Hey everyone as you may have seen I'm now reverting back to my only 1 chapter. It was getting even harder to write two chapters then just one. Anyways you'll still be getting the chapters so there's no down point to it really I guess!
Chapter 24: Seeing Affection
The night filled the air, the sense of peace broken by the tension in and around the quiet temple. Shi appeared from a nearby shadow, her two black Henki's fading into sight with her.
"I feel like I'm going into battle or something." She stated eyeing the house blankly. The black Henki on her left gave a small chirp in response. Her nails turned white as they dug into her skin from the nervousness that filled her.
'Alright.' She thought as she sighed letting all her feelings leave her body just as the breath she excelled did. Hiei sat on the porch banister, his eyes closed and features smooth, as they were flooded with moonlight.
"Hiei," her voice was weak when she approached the fire demon. His eyes slid open focused on her. "I'm… sorry I left like that. I just n-."
"Okay, it's… okay." She looked at the ground then back at him. "I like you to Hiei, I really do." She stood motionless as he watched her like before.
Slowly, acting on instinct she moved closer to him, wrapping her arms around his naturally warm body and in taking his scent. In acceptance he moved his own arms slowly around her own body.
The moment seemed to be unbreakable, one of wonder and discovery in both minds. Time was nothing to the two, this discovery, this moment between the two where they realized they truly cared for each other in the way that is usually found by many people.
It seemed to make their whole world fall apart.
Then Shi pulled back from Hiei showing the smile that had crept across her face. "I think I'm going to retire for the night." She said watching Hiei's eyes twitch to different places on her.
"Okay." He said and letting her slip from his grasp and into the house.
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"I'm heading off guys." She called to her school friends after another long day of school. She slung her messenger bag over her shoulder and started threw a nearby park as a short cut across the sure to be crowded city.
The leaves suddenly started blowing in a strong breeze that appeared out of nowhere. Shi stopped as she felt the sense of a odd presence around her.
"I've found you, Shi Kaamai." Came a strong voice from behind her. She felt frozen in place, the man's footsteps came closer to her until; she could feel his warm breath on the back of her neck.
"I've been waiting for this moment," he said in her ear causing goose bumps to emerge down her arms and chills down her spine. "For a long time."
"Who are you?" She asked in a exhaled breath.
"I'm the light in your eyes." He planted a soft kiss on her neck, his smooth hand gently trailing up her arm with a feather soft touch.
As quickly as he had come her was gone and everything returned to normal, Shi even wondered if he had even been there at all. When she turned around nothing was there, no person, not even the slightest sign to give as evidence of his being.
'What… what happened?' She thought as she fingered her neck and stepped backwards while still surveying the area. She turned back in the right direction and continued on her way.
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"Hey Hiei." She said to the fire demon that sat in his tree, when she approached he flitted down next to her, "you seem different." He stated, crimson orbs on her.
"Really how so?" She asked as he followed her up the rest of the way to the house. "Your energy is different."
"Again, how so?"
"It's darker… like the shadow demon in you is showing itself now."
"Is that bad?" Concern filled her eyes, his hand came up mere inches from her face. "No." Her eyes drained and refilled with their plain happiness. "Then it's no concern." She shrugged and went inside and to the dining room where Kurama sat doing his own homework.
"Hey Kurama." She said setting her stuff on a free chair and taking out the folders she would need. "Hey Shi." He looked up at her.
She smiled at him then turned back to her backpack. "I noticed you two actually got together finally." Kurama said with a smirk to Hiei in a language Shi didn't know.
"Shut up fox." Hiei said to him. He noticed Shi looking confused from on demon to the next then went back to her backpack. "Dang you backpack you're always swallowing all my work!" She almost shouted throwing it onto the floor.
"So does this mean your patience level is going to go up now?" Hiei glared at him now certain that Kurama was trying to get a raise out of him.
"Shut up before I tell Shi about you being her father's once lover!" Kurama threw an open magazine at the fire demon, but it disintegrated in flames before it came in contact with him.
"Is there something I should know?" Shi asked, Hiei smirked, "no!" Kurama said. Shi nodded and started down the hall with her selected folders and Hiei on her heels.
"What was that all about?" She asked going into her room and closing the door behind them. "Nothing, nothing at all." He said going and sitting on her bed.
"I hate homework." She stated sitting herself at her desk.
After about a half hour of everything in silence except for the sound of her pencil making marks on the paper she turned to Hiei. "Are you just going to sit there and watch me?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because I can." She smiled. "Well," she stared, "I figured why go to school? It holds no interest or need in me anymore." Hiei smirked slightly, "so are you don't then?"
"Yep, what do you want to do now?"
"I want you to follow me." He said then flitting over to her, grabbing her hand and flitting away once again.
"What is it with you and the forest Hiei?" Shi questioned when she found herself in their usual spot in the forest clearing. "It's quiet." He said simply.
"So why did you bring me here?"
"Training."
"Again?"
"Hai."
"Why?"
"Because you won't stop asking questions." He smirked as he said it and sat under a tree. She turned and gave him a knowing look when she saw him sitting there.
"Oh I see, you're going to make me work my butt off while you sit there and tell me I did it wrong ne?" The smirk stayed clear on his face.
"Now you're getting it." She sighed, "Fine what do I have to do?"
"Do you remember the attack you used when you killed your human guardian?"
"Yeah."
"Use it now, concentrate on forming it, but don't let the power escape like it did before." She nodded in understanding closing her eyes and concentrating her power; soon black energy started to appear.
"Now," Hiei's voice echoed in her ears like a voice from a distance. "Bring it together as one." She did as told, molding the needles into one as if it were clay. Her eyes fluttered open to gaze upon the needle of black energy surrounded by a while light.
'Wow' she thought still marveled by what she had created.
"Shoot it." He directed.
"What?"
"Shoot it at the tree in front of you. I want to see how far it will go." Again she nodded then released the hold she firmly had over it.
The result was the needle like power flying forward at speeds unable to be followed by the untrained eye and impaled itself into the tree, then diminishing away until all that remained was the hole about a inch wide and round.
"Good."
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"After a long day of training with anti-social Hiei, awesome Shi feels the need to go to her room and sleep!" Shi said as they walked threw the door.
"Shi are you talking to yourself again?" Yusuke asked from the table where him and Kuwabara were playing cards and Kurama was cooking at the stove.
"Maybe I am!" She said placing both hands on the table. "So how did the training go?" Kurama asked turning his emerald eyes to the two demons.
"Good I guess but I'm tired now." He smiled slightly, "you want something to eat first?"
"No, I'm just going to go." She said, "I'll see you guys tomorrow." She quietly walked down the hall and into her room where she instantly fell onto her bed.
'Time to sleep.' She pulled herself up to her pilot and soon fell asleep.
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Hours later when the night was well in, Hiei sat outside unable to sleep for unknown reasons; the sight of Shi's four Henki's caught his eye. He watched them fly them fly threw the wall into Shi's bedroom as if nothing had even been there.
He looked confused at the window as a bright white light was emitted suddenly and then faded off.
His suspicion was soon answered when the window opened and a black blur was all that could be seen come out of the window; without a second thought he dashed off after her.
A/N: So what's happening with Shi? Let's look at this now… well we know she cannot move so fast that the eye can't track her, so what's going on? Well I know but you'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out!