Shatteredsoul
Chapter ten
Peace is a fickle thing once you find it; it is away again in seconds.
What will you do when you want to behold it and that forever?
Would you fight for it?
When you get the chance to find something new, to behold only for yourself or to chare with others,
What would you chose?
When someone you once knew and consider now as your enemy, would reach out to you and tried to help you,
Will you let him or will you mistrust him?
Trust is a very fragile thing, once broken it can be never really repaired again
Blind trust
Hinagiku needed the entire night and the most of the following day to get better.
To the blond most surprise, the strange rescuer from her and Keiko helped her during the night and the next morning. He was it also who told the frightened girl in his deep rich voice that he would stay here with them and would make sure that nobody tried again to harm her or Keiko.
He wasn't very tall, but to her he seemed to be much more powerful as all the other yokai she had seen before.
Hinagiku saw him often look after the sleeping Keiko with a strange and not to place look in his red eyes.
To the young woman it seemed that the silent demon liked her longtime friend as more as a friend.
She led it be for now, she and Keiko need their rest and besides that protection too.
This strange attackers would try to hurt them again she knew it but why was a miracle to the blond haired young woman.
Her brown eyes closing she fell back into her healing sleep and forget the demon for awhile.
Hiei had waited for that to happen. He knew Hinagiku would not awake for the next hours again.
Her healing progress took force, not much longer and she would be healthy enough to bring her where he planed to bring the two women.
Silent the yokai stood slowly and placed a blanked over the young injured woman in his care, Keiko was sleeping too.
Hiei had put her into a not natural sleep for the last hours because he knew she would need her full strength later.
A single finger traced along Keikos face, she was so lovely when asleep the demon thought, looked so innocent and pure. It lured him to her like a night lamp a butterfly. Hiei could not resist the urge to trace along her soft features once again; the feeling of her skin was like silk to him.
Suddenly a strange feeling of being watched took over inside the demon, his gaze settled on the staff next to her.
Hiei knew the power inside of it was about to break loose.
In a few hours it would have powered up enough to be used and the yokai planned to use it then for his plans.
The attackers from before wanted to use it also but his help had made it difficult for them to take it from her again.
The silent demon knew the only way to prevent the same things from before to happen again was to be her guardian, but this time he had to take more drastic measures to avoid this madness from back then.
Keiko would be not too happy with his decisions, Hiei was sure of that, but there was no other way to protect her and the staff. So the yokai went to work and began go to the deeper parts of the old temple with Keiko on his arms.
After some minutes, what have a human took hours; Hiei arrived finally on a big door in the middle of the stony wall on the end of a long tunnel.
Not even the fools of Reikei knew about this door, only he and the other dragon and the priestess had known of it here.
As gentle as Hiei could do it he lay the body of the sleeping Keiko down on the floor and went back to take Hinagiku and bring her here also.
After this done, Hiei began to chant for the next hours into a language nobody as him alone could understand today any longer.
When he finished with what ever he did finally, the doors began to glow into a blue eerie color and the staff too.
Hiei waited not a single moment longer, he took Keiko arm that held the staff unknowingly in a tight grip and hold the head of it against the doors, seconds after that they opened fully and gave a view free that could take someone's breath away.
But the yokai part dragon ignored it and simply took the two females in his care over his shoulders and went straight through the portal with them.
After him the doors closed again and leaved no trace behind that someone had used them.
Only a few minutes later two of the Reikei warriors arrived with loud curses on their lips.
They came too late!
Nobody was here any longer, they all where gone.
With the new priestess the barrier had also faded and they could enter the place without to be harmed but to their anger the priestess had been taken away from them to an unknown place, out of their reach!
And with her the staff!
For hours they tried to open the stony portal with all of their powers but without succeed, the staid closed as before and hadn't even moved or any scratches into them.
Cursing Koenma realized that they could not reach Hiei or the others for now. Who could have known that the beast the yokai used to fight with was the dragon of the old legend?
The dragon that staid brave to his word against the long death goddess of the realms and watched over her priestesses after her fade? Nobody could know that.
Koenma knew the demon too good to ignore that Hiei would protect the new one with all he had and to decide from what the young god knew he must have found a way to open the portal and bring the priestess away.
With her help this all would be lost for the Reikei if Hiei took any advantage of her now!
Koenma realized that the demon was about to do just exactly that.
Cursing the demi god vanished out of the rock chamber and went back to the Reikei, he had to find a way to there and to prevent this from happening before the hidden place would be lost from them to the Makai forever!
Meanwhile on the other site of the portal awoke Keiko from her forced slumber.
A little confused from the bright light around her and somehow scared where she could be and how Hinagiku was, she sit up and tried to find out what had happened to them both.
She was greeted with the most beautiful sight ever Keiko had ever before in all of her live.
In front of her was the entrance of a cave that gave the view free to the land outside of it.
Green, emerald green willows where to see as fare the human could see, lakes with clear waters and a wonderful deep blue sky, for some moments the girl thought she was dreaming.
Into the fare away she could see mountains with snow on the caps and birds that flow into the rays of the afternoon sun.
But the trees first, they where so tall!
Keiko had seen before pictures from these trees in school, but that didn't prepare the young woman from the slight shock to see these big trees from so near.
She slowly arose from the sound of talking outside to try to find the owners from the known voices. Silently her mind drifted back to the night after the attack and to all the things that happened later.
After two hours rest Keiko awoke in the arms from the demon that had saved them both later the night.
First she was afraid of the sudden nearness of the silent demon but then Hiei had begun to talk. Her fears of him vanished slowly as longer he had told her the things that filled her missing peaces into her puzzle of the happenings from back then.
All the time the yokai refused to let her go out of his embrace and his lap, Hiei even told her how her friend was and carried her there to look herself but he never let her go out of his hold.
To Keikos much surprise Hiei told her also some things about the staff.
He told her that it was the reminding power in manifesting into a staff, of a long gone goddess of the realms.
That the realms weren't made from the Reikei as Keiko knew it. They where created from this particular goddess and that the staff guarded the door to a long forgotten one and so did her priestesses.
His dragon had been rescued from the goddess one day and since then it had worked for her as a guardian and watched over her priestesses after her death.
The red one was a other guardian for them too but was too lost into his own wants and temper that he lost it one day and betrayed them all in order to get a body and power.
In exchange for the power and the realm the goddesses wanted to rule over as it did over the others.
But both of the dragons died into their battle and the priestess took her own live after the war and created the spell bound barrier that could only be used from her following priestesses and leaved the staff in the temple out of reach for every body else.
Keiko found so, also out that she was born with the power to use the staff as a new priestess and that now everybody would go after her who knew about this and would try to get the staff from her in order to get the realm in their hands.
Keiko was scared much after Hiei told her this all, she told the yokai in exchange all what had happened to her since then and after, before she fell again into silence. He surprised her with another behave; Hiei never showed before to Keiko, the demon began slowly to stroke her hair.
Slowly the young woman relaxed into the caressing hand and hold of the demon. Hiei was giving the afraid, human woman the much needed freedom and the feeling of protection Keiko so badly had missed now for years.
His silken voice told her also what he and his sister had originally planned to do when the terror began and also why all had gone crazy after she went home.
Her soft question after the Kuwabara siblings Hiei answered with a soft shrug of his slim shoulders, he did not know where the where.
The demon told her that the other priestesses had feared to open the portal and to claim the realm for them alone because they all had wanted to use it against the goddesses and not to loose the great potential of this forever.
But the last one had thought about to give the realm away to the humans and demons to live in it side by side in peace, with equally rights to use it. She had formerly planned to try to give the two species a chance to know each other and to live in peace with the other one there without interruptions of the other goddesses all the time in order to get hold on their souls and to rule them all.
That was why some of them had used her friend, lover and protector against her to break her.
Hiei told her his long formed plan to avoid a repeat of this and asked her if she would let him use the staff to bring Hinagiku and Keiko to the hidden realm to be safe there. If she would allow it that he brought a demon there and would give the claims of the realm to Hinagiku and the yokai to do exactly what the long death priestess had wanted for the realm. She agreed but was curios who Hiei had in mind for that.
So he told her about the others after this all had occurred what drove them all apart.
The yokai also told her of the demon he had in mind for this all, the only one next to him who had tried to bring the others back to their rational minds all the time and who even talked to Yusuke once or twice about Keiko.
It was the one Hiei wanted to use for this.
After awhile of thinking the young woman agreed with him, she was too tired of running away or to think over all the happenings into her past. Keiko only wanted to find some peace and if it was true what Hiei told her, Yukina would be the best choice for this.
He told her that he needed to put her into a forced sleep for awhile because she needed to get her powers of maximum for that and that this was to happen into a sleep state in the fastest way for her Hiei knew of.
So he did that and now she was here.
Outside the cave Keiko was greeted with the sight of Hinagiku, and Yukina who sat in the grass and talked softly with each other. They seem to like each other in Keiko's opinion and that made the woman somehow glad to see.
But what surprised her was to see the wind demon Jin as well.
He was floating in the air above Hinagikus head and tried to bring the two females to laugh with his unusual stunts in the air!
The yokai acted that funny that Keiko could not avoid laughing softly. She had missed to see her friends for so long now, it healed her a little bit to see the cheery demon there but it wondered her also.
Hiei appeared suddenly right behind her and brought her back inside of the cave within seconds.
Before she found her senses back he had settled down on the place she just had left with her in his lap and hold her as near as possible to him without to break a bone with his inhuman strength.
Surprised and bewildered at the same time, all Keiko could do was to let Hiei do that. Why he suddenly acted this way was a miracle to the young human woman.
After some seconds Hiei began to tell her why the wind user was here.
After Hiei had found the cave not fare away from the door, he brought the two women there and woke Hinagiku up and told her what they both had planned.
He told the injured girl not to try to wake Keiko up and that he would be gone for two, maybe three hours to bring his sister here.
After that done he had went back to the doors and had used the shared powers from Keiko and the staff to open it to the Makai realm to get his sister from his stronghold.
Once there Hiei found out that Yukina had Jin as her guest who waited for Hiei with an important message from Yusuke and Kurama, who wanted to know if he had found Keiko and where she was.
Silently cursing his luck, and a certain demon who somehow managed to follow him all the way back to the doors after Hiei took his sister and went back to leave the Makai before Koenma found out about the open portal, he had simply grabs the stunned demon and brought him here also.
To Hiei's great annoyance the wind demon was not to scare enough to stay quite for one minute only!
He nearly lost his last nerve with Jin.
So it was no wonder that Hiei grabbed Keiko before the loud yokai saw her and took her with him back into the cave.
Her scent calmed Hiei and the quite of the cave, his ears!
The dragon entity inside of the demon just laughs by Hiei's behaved in silent amusement and annoyed the yokai even more!
On their way back to Keiko and Hinagiku, Jin had suddenly touched the door for a second, which was all what was needed to change slightly their way and so the three demons came out instead in the ningenkai. Cursing the fire demon nearly hit Jins head in for his idiotism and went to work to open it to the right place again. But before they could leave the human realm again suddenly two people appeared and told him to wait.
They had heard their entire talking right after the three demons suddenly came out of a portal out of nowhere.
It was just luck that they where here at the moment because since they where hunted from the others, Shizuru and Kazuma had run all night with their few followers to get to a save place.
Only to find it occupied from Hiei and the other two.
After nearly another hour of explaining and talking, Hiei took them all with them.
Only seconds before some of their hunters arrived and found the place abandoned by them all.
Keiko couldn't believe her ears, they where here?
She asked the yokai holes about the two in the stomach and Hiei answered them all as good he could.
After that he brought her out side to the others.
I hope you like it so fare, the next chapter comes in a few days.
Suryallee