Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Unpaid Vengeance ❯ Awakened ( Chapter 21 )

Unpaid Vengeance

Part of the Relations series

Me: Hello everyone, don't be mad, but chapters are gonna be sparse for a while, until school is over, not that I study for exams, but my teachers all pile on the homework and papers and projects and…well you all know how school is.

Hiei: Excuses again?!

Me: You wanna take over, Mr. I-can't-type-to-save-my-life?

Hiei: No!

Me: Then shut up!

Hiei: Hn.

Me: Just read the thing so we can get on with it!

Hiei: Fine, last chapter, I returned back to the Ningenkai to find that Kiru, whose memories had just been returned, was gone. After a moment of panic, Kurama made me remember a promise from Kiriu and sent me into a flashback, one of a cryptic dream of Kiru's death that I always have before something bad happens to her. But she promised we would always be together- no matter what. I'm just hoping that `what' doesn't mean the death foretold in that dream…

--Mukuro's Fortress--

The guards set to watch the cell Ryudo was in murmured amongst themselves as they waited for their lord or lady to return, trying their best to ignore the groans of pain coming from the interior of the cell.

`I pity that demon,' one said, shaking his head, `No one I know of survives when Hiei-sama is mad at them.'

`Yeah, no kidding,' the other snorted, `Especially where Lady Kiru is concerned, Hiei-sama is very unforgiving.'

`I think he's too touchy if you ask me-' the guard cut himself off when footsteps were heard coming down the stairs. Thinking it was Hiei for sure he thought to himself, I'm in for it now…Hiei-sama will never forgive that.

`Lady Kiru?!' the guards both said incredulously, dropping to one knee as was customary when addressing their superior.

She looked at them briefly, and nodded her head for them to stand.

`Hiei-sama has been very worried about you, shouldn't you go-' one started to say.

`Where's Ryudo?' she questioned, staring straight at one of the guards. The guard was speechless, the icy gaze pinning him down. This glare was foreign, for, although she was a merciless trainer, when they met out around the castle, her eyes always held a warm fondness for all, and a small smile graced her lips. But now…

The guard pointed a shaking hand to the entrance to the cell Ryudo occupied, where a groan still emanated. She turned her glare towards the door and walked in without another word.

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Ryudo groaned as the place where the knife had pierced his skin sent out a constant wave of agony. He had been in this precarious position for longer than he cared to remember. He was formulating a way to escape his almost-inevitable death, but things were looking worse by the moment.

`What did I do to deserve this…?'

`You have the imprudence to ask that after what you did to me?'

He stilled as a voice he hadn't heard since long ago filled the room. A cold, terrifying voice filled with nothing but emptiness. He looked up into the speaker's icy crimson eyes, and was struck with a paralyzing fear he hadn't felt for centuries as her face lit up in a sinister smile. Enma save my soul…

`What's the matter-cat got your tongue? Well, it won't matter soon,' a small dagger was taken out of a pocket, the blade caressed lovingly with a fingertip before being dragged across his cheek, `now will it?'

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The guards stared silently after her, their eyes fearful. Hiei-sama had given orders that no one should disturb…well kill the prisoner except for him; and Lady Kiru had a fearsome reputation even if it weren't for that creepy look…

After much thinking during a long period of silence, they decided they needed help to deal with this circumstance. Then they ran off, towards the Ningenkai, to tell their lord of these strange events.

Just a moment after they left, inhuman cries of pain filled the castle, chilling everyone within it to the very depths of their souls.

-- Ningenkai--

Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Mukuro and Yukina were in a room, trying to come up with some way to trace Kiru's whereabouts.

After several attempts of good ideas, and many more failed ideas, they were brainstorming, or at least trying to.

Then, just as everyone was about to scream from the frustration of it all, the guards from the castle ran in.

`What are you doing here?' Mukuro said, hands on hips, `You have orders to guard Ryudo's cell with your lives, and you're running around in the Ningenkai? You better have a good reason.'

`Hiei-sama, Mukuro-sama,' they told them breathlessly, `Lady Kiru is at the castle.'

`Nani?!' Hiei jumped up from his perch on the windowsill.

`She went into the prisoner's cell.'

Everyone looked at Hiei, waiting for his call on what to do. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, torn about what to do. In one hand, he knew Kiru well enough to know she would want to get revenge on her own, on the other, he was afraid of what the `new' memories would reveal to her and do to her; not to mention the fact he wanted to avenge her himself.

`I'm going to see her, if you would, please wait here. I'll be back,' a pause, `with or without her, later.'

`Very well, Hiei,' Mukuro said, placing a hand on his shoulder, `Good luck.'

Hiei nodded at her and looked around at everyone else before flitting out the window to find his lover.

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Me: Okay, that's all for now. I'll try to have another chapter up soon. Good-bye! Please review!!

Hiei: Review!! PLEASE!! Ja ne!!