Ride like the Wind
Chapter 47

"Nice September day isn't it?" a voice came from behind the slave.

He turned around to see Mukuro. Oh good Lord! Nother Northerner! He didn't trust any Northerners after the last time he was caught running away. He wouldn't have gone even if it were "Moses" coming to take him away.

"Why're you looking at me like that? I'm not going to hurt you or anything. I just want to get some directions to some place," she said.

"O… Okay, sir…"

"You don't have to call me that. We're equals. You can call me by my name if you want. It's Mukuro."

Yeah, Ah bet ya think that's real cute. Probably jus' lookin' for some excuse to whip me for bein' all disrespectful. "Directions to where, sir?"

"The place where the Cromwells used to live. I was told they weren't very far from here. I just to know the direction." She raised an eyebrow when the slave froze in fear. "What?"

"What d'ya think yer doin' talkin' to the n-g-r?" a voice came from behind Mukuro. The speaker grabbed her by the shoulder and forced her to face him.

"Oh, hey. I think you might wanna do something about your mule. I think he's humping a haystack. It happens all the time you know," she replied.

"It ain't no mule, ya retard."

Her eyes widened. "I thought that was a mule jacking off! That was just you talking! I didn't think that was possible!"

"Shut up, ya goddamn Yankee! Who the hell are you?"

"Why? You gonna kill me because if you are I'm Zachary Taylor. You can't kill a president. That's not cool. Come to think of it, isn't he dead? If he is, I'm Zachary Taylor's dead body possessed by… Uh… I like the name Adolf… And the word hit… And Leer… Yeah, I'm Zachary Taylor's body possessed by some ghost called Adolf Hitleer."

"Ya have a British or German accent. How can ya be Taylor?"

"…Only in America."

"An' Ah'll ask ya again. What d'ya think yer doing talking to the n-g-r?"

"He looked like he knew the directions to this place pretty well so I asked him." She crossed her arms. "And I'll ignore you unless you tell me the directions to where the Cromwells used to live."

"Where're ya from?"

"If you must know I'm from Boston."

"Of course. Ya can't get any more like a Yankee than that. They're down the way. Ah wouldn' go if Ah was ya. It's been called a cursed place since that girl went crazy and killed people there. Actually... On second thought. Go. Go and stay there, ya slave hugger. Stay for a whole year for all Ah care just stay away from these parts and keep yer freeing friends away too or Ah'll shoot ya'll."

"I'm sure it's cursed. And you don't need to worry about any friends of mine coming here. I don't know anyone as radical as I am. Don't expect me back… Unless… Unless you make another black man, woman or child cry, expect me to come into your home and tear out your innards out from your ass." She walked away. You're looking at the girl who made it cursed.

She reached her destination about half an hour later. There she saw Hiei lying in the middle of a patch of grass under the shade of an old maple tree looking like he was relaxing and waking from a catnap. He rolled on his stomach, still looking like he was enjoying himself. "Oh, hey! You finally came! Took you long enough."

"Oh goddammit! It's you!" she smacked her forehead. "It's twice as disappointing when I do run into you. It might have been worth it if you had pie or a muffin at least!"

She sounds like a fat ass that missed dessert. "What do you mean 'Oh goddammit! It's you'?!"

"It means like it sounds." She crossed her arms and cursed in German.

"Like you have another message behind it and you need to remember that I'm a guy and guys don't get subliminal messages like the one you just gave me. Or in another sense you could just mean it playfully and just want to…"

"It was the first one you retard."

"I'm gonna have to assume that you were pissed off by that. I was just…"

"What the hell did you want me to come all the way across the United State for? Don't you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to get here?"

"Now you feel my pain."

"Then stop coming to Boston all the damn time and leave me alone."

"That wasn't the reaction I was going for but I guess that one was good enough…"

"On with it."

"I'm here to pay my debt to you. Kurama says I owe you one so I'll just be a good man and pay it off."

"So you'll shoot yourself?"

"No! I thought you…"

"Why couldn't you do this in Boston?"

"Not enough room."

"Not enough…? Why the hell do you need this much room?"

"Well you know…" Hiei looked away. "So any idea why I have to pay you back?"

"For making my life a living hell. That's what. You think you're making my life better but you're not but I guess that never occurred to you. I'm guessing that you'll once again do something that would benefit you and then screw me up since that's the way it usually goes."

"So why do you always let me come if that's the case?" She gave him no reply. "Yeah. That's what I thought. Look, you remember when I told you I'd give you your freedom if you gave me mine? I think that's it. So I'll let you be freed."

"So you'll leave me alone?"

"No. Your shackles. I'll…"

"Don't try. I tried everything but they never broke. Koenma did everything but they never broke. There's nothing you can do that'll break them. And I told you that I'm as free as I need to be. They're just there. I'll live with them and I'll die with them. I'm okay with knowing that."

"Your happy knowing some jack ass sold you out?"

"You were happy not being accepted by the Ice Maidens. You were happy knowing your father didn't want you. You were happy knowing the only ones that bothered to see you for who you were are still with you. I'm the same way. I don't care."

"That's different. I'm not happy with that."

"I feel the same way but I don't go looking for pity like a spoiled child. You don't need to do this. Go home. Kill yourself over what happened for all I care. All you do is complain about it. It's not me that wants freedom. It's you." She turned around and started to walk away. "Our mother didn't die for you to throw your life away. I want to beat some sense into you but I can because you'll get pissed off. But you don't just want me to beat you up for it. You want me to kill you for you."

Suddenly Hiei stabbed her right through her stomach. Mukuro froze and then fell to the ground, blood dripping from her lips. Hiei stared at her.

Did I just do that…? Goddamn… He pulled the bloody sword out from her and stared at it. He cringed. Hell, I didn't know she could go down so easily. She's a good talker but not very strong with anything else… Shit. What the hell do I do now…? Shit! Shit! Shit!

He kicked some dust over her body as if to give her a generic burial and started to run away but when he was a couple of feet away from the body he was shot in the leg.

What the…? He turned around and there was Mukuro, reloading the pistol on her knees.

She coughed up some more blood. "When you stab someone in the stomach they don't die instantaneously. I thought you knew that Hiei. It takes time for stomach acid to get out. Even so, I still can't die too easily like you thought I would. I could kill you if I wanted to. The barrier between the human and demon worlds kept me here. I'm too strong to go to Demon World. Don't look so relieved. I'm really sick of your shit now. If you don't like me mentioning your mother then quit putting me in positions where I have to. Why the hell do you keeping bitching about it anyway? You talk shit about her but no one can acknowledge the fact that she was here."

"You… You're…" He leapt away when Mukuro swung her arm, thinking she was going to smack him. In the corner of his eyes he saw he was wrong. There was a line there coming from the sky. "What the hell did you do…?"

"It's the answer to a suicidal person's prayers."

"…A razor?"

"Touch it if you want to die so much. It's pretty painless to be cut with space as far as I know."

"That's what that is? Now you do want to kill me?"

"Yes. Actually I do. But I don't because I have self restraint and that wouldn't be right to go and do that. It's more of a test."

"You could just go to hell, Mukuro." He came at her with his sword but she punched a hole in his stomach. He backed away and coughed up blood.

"Don't try doing that. If your strength is a drop of water mine could be a lake. Even if you gave your all I could still take you out when I'm over here on my knees. I don't want to do this and keep fighting you off and you can't kill me even if you had a real reason. You don't want to die and you know it. All you really want is someone to really accept you for who you really are. Don't you know there are people there who do? You're blind. Screw what happened to you when you were a kid. I don't care about that so why should you?" She stood up. "And I know you'll just get pissed off and try to kill me with that being said."

Hiei stood up and flared up with energy.

"Oh bloody hell. You're an idiot. So this went from trying to pay off a debt to trying to kill me?"

Hiei released the Dragon of the Darkness Flame but Mukuro was able to stand it without getting swallowed by the flames. As it pushed her away, she flared up with energy and eventually split it in half. In the end she was an eight of a mile from where she originally was. Silence.

"I'm off. I don't think we'll ever finish this."

"No. I think… Your wrist," Hiei said.

Mukuro stopped and looked at the shackle on her wrist. It cracked in half and broke off.

"I told you Kurama told me that I owed you one. So I paid you back. You're free now. So everything can be okay again…"

"Tch. If you say so. This doesn't solve anything. I think all you did was open another door."

"You look pale…" He passed out.

"You idiot... You don't get it, do you? Your body's strong; I'll give you that but your heart is weak…" She vomited and passed out not long after. Not this again…

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"You mean to tell me Jin's been in Ireland this whole time and I didn't even know! What kind of crap is this?!" Suzaku ranted as he took another slice of Kurama's apple pie.

"He's been in Ireland for a while. It's old news. What kind of friend are you?" Shishi replied.

"Hey, nothing ever comes to me. I mean if you were pregnant, I wouldn't know until the baby was born!"

"You realize you're talking to a man, right?"

"Yeah, but you get what I'm saying, right?"

"No."

"No, what I'm saying is…" He went on.

There was a knock on the door and Kurama opened it.

"Hey there! Just felt like stopping by to talk to my favorite demon!" Koenma greeted with a smile.

"Well he's not here. I think he's still in Boston," Kurama sighed.

"Nonsense, I was in Boston not long ago and neither Hiei nor Mukuro were there!"

"Isn't that something?"

There was another knock on the door. Kurama opened it again to see Mukuro who was dragging Hiei in with her.

"Holy hell! What happened to you?!" Koenma gasped.

"Nothing. I was just…" she fainted.

"Aye, aye, aye… I swear Hiei never stopped being the trouble maker he used to be…. You two! Continue your rant! Nothing to see here!" Suzaku and Shishi nodded and walked out of the room.

"Looks like my stay is lengthened," Kurama sighed.

"Good man you are," Koenma laughed. "Pie can relieve your stress."

If that were true, I wouldn't be able to walk. Kurama thought.

End chapter 47

Notes:
1. n-g-r – Yeah. It's the "N" word you hear all the rappers say. I cut it out so it wouldn't be offensive to anyone. It's just a way the slave owners degraded the slaves. It's supposed to be derogatory term but I guess that's the rappers' prerogative. Yeah, I don't get it either.
2. Adolf Hitleer- bad reference to Adolf Hitler's name. I'm the freak that loves Hitler jokes, remember?
3. Yankee- During the Revolutionary War (the thirteen colonies against Britain) it was used to refer to the people that wanted independence. (Whereas the Loyalists were loyal to Britain.) During this time it referred to the anti-slavery people. During the Civil War it was a Union soldier. Now it's… Apparently it refers to person who dyes their hair red or blond in Japan. But I think that's just something someone randomly came up with on this website.

I don't like seeing Mukuro/Hiei stuff. I like Hiei/Mukuro. You're probably thinking What the hell is she talking about! They're the same, right? No! You know what you're implying? You're implying that Hiei is still on the bottom even if he's with a woman! (If a pairing was Guy/Girl the girl would be on the bottom because that's how it works apparently. The one mentioned last is on the bottom bunk.) Let him take a good view!

Anyway… Random thought… Mukuro would look like a dictator if her hair where black. Uh… Happy… Monday off… For whatever reason it is… I forgot. Isn't it Memorial Day on Monday?

Extra! Based of a Pearls before Swine Comic

Hiei was standing at random stand that used to be a little girl's lemonade stand selling razors for fifty cents. Mukuro stared at the stand.
"What the hell are you doing?" Mukuro asked.
"Look Mukuro, if women were meant to have hairy armpits they would be made that way!" He pointed at her like it was her fault.
Blank stare. "…But they were."
"Okay so it was a mistake like the backwards knees on the flamingos!"

As always reviews are appreciated. (I dare someone to give me a signed flame!)