Allright folks! Here's chapter three! If you have any suggestions about future chapters, lemme know!
Ice Dreams of Fire
POV: Yukina
I sit at the back of Genkai-sensei's temple, watching Botan fly off. It's strange, really, how my purpose has deviated from searching for my brother to helping these people. They have become like a family to me, this motley assortment of humans and demons. All except for Hiei-san, the fiery demon swordsman.
He stays away from me if he can.
I believe that he's accepted the fact that I am here to stay, but is not happy about it.
I have often wondered why he's like that, why he would rather I were someplace else. There are things about him that are so familiar, yet so foreign. I sometimes wonder…. if he could be my brother. He and I are as different as day and night.
But I am not completely oblivious to the way he protects me.
Kazuma-kun is an odd human. He and Yuusuke-kun are friends and rivals, but there also is something about the way Yuusuke-kun and Hiei-san treat him. It hurts him, you know. I can see it. Their taunting causes wounds, which even Genkai-sensei cannot heal. My thoughts linger on Kazuma-kun a moment more, then turn back to the others.
Botan-chan, the ferry-girl, is the strongest of them all. She has endured centuries, guiding souls of the dead to the spirit world, with a smile.
I would be hard-pressed to endure even a decade of that work. She and I, I believe, are kindred in a sense.
Now, looking up at the lightening sky, I see Botan-chan in the distance, returning to the temple and our mismatched group, to face another day. Not as an individual, but as a family. A family of humans, demons, and spirits, working together to protect human- and demon-kind from those who would destroy it.
OWARI
And by the way, this one took a whole month to finish. I forgot about it for a few weeks.
K: And then forgot about it for a few more...kicks Neko
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