Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Freedom ❯ Chapter Six ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter Six

 

Chapter Six

 

With the distraction that Ariana posed it took Hiei quite a long time to think through everything that had happened and all that he had been told. At first his situation had seemed harsh and unfair, but in reality it was a lot better then many things he'd suffered through in the past. She was offering him a huge power boost and a chance for what could be true love and for that kind of power she was asking for a startlingly small amount in return. In the Makai such an offer would lead to centuries if not millennia of slavery and that slavery would only end when one grew powerful enough to escape it through necessity alone.

 

Hiei had no idea why he believed her or why his instinct was screaming that he should. Hiei's mind screamed that he should be very, very afraid but instinct over-rode his mind and instead he found himself trusting.

 

Barely a second later a revelation struck him with the force a freight train. The exact reason why his mind and his instinct seemed to be at war with each other. Before all of this he had been expecting to become a leader and now he had in fact been down-graded from top general and chosen heir of a demon lord to a position that in essence was that of a pet. Instinct had no problem with becoming a follower to one so powerful if it would lead to himself becoming so much more powerful. Instinct cared more about being able to protect oneself and those few who actually mattered. It cared very little for one's dignity.

 

It was almost an imperceptibly small motion but it caused so very much as he leaned against Ariana just the tiniest bit. This time the feel of her lips on his neck, brought no negative reactions merely causing him to tilt his head to give her better access.

 

For a split second, she seemed to be as still as a statue as though she could not believe that he had given in so very easily and actually in a way had acknowledged that he was hers to control. Or that he would acknowledge her claim of ownership over him. After that split second, she smiled against his neck.

 

The hand on his side moved up, ran ever so lightly across his skin and then across his left nipple. Hiei drew a sharp breath at the sensation. He knew exactly what she wanted to do and had not a single objection.

 

Her other hand came to rest on his inside of his right thigh near enough to his groin to tease but not enough to touch it even through the pants that Hiei wore. It stayed there for a long moment, then moved to his right side, exactly opposite of where the other hand had been before she had moved it. The other hand went back to that place as her tongue traced a long line down his neck, ending at his collarbone. He shuddered when her tongue followed the line of his collarbone and couldn't help but make a slight sound when she reached the hollow of his throat. She gently kissed that spot, hands now running ever so slowly along the inside of his thighs, always stopping before actually touching anything and the more she avoided it the more he wanted it.

 

They never got the chance for more.

 

~*~

 

Ariana groaned internally a split second before it happened. Ariel burst into the kitchen without Yusuke, eyes immediately landing on her twin sister with a slightly desperate look. She didn't have to say anything because Ariana knew that look and what it meant. Her twin had hurt Yusuke beyond her own abilities to heal.

 

"What did you do to him, Ariel?" Asked Ariana, wrapping her arms firmly around Hiei and pulling him closer when he realized that Yusuke had been seriously injured.

 

"You act as though I've done something wrong, dear sister. I was just having a little fun." Said Ariel.

 

Ariana sighed, her sister never seemed to understand that her idea of fun was always another's idea of horror or pain.

 

"Because you have and you should know better." Ariana's next words were directed at Hiei. "Go to our room and wait for me there. Yusuke will be fine."

 

Hiei seemed reluctant but nodded even as he stood. Ariana watched him as he walked out of the kitchen, wisely giving Ariel a wide berth.

 

There was a knock on the newly repaired front door and a grin spread across Ariana's face.

 

"I suggest you go meet Father while I deal with Yusuke's injuries. Don't even bother trying to pass Hiei off as yours. Father has already met him and knows who he belongs to. Besides I doubt Yusuke will be yours for much longer when Father learns how horribly you have treated him."

 

Ariel stormed out of the room angrily, something she had had rather too much practice at, but Ariana knew her twin would do as she had been told.

 

~*~

 

When Ariana saw Yusuke she immediately knew what was wrong. He was curled up in the middle of the bed, naked and in the fetal position, his arms trying to hold in his stomach. He was crying as his blood rapidly soaked the bed under him. Ariel had even gagged him so that he could not scream. The only good thing was that he seemed so far in shock that he didn't feel the pain or know what was going on around him.

 

Ariana rushed to the bed, gently pulling Yusuke out of the fetal position so that he lay flats on his back. He didn't fight her. She couldn't even see where her sister had attempted to lessen the damage that she dad wrought. She poured her healing energy into him as quickly as she could, watching as the damage began to repair itself far more quickly then Yusuke could have healed it himself. She knew that the familiar presence that approached from behind was her Father and that he had come to see what crimes her twin sister had committed against the one she was healing.

 

She didn't even have to see the look on his face to know what he would do, because she could feel the anger radiating off him in waves. He left the room without saying a word. Ariana merely switched what little concentration had been spared for her father's presence to the task at hand.

 

He began shivering even before the fearsome wound on his stomach had closed completely. The wound was improving but her healing abilities were doing nothing for the massive amount of blood that he had lost and ended up soaked into the covers, sheets, and mattress. His body temperature was dropping dangerously low because of the amount of blood he had lost.

 

~*~

 

Yusuke wasn't really sure what had happened after he felt Ariel's blade slip into his stomach. Some things he remembered but it was by no means a complete picture of all that had happened. He remembered the pain. It had hurt more then anything else ever had. He remembered the feel of his own blood, still warm soaking into the covers around him and wondering if this was going to be his third death. He'd wanted to scream, but couldn't and he couldn't even remember why. It was so very hard to think around the pain.

 

Then the pain had begun to fade, replaced by a gentle warmth the likes of which he had never before felt. The more the pain faded the better that warmth felt. He wanted to know what it was. He opened his eyes, not remembering when or why he had closed them, and through a veil of tears saw someone who looked exactly like the one who had hurt him. He knew it wasn't her though, the energy she was spreading through his body being much too different and much too gentle to belong to his captor.

 

A short man, taller then Hiei, but still bearing more then a passing resemblance to the Koorime hybrid entered the room. That unknown, man stayed only for a moment before leaving with an expression of furry on his face. Ariana, he really hoped it was her and that he was not wrong, paid the man no attention, but there seemed to be a light unidentifiable difference in the energy she was using to heal him after the man left.

 

He wasn't sure when it started, but bit by bit it seemed like the temperature in the room was dropping. He was cold, so very cold and when his body began to shiver it sent a stab of the fading pain through him, but it was nothing compared to what it had been. He wanted to cover up with a blanket, but he knew those blankets would be wet with his own, cooling blood. He was cold but these blankets would do him no good. He wondered if she would have given him a cover if he could have asked for it.

 

Suddenly, he was sleepy, so very sleepy that within moments it became a struggle to keep his eyes open. He didn't want to sleep, even he knew that sleeping now could lead to nothing but death and Yusuke Uremeshi was entirely too stubborn to just die.

 

He watched as she reached toward him and unfastened the gag. His earlier question came to mind, but staying awake was taking all of his concentration. Even thinking about asking it seemed like too much effort. She picked him up, cradling him against her as best she could. She was so very warm and that warmth reminded him of how cold he had become.

 

~*~

 

Ariana rushed through the front room to her room, ignoring the way her father was ranting at her twin sister. She had much more important things on her mind.

 

Hiei was at her side the moment she entered the room, his crimson gaze focused entirely on Yusuke's blood covered body. She lay him on the bed before turning to look at Hiei.

 

"He lost more blood then I could heal. We are going to have to warm him up as quickly as possible." She was about to continue, but for the fist time ever, Hiei interrupted her.

 

"I can do that." Said Hiei as he headed for the bed, stripping off hi shirt. It hadn't even touched the floor before he was on the bed, pulling Yusuke's larger body as close as possible.

 

She watched as Yusuke's nearly violent shivering slowly stopped. As skin that had begun to loose it's color and look pale, regained its healthy color. Slowly, Yusuke wrapped himself more firmly around Hiei till it almost looked like he was using the smaller demon like a teddy bear. The air in the room was at least a good ten degrees higher then it had been and Hiei seemed to have used precious little energy to do it. It seemed that Yusuke was now in good hands. Very good hands if the worry that dominated Hiei's expression was anything to go by.

 

She left the room to face her father and her twin without saying anything to either Yusuke or Hiei. She had a feeling that if anyone pointed out what was happening to Yusuke it would end with all the good that Hiei had done for him being undone.

 

In the front room things had gone down hill. Ariel looked shaken but their father was pacing and he only paced when he was beyond furious. If there had been room for it Ariana was sure that he would have beat the holy hell out of Ariel for what she had done, but the room was entirely too small for that. Ariel had probably tried every trick in the book to placate their father, but not one of them had worked. They never worked and never would because Vegeta could see through Ariel's every lie. It was probably all of the lying that had made his so very, very furious.

 

Vegeta stopped pacing the moment she was in the room.

 

"Is he going to make it?" asked Vegeta, voice filled with the anger that Ariana knew was directed at her twin sister.

 

"He will, but he did come damn close to dying from blood loss. If Hiei wasn't half fire demon I'd still be in there and it'd still be very iffy." Said Ariana.

 

"I didn't hurt him that bad." Muttered Ariel under her breath.

 

"You damn near gutted him and you call that a minor injury?" asked Ariana, voice angry. "At this rate he'll be dead before you've had him forty-eight hours. I doubt it's even been twenty-four."

 

A single look from their father was all it took to kill the fight before it had truly started.

 

"I've already had this talk with your sister, but when Yusuke is free you should send him back to wherever he came from." Said Vegeta.

 

"I'd love to do that, Dad, but I can't. Koenma will try to kill him again and if that happens I can guarantee that it won't be a battle. Yusuke will be slaughtered as easily as if he were Raditz up against the entire Ginyu Force. It's the same reason I can't let Hiei go." Said Ariana.

 

"And what are you going to do? Keep them for the rest of their lives?" asked Vegeta.

 

"No, I'm not. Their demons and as such they will still be considered quite young when I die of old age. All I've got to do is make sure that by that time I've brought them up to a level where there is no one in this dimension that could ever hope to lay a hand on either of them. They have enough untapped power that it can be done." Said Ariana.

 

"How long have you had this planned?" asked Vegeta.

 

"Quite a while. I've had my eye on Hiei since before Koenma even knew he existed. The plans came about when I learned that not only is Koenma a homophobic bastard who hates Hiei because of his status a hybrid, but also that his greatest fear was Hiei falling in love with either Yusuke or Kurama. He feared that either would result in two thirds of the top level of the Makai being united when he should have realized that with the ties of friendship between those three that level of the Makai was already well on its way to a three way alliance." Said Ariana. "Things did not go completely as planned. If they had, Yusuke would not have ended up subject to the not so tender mercies of my dear twin sister."

 

"Couldn't you just get rid of this Koenma person?" asked Vegeta.

 

"He's the Prince of the Reikei. He wouldn't stay dead because his father, the King, would just bring him back to life." Said Ariana. "The only way I could think of to keep Koenma from killing them was to put them under my protection. I've already done it for Hiei and I plan on doing the same for Yusuke."

 

"You do remember what that means under our traditions?" asked Vegeta.

 

"Of course I do, Father. And yes I do believe that they are worth it." Said Ariana.

 

"Then they are yours. Just keep both of them away from your sister till she returns to her senses. If that ever happens." Said Vegeta.

 

"I had already planned on doing that." Said Ariana.

 

Just like that Vegeta's anger seemed to vanish, but Ariana knew that when the time was right that Ariel would be punished most severely for what she had done to Yusuke. Their father did not condone anyone acting like Frieza, even if that person was one of his own daughters. What had really happened was that Vegeta was storing away all of his anger for later.

 

"How would the two of you like to move back to our home dimension and stay with me?" asked Vegeta, even though he just had to know what the answer would be.

 

The instant those words were out of his mouth he had the full attention of both of his daughters.

 

"Of course we would, Father." Said Ariana. "I have been hoping you would ask ever since I saw you yesterday."

 

Ariel just said, "What she said but without the last part."

 

"Then we shall move the two of you there tomorrow. Today I have plans to spar with Kakarot." Said Vegeta.

 

"Raditz's baby brother Kakarot? Or another by the same name?" asked Ariel.

 

Vegeta gave her an annoyed look before he responding with, "Of course he's Raditz's brother descended from Bardock. I would not make plans to spar with someone who was not at least part Saiyan."

 

Ariana went back to her own room even as her father left for his own dimension.