Healing and Misunderstanding

When Caralama finally woke up a week after she was refreshed and strong but a bit hungry. The room she was in was quite dark but she could still see the demons in front of her as her. Her pendant cast a warm kind of light through out the room. She cast a spell and a bowl of cereal filled with milk and a spoon appeared in front of her. She watched the two demons on the floor carefully as she ate as quietly as she could.

When she was done she waved her hand and the bowl and spoon were gone. She sat there for a second and then finally said, "I must be crazy." She got out of the bed and lifted her hand and moved it over to the bed and Hiei's body lifted into the air and went over to the bed. Caralama gently lowered her hand and Hiei was laid on the bed with the sheets pulled to the end of the bed, she did the same thing to Yoko. When they both were on the bed Caralama looked over their burns. She figured they would heal nicely on their own and leave no scares behind since she could not kill. But she was a healer by nature and she could not ignore the fact that they had to be looked after. She gently went into Hiei's mind and found a map of the place. She saw that across the hall from her room was a kind of medical room.

Caralama went out of his head and went out to the room. When she was there she found the witch doctor that had fixed Hiei's neck. She noticed that he was chained to the wall. She went into his mind and found out that he had been stolen from his family when he was a young boy and she felt sorry for him. She muttered a spell and the witch doctor was gone, she had sent him to her uncle's.

Caralama knew that she could escape with him but the healer in her kept her there knowing that there were two demons in the next room and they needed her. She found some healing herbs and roots that she needed to soothe the burns and make the demons a bit stronger. She also found a special kind of root that could paralyze even the most powerful person so that they could not move for a certain amount of time if heated up but if it were cold it wouldn't do anything.

She returned to the bedroom and relocked the door. She waved her hand and special healing candles lit up the dark room. She then began to crush the herbs into dust and mixed the roots and some water together in a pot. She also added the paralyzing root to the pot. She then made a fire in the middle of the room and levitated the pot over it. Casting a spell on a long mixing spoon she had found in the medical room so that it would stir the potion. She took the crushed herbs in a small bowl and mixed them with some water in a slightly larger bowl. She stirred it together with her hand until it was somewhat thick. Caralama began to sing a song of healing and her pendant began to glow blue as she went over to Yoko.

There were burns all over his body and the robe he was wearing was blackened by the fire and burnt off in places. The fireball had gotten them both squarely in their fronts. Caralama began to put the soothing mixture on Yoko's arms where the burns were the most bad. Neither Hiei nor Yoko looked good. She took another look at them while she was singing and applied the mixture to Yoko's body. The fireball singed their clothes and there was barely any clothe covering their bodies. Their worst burns were covered with heat blisters. Yoko's ears were practically singed off.

Hiei looked like he had taken the worst of it. His long-sleeved dress-like robe was nothing but ashes on the floor showing he had no shirt under it but his pants. His body was covered all over the front with bright red heat blisters and was showing some infections in some of his burns. They were over his face as well showing that he might not have covered his face when the fireball had hit him. His hair was also burnt but it hadn't caught on fire either showing he had tried to protect his face but not on time. But something scared her more than the shape his body was in. Hiei had been wearing a white bandana around his head that was now ashes. Now she wished that it wasn't in ashes for underneath the bandana was his third eye. The eye that could let Hiei hear thoughts, read minds, control weak minds and levitate objects and give him his full ultimate power was not harmed and opened.

It scared the living day lights out of Caralama but she still sang and went on with her work on Yoko. When she was finished with him she went over to Hiei's body with her mind in his and a secure mind-block on her mind so he couldn't get into hers.

When she got to his side nothing happened but she swore that the third eye was watching her. But she still sang and her pendant still glowed blue as she took the mixture and began applying it over his face careful as to not touch the third eye. She began to hate herself for loosing her temper and throwing the fireball at the demons. She wasn't sorry for doing it to them but the moment she touched Hiei's face she was filled with compassion for him that made her hate herself even more.

Caralama was still singing but the words felt so heavy that she felt they were strangling her as she put the mixture on the rest of Hiei's body. She did it as quickly and carefully as she could. When she was done she stopped singing and put the bowl on a bedside table and went to the bathroom on the other side of the room. She turned the water on and washed the mixture off her hands and sat on the edge of the tub and cried out her heart. She cried because she was far from home, she cried because she had fallen for the trap that Hiei had set for her, and she cried because she just had to cry.

Hiei woke up to the sound of Caralama's crying and he felt sore all over. All he remembered was a fireball coming toward Yoko and him and a sweet sounding voice that made him feel better. He also remembered someone putting some kind of cool mixture on his burns and then the beautiful voice sounded like it was being strangled during the time the mixture was being put on him. Hiei turned his head painfully and saw Yoko sleeping beside him with some kind of greenish mixture covering his burns.

All at once the crying stopped. He moved his head back into the position that it had been in and saw Caralama standing above him. Her baby blue eyes were wet with tears and her milky white skin was now bright red around her eyes. Caralama's hair was framing her face and then it dropped down and fell on him. The mixture that was on his body prevented her hair from touching the bare skin on his chest. Hiei looked into her eyes and saw pain, sadness and anger. He felt himself dropping into unconsciousness and he was scared now because this girl could easily kill him and Yoko. Why she hadn't done it yet was strange to him so he tried to go into her mind but saw that it was strongly blocked. He moved his head again and looked toward Yoko. He'd always been there for him and supported him in battle and robberies. He looked back at Caralama, she was so beautiful even with her face tear stained. Yoko had warned him about her but he had been too blinded by her beauty to listen. Every time he went into her room and sat on the bed and touched her face he would whisper things that he thought he would never say. It hurt him to think that this witch or siren had entranced him with her beauty and voice and that he had actually fell for it. Instead of her falling for his trap he had fallen into hers. It might have been to late but he looked back at Yoko and just before he fell into unconsciousness he sent a message into Yoko's mind, "I'm sorry Yoko that I didn't listen to you. You tried to warn me about her but I just made excuses and didn't listen to you. I hope that its not to late to ask if you think of me as a friend because I think of you as my friend," and with that he lifted his head back into position and just before he fell asleep his face showed that of retaliation and he fell into unconsciousness.

Caralama had heard every word and thought in Hiei's mind. A small tear fell from her eye and landed on his blistered mouth. Where the tear had landed the blisters suddenly began to heal and he absent-mindedly licked it away. But Caralama had turned around and didn't see this. She went to the pot that was boiling over the fire and waited a little while longer before the potion was ready. When the potion was ready she took two bowls and filled them with the potion.

She first went to Yoko's side of the bed. She said a spell and a bucket of cold water was at the side of the bed with a wet cloth in it and she wiped off the healing mixture with it. After she had wiped off all the healing mixture and put the cloth back into the bucket she fed him the potion. There were no heat blisters on his body anymore and his burns were pink now, his ears looked better as well. Caralama gently covered his body with the covers and she went to Hiei's side of the bed and summoned a chair right next to his side of the bed. She sat in the chair and she was surprised at how weak she was. Then she took the wet cold cloth from the bucket that she had levitated over to the other side of the bed and washed his body clean. She gasped at the strength his arms showed and at the harden muscles on his chest. Without thinking she put her hand on his chest right over the place where his heart should have been but she didn't feel a single beat. With tears in her eyes she finished cleaning his face carefully going around the third eye. When she put the cloth back into the bucket and she had gently put the covers over him then her hand went automatically went back to the place over his chest. She reached for the potion on the bedside table and a hand went suddenly over her hand that was still on Hiei's chest. Startled she tried to pull her hand away but the hand was too strong to pull away from and she was still to weak from trying to take care of both of them.

"Did you think that if you held your hand over my chest long enough you'd feel a heartbeat?"

Caralama looked down scared and saw that Hiei was wide-awake glaring and smiling wickedly at her.

Hiei now looked into Caralama's eyes and saw what he had wanted to see. Fear. It was in her eyes, on her face and he could smell it and yet he wasn't happy like he thought he might be, like he wanted to be.

He looked at her face and saw tears there. He also started to hear her cry in a voice that seemed familiar to him. Then he remembered that he had heard that voice while he was still unconscious only it was singing. He looked at her and then he looked at the bedside table where Caralama had left the mixture and where she had put the potion with the paralyzing root in it. Could she have been the one that was singing and applying that cool mixture on to me? He began to wonder to himself.

"I'm sorry that I hurt you I was trying to heal you," began Caralama in a sad voice that still sounded like soft bells.

"Don't give me that," answered Hiei in an angry harsh hiss, "You attacked me and Yoko and almost killed us, you didn't want to heal us. Why you haven't killed us already is far from me but I wont let you."

Caralama looked deep into his mind and saw that he didn't know that she couldn't kill anyone until she was eighteen. "I haven't killed you yet because I can't," she started to say again in her sad voice but then she couldn't say anymore because a lump was forming in her throat.

Hiei looked at her confused at what she had said. Then he began misunderstand she when she said she couldn't kill him. He began to think could she love him? If only she would let him into her mind to see.

Caralama heard what he had thought and she felt like Yoko had kicked her in the stomach again. Hiei loved her? Is that why she wasn't dead? Because Hiei the heartless demon was in love with her.

Hiei saw that Caralama was about to cry again and he didn't know what to do. So he dragged her down and put her on top of him. Caralama resisted a bit, surprised by what he was doing but went down anyway because she didn't have the energy to fight. She laid her head on top his chest with her hair covering his body and with Hiei's hand on top her head she started to cry. He could feel her tears sliding down his chest. Hearing her cry hurt him so much that he wished he could something to help her.

"Shh it's all right please don't cry everything is going to be okay," He kept on saying it to her until she finally stopped and her breathing was now normal and calm. It took a while but then he noticed she was sleeping. He began to notice that Caralama's long hair was on his body as well and it felt like he was covered with strands silk. He began to stroke her silver golden hair and kept muttering things to no one in particular. He tried again to go into her mind again but her mind block was still there and secure.

Then she woke up. It was quite so sudden that he wasn't prepared for it when she jolted herself up into a sitting position in her chair, but Hiei still had a hold on her wrist so she still had to bend forward. Caralama looked so scared when Hiei looked into her eyes that he began to talk to her in a quiet calm voice, "Don't be scared Caralama no one here is going to hurt you and live to tell about it." Hiei said it in such a strong and meaning full voice that she had to turn her head so that he couldn't see her tears.

"Then why are you holding my wrist so hard that it hurts?"

Hiei looked at her wrist and saw that he had cut off the circulation to her wrist. He let go of her hand and said, "I'm sorry Caralama. I didn't know I was hurting you. Will you please look at me?" Caralama heard the truth in his voice and slowly turned her head to look at him. She saw that he looked like he wouldn't harm her but except for the ones her family she had never fully trusted any kind of man. Yet she had cried on his chest and he had tried to calm her down. Caralama held her wrist to her chest and began to rub it, "Caralama I'm really sorry that I hurt you I didn't mean to."

"I bet that is what my father said to my mother after he had done something terrible to her. Because of what he and you did, I can't fully trust you even if you are telling the truth," Caralama saw the pain her words had done to him as she looked into his eyes.

She had to turn her head away from Hiei as she felt new tears coming and then she saw the potion on the bedside table. She took it knowing that since it was cold the paralyzing root wouldn't work but now she didn't want to paralyze him anymore, "This will help you get stronger Hiei." Caralama began in a tired voice, "I already gave some to Yoko so he is going to be fine."

Hiei looked at her for a while and accepted the potion that she fed him. It was a bit cooled but he didn't complain. When the potion was gone Hiei began to feel sleepy with his stomach full with the potion.

"Caralama I'm not your father and I don't know what he did to make you act this way. But please Caralama; don't put me in his place. I know that I haven't made a good first impression on many occasions but please don't take it the wrong way, but I ask you to give me a second chance if it is possible."

Caralama had put the bowl back onto the bedside table but she had heard all that he had said. She looked at Hiei and thought to herself. A second chance? Oh Hiei if only I could believe that you aren't like my father that would make me so happy. "I'm sorry Hiei but what my father did was so terrible that I don't think I could fully trust a man who is outside of my family. Don't get me wrong Hiei, I want to trust you it would make me so happy if I could trust you with my life," Caralama saw the glint of hope in his eyes when she said she would like to trust him. But even though it was becoming hard to speak and even though she didn't want to make Hiei give up that hope she had to tell him the truth and with tears threatening to come down she said, "But wanting Hiei and doing are two entirely different things. I'm sorry but my father did something to me even before I was thought of and no one not even the most powerful creature or simplest creation can change that."

Hiei looked into Caralama's eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. She did want to trust him but she just couldn't. He saw the tears in her eyes and he didn't want to her to cry again. What did her father do to make her hurt so much? He thought to himself, as the first silent tear fell down Caralama's cheek. He reached and brushed it gently away from her cheek. Then with some effort he sat up and sat with his legs over the bed and he gently brought her to the bedside. He wrapped his arm around her brought her head to the crook of his neck and laid his head on top of hers. Caralama was just to tired to resist and when Hiei had wrapped his arms around her she started to silently cry on his shoulder. Then her arms of their own will wrapped around his waist. They stayed like that for a least ten minutes until Caralama was just too tired to do anything. Hiei kept on stroking her hair and was silent all the way through but now he felt Caralama getting tired in his arms, "Caralama I can feel you getting tired..." he started but couldn't bring himself to ask her the question.

Caralama looked at him and saw what he wanted to ask her so she took the plunge, "Yes Hiei I'm very tired. You look like your just as tired as me," Caralama began to lean Hiei back a bit onto the bed, "If I sleep with you will you go to sleep as well?"

Hiei looked at her as if not believing what she was saying, "Only if you want to Caralama I don't want to force you into something you don't want to do,"

Hiei didn't notice it but he was already on the bed and she had carefully laid her head on his chest over the place where was his heart was supposed to be. She then laid the rest of her body beside his as he moved to give her more room on the bed and pulled he the sheets over her. Hiei kept an arm around her shoulders and took her hands with his other one and gently unwrapped them from his waist and laid them by her head on his chest. Caralama was surprised at how safe she felt in his arms. She took a breath and she began to smell something like the sweet smell of smoldering fire. She looked up at Hiei and saw that he had a warm smile on his face. She gave him a smile to but it was to dark to see it. She put her head back down on top of his chest and took in another breath and she knew that it was Hiei's sent that she could smell. Caralama went to sleep instantly with a smile on her face but Hiei was still awake. His hand was still over her hands and was stroking her stroking her long hair with the other hand and occasionally rubbing her ears. He looked up at the ceiling with questionable thoughts in his head. Then he took in a breath and he began to smell roses and lilacs. He looked down at the sleeping Caralama and took in another breath and found out that it was her sent that he could smell. He smiled and thought, I will always remember what you smell like Caralama, then he heard soft a kind of purring voice. He looked down again and with his hand he stroked behind Caralama's ears again and he heard her start to purr and with that he went to sleep with a smile on his face.