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tears of a goddess

10

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After breakfast Kimiko decided to go shopping for groceries. They had all done so much for her so she wanted to give back somehow. She went to the market while thinking about how Hiei didn't respond to her question. Her chest had pangs of pain when she thought about it. Maybe he didn't love her. That would fit with what Durn had told her all along. She sniffed but did not let the tears out. No more.

The temple was quiet, more so than usual. Yusuke and Kuwabara kept looking at each other. Yukina didn't speak and Kurama and Botan kept sneaking off to talk. Hiei went outside to think. What was this feeling? The image of Kimiko smiling appeared in his head. The way she looked in moonlight, the way she moaned when he kissed her, everything about her sent chills up his spine and bursts of pain in his chest. Love was the only answer. Then he thought about how he had hurt her. How not responding had hurt her deeply. Hiei snorted and smirked. He promised himself that he would tell her when she got back.

Just then another explosion rocked the temple.

"That one please." She asked the nice man behind the apple stand. It was the reddest -

Blood everywhere. It was gone. Just like that, his right arm was gone. Dern laughed manically as Genkai fell to her death trying to defend her temple.

Kimiko looked at this perfect apple and smiled. She just couldn't wait -

To kill him! Kuwabara charged him with his sword blazing. He screamed, slashing at this horrible creature without soul, trying his hardest to hit him. Dern evaded every attack and grabbed his sword. "Another one." He raised up the sword -

And leaned to take a bite. It was so delicious. One of the best things she had ever tasted. The way it melted in her mouth was -

Pure unfiltered rage as Yusuke screamed. Kuwabara had been gutted with his own sword. Yusuke's hair grew and his energy charged as he fired with all his might, creating a gigantic explosion of his own. When the dust cleared he saw that it had done nothing. "Foolish child. I'm IMMORTAL!" He let out a blast of his own, hitting Yusuke making his insides turn to mush as blood burst out of his mouth, falling back to the temple lifeless.

Kimiko looked at the nice couple as she walked by. She smiled and wished she could be like them, so happy. Her lips pursed and she made up her mind. She would talk to Hiei and find out what he felt!

Botan screamed in agony as Kurama was wrapped in his own vines, torn apart viciously. "NOO!" She charged at Dern herself and with one hit he stopped her. Slamming his fist into her skull, he heard it crack and she fell with a dull thud. Yukina had fainted but that wasn't good enough. He fired a blast to the temple, leveling it.

Kimiko smiled. Yes, she would tell Hiei how she felt and she would get him to tell her how he felt! She skipped happily back to the temple, her arms carrying her groceries.

Hiei was all that was left. He couldn't stop the attack and was powerless. "Just one more," Dern chuckled.

Hiei gasped at the vile pain running through his body. "Why?"

"To teach her a lesson."

Kimiko reached the steps and began running to the top. Such a peaceful place that deserved a leisurely pace, but she couldn't wait! She had to see Hiei! She got to the top and -

The whole temple was gone. Rubble was where it stood and broken bodies were everywhere. The groceries fell from her arms, the apples she had bought bouncing down the stairs. She let out a horrified scream, running to the rubble. "Hiei?! HIEI?! HIEI!" She frantically searched for her love. A cough led her to him.

He had been sliced in half and his body lay in two, his insides showing between the two halves.

"K-Kimi-kko..." he coughed.

Tears welled up in her eyes as she leaned down to him. "H-Hiei?" She shook.

"Kimiko... No, Elliorion...I...even though we have only known each other a few days, and you basically caused us all to die, these have been the happiest days of my life. I've never known the feelings you made me feel. My friends and sister are bloody corpses all around me, but I have no regrets. I wouldn't change anything. I love you so much, my goddess..." His eyes went black and his head slumped. Blood trickled out of his mouth as his last breath escaped him.

"HIEI! NO! WHY?! WHY?!" she sobbed hysterically.

"Because you ran away."

She gasped at the voice and turned around. He simply stood there unscathed.

"I told you you would be mine, and you are. We will forever be connected, you and I. After all, you are the reason I will live forever. And the reason I killed them." He disappeared without a sound and she began to shake and hyperventilate.

Her whole body wracked with deep sobs as she threw back her head, holding her loves' lifeless body as the clouds covered the whole area, lightening crashing. Rain poured down like a storm none had ever seen as she screamed to the sky.

"NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

~End