Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Ryuusei no Solitude ❯ Chapter 9

A friend of mine helped me thought of this story and I'm writing it for her! So if you want to kill me and give me death threats go ahead but I shall continue it nonetheless. I like the story line and the idea, plus I'm a sucker for AUs. So this is my AU and I hope you like it. Even if you don't I'm still continuing it.

Ryuusei no Solitude

By: Koritsune Dragonrider

Rating: PG-13

Warning: A lot of memories in this chapter

Disclaimer: I do not own nothing that is relate to the Yu*Yu Hakusho series.

Summery: Kurama was never shot by the hunter, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Keiko, and Shizuru are demons, and Hiei never left the Koorime Island, because Hiei's a girl! Here is an AU with a lot of twist!

Pairings: Kurama/Hiei Yusuke/Keiko Yukina/Kuwabara

Chapter 9

It had been a month since Hiei's first job and had enough money to go for a while. Since then she had requests for other assassinations and even some raids, she took them all. She didn't know where to keep the money so she found a small abandoned cave to put it in, also keeping a pouch to herself. But she planned to pack everything when she moved.

One day as she waited for her next job it started to snow, she sighed, thinking about her homeland. When she first saw snow she didn't know what it was for she didn't have her mother's memories like Yukina. Hina had to teach Hiei everything she knew about being a Koorime and Hiei learned it with vigor, for her mother. She remembers when she found out she was different.

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"Mommy," said Hiei no more then five or six years old, "why am I different?"

"Because you're special," said Hina as she did Yukina's hair.

"Am I different, Mommy," asked Yukina looking at her mother. Both children wore identical blue kimonos and a red bow in their hair.

"Yes, both of you are special," said Hina.

"Does that mean everyone is normal and we're different," asked Hiei. "I wish I was normal."

"No, honey," said Hina. "You're normal too yet different. Everyone is normal in a different way."

"So we're normal yet different," said Yukina and Hina nodded.

"Just like everybody else," she said.

"Just like everybody else," said Hiei and Hina hugged her daughters.

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It wasn't till a few years later that Hiei found out she wasn't like everyone else. That she wasn't just different, she was forbidden. Yukina wanted her to leave so she so no one would find out but Hiei promised to take care of her sister and even if that meant staying where she didn't belong.

`I wonder how they are,' she thought. `Sanae and Chisa and Aunt Rui. I wonder if Okaasan is still alive.'

Coming to a decision she grabbed her cloak and put it on. Going to her cave she the rest of her money and put it her pouch and put the fox figurine in a pouch she had sewn in her trousers.

`Maybe Yukina went back there,' she thought and ran off. She was two hundred leagues from the Koorime Island and she ran day and night to get there faster, only stopping once a day to eat and relive herself. Finally after five days of running and avoiding fights she came to a cliff a few miles away overlooking the Island.

`From here it's beautiful,' she thought, `but up there it's hideous.'

She spent the night in a frozen tree branch that luckily didn't break under her weight and fall. She wasn't cold that night, being a fire demon had its advantage. In the morning she started to walk to the Island. It wasn't easy the ice was slippery and there was a bad snow storm that slowed her down. Finally she reached the cliffs and looked down on the village and growled. She'd been gone for more then a year and already they're acting like she never existed, bustling along the roads collecting their wares and selling them. Did they care about the life they condemned? Did they care about the women who followed her heart? No, all they cared about was keeping their tradition and their purity. Vile wenches!

She walked into the village and immediately all occupation ceased as she down the road. Some ran inside while others watched her walk her personage. She looked at them left and right, daring them to approach her. On one side she saw Sanae and Chisa, her once good friends and playmates. If anyone would tell her what she wanted it was them. She walked toward them and they backed against the wall of a building, suddenly afraid of her as others watched. Some gasped and other murmured about her killing them, but she didn't draw her weapon.

"Where's my mother," she asked locking eyes on Chisa.

"We're not telling you, ikeiki," said Sanae but Hiei kept her eyes on Chisa.

"Where is she," she repeated. Chisa began to whimper and she would have sweated if she wasn't an ice apparition. Hiei knew that out of her two old "friends" Chisa was a blabber mouth. She couldn't keep a secret if her life depended on it. Sanae knew that too.

"Don't tell her, Chisa," said Sanae. "Let's go!" Sanae started tugging on Chisa's kimono sleeve but the blue haired girl stayed where she was, her blue eyes locked on Hiei's red ones.

"S-she's outside the city," stammered Chisa and pointed down the street. "That way!"

"Chisa, no!" yelled Sanae and Hiei nodded.

"Thank you, Chisa." And she walked silently down the street as others watched. She walked outside the village and stayed on the same path Chisa showed her. As she walked she notices a figure coming in her direction. A woman with her head cast down, very slender and frail looking with a sad face. Hiei instantly recognized her.

"Aunt Rui," she said and the woman looked up. Rui eyes widen when she beheld the fire Koorime.

"Hiei-chan," she gasped and ran up to the girl, stopping short in front of her, "is it really you?"

"Hai," she said and Rui embraced her. Hesitantly she hugged her back and released her. "Where's my mom," she asked. "Where's okaasan?"

Rui eyes filled with tears as she turned around. "Follow me," she said and Hiei did. Rui led her through the snow covered forest and soon they came to a clearing. In the clearing was a pillar reaching toward the sky and her mother's name on it. Hiei walked up to it and placed a hand on it.

"How," she asked and Rui nodded.

"I was there."

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Hina watched sadly as her daughters' retreating backs as the Runners chased after them.

`Hn,' she thought, `they can run all they like but Hiei is the fastest runner there is.'

Two guards held onto her as the elders walked up to her. The old and grisly women's' faces wore angry scowls as the eldest walked up to Hina, leaning on her knurled cane. Hina held herself proud as the elders regarded her.

"You have deceived us," said the eldest.

"I've deceived no one," said Hina her voice defiant against her people.

"You've harbored a Forbidden Child under our noses," yelled another elder.

"I've harbored no one," yelled Hina. "I have the right to protect my children!"

"Your child of ice but nor of fire," said the eldest. "From now on Hiei daughter of Hina is entitled as Forbidden Child and banished from these lands. If she sets foot here again it will be her last. Yukina daughter of Hina is welcome."

Hina sighed in relief and prayed that her daughter will stay away. They were her only children and would be devastated if she lost them. Now it was time for her fate.

Feeling something bumpy in her kimono she reached in her neckline and pulled out a tear gem, black as night and warm to the touch. Clutching it tight she awaited her sentence.

"Hiei, daughter of Tsubane," said the eldest, "your sentence is death. May you meet your male lover in the Havens."

The last thing Hina saw was her best friend, Rui, crying with a sad, heart broken face. At least someone will remember her while she was gone, she thought, and her secret didn't leave a heavy heart. In fact she was proud to keep her daughter hidden for she knew love; youkai never did in the Makai. Her mate told her that.

Giving Rui one last smile her eyes closed one last time.

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"Even after death she held a death grip on that tear gem," said Rui. "The elders put this pillar here over her grave as a reminder of what would happen if we didn't follow custom. But I think it as a memorial of someone who followed her heart."

"Me too," said Hiei after hearing the story. She had sat in the ground and leaned against the pillar, almost feeling her mother's warm embrace. "What of Yukina," she asked. "Did she come back?"

"Yes, but she waited a month before going out to find you. That tear gem," Rui pointed to a blue tear gem frozen in the lettering, "is hers. She said she was going to find you."

"Then I shall find her," said Hiei getting up. "Thank you, Rui. It's nice to know someone still cares."

"You may not look like your mother but you have her spirit. Keep it, Hiei, then your mother will live on."

Hiei nodded and turned back to the pillar as Rui watched silently. Hiei touched the pillar and disappeared before Rui could blink. Silently snow fell like silent tears around the lone Koorime who still cared.

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