Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Friends ❯ Revealing the Past ( Chapter 6 )

Friends-Chapter 6

Me: Still stuck inside the tower. Have been for two days now. Hopefully Hiei will kill enough fan guys so that they reach the window soon. (glancing down out the window) He's about halfway there now.

Hiei: Die!!! Fan guys must DIE!! (Killing fan guys that are climbing over their dead comrades)

Me: Make that three-quarters of the way. HIEI!

Hiei: Yes, Koibito? (jumps into the room)

Me: (Blushing) Shh! Just read the stuff!

Hiei: (Smug smile at jealous fan guys) OH.sorry. Ok. standard disclaimers apply. Last chapter, I woke up and Kiru absorbed the brunt of my wound. Kiru, after realizing she wasn't strong enough to break the connection of the spell, but unable to face the whole wound without dying, fell unconscious in my arms...(puppy sad eyes) Poor Koi…(composes himself) After some conflict, and a little violence, I got the good wishes of my friends and got ready to try and break the connection. Now I must save her!

Me: Good boy, now go kill some fan guys for me.

Hiei: (deranged grin) Yes, Koi. (continues killing fan guys)

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Hiei closes his eyes and concentrates on finding the energy link between his and Kiru's souls. He searches for what seems like forever in this situation where every second counted, before he finally senses the link. He smiles as he locates the energy thread. Found it!

He pauses for a moment and looks at it- strong and thick on his side, slowly thinning out and fraying as it goes near Kiru, where the bond looks almost ready to break, indicating her weakening youki. Kiru…Hang on, I'm coming.

Then he remembers his main problem- how to break the bond. K'so.I don't remember! He thinks for a moment. Maybe Kiru remembers...but- she's out. He mentally sighs. I have no choice, forgive me for not asking first- but I have to search your mind. He braces himself for the always-tumultuous trip into Kiru's memories.

Shit, even unconscious, your mind is a death trap. I'd hate to see what would happen to someone who invaded your mind when you're in peak condition.

He finds the memory in question buried in a well-guarded section of her mind. He explores the memory, but finds something odd. Another memory linked to this one? But this was the day she was captured. He decided to investigate.

-- flashback--

My god. Hiei thinks to himself as he looks at both Kiru and himself. We were so young. He was in his same black sweatpants, but was wearing a yellow- and I mean YELLOW- tank top. His cloak was still there, but both his scarf and his bandanna were yellow, too. Guess that I have changed just as much as Kiru. He looked at her, smiling sadly at her. She looks so young. Her hair was long and in a high ponytail. She was also wearing bright colors- a bright green turtle necked, sleeveless tunic and bandanna, along with black pants as usual. Both of them wore smiles- small ones- but smiles nonetheless. Time hadn't corrupted them too badly yet, he figured. Too bad those happy days didn't last.

--

It is a familiar sight to them- the small dojo where they were mastering their jaganist techniques. It seemed like it would be a normal day. They had just finished learning the healing technique that was only to be used in an emergency, and were comparing their telekinesis.

'Now kids,' the sensei says, 'Remember that you must materialize your weapon to break the thread in the middle, should it become necessary.'

'Yes, sensei,' they replied, retying their bandannas.

'Good,' sensei says, returning to the dojo to meditate and then to prepare dinner, 'now practice your telekinesis until dinner is ready.'

'Okay,' they had said, and got out the plates that they used to practice floating objects with their telekinetic powers.

'Dammit, Kiru!' Hiei shouts as his plate drops on the ground and shatters, 'Why do you always beat me at this telekinesis crap?' He watches as she opens her eyes and looks at him, mischief in her eyes.

'I gotta be better than you at something,' she says simply, rolling her eyes and lowering her arms, bringing down the plate, making it float just above Hiei's head, 'You beat me at almost everything else.' She smiles before moving the plate to float near where his was before it fell, then drops it, also shattering hers. 'There- happy now?' she teases, looking over her bare shoulder.

'No,' he growls, blurring over to her and pinning her against a nearby tree, his hands trapping her wrists against the tree, 'I'll show you what will make me happy.' He lowers his head and kisses her- teasing her by running his tongue over the outside of her fangs before delving inside. Kiru playfully nips his tongue before running her own over his fangs. He breaks the kiss, and steps back, keeping her wrists pinned, before raking his eyes over her extremely pleasing form. He gives her a rakish grin. 'Shall we,' he says, sending a picture of the nearby cave that was their…'den,' for lack of a better word. 'We have time before dinner,' he says, kissing his way down her throat, where he pulls away her tunic and bites her throat, piercing her skin slightly with his fangs and tasting her sweet blood.

'Now, Hiei,' she chides, pulling away and looking in his eyes, 'we should at least stay home tonight.' She drops her gaze, frowning sadly, 'It is our last night, after all.'

Hiei releases her arms and pulls her into his warm embrace. 'Don't you worry,' he says as she wraps her arms around his neck and rests her head on his shoulder, 'We'll be together no matter what.' She smiles and kisses him softly, drowning her worries in his loving arms.

'By the way,' he says, pulling her away to the bench near the entrance to their room, 'I have something for you.' He sits her down on the bench, where she brings up her legs and rests her arms on them. She watches as he rummages in his pocket in search for it, and rests her head on her arms. He was still searching for it when she had heard a sound towards the front of the building.

Unbeknownst to them, the nightmare had begun.

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Before he could find his present to her, those bastards has showed up and killed their sensei- also ruining what was supposed to have been the most romantic moment of his entire life.

They had barely been able to escape before the dojo that had been their home for the past nine months had exploded. Even then, running at top speed, Kiru had been caught and he thought he had lost her- that was until he thought he had sensed her energy slowly approaching Mukuro's territory a few months ago, let alone seen her since then.

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'Ahh!' Kiru cried out as one of the chain balls wrapped around her ankles, tripping her. She hit the ground with a thud.

'Kiru!' Hiei called to her, stopping and turning around in time to see Kiru being caught and held by one of the thugs that had been sent to kill them.

'Run!' she called back, 'Please!' She was dragged off. 'Run, I promise we'll meet again!'

'Kiru.' Damn it! Why now? He thinks, fingering his gift after finding it at last.

'Go!' she cried out, her voice desperate.

'Promise me- we'll meet again so I can give you my present.'

'I promise,' she says smiling at him before elbowing one of her captors.

'I love you.' He said as he began to run.

'And I you.' The last words he had heard from her.

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Now, he thought, suppressing his anger over the past, here was something new. The memory was of what had happened to her after she had been caught. I always wondered how she survived.

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Kiru slammed against the wall, sent flying by a punch to her already bruised cheek. She raised her head and bared her fangs, still defiant even though she had been badly beaten over the past few hours.

'Still won't tell us who your little partner is, bitch?' one of the captors sneered at her, snapping his whip, knowing full well that she wouldn't tell, and anticipating the pleasure that he would get from beating her- again.

'No,' she growled back, 'I'll never tell.' Please be safe and don't come after me…Hiei.

'Good,' he smiled evilly, gazing at the skin bared by his whip just a few minutes ago. He grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and threw her against a low stone table in the middle of the room and drew back his whip, only to be rewarded with a fireball into his gut.

'Care for some more of that,' Kiru sneered at him, blowing smoke off of her hand.

'You BITCH!' he shouted backhanding her and knocking her against a table. He grabbed her again and punched her over and over again, stopping only when she was unconscious. 'Prepare to suffer.'

--

Hiei growled as he watched the scene blacked out before him. Why didn't I follow her? He watched as she regained consciousness once more.

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Kiru awoke with a terrible headache, probably due to the beating she had sustained before she blacked out. She tried to raise her hand to her head but found that her arms were pinned to the table and the rest of her body was pinned to a chair next to the table. Upon trying to break them, she found that the fastenings were made of wards that cut off her power. She growled in frustration, thinking she was alone.

'Ahh…The slut is awake,' the captor sneered, taking a small dagger out of a sheath on his hip. He shoved it into a small coal pit that Kiru could sense was very hot. 'And just in time for the 'festivities,' he said, his smile betraying some evil plan of torture in retort for his earlier flaming.

Three more guards had come into the room by this time and had also shoved their blades into the coals. 'This is that one human culture's torture technique,' one of them said.

'Yeah,' said another, 'they take the blade and heat it, then they ask questions.'

'Hah,' the last one said, 'and then, when they don't answer, they cut them with the blade and it instantly cauterizes.' They all cackled with glee. 'This one'll have tons of wounds by the time we're done!'

Kiru had heard enough by that time and spat at the guards, who were about three feet away. The main captor- the one who had hit her earlier- slapped her again, causing her head to whip to the side, and a thin trail of blood to run down her chin. They all laughed again and sat down out of earshot to watch her torture.

The guard grabbed one of the now glowing blades from the coals. 'Now then,' he said, grabbing her hair and pulling back her head, 'who's your partner?'

She said nothing.

'You're choice,' he smiled, grabbed the blade with one hand, and her arm with another, and sliced her skin.

--

Hiei gasped as he watched her put up with the torture silently. He felt sick as he watched the guards take turns slashing her delicate skin over and over again. They continued, laughing maniacally with every slash. She still said nothing. Her only reaction was to get even more defiant. His anger kept rising as he watched the memory's end.

--

'Damn it,' the guard said, dropping his blade onto the ground, 'she just won't talk.'

'Yeah,' the other said, 'and she won't even gasp in pain.'

'Besides,' the third wined, 'we're out of room.' He looked at Kiru's arms, which were now covered with cauterized slashes in close intervals. Kiru still sat stoically in her chair, her face emotionless, with bored eyes. I haven't failed you…Hiei.

'Might as well just toss her into the snow,' the leader said, disgusted with her lack of reaction. 'She may not flinch in pain, but she will freeze before she reaches the edge of the tundra.'

She closed her eyes. I'm sorry Hiei...I broke my promise...forgive me. A single tear fell from her eyes and hit the floor as a pile of ashes.

--

Hiei watched, pain clenching his heart as he watched her get tossed into the middle of the largest frozen tundra in the Makai. Kiru…Why? She continued to stoically endure her punishment until the guards left her in the middle of the tundra. The memory continued but he couldn't endure any more of it- it didn't matter that he knew she had survived- he broke the connection he had with her memory and returned to the link, rage and sorrow flooding his system.

He summoned up his sword and prepared to slash it, his rage causing the blade to be taken up by his dragon's flames. He could feel the Black Dragon's rage over the memory as it roared in agreement of Hiei's newest plan.

'I'll avenge your pain, Kiru,' he vowed as he raised his sword, 'I swear it.' He brought the sword down onto the cord and slashed it in half in one blow, breaking the connection that was sapping her life away.

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Hiei: Must kill captors!

Me: (climbing over the now window high pile of dead fan guys) So much for the fan guys. Well I hope you enjoyed this painful journey into Kiru's past. Please review. Your comments are greatly appreciated. I want to know what you want to see, so think up some good suggestions. The best ones will be integrated into the next, and unfortunately last, few chapters. So start thinking of what you want to see after this story is done!

Hiei: Kiru! Come on! I have to kill those guys. (He grabs her and hugs her to him) Don't worry- I'll never let any one touch you again! (He glares at the fan guys, who back away in terror)

Me: Tune in for more soon! Hope you enjoyed! Bye! CU later!