InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Regret and Choices ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The faint glittering of the katana in the pale light went unnoticed as he placed the razor sharp tip just where his prey's heart would be. Smirking coldly down at his soon to be victim he felt a swell of victory and fury.  Seeing no harm in revealing his feelings to one who was going to die in his next breath he leaned closer. “I won't allow you to ever have her. She is mine.” he said firmly as he drove the katana in to his enemy's heart. He watched with a smirk of satisfaction as the life blood stained the skin and the floor around Kage, relieved he was dead.  

The room blurred as though plunging a fist through calm waters, and Hiei found he was standing beside the form of his Miko. Something was wrong. Even though he was beside her he could not sense her nor did she move as he called her name. Her midnight hair hung around her face shielding it from his view. The posture of her body was slumped forward and her arms hung limply at her sides, lying in the slowly pooling crimson of her life blood. Hiei stared uncomprehending at her figure. When had this happened? When could Kage have accomplished this? Up until the final moment when Hiei had thrust his sword through Kage's heart he had been able to hear her screaming his name. She had sounded frantic and so afraid, it had spurred him to finish the battle all the more quickly. He wanted to go to her to assure her that he was there and that she was once again safe.

But he had failed. Shock was slowly giving way to horror as his heart began to understand what his mind already knew. Kagome was dead. Hiei fell to his knees before her and tried to pull her in to his arms but his katana was in the way. Thinking he had merely forgotten to put it away he moved to do so but found that it was stuck. Frowning he looked down at the weapon. It didn't appear to be stuck in anything that he could see so he pulled again and as it came free Kagome's body was pulled forward.

Hiei dropped the sword with a clatter as he moved to catch his beloved. Emotions swirled within him. He'd never even gotten the chance to tell her how he felt. Now she would never know that she had done something he'd always believed was impossible: she'd captured his heart.

Her skin was still warm as he gently pushed the hair from her face and saw for the first time the tears that clung to her dark lashes and stained her perfect, paling cheeks. Guilt flooded through him as he lowered his lips to hers, softly kissing her as he should have done months ago. Now it was too late. She was his light and now she was gone, her life snuffed out like a candle, leaving him alone once again in the darkness of reality. Damn it, this is why he hadn't told her. He had thought it would protect her.

Holding her close to himself he buried his face in her shoulder. “I'm so sorry.” he whispered. “I tried Kagome, I tried to save you. I was just too late.”  The soft clatter of a hiruseki stone seemed to fill the silence as first one and then another and another fell. Vaguely he could hear footsteps approaching him and he buried his face deeper in to her shoulder.

“Hiei? What happened?” The soft voice of the avatar asked as he knelt beside his friend. His heart clenching painfully at the site of the woman both Yoko and himself had chosen for their own lying in a growing pool of her own blood. Glancing around him  for some answer to his questions he spotted the Hiyoukai's katana and inhaled the scent  blinking at what he found. Standing swiftly he moved to look closer at the weapon that was covered in Kagome's blood.

Kurama could not believe what his nose told him, Hiei would never... Glancing around the room he saw all the signs of a battle except the blood that should have been splattered showing that Hiei had wounded if not killed Kage. Inside his head the Yoko side of him raged demanding blood for her lost life.

Hiei did not raise his head as he croaked out, “I killed Kage too late.” He slightly gestured his head towards the side of the room were he recalled the corpse of the bastard lay cooling in a pool of his black blood. “He's over there.” Kurama looked the direction of where his friend gestured and saw nothing. He shook his head negatively. “There is nothing over there.” he said softly, suddenly understanding but not comprehending the events. Hiei raised his head. “You must be blind then, fool,” he snapped, looking towards the wall where his victim lay.

He frowned when his eyes met nothing. No blood, no corpse, nothing marred the pristine white wall. Confused, Hiei looked around the room. Where were the blood spatters that had splashed on the wall as he fought? Something definitely wasn't right. He looked down at Kagome in confusion. Though when Kurama gasped and turned shocked eyes to Hiei the reality came crashing through, Hiei felt his world shatter. The only wound on her was a sword wound piercing her heart. Exactly as Kage had been in his 'battle'.

Sadly Kurama reached over and lifted Kagome's limp body in to his arms before falling again to his knees. Laying his lips to her cheek he kissed her softly in farewell, His heart was breaking as he turned his now amber eyes on his long time friend who was also grieving the loss of Kagome, eyes burning with rage he demanded,  “Hiei, what have you done?”    

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