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When Fire and Ice Collide
Ch. 4 Odd Day…why?
Yuki woke up and grumbled as she rubbed her mussed hair. She looked around and saw no one at all. She got up and remembered a weird demon that appeared to her in her dream. They said that she would have an odd sense of humor and she would not be herself.
She shook her head at the thought of it. She brushed her hair back and walked outside to the little pond and looked at her reflection. She gasped as she saw Hiei's in the water and looked all around and didn't see him anywhere.
"Hn." she heard his voice and looked up to see him looking down from the tree branch with a rough glare as he always had. He smirked as she grumbled and splashed the water.
His reflection rippled and he jumped down to meet her. She let out a yip as he glared at her. "You are not yourself." he spat.
"What the heck are you talking about!?" she let out a yell and then lifted her brow. 'Could the dream be a premonition?' she asked herself.
"Hn." Hiei was shocked at her outburst but didn't show it. He just looked at her oddly.
"I won't apologize for something I can't control!" she said as she saw his look that he gave her.
He smirked at her rebellion, 'she is definitely not herself…wonder why?' he shook his head and lifted his brow. "Tell me, Curious…" he paused.
"What?" she asked with a bit of a glare.
"Why are you so upset?" he asked coldly as though his voice was nothing but ice.
"I am not upset." she glared and looked away in an instant.
"Right. You are a terrible liar, Curious."
"How dare you! I am not lying! I just do not feel as though I am lying!"
"I never said that you had to feel that way, Curious."
"STOP CALLING ME THAT RIDICULOUS NAME!" she shouted and walked towards the forest, leaving a dazed Hiei behind. He lifted a brow as Kurama came up and smirked.
"Seems you have less luck with girls all the time!" Kurama met the tree branch with his head and fell to the ground as Hiei growled and walked off.
"Stupid fox…" he muttered and followed after Yuki to make sure nothing happened to her.
She was sitting on a log in the middle of an opening, lost in thought. 'Could it be…I don't want that to be my destiny…fire and ice colliding? Who ever thought of something so ironic…surely it is not me at all. Could the dream have been true?'
****Remembering the dream:
A demon approached her as she sat patiently. His voice calm but a dangerous glint traced his eyes.
"You will be the one that tames the flame." he said.
"What do you mean? I cannot. He is a terrible ruthless demon that wants nothing to do with me…" she replied.
"You will learn the truth. Besides…you do not believe your own words, little ice gem." the demon said calmly and smirked.
"I do believe my own words. It cannot be me. He will not even think of me as anything but a troubled child!" she said.
"I did not mean that. You do not believe that he is a ruthless, terrible demon. You know those words are a lie."
"But…how would you know!?" she said, a bit flustered.
"I know because I know you. I am more of your shadowed past that will haunt you."
"What if I don't want my past to haunt me?" she retorted.
"Ah…my little 'rare gem' you have no choice. I will be here whether you like it or not." and with that, the demon vanished.
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She shot a glare into the forest, facing no one in particular. She didn't want her past to haunt her. What would she do? She had no way of knowing that the past was because of her weakness. But somehow, the way the demon had said it. She knew. The demon, she could not see it's face and she did not recognize the voice, but she knew it from somewhere.
Did she really want to remember it? Did she want to live her life in fear that that demon had found her? What would she do if that demon was the one she feared more than anything? What would she do, if he were right? What if she could tame the flame? Would she want to? She had no way of knowing any answers. She just knew that she wanted to leave her past behind.
Hiei saw her mixed expressions and wondered what was happening to the innocent face. The innocent girl was not herself. He was a bit concerned. He didn't know why. He just wanted to know why she was being different all of a sudden. Was it something he did? Was he to blame for yet another misfortune? He hoped not, but…it always boiled down to him. He was at fault for so much that he forgot how it was to be normal, if he was at all.
He caught a glimpse of her hair as it swayed deeper into the forest. Why was she so bold? Didn't she remember what happened last time? He followed at a safe distance, hoping she didn't realize it was him. He wanted her to do something that would coax his mind out of thinking it was his fault.
She stopped abruptly and an ice field surrounded her. He knew all about ice fields. Ice apparitions would do this when they felt threatened. He had felt it inside him every time Yukina had put hers up. He knew all about them. He wondered what she was being threatened for.
He soon found out. A demon was approaching. Fast. But why hadn't he picked up on the chi? Why was it so aware to her and not to him? He should've sensed the danger long before her. She was not the type to know what danger was like. Or was she? Was there a way she knew what danger was? Was there a way that she could sense something he couldn't? He approached silently behind her. He knew she felt his presence but did not lesson the field.
Instead, she made it surround them both. An odd move. He didn't understand what was going on. Was she trying to protect him? He almost laughed at the thought. But somehow, he figured that she knew something he didn't.
"You…" she whispered harshly as the demon approached. A sly one that he was, he tapped the ice field and smirked as he saw it strengthen.
"Ah…the rare gem remembers me…" he growled low and seductive.
Hiei felt her tense at the name and clutched at his sword. He didn't understand why he was angry that the demon called her a 'rare gem' but he didn't like how he said it. It was taunting her, making her feel inferior. He growled but was stopped by her hand on his, stopping his sword. He glanced at her questionably.
"What do you want?" she hissed and that surprised Hiei even more. He didn't know she could be so cold. He knew that she was an ice apparition, but the way her voice was, it was more than living on ice.
"Ah…have you forgotten me? You must not have, little one. For you see, I have not forgotten you at all…" the demon licked his lips and then noticed Hiei. "You…you are the one that was thrown." his voice got colder than hers.
"Hn." Hiei glared harder at the demon and his hand encircled the sword more. "What is it to you!" he growled.
"Oh…I am correct. No wonder she is so enticed by finding you. You have been in her mind since she could remember. You have disgraced us ice apparitions and you have soiled her heart! You are nothing compared to me…" the demon growled back.
"Stop!" Yuki broke the fight and glared at the demon. "You have no idea what you are saying, Kokushibyou! You don't know him therefore you cannot judge him!" she yelled.
Hiei looked at her in shock. 'she stood up for me?' he was so caught up in thought that when Kokushibyou spoke, he was caught off guard and held onto Yuki's shoulder. She didn't budge.
"Ah…but that is what us ice apparitions do, do we not?" he smirked at Hiei, "They already judged him before knowing him. But that's alright. He is, as you well know, the 'forbidden one' and one day, 'rare gem' he will harm you. You as well as anyone, should know this." and with that Kokushibyou left.
Yuki, as soon as she knew he was really gone, lowered her shield and faced him, outraged, "You followed me!"
Hiei, who was still trying to get over the fact that she had stood up for him, was silent.
"How dare you!" she said, eyes burning with a pure pale-iced glare. Her eyes seemed to have something else, as if concern was written in them.
"Hn." he said flatly and looked away, trying to escape her glare.
"Hiei! Why did you follow me!" she yelled and he looked back at her with a glare.
"Because I can." he bit off.
"But…that's not an answer! You had a reason! Why did you bother!" she said, trying to calm down.
"Because I did! I do not have to clarify my thoughts to the likes of you, 'rare gem!'" he regretted the words as she looked at him with much hurt in her eyes.
"How…could you…" she said and turned and left towards the temple.
'Why did I have to say that…I said it so harsh. All she was doing…' his thoughts drifted off as he remembered the look on her face when Kokushibyou had called her 'rare gem.' She had so much hurt covering her face and more hurt when he called her that. He needed to say something, it wasn't apologizing, was it?
He followed after her quickly and stopped in front of her. She let out a yelp as she almost crashed into him. "What do you want!" she growled, tears threatening to fall.
"Hn." he didn't know what to say, he couldn't just say, "oh please, forgive me…I didn't mean to upset you!" he rolled his eyes as he beat that thought out of his head.
"If that's all you needed to say, you could've said it to yourself!" she growled and tried to push past him. He grabbed her arms and made her face him. His eyes burning holes into hers. "Let me go!" she yelled and he glared more.
"Why does that name bother you so much!" he yelled.
She stilled from her trying-to-get-out-of-his-grasp-struggling and looked at him, stunned. 'I can't tell him…he wouldn't understand…' she looked away.
He brought his hand to cup her chin and make her look at him, "Tell me!" he growled, trying to fight the urge of going off.
"No!" she struggled in his grasp more and he tightened it. "What are you doing! Stop it! Let me go!" she cried as a tear gem fell to the ground.
That made him stop. He let go abruptly, trying not to make her cry.
"I didn't mean that…" he stopped, realizing what he was about to do. He was about to apologize…he…HIEI! Hiei apologized to no one…
She knew he was about to apologize. She didn't want him to. He didn't do anything wrong. If scaring her was a wrong, then yes. But he was only curious, as she was, wanting to know all about his past. She finally understood why he felt the way he did when she asked him about it. She had made him inferior to her.
She looked at him and attempted to smile, "It's alright. I understand now why you don't like me." he looked at her, stunned.
'What does she mean, I don't like her? Is she mad!? Insane! She must be…I can't not like her! I just…want to protect…her?' he thought.
"I pry too much into your life and you've told me over and over that you wish not to speak of it." she bowed, "My apologies." she walked past him, but didn't get too far, his hand grasped hers and she looked up, stunned.
"No…it's not that I don't like you…you are just too…curious, Curious." he smirked and let go of her hand as though it burned.
"That makes sense." she said, not really knowing what it meant. She walked back to the temple and looked at the scary stuff that Keiko was trying to make. She quickly took the pan and dumped it out. "Please…I must say…no one will eat that. I will show you what to do." she said unconsciously.
"Thank you…" Keiko replied, "I'm sorry…that must have been an odd looking curry." she smiled
"Curry? That's what it was?" Yuki joked and made it, telling Keiko exactly what steps to take and then noticed that Keiko was clumsy at taking things to the table. She took the food away from Keiko and set it down in front of everyone.
Keiko blushed and then went back to cleaning up the kitchen a bit. She sat down and joined the rest of them. They were surprised when Hiei came in and sat by Yuki, eating silently as everyone gawked.
Yuki blushed a bit, but no one noticed it, except Yukina. She smiled sweetly and went back to her curry. Kuwabara…well…he was running around the temple with his tongue on fire. "Make the pain stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he cried out and ran into a wall.
They all laughed as he sat up and drank a gallon of water, except Hiei. His thoughts were somewhere else besides Kuwabara's stupidity.
Instead, his thoughts were drifting to Yuki. She was so serious today as she yelled at him. And terribly scared, shaking in his grasp. She wasn't like he thought she was. There is something strange about her. She is not like Yukina as much as he thought. Sure, they were both sweet and kind, but she had a scary side. A serious one who may have been able to defend herself if the occasion called for it. But why hadn't she protected herself from the demon he killed the day before?
He looked at her and as if she was reading his mind, lifted a brow and whispered to him, "It's alright…" she paused, "I'm sure Kuwabara is stupider than that…" she grinned, catching him off guard. She hadn't known what he was thinking? But the way she looked at him…it was as if she could read his mind. He shook his head and ate more curry. Everyone smiled as Yukina helped Kuwabara get up and sit at the table.
Keiko yelled at Yusuke for looking up her skirt…again! And then he went crashing on the ground by her hand. Yuki almost coughed and choked on her curry. She looked at Hiei, saying, "And he's powerful?" she giggled.
He smirked and nodded, "Seems to be his only weakness" he said as he nodded to Keiko. "He gets very angry when something happens to her. I know first hand." he grumbled as he just admitted defeat against a human. But he was no normal human. He was not what he expected. Yusuke did what he had to to defeat someone, even if it means he would be seriously injured. He would die for the ones he loved, everyone knew that. Hiei, especially could relate to him. Hiei would gladly give his life so that Yukina would live.
Yuki was another story. He didn't want to even think about what he would do for her. She wasn't the type to let him give his life for hers. She was strong-willed, and she hid it, but she had much pride that only made Hiei respect her more. She was not the type to brag about something or tell others secrets. He learned that earlier that day. She never told anyone about Kokushibyou or her past. All they knew was that she was from Koorime. They knew really, nothing about her. Hiei was probably the only one that knew anything about her. She would never tell anyone her strength either. It was as though she was afraid that if someone knew, they would use it against her.
Her ice field was stronger than Yukina's. He knew it was for it could protect anything she wanted it to. She was not one to let another die at the account of her. She would fight or at least defend herself until death. He respected her much more than anyone else he had ever known. She was always surprising him with her innocence and her rebellion. It was uncanny how much she changed over such a short period of time. How would she be tomorrow? Would she respect him? He guessed he had to wait. He hated patience, but it was something that he had mastered in an odd way. He had little patience but kept his cool. His eyes, he trained them to give nothing out about his technique. He didn't want anyone to know him truly. But somehow, Yuki found it all out. She uncovered the mystery.
She knew what he was thinking. She smiled at the thought. She congratulated herself on her success. She didn't back down and because she didn't, she uncovered the greatest mystery with ease…well, mostly ease. She uncovered some of his past and most of his personality.
She beamed as Yukina smiled at her, knowing that Yuki had a slight fascination with Hiei. Yuki winked at Yukina, letting her know that she was making progress. Yukina smiled and ate more curry.
Yukina and Yuki, best friends from day one and still now, they shared everything. Naïve as both of them are, Yukina shared a bond and knew that Yuki liked Hiei more than a friend and Yuki knew that Yukina had grown a liking to the dumb orange-red haired boy by her side. They were both good guys, they couldn't deny it. Yuki's however, may hurt her but Kuwabara would never hurt Yukina, she knew that. Hiei was a bit rough around the edges, but he knew how to protect those he loved. She just wished, one day that he would grow to love her. She wanted him to protect her, but…in a way, she wanted to protect him as well.
Yuki wanted to let him know that just because of what happened in the past has no effect on what she felt for him. But had she told him that, he would surely laugh whole-heartily at her and tell her off. She didn't want to lose his trust because of her emotions. So instead, she stayed silent, like a cat, waiting for the right time to pounce.
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Kokushibyou: black death
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