Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Freedom ❯ Chapter Nine ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter Nine

 

Hiei had expected Ariana to immediately go to Yusuke the moment that he resurfaced but she did not. She did take those steps away from him Instead she laid a gentle kiss on his closed jagan eye as he looked up to see why. Reflex made Hiei jerk away from that gentle touch. In the distant past, such gentleness had often turned quite forceful and he had overcome the other reflexes that time had instilled but he had not even given this one any thought at all.

 

Hiei instantly regretted that lack of thought, but pushed that thought aside quickly. He quickly closed the scant distance that his reflexive jerk had placed between him and Ariana, resting his head against her shoulder where it had been before he had looked up.

 

Ariana pushed him back a bit and though it was gentle, his first thought was that his earlier reaction had angered her. He didn't even look up, resisting the ever present urge to be defiant even when he knew that it would be a very stupid thing to be.

 

She kissed him. A soft press of her lips to his that seemed to say that there would be a lot more of this and other things later.

 

Hiei watched as she walked away from him and towards Yusuke, fighting the urge to do something, anything when he saw the quickly suppressed flash of fear in those brown eyes. She spoke to him; her voice soft as she tried to make what she was going to do to him less traumatic as though she could keep this one necessary evil from being the thing that broke him.

 

“I know you probably don't want to hear this and your even less likely to believe it after the terrible things that my twin and Koenma put you through.” Said Ariana as she stroked Yusuke's right cheek with her thumb. “I really don't want to do this but it is the only way I know to break the final link between you and my twin.”

 

"It's not like I have any choice in the matter." Said Yusuke as his eyes filled with a strange, almost disconsolate look. "You'll just do whatever you want to do no matter what I say or do."

 

“Perhaps in time you will come to believe me. Unlike my twin I really do not get off on rape or causing others pain. Just tell what you think will make this easier for you and we'll try it.”

 

Yusuke looked at Hiei, a pleading look in his eyes. Hiei knew what he wanted and wished that he could give it, but knew that he could not. He had no answers and could not stop Ariana from doing what she was about to do. Hiei shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly and hoped that the other understood the message.

 

Yusuke looked away, brown eyes focused once more on the purple-haired girl who held so much control over the two of them.

 

“I don't know.” Said Yusuke. “I just don't know.”

 

“Then, I guess we improvise.” Said Ariana.

 

Hiei almost had to look away as Ariana did something below the surface of the water that made Yusuke's eyes widen with fear. Ariana frowned for a moment before wrapping an arm around Yusuke's waist and beginning to calm him as she had earlier. It wasn't long before the fear began to fade only to be replaced by a look that Hiei had never before seen in those brown eyes. The soft, almost surprised, sounds of pleasure that Yusuke began to make were equally new to Hiei and those sounds were having an affect on Hiei that he did not like. They made him want things that he knew that Yusuke could not give him after what he had been through.

 

The urge to wrap his own hand around his increasingly erect member and to stroke himself in time to the sounds that Yusuke was making was strong and the fight against it was short-lived. Watching Yusuke's body react to the pleasure that he was feeling, hearing him begin to ask for more, faster was too much. Without conscious thought Hiei found himself stroking his member faster and faster as Yusuke's cries of pleasure became more frequent and more urgent, coming mere seconds after Yusuke moaned his own release as he collapsed against Ariana.

 

A strange tattoo, resembling the armlet that Ariana had place around his own arm before vanishing to only the gods knew where, flared to life on Yusuke's arm before disappearing just as quickly as it had appeared.

 

Ariana grabbed Yusuke's hand, leading him from the tub almost as soon as he was back on his own feet. The water in the tub had begun to grow cold and Hiei needed no order to know that she probably wanted him to follow her.

 

Ariana threw a large, fluffy towel at him the moment he was completely out of the tub.

 

“Anybody want anything specific for lunch?” asked Ariana as she began to dry her hair.

 

~*~

 

Kurama woke slowly, the fierce ache in his head that he had felt even when he was unconscious becoming a brutal migraine in the blink of an eye.

 

He had no idea where he was or why Youko Kurama was strangely silent. The surface he lay on was cold, hard, and rough. The area around him quiet, dark, and much cooler then Kurama liked. He could sense no one else's presence.

 

Even less was known on how long he had been unconscious. Instinct seemed to say about a day, but in this place so free of sensory input could instinct really be trusted?

 

All of this was known before Kurama even thought about opening his eyes and when he did open his eyes he learned nothing new. There was nothing to see in the darkness that surrounded him.

 

He sat up and regretted it the instant his head crashed into an unnaturally low ceiling, causing the redhead to curse loudly as the already severe pain in his head magnified several hundred times. He lay back down; whimpering softly as his much-abused head came in contact with the surface he lay on.

 

Reaching up, he felt the ceiling that he had bumped his head on. It was hard as the surface he lay on and felt like concrete. To his left was more of the concrete-like substance only inches away from where he lay, but to the right was the familiar feel of wood and at the top where it met the ceiling were what could possibly be metal hinges. He pushed at it but it did not budge.

 

Kurama had had no idea how scared his seemingly doorless prison had made him until he realized that there was a possible exit even if it would not open for him.

 

Confused and in pain he reached for Youko Kurama's presence hoping that the older being might know something that could help him but felt nothing at all. For the first time since before birth he was completely alone in his own mind and it scared him. There was an aching emptiness deep within his soul that had gone unnoticed only because of the extreme pain that he was in and the fear his situation had evoked.

 

Hours seemed to pass as he tried to come to grips with his situation before any sound entered the tiny place that he had found himself in. It was the voice of a female that Kurama did not know. She was complaining in a rather loud voice that sent waves of pain though his brain.

 

“I don't know why Naraku ordered us put that human down here. As hard as Kohaku hit him this place has probably already finished him off.”

 

Another female answered; this one had a voice that seemed to be completely free of all emotion.

 

“Naraku's orders are not for us to question, Kagura, merely to obey.” Said the second female voice.

 

“I should have expected that answer from you, Kana.” Said Kagura. “I just hope we don't have to bury him before we go after that demon that Naraku wants us to find. Though why he's interested in that wind shinobi when he already has me slaving away for him I'll never know.”

 

Kurama could hear footsteps as the females neared his location. Each step, though very quiet, caused untold pain to flare across his mind and it increased as the sound increased. Today, sound was not Kurama's friend.

 

The screeching of the wooden door that Kurama had not been able to open caused pain beyond anything that he had ever before suffered and the light that flooded in magnified even that indescribable pain to new levels and causing Kurama to whimper in pain. He quickly closed his eyes, blocking out the light as best he could with his hands.

 

“Let's get out of here, Kana. Now that we know he's still alive we've better things to do.” Said Kagura.

 

The door that she had held open slammed shut with a resounding thud that wrung another whimper of pain from the redhead.

 

Even in his pain he reached out to press against the wooden door as soon as he could no longer hear the footsteps of the two females. Just as before it did not budge the slightest bit, making him wonder how that could be when he had heard neither the sound of a lock being unlocked or that of it being locked.