Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Before I Die ❯ Chapter 13

Author's Notes: I really need to start reading the Suikoden III mangas I have. It would help with a lot of things. X3

 

Be warned, male/male kissing and a sex scene. I thank Celine Dion and II DIVO's “I Believe in You” for helping me write this chapter. :3

 

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Piper hurried down the hallway after making sure Jin was asleep in the bedroom. Her skirt flaring out behind her and her arms rushing wildly from side to side, she made her way to the room she was told the ice demon was being held within. As soon as she turned the corner, her arm was grabbed, and Piper was pulled off to the side. “Ugh, let me go!” She demanded while trying to fight whoever it was that had her.

 

“Don't go in there!” A young man insisted in a whisper. “That demon is being held in there!”

 

Breaking her hands away, Piper quickly made it down the hallway leading to the door, which concealed the sickened ice demon. “I don't care! I need to see if he's alright!” The door soon within reach, she reached out to open it quickly before shutting it in the same fashion.

 

The harsh opening and closing of the door startled the doctor in the room with the ice demon, causing him to look over his shoulder at the winded Chisha woman. “My goodness, young lady, you gave me quite the scare coming in here like that!” He exclaimed softly between the two of them. “Whatever is the matter with you?”

 

Piper turned her attention to the doctor, peering over her shoulder to gaze at him before leaning against the door attempting to catch her breath. She could see that the doctor was quite young in appearance—probably around his late 20s or early 30s. He had brown hair which was neatly cut except for his bangs up front that grew past his chin and nearly touched his chest. The strands were decorated in beads belonging to a foreign village of some kind. Piper looked into his deep brown eyes before gazing over at the out cold ice demon upon the bed he was sitting before. “Is he okay?” She wondered aloud simply.

 

The doctor saw she was concerned over the wellbeing of the demon making him sigh slightly as he shifted upon the wicker stool he was upon to look back over the patient. “I have to say that the illness is something I have never really come across before in all of my years of studying,” he announced forlornly. “His respiratory system seems to be threatening to shut down.” Opening his hand, he began to move it steadily up and down from Touya's forehead down to his chest before going back again. “His spirit is weakening and calling to the Gates of Judgment once more.”

 

The young woman made her way over to the ice demon's bedside to watch as he appeared to struggle to breathe, he rasping every time he inhaled. “I thought demons were immune to most diseases. What sickness could possibly cripple a demon?” Piper wondered, placing her fingers upon her chin in thought.

 

“I don't know, but I am going to have to study it further.” The doctor removed himself from the stool he was upon, standing over the ice demon. “It's going to take everything I have to uncover what this beast has and hopes I can find a cure in time.” He placed his hand upon Piper's shoulder for a moment before removing it slowly. “Watch over him for me. I will return.”

 

“I will,” said Piper to the young doctor. She watched as the man left the room, leaving her to be alone with the suffering ice demon, who appeared to wince and hitch in breath all of a sudden in unbearable pain. Her heart in such pain itself at having to witness him in such agony, Piper slipped her hand on top of his. She could feel how cold his skin was, making her body run over with a shiver. His skin is like that of the death of winter. Regardless of the chill running through her, she guided his hand up to her cheek in hopes of showing him somebody was there for him for the time being.

 

Touya's fingers flexed slightly against Piper's face as he felt somebody there next to him though was locked into a deep sleep, unable to find his way back for the time being. “Jin…,” he expressed in pain. “It is so hot here…! I cannot stand it…!”

 

Hearing his plea, Piper brought the back of her hand steadily to his forehead to feel that he was indeed sweating from being so hot. She placed his hand gently back down beside the demon. “I will be right back,” she insisted softly, hurrying to the kitchen area of the room to grab a bowel to fill with cold water as well as a clean towel. Piper made sure the water was cold enough for an ice demon at the very least before hurrying back beside him to sit once more upon the wicker stool. Dipping the fabric into the cold water, she rang it out before folding it to place upon Touya's forehead, moving his bangs out of his face so his hair wouldn't bother him.

 

Feeling the cold once more, Touya appeared more relaxed than before. The cold seemed to slowly calm his body and call his spirit back down from the dreaming plain. His face contorting slightly in a brief moment of pain, Touya opened his eyes slowly to the candlelit room he was housed within. “Where…where am I…?” He mumbled incoherently as his sight was still a bit foggy and was trying to readjust as well as his hearing.

 

“You are at Chisha Village,” Piper reminded him. “Do you not remember one of the village maidens bringing you here?”

 

The young woman's voice almost seemed out of reach to Touya's hearing though he was able to catch some of her words as he managed to focus his sight and then his hearing. “I am…I am at the Grassland village?” Wondered Touya as he looked upwards at the ceiling, finding the candlelight to make him slightly sick if he focused on it.

 

Piper nodded. “Yes, the wind demon, Jin, demanded you be brought you here.”

 

Jin's name making it to Touya, he widened his eyes and inhaled sharply as he shot up in bed. “Jin! Where is Jin!” He demanded to know, flinching in pain as he tried to grab Piper's shoulders. He embraced his own body, trembling in the overwhelming pain he was still consumed within, looking through his quivering eyes at the startled woman. “Where-is-he...?” Touya asked once more through his clinched teeth, almost sounding furious to Piper.

 

With him sound so demanding made Piper feel a bit resistant to say anything to begin with. “He-he is in another room sleeping off his drunken state he got in,” she explained, folding her hands before her chest as if she were praying. “He got worried about you and drank too much wine. I had to help him with his hangover before promising to come and check on you.”

 

“That idiot,” Touya criticized as he placed his head upon his forehead. “He never did watch over himself when taking care of others.” His throat burning once more, a cough was forced from Touya's already weakened and worn throat. He coughed within his hands causing blood to splatter upon his palms once more. “Not again…!”

 

Piper panicked seeing him coughing up blood upon his hands. “By the Spirits…!” She gasped as she took her apron she was wearing previously when making Jin's hangover cure to wipe off Touya's hands. “What evil has gotten a hold of you!”

 

“I am a demon, am I not?” Touya said simply as he allowed her to take care of his blooded hands. “What evil needs to get a hold of me?”

 

Hearing him say such a thing, Piper slowed in cleaning his palms for a second. “Well, I know most demons are considered evil and heartless, but I don't sense that from you and your friend.” She continued to use the cotton fabric to work between his fingers where some of the crimson blood managed to escape to. “Jin told me a lot already about your first encounter. I know what you did and what you've done, but a part of me keeps telling me that you don't continue to do such things now. And it's not because you're sick but because of something else…”

 

Touya was silent for a moment, pulling his clean hands back to have them rest upon his lap. “How much did he tell you?” He finally asked between the two of them.

 

“He told me that he bested you in a sexual game.” Piper couldn't help but admit her face turned slightly red at the remembrance of Jin's side of that story. She was so enthralled in it, a part of her felt a little embarrassed that she listened through it all in such attentiveness when it came to such an intimate moment. “You promised him you would tell him more about yourself if he won, and he did.”

 

“Hmm.” The demon hummed in thought as he looked down at his lap recalling that time well. “I thought I would be able to beat him as my entire body inside and out was made of ice, but he got me surprisingly. I told Jin what he wanted to know about me the coming morning.” Touya could feel Piper's gaze there upon him, but he didn't bother looking at her when he spoke. “I told him the things I found silly that he wanted to know such as my favorite food, what I did in my leisure time, what weapons I preferred to use in battle, and so on. I have to say, I was annoyed by these questions, but I didn't want to admit that a small part of me enjoyed expressing them…and that…I was feeling close to the wind demon…”

 

Touya recalled the morning where he woke to find Jin still there at his ice clan's village. After he had answered all of the questions Jin found oddly interesting and worth hearing answers to, he sighed inwardly as he turned to the wind demon. “You won your freedom. You may go as I promised.”

 

Jin oddly didn't find the other part of the deal nearly as welcoming as the first. Wrapping his arms about his chest, he used his toe to mess with the carpet fibers beneath him, appearing to fidget slightly. “Well, what if I don't want to leave?”

 

A bit shocked by that response, Touya could only look at the wind demon oddly.

 

“I mean, I don't have to be your bodyguard, but I can still hang around here, right?” Jin asked as he used his wind powers to lift himself off of the floor to sit cross-legged in the air. “Even if you were a grumpy nag at times, I still enjoyed your company.” The wind demon wasn't afraid to admit his feelings regardless of who he spoke to. It just wasn't in his nature to lie about how he was feeling.

 

“Is there something you're still after, demon?” Touya wondered, not trusting Jin to an extent. “It's not like wind demons to want to hang around others. They are free spirited beasts. I healed your mother, now get out of here!” With a wave of his hand, he turned around to keep his back to Jin with his arms crossed in irritation.

 

Jin moved over towards Touya with his wind powers so that he could lean forwards over the ice shinobi's head to look into Touya's eyes from upside down. It startled the ice master as he slightly jumped back. “I am not after anything. I just enjoy your company is all.”

 

“What about your family and friends? What about those in the wind demon tribe?” Touya wondered as he turned the other way to get to the kitchen to make himself something to eat. “Don't you have people you will miss if not being there?”

 

“I will always miss my mother, but she is just in the Zexen capital,” Jin explained as he lowered himself down to the bed covers to sit. “It's not like I can't just fly over there, aye?” His fingers tapped upon his knees for a moment as he thought of what else to say and to do at this point. “I have to say I don't really like the wind demon tribe. They're no fun at all. Most of them are all about rules and fighting against others. I don't like to fight unless I can enjoy it.” He looked up at Touya who had stopped at the kitchen door. “I liked fighting with you no matter the circumstances. It was fun to me.”

 

Touya was silent, not wishing to voice his opinions on the matter. His index finger tapped slightly against the marble of the doorway as many thoughts ran through his mind. “Where will you stay? You cannot stay here for my clan will kill you upon sight.”

 

Hearing the ice demon only inquire about where he would stay instead of insulting him made Jin perk up with a wide smile. “I will just go live and take care of my mother in Zexen. I will come at night so it will be less likely for people to see me and to know who I am.”

 

“While it was so tempting to continue acting cold towards him, I could no longer bring myself to do so as frequently,” Touya admitted to Piper as he dabbed his sweating face with the cloth she had placed there previously. “Maybe it was all the things he admitted to me, but my heart was starting to thaw from the demonic cold it was born within.”

 

Piper had her fingers overlapping one another as she continued to listen contently about the two demons and their past. “So what happened after that? Jin was no longer under your command, and you allowed him to come and go whenever he pleased.”

 

Touya scratched a small itch embedded in his bi-colored hair with a slight sigh though a smile was evident there within the candlelit room. “He would come and go at night whenever he pleased. Sometimes he would come just to spar with me or to tell me these stories I found pointless about what was going on in Vinay Del Zexay, but I never said anything about them. I truly enjoyed listening to him and it was nice to have company for a change in that lonely house.”

 

The ice master recalled how he started looking forward to nights after awhile as he was in the kitchen whipping up something for dinner for the both of them. “Seeing as he is used to Zexen food, maybe he'll like this pasta stuff,” Touya thought to himself as he pulled the top off of the pot he was cooking the pasta noodles in to stir them up. It wasn't long afterwards that he heard the window open. “Jin, is that you?”

 

“Aye, it's me,” Jin answered as he made his way onto Touya's bed for a moment.

 

Touya felt the tone of his words were heavy with emotion. It wasn't like Jin to come in sounding a bit disturbed. Wiping his hands upon the apron he was wearing, Touya made his way into the bedroom to find Jin there upon his bedcovers looking rather down. “Jin, is something the matter?”

 

Jin straightened his back and managed a smile to Touya. “It's nothing I want to burden you about.”

 

“Nobody has caught onto you being a half demon, have they?” Touya wondered as he was a bit concerned this round.

 

It was strange and yet heart warming that Touya was starting to show signs he cared about his wellbeing unlike before. “No,” Jin answered honestly with a shake of his head. He got up to his feet, pushing himself up by placing his hands upon his thighs. “So, what's for dinner? I smell something wonderful in there.”

 

The wind demon's fingers messing up his hair as he went past him, Touya didn't mind it as he was more concerned over what was eating at Jin. Turning around on his heels, he followed behind the redhead. He made his way over to the kitchen's stove made of stone with a lit fire to substitute for heating. “I am making pasta that is usually in Zexen towns. I made my way to Iksay Village to get the things I would need. I hope you'll like it.”

 

“Anything you make is always worth eating,” Jin said softly with a smile.

 

Touya smiled with his back turned to Jin as he continued stirring the pasta noodles. His face was flushed with embarrassment at his kind words. “Here, I made some salads and bought onions for you to eat if you like.”

 

Jin accepted the salad and onions to eat as he was quite hungry from the exhausting day. “Thank you, Touya.” As he accepted the food, he noticed that there was a blush across the ice demon's face. “Your face is red. Is something the matter?”

 

Realizing that his blush from earlier was still there, Touya covered his face for a moment with a brief chuckle. “Umm, it's just the oven is all. It makes me a bit flustered as I am not used to heat.”

 

“Hey, that's the first time I heard you laugh before,” Jin pointed out with a gentle smile.

 

“I guess some things tend to wear off of me when it comes to you, Jin,” Touya said keeping a sincere smile upon his pallid face. He was about to pull his hand away from the table top only to have Jin grab onto it gently to prevent him from doing so.

 

Jin kept his hand about Touya's, holding onto it tightly before bringing it up to his lips to kiss of his knuckles. “I am relieved to hear of that, Touya…”

 

Touya forgot about the pasta for a moment as he wrapped his fingers about Jin's in return, bringing his forehead against the wind demon's. “Are you sure you're okay, Jin?” He inquired once more, feeling Jin's mouth inching towards his. “You don't…you don't seem your-self…!”He inhaled sharply at the kiss to his lower lip that led to Jin deepening the kiss between them.

 

“I'll be fine,” Jin insisted as he pulled from the kiss for a moment to answer him. “Besides, you aren't yourself either, love.” He moved the aquatic bangs out of the ice demon's face as he moved his tongue back inside of Touya's mouth to taste of him once more.

 

Touya accepted the deep kiss once more only to pull away for a moment when he remembered the pasta still burning on the stove. “The food-I need to get it off of the stove or else it will burn…!” He insisted breathlessly.

 

Jin kept his hand upon Touya's cheek even after he pulled away from him. “Alright, if you must,” he chuckled. “And you made me hungry for something else now.”

 

“My trip to Iksay would have been all for nothing if I burn the pasta,” Touya felt need to point out as he made his way back to the stone oven to pull the pot from the heated surface. “I made a meat sauce for you to put on top of it if you like.”

 

“What about you? Aren't you a fish eating vegetarian or something like that?” Jin inquired.

 

“I won't take any sauce on mine.” Touya put the sauce on Jin's pasta bowel before mixing the two together. He picked up both plates and made his way over to the dinning room table. “Here you go, Jin. I'll put shrimp on mine and a few spices to give mine more flavors.”

 

Jin pulled his hair back in a hair band to keep it out of his face while he was eating. “Do you like onions? I will give you some of mine if you need it.”

 

“I'll take just a few if you don't mind me doing so,” Touya said as he reached across the table to grab an onion to start chopping up for himself. As he was doing so, there came a familiar energy signature reading from just outside his door. “Somebody is here. Hide, Jin!”

 

Jin could feel the energy mark as well, but couldn't recognize it as Touya could. He knew it was an ice clan member, no doubt, so he was quick to do as he was told while masking his own energy level.

 

Touya shot to his feet and hurried to his front door, removing the flap of animal hide to find Ambar standing there. “Elder Ambar, what are you doing here?” He asked with a slight bow to the elder.

 

“I had a disturbing vision, young warrior, and I had to make sure you were alright,” Ambar announced, sounding quite shaken as he looked beyond Touya into his bedroom. “May I come in to speak to you about it?”

 

The ice master was a bit nervous about letting him inside, but he did so regardless knowing everything would be fine so long as Jin remained in the kitchen out of sight. “Sure, come on in.” Touya stepped aside to allow the elder of his clan inside. “Please, make yourself at home.”

 

Elder Ambar made his way over to the bedcovers, noticing a change in Touya's behavior lately. “You appear much kinder than usual. What has happened to your heart lately, young one?”

 

Touya was hesitant to answer that question. He could only avoid Elder Ambar's curious gaze.

 

“I am not saying the change is necessarily bad, Touya,” Ambar corrected figuring the warrior was worried he would criticize him for changing his cold-hearted ways. “I am just curious as to what finally broke through your ice barrier.”

 

“I guess all it took was somebody I never expected to warm my heart,” Touya answered not afraid to smile before the elder within his bedroom.

 

Jin remained in the kitchen, out of sight whilst listening in on the conversation between the two. His elfin ears caught a hold of Touya's words, and he couldn't help but smile as well, lidding his eyes in thought.

 

Ambar looked towards the doorway leading into the kitchen to smell the food as well as see it was set for two to an extent as his sight was awfully bad. “I am sorry. I see you must have a guest over. In that case I won't keep you.” Ambar's old hands kept a firm grip onto his walking stick as he thought back on the vision he had just recently. “I saw something not too long ago when speaking to the Goddess, young one. She foretells of your path being overclouded with darkness.” His misty eyes looked up at the ice master. “I fear that the other demon I saw you with will essentially lead you down this darkened path. In that vision I felt you slipping away…and what was odd, your spirit seemed the most content down this path.”

 

Hearing that he might be Touya's undoing, Jin's smile faded as he kept listening in from the sidelines. He couldn't bear the thought of pulling Touya from the only place he ever knew and possibly down a path to his ultimate end. The wind demon's heart ached at the thought.

 

“Elder Ambar…I don't…,” Touya was at a loss for words.

 

“Just be careful of what demon captures you, Touya,” Ambar went on to say as he got back to his weary feet. “If the dark path you take is what you want, then I will not stop you. Just please, be careful. I felt in this vision that you were never coming back here, and the Goddess wanted you to stay away.”

 

Touya helped the elder to his feet though he was confused by this vision Elder Ambar saw. He knew Ambar's visions were never off as he was very in tune with the Goddess' voice and her foresight. Touya opened the entrance flap for Ambar so that the old demon could leave his home. “Thank you for telling me this, Elder Ambar,” Touya said though his tone would show otherwise of being thankful. “May the Goddess watch over you.”

 

With the elder gone, Jin knew it was safe to come out, but after that moment, he just wanted to remain hidden. His back against the wall still, Jin slowly fell to the floor. Bringing his legs to his chest, he rested his forehead upon his knees.

 

The ice master made his way into the kitchen to find Jin there in the weak position he was within. “Jin, what is the matter?” Touya asked as he knelt down beside him, placing his hand behind his fiery red hair. “Did what the elder say worry you? Don't fret about me. I will be fine.”

 

“It's not just about that…the demon he saw,” Jin mumbled upon his thighs. “What if that demon is me?” He finally moved his head from his knees to look over at Touya who was trying to comfort him. “I love you, Touya, and I am already losing enough as is. I don't want to lose you too just because your being with me could jeopardize your wellbeing.”

 

Touya shook his head, confused at the wind demon's incoherent babbling. “Jin, what are you talking about?”

 

Wiping the tears that dared to creep steadily down his face, Jin tried to regain himself once more. “My mother…my mother is dying. There is no cure for her this time, Touya,” he said, his voice breaking upon every word. “I could heal her every chance I could get with that rune of yours, but she will just continue to fall ill.”

 

“What is wrong with her?” Touya asked, creasing his brow in worry.

 

“The doctor said her spirit could no longer hold onto her aging body,” said Jin as he wiped his eyes once more. “The illness that had her previously had done the damage that it could to her even if the True Water Rune tried to save her. She has to go for the heavens are calling her and there is nothing he could do to save her.”

 

Touya couldn't help but admit that was probably what was wrong with his mother this time. She was just old for a human, and she could no longer hold on. “Jin…I…” His face expressed sympathy and pain at the wind demon's situation. “I am…so sorry…” The ice master kept his hand upon the back of Jin's head. “If I could take her place for you, I would.”

 

“Don't say that,” Jin was quick to say as he shook his head at the thought of Touya doing so. “I know my mother wouldn't want that. She would tell me she's lived a wonderful life and it's her time to go, but…it's so hard to know I have to let her go. Why must she go where I cannot follow her?”

 

Not able to hold back this time, Touya embraced the demon he had scorned and ridiculed since they met. Jin was surprised by the sudden embrace as he widened his teary eyes at the sudden gesture. When Jin's lips threatened to speak his name, Touya merely said, “Shut up, you fool, and just hug me,” as sincerely as possible.

 

Jin did so without hesitation, burying his face into the cold neck of the ice demon, finding the coldness of Touya's skin to be the most welcoming at that moment. When he pulled back a few moments later, he saw just in time as a cold tear escaped from Touya's narrow eyes only to freeze there upon his cheek. “Your tear froze,” Jin whispered, reaching for the frozen salty tear to remove it from Touya's face.

 

“It's a reason why ice demons never shed normal tears. Usually they turn into jewels, but it's more frequent for the women of this village more so than the males,” Touya explained with a shrug. “However, for males, we only cry jewels when we choose to—normally in a fit of joy more so than sadness. It is usually given to the one we love.”

 

Taking Touya's hand back into his own, he kissed the freezing fingers of the demon before bringing them close to his cheek. “I hope to one day receive mine,” he said hopefully.

 

Touya came closer to Jin to kiss him upon the corner of his mouth tenderly, allowing the kiss to linger for a moment before he pulled back to look into the baby blue eyes of the wind master. “I am sure one day it will come,” he whispered between the two of them before kissing Jin once more.

 

Throwing his head back, beads of sweat shot through the dark, glistening on the moonlight peaking through Touya's window, the ice demon panted heavily as he found himself unclothed on top of the equally bare wind demon. He moved himself quickly and steadily upon Jin's swollen member, closing his eyes tightly in mounting pleasure, which fought against his twinges of pain. His muscles flexed upon every movement he made against the man beneath him, his own sensitive organ pulsing from the seed it had gathered.

 

Jin watched through his sexual haze as Touya lowered his head, his eyes closed tightly and he panting unbelievably hard. His hands upon Touya's hips, he moved one up to the sweating face of the demon to try and calm him. “I will stop if it becomes too much,” he said through his steady panting, his breath seen upon the air with Touya's thanks to the heat, which was created between the two of them.

 

“N-No, no,” Touya insisted breathlessly, shaking his head as he clenched his teeth at the tight ring of muscles being stretched and pushed to their limits with the size of Jin pushing through them time and again. “I can…I can do this…!”

 

Pulling his hand from Touya's cheek, Jin moved it steadily down to his companion's member to start rubbing the sensitive flesh to try and help him along as he could feel himself nearing.

 

Having so much coming at him so fast, Touya hitched in breath as he could no longer hold back as he sat there upon Jin's engorged member, crying out in pleasure with his breath seen upon the night air. His manhood jerking slightly, it began to spray forth milky white upon the hand of the wind demon as well as marking his chest and abdomen. “J-Jin…!” He gasped with his nails digging into the sides of the demon below him, causing blood to seep forth.

 

Jin inhaled sharply at the feel of Touya's nails puncturing his skin, burying himself as deeply as he could inside of the ice master to release his thick seed inside of him. Panting heavily and in sync with Touya, he felt the demon crawl down to his chest to kiss his parted lips. Jin moved his hands from the sides of Touya, embracing him tightly with his arms resting upon the bare back of his partner. “I love you,” he whispered into Touya's ear.

 

“I love you too, Jin,” said Touya in return through his heated breaths. “You're the most beautiful creature I've seen upon this world…”

 

Hearing the compliment, Jin managed to smile for once whilst closing his eyes as if to revel in the comment granted to him. Keeping his arms about the frozen being, he savored the taste of Touya's kiss once more there within the light of the moon.

 

Touya blinked a few times in attempts to bring himself back to the present, watching the candle flame dance upon the table that had caught his attention from where he was resting in the Chisha bed. He closed his eyes once more, sighing inwardly. “My heart had melted that night.” The air seemed to get heavy at that sentence alone as Touya paused. He reopened his eyes to continue to stare off at the flickering flame. “Every battle I fought was for a new purpose and was not with somebody I viewed as my lesser, but as my equal.”

 

Piper couldn't find her voice for a moment, having so many questions to ask. “What-what happened to Jin's mother?”

 

His brow creased in sadness at having to remember that night. “She died…weeks later.” Touya brought his knees to his chest, wrapping his arms about them. “Jin was a mess that night, and he didn't make it to my house, so I was worried and took off to find him at the human city.”