Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Freedom ❯ Chapter Seven ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter Seven

 

Hiei didn't look up when Ariana entered the still very warm room, but then again it might not have been possible as close as Yusuke was holding him. Yusuke did react to her presence, tightening his already tight grip on the shorter demon in his arms. Hiei softly whispered something that Ariana could not make out and that tight grip eased up a bit.

 

She sat on the bed next to Yusuke and he buried his face in Hiei's spiky hair. He was scared, but after the recent events of the last twenty-four hours she did not blame him for his fear. She would, however; have to do something to calm him before the scent of his fear became to great. The scent of it in the air was already so much stronger then she liked.

 

"You don't have to worry about Ariel any more, Yusuke. I made sure that she will never lay a hand on you again.” Said Ariana in a soft voice.

 

Yusuke did not tighten his hold on Hiei, but there was suddenly a tension that had not been there before. The scent of fear in the air did not fade the slightest bit.

 

She leaned over Yusuke and saw that his eyes were closed, he was crying but the scent of his tears had been overpowered by that of his fear. She ran a hand through his hair, gently as a mother would do to comfort her own child and Yusuke's breath caught in his throat as though he believed that the gentle touch would soon change and he would once again be caused harm. When that did not happen his closed eyes opened in a shocked expression as he turned ever so slightly to look at her.

 

She leaned over him just a bit further kissing Yusuke's cheek the hand she wasn't running through her bed reached for Hiei's back and began running up and down his unusually warm skin.

 

"Both of you are mine and no one hurts those who belong to me without answering to me and paying a very steep price. No one will hurt you because I will not allow it to happen." Said Ariana, her voice was still very soft.

 

Yusuke began to relax bit by bit, the scent of fear also gradually fading away, as he seemed to realize that Hiei had not tensed the slightest bit at the feel of her hand on his back. He was still wrapped around Hiei like the shorter demon was a teddy bear but it was more and more like it was just about the warmth that Hiei was offering and less and less like he was clutching him in fear.

 

She knew what she wanted to do but refrained from doing it. Going for his neck in any way at this point would only bring back the fear. It was true Yusuke had been reborn as a mazoku and had the instincts he had inherited from Raizen but Ariana had no idea if he would understand what such a gesture meant. Perhaps all he would end up being was confused and scared. She rested her cheek on his upper arm and Yusuke shifted just a bit, drawing her attention to Hiei. She had to fight to keep a smile off her face because Yusuke had unknowingly given her a solution to a problem he had not even known existed.

 

Ariana would do to Hiei as she wanted to do to Yusuke, but she would go slowly. Hiei had done what she'd wanted him to do earlier, but he might be reluctant to show such submissiveness in front of Yusuke. She kissed the spot where her cheek had rested on Yusuke's arm, partly it was a silent thanks for the idea that he hadn't known he'd given her but mostly it was just because she wanted to. His body temperature was still a bit shy of what it should have been, but his body was recovering from the blood loss and beginning to raise its own temperature back to what it should be on its own.

 

She crawled around them on the bed, settling herself against Hiei's backside. Yusuke pulling back just a little gave her all the room she needed to do what she had come to do. She kissed the top of Hiei's head as she wound her arms around him, pulling him back against her ever so slightly and used the opportunity to smell that scent that was so uniquely Hiei's. She could describe it as nothing except possibly fire without the smell of anything being burned. In short, he smelled like the very element that dominated his abilities. That was also what he tasted like and Ariana greatly enjoyed both his scent and the way his skin had tasted under her tongue and the fact that she would be tasting that sweet scent again very soon.

 

She shifted herself just a bit down Hiei's back, rubbing her cheek against the soft skin of his neck.

 

~*~

 

Hiei had known almost exactly what was going to happen the moment that Ariana had moved from behind Yusuke and settled herself at his back. For a long moment he considered telling Yusuke what was about to happen and why, but with Ariana so close he did not know if she'd do something about it and a partial communication could possibly be more damage then the full message could possibly help. Her kissing the top of his head had been a possessive gesture that he had not expected. He saw Yusuke's eyes widen with confusion as she shifted, rubbing her cheek against his neck before kissing his neck at the pulse. A possessive gesture that almost caused Hiei to sigh. That was when it really began, the slow swipes of her tongue that ran from his collarbone all the way up to his chin before repeating in a slightly different path.

Hiei watched as Yusuke pulled away ever so slightly, but could not bring himself to do anything because of the half asleep state that Ariana's actions had evoked in him. Yusuke obviously didn't like what Ariana was doing, but behind those honey brown eyes he seemed to slowly beginning to understand it. Mazoku always were incredibly hesitant to submit to others especially if anyone was there to see it happen.

 

Ariana did not pause her actions as she reached out and pulled Yusuke closer then he had been before he had moved back. Some of the earlier fear had begun to creep back and Hiei could hear Yusuke's heart begin to race, but to Hiei these seemed to be distant things until Ariana pulled away from him and his mind began to clear.

 

He heard Ariana sigh, that one sound seeming to be filled with disappointment. She kissed his neck in the same spot she had the last time.

 

"What are you so scared of Yusuke? And do not say that you are not scared because I can smell it in the air and hear the way your heart is racing." Her voice sounded very soft, almost a whisper.

 

Yusuke just shook his head, brown eyes still so very confused despite his newfound understanding of what was happening.

 

"Do you just not know or is it that you do not want to say it?" asked Ariana, voice still every bit as soft as the previous time she had spoke.

 

Yusuke once more buried his face in Hiei's spiky hair. A very long moment passed before he said anything and even then his voice held and uncharacteristic tremble.

 

"I...I don't know." Said Yusuke.

 

Yusuke might not have known what it was that he feared, but Hiei did. Yusuke feared being dominated and never having felt that fear before he had no words to describe it. Both he and Kurama had agreed that chances were that Yusuke would never need the information. They had been wrong and Yusuke was paying the price for them not telling him and showing him what could happen just because it was information that a demon lord would not need to know.

 

~*~

 

Yusuke was not scared. He was out and out terrified. He had no idea what was really happening and it did not help that the tiny voice of his newly acquired demonic instincts was whispering to him. Telling him that she would dominate him and that he should let her do it without a fight. That if he did it would be good and that he would be safe and protected. It made no sense at all to him.

 

He had seen what she had done to Hiei and how the Koorime hybrid had just lain there and let her do it. He had never seen Hiei so relaxed or so out of it. It made no sense for Hiei to allow anyone at all, much less someone who still pretty much a complete stranger place him in such a vulnerable position without a fight.

 

She was the one who had healed him with that warm, gentle energy, but she also looked entirely too much like that the one who had nearly gutted him. If the twin sister enjoyed that, then what could this one want? His instinct told him that he was being silly. That if she had intended to harm him that it would have been obvious in her energy. Logic said otherwise. Yusuke had no idea what to think.

 

He felt Ariana move on the bed, as she moved back to where she had first settled on the bed. He did not want her back at his back. Hiei he would have trusted to have his back, but not Ariana.

 

She rolled him onto his back and he did not struggle for fear the he would accidentally harm Hiei. It probably would not have mattered if he had because he knew that she was every bit as powerful as her twin sister, a scary thought but no more scary then the ones he had of what she could and might do to him. It was everything that he could not to tremble as another wave of fear passed through him. He was so very tired of being scared. A tiny voice he had been ignoring whispered that soon everything would be all right. He did not believe it.

 

She straddled his stomach and looked down at him with gentle eyes, the complete opposite of the look her twin had given him when she had been in the same position. That thought was all it took and suddenly he was back in Ariel's room with the evil twin on top him, holding a sharp blade that seemed to gleam in the light of that room. He knew it was nothing but a flash back but he did not want to feel that sharp blade cutting through his own skin again. Once had been more then enough. Twice would surely be more then he could take.

 

Fear turned to panic and he trembled under this person that his instinct seemed to crave and his mind seemed to fear and he himself was caught between the two.

 

She leaned over him, kissing his forehead in an ever so gentle press of her lips.

 

"It is all going to be okay, Yusuke." She said, barely above a whisper. "I know what is wrong. I know what it is that you do not even know you fear and I know how to make that fear go away."

 

He opened his mouth to speak but she silenced him with a single finger place against his lips. He felt a small hand running soothingly through his hair and eyes that had been focused solely on Ariana and what she might do suddenly saw Hiei leaning over him. He wanted to plead with Hiei, to ask if there were anyway that his trusted friend and ally could make what was happening just go away. He began to wonder why it was that Hiei was so calm. If he had known how to he would have reached for Hiei with is mind, but telepathic communication was not something that he could do unless Hiei initiated the conversation. Especially not in the panicked state that he was in.

 

He tried to plead for that silent communication with his eyes, but if Hiei recognized what he wanted it did not show in his crimson red eyes. Who was this girl to have Hiei so completely under her control?

 

Her finger was still on his lips when she began, but a split second after that the finger went away. She licked his neck as she had Hiei's neck, except that she paused at every spot that caused a change in his breathing added just the smallest hint of teeth until his fear receded just the tiniest bit or the trembling eased. His fear was slipping away from him so quickly and concentrating was becoming more and more difficult. That little voice was back again, telling him that this was what he had needed to do, that he was safe and had nothing more to fear. He wanted to fight that voice, but the voice that had countered it, logic, was no where to be found in the fuzz that was all that was left of his mind.

 

When the last bit of the fear had left and he was more relaxed then he could ever remember without being asleep a strange sense of safety and peace began to creep in. It felt good and he began to wonder why he had fought against it. Why he had doubted Hiei when he knew that the other would not have let him go into anything that would hurt him blind.

He floated on those feelings until Ariana stopped and those feelings faded the tiniest bit.

 

"Feeling better?" asked Ariana as though she already knew the answer.

 

Yusuke nodded, feeling entirely to lazy to think of something to say.

 

The hand in his hair stilled and went away and barely a second had passed before he felt Hiei lay his head on his chest right over his heart. Hiei looked exhausted, crimson eyes half closed like a child struggling to stay awake when what they really want is to sleep. Hiei yawned, making no effort to stifle that sound, and Yusuke was suddenly aware, through the haze his mind was still coming out of, that he too was incredibly tired.

 

"I'm so sleepy..." Said Hiei and his voice sounded almost as tired as he always sounded before he collapsed but Yusuke had only seen that happen when Hiei had used his ultimate attack, the Dragon of the Darkness Flame.

 

"Then go to sleep, Little One. I shall be here when you wake. You too Yusuke, you both need your sleep."