Okay, ideas are getting hard I guess cause I'm getting kind of close to the end. (That is if no one wants more of it.) So… there might end up being shorter chapters and less stuff in it for that reason, at least for the next two maybe I don't know.
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH I only own my OC's and any characters that I make… oh and I don't own HIM either for future chapters in different stories.
Chapter I-forgot: The first act
"So who's the little girl again?" Yusuke asked when they returned to the temple. "Her name is Shinku and Hiei and I are not her parents." Ash explained from her seat on the couch with the silent Shinku next to her.
Yusuke and Kuwabara were silent for a moment before breaking out into laughter leaving Ash in utter confusion. "Nani?
"Hiei as a father?" Yusuke asked threw his fits of laughter. "I can't see it!" Ash glarred at the two baka's hard.
"What's so hard to see about that?" She questioned when they calmed down a bit, although her voice was getting louder with anger towards them.
"Hiei just… doesn't seem the type that's all." Yusuke explained. "Well you'll just have to get over it." She stood up and Shinku followed suit. She walked over to the door and stopped when the ice demons followed her.
"Shinku you have free will you know," she said looking into the girl's cream eyes. "You can go or do what you want." Her voice was soft as only a mother's could be, Yusuke and Kuwabara watched from the side in silence.
"Free will?" She asked in a almost silent and weak tone looking confused back at Ash's gray eyes. "Yes, like I said you can do what you want to do. You don't have to follow me if you don't want to." She smiled at the little girl.
Shinku looked away for a minute then back at Ash for a second before turning and walking away; into the kitchen. Ash smiled watching her and then went out the front door as she had intended on doing.
"She really fits the bill doesn't she?" Came Kurama's voice as he appeared from the hallway and into the living room where Yusuke and Kuwabara seemed dumbfounded by the actions that had taken place.
"What do you mean?" Kuwabara asked.
"I mean, Ash has a very gentle heart for a fire demon, I think I understand why Ryu gave her the responsibility of taking care of Shinku, she seems like a natural born mother." Kurama explained with a smile towards the door then back at them.
"Yeah I guess your right. But Hiei being a father is still pretty hilarious." Kurama rolled his eyes.
Outside with Ash the bright afternoon sun illuminated everything as a strong breeze blew the trees and everything in it's place stifling the sun from being such a hot day; it was a perfect early spring day.
Ash silently approached her fire demons mate who sat on the stairs of the temple, crimson eyes unblinking and unfocused, staring at nothing and yet so cautious of everything around him.
"Hiei." Ash came up beside him and sat down.
"I don't think it's right to send Shinku to a ningen school." He stated; she smiled.
"I know you don't, but if she's going to grow up in the Ningenkai it'll be necessary for her to do so. She just needs to liven up to everything around her and she'll be fine."
"You sound so sure." Never once did he look over at her, she looked confused and concerned at the same time; she sighed and looked out towards the horizon.
"To tell you the truth I'm not." Her tone changed suddenly to complete seriousness but not so much firm. "I'm scared, when I chose to stay with you here… I was signing my death wish and I know it." She explained.
"I'm going to die because of what I could not achieve, and it'll be sometime soon I can feel it like the sun hitting my back now." She took in a breath. "I'm not sure about anything now Hiei." His eye's snapped over to her.
They stayed blank, there was nothing he could say to comfort her, telling her everything would be okay would be a lie completely because they both knew it wasn't. And anything else would do no better, but silence… silence seemed to kill everything around them.
"Don't think about it." He finally said. "Thinking about what is to come will destroy you, mentally as well as physically."
"I guess your right, when I still lived with my Dad and my brother… I thought about what was happening all the time. Why my mom left, why my family was like this to me, and what would happen to me over time. And I guess it did destroy me."
She smiled, "and then I met you guys and everything changed."
"Hn, we didn't do anything."
"Oh come on! You're the one who killed part of my family!" Her voice was in a joking way.
"I told you I didn't do it!" She stopped at the sudden anger that filled his voice that had lashed out completely at her, bewilderment and surprise filled her features.
"Gomen." He looked away again as he had when she approached him at first. "It's okay." She said with the smile returning to her face, he didn't seem to regard her at all.
"Hn." He said softly. "Are you okay Hiei?" She finally asked admitting that something was wrong with him. "Hai."
"No your not I can see it, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine Ash, just lost in thought." He said.
"Well what thought? As long as we're discussing our thoughts and feelings."
"Nothing, it's not important."
"Then if you're not going to tell me would you at least act like the Hiei I love?" He looked over at her and smirked. "And that would be how?"
"Stub-." Her look fell, "exactly how you're being now." He gave a soft chuckle and stood up. "If you could do anything before… anything, what would it be?" She looked up at him, his black cloak blowing in the strong breeze as he continued looking out as if he had never asked it at all.
"I would want to move." He looked confused. "Move away from all of this, maybe not far. But… this place holds so many memories both good and bad, I want to move somewhere with you and Shinku where we can make our own memories… like a family should."
"Then that's what we're going to do." She looked confused again, "nani?"
"We're going to move, build a house wherever you want and however you want and we'll move out there, just the three of us." She smiled at the optimism that he rarely showed clearly enough for others to see.
"That would be nice if we really could do it." Her voice fell as she spoke, he leaned down next to her crimson meeting gray. "No, we are going to do it, you're not going to die and we are going to move out somewhere." He assured her, she continued to smile.
"And how are you going to manage that?" He was silent and then he gave her a questionable look, "do you honestly think I'm going to let the love of my life die without putting up a hell of a fight first?"
"That's what I love about you Hiei, you never give up." She pulled his head closer into a soft kiss then let him go and stood up. "I'm going to go tell the other's."
He grabbed her wrist, "no. If you want to go somewhere without the disturbance of them then you'll have to keep it a secret."
"Then how are we going to keep it a secret when they do find out and want to know? Surly they'll be able to sense where tree strong demon's are easy."
"Hn, I'll figure it out." He started walking away in one direction and her in the other.
She stopped at the front door with a immense pain that filled her head. She cringed her eyes closed as she felt as if her head was about to explode right then and there. But suddenly it diminished and her eyes opened again.
She didn't think anything, to keep the thought she knew was true away from her mind as best as possible. Suddenly the pain receded from her mind until she felt back to the way she had been before.
She shrugged it off and went inside the house.
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On a tree branch just off the premises of the temple Ryu stood gazing down at Ash who walked towards the front door. His eyes were blank and, breathing even, and body unmoving as he gazed down upon her.
'The prophecy's have been written in blood, but I am blind to what they are meaning.' He thought to himself. 'They have been wrong as far as I can see, my task has been said to be done by the fate at hand but that does not mean I cannot help in my own way.'
He witnessed her feeling the first headache of the painful process she would come to know as the act of dying. He moved his mind inconspicuously into hers and proceeded in taking the pain from her and into himself.
He did not feel it as she did, it lingered on his mind knowing it was there but he was not able to feel it as she had. 'Is this why you trained me to not feel pain Sinu?' He questioned. 'So that I could help your daughter feel free of the pain you knew would befall her?' Only another gust of wind that whipped threw his hair answered him.
He sighed watching her move into the house as if everything had happened just because it did… all naturally. How she lived in such a way confused him to the very end and it always would; it was a trait she took from her mom.
He looked around suddenly 'Sinu… I can feel your presence upon this place, within Ash. Is it that you will not allow her to die that you have taken such a weak position as this?' He continued to stare down at the temple.
"What are you doing here Ryu?" Came Hiei's deadly voice from behind the psychic.
"I am not committing a crime here, forbidden. I am watching my responsibility." He eyed the fire demon that gave him a glare; he instantly returned it. He would not be questioned or estimated by a demon that had mistaken his place.
"Ash is not your responsibility nor yours to watch over." Hiei's glare intensified, as did his tone.
"I never said she was, although yes she is. You know not what is right and what is not, you have no place to talk." He turned back to where his sights had been before. "There are things here you would never understand and I am not about to explain them to you."
"Just tell me why you're here." Hiei ordered.
"No, no I don't think I will. But I will tell you that I am of no harm to any of you, my reasons for being here are to simply… observe." He explained roughly.
"You will not set foot in the temple grounds; or I will take you to Koenma." He growled, Ryu's purple eyes looked back at Hiei.
"Is that a challenge?"
"Consider it what you will but stay away form Ash." Ryu continued to stare at Hiei's Crimson eyes. "You and I have never been on goof terms and I can see why honestly. But you stereotype people as well as demons before your facts are gathered."
"Enough has been gathered about you to judge right."
"Maybe threw your eyes."
"Hn, you have my warning." Hiei flitted away from his own tree branch post and to an area Ryu didn't bother to follow. 'I will not lessen myself even to someone such as himself.' His eyes transfixed back onto the temple.
'Sinu… I know not of what your intentions are… but I need to know, how I have no idea, but I think I have an idea of it and if you have the idea I think you do.' He thought opening up his conscious to become more open to anything strong enough to get past his mental blocks.
'I am both scarred and interested in what is to come.'
A/N: It is REALLY interesting what listening to System Of A Down will do for your writing idea's. When I started I had NO idea's and I started listening to System Of A Down I had and suddenly things just started coming to me and it was so clear to!