Have you ever been so heart broken you wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, and it's so painful to hold in and your family keeps pestering you with comments and questions you just want to yell at them as well? Well that's how I am feeling. It's a gut wrenching thing you just can't seem to get rid of and leaves a bad taste of bile in your mouth that you just wanna hurl, not fun, fighting with someone who you cherish more than anyone else, you say one thing but think and mean something completely different, it hurts so much… but anyways here is chapter 19.
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Chapter Nineteen: I Walk Alone
(Enter: Hiei, Botan, and Genkai, walking down a path in a darkened forest)
(Background music playing as they walk in silence)
I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And were I walk alone
Read between the lines of what's
F'd up and every things all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a..
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk away! (Green Day, Blvd. Of Broken Dreams)
(Sorry, I thought it was funny…L.O.L)
Hiei stopped at an intersection of the forest path, down one path he felt nothing, it was his chance to just back down and let things blow over, let the spirit world take over from here and just turn himself in. The black dragon looked down the other path where he knew Kurama and some other demon (he could sense them, Kurama and…Suzuka?) where they were waiting in the darkness, plotting, planning, preparing. Hiei took this path, he wanted to confront his former friend, lover, who had left him for empty promises of power, which he had only wanted in the beginning to live back in Demon World together…
!#$&()
"Genkai, he could have just left all this behind if he took that trail to the left, right?" The aging woman looked toward Botan and offered a small sad smile and answered in her raspy voice.
"Yes he could have, but Hiei is not the type to stand down, and he was just stabbed by the demon he had cherished more than anyone in all three worlds." The youkai and the aging woman walked in silence a short distance behind the determined black dragon. Genkai broke the heavy silence that Botan was getting accustomed to with a small sad laugh. "I remember," she smiled grimly "before we left after the dark tournament, I told Kurama to keep Hiei out of trouble. I never expected it to be the other way around." The blue haired youkai looked down at the old woman who seemed to be lost in a torrent of emotions, and not knowing which one to show at a time.
"Genkai, I am sure Yusuke is fine wherever he is… after all he was the spirit detective, I am sure he is enjoying his time where he is…" Genkai looked up.
"That idiot would be happy anywhere… as long as he could fight." The grim reaper smiled at the comment.
"Yea that's true huh?" Hiei stopped suddenly as he hissed an order to the pair behind him.
"Shut up you two, Kurama and Suzuka are just ahead in the clearing ahead." Hiei stopped as he held his hand up two the two followers. "Don't interfere with my problem. Kurama is mine, and mine alone to deal with." Botan started to protest.
"But, but… I have to take you both in for the crimes you have committed in this world… I'm sorry Hiei but you both must be arrested." Genkai then added in her argument to the mix.
"And Kurama is completely out of it, he killed an innocent child when he should know how precious a child is to the human mother, he killed his friend and partner Yusuke, he stabbed you, the 'most important' person in his life. Who knows what he's capable of? You can't do it on your own." Hiei sighed.
"What ever lets just go." He stepped into the clearing where he knew Kurama and Suzuka were waiting; Botan and Genkai then followed him.
!#$&()
"Kurama," Natalie started "we have company." Kurama frowned.
"It's Hiei, but…" Natalie smiled wickedly, the glint in her brown eyes shone in brilliant sun light that streamed into the area.
"Quickly finish them off. We need to get the last ingredient to the potion." Kurama frowned again.
"All right, Hiei this time you will die, I don't want you around." Kurama walked to the edge of the clearing and waited.
!#$&()
"Kurama, it is time you pay for what you did to me." Hiei spoke as soon as he saw his former friend and lover. Kurama turned and smiled.
"You said that last time before I stabbed you in the back you know."
"Hmmn, this time I mean it." Hiei freed his katana from its sheath and held it in front of him, his reflection looked back at him as he made his retort. "I cared about you, and you used it against me, you will pay for that." Kurama smiled as he produced his usual weapon, the rose whip.
"That's so like you Hiei, only caring for your self, nobody else." Hiei stared at the kitsune as he continued on. "You don't care about the baby, or about Yusuke or even poor little Demi, do you?" Hiei shrugged. "Ever think that's why I decided to leave you? You are an uncaring selfish person." Hiei lunged out angered by the yoko's accusation.
"YOU BASTARD!" Hiei swung the katana with blinding speed only to have it captured by the rose whip with a flick of Kurama's wrist.
"You seem to have bad luck with whips, don't you?" Hiei lunged forward again unarmed.
!#$&()
When Genkai and Botan entered the clearing Hiei and Kurama were already at it dueling it out. Botan looked around, "I sense Suzuka…" and Genkai smiled.
"Yea, I do too, I will never forget the stench of that damn clown." A voice rang throught the area.
"Sorry to disappoint you but Suzuka is no more!" The two looked around for the person the voice belonged to, but found nothing. Hiei and Kurama still battled on near by uninterested in the voice ringing out from the forest canopy. A hooded figure fell from the trees, and stood up slowly. Botan gasped as the hood was removed.
" NATALIE?!" The woman smiled.
"But of course, who else would it be?" Botan looked at Genkai.
"I must go back to the Spirit World and tell Koenma!" Natalie smiled wickedly again.
"You're not going any where!" She raised a finger to the sky and a lightning bolt came down and struck Botan. The blinding flash of light had caused Genkai to look away but when the light faded, Botan was nowhere to be seen. The woman Natalie laughed. Genkai looked around for the blue haired youkai.
"Botan where are you?" Natalie stopped laughing to answer her question.
"Botan is, well she is every where!" Genkai looked confused. "That bolt of lightning tore her body apart, electrically, so now bits and pieces of her essence are every where, can't you sense them?!" When Genkai sensed the air for energy all she could feel was Botan's energy, she could no longer sense Suzuka's energy, Kurama's or even Hiei's though the were only a few feet away. "And the best part is, Botan is still alive! Imagine being torn apart and being able to feel it all! No longer having a body, you just feel pain! Not in just an area as in like a broken leg hurts only the leg, it's like the pain is another person!" Natalie laughed as she called out to Kurama. "Kurama! Wrap it up we need to go get the last ingredient!"
!#$&()
Kurama's whip caught Hiei in the chest knocking him back. "Poor fool." You still care about me and can't stop thinking how much you care about me, no matter what you say, your heart says another." Hiei sneered.
"Aren't we full of ourselves?" Kurama frowned.
"You know I'm right Hiei. You still care about me, and that will be the death of you next time we meet…" The kitsune stepped back towards the hooded figure who was talking to Genkai. Quickly the kitsune pulled out a seed and threw it into the ground where a giant flower grew suddenly. Natalie jumped over and she and Kurama jumped into the giant flower. Kurama looked back before he disappeared, and he smiled at Hiei. Genkai ran over and tried to blast the flower with energy but the flower had already wilted away leaving Hiei and Genkai alone. Hiei spoke first.
"Where's Miss. Happy Woman? I sense her every wher…"
"That woman Natalie used Botan as a diversion to escape us, see now we can't sense where they are…" Genkai frowned, "Hiei, that fight with Kurama looked different. You were holding back weren't you?"
"Hmmph, none of your business, old hag." Genkai sighed.
"You are badly hurt I'll heal you." Hiei closed his eyes.
"Fine" As Genkai healed Hiei for the second time in one day, some thing she never expected to do, she spoke of her plan.
"We must go talk to Koenma as things seem to be taking a turn for the worst." As that was said a voice answered out.
"Me? You wish to talk to me? Wow things are worse off than I thought."…
Oh, things are getting good! Awesome! But anyway, this deserves a song! I'll just put the lyrics of the one I just happen to be listening to now. Guees i'm in a music frenzy lol.
How'd the hell did we wind up like this- and why weren't we able- to see the signs that we missed- and try to turn the tables- I wish you'd unclench your fists- and unpack your suitcase- lately there's been to much of this- but don't think it's too late- nothing's wrong- just as long as you know that someday I will- someday, somehow- I'm gonna make it all right- but not right now- I know you're wondering when- you're the only one who know that- someday, somehow- I'm gonna make it all right- but not right now- I know you're wondering when- Well I'd hope since we're here anyway- that we could end up saying- things we always needed to say- so we could end up staying- now the story's played out like this- just like a paper back novel- lets rewrite an ending that fits- instead of a Hollywood horror- nothing's wrong- just as long as you know that someday I will- someday, somehow- I'm gonna make it all right- but not right now- I know you're wondering when- you're the only one who know that- someday, somehow- I'm gonna make it all right- but not right now- I know you're wondering when… (Someday, Nickelback) Damn that songs to long, I cant keep up with it L.O.L. this was as far as I got when the song ended so that's it… hope to SEE YOU NEXT TIME ON YUYU HAKUSHO!!