Fire Charm
By Hiei Jaganshi
For the longest time we've hidden ourselves. I thought it was hard to have a peaceful life when we fought demon assassins every day but now… I know that was a peaceful life. Compared to this life I live now… The one where I have to hide to live… Fight when I can and just worry about escaping with my life. Satsugai is the cause for all this… First he murdered Yusuke Urameshi, then Kuwabara and then he killed Kurama but Kurama's Youko survived… Then he killed Kotaku and Karasu… Then Yamisukino and Yukina and just recently… he took away my life partner, Naoko and my step-daughter's life partner Touya…
He took away so many people… he took away so much of my family. I can only try to protect what's left… but it's getting harder. I'm forgetting about my will to live. I stare at my katana blade every night, wondering why I fight… but then I look at the young bat/ earth demon hybrid sleeping close by and I know I have to keep trying… I have to keep fighting. Silrowen is all I have and I am all she has. I can't die… because if I do then so will everyone and everything else…. But everyone else is dead. They died fighting… or died a torturous death…
How much longer until it's the same for the rest of us? Tsuya, Kaname, Lenore, Jin, Youko, Silrowen and me… Who will die next? How long do the rest of us have? I have to sing Silrowen to sleep now… Otherwise she stays up, terrified of the nightmares we all have. How long until I forget the calming words my mother sang to me…? How long until the only words I know are ones of darkness and death.
… My adopted brother and best friend Kuronue never came home last night… I know what that means….
Days, weeks, months and years… my brother never returned home…
Days, weeks, months and years… how long until the assassins find me…?