Me and the Penguin Army
Disclaimers: Nope, me no own Yu Yu Hakusho
Thoughts (insert words)
Telepathic talk "(Insert words)"
Means change from the story to Ixi, Chloe and Rayden or from the three to the story
Chapter 14 Hiei meet Nymph
I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in a pale blue room that had many hospital-style beds, and on one of those beds was Hiei. He was sleeping, and for the most part, peacefully, only an occasional wince of pain showed he was hurt. I couldn't see any external wounds; he mostly looked pale and tired. Hiei . . . Then the throbbing headache came and I lowered myself back into the bed and half-closed my eyes. It seemed to be just in time too because Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara all came into the room to check up on us. I quickly closed my eyes to listen to what they had to say. "Well, it appears they are still asleep." Kurama murmured quietly as his footsteps approached my bed. He put his hand on my forehead. "Looks like her temp went down though. It seems Hiei's fire aura didn't have as great of an affect as we first anticipated." "I guess, but still what did she do and how did she do it?" Yusuke asked as I heard him trudge over to where Hiei's bed was. "I couldn't tell you Yusuke, none of us were there and therefore have no idea what happened, or why, or how." "This is still confusing me guys, your saying Ixi stole Hiei's spirit energy?" Kuwabara asked. "I suppose you could put it that way Kuwabara." I did what now? I exclaimed in my head. "Well since there is no change we should leave." Kurama said, and I heard three pairs of feet walk out the door.
I reopened my eyes and looked over in Hiei's direction. He was still sleeping peacefully. I sighed and moved to the edge of my bed so my legs dangled off the side. "Hiei, I am so sorry." I whispered looking down to my dangling feet. "Do you always apologize to people you think are unconscious?" I looked up and Hiei's crimson eyes met my blue ones. I blushed slightly and looked back down to my feet. "So how are you taking all this?" He asked me. I looked up to the ceiling. "Taking what?" I asked, trying to avoid the question. "Taking all the stuff that has happened lately." I sighed as he finished. I tried to think of what to say, to put to words what my life has been like, without telling him who I was. "Ixi?" Hiei asked and I could feel his curious gaze. "My whole life has been taking stuff I don't want, why should this be any different?" As my eyes swept the room they landed on Hiei's face. For someone not willing to show emotion much, he was sure showing it now. His eyes held a curious and yet sympathetic look in them that I have seen in few people. My entire life people have pretended to be sympathetic, but you can see it in their eyes they weren't being true. Hiei's gaze and a scarce few others were one of the true looks.
Not trusting myself to believe it I looked up to the ceiling again. "Hey Hiei . . . do you think it would be possible for me to go back home . . . for just one day?" I asked, afraid to look him in the eye. "It depends, you would have to take it up with, as Detective likes to call him, Pacifier breath." I smiled slightly at his remark and leaned back onto my bed. "What have I said about calling me that?" I shot up at the sound of Pacifier-er I mean Koenma's voice. "I don't know, I'll bring it up the next time I talk to Detective." Hiei quipped as he settled down into the bed for what appeared to be a rather comfortable nap. Koenma glared over in his direction but didn't pursue the topic. "All better?" Koenma said turning to me. His voice sounded flat and annoyed. "Uh . . ." I said trying to look away. "Depends." I finally said. Koenma rolled his eyes. "Depends on what?" "Depends on what I was suppose to get better in, ya know I haven't really been practicing much of anything lately." Koenma sighed and walked over to sit on the edge of my bed. "That's not what I meant." I pulled myself to the corner of the bed and put my knees under my chin, gazing into nothingness. "We got the test results on your blood back." "And?" I asked not looking up. "Dragon." Hiei replied mockingly. "Grrr, yes Hiei, the blue blood is that of a dragon. How do you know so much about dragons anyway?" Koenma asked as he turned to Hiei. "I've seen enough carcasses of them to identify their blood." I shuddered slightly. "Why was their race ordered to be exterminated anyway?" Kurama's voice entered the room. Koenma grimaced at this question slightly. "My dad thought they were becoming too powerful for their own good." The baby ruler bowed his head. "Ixi is more than likely the last of her kind." I began to slightly shake at this, but I tried not to make it extremely visible. "What about Ixi's parents, wouldn't they be dragon too?" Kuwabara asked.
No, no, no any question but that! I screamed in my head. "Please, please I just want to go home!" I begged, something I have not done in a while. Koenma nodded his head. "Hiei, since you're the only one who doesn't have to be somewhere today, you'll be guarding her." Hiei rolled his eyes but nodded. "Right, we'd better get back to school." Kurama said pushing Yusuke and Kuwabara out the door. "Why? I'm just going to skip!" Yusuke protested. "We'll let Keiko deal with that." Kurama said giving Yusuke one final push out the door. "Keiko! No need to tell her Kurama!" I waited a few minutes until I couldn't hear them anymore. "Ready?" Hiei asked as he got off the bed. I nodded and followed. A few minutes later I found myself in one of the parks near my apartment. "I've got to go talk to Nymph." I whispered and started in that direction. "Who's Nymph? A sister or something?" Hiei asked as he jogged to keep up with me. I stayed quiet, realizing what I had just said out loud. Please don't force it Hiei, I don't want the way you look at me to change. I glanced back at Hiei, he was looking elsewhere. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The two of us soon found ourselves at the apartment building and we made our way to the elevator. Unfortunately by the time we got there it had several people cramming themselves into it. I turned around and led the way to the stairs. At the time the apartment building had been filled up almost all the way so Spook, Nymph and my apartment was on the third floor. I darted up the stairs in silence closely followed by Hiei. One . . . . . Two . . . . . And three. I slammed my shoulder into the heavy fire door that led from the staircase to the floors. Room 224 was close to the stairs so we didn't travel far before we were there. I pulled out the silver colored key and unlocked the door. Spook must be working and Nymph out for today. I thought as I surveyed the quiet room. "Uh make yourself at home." I said as I waited outside the room with the door open. Hiei walked in, but waited for me to get into the room before going much farther.
I walked over to the fridge and opened the freezer door. "Care for some sweet snow?" (A.k.a. Ice cream) I asked leaned past the door of the freezer to look at Hiei. He shrugged his shoulders and I took the carton out. "All we got is vanilla though so sorry if it ain't your fav." Hiei shrugged again, now looking around the apartment. As I found two bowls and spoons, I went in search for the scooper. "Here scooper, scooper, scooper!" I cried as I dug through a drawer filled with kitchen utensils. My hand brushed against a knife in the drawer. "OWWW!" I cried, pulling back my hand. I watched the blue blood slowly run from the cut. Hiei rushed into the kitchen. "What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. He saw the blood run down my finger and he quickly grabbed a napkin. He wrapped it around the cut, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding. "Thanks." I mumbled as I pulled back my hand. Hiei let go of my hand after realizing what he had done. He quickly turned around so his back faced me, but I saw that blush on his cheeks.
I quickly made my way to the bathroom to clean my cut and bandage it. Hiei followed, but kept avoiding my curious glances. After I put an antibiotic cream on the cut I reached for the bandages. All the time, Hiei's gaze never left me unless I looked at him. He's so cute when he is nervous. Wait, I didn't just think that, did I? I'm loosin' it. Just as I was finishing with the bandage on I heard the front door open. "Nymph must be home." I said standing up. I walked out of the bathroom and made my way to the kitchen, Hiei following me the whole time. "Who is Nymph?" Hiei asked again and once again I avoided the question. When we reached the kitchen, my "mom's" surprised face greeted us. "Ixi! I thought you were still with your friends." The delicate brown haired woman exclaimed. I smiled. "Yeah, I just thought I'd check in with you guys, I sorta need to do that or the Home people go insane." At the mention of the word Home Hiei shot a glance over at me, which I presently avoided. "Who's your friend dear?" Nymph said as Hiei caught her attention. "Nymph this is Hiei and vise-versa." I sarcastically said. Nymph held out her hand to shake Hiei's, but he just stared at it. "Hiei I swear, you must have grown up in a different world or something." I muttered nudging him forward. "You have no idea." He whispered back as he finally took her hand.
"Ixi since you are hear can I have a word in private?" Nymph said as she started down the hall. "Sure." I said following her and motioning Hiei to stay where he was. Nymph led me through the house to her and Spook's bedroom. "Sweet little fire youkai isn't he?" Nymph asked, a smile on her face. I looked at her in shock. "What do you mean?" I said, not sure whether to reveal Hiei's true race. "Oh don't worry dear, I'm not one to go blabbing my own secret." I stared at her more. "What do you mean, "my own secret"?" I asked. Nymph smiled and walked over to her jewelry box, taking out a necklace. It was a double dragon one; one dragon was serpentine and its snake like body wrapping around one with wings. "Here Ixi, this is yours by birthright. It belonged to your mother and she asked me to give it to you when I thought the time would be right. Hiei works for Koenma, am I right?" Nymph asked as she put the necklace around m neck. I nodded and looked down at the silver pendant. "I also, in one way or another." I froze. "You're a demon?" I asked turning around.
Nymph smiled sweetly. "Yes, a dryad of a beech tree." I sat down on the bed, confused. "I'm a sort of fairy if you will. Spook is a horse demon, sort of like a centaur. Given permission from Koenma we came to Reikai to live in peace and later to take care of you. We knew your father and mother before they died, and I see it as a crying shame they killed your race." As I reached up for my necklace I could feel my hand shaking. "If you knew, why didn't you tell me?" Nymph walked over and took a seat next to me. "You were safer off not knowing, your life was already hard enough, thrown in the paranormal into a teen's life and it just becomes harder. And there was always a chance you would use your power against people for other reasons to defend yourself." I leaned my head on Nymph's shoulder as tears ran down my cheeks. I looked over at her and saw she had changed. Nymph was now wearing a plant like dress; dragonfly like wings came from her back and glowed a golden color. Nymph's brown hair turned a green-gold color and flew up everywhere as her wings began to beat to lift her off the ground. Her skin was a rich peach-green and seemed to glow with the rest of her. I stared in astonishment and I could hear Hiei running down the hall towards us. The door was slammed open as Hiei came in, katana ready. "Hiei no." I said. Nymph smiled and hovered over to him. "Don't worry, Koenma knows I'm here little fire youkai." Hiei scoffed at being called little and blushed at the next thing Nymph said. "Ixi sweetie, you really snagged a cute one." I sighed. "Not a love interest Nymph."
"Oh really?" Nymph said with a smirk. "Cause I saw the way he was looking at you." I blushed a deep crimson red and gazed over at Hiei who seemed to be blushing redder. Nymph changed back to her normal human form and, smiling, left the room. Hiei was looking down, trying to avoid my gaze. Hiei, like me? No way! But he is sorta-wait no, no way. In barely a second, Hiei had disappeared out of the room, leaving me alone. I sighed and went to find him. It took me a while, but in the end he was on the roof gazing into the sun. "You know, that'll hurt your eyes." I said, taking a seat right next to him. "Nope." He muttered. I sighed and rested my head on his shoulder. I felt him tense up. I watched two birds fly across the sun as two black specks. Then an idea hit me. I took one of his hands and put it over my heart. "Tell me what you feel." I said. "Your heart beat." Hiei said while rolling his eyes. Next I put his hand on his heart. "Now what do you feel?" "My heart beat, I don't see the point in this." "Shhhh." I said putting my finger on his lips to silence him. "Tell me the difference." I said as I pulled back my hand. "The difference in what?" Hiei asked, looking at me confused. "The difference in our heart beats." I simply said. Hiei was about to answer when he became lost for words. "See, no difference. People look so much to what makes us different, but its what makes us the same that defines who we are." I leaned my head back on his shoulder. I closed my eyes, taking in his warmth. "Thanks Ixi." Hiei whispered. I smiled to let him know I was listening.
Ixi: Hey look, another reviewer! :) My day just got so much better. :) Twists and turns the entire way. :) Not to mention a little hint of love for Hiei. ;) So yeah, on to review responses.
To Starkitty: I'm glad you like my story so much and that you said it was well-written, well thought out and you like the way I present my characters. Yeah 'bout that spelling, thank God for spell check. I'll have to think about the tittle and genre but hey, I'm happy writing for a few people who enjoy my work.
FYI: I'll be gone for the weekend on a vacation so I won't be able to update (or even write) until I get back so it might take awhile for this to get updated.
Disclaimers: Nope, me no own Yu Yu Hakusho
Thoughts (insert words)
Telepathic talk "(Insert words)"
Means change from the story to Ixi, Chloe and Rayden or from the three to the story
Chapter 14 Hiei meet Nymph
I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in a pale blue room that had many hospital-style beds, and on one of those beds was Hiei. He was sleeping, and for the most part, peacefully, only an occasional wince of pain showed he was hurt. I couldn't see any external wounds; he mostly looked pale and tired. Hiei . . . Then the throbbing headache came and I lowered myself back into the bed and half-closed my eyes. It seemed to be just in time too because Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara all came into the room to check up on us. I quickly closed my eyes to listen to what they had to say. "Well, it appears they are still asleep." Kurama murmured quietly as his footsteps approached my bed. He put his hand on my forehead. "Looks like her temp went down though. It seems Hiei's fire aura didn't have as great of an affect as we first anticipated." "I guess, but still what did she do and how did she do it?" Yusuke asked as I heard him trudge over to where Hiei's bed was. "I couldn't tell you Yusuke, none of us were there and therefore have no idea what happened, or why, or how." "This is still confusing me guys, your saying Ixi stole Hiei's spirit energy?" Kuwabara asked. "I suppose you could put it that way Kuwabara." I did what now? I exclaimed in my head. "Well since there is no change we should leave." Kurama said, and I heard three pairs of feet walk out the door.
I reopened my eyes and looked over in Hiei's direction. He was still sleeping peacefully. I sighed and moved to the edge of my bed so my legs dangled off the side. "Hiei, I am so sorry." I whispered looking down to my dangling feet. "Do you always apologize to people you think are unconscious?" I looked up and Hiei's crimson eyes met my blue ones. I blushed slightly and looked back down to my feet. "So how are you taking all this?" He asked me. I looked up to the ceiling. "Taking what?" I asked, trying to avoid the question. "Taking all the stuff that has happened lately." I sighed as he finished. I tried to think of what to say, to put to words what my life has been like, without telling him who I was. "Ixi?" Hiei asked and I could feel his curious gaze. "My whole life has been taking stuff I don't want, why should this be any different?" As my eyes swept the room they landed on Hiei's face. For someone not willing to show emotion much, he was sure showing it now. His eyes held a curious and yet sympathetic look in them that I have seen in few people. My entire life people have pretended to be sympathetic, but you can see it in their eyes they weren't being true. Hiei's gaze and a scarce few others were one of the true looks.
Not trusting myself to believe it I looked up to the ceiling again. "Hey Hiei . . . do you think it would be possible for me to go back home . . . for just one day?" I asked, afraid to look him in the eye. "It depends, you would have to take it up with, as Detective likes to call him, Pacifier breath." I smiled slightly at his remark and leaned back onto my bed. "What have I said about calling me that?" I shot up at the sound of Pacifier-er I mean Koenma's voice. "I don't know, I'll bring it up the next time I talk to Detective." Hiei quipped as he settled down into the bed for what appeared to be a rather comfortable nap. Koenma glared over in his direction but didn't pursue the topic. "All better?" Koenma said turning to me. His voice sounded flat and annoyed. "Uh . . ." I said trying to look away. "Depends." I finally said. Koenma rolled his eyes. "Depends on what?" "Depends on what I was suppose to get better in, ya know I haven't really been practicing much of anything lately." Koenma sighed and walked over to sit on the edge of my bed. "That's not what I meant." I pulled myself to the corner of the bed and put my knees under my chin, gazing into nothingness. "We got the test results on your blood back." "And?" I asked not looking up. "Dragon." Hiei replied mockingly. "Grrr, yes Hiei, the blue blood is that of a dragon. How do you know so much about dragons anyway?" Koenma asked as he turned to Hiei. "I've seen enough carcasses of them to identify their blood." I shuddered slightly. "Why was their race ordered to be exterminated anyway?" Kurama's voice entered the room. Koenma grimaced at this question slightly. "My dad thought they were becoming too powerful for their own good." The baby ruler bowed his head. "Ixi is more than likely the last of her kind." I began to slightly shake at this, but I tried not to make it extremely visible. "What about Ixi's parents, wouldn't they be dragon too?" Kuwabara asked.
No, no, no any question but that! I screamed in my head. "Please, please I just want to go home!" I begged, something I have not done in a while. Koenma nodded his head. "Hiei, since you're the only one who doesn't have to be somewhere today, you'll be guarding her." Hiei rolled his eyes but nodded. "Right, we'd better get back to school." Kurama said pushing Yusuke and Kuwabara out the door. "Why? I'm just going to skip!" Yusuke protested. "We'll let Keiko deal with that." Kurama said giving Yusuke one final push out the door. "Keiko! No need to tell her Kurama!" I waited a few minutes until I couldn't hear them anymore. "Ready?" Hiei asked as he got off the bed. I nodded and followed. A few minutes later I found myself in one of the parks near my apartment. "I've got to go talk to Nymph." I whispered and started in that direction. "Who's Nymph? A sister or something?" Hiei asked as he jogged to keep up with me. I stayed quiet, realizing what I had just said out loud. Please don't force it Hiei, I don't want the way you look at me to change. I glanced back at Hiei, he was looking elsewhere. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The two of us soon found ourselves at the apartment building and we made our way to the elevator. Unfortunately by the time we got there it had several people cramming themselves into it. I turned around and led the way to the stairs. At the time the apartment building had been filled up almost all the way so Spook, Nymph and my apartment was on the third floor. I darted up the stairs in silence closely followed by Hiei. One . . . . . Two . . . . . And three. I slammed my shoulder into the heavy fire door that led from the staircase to the floors. Room 224 was close to the stairs so we didn't travel far before we were there. I pulled out the silver colored key and unlocked the door. Spook must be working and Nymph out for today. I thought as I surveyed the quiet room. "Uh make yourself at home." I said as I waited outside the room with the door open. Hiei walked in, but waited for me to get into the room before going much farther.
I walked over to the fridge and opened the freezer door. "Care for some sweet snow?" (A.k.a. Ice cream) I asked leaned past the door of the freezer to look at Hiei. He shrugged his shoulders and I took the carton out. "All we got is vanilla though so sorry if it ain't your fav." Hiei shrugged again, now looking around the apartment. As I found two bowls and spoons, I went in search for the scooper. "Here scooper, scooper, scooper!" I cried as I dug through a drawer filled with kitchen utensils. My hand brushed against a knife in the drawer. "OWWW!" I cried, pulling back my hand. I watched the blue blood slowly run from the cut. Hiei rushed into the kitchen. "What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. He saw the blood run down my finger and he quickly grabbed a napkin. He wrapped it around the cut, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding. "Thanks." I mumbled as I pulled back my hand. Hiei let go of my hand after realizing what he had done. He quickly turned around so his back faced me, but I saw that blush on his cheeks.
I quickly made my way to the bathroom to clean my cut and bandage it. Hiei followed, but kept avoiding my curious glances. After I put an antibiotic cream on the cut I reached for the bandages. All the time, Hiei's gaze never left me unless I looked at him. He's so cute when he is nervous. Wait, I didn't just think that, did I? I'm loosin' it. Just as I was finishing with the bandage on I heard the front door open. "Nymph must be home." I said standing up. I walked out of the bathroom and made my way to the kitchen, Hiei following me the whole time. "Who is Nymph?" Hiei asked again and once again I avoided the question. When we reached the kitchen, my "mom's" surprised face greeted us. "Ixi! I thought you were still with your friends." The delicate brown haired woman exclaimed. I smiled. "Yeah, I just thought I'd check in with you guys, I sorta need to do that or the Home people go insane." At the mention of the word Home Hiei shot a glance over at me, which I presently avoided. "Who's your friend dear?" Nymph said as Hiei caught her attention. "Nymph this is Hiei and vise-versa." I sarcastically said. Nymph held out her hand to shake Hiei's, but he just stared at it. "Hiei I swear, you must have grown up in a different world or something." I muttered nudging him forward. "You have no idea." He whispered back as he finally took her hand.
"Ixi since you are hear can I have a word in private?" Nymph said as she started down the hall. "Sure." I said following her and motioning Hiei to stay where he was. Nymph led me through the house to her and Spook's bedroom. "Sweet little fire youkai isn't he?" Nymph asked, a smile on her face. I looked at her in shock. "What do you mean?" I said, not sure whether to reveal Hiei's true race. "Oh don't worry dear, I'm not one to go blabbing my own secret." I stared at her more. "What do you mean, "my own secret"?" I asked. Nymph smiled and walked over to her jewelry box, taking out a necklace. It was a double dragon one; one dragon was serpentine and its snake like body wrapping around one with wings. "Here Ixi, this is yours by birthright. It belonged to your mother and she asked me to give it to you when I thought the time would be right. Hiei works for Koenma, am I right?" Nymph asked as she put the necklace around m neck. I nodded and looked down at the silver pendant. "I also, in one way or another." I froze. "You're a demon?" I asked turning around.
Nymph smiled sweetly. "Yes, a dryad of a beech tree." I sat down on the bed, confused. "I'm a sort of fairy if you will. Spook is a horse demon, sort of like a centaur. Given permission from Koenma we came to Reikai to live in peace and later to take care of you. We knew your father and mother before they died, and I see it as a crying shame they killed your race." As I reached up for my necklace I could feel my hand shaking. "If you knew, why didn't you tell me?" Nymph walked over and took a seat next to me. "You were safer off not knowing, your life was already hard enough, thrown in the paranormal into a teen's life and it just becomes harder. And there was always a chance you would use your power against people for other reasons to defend yourself." I leaned my head on Nymph's shoulder as tears ran down my cheeks. I looked over at her and saw she had changed. Nymph was now wearing a plant like dress; dragonfly like wings came from her back and glowed a golden color. Nymph's brown hair turned a green-gold color and flew up everywhere as her wings began to beat to lift her off the ground. Her skin was a rich peach-green and seemed to glow with the rest of her. I stared in astonishment and I could hear Hiei running down the hall towards us. The door was slammed open as Hiei came in, katana ready. "Hiei no." I said. Nymph smiled and hovered over to him. "Don't worry, Koenma knows I'm here little fire youkai." Hiei scoffed at being called little and blushed at the next thing Nymph said. "Ixi sweetie, you really snagged a cute one." I sighed. "Not a love interest Nymph."
"Oh really?" Nymph said with a smirk. "Cause I saw the way he was looking at you." I blushed a deep crimson red and gazed over at Hiei who seemed to be blushing redder. Nymph changed back to her normal human form and, smiling, left the room. Hiei was looking down, trying to avoid my gaze. Hiei, like me? No way! But he is sorta-wait no, no way. In barely a second, Hiei had disappeared out of the room, leaving me alone. I sighed and went to find him. It took me a while, but in the end he was on the roof gazing into the sun. "You know, that'll hurt your eyes." I said, taking a seat right next to him. "Nope." He muttered. I sighed and rested my head on his shoulder. I felt him tense up. I watched two birds fly across the sun as two black specks. Then an idea hit me. I took one of his hands and put it over my heart. "Tell me what you feel." I said. "Your heart beat." Hiei said while rolling his eyes. Next I put his hand on his heart. "Now what do you feel?" "My heart beat, I don't see the point in this." "Shhhh." I said putting my finger on his lips to silence him. "Tell me the difference." I said as I pulled back my hand. "The difference in what?" Hiei asked, looking at me confused. "The difference in our heart beats." I simply said. Hiei was about to answer when he became lost for words. "See, no difference. People look so much to what makes us different, but its what makes us the same that defines who we are." I leaned my head back on his shoulder. I closed my eyes, taking in his warmth. "Thanks Ixi." Hiei whispered. I smiled to let him know I was listening.
Ixi: Hey look, another reviewer! :) My day just got so much better. :) Twists and turns the entire way. :) Not to mention a little hint of love for Hiei. ;) So yeah, on to review responses.
To Starkitty: I'm glad you like my story so much and that you said it was well-written, well thought out and you like the way I present my characters. Yeah 'bout that spelling, thank God for spell check. I'll have to think about the tittle and genre but hey, I'm happy writing for a few people who enjoy my work.
FYI: I'll be gone for the weekend on a vacation so I won't be able to update (or even write) until I get back so it might take awhile for this to get updated.