Katanas on Ice, Hearts on Fire YYH Hiei A Little Family History
Holy cow, it happened again. What are the chances of that? You were standing in line, staring into space.
"Hey! Sandwich or soup? Or both."
You look at the ogre who had spoke. He was red, with yellow horns. You look at the soup. Tomato. The sandwich was corned beef, with Swiss cheese, on sourdough bread.
He picks whatever it is up and plops it on your plate. Red. Red was just the color of the day, wasn't it? Red soup…red ogre…red in the sandwich…red plate…red blood-
Red eyes…
That thought came out of nowhere.
No. No thoughts like that. Focus.
You start to take your food back to your room, when someone places a hand on your shoulder.
"Hey, why don't you eat with us. After all you are part of the team now.
It was Yusuke, and it was not a question, but a statement. You follow him to the table where the rest of the gang was sitting- including Hiei and a few girls you'd never seen before. You try to sit down as far away as possible from them, but he steers you right between a girl with dark brown hair, and a girl with teal hair. The brown haired girl smiles and says "Hello, I'm Keiko Yukimura." You nod. The girl on the other side smiles also, but hers is small, and slightly sad. "Hello, I'm Yukina." You look at her a bit more closely. She looked like a-
Koorime. That's because she is.
Hello, Hiei. Nice of you to pop in.
You glare across the table at him. Then you notice something. You look at Yukina, then back at Hiei. They had the same eyes. Not just shape, but color too. You close your eyes and focus on their spirit energies, first separate, then together, then separate again. Definitely similar- if not the same.
Hiei…You two wouldn't happen to be related, would you?
Across the table, Hiei glared at you.
If you say a thing-
You were starting to laugh. He hurriedly covers your mouth.
The others are a little confused.
" Did we miss something?"
" I think so."
"Anyone other then me get the feeling that she figured out that-"
Yusuke was cut off by Keiko and Kurama, who both shut him up by slamming their hands over his mouth. He kept trying to speak.
"Wat? E divot zay enyting."
Hiei gives you a look.
See what you've started?
I didn't do anything. You"re the one who is covering my mouth. Now move it before I bite it.
He withdraws his hand. You glare at him, and he glares at you.
You glance down at your uneaten food.
"I'm done. See you guys later."
"I believe I will be going as well."
You and Yukina stand up and exit. Hiei follows you both, not even bothering to say anything.
Yusuke and Kurama let go of Kuwabara, who goes back to eating. Yusuke does the same. Kurama quietly excuses himself, and follows.
You walk back to your room, in attempted silence. But Yukina started talking, and soon you were both chatting happily. You had momentarily forgotten the confusion, anger, and out of place feeling of the last few days. You reached her door first.
"This is my room. Good-bye, Rai."
"Bye, Yukina."
You keep walking, until you reach your room. You open the door and walk in, shutting the door behind you. You feel a rush of air, but ignored it. The sunshine was shining through, making the room shine. Resisting the urge to hiss, you close the curtains, making the room perfectly dark. You breathe a sigh of relief, and lay out on the bed. Out of the corner of your eye you see the lighting orb. Then it goes out. You jump up, pulling your katana out.
"Who's there?"
No answer. Someone was in the room, you were sure of it. But striking out blindly would do no good either. But if you could see…
Slowly you make your way to the curtains. You grasped one, and started to pull. Someone else grabbed your wrist, and pulled it away from the curtain. You were more than a little freaked out by this.
"Let go!"
No response.
You try to pull away, but their grip was too strong.
"Let go!"
There is a flash, and the person let's go. Hurriedly, you open the curtains and glance at your "attacker".
"Hiei!"
He was sucking on a finger. You must have shocked him. Right now, you didn't care.
You curse colorfully at him. "What were you doing? I could have killed you! Do you have a death wish?" (Yeah, basically you say all of them at him.)
He wasn't looking at you.
" I needed to explain. So you don't go around with the wrong idea."
"And you needed to scare the crap out of me to do that?"
" No, but it was funny."
"Oh yeah, real hilarious."
"Hn."
You take a few deep breaths. Your temper was going back down now. You didn't feel like you were going to kill him.
"What did you need to explain?"
"About Yukina."
"Yes…"
"She's my sister."
"I expected that, but you"re a fire demon, and she's a Koorime. How the heck-"
"It's a long story."
"I've got time."
He sighs.
"On the island of the Koorimes, It is forbidden to mate with anyone who is not also an ice demon. Well, my mother, Hina, mated with the worst possible- a fire demon. I was born, and called The Forbidden Child. Also, Yukina was born, but she turned out whole Koorime. I was rejected by the council of elders, and sentenced to be thrown off the Floating Isle. My mother, however, didn't have the heart to do it herself, so her sympathetic friend, Rui, did it. But before she did, she gave me one of my mother's tear gems. Yukina has one as well. When I returned, my mother had died."
You look down at the ground.
"I don't want your sympathy. I just wanted you to know so you didn't go around with the wrong idea. Might as well tell you- everyone else knows. Except her."
"WHAT!"
"I made a promise I wouldn't tell her."
You stand there shocked. He leaves, without even looking at you.
" And people think I have an attitude problem." You look at the lightning orb. It was covered with a black cloth.
That would be how it went out. You pull the cloth off and study the globe. "Time to figure this out." You pick the orb up and hold it up. It reminded you of a full moon. A full moon…there was one tonight. The number. What about the number. 371.
"I gotta take a walk…"