Woo! I told you I would update again soon and I was RIGHT! HA! … Okay I'm done, this next chapter I have been waiting to do for a while and I can't wait to show this one to my friend Eric so he can freak out about how he…. I can't say anything.
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH I only own Leleel, Shi, Topai, Cecile, and some other creepy dudes that will soon be coming in! BUT SADLY NOT YYH!
Chapter 27: Death and the first sighting.
"Hiei!" Shi shouted when she got up the steps to the temple, Hiei sat under his tree cringing at how loud her voice was.
"Nani?" He asked opening his eyes to her and standing up.
"How come you didn't tell me light demon's had foresight?" She asked in a hysteric manor. "I didn't know." He said and she glared at him.
"How could you not know? You and fox boy here know more about what's going on here then I do and I'm the one it's happening to!" She said motioning to Kurama who walked up behind her.
"Shi."
"Now all of this is starting to really scare me!"
"Shi."
"And the fact that people are keeping stuff from me that could initially lead to my life or death doesn't really help me any."
"Shi!" Hiei said near a shout.
"What?"
"Calm down." She let out her breath, her shoulders fell as did her eyelids, "you're going to blow something up if you don't." She smirked.
"Don't get any ideas." Kurama said from next to her, the smirk fell and her eyes opened and met his. "Alright." She said in a huff, "sorry about that… it kind of freaked me out."
"Obviously." He said. Before she could protest to what he had to say her cell phone went off in the ringer she had set it to 'Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly.'
(Yes I'm a HIM fan for anyone who hasn't noticed! I like that song and couldn't pass it up!)
"What?" She asked after examining the number on it. "Hey Shi!" Came Eric's voice over the phone. "We heard you dropped out of school!" Brian's voice came in from the background.
"You lucky bitch." He said in a sort of humorous tone. "Yeah what if I did?" She asked her hand moving to her hip, Kurama and Hiei looked confused even though they could hear the conversation.
"Well we wanted to know if you wanted to get together with everyone." He explained.
"Sure, when?"
"Like… now!" She shook her head, "you guys are always so sudden, alright where are you?"
"Eric's house."
"Alright bye." She hung up and looked at their confused faces, "who was that?" Hiei asked. "Eric."
"Who's Eric?"
"What do you care? You sound like my father." She said chuckling to herself. "Who is he?" He asked again.
"My friend from school nothing big." She assured him. Kurama had decided to stay out of this one for obvious reasons.
"I don't like him."
"You don't even know him!" She said with a smirk on her face.
"I don't care." She sighed replacing the phone in her pocket and turning back the way she had come. "Okay well you heard that conversation I'm going over to Eric's for a while to attempt to forget about all of this." She started walking away.
"And I do not expect you to follow me!" She emphasized 'do not' as she spoke then turned and walked away again. "Now I understand why she's a shadow demon." Hiei said.
"Why?" Kurama asked.
"Because she never stay's in one place for more then at least a minute or two." Kurama smiled at his humor.
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Shi walked silently down the sidewalk of apartment buildings that stood on the edge of town trying to remember exactly which one was where Eric and his family lived; they all looked the same.
Finally she decided it was a large white building with the number 9046 written on a gold slab next to the front entryway, ignoring it she continued to walk down the row of doors counting them to remember how many there were till his.
The small apartment his face resided in was number 106 on the first floor, she was surprised when she saw no one inside, and heard nothing from where she stood, surly if anyone was there it would be loud… very loud.
"Hello?" She called seeing that the front door was cracked open and going inside. The room was brightened with every light in the house turned on as if done intentionally. She walked in cautiously.
As she stepped into the living room that was offset from the rest of the open area she stopped and gasped loudly appalled by what lay before her.
Eric's body lay dead on the ground, stabbed severally and bleeding just as much. Hesitantly she moved closer not being able to find it in her to move her eyes from the scene.
Her knees gave way slightly next to him, observing the stab wounds that littered his body.
"Oh my god!" Came a voice from behind her. She turned slightly to see Eric's mother and father standing in the entry way, as were Brian and the rest of their friends. "What did you do?
'Oh shit.' She thought to herself breathing heavily eyes, arms trembling. "Shi you have killed the innocent!" One of her girl friends said still seeing the scene. Shi felt as if she could not speak at all.
"You are a horrible disgrace to kill your friends!" His dad shouted at her, possibly the only thing he could find to yell at her. "B-but I didn't do anything I came here like you told me to… and I found him like this."
"We never called you." Brian said sternly. "B-but…" She felt at a lost for words, so many emotions filled her mind and body. Confusion, sadness, anger, fright, as were many other indescribable ones.
"Oh my boy!" Her mother cried turning from the sight. Shi stood up forcing her look away tears coming to her eyes, as she moved to the door Eric's father's strong hand caught her arm gripping her painfully tight.
"No, you need to stay here for when the police arrive." He said, she met his chocolate eyes still breathing hard and at a loss for words.
"Can I at least step outside?" She finally asked in a weak manor. "Fine!" He let her go and she instantly ran out of the door. 'Keep composed.' She told herself looking around desperately.
'Breath evenly… just breath.' Her lungs would not obey her commands. Thankfully she was able to keep herself from breaking down right there as she spotted a nice shadow that would work well.
She took off at a run concentrating her best at teleporting herself until the blackness surrounded her and she reappeared at the temple in the living room where only Hiei sat on the windowsill.
He looked at her confused seeing her state but not understanding why, "Shi?" She looked at him her body acting on it's own as she fell to her knees and her tears broke free streaming down her face in heavy amounts.
"I didn't kill him Hiei." She said frantically. "I didn't!"
"Shi." He instantly went over next to her placing a hand on her trembling shoulder and looking in a attempt to meet her look, she had totally blocked her face from being seen.
"I didn't kill him!" She said again. Hiei didn't know what to do to help her but decided on following her lead in the best way possible. "I know you didn't." He tried to say as softly as he could.
After about five minutes of that her sobs had reduced to only a few tears and hard breaths; at least it was better then she had been at first.
She paced the room back and forth as Hiei watched her from his seat on the couch. Kurama had come into the room also but opted on waiting till she told her story to ask since Hiei knew about as much as he did.
"I didn't kill him." She repeated, "who?" Hiei dared to ask. "… Eric, I went over to his house and I found him murdered, his family and my friends came in and saw me there." The tears seemed to reappear on her face. "I didn't kill him!" She tried to wipe them away but got little to know results with that.
Hiei thought a moment then took her hand and brought her to him, sitting her on his lap and moving his arm around her waist. "I know you didn't kill him." He said she seemed surprised by his actions but didn't protest at all.
What she needed right now was right here and she wasn't going to protest against it at all. But what she didn't need soon came threw the front door.
"Heads up Koenma's pissed off about something." Yusuke said as he came threw the door, breaking the silence that had seemed to comfort Shi. "You didn't ask what he was upset about?" Kurama asked.
"No, I was to afraid of losing my head." He said. Koenma- in his teenage form- came storming in after the detective fuming.
"Shi!" He shouted, her eyes opened directly on him. "You killed the innocent!" He shouted as his voice seemed to get even louder, "and your friend no less!"
"I didn't kill him."
"You're name is now on a wanted list because you not only killed him you fled the scene!" Shi wondered why he was trying to lecture her on something she more the well knew.
"You need to come with me now!" He said sternly. Hiei, now officially upset about the situation, tightened his grip on her waist and looked firmly at the ruler. "No." He said firmly.
All eyes fell on them.
"They have no evidence that she was the one who did it, she did not do it end of story." He said firmly his eyes never moving and his grip never letting up. "And I'm sure you could make some orders to get her off any 'list' those baka ningen's have her on."
Koenma sighed, "I don't think she would resort to violence if there was a different means of working something out… I see how it would be a misconception." Koenma's voice lowered as he spoke, rather to himself.
He sighed, "I will deal with it this time, but the fact that someone killed and planned it for her to fall victim of can not go without investigation."
"Are you going to make us do that part?" Yusuke asked with the sense of annoyance and whining in his voice.
"Hai, now I'll expect a report back about it later on." He suddenly disappeared from where he stood. Shi looked back at Hiei with a small smile on her face, "thanks." She said softly meeting his crimson eyes.
"For?"
"Helping me out there."
"You were innocent."
"You just didn't want me to leave you that's all I know." She smiled more at that.
"Maybe so." He smirked.
"Hey wait a second." Yusuke looked at them, "you two finally got together?" He asked Hiei glared at him. "Hai, you have something to say about it?" Shi asked in a deadly tone, today was defiantly not the day to be messing with her.
"No, no of course not." Yusuke's hands came up in defense on his part. "I think I'm going to go… get a head start on that investigating!" He said then quickly ran out the door before he got himself into trouble… like he usually did.
"You think he's actually going to go investigate?" Shi asked then moving her hand around Hiei's neck, he didn't seem to mind. "Since it's Yusuke, no I don't think so."
"I-kirjain ajaa ei hiippakunta mikä arvoitus on." Shi said not exactly realizing that she was speaking a different language.
"What?" Kurama asked in a sudden interest in what had happened.
"Huh?" She looked up as if suddenly snapping out of a trance, Hiei noticed what had happened to. "What did you just say?" He asked.
"Mikä on arvoitus?"
"That, what are you saying?" Kurama asked. "I'm speaking right you don't understand it?" She asked seemingly confused about everything, in her own mind her speaking is such a way she felt as if she was speaking the right language, and not even noticing it.
'Your blood will kill you.' A strong voice that spoke the words firmly in her mind, she took her head in her hand as the pain from it filled her mind.
"Shi, are you okay?" Hiei asked. It took her a moment before the pain wore away from her mind; but the words stayed strong. "Yeah… I'm fine." They didn't seem that convinced.
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"Topai!" The girl shouted appearing on top of a roof where the light demon Topai stood on the other side of the roof with two other unidentified light demons.
The girl walked up quickly her eyes firmly locked on her victim of choice, Topai with two of her own light demon's next to her.
She walked up to him and instantly slapped him across the face harshly. No one made neither a sound nor a movement; or barely breathed. Topai stayed the way he had been slapped for a moment then looked at her.
"You messed everything up!" She shouted at him. "You were supposed to send her that message and you didn't!" Her voice was loud towards him; he didn't falter by her outburst.
"You messed everything up, now what I saw won't happen!" She let out her breath and locked eyes on Topai's. "I just sent it to her, I know it was late, and I'm sorry but there was no good time for it to be said." Her eyes never moved.
"Topai, Kiinni jalkeilla, next time I tell you to do something do it exactly when I tell you." She turned to leave the two demons next to her also turned.
"Yes, I'm sorry Leleel, I will do better next time."
"See that you do." Leleel said, "contain your identity and scatter the city, gather information and I will come collect it in a few days." Leleel turned fully away and walked away.
'I'm killing myself for you.' The words she had not spoken echoed in her mind again, the voice… it confused her just as much as the statement itself did.
'Now, will I ever understand what you meant by that? Now that the balance has been shifted.'
A/N: It's official... light demons are mean to each other ne? If anyone's got anything to contribute about that please share it! Since no one said anything yet I'll go one with my explanation!
They are mean to each other yes that's obvious but their reason will become apparent in the next chapter as I go more into detail with the behavior of a light demon (or my definition of one) and why certain things like that happen. YEAH THAT WAS YOUR PREVIEW!
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