All right let's get back on track with Shi and Hiei and Kurama like everyone wants to see. Plus you need something to get off that immense shock that I left you with last chapter right? Yeah that's what I thought, let's get on with it then!
Chapter 29: The attack
The next few days seemed as a movie as when put on fast forward. Nothing seemed to matter to Shi now, now that one of her best friends was dead.
Realization that he was gone and would never be coming back seemed so unreal, nothing filled her body now, her mind was busy desperately trying to understand what she was feeling so she could get back to the way she once was.
But she didn't know what she felt, she felt like she was an empty shell watching everything from behind a glass force field determined to keep her from everyone else around her.
"Shi." Kurama's voice was ignored by the seemingly asleep shadow demon. "Shi." Her eyes slid open from where her head lay against the dining room table.
"Hai?" She asked in a pallid tone. "You should get out, go into town and do something for yourself."
"I appreciate your concern Kurama but I-."
"Shi I'm serious, you need to go do that." His tone was firm with her. "I understand your loss was hard on you but you can't stay like this. For four days you haven't ever stepped foot off the temple grounds, and your so depressed. It's understandable but you can't let it run your life forever."
She looked straight at him straight in the eyes for a long minute then lifted her head from the table. "What would you have me do exactly then?"
"Like I said, go into town, Koenma cleared your name from the Police list so there's no need for hiding." 'Although I can't say about people in general.' He thought. "I'm sure you could fine something there you find interest in, you should take Hiei to, he seems to make you happy the most anyways." 1
Shi thought a moment about it thinking if she really wanted to let everything pass so quickly or not… should she allow herself to forget everything that happened… maybe it would be for her best to forget about her human friends as to not feel the despair of losing them.
"Kurama." She looked at the table still halfway in her thoughts, "is killing… a major part of a demon's life?" She asked. Kurama watched her threw condolence filled orbs. It saddened him to know that she had to figure these kinds of things out the hardest way possible.
"Hai, for most demon's it is the only means of survival and it means nothing to them whether they take a life or not, or if they knew the demon or not." He explained trying to hold as much information from her but still tell the truth at the same time.
"So… so I shouldn't exactly… care that my friend was murdered?"
"I don't know, I don't prefer it though." He said. A small smile moved across her face her blue eyes finally meeting his. "Thanks Kurama, you've been a big help." She stood up and headed for the door.
"Where is Hiei?" She asked turning to him.
"In his tree."
She looked towards the door then back at him. "Can you tell Koenma I said thanks for lowering the defenses around the temple for me?" He nodded and offered her a kind smile.
She simply went out the door.
The cold wind of a late afternoon winter breeze wiped the area around brushing across the bare tree's in the area and showed the tree's branches for what they were and made the blue sky seem all the more blue to her.
Hiei was easy to see in the bare limbs of his claimed tree that sat on the Temple's premises. She walked over and stood under the tree looking up at his still form.
"Hiei." She said close to a silent tone, though she was more the confident that he had heard her, nothing came from the fire demon. "Fiery." She said in a slightly louder tone. His crimson eyes slowly opened upon her.
"Will you come with me into the city?" She asked. "Why?" He asked.
"Because Kurama says I need to get out of the temple for awhile and that I should bring you along with me." Hiei halfway glared towards the house then looked back towards the Shi.
He instantly flitted next to her. "Where are we going now?" She smiled at him and led the way towards the exit of the temple. She looked over at Hiei and noticed how light of clothes he was wearing.
"Hiei, why do you always stay outside, and insist on sleeping in trees?" She asked.
"I love the trees." He said. "But in the cold?"
"I was born to ice apparitions, I'm not as easily effected by cold as ningens and other demons are." He was silent a moment. "Plus, it reminds me of home." She watched him, his movements and how he held absolutely nothing on his face to express what he was feeling.
"How do you do that?" He looked over at her in a sudden look of question, "do what?"
"How do you constantly mask everything you're feeling, so no one can see your emotions?"
"Kurama see it."
"Well… Kurama's an exception." She said. "Surly you've killed many demons in your life, how do you kill them and still manage to live your days?" He watched her intently trying to determine what kind of answer she was really looking for.
"The fact that I have something to live for, something to protect. My life's journey holds nothing but to protect what is important to me now." He explained.
"Well… have… never mind I don't think you'd be the right person to ask." She looked back in front of her but his eyes stayed firm on her. "What is it?" He asked.
She sighed, "I wanted to know… if someone close to you died or you killed them, how do you manage to still live as if it never happened?"
"You want a relief from the death of your ningen friend don't you?" He asked finally coming into light of her true motive towards the conversation.
"Hai… it's a hard feeling to get over."
"True, but such is the way of life Alli." He said, "it's something you will understand someday, not today defiantly not today… but someday you will clearly see it."
Being the impatient soul she was she wanted to know now but decided to wait as he had instructed. "Did you just call me Alli?" She asked after going over his words again.
He smirked, "hai, you have your nicknames and I can have mine."
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Leleel, Topai and a few other light demons stood on a railing on top of a roof in the city scouting out the souls that passed before them, all completely unaware of their being.
Your love will be the death of me. The words played in Leleel's head again. 'They weren't directed to me… so who were they directed at?' She thought, all the while keeping her awareness to the people bellow her.
"Ma'am." Leleel looked over where Topai pointed to see Shi and Hiei walking down the street. "Go." She instructed firmly.
"Go, get the forbidden now! Do not freeze time, that would be dishonorable, allow the humans to see what is happening in their fare city!" Her heart raced as her eyes locked on her target.
"Ma'am why such drastic measures now, is it really t-."
"Topai, you should know, I will kill you without remorse if you do not stop questioning what I say!" She stated surly. He nodded, "understood then."
With a slight flick of his forefinger him and three other light demons took off into the sky, then plunging down towards the earth once again heading in their target's direction.
"Hiei am I the only one w-."
"No I sense them to." He unsheathed his katana and stood in a stance ready for the four's oncoming attack. Without the slightest stopping and before Shi was even able to put up any type of force against them the familiar ki of Topai and another light demon grabbed her and locked her in a golden chain that appeared from the air.
A shrilled cry was emitted from Shi as the chains locked her in place, the chains themselves burning her flash causing a small amount of smoke to appear from where they made contact.
"Shi!" Hiei ran after them as they hauled Shi with them away from the scene. They moved to quick for him to be able to catch up in the slightest.
His head wiped over to Leleel who stood now atop a street light smirking down at him. "Honestly Hiei I suspected more of a fight from you for your love, but since you are not giving me your best I suppose I will be taking her from you."
He was instantly before her katana slicing at where she was but receiving air only as she moved away from him and diminishing from sight. He landed where the light demon once stood gazing around the area for a sense of where their ki might have headed.
But it was gone; it simply vanished from the area.
People on the ground looked at Hiei to the sky all in question about what had just happened before their eyes. Hiei without looking at the question filled faces of the ningens below him flitted away back to the temple.
"Kurama!" He almost shouted coming in threw the door. "Hiei." Kurama said from the table where a few of his plants sat before him. "They took her." He said firmly.
"They took Shi?" He asked.
Hiei seemed confused about how the kitsune already knew they had taken Shi but decided on letting it pass, it was Kurama after all he was able to put 2 and another number together to know the answer without having to know everything, so it shouldn't surprise him. 1
"Yes, the light demon's took her in town!"
"That was fast… well…" Kurama's eyes moved from one place to another on the table as his voice fell off into silence. "Kurama?" Hiei asked, "what do you suppose we do?"
"I… I don't know."
A/N: The world's coming to an end Kurama doesn't know what to do; it's Armageddon! Actually there is a reason why I did as such but you'll have to wait for the next chapter to see what it is!
If anyone has any thoughts please send them!
1: That confused me when I first heard it said but once I wrote it down on paper I understood it, wow I feel slow! Sorry if that confused anyone!