Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Fire or Ice? ❯ I'll Find You ( Chapter 9 )

Sorry for the wait, but I had writers block, and I've got like two other stories I'm writing right now. But, anyway, it's short, but whatever. Hope you enjoy. And I really appreciate all the reviews I'm getting. I thank you all, and hope you like the way this story is going.

 

Love,

Robin

 

Chapter nine

I'll Find You

 

/mind/

 

Hiei landed in what felt like snow. He just lay there, as his strength was slowly coming back to him. His thoughts rested on Archer, and what she had done for him. He wanted to get up and find her, but he didn't have the strength. His anger grew as he thought about Ruri, and what she would do with Arc. It disgusted him.

 

'Damnable woman', he thought as he gathered up all his strength, and concentrated on her. He was up in a matter of seconds, and was gone in a flash, melting snow under him as he raced towards Yusuke and the others.

 

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The metal door to the room was closed tightly, and was already frozen over as the icy winds continued to blow fiercely. The whole room was now covered in ice, and the winds were unrelenting.

 

Arc still sat there, unmoved by all of this. The only change was her appearance. Her hair had turned white, and her eyes were even more of an icy blue, that looked as cold as stone. But, her eyes looked glazed over, as if she wasn't really there, which she wasn't.

 

/Arc sat in the cold, dark water that rippled at her waist. She felt trapped, even though she could move at any given time, she just didn't want to. She didn't want to move, didn't want to be there, she didn't even want to breath. But, better to be in here, than out there, with Ruri.

 

The dark gray and black clouds above her covered the sky completely, as bolts of lightning flashed nearby, threatening to come closer. She still sat there, even as they closed in around her, shocking the water. A column of black and white lightning shot straight down from the air and hit her.

 

She screamed as they continued to shock her. More waves of electricity hit her hard, forcing her down into the water. Everything peaceful around her shattered, as lightning and thunder shook her, and the water, creating tidal waves roared in her mind./

 

Ice broke through the door, and scaled up the walls, traveling on the ceilings throughout the castle.

 

/The column of lightning grew tenfold, as it expanded across the vast land of dark water.

 

Her body was lifted into the air, as her head was tilted back. Flames rushed down her arms and flew into the whirlwind around her, becoming one with it. The black, red, and white column around her still grew as it shocked her body again./

 

The ice began to seep through the cracks in the walls and they began to crumble. Ruri was in her personal chambers when the walls around her began to fall.

 

Small strings of fire flew from the tips of her fingers and danced across the floor, but didn't melt the ice that was implanted there, or anywhere else. It flashed down the corridors and attacked everything in it's path. Demons flew from the castle as it began to crumble, as everything and everyone inside of it began to go up in either flames or be captured by ice.

 

Ruri ran out of her room, and tried to get to Arc, but a wall of ice suddenly formed in front of her. She tried to break through it, but small threads of ice, like piano wire shot out of it, and impaled her through the wrist, and cut the side of her face. She broke the ice, and tried to pull the thin shard out of her arm, but it kept on breaking into smaller pieces, like glass, but colder.

 

She backed away, and made a portal for herself to leave in. She escaped, just as the roof caved in.

 

/ “You can't run forever Ruri. I'll get you”, she said, as the column of flames and lightning disappeared.

 

She began to fall in the air, back down towards the water. She stopped right before she hit the dark surface, and than sat in the same spot again.

 

Arc knew what was happening to her now, even if no one else did. She had two different sides to her. Half ice, and half fire. If she ever wanted to control her powers, than she was going to have to combine them, and find her true form.

 

She sat there, as everything around her grew cold. The water froze over, as she closed her eyes. The ice began to climb it's way up her body, but she didn't move, didn't breath, just concentrated.

 

Balls of fire like comets began to shoot down out of the clouds and hit the ice but, the ice didn't melt, didn't break.

 

The ice began to crawl up her neck and finally her face. Her whole body was covered in it./

 

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A demon ran into Koenma's office, and gave him a folder. He than hurriedly tried to explain what had happened, but was cut off by Koenma, as he couldn't understand a word he was saying.

 

He read through the file, his eyes growing wider and wider by the next paragraph. He took a sharp intake of breath as he realized who she was.

 

“Get Yusuke and the others down here now”, he yelled.

 

The demon managed a yes sir, as he ran out of the room, but just as he opened the door, Hiei and the others burst through the room.

 

“Where is she”, he snarled, as he grabbed the toddler by the collar.

 

“I just found out. I'm sorry”, Koenma stuttered.

 

“Where is she”, Hiei repeated.

 

“She's still at the castle, but she.... uh...”

 

“What”, Yusuke asked in anger. Hiei was not the only one upset by all of this. They all were, even though some of the others could keep themselves more under control.

 

“She sorta took down the castle, but Ruri escaped. Archer is still there, for now anyway. She's still alive, and is in pretty good health. Other than that, I don't know anything else.”

 

Koenma smiled, and Hiei threw him back into his chair.

 

“Where's the castle”, Kurama asked.

 

“Botan will take you.”

 

He called her name, and she appeared in front of Kuwabara who fell to the floor, holding his heart.

 

“Stop doing that”, he stammered as he stood up and rubbed his butt.

 

“Sorry about that”, she said with a laugh.

 

“Enough of this”, Hiei muttered with a cold hatred burning in his eyes.

 

Koenma gave Botan her instructions and a look of fear came across her face.

 

“Don't worry, she's not there right now”, Koenma said in reassurance.

 

She didn't say anything as she opened a portal, and took them all through. Kuwabara and the others stared at her curiously, except Hiei who wanted nothing more than to cut off Ruri's head.

 

“Um, Botan, why'd ya turn all pale when Koenma told you where we were going”, Kuwabara asked.

 

Botan answered in all seriousness, as a harsh look overcame her face. Something none of them had ever seen on her before. Even Hiei was distracted from his thoughts of torture for the she demon.

 

“A few years ago, Ruri thought it would help her to have Death on her side, especially since I was a woman. So, she took me, and tried to make me into one of her little legions. But, I refused, and so she tortured me, trying to get me to cave in, but I still didn't. I was there for awhile because she would move around a lot, so Koenma couldn't find me. Until she settled down in the castle that we're going to now. It was a mistake she would regret. Koenma found me, and sent his best demons after me, and most of them died, but they still got me out of there. Koenma threatened that he would send an army of demons to attack her castle if she ever tried to capture me again, and so she left me alone after that. I haven't see her since than.”

 

They all stared in shock at what she just confessed too. Than abruptly she turned around and smiled cheerfully, and said, “We're here!”

 

“Good”, Hiei said, as he ran off at lightning speed, and searched for any sign of Archer.

 

He jumped through the rubble and began to dig up the rocks when he felt... cold air.

 

He leapt in the air and followed the sensation that chilled his body for a second, before his own warmth soothed him.

 

He found a large wall of ice, that had needle like shards sticking out of it.

 

'Found her!'

 

He placed his hand on the ice, and it melted beneath his fingers. Soon there was a large hole that he climbed through. He walked towards the only remaining walls of the castle that still stood.

 

Hiei found her, with a large web of ice around her body. He glided across the ice floor, melting it beneath him. He raised his hand to the web and it began to melt away. It all disappeared in a matter of seconds, and he grabbed her.

 

He carried her out and was greeted by the rest of the gang. Yusuke smirked and Kuwabara jumped in the air with joy. Kurama stayed silent, as Botan began to create another portal to Genkai's.

 

Yukina was waiting in the living room for them. She looked worried as Hiei carried her in and set her down on the couch.

 

Her hair and skin color were still the same. She didn't appear to be breathing.

 

Genkai appeared behind them, and pushed them out of the way. She looked her over, and than walked away.

 

“Wait”, Yusuke yelled.

 

Genkai stopped and turned around.

 

“What's wrong with her”, he asked.

 

“She's locked herself in her mind. She'll probably die if she doesn't come out of there soon”, she said with no emotion in her voice, as she turned on her heel and went down the hall.

 

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Later,

Robin