Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunited ❯ Chapter 42
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By: MageDragon17 
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.08.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 295 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.08.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 295 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 42
"Well, Nana said he was here," Botan said.
"Then lets go find him," Yuseke said.
They were about to go up the steps, but they stopped when the front door opened and Hiei walked out.
He eyed them. "What are you all doing here?" he asked.
"Looking for you," Kuwabara answered.
"When we heard you had inherited Shiroi's old place we had to come and see for ourselves," Kurama said. "Have you been exploring?"
"If that's what you want to call it," Hiei answered as he came down the stairs. He held out something to Botan, wrapped in a cloth. "Give this to Shiroi the next time you see her."
Botan took it, "What is it?" she asked.
"Something of Shiroi," Hiei answered. "And if you peek you'll sorely regret it."
"Don't worry, I won't," Botan answered. "Why don't you girls come with me and we'll go give it to Shiroi now?" Shiziru and Keiko nodded, and they headed off toward Tana's.
"Tell Shiroi we said hi!" Yuseke called after them.
"We will," Keiko called back.
When they reached Tana's, Botan knocked on the door and they waited for someone to answer. They noticed Tana peek through the curtained window before she opened the door. "Had to make sure," Tana said.
"We understand," Botan said. "Where's Shiroi?"
"In the living room," Tana answered. "Bored." She took the girls to Shiroi, who was glad to see them.
"The boys say hi," Botan said. She held out the bundle to Shiroi. "Here, Hiei told me to give this to you."
"Oh-no," Shiroi said. "I heard he had gotten the key to the house, I wonder what he found." She took the bundle from Botan and unwrapped it.
"Aw!" all the girls said.
Shiroi blushed, but smiled at the handmade rag doll in her hands. Her mother had made it for her when she was four, and Hiei must have found it. "I forgot about this," Shiroi whispered. "I guess Hiei's been exploring." Then something came to her. "Wait a minute, if he found this, than he's been snooping in my drawers!"
'
Tana giggled as Botan, Keiko, and Shiziru gapped at her.
"Looks like someone's been looking where he shouldn't be," Shiziru said.
"Want us to yell at him for the next time we see him?" Botan asked.
Shiroi looked at her doll. "No, but warn him that the next time I catch him snooping in my things he won't get off so easily."
"Deal," Botan said. "I wonder what else he found in there?"
"Probably my father's weaponry room," Shiroi answered as she sat down, still holding her doll. "It's the first door you come up to when you go down the hall."
"What's in the weaponry room?" Shiziru asked.
"Everything except guns," Shiroi answered.
***
Hiei was just about to show Kurama, Yuseke, and Kuwabara the room as the girls were talking about it.
"So what did you find Hiei?" Kurama asked.
"You'll see," Hiei answered as he opened the door to the room. He flipped on the lights and watched their mouths drop, or at least Kuwabara's and Yuseke's; Kurama merely stared.
"Talk about a weaponry nut," Yuseke said.
"He could have come at us with anything that day," Kuwabara exclaimed. "We were lucky it was just that long sword."
"Yes we were," Kurama said as he examined some of the weapons. "Well Hiei, what are you going to do with them, they're yours now."
Hiei looked around the room. "I really don't have a need for any of them," he said. "I already have the best weapon imaginable."
"So you're just going to leave them here?" Yuseke asked.
Hiei walked out, "Take what you want," he said as he left.
"I don't want anything Raimeihi's touched," Kuwabara said as he followed the demon out.
"I've got all the weapons I need," Yuseke said.
"Same goes for me," Kurama added as he and Yuseke followed them.
They followed Hiei down to the end of the hallway. "Here's something Kurama may be interested in," he said as she opened the door to Naoru's old workroom. The smell was still there, but wasn't nearly as strong as before.
"Very interesting," Kurama whispered as he walked in. He examined many of the contents, both herbs and potions. "She was quite an herbalist. I wouldn't doubt that she knew something that I didn't."
"That's a shock," Yuseke said. He waved his hand in front of his nose, "Phew, sorry this stuff's way too strong for me to stand here. I don't know how you can take it Fox Boy." He and Kuwabara walked away.
"Wimps," Hiei smirked. He could stand the smell at least, but he had nothing to do standing there, so he went back to the weaponry room. There had been a few cases he had wanted to inspect, so he went back to do it.
The first case wasn't locked, and held an old dagger. Hiei guessed it was an heirloom or something. The next case was locked. Hiei looked around the room, but couldn't find any keys anywhere.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to go in there," Hiei grumbled as he opened the door to Shiroi's parents' old room. He distinguished which side of the room was Raimeihi's and started searching. He finally found a set of keys inside a drawer of junk. "Probably figured no one would look in a junk drawer," Hiei muttered as he went back to the weapons room.
He tried two of the five keys before the case opened. Inside the case was a collection of throwing stars, all sharp enough to pierce anything, and clean enough to be brand new. The third and largest case, more like a trunk, also had a lock, but Hiei was able to identify the key to it just by examining the old lock. Inside was more than what he had expected.
Torture equipment filled the trunk to the brim. Some even had old blood on them. Hiei recognized one from one of Shiroi's memories, and figured that the blood on all of the weapons was probably hers.
"Bastard," Hiei hissed.
"What up?" Yuseke asked as he walked in. He peered over Hiei's shoulder at the torture weapons. "Wow, those look pretty nasty." He looked at the closer, and noticed the blood. "He used these on Shiroi, right?"
"I recognize one from one of Shiroi's memories," Hiei said. "I think so. I want to destroy them as soon as possible, but most of these are metal, and metal is difficult to burn." He thought for a moment. He could freeze them first, and then break them, but the only one he knew could generate that type of freezing power that was close by was Shiroi, and he couldn't see her fir the time being.
"Let's just make a bon fire," Yuseke said. "We'll just keep it burning until there's nothing left but a molten pile of metal."
"I wanted to freeze them first," Hiei said. "But since our only access to freezing is Shiroi, I can't see her, I and don't know if you three can either, so getting that done isn't an option. So burning them is the only thing we can do."
"Cool," Yuseke grinned. He bounded into the hallway. "Who wants a bon fire?"
"What the hell are you talking about Urimeshi?" Kuwabara asked as he ambled down the hall.
"Yes what is it about a bin fire?" Kurama asked as he poked his head out of the workroom.
"Hiei just found a whole trunk full of Raimeihi's torture stuff," Yuseke said. "We're gonna go burn 'um, what to come along and help?"
"Sure," Kuwabara grinned. Kurama nodded in agreement.
"So how are we going to do this?" Yuseke asked Hiei.
Hiei scowled at him. "What are you looking at me for? Burning them was your idea in the first place."
Yuseke chuckled, "Oh yeah, guess so." He thought for a moment. "We could always take them to an empty area outside the village and burn them there. We'll have a non stop supply of wood too."
"Sounds like a great idea Urimeshi," Kuwabara started, "But how are we going to transport it all?"
"Carry it," Hiei said. "How else." He glared back down at the weapons. "But find something to carry them in, I doubt we'll want to even touch them with our bare hands, let alone carry them all the way out."
***
They found four empty canvas bags in Naoru's workroom, and figured those would be the best to use. Getting the weapons inside the bags was a difficult matter, since none of them really want to touch them.
Finally all the weapons were in the bags and they were ready to go. Yuseke was first out the door, and was spotted by Botan.
"What are you four doing?" she asked. "And what's in the bags?"
"Raimeihi's old torture weapons," Yuseke answered. "We're gonna go burn 'um, want to come?"
Botan shook her head. "Not really. I'll tell Shiroi what you're all up to, and then maybe the rest of the girls and I will come see later. Where are you going anyway?"
"Somewhere outside the village," Yuseke answered. "Hiei knows, but I think you'll be able to find us if you find a column of smoke coming up from somewhere." He looked up to see Hiei locking the door. "Ready?" The fire demon nodded. "See ya later."
***
Hiei found a suitable spot and they dumped the weapons into a big pile.
"Lets go start collecting wood then," Kurama groaned. They trudged into the forest and began bringing armloads of wood back. They would need a lot if they wanted to melt the metal, and they would need to make the fire burn hot. After half an hour, they had a pile of wood as tall as Hiei.
"Let's hope that's enough," Yuseke said as he wiped sweat from his forehead.
They let Hiei arrange the wood, and once the fire demon was done, he lit the tinder and watched it burn. The first of the wood to catch was the old dead stuff, the greener, newer would take longer to catch, but it would burn longer.
"Only just getting started?" Botan asked as she and the girls arrived not long after.
"Well someone had to collect the wood," Yuseke grumbled.
Something popped in the fire, and an acrid odor filled the air.
"Phew," Kuwabara said as he covered his nose, "We must've hit something."
"A nest of some sort," Kurama said, "Hopefully it's nothing poisonous."
"That's a cheery thought," Yuseke said, his hand over his nose.
"Yuck," Botan said as she pinched her nose, "I think I'll head back, what about you two?" she asked Keiko and Shiziru. They nodded. "We'll come back later, by then the smell should be gone."
"Yet whatever," Yuseke grumbled, his nose still plugged.
***
The smell finally went away and the four of them continued to monitor the fire. They didn't start noticing any change until after two hours, when a visible blade began glowing a dull orange-red.
"Success!" Kuwabara shouted as he pointed to the blade.
"I'll start believing it when the blade starts to drip," Hiei said, "Until then it's still a weapon."
"You're negative," Yuseke said. "At least it's working."
Kurama looked up at the sky. "We still have a few hours of daylight left, lets hope we get to where we want to by nightfall, or we'll be taking shifts to make sure that fire burns these weapons to nothing."
"You don't need to worry about that," Hiei said. "I'll be staying here until the weapons are nothing but ash and molten metal."
"We figured as much," Yuseke replied.
***
After another five hours, the weapons were hardly distinguishable, and it was starting to get dark.
"I'm going to go hit the sack," Yuseke said with a yawn. "I'll count on this to be done by the time I get up tomorrow."
"I'm with Yuseke," Kuwabara mumbled. "See ya." The two humans headed back to the village.
"How much longer do you think this will take?" Kurama asked.
"Three hours," Hiei answered. "Four at most. I'll be satisfied by then."
"I'll take your word for it," Kurama said.
They sat there for another two and a half hours, and finally Kurama headed back to the village, leaving Hiei to the fire.
He stood there and stared into the flames. They made him remember when the Spirit Flame had engulfed him and Shiroi back at the Autumn Festival, but all the visions he had seen were muddled and fuzzy. He could barely remember any of them, or perhaps that was the purpose, to see them once and then forget them so you wouldn't make the wrong decision later.
After another hour, Hiei was satisfied with the way the weapons had burned, and doused the flames in water that they had collected earlier. It took three buckets to put it out, and he swirled the ashes and muck around with once of the few sticks that remained, and then dumped that last bucket of water on it before heading back to the village.
***
Author's Note: Well that was a little boring. Oh well, I had to put something like that in, or else it wouldn't have felt right. Well, I think my email thing's going nuts, since I checked the review lists for the latest chapters and it says I have one, but I didn't get an email for it, oh well. Review me and tell me what you think.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 42
"Well, Nana said he was here," Botan said.
"Then lets go find him," Yuseke said.
They were about to go up the steps, but they stopped when the front door opened and Hiei walked out.
He eyed them. "What are you all doing here?" he asked.
"Looking for you," Kuwabara answered.
"When we heard you had inherited Shiroi's old place we had to come and see for ourselves," Kurama said. "Have you been exploring?"
"If that's what you want to call it," Hiei answered as he came down the stairs. He held out something to Botan, wrapped in a cloth. "Give this to Shiroi the next time you see her."
Botan took it, "What is it?" she asked.
"Something of Shiroi," Hiei answered. "And if you peek you'll sorely regret it."
"Don't worry, I won't," Botan answered. "Why don't you girls come with me and we'll go give it to Shiroi now?" Shiziru and Keiko nodded, and they headed off toward Tana's.
"Tell Shiroi we said hi!" Yuseke called after them.
"We will," Keiko called back.
When they reached Tana's, Botan knocked on the door and they waited for someone to answer. They noticed Tana peek through the curtained window before she opened the door. "Had to make sure," Tana said.
"We understand," Botan said. "Where's Shiroi?"
"In the living room," Tana answered. "Bored." She took the girls to Shiroi, who was glad to see them.
"The boys say hi," Botan said. She held out the bundle to Shiroi. "Here, Hiei told me to give this to you."
"Oh-no," Shiroi said. "I heard he had gotten the key to the house, I wonder what he found." She took the bundle from Botan and unwrapped it.
"Aw!" all the girls said.
Shiroi blushed, but smiled at the handmade rag doll in her hands. Her mother had made it for her when she was four, and Hiei must have found it. "I forgot about this," Shiroi whispered. "I guess Hiei's been exploring." Then something came to her. "Wait a minute, if he found this, than he's been snooping in my drawers!"
'
Tana giggled as Botan, Keiko, and Shiziru gapped at her.
"Looks like someone's been looking where he shouldn't be," Shiziru said.
"Want us to yell at him for the next time we see him?" Botan asked.
Shiroi looked at her doll. "No, but warn him that the next time I catch him snooping in my things he won't get off so easily."
"Deal," Botan said. "I wonder what else he found in there?"
"Probably my father's weaponry room," Shiroi answered as she sat down, still holding her doll. "It's the first door you come up to when you go down the hall."
"What's in the weaponry room?" Shiziru asked.
"Everything except guns," Shiroi answered.
***
Hiei was just about to show Kurama, Yuseke, and Kuwabara the room as the girls were talking about it.
"So what did you find Hiei?" Kurama asked.
"You'll see," Hiei answered as he opened the door to the room. He flipped on the lights and watched their mouths drop, or at least Kuwabara's and Yuseke's; Kurama merely stared.
"Talk about a weaponry nut," Yuseke said.
"He could have come at us with anything that day," Kuwabara exclaimed. "We were lucky it was just that long sword."
"Yes we were," Kurama said as he examined some of the weapons. "Well Hiei, what are you going to do with them, they're yours now."
Hiei looked around the room. "I really don't have a need for any of them," he said. "I already have the best weapon imaginable."
"So you're just going to leave them here?" Yuseke asked.
Hiei walked out, "Take what you want," he said as he left.
"I don't want anything Raimeihi's touched," Kuwabara said as he followed the demon out.
"I've got all the weapons I need," Yuseke said.
"Same goes for me," Kurama added as he and Yuseke followed them.
They followed Hiei down to the end of the hallway. "Here's something Kurama may be interested in," he said as she opened the door to Naoru's old workroom. The smell was still there, but wasn't nearly as strong as before.
"Very interesting," Kurama whispered as he walked in. He examined many of the contents, both herbs and potions. "She was quite an herbalist. I wouldn't doubt that she knew something that I didn't."
"That's a shock," Yuseke said. He waved his hand in front of his nose, "Phew, sorry this stuff's way too strong for me to stand here. I don't know how you can take it Fox Boy." He and Kuwabara walked away.
"Wimps," Hiei smirked. He could stand the smell at least, but he had nothing to do standing there, so he went back to the weaponry room. There had been a few cases he had wanted to inspect, so he went back to do it.
The first case wasn't locked, and held an old dagger. Hiei guessed it was an heirloom or something. The next case was locked. Hiei looked around the room, but couldn't find any keys anywhere.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to go in there," Hiei grumbled as he opened the door to Shiroi's parents' old room. He distinguished which side of the room was Raimeihi's and started searching. He finally found a set of keys inside a drawer of junk. "Probably figured no one would look in a junk drawer," Hiei muttered as he went back to the weapons room.
He tried two of the five keys before the case opened. Inside the case was a collection of throwing stars, all sharp enough to pierce anything, and clean enough to be brand new. The third and largest case, more like a trunk, also had a lock, but Hiei was able to identify the key to it just by examining the old lock. Inside was more than what he had expected.
Torture equipment filled the trunk to the brim. Some even had old blood on them. Hiei recognized one from one of Shiroi's memories, and figured that the blood on all of the weapons was probably hers.
"Bastard," Hiei hissed.
"What up?" Yuseke asked as he walked in. He peered over Hiei's shoulder at the torture weapons. "Wow, those look pretty nasty." He looked at the closer, and noticed the blood. "He used these on Shiroi, right?"
"I recognize one from one of Shiroi's memories," Hiei said. "I think so. I want to destroy them as soon as possible, but most of these are metal, and metal is difficult to burn." He thought for a moment. He could freeze them first, and then break them, but the only one he knew could generate that type of freezing power that was close by was Shiroi, and he couldn't see her fir the time being.
"Let's just make a bon fire," Yuseke said. "We'll just keep it burning until there's nothing left but a molten pile of metal."
"I wanted to freeze them first," Hiei said. "But since our only access to freezing is Shiroi, I can't see her, I and don't know if you three can either, so getting that done isn't an option. So burning them is the only thing we can do."
"Cool," Yuseke grinned. He bounded into the hallway. "Who wants a bon fire?"
"What the hell are you talking about Urimeshi?" Kuwabara asked as he ambled down the hall.
"Yes what is it about a bin fire?" Kurama asked as he poked his head out of the workroom.
"Hiei just found a whole trunk full of Raimeihi's torture stuff," Yuseke said. "We're gonna go burn 'um, what to come along and help?"
"Sure," Kuwabara grinned. Kurama nodded in agreement.
"So how are we going to do this?" Yuseke asked Hiei.
Hiei scowled at him. "What are you looking at me for? Burning them was your idea in the first place."
Yuseke chuckled, "Oh yeah, guess so." He thought for a moment. "We could always take them to an empty area outside the village and burn them there. We'll have a non stop supply of wood too."
"Sounds like a great idea Urimeshi," Kuwabara started, "But how are we going to transport it all?"
"Carry it," Hiei said. "How else." He glared back down at the weapons. "But find something to carry them in, I doubt we'll want to even touch them with our bare hands, let alone carry them all the way out."
***
They found four empty canvas bags in Naoru's workroom, and figured those would be the best to use. Getting the weapons inside the bags was a difficult matter, since none of them really want to touch them.
Finally all the weapons were in the bags and they were ready to go. Yuseke was first out the door, and was spotted by Botan.
"What are you four doing?" she asked. "And what's in the bags?"
"Raimeihi's old torture weapons," Yuseke answered. "We're gonna go burn 'um, want to come?"
Botan shook her head. "Not really. I'll tell Shiroi what you're all up to, and then maybe the rest of the girls and I will come see later. Where are you going anyway?"
"Somewhere outside the village," Yuseke answered. "Hiei knows, but I think you'll be able to find us if you find a column of smoke coming up from somewhere." He looked up to see Hiei locking the door. "Ready?" The fire demon nodded. "See ya later."
***
Hiei found a suitable spot and they dumped the weapons into a big pile.
"Lets go start collecting wood then," Kurama groaned. They trudged into the forest and began bringing armloads of wood back. They would need a lot if they wanted to melt the metal, and they would need to make the fire burn hot. After half an hour, they had a pile of wood as tall as Hiei.
"Let's hope that's enough," Yuseke said as he wiped sweat from his forehead.
They let Hiei arrange the wood, and once the fire demon was done, he lit the tinder and watched it burn. The first of the wood to catch was the old dead stuff, the greener, newer would take longer to catch, but it would burn longer.
"Only just getting started?" Botan asked as she and the girls arrived not long after.
"Well someone had to collect the wood," Yuseke grumbled.
Something popped in the fire, and an acrid odor filled the air.
"Phew," Kuwabara said as he covered his nose, "We must've hit something."
"A nest of some sort," Kurama said, "Hopefully it's nothing poisonous."
"That's a cheery thought," Yuseke said, his hand over his nose.
"Yuck," Botan said as she pinched her nose, "I think I'll head back, what about you two?" she asked Keiko and Shiziru. They nodded. "We'll come back later, by then the smell should be gone."
"Yet whatever," Yuseke grumbled, his nose still plugged.
***
The smell finally went away and the four of them continued to monitor the fire. They didn't start noticing any change until after two hours, when a visible blade began glowing a dull orange-red.
"Success!" Kuwabara shouted as he pointed to the blade.
"I'll start believing it when the blade starts to drip," Hiei said, "Until then it's still a weapon."
"You're negative," Yuseke said. "At least it's working."
Kurama looked up at the sky. "We still have a few hours of daylight left, lets hope we get to where we want to by nightfall, or we'll be taking shifts to make sure that fire burns these weapons to nothing."
"You don't need to worry about that," Hiei said. "I'll be staying here until the weapons are nothing but ash and molten metal."
"We figured as much," Yuseke replied.
***
After another five hours, the weapons were hardly distinguishable, and it was starting to get dark.
"I'm going to go hit the sack," Yuseke said with a yawn. "I'll count on this to be done by the time I get up tomorrow."
"I'm with Yuseke," Kuwabara mumbled. "See ya." The two humans headed back to the village.
"How much longer do you think this will take?" Kurama asked.
"Three hours," Hiei answered. "Four at most. I'll be satisfied by then."
"I'll take your word for it," Kurama said.
They sat there for another two and a half hours, and finally Kurama headed back to the village, leaving Hiei to the fire.
He stood there and stared into the flames. They made him remember when the Spirit Flame had engulfed him and Shiroi back at the Autumn Festival, but all the visions he had seen were muddled and fuzzy. He could barely remember any of them, or perhaps that was the purpose, to see them once and then forget them so you wouldn't make the wrong decision later.
After another hour, Hiei was satisfied with the way the weapons had burned, and doused the flames in water that they had collected earlier. It took three buckets to put it out, and he swirled the ashes and muck around with once of the few sticks that remained, and then dumped that last bucket of water on it before heading back to the village.
***
Author's Note: Well that was a little boring. Oh well, I had to put something like that in, or else it wouldn't have felt right. Well, I think my email thing's going nuts, since I checked the review lists for the latest chapters and it says I have one, but I didn't get an email for it, oh well. Review me and tell me what you think.