Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Anya of the Flower Rose ❯ Hiei Appears ( Chapter 2 )

Anya of the Flower Rose

Chapter 2: Hiei Appears

 

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“What, is that?” Kurama asked.

I wasn't absolutely sure what I had for lunch, so I answered, “Um, I'm not absolutely sure myself. The owner's wife of the Café Yum gave it to me. She said I need good nourishment and that an energy bar, bag of chips and a soda doesn't count as good nourishment. But, I think that this is way too much, you want some?”

“No, no, my mother packed me plenty for lunch.” He smiled. I like his super warm smile.

“Tell me Kurama,” said a voice behind us. “is this another one of your many fans?”

I looked over to Kurama, he was looking up the tree. I looked up and saw a short guy draped in black standing on a branch of the tree.

“So,” Kurama said. “how long have you been standing there, Hiei?”

So this guy was Hiei. He's a tad shorter than I thought that he would be, but I always imagine people different than they truly are. Besides his sword, I don't see anything that dangerous about him. I wonder what about him would purge Kurama so far as to mark me before we even met. Wait a sec, what's with the thing over his forehead? Is he trying to make some lame fashion statement or something?

“Hn,” Hiei said. “I've only been standing here for five minuets and I'm bored.” he hopped down and landed right behind me.

I'm not absolutely sure how it happened, but within seconds, Hiei had me in a headlock with my chin pulled up, exposing the front of my neck. Hiei drew his sword “How about I slit her throat and we can watch her bleed to death, doesn't that sound like fun?”

I could now feel his power. This guy is strong. His sword came close to the front of my throat. “Hiei don't.” Kurama said to Hiei.

“Why not? It should provide to be much entertainment. Do you care for this silly ningen?”

Now I was kinda ticked, I'm not a human, I'm a demon. “Who are you calling a silly ningen?” I asked enraged.

“Why you.” he breathed in my ear.

“But I'm not a ningen.”

Hiei pushed my sword closer to my neck. “You sue do look like a ningen and you smell like a filthy ningen as well.”

“That's simply because I'm not in my demon form. Now, would you please lower your sword, or I will be forced to place harm upon you.”

Hiei laughed maliciously. “You, harm me? That the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You, a worthless, filthy ningen, harm me?”

“I told you, I'm not a-”

Kurama grabbed Hiei's wrist that was holding the sword. “Hiei, I must insist that you release Anya's head.” Kurama calmly said.

“Anya is it? Perhaps you are more than a filthy ningen if Kurama is willing to stand up for your life.” He started sniffing the back of my head. I felt a brush of wind right where Kurama had bitten me. “So Kurama, you've taken a precaution to keep her safe from me?” Kurama smiled.

Hiei pushed me to the ground. I landed pretty hard. He put his sword away and asked me “Why would Kurama be compelled to mark you in order to keep you safe from me?” I stared at the ground saying nothing. “Answer me.” I remained silent. He grabbed the front of my shirt and screamed, “I said answer me dammit!” I could've stood up and towered over him, but his sword emitted a strong demonic aura that I wanted nothing to do with. I opened my mouth to say something but Hiei interrupted me. “What's that? You'll have to speak up, I'm afraid I can't hear you.”

“Hiei-” Kurama started

“Let the onna speak for herself.” he re-drew his sword and placed it on my neck. “I want to know your full description you fool.”

Full description, I haven't heard someone use that in a long time. “I'm Anya of the flower rose. Will you let go of me now?”

Hiei threw me at Kurama, he caught me. “I'd appreciate it if you didn't throw Anya around like a rag doll. What do you want anyways?” Kurama said.

“I need your assistance, of course.” Hiei said.

“I refuse any request you may put upon me.”

“I may not be able to do certain things to Anya since you've taken that precaution already, but I can still slit her throat and watch her bleed to death.”

I felt Kurama's arms pull me closer. His warmth once again rushed through me. I knew why he pulled me closer too, Kurama never really saw my true power. Too bad, I'm really powerful. Maybe I should just let Kurama protect me. I don't really know what he's hiding under that thingy over his forehead.

“What is it Hiei?” Kurama asked, still holding me close to him.

“Simple, I need you to give this to Yukina.” Hiei held up a small vile filled with a clear liquid.

“You want to poison some poor inno-” I started to scream. Kurama threw his hand over my mouth.

“Why, what is it?” Kurama asked not removing his hand from my mouth.

“Someone let it slip to her that she already knows her brother and that he'd be the last person she'd expect. I believe that Botan with her big mouth, that woman can't ever keep a secret to save her life. I've already taken care of her.”

“What did you do to poor Botan?”

“Simple, I slashed her arm and haunted her every thought for a week. Sadly, she lived through it all.”

“So, what does it have to do with the clear liquid?”

“It will cause her to forget what Botan has told her.”

Hiei handed Kurama the vile. “You'll find her having tea today at four o'clock at a restaurant called Café Yum.”

Wait a sec, that's where I work. There's no way I'm going to let Kurama slip something into some poor unsuspecting girls drink.

“Oh really?” Hiei said staring directly at me. “And how do you expect to stop him?”

I licked Kurama's hand, he pulled it off my mouth. “What are you talking about?” I asked very surprised.

“You think you're going to stop Kurama from his mission, while keeping on the job.”

“How-how-how-”

“Telepathy.& #8221;

“Hiei, please tell me you didn't just read Anya's thoughts.” Kurama said.

“Now Kurama, why would I do that?” Hiei said.

“Anya! Hey Anya! Where are you?” Came Kyoko's voice from afar.

“Oh no, Kyoko's coming.” I said. “Hiei, get out of here, she doesn't know I'm a demon. Please, just leave.”

“Very well, but you must leave Kurama to drop the girls drink, or I'll tell your friend who you truly are.” Hiei said. He just blackmailed me! I can't believe it.

“Fine, whatever, just leave.” Hiei moved so quickly that he seemed to vanish. Kyoko found me still in Kurama's arms.

“Shuichi,” she sighed. “do I have to follow you everywhere? Stay off my Anya. She was my friend first.”

“Kyoko,” I said walking from Kurama and grabbing her hands, “there's enough Anya for everybody. I'm still your best friend, and I'm just Kur-er, Shuichi's girlfriend. Understand?”

“Yeah, well, I still don't like it.”

“Can't you just be happy for me?” I put on a face that made me look like I was ready to cry.

“Anya, I just don't want to loose you to some boy we hardly know. You're like my sister, no, better than a sister, because my sisters are way lame and stupid.” tears started welling up in her eyes. I hadn't meant to make her cry. “I just, care about you so much Anya, you don't know how much.”

She wrapped her arms around me and starting crying very hard. I patted her head to comfort her. I turned to Kurama “Um, Shuichi, could you-” I started to say.

“Don't worry about it. I'll meet you back in class, don't be late.” Kurama said. He walked back to the school slipping the vile into his pocket.

“Kyoko, you don't have to worry, I'll always be here for you.” I said to Kyoko.

“Ok, fine.” she felt behind my neck, uh-oh. “What's that?” she turned me around and moved my hair. “What bit you, a vampire?”

“No, no, just the owners dog. It decided to wake me and got a little too excited and bit me.” that was such a lame story, there's no way she'll buy it.

“Oh, ok. But that looks like it could scar.” She bought it, I can't believe she bought it.

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I looked over to Kurama. He had sat down with some green haired girl about five minuets ago. Luckily for me, it was my section.

“Can I take your orders?” I said cheerily.

“I'll just have some tea.” said the green haired girl. Maybe she was Yukina.

“Is your name, by any chance, Yukina?” I asked.

“Um, why yes it is. How did you know?”

“Lucky guess.” I gave a smile. “I'll go get your tea, anything for you Kurama?”

“Nothing, just a water's fine.” Kurama said with his heart-melting smile.

I turned around and went to get Yukina's tea. The pocket of my apron felt slightly heavier than it did before. I checked it, Kurama had slipped the vile into my apron pocket. When I was nearly finisher making the tea I poured it into her tea. I stirred and brought the tea to Yukina. “Here you are.” I said and walked away to some of my other tables. When I came back, Yukina had finished drinking her tea. I hope that it wasn't some kind of poison that would kill her or I'd be so fired. I decided that I'd take my break now to talk a bit with Kurama and see if I could find anything out about Yukina.

“I'm taking a short break.” I said to Kurama. He slid into the booth. “Thanks.” I sat down next to him.

“Yukina, this is Anya. She's a classmate of mine. She hasn't cried since my first death.” Kurama said.

“Oh, do you have no heart so that you can not cry?” Yukina asked. She had a very sweet, kind voice.

“Um, no.” I said slowly.

“Go ahead and tell her why, Anya. Yukina doesn't really cry either.” Kurama said as he grabbed my hand under the table.

I felt my face heat up a little. “I cry tears of blood.” I said.

Yukina looked slightly surprised, then she said. “I don't cry much either. Only because my tears turn to a rare valuable pearl.”

“So, Yukina, any luck with finding your brother?” Kurama randomly asked.

“None, the only thing I know for sure is that he was in the dark tournament.”

“You have a brother?” I asked.

“Yes, but I don't know who it is.”

“I don't know what I'd do if I never knew my brother. You know what, I'll help you to find your brother.”

“You will? Thank you so much, Anya was it?”

”Yes, and you're welcome. I'd better get back to work, I'm being paged. Guess my breaks over.”

As I started to stand up when Kurama grabbed my arm and pulled me toward him. He whispered in my ear. “Meet me later at 8. Your shift is over by then right?”

“I get off at seven thirty, that'll give me enough time to shower and change.”

“Good.”

“Excuse me miss?” said one of the ladies at a different table.

“I'll be there in a sec.” I said to her. “Aren't I allowed to take a ten-minute break and enjoy myself for a few minuets without chaos breaking loose. Guess not.”


It's 8. I've changed into plain casual clothes. Kurama's standing next to me and we're walking down the street. I don't know if he's planning to take me anywhere or where he's planning to take me, but I feel very safe.

Kurama finally decided t say something. “Anya, please don't pursue Yukina's brother too far. You see-”

“Hiei's her brother.” I interrupted him.

“How did you know?”

“Why would Hiei want to get rid of what some Botan girl said to Yukina about her brother if he wasn't her brother? Is he scared of her or something?”

“Hiei has a strange way of showing that he cares about someone. He doesn't want Yukina to be hurt by how disappointing her brother is.”

“Hiei's weird. If he truly cared about Yukina, he'd just go and tell her and she's not the type to judge someone because of what they've done and he's her brother and she'd love him no matter how horrible he is or what horrible things he's done. Besides, she's got something with Hiei that I could never have my brother.”

“And what's that?”

“She's actually connected by blood. Me, I have no true family as I was only born from this giant flower rose thing. The only family I have isn't really my. My mother just took me in because she wanted a daughter but because of this curse thingy that my father had someone put on her it would kill every child she would bear, she couldn't have her own. It was placed on her after my brother was born. She found me in a group of thornless roses and took me home. There was nothing my father could fo about it, and my brother was happy as well. So in other words, I'm like the start of a completely new bloodline that'll probably die the first generation that it's created.”

“Why is that?”

“I don't know if I can have children, and I can't ask my mom about it because she's not really my mom. There's really no one I can ask, but I'm not in a big hurry to find out.”

Kurama laughed with his heart-melting smile. “We're here.” he said.

“Where's `here'?” I asked.

“Take a look.”

I turned around and looked. It was beautiful. I guess I wasn't paying that much attention while I was talking. I was looking out at view of the city. There were lights everywhere sparkling like stars on the ground. “Wow,” I said. “I can actually see me house from here.”

“I thought you hated your house.”

“I wasn't talking about my father's house, I was talking about the café. It's my new home and I love it.”

Kurama put his arm around me. I once again felt his warmth run through my body. His warm lips touched mine. I'm glad my father's not watching me any more. I put my hands around his neck and ran my fingers through his hair. I was a little worried that my fingers would get stuck, but they didn't. The warmth that I felt the last time we kissed was nothing compared to this. He was transferring some of his energy into me. This was another way of keeping other demons from claiming me. I was a little ticked, but I also kinda like that he wants there to be no way for Hiei to get me.

Our lips released, but we were still holding tight to each other. I wish this moment could last forever, but then again, without pain you can't have pleasure. “I know you just gave me some of your energy. You really don't want Hiei getting me do you?” I asked.

“No, I don't.” Kurama said straightforwardly. “He can still cause physical pain, so you're almost in your perfect paradise.”

“But Kurama, there's no such thing as paradise. Something my mother told me, without pain, you can't have pleasure. You see, if everything is perfect and as it should be, than that's just plain boring. Every experience in your life, bad and hood, reflects on who you are and who you will become. If you have everything you could ever want exactly as you want, you wouldn't live very long because there's nothing left for you to live for. Without the thrills, pleasures and pains of life, it would be a total drag and not worth staying here for.” I thought for a minute about what I had just said and realized something. “You know Kurama, it's kind of like you're my pleasure and Hiei's my pain, as he has already threatened my life twice today.”

“Yes, that Hiei's one character that you may never get used to.”

I spent the rest of the night thinking of Kurama and dreaming of him.

The next day at school, Kyoko came into the classroom in kind of a daze. Her normally perfect not-a-hair-out-of-place hair was messily brushed and not pulled into some weird way as it normally is. She had a glazed look in her eye and she seemed as if she hadn't gotten any sleep. When she saw me sitting on Kurama's lap with my arm around his neck, she said nothing and sat down staring aimlessly off in front of her. I got up off Kurama and walked over to her. I sat on her desk to make sure I had her full attention.

“Kyoko?” I asked. “Are you ok?”

“A-A-Anya?” Kyoko stammered.

“Yes, please, what happened to you? You're and a complete mess. Your hair isn't neat and perfect, your eyes are in a daze and your uniform is sloppily assembled.”

“Well, last night, some guy draped in black just came and randomly bit my neck like a vampire.”

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