the boat, looked about middle aged and freezing cold. He was bundled up so tightly that it was a wonder his blood could still circulate through his body without problems.
The boat that they had chosen wasn't exactly small, but it was fairly cramped and dirty. The crew alone was small, with the addition of the four passengers it was downright cramped. Behind his bandanna, Hiei's Jagan glowed dimly, reading the man's aura. This man must be a part of one of a small family, he had two kids back in Japan, which gave him all the more reason to want to baby somebody.
"I'm not cold." Hiei quite bluntly said in response to the man's question. Turning away both literally and figuratively. The glow of his Jagan faded as he let his 'sight' slip away.
"Are you sure? You aren't wearing clothing fit for this weather." The man insisted on questioning Hiei, making the small figure very irritated, and very uncomfortable - part of the reason for irritation. The man placed one of his frozen hands on Hiei's bare arm, and Hiei hissed in both surprise and sudden fear. He hated it when people he didn't know touched him. Just as Hiei was tensing, reaching for his sword - his sister found him.
"Onnisan." the girl beamed, as unaffected to the cold as her brother was. "There you are! Shuu-chan and Yu-chan were worried because it's gotten so late and you still hadn't come back to your quarters yet." In other words Yusuke and Kurama were getting worried. The three experiments had taken Yusuke's advice in not calling each other by their real names in public. She made her way to her brother's side and discretely pushed the katana back into its sheath.
"They shouldn't be worried." Hiei muttered. "I'm fine."
The man behind the two seemingly children cleared his throat and removed his hand from Hiei's arm. "You kids should get down below with your friends before you catch a cold."
Well, it would have been good advice if the man hadn't been taking to a boy with fire in his blood and a girl with ice in hers. The two exchanged glances and decided to humor him. Better to have one man think he did a good deed then a suspicious ship load of people. Yukina bowed politely to the man, took a hold of Hiei's hand in her own mittened one and pulled him to their quarters. Kurama was sleeping, once again in his full human form and Yusuke was reading one of the novels he had brought when Hiei and Yukina entered the small cabin.
The blue haired girl went straight to Kurama's side, resting her cool hands against his fevered brow. Hiei's eyes remained locked on the book in Yusuke's hands.
Yusuke obviously noticed his gaze and looked up with a smile. "Would you like to learn how to read now?"
The Jaganshi nodded eagerly, darting forward to sit at Yusuke's side. Yukina giggled softly, trying to disguise her humor as laughter directed at Kurama.
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A few hours later, well after midnight, Hiei woke with a start. He was being held tightly, but it wasn't in Kurama's familiar arms. He could just barely see Kurama's body still lying on the cot he had been sleeping in before Hiei himself had fallen asleep. Hiei flushed upon realizing that it was Yusuke who held him in such a comforting and strong grip. He and Yusuke were curled up on the floor in the general place that the two had been reading before they had fallen asleep. Learning to read, Hiei had been depressed to discover, was going to take a very long time. He had only managed to learn the alphabet, the sounds that each letter made were still a mystery to him. Shaking himself from his thoughts, Hiei scanned the room again, looking for his sister. But Yukina was no where to be seen.
Thinking that his sister had probably only gone to the bathroom, Hiei turned his mind back to the dream he had been having before waking. No, it wasn't a dream. It had been another vision. But the vision had been the strangest one yet. Everything in it had been red, the color of Hiei's eyes, the color of blood. It gleamed wetly as though dripping down a wall, dripping into Hiei's Jagan. And from the blood had emerged a large bird, most likely a bird of prey, with black eyes that continuously roamed, searching for *something*. Hiei had watched as the bird swooped, dove and circled over large cities and empty waters. The bird flew with power, grace but also danger. The gleaming talons of the bird's claws were silver tools. Its beak was a vial for poisons. The bird itself was a weapon of destruction, searching for those it would ultimately destroy. And then the bird, while looking in another direction crashed into a four paned window - sending glass and blood everywhere. More blood dripped down the walls, into the Jagan, out of cuts on Hiei's skin.
And that had been when Hiei woke up.
Shaking himself from his thoughts, Hiei frowned upon realizing that Yukina still hadn't returned. He wiggled free of Yusuke's grasp and hit the ground with a decent sounding thump. Seconds later, he was standing on the top deck of the boat, bandanna off of his third eye, searching for his sister. He "found" her in the lowest deck of the boat, surrounded by a group of very drunk men. Such was the extent of his Jagan. With it he could see over great distances, it was almost like have a security camera and microphone wired right into his forehead. An excellent way of keeping tack of the people he needed to protect. And right now, he *needed* to protect Yukina. She was on the lowest deck of the boat, surrounded by a gang of men who were slowly inching closer to her. One was holding a long, jagged looking knife, others had bars of metal or stakes. They seemed determined to hear the pretty girl scream.
Hiei very nearly burst into flame. Lucky he didn't because the boat was made of wood and nothing would survive. With an annoyed twitch of his right eyebrow, Hiei made his way to his sister's side in the amount of time it would take to blink. He knew his sister probably wasn't in any danger, but he had promised that nothing bad would ever happen to her, and he intended to keep that promise. The fire controlling experiment paused outside the 'door' to the ships equivalent to a basement. The cold coming from inside the boat was enough to make even *him* shiver. It also meant that Yukina was either very scared, or very angry. And neither of which were good things.
"Imouto-san?" He called somewhat hesitantly. The last thing he needed was for his sister to layer him in ice. When she was angry, nothing short of unconsciousness could calm her. Hearing no reply, Hiei carefully took a few steps, making sure to remain as quiet as possible. With a sigh of relief, Hiei realized that Yukina wasn't angry enough to attack him without reason and moved to stand at her side.
"Calm down, imouto-san," he said softly, trying not to wince as he placed his hand on hers.
Yukina blinked, her eyes clearing. The room temperature, however, remained the same, instead of steadily decreasing. The men standing in what could have been threatening poses around her collapsed to the ground. It seemed that they wouldn't be moving any time soon, due to the fact that their feet were frozen to the ground.
"She's a witch!" One man shivered out, pointing wildly.
Another gasped against the cold, his skin nearly blue. "What is she? How did she do that?"
"Sound the alarm! Get them off this ship!"
Hiei grunted, steeled his nerves and lifted his frozen sister into his bare arms before disappearing back into their room. Kurama was already awake, looking slightly better then he had before. His green eyes narrowed slightly when the two suddenly appeared in the room.
"What did you do?" He asked suspiciously.
"Not now, Fox." Hiei said softly. "There's been a slight change in our plans. We have to get off of this boat now. Right now."
Kurama blinked before glancing over at Yukina, who returned his look with a guilty one of her own. "I'm sorry, Kurama." She said softly. "I was scared."
Kurama sighed. "Alright. Yukina, you go secure one of the life-rafts. Lower it as far as you can. I will pack what ever we might need and try to wake Yusuke. Hiei, you raid the kitchens for what ever food you can find. We'll meet up on the top deck in two minutes." The other two nodded and disappeared.
===
Waking Yusuke was a task easier said than done. Kurama ended up dowsing the teen with a bucket of water. A very cold bucket of water.
"There's an emergency," the red head explained. "Hiei and Yukina are waiting for us up top."
Yusuke blinked, shivered and scrambled to help the red head gather their things. The two then silently made their way to up the narrow stairs. Kurama hurried them towards Yukina, who was systematically freezing the chains holding a life boat in place. Such was the cold of her ice that the solid metal chains became brittle and snapped at the light pressure she used to break them apart. The boat she wanted sprung free just as Hiei appeared, seemingly out of nowhere at all, and the three boys tipped the boat over the side of their ship. Just as it splashed below, a group of sailors rushed onto the deck and spotted them.
Hiei recognized them as the ones from down below.
Yukina gasped, her hands flying up to cover her mouth. But before she could move, or the group of people could charge - Hiei raised his hand and a pillar of black fire separated the two groups. Kurama turned to Yusuke, gave him a few simple instructions, grabbed their bags and hopped over the edge. Yusuke made sure Kurama got to the boat before grabbing Yukina's hand.
"Don't let go!" He instructed just as they jumped. To his amazement, they didn't land on open water like he expected. But ice. It wasn't slippery ice that was beginning to melt, but something that his shoes could find traction on and grip. And inside the ice were sturdy looking branch and vines. "How..."
"Hiei and I are opposites," Yukina said briskly as she froze more of the water around the strange plants into that easy-grip ice. "He is of fire and destruction, while I am of ice and healing. The doctors had a great fascination with twins."
Yusuke nodded and clambered into the boat Kurama was already seated in. Seconds later, Hiei had joined them. Kurama glanced first at Hiei, then at the burning ship. He sighed, running his hand though his hair. Then, to Yusuke's complete amazement, something began growing in his hand. It was some sort of plant. Before the boy could get a good look, Kurama thrust the plant into the water and their little boat began speeding away.
"I have a gift over plants," Kurama explained shortly. "It was given to me after I had recovered from the personality splitting. This plant works like a motor, we will reach a shore soon."
Yusuke nodded.
While they sped along, Yukina began explaining her past to Yusuke, hers being the only one that he didn't know about.
"When Hiei and I were born," she began, watching with a sad sort of amusement as her brother carefully avoided eye contact with anybody. "The Doctors kept us together to see how similar and different we were. During our mother's pregnancy, they had injected us with chemicals to quicken our learning processes - the both of us could walk and talk within four months of birth. But because of those chemicals our growth had been stunted. After two years of being together, we were separated for individual testing. I was injected with chemicals and formulas to lower my body temperature. I can create ice from nothing, just as I can freeze any liquid by touching it. After they finished testing on me, I was sent to a strange chamber and injected with yet another chemical. It was designed to help me heal by using just my control over ice. That is why my hair is this color." Yukina sighed and touched her teal colored hair, "a result of the chemicals already in my body and those injected later on strengthened my aura until I could force it into somebody and in a sense, heal them."
Yusuke blinked, suddenly noticing that tears were streaking down the pretty girl's face. Because of her body temperature, the tears froze halfway down her cheeks to land on the boat floor - hard and beautiful as gems.
"Years and years later, I was brought back to where Hiei and I had been separated and I barely recognized him. We tried to embrace, but with the changes made to us, if we held each other for too long, we would die. My ice was much too cold for him, and his fire was too much for me. The Doctors gloated, saying twins were the best for testing. Opposites, they said, instead of identical. But there was something they didn't take into consideration, even though Hiei and I couldn't hold each other for comfort, we still loved each other. We would still protect each other. That made the Doctors angry and they separated us again. They told me that they had killed Hiei. I didn't know he was still alive until he came with Kurama to break me out."
Yukina's eyes watered again, but this time her tears were based on joy. The frozen tears clattered on the bottom of the boat. Kurama reached his free hand over to the girl, gathering her up in a one-armed hug. Hiei, on the other hand, turned to Yusuke. The delinquent was shivering and slowly turning blue because of the water Kurama had thrown on him to wake him up. The small fire-starter pulled Yusuke in a hug similar to how Kurama was holding Yukina. And almost immediately, Yusuke's shivers began to slow.
The rest of the trip was in a comfortable silence. Yusuke, Hiei and Yukina falling asleep while Kurama directed their boat to where he could feel the aura's of plants.
Surprisingly, they reached shore about two hours later. Kurama landed the boat on a dirty beach a few miles north of the main docks, pulling his motor-plant out of the water as he did so. The plant remained in his hand for a moment before almost un-growing, shrinking until it was once again just a seed. Hiei torched the boat and the group began walking towards the nearest town.
And in the sky, not too far behind them, a hawk flew, its black eyes searching.
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~Quick Dictionary~
Imouto-san: I'm told means little sister.
Oniisan: means older brother
AN Er.. Again sorry for the long wait. I'll try to post faster next time. Review and I'll update.
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