InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ Can You Love Me? ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8! *is wondering why people are still reading*

Raiden no Ai

Chapter 8: Can You Love Me?

It was Hiten. Akina's eyes widened. It was......Hiten?

**My God...It's Hiten..I was looking at Hiten? My God..** Akina was surprised. She sank down into the water and blushed. **Did I just call Hiten cute, I think I did. But...**

Akina glanced over at Hiten as he bathed in the hot spring.

**He is cute, though his attitude is attrocious. He would never love a human though.** She gazed at Hiten once more. ** He acted so strangely towards me when we were sitting on the porch, gazing at the sunset. He was so...nice to me...But why? **

Hiten finally turned around and looked at the rocks where Akina was.

"Who's there?"

Akina ducked down in the rocks.

"Come out, I know your there." He yelled.

Akina shyly popped up from behind the rocks, covering her soft breasts. Hiten sunk down and swam over slowly to the dark gray rocks and raises himself up on them, putting his arms crossed across the gray surface. Akina backs away a little.

"You don't have to be afraid of me."

"Ummm..." Akina looked at him then looked at herself and blushed.

"What?" Hiten asked.

"Erm...I have no clothes on."

"Neither do I. So what's there to hide?"

Akina began to grow nervous, she had never been around a man with no clothes on. Hiten seemed content, at the moment, which was a little out of character for Akina's taste.

"Do you feel better now that you're clean?" Hiten asked.

"A little." Akina sighed.

"Oh come on, you can't still be sad for all of those worthless people I killed." Hiten said, slightly annoyed.

"They were my family and friends, and now I have no friends...and no family..." Akina said, turning her back to Hiten and letting her hands fall to her sides. She couldn't hear Hiten behind her anymore, so she turned around, thinking she had angered him again. Sure enough, he wasn't there. The young girl began to look around for him, but that section of the hot spring was empty. Surprised, her eyes darted around the hot springs.

While Akina was distracted, Hiten slipped into her side of the hot spring. Hiten looked at Akina, who was, in turn, looking for him. Of course she was beautiful, he had thought as much when he first saw her. But humans normally didn't appeal to demons unless it was for dinner.

But Akina was different.

As Hiten got nearer and nearer, he could hear her saying things.

"Hiten.... Oh crap. Hiten please don't be mad! I can't help it...I miss them...I miss them so much..."

Akina's head went down in the rocks for a minute, then it raised up and he could hear the soft sound of weeping. No doubt if she knew he was in the hot springs with her, she would scream. Most humans seemed to do that. If she screamed then Manten and Aida would come and ask her what was wrong.

Only one way to approach the problem.

Hiten lurched up and moved slowly, so as to not be detected. He swiftly put his hand around Akina's mouth as her body flinched and she let out a tiny gasp. He lowered his head and talked softly into her ear.

"Akina, it's me, Hiten."

He took his arm slowly away, confident that she wouldn't scream. Akina turned around and put her hands over her breasts again and slightly blushed.

"Are you...mad at me?" She asked, crystalline tears still flowing down her face.

"Do you cry for those fools again?" Hiten asked bluntly.

"Ungh..." Was the reply he received from the young girl. The reason she was crying was not because of them, but it was because of the fact that she thought Hiten was angry with her again. It actually had hurt her feelings that Hiten was almost constantly angry with her. But how could she tell him that?

"Akina?"

Akina looked up at Hiten shyly.

"Yes?"

"What were you crying about?" Hiten asked. He had a feeling that she really was not mourning for those people as he had previously thought.

Hiten walked up closer to her and brushed up against her and looked into her chocolate colored eyes. She smiled at Hiten, her feelings seeming to overrule her train of thought. She could feel Hiten's strong, well-muscled arm touch her back.

"I was." She looked to the side. "I can't lie to you. I was crying because I thought you were mad at me."

"Huh?"

Akina's hands lay upon Hiten's chest. "I thought that you hated me. I ."

"Akina."

Akina took the chance to make a move and buried her head in Hiten's chest. Hiten was a little surprised at this.

"Ai shiteru."

She lowered her head and nuzzled his chest. She felt him stiffen a little more in her arms and she wondered if Hiten really would ever love her in return. So far he hadn't shown her the slightest bit of encouragement. She wouldn't force herself on him. That was against her nature.but that didn't mean she was giving up quite yet.

Hiten could feel the excitement course though his body. He could feel his body become hot. She put her arms around Hiten's waist, she felt him stiffen in her arms again and wondered if he could ever love her in return.

"Akina." She could hear him say.

She gently kissed the side of his cheek. Hiten was not even fighting against it. He seemed to be actually listening. Then the question came...

"Could you ever love me in return?"

Her heart wretched in her chest with that question. She had to know. It tore her in half, if he said no, she would continue to be saddened and walk around like a corpse without a soul, left to wander the world in torment. If Hiten refused, she would go back to being nothing more then a servant. She would not touch him or look at him again. She wouldn't allow her body to hurt her even further. Even if Hiten wanted to do as her body wished.

To love a man who does not love her in return, it would devastate her heart, leaving her to wander aimlessly.

"Akina."

"If you can't...Then I'll go away." Akina said.

Hiten pulled way a little so he could look into her face. Her beautiful brown eyes stared in shock at him.and little of another emotion he couldn't place. For a moment they just stared at each other. Then slowly almost shyly Hiten rested his head on her shoulder.

"I'll be your servant, and nothing more..."

Hiten thought to himself the one destined to be his mate, Adia, did not matter to him. Sure she was a beautiful youkai, but all she did was provide a pretty picture to look at and words of encouragement every now and then. She and Manten didn't seem to get along to well either.

**Aida doesn't love me...She cares it's true, but it's not love....**

"Akina.... You asked if I could fall in love with you." Hiten said.

Here it was.... The moment of truth.

"Strangely enough, I think I can."

Akina's heart seemed to pop out of her chest, and her knees felt strange, almost as if she were drunk, only she wasn't. Hiten said he could love her, he really could. He felt her smile as her head lay on his chest, then she shyly looked up into his eyes, her brown eyes meeting his crimson ones.

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^____^ ;; Hope this isn't too OOC. Well, not enough to turn anyone away. This is actually a hard thing to do, making him fall in love is not easy. It's almost harder then what I did with Kouga in my Taming of the Wolf fic, and I most certainly wasn't going to make it a Mary Sue. Oh yes, I have a one shot Hiten fic if anyone would like to read it. It's called Patience.

Well, Ja ne!