Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho...there would be many yaoi and yuri pairings, and I think Kuwa-chan and Yukina would be the only straight people there!! 0.o;; ::hits herself for liking a het pairing::
A/N: Ohayou gozaimasu minna-san!! Sorry I took so long to update. Meh full excuse is: I had to beta about 6 or 7 fanfics, and in the middle of that, the power went out in JUST ONE wall of the house, which of course, was the one with the compy plugged into it. Hit me if you must, but that's what happened. Anyway, here's the new chapter, I hope you enjoy!
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"Simple..." Akujin spoke harshly, malice dripping off each syllable he spoke. "I'll kill him. I will kill the Forbidden Child." He seemed cruelly excited at the thought.
"K-kill?" Even the largest in brawn there, Ran, seemed questionable of the idea. "Akujin-sama...this demon massacered our entire race of kageoni...one of the most elite demons in power!! He killed them like they were nothing!!" He stammered over the words, fearful of the very memory of Hiei. "I--I was there!!"
"Silence!" Akujin barked. Ran obeyed, though the nervous perspiration on him was more than obvious.
"Akujin-sama..." another kageoni murmured. "...why?"
"Why?!" The crimson-haired demon seemed sick with the question. "WHY? He killed them all -- no demon could EVER kill the entire kageoni race like that..!" His pale fist clenched tightly, and droplets of blood made their way past his throbbing fingers. "I...I want revenge...I want him to fear me...I want him to die just like they did...!" His mussed hair made its way into his face, shielding his black, often emotionless eyes.
"Akujin-sama..." Ran reached a hand to his leader, as though to comfort him. When Akujin shifted his posture, however, his hand drew back like it had been burned, as though Akujin's skin was deadly.
"The Forbidden Child will die...he killed them all...and he has the nerve to go soft, like a damned ningen...I will kill him personally," he concluded, enraged face glaring off into the woods, to the very lake where Hiei and Kurama stood.
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Kurama stood from his sitting position on the dusty ground, facing his koi. He smiled, something awkward and different for him now, but his eyes...they had seemed to regain a light about them, a shine...
...one that had been lost two years before...
"Hiei."
"Hai...?" the jaganshi replied softly, face silver from the light of Shinbi lake, eyes distant and stoic.
"Hiei...will you..." Kurama leaned over his love, placing a sweet kiss on his forehead, cajoling him, before he finished: "...will you come back with me to the Ningenkai...?"
Silence ensued, save for the gentle lapping of stray water against the shores of the Shinbi. Kurama held him tighter, hoping. "Will you...stay with me .. there...?"
Hiei released a sigh, finally, before replying in a soft tone, one that almost didn't suit him. "Hai."
It was almost like the past two years had never happened...
"Arigatou..."
'Ai shiteru Hiei...'
Akujin sent a glance over to a comrade, nodding. 'Now...!'
The silvery water of the lake seemed to tear out of the way of its intruder, bolting across the water as though it were solid.
"Nani yo?!" Hiei was distracted, crimson eyes snapping their attention to the oncomer. In the fraction of the time it would take a human to the same task, Hiei had unsheathed his katana and torn for the demon, slicing him in half and sending him to the depths of Shinbi. "Feh..." he breathed heavily, glancing back to his koi.
Though...Kurama wasn't alone. A shadow approached him from behind, manifesting slowly and silently...
"Kurama, move!!"
"Huh...?!" A whirring beside him spoke as clearly as Hiei had, sending Kurama to the ground as a katana sliced into the tree beside him. A few strands of Kurama's silky, crimson hair fell free of him, a result of the attack. "W-who..?" he managed to murmur.
"Keep him there Ran," a cruel voice spoke.
"Aa." A heavy foot stomped itself into Kurama's spine, earning a groan of pain from him. Kurama struggled to turn his head to the offender, grunting slightly in the process.
"Who.." he repeated, a demanding tone underlying his word.
"GET THE HELL OFF HIM!!" He heard Hiei yell harshly, fleeting toward them. He faltered, crimson eyes wide, as his eyes took hold of a smaller demon standing beside his larger comrade.
"Ah...Hiei. We meet at last..."
"You..." A smirk found his pale lips. "A kageoni as well? Come to get revenge for your weak race?" He followed with a cruel laugh.
"Hiei...what...?" Kurama tried to protest, only to have the foot dug deeper into his back. "Aahh!!"
"Weak...?" Akujin's voice became stern with anger. "You killed my people... you massacred them!"
"The weak must be eliminated," Hiei replied simply.
"Nani?!" Ran cried, deep voice aflame with anger and eyes wide. His fingers, thick with brawn and strength, clenched into his palm which he flung out to the offender.
The Forbidden Child seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving only an afterimage, as he zoomed around, katana ready...
Akujin fell back, dark eyes widened as he watched Ran torn into several pieces by Hiei's wielding, spilling his deep red blood everywhere, even onto his master's face in small droplets...
"Ran...?" he murmured.
Kurama pulled himself to his feet, sighing inwardly at his release and flicking away some of the shed liquid from Ran. His evergreen eyes widened as Akujin suddenly stood, unsheathing his own katana and rushing toward Hiei, only for the jaganshi to vanish again.
"Kuso...!" Akujin cussed. "DAMN YOU FORBIDDEN CHILD!!" He stepped back, glancing around frantically for his opponent...
...and eyes falling on Kurama.
Kurama braced himself, reaching into his pockets for a weapon, a rose, Death Seeds anything...but it had been two years since Kurama had fought any demon...
...he had nothing. Everything within him seemed to stop in his realization, he could only watch...
...as Akujin flung out his sword, tip facing Kurama's face, and began to run...his words barely filtering over the red head:
"If I can't kill him first the I'll kill you!!!"
He could only move.
"Uh...!" Hiei grunted, allowing himself to land. Crimson eyes watched Akujin carefully...
He was a kageoni, weak, but skillful in alertness and stealth...and his back was turned to the jaganshi. "Feh," Hiei managed before preparing to strike at him.
Kurama released a slow, shaky breath, hands trembling. The thick, warm blood ran in small streams down his wrist, staining his shirt, pale skin, and the silver blade held firmly between the two hands. He looked up slowly at the crimson haired demon before him...he was not frustrated this time...
He was grinning. Akujin flung down his head, short, messy hair flying with him, and released a breathy laugh.
"This is it."
"Na...ni?" Kurama couldn't comprehend anything anymore..he looked up to see Hiei bolting up to Akujin from behind...
...and he felt the blade being pulled roughly from his grasp, sending a small shower of blood everywhere.
It dawned upon him then.
"Hiei, don't come any closer!!" he shouted, as loud as he could, watching Akujin spin around rapidly, meeting Hiei's enraged glare...
It was quickly replaced by surprise...and pain.
With a loud "Ha!" from Akujin he whirled himself entirely around, sending his blade through Hiei's small waist, sending a spray of blood out. It met with the center of his stomach before Akujin pulled it out.
Hiei collapsed lifelessly to the barren ground.
Kurama could barely draw breath, barely focus his eyes...all he saw was the blood...
Hiei's blood...
"Heh..." Akujin breathed. He laughed cruelly, sending shivers down Kurama's spine, a laugh that echoed through the glistening black of the trees. With a pale hand he wiped off some of Hiei's own blood that had splattered over him, and licked it off almost lovingly. He approached the jaganshi, lifting his face up with the reddened katana. Hiei gasped painfully at the motion, whether from the pain of moving or the fresh cut the action inspired, Kurama didn't know. Akujin grinned heartlessly down, meeting a glare from Hiei.
"...afraid, Forbidden Child...?" Akujin muttered, grinning almost perversely. This...this was what he wanted. Hiei would suffer, would die...he would die with fear in his eyes...
Hiei merely grinned. "Fuck you."
Akujin's expression faded into anger. "Shut up..."
Kurama stood slowly, comprehending everything...Hiei was...Hiei was...
Hiei was going to die...
"SHUT UP!!" Akujin screamed, grabbing at Hiei's torn black shirt and lifting the smaller demon into the air. "It's all your fault!! ALL YOUR FAULT!! You killed them all!!" He reeled him back, then flung him out and released...
"DIE FORBIDDEN CHILD!!!"
Hiei soared through the air, blood trailing behind him, before softly falling back--
"HIEI!!" Kurama cried. Time was frozen, and he couldn't move.
The jaganshi shot him a soft smile, before crashing into the waters of the Shinbi, helpless.
"H-Hiei..." Kurama stammered. Hiei couldn't...
Hiei's crimson eyes struggled to stay open as the murky waters surrounded him, engulfing him. It was over. Everything was over. He had lost to the likes of a demon like Akujin.
Everything had ended...He was dying...the darkness seemed to kill his vision, save for the small ripples of sunshine from the other side...
And in the darkness, all he could see was Kurama...leaning into him..
Like that day two years ago... as he was huskily whispering to him...
-"Ai shiteru...Hiei..."-
'Gomen Kurama...I feared you. I feared your love...demons weren't supposed to love so I ran from you...but really...'
If only Kurama had known...that Hiei had left reluctantly...that when he found himself standing in the Makai...
Hiei cried...
Silent, seemingly emotionless tears had drifted down his cheeks, and he had wiped them away in embarassment. He was wrong. Everything was wrong..
But it was so right...
He never wanted to return. He never wanted to see Kurama again. Going back was to ask Kurama for forgiveness, which, even with two years alone, would have been given to him immediately. He didn't want forgiveness. Kurama should have hated him...! He should've hated him for walking away. For running away. But he still loved him...still wanted him...
Still needed him...
'Gomen...' he repeated, 'for taking so long...I...
I always wanted to come back...deep inside...I always wanted to return to you...because I love you...and I need you like you need me...'
He had waited too long...and it was over...
Water had surrounded him...but as he closed his eyes and imagined Kurama there, again, in front of him, holding him and kissing him...smiling so beautifully....
He felt the warm tears drifting down his cheeks...even in this lake of death...
If only Kurama knew how many times Hiei had cried for him.
His breath was fading in his chest. It hurt so much...it burned in him... His crimson eyes opened, gazing into the water...into the red blood clouding around him....
...red...just like Kurama's beautiful hair....
He reached a trembling hand out...as if to touch the silky substance, to touch Kurama again...to run his fingers through his soft hair, and cup his face into his hand...and feel Kurama lean into his touch, nuzzle him...to lean in himself and kiss him...
To see the happiness gleaming in Kurama's eyes, that had seemingly been lost over the two years they hadn't seen each other....the happiness Hiei caused...
His hand stayed in the air as this lovely vision passed through Hiei's mind...as he only sunk lower and lower...everything was fading as he did so.
Only one thought remained firmly planted within his head:
'Ai shiteru Kurama...so much...'
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A/N: I personally don't think that was really well written at the end there...but I'm still getting teary-eyed...at my own writing!! Argh!! ::hits herself:: I still can't believe that to this day I did this to Hiei. I love Hiei and I hurt him like this...I'M EVIL!!! ::cries and tries to kill herself:: Please review...the more reviews I recieve the faster the next chapter will come...if no one hurts me before then for what I did....ja...::hides under a rock::
A/N: Ohayou gozaimasu minna-san!! Sorry I took so long to update. Meh full excuse is: I had to beta about 6 or 7 fanfics, and in the middle of that, the power went out in JUST ONE wall of the house, which of course, was the one with the compy plugged into it. Hit me if you must, but that's what happened. Anyway, here's the new chapter, I hope you enjoy!
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"Simple..." Akujin spoke harshly, malice dripping off each syllable he spoke. "I'll kill him. I will kill the Forbidden Child." He seemed cruelly excited at the thought.
"K-kill?" Even the largest in brawn there, Ran, seemed questionable of the idea. "Akujin-sama...this demon massacered our entire race of kageoni...one of the most elite demons in power!! He killed them like they were nothing!!" He stammered over the words, fearful of the very memory of Hiei. "I--I was there!!"
"Silence!" Akujin barked. Ran obeyed, though the nervous perspiration on him was more than obvious.
"Akujin-sama..." another kageoni murmured. "...why?"
"Why?!" The crimson-haired demon seemed sick with the question. "WHY? He killed them all -- no demon could EVER kill the entire kageoni race like that..!" His pale fist clenched tightly, and droplets of blood made their way past his throbbing fingers. "I...I want revenge...I want him to fear me...I want him to die just like they did...!" His mussed hair made its way into his face, shielding his black, often emotionless eyes.
"Akujin-sama..." Ran reached a hand to his leader, as though to comfort him. When Akujin shifted his posture, however, his hand drew back like it had been burned, as though Akujin's skin was deadly.
"The Forbidden Child will die...he killed them all...and he has the nerve to go soft, like a damned ningen...I will kill him personally," he concluded, enraged face glaring off into the woods, to the very lake where Hiei and Kurama stood.
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Kurama stood from his sitting position on the dusty ground, facing his koi. He smiled, something awkward and different for him now, but his eyes...they had seemed to regain a light about them, a shine...
...one that had been lost two years before...
"Hiei."
"Hai...?" the jaganshi replied softly, face silver from the light of Shinbi lake, eyes distant and stoic.
"Hiei...will you..." Kurama leaned over his love, placing a sweet kiss on his forehead, cajoling him, before he finished: "...will you come back with me to the Ningenkai...?"
Silence ensued, save for the gentle lapping of stray water against the shores of the Shinbi. Kurama held him tighter, hoping. "Will you...stay with me .. there...?"
Hiei released a sigh, finally, before replying in a soft tone, one that almost didn't suit him. "Hai."
It was almost like the past two years had never happened...
"Arigatou..."
'Ai shiteru Hiei...'
Akujin sent a glance over to a comrade, nodding. 'Now...!'
The silvery water of the lake seemed to tear out of the way of its intruder, bolting across the water as though it were solid.
"Nani yo?!" Hiei was distracted, crimson eyes snapping their attention to the oncomer. In the fraction of the time it would take a human to the same task, Hiei had unsheathed his katana and torn for the demon, slicing him in half and sending him to the depths of Shinbi. "Feh..." he breathed heavily, glancing back to his koi.
Though...Kurama wasn't alone. A shadow approached him from behind, manifesting slowly and silently...
"Kurama, move!!"
"Huh...?!" A whirring beside him spoke as clearly as Hiei had, sending Kurama to the ground as a katana sliced into the tree beside him. A few strands of Kurama's silky, crimson hair fell free of him, a result of the attack. "W-who..?" he managed to murmur.
"Keep him there Ran," a cruel voice spoke.
"Aa." A heavy foot stomped itself into Kurama's spine, earning a groan of pain from him. Kurama struggled to turn his head to the offender, grunting slightly in the process.
"Who.." he repeated, a demanding tone underlying his word.
"GET THE HELL OFF HIM!!" He heard Hiei yell harshly, fleeting toward them. He faltered, crimson eyes wide, as his eyes took hold of a smaller demon standing beside his larger comrade.
"Ah...Hiei. We meet at last..."
"You..." A smirk found his pale lips. "A kageoni as well? Come to get revenge for your weak race?" He followed with a cruel laugh.
"Hiei...what...?" Kurama tried to protest, only to have the foot dug deeper into his back. "Aahh!!"
"Weak...?" Akujin's voice became stern with anger. "You killed my people... you massacred them!"
"The weak must be eliminated," Hiei replied simply.
"Nani?!" Ran cried, deep voice aflame with anger and eyes wide. His fingers, thick with brawn and strength, clenched into his palm which he flung out to the offender.
The Forbidden Child seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving only an afterimage, as he zoomed around, katana ready...
Akujin fell back, dark eyes widened as he watched Ran torn into several pieces by Hiei's wielding, spilling his deep red blood everywhere, even onto his master's face in small droplets...
"Ran...?" he murmured.
Kurama pulled himself to his feet, sighing inwardly at his release and flicking away some of the shed liquid from Ran. His evergreen eyes widened as Akujin suddenly stood, unsheathing his own katana and rushing toward Hiei, only for the jaganshi to vanish again.
"Kuso...!" Akujin cussed. "DAMN YOU FORBIDDEN CHILD!!" He stepped back, glancing around frantically for his opponent...
...and eyes falling on Kurama.
Kurama braced himself, reaching into his pockets for a weapon, a rose, Death Seeds anything...but it had been two years since Kurama had fought any demon...
...he had nothing. Everything within him seemed to stop in his realization, he could only watch...
...as Akujin flung out his sword, tip facing Kurama's face, and began to run...his words barely filtering over the red head:
"If I can't kill him first the I'll kill you!!!"
He could only move.
"Uh...!" Hiei grunted, allowing himself to land. Crimson eyes watched Akujin carefully...
He was a kageoni, weak, but skillful in alertness and stealth...and his back was turned to the jaganshi. "Feh," Hiei managed before preparing to strike at him.
Kurama released a slow, shaky breath, hands trembling. The thick, warm blood ran in small streams down his wrist, staining his shirt, pale skin, and the silver blade held firmly between the two hands. He looked up slowly at the crimson haired demon before him...he was not frustrated this time...
He was grinning. Akujin flung down his head, short, messy hair flying with him, and released a breathy laugh.
"This is it."
"Na...ni?" Kurama couldn't comprehend anything anymore..he looked up to see Hiei bolting up to Akujin from behind...
...and he felt the blade being pulled roughly from his grasp, sending a small shower of blood everywhere.
It dawned upon him then.
"Hiei, don't come any closer!!" he shouted, as loud as he could, watching Akujin spin around rapidly, meeting Hiei's enraged glare...
It was quickly replaced by surprise...and pain.
With a loud "Ha!" from Akujin he whirled himself entirely around, sending his blade through Hiei's small waist, sending a spray of blood out. It met with the center of his stomach before Akujin pulled it out.
Hiei collapsed lifelessly to the barren ground.
Kurama could barely draw breath, barely focus his eyes...all he saw was the blood...
Hiei's blood...
"Heh..." Akujin breathed. He laughed cruelly, sending shivers down Kurama's spine, a laugh that echoed through the glistening black of the trees. With a pale hand he wiped off some of Hiei's own blood that had splattered over him, and licked it off almost lovingly. He approached the jaganshi, lifting his face up with the reddened katana. Hiei gasped painfully at the motion, whether from the pain of moving or the fresh cut the action inspired, Kurama didn't know. Akujin grinned heartlessly down, meeting a glare from Hiei.
"...afraid, Forbidden Child...?" Akujin muttered, grinning almost perversely. This...this was what he wanted. Hiei would suffer, would die...he would die with fear in his eyes...
Hiei merely grinned. "Fuck you."
Akujin's expression faded into anger. "Shut up..."
Kurama stood slowly, comprehending everything...Hiei was...Hiei was...
Hiei was going to die...
"SHUT UP!!" Akujin screamed, grabbing at Hiei's torn black shirt and lifting the smaller demon into the air. "It's all your fault!! ALL YOUR FAULT!! You killed them all!!" He reeled him back, then flung him out and released...
"DIE FORBIDDEN CHILD!!!"
Hiei soared through the air, blood trailing behind him, before softly falling back--
"HIEI!!" Kurama cried. Time was frozen, and he couldn't move.
The jaganshi shot him a soft smile, before crashing into the waters of the Shinbi, helpless.
"H-Hiei..." Kurama stammered. Hiei couldn't...
Hiei's crimson eyes struggled to stay open as the murky waters surrounded him, engulfing him. It was over. Everything was over. He had lost to the likes of a demon like Akujin.
Everything had ended...He was dying...the darkness seemed to kill his vision, save for the small ripples of sunshine from the other side...
And in the darkness, all he could see was Kurama...leaning into him..
Like that day two years ago... as he was huskily whispering to him...
-"Ai shiteru...Hiei..."-
'Gomen Kurama...I feared you. I feared your love...demons weren't supposed to love so I ran from you...but really...'
If only Kurama had known...that Hiei had left reluctantly...that when he found himself standing in the Makai...
Hiei cried...
Silent, seemingly emotionless tears had drifted down his cheeks, and he had wiped them away in embarassment. He was wrong. Everything was wrong..
But it was so right...
He never wanted to return. He never wanted to see Kurama again. Going back was to ask Kurama for forgiveness, which, even with two years alone, would have been given to him immediately. He didn't want forgiveness. Kurama should have hated him...! He should've hated him for walking away. For running away. But he still loved him...still wanted him...
Still needed him...
'Gomen...' he repeated, 'for taking so long...I...
I always wanted to come back...deep inside...I always wanted to return to you...because I love you...and I need you like you need me...'
He had waited too long...and it was over...
Water had surrounded him...but as he closed his eyes and imagined Kurama there, again, in front of him, holding him and kissing him...smiling so beautifully....
He felt the warm tears drifting down his cheeks...even in this lake of death...
If only Kurama knew how many times Hiei had cried for him.
His breath was fading in his chest. It hurt so much...it burned in him... His crimson eyes opened, gazing into the water...into the red blood clouding around him....
...red...just like Kurama's beautiful hair....
He reached a trembling hand out...as if to touch the silky substance, to touch Kurama again...to run his fingers through his soft hair, and cup his face into his hand...and feel Kurama lean into his touch, nuzzle him...to lean in himself and kiss him...
To see the happiness gleaming in Kurama's eyes, that had seemingly been lost over the two years they hadn't seen each other....the happiness Hiei caused...
His hand stayed in the air as this lovely vision passed through Hiei's mind...as he only sunk lower and lower...everything was fading as he did so.
Only one thought remained firmly planted within his head:
'Ai shiteru Kurama...so much...'
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A/N: I personally don't think that was really well written at the end there...but I'm still getting teary-eyed...at my own writing!! Argh!! ::hits herself:: I still can't believe that to this day I did this to Hiei. I love Hiei and I hurt him like this...I'M EVIL!!! ::cries and tries to kill herself:: Please review...the more reviews I recieve the faster the next chapter will come...if no one hurts me before then for what I did....ja...::hides under a rock::