Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Achieving Grace ❯ Achieving Grace ( One-Shot )

I'd like to point out that this fic is meant to delve deeper into the character's psyche to get the concept across. That said, it isn't meant to be entirely true to the characters that most who know the series are used to. In other words, expect a little OC.

Also, I'd like to apologize, I have just started using mediaminer and don't really know how to get the punctuation and stuff to work.

The bits of poetry are from Hiei's POV.

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Achieving Grace

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With what can I hold your hand

when mine isn't worthy to wash your feet?

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"Kurama?"

"Yes?"

"Promise me that you won't severe this serpent's head."

"An odd request - why?"

"It's tongue already lies split - please, don't break the mind."

Kurama smiles his own hidden smile, "Hiei, light is not so evanescent as to be

lost along with sanity."

"You haven't promised yet."

"Neither have you."

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To which do I owe my love, my life, my brief taste of happiness?

To fire?

To ice?

To my sun of brilliance

My sun of reds

and greens

and whites?

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"'Kaasan?"

"Yes?"

"Is it worse to lose one's sanity or one's love, or are they inseparable entities, the rich syrup of bittersweet necessity?"

"Shuuichi?"

"Yes?"

"May you never know of either one."

"But 'Kaasan -,"

"Yes?"

"Which is worse?"

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A thousand hearts may break

A thousand tears may bleed

A thousand cores may cease

A thousand throats may scream

A thousand suns may die

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"Hiei?"

"Yes?"

"What is love?"

"Why ask a demon without the capacity to feel?"

"Because ice feels the sun more bitingly than any other thing."

"Yukina?"

"Yes?"

"Now I ask you, what is love?"

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Why can we always throw a question out farther than an answer can be pulled in and yet, have another question for every one?

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"Kurama?"

"Yes?"

"Can a demon love?"

"I believe...that demons can learn."

"Learn to love?"

"Hai. But demon love is deadly - because a core cannot be broken. A core can only be stopped."

"Can a demon exist without a pulsing core?"

"If they have a human heart."

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An azure rose can shatter

But the pieces all remain

And pieces can be pieced together

They can build.

A human heart is not a thing - it is a concept.

An earned heart will outlast that which is freely given.

So pure,

so beautiful in clarity.

Is this Grace?

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"Kurama?"

"Yes?"

"Don't leave me."

"I won't."

"Just love me."

"I will."

"Aishiteru."

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I can think of nothing else.

~ Owari ~

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Aishiteru = I love you.

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Please R&R!!