Ride like the Wind
Chapter 37
"So you're…!" He gasped with a smile and fell on one knee. He kissed her hand. "Will you marry me?"
"Wh… What?" Long blank stare. "…A… You realize you're talking to a man right?"
"But your voice is feminine! And I recognize the name! I'm certain it's you!"
"Yeah. Sure… I know some gay men with effeminate voices too. And if that's the way you swing that bar's on the other side of town."
"I'm not gay! DAMN THE GAYS AND THEIR UNNATURALNESS!"
"Okay. I see where this is going. I don't know you so no, Whatever-the-hell-your-name-is, I won't marry you. Furthermore there could be other Mukuros out there. It could be a common name in other parts."
"You don't know me?!" Melodramatic shock. "By the way, Mukuro isn't a common name."
"Am I supposed to recognize you? Last time I checked I didn't know any six eared, sickly pale British men."
I'm not sickly pale… Mental whine. "But how can you not! We were almost lovers!"
"Lovers, huh? I don't recall."
"But..." Emo aura… "How can you not?"
"I'll convince you I don't know you. Tell me your name."
"Uh… The whole thing?"
"Yeah? If you're a John I'll get you mixed up with the fifty billion King Johns."
"Uh… Yomi Cromwell Orwell Locke Malthus Thompson Paine Tolken Rowling Craven Hawthorne Parrish Smith Elliot Cook Huber Sabat Washington Adams Jefferson Monroe Jackson Van Buren Tyler Polk Tailor Franklin Pierce Buchanan Lincoln Johnson Grant Garfield Minkinley Wilson Eisenhower Bush Clinton Reagan Ford Nixon Carter Roosevelt Fillmore."
Goddamn. I thought I had a long name! Wait... I remember…
"So you do recognize me."
"No. I'm just amazed that you had a long ass name."
Shrug. "I'll be back… When you least expect it." He walked away.
More long blank stares. "…Is he… Is he stalking me?"
All of a sudden Raizen pounced on her. "MUKURO! The Italian guy's having hot gay sex in the alley with a guy with piercings everywhere! It's like holy hell!"
Mukuro gave him a deer in the headlights look.
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"So that duel. I've taught you well, haven't I?" Shigure asked in a mocking tone.
I fail to see how those two were related… Hiei thought before he said, "Uh… Sure… About that whole thing… I kinda haven't been using my sword so…"
"Ha. So you claim defeat then? You wuss."
"I have better things to do than be crammed in here with the likes of you."
Shigure threw his ring sword, nearly missing Hiei's head. "You all should respect your teacher, kid. I have more experience that you. You got a death wish?"
"You got one yourself?"
Shigure held up a hand as if summoning something to it but Hiei paid no attention to it.
"Okay. Assuming that I decide to duel with you, how would you fight me if you have no weapon?"
"I suggest you all turn around if you all don't want to fight."
"Why? There's…" He turned and as he did, the sword come back, gashing him stomach before reaching Shigure's hand. "What the hell?"
"Well, assuming that you all were going to fight… Why would I throw something if it weren't coming back?" Shigure smirked at him. "I think your outta practice, kid."
Hiei flipped him out and started to walk away.
"Yeah. Run home to your girlfriend or whoever it is that takes care of you. Then they can kiss it and make it feel all better and bottle feed you and then change your diaper."
He froze and turned to Shigure, death-glaring him. He lunged forward and swung for his throat but he missed. He swung again, aiming to draw blood from his teacher's neck again. Another miss. Same swing again. Miss again.
Shigure swung which would have sliced Hiei's head off if Hiei never crouched to dodge the swung. Hiei jabbed his sword upward but his teacher stepped back to avoid it. Hiei sprung forward and grazed Shigure's cheek.
Shigure swung downward but he missed. Hiei swung in a half circle that got Shigure across the chest. He lunged forward again, feeling he was lucky enough to get more blood only to be slashed across the stomach again. The smaller demon stumbled backwards to avoid his teacher's downward strike.
The teacher swung downward again but Hiei blocked it before it made contact with his flesh. Another swing from Shigure. Another clash. Another clash. Another clash. Hiei swung but again his sword clashed with Shigure's. Shigure forced his backwards and when he saw his student hit the ground his swung downward.
Hiei barely blocked the shot by holding his sword horizontally, his fingers bleeding from holding the tip of the blade.
Shigure tried to force the other man's sword down but he failed. Hiei refused to admit defeat.
Hiei held on tighter. He started to tire out from what felt like hours of pressure. His left hand felt like it was about to be sliced in two. I have to get this bastard off me.
"So… You ready to give up? If you do I'll be generous and just left you walk away with battle scars," Shigure said.
I think I can get him if… "Hell no…" Hiei panted. "You call shit like that a duel? How bout if I slice open a hole in your head and shove this rock in there and call that a Jagan Eye?"
Death glare. "What are you all saying?"
I got you! Hiei shoved Shigure off once his guard was down. He lunged for the kill but Shigure stepped to the side. Just when hit was about to turn Shigure sliced a gash in Hiei's back.
Hiei gave himself no time to recover. He jabbed his sword right into Shigure's abdomen.
It was all frozen for a while.
Hiei smirked with triumph. He twisted his blade to make sure it hurt.
"You… Bastard! Dirty… Bastard!" Shigure yelped. His hands went towards the blade on reflex but he restrained himself, knowing what would happen if he did grab it.
"I'll let you live if you admit defeat," Hiei replied smugly.
Shigure's eyes widened as if taking this in for a second before he started laughing in spite of the blood the may have started rushing out of the wound because of that. "You… You're such a… Goddamn bastard! I… I can't believe you!"
Hiei twisted the blade some more. 'The hell's your problem?"
"You're such an asshole! I could just wring your little… Heh heh…"
Twisted it again. "You expect less from your enemy?"
Shigure kicked his student in the stomach and forced the blade out of his flesh though it torn out a small apart of his organs.
Hiei lunged forward, aiming for the now exposed area. Shigure swung a diagonal half circle which would have sliced Hiei in half if he never slid to the ground in time.
Hiei jabbed his sword upward but only succeeded in slicing the piercing on Shigure's forehead in half. He lunged forward again and tried to jab his blade into Shigure's abdomen again but he missed. He swung a half circle to the left, missing, and then pivoting more to the left, he jabbed his sword forward into Shigure's bicep. At the same time Shigure slashed him through his right bicep, a blow that almost got right through to his bone.
Shigure's blade exited Hiei's flesh and swung for his neck. Hiei crouched to dodge the blow and jabbed his blade into his teacher's abdomen again. He pulled it out, taking out more of Shigure's intestines. At the same time Shigure noticed something fall out of his pocket. He stared at it, trying to place.
"I remember another reason I was looking for you…" Shigure mumbled at the same time Hiei stabbed him in the solar plexus.
Hiei stopped. "What…?" He pulled the blade out before Shigure could say anything and pointed it at his neck to make sure he wouldn't be injured to badly if he were being fooled. "Tell me."
"That thing over there…" Shigure's head rolled to the side. His breath was cutting off.
He's too weak to try anything… Goddammit. I think I am too. He started to feel nausea come to him as he stumbled toward the shining object. It was vaguely familiar to him. Wait… Now he remembered. It was his…
My… My mom's… Hiei turned to the dying demon. "You. Where the... Where the hell did you get this?"
Shigure coughed, blood dripping from his mouth. He watched it run in rivers away from him before he answered. "I saw a guy two days ago… He arrested some guy… Guy dropped something… Picked it up… Looked like he recognized it… Saw me and…" He coughed again.
"What'd he do?"
"He… Looked like recognized me… He… gave me… thing… told me to give it… To Hiei… You all… only Hiei… know… give to you all… take…" He started to gargle.
"What'd he look like?"
"Red hair…. Blue eyes… German… Think… Maybe British… Don't know… You all know…?"
"Yeah…" Hiei picked it up. Doesn't sound like something she'd do… Why…?
"Freeze!" a voice called. Hiei turned to see Mukuro, pistol in her hands, ready to fire. "What the hell was going on here?"
Hiei stumbled out.
Mukuro sighed and kneeled by Shigure. This is… "Don't move. I'll get you some help."
"No… Don't return favor…" Shigure put a hand on her chest. "WE get beat up… Cause of same guy…'
"I do it everyday for everybody. He isn't special…" She turned her back on him. "What made you think he was?"
"Sure, lady… S… u… re…"
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"So what happened to Hiei?" Raizen asked, waving his arms around so he would hit Yusuke.
"I dunno. He just walked away. How am I supposed to know?" Mukuro replied.
"You could've followed him! I wanted to know what gay sex it like in case I get ass raped!"
"Don't count on being ass raped, Raizen."
"Why not? Are you implying that I'm not hot?"
"No. I'm just telling you not to count on it."
"Whatever! You should've followed him even if you didn't know I wanted to know what gay sex was like!"
"He'll turn up when he gets hungry or wants to go to sleep. …By the way… Do you hear a rumbling noise or am I the only one?" Suddenly Yomi appeared out of nowhere and tackled her.
"What the…?! He has six ears! Holy hell!" Yusuke screamed. "Mukuro, what's with your friend? He's all screwed up!"
"He's not a friend!" Mukuro flung him into a random wall. "He's an annoying pest. I'd kill him but that would just look bad for someone in law enforcement."
Yomi stood up. Emo aura. "How can you be so cruel? We're supposed to be married soon…"
"Married? Since when? I distinctly remember turning you down."
"Yeah… But I was going to ask you ten years ago but…" Whine….
What's that have to do with anything? "Forget I asked."
"So you'll…?"
"If I said no before, why would I say yes now?"
"Because I'd do anything for you!"
"Anything huh? Go to the Pacific Ocean, find Atlantis draw a picture of Leonardo da Vinci in drag and rape a squirrel with a steel dildo in twelve seconds flat."
What the f…? "…Except that. But why not?'
"Oh you read my mind even if you would do it. I'm… already married."
"To who?!"
"To… Uh… Give me two letters off the top of your head." ("He's got gonna fall for that," Yusuke sighed.)
"J and C." ("He did?")
"JC. Give me a minute. Johnny Cade!"
"Johnny Jade? Well, I say… He may have won the battle but he has not won the war!" He fired a suddenly existing rifle into the sky and ran away screaming. "THE BRITISH ARE COMING!"
"What a freak…" Yusuke said with a long blank stare.
Mukuro shook her head.
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On the way home, she saw Hiei laying in a bloody mess in the middle of the street. She picked him and dragged him home with her.
"Why…?' He mumbled.
"Because you look like hell right now. I'm not all heartless to leave you in the street like that," Mukuro replied.
"No…"
"Enough. Just rest."
"Aye…"
End chapter 37
Notes:
1. Yomi's name- some of my teacher's names. Some writers. His last name was from Oliver Cromwell who led the English Civil War. And at some point I threw in a whole bunch of president's names.
Yes. I know that kinda sucked but cut me some slack here. My week sucked. I puked on Monday night. Tuesday I had to miss school even though I can't afford to miss a day. Yesterday I suffered from a panic attack. So now I have depression, nose bleeds from the heat in summer, inferiority complexes, insomnia, and now… NOW panic attacks! Goddamn it!
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