Kinnara swore quietly to herself as she stared at the huge demon, her eyes scanning the monster up and down. Oh how she hated these dumb demons! Not a brain cell between the lot of them.
"Ha! Pitiful humans, you send this little traitor to save you?" the oni thundered, laughing off to itself, sounding like the ocean in a hurricane.
"Just because I haven't chosen a side doesn't mean I'm a traitor, you idiot!" Kinnara muttered and in one fluid movement her right arm shot forward and let loose a rather large ball of pure yellow lightning. In an explosion of steam and mist everyone in the field watched with bated breath only to groan when they heard its laughter again.
"That almost hurt! A pitiful little weakling like you actually thinks that you can take me on?" he kept laughing.
Kinnara just smirked. So, he thought she was weak? Well, she'd just have to prove him wrong. Dancing around her hands was yet again lighting, this time a pure, icy blue (higher voltage) and with that same smirk she ran at the demon, propelling herself forward with the lightning's blast. The moment she was close enough to the oni she pulled her right fist back and with all her strength punched him as hard as she could, her fist encircled by lightning so frightening it was black rimmed in blue. There as an earth shattering explosion, sending the small demon flying back, away from what was the oni. By the time the mist cleared the oni was gone, and so was Kinnara…
Kurama woke to find himself in his bedthough he hadn't the foggiest idea how he got there. Slowly, he drifted off, his mind wandering to the dream that had just been broken…
A few days had passed and Tetsuo was slowly beginning wake from yet another dreamless sleep. The sun had already long since risen but for one Kinnara was fast asleep, curled up in the ashes of the fire. Her eyes were squeezed shut, trying to block out the light.
Groaning softly he rolled out of bed and gingerly tested out his right leg. It was still sore. Demonic genetics or not, it would take a while to heal. Slowly Tetsuo made his way to the small door of the hut and let his hand rest on the wood when he stopped dead in his tracks and almost immediately hid behind an old pile of long since dried out logs.
KNOCK KNOCK!
Kinnara started awake, nearly jumped out of her own skin, and then realized where the noise was coming from. Someone was knocking on her door. As she made her way to the wood slats she noticed that Tetsuo was no where to be seen.
'great… I've lost the general of the demonic army…' she thought to herself as she pulled the door open. What greeted her was a small group of reiki warriors and spell casters, probably back from the nearby battle.
"Good Afternoon, is there any reason why you are knocking on my door?" she asked as politely as she could while rubbing soot off her face.
"Demon… we are here to give you one warning!" one particularly rough looking warrior nearly shouted, catching Kinnara off guard. She took a slight step back to distance herself from the angry fighter and just sighed.
"Give me a warning of what? I have caused no pain to the village and do not fight in the battles. What wrong have I done to award me with this uncouth warning?" Kinnara implored her face the picture of innocence but her words stung each man like a knife.
"The demonic troops are advancing on the village. We do not want you siding with them." A spell caster added.
"To make sure of this, we will give you the chance to leave by sunset… or else we will come here and take care of you ourselves."
Kinnara scanned the faces of the men and noticed that most of them were young but all of them held a silent look of defiance and hatred smoldered in their eyes.
"So young, and already you've been to war? I pity your wives and children. Do you really think that if I leave I won't join the demonic army? By giving me a chance to leave you may be writing out your own demise… I guess this is what they mean by the futility of youth," she spat at them.
One already short tempered warrior tried to attack her, his spirit scythe biting into her cheek and up dangerously close to her eyes.
"Do not spit at us, fiend!" he growled at her and she just laughed, not even bothering to stop the blood that was flowing down one side of her face.
"Are you sure you're friend's not a dog demon? Look, he's already foaming at the mouth!"
"SHADDUP! I'LL KILL YOU!" he cried out, breaking free from his friends and racing towards her but the moment he slice at her, his scythes cut only into her afterimage.
"You'll have to be faster then that, human, if you even dream of taking me on," she whispered is his ear.
"Demon, we are only giving you this chance to leave because you have saved most of our families. Please, do not waste it," one youthful spell caster stated softly, looking at her with pleading eyes.
"I appreciate it, and I apologize that children such as yourselves have been forced to endure the tortures of war. Take care…" she then bowed her head and walked in, slamming the door shut. Sliding down the slats of the door, sighing as she fell to the ground, she just stared at her house… when the mug that was sitting on an old pile of logs suddenly toppled over and fell to the ground, shattering.
"So you were hiding? Pretty cowardly for the demon general!" Kinnara smirked at him as he stood up from his hiding place.
"I was going to leave but since it looks like you probably won't leave…" Tetsuo trailed off.
"Nah, I've got to leave. I couldn't live with myself if I caused any deaths to those boys," Kinnara replied, pulling herself off the cool ground.
"Ah… I see," Tetsuo nodded and as he watched the young woman search through an old box he had a sudden feeling of respect.
"Aha! There it is!" she exclaimed, holding up a very elegant red silk scroll.
"'There' what is?"
"Oh. It's a scroll my father gave me… I can't lose it," Kinnara explained, hugging it to her chest.
"What is the scroll of?"
"It's one of the prophecy scrolls for the Ancient Demons, for Balance." She explained while lovingly wrapping it in soft, clean linen.
"Where did your father get that?" Tetsuo asked, nearly rushing over.
"How should I know? He just gave it to me before he died," Kinnara shrugged, tying the cloth close in a knot.
"Your… father is dead?" Tetsuo asked gently, knowing this to be a very sore topic of conversation but she answered it readily.
"Yeah, same with my mom. They were killed by humans."
This shocked Tetsuo, who looked over at her, confused. She showed such compassion for the humans but it was the humans that killed her parents. He watched silently as she grabbed an old bag and placed the scroll inside carefully. After slinging it over her chest she snatched her two most favorite spears and looked over at Tetsuo and nodded to the back door.
"You coming with me?" she asked. Tetsuo just quickly nodded and followed her out the door.
"Where are you going to go?" Tetsuo asked gently as she led him into the forest.
"I don't really know. I'll find some place to settle down… maybe off in the mountains." She replied nonchalantly, shrugging her shoulders.
"If you plan to stay somewhere peaceful then why carry spears with you?" he asked, curious.
"Just because I don't approve of violence doesn't mean I don't know it exists. Humans don't like demons, so I need to take care of myself."
"My, what a fascinating sense of logic," Tetsuo mused, smiling to himself as he followed the sooty Kinnara through the forest.
"What's that supposed to mean!" she demanded, twirling around to face him, brandishing a spear.
"Just that if you don't want to hurt people, then why would you even bother learning to fight back?" Tetsuo asked good naturedly and just gave her a smile that stopped her dead in her tracks, the beginning of a blush rising to her cheeks.
"I never said I was fool. Look at the horrible times we live in! If you don't know how to fight you're as good as dead!" she exclaimed, tossing one spear in the air to catch it on it's decent. The air filled with the sounds of bells…
As night began to fall they had almost made their way out of the forest, the mountain pass was in sight.
"Great, It'll only take three days to cross the pass if we use the caves and then I can leave you at the encampment, okay?" Kinnara asked Tetsuo, turning around to face him.
"Alright, alright. You're pretty eager to get rid of me, aren't you?" he asked, giving her a fake injured look.
"Of course, I don't want to travel with a kill-," she was cut off when Tetsuo's head suddenly snapped around and he began to reach for the whip on his hip.
"Hey! What's wr-." Tetsuo turned around to see why she had stopped talking, a sinking feeling slowly ran through him.
Crumpled onto her knees, Kinnara was grasping at the shaft of an arrow; the point has already cut straight through her. Blood welled up out of the wound as she grasped at the shaft, as though not realized she was injured.
"T… TETSUO!" she cried out, pointing out behind him. Stepping out into the clearing was the quick tempered warrior from before and a large group of fighters and spell casters. The kind eyed spell caster was no where to be seen.
"My, my, my! What a foolish little demon!" the quick tempered man laughed, watching her struggle to stand.
"Yeah, you've now just betrayed the humans AND the demons!" another sniggered, cocking his bow at her.
"Leave her be!" Tetsuo exclaimed, snapping his whip at them to get his point across.
"Why, look at this? The traitor has friends with a demon general!" the quick tempered one sneered.
"Wataru, don't be stupid!" Kinnara screamed at the man who just stared at her with a look of loathing.
"Kinnara, don't move," Tetsuo scolded between his teeth as he snapped his whip once more at a spell caster that had come just a bit too close.
"I'll hold them off, Kinnara, run!" Tetsuo exclaimed. Not knowing what else she could do she pulled herself to her feet and ran. Every step she took made her shoulder throb but the bleeding had nearly stopped. Unfortunately, she didn't get very far. Another arrow pierced through the side of her calf, cutting through muscle.
The last thing she saw before she passed out was a small black clad figure's back…
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Trenity170: Well, there's another end to another chapter! But don't worry, no one will die yet! Next chapter you'll find out where Narue has gone! And Kurama will be awake again!
Kurama: Though Trenity170 would like to apologize to all you loyal readers out there for her computer. It recently changed the titles of all of her documents on her computer, so the chapters on her stories got really screwed up.
Narue: So sorry about that deeply. She's got her computer fixed, finally.
Trenity170: To simply answer the review given to me by HieiFan666, this is not a HieixOC fic, sorry, but yes, this story goes into the deep roots of Hiei's past, because I had soooo much fun inventing it. I'm positively happy that you're actually enjoying it. So yes, please continue to read this! And feel free to tell me any advice, or your thoughts, or whatever! Oh and, my loyalties… My fav characters are Hiei and Kurama, and that YAY that followed his passing out, coincidence or Freudian slip. You choose.
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