Chapter 4: Visions
Later that night, Silver sat on her bed with her eyes closed and her legs dangling off the side of the bed. Hiei was sitting in a nearby tree outside his window, taking a nap.
That's when she went to work.
Silver opened her eyes and they started to glow a sky blue color. Then she received visions of the fire youkai's past and the present. One of them had Crystal in it. Silver was shocked at what she saw and immediately stopped the vision. Satisfied with her work, she laid down on the bed and went to sleep.
The next morning, Silver heard what the ningens had called an alarm clock going off. She looked up at it, and threw it at the wall. It smashed into tiny pieces on the floor. Satisfied, Silver turned over and tried to go back to sleep. That was when Crystal barged through the door.
"Would you wake up! Come on Kurama is waiting for you downstairs!"
Crystal yelled in her sister's ears. Silver woke up with a start.
"Alright, alright, alright. I'll be right down." She said, "Sheesh, a girl can't get any sleep around here can she."
Silver selected her clothes for the day; a blood red tank top with a black dragon in the center and a black skirt, and boots. She brushed her hair hurriedly and sped off down the hallway with Crystal behind her. There, they met up with Hiei and Kurama in the den.
"So, what is it this time." Silver asked.
Unexpectedly, Kurama grabbed Silver and Hiei grabbed Crystal. They both went into separate rooms.
"What's the big idea?" Crystal said, angry with them for waking them up so early for only this. Hiei edged over to where Crystal was sitting
on the bed.
Time froze again. It was Silver, trying to talk to Crystal.
Oh, I forgot to mention this but, Hiei has a thing for you as well. Forgot to mention it.
Silver giggled at what she had just said. But it wasn't that funny.
That could have been useful information ya know.
Crystal sounded aggravated.
Well you rushed me out of bed, so you disserve it.
Silver shot back. That ended the connection and they both came back to reality.
Suddenly, Crystal knew what he was going to do. When she looked
in his direction, his lips pressed lightly against Crystal's. She
didn't know how to explain it, but somehow she could explain it perfectly. It sent chills down her spine but yet it felt innocent. After a minute or two he broke away from it. Crystal blushed a dark crimson and looked away.
Mean while, in Kurama's room, Kurama held Silver close to him, embracing her tightly as though if he were to let go, he would lose her forever. Their faces came close together, then, their lips met.
Instinctively, she rapped her hands around his neck and he responded by snaking his arms around her waist. At that moment, everything didn't matter to Silver anymore, all the sadness and fear and pain that she had in her heart was gone. It vanished almost completely. After a minute, they both broke away. Kurama blushed a light red and sat down on his bed. Silver sat down after him. She looked into his eyes, they were full of confusion and sadness.
"What's wrong Kurama?" Silver was confused.
"I'm not sure that I understand myself." He said closing his eyes.
And with that, Silver sat up and walked out of the room leaving Kurama alone to think.
He was confused to why he felt this way about her.
In Hiei's room, Crystal smiled at Hiei wondering why he had kissed
her.
"Hiei, why did you do that?" Crystal asked him, in a soft voice as though to calm him. He looked up at her and their eyes met in a gaze. He didn't reply. So Crystal stood up and left the room, giving Hiei some alone time to think about what he was doing.
He too was confused to why he felt a strange feeling when he was around the wolf demon.
(Please try to remember that this is going on at the same time.)
Silver and Crystal met in the den at the same time. Both of them had an embarrassed look on their face.
"So, what happened?" Crystal already knew the answer but felt like asking just for the heck of it. And because she didn't like silence that much.
"Sorry, I don't kiss and tell."
Crystal knew what her sister was getting at.
"Hey, it's not like you're the only one who got kissed. But tell mewhat happened, and I'll tell you what happened to me."
Crystal had a grin on her face but it didn't reach her sisters eyes.
"Okay, after we got dragged into their rooms; or where ever we were;
he plopped me down on the bed. From there, he kissed me for about a minute or two. There, ya happy?" Silver said looking over at Crystal and then smiled.
"And what happened to you?"
Now it was her turn to smile.
"After I got dragged in to the room, he held me pretty tightly, and we kissed. Simple enough. But afterward, it seemed like there was something wrong, I looked into his eyes and I saw confusion. What do think about it?"
"Well, I saw the same thing in Kurama's eyes. That's just strange.
Let's give them a little time to figure this out." Silver paused for a
second so nobody would hear what she was saying except Crystal.
"We might have to dump them sooner or later. 'Cause if we don't, they might find out our little secret. And I know that you don't want that to happen."
Crystal nodded but didn't answer.
They both went up into their rooms. Everything looked the same in, except that now half the room was painted red and the other was painted black.
Silver's was purple and black.
Weapons lined the walls from top to bottom and the bed came out from the wall to the center of the room. The TV was just across from the bed and you had two beanbag chairs to the right of the bed. Next to the TV was a desk that had a computer on top. To the left of the bed and next to the door was a dresser that had all kinds of jewelry on it. To the right of the dresser there was a walk-through closet. A door next to the bed linked both the identical rooms.
Silver sat on the bed and rested her head on the pillows.
"Want to go for a walk?" she asked.
Crystal's eyes shone as the sun's rays hit them.
"Why not."
Silver got off the bed and they both jumped out of the window
(Good thing you were only on the first floor).
They walked into the woods to a quiet spot by a large meadow.
They sat under a large oak tree, and Silver started to hum a tune that she had heard on the radio when they were young.
"What are you singing?" Crystal asked.
"It's tune on the radio that I heard when I was young. Want me to
sing the words?"
"Okay." Crystal was smiling now. She liked it when her sister would sing for her. Silver had a beautiful voice.
She began to sing, hitting all the notes perfectly.
In about an hour,
the sunlight is gonna fade.
You and me
will divvy up the wine.
Like everything else here,
yours and mine.
Pickin' up the paper,
coffees been made,
it's book review,
and face the nation time.
Two in the same mind,
yours and mine.
Silver smiled at Crystal and she smiled back.
"That's a nice song," she said "What's it's name?"
"It's called Yours and Mine, by Fountains of Wayne."
(I chose this song because it was short).
"Wanna sing a song that we both know?"
Silver nodded.
"Lets see, do you know, I'd Rather Be In Love?"
Silver gasped at her question,
"Of course I do, who doesn't? I call head singer! You could be my back-up singer."
Crystal made a face, then softened, and nodded.
Silver started singing the song.
Though, they were unaware that there were two pairs of eyes staring at the both of them from high up in the tree.
I can not help it,
I couldn't stop it if I tried.
It's the same old heartbeat
Is a young teenness have inside,
And to prove it,
You can't fight love so why am I complaining.
Cause why would I stop the fight that keeps me goin' on.
(Pause/music)
Chorus:
Cause when there's you,
I feel whole,
and there is no better feeling in the world.
But without you,
I'm alone,
and I'd rather be in love,
with you.
Turn out the lights now,
To see is to believe.
I just want you near me,
I just want you here with me.
And I'd give up everything only for you,
It's the least I could do.
(Pause/music)
Chorus:
Cause when there's you,
I feel whole,
And there is no better feeling in the world.
But without you,
I'm alone,
And I'd rather be in love,
with you.
(Pause/music)
And I feel you holdin' me.
(Pause/music)
Why are we afraid to be in love?
To be loved,
I can't explain,
I know it's tough,
To be loved.
And I feel you holdin' me.
Chorus
Silver ended the song perfectly without any hesitation. She sighed and looked up at the clear sky. The creatures in the tree jumped out and landed behind her.
She was startled to see that Hiei and Kurama were behind them.
Silver blushed a light red and looked away.
"We heard your singing. It was very beautiful." The blush darkened
and Kurama scooped Silver into his arms; as did Hiei to Crystal. Silver held tightly in his embrace and he kissed you on the cheek.
"You were talking about us weren't you." Kurama smiled at the two
blushing girls.
"Well, who else would we be talking about?" Crystal said, giggled at their question, and hugged Hiei.
"Let's go back, I bet the others are getting worried about us." Hiei
suggested, coolly.
was standing outside with her arms crossed across her chest.
"Where have you been? Did you forget that training started this
afternoon?" Genkai noticed the girls and smirked. "You're a few
minutes late, but it doesn't mater that much. Kuwabara and Yusuke are still fighting. I need to test Silver's and Crystal's powers. After
this battle, Hiei, you will go up against Silver, and Kurama will go
against Crystal."
Genkai stopped at the battleground that was torn in half. Yusuke
punched Kuwabara in the face and knocked him to the ground. Kuwabara flipped up and tried kicking Yusuke in the stomach and it worked. Then, to end the battle, he used his spirit sword and held it up to his throat. Yusuke had come prepared for this; he knocked the spirit sword out of Kuwabara's hand held his finger at Kuwabara's throat.
"The match is over, Yusuke is the victor. The next battle will be
Hiei against Silver. Hiei you will test for her speed." Genkai looked
at both of them, and they entered the ring.
"Begin!"
Hiei drew his katana and Silver summoned a wind sword (since she's part wind demon). Hiei attacked first. He lashed at her with his
katana but Silver stepped to the side, gracefully. In less than a blink of an eye she was gone and appeared right behind Hiei. He expected this and blocked her attack with his katana. Then Silver disappeared again, he didn't expect your reflexes to be so quick, and he tried to sense your spirit energy. Nothing.
Silver suddenly came flying out of the tree next to the arena and kicked Hiei in the stomach. He was shocked, and didn't have time to block or dodge. He landed head first in the rocks making a small crater. He sat up slowly only to see your sword at his throat.
"This battle is over. Silver is the victor." She smiled and removed
the sword from Hiei's chin and walked off the battleground He exited the ground as well.
"You finally got beaten Hiei." Yusuke was trying to make a joke
out of the moment but seemed to be failing at it. Hiei growled.
Silver appeared behind Hiei with her hand out towards in him.
"Good battle." Hiei cringed.
"Hiei are you okay?"
That did it.
"Am I okay?" He said voice cold and threatening "I was beaten by a weaker youkai than me! Not to mention that this particular youkai is a girl!" Hiei grabbed her wrist and bent it back, throwing Silver onto the ground. CRACK!
She winced in pain as she clutched her arm.
"Silver!" Kurama ran over to her and held her arm, gently "It's broken."
Yusuke and Kuwabara held Hiei in an arm lock, so as he couldn't do any more damage. Hiei calmed down a bit, and Yusuke and Kuwabara let go of him.
"Hiei, what is wrong with you!?!" Kurama yelled. Hiei didn't answer and turned toward the door and walked up to his room.
'Why did I do that? I must've let my demonic instincts take over again. What am I going to tell Silver? She isn't going to like me anymore, that's for sure.'
Outside, Kurama had just finished bandaging Silvers arm.
"Thanks Kurama." She said. Kurama looked at her and smiled.
"I wonder what caused Hiei to do that." He wondered aloud. Then he shrugged. "Come, let's go inside and rest." Kurama led Silver inside and Kuwabara and Yusuke followed.
"I better go talk to Hiei, just to make sure he's okay." Kurama said. Silver nodded and said "I'll be in my room if you need me."
The both of them left in different directions down the hallway.
Lying on the bed, Silver put her face to the pillow and cried two tears, which turned into two black tear gems with a purple flame in the middle. She picked them up and hid them under the pillow; she didn't want Kurama to see her crying.
"Silver! Crystal! Dinner!" a voice called down the hallway. Silver got up and walked down stairs and sat down for dinner
------------ After dinner ---------
"Thank you Yukina, it was really delicious."
Yukina smiled and went into the den. Silver however, went upstairs to visit Crystal in her room. As she was walking up the stairs, she wondered
'why did Hiei do that? Does he not like me?' she paused at a corner 'I think I'll go ask him later.' She though and walked off down the hall.
Silver knocked on Crystal's door.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.
Crystal came running to the door. "Oh, hi Silver. What's up?"
Her face was a red color, and when you looked in the room, guess who was there. None other than Hiei himself.
"Uh. Never mind." She said bitterly. And walked slowly away from
Crystal's room. When she turned the corner and was out of sight,
Silver ran to her room and cried into her bed. Slowly she fell into a
peaceful sleep.
That was when Kurama came in; he saw the tear gems on the bed. They were scattered everywhere; there were just enough for him to notice.
When he looked at Silver, he frowned to see that the tear gems came from her. He kissed her forehead and walked out of the room with a tear gem in his hand.
"Hey Yusuke. Do you know what kind of demon makes these?" Kurama asked him. Yusuke shook his head.
Kurama thought to himself 'then who, or what kind of thing makes
these? Silver and Crystal are hiding something and I want to know
what.' He asked himself, looking off in another direction 'I'll ask her about this in the morning.'
Chapter 4: A Secret Revealed
"AHHHHHHHH!" Silver almost lost her balance, as Kuwabara popped up in front of her beginning another one of his love speeches, and she walked back a few steps to regain herself. "WILL YOU QUIT IT!" Silver charged at him and waked him in the back of the head knocking him unconscious.
Everyone stared, but Silver just sneered. She and Kurama took their
seats at the table.
Kuwabara woke up as soon as smelled the pancakes on the table, and came rushing over.
Silver watched Yusuke and Kuwabara scuffing down all the food. You made a face.
'That is just disgusting. They can't even address a lady at the table without some of the food dripping down their faces.' She thought.
'Honestly, I'd rather not eat then sit at the table with those two
chijins.'
----After breakfast----
"I'm going upstairs to my room. Thank you for the breakfast Yukina.
It was really good." Silver said, and walked up the stairs and down the hallway to her room. She found her new CD player and popped in the CD called
'Forgiven, Not Forgotten'. She flipped to the song named after the CD. She sang it out perfectly. Then she thought to herself
'I want to go sit on the roof.'
She leapt out the window into a nearby tree and climbed the branches until she reached the top. Then hopped onto the
roof.
Running across the rugged stone, she reached the end the faced her window and sat down at the top of a ridge and let her legs dangle on
the sloop at the edge of the roof.
(The roof looks like a Chinese temple roof.).
Silver sang the song had just ended and she flipped to another. It was a song called Closer. She also sang this song out loud but softer, so no one would hear.
Verse 1:
I see you,
walking everyday.
with a smile beneath a frown,
but I won't ever look away.
What does it mean.
What's there to see,
Chorus:
if I look closer.
Closer,
closer,
closer.
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer.
Verse 2:
Where are you going,
and what are you thinking at all.
Your eyes show nothing more
than a day's oblivion.
What does it mean.
What's there to see,
Chorus:
When I look closer.
Closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer.
Verse 3:
You don't see me,
watching everyday,
my smile could warm your frown,
and I'd never look away.
There's more to me,
Than what you see,
Chorus:
When I look closer.
Closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer,
closer
Closer, closer, no no.
And that ended the song.
Of course, one can't let a beautiful voice be unheard, and Kurama went to investigate it. Surprisingly he heard that voice coming from Silver. He jumped from tree to tree listening to her singing. Now the wolf demon was singing a song called 'Love to Love You'. Silver stopped singing having sensed some one's presence and had heard some rustling in the trees.
Something jumped behind her. Silver looked, only to see Kurama. She blushed a light pink and tilted her head was down so that he wouldn't notice. Kurama just smiled and picked her up bridal-style and darted into the forest. Silver didn't say anything, not wanting to ruin the moment, she wanted to see where he was taking her.
After a while of running, they came to a sapphire blue lake. Forest
surrounded its side and multicolored fish swam in the lake's
clear water.
"It's so beautiful." Silver said, taking in the landscape "Thank you Kurama, for bringing me here." Silver looked up at him and noticed that he was staring down at her. Though no reply came from Kurama, he brought you up into a sitting position and held you close to him. Your lips met lightly and he broke off as soon as he had started. Then he whispered something in your ear "J'adore toi, Silver."
(That's French for I love you. Add aussi to the end and it becomes I love you too.)
"J'adore toi aussi, Kurama." Silver replied quietly.
At the Temple:
Crystal was getting ready for a walk in the forest when she noticed a
pair of crimson red eyes staring right at her.
"Hi Hiei." She smiled and walked over to where he was standing.
Without warning he scooped up Crystal and jumped out the window and ran the opposite direction that Kurama had gone.
They stopped in the middle of the forest, not to far away from
Genkai's Temple but not to close either.
"Hiei, are you okay?" Hiei only smiled (which was a once in a life
time thing for him). He had no idea why he loved Crystal but it felt
right, to him at least. He kissed her on the cheek.
"Hiei, we should get back. We don't want the others to get any funny
ideas." Crystal smiled at Hiei and he smiled back and nodded at her
statement. It was true, if they didn't get back, he or Crystal would
never hear the end of it. Not to mention the others wanting him to
tell them everything.
Hiei got up and picked up Crystal bridal-style and walked back to the
temple; he didn't want to rush when he was with her.
With Kurama:
"I think we should head back, the guys must be worried about us." He said.
Silver nodded allowing Kurama to carry her back to the temple. He didn't walk fast, but not too slow either. He wanted to spend more private time with Silver; she obviously recognized it and held her
hands tighter around his neck as he carried her.
Once he reached the temple he carefully jumped though the window and laid Silver gently on the bed.
"Silver, did you make these tear gems?" Kurama brought out the tear
gem he had in his right pocket.
"Uh... no I didn't." Silver said, and looked away from him to try and cover up, but he saw through her little lie. He grabbed her waist and held it and spun Silver around forcing you to face him.
"Tell me the truth, did you make these? I won't let you go unless you
tell me the truth."
"Mmmm. Yes, I did make those." Silver looked at the perfectly shaped tear gem that Kurama had in his hand. Her eyes followed the outline of a wolf on the silver tear gem and then looked at Kurama.
"Why?" he asked softly.
"It was just the pain in my arm."
Kurama looked concerned and realized that Hiei caused her to cry.
'I better talk to Hiei and see what came over him.' He though.
Kurama let go of Silver and walked out the door silently leaving her alone once again. Though it was already afternoon, their training didn't start till tomorrow.
'I'm gonna skip dinner tonight,' Silver though 'I'm not that hungry and I think me and Crystal need to have a little chat'.
She exited her room and walked up the corridor, and knocked on Crystal's door.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.
You hoped she was not with Hiei at the moment.
Crystal answered "Hi Silver is something wrong?" Without answering
back, Silver grabbed her sisters' arm and pulled her into the forest to
where Kurama had taken her.
"Hey, what's the big idea!?!" Crystal said, catching her breath from
trying to keep up with her sister's speed.
"Listen, we need to talk now." Silver said in a cold and harsh
voice. "It's about the guys, I don't think it right to date them.
Though I do love them, I just don't think it's right." She didn't look at
Crystal until after she finished her sentence.
"I know what you mean," she replied "Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem right to me either. Though we're going to have to break the news to them sometime, and just think how sad they'll be when they hear it. And besides, we already told them that we love them, it would be fair to just dump them right out of the blue."
"Let's do it tonight, we'll break it them tonight, when we go to
bed."
Their eyes were full of tears but they didn't cry any for the
fear of the boys finding out and they were going to be forced to tell
them.
They headed back silently, not a word or sound was heard from them. When the two sisters reached the temple, they realized that it was getting late and they hurried up to their rooms.
---At dinner---
Yusuke and Kuwabara were chugging down food as usual. Making a huge mess all around them and fighting over everything. Kurama was calmly eating his trying but failing to ignore the two dimwits across the
table.
"HEY! I called that last piece of chicken you moron!" Yusuke yelled trying to pry it out of Kuwabara's hands put he wouldn't let go.
"Well, to bad Urameshi! It's mine now and you can't have it!"
Kuwabara stuck his tongue out at Yusuke and grinned at is victory.
Hiei just shook his head and rolled his eyes at them.
Wanting to change the subject he butted in and said, "Have you guys
seen Silver or Crystal?" Hiei said, realizing that they had been gone for a long time, and looked at Kurama with a concerned face
(That's a new accomplishment, hurray for Hiei!!! Hiei: Shut Up!).
"They can take care of themselves, they're demons after all." Yusuke reassured him.
"I'm going to head upstairs. I'm a tired." Kurama said. Without another word he stood up and walked upstairs to his bedroom. Little did he know what was going to happen. He saw Silver heading his way and he stopped walking.
"Kurama, can I talk to you?" Her voice was low and unhappy and her head was facing the ground.
"Sure." He let her into his room and she sat down on the bed next to
him.
"Now, what did you want to talk to me about?" He looked at Silver
with curiosity and concern.
"Well. I know that you aren't going to like this but I'm afraid that
we cannot be together anymore." Silver said sadly "I'm not saying that we shouldn't be friends, but I just don't think that it is right to love you."
Silver looked down at her feet not wanting to see the sorrow in Kurama's eyes.
Kurama wanted to cry with all the tears that he had in his eyes,
but he couldn't find the courage to do so. He knew that if he cried it would hurt even more.
"Kurama I-"
"JUST GO AWAY! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH ALREADY!" Kurama said, closing his eyes.
Without another word Silver slipped out of his room silently. Once she was out of his room, she ran to her room crying into her bed knowing that she would never be able to talk to Kurama again.
Hiei was going upstairs when he noticed that Crystal was at the end
of the stairway.
"Hiei can I talk to you in your room for a minute?" Crystal's voice
was sheepish and quiet, that told Hiei that something was wrong.
The only question is what? He nodded and they walked to where Hiei's room was.
They went in, closed the door, and sat on the bed.
"What did you want to talk about?" Hiei was concerned now because she wasn't looking at him like she usually did when talking to
him. "What's wrong?"
"I know this is going to be hard for me and it's going to be worse
for you. I- I don't know if I can love you anymore. It just doesn't
seem right to me. I'm sorry Hiei." tears welled up in his eyes, but didn't cry.
Crystal got up and touched Hiei's shoulder. He just shook it off and sat on the windowsill and stared out into space.
Crystal walked out of the room and ran straight to Silver's room thinking that she had better luck, than her and Hiei.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.
Silver came running to the door thinking it was Kurama.
"Can I come in?" Silver nodded as she cried tears that turned
into silver tear gems.
Crystal was crying as well
(hers were more of a pure white than silver; but the gems both had the face of a wolf carved on it).
Crystal ran and hugged her sister, though she didn't like being hugged that much, she hugged her back just as tightly. It was
the only thing to comfort them at the moment.
"We shouldn't have done that, and for that, we should go. We will
never come back here again lest we break their hearts once more.
We'll leave tonight under the cover of darkness; hopefully the moon
won't shine as brightly tonight." Crystal sobbed. Silver, tears were still rolling down her cheeks, she couldn't hold them in any longer even though she knew crying was a sign of weakness.
That night came quicker than they ever planned. It was dark and foggy outside, a perfect night for running away. Though the moon was bright, it wasn't bright enough to see through the trees.
'Perfect.'
Silver thought while knocking, softly as she could on Crystal's door so as not to wake the others.