CHAPTER 6
Kimura finally arrived home. The gang, minus Hiei had walked her home.
"Nice meeting you Kurama, Botan," she said as she opened the door, "I just wish Hiei could have been here as well."
"Oh he is." Said Yusuke with a smile. "He follows us in the trees." Kimura said good bye and walked inside her house.
She told her mother she was home, and walked upstairs to her room. she lay her bag down near her dresser, and fell onto her bed. she was so exhausted. luckily, it was going to be Saturday. she could sleep in. kimura started to drift away into sleep.
Kimura woke up to a beautiful sunshiny day. By the look of it, it was probably about noon. she stood up. she had forgotten to change out of her school uniform. she rolled her eyes, and walked over to the closet to put comfortable clothes on. she decided to wear her black sweat pants and matching tank top. she looked around for a hair scrunch, and could only find a hair band. she put on her jacket and walked over to the mirror.
"Woe...i look like Hiei." Said Kimura almost forgetting about yesterday. Kimura put her hand up to her throat. it felt fine. It was so strange, that she isn't the average ordinary girl she thought she was. And she is still finding things out about herself. Kimura shook her head and walked downstairs. She decided to run at the park, and get some good exercise. she could also think there.
"Mom im going to the park!" she yelled to her mother.
"Ok, be back no later than sun down!" Her mother called back. Kimura walked out the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
"Master...my men found her." Said Yoshihiro nervously to the silhouetted figure.
"And?" came the heartless voice.
"And my men that I sent never came back. they were all killed. Someone is protecting her master." Replied Yoshihiro.
"Well than, I want both you and your men to go around, and check it out. see who this mysterious person is." Said Ruko facing the fire. "And remember what I said...she doesnt get hurt."
"Yes master...forgive me, but why do you want her?" Yoshihiro asked.
"She has a lot of power. if I get the necklace, I will take her power and energy first. I thank her mother for using the necklace and transferring all that power to her daughter. now go!"
"Yes master." Yoshihiro said as he bowed and walked out the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
Kimura found a bench underneath a beautiful oak tree. she was exhausted from running, her heart beating very fast as she tried to catch her breath. she had been running in the park for about an hour. she lay down on the bench, on her back, resting her feet on the arm rest. she closed her eyes. she had been thinking about a lot while running. like how and why everything was happening. Kimura was still a bit confused. she wanted to know why she couldn't use her powers before, and how she used them. Hiei had already told her that her mother was a demon who was murdered...Hiei...He was so mysterious, so cunning. he always had an emotionless face, but his eyes...his eyes could never hide anything his face could...it was all in his eyes. the beautiful red Hughes. Kimura had seen the panic and sadness in them when she had found the picture of that little girl. who was she? how could he make him feel the way she did? Kimura started to go into a daydream, when she stopped. a small grin spread across her face...he's here.
Kimura opened her eyes, staring up at the branch. the first thing she saw were the red eyes. her heart skipped a beat. she sat up to look at Hiei. he was sitting on the branch with his feet dangling in the air.
Kimura laughed. "Yusuke was right. you do follow everyone in the trees..I knew I'd find you here."
"I was saying the same thing." Hiei said jumping down from the tree. Kimura closed her eyes. his voice was so soothing. Kimura opened her eyes again to find Hiei standing across from her.
"Are you ready" He asked.
"Ready? for what?" she asked clueless.
"I asked the others to meet us in the meadow near the lake here." Hiei replied
"Meadow? lake? where's that?" Kimura asked.
"Exactly why I wanted to meet there...no on knows about it." Hiei replied. he looked towards the woods.
"You could get lost in there" Kimura said looking his way.
"I know...we are running out of sunlight...we better go now." Hiei said walking towards the woods.
They both arrived exactly where Hiei told everyone to meet. Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara were already there.
"Hey what took you so long?" asked Yusuke running up to them.
"Hn." Hiei crossed his arms.
"So why are we here again?" Yusuke asked.
"Were here to help Kimura train, Yusuke." Kurama said. "Kimura...try to find your spirit energy. let it show its fullest." Yusuke said rolling his eyes while mocking Kurama.
"Ok, ill try." Kimura said closing her eyes. Kimura found it. she could feel it tickling the outside of her body. She opened her eyes to see swirls of different color dancing around her body. she couldn't help but to giggle. she was very ticklish. she looked around, everyone was staring at her with there mouths opened. Kuwabara fell to his knees.
"I have never felt so light headed in my life. She's giving off so much energy!"
"Hmm...her mother must have been very strong for her daughter who is only half to receive so much power like this ." Hiei thought to himself.
"How is this possible?" Kurama asked allowed. "She has different kinds of spirit energy." Everyone looked at Kurama. "Different demons have different spirit energy. She seems to have a hint of plant and fire spirit energy there as well.but her ice energy seems to be mush more powerful than the rest. She might not even be able to use power from her other spirit energy."
"How the hell can she be so..powerful? No one is perfect!" Yusuke yelled.
"This is almost impossible." Hiei thought to himself." The foolish ningen is right for a change. No one can be perfect and powerful like this.unless they had the power to be." Hiei stood there in deep thought for a while. He could sense her power, but it wasn't as powerful as his. "Perhaps she had just inherited this from ancestors. Its not that strong, only strong for an amateur."
"Could you please put your energy away now?" Kuwabara asked still on his knees.
"Alright." Hiei raised his voice. "You have found your power Kimura, now learn to shield it before the fool over there doesn't go into one of his conniptions." Hiei said eyeing Kuwabara. "Yes, and make sure its still flowing through your body." Kurama called out while Kimura tried to shield it.
Kimura wasn't sure if she had done it correctly, but after five minutes she heard Kuwabara sigh in relief. She opened her eyes to see if she had done it. She saw nothing whisping around her body, but she could still feel the warmth and power in her body.
"Ok, now that we have that down," Yusuke started, "we will all have to watch our asses." He said putting his arm around Kimura, and shaking her so she moved her legs around to keep her balance.
"Hn. Its still not as powerful to fight. She will need a lot of work." Hiei replied. "I guess we could-" Hiei didn't even have time to finish his sentence. He looked to his right, but nothing was there.
"What's wrong shortie?" Kuwabara asked eying him suspiciously
"Shut your mouth fool." Hiei said quietly. He slowly drew his katana and cautiously walked over to a bush.
Before Hiei could reach the bushes, a hideous looking demon sprang out with his teeth bared. Kimura screamed in shock as ten more did the same. The demons were all closing in on the group. Kurama ran in front of her to shield her away from the view of the demons, but ended up moving so he could perform rose whip.
"Kimura! Get out of here!" Yusuke screamed. Kimura saw the serious look on Yusuke's face, and nodded. She ran over to the bushes, when two hands reached out and grabbed her. She turned around to see a hideous demon grabbing her wrist. She held her breath and hoped for the cold feeling to come again. Sure enough it did. She exhaled all over the nasty creature, freezing it in its place, still grasping Kimura's hand. She finally wrenched her wrist out of the grasp, and turned to run away. Before she could, another hand came out of nowhere and grabbed the collar of her jacket.
"Enough!" the voice yelled from behind Kimura. The next thing she knew, she was very high in a tree, hanging over the ground, her collar still tightly grasped. Kimura closed her eyes and whimpered, she was deathly afraid of heights.
"My, my, Kimura," The voice said from behind her once more. "You remind me of your mother a lot. She pulled the same stunt you did with one of my men before I killed her." Kimura's eyes shot opened. "And you look a lot like her to." There was an evil laugh. Kimura jiggled as the horrible cold voice laughed. She screamed causing all attention on her, and the mysterious man who held her. Everyone stopped fighting.
"Men! Back to Makai! We have what we want!" the voice yelled.
".Yoshihiro.what the hell do you want?" Kimura heard Hiei's voice call up from the ground. "What the hell are you doing here?" Hiei spat. Yoshihiro laughed. "Is that the way you great an old friend? He asked in a sarcastically hurt way. Hiei spat on the ground.
"Exactly what you want Hiei." Yoshihiro said answering Hiei's first question.
"Hiei? Why would he want to train her?" Came Kuwabara's confused voice. "And how do you know." "Shut up!" Hiei yelled not turning around."
Yoshihiro gave another laugh. "The fool doesn't know!" He thought to himself. "Better play along." "I have my reasons." He finally said out loud. He laughed again.
Kimura noticed a ball of glowing blue shoot straight toward her. She closed her eyes and winced. It had hit the mans arm, causing her to fall, hundreds of felt to the ground. Kimura squeezed her eyes shut. She waited to feel the pain of two-hundred and two bones breaking, but never felt it. Instead she felt two arms close around her. Kimura opened her eyes to see the ruby read eyes looking down at her.
Hiei had caught Kimura. She was now lying in his arms like a baby. It felt comfortable, and she felt protected.
"You think your puny little spirit gun will do you any good?" Yoshihiro asked eying Yusuke. "I know all of you, and you ridiculous concoctions. they wont work. All of you were trained poorly in my book. Speaking of which," He looked at Hiei. " How is your master doing? I haven't seen him in such a while, and I hated to just leave you and him in the cave like that." Yoshihiro said with a smile. A vision of his master dying shot through Hiei's mind.
Kimura could feel Hiei shaking. It frightened her. She could see his eyes glowing bright red. She could tell he was angry, and .was he scared? Yoshihiro started laughing. He became a blur, and vanished. He was almost as fast as Hiei. Kimura thought to herself.
Hiei stood there. She could feel him shaking uncontrollably. He closed his eyes, and tilted his head downward, toward the ground. Kimura could hear him breathing loud and fast, and his grip around her became tighter. She was frightened. She thought he was going to squeeze her to death.
".Hiei?" came Kurama's voice. Hiei opened his eyes and looked up. He turned around to see everyone staring at him with worried looks on there faces. Hiei looked down at Kimura. Their eyes met. Hiei knew she was reading the fear, pain and anger that registered in his body.
The next thing Kimura knew, she felt her body hit the ground hard. Hiei had sped off into the distance. Kimura looked up. Everyone looked as confused and worried as she did.
Kimura finally arrived home. The gang, minus Hiei had walked her home.
"Nice meeting you Kurama, Botan," she said as she opened the door, "I just wish Hiei could have been here as well."
"Oh he is." Said Yusuke with a smile. "He follows us in the trees." Kimura said good bye and walked inside her house.
She told her mother she was home, and walked upstairs to her room. she lay her bag down near her dresser, and fell onto her bed. she was so exhausted. luckily, it was going to be Saturday. she could sleep in. kimura started to drift away into sleep.
Kimura woke up to a beautiful sunshiny day. By the look of it, it was probably about noon. she stood up. she had forgotten to change out of her school uniform. she rolled her eyes, and walked over to the closet to put comfortable clothes on. she decided to wear her black sweat pants and matching tank top. she looked around for a hair scrunch, and could only find a hair band. she put on her jacket and walked over to the mirror.
"Woe...i look like Hiei." Said Kimura almost forgetting about yesterday. Kimura put her hand up to her throat. it felt fine. It was so strange, that she isn't the average ordinary girl she thought she was. And she is still finding things out about herself. Kimura shook her head and walked downstairs. She decided to run at the park, and get some good exercise. she could also think there.
"Mom im going to the park!" she yelled to her mother.
"Ok, be back no later than sun down!" Her mother called back. Kimura walked out the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
"Master...my men found her." Said Yoshihiro nervously to the silhouetted figure.
"And?" came the heartless voice.
"And my men that I sent never came back. they were all killed. Someone is protecting her master." Replied Yoshihiro.
"Well than, I want both you and your men to go around, and check it out. see who this mysterious person is." Said Ruko facing the fire. "And remember what I said...she doesnt get hurt."
"Yes master...forgive me, but why do you want her?" Yoshihiro asked.
"She has a lot of power. if I get the necklace, I will take her power and energy first. I thank her mother for using the necklace and transferring all that power to her daughter. now go!"
"Yes master." Yoshihiro said as he bowed and walked out the door. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
Kimura found a bench underneath a beautiful oak tree. she was exhausted from running, her heart beating very fast as she tried to catch her breath. she had been running in the park for about an hour. she lay down on the bench, on her back, resting her feet on the arm rest. she closed her eyes. she had been thinking about a lot while running. like how and why everything was happening. Kimura was still a bit confused. she wanted to know why she couldn't use her powers before, and how she used them. Hiei had already told her that her mother was a demon who was murdered...Hiei...He was so mysterious, so cunning. he always had an emotionless face, but his eyes...his eyes could never hide anything his face could...it was all in his eyes. the beautiful red Hughes. Kimura had seen the panic and sadness in them when she had found the picture of that little girl. who was she? how could he make him feel the way she did? Kimura started to go into a daydream, when she stopped. a small grin spread across her face...he's here.
Kimura opened her eyes, staring up at the branch. the first thing she saw were the red eyes. her heart skipped a beat. she sat up to look at Hiei. he was sitting on the branch with his feet dangling in the air.
Kimura laughed. "Yusuke was right. you do follow everyone in the trees..I knew I'd find you here."
"I was saying the same thing." Hiei said jumping down from the tree. Kimura closed her eyes. his voice was so soothing. Kimura opened her eyes again to find Hiei standing across from her.
"Are you ready" He asked.
"Ready? for what?" she asked clueless.
"I asked the others to meet us in the meadow near the lake here." Hiei replied
"Meadow? lake? where's that?" Kimura asked.
"Exactly why I wanted to meet there...no on knows about it." Hiei replied. he looked towards the woods.
"You could get lost in there" Kimura said looking his way.
"I know...we are running out of sunlight...we better go now." Hiei said walking towards the woods.
They both arrived exactly where Hiei told everyone to meet. Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara were already there.
"Hey what took you so long?" asked Yusuke running up to them.
"Hn." Hiei crossed his arms.
"So why are we here again?" Yusuke asked.
"Were here to help Kimura train, Yusuke." Kurama said. "Kimura...try to find your spirit energy. let it show its fullest." Yusuke said rolling his eyes while mocking Kurama.
"Ok, ill try." Kimura said closing her eyes. Kimura found it. she could feel it tickling the outside of her body. She opened her eyes to see swirls of different color dancing around her body. she couldn't help but to giggle. she was very ticklish. she looked around, everyone was staring at her with there mouths opened. Kuwabara fell to his knees.
"I have never felt so light headed in my life. She's giving off so much energy!"
"Hmm...her mother must have been very strong for her daughter who is only half to receive so much power like this ." Hiei thought to himself.
"How is this possible?" Kurama asked allowed. "She has different kinds of spirit energy." Everyone looked at Kurama. "Different demons have different spirit energy. She seems to have a hint of plant and fire spirit energy there as well.but her ice energy seems to be mush more powerful than the rest. She might not even be able to use power from her other spirit energy."
"How the hell can she be so..powerful? No one is perfect!" Yusuke yelled.
"This is almost impossible." Hiei thought to himself." The foolish ningen is right for a change. No one can be perfect and powerful like this.unless they had the power to be." Hiei stood there in deep thought for a while. He could sense her power, but it wasn't as powerful as his. "Perhaps she had just inherited this from ancestors. Its not that strong, only strong for an amateur."
"Could you please put your energy away now?" Kuwabara asked still on his knees.
"Alright." Hiei raised his voice. "You have found your power Kimura, now learn to shield it before the fool over there doesn't go into one of his conniptions." Hiei said eyeing Kuwabara. "Yes, and make sure its still flowing through your body." Kurama called out while Kimura tried to shield it.
Kimura wasn't sure if she had done it correctly, but after five minutes she heard Kuwabara sigh in relief. She opened her eyes to see if she had done it. She saw nothing whisping around her body, but she could still feel the warmth and power in her body.
"Ok, now that we have that down," Yusuke started, "we will all have to watch our asses." He said putting his arm around Kimura, and shaking her so she moved her legs around to keep her balance.
"Hn. Its still not as powerful to fight. She will need a lot of work." Hiei replied. "I guess we could-" Hiei didn't even have time to finish his sentence. He looked to his right, but nothing was there.
"What's wrong shortie?" Kuwabara asked eying him suspiciously
"Shut your mouth fool." Hiei said quietly. He slowly drew his katana and cautiously walked over to a bush.
Before Hiei could reach the bushes, a hideous looking demon sprang out with his teeth bared. Kimura screamed in shock as ten more did the same. The demons were all closing in on the group. Kurama ran in front of her to shield her away from the view of the demons, but ended up moving so he could perform rose whip.
"Kimura! Get out of here!" Yusuke screamed. Kimura saw the serious look on Yusuke's face, and nodded. She ran over to the bushes, when two hands reached out and grabbed her. She turned around to see a hideous demon grabbing her wrist. She held her breath and hoped for the cold feeling to come again. Sure enough it did. She exhaled all over the nasty creature, freezing it in its place, still grasping Kimura's hand. She finally wrenched her wrist out of the grasp, and turned to run away. Before she could, another hand came out of nowhere and grabbed the collar of her jacket.
"Enough!" the voice yelled from behind Kimura. The next thing she knew, she was very high in a tree, hanging over the ground, her collar still tightly grasped. Kimura closed her eyes and whimpered, she was deathly afraid of heights.
"My, my, Kimura," The voice said from behind her once more. "You remind me of your mother a lot. She pulled the same stunt you did with one of my men before I killed her." Kimura's eyes shot opened. "And you look a lot like her to." There was an evil laugh. Kimura jiggled as the horrible cold voice laughed. She screamed causing all attention on her, and the mysterious man who held her. Everyone stopped fighting.
"Men! Back to Makai! We have what we want!" the voice yelled.
".Yoshihiro.what the hell do you want?" Kimura heard Hiei's voice call up from the ground. "What the hell are you doing here?" Hiei spat. Yoshihiro laughed. "Is that the way you great an old friend? He asked in a sarcastically hurt way. Hiei spat on the ground.
"Exactly what you want Hiei." Yoshihiro said answering Hiei's first question.
"Hiei? Why would he want to train her?" Came Kuwabara's confused voice. "And how do you know." "Shut up!" Hiei yelled not turning around."
Yoshihiro gave another laugh. "The fool doesn't know!" He thought to himself. "Better play along." "I have my reasons." He finally said out loud. He laughed again.
Kimura noticed a ball of glowing blue shoot straight toward her. She closed her eyes and winced. It had hit the mans arm, causing her to fall, hundreds of felt to the ground. Kimura squeezed her eyes shut. She waited to feel the pain of two-hundred and two bones breaking, but never felt it. Instead she felt two arms close around her. Kimura opened her eyes to see the ruby read eyes looking down at her.
Hiei had caught Kimura. She was now lying in his arms like a baby. It felt comfortable, and she felt protected.
"You think your puny little spirit gun will do you any good?" Yoshihiro asked eying Yusuke. "I know all of you, and you ridiculous concoctions. they wont work. All of you were trained poorly in my book. Speaking of which," He looked at Hiei. " How is your master doing? I haven't seen him in such a while, and I hated to just leave you and him in the cave like that." Yoshihiro said with a smile. A vision of his master dying shot through Hiei's mind.
Kimura could feel Hiei shaking. It frightened her. She could see his eyes glowing bright red. She could tell he was angry, and .was he scared? Yoshihiro started laughing. He became a blur, and vanished. He was almost as fast as Hiei. Kimura thought to herself.
Hiei stood there. She could feel him shaking uncontrollably. He closed his eyes, and tilted his head downward, toward the ground. Kimura could hear him breathing loud and fast, and his grip around her became tighter. She was frightened. She thought he was going to squeeze her to death.
".Hiei?" came Kurama's voice. Hiei opened his eyes and looked up. He turned around to see everyone staring at him with worried looks on there faces. Hiei looked down at Kimura. Their eyes met. Hiei knew she was reading the fear, pain and anger that registered in his body.
The next thing Kimura knew, she felt her body hit the ground hard. Hiei had sped off into the distance. Kimura looked up. Everyone looked as confused and worried as she did.