Shattered soul
Chapter nine
What will you find behind your own eyes, if you finally find the brave to look at it fully?
Will you like what you see?
Or will you instead dislike it.
Sometimes it's better to leave as to stay, but can you do that?
Or will you fail to see its necessary?
Trust is such a fragile thing even a soft breeze of doubt can kill it in a mere second.
To believe in one other can be harder as you would believe.
And what you believe of them can be changed in a second.
So why do you trust and trust again?
And why do we believe in others over and over again?
Maybe we do it to find ourselves?
Or do we do that to have not to live all alone…
Then truth behind red eyes
She stopped unsure outside the temple for some minutes; was that really necessary?
Sure she had want answerers but on the other side, what brought her the same ones?
Only more questions so fare and as it seems more problems as she needed now!
But then again; Hiei was the only one who had been nice to her after it all happens and so the brunette made up her mind and intended to make the last step down from the temple stairs to the ground below.
Suddenly a strong small hand catches the rim of her trousers and jerked her frantically back inside the temple and behind a single standing vase. This one was huge! It had the height of a standing man and was exquisite painted with an old scene of a peaceful city.
"Wah? Hinagiku!" was all Keiko could spat out extremely surprised of her friends sudden act, before a energy ball hit the very same spot she just had stand on right before!
She screamed surprised along her childhood friend and ducked deeper into the safely of their both strange protecting vase.
But instead of coming in their attackers staid outside and throw only more and more balls like the last inside.
Hinagiku showed one finger in the direction of a single standing mirror at the wall across the room and so keiko saw with morbid interests that the energy balls seem to come from behind the border of the barrier, but out of the south direction and not of the north. Hiei was on the north side so that must mean…
Keiko! What the hell is going on inside of there?
Hiei's deep voice filled suddenly her mind and the scarred girl could nothing other do as to let him see through their strange mind bound the new attacking energy ball that barely missed her; only to hurt her friend because Hinagiku had thrown her once more out of the way before it could hit her!
She stared down of her injured friend and immediately Keiko hurried to drag Hinagiku behind the vase again.
Silently sobbing the entire time and holding the only friendly person near as possible in her fear to lose it also; she was near to her breakdown.
Keiko! Do you hear me? Tell the stupid barrier to let me IN!
Have you understood! You have now the will-power over it so do it!
You and your friend will surely die if you let me not help you!
KEIKO, LET ME IN!
His voice sound frantic, she could clearly hear his sorrow and frustration out of it.
Hiei and sorrow?
That was something new.
Keiko chose the only open offer to rescue Hinagiku and herself, she sends her will to the protecting barrier; to open only for Hiei to enter and to close after he had crossed its line.
In a second she felt herself been lifted from an unknown force and brought away in an instant. Before she could regain her composure again she felt suddenly Hinagiku body back into her lap, her friend was badly injured a cold part of her mind noted. She looked around for seconds, she was in to the underground rooms of the temple, save for the moment.
Hurriedly the brunette went to work and searched for some bandages to help her friend.
Outside the temple the hunters found themselves suddenly back to be the hunted.
And that from nothing other as a mad fire demon who seem to appear out of the blue and throw more fire at them as they had known it could exist.
Hiei was calm on the outside but inside of his facade he was mad, simply mad!
That was it the two merged souls howled inside of one mind! They would die for that bold act!
The attack of her and her injured nice friend; was more they could handle at the moment; the hunter knew never what had hit them.
The entire area around the temple looked after it like the wasteland Gobi and everywhere outside the southern border of the barrier burned black flames of fire everything down in their path.
The short demon did not even pant when he examined the chaos he just have made and went back inside with a snort; pathetic fools!
Hiei found her easily downstairs in the neighbour room where he left her, keiko was tending the wounds of her selfless only friend left and cried by doing so the entire time.
The nucleus what he had instead of a heard, wrenched painfully by this sight; Hiei had never wanted to hurt the kind friend of Yusuke this much!
She was one of the people who loose the most in this entire madness called accident.
He knew from the beginning on that Keiko had nothing to do with this all, after all he had checked her mind with his jagon and found nothing near the stories they all had been told.
Instead the yokai found only curiosity at their sudden uncharacteristic behave and sadness about Yusukes sudden cold behaves against her.
He had tried to tell the stubborn fool more then one time, but nothing helped at first and so Hiei stopped it and went instead to make own plans to get the female ningen into his grasp.
But then her mother fell more ill as before on the same evening he had intended to capture her and to bring her away to the Makai along with his sister and Genkai. Not to mention that Yusuke had acted earlier as awaited in his rage.
He could do nothing other as to bring Yukina away and to see Genkai been killed by a surprising earthquake hole that swallowed her and closed before he could even reach her.
He never forgot this sight.
But when he came back through the now open barrier he went first to Kurama because his sudden mental cry for help was the first thing that greeted the silent and not to mention angry demon.
To Hiei's utter surprise he found the Kitsune and his counterpart being separated and left to die; he helped them first with his own youki and after it Hiei tried to find a good cover for his real intentions to stay alone back here but found no good excuse. So he went for the third time this particular day back to the Makai.
If the fox had found out his real plan to save her and her family, he would surely have tried to stop Hiei from do so.
He was like Yusuke too in the believing of the lies about her Help and wanted not even to hear the truth by now.
Especially after this stunt!
Inside of his mind, the half korime sighs at the stupidity of his friend to really believe such a stupid shit without even to ask her for one time only!
Hiei could not believe that none of them seem to think strait at the moment.
Later they all where more then sorry for that, and Yusuke had even tried to kill himself.
Luckily for them all, Natzume his mate had stopped him in time and helped him through the following days.
But Hiei only found it suited Yusuke and Kurama right to feel bad now. And Yukina agreed with him in that.
His mother refused until today to speak with her son on single word, Atzuko called him only a traitor on his own kind and never by his birth name again.
And Natzume, she called only a bitch, she refused to even look at her or him all the time.
She even had quit to drink and only stared out of her window the most time and cursed herself from having born Yusuke…
The little sword master tried to get rid of this trail of his memories; it was to important to staid focus now.
He remembered that he went immediately back after Yomi had took them all in to the safely of Gandara.
But at the time he appeared at their family home; her parents where death.
Burned down with their ramen shop, right after the gas line exploded.
He knew by this few that he had come too late; she would never believe him now.
Silently the korime had watched her running trough the entire town and search after their friends. And he had watched the hope to find them vanish more and more out of her eyes.
He had nothing other wanted as to comfort her at these moments but that would have brought her nothing as more trouble as she was in for now; so Hiei let it be and made quietly sure that she wasn't hurt by flying objects or the gapping holes.
When the first waves of lower class demons came and killed the humans violently Yusuke had given out the parole not to hurt her the slightest, not even one of them dared to come near to her.
Hiei made sure that they remembered this even in to their rage!
But then she suddenly found him at the park, he would had never believed she would try to ask him.
Her normally beautifully shining eyes where now dull and lifeless. Only Keikos hurt and despair was now in to them to see when she went to the edge of the gash in the street.
His inside reaction was to grab the petite brunette and to take her away from this all as fast he could muster it.
But the yokai knew that she was surprisingly enough, more save here at the moment and she would never accept this or him for now.
Quietly Hiei only cursed at the detective, only to correct the address of his curses after some seconds to the Reikei.
He made her sleep with the help of his jagon in seconds and brought her back to her new place, only he knew of so fare.
He found her quite friend there, running around in cycles because she was scared to death of all of this and in deep worry about the safely of her hurt friend; he put her easily to sleep too.
Hiei brought both of the girls to their beds and after that he only let himself have the luxury of watching the ningen girl sleep.
He knew he shouldn't do this but on the other hand he could not help it; Keiko looked so sad and lonely like him at these moments.
The yokai took one of her brown locks in his hands and cut it away from her with the other ones claws, suddenly he needed to behold something from her, and if it was only a simple lock that would accompany him for now.
The silent demon knew only too well that she would need allot time to get over this all but in the end Keikos stubbornness would heal her mind and she would live again.
But until then, he would have to wait before he could make a move on the ningen.
Then someday, came the day when the others began to think again and started to find out what really happened at all.
And it came the day where some of them remembered all his warnings about their foolishness about Keiko.
It was a dark day for them after he told them what he had found out meanwhile they all where too busy to lick their wounds.
And after they got finally clear what they had done to her, it was too late for them to turn back.
Atzuko only laughs and cried at the same time when she got the news finally.
After she came down she cursed the shit down on them all and told them all, right into their faces about the night before all had happened.
That she had overheard a strange conversation in a bar between two man who talked about how easily they had fooled her son and his oh so powerfully friends and how stupid they all where to believe that a girl like Yukimura Keiko would ever do such a thing!
And how good they where going to be paid for their nasty act!
She even slept with one of them to get more information's out of him and so Yusukes mother found finally out that some strange people had promised them allot money for making the girls mother ill, her friends believe that she was a traitor to them and finally to make sure that she was death in the very end.
Why even he couldn't tell her.
Atzuko killed him with a knife from her night board box in his sleep and after this, she shoot down the other one in her living room where he slept his drunken mind away.
Then she lit up one of her cigarettes and called one of her friends to take bodies away.
Permanently.
After this all she cleaned every trace of this away and went out to find Keiko and her stupid son, but instead some yokai suddenly found her and brought her to her son and his new mate.
There Atzuko snapped; she was that angry about the stupidity of her own flesh and blood that she refused to speak with him again before he was back in his rational mind again.
She never accepted his chosen mate and ignored her only.
Hiei's respect for Yusukes mother grew into nameless heights after hearing this, all the others where too shocked to even look at her.
They all leaved her alone.
No one dared after this, to come near to Atzuko again without her consent.
Yusukes break down was the following effect of her cold words to him.
After this he was more his normal self again.
The hi-yokai was the only one who tried to speak with her again and by that, to find out why someone had wanted Keiko death and broken before, like this!
She had no answer for the curios and angry yokai, only an address she had wanted to look on that night but never could because she was brought here.
So Hiei went to the place and found out it existed no longer. But an old man who lived near to it told the yokai the day before everything went crazy, some strange humans where there who had waited for a long time and then had went away.
His description of them brought the demon to the only reminds of the black black club and he searched long there for some answers.
After his search he knew enough to puzzle together the rest;
Somehow a few of them found out of the plans of Reikei before everyone else did it and hired two fools to interact in their all friendship in order to take some crazy revenge on Yusuke and the others, including himself.
They had made a deal with the crazy avatars to made her appear to be the traitor on her friends and they where it who made the entire plan to cover everything with her as a bait for them all.
And they all had taken it!
Hiei could not believe his own stupidity at that time, after it they wanted to torture her and kill her in the end.
This mad people had wanted to tell the yokai this all after her death, to hurt them beyond words by rubbing that right in to their faces.
But the Reikei had not told them how violent the reaction of Makai would be in real and so they found themselves back to be hunted like everyone else.
They had only used these crazy ningen for their own benefits.
And she had paid the price for their craziness.
The next thing the hi-yokai did was to look after Keiko and her ningen friend to made sure she wasn't hurt or wondrously ill by now.
Then came the day they found out the truth behind their curse and began to talk it out with the Reikei in order to get their own cure out of this.
It was once more a ningen who found it for them. It was an older doctor, who had been captured by them and now worked under Kuramas lead.
He found out that the human genetic cancelled the curse somehow out and that it was why some half-breeds who where born after the first wave and surveyed their first year of live instead of dieing like the full blooded ones did it mostly.
He also found out that this ability to cure the weak point into the full blooded yokai genes would be inherited by their children.
With other words, they all had only to wait a short time, one generation or two before it would have been vanished out of the devil nation. They only had to make sure that their children would only inherit what they wanted them to from their ningen parents.
So began their plan to bring as much ningens as possible to the Makai to work this out.
In Hiei's opinion they would have it better there, they would have troubles with them first but after they had accepted their fate, the human captures would find out that they would have it better there.
Yusuke made sure that this human captures where seduced and talked into this and not brought in it as slaves or something like this.
It was easier as everybody had thought it would be after this all.
They never told the Reikei one word of this.
They led them in the believe they where meant to be slaves.
He put her name right to the top of the very long list of names.
Right under the name of Kazuma Kuwabara and Shizuru Kuwabara, who both had gone under cover!
The siblings had somehow felt it all coming, after all they where strong psychics and had worked and lived with them a long time.
Hiei was sure it was three days before Yusuke destroyed the barrier between the realms where they must have found out somehow what the others planned for them.
Shizuru had asked Yusuke why he hurt Keiko constantly and the two gave each other allot nasty words. After it the two had looked too thoughtfully and suddenly went home instead of staying as it was planned.
The day the earthquake came duo the break of the barrier some stronger yokai where send from Yusuke and Hiei to capture the siblings, but they failed and Kazuma hit them instead into pieces and the two fled.
Since then the two had build a group out of strong fighters around them and fought constantly against them.
He knew, the two had also tried to find her after this too but she had moved with her friend and so, without a law who knew where they had gone, they did not find the two girls.
Hiei had no clue where this two could be!
Then there was the last meeting between Koenma and Yusuke when he suddenly felt her through his jagon near them all.
Hiei had a hard time to fool everybody in to the believing they all where alone here.
He knew the truth would be hard to chew for her but he wanted her to see how they all had changed with this.
And what was to come.
He also heard Hinagikus short gasp at Kuramas sight, inwardly he was amused by that.
It seems to Hiei that the fox had not lost his touch on females after all.
But when he heard Keikos quietly reaction to the now two Kitsune instead of one, Hiei felt a jolt of jealously run up and down his spine for a moment.
That he found not amusing at all!
He had long talked to Yusuke that he wanted her and her silent companion for himself. Every body was shocked by that but when they found out for how long he had watched over her Yusuke gave finally in and marked Keikos name along with Hinagikus as Hiei's possession only.
Not before he had warned him that they all would kill him if Hiei caused her harm.
He had dismissed that, after all Hiei told them coldly, it was them who caused her that in the first place and vanished to get the two in his care before they could do something stupid.
Only to find out;
They had!
That brought him back in the present time…
How, Hiei asked himself idly by looking in to her tear streamed face of Keiko, could he tell her this all without to break the fragile ningen more?
Suddenly Hiei wished his sister would be here, Yukina would have found a way to talk to her but he wasn't the most talkative person or demon in the world.
So he thought long about a suitable way to tell her all of this.
Meanwhile he did just that, he watched silently her moves with a thoughtful expression in his deep red eyes.
Hiei only hoped Keiko could accept it all, and more so;
Him!
There you all have the explanations of all, mostly.
I hope it made sense to everyone, after all I think this was the longest chapter by now, Somehow I did not want to cut it in half and somehow I think it was for the best.
Please tell me if you like it or not.
And if it was understandable what I tried to tell with it.
I am not really sure if I got it or not.
Suryallee