Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Man in the Shadows ❯ Deceived ( Chapter 1 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: Nijuukyuu 
After a long battle, Hiei is exhausted, injured and cold... and he finds a sercet paradise at the end of the dark forest...
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Horror / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 10.16.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 509 | Status: Work In Progress
After a long battle, Hiei is exhausted, injured and cold... and he finds a sercet paradise at the end of the dark forest...
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Horror / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 10.16.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 509 | Status: Work In Progress
Man In The Shadows
By Nijuukyuu (Sunday, April 24, 2005)
Chapter One: Deceived
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The wind howled through the branches of the ancient forest trees; leaves danced with the breeze, leaving the giant trees mostly bare, as some few leaves struggled to stay attached to their places... but the persistent wind was overpowering...
A faint sound echoed through the air, the call of the owl was clear; yet no animal could be spotted anywhere... Could they be hiding in the hollowed in holes of these mysterious and menacing trees? Or maybe they sensed something... but... what?
In this cold, windy forest; a young demon was slowly making his way forward; he hadn't eaten in days, so he was famished, weak and injured from his last battles as well...
As exhausted as he was, he pushed forward; he wanted to find a safe place to sleep, so he wouldn't have to fight if anyone decided to just attack him...
Tired, cold, and starving...
He felt so empty... too tired to really understand where he was, or where he was heading... too cold to even feel his hand tightly gripping his bloody, wounded bandaged arm... so hungry that his stomach ached, and he felt very dizzy and wanted to vomit...
He stopped, leading his back against one of the trees; hugging himself while shivering violently... he closed his eyes tightly, and when he re-opened them, he was staring up into the menacing figures created by shadows on the trees with their spiderylike branches looming over him; with evil, smiling faces mocking him from on every base of those hideous trees.
He pushed himself forward, then nearly tripped, but quickly steadied himself, and began wandering through the woods on what he assumed could offer itself as a path to somewhere - he didn't care where; he just wanted to get through here...
Finally, he felt so tired, his eyes just closed themselves; and his feet still somehow managed to keep walking... each step felt heavier then the last, but his head felt lighter then anything he could imagine...
How many steps he took was unknown to himself; but he continued walking, half-asleep, half-awake; going on until he found himself at the edge of the woods...
"Eh!" He sharply opened his eyes to feel the pain from the cursed branch in front of him slicing his left shoulder, leaving a small scratch... still the blood dribbled down his arm, seeping into his bandage, and combing with the already dried blood on that.
He stared at this for quite a while, feeling a little dizzy and nauseous; he gulped and then realized he had a very dry throat, and it was itching for water...
He closed his eyes tightly, and slowly turned his head forward, opening his eyes to spy this old stone house covered in vines and thorns... this looked like it had been built into a hill or something of the sort as the roof and most of it, were covered in plants, vines and branches, as if it were apart of the trees behind the young demon.
There was a wooden door, with a very old-fashion type of handle... actually, the wood upon the door looked rotten itself... this certainly was a very old, if not ancient, territory.
His stomach rumbled, making him gulp, which just set off his scratchy throat again...
He moved forward a few feet until he was facing the wooden door head-on... he wondered if he would have trouble if he broke in? He was so weak, and exhausted that he certainly couldn't fight nor felt like it tonight...
He was debating for quite a while in his mind, pacing a little, yet lingering near the door... he desperately needed to sleep... not mention eat, drink and take a warm bathe.
Finally, he just decided to bust in as he caught the scent of rain on the breeze, and heard distant rumbles in the clouds; as he broke open the door; he thought he heard someone behind him, so he glanced over his shoulders, but saw nothing, and just then, the door opened for him...
Inside the door, was a narrow, cold, and damp stone stairway leading downwards, as if into a cellar, suggesting by the same type of door at the end down there... but the demon was so desperate to get out of the cold before it started raining that he just carefully and slowly made his way down into the darkness.
He groaned slightly when he accidentally slipped on the last step, and slammed into the wall with his injured left arm taking the most damage... he took deep breathes, and finally opened his eyes which had shut with the pain... he carefully lifted the wood which was keeping the door locked, and slowly pushed it open...
To his surprise, behind this door was a softly torchlit room, with a fountain with water that ran over the top, cascading onto the floor which was stepdown from the normal floor which Hiei was standing upon...
Hiei looked around more, amazed to find such a paradise after this horrible night - he wondered if he could be dreaming... but then again, shouldn't he be having a nightmare like he always did instead?
The walls were covered with thornless vines, and there were two wooden doors on the other side of the wall... it honestly looked like a garden, because of the vines, and the flowers blooming lively around the skirts of the room; and the fountain made everything look ever more beautiful...
Hiei actually smiled when his eyes came upon the white quilted, with fluffy, cloudlike pillows covering the bed up in the corner behind the flower archway a few feet in front of him, where he stood in the doorway.
He cautiously stepped forward, closing the door behind himself, peeling his ears for any sounds inside here... but it was only silent besides for the soothing sound of the cascading fountain... Hiei sighed quietly in relief that when the door had shut; he couldn't hear anything outside...
He walked over to the fountain, and dip his hands into the small bowl, sighing as the water poured down into his hands... slowly, he removed his bandages, and washed his dry bloody arm, causing the beautiful clear water to become crimson red with his blood, eventfully his arm was completely cleaned, and it actually felt healed...
He tossed his dry, and dark red bandages to the corner of the room, deciding to leave his arm alone right now... returning his gaze to the beautiful water, which had filtered out the bloodiness to clear water again; he wondered if he would be able to wash the rest of himself here? But then decided to explore the other two rooms first...
He opened the door on the left of the fountain, and was very pleased to find a similar, yet more empty room - the reason he was so happy was, that in the middle of the room was a small table set for one with all kinds of delicious-looking food.
He walked over, and sat down in the small chair, which was still comfortable, at least to him; while he began to eat; just grabbing whatever he wanted and eating it, without bothering with the fork, spoon or knives, and plate set on the white tablecloth in right of his wooden chair.
After his hunger was satisfied, his stomach felt so much better and he wasn't nauseous anymore or dizzy; he made his way to the other door, opening it up, but never suspecting his next surprise...
In here, dancing blue lights reflected from the pool upon the walls - in here, there was only one torch to light, only that the water seem to give off it's own light...
Hiei went over to the edge of the pool, sitting down, and placing a hand into the water... it felt warm, and relaxing, even just on his hand...
He quickly undressed himself, folding his dark clothes and placing them to one side, then slipped his aching body into the pool; moaning as a relaxing sensation came over his entire body...
After rubbing his skin clean from all the dirt which had been covering most of it, he waded a bit into the center of the pool; removed his headband, tossing it over onto his clothes; and while leaving his Jagan closed, he closed his two other eyes, and slowly lowered himself under the water...
While under the surface, his fingers brushed through his hair, which was a little dirty too actually... He curiously wondered when the last time did he bother to take a bath? He couldn't remember, but it didn't matter now...
With a sudden intake of air, he surfaced again, and made his way over to the end of the pool; Hiei wished he could stay in the water longer, but he feared he'd fall asleep in here, and drown, so he got out and stood completely naked on the edge of the pool, eyeing his dirty clothes laying there in front of his feet.
He really didn't want to put those back on; now that he was all clean, so while he avoided looking at his clothes while thinking; his gaze came upon some white towels hanging on a long bar behind him.
Hiei nodded, and walked over, pulling one large towel down, and proceeded to dry his wet body and hair, when he finally was hanging it back up, his hand brushed against another white towel, which fell to the floor...
As Hiei bent to pick it up, he realized it was a white robe, not a towel... he smiled, and pulled this on, it was a little big on the small demon, but he tied it comfortably around his thin waist, then scooped up his dirty clothes, bringing them back into the first room, and placing them into the second bowl of the fountain, so more water would cascade, and clean them for when he woke up tomorrow.
Hiei made his way to the large bed, pulling back the quilt covers, and crawled into bed, relaxing against the pillows, pulling the quilt up to his chin; sighing and breathing peacefully; he drifted off to a deep sleep...
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A few hours into the late night, Hiei was disturbed by a loud crashing sound; startled he opened his eyes to see two completely shadowed figures, holding this young girl, who was struggling...
Hiei tried to move, but found he couldn't, only his eyes could move around, and he watched in horror as he realized these two beasts were restraining an Ice Maiden, wearing an aqua green kimono, even though she had a blank white mask on her face, Hiei could see she had light aqua greenish blue hair... his heart beat faster as he realized this Ice Maiden looked like his sister, Yukina!
How could this happen? Why couldn't he do anything!
He watched helplessly as the two monsters dragged the whimpering and weeping Ice Maiden up the stone stairs through the broken door, and into that cursed, dark forest...
Hiei was staring, panicked at the doorway, when another monster, whom was cloaked head to toe, came over to Hiei's bedside, and with one large rotten, decayed hand covered Hiei's entire face, and seemed to be trying to suffocate him, until Hiei fainted...
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Once Hiei awakened, he sat up, feeling distressed, and very disturbed after that nightmare... he was taking very deep breathes, as he had one hand covering his face, trying to clear his thoughts...
He finally pulled himself out of bed, stretching his arms, not noticing that his left arm was completely healed... but what he did notice was that the door leading outside was still broken open like it had been in his nightmare... his heartbeat pounding his chest, he lowered his gaze to the floor to notice tear gem pearls scattered about everywhere.
"No..." Hiei gasped, and quickly pulled his completely soaked outfit out of the fountain; he cursed to himself, now he had to let them dry!
Oh well, he just tried squeezing some of the water out, then just gave up, and quickly dressed himself in his wet outfit, and ran outside as fast as he could.
Everything was still as he sharply scanned the area, but only could hear the chirping of innocent birds - it wasn't even windy now, it was just like a normal Spring type of day... the Sun was very warm though...
Hiei cursed to himself as his Jagan failed to pinpoint his sister's location, after fixing his headband, he started off quickly into the woods; worrying like crazy over his little sister, and cursing those monsters... he gasped as he realized... what if that place underground was a setup?
He growled, and wondered if his new enemies could actually be watching him right now?
To Be Continued...
By Nijuukyuu (Sunday, April 24, 2005)
Chapter One: Deceived
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo
The wind howled through the branches of the ancient forest trees; leaves danced with the breeze, leaving the giant trees mostly bare, as some few leaves struggled to stay attached to their places... but the persistent wind was overpowering...
A faint sound echoed through the air, the call of the owl was clear; yet no animal could be spotted anywhere... Could they be hiding in the hollowed in holes of these mysterious and menacing trees? Or maybe they sensed something... but... what?
In this cold, windy forest; a young demon was slowly making his way forward; he hadn't eaten in days, so he was famished, weak and injured from his last battles as well...
As exhausted as he was, he pushed forward; he wanted to find a safe place to sleep, so he wouldn't have to fight if anyone decided to just attack him...
Tired, cold, and starving...
He felt so empty... too tired to really understand where he was, or where he was heading... too cold to even feel his hand tightly gripping his bloody, wounded bandaged arm... so hungry that his stomach ached, and he felt very dizzy and wanted to vomit...
He stopped, leading his back against one of the trees; hugging himself while shivering violently... he closed his eyes tightly, and when he re-opened them, he was staring up into the menacing figures created by shadows on the trees with their spiderylike branches looming over him; with evil, smiling faces mocking him from on every base of those hideous trees.
He pushed himself forward, then nearly tripped, but quickly steadied himself, and began wandering through the woods on what he assumed could offer itself as a path to somewhere - he didn't care where; he just wanted to get through here...
Finally, he felt so tired, his eyes just closed themselves; and his feet still somehow managed to keep walking... each step felt heavier then the last, but his head felt lighter then anything he could imagine...
How many steps he took was unknown to himself; but he continued walking, half-asleep, half-awake; going on until he found himself at the edge of the woods...
"Eh!" He sharply opened his eyes to feel the pain from the cursed branch in front of him slicing his left shoulder, leaving a small scratch... still the blood dribbled down his arm, seeping into his bandage, and combing with the already dried blood on that.
He stared at this for quite a while, feeling a little dizzy and nauseous; he gulped and then realized he had a very dry throat, and it was itching for water...
He closed his eyes tightly, and slowly turned his head forward, opening his eyes to spy this old stone house covered in vines and thorns... this looked like it had been built into a hill or something of the sort as the roof and most of it, were covered in plants, vines and branches, as if it were apart of the trees behind the young demon.
There was a wooden door, with a very old-fashion type of handle... actually, the wood upon the door looked rotten itself... this certainly was a very old, if not ancient, territory.
His stomach rumbled, making him gulp, which just set off his scratchy throat again...
He moved forward a few feet until he was facing the wooden door head-on... he wondered if he would have trouble if he broke in? He was so weak, and exhausted that he certainly couldn't fight nor felt like it tonight...
He was debating for quite a while in his mind, pacing a little, yet lingering near the door... he desperately needed to sleep... not mention eat, drink and take a warm bathe.
Finally, he just decided to bust in as he caught the scent of rain on the breeze, and heard distant rumbles in the clouds; as he broke open the door; he thought he heard someone behind him, so he glanced over his shoulders, but saw nothing, and just then, the door opened for him...
Inside the door, was a narrow, cold, and damp stone stairway leading downwards, as if into a cellar, suggesting by the same type of door at the end down there... but the demon was so desperate to get out of the cold before it started raining that he just carefully and slowly made his way down into the darkness.
He groaned slightly when he accidentally slipped on the last step, and slammed into the wall with his injured left arm taking the most damage... he took deep breathes, and finally opened his eyes which had shut with the pain... he carefully lifted the wood which was keeping the door locked, and slowly pushed it open...
To his surprise, behind this door was a softly torchlit room, with a fountain with water that ran over the top, cascading onto the floor which was stepdown from the normal floor which Hiei was standing upon...
Hiei looked around more, amazed to find such a paradise after this horrible night - he wondered if he could be dreaming... but then again, shouldn't he be having a nightmare like he always did instead?
The walls were covered with thornless vines, and there were two wooden doors on the other side of the wall... it honestly looked like a garden, because of the vines, and the flowers blooming lively around the skirts of the room; and the fountain made everything look ever more beautiful...
Hiei actually smiled when his eyes came upon the white quilted, with fluffy, cloudlike pillows covering the bed up in the corner behind the flower archway a few feet in front of him, where he stood in the doorway.
He cautiously stepped forward, closing the door behind himself, peeling his ears for any sounds inside here... but it was only silent besides for the soothing sound of the cascading fountain... Hiei sighed quietly in relief that when the door had shut; he couldn't hear anything outside...
He walked over to the fountain, and dip his hands into the small bowl, sighing as the water poured down into his hands... slowly, he removed his bandages, and washed his dry bloody arm, causing the beautiful clear water to become crimson red with his blood, eventfully his arm was completely cleaned, and it actually felt healed...
He tossed his dry, and dark red bandages to the corner of the room, deciding to leave his arm alone right now... returning his gaze to the beautiful water, which had filtered out the bloodiness to clear water again; he wondered if he would be able to wash the rest of himself here? But then decided to explore the other two rooms first...
He opened the door on the left of the fountain, and was very pleased to find a similar, yet more empty room - the reason he was so happy was, that in the middle of the room was a small table set for one with all kinds of delicious-looking food.
He walked over, and sat down in the small chair, which was still comfortable, at least to him; while he began to eat; just grabbing whatever he wanted and eating it, without bothering with the fork, spoon or knives, and plate set on the white tablecloth in right of his wooden chair.
After his hunger was satisfied, his stomach felt so much better and he wasn't nauseous anymore or dizzy; he made his way to the other door, opening it up, but never suspecting his next surprise...
In here, dancing blue lights reflected from the pool upon the walls - in here, there was only one torch to light, only that the water seem to give off it's own light...
Hiei went over to the edge of the pool, sitting down, and placing a hand into the water... it felt warm, and relaxing, even just on his hand...
He quickly undressed himself, folding his dark clothes and placing them to one side, then slipped his aching body into the pool; moaning as a relaxing sensation came over his entire body...
After rubbing his skin clean from all the dirt which had been covering most of it, he waded a bit into the center of the pool; removed his headband, tossing it over onto his clothes; and while leaving his Jagan closed, he closed his two other eyes, and slowly lowered himself under the water...
While under the surface, his fingers brushed through his hair, which was a little dirty too actually... He curiously wondered when the last time did he bother to take a bath? He couldn't remember, but it didn't matter now...
With a sudden intake of air, he surfaced again, and made his way over to the end of the pool; Hiei wished he could stay in the water longer, but he feared he'd fall asleep in here, and drown, so he got out and stood completely naked on the edge of the pool, eyeing his dirty clothes laying there in front of his feet.
He really didn't want to put those back on; now that he was all clean, so while he avoided looking at his clothes while thinking; his gaze came upon some white towels hanging on a long bar behind him.
Hiei nodded, and walked over, pulling one large towel down, and proceeded to dry his wet body and hair, when he finally was hanging it back up, his hand brushed against another white towel, which fell to the floor...
As Hiei bent to pick it up, he realized it was a white robe, not a towel... he smiled, and pulled this on, it was a little big on the small demon, but he tied it comfortably around his thin waist, then scooped up his dirty clothes, bringing them back into the first room, and placing them into the second bowl of the fountain, so more water would cascade, and clean them for when he woke up tomorrow.
Hiei made his way to the large bed, pulling back the quilt covers, and crawled into bed, relaxing against the pillows, pulling the quilt up to his chin; sighing and breathing peacefully; he drifted off to a deep sleep...
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo
A few hours into the late night, Hiei was disturbed by a loud crashing sound; startled he opened his eyes to see two completely shadowed figures, holding this young girl, who was struggling...
Hiei tried to move, but found he couldn't, only his eyes could move around, and he watched in horror as he realized these two beasts were restraining an Ice Maiden, wearing an aqua green kimono, even though she had a blank white mask on her face, Hiei could see she had light aqua greenish blue hair... his heart beat faster as he realized this Ice Maiden looked like his sister, Yukina!
How could this happen? Why couldn't he do anything!
He watched helplessly as the two monsters dragged the whimpering and weeping Ice Maiden up the stone stairs through the broken door, and into that cursed, dark forest...
Hiei was staring, panicked at the doorway, when another monster, whom was cloaked head to toe, came over to Hiei's bedside, and with one large rotten, decayed hand covered Hiei's entire face, and seemed to be trying to suffocate him, until Hiei fainted...
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo
Once Hiei awakened, he sat up, feeling distressed, and very disturbed after that nightmare... he was taking very deep breathes, as he had one hand covering his face, trying to clear his thoughts...
He finally pulled himself out of bed, stretching his arms, not noticing that his left arm was completely healed... but what he did notice was that the door leading outside was still broken open like it had been in his nightmare... his heartbeat pounding his chest, he lowered his gaze to the floor to notice tear gem pearls scattered about everywhere.
"No..." Hiei gasped, and quickly pulled his completely soaked outfit out of the fountain; he cursed to himself, now he had to let them dry!
Oh well, he just tried squeezing some of the water out, then just gave up, and quickly dressed himself in his wet outfit, and ran outside as fast as he could.
Everything was still as he sharply scanned the area, but only could hear the chirping of innocent birds - it wasn't even windy now, it was just like a normal Spring type of day... the Sun was very warm though...
Hiei cursed to himself as his Jagan failed to pinpoint his sister's location, after fixing his headband, he started off quickly into the woods; worrying like crazy over his little sister, and cursing those monsters... he gasped as he realized... what if that place underground was a setup?
He growled, and wondered if his new enemies could actually be watching him right now?
To Be Continued...