Love

"Tell me you want me to love you like you did so long ago."

She regretted letting herself be alone when such emotions ran through her as she sat in solitude, cross legged on her bed, watching the mirror as her dragon's eye gleamed maliciously.

"No... I-I don't..." she whispered in fast breaths though the tear crystallizing on her cheek spoke otherwise. While the others went to the lobby to celebrate their mornings victory, she felt shaken and unnerved...Naked and yet Hidden...

"Don't lie little one."

"G-go away!" She yelled as another tear oolled down her face, falling to her hand with the other...Tears of preciouse value tainted by dark fire.

"Please go away.." It was soemthing no one had ever inflicted upon her, to make her beg and plead and sob, but eh lived within her, he could control her..He could use her like he had earlier.

When both her eyes had fogged black..and she'd been confined into darkness as he did unspeakable things to the opponents.

"No Little one. What is it you desire? TELL ME!" His smooth voice rose into a snarl as he made balck fire leap around hr, leaping from her and taking th rare appearance of more human form.

"Please stop..." She pleaded, at his feet now having slid off the ground and he knelt before her, clothed in black silk and she cringed as his long clawed hand rann over her back, tearing her shirt as she begged him to stop, in tears now as her darrk eye went to the same color as the other.

An unnatural rest in her mind occured as he harshly sunk hsi claws into her back, smiling as she cried out and writhed beneath him as he lunged, fansg ripping at her throat as tyhe taste of ehr blood overwhelmed him, but the quiet foootsteps were heard and hesank into her as a serpent once morre and she openned her eyes in time to see crimson ones in teh doorway.

Hiei glanced once at the blood pooling around her and moved forward, kneeling before so he can look into her eyes and asks in his rough voice, "Who did this to you?"

"I-I don't remember..where am I? I', not suposed to eb out of teh apartment...Kuroneko will be so mad..." Ryukiba spoke in a slurred voice as hiei yelld something, and teh othesr came in...

When she woke she was banadged in her bed with a sword calloused hand shaking her.

"Wake up Ryukiba..."

The voice alone made her eyes snap open as Ryuichi shook her as hard ass eh could, which wasn't verry hard, and he smmiled when she openned her eyes.

Unable to stop it she embraced him and sobbed into her lighter half's shoulder. "I'm so sorry for everything I've done...I'm so sorry...I never ment to...I never..ment to..."

"Who did this to you sister?' he asked as he wrapped her arms around her in his loose, weakened hug.

"I-I don't remember..." she sobbed as Kuroneko listened through well trained ears and watched through a slit in the door.

"Shhh..its ok big sister..its ok..."

"Big sister..."

The words shocked Ryukiba back to reality and she dried her eyes quickly, put ehr hand s on hsi shoulders suddenly fine as she asks, "Who on earth let you visit me alone!"

"I argued with Rusty." he said and she closed her mismatched eyees and said, "I did thsi wounds to myself..I remember ow...I was mad..i wnated to hurt something..and I hurt myself..."

Kurroneko sighed and shut her eyes, silently willy Ryukiba to tell teh truth but not reaching her friend as she turned to her team mates and shrugged.

"She says she did it to herself."

It was later that Ryukiba stepped from her room in bloody bandages, refusing their insistance taht she shouldn't fight she stepped into the ring with Hiei and, when the demon rushed at her, she let them gore her through with their sword and, instead of teh flame attacks he told her energy to use ice roared from her and froze their opponents solid, leaving her and hiei to sword fight teh rest though still, Hiei was unsure how a fire yasha had done an ice attack...

Much later, alone in the forest asleep in a tree Ryukiba snapped awake at midnight...Eyes wide in shock she realized the date and had a deep intake of breath.

As she turned to hurry to her hotel room, knowing her over powering scent would now attract many demons she felt him peel off her body and a clawed hand laidd gently on her shoulder, all her ounds forgotten she turned as teh dark fog..taht soothing fog over powered her mind.

"You worry too much little one..."

He whispered as he moved her closer to him so he could engulf her in his dark energy.

"Happy hundreth birthday my love..my master...my obbsession...my ice maiden...my koorime..."

She felt shi ahnds aroudn her and smiled. Why had she been scared when he'd first coem to claim her? he loved her..Her was the only one who had ever loved her...

Something she didn't know at the time he ovrpowered her was what he showed her was not love...

What a forrbidden child in a hotel room two miles away felt for her, was.

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