Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Retrieving His Heart ❯ Why Weren't We Able? ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: Why Weren't

We Able?

 

 

 

Hiei groaned as he sat up straight. He had fallen out of his 25ft. tree, landed on his face, and then flipped over onto his back.

“Hiei, did you fall out…again?” Kurama asked, popping his head out of his tent.

“Feh!” Hiei replied and glared at the towering oak.

“It's not the tree's fault.” Kurama said.

“I'm not stupid, fox!” Hiei snarled. “I just keep dreaming about Neka and then I fall!” Then his face went blank at what he just said.

“You remember her well enough to dream about her? Interesting.” Kurama mused thoughtfully. Yusuke and Kuwabara overheard what Hiei had said and both started cracking up in their separate tents.

“So what if I dream about her? I have a right to.” Hiei snapped at the spirit fox, not hearing the rising laughter of his human comrades.

“Yes, I know. Shame she's gotten kidnapped again. It's sad the way she just doesn't do anything about it though.” Kurama thought aloud.

“She can't, you fool. Stupid barrier Koenma put on her stops her from killing humans.”

“Why does he care so much? Do you think you've got a competitor?”
“Hn, no. If pacifier-breath does love her, then I'll slit his throat.”
“You're possessive, y'know that, Hiei?” Yusuke said as he stuck his head out of his tent. He instantly regretted doing so because Hiei had punched him square in the face. “WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!” Yusuke yelled angrily.

“For eavesdropping, you baka detective!” Hiei shouted.

“So what?! Just because YOU are careless enough to LET me eavesdrop doesn't mean you get to hit me!” Yusuke yelled fiercely.

At this moment, Kuwabara decided to speak up. “I don't blame ya, shrimp. Neka's hot!” he said with a grin. Hiei's eyes had a flicker in them that translated into: `If you want to live, run' easily.

“Yeah, she was sure a looker! Wonder if she's old enough to-” Yusuke pondered but Kuwabara interrupted him.

“Yukimura would love to hear that!”

“ACK! Don't tell her! Or, or, or else I tell Yukina that you said that Neka was hot!” Yusuke shouted triumphantly. Kuwabara shut up.

“But she is pretty though.” He piped up.

“Yeah, really pretty.” Yusuke agreed in a daze. Both ningens got lost in the dreamy thoughts of the demon-witch.

But their fantasies were intruded by Hiei's foot slamming into both of their faces, and then they got the shit beat out of them by the same fire demon. When he was done, Hiei pinned the two to a tree with his sword through their shirt collars.

“If you lay one finger on Neka, I'll kill you both. That I promise, understand?” He threatened them icily in a cold and feared tone with a blood-lust death glare to end all death glares. Yusuke and Kuwabara started shaking like brittle leaves in the autumn in pure fear of the fang-baring Hiei. Both nodded franticly, afraid to die if the didn't.

“Good.” Hiei said simply and left the two hanging five feet off the ground by a katana in a tree to find another tree to sleep in.

“He left us here, he really left us here.” Kuwabara muttered.

“Here, let me get you two down.” Kurama said but before he could take a step closer, a large flame ran in front of Kurama, not letting him take another stride.

Hiei glared down at the three, his blood-red eyes clearly saying, `They will stay there. Anyone who frees them will die.'

 

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The brothers stared I awe at the cat-eared captive.

“She really figured it out, and just by a mere picture too!” Spout stammered. Neka smirked. Cat-demons were smart, very smart.

Reading practically all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work does pay off! She thought proudly.

 

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Hiei awoke to the shining sun while letting out a small, satisfied yawn. He didn't fall out of the tree, and he now had his three comrades hanging by a sword. Hiei jumped down and walked nonchalantly into the forest, leaving Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama now 8ft. off the ground on a different tree.

The youkai jumped from oak to oak, pine to pine, and evergreen to evergreen to find what he was looking for. It was a small cave, not big, yet not miniscule. He walked right in and looked around.

It was Neka's cave.

Hiei used to come here many years ago to visit Neka when either he or she got lonely. She would cure some of the darkness and pain of his black heart, and then he would cure some of her own pain. It wasn't hard, all they had to do was see each other and it was a done deal. Hiei loved being in her presence and Neka the same with him. They cared about one another so much, yet they couldn't love anyone besides themselves it seemed.

“Why weren't we able to hold hands without being attacked? Why weren't we able to hold each other? Why weren't we able to love?” Hiei asked no one.

It was true, bounty-hunters hired by people to kidnap Neka seemed to be everywhere and every time they needed each other, none had a shoulder to lend. Since they were being pulled so quickly apart so often, it seemed that love was impossible for them. It was mind-blowing the way Neka would lunge onto Hiei with no care in the world and cry in his chest.

Unknown to Hiei, Neka's tear gems only became gems when she was not with him. They would be about him, but they never crystallized with him.

Hiei blinked. The cave brought back warm memories of the few times he and Neka held onto one another, saying it was alright as the bounty-hunters raided the cavern. Hiei or Neka could've killed them instantly, but she was always getting her previous battle wounds healed, so Hiei had to protect her and not let go.

Hiei would do anything to see her once more, to smell her scent, to hold her, to hear her, to feel her soft skin and fur just one more time.

My mind is getting out of control. I better go and free those fools. Hiei thought and just as he was about to leave the semi-empty cave, he picked up a torn piece of clothing. Neka always had a problem of getting her kimonos and other clothes ripped, so it wasn't as unusual to Hiei as it would be to others to find a piece of stray cloth on the floor. Hiei put the midnight-blue fabric to his nose and sniffed, taking in the faint scent of the cat-demon/witch/rurouni. He smirked and placed it carefully into his pocket, leaping off into the trees.