InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Necklace ❯ chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Hiei flitted through the trees of a dense forest. When he came upon a particular clearing, he paused. Looking to find no one around, he jumped from the branches to land on a grassy plane. To his left was a good size spring with a small waterfall on one side of it. He spread out his senses and created a barrier around his clearing just in case.

 

Squatting down next to the spring, he peered into its depths and thought of the first time he had came to his sanctuary of his….

 

 

 

He was just a little boy, walking through the forest like he had done countless times before. Hungry, he sniffed the air in hopes of smelling a weak animal or demon. Smelling a rabbit nearby, he went in its direction… and ended up walking into a camp. Crouching down low, he made a sloppy attempt at masking his scent. No such luck. A giant boar demon in its human form appeared to his left, a panther in front. They were out for the same reasons he was.

 

Wheeling around, he ran in the direction he came from. Hiei ran for his life. He was a young, untrained youkai, how could he fight off two fully grown ones?

 

Not looking at where he was going, he crashed through the trees as quick as his young legs would carry him. Branches whipped at his arms, legs and face. Stumbling on roots, he fell. Soon he began to tire. Slowing down, he tried to cover his scent again, hid within the roots of a nearby tree, and waited. Heart pounding, he strained his ears for any wound of the approaching youkai. Hearing a twig snap, he held his breath, and felt his heart leap up into his throat in anxiety.

 

Suddenly, he felt a wave of the most calming energy wash over him. Everything came to a standstill. His thoughts cleared, heart calmed, and his body seemed to be floating. Completely forgetting about the oncoming threat of the two demons, he began to follow the calming energy back to where it came from. He no longer tripped or stumbled; he walked calmly.

 

After a few steps, Hiei came upon a barrier. Not even hesitating, he placed his hands upon the swirling light of purple and white. Pushing forward, he almost sighed as the power washed over his frame. As soon as he was all the way through, the purple light rippled and turned silver. Alarmed, he spun around and tried to push his way back through, but the barrier wouldn't let him. He was trapped within it. Seeing no other choice, Hiei continued his search for the being that was the source of this wonderful but deadly power.

 

Glancing around once he saw that he was in a clearing of some sort. There was a spring with a small waterfall on one side, and demon fish swimming within it.

 

There was also a girl

 

Snapping out of his stupor, Hiei hid behind some bushes as he studied the creature he happened upon. Her back was facing him, but he could tell she was human. Long raven locks were plastered to her wet, naked, pale skin. She ran slender fingers over slender hips. She was humming a nameless tune to herself, albeit out of tune, but still pleasant all the same.

 

It seemed that she was unaware of his presence, so he simply waited so he could follow her to find out if she was of any use in the food department. He inhaled deeply in attempt to catch her scent, but to no avail. It seemed that her scent was masked as her aura suppressed.

 

The woman abruptly paused. Cursing his bad luck he again tried to cover up his energy signature. It was in vain, she already felt him. Wheeling around, the woman's hands quickly shot forward, grabbed a nearby hidden bow and arrow, and aimed it directly at him. Hiei just stared at her wide-eyed through the bushes. Her body was glistening with the spring water. Muscles were taught with the effort of pulling the bow. Her cheeks were flushed, and her breasts heaved with each breath she took. Upon her neck sat two dragons: one silver, one gold, and at the dip of her clavicle sat a partially formed, glittering jewel. She looked like an angel. Finally she spoke:

 

“Demon, how did u pass through my barrier? Come out and face me, so you may prove yourself worthy of living.” Hiei shivered at her threatening words. Her eyes seemed to pierce through the bushes, like she could see him clearly. The air within the silver barrier began to crackle with her power. The dragons seemed to gleam in the moonlight with raw power.

 

Feeling the charge of energy in the air, Hiei began to fear for his life. He didn't want to get purified. Tentatively, he revealed himself from the solace of the bushes, watching the tip of the arrow following him.

 

At the sight of the little demon, Kagome's heart melted. He was so small, with black hair sticking in all directions. His blood red eyes stared frightfully up at her. He was dirty, and his clothing was in rags. Instinctively she sent out a tendril of power and enveloped the child with it to sooth his nerves. She lowered her bow, and the energy around her receded back into her. He noticeably calmed, so she slowly climbed out of the spring and got dressed in a kimono of black and silver. Hiei sat on his haunches, near the tree line, a good distance from her, muscles taught, ready to fun if she made any sudden moves. When she was finished dressing she inched closer to him and looked him over. Bruises and scrapes adorned his person from the harsh reality of the dog eat dog way of life in this era. A pang of sympathy went through the miko. Letting her emotions get the better of her, she decided then and there, that she would help him.

 

At such a close proximity to the miko, Hiei could feel the extent of her power, and it made him feel very uneasy. He vowed, that he would become more powerful, and best her in every way, so he would never need the help of a pathetic human again - especially a female.

 

Hiei half smiled to himself as he remembered how he felt toward her. He had despised her, planning on using her until she outlived her use and disposing her when she became obsolete. How different things had ended up.

 

From that day on, on every full moon, miko and youkai would meet. They always met up at the same place: the spring. There for three days, Kagome would try and teach Hiei. Then they would go their separate ways until the next full moon. She taught him how to defend himself, and how to use his fire and ice abilities. The most valuable thing though that she taught him was to balance his power, and have it coexist within his body. Her knowledge on power was extensive, and Hiei envied her. He resented her for her abilities to be strong, smart, beautiful, kind, and always know what to do and say at the right time. All Hiei wanted to do was get better than her in everything, so he could dominate her in every way. She roused his inner beast.

 

As months went on, Hiei grew. His power increased, and his abilities her honed somewhat. Kagome also took it upon herself to teach him how to read and write. Hiei learned everything she had to offer, so he could get eventually better than her. His drive to dominate her in every way never ceased.

 

After a while, they began to meet less and less frequently. Hiei always asked where she went, what she did and how she knew so much, but she would simply smile one of her sweet smiles, and brush it off, saying she would tell him when he was ready. This pissed him off to no end. He had tried following her, but to no avail. She always managed to get away. Her ability to suppress her power and hide her scent surpassed anybody else's. This just created more incentive for him to get better.

 

So every full moon Hiei would come to the now beloved clearing, and hope the miko was there. Over time they had created a bond of sorts. Kagome only felt a deep friendship for him. Hiei though, felt otherwise for her. He kept telling himself that it was simply an infatuation, an obsession, or even lust, but he knew that deep down, he loved her something fierce.

 

Hiei laid back in the grass, continuing in his thoughts about a certain miko. He thought about the last time he saw her:

 

He hadn't seen the miko for sometime now. It's been months since he saw her last. Upset, he sat on the rock in the middle of the spring, deep in thought.

 

This is how Kagome found him. She looked him over, at how much he had grown. He had grown at an alarming rate, but she supposed it was normal for a demon. He was now five foot, and had a shock of raven hair sticking upwards and in all directions. He also had developed a white star within his raven locks. He was a bit more toned in muscle, and clean clothes now adorned his person, thanks to her. She smiled sweetly to herself as she watched him finger a sword she had recently given to him. It was made by Totosai, and was a reward to Hiei for being a quick learner. She sent forth a tendril of her power to him to let him know she was there. He looked up at her sharply. At seeing her again, happiness welled up inside of him, but it didn't last long.

 

She waded out into the water over to the rock as Hiei followed her with his eyes. Something was up. She hopped up next to him.

 

“Little spite,” she began, using a nickname that she knew irked him. “I'm afraid we won't be able to meet for a little while.” She waited to see what his reaction would be. He nodded.

 

“That's fine. When should I come here next?” smiling sadly, she shook her head and took up his hands in hers.

 

“I'm not exactly sure, but I do know that this isn't the last time I will see you.” Seeing that he was about to protest, she shushed him and continued. “I know your going to be upset, but I do have a gift for you.”

 

At the mention of a gift, Hiei's eyes lit up. She had always given him the best gifts. She had given him his katana, clothes, and sometimes even tasty treats to eat. He looked around, but didn't see any box, package or anything that could contain a gift.

 

“Remove your shirt.” Hiei didn't understand why, but he trusted her completely and simply did as he was told. She placed her palms flush against his shoulders and looked him in the eyes. “This may hurt a little. I've never given a gift like this before, so please bear with me.” Now Hiei was completely confused, but decided to wait and see what was to come and nodded once to show that he understood. Kagome closed her eyes and regulated her breathing. Hiei braced himself for the pain of her purifying power.

 

The pain was excruciating. Clenching his teeth, he tried to bite back his screams of agony, but failed miserably. The air sizzled with electricity. Her energy was visibly sparking and crackling in shades of silver and gold around them. Kagome ignored his pleas to stop and continued on what she was set to do. It felt like hours, but it was simply just a few seconds. When the energy receded back into her body, Kagome removed her hands from his now smoldering skin and opened her eyes to see her handiwork.

 

They were both panting and sweating. Hiei's hair was matted down from the sweat. Looking up at Kagome, he saw she was smiling triumphantly. He was in disbelief. She just put him through hell and back, and she was smiling! He thought he could trust her!

 

Looking down at his smoking body, Hiei found the result of his agony. Splayed across his sin was the pattern of scales. He inspected it further: it was a pattern of a dragon, in shades of silver and gold. It was like a tattoo of sorts. He looked at the head of the dragon. Its eyes were a flaming red. He touched his skin in wonder, but hesitated halfway. It began to move. It was alive! Sliding across his skin, the dragon moved to get comfortable on his person. It squirmed around until it was wrapped around his left arm, ran over his shoulder, dipped down across his back a bit, and rested its head on his right shoulder. When it moved it felt like silk moving across his skin. Hiei was shocked to say the least. Speechless, he looked up at a still smiling Kagome in question.

 

She laughed lightly, amused and proud of herself that she accomplished what she had wanted to do. She knew though, that he was confused with its purpose, so she chose to enlighten him.

 

“This dragon is now a part of you. It will be a big boost on your power, so you will have to learn how to control it, but it will be in your benefit in the long run. Its main purpose is to protect you. There is a piece of me within the dragon as well, and if your need is great enough, through it you can summon me. If you wish, you can hide it at times, by different spells and whatnot, but you must learn that on your own. The dragon has a mind of its own, so you will need to learn how to either master it, or coexist with it. I must leave you for now, my little shadow, farewell.” Hiei was pissed that she would just leave like that. His hand shot forward and struck her chest, leaving a trail of blood in its wake, and pushing Kagome off the rock. She just nodded, sadly accepting his decision, picked herself up, now soaked from falling in the water, and cupped her hands over her freely bleeding wounds. She waded back to shore and walked into the forest and out of his life.

 

It broke her heart to leave him like that, but she could feel the part of her soul within the dragon wrapped around his arm, and it reassured her.

 

Hiei though, was traumatized. Never before had he held someone that close in his heart. The one person he feels for has now betrayed him. Jumping off the rock, he rinsed the sweat off in the spring, and swam over to the bank. He could feel the water pressing against the dragon that was now a part of him. It was such a strange feeling: to have a living tattoo. When he got to the bank, he climbed out of the water and sat on the soft grass where he decided what he was going to do.

 

No one will come that close to him again, he concluded. He will dominate his newly acquired power, and become the best at everything he does. Then he will find the miko and dominate her as well, by beating her in everyway possible, to prove that he is better than her.

 

As these thoughts passed through his mind, a searing pain shot through his arm. Looking down at it, he watched, slightly horrified as the dragon took on the taint of his thoughts, and turned ink-black. It spread like a disease, until it was consumed with it. Now it was darker than a shadow, with one barely visible streak of gold running down its spine. Its eyes remained blood red, but they were now outlined in silver. There was no turning back now, his decision was made, and he tainted his would-be-precious gift with his malice.

 

Hiei sat up in the grass and removed his shirt. Looking at his skin, the dragon was dozing off, curled in a ball with its head on his stomach. To this day, it remained black. He did what he said he would: perfected his skills, and dominated the being tattooed on him, but he never saw the miko again. Its been about 500 years since he saw her last, and no human can live that long.

 

Sighing, he got up and waded out into the spring. Then he got into the center he jumped onto the rock.

 

He had pined for a chance to see her again, after his emotions had cooled down those many years ago, he had felt a great guilt at what he had done. She had helped him survive, and she did it out of the goodness of her heart, and he went ahead and spilled her blood in thanks. He never got a chance to say he was sorry. His longing for her woke the dragon from its lazy state. Opening its eyes, it circled around his torso until its head rested on his shoulder, trying to lend him its comfort and sympathy. Hiei placed his hand on its head, and stroked it lightly out of habit.

 

After a hundred years or so of training, he had searched for Kagome, but he had came to realize that they never shared names: she had always called him little pet names, and he had always addressed her as Megami-Sama, for that's what he had believed her to be: a goddess. He had even forgotten that she was mortal. How naïve he had been. For humans only had short life spans. Back in that time period, it was even shorter. Hiei had lost all hopes for seeing her ever again, but every full moon, for three days, he would always return to the spring in hopes of one last chance to see her. A chance to say that he was sorry for hurting her. During his years of training he came to realize that he truly did love her, and on these three nights each month, he pines for his loss at love, and a happy life.

 

When he came to terms that she wasn't living anymore, due to the laws of Mother Nature, he had ransacked the records of Reikai, searching in vain for a record on his obsession. He never found one. Even when he broke into the forbidden vaults of records he never came across one with a miko with tattoos of dragons around her neck.

 

That's where the Jagan came into play. If he couldn't find her scent, energy signature, or record, then he would find her through minds. He figured that since a piece of her was within his dragon, that technically, she was the dragon. So finding the mind that matched that of the dragon would be easy, right? How wrong he was. Though the Jagan had helped him some, he was almost destroyed with its power, and his beloved miko remained unfound. So he trained himself with the Jagan. He learned how to control it, how to break even the strongest mind barriers- but it was no use. He couldn't find her: alive or in spirit form.

 

Getting restless, Hiei jumped from the rock back into the spring, and began catching fish for dinner.

 

Once he subtly asked Koenma about his missing miko, but Koenma would just pale and quickly brush the topic off. His scent though, spoke volumes. Hiei knew then: Reikai was hiding something. But what?

 

Successfully catching a rather large fish, Hiei jumped back on the bank and began pulling off its scales so he could eat it raw. He thought back to the information he had recently acquitted due to his last mission.

 

The Reikai Tentai was sent into Makai to capture and bring back a pesky snake youkai that was leading a rebellion against Reikai rule. While they were there, the strangest thing happened: the sky flashed blue. At first the Reikai Tentai was alarmed - for they have never seen this happen before- but as they stayed, they became accustomed to it. Sometimes it would be blue for a few days, sometimes a few hours, it was never consistent. Another thing they found odd: when the sky was not its normal pink, contact with the Reikai was impossible. Not even something as simple as a portal could be made. This made them travel great distances to get somewhere that would have only took a few moments to get to by portal. Yuusuke was the one most irked by it with his youthful impatience and all.

 

At first, the group believed it to be due to the demons that were rebelling, like some strange new power or something, but when the entire rebel force was slaughtered, and its leader captured, the fluctuation continued.

 

Upon their return to Reikai, they had inquired Koenma as to why it was happening. The toddler prince just kept getting irritable and changing the subject, or brushing it off completely with an “I don't know, but it deals with the foundations of Makai itself.” Hiei doubted his words.

 

As he finished his delectable fish, Hiei licked his fingers clean and prepared himself for some training exercises. He unsheathed his katana - which still bore traces of the miko's unique power- and began to go through the stances as he continued his train of thought.

 

Hiei knew that Reikai was with holding impertinent information from him and the rest of the Tentai. The question was: what was it exactly? How is he to solve the puzzle if he didn't even know what the pieces were? He shook his head softly. Puzzles were the fox's field of expertise, not his. Which reminded him- what did the fox stumble upon? He began to regret not going to investigate with him. Hiei felt the kitsune leave and travel deep within the forest. He also felt the kitsune's power fluctuate and transform into his Yoko self. After that, the kitsune's energy signature disappear altogether. Hiei was itching to know what was going on.

 

Hiei paused a moment in his training and sheathed his katana. He couldn't train under such thoughts; he was too distracted. Going back to the bank of the spring, he removed his clothes completely and hopped into it, in hopes of clearing his mind.

 

He regulated his breathing, and closed his eyes in an attempt of meditation. For a few moments, he thought that he had succeeded, but then, the image of the flawless miko, naked in the spring with her energy flowing around her popped into his mind. He groaned, and cursed himself for thinking such thoughts, but let them continue. He couldn't help but imagine himself, grown as he is now, next to her, making her scream louder than she probably had ever before. His mind took off from there. His thoughts were turning so dirty that event his kitsune friend would blush at it. He couldn't help it though. Hiei felt a pang go through him. It felt like he was missing out on something. But what?

 

That was it. He had to go find someone to spar with, so he could vent his frustration and other emotions in the only way he knew how: though aggression. Swimming back over to the bank, he redressed himself, and watched the dragon rearrange itself so its body wound around his left leg, and its head rested on his hip. He smiled at it softly, and absentmindedly patted its head before throwing on his cloak, and snatching up his prized katana.

 

Pulling his energy back within himself, as he was taught so long ago, his barrier around the clearing receded. Glancing around one more time to check if he left anything, Hiei masked his scent and power and looked up into the sky: it was its familiar pink. Happy at least something was going for him that day, he created a small portal that lead to the Ningenkai.

 

When he stepped out of the portal and entered Ningenkai, he braced himself for the horrendous smells the humans produced. He glanced around to see where he was.

 

He ended up in a small park on the outskirts of Tokyo. Not where he needed to be. He sniffed once, in hopes to catch Kurama's scent, but the air wasn't forthcoming. He couldn't feel his energy signature either, so he resorted to his last method of finding people: the Jagan. Removing the white bandana that hid it, he let it open and began his search. He continued looking for five minutes. This angered Hiei. It never took this long to find a simple kitsune. Angry, he closed the Jagan, replaced the bandana, and headed in the direction of the fox's apartment.

 

Jumping over rooftops, he was silent as a shadow. Hiei worked his was over Japan to his destination. When he finally reached it, he jumped onto the balcony and let himself in, not bothering with the door. The house was dark. And empty. Hiei growled. This was not what he needed. This was odd though. The fox always told him where he was, if he wasn't home. He at least left notes if he didn't. Not only that, but wherever he was, whether it was in Makai, Reikai, or Ningenkai, Hiei was always able to feel Kurama's energy signature. So why couldn't he feel it now? What was going on?

 

Working his way to the kitchen, he ransacked the fox of al his confectionary scrumptious delights, and made quick work of them. Slightly satisfied, Hiei licked his fingers, and without cleaning up the mess he made, jumped out the window in search of someone else to spar. Namely Yuusuke.

 

This time he was lucky. He found Yuusuke at Genkai's, sprawled across a couch, holding an open beer bottle in one hand, a bag of chips - which were, by the way, strewn everywhere- in the other. His mouth was wide open, so he was not only snoring, but drooling as well. He wore a pair of dirty jeans and no shirt. In short: he stunk, and looked like a slob.

 

Mood changing quickly, Hiei grinned evilly to himself. What a perfect opportunity for a small prank. Not one to let opportunity pass him by, Hiei rubbed his hands together and smiled wickedly as he thought of some cruel joke that he could play on the unsuspecting detective.

 

 

 

 

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Well, that's FINALLY out here. Sorry I took so long, it took me ages to get all this typed. So like it? Hate it? Review and tell me what you think! I had a request to make this a Hiei/kags fanfic, and right now, I think I might as well throw him into the melee of all of Kagome's emotions. I didn't know how to introduce him, so how do you think it went???? Constructive criticism please, I only wish to get better! So review review REVIEW, or else I won't know to continue or not…