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Chapt. 13
"Kill" And the Crescent Moon
"You were gunna kill me if I attacked?! Come here Hiei, we're gunna play a little game," I say in a deathly calm, moving closer to Hiei with an evil grin on my face. "It's called 'Kill'. And you get to be the prey." I lunge at him and he takes off running around the corn clearing. "Stop moving you bastard!"
"I'm the prey. You think they just stand there and let themselves get killed?"
"Yes!" I fling leaves at him and they immediately turn into blades. Hiei turns and bats the blades away with his katana. I had already jumped behind him and summoned my fire katana. I point it at his back and press it gently against it. "You're dead. 'Kill' has a new prey." I laugh and race into the cornfield. My katana had gone back into my body because the corn would have gone ablaze if it hadn't.
Hiei raced silently behind me, closing the gap quickly. My heart raced with my feet. This was the most fun I was having since training started. The wind played with my hair and beat in my ears. I forgot all about everything around me. It was just me and the wind.
The sun was sinking silently beneath the western border behind me as the moon loomed overhead before me. The grayish tint in the twilight hours of this night grew blacker still. The field around me grew darker and more shadowed. This is the time of the wolves. The hunt was beginning and I was the prey. A shadow raced quietly behind me, for I could see it mingling with my own. But that was soon forgotten as the light went out and the moon was my only guide.
An unknown force suddenly pushes me to the ground. The weight is heavy upon me as I overcome the sudden shock. Out of instinct, I thrash about madly, clawing the corn laden soil. I am forced on my back and pinned there. I struggle a while longer, but the being won't move. I stop and look through the shadowed dark, spotting a pair of red eyes like mine.
"You're dead," he mocks proudly.
I say nothing, just lay there and gaze into the captivating eyes before me.
"Now what?" he asks, getting off and sitting beside me.
I sit up and stare at my feet. A cool breeze makes its way through the maze of corn and caresses my sweating face. "I dunno. I like it out here though." Sighing, I lie back and fold my arms under my head as a pillow.
"I guess it is kind of nice," Hiei puts carelessly. I don't think he could know nice if it bit him in the ass. He'd probably think it was a dog – not I'm degrading his intelligence at all.
"Like you'd know what nice is," I mock, smirking at his darkened figure. He was leaning back on his hands, staring at the silver moon.
He made no answer. Not even a typical glare. He just stared at the moon. I too returned my gaze to the lonely moon. And yet another scene played in my mind:
The nameless man once again took the stage, looking into the silver crescent moon. He called to it; you see, he had lost his one and only. He begged and prayed for his love to return. He asked why he had been fated to lose her. Why the world had to go on without her there. He cried to the moon, the cold summer night, and asked it to send him an answer. An answer as to why the Gods did not favor their love; why they had cheated his fate to be with her. He bore a child in his leathered hands and asked the moon to bless this child by bringing back the mother. His sorrow filled howls rang upon the winds as he pleaded for the moon and the stars and the Gods above to save the child by returning the mother to it. A bright light flashed and thunder cracked and from the sky above a chariot, laden in silver and gold, came down upon the unholy earth. The faceless woman stepped from the white light and ran to the saddened wolf with open arms. They embraced, the wolf and fox, and held their child within.
This crescent moon Hiei and I looked upon tonight reminded me so of the memories I did not know were mine. I couldn't help but feel an undeniable comfort; being near Hiei made me feel so safe and sound I thought I'd never wish to leave. But, all too soon, the thought of the others entered our minds.
"We should get back. The others will start to wonder," Hiei whispers.
"I know, but I wish to stay here. All night, just right here with this feeling under this sky."
"What feeling?" he asks, turning to look down at me.
"Security. Being with you...I don't know why, but whenever I'm with you the feeling always hangs." I look at him. He just kinda stares at the dirt, like he's thinking deeply about what I said.
"We should go," he repeats, standing up. He turns and offers me his hand. I look at it and hesitantly take it. He pulls me to my feet and walks back towards the clearing. I bound after him and walk silently beside him.
When we enter the spot, everyone has already turned in.
"Doesn't look like they were too concerned about us," I whisper.
Hiei just shakes his head and walked over to a tree stump. I use one of my many leaves to turn into a fox/wolf combination animal (illusion, of course). My nose is suddenly overcome by a wonderful scent. I sleepily follow it to Hiei's tree stump. Half asleep, I jump on top of it, curl up, and fall into a dreamless slumber.
