The Birth Of A Monster
By: Kim Johnston
Koi held tightly to the bed sheets and tried to take her mind off the pain. Thoughts entering her head in no real order from everyone in the castle or around it.
Soon the child was starting to be a pain again. She bit her lip to control her screaming and felt the warm liqid enter her mouth long before the taste of salty iron hit her brain.
Koi breathed heavly wishing that someone was by her side. Her hatred grew more for everyone in her life and everyone who had someone who would be with them in this situation. She didn't care if her sister or her husband were sharing her pain at the moment. She was alone in the room, she had been alone in all her life, and she hated it. It reminded her of everything she hated and the child grew more unhappy and wanted nothing more then to get out of her, anyway it could.
Koi groaned and sudenly found the pain gone. The child cried out and she reached for it. She pulled it close and closed her eyes. It was her child. She didn't care if it would destroy the world, no one would harm the child.
Koi looked up to see Hiei walking in.
"Where were you?" She asked in a whisper.
"They found us sooner then we thought." Hiei says looking down aat his child and mate.
"He needs a name Hiei... A good name, a strong name. I dont care if he will destroy the world... he's mine." Koi said with tears in her eyes.
Hiei nods and moves picking the child up. Koi lets Hiei take the child and lays back resting. She watches Hiei clean the child with a the white cloth from around his head. The boy was completly red with hair like his fathers only with streaks like his mothers. He had a small opeing that the jagan eye ,from his father, would open one day. He had all of his fingers and toes and had completle red eyes that burned into his fathers. "Saikyou, my first born son, that is your name because you are the strongest." Hiei looked down at Koi who had fallen into deep sleep. He turned towards the door and walked out carring the quiet child, Saikyou with him.
Hiei walked to the group and kneeled before Koneko so she could see the child. "Saikyou, go to Koi and stay with her. She is passed out now. I should be back before she wakes up. If not... tell her I will return and then she can do as she wishes."
Koneko stares at Hiei."You can't do this!"
"It's my child."
"It's hers too! No! It'll kill her." Koneko watches Hiei leave and tries to get up to follow him. Youko holds her back. Koneko covers her mouth and turns to find her sister. Youko follows her as do the rest of them.
Hiei walked into the woods carring the small boy child with him. He watched the child as it didn't fight in his hands. It knew its fate and didn't care. It knew it would be granted release from the hatred cast apon it.
"Saikyou, I love you. I never have loved anything in this world. I have yet to realize the full meaning of the word and the emotion. But I know that it is only reserved for things that matter deeply to you. I know that I love you. I didn't know if I loved your mother... not until I felt her pain and relized that I was taking it from her the best I could. And this will hurt her 10 times more then the physical pain you came with. But I love you as much as her. So I shall release you from your hatred and if she does kill me then she does. I will see you agiaon, Saikyou, maybe soon." Hiei gathered his energy and used all of it on the child. Turning the newborn of minutes into a pile of burnt ashes that flew into the wind. Hiei placed a hand under his eye to feel the wetness of a single tear.
Koi quickly snaped awake as a piece of her heart faded away. She searched the room then a look at herr sister confirmed her thoughts. Koi searched desperatly once again."NO! KONEKO! WHERE IS MY SON!?"
"Shhh..."Koneko places a hand on her sisters shoulder."It is alright."
Koi pushed her off and ran from the room ignoring the pain she felt. She was met by a group of her father's men and quickly made corpses of them. She followed the feeling of Hiei and stoped in her tracks seeing no child and smelling the recent death on him of her child. "YOU BASTARD!" Koi cried falling to the ground in a heap.She felt tears in her eyes."I loved you... Why?"
"Because I loved him."Hiei said kneeling beside her and looking her in the eyes.
"But not me?" She whispered.
"I do love you. But he was just a child. he didn't deserve such pain. Think about your past! How would his have gone?!" Hiei pulled himself and her to their feet.
Koi whiped her eyes. "It's not your fault... You're right." She hugged Hiei. "It's alright... I know who's fault it is." Koi left as fast as she could to her fathers and stepmother's chambers.
"You witch!" Koi screamed stalking towards the older woman.
"Koi..."The woman said in a alarmed yet calming voice. She took notice the blood. "Dear god.. you have given birth?!"
"Yes... to a son! That was killed by my beloved so that he did not share the same childhood we did. So that he could be released from his pain. And now you will uncurse me!" Koi cried grabbing the woman by the neck while her father sat back and watched.
Koneko's mother looked down at the ground and sighed. She looked Koi in the eyes and then laughed wickedly. "There never was a curse! You simply gathered hatred and gave it to your child! You were the cause of his pain! Because you were the cause of mine!"
Koi droped the woman and backed off. She felt her knees give way and fell over on the floor.
Koneko looked at her mother."YOU ... Why?" Koneko glared at her mother's smiling face and enclosed her in a pure light destroying her. Koneko joined her sister crying and apologizing for her mother. Their father pulled them up.
"You're welcome to stay here, both of you, my daughters."
"I'll never stay here, not if it were the last spot of earth left, I'd swim in Lava."Koi spat at his feet and left Koneko holding her hand. The two walked to the guys and two girls. Koi looked around at them and gave a weak smile.
Youko held onto Koneko kissing her head and nuzzling her.
"Well?" Hiei asked.
"I'll be fine." Koi says with a almost real smile."Where are we going?"
"How about the human world?" Youko asked.
"Sounds good."Koneko says.
THE END!
