Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Forbidden ❯ Chapter 3

The Forbidden

Chapter Three

 

Hina woke with a start, she was back in her bed on the upper floor of her home. Out of reflex her hand went to her stomach. She sat there for a minute, trying to remember her dream, she thought, had it been a dream? She let out a disparaged sigh and got out of bed. She was getting dressed when there was a knock at her door. She flinched, I bit of the memory came back in a half second flash.

“Hina! Hina! Get out of bed you lazy woman!” It was Rui her best friend since childhood.

“Coming! You impatient snow storm!” she shouted back with a smile now on her face.

“We're already late! Did you forget what today was!?” Rui sounded annoyed on the other side of the door. Hina had finished getting dressed and swung opened the door, catching Rui off guard and startling her a bit.

“Yes, now what is today?” Rui sighed, and grabbed her hand dragging her off as she explained what it was Hina had forgotten.

“Today's the ceremony of Kasson's.” Hina's eyes widened and she stopped dead in her tracks. The Kasson ceremony is when the elders see if any of the women on the isle have a child waiting. It happened every hundred years; a random group of Koorime will become impregnated with one child. There will be thirty women in all, no more no less.

Hina began to become panicked and she didn't know why. Rui noticed this and asked her what was wrong. Hina told her what she remembered about her dream, leaving out Hiei. She began to wonder why it was she remembered Hiei saying goodbye to her, he had been with her last night, she must have slept in when he left and sensed it.

“Well that's impossible, you know every Koorime is blessed with only one child. But if you do have twins I'll love them both the same.” Rui smiled, and Hina hugged her.

“Promise?” Rui nodded, her head still on Hina's shoulder and then pulled away sharply.

“We're going to be so late! Enough with the chatting, and let's see if I'm going to be aunt Rui in the future!” with that she grabbed Hina's hand again and ran off.

Meanwhile Hiei had been making his way home to one of the only stable kingdoms in the Makai where he was the second male heir to the throne of the fire yokai. As Hiei took a break from his long jurney home, he had already been traveling for five days, he planned to stop in a small town to rest and stock up on supplies, and staying at he inn there for the sixth and seventh day. Then on the eighth day he planned to make the rest of the way home nonstop, it would take him another five days.

When he finally arrived at the town everything in it was dull and gray. He suddenly felt kind of depressed just looking at the state the town was in. He had gotten to the main street he cold see that the town was an exact reflection of the townspeople; dull, gray, and saddening. But as he passed one of the open window bars he caught a set of eyes upon him, silver ones, rare even for demons. But as he glanced and was about to take a double-take on who they belonged to the set of sterling eyes were gone, and empty seat taking making him wonder. He looked around to see if by any chance he would spot them again. No luck.

Pushing away the eerie feeling of being watched he set out to search for an inn. It didn't take him to long to find one, the town was on the way to many other towns and cities, and yet it was still so dull. What had caused this town to become so dead? He planned to find out during his stay. It didn't take long. Just by looking around for half a day he had figured it out. There were royal gaurds at every street corner and every four out of five people were sick, starving, or old. As he passed the people he could feel a pulling in his gut telling him to help, gut his brain told him not to interfere.

It would turn into a war in-between kingdom, and that would put the people in a situation far worse. Only two days, only two days, he told himself. He continued walking his eyes to the ground so as not to see the suffering. He curded himself for not paying attention when he walked into one of the guards, to his luck, three times his size. Hiei, not feeling the least bit intimidated, grinned and bowed his head in a friendly excuse me. The guard took this as Hiei being a weak kiss ass traveler that wouldn't be missed, so he grabbed Hiei by the collar and hoisted him up to his face. Hiei yelped, he had already been walking away when the guard had snatched him by the back of his collar to pull him back, half choking poor Hiei. But Hiei continued to play stupid weak person as the guard dragged him off to the palace, grumbling something about assaulting a royal guard.

On the way to the palace, the guard dragged Hiei through a lush and green garden he recognized. This was the Anima kingdom. He quickly thought up a plan and snatched a full red rose, pulled up his hood and collar of his cloak, shrouding his face in shadow. When they entered the hall he let his feet brag, making the soles of his boots screech against the slick marble. He couldn't help it, he remembered he had done it here once before.

The guard let out a gruff of a laugh, he thought Hiei was resisting. When the two arrived at the throne room, the large guard literally tossed his captive across the path leading to the throne. Hiei let him and for fun landed on his ass. On the throne was not who he expected, it was Mito, his friend from his childhood, and former prince of the kingdom. Next to Mito was his younger sister, Shinta. Mito was vary protective of her. Behind the two was a tall hooded figure, he presumed was their adviser.

Hiei sat looking at them for a while, wondering what he had missed in the many years he had not visited them. The two noticed this and Mito grunted making Hiei hastily stand up and let the guard state the case, exaggerating and lying half a dozen times. Mito, not knowing who the cloaked figure was, asked Hiei to tell his side of the story. Hiei bowed gracefully then fissioned out of sight and next to Shinta. She gasped and blushed as he gave her a peck on the cheek and handed her the rose. This caught everyone's attention to her flushed face.

Mito growled and shot up, when Hiei fissioned back to his spot in front of them. Shinta had her hand to the cheek he had kissed, Mito caught this and angrily tackled Hiei, sending them both rolling to the ground. Hiei began to laugh, not able to keep it under control as they continued to wrestle, or better yet one was trying to kill while the other was playing a game. Hiei was much stronger than Mito but he still let them roll around pulling at each other's arms and legs to get the upper hand.

Hiei let this go on for about five minutes before he let the furious Mito take the win. Mito thought he had won and grinned in triumph, when Hiei saw this he smirked and quickly shifted them both so Mito was laying on his stomach and Hiei was sitting on his back with his arms and legs crossed. Hiei then got up after Mito stopped struggling, and let out a frustrated sigh. He held out hand to Mito, who was confused, then Hiei, still laughing tool off the hood and lowered his collar revealing himself to his old friend.