NJ: Wow, I didn't think anyone would care enough to look at this fic, let
alone review it! Thank you so much everyone! Um, I think that I'll make
this three chapters but I'll try not to aid the killing off of the koorime
race any more. -
Disclaimer: ...I'm not rich...That says it all.
Yukina could hear raindrops pattering on the floor beside her and the thunder rolling outside of her window, but she dared not open her eyes just yet. The darkness was so comforting and her headache just kept getting worse. She tried to recall the events before her fall,
Flashback
As she reflected over the knife in her hand, dark raindrops splattered over her window pane and wind howled as it tugged at world and her window. The window's catch rattled, but she paid it no heed and set Hiei's box on the sill. She looked at it and sat down beside it, she apologized to Hiei before she laid the flat edge of the blade against her skin. The catch rattled again, allowing the window to move alarmingly far before swinging back into place, but yet again this didn't budge the girl. Yukina gave the knife a single twist before the catch gave out. The window swung open and caught the girl in the head causing her to fall to the floor before she could cut herself a second time. The box fell with her and released its treasure to lie alongside her. Water splattered beside her fallen form and created pools of pink were they had mixed with her blood. Thunder growled again and the lights flickered and died, casting the room into darkness. Lightening flashed and illuminated the room. It flashed again, illuminating the clock on the wall, the time read,
7:01
End flashback
Yukina finally opened her eyes and groaned,
'How long have I been out?' she asked herself and glanced at the wall clock,
7:35
She picked herself up and leant against a wall. Bloody imprints were left on the white and Yukina staggered blindly over to the door in search of a source of light,
"Ow!" She had stepped on something. She bent over and felt around for it until she found it. It was the knife she had used. It had snapped in half, presumably she fallen on it, causing the blade to break. Yukina stumbled around in the dark a bit more until she found the drawer where she kept the candles and matches. She lit a candle and almost died of fright when she saw her full length reflection in her mirror; her hair was tangled and splotched with red, her eyes were red from crying causing her to appear not to have any whites at all, her kimono was torn around her middle from what she assumed was where she had landed on the knife, not to mention the small tears from climbing the tree, she was soaked with pink rain water and her over all scared impression made her seem like a ghost of a bloody murder victim.
Yukina unclenched her right hand that was covered in dried blood from her wrist and gasped, Hiei's teargem! It was that moment that she realized something; Even if Hiei didn't love her, she still loved him! She had to go and find him, just to simply be in his presence. She couldn't die. Forgetting about her bedraggled, soaked appearance, the pouring rain and thunder, and the countless demons in the woods, Yukina threw herself out of the door and ran to where she knew Hiei would be. As she left the clock struck eight o' clock and chimed...
----Botan---
7: 38
Botan hesitated as she flew above the tree tops,
'Was it really such a good idea to leave Yukina in such a state?' Botan shook her head,
'What is done is done and cannot be undone.' She told herself and continued to search for Hiei. She had a bad feeling about him and Koenma was nervous.
Her oar jerked forward as she avoided a stroke of lightening and heard the thunder growl another warning at her. With the jerk her compact communicator slipped from her wet grasp and fell into the trees. She cursed loudly and dove after it. Flinging herself into the leaves she landed on a branch, and glanced around at her surroundings, trying to spot the small object. There! She saw it on a branch just above her own and swung up to it. She clambered onto the branch and smiled in triumph when she gripped the cool, wet oval and was about to take off again until she saw him. Hiei was on a branch opposite to hers and barely looked as if he was breathing. He was a mess and was clinging to the branch he was on, listening carefully to the sounds below him; he looked as if he was waiting for something.
"HIEI!" She called out and he glared at her in warning, Botan looked puzzled and hurt and flew across to him,
"Hiei?" She tried again, but Hiei covered her mouth with his working hand and nodded to below them where eight or nine of the regenerating beasts stood around sniffing and waiting for something. Hiei's attention was divided however, between the beasts and the lightening that seemed to be attracted to his presence.
"Damn it." Botan yelped as she was roughly shoved off the branch and followed by Hiei. Lightening struck the tree and the branch was reduced to cinders in seconds. The demons were startled but gave a hasty chase. Botan noticed that Hiei wasn't quite as fast as he should've been and hopped onto her oar, grabbing him by the sleeve and pulling him into the sky,
"ONNA! YOU ARE A FOOL! JUST WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Botan was taken aback to say the least,
"Huh? Listen, I just saved your life! I think I deserve a little more respect than that-" Hiei laughed cruelly,
"Onna, you can't land anywhere now that they can track us and you do realize you will now be further targeted by the lightening? " Lightening once again threatened to engulf the ferry girl and she once again avoided it, "You must put me down. They have threatened Yukina's life and I will not flee from them. I must fight them." Hiei left no room for argument and gave the oar a shove, causing it to take another nose dive while Botan tried to reclaim control. They crashed into a tree and Hiei leapt onto the ground in front of his pursuers,
"Hn. So be it."
---Yukina---
Yukina ran as fast as she could, the sounds of battle could be heard up ahead and she could feel Hiei's presence there. It was faint but it was still there. She ran past a few more trees and finally made it into the battle scene. Hiei was fighting restlessly against horrid, mangled beasts and Botan was the first to notice her.
"Yukina?! What are you...ungh...doing...gah...here?" Botan was currently hanging upside down from a tree branch and trying to release her kimono, however when any demons tried to whack her like a piñata, she would hit them with her baseball bat. Hiei took notice of her when Botan said 'Yukina'.
"Yukina..." he breathed, and the other youkai took notice of her as well. What appeared to be the captain, cackled insanely and crowed out to his comrades that still fought Hiei,
"Now we can kill both of them! Foolish girl to come out to the death that your brother has tried so hard to prevent. Now you must die as well!" Hiei darted in front of her and whispered to her,
"Yukina, I'm sorry. I have nothing to offer you except my life. Please forgive me." Yukina was stunned and hugged him from behind, before he could go to his death defending her,
"No!" she cried, teargems once again pouring forth, "You can't leave me! Not again! Please!" Hiei was struck with a few seconds of indecision, but Botan called out,
"Yukina, play cops and robbers!" Yukina looked up in puzzlement, until she understood what Botan was saying,
"FREEZE!" she cried out and the creatures turned into ice statues. Botan swung her bat hard at one of them beneath her swinging form and it shattered. Hiei smashed the rest of them with his sword and leant against a tree. Yukina ran forward and hugged him,
"Hiei, are you alright?"
"Hn."
"Good." The two koorimes passed out from exhaustion and most likely blood loss.
Botan sighed,
'Why is it always the ferry girl who has to pick up the pieces?' She hauled both of them onto her oar and flew to Rekai.
Owari...or is it?
NJ: Another chapter. sighs Well, I was thinking of finishing this off with an epilogue of some sort (which I already have in mind) What do you think? Don't forget to R&R. NO FLAMES DAMN IT! If you flame me or I don't get any reviews...evil grin ...then I'll kill off the koorime. Go. Now! The little purple box in the left bottom corner of the screen. Press it. Good. Now you have a window? Even better. Type in it. Done that? Now send it to me!
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Disclaimer: ...I'm not rich...That says it all.
Yukina could hear raindrops pattering on the floor beside her and the thunder rolling outside of her window, but she dared not open her eyes just yet. The darkness was so comforting and her headache just kept getting worse. She tried to recall the events before her fall,
Flashback
As she reflected over the knife in her hand, dark raindrops splattered over her window pane and wind howled as it tugged at world and her window. The window's catch rattled, but she paid it no heed and set Hiei's box on the sill. She looked at it and sat down beside it, she apologized to Hiei before she laid the flat edge of the blade against her skin. The catch rattled again, allowing the window to move alarmingly far before swinging back into place, but yet again this didn't budge the girl. Yukina gave the knife a single twist before the catch gave out. The window swung open and caught the girl in the head causing her to fall to the floor before she could cut herself a second time. The box fell with her and released its treasure to lie alongside her. Water splattered beside her fallen form and created pools of pink were they had mixed with her blood. Thunder growled again and the lights flickered and died, casting the room into darkness. Lightening flashed and illuminated the room. It flashed again, illuminating the clock on the wall, the time read,
7:01
End flashback
Yukina finally opened her eyes and groaned,
'How long have I been out?' she asked herself and glanced at the wall clock,
7:35
She picked herself up and leant against a wall. Bloody imprints were left on the white and Yukina staggered blindly over to the door in search of a source of light,
"Ow!" She had stepped on something. She bent over and felt around for it until she found it. It was the knife she had used. It had snapped in half, presumably she fallen on it, causing the blade to break. Yukina stumbled around in the dark a bit more until she found the drawer where she kept the candles and matches. She lit a candle and almost died of fright when she saw her full length reflection in her mirror; her hair was tangled and splotched with red, her eyes were red from crying causing her to appear not to have any whites at all, her kimono was torn around her middle from what she assumed was where she had landed on the knife, not to mention the small tears from climbing the tree, she was soaked with pink rain water and her over all scared impression made her seem like a ghost of a bloody murder victim.
Yukina unclenched her right hand that was covered in dried blood from her wrist and gasped, Hiei's teargem! It was that moment that she realized something; Even if Hiei didn't love her, she still loved him! She had to go and find him, just to simply be in his presence. She couldn't die. Forgetting about her bedraggled, soaked appearance, the pouring rain and thunder, and the countless demons in the woods, Yukina threw herself out of the door and ran to where she knew Hiei would be. As she left the clock struck eight o' clock and chimed...
----Botan---
7: 38
Botan hesitated as she flew above the tree tops,
'Was it really such a good idea to leave Yukina in such a state?' Botan shook her head,
'What is done is done and cannot be undone.' She told herself and continued to search for Hiei. She had a bad feeling about him and Koenma was nervous.
Her oar jerked forward as she avoided a stroke of lightening and heard the thunder growl another warning at her. With the jerk her compact communicator slipped from her wet grasp and fell into the trees. She cursed loudly and dove after it. Flinging herself into the leaves she landed on a branch, and glanced around at her surroundings, trying to spot the small object. There! She saw it on a branch just above her own and swung up to it. She clambered onto the branch and smiled in triumph when she gripped the cool, wet oval and was about to take off again until she saw him. Hiei was on a branch opposite to hers and barely looked as if he was breathing. He was a mess and was clinging to the branch he was on, listening carefully to the sounds below him; he looked as if he was waiting for something.
"HIEI!" She called out and he glared at her in warning, Botan looked puzzled and hurt and flew across to him,
"Hiei?" She tried again, but Hiei covered her mouth with his working hand and nodded to below them where eight or nine of the regenerating beasts stood around sniffing and waiting for something. Hiei's attention was divided however, between the beasts and the lightening that seemed to be attracted to his presence.
"Damn it." Botan yelped as she was roughly shoved off the branch and followed by Hiei. Lightening struck the tree and the branch was reduced to cinders in seconds. The demons were startled but gave a hasty chase. Botan noticed that Hiei wasn't quite as fast as he should've been and hopped onto her oar, grabbing him by the sleeve and pulling him into the sky,
"ONNA! YOU ARE A FOOL! JUST WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Botan was taken aback to say the least,
"Huh? Listen, I just saved your life! I think I deserve a little more respect than that-" Hiei laughed cruelly,
"Onna, you can't land anywhere now that they can track us and you do realize you will now be further targeted by the lightening? " Lightening once again threatened to engulf the ferry girl and she once again avoided it, "You must put me down. They have threatened Yukina's life and I will not flee from them. I must fight them." Hiei left no room for argument and gave the oar a shove, causing it to take another nose dive while Botan tried to reclaim control. They crashed into a tree and Hiei leapt onto the ground in front of his pursuers,
"Hn. So be it."
---Yukina---
Yukina ran as fast as she could, the sounds of battle could be heard up ahead and she could feel Hiei's presence there. It was faint but it was still there. She ran past a few more trees and finally made it into the battle scene. Hiei was fighting restlessly against horrid, mangled beasts and Botan was the first to notice her.
"Yukina?! What are you...ungh...doing...gah...here?" Botan was currently hanging upside down from a tree branch and trying to release her kimono, however when any demons tried to whack her like a piñata, she would hit them with her baseball bat. Hiei took notice of her when Botan said 'Yukina'.
"Yukina..." he breathed, and the other youkai took notice of her as well. What appeared to be the captain, cackled insanely and crowed out to his comrades that still fought Hiei,
"Now we can kill both of them! Foolish girl to come out to the death that your brother has tried so hard to prevent. Now you must die as well!" Hiei darted in front of her and whispered to her,
"Yukina, I'm sorry. I have nothing to offer you except my life. Please forgive me." Yukina was stunned and hugged him from behind, before he could go to his death defending her,
"No!" she cried, teargems once again pouring forth, "You can't leave me! Not again! Please!" Hiei was struck with a few seconds of indecision, but Botan called out,
"Yukina, play cops and robbers!" Yukina looked up in puzzlement, until she understood what Botan was saying,
"FREEZE!" she cried out and the creatures turned into ice statues. Botan swung her bat hard at one of them beneath her swinging form and it shattered. Hiei smashed the rest of them with his sword and leant against a tree. Yukina ran forward and hugged him,
"Hiei, are you alright?"
"Hn."
"Good." The two koorimes passed out from exhaustion and most likely blood loss.
Botan sighed,
'Why is it always the ferry girl who has to pick up the pieces?' She hauled both of them onto her oar and flew to Rekai.
Owari...or is it?
NJ: Another chapter. sighs Well, I was thinking of finishing this off with an epilogue of some sort (which I already have in mind) What do you think? Don't forget to R&R. NO FLAMES DAMN IT! If you flame me or I don't get any reviews...evil grin ...then I'll kill off the koorime. Go. Now! The little purple box in the left bottom corner of the screen. Press it. Good. Now you have a window? Even better. Type in it. Done that? Now send it to me!
GO AND REVIEW!