Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunited ❯ Chapter 29
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By: MageDragon17 
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.08.2004 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 270 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.08.2004 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 270 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 29
She came to her senses and blew Hiei off of her with her wind powers. She sat up quickly, breathing hard and grasping the front of her cloak out of nerve. She didn't even hear the thud of Hiei landing a few feet away.
Hiei sat up, rubbing his head, but that wasn't all that hurt. "What was that for?" he asked.
"Huh?" Shiroi looked up at him, "Oh, sorry Hiei."
"Sorry?" Hiei asked, "You just blew be ten feet in the air and let me land on my head."
"The snow should have been enough to keep you from getting seriously injured," Shiroi said as she got to her feet and brushed herself off. She turned away from him and faced the frozen river.
Hiei grumbled as he got to his feet and brushed snow off. The wind blew an icy cold gust, bringing snow down from the sky. "Great," Hiei muttered. "Lets head back."
Shiroi turned around to face him, and other chilly gust blew, bringing more snow, colder and faster. "It's a blizzard already!" Shiroi called to him.
Hiei could barely hear her in all the wind. -Stay there, I'll come to you. - He pulled off his bandana and let his Jagan guide him through the snow to her. "This came on way too fast!"
"They do that sometimes," Shiroi replied. The snow that they had cleared from the ground was already completely replaced by the falling snow. "How are we supposed to find the path if the snow is falling this fast?"
"I can't even tell which direction is what," Hiei said. He looked around, but the falling snow was so thick that even his Jagan couldn't penetrate through it. "This is bad."
Shiroi looked in the direction where the river should have been. "Jump across the river," she said. "If we go far enough, there's a cave we can shelter in."
Hiei wasn't too sure about that suggestion, but if they didn't do something, they would both freeze. He held her close and jumped as far as he could, and was relieved when they landed on solid ground.
"Lets go diagonally left," Shiroi said. "If we go far enough, my hand will touch rock wall, then hopefully we'll find the cave."
"I'll take you word for it," Hiei said as they plowed through the snow.
Shiroi held out her hand until she felt a stone barrier, "Here," she said. "Now lets just keep going forward until I find the opening."
Hiei had to agree and they trudged on. It felt like forever, and Hiei thought that they had missed it, but he was proven wrong.
"Here it is," Shiroi, said, just loud enough to be heard. They stumbled into the cave and sat down, exhausted.
"I have a question," Hiei said, "How the hell did you know where this cave was?"
Shiroi was shivering hard from the cold. The day's events had caught up with her, and the realization that her body still had yet to recover from its previous dance with death. She managed to answer, "I found it when I was about ten years old. I had run away from home when my father had threatened to beat me to death. I had gotten far enough to where I could cross the river and kept running. It started raining, and I found this cave and I stayed in it until it stopped." She turned to him, "I think that's all that needs to be said."
Hiei nodded, he really didn't want to know what kind of punishment she had endured after that. He looked around the cave, using his Jagan to see in the dark. Near the back of the small cave was an old fire pit. "You came here often I see."
Shiroi nodded, "I spent a few nights here once, when my father had made me so scared that I was too afraid to take a step back into the village."
"I can imagine," Hiei said as he walked to the back of the cave. There was a pile of old wood, but it was dry and he arranged it in the pit. "Do you have any energy to light this?"
Shiroi turned around and looked in the direction of the fire pit. "Yes, but then you'll have to keep it burning, the day's finally caught up with me."
Hiei nodded and Shiroi ignited the fire. Hiei retied his bandana and made sure it would burn for a while, and turned back to Shiroi. "You okay?"
Shiroi was still sitting where they had first sat down in the cave. "Huh?" she asked tiredly. She crawled to the fire and sat back. Rubbing her eyes, she said, "Sorry, after we sat down, the day just caught up with me, and it reminded me that I wasn't fully recovered in the first place."
Hiei sighed, "I knew it wasn't a good idea for you to fight."
"Guess it wasn't," Shiroi replied, and shivered. "Shoot, I'm so drained I can't even summon the water off of me, I used the last of it to start the fire."
Hiei cursed himself for not starting the fire himself. He remembered that he and Shiroi had been through a similar experience. When her father had just arrived near the temple and they had fought their first battle with Raimeihi, he and Shiroi had hidden out in a cave for some hours of the night.
Shiroi had been cold at that time, and he hadn't tried to do anything about, but this time would be different. He got to his feet and walked over to her. When he sat down next to her, she seemed startled.
"We've had an experience similar to this," he said.
Shiroi nodded, "But this time I don't think my father will be showing up anytime soon."
"Lets hope he never will," Hiei muttered. He went back to the previous subject. "Remember you were cold, but I didn't do anything to help."
"But I-" Shiroi started, but Hiei stopped her.
"It's not going to be that way this time," he said as he gently pulled her into his lap. He wrapped his arms around her to keep her warm, "Better?"
"You don't have to do this Hiei," Shiroi said. "I'll be fine."
"That's strange," Hiei, said, "I recall you saying that to Botan and I had to come and get you during a very similar blizzard."
Shiroi blushed, "You don't miss much."
Hiei shook his head, "Not when it comes to you."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Shiroi asked. "Having you been looking at things you're not supposed to?"
"No!" Hiei answered, blush fiercely. "I wouldn't do that to you. I-I-,"
"You're stuttering," Shiroi pointed out, "and you're blushing."
Hiei closed his mouth, and then muttered, "I'm not a Peeping Tom if that's what you're accusing me of being."
Shiroi giggled, "Just making sure."
"Are you sure you not trying to mess with my head?" Hiei asked.
Shiroi giggled again, "No, but that sounds like fun too."
"Hey!" Hiei stammered.
Shiroi laughed, "See, I'm already doing it."
"Whatever." Hiei grumbled as he picked up a stick of wood and tossed it in the fire. "Have anything to criticize me for?"
"I wasn't criticizing you," Shiroi retorted. "I was playing with you."
"Yeah," Hiei said, "with my head, didn't you say?"
Shiroi giggled, "Now who's playing with whom?"
Hiei shrugged, "I don't know, you tell me?"
"Hiei!" Shiroi exclaimed, "Now you're being silly!"
Hiei shrugged again, "Oh well, makes it easier to mess with your head."
"Hey!" Shiroi yelped.
"Only doing to you want you did to me," Hiei pointed out. "What? Don't like karma?"
"I'll take it if I've deserved it," Shiroi answered. She reached up and ruffled his hair. "If your friends saw you like this I wouldn't doubt they would tease you about it."
"That's why they're not going to know," Hiei muttered.
"There will already be talk," Shiroi said. "About us being gone all night. And you know what that talk will be filled with."
"Nothing but rumors," Hiei replied. "The others will believe us, and that's all I really care about."
Shiroi nodded, "Guess that really is all that matters."
Hiei stared into the flames for a while, adding wood whenever it seemed necessary. Finally he asked, "Why did you blow me off like you did earlier, excuse the pun."
Shiroi gulped, "It brought back a memory I don't care to remember."
"Oh," Hiei replied. "I think I get it." He looked around with his eyes, and asked hesitantly, "Did you know what I was going to do if you hadn't done that?"
Shiroi nodded, "Doesn't take a genius to know."
Hiei blushed, but glared at her for the remark. "What do you mean by that?"
Shiroi shook her head, "Sorry, I didn't mean it that way." She looked up at him, "Why?"
Hiei shook his head quickly, still blushing slightly, "Nothing."
Shiroi smiled, "You know, your heartbeat is a very good lie detector."
Hiei's blushed deepened, "Oh." He looked away, embarrassed that he had been given away so easily.
Shiroi looked up at him, "What? Were you going to try it again?"
"Uh?" Hiei's blush got redder, "Well, uh, I..." He swallowed so he would shut himself up.
Shiroi looked up, "Can't answer?"
Hiei shook his head.
Shiroi rested her head against his head, "Well, take you time then."
The statement jolted at Hiei's heart. He remembered when she had first said that to him, again in a similar situation. It had been during the Gathering, after he had saved her after they had both fallen off the cliff.
He sat up, and moved his hand from Shiroi's shoulder and slipped his fingers under Shiroi's chin. "Shiroi..." he whispered, and kissed her.
***
Back in the village, Botan looked out the window for the fifth time that evening since the blizzard started.
"Where could they be?" she asked.
"Wherever they are," Kurama said, "I'm sure they're fine. Hiei can survive just fine in the wilderness if they're out there, and I know he'll keep Shiroi safe."
"So you're saying that they could be somewhere out in that blizzard?" Botan asked urgently.
"It's a possibility," Kurama answered calmly. "But like said, they'll both be fine. Shiroi probably knows the land well, and Hiei can probably see through this snow with his Jagan. They probably found shelter out in the woods somewhere."
"I don't understand how you can be so calm Kurama," Kuwabara said.
Kurama shrugged, "You all know very well that Hiei will protect Shiroi, so you don't have any reason to worry."
"That's not exactly what we meant," Botan said.
Kurama's eyes hardened, "If you three are thinking what I think you're thinking, then I know you should know Hiei better. He would never do that to her, he loves her too much to go and do something stupid like that."
"Guess he's got a point," Yuseke said.
"But still," Botan said as she looked out the window again, "I can't help but worry."
***
Hiei broke the kiss and wrapped his arms tighter around Shiroi and leaned back against the rock wall. He stared into the flames, breathing slightly quickly.
Shiroi could hear Hiei's quickly beating heart. Hers was beating just as quickly, but mostly out of surprise. (Did he really just do what I think he did?) She asked herself. She glanced up at Hiei, but she couldn't say anything.
Hiei closed eyes, lost about what to do. (Should I say something?) He wondered. (No, it would ruin the moment. Then what?) He glanced down at Shiroi, and noticed that the woman was looking at him.
He sat up again and tangled the fingers of his left hand into her hair and kissed her again. The kiss was gentle, like the one before it. He didn't dare do anything more, anything like that probably still haunted her nightmares. He broke the kiss and then kissed her forehead.
Shiroi sighed as she rested her head against him again, "Guess I'm yours," she whispered.
Hiei let the words set in, and held her as tight as he could without hurting her. "I guess you are," he whispered back.
***
Author's Note: Okay, there, I gave you the next chapter. Are you happy? It's definitely longer than the last one, and it's not a cliffhanger. Review me guys, and really tell me what you think, I want to see more than just a sentence as a review, but I guess you can do what you want.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 29
She came to her senses and blew Hiei off of her with her wind powers. She sat up quickly, breathing hard and grasping the front of her cloak out of nerve. She didn't even hear the thud of Hiei landing a few feet away.
Hiei sat up, rubbing his head, but that wasn't all that hurt. "What was that for?" he asked.
"Huh?" Shiroi looked up at him, "Oh, sorry Hiei."
"Sorry?" Hiei asked, "You just blew be ten feet in the air and let me land on my head."
"The snow should have been enough to keep you from getting seriously injured," Shiroi said as she got to her feet and brushed herself off. She turned away from him and faced the frozen river.
Hiei grumbled as he got to his feet and brushed snow off. The wind blew an icy cold gust, bringing snow down from the sky. "Great," Hiei muttered. "Lets head back."
Shiroi turned around to face him, and other chilly gust blew, bringing more snow, colder and faster. "It's a blizzard already!" Shiroi called to him.
Hiei could barely hear her in all the wind. -Stay there, I'll come to you. - He pulled off his bandana and let his Jagan guide him through the snow to her. "This came on way too fast!"
"They do that sometimes," Shiroi replied. The snow that they had cleared from the ground was already completely replaced by the falling snow. "How are we supposed to find the path if the snow is falling this fast?"
"I can't even tell which direction is what," Hiei said. He looked around, but the falling snow was so thick that even his Jagan couldn't penetrate through it. "This is bad."
Shiroi looked in the direction where the river should have been. "Jump across the river," she said. "If we go far enough, there's a cave we can shelter in."
Hiei wasn't too sure about that suggestion, but if they didn't do something, they would both freeze. He held her close and jumped as far as he could, and was relieved when they landed on solid ground.
"Lets go diagonally left," Shiroi said. "If we go far enough, my hand will touch rock wall, then hopefully we'll find the cave."
"I'll take you word for it," Hiei said as they plowed through the snow.
Shiroi held out her hand until she felt a stone barrier, "Here," she said. "Now lets just keep going forward until I find the opening."
Hiei had to agree and they trudged on. It felt like forever, and Hiei thought that they had missed it, but he was proven wrong.
"Here it is," Shiroi, said, just loud enough to be heard. They stumbled into the cave and sat down, exhausted.
"I have a question," Hiei said, "How the hell did you know where this cave was?"
Shiroi was shivering hard from the cold. The day's events had caught up with her, and the realization that her body still had yet to recover from its previous dance with death. She managed to answer, "I found it when I was about ten years old. I had run away from home when my father had threatened to beat me to death. I had gotten far enough to where I could cross the river and kept running. It started raining, and I found this cave and I stayed in it until it stopped." She turned to him, "I think that's all that needs to be said."
Hiei nodded, he really didn't want to know what kind of punishment she had endured after that. He looked around the cave, using his Jagan to see in the dark. Near the back of the small cave was an old fire pit. "You came here often I see."
Shiroi nodded, "I spent a few nights here once, when my father had made me so scared that I was too afraid to take a step back into the village."
"I can imagine," Hiei said as he walked to the back of the cave. There was a pile of old wood, but it was dry and he arranged it in the pit. "Do you have any energy to light this?"
Shiroi turned around and looked in the direction of the fire pit. "Yes, but then you'll have to keep it burning, the day's finally caught up with me."
Hiei nodded and Shiroi ignited the fire. Hiei retied his bandana and made sure it would burn for a while, and turned back to Shiroi. "You okay?"
Shiroi was still sitting where they had first sat down in the cave. "Huh?" she asked tiredly. She crawled to the fire and sat back. Rubbing her eyes, she said, "Sorry, after we sat down, the day just caught up with me, and it reminded me that I wasn't fully recovered in the first place."
Hiei sighed, "I knew it wasn't a good idea for you to fight."
"Guess it wasn't," Shiroi replied, and shivered. "Shoot, I'm so drained I can't even summon the water off of me, I used the last of it to start the fire."
Hiei cursed himself for not starting the fire himself. He remembered that he and Shiroi had been through a similar experience. When her father had just arrived near the temple and they had fought their first battle with Raimeihi, he and Shiroi had hidden out in a cave for some hours of the night.
Shiroi had been cold at that time, and he hadn't tried to do anything about, but this time would be different. He got to his feet and walked over to her. When he sat down next to her, she seemed startled.
"We've had an experience similar to this," he said.
Shiroi nodded, "But this time I don't think my father will be showing up anytime soon."
"Lets hope he never will," Hiei muttered. He went back to the previous subject. "Remember you were cold, but I didn't do anything to help."
"But I-" Shiroi started, but Hiei stopped her.
"It's not going to be that way this time," he said as he gently pulled her into his lap. He wrapped his arms around her to keep her warm, "Better?"
"You don't have to do this Hiei," Shiroi said. "I'll be fine."
"That's strange," Hiei, said, "I recall you saying that to Botan and I had to come and get you during a very similar blizzard."
Shiroi blushed, "You don't miss much."
Hiei shook his head, "Not when it comes to you."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Shiroi asked. "Having you been looking at things you're not supposed to?"
"No!" Hiei answered, blush fiercely. "I wouldn't do that to you. I-I-,"
"You're stuttering," Shiroi pointed out, "and you're blushing."
Hiei closed his mouth, and then muttered, "I'm not a Peeping Tom if that's what you're accusing me of being."
Shiroi giggled, "Just making sure."
"Are you sure you not trying to mess with my head?" Hiei asked.
Shiroi giggled again, "No, but that sounds like fun too."
"Hey!" Hiei stammered.
Shiroi laughed, "See, I'm already doing it."
"Whatever." Hiei grumbled as he picked up a stick of wood and tossed it in the fire. "Have anything to criticize me for?"
"I wasn't criticizing you," Shiroi retorted. "I was playing with you."
"Yeah," Hiei said, "with my head, didn't you say?"
Shiroi giggled, "Now who's playing with whom?"
Hiei shrugged, "I don't know, you tell me?"
"Hiei!" Shiroi exclaimed, "Now you're being silly!"
Hiei shrugged again, "Oh well, makes it easier to mess with your head."
"Hey!" Shiroi yelped.
"Only doing to you want you did to me," Hiei pointed out. "What? Don't like karma?"
"I'll take it if I've deserved it," Shiroi answered. She reached up and ruffled his hair. "If your friends saw you like this I wouldn't doubt they would tease you about it."
"That's why they're not going to know," Hiei muttered.
"There will already be talk," Shiroi said. "About us being gone all night. And you know what that talk will be filled with."
"Nothing but rumors," Hiei replied. "The others will believe us, and that's all I really care about."
Shiroi nodded, "Guess that really is all that matters."
Hiei stared into the flames for a while, adding wood whenever it seemed necessary. Finally he asked, "Why did you blow me off like you did earlier, excuse the pun."
Shiroi gulped, "It brought back a memory I don't care to remember."
"Oh," Hiei replied. "I think I get it." He looked around with his eyes, and asked hesitantly, "Did you know what I was going to do if you hadn't done that?"
Shiroi nodded, "Doesn't take a genius to know."
Hiei blushed, but glared at her for the remark. "What do you mean by that?"
Shiroi shook her head, "Sorry, I didn't mean it that way." She looked up at him, "Why?"
Hiei shook his head quickly, still blushing slightly, "Nothing."
Shiroi smiled, "You know, your heartbeat is a very good lie detector."
Hiei's blushed deepened, "Oh." He looked away, embarrassed that he had been given away so easily.
Shiroi looked up at him, "What? Were you going to try it again?"
"Uh?" Hiei's blush got redder, "Well, uh, I..." He swallowed so he would shut himself up.
Shiroi looked up, "Can't answer?"
Hiei shook his head.
Shiroi rested her head against his head, "Well, take you time then."
The statement jolted at Hiei's heart. He remembered when she had first said that to him, again in a similar situation. It had been during the Gathering, after he had saved her after they had both fallen off the cliff.
He sat up, and moved his hand from Shiroi's shoulder and slipped his fingers under Shiroi's chin. "Shiroi..." he whispered, and kissed her.
***
Back in the village, Botan looked out the window for the fifth time that evening since the blizzard started.
"Where could they be?" she asked.
"Wherever they are," Kurama said, "I'm sure they're fine. Hiei can survive just fine in the wilderness if they're out there, and I know he'll keep Shiroi safe."
"So you're saying that they could be somewhere out in that blizzard?" Botan asked urgently.
"It's a possibility," Kurama answered calmly. "But like said, they'll both be fine. Shiroi probably knows the land well, and Hiei can probably see through this snow with his Jagan. They probably found shelter out in the woods somewhere."
"I don't understand how you can be so calm Kurama," Kuwabara said.
Kurama shrugged, "You all know very well that Hiei will protect Shiroi, so you don't have any reason to worry."
"That's not exactly what we meant," Botan said.
Kurama's eyes hardened, "If you three are thinking what I think you're thinking, then I know you should know Hiei better. He would never do that to her, he loves her too much to go and do something stupid like that."
"Guess he's got a point," Yuseke said.
"But still," Botan said as she looked out the window again, "I can't help but worry."
***
Hiei broke the kiss and wrapped his arms tighter around Shiroi and leaned back against the rock wall. He stared into the flames, breathing slightly quickly.
Shiroi could hear Hiei's quickly beating heart. Hers was beating just as quickly, but mostly out of surprise. (Did he really just do what I think he did?) She asked herself. She glanced up at Hiei, but she couldn't say anything.
Hiei closed eyes, lost about what to do. (Should I say something?) He wondered. (No, it would ruin the moment. Then what?) He glanced down at Shiroi, and noticed that the woman was looking at him.
He sat up again and tangled the fingers of his left hand into her hair and kissed her again. The kiss was gentle, like the one before it. He didn't dare do anything more, anything like that probably still haunted her nightmares. He broke the kiss and then kissed her forehead.
Shiroi sighed as she rested her head against him again, "Guess I'm yours," she whispered.
Hiei let the words set in, and held her as tight as he could without hurting her. "I guess you are," he whispered back.
***
Author's Note: Okay, there, I gave you the next chapter. Are you happy? It's definitely longer than the last one, and it's not a cliffhanger. Review me guys, and really tell me what you think, I want to see more than just a sentence as a review, but I guess you can do what you want.