I DO NOT OWN YYH, I DO OWN YUKI AND ANYONE/THING THAT IS NOT IN THE ANIME/MANGA! READ ON!
When Fire and Ice Collide
Ch. 7
Hiei awoke with a start. He had an awful dream. He saw Yuki and him sitting on the branch that she had covered him in a blanket previously that week. He growled when he thought of her words.
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"Yuki?" Hiei asked, squinting to make out the shadows.
The smiling girl leaped into his arms, "Hiei!" she cried and pulled back, "Sorry…I just wanted to tell you something…"
"What?" he asked, a bit confused that she was sitting before her.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task. But it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." she said and she became blurry. (this quote was by Helen Keller, I do not own it…)
He didn't know what was going on but he wasn't about to let her go again. He reached out and tried to hold her but he fell through her as she evaporated into the air.
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He grabbed his pants and pulled them on and weakly walked out into the sunlight, searching for Kurama. "Where is that stupid fox…" he muttered.
"Hiei?" Kurama asked as he rounded the corner, "My ears are correct. Stupid fox…really Hiei, do you have to degrade me that much?"
"You are a fox!"
"But I'm not stupid!" they sounded like children then. -_-"
"Hn!"
"Why were you looking for me, or is it wrong to ask?" Kurama chided.
"Hn!" Hiei grunted and sat down on the grass while Kurama sat beside him, "I had a dream."
"Yes? So did Martin Luther King, Jr. but that doesn't mean it will be true." Kurama joked, "His isn't even true yet if it even will be…" he said and saw Hiei's glaring eyes, "Sorry…continue."
"Hn." he told Kurama the words that Yuki had spoken in his dream and Kurama scratched his head and laughed. "What's so funny!?"
"It's just that…YUKI?! Yuki wouldn't say those words! Hiei, come on! She's a lot like Yukina, she wouldn't understand half of those words!" Kurama jested and Hiei rolled his eyes.
"That's where you are stupid." he muttered, "You don't seem to know Yuki very well."
"I know her as well as you." Kurama challenged.
"How high is her ice field?" Hiei asked with a smirk.
"Uh…300?" Kurama asked, not even sure if there is such a thing.
"You can't rate ice fields, moron!" Hiei growled and looked away.
"I thought so but I was just guessing just in case." Kurama grinned and Hiei gave him a spiteful look.
"Kurama…she's not exactly what you would call naïve." Hiei said calmly.
Yuki was walking up with her little spirit beast which actually resembled a kitten. She rolled her eyes and listened to their conversation.
"What do you mean?" Kurama asked.
"She's…to be blunt, she's very opinionated and very strong." Hiei said, recalling what had happened a few days before.
"I think we need to get Yukina to check on you again, Hiei." Kurama felt his friend's head.
Hiei growled and got up, "There's something strange about that dream and I swear I'll get to the bottom of it!" Hiei stormed past Yuki and paused.
Kurama and Yuki exchanged amused glances as they saw Hiei's amazed face. "Yuki?!" he almost lost his cool.
"Yea? How's it hangin?" she grinned and held up her kitten beast…meow!" she grinned and looked as if she would take out her own claws but instead scratched behind the kitten's ear.
"Hn…" he said softly and turned and walked off.
"What's the matter with him?" Yuki asked Kurama and he shrugged.
"Just has a bit of the missing-someone-very-much-and-can't-believe-they-came-back-for-me-syndrome." Kurama smiled.
"I didn't come back for him." she lied and turned, following after Hiei.
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"Hiei!" she called but couldn't see him anywhere.
"Hn." he grumbled and she looked up to see him in a tree.
"Could you come down?" she asked all cute like.
"Hn." he hesitated and then fell to the ground on his feet, looking at her with ease as he sat on a rock.
"I'm really sorry…" she started and he looked up in confusion. "For…not telling you about…well, everything." she said ashamed.
"Hn." he said and then looked off.
"I didn't mean to get you in the middle of it…I didn't even mean to get you in it at all…Hiei" she paused and continued, "I didn't know he'd be here. I thought he was still on Koorime. Had I known he was here, I would have left." she said sadly.
"Hn."
"Can you please say something other than 'hn'?" she pleaded.
"Pathetic girl." he looked up and smirked as she glared at him.
"Thanks…really, that means o-so-much to me," she said sarcastically, "Now that I've apologized and all, you call me pathetic. What do I have to do to get attention from you!?" she yelled and then covered her mouth, the kitten resting on her shoulder.
He looked up in shock as the words came out of her mouth.
"I'm sorry…that's not what I meant…" she said and looked away. "I didn't mean it that way…" she said softly and he shook his head.
"No one ever does." she looked down and saw him with his eyes closed, listening to the whistling of the trees.
"I'm really sorry…it's not that I don't like you, Hiei…it's just…I can't." she said apologetically.
"What are you mumbling about?!" he said gruffly.
"I mean…never mind..." she said sadly and then was faced with the most confused look you'll ever see on Hiei.
"Hn…what were you saying?"
"Nothing…"
He grabbed her by the arms and shook her some, "Dammit! Tell me!"
"I really don't know…it's just…never mind." she said shamefully and walked off into the forest.
"Hn…" he said silently but followed her none the less. He stopped abruptly to see her in tears as they fell to the ground. He felt lower than scum. He counted each and every one that fell. He walked over and stood beside her while she was in a heap on the ground. "Cry." he said as softly as he could.
"Ugh!?" she looked up and he saw the pain in her eyes. "Does it please you that much to see me in pain!?" she squealed.
"No. Just cry. It will all be over soon enough." he said and knelt down to pick up her tears.
"Why do you do that?" she asked.
"Do what?" he retorted kind of in a mean way.
"Pick up all those tears?!"
"I have my reasons."
"Oh, is the all-powerful-and-mighty-Hiei too good to tell a stubborn 'pathetic' ice maiden?!" she challenged.
That was all the fire apparition could take. He dropped the tears to the ground again and brought her in his arms and kissed her possessively.
She lost her sense of mind when his lips touched hers. She wanted to scream and rant about what he was doing but at the same time, wanted him for all he was worth.
He pulled back and pushed her aside, "That should not have happened." he growled and cursed at himself.
"I…I'm sorry…" she said and got up, brushing herself off. "I should not have been so harsh with my words." she said softly.
He groaned as the siren he had just taken with his lips started all over again with the temptations. He wanted her…bad. But this was Hiei…he didn't go for anyone. He didn't rely on anyone. He didn't love anyone…with the exception of Yukina.
He remembered some of Yuki's words before, "You really love her, don't you?" he looked at her flushed face as she gently picked up the kitten that curled into her hand.
"Hn." he said and looked back. He wasn't sure of who he loved any more. He loved Yukina, but he couldn't keep the fact that Yuki held a part of him as well. He didn't want to see her in the arms of another.
His blood boiled as he thought about the demon that killed her. He called her 'rare gem'… 'what was that about?!' he wondered.
Just when she was about to leave, he grabbed her wrist and turned her around.
"Please…Hiei, don't do this…" she didn't want to tell him how she felt…she knew she was about to and didn't want to even think of it anymore.
"Why did he call you 'rare gem'?" he asked abruptly and stopped her in her tracks.
"What!?" she struggled and tried to get free of his grasp, "I'm not gonna answer that!"
"Tell me for my own damn piece of mind!" Hiei ordered and she cowered in fright.
"IT DOESN'T CONCERN YOU!" she shot back and tried to wrestle her wrist free but he held firm. "Let me go!" she begged and tugged more on her wrist.
Instead, he held tighter and glared at her scared ice-blue eyes, "Tell me!" he growled.
"NO!" she felt tears slide and gems fall to the ground and he let go swiftly almost letting her fall back.
He blew out a strained breath and picked up the gems and put them in his pocket. "Why not!?" he yelled to her as she tried to regain her posture.
"Because…you don't need to know!" she growled some and turned, heading towards the temple.
But she wasn't fast enough. He grabbed her by the waist and ran as far as he could away from the temple. All the while she was ranting on and on and kicking and screaming at him.
"LET ME GO! PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW!…" she didn't want to cry but he was being impossible.
"Not until you tell me what I asked!" he said and stopped abruptly.
"Will you stop at nothing to get what you want!?" she cried out and he looked at her with no emotion whatsoever in his eyes.
"Hn."
"Fine! He wanted to be mated with me…" she started on her story.
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Many young girls including Yuki were bewildered about the strange boy coming to their lands.
"Who is he?"
"Kokushibyou!" one of them giggled.
"Who is he?" Yuki asked and the ice maiden looked at her and fanned herself.
"HE is HE!" she grinned. "He's an expert at dreams!"
"How?"
"Oh! You don't know!? He can either make your dream pleasant or terrifying! He's marvelous!" the girl grinned.
One of the other girls giggled, "If I mate with him, I sure hope he makes mine pleasant!"
"ME TOO!" all of them screamed but Yuki.
She had other thoughts, 'What if he was a lurer? If he was one…he'd lure others to be his mates and make their dreams awful and they would commit suicide or something else not to be talked of on Koorime.' she decided it best to stay away from the new stranger.
But he didn't like it that way. He only saw Yuki and that was enough. She wasn't like the other girls. She didn't care. She would care for him when he was done with her. He did his best to seduce her but nothing worked until one day…
"Yuki…" Kokushibyou said softly and she looked up at him.
"Yea?" she asked.
"Mate with me…please."
"No." she said bluntly and looked away.
"Why the hell not!?" his anger increased and she put up her shield.
"Because I do not love you." she said, narrowing her eyes as she looked up at him.
"What's love got to do with mating!?"
"EVERYTHING!" she yelled and got up.
"It's because of that bastard, isn't it!" Yuki looked at him in disgust, "The one thrown!? I've heard of him! A bastard child cannot love you! It can't love anyone! Don't you see!?" he tried to touch her but her field went up even more.
"How dare you!? I bet you are one as well, you disgusting varmint!" she stormed away and looked over the cliff.
He approached her, "Yuki! DON'T!" he called and the gust of wind blew her off and she fell to the trees of Makai.
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Yuki looked away in shame as Hiei finally started to understand some. "That does not explain why you do not like to be called 'rare gem.'" Hiei grumbled some.
"No…it doesn't." she admitted, "I just don't like the fact that he'd tease me and try to seduce me with that pet-name." she spat. "Forgive me, I need not be so rude to others."
"Why are you so…nice!?" he asked, "If you don't love him then he should have just left you alone!" he growled.
A chuckle came and both of them were alert. "So… 'rare gem'…you've talked about us to him…then he will have to fight me to have you…" they both knew who it was and turned to the voice and saw Kokushibyou standing before them.
"You're dead!" Yuki gasped.
"Oh no…actually, I'm very alive…" he smirked and grabbed her by the arm, whispering seductively, knowing Hiei would hear, "But we've got unfinished business…in the bedroom darlin'." he grinned and dragged her behind him. "I plan to make you my mate…"
"No you don't!" Yuki cried, praying Hiei would help her, "You hate me! Let me go!"
"I do not hate you…" he growled.
"Let me go!" she glanced back at the shocked Hiei, "Help…please Hiei!" she screamed.
The way his name rolled off her tongue somehow caught him off guard and he sprung into action. Not only to kill Kokushibyou, but to save the one he…loved?
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