Chapter 16
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It has been at least one day since Hiei cried over Tena. If example, the day she died was Monday, today is already Wednesday. Due to Hiei's anger at loosing Tena, it made Yukina and Kuwabara forget they saw the tears.
Hiei was not yet able to recover from the shock of seeing Tena gone and Sumiko could not yet forget how Hiei just hit her and flung her to the tree. They were supposed to leave the airport the next day that Tena died but a large group of people came before them and bought all the tickets. They decided to stay at Rainer's house and the next day, they were at the airport.
"Did you talk to Hiei?" Rainer asked Sumiko who was looking down the ground. "I mean, its not your fault but we just have to end this fight thing."
Sumiko stonily nodded as Yusuke, Jonathan, and the others looked at her. "I did. I even said sorry." she said, "But the only thing he did was that he looked at me and then nod and then he left." Sumiko said as she choked her tears.
"That's it! Hiei better come here or I will pound you to death!" he shouted. Hiei was with Kurama and was leaning on Kurama's shoulder (remember, no yaoi). Kurama was patting Hiei's head. Kuwabara did not mind if Hiei was in a depressing mood. He had hit his cousin and he, Kuwabara did not like it.
Kuwabara angrily strolled to Hiei to punch him. Yusuke was about to stop him but James held him back. Kuwabara pushed Kurama away and faced Hiei who was looking down.
"How could you do that to her!" Kuwabara shouted. "You will pay for that shrimp!" he said making people look at them. He held Hiei's neckline and was punched him even if he knew Hiei would get away.
Surprisingly, he was able to hit Hiei. He did not even budge or move. Just stared emptily at Kuwabara's fist. "Tena..." he said silently and longingly.
Kuwabara looked scared at this new attitude of Hiei and he let him go. When the guards came to arrest Kuwabara for breaking the peace, Hiei managed to say that it was ok and not to arrest Kuwabara.
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***At the airplane***
After their sorrowful goodbyes, Sumiko and Rainer had become best friends with a promise to see each other again. Hiei was getting cranky and shouted whenever someone would bug him.
Hiei and Sumiko sat together at the airplane. Sumiko was beside the window and Hiei was beside her. When the airplane took off and the flight attendant was done explaining the basic rules of an 'in case of an emergency', the other three four, that is Yukina, Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama, were looking at Hiei and Sumiko in case Hiei hurt Sumiko again.
Kuwabara and Yusuke were at the back of Hiei and Sumiko while Kurama and Yukina were at the front. It would take five agonizing silent hours before reaching Japan.
Occasionally, Kurama and Yusuke would try to make everyone laugh but it always ended in stony silence. The two still did not give up.
Hiei was getting sleepy after two hours of flying and thinking of Tena and how she died. It would keep replaying on his head everything that happened and it finally lulled him to sleep.
Sumiko was surprised to see Hiei snoring beside her and Kurama and the others were finally asleep. She also wanted to sleep but deep inside, she felt like she had to guard Hiei, sleeping or awake. It was her way of saying sorry to him.
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Hiei was walking in an endless darkness, nothing there, and nothing to see or bump into. There was an earsplitting silence except for the light tapping of Hiei's feet. Occasionally, he would hear the light laughter of Tena in his ears and he would look for it and would see Tena's figure slowly fading. He gave up looking at the location of the laughter.
He stopped when suddenly he found himself stepping in a wide and light meadow. The grass was blowing in his feet and the wind was silently whispering stories in his face. He could not understand what the wind was saying but the more he could see Tena in his eyes suffering.
He hated himself for having Tena killed. He even blamed himself. Why did he have to shield his eyes? If he did not, he might have saved Tena. Hiei sighed. It was not easy to forget her.
He looked around and saw Tena's figure playing with a ningen animal deer. He watched Tena's graceful fingers play with the deer's skin. He looked so longingly at her that he nearly thought that it really was her. He shook his head and when he looked there, she was gone.
Nightmares would come and go before Hiei's eyes. Good dreams came and left as nightmares had. Slowly, Hiei came in the scene of a battlefield. Without knowing what he did, he started fighting the monsters in his dream, slowly forgetting that these were just illusions, just in his dream...
"Hn." Hiei said as demons began falling around him. "Weaklings." was all he said. He turned to leave when he heard a rumble. Two people, or rather, demons, were riding on what seemed like a bug. These two fighters faced Hiei.
"K-Kurama! Yusuke!" Hiei said startled, "What are you doing here?"
The two did not answer, instead the two changed to their demon form: Yusuke into the longhaired demon and Kurama in the fox demon form. There was anger in their eyes. Hiei did not bother to find out why the two were angry with him. He did not like being stared like that. He quickly changed into his demon form that had too many eyes.
Kurama charged first, attacking him with all he had. Yusuke jumped at him from behind and hit him at the back with his Reigun. Hiei shouted in agony as Kurama let him go. He was holding Hiei by his hair.
Hiei slumped to the ground. Kurama and Hiei stood menacingly at him. It came to Hiei as a jolt. He felt a certain feeling of emptiness and despair. He remembered when he and Kurama had been friends, Kurama mentioned it to him once before: loneliness.
Wait, he thought, had? When did he and Kurama fight?
Hiei placed his hand on his head as a fake illusion appeared on his mind the day he and Kurama fought. He looked up at Kurama and Yusuke and Yusuke was aiming him a very large reigun. Kurama had his rose whip out, ready to strike.
Hiei bowed his head low. He knew he would die in any moment soon. Just then, someone stepped in front of him. He looked up and saw Sumiko. Kurama and Yusuke looked at her surprised.
Sumiko looked at Hiei, knelt down in front of him, and held his arm, "Are you alright Hiei" she asked. Hiei looked at her angrily. He, Hiei Jaganshi, never needed help from someone.
He flung Sumiko to a nearby tree. Suddenly, Yusuke and Kurama started laughing evilly. Genkai, Kuwabara, and Tena appeared and they were all laughing evilly at him. Hiei looked fearfully at them as the background changed to black and red aura enveloped everyone laughing there.
Hiei felt so scared and alone. He felt this once in his life but he was feeling something worse. These were his friends, friends laughing at him. On the other hand, did he have no friend? Were all of them just a dream? Kurama? Yusuke? Yukina? Kuwabara? Genkai? Koenma? Botan? Keiko? Shizuru? Tena? Sumiko?
The scene changed as he walked in the Makai alone, again. No, he thought, I do not want to be alone again!!!! He shouted to the world.
Slowly he started remembering every evil thing that he has done: Death, revenge. Everything.
Why have I always been alone? he thought.
He saw Kurama and Yusuke laughing at him. Everyone, everyone even Sumiko and Tena. Everyone even his sister Yukina.
"NO!!!" he shouted repeatedly as he placed both his arms in front of his forehead, eyes open wide and his face sweating. "No..." he said as pearls began clinking the unseen floor.
"Hiei! Hiei!"
"No! Stop!" Hiei shouted.
"Hiei! Wake up!" came Sumiko's voice. He opened his eyes and was breathing rapidly and his face was wet from sweat. He quickly blushed when he found himself being hugged tightly by Sumiko in a caring way. He tried to push away but Sumiko held her tighter. "Hiei, are you ok?" Sumiko asked as she forced Hiei to look at her.
Calmness. That was what he saw in Sumiko's eyes. He felt comfort and he started breathing normally. He stopped sweating slowly and slowly until he finally returned to the normal breathing, still looking in Sumiko's eyes as if asking for something.
"It's all right Hiei. It's alright." Sumiko said as she rubbed his back smoothly as her mother did to her when she was young. Hiei smiled in the inside as that was all he needed to hear. Slowly, he drifted to sleep in Sumiko's eyes, a peaceful smile playing in his lips.
"What was that all about?" Kuwabara asked as he Yusuke, Yukina, Kurama, and Sumiko was looking at Hiei's sleeping figure. They all shrugged.
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"YUSUKE!!!" Keiko shouted as she ran to Yusuke crying. "You're alright!" she said, crying in her arms. Botan ran to the boys, Yukina, and Sumiko along with Shizuru who punched Kuwabara's head as a way of greeting.
"So how is my general?" Mukuru said as she walked to Hiei.
"Hn." Hiei said as he and Mukuru watched everyone happily welcoming everyone back to Japan again. Hiei looked at Sumiko and silently thanked her for making him feel at home again, however, Sumiko did not hear it.
Hiei did not mind.
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"Wake up you great prat." A voice said.
"W-Where am I?" a young girl said. She looked up and saw a demon looking person but was not a demon. She looked like Sumiko's transformed person.
"Inside Sumiko's mind." the Sumiko look-alike said. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" she asked coldly.
"I d-don't know how I came here." the other girl said as she slowly stood up. "But I do remember my name." she said as she faced the transformation of Sumiko.
"Then who are you?" the being asked impatiently.
"My name is Tena, what's yours." Tena asked the being in front of her as she held out her hand. "Nice to meet you," Tena said.
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Chapter 16 done! Can someone tell me what is the biggest stadium in Japan, where it is and how it looks like? The streets around or the at least a map of it? Can someone also tell me the kinds of tanks and armored helicopters? I REALLY NEED IT! Please.
Oh yeah, please review. Thanks to the thirteen people who reviewed a while ago. l^_^l Thanks so much!
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It has been at least one day since Hiei cried over Tena. If example, the day she died was Monday, today is already Wednesday. Due to Hiei's anger at loosing Tena, it made Yukina and Kuwabara forget they saw the tears.
Hiei was not yet able to recover from the shock of seeing Tena gone and Sumiko could not yet forget how Hiei just hit her and flung her to the tree. They were supposed to leave the airport the next day that Tena died but a large group of people came before them and bought all the tickets. They decided to stay at Rainer's house and the next day, they were at the airport.
"Did you talk to Hiei?" Rainer asked Sumiko who was looking down the ground. "I mean, its not your fault but we just have to end this fight thing."
Sumiko stonily nodded as Yusuke, Jonathan, and the others looked at her. "I did. I even said sorry." she said, "But the only thing he did was that he looked at me and then nod and then he left." Sumiko said as she choked her tears.
"That's it! Hiei better come here or I will pound you to death!" he shouted. Hiei was with Kurama and was leaning on Kurama's shoulder (remember, no yaoi). Kurama was patting Hiei's head. Kuwabara did not mind if Hiei was in a depressing mood. He had hit his cousin and he, Kuwabara did not like it.
Kuwabara angrily strolled to Hiei to punch him. Yusuke was about to stop him but James held him back. Kuwabara pushed Kurama away and faced Hiei who was looking down.
"How could you do that to her!" Kuwabara shouted. "You will pay for that shrimp!" he said making people look at them. He held Hiei's neckline and was punched him even if he knew Hiei would get away.
Surprisingly, he was able to hit Hiei. He did not even budge or move. Just stared emptily at Kuwabara's fist. "Tena..." he said silently and longingly.
Kuwabara looked scared at this new attitude of Hiei and he let him go. When the guards came to arrest Kuwabara for breaking the peace, Hiei managed to say that it was ok and not to arrest Kuwabara.
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***At the airplane***
After their sorrowful goodbyes, Sumiko and Rainer had become best friends with a promise to see each other again. Hiei was getting cranky and shouted whenever someone would bug him.
Hiei and Sumiko sat together at the airplane. Sumiko was beside the window and Hiei was beside her. When the airplane took off and the flight attendant was done explaining the basic rules of an 'in case of an emergency', the other three four, that is Yukina, Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama, were looking at Hiei and Sumiko in case Hiei hurt Sumiko again.
Kuwabara and Yusuke were at the back of Hiei and Sumiko while Kurama and Yukina were at the front. It would take five agonizing silent hours before reaching Japan.
Occasionally, Kurama and Yusuke would try to make everyone laugh but it always ended in stony silence. The two still did not give up.
Hiei was getting sleepy after two hours of flying and thinking of Tena and how she died. It would keep replaying on his head everything that happened and it finally lulled him to sleep.
Sumiko was surprised to see Hiei snoring beside her and Kurama and the others were finally asleep. She also wanted to sleep but deep inside, she felt like she had to guard Hiei, sleeping or awake. It was her way of saying sorry to him.
***
Hiei was walking in an endless darkness, nothing there, and nothing to see or bump into. There was an earsplitting silence except for the light tapping of Hiei's feet. Occasionally, he would hear the light laughter of Tena in his ears and he would look for it and would see Tena's figure slowly fading. He gave up looking at the location of the laughter.
He stopped when suddenly he found himself stepping in a wide and light meadow. The grass was blowing in his feet and the wind was silently whispering stories in his face. He could not understand what the wind was saying but the more he could see Tena in his eyes suffering.
He hated himself for having Tena killed. He even blamed himself. Why did he have to shield his eyes? If he did not, he might have saved Tena. Hiei sighed. It was not easy to forget her.
He looked around and saw Tena's figure playing with a ningen animal deer. He watched Tena's graceful fingers play with the deer's skin. He looked so longingly at her that he nearly thought that it really was her. He shook his head and when he looked there, she was gone.
Nightmares would come and go before Hiei's eyes. Good dreams came and left as nightmares had. Slowly, Hiei came in the scene of a battlefield. Without knowing what he did, he started fighting the monsters in his dream, slowly forgetting that these were just illusions, just in his dream...
"Hn." Hiei said as demons began falling around him. "Weaklings." was all he said. He turned to leave when he heard a rumble. Two people, or rather, demons, were riding on what seemed like a bug. These two fighters faced Hiei.
"K-Kurama! Yusuke!" Hiei said startled, "What are you doing here?"
The two did not answer, instead the two changed to their demon form: Yusuke into the longhaired demon and Kurama in the fox demon form. There was anger in their eyes. Hiei did not bother to find out why the two were angry with him. He did not like being stared like that. He quickly changed into his demon form that had too many eyes.
Kurama charged first, attacking him with all he had. Yusuke jumped at him from behind and hit him at the back with his Reigun. Hiei shouted in agony as Kurama let him go. He was holding Hiei by his hair.
Hiei slumped to the ground. Kurama and Hiei stood menacingly at him. It came to Hiei as a jolt. He felt a certain feeling of emptiness and despair. He remembered when he and Kurama had been friends, Kurama mentioned it to him once before: loneliness.
Wait, he thought, had? When did he and Kurama fight?
Hiei placed his hand on his head as a fake illusion appeared on his mind the day he and Kurama fought. He looked up at Kurama and Yusuke and Yusuke was aiming him a very large reigun. Kurama had his rose whip out, ready to strike.
Hiei bowed his head low. He knew he would die in any moment soon. Just then, someone stepped in front of him. He looked up and saw Sumiko. Kurama and Yusuke looked at her surprised.
Sumiko looked at Hiei, knelt down in front of him, and held his arm, "Are you alright Hiei" she asked. Hiei looked at her angrily. He, Hiei Jaganshi, never needed help from someone.
He flung Sumiko to a nearby tree. Suddenly, Yusuke and Kurama started laughing evilly. Genkai, Kuwabara, and Tena appeared and they were all laughing evilly at him. Hiei looked fearfully at them as the background changed to black and red aura enveloped everyone laughing there.
Hiei felt so scared and alone. He felt this once in his life but he was feeling something worse. These were his friends, friends laughing at him. On the other hand, did he have no friend? Were all of them just a dream? Kurama? Yusuke? Yukina? Kuwabara? Genkai? Koenma? Botan? Keiko? Shizuru? Tena? Sumiko?
The scene changed as he walked in the Makai alone, again. No, he thought, I do not want to be alone again!!!! He shouted to the world.
Slowly he started remembering every evil thing that he has done: Death, revenge. Everything.
Why have I always been alone? he thought.
He saw Kurama and Yusuke laughing at him. Everyone, everyone even Sumiko and Tena. Everyone even his sister Yukina.
"NO!!!" he shouted repeatedly as he placed both his arms in front of his forehead, eyes open wide and his face sweating. "No..." he said as pearls began clinking the unseen floor.
"Hiei! Hiei!"
"No! Stop!" Hiei shouted.
"Hiei! Wake up!" came Sumiko's voice. He opened his eyes and was breathing rapidly and his face was wet from sweat. He quickly blushed when he found himself being hugged tightly by Sumiko in a caring way. He tried to push away but Sumiko held her tighter. "Hiei, are you ok?" Sumiko asked as she forced Hiei to look at her.
Calmness. That was what he saw in Sumiko's eyes. He felt comfort and he started breathing normally. He stopped sweating slowly and slowly until he finally returned to the normal breathing, still looking in Sumiko's eyes as if asking for something.
"It's all right Hiei. It's alright." Sumiko said as she rubbed his back smoothly as her mother did to her when she was young. Hiei smiled in the inside as that was all he needed to hear. Slowly, he drifted to sleep in Sumiko's eyes, a peaceful smile playing in his lips.
"What was that all about?" Kuwabara asked as he Yusuke, Yukina, Kurama, and Sumiko was looking at Hiei's sleeping figure. They all shrugged.
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"YUSUKE!!!" Keiko shouted as she ran to Yusuke crying. "You're alright!" she said, crying in her arms. Botan ran to the boys, Yukina, and Sumiko along with Shizuru who punched Kuwabara's head as a way of greeting.
"So how is my general?" Mukuru said as she walked to Hiei.
"Hn." Hiei said as he and Mukuru watched everyone happily welcoming everyone back to Japan again. Hiei looked at Sumiko and silently thanked her for making him feel at home again, however, Sumiko did not hear it.
Hiei did not mind.
***
"Wake up you great prat." A voice said.
"W-Where am I?" a young girl said. She looked up and saw a demon looking person but was not a demon. She looked like Sumiko's transformed person.
"Inside Sumiko's mind." the Sumiko look-alike said. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" she asked coldly.
"I d-don't know how I came here." the other girl said as she slowly stood up. "But I do remember my name." she said as she faced the transformation of Sumiko.
"Then who are you?" the being asked impatiently.
"My name is Tena, what's yours." Tena asked the being in front of her as she held out her hand. "Nice to meet you," Tena said.
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Chapter 16 done! Can someone tell me what is the biggest stadium in Japan, where it is and how it looks like? The streets around or the at least a map of it? Can someone also tell me the kinds of tanks and armored helicopters? I REALLY NEED IT! Please.
Oh yeah, please review. Thanks to the thirteen people who reviewed a while ago. l^_^l Thanks so much!
