Hiei's Age and Kuwabara the Angel
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Ochita: Here's another strange chapter.
I was on the verge of being stupid again. I was going to jump into death. Perhaps that isn't a bad thing. It would sure save a lot of people the trouble...and their lives. I looked down at my hands. Why? Why couldn't I just die? I want to die but I can't bring myself to deal my sentence out myself. What the hell is wrong with me? I looked into the night sky, the wind was whipping at my face as I sat on the roof of this shrine. This place, Ningenkai, it was so damn peaceful. Why couldn't everything have been like this place?
"If your plan was to spy on me undetected, you couldn't have foiled it more." I bit out.
"Heh...what gave me away?" I heard him ask with a touch of apprehension.
"A number of things, kistune." I growled, "Leave me be."
"I'm going to pass on that suggestion if you don't mind." He said cheerfully as he sat down beside me, drawing his knees up to his chest, and turning his head to the side to look at me.
What was the problem with these people? Why did they always get so damn close? Staring forward and ignoring him obviously wouldn't get this annoying fox to go away so I snarled, "I do."
"Not very social are you?" He laughed.
"If you want, I can make you that way too." I grinned evilly.
He just frowned at me and sighed, "My friend's may have not noticed but there are many parts of your story that have been...left in the dark, so to speak."
"Well, what do you want? A written report?" I snapped.
"No, but the truth would be nice."
"I thought I made it clear to impress upon you that I am anything but a nice person." I spat. He was getting on my last nerve.
"You're avoiding the subject." Even though his voice was gentle I could feel the underlying growl in it.
"Am I doing a good job?" I asked.
I could tell the frustration inside him was rising up. It would hit his head soon and he'd snap...or if I was lucky, leave me the hell alone. To my disappointment the tension inside of him dispersed and he laid a hand on mine. I snatched my hand away as if I'd been burned. If he was going to touch me why couldn't he just hit me?
He sighed, "Perhaps you don't trust me because you don't know me...?"
"That, and I don't really want to."
"Must you be so closed off?"
"I'm afraid so." I drawled, voice dripping with sarcasm.
I felt his hand grip my chin gently but firmly. He turned my head up towards himself so that I was forced to look at him. He had a sort of sympathetic look on his face which angered me immensely.
"I think that's what you're afraid of."
"What?" I snapped
"Afraid of digging up your past." He said softly as if to himself rubbing his thumb over my cheek.
I caught his hand. What the hell did he think he was doing? If it was his intention, not only to confuse me, but to make me mad he was pretty good at it. I tried to figure it out. No one had ever treated me this way. Then it hit me in the back of the head like an anvil.
"If you're trying to comfort me into a submissive state it's not working." I glowered at him before shutting my eyes in irritation, and slapping his wrist away from my face.
He sighed obviously trying not to loose his patients. Who was this guy? Buddah or something?
"My human name is Minamino Suichi but my real name is Kurama Youko. I used to be a thief. Tell me who you are...onegai?"
"My name is Kayo Rein. I am an ex-soldier and assassin of a failed revolution. I've been exploited and betrayed more times than I can remember and I'm not about to trust someone who wants to be my ally so get all of the idea's of me telling you anything out of your head." I growled hoping he was satisfied so he would just leave me be.
"Is there anyway I can gain your trust?" He just had to ask that.
"Would you believe me if I told you you'd get it by leaving me the hell alone?" I asked irritated.
"No."
"Then you're smarter than I thought."
I saw his eyebrow twitch at this. I smirked. So degrading his intelligence was the key to annoying him. That was good to know.
"Can't you just open up for two seconds?"
"No. Someone will reach inside and rip my soul out and I'm not even sure if that person would or would not be you."
He winced at that. Why? Did the truth hurt him that much? What was with him? Why was he so willing to trust me?
"Why are you looking to be betrayed?"
I saw his brows furrow and anger fleck across his green eyes. He opened his mouth then shut it, turned his head down so his bangs hid his eyes, and smiled ironically, "I don't know much about you but I understand that you know more about what we're getting into than all of us. So what I'm actually looking for is someone to put faith in...someone to trust."
"Not much of a difference is there?"
With that said I hopped off the roof and began trekking towards the forest. Maybe there I could be alone.
Kurama's POV
I watched her retreating back. No difference between trust and betrayal? The thought disturbed me and when you happen to be Hiei's only confident there isn't usually much that can disturb you. I sighed and looked down at my shoes. Usually when I engaged in a conversation I got what I wanted or at least something useful out of it. The girl wasn't like Hiei in this respect. She didn't use the all powerful, disapproving 'Hn', and could stall, and run the conversation around in circles if she wanted to. I wanted to know a few things. The fact that I know close to nothing about angels was irritating enough but now I didn't even know specifically who we were fighting which had been my whole intention...until she squashed it.
"You were right, it didn't work."
"Hn-"
"She's as distrusting as you are."
"I...Am...Nothing...Like...Her." Hiei drew out his sentence seething.
I smiled at this. He was right. In some ways they couldn't be more different. Their manners were pretty much the same though.
"Does Kuwabara have his answer?"
"I don't know and I don't care." He snorted.
"Can't say I wasn't expecting that." I smiled at the 'huh?' look he was giving me.
I laughed softly shaking my head back and forth. His glare resumed as I looked back at him.
"Why don't I go ask for an answer from Kuwabara and you go talk to Rein. I'm sure you can handle that." I said as if it were some challenge.
"I don't want to have anything to do with that-"
"Hiei! At least do it for the fact that we both need information from her if we want to survive. Maybe we can find some written records on our adversary in Koenma's library, all I need is a name." I pleaded with my antisocial friend.
"No." he growled.
"Must I bribe you with sweet snow?"
"Hn-" was all he said before he disappeared; knowing full well that that's what it always came to in the end. Me bribing him for something. I sighed and clambered off the roof, jumped onto the enigwa, opened the shoji, and walked in. Genkai was awaiting me with a grim expression on her face.
"No. She has more defenses than Fort Knox I'm afraid. I asked Hiei to find her and talk to her though." I said apologetically.
"That'll work like a charm." Yusuke snorted.
"Oi." Kuwabara said quietly.
"Hai?" Genkai asked right away.
"I can't decide whether it would be selfish or not to say yes but I think that's the only thing I can answer with." He said quietly looking at his hands.
Kuwabara sighed and looked up sadly, asking, "I don't mind it being painful or anything. It's just that...I'm not sure what to do and well..."
"You'll be different and you don't know how it will affect you." I answered for him.
"Yeah." He sighed.
"'yes' Isn't a selfish decision. You wanna save the universe? Even if you're doing it to save the people you love, that still doesn't make it a selfish decision." Yusuke said.
"Alright, I'll do it then." Kuwabara said.
"Let's hope Hiei found Rein." I sighed.
"And that they don't roast each other before they get back." Yusuke laughed.
Hiei's POV
Damn that fox. Damn my weakness for sweet snow. Damn that dumb angel from hell. Damn the author of this damn story! (A/N: Ochita takes her douto and slams Hiei in the head with it for his insolence). Leaping in the trees to find this woman has got to be the hardest, most irritating thing I've ever done. She's freakin impossible to find. I sighed and took off my bandana, open up my Jagan and...maybe she's not that hard to find after all. I followed her aura, which, to no surprise, consists of the colors of the twilight sky. I stop in a high tree and peer down at the annoying woman. She was in a clearing crouched by a pool of fresh water. She looked at her reflection with a pensive expression, then sighed, reached in, cupped some water in her hands, and splashed her face, rubbing slightly, then drying it off with my shirt. She leaned backwards and lay flat on her back, staring up at the sky that was lighting to a purple for the coming dawn.
"Go away Jaganshi." She growled.
I almost fell out of the tree in surprise. How the hell had she noticed me? I leapt down and walked over to her, towering over her, I love the feeling of being taller. Of course the fact that she was lying down at the moment kind of squashed it but I don't really care.
"I'll go away when, and only when, you tell me what I want to know." I smirked at her.
"Well what do you want to know, shishou?" She mocked me.
"You know perfectly well what I want to know."
"Maybe if you ask politely." She grinned.
I have never hated someone so much in my life. This was far past my dislike for the big oaf.
"Or I could threaten you." I snarled.
She began to laugh hysterically at me, "With what demon? You're metal stick or a fire ball."
"Try the Darkness flame." I growled.
She began laughing harder, "Threaten my with something I used to walk through to get to my house as a child. That would be the equivalent of you sticking you hands in a human flame."
That startled me. I glared at her, "What the hell do you mean?"
"I lived just there until I was three, Jaganshi. A little black fire won't harm me." She teased.
"Then why do you also wield the Darkness flame?" I smirked, thinking I had caught her in a trap.
"Work with something as primitive as a flame?" She giggled.
All of a sudden I heard a large crack and a bolt of black lightning struck the ground to the right of my feet causing the grass to alight with the darkness flame completely incinerating the it and starting to spread before she waved her hand and it dispersed. She sighed, "Go away before I light you up like a gaijin Christmas tree."
I just stood there. That's why she's so damn fast. She turns herself into a current and zips around like a bolt of lightning. And the so called 'flames' in her hands were small currents of lightning. She'd tricked me and she knew it from the beginning.
I HATE THIS WOMAN!!!
I reached down and grabbed her by the collar of my shirt and got right in her face.
"I hate you onna but I am still not leaving before I get the information that I want." I growled.
"I could make sure you don't leave this clearing at all." She grinned.
I slammed her to the ground and leaned on my hand applying the pressure of my weight to her. She was still just a pathetically small woman and I could see that what I'd just done made nervousness spring to her eyes. She wasn't strong enough to get out from beneath my hand. Brute strength seemed to be the only thing I could use successfully against this woman. I unsheathed my sword and held it to her neck. Huh? Why is she blushing?
"Anou...Jaganshi-san?" She asked softly her voice was slightly quavering.
"What?" I snapped.
"Could you get your hand off my chest?" She turned her head away when she said this, her face turning a very becoming shade of pink.
I looked down and realized, because the shirt on her was to big, it had dragged down when I grabbed it, so instead of drooping down in the back it did so now in the front and my hand was right between her...I felt the heat rise to my cheeks and I snapped my hand back as if I'd been burned. She shot out from beneath me and scooted back towards a tree, once she bumped into it with her back she drew her knees up to her chest and hid her eyes with her bangs. I could see her...shaking? Was she afraid of me? I smirked at this. But she was cowering because...did that scare her or is she repulsed by me? I felt weird, something in my chest was constricting and it annoyed me. Seeing her cower like that...
"Just leave, onegai?" She asked in a small voice.
Please? Did she just say 'please'? What in the seven hells is wrong with her? What did I do? I looked at her and saw that she was biting that bottom, full, deep black red lip of hers nervously.
"I'll leave when I get what I want." I threatened and I saw her...wince?
"Komahari Fuyo." She whispered.
"Nani?" I asked flatly.
"The man that you saw tonight, the one that I was...talking to, that is who we are fighting." She sighed and brought her knees closer to her chest as if protecting her self from something.
I looked at her and then I remembered...
"That was uncalled for Koi." The sight of that man...Fuyo...touching her like that and she'd shivered.
For some reason the sight of the way Fuyo had touched her filled me with an uncontrollable rage. She'd been afraid of that. Watching from the bushes I had seen the man's lustful eyes. My right hand holding the katana was shaking and I wanted to kill something but I sheathed the blade to avoid doing anything stupid. Oh well, I got what I wanted. But what she was doing really made me angry. I walked over to her, squatted down, took her chin in my hand, and lifted it up so she couldn't avoid eye contact. Fear skipped across her eyes for a second but was soon encased within an emotionless mask.
"Do you find me that repulsive?"
Rein's POV
I stared at him as if he were stupid. I won't lie, I'd been scared. Earlier when he was wrestling with me hadn't scared me at all because he'd pinned me down. Touching me there was just scary. But truly, after all the things I've seen and done he was asking me if I found him repulsive.
"No. You don't repulse me in the slightest. You are irritating though." My eyes narrowed at him.
"If you aren't disgusted by me then why are you cowering?" He asked me with an annoying smirk on his face.
"I am not cowering. I just want to be left alone." I growled.
"Hn-" was all he said.
"You've gotten what you wanted now leave." I snarled.
"The big idiot probably has made up his mind, you are to come back with me." His eyes narrowed just daring me to do other wise.
I had half a mind to disappear into the trees just to piss him off but I decided against it. Out of all of them he had to be the most arrogant and because of that I made up my mind to teach him a lesson later. Maybe I'll fry him to a crisp or send my Gin Okaa after him. That would be funny. I could just picture it now, him, running away for dear life as the giant electric silver wolf began the chase. I got up and began to trek back to the shrine, he followed behind so that he wouldn't lose sight of me. As if he could do anything about it if it did happen. Strangely I didn't find his presence annoying. It was what came out of that damn mouth of his that was. I found solace in the silence and I was happy that he didn't talk even though it was obviously not out of courtesy to my earlier request. He just had to ruin it by asking, "Why have you're eyes changed their coloring?"
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"Your irises used to be white now there the color of your aura."
I froze at that and paled. He turned around and gave me a funny look.
"I-it's n-nothing." I stuttered out like a fool.
"Tell me what this nothing is then." He smirked at me. I wanted to hit him so badly but I held myself back.
"It's just a sign." I muttered.
"A sign of what?" He asked, I could actually see curiosity in his eyes.
"I told you it's nothing!" I snapped back to quickly and harshly.
"Then why are you so upset onna?" he grinned at me.
"You wanna know!? Okay I'll tell you! It's a sign that my power is already starting to consume me! It means I've got about 11 more months to live!" I yelled.
There was more silence and he just stared at me. I glared back. He then began to walk away from me. I stood there for a second wondering why the hell I'd just told him that. I turned and began to walk after him. We reached the shrine and I saw the tall man waiting for us. I walked up to him and asked, "What is your choice?"
"I'll do it." He said grinning.
I smiled at this, finding him amusing.
"Jaganshi, give me you're tanto." I ordered.
He seemed unsure for a moment but the kitsune throw him a glare so he did it. Earlier when I had gotten inside his mind I saw many pictures of the man. It seemed that Jaganshi had made one truly best friend and confident. I felt jealous for a moment. I really didn't want to get that close to anyone and I definitely wasn't going to do it now for the fact that I wasn't really going to exist much longer. What the hell am I even thinking about? No one cares about me and that's the way it was supposed to be. Besides which I'd probably just get stabbed in the back. My friends are gone and so is my ability to trust. Jaganshi threw the tanto at me and I caught it knowing he'd been hoping that I'd miss and it would graze my shoulder. Bastard.
"Take off your shirt." I commanded of the tall man.
He blushed wildly and asked, "W-why?"
"Do you want me to rip it with the tanto? I need to cut you a bit for this procedure to work so take the damn shirt off." I growled.
He did as told. I walked around and none to gently drew the blade quickly down his back twice by each shoulder blade leaving to deep gashes. He yelped in surprise and fell to the ground. I saw the detective coming to kill me.
"Stop, its part of this transformation, if I didn't do that then he would've exploded the minute I began."
The detective stopped and looked at me angrily before turning around and stomping back to where he had been childishly. I bent down and brought the man to a kneeling position.
"You need to tell me what gives you your strength, to use examples for some it's rage, hatred, sorrow, pain-"
"Love." He cut me off.
I stared at him. "Sumimasen?" I asked.
"Love is what gives me my strength." He repeated.
I smiled, how amusing he was, to think that this non-existent emotion gave him strength. Perhaps it was his faith in the emotion that did it. It didn't really matter. I just progressed with the steps of turning this man into a dawn. I lifted his head and cut a the word 'love' into his forehead in the ancient angelic language. I then marked his face with angelic markings which were just a few symmetric patterns. All of them in the ancient language. I then cut my palm and smeared my blood on the marks as well as the wounds in his back. I chanted softly beneath my breath and then let my ki flare. He screamed out in agony and fell just as I thought he would. He continued to do so for a about ten more minutes before I walked over and sat on the enigwa keeping my energy up. Everyone was outside and they all saw what was happening.
A girl with mint blue-green hair came out crying and tried to rush over to him. I stood up and caught her across the shoulders. It was obvious that she held deep affection for him.
"Do not get near him. He could lash out and hurt you fatally." I whispered in her ear.
She kept crying and then buried her face into my shoulder and sobbed. I went stiff as a board, not really knowing what to do with the woman but I just let her do as she pleased. I hated seeing people in pain when they had done nothing to deserve it. So I awkwardly put my arms around her and patted her on the back. What on earth was I supposed to do? My ki was still flaring but it didn't take a sixteenth of my energy there for I could walk around like this for a year and still I wouldn't get tired. The elder woman was staring at me, then asked quietly, "How much longer will this take?"
"What do you mean 'how much longer?'? It's barely begun. He has to hold on for three days."
I could feel her ki and inside she was mortified, but on the outside she didn't show a thing. I heard the girl in my arms start to cry harder. I felt guilty. Not that I always don't it was just that this was making me feel really guilty. To see one of my friends in this type of agony would have also made me cry. In fact I did. When they...Whoa! Not going to think about that! I told the girl to go inside and stop torturing herself so she complied...well the kitsune actually dragged her in but that doesn't really matter. I went back and sat on the enigwa. The detective came over to me. I could plainly see the pain in his eyes. He sat down and asked, "How much-"
"Three days."
I felt him stiffen and ask, "How are you going to keep up that much energy for three days."
"I'm barely using any at the moment so don't worry about me." I muttered.
He looked surprised. I wouldn't blame him. After a while he asked me, "How does this whole thing work?"
"Think of my blood as a disease, spreading and infecting him through out his entire body. Then using my energy I am fusing my blood into his. Wakarimas ka?"
"Hai." He murmured.
"What happened to you're eyes?" He asked a little while later.
"Go ask Jaganshi, he knows. I don't feel like explaining it." I muttered.
With that he got up and left.
Yusuke's POV
I walked over to the shrimp and asked, "What happened to Rein's eyes? She said you know but she didn't feel like explaining it to me." I sat down next to him on the grass.
He was staring blankly at Kuwabara. I was about to ask again when he said, "Her power is starting to eat her alive. She's got 11 more months to live. Her aura is starting to show in her eyes. It's just a signal that her time is running out."
"WHAT?!!" I shouted.
He just ignored me. Kuwabara kept screaming and I wanted it to just stop. I wondered if that was as agonizing as Genkai putting her orb into me. Then I thought of what Rein said. Fusing there blood together? Like burning him from the inside out? What the hell? If that was happening I couldn't see a way Kuwabara would possibly live but I didn't even try to stop this. If I made one move towards that girl she'd fling that tanto straight between my eyes. I had to talk to Genkai. I got up and
POOF
"BLAH!!" I shouted as I hit the ground.
Koenma stood there towering over me from my floored position.
"What the hell is going on?!" He demanded from me. He was in teenager form and I'd never seen him this angry.
"Rein is turning Kuwabara into a dawn." I said then added, "And will you cut it out with the popping up in my face thing! It's annoying."
I saw my boss almost choke on his binky.
"WHAT!!!"
I quickly explained it to him and in the end he looked rather pale.
"Kayo Rein?" He squeaked out in the end.
"Yeah." I grumbled still really pissed at him. I mean how many times do I have to tell him. If I'm so damn valuable to him then why in the seven hells does he have to give me a heart attack every time he comes down to talk to me!
"I have to go." He said quickly and then POOF he was gone again.
"Hey wait I got some questions!" I yelled at where he'd been. Damn.
I stormed over to gramma and asked, "She said she's fusing his blood with hers. Does that mean she's burning him on the inside?" I asked.
"Yes." She said to me.
"Won't that kill him?" I asked.
"No you dimwit. She's also fusing her power into his, which is sustaining his life. He can withstand the burn but just barely."
Kurama was standing not to far away. I looked at him and he looked down at Kuwabara with a pensive yet sympathetic look on his face. He then walked over to Hiei.
General POV
"Wouldn't you rather-"
"No. First sign that his life is depleting and I'll kill that onna." Hiei cut Kurama off.
Kurama just shook his head. He seemed to be thinking over something. He then sighed and asked a completely random question, "Your birthday is coming up. How old are you going to be anyway?"
Hiei thought about that for a while. It had been almost 5 years sense he came to ningenkai and then he'd been 95 so that meant he was going to be...
"100" Once the word left his mouth, he paled.
Kurama smiled, "So ka?"
Hiei glared at him until Kurama couldn't take it anymore and burst into laughter. Hiei hit him really hard for that and then grabbing him by the collar of his shirt he proceeded to drag Kurama into the dark forest. Once he felt far enough away to do the unthinkable, he did.
Hiei began beating his head into the ground.
Why me? I was planning on dieing before I reached 100.
Kurama frowned, "Hiei stop that, it isn't that bad."
"Yes it is." Hiei growled.
"So you have to find a mate. It's not a bad thing."
"Damn it all!" Hiei shouted.
As with every Korime, Hiei's reproductive system was really active around this point and if he didn't find someone soon...well...he would be very...uncomfortable for the year. In other words-100 years plus Hiei equals Horny Hiei. The Korime got angry with himself and began to beat his forehead into the forest floor again.
"Hiei you need to stop that...you're going to give yourself a black eye."--;
"I don't care."
"You're birthday isn't for another week and a half, you have some time." Kurama smiled.
"Time for what? Time for me to figure out the least painful way to kill myself?" Hiei groaned.
"I meant you have time to find someone. Then when y-"
"Not a chance in hell."
"Well, with the direction the Rekai Tantei is heading in I'd say you might have a chance to test that theory." Kurama sighed.
"It's all your fault!" Hiei shouted at Kurama pointing an accusing finger.
"So ka? Enlighten me Hiei, how is this 'my fault'?" Kurama asked patiently trying desperately to keep the amusement out of his voice.
"You're the one who made me carry that damn onna back to my house. Then the detective made me take those shackles off her. Then that baka ferry onna came down an-"
"Hiei now is not the time to be blaming people. Koenma-sama would have sent Botan-san down to tell us we needed to fight in this tournament no matter how you look at it. We are lucky we have someone like Rein who knows the territory." Kurama sighed.
"Lucky? That onna has tried to blow me up twice tonight and you say we're lucky to have her? She should just go back to hell!"
"Hiei!"
"Nani? She said herself that is where she comes from."
"Well, we are lucky to have her. I know you a little too well, you obviously provoked her both times."
"Hn-"
"I thought so." Kurama smiled. Hiei was just giving him another 'huh?' look.
All of a sudden Hiei let out a groan and fell onto his back. Kurama sighed, "What now?"
"I have to make sure that ahou doesn't let imoto-chan do anything. She's going to be out of her mind as well."
"Your sister has found someone. Be happy for her."
"Why did she have to pick him. I really wouldn't have minded had she picked you but not that oaf."
"Oh, thank you, that means a lot to me." Kurama smiled.
"That wasn't a compliment!" Hiei snapped.
"Just calm down."
"Hn-" Hiei had a peeved expression on his face and he had his arms crossed over his chest in a stubborn way.
He got up and began to pace. Kurama sighed. Hiei was being childish. Why couldn't he just accept the fact. It wasn't like he could change it. Hiei began to walk away, deeper into the forest. Kurama decided to leave him alone. He looked up into the sky. It was dawn.
Three days later.
Kuwabara was still lying on the ground but he'd stopped screaming so much. A sharp piercing yell would escape every once in a while but nothing else. His haired had grown out and because of the incessant shocking of Rein's ki of which flared in his blood it had grown out in waves. Waves in the shape of light waves (like what you see in physics books) it was streaked with gold and dark red and reached all the way past his waist, it looked like a wavy curtain of fiery satin. He had his eyes shut but the cuts on his face were starting to glow. Rein was sitting on the enigwa letting her ki flare. She had a grim expression on her face. Dawn had just broken, he was supposed to have transformed by now. Kurama came out bright and early with Genkai, Hiei hadn't been seen or heard form for the past two days and now on the third he still refused to show his face.
"You said he would transform at dawn on the third day." Genkai growled.
"Something's wrong...he's taking in a lot more energy than he should." Rein said softly.
"Then why don't you stop?" Kurama asked with a hint of a panic in his voice.
"Because if I do my blood will keep infecting him and it will kill him." Rein stated flatly.
Yusuke came out and he stared down at his friend, his eyes a mixture of pain and sympathy. He turned to Rein and with a glower on his face he asked, "What the fuck is going on?"
"I did everything I should've done. It isn't like I messed up on the spell."
There was a silence that stretched on for quite a while.
"Did you?" Kurama asked.
"Iie. I preformed the spell right, he would turn into a dusk if I were a nocturne and a dawn if I were a...upps(how she pernounces oops)." Rein said.
"What. Do. You. Mean. Oops?" Yusuke asked staring down at Rein with flames in his eyes.
"Shit! I forgot, I'm a twilight, not a nocturne or a diurne." Rein grunted.
"Then what the hell is he turning into?" Yusuke demanded.
"I...well...you see..."
"Spit it out!" Genkai yelled.
"This, kind of, hasn't happened with a twilight before." Rein said.
"WHAT!?!" Kurama, Yusuke, and Genkai shouted.
"Do you mean to tell me he could die?" Genkai asked with a dangerous edge in her voice.
"I...don't...know." Rein said trying to find the right words in the middle of her sentence.
"If he dies I swear I'll rip you limb from limb and string you up on the gate of this shrine." Yusuke threatened.
"I'll let you." Rein whispered. She began to shake and held her knees close to her chest. And continued, "And if you decide against it I'll do it myself."
That made all of them stiffen. They thought she'd just be as cold as always but it was apparent that she wasn't. Kuwabara gave out another cry and curled into a ball.
It was noon before Yukina woke up. She'd been crying throughout the night and had finally fallen asleep just as everyone was waking up. Botan had sat with her through the night holding the mint green haired girl, whispering comforting words to ears that wouldn't listen. They both came outside only to see that Kuwabara was still on the ground and in pain. Yukina tried to rush over to him again only to be caught by...Hiei.
He stared into his little sister's tear filled eyes, then he turned and glared at Rein. He stalked forward to her. Getting directly behind her he took up a battou-jitsu stance. He lashed out and there was a loud clang...Rein blocked with the shackle on her wrist, not even turning around to look him in the eye.
"If you kill me he dies. He has a chance to live...because I am what I am I don't know when his pain will end. If he dies I give you permission to kill me." Rein spoke in a soft tone that surprised everyone.
Hiei lashed out and caught her arm before she could draw away. He examined the strange manacle and realized it came from a Rekai prison.
Hn-. She certainly didn't mention that.
Botan brought out food for everyone but both Rein and Yukina refused to eat. All of them waited. It seemed like forever as the silence stretched on.
"This isn't working!" Yusuke shouted in frustration.
Just as he said that the sun hit the horizon splaying red, gold, and orange rays everywhere in a beautiful sunset. Kuwabara let out a piercing scream and began to scratch the large gouges in his back. He was in a kneeled position but leaning over his knees. His eyes shot open and the whites of his eyes were gold, and his once brown and small irises were now wide enough to fill his eyes and were a fire orange with red streaks that swirled out from his golden pupil. The marks on his face began to glow the colors of the now setting sun. He let out another scream only this time large hawks wings split from the cuts on his back, the feathers the color of the sunset, gold, red, and orange. As if on instinct his stood up and shot into the sky. He formed his spirit sword only now it solidified in his hand as a glowing broad sword made of sunlight and fire. He let out a war cry somewhere between a human and a deranged bird of prey, then shot downwards, obviously planning to attack another certain angle sitting on the enigwa. Rein got up and ran toward the center of the yard, causing Kuwabara to change directions. The raging angel lifted his sword and struck downwards trying to split the Twilight, that had caused his pain and transformation, in two. Rein caught the broad sword and jump kicked Kuwabara out of the air. He hit a tree and slid down it, after a while he looked up the rage in his eyes gone. He groaned and let out a sharp yell as a golden band materialized around the crown of his head. It had small pyramids on it in two lines (like the kind on belts). The three small wisps that usually fell from the front of his hair had split into four and were now long and falling from his forehead, two orange ones in the front and on the sides gold and red ones.
"Shit! Anybody got some ice? Feels like I'm on fire or somethin'." He grunted and slid from a sitting position to a floored one.
"KAZUMA!" Yukina shouted and ran towards him.
"Hey Yukina!" Kuwabara smiled widely as his girlfriend lifted his head and put it in her lap. Hiei glared daggers at him.
"Well, I guess this means I'm a...what was it?...dawn?" Kuwabara laughed.
"Actually we don't know what you are." Yusuke shot Rein a glare.
"What do you mean?"
"I know exactly what he is." Rein growled.
"Well, why didn't you say so earlier." Genkai snapped.
"Because I didn't know before." Rein snarled at the older woman. Looked like she'd regained her regular disposition.
"What am I?" Kuwabara asked, ice crystals growing on him thanks to Yukina.
"A Sunset, hence the way you transformed at sunset." Rein rolled her eyes.
Kuwabara looked up at his head and asked, "What's on my head?"
"Your halo you idiot." Rein snorted.
"Uhh...tell me I can take that off." Kuwabara pleaded.
Rein took off the circlet on her head and looked at it. She frowned at it and then stuck it on Genkai's head. Genkai blinked in surprise.
"If you ever find yourself short on spirit energy, you crack it open and it gives you all of it back."
"Like pressing the 'reset' button on your spirit energy?" Yusuke asked shocked that something could be capable of that other then Puu. Where was that weird penguin thing anyway?
"Pretty much." Rein shrugged.
"Kazuma are you all right?" Yukina asked.
"Hai. I'm fine baby." Kuwabara laughed.
"What'd it feel like?" Yusuke questioned curiously.
"Like someone shoved me into the flames of hell then pulled me back out after an eternity." Kuwabara explained.
Rein laughed at that.
"What?" Kuwabara asked.
"Nothing, nothing." She giggled. (giggling Rein? 0o;)
"No seriously." Kuwabara asked angrily.
"Ahh...it was just a good description." Rein shrugged and began laughing again.
She started to walk away but Kurama caught her around the waist, one handed, and bent down asking her, "Just how close was that description?"
"Wanna find out?" Rein asked with an evil smirk on her face.
Kurama cleared his throat and Rein laughed, "It was only half right if that's what you want. That and the fires of paradise and trust me, the two don't get along."
"You mean you live with that pain?" Kurama asked.
That shut Rein up. She scowled and looked down. She sighed and muttered, "Whatever." And tore away from the kitsune.
She walked away but before leaving she said, "Tall man. I'd find a shirt to destroy, you won't be able to put you're wings in your back for another three days. By the way, your flying sucks so we're going to have some fun practicing later." She had an almost feral grin on her face.
Kuwabara paled considerably as he watched the twilight's receding back. Hiei turned his head to look at the girl. Her walk was fluid, and cat-like. He looked then at her face and almost jumped. Pale skin with peachy cheeks, her face was sharp, her lips were black red and nicely shaped the lower fuller then the top, her irises were shining with her aura and glimmered against the black back round of her eyes, her long lashes on her lowered lids were casting small shadows against her cheeks in the dimming light of the day, she was staring at the ground as if it weren't there, just lost in her thoughts. Even though she looked emotionless at the moment for some reason the way she moved screamed, 'leave me alone if you know what's good for you'.
I forgot, she's pretty...WHERE IN THE SEVEN HELLS DID THAT COME FROM?!
Hiei eyes almost widened at his own thoughts.
Well, she is, there's no way of really get around that. What am I even...? It's because I'm turning 100, damn it! All of a sudden anything female looks appealing!
"Uhh...you guys?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yeah, what?" Yusuke answered.
"How long have I been out?"
"Three days." Genkai answered.
"Tell me someone called Shizuru and explained." He whimpered at the thought of his older sister knocking him senseless because he had worried her.
"No, were we supposed to?" Yusuke asked quirking and eyebrow.
"Crap. I was hoping one of you would tell her about the whole changing into something that's not human thing. She's gonna kill me." Kuwabara whined.
"Hn-. If she recognizes you." Hiei snorted.
"Shut up shrimp! No one asked your opinion." Kuwabara muttered.
"Someone needs to follow her. I don't want her going off alone. We now have enemies that are capable of killing us in Ningenkai. Besides which I trust her about as much as I could out fly her." Genkai snorted.
"Kurama'll do it!" Yusuke cheered.
"I will?" --;
"Sure you will!" Yusuke smiled.
Kurama sighed, "I would but, number one- I don't know where she is and most probably couldn't find her, number two- where ever she's going she's far to fast for someone such as I to keep up, and number three- I don't think she'll take kindly to the idea of me stalking her."
Every one turned and stared...at our favorite Jaganshi.
I got no reviews on the last chapter T-T I think I'm going to cry. JK! Please review though. Even if you already have. Feel free to criticize on anything! I tried to make this chapter very long! I'm sorry if it looks like a chaotic series of events that have almost nothing to do with what comes before them but I tried! Thank you for reading!