Title: Needs of the Jagan Eye
Rating: PG-13 for cursing and suggested themes
Summary: Hiei's jagan eye has chosen a human to be his mate. Would he fulfill its wishes?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Yu-Hakusho or anything related to that anime. Why must you torture me so! Chapter Summary: Hiei tries to control his natural instincts until he finally makes his first move.
Author's note: Heheh. Sorry for not updating sooner. *Sighs* I have a little addiction problem. No, not on drugs or anything of that nature. Just a site called neopets. Here: You can go here if you don't know what it is: . I don't exactly `recommend it though because its really really addictive. =D I also wrote the first part of this chapter in first person Hiei becaues of all the reviews I'm getting. T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U!
P.S I know. I know. I keep getting Yusuke and Yuske mixed up but I've been using Yuske for a long time!
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"Hiei? Is that you?" a familiar voice sounded. I froze instantly. My body and instincts were taking over and the faint whispers of rational thought were the only thing that my mind can barely detect. 'No, don't hurt her...' it rang for the final time before finally fading away to the very back of my head. I had given up killing humans a long time ago and I never want to stoop that low ever again. It was the part of my past that I would never forget, no matter how much I tried, a painful disgusting memory forever etched in my mind. I should have more control over this.
'Go away, Celeste,' I thought mentally,' Go away before I hurt you.' I stood in the shadows, secretly hoping that she'll go away or dissolve. That her voice was just something from my imagination, the mating ritual, the jagan eye, or anything else to explain away the voice. The red glow of the moon that had escaped from the thick branches landed on my skin as it rose overhead. As the shadows shrank I found myself standing in open view.
"Hiei! Are you here to see the eclipse too?" That was her voice all right. It carried over to my ears as a lone soft breeze blew through, catching her scent with it before drifting over to me. Her scent was different this time because my senses had grown sharper with the peak of my heat. This time, I could recognize the kind of fruit it was: Pomegranates, the seedy red fruit found in both Makai and Ningenkai. It was very subtle but sharp at the same time.
I slowly stepped back and turned to face her. From the distance, I can see her mouth forming a small soft smile. Celeste stood with her hair in a loose elegant knot on the back of her head with strands of raven hair tangled around her face and the nape of her neck. She looked out of breath but nethertheless, beamed at me. Within minutes, she strided towards me and halted just a few feet away. Noticing my strained face, she slowed for the final steps and proceeded with caution.
"So..." she started, looking at the crimson moon and avoiding my eyes," Is it beautiful or what?" She glanced at me. Her green eyes lighted up with the smallest hint of red reflecting from the moon. I didn't answer immediately and caused her to shift her weight around nervously.
My heat was at a steady pace so I tried my best to get it under control and tried frantically to fight back the crawling instincts. 'She's nervous,' I suddenly noticed with slight distracted amusement,' Does she like me that much?' Biting her bottom lip, Celeste suddenly looked down at her feet before locking eyes with me. Her stare was soft and shy. Then, with a small sliver of courage, she moved her hand and wrapped her delicate fingers around my naked wrist.
A shock seemed to have emitted from her touch and caused me to breath abnormally harder." Do you want to watch together?" Celeste asked hopefully. Without thinking, I nodded slightly and felt myself being dragged to the area where we could see the full extent of the night sky. She had let go and now stared at the moon with a slightly a gaped mouth. I pretended to be interested but still fought my inside dilemma.
After a few minutes of complete silence, except for chirping of few crickets, Celeste turned to face me and frowned at the bandana wrapped extra tightly around my jagan eye. The moon was at its peak so I had my thoughts concentrated on other things but they instantly vanished at the feel of her hands touching my forehead. Before I could do anything else, she had removed and released it.
I gave a gasp and looked at her angrily. Has she any idea of what she'd just done? By releasing the eye from its confines, controlling it would be harder by at least two folds! But before I could say anything, two cool hands were placed on the sides of my face. Her eyes were directly looking at into mines. Suddenly, it seems my thoughts were in danger of being penetrated.
"You're such an idiot," she whispered with a slight smirk. Insulted, I raised an eyebrow and roughly took her hands away from my face then pushed her away. She took a few steps back and looked at me with a hard expression. "I don't care about that," she continued, rolling her eyes," Why do you keep hiding it then?"
I gave her an annoyed expression and stayed silent. "Its none of your business," I muttered under my breath and turned away. The moon's crimson glow was fading now. The worst was now over but I still had to work to maintain control of the eye. With a sideways glance, I noticed her standing dangerously close to me, her hands cupping each other and her eyes downcast. It seems she had been afraid that I might have taken her comment offensive.
A few moments past as we stood together with only the crickets occasional chirping around us. Afterwards, Celeste had decided to lie down on her back as means of having a greater view of the sky above. She offered me a spot next to her and I, reluctantly, accepted.
The moon was now a light shade of the red it once was. My jagan eye was much easier to control and I was finally able to feel the atmosphere of the evening.
"Hiei?" Celeste now sat up, her arms crossed around her bended knees. Her head rested on her knees and a flow of raven hair glided down her legs. She avoided direct eye contact with me but kept picking at few blades of grass around her.
"What?" I said with a shadow of a growl. I stretched my arms and sat up. "I advise you to make eye contact more. Its a sign of vulnerability if you don't."
With a laugh, she replied," Just like you. Always making everything an important life theory." Her comment sounded annoyed but, nethertheless, she seemed more relaxed. Finally, her eyes looked up at mind. Those deep rich green eyes that reminded me much of Kurama's but, unlike his, her's was not bright with deep thoughts or sparks of intelligence. Instead, her's seemed to glow with the current emotions in her heart. Was it true what they say about humans back at Makai? Their eyes are the windows to their true nature?
"Do you think I'm just another student? I mean.." She stopped there, hoping that I get the meaning of her question.
"No, students usually learn." I replied sarcastically. I meant it as a joke but the girl quickly went defensive.
"I'm trying!" she blurted out angrily," Just because you had years of practice to memorize them, doesn't mean I do!" Her green eyes glared at me with fury. "Besides, it's not like I have a choice."
"What do you mean?"
She hesitated for a moment. "About a couple of weeks ago, a guy broke into my apartment."
I hid a smirk. "What do you think he was doing?"
Her face turned red. "Something.... Personal," she answered hasitly. "The point is, I don't want to be so defenseless the next time it happens. I always knew my neighborhood wasn't exactly 'nice', but it never happened to me before. I tried to learn from some books but it wasn't the same. "
She began to lean nearer to me. "I like it better when I'm with you," Celeste said softly. I knew she meant something deeper in that statement. I looked at her, seemingly perplexed at her sudden confession.
The moon was now a soft pale pink. No one was around and the atmosphere was filled with lone gentle breezes and the occasional chirping cricket. This was perfect. I gazed down and felt her head brushing my shoulders; her eyes closed in a peaceful look. I frowned when I noticed that she was till too far away. With slow motion, I pulled her closer to me with my right arm. Surprised, she opened her eyes and looked at me in confusion.
"Hiei? What.." her voice drifted off.
I didn't immediately answer. Was I supposed to? I bended my head so that our lips were only inches away. My whole body turned towards her. Her heartbeat was rapid and her eyes still confused over the situation. With my eyes half-shut, I lowered my gaze and thought about how soft her lips would feel under the caress of my own....
"Wait just a darn minute!" Two hands jerked up on my chest and pushed me away. I flipped over and landed on my rear.
"What the hec did you do that for?!!" I yelled. Frustrated and with a slight pain in my behind, I stood up and turned to her for an answer. Why?!! Why the hec did she push me away like that when I was about to kiss her? Did she even want me to kiss her? If she didn't, why did she just admit that she 'liked being around me'? Almost two full weeks and I haven't even got a single kiss! Back in Makai, a demoness wouldn't hesitate on the first days if they liked anyone!
Impatient, confused, and angry, I needed an answer. Celeste had her legs folded under her, her hands placed on her heart to stop it from beating so fast. She was breathing fast and her eyes still held that confused expression. "I-I-I have to go now," she stuttered, not looking at me.
A gaped, I froze but watched as she left me alone in the clearing. She didn't even look back. I felt helpless to go after her and explain my reasoning. Half an hour past of cursing and ranting about how humans being idiots and the woman more trouble than they're worth before I settled.
Afterwards, a state of thought spread over my mind and questions about my actions arise. Maybe I went too fast. Should I ask her if I could kiss her or not? Did she really mean that she liked me as a companion?
There were too many unanswered questions to be ignored and little reasonable answers I could find. I sighed and picked up my belongings. Kurama had better not say anything about it this time.
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Celeste landed with a soft thump on her bed as soon as she was in her room. With the lights off and the door securely closed, she took up a pen and her trusty yellow notepad. Her thoughts were in an incredible jumble of unorganized ideas and questions and she needed to plant it down on paper to fully understand them she.
She held the black ball pen in her hand and waited for it too moves but nothing happened. Grumbling, she laid it down again and looked out the window. The moon had returned to its soft white glow instead of the blood red it was an hour ago.
Gripping a pillow, she revisited the moment with Hiei at the clearing. They were so close and her heart...
She quickly laid a hand over her chest.
...Was beating so fast and hard, it felt like it was going to pop out of her.
Celeste had never even had an indication that he was interested in her. Then, out of the blue, it just happened that Hiei had the same feelings? Sighing, she clutched the pen once more and scribbled:
Hiei. Handsome. Calming. Mysterious. Strong. Quiet.
She hesitated before continuing. Then, with a single stroke, she wrote in:
Gentle.
When Celeste was finished, she gaped down at what she just wrote in the dark ink. Why did she write that? Gentle? He barely ever uttered a word to her that wasn't critism or 'advice' and a martial arts master wouldn't be considered gentle. How the hell would that be considered gentle? She crumbled up the paper and threw it in the corner.
Screw phycology.
Gripping a pillow tightly in her arms, her eyes drifted to the sky outside. He had tried to kiss her. Didn't he? She wasn't positive. Maybe he wanted to talk to her about something. If he did, Celeste certainly wasn't doing the right thing by pushing him away so rougly and leaving without a word.
But what if he really did try to kiss her? What possible explanation would explain why she pushed him away then? She buried her head in the pillow and screamed into it in frustration. She had never hesistated a kiss from a guy she liked before and Hiei was definitely a grade A guy.
So why was did she push him?
Before she could think more on the subject, loud sounds of heavy metal and incoherent yelling shook her walls. 'Ugh', she thought miserably,'Not again.' Pushing herself up, Celeste stepped out of her apartment and knocked on a door of another apartment two doors down.
At first, she did it lightly, with her knuckles, but it obviously didn't have any effect. Growing impatient, she balled her right hand into a fist and slammed the door three times before it opened.
A young obvious drunk man answered the door. He had light brown hair that was messily spread across his head and in front of his face. She could barely make out his large chestnut eyes through the strands. He could be considered somewhat handsome if he didn't look like he lived in a bar.
"Hiya toots," he said drowisly, brushing the hair from his face and leaning against the door-frame for support. "Came to join the party?" He held up a bottle of beer in his right hand and gave a goofy smile.
"No, Josh. I want to ask if you can turn the volume down," she asked, looking him angrily in the eyes. "It's too loud."
"What cha say?" replied Josh after gulping down another beer. He lowered himself to her and strained to listen. Celeste was about to give up when more voices were heard behind her.
"Hey Josh! Who's there?" A tall lanky blond emerged behind Josh. His face brightened when he saw Celeste standing there. "O, hey, beautiful. Can I help you?"
She became more uncomfortable. "The-the musics too loud. Can you turn it down a bit?" Remembering Hiei's advice, she kept direct eye contact with Josh and his friend.
Josh and his friend laughed like she had uttered the most hilarious joke in the world. "What about this, babe? We'll turn it down," Josh said as he glanced back at his friend,"If you let me take you to the movies."
"Sorry, I already have a boyfriend," she lied," Just forget it." She began to turn back to her own apartment. Behind, the door closed and she could still hear his voice yelling down at her.
"You'll quit playing hard to get sometime!"
---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- -------------------------------- Sorry for the late upadte. A lot of things had happened including the new release of the HP and my relatives coming over and the whole incident when my parents threatened to cut off my internet. Summer vacations almost over so I have to write really fast. Hopefully, I won't find anymore distractions. Review!
Rating: PG-13 for cursing and suggested themes
Summary: Hiei's jagan eye has chosen a human to be his mate. Would he fulfill its wishes?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Yu-Hakusho or anything related to that anime. Why must you torture me so! Chapter Summary: Hiei tries to control his natural instincts until he finally makes his first move.
Author's note: Heheh. Sorry for not updating sooner. *Sighs* I have a little addiction problem. No, not on drugs or anything of that nature. Just a site called neopets. Here: You can go here if you don't know what it is: . I don't exactly `recommend it though because its really really addictive. =D I also wrote the first part of this chapter in first person Hiei becaues of all the reviews I'm getting. T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U!
P.S I know. I know. I keep getting Yusuke and Yuske mixed up but I've been using Yuske for a long time!
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"Hiei? Is that you?" a familiar voice sounded. I froze instantly. My body and instincts were taking over and the faint whispers of rational thought were the only thing that my mind can barely detect. 'No, don't hurt her...' it rang for the final time before finally fading away to the very back of my head. I had given up killing humans a long time ago and I never want to stoop that low ever again. It was the part of my past that I would never forget, no matter how much I tried, a painful disgusting memory forever etched in my mind. I should have more control over this.
'Go away, Celeste,' I thought mentally,' Go away before I hurt you.' I stood in the shadows, secretly hoping that she'll go away or dissolve. That her voice was just something from my imagination, the mating ritual, the jagan eye, or anything else to explain away the voice. The red glow of the moon that had escaped from the thick branches landed on my skin as it rose overhead. As the shadows shrank I found myself standing in open view.
"Hiei! Are you here to see the eclipse too?" That was her voice all right. It carried over to my ears as a lone soft breeze blew through, catching her scent with it before drifting over to me. Her scent was different this time because my senses had grown sharper with the peak of my heat. This time, I could recognize the kind of fruit it was: Pomegranates, the seedy red fruit found in both Makai and Ningenkai. It was very subtle but sharp at the same time.
I slowly stepped back and turned to face her. From the distance, I can see her mouth forming a small soft smile. Celeste stood with her hair in a loose elegant knot on the back of her head with strands of raven hair tangled around her face and the nape of her neck. She looked out of breath but nethertheless, beamed at me. Within minutes, she strided towards me and halted just a few feet away. Noticing my strained face, she slowed for the final steps and proceeded with caution.
"So..." she started, looking at the crimson moon and avoiding my eyes," Is it beautiful or what?" She glanced at me. Her green eyes lighted up with the smallest hint of red reflecting from the moon. I didn't answer immediately and caused her to shift her weight around nervously.
My heat was at a steady pace so I tried my best to get it under control and tried frantically to fight back the crawling instincts. 'She's nervous,' I suddenly noticed with slight distracted amusement,' Does she like me that much?' Biting her bottom lip, Celeste suddenly looked down at her feet before locking eyes with me. Her stare was soft and shy. Then, with a small sliver of courage, she moved her hand and wrapped her delicate fingers around my naked wrist.
A shock seemed to have emitted from her touch and caused me to breath abnormally harder." Do you want to watch together?" Celeste asked hopefully. Without thinking, I nodded slightly and felt myself being dragged to the area where we could see the full extent of the night sky. She had let go and now stared at the moon with a slightly a gaped mouth. I pretended to be interested but still fought my inside dilemma.
After a few minutes of complete silence, except for chirping of few crickets, Celeste turned to face me and frowned at the bandana wrapped extra tightly around my jagan eye. The moon was at its peak so I had my thoughts concentrated on other things but they instantly vanished at the feel of her hands touching my forehead. Before I could do anything else, she had removed and released it.
I gave a gasp and looked at her angrily. Has she any idea of what she'd just done? By releasing the eye from its confines, controlling it would be harder by at least two folds! But before I could say anything, two cool hands were placed on the sides of my face. Her eyes were directly looking at into mines. Suddenly, it seems my thoughts were in danger of being penetrated.
"You're such an idiot," she whispered with a slight smirk. Insulted, I raised an eyebrow and roughly took her hands away from my face then pushed her away. She took a few steps back and looked at me with a hard expression. "I don't care about that," she continued, rolling her eyes," Why do you keep hiding it then?"
I gave her an annoyed expression and stayed silent. "Its none of your business," I muttered under my breath and turned away. The moon's crimson glow was fading now. The worst was now over but I still had to work to maintain control of the eye. With a sideways glance, I noticed her standing dangerously close to me, her hands cupping each other and her eyes downcast. It seems she had been afraid that I might have taken her comment offensive.
A few moments past as we stood together with only the crickets occasional chirping around us. Afterwards, Celeste had decided to lie down on her back as means of having a greater view of the sky above. She offered me a spot next to her and I, reluctantly, accepted.
The moon was now a light shade of the red it once was. My jagan eye was much easier to control and I was finally able to feel the atmosphere of the evening.
"Hiei?" Celeste now sat up, her arms crossed around her bended knees. Her head rested on her knees and a flow of raven hair glided down her legs. She avoided direct eye contact with me but kept picking at few blades of grass around her.
"What?" I said with a shadow of a growl. I stretched my arms and sat up. "I advise you to make eye contact more. Its a sign of vulnerability if you don't."
With a laugh, she replied," Just like you. Always making everything an important life theory." Her comment sounded annoyed but, nethertheless, she seemed more relaxed. Finally, her eyes looked up at mind. Those deep rich green eyes that reminded me much of Kurama's but, unlike his, her's was not bright with deep thoughts or sparks of intelligence. Instead, her's seemed to glow with the current emotions in her heart. Was it true what they say about humans back at Makai? Their eyes are the windows to their true nature?
"Do you think I'm just another student? I mean.." She stopped there, hoping that I get the meaning of her question.
"No, students usually learn." I replied sarcastically. I meant it as a joke but the girl quickly went defensive.
"I'm trying!" she blurted out angrily," Just because you had years of practice to memorize them, doesn't mean I do!" Her green eyes glared at me with fury. "Besides, it's not like I have a choice."
"What do you mean?"
She hesitated for a moment. "About a couple of weeks ago, a guy broke into my apartment."
I hid a smirk. "What do you think he was doing?"
Her face turned red. "Something.... Personal," she answered hasitly. "The point is, I don't want to be so defenseless the next time it happens. I always knew my neighborhood wasn't exactly 'nice', but it never happened to me before. I tried to learn from some books but it wasn't the same. "
She began to lean nearer to me. "I like it better when I'm with you," Celeste said softly. I knew she meant something deeper in that statement. I looked at her, seemingly perplexed at her sudden confession.
The moon was now a soft pale pink. No one was around and the atmosphere was filled with lone gentle breezes and the occasional chirping cricket. This was perfect. I gazed down and felt her head brushing my shoulders; her eyes closed in a peaceful look. I frowned when I noticed that she was till too far away. With slow motion, I pulled her closer to me with my right arm. Surprised, she opened her eyes and looked at me in confusion.
"Hiei? What.." her voice drifted off.
I didn't immediately answer. Was I supposed to? I bended my head so that our lips were only inches away. My whole body turned towards her. Her heartbeat was rapid and her eyes still confused over the situation. With my eyes half-shut, I lowered my gaze and thought about how soft her lips would feel under the caress of my own....
"Wait just a darn minute!" Two hands jerked up on my chest and pushed me away. I flipped over and landed on my rear.
"What the hec did you do that for?!!" I yelled. Frustrated and with a slight pain in my behind, I stood up and turned to her for an answer. Why?!! Why the hec did she push me away like that when I was about to kiss her? Did she even want me to kiss her? If she didn't, why did she just admit that she 'liked being around me'? Almost two full weeks and I haven't even got a single kiss! Back in Makai, a demoness wouldn't hesitate on the first days if they liked anyone!
Impatient, confused, and angry, I needed an answer. Celeste had her legs folded under her, her hands placed on her heart to stop it from beating so fast. She was breathing fast and her eyes still held that confused expression. "I-I-I have to go now," she stuttered, not looking at me.
A gaped, I froze but watched as she left me alone in the clearing. She didn't even look back. I felt helpless to go after her and explain my reasoning. Half an hour past of cursing and ranting about how humans being idiots and the woman more trouble than they're worth before I settled.
Afterwards, a state of thought spread over my mind and questions about my actions arise. Maybe I went too fast. Should I ask her if I could kiss her or not? Did she really mean that she liked me as a companion?
There were too many unanswered questions to be ignored and little reasonable answers I could find. I sighed and picked up my belongings. Kurama had better not say anything about it this time.
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Celeste landed with a soft thump on her bed as soon as she was in her room. With the lights off and the door securely closed, she took up a pen and her trusty yellow notepad. Her thoughts were in an incredible jumble of unorganized ideas and questions and she needed to plant it down on paper to fully understand them she.
She held the black ball pen in her hand and waited for it too moves but nothing happened. Grumbling, she laid it down again and looked out the window. The moon had returned to its soft white glow instead of the blood red it was an hour ago.
Gripping a pillow, she revisited the moment with Hiei at the clearing. They were so close and her heart...
She quickly laid a hand over her chest.
...Was beating so fast and hard, it felt like it was going to pop out of her.
Celeste had never even had an indication that he was interested in her. Then, out of the blue, it just happened that Hiei had the same feelings? Sighing, she clutched the pen once more and scribbled:
Hiei. Handsome. Calming. Mysterious. Strong. Quiet.
She hesitated before continuing. Then, with a single stroke, she wrote in:
Gentle.
When Celeste was finished, she gaped down at what she just wrote in the dark ink. Why did she write that? Gentle? He barely ever uttered a word to her that wasn't critism or 'advice' and a martial arts master wouldn't be considered gentle. How the hell would that be considered gentle? She crumbled up the paper and threw it in the corner.
Screw phycology.
Gripping a pillow tightly in her arms, her eyes drifted to the sky outside. He had tried to kiss her. Didn't he? She wasn't positive. Maybe he wanted to talk to her about something. If he did, Celeste certainly wasn't doing the right thing by pushing him away so rougly and leaving without a word.
But what if he really did try to kiss her? What possible explanation would explain why she pushed him away then? She buried her head in the pillow and screamed into it in frustration. She had never hesistated a kiss from a guy she liked before and Hiei was definitely a grade A guy.
So why was did she push him?
Before she could think more on the subject, loud sounds of heavy metal and incoherent yelling shook her walls. 'Ugh', she thought miserably,'Not again.' Pushing herself up, Celeste stepped out of her apartment and knocked on a door of another apartment two doors down.
At first, she did it lightly, with her knuckles, but it obviously didn't have any effect. Growing impatient, she balled her right hand into a fist and slammed the door three times before it opened.
A young obvious drunk man answered the door. He had light brown hair that was messily spread across his head and in front of his face. She could barely make out his large chestnut eyes through the strands. He could be considered somewhat handsome if he didn't look like he lived in a bar.
"Hiya toots," he said drowisly, brushing the hair from his face and leaning against the door-frame for support. "Came to join the party?" He held up a bottle of beer in his right hand and gave a goofy smile.
"No, Josh. I want to ask if you can turn the volume down," she asked, looking him angrily in the eyes. "It's too loud."
"What cha say?" replied Josh after gulping down another beer. He lowered himself to her and strained to listen. Celeste was about to give up when more voices were heard behind her.
"Hey Josh! Who's there?" A tall lanky blond emerged behind Josh. His face brightened when he saw Celeste standing there. "O, hey, beautiful. Can I help you?"
She became more uncomfortable. "The-the musics too loud. Can you turn it down a bit?" Remembering Hiei's advice, she kept direct eye contact with Josh and his friend.
Josh and his friend laughed like she had uttered the most hilarious joke in the world. "What about this, babe? We'll turn it down," Josh said as he glanced back at his friend,"If you let me take you to the movies."
"Sorry, I already have a boyfriend," she lied," Just forget it." She began to turn back to her own apartment. Behind, the door closed and she could still hear his voice yelling down at her.
"You'll quit playing hard to get sometime!"
---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- -------------------------------- Sorry for the late upadte. A lot of things had happened including the new release of the HP and my relatives coming over and the whole incident when my parents threatened to cut off my internet. Summer vacations almost over so I have to write really fast. Hopefully, I won't find anymore distractions. Review!