Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or it's characters. I do not own the music. I do own Angela.
AN- I can't remember the whole exact conversation in Hiei's past. So don't yell at me please. What pairing do you prefer? Y/A, K/A, or H/A
REVISED AN-Damn, it's effin hard to convert a whole story to another fromat and still keep the story the same! So if you find several changes, it's because I did them to help the story make sense. Cuz, say a paragraph of talking makes sense when it's together but when you separate it doesn't so I've had add stuff to make it make sense again.
Legend:
Music
Noise
-Telepathy-
-Thought-
/Flashbacks/
/Visions/
Chapter Eight
"What are you doing here? Men are forbidden here!" an old lady said to Koenma.
Koenma put his hands up, saying "I know, I'm Koenma."
"I know who you are. You are still not welcomed here," the old woman hissed.
"I know but I wouldn't be here unless it was important," Koenma said urgently. When the Elder didn't say anything, Koenma continued. "I need to borrow the records you kept during the time of the 'Great Darkness'."
Her answer was quick, "No."
"You don't understand, I need them because smething is stirring on earth and I feel that what happened in the past is connected to what's happening now." The Elder didn't say anything. Koenma decided to take his chance, and told her all that's been happening.
The Elder thought about it. Finally she said, "I must convene with the rest of the Elders. Wait here."
Koenma was about to argue that it was freezing on the outskirts of the town, but decided against it. -I'm pushing my luck as it is. Better not upset them and follow their orders.- He thought, shivering.
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"What are we doing?" Angela asked, as she followed Kurama into the woods.
"We're starting your new training," he asnwered.
They entered into the glade with the tree that had been infested with the two Tree-Eaters. "Uh..." Angela said, still apprehensive of finding another Tree-Eater.
"We're going to try to heal this tree. As the Tree-Eater feeds, it infects the tree with a toxin. You're going to try to expel the toxin," Kurama explained her training.
"How?"
"That's for you to decide," was his answer.
Angela concentrated on the tree, finding the toxing. She thought about it. "How about through the sap?" she asked.
Kurama nodded his approval. "Okay, now get started. Remember, you need to pull the toxin from the other trees as well, so this might take awhile."
That started the routine for the next few weeks. Angela spent three hours each day on expelling the toxin from the trees. After two weeks most of the toxin was gone.
"Good work Angela," Kurama was saying one day as they ate lunch on the front porch, when Koenma and Botan flew in.
"I succeeded!" Koenma said, holding up a large and thick manuscript. "Let's go in and look over it." he said, walking inside, followed by Kurama, Angela and Botan, who hugged Angela.
"It's good to see you again!" Botan said.
"You too," Angela replied. "Was it cold there?"
Botan shrugged, "I don't know, Koenma left me in Spirit World."
They went into a room attached to the shrine that opened up to the walkway and the pond area. Yusuke had been in there playing a video game. "Hey Pacifier Breath," Yusuke said to Koenma in his usual greeting.
Koenma just rolled his eyes as he laid the manuscript on the table. "Okay kiddies, settle in, it's story time." He scanned through the manuscript, looking for the entry about the 'Great Darkness'. "Ah, here we are..." He started reading, "Today disturbing news came to us...
Some women came back from the edge of our land. They reported seeing a strange darkness spreading over the land below, like the land was rotting. Despite our saying that we have nothing to do with the world of men, sometimes one of the Elders leaves to the surface when strange things are reported being seen from there, it's to make sure that whatever happens on the surface is no threat to us. We await the return of the elder...
...It's been a month and the Elder has yet to return. What has happened to her? We all fear the worst...We had just about lost hope when the Elder returned. We were joyous. However the look on her face stopped any joyous out cries. What has happened to make that look in her eyes? Again terrible news. Horrifying news. Down on the surface tragedy has struck. Evil monsters that are as black as shadows and move through the dark are roaming all over the four worlds. They are so strong that they can take down an S-class apparition with ease. They grow in number as the darkness grows. The Elder has called these beings and the darkness the Great Darkness, for she beleives these beings to be as one with each other. She has heard stories where multiple shadow beings have converged to make one big shadow being. A whisper of fright has spread through the land, it says that no force can stop this invasion. The beings have been heard saying that 'Hell shall reign on all of the worlds'. The Elder has told us to stay in our homes, hold our children tight and pray that it doesn't come here, and if it does let death come swiftly. She has heard stories of where they torture there victims before killing them. I go to hide now...
...Something glorious has happened. Early this morning there was a loud thunderclap, we all feared it meant that the Great Darkness had reached our home. Then there was a force that spread through the land, a vibration of power. Through our windows we could see a bright light. We left our houses to see. A silver light was spreading through the sky. It was so beautiful. As we watched, it started to drift down, like silver snow. Where it fell, the land glowed silver for a moment then faded. As it fell on us, we were overcome with a sense of peace and happiness. Someone had gone to the edge of our land to see what effect the silver snow had had on the surface. She ran back saying that the Great Darkness was disappearing...
...I have sad and heart breaking news. A week after the day of silver snow, an Elder journeyed to the surface. She came back two weeks later, sorrow in her eyes. She said the silver light we saw was the last thing we would ever see of the beautiful race of Angels. They had sacrificed themselves to seal away the Great Darkness. However there was hope, before they gave up their lives, a ritual was preformed. The details of the ritual is cloudy, only that it involved a male Angel mating with a female human. She said that this was done to try to continue the blood line of the Angels. She also spoke of a terrible prophecy. She heard that before the Great Darkness was sealed away it screamed...
"What did it scream Koenma?" Yusuke asked, wondering why Koenma had stopped reading.
Koenma shook his head. "I don't know, the rest of it has faded."
Kurama looked at the manuscript. "Odd that it would fade so thoroughly there, while everywhere else it's still legible."
"Yeah," Koenma agreed.
"Hey, Angela, are you alright?" Botan asked looking at the girl. Angela was stiff and her eyes were looking off in the distance. Botan shook her. "Hey, are you ok?"
Angela shook herself out of her trance, "Yeah, yeah. I'm fine." The others looked at her. "What? I am!" She got up and stormed out.
"What's her problem?" Koenma asked.
Yusuke shrugged. "She's female."
"Hey! That's so sexist!" Botan protested.
"Well, it's a good explanation. You girls are crazy. Your moods change from moment to moment. I was only putting it in simple terms." Yusuke put his hands up in self defense.
"Hmpf!" was Botan's reply.
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Angela walked through the woods to the little glade she had found. In it was a beautiful little garden filled with perennials. Her own little masterpiece and haven. She often came here to relax and get some stress off. Today, however, the little garden wasn't giving her any piece of mind. She sat down in the middle. -What was the prophecy? I can almost remember it.- Her eyes narrowed. -Remember? How can I remember something if I was never there? Maybe I should talk to Koenma or Kurama about it. Wait, should I tell them that I keep having visions? I don't want to alarm them. They're so terrifying, and I can only remember a little about them.- She thought back to the last one she had had while Koenma read. /Pain, torture. Unbearable. Life sucked away. The dark growing./ -What did that mean? And why do I have these visions?-
There was a rustling behind her. She whirled around, memories of that fateful night coming back. Behind the tree lines was a shadow. Angela froze, against all common logic her body froze with fright. It walked forward, materializing into Hiei. Angela nearly fainted with relief.
"So, this is where you run off?" Hiei said, looking around. "Kurama was wondering. I guess the reason he couldn't smell you was because of all these flowers."
"You scared me, Hiei," she accused, catching her breath.
"Hn," was his common reply. He turned around. "Let's go, Kurama want's us back."
Angela hurried to catch up with him. "So, when did you get back?" she asked.
"Just now."
"Hn," Angela mimicked. Hiei just ignored it. They walked in silence for awhile, until Angela tripped and Hiei caught her.
For an instant time stood still for Angela. /She had a vision of being tightly wrapped in something, and there were female voices. "Did you hear? Hina gave birth to twins, one girl and one boy!" A surge of hate rushed through her. The scene changed, instead of being in a room with several blue haired women, she was at the edge of a cliff, most of those same women there, including a crying woman. "Please, give me back my son!" She cried. "Rui!" An old woman said to the woman holding her, or whoever she was seeing through. "Do not pity the beast. As an Himiko, this boy of fire will slaughter us all!" The woman gave a hiruseki stone to the baby. "When you come back for the revenge you and we deserve, please kill me first." A sense of falling. The woman had thrown the baby off the cliff! The last thing Angela heard was a scream. "No! You killed my son!"/ Time resumed as the vision ended. Hiei was holding her up.
"Uh sorry," She stuttered. Then she looked closely at Hiei. Hiei was giving her an odd look. "You were the baby, weren't you?"
Hiei's eyes widened, then narrowed. "I guess you're also a budding psychic," Hiei replied as he quickly guarded his thoughts. -She saw into my past with so short a contact.- He felt slight admiration growing towards the girl. -She has great potential. I guess I'll be training her in more than fire.- He turned and started walking again.
Angela started to follow then paused. "Hiei...I've something I need to talk to you about." Hiei stopped but didn't turn around. "Um...I've been having severe nightmares and visions lately. I think they're from the past. But how can I see the past if I wasn't there? I can also feel the feelings of others, sometimes, if I come in contact with them. I haven't wanted to talk about it with the others, cuz I don't know how they'll react."
"And you think I can help you because?" Hiei asked, turning around to look closely at the girl. Her makeup was done almost perfectly, but he could still see the circles under her eyes, and she looked very wane, leading him to believe that she hadn't been sleeping very well for a week at least.
Angela shrugged. "I don't know, I guess cuz I can talk to you. I don't think Yusuke or Koenma would really understand, and Kurama treats me like a porcelain doll when something strange happens to me." She shrugged again. "Besides, you're a psychic to, maybe you could see into my thougths and see my visions..."
Hiei thougth about it, then shrugged. He walked over to her and put his fingers on her temples. His eyes started to glow...
/Shadows with claws. Evil red eyes. Pain and power. No one can stop it./ Hiei looked confused. Angela shook her head. "No not that one..." Hiei dug deeper. /Slaughter, torture. Screams from a thousand voices. Blood everywhere. An evil laugh mixed with a shriek. Sacrifice tinged with dread.../ "Yes, that one." Angela said, in a cold sweat. "That's as far as I get before I wake up in a cold sweat." Hiei looked deeper, forcing the vision to continue.../"I WILL COME BACK!" A harsh booming voice claims. Fear spreads to all those that here. "WITH THE BLOOD OF ANGELS I SHALL RETURN! YOUR SACRIFICE WILL BE YOUR UNDOING!" Searing pain afflicts the Angels as they die./ Angela screamed.
Hiei quickly broke the contact and caught her as she colapsed. She was breathing heavily, and crying. "I...I felt their pain and terror..." She looked at Hiei and asked fearfully, "What did it mean when it said 'with the blood of Angels'?"
Hiei shook his head. "I don't know." He stood up, bringing her up with him. "We definately need to talk to the others about this."
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Just as Angela thought, Kurama immediately ordered her to bed the moment he found that she wasn't getting a restful sleep. "Here," he said, handing her a cup of tea. "It has a sedative in it that will cause you to sleep without dreams."
Angela sighed. "You know, I like you alot better when you're not treating me like porcelain."
Kurama smiled. "Well, someone has to play doctor around here." He thought about what he just said, and a small blush spread through his cheeks.
Angela raised her eyebrow. "Doctor eh? I thought it was played another way..."
Kurama blushed some more, saying "You have a mind as dirty as Yusuke's."
"Maybe that's why we get along so well." She smiled as she finished the tea. The moment she laid her head on the pillow she was out.
Kurama leaned over and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Sleep well, Angela"
"Hn, I didn't know you were so sentimental about the girl," Hiei said, sitting on the windowsill of the open window.
Kurama just gave him an even stare. "What about you? I've never seen you treat any other woman as gently as you treat Angela, besides, of course, Yukina."
Hiei broke the stare first. "Hn." He stood up and disappeared out the window.
Kurama stood there for a minute. -He's right. I've developed feelings for Angela without realizing it. But I'm also right. Hiei seems to have developed feelings for her too. And so has Yusuke.- He looked at Angela. -Which one will you choose? Or will you choose someone else?- He shook his head, dispelling those thoughts.