Here's chapter two! And yes! ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER! ^_^ Sorry, I love putting you people in suspense. It amuses me to no end. So enjoy; I'll have the next chappie up soon!!
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"He-man-chan..." She pulled his hand close to her body, bringing him ever nearer. He looked at her confusedly, as she had him in her iron grasp up to the shoulder. Suddenly, she turned over, bringing him down beside her with his arm around her. "ARGH! STUPID...Youkai..." He suppressed his scream as she snuggled close against him. He felt his cheeks burn bright red. He tried to push her away, but her death grip on his arm made that impossible. So he just had to lay there awkwardly with his arm around the demon girl.
This can't be the same little girl from all those years ago...? He started to lift up her hair with his free hand.
"YOU PERVERT WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Sayaka was blushing a deep crimson as she smacked him away from her. "OOOOOOOOH, I HATE YOU!" She threw a vase that was sitting on the table at him.
"Hey! THAT'S MY LINE! YOU grabbed ME, idiot!"
"What's going on in here?!" Yusuke's mother, Atsuko, had just swung open the door and flicked on the light. She was now standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips.
"He was getting fresh!" Sayaka pointed fervently at Hiei.
Atsuko sighed. "Mr. Hiei, if you're gonna sleep with girls, at LEAST get a separate room than Kurama and Yusuke!"
"STUPID NINGEN!" He screamed at her. "I HAVE NO DESIRE TO SLEEP WITH THIS LECH!"
"Lech? ME?! YOU'RE one to talk, you bastard!"
Atsuko had nodded off in the doorway, even with all the screaming and the like. Yusuke was practically drowning in his own drool. Hiei growled and rolled Atsuko down the hall back to her room, as he had done so many times before during his wakeful nights.
"Don't tell me you're gonna sleep with Yusuke's MOTHER?!" Sayaka was chasing him down the hall.
"HOW PERVERTED CAN YOU BE?!" Hiei whirled around, dropping Yusuke's mother down the stairs.
"Nice job, nimrod." Sayaka used her super fire-demon speed to catch Atsuko before she hit the landing. "You know, I was just messin' with ya. Why do you get so worked up?"
His hair stood on end. "WHO WOULDN'T?! Just stay away from me!" He stormed down the hall back towards his room. He felt her eyes following him, but he just ignored them and slammed the door in her face. She's definitely not the girl I knew from childhood. After all, she's a FIRE demon.... "ACK!"
She was standing right in front of him. "Don't tell me you've forgotten that ALL fire demons have super speed?" She leered at him.
But as she did, he noticed a small blueish tint reflect in her eyes, something that was NEVER found in a fire demon. They always had ruby red eyes that sparkled as if on fire. He shook his head and averted his eyes. "Leave me alone!" He seemed to disappear into the very air, leaving Sayaka to fume all by her lonesome.
He walked along the cold city streets. All 500 years of his life** seemed to flash before his eyes. But the time that caught his attention most was when he still lived with the Ice Apparitions. A little girl, no more than 7 years old, had followed him around day after day.
**FLASHBACK**
"Wait up, He-man-chan!" The little girl trotted along at the older boy's heels, completely unaware that he was ignoring her. "Will you marry me when I get older?"
"No."
"PLEASE?"
"I SAID NO."
"But why?"
Hiei spun around and got right up in her face. "Cuz you're an ugly little fartknocker, that's why!"
Her huge blue-green eyes welled up with tears. "Then you HATE me?"
YES! His mind screamed. But he couldn't bring himself to say it. Instead, he pulled the spunky little Ice Apparition into an embrace. "I am a forbidden child. I cannot love or be loved."
Cannot love or be loved...
**END FLASHBACK**
Hiei smiled into the night wind. This was how he liked it - to be alone. "Besides," he said to himself. "That girl died a long time ago. There's no way she's back." He laughed at himself. "How can I be so childish? After all I've learned from my many battles, how can I still even CONSIDER such fairy tales?" He climbed the nearest tree and fell asleep contentedly in its branches.
Little did he know, a pair of red eyes with a bluish tint were watching him from behind a bus stop. "Hiei, you have learned so much, and yet there is still so much you do not know." A smile danced around their owner's face. "But I promise you now, you will know more than what you bargained for when I finally make you see what happened to little Aura Sukamori..." Then the eyes faded into the night with a twinkle.