A/N: I changed around just one thing in this story and that is the fact that I will no longer be using Yomi as a character but instead I will use Kuronue. To me he will be a better candidate for Youko's partner...not that I'm knockin Yomi he's cool too.
Chapter 4: More Trouble
Yukina woke the next morning to find neither Hiei or their father anywhere in the house.
"Oh No! I hope Hiei is ok." she thought as she recapped the events from last night.
She walked outside and looked all around, until she finally found Hiei in the back yard, next to their mother's grave. He had a shovel in his hand, and seemed to be filling a hole with dirt.
He didn't see Yukina walk up behind him.
"Hiei what are you doing?"
He turned around and met face to face with his sister. He put the shovel on the ground, and grabbed Yukina into a hug.
"He's gone, all of our problems are gone, Yukina-chan. We don't have to deal with him anymore, see he is resting right next to mama where he belongs."
Hiei pointed to the hole he had just got finish filling. He had set a huge rock near the top, and a few flowers.
Yukina gasped.
Did Hiei really kill their father? Was that his grave?
"Oh no, Hiei please don't tell me that you..."
"Yup I did, I promised you that everything would be alright, and now it is."
Hiei smiled proudly at Yukina, he had thought that he did the right thing. But that thought quickly vanished when he saw the look on her face, she looked as if she was about to cry.
"Yukina...wha...what's wrong?" asked Hiei confused.
Yukina turned towards Hiei and the look she gave him completely caught him off guard. He'd never seen Yukina give that look to anyone, especially not him.
In her eyes was a look of pure hatred, the look his father had given him many times before.
"Hiei, death wasn't the answer. Isn't it bad enough that we lost our mother? HOW COULD YOU! DO YOU KNOW NOW I HAVE NO FAMILY LEFT, NONE."
"You have me." said Hiei as he stared at the ground.
He didn't think Yukina would act like this. He thought she wanted this just as badly as he did.
"BESIDES HE DESERVED IT AFTER WHAT HE DID TO YOU. I WAS ONLY TRYING TO PROTECT YOU. IF I DIDN'T STOP HIM NOW THEN HE WOULD HAVE JUST CONTINUED TO RAPE YOU LIKE HE DID ME! DID YOU REALLY WANT THAT?"
Hiei was outraged at how ungrateful his sister was being, he had given up his whole childhood to protect her and he even proved that he'd kill for her, but she didn't appreciate it.
"I NEVER ASKED YOU TO PROTECT ME! YOU JUST FELT THAT YOU HAD TO. I TOLD YOU THAT I COULD HANDLE WHAT EVER FATHER DID TO ME. I AM NOT A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE HIEI! AND I DON'T NEED YOU OR ANYBODY ELSE TO PROTECT ME!"
With those words said Yukina proceeded to stomp off. But Hiei wasn't about to let this conversation end, he grabbed Yukina in an attempt to figure out what the real problem was. But the only response he got from her was a slap in the face. He grabbed his cheek and stared at her with disbelief.
"DON'T EVER PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME AGAIN...YOU...YOU MURDERER!"
Yukina stared at Hiei with a stone cold look, expecting him to just walk away, but he just stood there a blank look on his face.
"I'm sorry you feel that way." spoke Hiei never taking his eyes off the ground.
"I was only trying to help. I guess I never took the time to figure out what you wanted. I let my lust for revenge get the best of me. I'm sorry. But can I make it up to you, I still want to take you away from this house. Put you in a better place. Will you at least let me do that and I promise I will leave you alone after that. I just want to make sure that you are safe. You can take anything from the house that you want, I will be waiting in the boat for you and I will take you down the river to a nice village I heard about."
Hiei let out a deep sigh and then walked over to the boat and waited just like he said.
Yukina knew she shouldn't have spoken to Hiei like that, after all he only did what he thought was best for her. But that did not explain him killing the only family they had left... now what were they going to do.
She walked into the house with tears in her eyes and she began to pack her things.
"She hates me, I never meant for that to happen. Doesn't she understand that I finally set us free... I guess she doesn't. But she is right, now we have no one left, all of our family is gone. All he have is each other or at least we had each other. She called me a murderer... A MURDERER. I didn't expect her to react like that. I expected her to be just as happy as I was, but she wasn't.
But don't worry Yukina I promise I will make everything all better again. I know I promised you a lot of things, but this time I am serious. That village I was talking about is really nice, all of the people there are friendly. I have never been there before but from the stories mama use to tell me when I was younger, I know it will be the perfect place for you. I think she called it "Human World" I don't know what type of name that is for a village, but that's where I will be sending you.
And after I am sure you got there safe, I will do what I have been meaning to do for a long time, I will finally end it all...I will kill myself. Life is too good for me, your too good for me Yukina. I don't deserve your love and no longer am I receiving it. But that's good, at least I know you won't cry for me. I know that once I am gone a weight will be lifted off of your shoulders, along with a whole lot of guilt.
All I ever wanted to do in life was make you happy, and now I know how. I love you Yukina I've always had and always will. I just wish you knew."
Hiei closed his journal as he felt Yukina's weight shift the boat behind him.
"So are you ready?"
"..."
"Do you have everything you wanted from the house."
Once again there was silence.
Hiei looked back and saw that Yukina had a lot of bags in her hands.
She sat there with a stern look as if saying. "What are you waiting for?"
Hiei smiled, a small nervous smile.
"I guess that answers my question. So let's go then huh?" and with that Hiei pulled the boat away from the bank as they began down the river.
The twins kept taking small glances back at their house, both thinking the same thing. "There goes our past."
Meanwhile:
A lone figure lurked behind the trees, watching as the small boat went by.
"Bout time Hiei took care of that fucking rodent of a father. Now I can move on to my plan. But, first I have to get him to cooperate and the best way to do that, is through his sister."
The dark figure kept following the boat, waiting for the perfect time to strike. That time came near as Hiei and Yukina approached a huge waterfall.
"How are we suppose to get pass that." spoke Yukina, in a snobbish but worried tone.
"Don't worry you don't have to be afraid, I know a way around it."
"I wasn't scared." yelled Yukina in yet another snobbish way.
Hiei winced at the sound of her yelling, and proceeded to steer the boat towards a narrow path next to the waterfall.
"Now be careful and don't make any sudden movements. If you do then the boat will row off track and we'll both go flying down that waterfall."
Yukina was about to make a smart comment but held her breath and tensed as Hiei rowed faster towards the path.
The dark figure watched carefully as Hiei struggled to keep the boat on the right path.
"Now's my chance!" it spoke, as it gathered up some of it's energy. With a small flick of it's finger, it was able to produce a large wind that sent Hiei and Yukina's boat flying off towards the waterfall.
"Oh no Hiei DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!" cried Yukina as she shook Hiei's shoulder, terrified of falling off the cliff.
Hiei pushed Yukina to the far end of the boat and continued to try and steer it right.
"Come on, Come on." He thought has he tried the best he could to turn the boat, but it was too late.
Hiei knew what was about to happen, so he did the best thing he could think of. He used all of his strength to pick up Yukina and toss her as close to shore as he could.
"Swim, swim to the bank Yukina. HURRY! Before you get pulled back."
Yukina did as she was told, she swam as fast as she could towards the shore. She climbed onto the land and turned back to where Hiei and the boat were still being pulled in by the waterfall.
"Hiei! HIEI COME ON JUMP OFF! JUMP OFF!" yelled Yukina jumping up and down frantically.
Hiei smiled, he knew he couldn't make it even if he wanted to... and he didn't want to.
"Go ahead and find the village. The route shouldn't be too dangerous from here. JUST GO!" and with that the boat went over the waterfall taking Hiei with it and he fell thinking... "At least I know she still cares about me."
He landed in the deep water, with a loud SPLASH. But Hiei didn't attempt to swim, he just let himself fall further and further into the cold darkness.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO...NOOOOOOOOO...NOOOOOOOOO!" cried Yukina, as she ran through the woods, trying to make it to the bottom of the waterfall hoping to find Hiei.
"Please...Please...Please, I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said, just please be there."
"Damn it! Now I have to save the little suicidal bastard." thought the figure as it watched Hiei sink into the water.
"That wasn't apart of the plan." It jumped into the water and swam after Hiei's body which had already went into unconsciousness. It grabbed onto his foot, and dragged him to the top of the water.
The figure then threw Hiei onto the bank.
"Don't say you don't owe me for this one kid. Now all I have to do is take you a little further down the river so your sister can't find you."
It then picked Hiei up and flung him over it's shoulder and started to run. It ran so fast that in a matter of minutes it was miles and miles away from the base of the waterfall.
It then laid Hiei on the ground and proceeded to walk off.
"Well, at least he's alive. Now all I have to do is find that little wench and my plan will be back on track."
The figure then walked away in search of Yukina.
Meanwhile:
"Come on Kuronue... I think there is a river right up here."
Walking through the woods was none other than one of the most well known thieves in Makai... Youko Kurama, a tall handsome fox youkai.
His long silky silver hair and his intense golden eyes are what drew a lot of attention. That, and the fact that he was an excellent thief, being the sly fox that he was and behind him walked a demon named Kuronue.
He had long black hair, and the wings of a bat. He was a bat youkai with intense blue eyes and a face that was close to rivaling that of the kitsune.
But Kuronue was Youko's partner in crime, they were best friends. Although secretly, Kuronue wished that his friendship with Youko was more than that.
"There the river is up ahead."
Youko pointed towards the river and then turned to his friend.
"I am going to go take a quick bath."
"Need any company." spoke Kuronue in a seductive, but joking manner so Youko would think that he was only playing.
Even though he wasn't, Kuronue was still too afraid to tell his friend how he truly felt about him.
"Yea right, just stay here and look after our things."
The fox laughed as he walked off already slipping out of his shirt. Kuronue sighed disappointed and sat down on rock waiting for his buddy to finish his "bath".
"No matter how tough that guy is, he will always be the most feminine person I know."
Youko hummed softly to himself as he slipped out of his pants. He folded his clothes neatly and set them on a rock, before walking towards the river.
He stopped and looked back at what he had just done.
"Man that time I spent hanging out with those humans must have rubbed off." he said rolling his eyes.
He then turned his head back towards the river and his mouth dropped as he spotted at a small body, laid against the ground.
"How did I not notice that before?" he thought as he walked over to the body with caution.
"Is it dead?"
Youko was confused as to why he was able to get closer with out the small frame moving.
With his foot, he lightly tapped the body, then he pushed it over on to it's back.
"Oh my..."
He looked down into the face of a small innocent fire demon.
He bent closely next to it and rubbed its cheek.
"He feels so cold. Poor thing, he's just a baby."
Youko pulled the little demon into his arms and got a better look at his face.
"So beautiful."
Youko continued to look down into the face of the unconscious fire demon.
"I wonder where he came from?"
But his thoughts were interrupted when his loud obnoxious friend yelled towards him.
"Oi, Youko come on."
Kuronue frowned, he was tired of waiting and they had a few more places to rob before sun down.
He really didn't see the point of stopping...that is until he saw who his friend was caring back with him.
Youko had his pants on, but his shirt was wrapped gently around a small body that he carried in his arms.
"Hey you do you have there with you?"
In the woods:
"HIEI! HIEI! WHERE ARE YOU!"
Yukina wandered aimlessly through the woods in search of her brother.
"This is all my fault." she thought.
Yukina had checked by the bottom of the waterfall and found him nowhere in sight. She figured that maybe he did survive and was out looking for her.
But, her hopes were beginning to fade as she could not find him anywhere.
A figure stepped from behind a tree and smiled as it called out to her.
"Oh beautiful."
Yukina turned around, and came face to face with the man she had been dreading to see since the day her mother died.
Before her stood Sensui, the one who haunted her dreams at night.
"Oh no." were the only words that escaped her mouth as Sensui he grabbed her and carried her deep into the woods.
TBC...
Human World- In my story I am making Human World a small village, similar to the real Human World where human's live in peace with out being bothered by evil demons. Later in the story, I will introduce some familiar characters, that will be residence of this village.
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