Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Exodus ❯ One-Shot

Exodus by: Sakura

A/N Here's the prelude to `Demons Breathe Serenity'. Remember, I said I would write one? Well, this would be the fic I was talking about. Now go read. Standard disclaimers apply.

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[My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
20 bucks should get me through the week
Never said a word of discontentment
Fought it a thousand times but now
I'm leaving home]

I left one of the two places I called home; the Ningenkai. I too, called the Makai my home, but that's where I was running to. One could say I was running out of cowardice; one would call it cowardice because I was leaving from something I feared might happen. But I didn't call it cowardice. No. Not once. I was leaving for her protection. Caring and doing everything for your only sister's safety, no, that isn't something that should be called cowardice.

I entered through one of the few Makai portals, and began looking for the one demon that I could trust. Kurama would have been a good bet, but he was still in the Ningenkai, and if I told him I was leaving, he would have found a way to make me stay. He always did; stupid youko.

I came across a dark alleyway, but when the one I was seeking wasn't here, I pressed onward. Passing many dark woods, I realized that there was something about them that made me feel safe. It must have been my dark branches calling for their leaves. [1]

[Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong]

I had reached Hikari's den. The fire demon I had known since childhood had been killed, but I refused to forget her. I built a small shrine in her memory, and thought about how I would react if someone even closer to me had died. And there was only one other person that close to my heart. Her name was Yukina.

So, I stayed alone, living in a friend's den. It wasn't much, but it was one thing, other than my ki, that kept me warm throughout the harsh winter breezes. As I waited out the blizzards and frosts, I planned out a good time to return to the Ningenkai. I had already missed the Kuwabara's birthday celebration, but it didn't matter. It wasn't like we were anything such as `friends'.

[Two months pass by and it's getting cold
I know I'm not lost
I am just alone
But I won't cry
I won't give up
I can't go back now
Waking up is knowing who you really are]

Then, one day, I made my decision. I was to go back in two month's time. Two months wasn't very long when each day, you're fending off hoards of demons that want you dead. During this time I was to think about Yukina's knowing the truth, or if I should keep on telling her lies.

[Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong]

One month and four days remained. I still hadn't thought much about Yukina or anyone (or anything) from the Ningenkai. I was much too busy doing errands for Mukuro. I hadn't exactly worked for her in a year or two, but since I had nothing better to do... Life was not as easy as it had been.

Seventeen days before I was scheduled to leave, Mukuro assigned me to my biggest mission in years. I passed the offer; if it was such an importance, the Detectives would deal with it. Before I could be asked again, I left bright and early the next morning.

[Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong]

I sat in the giant tree that had spread its roots around the Ningenkai park. It was the largest tree I could find in the whole city, and I could see everything that went on. Being away from the ones I cared for had left me exhausted; or at least the traveling had.

As I lay there, my eyelids topping over their sockets, I felt myself begin to dream of an icy cold island. I knew I would awake from this nightmare in a few minute's time, but it didn't matter to me anymore. I was finally home, and back where I belonged.

[Show me the shadow where true meaning lies
So much more is made in empty eyes]

A/N Eh, that was horrible! I've been told by a few of my fellow authors to stop saying that my writings are bad, but I'm sorry! I just have to say that about this one! I've finished beta-reading it and I noticed this:

In some paragraphs/sections, Hiei is more or less OOC, then I've ever made him, I think. That's all that really bugged me; oh, and the fact that the song lost its meaning in the fic in about the second verse. But anyway...

[1]- Hiei's dark branches searching for its leaves. I don't know if I heard that somewhere or made it up, but it's portraying to a tree. You know, trees have leaves, and Hiei's is dark and lost, so it's looking for its leaves. *sigh* Never mind. I'm not a gardener, so I'll quit with the plant-talk.

Now, after you review (flames are acceptable this time), go and read `Demons Breathe Serenity' which is supposed to take place a few minutes after this one. Okay, so go. Leave me be, I say!