Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Tears of an Angel ❯ Fire ( Chapter 3 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
O my god. He was dead. Dead. Gone. Passed. Passed away. Left us. As if he was going to come back! My head hurt. My stomach was churning, as if a tornado was taking all of it's rage out on me. My knees didn't feel like knees. They felt like fabric, bending and without shape.

My hair hung in front of my face, trying to shield me from the cruelty of the picture in front of me. He was laid out upon a platform. The platform was black marble, dragons flew over unsuspecting villages all around the edges. Flames coursed all the way around it, licking his skin like a young child would a popsicle on a hot august day. It hurt to him like that. He died for me and what am I doing? Watching his body turn to ashes.

I can't watch this. I don't want to see him dead. He should be alive, dammit!

I turn and run from the woods where the others are watching the cremation. I run farther. I'm too depressed to fly. Flying is a wonderful feeling, something not fit for someone who caused her friend's death. Tears leak from my eyes. They blur my surroundings. Brush and the limbs and thorns from black berry bushes cut my face, arms and legs being protected by a thick black kimono. I've reached the edge of the trees. I stop and sit on a big boulder, catching my breath and trying not to think. I don't want my mind to picture him. Hiei with ice cream all over is face. Hiei fighting all sorts of ungodly creatures. Hiei pale, eyes unseeing. Hiei burning...

"No!" I cried, I sobbed, I yelled. I could hear the others crashing clumsily through the woods after me. I don't wand to deal with them. Not now. I run all the way back to the city. No one stops me. No one looks at me. For once I am glad that the city is full of so many crazy people that nobody notices things out of the ordinary.

Walk into the building I insisted upon renting an apartment in months ago. So long ago, it seems. I walk up the stairs to the top floor. My apartment is in the middle of the hall. I walk slowly down the middle of the hall, looking at each apartment number as it goes by. I shove my fingers under the doorway into the little crack of darkness, grabbing my key. I unlock the door and walk into the apartment.

I bump into several things, finally making my way to the bathroom. I lift the toilet lid and get sick, holding my hair away from my face. I stagger out into the living room. I'm finally exhausted. I collapse onto the couch, squeezing my eyes shut, trying to run from my memories.

Give me a reason to believe that you're gone
I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay
They took you away from me but now I'm taking you home

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on

Some say I'm crazy for my love, Oh my love
But no bonds can hold me from your side, Oh my love
They don't know you can't leave me
They don't hear you singing to me

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on

And I can't love you, anymore than I do

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on

And I can't love you, anymore than I do

People die, but real love is forever.