Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Freedom ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter Five

 

Chapter Five

 

Ariana and Hiei were just getting out of the shower when Ariel all but dragged

Yusuke in to the bathroom. Even after what he had been through so recently Yusuke still blushed at seeing his captor's twin and Hiei naked. Hiei glared at Ariel, but it was a glare that Yusuke had only seen the Koorime hybrid use when he was either extremely nervous of felt cornered in some way. Yusuke was sure that only he saw Hiei's surprise at his own appearance and the anger at what had obviously happened to him in those crimson eyes.

 

Ariel walked around Hiei, looking him over as though he were a piece of cattle she was interested in buying, buying and probably torturing. Hiei's glare switched up a couple of notches and he seemed to want to do something to Ariel, but he was holding himself back.

 

"Get away from him, Ariel. He isn't yours." Said Ariana as she placed herself firmly between Hiei and her twin.

 

"My, my. Aren't you being the selfish one." Said Ariel in a rather disapproving tone of voice.

 

“Only because I know exactly what you'd do to him if I gave you half a chance. So I'm not going to take any chances, dear sister." Said Ariana.

 

Ariel backed down, but even Yusuke could see that she didn't like being forced to back down by her own twin.

 

Ariana turned around as though the matter had been settled and grabbed a large, fluffy towel off of a shelf near the shower and wrapped it around Hiei. Yusuke didn't see anymore of what happened in the bathroom because Ariel dragged him back out and into a bedroom.

 

A few moments later when Ariana and Hiei entered the bedroom Ariana was wearing plain, purple silk pajamas and Hiei was wearing black pajama bottoms.

 

"A lot has happened while you were gone, dear sister. Father was here in this very dimension. He says he'll be back tomorrow." Began Ariana. She followed it up by telling her about all that she had heard from their father. Neither Yusuke nor Hiei took an interest, merely sitting on the bed next to each other. They didn't do much till a stray comment from Ariel caught the full attention of both of them.

 

"Don't you think it would look oh so cute if Yusuke and Hiei were together with Hiei on the bottom?"

 

“Yeah it would be cute, but I am not going to force Hiei into anything like that. You might enjoy such things but I loathe them, dear sister. I will not behave like that damned, monstrous bastard who made our childhood a living hell." Said Ariana.

 

“Sometimes, sister, I have trouble believing that we are even related to each other." Said Ariel.

 

“Join the club, dear sister. I can't believe that I'm related to you most of the time.” Said Ariana.

 

Hiei lay a hand on top of Yusuke's effectively gaining the taller one's attention without him having to say anything.

 

"What have they done to you, Detective?" asked Hiei softly, using telepathy so they would not be overheard. He knew that while Yusuke himself was not a telepath that the jagan eye and his own natural ability would more then make up for what the other lacked in telepathy.

 

Yusuke's response was a startled glance in Hiei's direction. Part of him wanted to answer his friend's question but it was just too soon. He felt Hiei actually enter his mind, a soft presence especially when compared to the harsh tidal wave that his captor, Yusuke didn't like even thinking her name, had forced him to endure. Yusuke wanted him out, not wanting Hiei to know what had happened fearing that the other would reject him and end their friendship. That thought frightened him. Yusuke knew that Hiei would look and that even if he knew how he would not try to stop him. Hiei had earned that privilege, but he didn't want to lose the one friend, the one consistent thing he'd managed to find again since that fateful battle for such a small artifact had turned his entire upside down in ways he'd never even considered possible.

 

Yusuke felt Hiei begin to look at the memories of what had happened and how the hybrid kept him from seeing what he was looking at and was just grateful that he would not have to relive all that to satisfy Hiei's curiosity. He knew it wouldn't be long before Hiei pulled away, disgusted by what Yusuke had surely become.

 

It didn't happen

 

Instead, Hiei's warm presence seemed to wrap itself around him like a hug that was comforting in ways one in the physical world could not be.

 

"What has happened to you was not your fault, Yusuke. All that it means is that the bastards who hurt you shall have to be made to suffer before they die. All guilt lies with them, because it was all against your will. It will be the same with anything that that bitch does to you. Do not think that it taints you, for in this you are completely innocent." For Hiei, even though he tended to be a wee bit more talkative then usual when he communicated telepathically, it was practically a speech and Yusuke got no chance to reply before Ariel dragged him off the bed with an angry expression on her face.

 

Before he was out of the room, Yusuke thought out his reply to Hiei, knowing that the jaganshi was listening for it.

 

"Thanks Hiei. You don't know how much that means to me to hear you say that."

 

~*~

Ariana sat beside Hiei on the other side from where Yusuke had sat. He tensed when she placed an arm around him, but did nothing more when she pulled him into her side.

 

"I will do what I can to see that Yusuke spends as little time in my twin's care as possible, Hiei, but it is a fight I will not start till I am sure I can win. It will do neither you nor he any good to both wind up victim my sister's not so tender mercies. " It was here that Ariana paused for a second. "If you are ever in a room with here and I am not present it would be for the best that you do not provoke her. It is a battle that you would not win." After she said the last word she pulled Hiei against just a bit more tightly.

 

It was a long moment before Hiei spoke, his voice was low but it contained every bit of distrust he could muster against Ariana.

 

"Why would you do that? Why would you even care?"

 

Ariana pulled back enough that she could look into Hiei's crimson eyes when she answered him.

 

"Because every last bit of who and what you are belongs to me and will be till the moment I die and to me that means very different things then it does to my sister. But it's been a long day for both of us, and while I know I said we'd talk more today, it shall have to be put off till tomorrow."

 

Ariana pulled back the covers and scooted under them, motioning for Hiei to join her. Hiei obeyed the nonverbal command but was careful to leave as much space as possible between himself and Ariana. It did him no good. She just moved over and then pulled him to the center of the bed before pulling the covers over both of them. Hiei tensed when she wrapped her arms around him and he tried to get away but she did not let go. Instead she began to purr as a feline would and stroked his back until he fell asleep

 

About six hours later Hiei awoke to the student beeping of Ariana's alarm clock. Ariana reached over him and turned it off. Hiei opened his eyes slowly. He could feel Ariana's body pressed against his. He didn't like it.

 

Pure instinct caused Hiei to try to flit away but Ariana merely tightened her hold on the fire apparition and Hiei didn't get so much as half an inch away.

 

"I don't like to be held." As he glared at Ariana.

 

"You could have fooled me as peacefully as you were sleeping last night and after what happened yesterday." Said Ariana.

 

Hiei opened his mouth to challenge her claim but decided against and closed his mouth without so much as his trademark 'Hn.'

 

"Or perhaps you are really lying to yourself." Said Ariana contemplatively. "Either way it's time to get up, Hiei-chan."

 

It was the last part of that statement that had Hiei glaring at her.

 

Not too long later Hiei, Yusuke, Ariana, and Ariel were sitting around a small table eating breakfast. Yusuke and Hiei kept glancing over at their captors. They had never seen anyone eat so much in their entire lives. The meal went fast.

 

Hiei studied Yusuke a bit during that meal. The Detective looked as though he hadn't gotten much sleep and his movements were stiff. All evidence pointed to Ariel having done something in the night. Hiei hide his disapproval, but Ariana did not. It had been clear the moment she had seen Yusuke when they had entered the kitchen with it's little table that seemed as though it was meant to be cozy. It was not cozy.

 

When the meal was complete Ariana gathered the plates and pots and pans together and putting them all in the dishwasher and turning it on. Ariel took the opportunity to glare at Hiei, but Ariana, as though she knew exactly what her twin sister was doing, said, "Stop that dear sister. You've no reason to be angry with Hiei. Besides, what ever would Father think if he knew the way you were treating Yusuke. To think that you would deliberately act like Frieza. Father will be terribly, furiously upset at what you have done to the poor man."

 

"That was a low blow, dear sister." Replied Ariel.

 

"And you know you deserved it." Said Ariana. "I never go for the low blow when it is undeserved and yet with you it always ends up that way. I wish I could say truthfully that I wondered why that is true."

 

The result of that small argument was Ariel once more storming out of the room and dragging Yusuke behind her.

 

When Ariana once again face the room, Hiei was looking at the door that her sister had dragged his friend through. He didn't seem to notice when she walked up behind him until she placed a hand on his shoulder. He tensed, nearly jumping in surprise.

 

"He's strong. I think he'll manage until he can be gotten away from Ariel." Said Ariana.

 

"No. No he's not. Yusuke can't take much more of that. He'll break and never be as strong again." The words were spoken softly, startling even Hiei with how much had been said.

 

"That could be true but I do believe that your little chat with him last night helped more then you think. Besides there is something else that will effect that that Koenma has been keeping from everyone. It is, I fear, the real reason that everything has ended up the way that it has."

 

With that statement Ariana had Hiei's full and undivided attention. She could not see his eyes because she stood behind him, but she knew his mind would not be elsewhere.

 

"About two weeks ago, Koenma decided to take a look at both your and Yusuke's complete Reikei files. As in the ones so complete that if they were not in the new computerized systems would take an entire room full of filing cabinets for so much as a single week of your lives. This I know because I'd set up the computer system to alert me if he did that. There was another alert set up if he actually looked to see if either of you had soul-mates. He did."

 

It was at this point that Hiei stood up and spun around to face Ariana, his crimson eyes wide with shock.

 

"That damned Toddler did all of this because..." He began, but he stopped when a look of awareness creeped into his crimson eyes. "Yusuke." He said it, as though, the thought had never crossed his mind before and that now that it had he was wondering why it he had not thought it before.

 

"Koenma feared what would happen when the both of you ruled in Makai and both territories would essentially be one. I had thought that the most he would do is fire Yusuke and forbid the two of you from entering the Ningenkai again. I was wrong."

 

After a long moment, Hiei managed to control his emotions and begin to think through what he'd just been told.

 

"But why is it that you knew that information?" asked Hiei. He needed to know why this woman had sought out information so personal to him.

 

"Because I've a bit of an eye for those with untapped power. You, even now when you have achieved an S Superior rank, still have enough untapped power to make your current level appear even weaker then that of a lower E class. I sensed that potential and hacked into the Reikei database to learn more. I'd say that was about the time you first met Kurama in his current form." Said Ariana, a small smile on her face. "Yusuke is one of the few others in this dimension with any real potential. If things go as I foresee I can all but guarantee that by the time I die of old age and you and he outlive me that both of you will be powerful enough that even Koenma's father will not want to mess with either of you ever again."

 

~*~

 

Hiei wanted to disbelieve everything that Ariana had said but too much from the day before had been corroborated and too much of what she had said today had made sense. It was too much, simply too much and yet it was also not enough. He did not know what to do or even what to say. He wasn't even sure he could stay on his feet much longer.

 

For the second time that day he did not notice Ariana moving until she touched him, pulling him against her body as though she knew his knees were about to give way at any moment.

 

She sat in the chair he had been sitting in, pulling him down onto her lap so that he straddled her legs. Her hand slid under the sleeve of the black t-shirt he wore and slid over where the armband had been the previous day even as the other hand slid beneath his shirt and began to caress his side, just below his ribcage. A small part of his mind wondered where it had disappeared because he had no memory of removing it or of Ariana removing it.

 

It was all very distracting but Hiei could not bring himself to say anything. Part of him wanted it and it did scare him a bit that she could make him crave her touch.