Memories
A soul locked a body not her own.
A damned existence where there was no rest, no piece, no calm.
But she could be with him.
And that was all that mattered to her as she remained locked within a pitch black cell. Not a window, no door in or out.
In a little piece of ebony hell she opened eyes that saw nothing as like a movie what he saw she saw.
She had slept far too long..
Hiei lay abandon like a bloody rag in the snow, unable to move as it continued to fall on his numb body.
She stood in her cage and snarled in the ancient language she spoke, a human form with the characteristics of a dragon, and as she used her bonds to his flesh to pull at the bandages he moved a weak and fumbled with the bandages on his right arm.
"I-It's only fitting I should die alone..."
She slid from the confines of his body, a flaming serpent as she roared. Then she felt it, he snapped every link he held to control her.
"Go.."
"No."
Hiei's eyes snapped open as the whisper came and the dragon wrapped around him, bathing him in heat and energy. An undying connection of loyalty connecting Dragon to master as she abandon the idea of freedom to the thought of being his...To the thought of protecting him...Of holding onto him with all spirit and mind...
Because her body was not her own.
As she released him and slid back into his flesh, barring the door once more to the lonely, silent cell.
He stood and left the bandages he had held her with on the ground.
"Why didn't you leave? Foolish beast." He spoke, knowing she could hear him as she smiled and, unable to answer, rested her head on the stone floor and rested.
Hiei watched the dark waters years later as his soul seemed to hollow.
It was HIS fault...
HE let Yukina be slaughtered...
He DESERVED to die...
He drew his sword and lashed it violently across his wrists as crimson blood stained the battered blade.
He slumped forward and his fingertips fell into the cool water as he shut his eyes.
Kokuryu-Ha rolled from his body, screaming an unearthly cry to the heavens as he slid forward even more... Arms submerged in water that was now colored crimson by his blood.
She felt a tug, and screamed in her own pain... It felt as if every bone in her dark body was shattering
Eyes opened she looked at human like hands, finding that her bones had not broken..merely changed...Without skipping a beat she grabbed Hiei, dragging him up and licking the wrists in turn with her forked tongue.
She picked him up, holding him tightly and ran as fast as she could, feet barely touching the ground as she willed herself not to trip as she got used to her strange new legs.
When she reached the temple she screamed that unearthly scream and in moments Genkai, Yusuke, and Kurama where at the door, they saw the unearthly form of the damned beast and saw they're friend.
It took five minutes for them to realize what had happened as she screamed again, holding his limp pale body closer and thrashing her head.
Kurama acted first, grabbing her rough, almost scaly arm and dragging her inside as Yusuke and Keiko ran for bandages.
She stood in the corner as, after determining Hiei would be ok, Kurama and Yusuke rounded on her.
"Who are you!"
"WHAT are you?"
"What's your name?"
"ANSWER US!"
She shook her head no before a cough and a muttered, "Idiots." drew their attention to Hiei, standing with bandaged wrists in the doorway.
She ran too him and stood at his side, unearthly bright silver pupilless eyes watched him.
He took a moment to look at her.
Her skin was the same color as she had been as a dragon, deepest midnight black... but it felt rough to the touch. Long white scars ran over her as her shoulder length mane of wiry, thin hair. Her long black claw like nails that went on both her hands and her feet.
She was not pretty by far, as her ragged tarnished black ripped dress hug loosely over her.
then he looked back at Yusuke and Kurama.
"She's the dragon of the darkness flame...Kokuryu Ha..."
"But she-"
"I don't know how she came to be like a human but I know its her."
Hiei did not explain why as Kokuryu-ha grabbed his arm, put it over her neck, and half supported half dragged Hiei into his room.
Putting him on his bed she looked at him and scolded him in her unearthly language.
Hiei just listened, not knowing or caring what the words meant...
But they sounded like the cold of winter...The whistle of a sword...the crack of breaking bones...The sound of a sword striking home and blood hitting the ground in pools. Like the dying cry of a warrior... Like the sobs of a child as he watches his mother be raped and killed.
"Shut up, those words mean nothing to me."
Kokuryu-Ha stopped, looking at him as he laid down and said, "Just let me sleep."
She stayed silent as his yes shut and after a moment curled up at the foot of his bed like a loyal dog...
And as she shut eyes that saw what no one else could, she did not sleep. She stayed awake with unfailing devotion to her master.
I Do Not Live In Him
REVIEW!Ok, and Kokuryu-Ha takes both her natural and her more humanish form in this fic.