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July 15"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?"
Hiei mumbled something inaudible in response. In a painfully slow process he managed to pry apart his eyelids, almost immediately regretting it. The pool of figures and colors made his head pound even more. Gradually he managed to come into focus to see sharp blue sky. A face then violently shoved its way into his line of vision making everything blurry again.
"Well, it seems you've finally woken up. I didn't think you'd make it!" a bright voice said from somewhere on his left. Sanguine, and vaguely familiar. "Can you drink something? You're horribly dehydrated. Still, I guess I would be too if I was pretty much comatose for 2 days straight,"
Hiei felt something cool pressed against his lips and water trickling down his chin. He managed to open his mouth and just the small drink of water made his vision clear nearly instantly.
It was her. What was her name…? Riyann something or another. Her red eyes stared right back down at him. The earth demon that had stolen Kuwabara's Twinkies. She smiled at him, seeing pained confusion on his face upon recognition. Then there was two of her. No, one. Two. Hiei closed his eyes again.
"Yay! You remember me!" She giggled softly.
Another cup of water was held to his dry lips and it went down easier the second time.
"Do you feel better?" Riyann asked, bringing a cool cloth to his face. Hiei didn't answer. "Go back to sleep," she said gently and for once Hiei obeyed a stranger.
Somewhere in his tranquil sleep a soft voice sang a sad song of fire.
It was dusk when Hiei had once again regained consciousness. The sky was lit with pinks and purples as the sun was near gone and a few birds were still making their way home. Hiei throat was dry like sandpaper and his lips burned prompting him to sit up which was a stupid thing to do because it racked his body with pain. A warm wool blanket rolled off his shoulders.
A few feet away Riyann played with something in her hand and turned to look at him when she heard the rustling of grass.
"Some part of me believes you're the stupidest person in the world," she said crossly making her way to him, "you shouldn't be sitting up,"
Riyann grabbed for a tin cup and filled it with water from a small flask both hidden in a well-worn shoulder bag made from simple brown material. She filled the cup and then went rummaging in the bag again to pull out a few tiny dried leaves.
Just like an earth demon Hiei thought disdainfully.
"Here," Riyann handed him the cup, crushing the leaves in it, "it will help the pain considering you're nothing but a black and blue mark,"
Hiei accepted the cup and sniffed it.
"Honestly! I didn't poison it!" she said irately turning from him to go back into the bag. Hiei downed the cup in one instant. It tasted like honey and reduced the pain to a dull throb almost instantly.
"Feel better?" she said with a childish tone, making herself laugh.
"I imagine you're not up to eating at the moment," said Riyann on a more serious note, "but, if you are, I have fruit, fruit and more fruit!" She said mock matter-of-factly.
"I'm not hungry," said Hiei shortly.
"Oh so you're stubborn! Alrighty then… Here's the plan. You miss out and are not going to go anywhere unless you're goal is to never get better, and I get to go fishing," she got up and walked away with her random comment and headed to the edge of the river that Hiei just noticed. Hiei knew she was right, no matter how much it pained him to admit it. So instead of deliberately defying her like he normally would have done, he took the time to inspect his surroundings
One the West side of the river he saw the tree line to his left. East, there was nothing but open plains and a big rock. He could see the mountains above the trees. He was lost.
A loud 'Yay' drew his attention to what was happening by the river. Or should he say, in it.
Riyann could be see standing in knee deep water her pant legs rolled up to her thighs and her sleeves to her elbows. She grinned at a particularly large trout held in her hands as the dying sun gleamed off the water and her pale green skin. Her eyes blazed clearly, projecting them selves from the ensemble.
She waded to the edge of the water and scrambled back onto dry land. In a matter of seconds she had the fish gutted and cleaned, using a small knife contained in a concealed sheath on her thigh. His was slightly impressed.
"Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish!" she chanted as she began to dance her way back over to him.
'A moron. That's what I've been trapped here with. Will I actually live through this?' Hiei asked himself, thinking that maybe it would have been better to drown. His face must have conveyed his thoughts exactly because Riyann stopped dead as soon as she saw his sour countenance.
"I'm really not as stupid as I look, by the way," she said, taking the time to compose her self before making her way to his side.
"I never would have guessed," said Hiei pertly, taking his sweet time in an eye role so she could get the full effect of it.
"Shove a sock in it," she replied in the same tone stoking the fire some more before impaling the fish with a stick and cooking it much like you would a marshmallow. They didn't talk as night blanketed the Makai plains quietly. Stars began to pop up into the darkness; there was only a small fire to light the emptiness of the world.
Soon the air was filled with the sweet smell of cooking fish and Hiei couldn't keep his mouth from watering. He turned his head so Riyann wouldn't see, but she knew anyway.
"Ooh. So tasty! And crunchy! Cooked to perfection," she said, ruthlessly teasing him with her fish. She chewed each bite slowly, with a ridiculous amount of relish. "Mmmm… Fish," Riyann waved the last half of the fish under his nose as Hiei desperately tried to ignore it. "Come on just take it. I know you want it. I'm full anyway," she said reasonably so he took it. Riyann was right, it was good. Hiei detested admitting to it even if he was the only one that would ever know.
"I thought earth demon's were supposed to be vegetarians," Hiei said curtly after he had swallowed a bite of that great fish.
"Well there's one reason I'm not to popular among the other earth demon's, now isn't it," she replied pensively, "they all think it's wrong, but I just see it as part of nature, you know? We really didn't fight our way to the top of the food chain just to become hypocrites, now did we?" She shrugged.
"Well, I can tell you right now why you're aren't all that popular with them. You're an idiot," Hiei said rudely tossing the now empty stick away. Riyann shot him a death glare.
"You save their life and what do you get? Ungrateful," she stuck here tongue out at him, "Maybe I'll throw you back into the river,"
"I'd like to see you try," Hiei rolled over to put his back to her in a sad attempt to ignore her. There was quiet for a few minutes.
"You know what it's like," Riyann spoke up suddenly causing Hiei to turn back over to look at her again. "You know, to be different and all."
"It's hard because you're really not all that wanted," Hiei was surprised to hear her normally happy voice filled with sadness and maybe a little bit of envy. He sat up some what intrigued. "If you haven't noticed by now, I'm far from normal. I mean I have mixed blood. It's kinda funny; funny how I can create life but also destroy it at the same time. I was so alienated by the others. They all hated me when I was little, nobody wanted to be around the freakish, mixed blooded demon," Hiei suddenly got a picture of a little girl Riyann looking lost as everyone laughed and pointed then walked away. It reminded him of himself and he didn't like it. "Well, that was before I found some one who loved me for who I was," she smiled wistfully.
"Why are you telling me this?" he asked shortly feeling suddenly very uncomfortable.
"Sorry 'bout that," Riyann apologized quickly, "I promise I wont bore you to sleep with my life story. It's not like you care, so why bother?" Her words were like a slap in the face to him. It kind of stung how she had just met him and already knew he was heartless. Was he really that transparent? The thought made him angry.
"So what were you and your friends doing down in the Makai?" Riyann said for sake of a subject change. She could sense his anger and decided to drop the subject quickly.
"Koenma assigned the team two weeks worth of patrol duty due to all the sudden deaths around here," he frowned irritably, watching Riyann chow down on a pear that she pulled from her bag, "We've been here for a week and nothing. It's a lost cause I say but no one seems to be listening to me,"
"That sounds like fun," she managed to choke out through a mouthful of pear.
"Yeah, fun," Hiei snorted in response,
"I'm actually surprised you guys didn't come after me first thing," Riyann said with mild interest as she started on the other half of her pear.
"The only thing we actually saw was burned remains of villages and no survivors what so ever. You didn't exactly strike me as one smart enough or powerful enough to be taking out villages of demons with one swing," Riyann's face grew beet red as she took aim for his head with the core of her pear clutched in her hand.
THUD!
"Dammit! What was that for?" Hiei demanded grabbing her wrist that still hung in the air after the fruit assault.
"What did I ever do to you?" she yelled at him wrenching her wrist from his clutch, "Huh!"
"Shut up," Hiei said coldly wiping the bits of fruit off his cheek, "are you confessing to be the one killing all those worth less demons?"
"NO! All I want to know is why?" she shouted at him, "I save your God forsaken life and all I get in return is name calling! 'Idiot! Stupid! Moron!'-"
"I never called you a moron," Hiei said casually.
Riyann's mouth hung open for a second. "Oh yeah? Well…You were thinking it!" She leapt up and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"So now you're telepathic?" Hiei narrowed his eyes suspiciously. Riyann stopped, her eyes widening.
"You mean you really did think that?" she asked with surprise. Hiei didn't say anything. "COOL! Just call me Mind Reading Riyann!" She displayed the universal peace sign.
Attention span: 10 seconds. Hiei thought, shaking his head regrettably.
"Sit down,"
"I'm so tele-pathetic!" Riyann chirped in self-satisfaction.
"You've got that right," Hiei pulled her back down.
"So… what were we talking about?"
"Nothing what so ever,"
Silence descended upon them for a while before Riyann yawned and stretched her arms.
"Well, I don't know about you but I'm bushed so I'm doing to call it a night. Get some sleep okay?" she said in a motherly tone that really didn't suit her, "It will help you get better faster,"
Riyann relocated on the other side of the fire grabbing an extra blanket. She settled her head on her brown bag using it as a make shift pillow.
" 'Night!" she called over her shoulder before covering herself in the blanket and rolling away from him.
The sooner I get better the faster I'll get away from her. Hiei laid back down staring at the blurry figure of Riyann through the flames as he drifted off. This is going to take a while.