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KuramaIsFine: You know how in the beginning of chapt 43 Yusuke and Darkfire had that little dispute? Well, she slept outside because she needed time to think about how she was going to deal with seeing the face on the murderer that killed her family. You know, alone time... Hope that helps a little.


Chapt. 44

Anything for Your Love

"You wouldn't really do that," Hiei growls in fake fear, eying the fork that hung dangerously close to his delicate Jagan.

"Wouldn't I? An act such as that deserves punishment," I say calmly, resting the prongs lightly on his bandana. "No, you're probably right. I wouldn't do that to you, no matter how much you deserved it." I throw the useless fork into the far wall and offer Hiei a hand. Swiftly, and without much warning, he takes something bloody and rams it through my hand, sticking it to the floor. It was the knife I had thrown into his leg.

I curse in pain.

"You are too trusting," Hiei sneers, standing up. He makes a motion to kick my head, but stops in mid-kick; he must've seen my barrier go up. "That won't save you forever." His glare is hard and steady upon me, waiting. But, behind his eyes, there was a hint of guilt.

"Hiei…"

"You told me you would do what ever it took to keep my love."

"And I will, Hiei. Anything!"

"Don't protect me anymore! Stop putting spells on me that will keep me from pain; pain that is mine. Cut me! And if I bleed, I will accept that as payment."

Did he not know that the spell was gone?

Hiei begins to glow slightly, a reddish color with hints of black. He assumed it was a spell disappearing, but he assumed wrong. I was not taking a spell away; I was putting one on him. A stronger spell that Tanashi would not be able to cancel out. The glow left him.

"Cut me," he demanded, tapping a finger lightly on his right cheek. I stood and drew my nail across his cheek. Blood dribbled down, dripping off his face. The cut then began to disappear from his face, though the blood remained.

A sharp sting came on my right cheek.

"I told you to take the spell from me!"

"You said if you bled, and you bled," I say matter-of-factly, pointing to the blood still on his face.

"I told you to remove the spell!"

"And there was not a spell to remove." A flash of silver came up my face. A burning sting comes over my left eye and I see red. "AHHHHHHHH!!!" I scream in pain, holding my eye with my hands.

I was answered with silence.

Blood poured out of my eye and into it. I remove my bloody right hand from my face and let it fall to my side. Quivering in pain, I fall back to the floor.

"Why, Darkfire?! Why?!"

"Why what? Why do I defy you?" I mock blindly.

"Yes, why!?"

"Because love makes you do stupid things." I stare at him through my right eye, which was slightly squinted. His face was no longer carved into stone, but it was still unsmiling. He knelt down beside me and held out a white cloth of sorts.

"No wonder you're always acting as you are then, if that is truly so." He lays the cloth on my knee and left me alone in the room. I stare at the cloth for a moment before taking it up and holding in on the left side of my face.Theslashwas thick and slightly curved away from my ear. I would be forever partly, if not completely, blind out of this eye now, all thanks to Hiei Jaganshi…the bastard I love.

I stumble to my feet after a while. Before leaving the room, I grab a steak. And the moment I step into the next room, Yusuke notices me…and my eye.

"Oi, what the Hell happened to you?" he asks me.

"Ask Hiei," I answer, smirking in satisfactory as I walk out of the room. The moment I step out the door of the lobby, fifteen floors from my room, I hear Yusuke:

"YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!"

I laugh lightly to myself. Beginning to devour my dinner, I jump into a suitable tree for the night. I had stopped bleeding, but I couldn't see. My lid hung lazily over my wounded eye, as if trying to protect it from another attack. Every now and then it would twitch with pain and irritation. It settled down when I closed my eyes for sleep.

"Sleep tight, child. For tomorrow you will wake only to sleep for eternity!" a voice cackled in my head.

"Tanashi!!" I yell, jolting awake. "Know this, Tanashi: I will kill you before my time ends!" I vow.

Laughter answers me. Slowly, it fades away.