Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Aggression ❯ Chapter Six ( Chapter 6 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

By: Azuka

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and Co, nor Yu Yu Hakusho
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Chapter Six: Into the rabbit whole…
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Souta stood beside me, looking around in such a level of innocent curiosity that it bordered on comical. I frowned and placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Are you alright?”
“Eh? OH, yeah! This place is beyond awesome! Can you feel all the youki?”
“Baka-da…”
I sighed and looked forward to see Hiei glaring at him, his head cast down and slightly to the side, almost pouting. Upon meeting his stare, he reacted with hostility and snarled.
“Do you have a problem?”
Smirking I reached up to touch the armor Sesshomaru had fashioned for me so long ago. A plate of methyl stretched across my chest, held in place with straps that went under the clothing and opposing left arm. The right shoulder held spikes, another fold of methyl smoothing over the ball of my shoulder.

My other hand slipped over the length of the wrapped hilt of my sword, again fashioned for me by the Western Lord, from his very own fang.
“Do you?”
I purred softly, lifting my eyes slowly, using my feminine prowess as I stalked towards him. His eyes widened and his head lifted.
“Neesan?”
Souta chirped softly behind me as I stalked right past Hiei, the top of his spiky hair brushing the spikes of my shoulder.
“Where should we start, Hiei-kun?”
“Onna.”
He growled and spun around gracefully before standing at my side, looking down at the floating plane’s of the Maikai. Black lightning danced across the endless abyss. The screeching of youkia, in dying and in victory, echoed in every corner of the endless planes, endless and unrelenting.

“You can clearly see the path laid out before you, Priestess.”
He said with a fond smirk, his gaze turning introspective as he looked down.
“I am here to see how long it will take you to fail.”
I glared at him from the corner of my eye as black lightning struck the plane beside the one we stood on, shattering the edge as boulders the size of buildings tumbled down, crashing into the edge of our plane and making it rumble.
“I do not fail.”
He glanced at me from the corner of his eyes, before folding his hands behind his back.
“Hm.”
I lifted my nose, keeping my glare on him from the corner of my eyes.
“Neesan. We have company.’
Hiei smirked and cast me a taunting question from his eyes. I answered swiftly, spinning around, my hair momentarily blocking my view, when it cleared I saw three towering beast.

My eyes followed them up to heights only possessed by the ancient tree, Goshinboku. One was red, the other black, the last silver. Covered in armor of bone’s, carrying weapons as large as their bulk; as deadly as dragon cleaving weapons of the Gods.

I lifted my hands into position, as if gracefully, lovingly holding a bow. I pulled the string and the bow bled into reality, starting where my right hand was extended up and falling down to make the string and out to form the arrow. Smirking I added another finger to the string and separated the knuckle as two more liquid energy arrow shafts formed. Turning the bow on its side the giant orc’s reached up, sweeping back a strike to release, or brining down a straight strike.

I opened my fingers as my eyes rolled back as the orgasmic pulse of my soul fighting poured through my veins like echoing bells. It rang through my entire body, casting out the backlash in surging waves through my connection to the earth under my feet.

The arrow’s screamed forward, breaking the sound barrier and cracking through the air louder than the black lightning that filled the entirety of the Demon World. Striking their targets the orc’s were enveloped in a pinkish white light as silence rang deafeningly throughout the planes of the abyss. My eyes opened as I released a breath, the sound loud in my ears as my vision bled pink, a dark pink almost on the verge of blood.
When they exploded, the sound of the imploding bodies screamed behind the sound barrier, the plane we stood on trembled yet again. Lowering my chin, I opened my eyes. The layout of the Maikai’s barrier design became visible to my eyes. The net of the masculine youki and feminine aura were pulsing stronger in reaction to the Shikon no Tama.
“Hmn. You parlor tricks have cost us our cover.”
The Maikai was silent, except for the low murmur of growls both pleased and angry.
“Cover? You expected cover while traveling with me? Would you rather be ambushed and being stopped at every turn, or would you rather stake a challenge from the beginning so we can pass through the upper level’ quickly and not deal with weaklings?”

His smolder scarlet stare was unforgiving cruel, but he said nothing. Instead he walked to the ledge and leapt to a lower plane, continuing down grumpily.
“He reminds me of Inuyasha-niisan.’
“Aa.”
I said and turned to Souta. Reaching into my sleeve, I pulled out a small beaded bracelet.
“Wh-what’dya gonna do with that? Inuyasha had one too.”
“Oh, Souta, its nothing like that. Just trust me.”
“Promise?”
“Swear.”
She slipped the blue and black beaded bracelet onto his wrist then smiled and turned, leaping off the edge before shouting.
“C’mon!”

Souta blinked and frowned.
“You’ve changed so much Neesan.”
He said softly, feeling regret and sadness swell in his chest before he followed the two off the ledge.

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“No, Souta-kun, like this.”
I swirled once and released the chakram in a fluid snap of my wrist. It spliced through the underbrush, splitting root and all on its return trip as well. I caught it by dipping down and swirling on the heel of my foot. I stood fluidly and handed it to Souta with a smile.
“Now try again.”
“I never knew you knew how to use this weapon, Neesan! You never tell me anything!”
He whined with wicked mirth dancing in his eyes. I rolled mine and stepped back, crossing my arms.
“Just do it.”
Hiei stood in the tree’s above us and I absently noted, with my eyes closed and my receptor’s directed towards him, that his eyes never truly strayed from my being. That third eye of his, also the brightest source of energy on him, never diverted its attention from me as well.

But as I looked now, his gaze was directed elsewhere. Curiously I sent out a single feeler, touching the line of his youki, nearest his heart. I waited, frozen in place. But the Fire Demon didn’t notice. Slipping my ‘finger’ into the vein of youki, I became part of it, disconnecting myself from the small portion I had slipped into him.

Weakness… Dishonor…
The line of the Keeper is weak…
..another hanyou… breed of a forbidden kind… a fire from hell, and ice from heaven…
Power dwells within the depths of his soul…

I tilted my head sharply, my left eyebrow twitching as my fingers flexed absently against my arms.
Greed and despair…
Weakness and cowardice…
“We speak of betrayal…”
“Betrayal…”
I whispered, feeling the demonic voices of the Shikon no Tama respond violently to touching Hiei’s youki.
“Touch his soul.”

The pink water around me bubbled softly, my eyes fixed on the blood red blue glowing water ahead of me. Three eyes were closed, blue bubbles among red water… I moved forward, swimming across the threshold as the third eye cracked open.

Do not let him see us!
…he cannot see!
“Do not let him lay eye upon you.”

I swam backwards, back into warm pink with bubble of the same kind swirling around me protectively. The third eye closed again, a black aura swirling around it and expanding as a black, bolt like shape suddenly whirled out of sight. I followed the black traces of magic through the tangled blood red, blue bubble see. Suddenly the large face of a Dragon from Hell stood before me, its red eyes narrowed in uncontrollable rage, black fangs opening as it released a warning roar. I lifted my hand and from my chest the symbol’s activated.
“He bears the Dragon of the Darkness Flame…”
We knew this…
…Weakness, he cannot control it.
…demon cursed with the dragon, cursed to wilt beneath its power.
“We can control it.”

The Dragon, charged with purple energy that cracked from tooth and scale. From my chest and black aura of the three symbol’s aligned and formed a single mark. The black Dragon subdued and whirled backwards and into the third eye. All three eyes opened and my soul sucked me back into my body.
I opened my eyes, controlling my reaction with age old practice. Souta caught the chakram on a dipped swirl and rose with a grin.
“How was that?”
“I didn’t see it.”
“Nani!? You weren’t watching?”
I smiled and lifted a hand to my head.
“Sorry, with all this youki around… Its so weak, its driving me nuts. Not a single powerful one among them.”
Hiei snorted, dropping down beside me with a suspicious glare, before turning away.
“We’ve stayed long enough.”
I glanced at Souta with an amused wink.
“I think so as well. Souta?”
“Hai!”

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The black fire, which burned such in the air of the toxic Maikai, sat between us all. A hunk of some animal Hiei brought roasted over the top. I spent the time polishing the fang given to me by Sesshomaru. It was a blade so powerful, intertwined with my hair and his fang, the essence of the sword was soul’s, in a vaster and more destructive semblance to the Tentsuiga.

Souta was going through all of his weapons, sitting on a brown blanket with them laid out before him. Hiei watched me work, his eyes steadily on me.
“You do not appreciate me to speak to you, Hiei-kun, and yet you would stare at me?”
I spoke with a fleeting glance at the fire demon. He scowled and glared, his scarlet eyes hardening into rubies.
“You do not complain unless it suits your amusement.”
I snorted and nodded.
“Regardless.”
“Hardly.”
He snarled and shifted, lifting his knee to place his elbow on it.
“What of your skill’s, Hiei-kun, I have yet to oppose you in battle.”
“Pray that you never do.”
I looked up at him, frozen in my strokes.
“On the contrary, I pray that we do.”
He glared at me openly, reaching for his sword.
“Is that right?”
“Guy’s! We’re supposed to fight the enemy, not each other!”
I sighed and resumed my stroke, looking down to follow them. Hiei snarled, his gaze turning to my brother.
“It is common among youki to test each other in battle, even in peace.”
“There is no peace with youki and fighting.”
I mumbled absently, tilting my head as I studied my work, before progressing. Hiei glanced at me, but my brother spoke in retaliation.
“My sister isn’t youki.”
“She might as well be.”
“Do you fear my power, Hiei?”
I challenged suddenly, lowering my hand, my temper flaring as the voices within me encouraged my decision. I suppressed them with a wince, and Hiei smirked.
“I do not fear you, Priestess. I fear nothing. Death is natural and has been since the dawn of time. One of Nature’s eldest laws.”
I smiled.
“A beautiful death.”
He smirked.
“Exactly.”
Souta glanced between us; pale.
“You guy’s are starting to creep me out.”
I glanced at my sibling, then resumed polishing my fang. Hiei snorted and crossed his arms behind his head, leaning back against the root of a giant tree and closing his eyes.

“Hey, Neesan?”
“Aa.”
I tilted my head as I examined my work again.
“How long do you suppose we can rest without worrying about getting our throats slit in the night?”
Looking at Hiei, I waited until the youki opened his eye, then snarled and closed his eye again. I sighed and resumed my polishing.
“I’d say about a month in human days.”
“There is no day and night here.”
“Precisely.”
I snarled back at Hiei, but the youki was ignoring me still with his eyes closed. I snarled and polished my sword faster, muttering softly about stupid youkia.
“I can hear you.”
“Good.”
I sighed with a maniac smile, my eyes widening as I polished harder. My face melted back into a blank mask as I drifted off into my own world. Souta shrugged and checked the meat before announcing it was done. I pulled out a small blade and hacked off a chunk for him and one for Hiei. The fire demon cracked an eye at me, looked at my offering, snorted and closed his eyes. I rolled my eyes and threw it at him. It struck him in the face and fell into his lap. He snarled sharply, his eye on me. I shrugged and bit into my own portion of meat.

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I ran through the thick forest of the current plane we were on, Hiei blazing on ahead of us with Souta taking up rear. I stopped and looked back to see Souta bounding just as easily, if not slower, than me. I smiled and resumed my run, looking up to see Hiei phase from tree to tree. Suddenly the ring of Souta’s chakram screamed over my shoulder, swung around an inch from my body and retreating. Momentary pride clouded my senses before I whirled around, snatching the Chakram and sending it out towards, Souta, returning the favor. I watched as the circular blade sang through the forest, splicing through the sides of tree’s like a hot knife through butter. Souta was in a hand to hand with a humanoid bat demon. The creature was made of shadow, with wings, hair and claws of black fire. Eyes of living blood and standing a full ten feet above my brother who was just barely holding his own. Fear gripped me even as I seen the exchange successfully made.

The chakram curled around the width of the creature’s back, making it arch and cry in pain. Passing Souta, the boy snatched it, sunk into a crouch and finished his spin, swinging it up into the chest of the creature. Once released, Souta finished the creature off by lobbing off its head and cutting for shoulder to opposing hip. As the creature fell to pieces, Souta reached up and absently caught the chakram as he sheathed his sword. I smirked and shot him a thumbs up. He returned it and trotted to catch up. Hiei snorted from above us, before resuming our pace.

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That night, Hiei brought another dead animal and cooked it over a black fire. Another night he repeated the act, and the night after that and so on. Each day Souta got better, sitting comfortably in a notch he’d found behind the force of his chakram.
I was proud of him in those moment’s, proud to be his sister, proud to have a brother like him. We were deep into the belly of the beast this night, the air as frigid, but the ground was burning hot. Toxic fume’s gathered around the corners of the plane’s the further down we went. Youkia were becoming scarce and still we ran into little interruption. Minor youkia who thought they could stand up to my might. The strong remained hidden, waiting for a moment of weakness I would not give them. Starved wolves, waiting for the weak pack member to fall short, but I would not allow it. Souta was no where without my sight or influence.

It was on this night, that I dreamed of the Past. The vivid image’s hauntingly clear and specific.

I lay in his bed, purring in content as he pet my back fondly with his fingertips.
“You could never deny me, my dear priestess.”
Opening my eyes, I smirked.
“Don’t flatter yourself, its unbecoming.”
“Hmn.”
He chuckled, the tips of his claws lightly tracing patterns on my bare spine.
“So obedient and loyal… it’s a wonder the hanyou did not take you when he could.”
Irritated by the remark, I growled softly, pulling his youkia into my soul to put force in the threat. He leaned his chest against my back, the futon giving slightly under his weight as he kissed softly up the length of my spine to the nape of my neck. His hair fell against my shoulder, cool and fine like spider silk. His fingers danced down my spine, opposing the path of his mouth until he touched my right hip, his thumb brushing along the silk sheet that barely covered my bottom.

I closed my eyes in content, despite the danger I was in. He wouldn’t attack me, not while in bed. Scarlet eyes opened and I purred, leaning into his chest and lifting my head to lick the underside of his chin. He growled, his other hand coming up to rest against my collar bone before dragging his fingertips up the length of my throat to cup my chin.
“Such devotion and love… You truly are a creature of magnificence.”
“I do not do this out of love.”
I purred as the voices inside me pitched higher in desire. Pulling his youki further into me, I wrapped his essence around me like a blanket.
“The Shikon no Tama requires a powerful breeder.”
“Then I am honored.”
“Don’t be.”
I growled as I nipped at his throat, lifting my own hand to tangle in his hair, feeling the silky strands part and slid through my fingers.

The hand down on my hip suddenly slipped between my thighs, sliding up to slip a finger expertly into my lips. I lifted myself up on my knee’s, spreading my stance as his own hip moved to rest against mine. I gasped as he penetrated, circling the fingertip slowly as he nuzzled my hair.
“You’re disgusting.”
“You’re beautiful.”
He countered. I hissed as he squeezed in another finger, scissoring the entrance sharply without warning.
“Don’t lie to me, little miko.”
I whined sharply as a bolt of pleasure stabbed my gut violently. Hissing I hitched my hips up further, he growled; clearly pleased as he lifted his head and looked down to admire his work. I wiggled against his hand softly, feeling a steady burn gather in my stomach.
“Lie?”
“Aa.”
He purred, kissing the top of my head as he pulled his fingers free of my body slipped them further down to find my clit, nestled comfortably in the folds of my flesh. I gripped the sheet under me, screeching sharply as the voices within me consumed my senses. My world bled pink, as my other hand came down from his hair to join the other on the bed.
“Can you honestly say you came here only because the drive of the Shikon no Tama?”
“Regardless, no one shall know of this.”
I promised with a pleased smile as I purred, lifting my hips higher.
“Oh?”
“The Shikon no Tama requires a breeder powerful enough to house my spirit. The Shikon choose you, it has nothing to do with me.”
I whined, the voices pitched further as my heart pulled, adjusting to a thicker blood as the jewel melted inside me and taking over my body, breaking through the last of my restraints.
“When we do not fight, we require another outlet.”
His fascination with my transformation was brilliant. His fingers worked faster, pushing and pulling softly a the fold of my most sensitive flesh drove the desire and power within me insane.
“Had I known.”
He purred, slipping a leg over my hips and climbing up. I opened my eyes, my heart in my throat. The only portion of lucidity in my soul peeking through the veil I had, had been consumed as the Shikon no Tama took over.
“That allowing you to absorb the Shikon no Tama would bring forth such a beautiful creature, I would have given it to you at first chance.”
I snorted.
“You could never possess us. You never will.”
He threw my words back at me.
“Regardless, no one will know.”
He licked my shoulder as he removed his hand and circled my waist, lifting my up and out from under him. My body was on fire, the desire of the jewel nearly wavering on the brink of insanity. I hissed as he dipped down and lifted my hips up to bring me to his mouth. I squealed as he plunged his tongue into my body, sucking on my flesh like it was the ambrosia of the Gods.

I opened my eyes, the familiar feeling of burning into ash consuming my soul, making it ache and protest to movement that didn’t bring pleasure. Hiei stood no more than a foot from me, his eyes wide and clouded. My eyes narrowed as my vision bled pink. A smirk lifted my lips from my teeth as I purred.
“Maa, maa, isn’t this a beautiful little coincidence.”
I rose fluidly to my feet, unable to control my feelings, my movements or my word’s. The fire demon’s eyes widened even more as I loomed over him, my eyes liquid and on fire as the lines of his youki blazed with equal desire.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. You were peeping.”
A blush rose to his cheeks as he took a step back from me, his eyes flashing warning. I arched an eyebrow as I lifted a hand to my shoulder, unbuckling my armor and letting it fall to the ground, the straps singing as they pulled through the silk holes of my kimono.

The sound did not break my brother’s slumber, for I closed off his awareness with a simple thought, bent towards the rosary around his wrist.

Turning my attention back to Hiei I purred and lifted my chin, sending out feelers to test the flow of his youki. He snarled and jerked back, both mentally and physically.
“Fuck me or fight me, Hiei. The decision is your’s.”
My eyes hooded as I lowered my chin, my iris’s flashing black as my vision turned scarlet. The fire demon frowned, his temper returning as did his senses. He pulled through the rut easily, pushing past the folds of desire flowing through his instincts, instilled with my influence. My eyebrows rose.
“You are able to resist.”
We purred, stepping forward as I reached up a hand to touch him. He flinched but did not draw away. Instead he lifted his hand and circled my wrist with strong fingers. I purred at the contact, licking my lips as his youki was absorbed into my flesh and soul.
“This one is powerful.”I purred, tilting my head to the side.
“This one could house us.”
“What are you talking about?”
He snarled, tugging at my wrist sharply. I frowned as I looked down at our flesh, studying the contact. Pleased with my discovery, I looked back up at him.
“This one is forbidden.”
His eyes flashed ice, his chin lowering in a stark symbol of danger. I smirked and flexed my wrist, breaking his hold and pulling free. He growled in defiance and took a step back, widening his stance as he twisted slightly and bent his knees, grabbing his sword at his back.

We purred fondly as I pulled my own fang from its sheath, transforming into a fang that rivaled the Tetsuiga. Hiei’s eyes sparked with admiration as he looked me up and down involuntarily. We laughed, our voices coming out dripping with desire and lust.
“This one pleases us, he is weak but his soul is strong….”
His eyes narrowed and we smirked.
“His soul is unsure, it is unnatural. His soul is not his own… No, the Jagan… It is its own soul.”
Hiei’s eyes sparked fury as he shot forward. I danced to the side and swatted at his blade, keeping pace with him as our movement blurred even to my eyes.
“Show to us this power, wielder of the third eye!”
We shouted, redoubling our efforts as the elation of pumping blood and movement, of purpose, swelled within our souls. Hiei kept our pace, just like the Breeder.
“For our souls cry for another. We require a Breeder!”
Hiei snarled a I landed the first wound, splicing along the meat of his shoulder, curving around the ball and nearly severing the ligaments, but he danced to the side gracefully and attacked without missing a beat.

“You will not have me!”
“We will.”
I lunged forward, my emotions crazed and unstable. I fought for control but the combined forces were working together, pushing me into the darkness as they surfaced, steadily growing stronger and more clear in my head.

Our movements became more frenzied, his movements chaotic and without rhythm. My own calculated but uncontrollable. The movements were ancient, age-old and fluid like water. I danced gleefully, weaving and bobbed with a smile as he leapt, slashed and whirled woefully. If my movements were water, his were fire. We clashed like the forces of nature, each strike met and parried, matched and returned.

The blood rushed in my head, flooding my body with oxygen and adrenaline. The elation I felt fighting Hiei matched only one other. But that was evil, as equally tainted and powerful as I was in essence in purity and holy. The war within me was that of history repeating an age-old dance that was struck between good and evil since the dawn of time. The war reflected inside of me, the evil and purity at constant war with each other and dictating my decisions, my motives and my being. It was my nature, and I had long ago accepted it, long go came to terms with what I was, with what fate had given to me.
This was nothing but the dance of my life, the war between good and evil, it thrived within me, effecting not only myself but any soul I come across, any soul connected to the ancients of magic and war.

But like myself, Keeper of the War of Evil and Purity, was there another. Another Keeper, yet to be found. And we must find it.

I pressed harder, sensing the fear and death that crept up the path of the fire demon. It loomed in each strike, in each further steps that we took in the dance that always had the same outcome. When the song ended, his life, his soul, would be mine.
“Ours… His soul will be ours.”
Hiei’s fear reflected in his eyes as he fought for his life, the mercy in my strikes bleeding like the life wound of a dying animal. Each strike, each step; each breath and heart beat ebbed the weakness of my human blood in the depths of my soul. The energy of the Breeder was brought to the surface, filling the flesh and bones of our container.

My hair bled ink black, falling down to my waist, my eyes bled solid red, pupiless and vivid against the pale flesh that seemed ashen. My nails hardened into claws, black as my hair as dark as my skin was white. The demonic aura of the Breeder’s soul was brought to the surface, his mind overlapping my own as Naraku was embodied by the thoughts of the Shikon no Tama.

Arching back he roared, his youkia expanding like a reversed vortex, releasing his soul and reviving it through the power of the Shikon no Tama. He laughed as he looked down at himself in female form, his claws reformed, his mind replaced and intact.
“Oh yes…”
Hiei skidded back under the onslaught of clashing feminine and masculine youki and holy energy that swam around the creature that now stood before him. Lifting his blood red eyes, Naraku chuckled.
“I see. So you will be the next Breeder.”
Hiei spat to the side.
“Not likely.”
Naraku lifted a finger to the corner of his mouth, keeping his eyes on Hiei. His tongue swept out and tasted the blood that glided along the blade of the sword to his fingertip.
“A forbidden child of fire and ice. A demon forged from the soul of a mortal.”
Dropping his hand, the blade sang as it cleaved the air.
“You cannot resist the Shikon no Tama.”
“I bow to nothing.”
“How admirable.”
Naraku purred, looking the young fire demon up and down as the feminine aura in his youki flared into dormancy. My mind surfaced, sending Naraku’s thoughts into the underlying recesses of my soul.
My voice returned as Naraku faded into the dormancy part of my mind, but his influence was still very much returned as his body moved under my instruction. Melting against his, I meshed his capabilities and my own, merging out bodies and minds.

I closed my eyes as I absently swung the blade at my hip.
:My little miko.:
I twitched and jerked our head to the side subtly, enough to swing our hair softly, our eyebrow twitching. His laughter echoed in the back of my mind.

Hiei waited, watching me, knowing that at any moment I could be set of. By him moving, or remaining still. The decision to attack or relent was still on the verge of impulse.
I regained control of myself as the pulse of fire and desire slowly drained from me. Naraku’s mind faded with it as I took even and calming breaths. I rolled my shoulders as I flexed my hand on the hilt of my sword.
“What are you?”
His voice nearly sent me back into the depths of chaos, but I held onto my sanity and my own mind with firm resolve.

I opened my eyes with a frown.
“Fire Demon.”
Speaking as if I’d just noticed he was there.
“What you just witnessed, was one of the reasons why I do not fight. Know this, and remember.”
I turned away from him as the masculine feel of Naraku’s soul unwrapped from mine and my heart fluttered under the thinner blood of my own, the jewel returning to a solid form inside of my heart.

I lifted a hand to it and sighed, feeling the spell completely ware off and leave me to myself. The dull drone of the Shikon no Tama was still ever present, but I ignored it and returned to my previous spot, picked out a hunk of last nights roast and began to eat. Hiei returned to his original spot, content to watch me. I let him, taking pity, and focused on eating, often forgetting of my audience as I myself delved deep into my own mind and soul.