Catse: Well, this is the last chapter I have finished so far. I'm already at work on number nine. Oh well...enjoy!
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Disclaimer: I don't own YYH but someday, if I wish a lot, I just might get a chance to see them for reals (yeah right...but I can wish right?)
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The next few days were strange...
They both seemed to try to avoid the other, yet every afternoon they met in the garden for Sword Dancing lessons.
By now, Hiei knew three dance routines, one, three, and four.
Suta still tried to teach him number two, but he didn't think it was interesting.
He wanted to see what a number twelve or thirteen dance routine was like.
She had talked much of her mother's expertise in the fast sort of dance, to where she could use a Flaming Sword on the number thirteen as well.
Several times, she let him hear the kind of music one would have to dance to, and Hiei was surprised by how fast the song played and how many beats combined into such a long song.
Finally, one afternoon, Hiei requested that she show him what she could of a expert routine. A
t first she seemed against the idea, but upon finding the extreme sense of curiousity in his eyes over the whole thing, she figured it couldn't hurt.
She took a stance in the middle of the field, standing up as strait as she could, with the swords held horizontally and parallel in front of her face(=).
The music started as the last one he had seen her dance to had, slowly with a beautiful voice singing in the foreground.
As the music played, she slowly shifted her feet around on the ground, her eyes closed, and her swords switching into an X instead of an equal sign (=) over her head.
Then, with a single beat on the drums, the music quickened to an alarming rate.
Her feet moved extremely fast, as if it were impossible to catch her feet in one position for even a tenth of a second. The swords whistled as they spun, first over her head together, and then at either sides as she danced.
Then came what she called the most difficult part of all routines.
The music got even faster, and she spent the entire area tossing swords in the air and catching them during the moves with the other hand, and then tossing them around in front of her body, behind her body, as she constantly moved around.
Her feet shifted faster, her body twirled with the music, and her hair tossed around like a wild creature with it's own life to spare.
She moved faster than Hiei thought he could, and every time she swung her sword, it came close to cutting off an ear or her nose even.
About halfway through the song, she had to stop and hold her neck.
Even though it had been a few days since she was attacked, the wound would still open with too much movement.
Hiei immediately stood to take a good look at the wound, and found that it was only open a little bit, just enough to send a few droplets through the gauze.
She needed to get it freshly bandaged, and so Hiei jumped up to her room to find the gauze for the job and replaced the old patch with fresh. The entire time, Suta looked away, as if afraid to look Hiei in the eye.
When it was finished, Suta thanked him on his work and sat under one of the trees in the garden, holding her knees in her arms.
Hiei sat next to her, wondering what it was she was thinking about.
"Hiei?"
"Yes."
"What ever happened to your family?"
There was silence for a moment. Instead of answering, Hiei leapt up into the tree above her.
"Hiei?"
"My parents hated me. They threw me over a cliff after I was born with no care whatsoever if I lived or died."
There was silence once more.
"I'm sorry Hiei...I never thought...Well...do you have any siblings. You know...a brother or sister that you know of? I'm just curious."
Well...Hiei could tell her that he had a sister...Yukina...
But he didn't want her knowing...
No doubt she would think him an idiot for not telling Yukina who her brother was, and with disregard to him, go and tell her anyways.
He didn't want that to happen.
He didn't want Yukina to know what kind of a cruel heartless brother she had...and how he had kept the secret from her for so long.
"Hiei?"
"No."
"Oh...You know...I was supposed to have a little brother right about now..." She chuckled sadly, reviewing her memories.
"What happened?" Hiei asked, slipping down beside her now that he was more comfortable.
"He was born with a disease that couldn't be cured...and so he died in the hospital the very same day. I never even got to see him. I was too young at the time. But I do wish he had lived...I'd still have purpose in my life now...But then again, with everything trying to kill me, he probably would have died with gramps."
Another tear fell from her eye.
"Hiei. If there is ever a chance you find anyone you truly care for, but you never tell them, please do it. Don't leave them in the dark if you die...because then they may find out when you're gone, and be left living a life of emptiness. That happened to me when my parents died. They never were really there to take care of me. I was always fending for myself. Mother only stayed around long enough to teach me dances, and then she was gone with my father again. I don't even remember what my father looks like anymore it's been so long. They never acknowledged that they loved me, and then the died and left me here." Soft sobs ended her conversation, and Hiei almost pitied her.
"Suta...Don't cry." Hiei told her sternly, but with care.
He pulled her into his embrace to try to comfort her.
That speech had got him to thinking.
What if he did die?
He would have never told Yukina that he was her brother...and...and Suta...she would be left in the dark again.
It was settled.
He had been far too selfish this past time when Yukina had come so far to find him, and had given up almost everything she had just for him...and yet he denied her the only thing she wanted in return...a brother.
Hiei hadn't even realized that Suta had fallen asleep on his chest by the time he left his thoughts.
Her hands were so gentle on his chest and her soft breaths showed that she was comfortable.
He didn't want to move, lest he wake her, but he figured she'd be more comfortable in her own bed.
She was such a deep sleeper, that she didn't wake up when Hiei lifted her off the ground and took her to her room through the window.
Once she was in bed, with the sheets covering her body, Hiei left to find his sister.
She was where she usually was these days, living at Genkai's temple in the woods near Tokyo, where she hoped her brother might find her.
She had no idea.
Of course, when he got there, he was displeased in finding that stupid human Kuwabara with his sister, hugging and holding hands, both of them blushing uncontrollably.
They looked like idiots...or at least one of them did...
"Yukina my love!" Kuwabara constantly chorused to her, telling her about how school was and asking how lonely she was here and what they might be able to do together in the next weekend when they had time.
Hiei sat in the tree and watched them, disgusted.
If love was always this gaudy, he wanted nothing of it.
Finally the spirit detective left, leaving Yukina alone for the night.
Once she had walked back into her room, Hiei followed and entered through the window.
She seemed only slightly surprised that he was there, for she had sensed him close by.
Hiei had wanted her to, so he hadn't thought to shield his energy.
Plus, Kuwabara had been in such a frenzy with her, he hadn't noticed the energy nearby, so he wouldn't get caught.
"Oh...Hiei. What are you doing here at this time of night?" Yukina asked sweetly, setting a kettle on a small fire in the middle of the room.
The smell it produced told him she was brewing tea.
"I came...to talk to you..." Hiei mumbled, sitting on the window sill.
He had dreaded this moment for a long time.
For one...he wasn't sure how she was going to react (he didn't like being kept in the dark when it came to feelings) and two...well...he wasn't sure how he'd react to having an actual sister.
"Yes?" She asked, pulling a couple of tea cups from her cupboard.
There were small and pearly white, with the decoration of cranes on the side in light blue.
"..um...Yukina...I...I...I am...I'm you're brother." He mumbled to her, blushing.
Why blush?
Of all emotions in this world...did he have to blush?!
"Oh...you're my brother?"
Hiei nodded, glancing at the floor so he wouldn't have to see her expression.
He wasn't expecting how she would reply.
"I kind of figured as much. I was just waiting for you to tell me in person."
"Eh?" It wasn't the reply he had expected, nor had he prepared for it.
"Well think about it. Ever since I appeared you've always been there to keep me out of trouble. Plus, we both are about the same size when it comes to height, and we both have red eyes. See?" She pointed to her eyes as if to add reference.
Hiei sighed.
Why hadn't he thought of matching it up like that?
As it was, they both had a lot in common, not to mention that their tears fell and formed crystals before hitting the ground.
Well it was done...
He had told her...
It was finished...
Yukina now knew who her brother was, even if she had suspected before, and now he had no more secrets to hide.
But before he could leave, Yukina had jumped up and hugged him, crying into his chest.
What was it about girls crying on him?
What was it about him that everyone wanted his comfort?
Hiei's expression would have made Yukina laugh if she had bothered to look up, but right now she was far too happy at having achieved her dream.
Hiei found himself hugging her back, and smiled as the tears clacked on the floor around them...both hers and his...Only there were only a few of his...and a lot of hers...
There, he had told her.
Now he had nothing to hide.
Well...except for the way he had lived his life...but that could wait for another day.
They sat like that for a while...before Yukina had to break away to take the tea off the fire.
Then she offered Hiei a cup, and out of politeness, he took it.
Hiei wasn't one to be polite...that was Kurama's nature.
But this was his sister they were talking about...not just some other demon he was dealing with. He had to be polite.
After all...she was too most of the time, even to those that didn't seem worthy of even a look in their direction.
That was it...
It was done. Hiei spent most of the night talking with her, but then as dawn came and she grew tired, he let her go to sleep and left in order to find rest himself.
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Catse: There, wasn't that all just cute. I promise there will be some more funny stuff in the next chapter to keep the readers busy. I thought I was getting a little too emotional with everything, so I had to work up something new. The next chapter is only partially complete (I still have a few things to fix) but this one is the last for now. Ja Ne until next time!