Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunited ❯ Chapter 23
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By: MageDragon17 
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.01.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 277 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.01.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 277 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 23
Once inside, Sansa asked Shiroi, "Why did you go to the ceremonial grounds in the first place?"
Shiroi looked guilty, "I was just curious, since I thought I would never get to go to one anyway, but..."
"And from what we have been told," Sansa continued, "Hiei arrived as the Spirit Flame was awakened?"
"Yes sir," Shiroi answered.
"And both of you were engulfed in the Flames?"
Shiroi nodded.
"You do know what that means?" Anada asked, "Don't you Shiroi?"
Shiroi nodded, "Yes, I do."
"I don't," Hiei chimed in. Everyone looked at him, "If I'm going to be part of this conversation I would at least like to know what you're talking about."
"I told you what he Spirit Flame was," Shiroi said.
"You told me that was what the fire was," Hiei replied, "Not what it was or did."
"You know what it does," Shiroi said, "You experienced it."
"I saw a bunch of jumbled images," Hiei said, "I didn't recognize any of them nor could I make sense of them."
"You're not really supposed to," Elder Sansa interrupted. "Before I continue, lets sit down." They did so, and Sansa continued, "The Spirit Flame is reawakened every year at the Autumn Festival, it predicts the future of a couples' lives. And it only shows it to those that will have a successful relationship."
Hiei's eyes widened.
"Do you understand what the Spirit Flames is now and what it does?" Sansa asked him.
Hiei nodded, and looked Shiroi, the young woman was sitting stiffly where she sat across the small living room from him.
"You know what this means," Sansa said to Shiroi, "Don't you?"
Shiroi nodded, "Yes sir." She got to her feet, "I have some thinking to do."
"What's to think about?" Tana asked. "You know what has to be done."
"I know what has to be done," Shiroi said to her friend, "I just don't know if I'm ready for it yet." She left the room and left the house, ignoring the questions of her friends sitting on the porch.
"I'm not quite sure that I understand this," Hiei said, a little angry. From the sound of Shiroi's voice, she had sounded scared.
"The Spirit Flame never lies," Elder Sansa said, "You two are destined, no matter what Shiroi says or feels now, there's no way around it."
Hiei gulped, letting the realization sink in.
***
Shiroi got well away from the house. She stopped where a small fence had been built between to homes that were near a ridge. She looked out over the fence. She could see the rest of the valley and the mountains that cut them off from the ocean just on the other side. The wind blew and she shivered. She looked up to see dark clouds covering the sky; it would snow soon.
She thought about her new problem. She could really call it a problem, but she didn't know what to do. She knew she couldn't run away from it, the predictions of the Spirit Flame always happened.
(I don't know what to do,) she thought. (If Hiei understands what it means then he gets his wish, but is it really for the best? Should this really happen? Can I really take that barrier down from that one emotion that I'm afraid of? I'm afraid, not of Hiei, not anymore, but what he wants of me.)
She felt tears streaming from her eyes; (I don't know what I should do. I mean, I do know what I have to do, I'm just afraid to do it, and I don't know if I'm ready for it.)
She didn't know it, but Botan had been searching for her, and didn't hear the spirit guide come up behind her.
"Shiroi?" she asked, "Are you all right?"
Shiroi looked behind her, "Botan, what are you doing here?"
"Did something happen?" she asked. "Hiei's shocked and won't tell us anything, and Sansa said it's for you to say, not his."
"Well," Shiroi said as she turned her gaze back over the fence, "Nothing bad really."
"So what is it?" Botan asked.
"I..." Shiroi didn't want to say it, it made her shudder just thinking about it. "Do I have to say? I really don't know how to, and it makes me shudder every time I think about it."
Botan nodded, "Tell us when you're ready."
Shiroi nodded and wiped her eyes. She was tired, and her shoulder was sore, but she didn't feel like going inside yet.
"Can I trust you to come back inside before you freeze?" Botan asked.
Shiroi nodded, "Yeah."
Botan smiled and went back to Elder Sansa's.
As soon as she was gone, Shiroi looked out over the ridge again. An icy gust of wind blew past. Shiroi shivered and looked up, and saw small white flakes fluttering down from the sky.
(Just a few more minutes,) she thought. She fell back into her train of thought, and didn't come back out of it until a gust of wind so cold it hurt knocked her out of it.
"What?" she looked around. It was a complete blizzard. Normally she would worry, and would ward the snow away and clear bath for herself, but now she couldn't, not with her energies so low. She could hardly see in front of her, and she was afraid to take a step. It was so cold, and she only wore the outfit she had worn the night before, which wasn't very thick.
She stood there shivering, wondering what to do. (How did I get lost in my train of thought?) She wondered. (I've never done that before, of course I've never had such a question in my mind as this one.)
Another icy gust blew, harder than the last one. Shiroi had to stay against the fence so she wouldn't be blown over. (This isn't good. If I stay out here any longer I'll freeze to death.) She started to take a step forward, but the snow had built up so much around her that it tripped her.
She pushed herself up in the snow. (It's so cold!) She struggled to her feet against the wind, and looked around again. (Someone up there must really not like me,) she thought. Another freezing gust blew, and it pushed her to her knees. (Am I really going to die tonight?) She thought. (No, than I wouldn't have seen those visions in the Spirit Flame. Then how do I get myself out of this one?)
Suddenly something black filled her vision. She struggled to get away as strong bands wrapped around her. She only stopped struggling when she heard a voice say, "What, you want to leave you out here to freeze?"
"Hiei?" Shiroi asked; she could just make out his face in the snow filled air. His Jagan eye was exposed, probably so he could see through the snow.
"Come on," he said as he got her to her feet, "Lets get out here before there are frozen statues standing here."
They walked through the snow. Shiroi wasn't sure which way they were going, or where Hiei was taking her. She finally felt steps under her feet and she stumbled up them. Sudden light filled her eyes and she shut them tightly, and then felt a warm blanket or towel being wrapped around her.
"A few minutes huh?" she heard Botan say.
"Got lost in thought," Shiroi whispered as she opened her eyes.
"In a blizzard?" Botan asked. "That must have been some deep thinking."
"If she was thinking about what I think she was thinking about," Sansa said, "Than it probably was."
"Just as long as she doesn't do that again," Hiei said as he brushed snow off of himself and retied the bandana around his forehead.
"I'll try not to," Shiroi said. "And hopefully next time it won't be in a blizzard."
"It had better not be," Botan said. She sighed, "Come on, let's get you into some dry clothes."
An hour later, they were all sitting in the living room, watching the blizzard blow.
"How long do you think this thing's going to last?" Yuseke asked.
"Probably all night," Shiroi answered. "It's common for this time of the year."
"You know best," Yuseke said.
"So what do you normally do when you're snowed in?" Botan asked.
Shiroi shrugged, "I don't remember." She turned to Nana, whom chuckled.
"We older people just sit around and read, we're not normally used to having youngsters in the house."
"Young?" Yuseke asked as he eyed Kurama.
"Hush Yuseke," Kurama whispered.
Shiroi smiled from where she sat on the couch. Three hundred was older than the oldest Elder in the village.
"How's you shoulder Shiroi?" Botan asked, knowing that it was the best thing to change the subject.
"Fine," Shiroi answered.
"And that could mean one of three things," Yuseke said. "It could either mean it really is fine, or it could mean that it aches or stings a little, or it could mean that it throbs whenever she moves it."
"Yuseke has a point," Botan said. "Which is it?"
"The first one," Shiroi answered with a grin.
Hiei coughed, and it sounded an awful lot like "Bullshit." Shiroi wasn't the only one to giggled at it either.
"Really Shiroi," Kurama said. "How does it really feel?"
Shiroi couldn't lie to the fox, "It's a little sore, but it's not as bad as it was this morning."
"Maybe it's still numb," Hiei suggested. Shiroi stuck her tongue out at him and he smirked.
Botan checked her watch; it was barely noon. "It looks like the dead of night out there, but it's only noon."
"The blizzards always do that," Nana said. "If it were jus snowing a little everyone would be outside, especially the children."
"I know what I'm doing when the blizzard stops," Yuseke said, "Snowball fight."
"I'm staying well away from that," Botan said.
"Ditto," Shiroi added.
***
The blizzard lasted all day and well through the night, but morning dawned clear, but very cold.
"I really wish I had a coat," Yuseke said.
"Sorry," Shiroi apologized, "I forgot."
"They'll live," Botan said.
"Whatever," Yuseke said as they went outside. He picked up a handful of snow and was molding it into a ball when a snowball hit him in the back. "Hey!" He turned around, but no one was there. "Hiei!"
"I'm over here," Hiei said by the door. "I haven't left this spot since we came out."
"Then who did it?" Yuseke asked.
Shiroi giggled from inside. She had regained some energy last night, and was ready to have some fun with her friends.
"That was you wasn't it?" Nana asked in a whisper.
Shiroi nodded, "Don't tell 'kay? I want to have some fun."
Nana nodded, "My lips are sealed."
Shiroi sat herself down by the window so she could watch.
Yuseke and Kuwabara had gotten a snowball fight started. They hurled balls at each other, missing more than hitting.
Kurama, Hiei, and Botan were standing off to the side. Kurama said something, and Yuseke and Kuwabara each lobbed a snowball at him. Shiroi grinned, and reversed the balls' directions back to their owners, and the balls hit Yuseke and Kuwabara squarely in the face.
"I know who that was," Yuseke said as he rubbed the snow off of his face.
"Me too," Kuwabara said. They both looked at the window and saw Shiroi, whom grinned and waved at them.
"Anyone want to drag her out here and shove snow down her shirt?" Yuseke asked.
"You do and it's all going down you throat and up your," Hiei ended it with a gesture that made Yuseke cringe.
"Forget a said anything," Yuseke muttered as he watched Shiroi laughing inside the house.
***
Author's Note: Yay, another chapter done, and it's a longer one. And this one isn't a cliffie, that must make all of you feel great, but I just love to make you wait in suspense, but I can't do that this time, darn it. Oh well, review me and tell me what you think.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 23
Once inside, Sansa asked Shiroi, "Why did you go to the ceremonial grounds in the first place?"
Shiroi looked guilty, "I was just curious, since I thought I would never get to go to one anyway, but..."
"And from what we have been told," Sansa continued, "Hiei arrived as the Spirit Flame was awakened?"
"Yes sir," Shiroi answered.
"And both of you were engulfed in the Flames?"
Shiroi nodded.
"You do know what that means?" Anada asked, "Don't you Shiroi?"
Shiroi nodded, "Yes, I do."
"I don't," Hiei chimed in. Everyone looked at him, "If I'm going to be part of this conversation I would at least like to know what you're talking about."
"I told you what he Spirit Flame was," Shiroi said.
"You told me that was what the fire was," Hiei replied, "Not what it was or did."
"You know what it does," Shiroi said, "You experienced it."
"I saw a bunch of jumbled images," Hiei said, "I didn't recognize any of them nor could I make sense of them."
"You're not really supposed to," Elder Sansa interrupted. "Before I continue, lets sit down." They did so, and Sansa continued, "The Spirit Flame is reawakened every year at the Autumn Festival, it predicts the future of a couples' lives. And it only shows it to those that will have a successful relationship."
Hiei's eyes widened.
"Do you understand what the Spirit Flames is now and what it does?" Sansa asked him.
Hiei nodded, and looked Shiroi, the young woman was sitting stiffly where she sat across the small living room from him.
"You know what this means," Sansa said to Shiroi, "Don't you?"
Shiroi nodded, "Yes sir." She got to her feet, "I have some thinking to do."
"What's to think about?" Tana asked. "You know what has to be done."
"I know what has to be done," Shiroi said to her friend, "I just don't know if I'm ready for it yet." She left the room and left the house, ignoring the questions of her friends sitting on the porch.
"I'm not quite sure that I understand this," Hiei said, a little angry. From the sound of Shiroi's voice, she had sounded scared.
"The Spirit Flame never lies," Elder Sansa said, "You two are destined, no matter what Shiroi says or feels now, there's no way around it."
Hiei gulped, letting the realization sink in.
***
Shiroi got well away from the house. She stopped where a small fence had been built between to homes that were near a ridge. She looked out over the fence. She could see the rest of the valley and the mountains that cut them off from the ocean just on the other side. The wind blew and she shivered. She looked up to see dark clouds covering the sky; it would snow soon.
She thought about her new problem. She could really call it a problem, but she didn't know what to do. She knew she couldn't run away from it, the predictions of the Spirit Flame always happened.
(I don't know what to do,) she thought. (If Hiei understands what it means then he gets his wish, but is it really for the best? Should this really happen? Can I really take that barrier down from that one emotion that I'm afraid of? I'm afraid, not of Hiei, not anymore, but what he wants of me.)
She felt tears streaming from her eyes; (I don't know what I should do. I mean, I do know what I have to do, I'm just afraid to do it, and I don't know if I'm ready for it.)
She didn't know it, but Botan had been searching for her, and didn't hear the spirit guide come up behind her.
"Shiroi?" she asked, "Are you all right?"
Shiroi looked behind her, "Botan, what are you doing here?"
"Did something happen?" she asked. "Hiei's shocked and won't tell us anything, and Sansa said it's for you to say, not his."
"Well," Shiroi said as she turned her gaze back over the fence, "Nothing bad really."
"So what is it?" Botan asked.
"I..." Shiroi didn't want to say it, it made her shudder just thinking about it. "Do I have to say? I really don't know how to, and it makes me shudder every time I think about it."
Botan nodded, "Tell us when you're ready."
Shiroi nodded and wiped her eyes. She was tired, and her shoulder was sore, but she didn't feel like going inside yet.
"Can I trust you to come back inside before you freeze?" Botan asked.
Shiroi nodded, "Yeah."
Botan smiled and went back to Elder Sansa's.
As soon as she was gone, Shiroi looked out over the ridge again. An icy gust of wind blew past. Shiroi shivered and looked up, and saw small white flakes fluttering down from the sky.
(Just a few more minutes,) she thought. She fell back into her train of thought, and didn't come back out of it until a gust of wind so cold it hurt knocked her out of it.
"What?" she looked around. It was a complete blizzard. Normally she would worry, and would ward the snow away and clear bath for herself, but now she couldn't, not with her energies so low. She could hardly see in front of her, and she was afraid to take a step. It was so cold, and she only wore the outfit she had worn the night before, which wasn't very thick.
She stood there shivering, wondering what to do. (How did I get lost in my train of thought?) She wondered. (I've never done that before, of course I've never had such a question in my mind as this one.)
Another icy gust blew, harder than the last one. Shiroi had to stay against the fence so she wouldn't be blown over. (This isn't good. If I stay out here any longer I'll freeze to death.) She started to take a step forward, but the snow had built up so much around her that it tripped her.
She pushed herself up in the snow. (It's so cold!) She struggled to her feet against the wind, and looked around again. (Someone up there must really not like me,) she thought. Another freezing gust blew, and it pushed her to her knees. (Am I really going to die tonight?) She thought. (No, than I wouldn't have seen those visions in the Spirit Flame. Then how do I get myself out of this one?)
Suddenly something black filled her vision. She struggled to get away as strong bands wrapped around her. She only stopped struggling when she heard a voice say, "What, you want to leave you out here to freeze?"
"Hiei?" Shiroi asked; she could just make out his face in the snow filled air. His Jagan eye was exposed, probably so he could see through the snow.
"Come on," he said as he got her to her feet, "Lets get out here before there are frozen statues standing here."
They walked through the snow. Shiroi wasn't sure which way they were going, or where Hiei was taking her. She finally felt steps under her feet and she stumbled up them. Sudden light filled her eyes and she shut them tightly, and then felt a warm blanket or towel being wrapped around her.
"A few minutes huh?" she heard Botan say.
"Got lost in thought," Shiroi whispered as she opened her eyes.
"In a blizzard?" Botan asked. "That must have been some deep thinking."
"If she was thinking about what I think she was thinking about," Sansa said, "Than it probably was."
"Just as long as she doesn't do that again," Hiei said as he brushed snow off of himself and retied the bandana around his forehead.
"I'll try not to," Shiroi said. "And hopefully next time it won't be in a blizzard."
"It had better not be," Botan said. She sighed, "Come on, let's get you into some dry clothes."
An hour later, they were all sitting in the living room, watching the blizzard blow.
"How long do you think this thing's going to last?" Yuseke asked.
"Probably all night," Shiroi answered. "It's common for this time of the year."
"You know best," Yuseke said.
"So what do you normally do when you're snowed in?" Botan asked.
Shiroi shrugged, "I don't remember." She turned to Nana, whom chuckled.
"We older people just sit around and read, we're not normally used to having youngsters in the house."
"Young?" Yuseke asked as he eyed Kurama.
"Hush Yuseke," Kurama whispered.
Shiroi smiled from where she sat on the couch. Three hundred was older than the oldest Elder in the village.
"How's you shoulder Shiroi?" Botan asked, knowing that it was the best thing to change the subject.
"Fine," Shiroi answered.
"And that could mean one of three things," Yuseke said. "It could either mean it really is fine, or it could mean that it aches or stings a little, or it could mean that it throbs whenever she moves it."
"Yuseke has a point," Botan said. "Which is it?"
"The first one," Shiroi answered with a grin.
Hiei coughed, and it sounded an awful lot like "Bullshit." Shiroi wasn't the only one to giggled at it either.
"Really Shiroi," Kurama said. "How does it really feel?"
Shiroi couldn't lie to the fox, "It's a little sore, but it's not as bad as it was this morning."
"Maybe it's still numb," Hiei suggested. Shiroi stuck her tongue out at him and he smirked.
Botan checked her watch; it was barely noon. "It looks like the dead of night out there, but it's only noon."
"The blizzards always do that," Nana said. "If it were jus snowing a little everyone would be outside, especially the children."
"I know what I'm doing when the blizzard stops," Yuseke said, "Snowball fight."
"I'm staying well away from that," Botan said.
"Ditto," Shiroi added.
***
The blizzard lasted all day and well through the night, but morning dawned clear, but very cold.
"I really wish I had a coat," Yuseke said.
"Sorry," Shiroi apologized, "I forgot."
"They'll live," Botan said.
"Whatever," Yuseke said as they went outside. He picked up a handful of snow and was molding it into a ball when a snowball hit him in the back. "Hey!" He turned around, but no one was there. "Hiei!"
"I'm over here," Hiei said by the door. "I haven't left this spot since we came out."
"Then who did it?" Yuseke asked.
Shiroi giggled from inside. She had regained some energy last night, and was ready to have some fun with her friends.
"That was you wasn't it?" Nana asked in a whisper.
Shiroi nodded, "Don't tell 'kay? I want to have some fun."
Nana nodded, "My lips are sealed."
Shiroi sat herself down by the window so she could watch.
Yuseke and Kuwabara had gotten a snowball fight started. They hurled balls at each other, missing more than hitting.
Kurama, Hiei, and Botan were standing off to the side. Kurama said something, and Yuseke and Kuwabara each lobbed a snowball at him. Shiroi grinned, and reversed the balls' directions back to their owners, and the balls hit Yuseke and Kuwabara squarely in the face.
"I know who that was," Yuseke said as he rubbed the snow off of his face.
"Me too," Kuwabara said. They both looked at the window and saw Shiroi, whom grinned and waved at them.
"Anyone want to drag her out here and shove snow down her shirt?" Yuseke asked.
"You do and it's all going down you throat and up your," Hiei ended it with a gesture that made Yuseke cringe.
"Forget a said anything," Yuseke muttered as he watched Shiroi laughing inside the house.
***
Author's Note: Yay, another chapter done, and it's a longer one. And this one isn't a cliffie, that must make all of you feel great, but I just love to make you wait in suspense, but I can't do that this time, darn it. Oh well, review me and tell me what you think.