A Pure Wish (IY x YYH; Hiei/Kagome)
*29 February 1500*
A pure wish.
Three years of her life, and it all came down to three words.
A pure wish, and all this evil will be gone.
A foregone conclusion, made fact without any hypotheses or experimentation. It is difficult to test a sample size of one in an experiment spanning centuries.
Why did they ever think the outcome of a pure wish would be any improvement over a corrupt wish?
A pulse of power, and suddenly she was full, complete.
A pulse of power and she knew she was in danger, she knew she had to run. Run from her friends, run from her protector.
In an instant, the world had gone mad and all that could protect her was her speed.
There was a familiar pulse in the distance, pulling her towards it, and she knew, instinctively, that it meant safety. She could barely feel the thin branches and twigs scratching and gouging her skin, barely registered the stumbles, just continued until she slammed bodily into the pulse. But she wasn't injured. It was the feeling of punching through some kind of gel: a moment of initial resistance, then ease.
When the power-maddened hanyou emerged into the clearing, the Goshinboku stood tall and impressive as it ever had, and there was no trace of Kagome.
*29 February 199?*
When Hiei woke, it was to a muted world. Everything was the same as it had been when he'd finally dozed off, just…less.