Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Fire or Ice? ❯ Arc, What's Wrong? ( Chapter 10 )

It's short, I know, sorry about that. I guess I'm having a lot of writers block lately. Oh well, can't do nothing about that right now, so um... yeah. Thanks to everyone out there that reads and reviews this story. I'm just glad that someone likes it. Oh, and I just got an account on fictionpress.com, as Valentina Chang, weird name, I know. But, Ill be putting some stuff up there in a few days, so check it out. Thanks.

 

Love,

Robin

 

Chapter ten

Arc, What's wrong?

 

“Dammit”, Yusuke yelled in anger and frustration.

 

“We finally find her, and now we can't even help her”, he kept going on.

 

“Yusuke, don't worry. She's strong, even if she doesn't know it. She'll be able to find herself and come out of all of this alive”, Kurama said with a smile.

 

“I-is there anything I can do to help”, Yukina asked with concern laced in her soft voice.

 

“No, Yukina, there is nothing that any of us can do. Only she can help herself now”, Kurama answered in a more serious than pleasant voice.

 

Hiei stared down at her, mentally wishing her to come out of there, to return to the way she was; to breath. The worry he felt crept onto his face, surprising everyone in the room.

 

Kuwabara sat on the floor with his legs crossed and his face deformed with a look that showed that he was trying to think hard. Yusuke leaned on a wall, with his eyes closed, and his breathing disturbing the whole room.

 

“Urameshi, shut up! I can't think with you breathing so loudly”, Kuwabara yelled.

 

Yukina jumped at the sudden intruding voice that broke the silence.

 

“Shut up Kuwabara. It's not like you can actually think”, he shouted back.

 

Kuwabara jumped up from his spot on the floor and walked up to Yusuke, who was now standing up straight with his fists clutched at his sides. They started bickering loudly, making Yukina jump again.

 

/The ice around her whole body began to grow thicker, and than started to crack. The fire balls deceased, and the water around her began to unfreeze and turn back to normal.

 

The cocoon made out of ice began to crack more loudly, even though she didn't move an inch. Than, her eyes shot open, and the ice shattered around her.

 

She sucked in air rapidly, making her cough, and than choke. She started to breathe again, as the clouds above her drifted away, letting in a bit of light from a clear, white moon.

 

Her eyes and hair had turned back to their normal color, as everything began to look... more clear to her. Sharper, more defined.

 

She suddenly became overwhelmed with sleep, as she fell back into the water, and closed her eyes./

 

“Would you two shut the hell up-”, Hiei started to yell at them, but was interrupted by the sounds of someone breathing, and than coughing.

 

They all looked towards Arc as she began to choke. Hiei sat her up, but didn't let go of her, as she began to wake.

 

She looked around the room, as everyone began to grow huge smiles on their faces. Her eyes than rested on Hiei's face, and she smiled tiredly up at him, and reached her timid hand up to his face. It dropped before it reached his face, along with her eyes.

 

Hiei smirked, as Kuwabara and Yusuke were suddenly screaming her name.

 

“Shut up you fools, she's sleeping”, he said cooly.

 

“Huh”, the idiots both stammered as they looked at her.

 

Unfortunately, they stared to long at her chest that was slowly going up and down, making Hiei chase them around and beat them up.

 

After he punished the fools, he pulled Arc into his arms and carried her into a room where she could be more comfortable. Yukina followed.

 

He set her down in the bed and than turned around to see Yukina.

 

“Do you mind if I check her”, she asked.

 

“Hn”, he answered as he disappeared out of the room.

 

Yukina walked over to Arc and looked her over on her arms and legs, than her neck and stomach but, couldn't find any cuts or even bruises. She checked in a few other places, but no where too personal, and still couldn't find anything.

 

She tucked her into the bed, and drew the comforter below her chin.

 

“I'm glad you're all right”, she whispered to her, and than walked out of the room.

 

Just as she slide the door shut, Hiei appeared in a dark corner of the room, the only one that the room boasted. He walked over to her and looked her over, but didn't look many places. He just wanted to make sure that she was still breathing.

 

She was. But, he didn't leave the room. He went back to the little corner and rested against it, watching her sleep.

 

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Arc woke a few hours later with a jolt as the sound of lightning crashed outside her window.

 

Hiei woke from where he stood and looked at her as she sat up and clutched the comforter.

 

“Arc”, he said, as he walked towards her.

 

She looked up and he saw tears in her eyes.

 

'Why', he thought.

 

“Hiei”, she whispered.

 

She suddenly grabbed him in a hug, pulling him down onto the bed. He landed beside her, as she held him firmly around the waist.

 

“Arc, what's wrong”, he asked, as he brushed away the hair that clung to her forehead from sweat.

 

“Hiei, are you all right”, she asked worriedly.

 

“W-what”, he said shocked. How could she be worried about him?

 

“Did Ruri do anything to you”, she asked.

 

“Arc....”

 

He looked at her, and couldn't believe that she was so worried about him? After everything that happened to her, she was worried about... him?

 

“No, Arc. She didn't do anything to me. I'm fine.”

 

Arc closed her eyes and smiled a small, sad smile that made Hiei wonder.

 

“Go back to sleep”, he said as he shifted his position, so that she was laying next to him with his arms around her.

 

“OK. But, you better be here when I wake up”, she said tiredly with a smile.

 

“I will, don't worry”, he soothed her, as she shut her eyes and fell back asleep.

 

Hiei didn't sleep that night.

 

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Love,

Robin