Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original Yu Yu Hakusho characters, but only Ynn and any other characters that may happen to appear in this fanfic.
Ch. 4
To see, or not to see
I woke in something quite soft. There were people speaking all around me. I opened my eyes but did not see anything. Then I slowly realized that I could sense who the people around me were: Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, Gen Kai, and someone I did not recognize. However, as I focused on him, I somehow learned who he was. He was a doctor named Saito who was a very kind and loving person. Saito placed his hand on my cheek and turned my face. From what I could tell, he was trying to look into my eyes.
"Irreversible." He said after a moment.
"What's going on…?" I asked quietly.
"You've gone blind." Said Saito.
"Well I realize that…but I used to have eyedrops that kept me from going blind."
"Really? Well where are they?"
"My eye doctor has them…" I said wearily.
"Well I shall alert Koenma of the situation and get him to send you the eyedrops."
Saito patted my arm and left the room. I felt the bed move as someone sat next to me: Kurama. I couldn't see what he was doing, I just knew it was him, but I didn't care anyways. I was too worried; what if I was blinded for the rest of my life? But this thing about being able to see people without actually using my sight was helpful. As if Kurama knew what I was thinking, he spoke quietly to me.
"Don't worry, I'm sure your vision can be returned to you."
I did not respond. Something else began to bother me…I was having a harder time of controlling my powers. It seemed they were going everywhere at once. I could see the spells washing over everyone like small tidal waves of grey water. Suddenly, people around me were screaming, crying, laughing, talking to people who weren't there. But there was one who was not affected by my spell.
I felt cold steel to my neck. It took me a moment to see who it was. It was a demon, that much I was sure of. Then I realized it was Hiei. I felt my own blood trickle down my neck. How could he have avoided my spells? Not that I was upset or anything, at least someone was left in a sane state of mind. But still, the fact that he could avoid it meant that he had great power.
"Perform the countercurse."
"I…I can't…my powers…they're…"
"It wasn't a suggestion." He leaned a little upon the blade, causing more blood to stream down my neck.
I sighed and concentrated hard. The countercurse was hard to do and for a moment, I wondered how Yusuke had managed to get out of my curse.
"Kurama performed it." Hiei hissed. "Now do it!"
I found myself quite infuriated that he would dare to enter my mind unbidden, and when I did my vision slowly came back to me as did my power of control over my powers. As soon as it did, I performed the countercurse, causing everyone who had been in an odd state to come back to reality. Hiei glared down at me and I stared back up at him.
"How dare you?" I said, my voice shaking with fury.
Hiei seemed taken aback. It was well known that when I became angry, chaos was known to erupt upon the earth all around me. The earth began to shake.
"Foul mortal, you shall not enter my mind again!" my voice was harsh and echoed as if I was speaking into a large, empty room.
I reached up, grabbed him by the neck, and threw him to the other side of the room with such speed and power that he was quickly knocked out. The others stared at me while I tried to calm down. It was at that point that a portal opened just to my right and a bottle of eyedrops fell through, the portal closing behind it. As I calmed down, my sight waned, and when I was finally calm, I was blind again.
I felt for the bottle and picked it up. I could hear the others gathering around Hiei and Yusuke grabbed my arm in a vice-like grip. I sighed. My anger always got me in trouble. Before anything could be done, however, there was a groan from where Hiei was lying unconscious. It seemed he was coming to. After a moment, I heard Hiei say, "Let her be, she did not attack without reason." With that, he left my room. Reluctantly Yusuke let go of my arm and Kurama came over to me.
"Would you like me to put the eyedrops in your eyes for you?" He asked quietly.
"I…I do not know…"
To tell the truth, at that point I wasn't quite sure what was better. To be able to see would be nice, but to be able to see who people were, their past, their names, what they do, what kind of people they are…wouldn't that be better? And I had proved that at certain points I could see again. Kurama did not ask me why I was not sure, but placed the bottle of eyedrops on something to my left (it sounded wooden and my guess was that it was a nightstand) and then left the room. Kuwabara left silently, but I could tell he was staring at me the entire time. Yusuke told me he was leaving a bell right next to my hand so if I needed anything or if I had decided on what to do I could just ring it, then left. My head was spinning. What was I to do? What did I want? To see or not to see? Either way I would be able to see, one way or the other…I sighed and decided that perhaps sleep would help me clear my head.
