Title: Blood and Love
Summary: A very old version of my OC Lethe experiences a few problems... And Hiei comes to her rescue. Written back when I hated Kuwabara.
Warnings: Extreme ickiness... I think that's it...
Blah- Lethe's thoughts
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I feel sick, something's not right with me
Rhiannon looked worriedly at Lethe, whom had been sitting there silently for the entire time. She hadn't even insulted Hiei since he'd gotten here.
"Lethe, are you alright?" Keiko asked suddenly, leaning back so she could get a better look at Lethe.
"I'm fine."
Something's very wrong. The bloodlust, it's back. Something's wrong
"I need to go." Lethe said suddenly, standing up.
"What's the matter?" Yusuke asked. Everyone's faces echoed his question, everyone's except Hiei's, but Lethe hadn't expected any concern from him, she never did.
For some reason, it still hurts when he doesn't show any concern at all
"Don't worry about it!" Lethe snapped, and she disappeared out the window.
"Oh my..." Botan said quietly.
"Something's wrong with her, I can't tell exactly what in this form though..." Rhiannon said, her brow furrowed in frustration.
"So change form," Kuwabara said lightly, severely underestimating the situation.
"It wouldn't make a difference; she's not here for me to sense."
"Right... Hey, where's Half-pint?" Kuwabara said looking around suddenly. Kuwabara was right, Hiei had disappeared.
"He probably went to check on Lethe," said Kurama after surveying the room.
"Why would Hiei go looking for Lethe? He hates her, and the feeling's mutual," Yusuke said eyebrow arched in curiosity.
"People don't always say what they mean," Rhiannon said softly.
"Huh?" Kuwabara grunted dumbly.
Elsewhere...
Lethe clutched the tree and her chest simultaneously. She had managed to make it about 300 miles away from Kurama's house before she had started to feel the symptoms of contained bloodlust.
I think I'm dieing. This is like no pain I've ever felt in my whole life. Damn the witch who said she would subdue the urges for eternity
Lethe froze suddenly, she could feel an unfamiliar presence near her, and it wasn't friendly. Lethe righted herself quickly and wiped the sweat from her face.
"Who's there?" she snapped angrily, flicking out her katar blades and turning her head slightly to get a better look at the demon.
"Hmmmmmmm..... It appears the great Lethe is weakening.... You can't fight the bloodlust any longer can you?" A voice hissed softly.
"Who the hell are you?" Lethe snarled, baring her fangs at whoever it was.
"My name is Koro-koro, and I am a demon assassin and you happen to be my target for this evening. You should feel lucky; it's taken me a long time to find you, Little Pet."
"Koro-koro, huh? I should've known it was only a matter of time until you came looking for me. However, lovely as it would be, I do not feel like dealing with you."
Go away; I can't deal with your kind right now. My power is leaving me because of the bloodlust
"Don't feel like it? Funny, I thought you couldn't deal with it, with your power leaving you and all." Lethe stared at the hooded figure defiantly. It was worse then she thought; if a demon like Koro-koro could feel her decrease then she was losing power very quickly. Koro-koro appeared to be enjoying her problems; she could almost hear him grinning.
"You know, if it had been anyone else, I would've waited and let you either die or regain your power, but considering who you are and all..." Koro- koro zoomed forward suddenly and Lethe felt the sharp tip of some sort of blade digging into her skin. Lethe went to pull away, but a strong scissor- like claw closed around her arm.
Lethe went to struggle, she did not like this, she did not like this at all.
"I think it would make more sense to kill you when you're down," Koro- koro finished, and the scissor-claw closed on her arm, slowly breaking her skin, slowly closing in on her bones and preparing to severe her arm.
Please no
Koro-koro stopped suddenly, and Lethe could see his yellow eyes glittering intensely into her own. He leaned forward until he could whisper in her ear, and in a soft, sticky voice he whispered,
"I'm going to kill you very slowly. I will peel your skin and break your bones, until you are nothing but a barely breathing, skinless, broken, mess." Lethe twisted violently and tried to get away, but Koro-koro wasn't finished, "And then I'll eat your flesh as you lay dieing, unable to do anything but watch." Koro-koro pulled back and studied her face.
"Most would scream and beg for their lives or at least for a quicker death now..." he hissed dangerously, his scissor-claw closing on her thigh. Lethe wretched violently in pain, and her face twisted as she fought down her scream.
"Scream... let it out; let your terror and pain take control..." Koro- koro encouraged quietly, his knife hand dragging along her collarbone; Lethe could feel blood running down her chest.
Stop it
Every fiber of Lethe's being was ordering her to make it stop, to make the pain go away. Lethe gritted her teeth, in any normal situation, Koro-koro would be very, very dead right now, but this was not a normal situation.
Sorry Hiei
Her eyes widened in shock. Why had she thought that? Not like she owed the jerk an apology for anything, and not like she would be depriving him of anything if she died. Lethe ground her teeth harder as a fresh rush of pain interrupted her thoughts.
"There you are."
Lethe looked up startled, and found she was looking at a familiar spiky-haired demon.
"Hiei?" she choked. Koro-koro jabbed his claw into her stomach to shut her up and reluctantly put her down on the tree branch.
"You just wait here while I go kill the intruder," he hissed, and he swirled to face Hiei. As soon as he turned his back on her Lethe went to push herself up, but found she was too injured. Numerous stab wounds and cuts covered her body, and she was shaking badly because of the bloodlust. Lethe found herself wishing very hard that her own blood would subdue the bloodlust, but she knew it wasn't so. Koro-koro, meanwhile, was studying Hiei intently.
"And just who are you to her?" Koro-koro snarled, holding up his bloody scissor-claw to show Hiei. Hiei studied the claw for a few moments, and Koro-koro thought he was going to run away, but to his regret Hiei stayed, and he refused to answer Koro-koro's question. Instead Hiei drew his sword and rushed Koro-koro. Hiei zoomed past him so fast that Koro-koro didn't see him move, but Koro-koro was still in one piece when he passed.
"Ha ha ha! You missed me! No matter how fast you are if you have no accuracy then you're nothing to me!" Koro-koro was laughing triumphantly as he turned to face Hiei.
The first thing to fall was the claw. When Koro-koro had turned, he had waved the claw in the air, and it had plummeted from his arm to the forest floor below. Koro-koro stared after it in silent horror and Hiei and Lethe smirked after it.
"You were saying?" Hiei snapped quietly, sheathing his sword and turning to pick Lethe up.
"Just because you cut my claw off..." Koro-koro began, but suddenly Koro-koro noticed several slivers of blood appearing on his body. He could only stare in shock as his body fell apart and disintegrated into thin air.
"Hmph, simpering fool. I'd hate to see what would happen to him if he attacked you when you weren't suffering from contained bloodlust," Hiei said, sliding an arm under her knees and one behind her shoulders. She winced a little but refused to say anything. Then it dawned on her what he'd just said.
"How did you know I was suffering from contained bloodlust?"
"I know you're a Ravine Apparition," Hiei said flatly, zipping among the trees until he'd gotten to a clearing. Hiei settled down and placed Lethe gently on the ground.
"If you could get rid of the bloodlust you could heal yourself, right?" Lethe stared blankly at him for a few moments then nodded; she was still partially in shock that Hiei knew what she was.
Does he hate me, I wonder
Lethe was absolutely amazed at that question. 'Why in the hell would I care if he hated me?' Lethe wondered silently. Hiei stood up suddenly and pulled out a small knife.
"Would my blood alone be strong enough to get rid of it?" he asked, arching an eyebrow suddenly.
"Mm-hm," Lethe said, nodding a little. Hiei placed the blade against his forearm, and drew the blade along his arm. Lethe stared mesmerized as she watched the silver blade seemed to draw a deep red line along Hiei's milky skin.
Hiei noticed Lethe staring at him, her eyes following the blade as he drew it across his skin. He smirked to himself, he could barely feel her energy, and yet she was still strong enough to sit up alone. 'She must be drawing on her hidden powers.' He thought to himself.
Once Hiei had made his cut, he knelt in front of Lethe and held the cut up to her mouth, she leaned forward and simply lapped the blood at first, but soon she had placed her mouth over the wound and was gently sucking the blood from it. Hiei watched her in silence, one hand resting on her shoulder, holding her up just in case she lost consciousness. After about 15 minutes, Lethe stopped; she leaned back and licked her lips, which were now a deep, glistening red. Her wounds had begun to heal, and her eyes were again flickering with specks of green and blue. She gazed at him for a long moment in silence, finally she looked away. Hiei watched her as well, silently admiring the way the moon lighted her features. He hadn't moved away yet, and he really was quite comfortable where he was.
"Do you hate me?" she asked him suddenly, without turning to look at him.
"No," he said softly, and Lethe's eyes widened when Hiei wound his arms around her loosely. Lethe relaxed almost instantly though, and in a few moments she was asleep.
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Yup, an old piece of crap, but I suppose it's ok, and it falls under the requirements for this section of stuff... so, whatever.-Lethal-chan