Chapter 4: Memories Arise at Midnight
Hiei stood at the spot, standing just a little while longer as the wind finally came to a rest. He turned, ready to leave because he was out of options for finding what he thought was a girl, the girl.
As he was about to leave the area, something caught under his foot. Without fully stepping down, he lifted his foot back up and looked at what was on the ground. It was two chopsticks. Usually, he would ignore something like this, assuming that a stupid onna hadn't noticed them fall out of her hair. But, for some reason or another, he bent down and picked them up. Examining them, he finally pocketed them, putting them in the same pocket as the handkerchief. He turned, and with one last look down the alley, he walked back to the rest of the guys.
"Well, we got the bad guy; he's in Spirit World now. No thanks to you." Kuwabara was walking back with the rest of the guys and spoke toward Hiei about his little run off. Hiei, however, was paying no attention and was twiddling with the chop sticks in his pocket. The others noticed his distance was of a different kind now. Yusuke, who should have known it was because of the girl that he was chasing, still went ahead and mentioned his dream.
"Did you see that girl in the kimono though? She looked exactly like the one in my dream!" Yusuke and the others didn't notice Hiei's expression which he quickly covered as even more thoughts started to run through his head.
"Yeah, now that I think about it, she did kinda look like that girl. Only the one in my dream had really long hair."
"This girl had her hair done up. And thinking of the fact that it protruded far from her head tells us that that girl's hair is long as well." Kurama kept trying to think of reasons why that girl was there and in their dreams. In the same dream.
"Strange... hey, ya think that she's an actress? Maybe we saw her on TV or something and had a dream about her and she lives in Tokyo! That could explain some stuff." Kuwabara, from that explanation, seemed to fall onto something slightly smart. Hiei, reluctantly, used it as an excuse to dismiss the possibility of her, or her ghost, being here.
Once the guys got back to Yusuke's, Kurama decided it would be best if he and Hiei stayed there. Hiei, though he didn't want to stay, decided to not protest since he simply didn't have the energy. Hiei went straight for the windowsill, but saw he was sitting on something. He adjusted his seating and grabbed what was under him. Again, this was too much.
His hands shook as he looked at the single picture in his hand. He didn't do anything but burn it in a small black flame and quickly turned his sight to outside the window. He could see the trees blowing from the wind. She had to be here. There was no other explanation. Making sure no one noticed him; he lowered his head in his hands and closed his eyes. What had he done?
Flashback
"I'll go."
"What? You can't! It's me they want. I won't let my mistakes bring you down."
"I don't care. I'm not- I'm not going to let them hurt you."
"But-"
"No. I don't let anybody hurt the ones I love."
"..."
"Just give me your coat, and they won't hurt you."
"... I'll come to get you. I'll- I'll get you out of there."
End Flashback
"Hiei?"
Hiei slowly lifted his head out of his hands and looked to the rest of the room. All three of others were looking at him in worry.
"You okay?" Yusuke stood from his seat and stood next to Kurama. Kuwabara followed.
"I need to get out of here." Hiei stood up and went for the door but was stopped by Kurama.
"Hold on. What's wrong Hiei? Do you know that girl?" Kurama only got an angry glare from Hiei before he disappeared from his grip and the front door was left swinging open. Hiei had left.
Somewhere in the Forest
"Damnit..." The demon girl was sitting at the base of a tree fiddling with the camera she had bought, trying to figure out how to fix it. She accidentally dropped it after evading Hiei in the shadows. She had gotten a few pictures out of it though, one of which she made good use of by delivering to the man himself. Angering herself, she decided to dispose of the device. All the potions and spells she could conjure, all the medicines and poisons she could mix, she couldn't figure out how to work a simple ningen device. She threw it at a neighboring tree and watched it splatter into a dozen more pieces.
"Hm..." The demon girl sat still for the next couple of minutes just thinking. Soon, however, something disrupted her quiet state. An extremely fast movement that shifted the winds. She peered up, and smirked. Hiei sat with his head in his hands, very tense and shaking. His breathing was heavy as well and he seemed to be on the verge of insanity. His emotions must have been so out of whack that he didn't notice her sitting below him, or even her energy. The demon girl smiled, and sunk into the shadows of the trees.
About a half an hour later, Hiei was dead asleep. He had laid down flat on his back with his hands behind his head; a small snickering sound was heard within the tree and a shadow crept up the trunk.
The dark spot rested right on top of Hiei's stomach and the girl slowly started to change to human form again. She moved slowly out of her shadow state as to not wake up Hiei abruptly. Once all her weight was now right on top of Hiei she peered at his face while resting her chin on her laced fingers which were pressed against his slowly rising and falling chest. She smiled.
'He always looked more at peace while he slept,' she thought to herself. Deciding to not wake him up right then, she rested her face on her hands and closed her eyes and let his heart beat lull her into a peaceful state. Mindlessly while still in sleep, Hiei recognized the old yet familiar feeling and wrapped his arms around the girl's waist. She smiled, and kneed him in the nuts. Hiei's eyes flew open and were met with pain and the vision of the girl smirking at him three inches away.
"What the...!" Hiei froze in his pain as he met the eyes of the girl. No joke. This was real. She was real.
"Shhh, Hiei, let me hear your heart beat." The girl rested her head on his chest again and he freaked out and flung her from on top of him. She flew through the air and landed softly on her feet.
"What's wrong?" She sounded so innocent, which was really just taunting him like nothing strange had happened.
"You're dead!" Hiei jumped down from the tree and staggered to stand up and look at her.
"Clearly I'm not."
"NO! You died!"
"Oh, Hiei, you may have wanted me to die, but I didn't. You just left me there like throwing out the damn trash!" The girl started to get more emotional now.
"No! It's not true!"
"Shut up Hiei and give me my handkerchief and chopsticks. I paid good time stealing those." She walked over and stuck her hand out waiting. Hiei was still bug eyed and couldn't move since he was still shocked from her real life presence.
"Give me them now!" The girl yelled out, making birds fly from where they sat in trees. She was making a scowl as she stood over a hunched over Hiei and you could imagine steam coming out of her ears. He did nothing but stare into her eyes, her hate filled eyes. Real. She was REAL!
He moved his right hand up to her face and touched her cheek. She was surprised by the gesture, and her angered expression changed to a softer one. He stood up normally so he was level with her and grabbed the other side of her face with his left hand. With all the anger and hatred that was circulating through her veins she couldn't find the energy to stop him. She wasn't exactly expecting her old emotions to be this strong when they reunited.
Instead of slapping his hands away and sticking her nose up in the air, she found herself lightly grabbing hold of Hiei's hands and looking at him. This was the first time in many, many years that this happened, and the girl tried to stop herself.
"No!" She threw his hands down and turned away, covering her face with her palms and feeling the warmth of Hiei's hands spread over her face that flushed.
"I thought..." He was cut off.
"No! Give me my handkerchief now! I don't care about the chopsticks, but give me my handkerchief." She stuck her hand out and stared at the ground. Hiei paused for a moment still looking at her but reached into his pocket and put the cloth into her palm lightly, trying to stay in contact with her as long as possible. She drew her hand back fast and turned around with her back to him. Her pale skin was unusually rosy and she cloaked her energy and dispersed into the shadows quickly leaving Hiei to baffle. Hiei looked around in all directions looking for her, trying to sense her. He couldn't do either. He resorted to the last thing he could think of, and pulled his headband off and opened his Jagan.
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Shade- Yeah, total crapness. I feel like I'm rushing it because I write one part and then ignore it for twenty minutes before continuing. Whatever please give me your insight for this.
