Is this real? chapter 4
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or any songs I may use in this
'I've never been fond of happy endings'
Valerie DZ
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Pain, wave upon wave of complete agony running through his body. It wasn't fair, it wasn't his fault, he didn't have a choice. He just wanted to help Kurama he just wantedtohelphisbest. . . .
Hiei's thoughts became muddled as another crest of pain crashed into his body, any desire or pleasure he might have experienced before was far gone only to be replaced by a torrent of longing and need. It was a dark and horrible reminder of how long he'd been alone.
During the highest peak of this constant torture Hiei couldn't stop the scream that was ripped from his throat.
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Kurama was patiently following the two ogreish guards that were leading him to Hiei. Something had happened between him and the fire demon, that much was obvious. Mukuro had hinted that his blurry memories from that night were probably Hiei's doing, but for what reason would he think he had a right mess with Kurama's mind?
The Youko was startled by a scream that erupted from a room down the hall, recognizing the voice and hearing nothing but pain in the tone Kurama dashed pass the guards to the door he was positive it had come from.
"HIEI!" He tried to call through the door but received no answer, there was more silence as Kurama kept trying to reach his friend. He was pushed aside when the guards came to unlock the door.
When the door was opened Kurama ran inside and ignored the sound of the lock clicking closed behind him. The only thing the fox knew was that Hiei was in trouble and some how it was his fault.
There, lying surrounded by a vast amount of mess and wrecked furniture was the tiny shaking form of the fire demon, but he was not alone. Sitting next to him was another demon that Kurama had never seen before. He sat with Hiei's head in his lap stroking the fire demon's hair gently. His pale skin seemed to glow in the darkness of the room and his dark violet eyes shined with an eerie light. Wrapped around slight shoulders was a silky black robe and cascading down his back was a mane of Pearly white hair.
"It's alright my little innocent." His pale white hand continued to run through the dark spikes, "So unknowing, so untainted, everything is alright now, I have you." In his lap Hiei laid trembling and wide-eyed. Kurama stood stock still in shock of what he was seeing. Slowly he came back to reality and went on the defensive,
"Who are you?" Slowly the figure's head rose and regarded him with a wink.
"Wouldn't the real question you want answered be what are you doing?"
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"Lord Mukuro, we have an intruder. Should we dispatch the soldiers?" Mukuro looked up from her paperwork in mock concern.
"How on earth did he get in?"
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"What are you doing to Hiei?" Kurama had taken a few steps closer. The dark clad figure ran a slim fingered hand down the fire demon's cheek and smiled.
"I'm giving him peace from the pain you put him through." Kurama's eyes grew wide.
"I didn't mean . . ." the demon shushed the fox.
"Shhhh, you're gonna wake him up." Looking down to Hiei's childlike face Kurama realized that he had fallen asleep. "You can't change what you did to him but you can do something that just might make up for it." Kurama looked up from the pain free face of his best friend, "You can go away, and never come looking for him. If you're around the bond will kill him but I have the power to take that pain away." He looked down to the peaceful face resting in the other's lap.
"You can't do anything that will help him you'll only hurt him. Let him go Youko." Kurama's face was wet with tears of guilt. He had done this to him, he'd caused him this pain. The demon gathered the small figure in his arms and disappeared into the shadows of the darkened room.
Kurama stood there overwhelmed and thunderstruck until Mukuro's soldiers lead him back to the ningenkai.
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"Mukuro, was it such a good idea to get one of his kind involved?" The woman sitting at the desk to the far right of her guest merely shrugged.
"If the fox doesn't have the sense to save him then he is of no use to me and will surely die a painful death anyways. This way if the fox is as cold hearted as some believe Hiei will pass on with no pain." Yomi gave a tiny smile.
"I suppose this will be interesting to watch."
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In the cool darkness of a room of an unknown place a pale figure robed in dark green silk was gently stroking the hair of the new hybrid he possessed. The little one was so young in mind, so oblivious to the outside world. His features like those of the ice mountain he was born yet his demeanor was so evocative of the fire demon who fathered him.
"You're so perfect my little one, you're mine now and I won't let you die in pain." The demon's soft, youthful voice filled every pore of Hiei's being and brought to him a sense of tranquility. Slowly he felt the tormenting memories of Kurama slip away to be replaced with a calm space of nothing. He didn't need to think anymore.
He was safe here and could move on in peace.
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Kurama hadn't moved from where Yusuke had set him down in his apartment, the events of earlier playing over and over in his mind.
Hiei had been taken away because of him. That demon had taken him away and told him not to find him. Those purple eyes daring him to object.
Purple eyes? Not many demons had those eyes.
Kurama had to find out who that demon was, he had to find out what had happened between him and Hiei. Five minutes later he was on his way to Koenma's palace, determined to find out more about this demon who'd told him not to look.
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"So the fox is going to look for him, and I was worried he wouldn't."
"There will be quite a bit of trouble when he finds him, I'm sure the cambion will not be all that willing to let Hiei go." Yomi placed the book on the halve demon Ippakuma back on the shelf of Mukuro's library.
"Does Koenma have a copy of this book?" Mukuro smiled
"I'm counting on the fact that he does."
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"You said he had white hair," Koenma's golden eyes narrowed in suspicion, "and purple eyes." Kurama nodded, "He also said he would take away Hiei's pain." the fox nodded again.
"So why is Hiei in pain? What happened to attract such a demon?" Koenma frowned as he lead the spirit detective to a long shelving of books on various demons at the back of the extensive library.
"You know who he is?" The demigod paused as he pulled a book from a shelf that hadn't been touched in years.
"About twenty years ago we had an incident where a young cat demon was marked by a demon who died the next day. At first he was okay on his own but eventually the pain of being without his mate became too much." He paused.
"What happened to him?"
"He slowly began to die, death by bonding is never a pretty sight or wait but there was nothing we could do, then one day this demon shows up and the cat demon's pain just stops. The cat demon died a peaceful death and the mysterious demon just disappeared. Five years later another demon who refused to kill herself to be with her mate was visited by the demon and died a quiet death. I was suspicious of this demon of wonders so I asked my father about him and he gave me this book." Koenma handed over a small book. On the cover was the name Ippakuma and there on the cover was the demon that had taken Hiei away.
"Why is this demon after Hiei?" Koenma looked suspiciously at the fox demon who looked up in surprise. Kurama looked toward the only window in the remote part of the library.
"I really wish I knew."
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'The cambion demon named Ippakuma has no known origins. . . . .' Kurama skipped ahead to more promising text, '. . .by feeding on the pain of others for survival he is technically a mutualistic parasite. . .'
A parasite? Kurama kept reading 'As the pain sustains the cambion the victim dies a calm death. . .' Kurama skimmed over till a paragraph caught his attention.
'Ippakuma feeds off of the pain of those bound as a preference, stories suggest the incubus who conceived him bound his human mother for the survival of the unborn baby. Knowing the baby would feed off of her pain from his prolonged absence he took long periods away from the woman to ensure it's life would be sustained. Since his mother was human she couldn't mark the incubus back therefore was in constant servitude . . . .' Kurama's mind began to wander.
Did I mark Hiei?
"Is that why you want him Ippakuma? Because I was too stupid to see it before?" Kurama stood, there was no denying it now. A bond couldn't be forced which meant that Hiei had to have feelings for him. A sharp sense of guilt seemed to prick and infect his heart. Hiei loved him and he took advantage of him. Small moments that had been lost to him before began to resurface.
Several cloudy moments before the gaping hole in his memories began to clear. He had been in his room when he changed into his fox form and tried to remove the wards. His heat infested ki had pushed and pushed against the door and wards with no success. After basically giving up and starting to trash his room a familiar scent caught his attention.
Another heat, just out side the door, the wards began to sizzle at him as the energy outside pushed against the door from it's weaker side. Sensing the raw heat he also pushed against the door until with a final hiss the wards shriveled up and fell from the exit way. Hesitantly Youko pushed the door open and walked into the hallway. There was no one besides him and Hiei that he could sense and expecting a trap Youko took every precaution his desire hazed mind could muster. Looking around cautiously he made his way to the living room and looked to the fire demon on the couch.
Hiei was sleeping deeply and didn't seem to have sensed the change in atmosphere. Quietly Kurama moved forward and sat next to the fire demon, he was sweating and his energy pulsed with a bottled up pressure. These were the only indications of Hiei's heat, it was almost unbelievable to see someone with this much control over such a time as the heat.
Kurama tried hard to remember what happened after that but it didn't take much to guess. He'd opened a flood gate and Hiei would drown before he could close it.
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I hope you enjoyed this, it took me awhile to figure out where to go with this after Kurama realized what had happened but I've got an idea of where I'm going now.
Thanks for reading and reviews are more than appreciated.
Jynx
