Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Simple Gift ❯ And It Was Such A Cute Fish... ( Chapter 8 )

Neko: Hey everyone I'm back! -Is hit with random sharp and pointy object- Meep! I haven't been gone that long...

 

Hiei: I bet no is even reading your story anymore....

 

Neko: Oh shut up! Now, who wants to do the disclaimer?

 

-Crickets chirp-

 

Neko: Any volunteers?

 

-More crickets chirp-

 

Neko: Oh come on, I know one of you have to want to do the disclaimer!

 

-Gets hit with a Kuwabara plushy-

 

Neko: -.-''' Fine. I will just do it myself this time... but wait till next chapter.... I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of the characters, all I own is my crystal and silver crescent moon necklace, which I love to bits! My adorable Kilala plushy, and my almighty Spork of Doom! Yup, That's basically it.

 

Hiei: Baka....

 

Neko: Did... Did you just call me a cow? O.o Well, you know what? Moo, Hiei, MOO! -Twitch- (Inside Joke)

 

Hiei: O.O

 

Neko: ^.^ Now on with the story!

 

"Talking"

 

'Thinking'

 

(Me talking)

 

-Telepathy-

 

 

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-Hey Hiei, are you giving up yet? -

 

-No.-

 

-Now are you giving up?-

 

-No.-

 

-What about now?-

 

-No.-

 

-How about now?-

 

-No damn it! It's only been three minutes....-

 

As Hiei said that, a stop watched appeared into Neko's hands.

 

-Actually it has been 4 minutes and 13 seconds... 14 seconds... 15 seconds... 16--

 

-Hn. I get the point....-

 

Hiei was starting to get annoyed with Neko trying to get him to give up. 'Why is she trying to get me to give up so already? What could possibly be so dangerous in here?' He thought to himself while walking around strange trees and bazaar flowers trying to figure out where he was. 'Never seen these type of flowers in Makai...'

 

-Of course you haven't.- Neko told him telepathically. -Have you decided to give up yet?-

 

-For the last damn time, NO.- Hiei screamed into her mind. -Now would you shut up? You're giving me a headache...-

 

-Feh! Fine I will be back in a second. I'm getting hungry....- And with that she cut the connection to Hiei and teleporting back to the kitchen to get a snack, leaving the stopwatch floating several feet away from him, seconds passing.

 

"It's about time she left, I can handle myself..." Hiei said to himself still trying to figure out where he was. Then he noticed something in the corner of his eye. “What's that?” He said as he saw that to the side of him was a rather large pond with a small temple or a shrine in the center. "How come I didn't see this before? I have been standing here for another 5 minutes." He said looking at the stopwatch. He had about 15 minutes left. "The bets almost over and I haven't even seen anything threatening, so I might as well look around..."

 

Hiei started walking towards the pond trying to find a way to get to the small temple. "How do I get over there? Maybe there's a bridge on the other side..." And as if someone was answering him, a golden light started to emit from the small temple and create a solid gold bridge.

 

"I guess that's an invitation..." Hiei said to himself taking careful steps on the gold bridge. He started to look at the water when he saw that there were fish in the pond. While he crosses the bridge he notices something coming up in the pond, so he puts his guard up. Then all of a sudden a small silver-white fish, around the size of an orange, popped up from the water and was staring at Hiei with its large eyes and a creepy smile, from the surface of the pond.

 

"Wow. That had got to be the scariest thing I have seen ever since I got here...." Hiei said snorting at the little fish, which started glowing and then just, vanish into specks of light. "Hn." He mumbled as he continued to walk across the bridge.

 

Finally Hiei reached the temple which seemed to have no door. So he just walked right in not even bothering to think of the consequences...

 

The temple was bigger then it looked, a lot bigger. From the outside it looked like the size of a big shed but from the inside it was huge. There were doors among doors on every wall, which he didn't want to know what was behind them since he was getting weird signals from them, and when he looked up there was a spiraling staircase that looked like it would never end.

 

Then he noticed that there was a statue of a beautiful phoenix at the end of the room. As Hiei ran up to it, he began to sense something, but every time he looked in the direction it was coming from, there was nothing there. To him, it was kind of like a twisted game of hide-and-seek, like there was something in there that someone wanted him to see, but for a price that he will have to pay. But he didn't know how right he was.

 

He finally made his way to the statue to see the most beautiful thing to ever reach his eyes. It was a beautifully carved statue of a phoenix with rusty gray chains looking like it was capturing the magnificent bird, the chains lifting it about a foot of the ground. Despite the chains capturing the bird you could see every detail beautifully sculptured on to its body, down to the last feather. It's wings where spread making it look like it was trying to take flight, but the chains where locked securely around it's wings. He couldn't tell what the statue itself was made of. It was a golden silver color. Not quite gold but yet not quite silver, but it wasn't shiny either. It had a marble like texture, which just made the statue look incredibly mysterious.

 

As he looked at the phoenix beautiful face, the statue suddenly looked sadder then it did before. For a few sculpted tear drops that where made of a light blue crystal, graced its eyes. He could have sworn that he saw its eyes flash a weird green for a second, but only for a second. That's when he noticed that it wasn't just a statue of a phoenix.

 

Behind the statue of the phoenix was a silver and goldish color panther chained just like the phoenix, but just as beautifully sculptured. You can see a lot of its fur sculptured, making it look absolutely wild, but it looked more like it had gotten into a fight. But as soon as he saw the panthers face the statue, it too looked sad. For he saw in the panthers eyes fear and horror. Like something it had been running from and trying to escape just began to happen right in front of it.

 

He had no idea how long he had been standing there staring into the panthers horror filled eyes. And like the phoenix, he could have sworn he saw the panther's eyes flash gold, but once again only, for a second. It was like a trance, it wasn't letting him escape from its eyes. It was like it was telling him, if you look long enough you may find what you have been looking for.

 

Some how he managed to break panthers trance, and walk closer to the statue. He noticed that the statue was part of a fountain actually, and the water was flowing from the top of the mound of gold and silverish land that the panther was standing on. It flowed from both sides of it into the bottom to just, disappear. It was like the beginning and the end of the flow of the water was unknown to everyone.

 

As he got closer to the statue he noticed a chain around the panthers thick neck and a small star locket that hanged loosely from it. The locket was just as beautiful as the phoenix and the panther. It was a golden star locket with several spiraling designs of silver around it. Encrusted on the lockets little door was a jewel that seemed to change color before his eyes. And for some reason it seemed familiar to him somehow...

 

Then all of a sudden, he wanted to grab and jut hold the locket. Just to feel it in his palm to make sure it was real. He felt like if he didn't grab it soon that it would disappear before his eyes. He was about to go up to the panther and just, touch the locket. But sometimes people don't always get what they wanted.

 

Out of nowhere a giant ball of energy missed Hiei and the statue and blew up against a wall next to them, which surprisingly was still standing after the assault.

 

"What the hell was that? Why didn't I sense that coming?" Hiei said tearing himself away from the statue while trying to locate what attacked him. But when he found what he was looking for, it wasn't exactly what he had expected.

 

The little silver-white fish he saw at the pond was starting to emit a strange light from its body again. And right before Hiei's eyes the little fish starting changing into a 40-foot dragon with piercing red eyes that put Hiei's eyes to shame. (Did that even make sense?) The dragon had ice blue hair and two golden-silver horns at the top of its head. Silver-white scales covered its body and its dragon arms and legs. Its long scaly tail matched the rest of its body and also had ice blue hair at the end of it's tail. But Hiei didn't take that much detail of the fish that was now a dragon, because it seemed to be getting ready to send another energy ball at him, which looked more powerful then before.

 

'When I said the scariest thing I have seen was that damn fish, I was fucking kidding!' Hiei thought to himself in frustration jumping out of the way of the dragon's tail that just tried to swat at him. But since he averted the dragon's tale he didn't notice the giant ball of energy that was twice the size of him, coming straight towards him.

 

 

--------Intermission!--------

 

 

Neko: Hey everyone! I just thought I would pause the story a bit to annoy you!

 

Hiei: You do know that they could just skip this part right?

 

Neko: Yeah... well... Uhm... Shut up!

 

Hiei: Don't hate me because I'm right.

 

Jenice: Would the both of shut up! And Neko! Stop wasting time and continuo the story!

 

Neko: Well, I was thinking about stopping here...

 

Jenice: What? I want to know what happens to Hiei!

 

Hiei: So do I! Wait...

 

Neko: Baka. Fine! But, I bet I know what everyone is thinking at this point! That Neko will come out of nowhere and save Hiei's ass... which is sexy by the way...

 

Hiei: -Blush- Shut the fuck up.

Neko: Shame, shame, naughty, naughty! Such strong language! What if Emily is reading this? You don't want to traumatize the poor girl would you?

 

Hiei: Maybe....

 

Neko: Oh, I'm tellin' Emily! And then she's gonna be mad and toss you into the pit of RFG's! Oh well.

 

Hiei: WHAT! NO! Don't tell her! I don't want those RFGs molesting me!

 

Neko: What? Only I can molest you! -Growls at other Hiei RFGs- Fine you're off the hook... this time.... Now on with the story! (How many times have I said this?)

 

 

--------End Of Intermission--------

 

 

--------At the House--------

 

 

"What to eat, what to eat?" Neko said to herself searching through the fridge full of food. "No matter how much food I buy there is never anything to eat..." She mumbled to herself pulling out a ramen cup and putting it in the microwave. "This will do."

 

"Hey Neko, what are you doing still up?" Jencine said walking into the kitchen half a sleep in her pajamas. "Oh, having a midnight snack? Toss me some a pudding cup over here!" She said now fully awake, waiting for her pudding.

 

"Yeah well, I always get hungry around this time of night... morning... whatever." Neko said giving her pudding and started to walk away with her ramen.

 

"Were you going? Stay here with me and wait till I finish eating the rest of my pudding!" Jencine said taking a bite out of her pudding.

 

"Can't, tonight is the night of the bet. Hiei is in my realm as we speak." Neko said taking a slurping away at her ramen, and didn't even notice Jencine chocking on her pudding from the shocking news she just gave her.

 

"You did what? Are you insane? Are you already trying to kill him? What's wrong with you?!" Jencine yelled at Neko. "You know that realm is way too dangerous for anyone to go into! Not even S-class demons can stay alive there!" She said now worried for Hiei's sake.

 

"I have only been gone for like 5 minutes!" Neko said looking at the clock on the wall in the kitchen. "Uhm... I mean 10 minutes... Oh, shut up. How much trouble could he possible be in?" Neko said teleporting back into the realm while Jencine continued to eat her pudding slightly worried about Hiei.

 

 

--------Inside The Realm--------

 

 

"Hiei! Hiei! Hiei, where are you?" Neko shouted, flying over the island, trying to find Hiei. "Why can't I find him? I can't even here his thoughts, but how? In here I should be able to hear anyone's thoughts... maybe he just isn't thinking? Heh. Okay, this is Hiei, not Kuwabara..." Neko mumbled to herself starting to panic a bit since she couldn't find Hiei.

 

"The only place where I can't here his thoughts is in... Oh no.” Neko whispered to herself suddenly frozen in the air. 'Please don't tell me he's in the temple... oh please don't tell me this!' She thought to herself and started to really panic. "Hiei... please be all right....'

 

 

--------Back At the Temple--------

 

 

All Hiei could do was stare at the ball of energy coming straight for him. He knew that he wouldn't be able to escape the impact and even if he had tried to, he couldn't. For some reason, he couldn't move. Not even a tiny inch, but it wasn't out of fear. He knew it wasn't fear, he had taking on things that was much bigger than this. He couldn't figure it out. He just stared out the ball in fascination as it came directly at him. Then it happened.

 

The ball of energy made a direct hit and exploded. He was thrown back from such an incredible force and was heading straight towards the magnificent statue. 'Maybe I should have listened to Neko and gave up... Hn. Like that would ever happen. Not that it matters now. If the impact doesn't kill me I'm pretty sure that dragon will finish off the job. Why can't I move? Damn it!' He thought to himself while trying to move again, but still couldn't.

 

All he did was close his eyes and waited for the impact to come, but it never did came. He thought he already had died so fast that he didn't even feel the pain, but was luckily wrong. Somehow, he was floating and was 2 inches in front of the statue. 'What the hell?' He wondered, while trying to ignore the pain going through his entire body.

 

"Kamahri, that's enough!" Hiei heard someone yell in a strict yet anxious tone. He tried to see where the voice was coming from but he had his eyes closed and was to tired and hurt to open them. That dragon did a lot more damage to him then he thought. "Oh my gods! Hiei? Are you ok?" He heard someone say to him and shook him. He still couldn't open his eyes and his hearing was starting to fade, but he had a feeling he know who it was. "I knew I should have never have brought you in here!" The person Hiei still couldn't see said, sounding close to tears. "I'm sorry..."

 

"Don't be." Hiei managed to mumble out a forced himself to open his eyes meeting a pair of green and gold ones. "Neko? Can you do me a favor?" He asked her weakly.

 

"Of course anything!" Neko said waiting to hear his request.

 

"Make sure I never see a fish for the rest of my life..." He said letting the darkness take him into a peaceful sleep. All Neko could do was stare at him and she gave him a warm smile.

 

"Whatever you want, Hiei." She said to his sleeping figure before putting one of his arms around her shoulder to support him and teleporting them both back to the house.

 

 

--------In The Living Room--------

 

 

Neko had transported them both back to the living room, just in case someone was in the hallway. It seemed like a good plan right? No one is normally in the living room at 1 o'clock in the morning. But then again, things never really did go her way.

 

Right there in the living room, was everyone. Starry, Jenice, Jencine, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and even Emily was sitting there in front of the television watching something. They were just sitting there casually watching TV as if it was normal for them to be awake at 1:00 a.m. 'What the hell is going on? I usually have to pry these girls out of bed!' Neko thought in a state of shock. 'Maybe if I quietly left no one will notice..." But once again, things never really did go her way.

 

"What the hell happened to Hiei?" Jenice said to Neko rushing over to them, making everyone else rushing over to her.

 

"... He lost a bet." Neko said irritated that Jenice had seen her. 'I knew I should have teleported in front of my room, but no, I had to go to the living room! So much for that brilliant plan!' She thought, now getting irritated at herself.

 

"I told you not to leave him alone!" Jencine scolded Neko. "You know nobody but you can stay in there more than 5 minutes in there without getting hurt!"

 

"What? You left Hiei alone in your realm? By himself? Are you trying to kill him?" Starry yelled at Neko for her stupidity. "He's lucky he made it out of there alive! You know damn well that we specifically use your realm for research and your training only! You know how dangerous it is! What the hell where you thinking?" Starry continued scolding Neko.

 

"What is the big deal with these realm things?" Yusuke asked completely lost to what the girls were talking about?

 

"I will explain later. I need to tend to Hiei's wounds now." Neko said looking at Hiei's sleeping injured face.

 

"Mommy, is he going to be all right? He doesn't look to good..." Emily said speaking up. "He has this weird scent on him... its smells bitter... I think it's this red stuff." Emily said sniffing at Hiei's blood.

 

"What? I didn't see or smell any blood before! I have to take care of his wounds now!" Neko said teleporting to her room in a panic.

 

"I'm worried about Hiei. Whatever is in that realm thing that you girls were talking about must be pretty strong to take the shrimp down." Kuwabara said.

 

"You have no idea what danger lurks behind those realms. Especially hers." Starry said with her glasses flashing in the light. "You see what happened to Hiei? It would have been much worst if Neko didn't get there."

 

"Yeah, I remember the time I went into her realm uninvited.... I don't want to even think about it!" Jencine said shuddering trying not to think what happened to her.

 

"I want to go check up on mommy and Red Eyes." Emily said running up the stairs in the direction of Neko's room.

 

"Red Eyes?" Kurama said confused.

 

"I'm guessing her new nickname for Hiei. Hmm, that's weird.” Starry said taking her glasses off and rubbing her tired eyes.

 

"What's weird?" Yusuke said looking more tired too.

 

"It seems that our little Emily is starting to warm up to Hiei. It's weird because she normally never speaks to anyone besides us girls. Guys tend to make her nervous." Starry said making it sound like she was hiding something.

 

"Why is she afraid?" Yusuke asked confused.

 

"I'm afraid I can't tell you. Your gonna have to talk to Neko or Emily herself if you want to know. But asking them is useless. They won't tell you anything." Starry said with a tone that meant the discussion was over. "I don't know about you people, but I'm going to bed."

 

“Shouldn't we go check on Hiei too?” Jencine suggested.

 

"No, I think its best if we checked on him in the morning." Kurama said yawning. (Kawaii! -Glared at by fan girls- O.O -Gulp-)

 

"Good idea." Starry said yawning too, as they all headed towards their room. "Good night everyone."

 

"Good night." Everyone said as they all went to sleep in the comfort of their rooms.

 

 

--------Neko's Room--------

 

 

In Neko's room was Hiei lying there now fully bandaged on her bed warmly underneath her covers. On the edge of the bad were two girls watching over Hiei as he slept unaware of their presence.

 

"Mommy, is Red Eyes gonna be ok?" Emily asked bringing her innocent, yet sad, honey colored eyes to meet her mothers confused green and gold eyes.

 

'Red eyes? Heh. Clever.' Neko thought to herself before answering her daughter. "He's gonna be just fine sweetie. Before you know it he will be back on his feet, running to the kitchen and gobbling down all the sweet snow!" She said cheering up the little cat demon.

 

"I hope so! I want him to play with me in the garden!" Emily said her eyes now filled with hope and joy. "Mommy?"

 

"Yes Emily?"

 

"If you and Hiei become mates, will that mean he's my daddy?"

 

Neko sure wasn't expecting that question. She didn't even know what lead this question on! She didn't even find the sexy, muscular, red eyed wonder attractive! (O.o) Well, that's what she told herself at least. But all she did was blush and turn her gaze to Hiei's sleeping face. "Yes." Neko said still looking at him blushing redder then a tomato. "I suppose he would be." She said while Hiei lay there peacefully in his dreams, unaware of what either of the to girls had spoken of.

 

 

--------Hiei's Dream--------

 

 

A young girl with green eyes with golden speckles who was dressed in nothing but rags, walked towards a boy short spiky hair and red eyes, which seemed like he was in bad shape on the ground.

 

"You're hurt." Said the young girl, staring down on him with her strange eyes. "If you don't wrap up your wounds you will die soon." She said with no emotion at all in her voice.

 

"Why do you care?" Snarled the small spiky haired boy weakly.

 

"I don't." The girl said bluntly, walking away from him only to stop when she heard him whimper in pain.

 

"Idiot." Was all she said to him as she ran back to him and began to take his shirt off to tend to his wounds.

 

"What are you doing?" Asked the boy.

 

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm healing your wounds." The girl said still not showing any emotion at all in her voice as her hand began to glow a strange color of gold and silver.

 

"I thought you said you didn't care?" The boy smirked at the girl, starting to feel better as the girl slowly healed him.

 

It was strange to him. Her healing powers where so soothing to him. He had been healed many times, and every time it was a very soothing, but he felt different. Like she was striping him down to his very being of his soul and rebuilding him stronger and faster then before. It was just, amazing. He couldn't exactly describe it, but he didn't want the feeling to stop, but unfortunately it did.

 

She stopped healing him and stared down at his body covered in dried up blood and dirt with a grim expression for a second. Then she ripped a piece of her rags and started to clean the dried up blood and dirt off his body. "I don't." She smiled down at him making him blush as she tenderly finished cleaning him as he feel into a deep sleep under the girl with the strange green eyes protection.

 

 

----------------End of Hiei's Dream.... For Now....----------------

 

 

Neko: Well what did you think of this chapter? I think this is the best chapter so far! ^_^ I'm thinking I might continuo Hiei's dream/memory thing in the next chapter or Neko will probably have a dream and pick up where he was at. Bleh... I'll decide later..

 

Jenice: Your lazy....

 

Neko: So? OH! I don't know why I'm gonna write this, but oh well. Well, you see last Saturday I was watching Dragon Ball GT and I was all sugar high and stuff. Well, anyways I haven't really been watching the series lately so I didn't know who some of the people were, the point is, its that I finally realized that Uub is black! I started laughing and laughing for some reason... But I got all teary eyed when the bad guy ate Uub! ;_; He flippin' turned him into a chocolate cookie and ate him! I was just sitting there in shock that they ate him! Then I started yelling at the TV again. "I can't believe that asshole ate Uub! HE turned him into a chocolate cookie and ate him! Damn raciest people... it always has to be the black guy...." And ever since then at any random moment I just burst out of nowhere and start ranting about how they ate Uub! I mean come on now! It's not Buu! Its Uub! You just can't eat Uub all willy-nilly! It's illegal you know! -Sniff- I miss Uub....

 

Hiei: ... Was there supposed to be a point to that story....

 

Neko: Yeah! He turned him into a black cookie and ate him! That's just not right! And you know whose fault this is?

 

Hiei: Who's?

 

Neko: ..... The man.

 

Jenice: -Gasp- Not the man!

 

Starry: Yup! The man trying to put us down, yo.

 

Jencine: ... Damn him.... Damn him!!

 

Emily: Mommy? Why is everyone afraid of a man? Did he do something scary?

 

Neko: Uhm... Well... Oh would you look at the time! I'm late for my nap! -Yawn ^o^- Reviews inspire me to update faster! Ja-Ne everyone!