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Hiei stood in the hall dumbfounded. Had she not been thinking that she wanted him to like her? He slumped back down and banged the back off his head against the pillar. What was he going to do?
He decided to go and talk with her. Brilliant little fire demon isn't he? He slowly made his way to her room trying to figure out how he was going to explain that little showing of emotion. Luckily, when he walked into the room there was the man who had caused all this, Arden. Well I didn't say what kind of luck it was now did I?
"Hiei!" Misha was pinned on her bed by Arden.
"Why you..." Arden stood up and stared at Hiei with a passionately loathing look in his eyes.
"You think you can beat both of us?" Hiei leaned against Misha's door frame.
"No so I will just send Miho, back home." Arden snapped and a light surrounded Misha. "Unless you can stop me."
Hiei made no sound he just ran with his katana at Arden's stomach.
"Now, now. Where's the fun in that. Crimson Flood!" Hiei stopped mid leap. Pain erupted from his stomach.
"Arden no you'll kill him!" Misha couldn't move. Realization dawned on her. Arden had found her bell when he had first fought Hiei.
"Ah, my Littler Butterfly." Arden kissed her cheek, which caused Misha to squirm.
"Hiei! Please I need you! He has the bell. Some one help. Hiei's dying! Kurama!" Misha screamed at the top of her lungs so that no one in human would could have missed her.
Hiei slowly lifted his head. This man was taking what was his. He didn't stand up but he hurled his sword at the demon's wrist. The wrist with the bell tied around it. Of came Arden's hand and off came the bell Misha was let go and she quickly grabbed the bell.
"Hiei." Misha next ran over to the still body on the floor. "No. NO!" Tears streamed down her face she looked up at the ceiling. Her lips formed soundless words. A small blue ball of light went out of Misha's chest and into Hiei's. Slowly Hiei's body began to move.
"Misha?" Came the weakest whisper ever heard.
"I'm here..." She hugged him trying to be careful not hurt him. "Hiei I need you." She looked back to Arden. "Dragons of the flame." The light and dark dragons swirled around her.
Arden froze in fear then disappeared. Hiei looked up at the girl holding him. He had died. He knew it. He had died and seen Misha give him some of her soul. He owed her his life. He opened his mouth to speak but Misha spoke first.
"Hiei, I- thank you for saving me." Misha bit her lip. She wanted to tell him everything, how confused she was from him. That she loved him. Everything.
Hiei stood up his head just clearing Misha's shoulders. With out a word he walked out to the door and opened it. "Misha," He turned his head. "You won't understand how much I hate you."
Her face fell. Here was the truth what he felt she nodded and forced out a smile. " I'm sorry but I'll try to understand."
"That's not what I meant, baka." Hiei just stayed by the door. "I hate you because you make me crazy. I never know how to act around you."
"What?" Misha looked up with the look of misunderstanding mixed with a bit of hope.
Hiei mumbled something and turned away.
"I'm sorry would you repeat that I couldn't hear?" Misha stepped closer to him
"I LOVE YOU, DAMMIT! I have no clue why except when ever I'm near you, you make me crazy!" Hiei stood with his back to her.
"Hiei I had no clue!" A voice came from the hallway. There was Kurama.
"Not you, Fox, the girl. Are you gay?" Hiei asked Kurama.
"No, but you kind of scared me when you yelled that and I was walking down the hall."
Hiei looked back at Misha and she was smiling with her head turned to the floor. Tears flowing freely. "Why are you crying now?" Hiei asked in a pissed tone. He had just confessed that he felt the stupid little emotion called love.
"I love you too." Misha calmly stated. Hiei almost fell back. Nothing in his life had every gone right. He had been exiled, lost his childhood friend, almost gone to prison, and almost been eaten by a spider-demon. He stood there his brain not believing what she said.
It didn't last long Misha had her arms around him and Kurama was awwing, even though he had, had feeling for Misha also.
Hiei pulled her off him. "Hold on." He turned to Kurama and pushed him out of the room.
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Kurama let Hiei push him out of the door. He was sad, he had liked Misha, but he was happy Hiei never had anyone who loved him. He wondered aimlessly through the palace. What now? He was deep in thought about Hiei and Misha that he bumped into a blue-haired girl.
"Oh Kurama!" The girl's bubbly voice brought comfort to the depressed red head. "Hey, I'm on a lunch break, wanna grab a bite with me?"
"Sure Boton, I'd love that." Kurama took his friend;s hand and they went down to the infamously white kitchen with yellow flowers.
"Kurama? I have a confession." So started the friendship that grew into so much more between the two friend.
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Hiei and Misha spent a long time in the bedroom, catching up with what had happened. Slowly Hiei and Misha had made their way into the bed. Hiei bit her next with his fangs. (Bonus question: who reading this knew Hiei had fangs?) He marked her as his. Never had he been more sure of anything, except maybe that black was his favorite color.
Hiei and Misha slowly made their way out of bed and down to the White kitchen. What they saw there surprised them. The kitchen was no longer white but very much purple and brown. "What happened!" They yelled in unison.
"Uhh... We had a pb&j fight..." Boton crawled out of a cabinet, after that the fridge door opened and there covered with Jelly was Kurama.
"I win!" Boton gleefully clapped her hands.
"It's not over yet." Kurama picked up a 5lb jug of peanut butter.
"Uhhh... we're leaving." Misha pulled Hiei out of the kitchen.
Hiei let her drag him out to the courtyard in the center of the palace. She let go off his arm and walked over to a fountain. Hiei waited, thinking she was going to say something but nothing was said.
"Hn." Hiei sat down on a bench and watched Misha play with the water in the fountain. "Did you want something or may I go back and show Kurama how to throw peanut butter correctly?"
"Throw peanut butter correctly...I don't want to know do I?" Misha asked and Hiei shook his head in response. "I'm sorry, in advance for what I have to tell you. When I gave you some of my soul, so that you could survive, it made you stronger. -Don't say anything yet- I gave you powers that not even I can harness with out great concentration. Hiei you have to be careful, these powers can kill you."
Hiei remained quiet he was going to say that making him stronger was fine with him, but powers that could kill who ever uses them is a waste of powers. He cracked his fingers than lazily said. "Teach me."
"I'm glad you saw it- WHAT! You want me to teach you to use these powers!" Misha took a step back, and clutched her chest. Hiei about gave her a heart attack.
"Did I stutter?" Hiei asked his face blank. Misha had a feeling that he needed to have some sense smacked into him. She slapped him and stalked away, mutter angrily about how stupid men with power and no knowledge about it were.
Hiei stared at her. He had confessed his love to her yes, but that didn't give her the right to hit him! He ran up after Misha and grabbed her shoulder. "Never hit me." He was very close to her face. His eyes were red very red. Misha wriggled slightly and ended up with a tighter hold on her shoulder. Hiei leaned into towards her. "Are you scared yet?"
Misha swallowed and nodded her head slightly. Hiei still moved closer his hold on Misha was like a prison. No longer did his hold hurt, but all the same he wouldn't let her go. "Pity you frighten so easily." He let her go and walked away.
"Hiei you are so insensitive!" Misha fumed.
"What and you aren't being just a bit insensitive?" Hiei calmly stated, which infuriated her.
"How dare you say that!" Misha screamed.
"Why are you so angry, do you have your period or something?" Well folks at that point Hiei should have just killed himself and saved Misha the time.
"HIEI! Koenma is sending me to a shrine, so that I may become one with Hikara. I'm leaving for 3 months..." Misha stated. She just found out that Hiei liked her, she wasn't quite ready to leave.
"And this is a problem." Hiei stated.
"Yeah, Hiei, because I have to go alone, all alone." This confession made Hiei annoyed. Koenma was sending his woman away! Of course Koenma didn't know that she was his woman yet. It had only been a few hours. No wonder Misha ran off to her room when he first kissed her. Hiei flopped down. This didn't seem possible, everything was going to fast. Way to fast.
"When do you leave?" Hiei looked off towards the forest, not looking at Misha once.
"In a week." Misha softly replied.
The next week was filled with tears and packing. Boton who Misha had met maybe twice was crying the worst. Hiei though was the worst. He was moody, if a man had PMS, Hiei was that man. He was extremely happy when he and Misha were alone. But when he had to share her, he was horrible to be around.
Kurama and Boton stood by each other each crying in their own way. Boton out-right and Kurama on the inside. Yusuke gave Misha a bear hug and noogie, say if anything bothered her that she could call him. Koenma was there, and oddly in his teenage form. Hiei stood off from the group. His eyes were black, all emotion gone. Misha tried so hard to have him say good bye but it wasn't happening.
"Good-bye everyone." Misha smiled a noticeably fake smile and walked out of the palace with a sack that held more that it told. She walked alone for a few minutes when she began having a weird feeling that someone was following her.
A figure dropped from the trees in front of her. "Misha." Hiei grabbed her and captured her in a wild kiss, which left her breathless.
"Why were you following me?" Misha stated once she got her bearings back.
"There's nothing else to do, and I didn't get to tell you good-bye." Hiei smirked. "Good-bye." With that he left a distraught Misha on her own.
The weeks went by slowly as Hiei and Misha were apart. So many times Hiei wanted to check to make sure she was ok. Finally 2 months into the time Misha returned. She was tired, cranky, and fat.
"What? Why are you home early?" Kurama was the first person that saw the changed Misha.
"I'm pregnant. Where's Hiei?" Misha tiredly asked.
"A Safe bet is your room, he went in there every night to sleep." Boton had popped around Kurama. Kurama blushed.
"Thanks." Misha sped out of there, what ever they were doing she didn't want to know. She walked to her room, but was stopped by a black blur and a pulled into a room that she had never been in before. Hiei's room. Hiei was there and he took no time in noticing her widening girth. "When did you get fat?"
"Idiot! I'm pregnant." Misha growled. "You are so-so-so insensitive!" Misha yelled.
"And you are back here with me. That's all I care about." Hiei stared at her stomach. " When is it due?"
"Soon Hiei, when a deity becomes pregnant, she can choose when to have the baby. I wanted to wait to come home, but that was to long." Misha peered into Hiei's eyes. He was tired, like he hadn't slept.
"Hn." Hiei stated. He took her back out into the hall and led her down to Koenma.
"Hiei, what an unexpected vis- what are you doing back?" he had spotted Misha.
"I'm pregnant." Misha stated in a flat tone.
"How!" Koenma yelled out raged.
"Well when a man and woman get together..." Hiei started in his sarcastic little tone.
"Who's is it?" Koenma interjected.
"Mine." Misha stated, Hiei laughed.
"And whose else!" Koenma yelled.
"Mine." Hiei stepped forward and put his hand on Misha's shoulder.
"Well this is great, not every demon in spirit world will want your daughter's hand in marriage, and since you to aren't married, Misha is at a risk! I hope you are both happy." Koenma shushed them out of his office.
"Well that was great." Misha slunked down against the door to Koenma's office.
Koenma opened his door, thinking that he should offer to marry the deity, it would please his father. Little did he know that Misha had been sitting there and fell back into his office once the door opened.
"Misha I have an idea." Koenma straitened his clothing.
"Koenma Hiei and I decided to get married, He wants me to be safe." Misha stated, Hiei had offered the moment before Koenma opened the door.
"Uhh ok that straitens out that mess. George, get a marriage certificate for these two Love birds." Koenma's whiny voice drew out the last 2 words.
"Thanks." Misha and Hiei waited for about 3 minutes then, after signing the certificate, they were officially demon and deity, er man and wife.
Well that was fun. A wedding and no party. Ha ha that is where you are wrong my dear readers. Hiei and Misha went back to the common room and there the gang was waiting, some people Misha didn't know and some she wished she didn't cough Kuwabaracough There was a small, but gorgeous cake the Kurama had made and Hiei decided that his brides face belonged in the cake. So the evening wore on and all were glad. Misha drank her share, which is stupid for a pregnant woman or demon. In the middle of the night she woke up to pains in her stomach.
"Hiei It's time!" She pushed her new husband on the floor and tried to get up. "HIEI! Help me!" She screamed in frustration.
"Hold on." Hiei lifted his very pregnant wife and sped down to the hospital wing. There he waited for 8 long hours for the child to be born. Misha screamed while every contraction wracked her body. Finally when the little girl was born, Misha was quiet.
"Congrats Mish. It's a girl. What do you want to name her?" Boton was bubbly.
"I think she should name is Arivei." Misha turned her head there was Arden, the man who's figure haunted her every night when she was at the shrine.
"Leave!" Misha, being a demon stood up and glared into purple eyes.
"Right, I will once you give me that child!" Arden reached out for the baby but his hand never met. Misha was there and as angry at a mother bear.
"Touch her and die." Misha growled.
"Ha what can a mother who just gave birth do to a demi-god like myself?" Arden laughed. He grabbed Misha and threw her body out a window, in the hospital wing. He jumped down near Misha's slowly moving form.
"Pity you didn't love me. Or this would never have had to happen." He pulled out a knife, Misha stood up and glared, she was standing only with will power, and Arden knew this. He charged his sword threw her abdomen.
By now Hiei and the other had jumped down to help, but it was to late. Misha's shallow breathing was a sign she was dying. Husband came near her and slowly lifted her lithe form into his lap."Hiei name her, Loiria. One who is whole." Misha's dying words were the child's name.
"I can't I'm sorry." Hiei whispered, "Her name will be Miho. The joy and lover of my life."
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The funeral was the most heart wrenching thing ever. It didn't rain, no not rain, but it was snowing as Hiei looked for the last time at the face of all he once held dear. The only thing left that he held dear was in his arms, little Miho.
Many apologies were offered and many tears were shed, but Hiei neither cried or spoke. Part of Him had died with this girl. He brown hair was laying softly around her still face. 'As if she were sleeping.' Hiei thought dryly. Her hands were clasped across her chest, there Hiei had placed a snip from a Lilac bush. His eyes may have been dry, but his heart had been smashed. Snowflakes landed softly on Misha's eyelashes and faith.
Her casket was made of oak and her final resting place was white muslin. Hiei touched her face and all he felt was a cold body, but what he saw was a dream being buried away. The casket was lowered and Hiei watched with remorse as he said good-bye for the last time.
He looked down at the bundle in his arms. Slowly he started to sing a song that Misha had taught him:
I can't believe you need me,
I never thought I would be needed for anything
I can't believe my shoulder would carry such important weight
As your head and your tears
I can't believe you chose me, in all my fragility, me
It hurts so much when I love you, it makes me cry,
Every time
The little boy made for me in the stars,
In the stars, that's why I can't let you go
The little boy made for me in the stars
That's why I love you more the further I go,
And before this existence you were always there,
Waiting for me,
You are, you are the realest thing I know
Hands down
The realest thing I know
I'm not used to being carried
Or being able to carry your pretty song
I have been bruised by my many trails
Sometimes my skin's so thick, it's frail
I just need to be ignored 'til I wake up to the beauty that is yours
And it all comes to life so suddenly
This is a place that's so deep, the water's so deep I hesitate, 'cause
You're the little boy made for me in the stars
In the stars, that's why I can't let you go.
The little boy made for me in the stars
That's why I love you more the further I go
Before this existence you were always here
Inside of me
You are, you are, the realest thing I know
Hands down...the realest thing I know
I'm sliding on the rainbows of my childhood dreams
I'm sliding on the rainbows of my childhood dreams.
He turned his back on the casket and made his way back to the castle with the worlds next legend. The next deity that would likely die for all that she held dear. Hiei smiled a real smile. When she was older he would be there and tell her about her mother's amazing compassion for those with out and those in need. He cried now, knowing that his daughter was going to go through the same thing, but would do so willingly.
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I want to thank Jess chan, and everyone who reviewed, Thank you all, and I hope to write a new story real soon.