Okay now I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to update my stories and all but my computer crashed and we had to fix it and that took a long time and… yeah it just delayed me a lot. But at least over this time I was given time to really think about my writing style and try and find ways to improve it from other things on here I've been reading. So let's see if my efforts were in vain or not…
Chapter 31: Proclaim
Kurama and Hiei walked quietly down a crowded sidewalk; much to Hiei's disliking. "Kurama why are we here and not trying to find Shi?" The fire demon finally asked looking at Kurama's set emerald eyes.
"We are." He scowled at the kitsune's simple statement. "How?"
"We're searching the area."
"Really?"
"No." He scowled again and Kurama smirked. "She's not going to be in this city, we already know where she will be." He said. "Explain." Hiei ordered and Kurama sighed.
"Don't you do research Hiei?" He earned a glare from that, and then sighed again.
"The light demons are very particular about how they do their battles, in history it's known of the huge battle shadow demons raged with the light demons after they were left for dead.
"It's known by so few people they can be counted on one hand."
"So?" Hiei gave him a halfway questioning look. "Well the shadow demons went to the light demons instead of vise versa because they still had their born nature, they have to a battle in their original place, where it all started if you will. But the reason for why this is now goes farther back."
"Then why did you tell me that?" The two continued walking down a more secluded road. "Because, when they started their acts to get Shi they forgot to erase one important story. The birth of Shi to Yusa has become legendary because of two reasons, one she was born to a light demon and a human, she is a forbidden.
"And secondly is for the very birth of them." Hiei without missing a beat asked, "them?"
"Yes them. Hiei Shi has a second sister, not just Ame." Hiei was about to question more when it hit him like a brick wall.
They have battles their battles in the original place… Shi has another sister… they're going to kill her… 'I was born in this church.' He blinked back to reality from the memory of when Shi had told him what she knew.
"Then they're a-."
"Exactly, but we can't go." Hiei glared at him. "Why not?"
"Because that's what they want us to do." Kurama huffed when Hiei still seemed confused. "Hiei don't you know anything?" He closed his eyes to proceed to speak what he knew.
"When a demon has a premonition it goes to the Rekai like Koenma explained before, but most of the time that is because the person seeing it chooses to let it be known. Whoever the ruler of them is meant to let Koenma see that last premonition, if not they wouldn't have let it get that far."
"What does that have to do with not being able to go, are you implying that we just let them kill her?" Hiei asked in a vicious tone.
"Not that at all, that's the reason I don't know what to do in this situation." He came to a stop looking up as if in thought.
"They have left us two obvious options, either go and risk a maybe fatal attack or stay and risk Shi's safety. Either way the results are costly." Hiei starred at him for a while playing the options time and again in his mind.
"I say we go." Before he could flit away the fox grabbed his arm anticipating his friends clear move. "Hiei what if we get the attack, we don't know anything about what they have set up, think about it it's their territory not ours meaning they know it better and have the advantage."
Hiei glared, "you're being pessimistic and I detest it. We go now and hope nothing happens, or do you doubt your own strength?"
"No I don't… fine we'll go then." He let go of Hiei's arm and huffed thinking about how irrational the fire demon could be sometimes. "We'll go back to the temple and get Yusuke and Kuwabara then head out."
"Good." Hiei nodded and again they started walking in the general direction of the temple.
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In the darkness of her room Shi lay on her back staring at the white ceiling thinking time and again about what had happened the previous day.
Leleel had said she was her sister… for some reason that didn't disturb her as much as she knew it probably should. She wondered also though what that premonition she had seen was about, what it really contained to make someone so composed as Leleel resort to letting anything pass.
The door to her room opened and three light demons entered raising the light in the room back to what it was before. She squinted at the sudden change and starred, one was Iiro she knew for sure but the other more muscular ones at both his sides confused her.
"Shi."
"Iiro." He looked at her in a way so she knew exactly what he was thinking about her, he was thinking how inferior she was. She countered with the look of how much she wished she could push him off a cliff.
"It's time for the Changing Decisions to proceed." He explained giving her a halfway glare, she wondered what exactly she had done to make him hate her so much but opted on not bothering to ask.
"You can come easily or hard but I will tell you I will have no mercy if I have to hurt you."
"I didn't except you to have any anyways, you just don't seem like that type of person." He didn't say anything. "Are you going to come easily then?"
She sighed but stood up, "you know you need to find yourself a girlfriend you don't seem very understanding always give me give me jeez." He glared towards her but nodded giving the signal to the other two.
In an instant a gold chain exactly like the one that had captured Shi before whipped out of nowhere from both of the men tightly gripping around her. She shrieked and fell to her knees as a burning sensation filled her body.
"I was coming easily!" She near shouted to both of them. "I didn't say I wouldn't hurt you if you did come easily." He retorted turning to leave. She stood up but was forced to follow both of the guards out of the room.
She glared at Iiro the whole time, she thought of how much she wanted to burn him… and then push him off a cliff.
More light demons caught her senses, she looked over and saw many of these type of demons crowded around one open windowed room, and against that wall she spotted her sister.
As she was led closer to Leleel she observed her more closely. She wore fancy white robes with silk gold trim but an unnatural amount of black was also spread out around them.
Her arms hid in the cloth of the loose robes that adorned her, white hair done up in a perfect due with two strands hanging down by her face each dyed a solid black.
Though her eyes… those crystallized blue eyes stood out heavily against the black of the dyed hair and the pale skin she had. They were solid yet blank completely devoid of emotion though Shi could have swore if she didn't have to focus on where she was being led she could have seen something else hidden behind those eyes desperate to be let seen… to be known at least once.
"Sister." Leleel's arm came up to cease their directing though the cloth still easily trailed past her finger tips and hung low.
Shi was now stopped before her twin. "Today is the day I rid myself of the foul blood I am forced to share with you." She said with the same venom in her voice she had used when she had spoken of their family.
"Do you really want this to happen… sister?" Shi asked innocently. "Do you really want me to change so much by force?"
"I want it more then anything."
"Darn, and I thought we could have been friends but now I know my own blood is a manipulator." Leleel glared at her. "You're foul sister and I can no longer stand having you're blood pass threw my veins when my chance to rid it is so close."
Her eyes flicked to the awaiting people, "I have to." She said in a near whisper. Shi sighed playing the 'innocent-maybe-she'll-buy-it-and-let-me-go…maybe-not' card.
"Fine then sister… do with me what you will." Leleel chanced her one more look then turned to the light demons before her anxiously awaiting the next feature. "My fellow immaculate demons." She said projecting her voice for all to hear.
"I have declined you the right to witness the Changing Decisions of the most heard about and most wanted story ever and I know it well. So without anymore delay I allow this procedure to begin."
She turned her head away from Shi and the shadow demon twin was led away and into the room, the now silent room.
The room like all the others was white with a chair that resembled a chair that would be in a ningen doctor's office. A flat silver table was locked onto the underside of the arm, Shi was led over to it and forcefully set into it.
Her arms were loosely locked onto the arms so loose she could slip her hand out of the restraints at any time she chose, her legs and head were also loosely done.
She gazed around at the people confused, "don't you think this is a little… loose?" She finally asked. One of the demons helping to perform the procedure looked at her and stopped his actions.
"No." He said in a deep voice. "There will be no need for severe bounding." She gave him a confused look but he refused to give any information to quell her confusion.
Finally the other two demons moved away from the bound chair where Shi rested with her back at a slanted angle. The one light demon that had spoken to her before came up again though this time he held a large needle filled with a thick silver liquid about halfway and the other half a solid blue liquid.
"What the…?" She tried to move even slightly away but felt paralyzed by fear and unable to tear her eyes away from the needle. He simply gazed upon her, "it begins now." The needle was plummeted into her neck.
She tried to move away but the other demons held her down as the almost gel like liquid was injected into her. She could feel all of it, every millimeters put into her, it burn her insides to the point she could have swore they were on fire but she could still do nothing; she screamed.
Then the now empty needle was taken out and they let her go. Shi instantly drew her arms from the shackles and attempted to life them to her head. But about halfway there a sudden numb feeling washed over her.
It spread like wildfire rebounding off every corner of her body making her utterly paralyzed, her arms fell back down to the arm rest her head back against the head rest staring up at the ceiling.
Pain like nothing before filled her to utter capacity though she was unable to quell it, her body was paralyzed though she was forced to remain in consciousness to feel all of it, though be unable to scream, to cry, to move anything more then the slight twitch of her finger tips. She could barely even breathe. 1
Alert to everything around her she noticed the demon that had injected her come to stand above her. "24 hours." He said then moved away from her all of them leaving the room… leaving her alone in this solid white room to suffer with this hellish pain… she wished just to die more then anything at that moment, just so she wouldn't have to stand this any longer.
A/N: Well what do you think? I've wanted to write that for a while and now I finally have! YAY! Well that was quite interesting, the next chapter will come soon I promise because I already know that Shi has to move to the next stage in her procedure and the guys have to come attempt to save her…. There… there was your preview!
1: If anyone knows anything about the death sentence of Lethal Injection then you would know that is pretty much how it works and what the person being put threw that is going threw, I thought that would be a awesome way to have this procedure go down since the government IS talking about it being a 'cruel and unusual punishment' I won't put my own thoughts about what I think of the death penalty in here because I've taken enough civics to know the huge amount of controversy that it involves!