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The concrete loomed ahead, and I knew at any moment I would smash into it. Gravity acting upon me, my body was flung forth in a graceless dance, the surface of the Earth sprinting forward to meet me.
I only had a moment left on this Earth, and yet I felt peace with it. I hadn't killed Hiei. Yusuke and the others still had a fighting chance. I would have liked to have helped them myself, yet this did not appear to be in the cards for me.
I would make impact in only a few seconds now. Closing my eyes, I inhaled the air from the whipping wind around me.
Closed eyes soon became squinted, and it was with a strange curiosity that I realized I was no longer in motion. Instead I lay in the arms of Hiei, both feet planted firmly on the ground, holding me in his arms.
He caught me? He had to have. But why on Earth would he do such a thing?
Distraught, I began to look around myself. I had to be dead. And what a peaceful end this was. I was in heaven, and here he was holding me. We could be together in this way like we never would be on Earth.
He was merely a figment of my imagination, a holographic image produced by a divine entity to soothe my aching heart. I was thankful for it nonetheless. I rested in his arms, looking at his face for some trace of emotion.
Could this figment speak? Certainly I could feel him....but would I be able to speak to him how I would have loved to while I was alive? Would he even hear me?
"How-...Why-"
Before I could speak any more words, his lips graced mine in sweet bliss. We stayed this way, lightly pressed against each other before he raised his own head. Looking down at me, something had renewed itself in his eyes.
It was nothing I had ever seen before in him. Was it passion?
"Amaya, this Jagan eye grants me more than sight."
I looked at my dream Hiei, puzzled.
"I heard your every thought on your way down..." He kissed me again. "I'm not sure I would have been able to live with myself if I had to kill you. Thank you for proving me wrong."
I pressed my palm against his cheek, half expecting my hand to go through it. I smiled at him sadly, finding it cruel that this Hiei would be so confused about the events that had transpired on Earth.
"But, you did kill me, Hiei."
He raised his eyebrows.
"Certainly not, I caught you before you hit the ground."
"It was a painless end. Sudden, but I am thankful that I can at least be with you now." I turned over in his arms, pressing my face into his arm.
I was quickly righted to my feet.
"No. You're very much alive." I sighed, waiting him to concede to the truth, that I was dead, and he was merely an image of what I wanted to see. But he did not relent.
I was beginning to get impatient with him, but the sound of three voices calling my name startled me out of this dream-like state. I turned my face from Hiei's shoulder to find Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama running down the pavement toward us.
"Amaya! You're okay!" Kuwabara ran forward to sweep me up in a bear hug. Yusuke gave me a supportive pat on the back while Kurama urged Hiei to bring me back upstairs immediately.
It began to seem a little ridiculous that the others would make an appearance in my heaven, as well.
"You're correct. For if you and I are to be together in eternal life, we will share the same heaven. And I can assure you, the idiot would not be present under any circumstances." Hiei whispered in my ear, swinging an arm back under my legs and heading back into the apartment.
"So...I'm not dead?" I asked, looking around at all the faces as we made our way up the stairwell.
"Far from it," Kurama replied. "You actually seem to have successfully fought off the mind-controlling agent. We just need to get you back into the water, to make certain."
I nodded, and then turned to Hiei. I had so many questions to ask him, but it would be best not to overwhelm him, as well as myself.
"Hiei...if you knew...why did you push me?"
"I did not know. I do not act on impulse often. This was a first for me, an attempt to get revenge on you. This was the first time in my life I lost my self-control, and I almost paid for it dearly. I realized my mistake half a second after I pushed you. I was waiting for you down below the entire time you were falling."
"I guess that's one of the perks of being impossibly fast?" I asked, laughing.
He gave a soft chuckle and nodded. It wasn't long before we reached my apartment, and I was, in no short terms, stuffed into the bathtub. Kurama had already prepared the water. In his haste, he had filled the tub a bit too high, and when my body was placed within it, some overflowed onto the tile.
"I'll get a towel," Yusuke offered.
I waved the idea away with my hand.
"Later. It isn't important now. I have information for you. We can end this today, and we can stop it all before it is too late."
"What do you mean?" Hiei asked, leaning toward me protectively.
"I know where Nobuyuki is hiding."
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