Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Lost and Found ❯ Splendor/6 month-April ( Chapter 6 )
Chapter 6: Splendor/6 months
Shuichi sat in a winter garden reading a book. She spent the last six months in the Koorime city without trouble. But she still aches for the greenery of the Makai forests but like most of her symptoms she bit her lip and got through it. She went on a few shopping trips with Rui and her friends but declined a lot of them for drowsiness. She was starting to get more and more tired but she didn't let it stop her from going on with a semi-normal life in the Koorime territory.
`Hiei should be with us.'
`Will you give it a rest? He doesn't love us.'
`We can try to feel him. We may still have the connection.'
`It's gone! I tried it months ago and it's lost. We broke it.'
`You can't break the bond! It can never be broken, that's why youko mate for life! Because the bond can't be broken!'
`Recheck that, will you. Because our's broken.'
`It can't be!'
`What else would you call it?'
Youko was silent. For once the centuries old fox didn't have anything to say. Shuichi returned to her reading as Tina watched her endlessly. Tina never left Shuichi's side for anything unless Shuichi said so. She didn't care. The ningen's silent presence was soothing to her. Like when . . . No, she would not think of him! Not any more. It was over between them. That was that.
Shuichi turned her attention back to the book but couldn't read it. She was thinking about what Youko said. Could the bond be broken? Could it just have been a mistake to leave? She knew she was pregnant but she ran and now she was in a place she didn't really want to be. Was it the right thing?
"Shuichi!"
Shuichi looked up to see Rui running to her with what looked like an invitation in her hands.
"Yes, Rui?" she asked looking up from her book.
"The Lady Jimena is holding a baby shower for you. She figured that you would want one!"
"Rui, I don't want to expose myself too much! I'm not a Koorime you know that!"
"But if you don't go they'll suspect and it's being held for you!"
"If I have to but don't make it too long! I don't want to slip up on your customs."
"Of course."
They went shopping the next day and got Shuichi some new wardrobe. She really didn't want to go shopping but she didn't want the other Koorimes to be suspicious on why she wasn't getting out more. The day of the shower she wore a blue and white kimono and her hair was up. She greeted the guests and conversed with them when they talked. Soon she felt claustrophobic and left outside saying politely that she needed some air and needed to be alone. She walked into the nearby woods and breathed in the pine scent. She looked up at the sky and saw a star shining brightly.
`Going to make a wish?'
`Shut up.'
`Well, are you?'
`I don't have to answer you.'
`I believe I know what you wish for. You want Hiei back, don't you?'
`Be quiet.'
`And you want him to hold you like he used to and love you like he used to.'
`I told you he doesn't want us any more! He broke the bond!'
`He could be crying over our disappearance.'
`Or he's going to find some new lover, like Mukuro.'
`He wouldn't. . . .You feel that?'
`Yes, it's Hiei!'
She ran down the line of tree and her ki instinctively made a shield to protect her. She didn't want to see Hiei again, he would kill her.
`Shuichi, what are you doing?! Turn around! He's here!'
`I know baka! Why do you think I'm running?'
`He's looking for us!'
`To kill us!'
`Shuichi? Shuichi! No! Power down! Power down!'
`I-I can't! Kurama, help me! Kurama!'
`Shuichi!' And she fainted.
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There! He knew he had it that time! It was Kurama! Hiei had spent the last three more months looking none stop and still didn't find anything. He had searched the entire Makai, except the Koorime territory. It had taken him another week to decide if he was going to risk going their but he decided that for Kurama he would travel the pits of Hell just to find him.
He had found a cave that looked like someone had lived their but it had been abandoned for weeks. He made camp there while he searched for Kurama and still couldn't find his fox. He was getting impatient to hold the fox in his arms again. And he missed the fox a lot. The others and Shiori still haven't given up on finding Kurama. They came back to her once a week with the same answer and Hiei would see her when he went back to report on his findings. They had gotten used to each other and Shiori even adopted him as a second son. She always asked him what his relationship was with Kurama was and Hiei told her plan and simple that they were just friends but he could sense that she believed it was something more. He didn't tell because he knew it was Kurama's job to tell his mother the truth. So he gave the same answer to Shiori every time she asked. They were just friends.
He ran toward the source of the power surge and nearly tripped when he found that it lead him to the city. He jumped in a tree when he heard people surround a girl with sky blue hair who seemed to have fainted in the snow.
"Shuichi, Shuichi, are you okay?"
Hiei nearly slipped from his perch but kept his balance. It couldn't be Kurama. Shuichi was a uni-sex name so he didn't let his hopes up. Besides the girl didn't look a thing like Kurama. He watched as a human guard too; the girl and carried her inside. When they were all back in he left and continued his search for his fox.
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I GOT THIS BACK!!! I'm trying to remember what I wrote so don't sue me if it's bad!! And flames will be used to cook marshmallows. Mmmm, s'mores!