Togashi is lucky, he owns Yu Yu Hakusho. I do not.
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"Go."
"Hiei," Kurama pleaded.
"Leave me alone."
"Hiei," the angry youkai let his aura appear around him, warning the concerned fox not to push his temper any farther. Kurama walked away defeated.
"Still not letting anyone get near him?" Yusuke asked when Kurama walked into the next room. They had brought everyone back to Yusuke's house after they finally managed to get Hiei to stop trying to murder Kuwabara.
"Not even ten feet," he replied dejectedly, "How's Kuwabara doing?"
"Still sobbing to Botan, I don't think he's going to get over this for awhile," Yusuke answered, "What're we going to do about Hiei?"
"He'll work through it on his own, someway. I doubt Kuwabara will survive another encounter with him anytime soon though. Have you told Keiko or Shizuru yet?"
"I called them to come over, Shizuru has to drag him back to their house sooner or later. I dunno how I'll break it to Keiko, she and Yukina were pretty close," Yusuke explained, turning his head to the door as if Keiko had just walked through and caught them talking about her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_Why did I have to leave. Why did I trust him. I promised to always protect you and I failed you. I can't believe I trusted him. That stupid idiotic ningen you cared for, hell that's the only reason I trusted you with him. Because you liked him. I wanted to kill his sorry ass. Now he has a reason for death._ Hiei thought miserably in his mind. _It's all my fault. If I hadn't left you there under his incompetent care then you'd still be alive. You'd be just fine. Smiling and laughing with the rest of those fools._ He was sitting on Yusuke's desk with his hands crossed, head down. The junk that had once been on the cedar desk was strewn across the room, another victim of Hiei's fury. He clenched his fist again at the thought of how the horrendous ordeal could have been avoided and his reiki flamed around him. A single tear, identical to the one that he had shed when he first witnessed his precious sister's body, fell from his face and faded invisibly in the dark fabric of his clothing.
"Dammit..." Hiei said through his gritted teeth. He swung his arm around his side, sending Yusuke's black lamp careening into the wall and left a sizable gash in the wall. "What the hell, Hiei?" Yusuke yelled when he saw the dent in the wall next to the door. Kurama walked in the door on his heels, watching the fire demons reactions. He didn't have much to observe.
"Hn..." Hiei replied. It lacked it's normal air of disregard and merely sounded as if he were just trying to humor Yusuke with a response, no matter how small.
"Look, I know your pissed, hell I am too. But your not the only one here who's upset, okay? Kuwa-"
"You think I care about that stupid bastard?"
"As I was saying, Kuwabara is over there crying is damn eyes out with Botan, your in here tearing apart my room - yeah, I see all my crap on the floor too - and we're the only two here not in a rage or depression or any other crap, and soon we'll have Keiko and Shizuru to worry about! So lay off my wall, and all the other crap I own," Yusuke finished his rant. Hiei didn't move, or even make a sound. "Hey, black boy, you home? Or should we take you to a shrink?" the angered teen received one of many patented death glares from Hiei, who was fed up with being lectured about his temper and behavior. He slid off the desk and opened the balcony window without turning again, and jumped out of view in one fast, fluid motion. Yusuke sighed and turned to leave.
"I don't know what we're going to do with him," Yusuke sighed to Kurama on his way past.
"Just wait it out is all we can, I doubt he'd let us do anything else," the Fox answered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"You...your kidding right? Yusuke, please, you can't be, this is a sick joke," Keiko stuttered, almost unable to utter the words. Yusuke turned away. "No...no, she, Yusuke..."
"I'm sorry Keiko, we realized where they were going too late...I'm sorry," Yusuke answered her solemnly. Keiko gaped at him in disbelief. It couldn't be true, not for her, Yukina was one of her closest friends. She wasn't dead, she couldn't be.
"Yusuke..." Keiko's eyes were wide. So many emotions were going through her. Hate, sorrow, anger, pain, confusion, she couldn't sort through it. It was too much, too much flooding her mind at once. She slowly sat down on the sofa, letting her head fall into her hands leaning on her knees. "Yukina...why? Why did she have to die?! It's...it's not fair...it's not fair..." Keiko's vision of Yusuke's carpet blurred and she felt her warm tears beginning to stream down her face. Yusuke stepped around the clear glass coffee table and sat next to her.
"It's...It'll be okay," Yusuke tried to comfort her futilely. He put his arm around her and she leaned into his chest, sobbing. He could feel his shirt beginning to absorb her tears. Keiko's breaths were quivering, and her mind believed that her tears would never stop raining down.
"I'm going to check on Shizuru...Botan was going to try to tell her," Kurama said in a hushed voice, staring down sympathetically at Keiko.
"Yeah," Yusuke answered, not looking away from Keiko. "But she probably couldn't get far."
"I wouldn't contradict that," Kurama answered, "Keiko...I'm sorry, please...just know we're here." She barely nodded, her head still pressed firmly against her boyfriend. Kurama paced solemnly to the other room, not allowing his emerald eyes to leave the couple until he was through the door.
"Come on Botan, what's wrong? I've never seen you so hysterical, not to mention my baby of a brother over there," Shizuru's voice echoed through Kurama's ears in it's typical tone. Evidently Botan had broken down before the news could've been relayed. Botan's head was buried in her knees next to Atsuko's cerulean bed Shizuru was on. "Kurama, what the hell is wrong with them? All Botan could mutter was 'she' and then burst into tears, and he's like a rag doll," Shizuru motioned her head to Kuwabara, sitting in a withered lump against the white wall.
"Shizuru..." Kurama struggled for words to tell her. He didn't want to inform her the way Yusuke did for Keiko, blurting it out quickly and swamp her head too fast. He couldn't stand to see another person fall apart in so little time. "You knew that Yukina went with us last time we left right?"
"Yeah..."
"She was cornered and we didn't think they were darting toward her -"he started slowly, trying to ease into it, but was cut off early.
"Okay, so? What does that have...to..." Shizuru froze mid sentence, her mind realizing one thing about the gentle ice spirit that could pain her friends so greatly. "Kurama, where's Yukina?" An air of urgency filled her voice, and a severe want to avoid the answer she had thought of.
"She didn't come back..."
"She...Yukina? Why would anyone want to kill her? She never did anything! Why weren't you all protecting her!" Shizuru raved. Instantly she bolted up and clasped Kurama's shirt tightly in her fists.
"Shizuru we're - "
"Sorry? Sorry isn't good enough! Excuses won't bring her back now will they?!" Shizuru stormed at Kurama. He could see the crystalline tears falling from her pale face, drained of it's color when she heard the tragedy, though her hair was covering it. Suddenly, her grip on his collar loosened, then her arms swung to her sides limply and she stumbled backwards onto the sofa. "Yukina...your such an idiot...around Kuwabara too long..." her head plummeted to her hands and Kurama could clearly hear the sound of her sniffling begin to mix with Botan and Kuwabara's. Kurama observed them silently for some time, then retreated back to Yusuke's room once again.
The white curtains over the balcony door blew freely in the mid day's wind, their thin material revealing a black silhouette. Kurama could instinctively recognize the energy of his best friend. He walked behind him slowly, and stared out at the city scape visible from the room. Hiei's arms were hanging at his sides, eyes surveying the horizon absent mindedly, his signature black jacket swaying with the cold gusts. "Why her?" were the words that managed to escape his lips. His tone was no longer arrogant as it always had been. It no longer held any life.
"We have no way of knowing as of now, Hiei," the Fox replied in the same soft, comforting tone he tried to convey to the other mourners.
"There was a reason. She hadn't made a sound the entire time, except for asking me to stop bickering with that idiot. The other demons were occupied with you and the other two. The demons that," Hiei paused, "they had a reason. They hid in the darkness of the rafters until they were positive we were off guard. Kurama, doesn't that seem to have more then coincidence behind it? Why didn't they attack someone who was worth the effort?" Kurama thought about Hiei's reasoning. It made chilling sense. A surprise attack on the one who wasn't fighting? It was a kamikaze mission at best. If they were planning on killing her then they would have known they're fates were sealed for death. Why not assault one of the fighters? Were they just trying to damage them in anyway they could since the team was obviously too powerful? Kurama's logic knew those were reasonable questions, but the part of him that was lost with Yukina only wished that they were looking too far into matters. And he knew that the pain her death had caused him was minute compared to Hiei's.
"Hiei...don't look too deeply at it yet. Though your point is sensible..." Kurama answered hesitantly, not eager to arouse Hiei's suspicions. He glanced at the fire youkai for a moment then back at the intense blue seeping over the city, thin clouds floating across the sky like smoke.
Hiei's left hand was now tightly clenched. "She...was the last one to deserve that..." he said almost inaudibly. Kurama nodded sadly, then followed Hiei's black flashes until they were out of distance yet again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally updated! Hope anyone who read that chapter enjoyed it. Big difference from the first chapter. Shizuru was hard for me to write about since I don't know her character as well as the others...and very sorry for not updating in awhile again, I normally don't update my fics really often because I rarely plan out everything from the beginning. Actually...pretty much never. If I remember an idea next time I feel like writing then I use it, and if I forget it I think it's better off since it wasn't good enough for me to really remember. So yeah...that's how I work and why my updates are slow. I outlined this roughly a while ago though, so I know what I want to happen, I just need to work out writing it and the details of it. Hopefully I can get another update up soon! And before you leave please review!
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"Go."
"Hiei," Kurama pleaded.
"Leave me alone."
"Hiei," the angry youkai let his aura appear around him, warning the concerned fox not to push his temper any farther. Kurama walked away defeated.
"Still not letting anyone get near him?" Yusuke asked when Kurama walked into the next room. They had brought everyone back to Yusuke's house after they finally managed to get Hiei to stop trying to murder Kuwabara.
"Not even ten feet," he replied dejectedly, "How's Kuwabara doing?"
"Still sobbing to Botan, I don't think he's going to get over this for awhile," Yusuke answered, "What're we going to do about Hiei?"
"He'll work through it on his own, someway. I doubt Kuwabara will survive another encounter with him anytime soon though. Have you told Keiko or Shizuru yet?"
"I called them to come over, Shizuru has to drag him back to their house sooner or later. I dunno how I'll break it to Keiko, she and Yukina were pretty close," Yusuke explained, turning his head to the door as if Keiko had just walked through and caught them talking about her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_Why did I have to leave. Why did I trust him. I promised to always protect you and I failed you. I can't believe I trusted him. That stupid idiotic ningen you cared for, hell that's the only reason I trusted you with him. Because you liked him. I wanted to kill his sorry ass. Now he has a reason for death._ Hiei thought miserably in his mind. _It's all my fault. If I hadn't left you there under his incompetent care then you'd still be alive. You'd be just fine. Smiling and laughing with the rest of those fools._ He was sitting on Yusuke's desk with his hands crossed, head down. The junk that had once been on the cedar desk was strewn across the room, another victim of Hiei's fury. He clenched his fist again at the thought of how the horrendous ordeal could have been avoided and his reiki flamed around him. A single tear, identical to the one that he had shed when he first witnessed his precious sister's body, fell from his face and faded invisibly in the dark fabric of his clothing.
"Dammit..." Hiei said through his gritted teeth. He swung his arm around his side, sending Yusuke's black lamp careening into the wall and left a sizable gash in the wall. "What the hell, Hiei?" Yusuke yelled when he saw the dent in the wall next to the door. Kurama walked in the door on his heels, watching the fire demons reactions. He didn't have much to observe.
"Hn..." Hiei replied. It lacked it's normal air of disregard and merely sounded as if he were just trying to humor Yusuke with a response, no matter how small.
"Look, I know your pissed, hell I am too. But your not the only one here who's upset, okay? Kuwa-"
"You think I care about that stupid bastard?"
"As I was saying, Kuwabara is over there crying is damn eyes out with Botan, your in here tearing apart my room - yeah, I see all my crap on the floor too - and we're the only two here not in a rage or depression or any other crap, and soon we'll have Keiko and Shizuru to worry about! So lay off my wall, and all the other crap I own," Yusuke finished his rant. Hiei didn't move, or even make a sound. "Hey, black boy, you home? Or should we take you to a shrink?" the angered teen received one of many patented death glares from Hiei, who was fed up with being lectured about his temper and behavior. He slid off the desk and opened the balcony window without turning again, and jumped out of view in one fast, fluid motion. Yusuke sighed and turned to leave.
"I don't know what we're going to do with him," Yusuke sighed to Kurama on his way past.
"Just wait it out is all we can, I doubt he'd let us do anything else," the Fox answered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"You...your kidding right? Yusuke, please, you can't be, this is a sick joke," Keiko stuttered, almost unable to utter the words. Yusuke turned away. "No...no, she, Yusuke..."
"I'm sorry Keiko, we realized where they were going too late...I'm sorry," Yusuke answered her solemnly. Keiko gaped at him in disbelief. It couldn't be true, not for her, Yukina was one of her closest friends. She wasn't dead, she couldn't be.
"Yusuke..." Keiko's eyes were wide. So many emotions were going through her. Hate, sorrow, anger, pain, confusion, she couldn't sort through it. It was too much, too much flooding her mind at once. She slowly sat down on the sofa, letting her head fall into her hands leaning on her knees. "Yukina...why? Why did she have to die?! It's...it's not fair...it's not fair..." Keiko's vision of Yusuke's carpet blurred and she felt her warm tears beginning to stream down her face. Yusuke stepped around the clear glass coffee table and sat next to her.
"It's...It'll be okay," Yusuke tried to comfort her futilely. He put his arm around her and she leaned into his chest, sobbing. He could feel his shirt beginning to absorb her tears. Keiko's breaths were quivering, and her mind believed that her tears would never stop raining down.
"I'm going to check on Shizuru...Botan was going to try to tell her," Kurama said in a hushed voice, staring down sympathetically at Keiko.
"Yeah," Yusuke answered, not looking away from Keiko. "But she probably couldn't get far."
"I wouldn't contradict that," Kurama answered, "Keiko...I'm sorry, please...just know we're here." She barely nodded, her head still pressed firmly against her boyfriend. Kurama paced solemnly to the other room, not allowing his emerald eyes to leave the couple until he was through the door.
"Come on Botan, what's wrong? I've never seen you so hysterical, not to mention my baby of a brother over there," Shizuru's voice echoed through Kurama's ears in it's typical tone. Evidently Botan had broken down before the news could've been relayed. Botan's head was buried in her knees next to Atsuko's cerulean bed Shizuru was on. "Kurama, what the hell is wrong with them? All Botan could mutter was 'she' and then burst into tears, and he's like a rag doll," Shizuru motioned her head to Kuwabara, sitting in a withered lump against the white wall.
"Shizuru..." Kurama struggled for words to tell her. He didn't want to inform her the way Yusuke did for Keiko, blurting it out quickly and swamp her head too fast. He couldn't stand to see another person fall apart in so little time. "You knew that Yukina went with us last time we left right?"
"Yeah..."
"She was cornered and we didn't think they were darting toward her -"he started slowly, trying to ease into it, but was cut off early.
"Okay, so? What does that have...to..." Shizuru froze mid sentence, her mind realizing one thing about the gentle ice spirit that could pain her friends so greatly. "Kurama, where's Yukina?" An air of urgency filled her voice, and a severe want to avoid the answer she had thought of.
"She didn't come back..."
"She...Yukina? Why would anyone want to kill her? She never did anything! Why weren't you all protecting her!" Shizuru raved. Instantly she bolted up and clasped Kurama's shirt tightly in her fists.
"Shizuru we're - "
"Sorry? Sorry isn't good enough! Excuses won't bring her back now will they?!" Shizuru stormed at Kurama. He could see the crystalline tears falling from her pale face, drained of it's color when she heard the tragedy, though her hair was covering it. Suddenly, her grip on his collar loosened, then her arms swung to her sides limply and she stumbled backwards onto the sofa. "Yukina...your such an idiot...around Kuwabara too long..." her head plummeted to her hands and Kurama could clearly hear the sound of her sniffling begin to mix with Botan and Kuwabara's. Kurama observed them silently for some time, then retreated back to Yusuke's room once again.
The white curtains over the balcony door blew freely in the mid day's wind, their thin material revealing a black silhouette. Kurama could instinctively recognize the energy of his best friend. He walked behind him slowly, and stared out at the city scape visible from the room. Hiei's arms were hanging at his sides, eyes surveying the horizon absent mindedly, his signature black jacket swaying with the cold gusts. "Why her?" were the words that managed to escape his lips. His tone was no longer arrogant as it always had been. It no longer held any life.
"We have no way of knowing as of now, Hiei," the Fox replied in the same soft, comforting tone he tried to convey to the other mourners.
"There was a reason. She hadn't made a sound the entire time, except for asking me to stop bickering with that idiot. The other demons were occupied with you and the other two. The demons that," Hiei paused, "they had a reason. They hid in the darkness of the rafters until they were positive we were off guard. Kurama, doesn't that seem to have more then coincidence behind it? Why didn't they attack someone who was worth the effort?" Kurama thought about Hiei's reasoning. It made chilling sense. A surprise attack on the one who wasn't fighting? It was a kamikaze mission at best. If they were planning on killing her then they would have known they're fates were sealed for death. Why not assault one of the fighters? Were they just trying to damage them in anyway they could since the team was obviously too powerful? Kurama's logic knew those were reasonable questions, but the part of him that was lost with Yukina only wished that they were looking too far into matters. And he knew that the pain her death had caused him was minute compared to Hiei's.
"Hiei...don't look too deeply at it yet. Though your point is sensible..." Kurama answered hesitantly, not eager to arouse Hiei's suspicions. He glanced at the fire youkai for a moment then back at the intense blue seeping over the city, thin clouds floating across the sky like smoke.
Hiei's left hand was now tightly clenched. "She...was the last one to deserve that..." he said almost inaudibly. Kurama nodded sadly, then followed Hiei's black flashes until they were out of distance yet again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally updated! Hope anyone who read that chapter enjoyed it. Big difference from the first chapter. Shizuru was hard for me to write about since I don't know her character as well as the others...and very sorry for not updating in awhile again, I normally don't update my fics really often because I rarely plan out everything from the beginning. Actually...pretty much never. If I remember an idea next time I feel like writing then I use it, and if I forget it I think it's better off since it wasn't good enough for me to really remember. So yeah...that's how I work and why my updates are slow. I outlined this roughly a while ago though, so I know what I want to happen, I just need to work out writing it and the details of it. Hopefully I can get another update up soon! And before you leave please review!