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With you
Part 18: Bond between brother and sister
By: Sano
Standard YYH disclaimer
Note:
Sorry for the short chapter last time. I was bombarded with schoolwork. But
don’t worry minna-san; this one is going to be longer.
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“Hiei!”
Yuusuke shouted as he ran to his unconscious friend. He rolled Hiei on his back
and his eyes widened as he felt how cold Hiei was, it wasn’t normal for a fire
demon. He checked Hiei’s youki, and was shocked to discover that Hiei only had
little youki needed to survive.
“Yukina…”
Yuusuke whispered. He lay Hiei on the sofa and grabbed a blanket from his
closet and draped it over the fire demon. He ran to the phone and called
Yukina.
20
minutes later Yukina arrived. The ice maiden’s face was frowning in worry as
she felt Hiei’s forehead. She turned to Yuusuke, “What happened to Hiei-san?”
She asked, she looked down at the sleeping demon. She brushed back the long
bangs that poured over the warded jagan.
“I
dunno. He just came here, saying that Kurama said to leave him alone. Then he
just collapsed.” Yuusuke threw his hands up into the air. “I don’t know what’s
up with him and Kurama. They’re fighting like they’re married or something”
Yukina
sighed in defeat, though she didn’t want to admit it, she agreed with Keiko.
Yuusuke was a little dense not to notice the changes between Kurama and Hiei.
Yukina could clearly see that Hiei loves Kurama, and that Kurama felt the same,
but was too worried about Maya to consider his own happiness.
“I’ll
be in the kitchen if you need anything.” Yuusuke said. He looked over his
shoulder at the siblings. Yukina was brushing back Hiei’s bangs, no matter how
many times she did; the bangs would just spring back where they came from. A
smile spread across his face, they looked like brother and sister.
Yukina
stared at Hiei’s face. How much she wished that Hiei were her brother…she
couldn’t wish for any other one. Hiei was always looking after her, making her
happy. He understood how it felt to be alone since childhood.
“Oniisan…”
She whispered longingly. Then her crimson eyes widened when Hiei’s eyes
fluttered open and revealed identical crimson orbs.
“Yukina?”
Hiei asked drowsily. “What are you doing here?” He tried to sit up but he
couldn’t, Yukina pushed him back down.
“You
need lots of rest, Hiei-san.” The pretty ice maiden ordered firmly. “You seem
to have the Makai flu.” She giggled slightly.
One
black finely shaped eyebrow rose. “Why? I’ve never been to the Makai in a
month. How could it have managed to get to the Ningenkai?” Hiei asked curiously,
he haven’t had the Makai flu all of his life.
Yukina
giggled again and it spread a warm feeling in Hiei’s chest to see that he was
the cause of Yukina’s laughter. His sister…
Yukina’s
face turned serious and she looked down at her hands. “H-Hiei-san…what did you
and Kurama-kun fight about?” She asked quietly.
Hiei
stiffened. “How did you know?”
“Yuusuke-kun
told me.”
Suddenly,
the air around them was filled with tension. Hiei considered telling Yukina
what happened, but she didn’t want Yukina to get involved with his problems.
“I…”
Yukina
placed her hand over Hiei’s. “It’s okay if you don’t want to, Hiei-san. But
trust me, Kurama-kun loves you. He just needs a little time.” She said. She
looked up and locked eyes with Hiei.
The
fire demon searched Yukina’s beautiful ruby eyes, searching for any sign of
disgust or hate, but there wasn’t any. He only found love and caring in those
eyes, the kind of love that you would show to a brother.
The
hand Yukina was holding was trembling slightly. Hiei was trembling, not because
of the cold, he felt bereft. Yukina opened her arms invitingly and Hiei fell
into them like a child would to a mother.
Yukina
rocked them slowly; she tightened her hold on Hiei as the fire demon’s body
racked with sobs. Hiei’s sobs sounded like the sobs of an abandoned child and
it made Yukina whisper soothing sounds on the fire demon’s ear.
They
stayed like that for a long time until Hiei’s sobs finally quieted and he was
sleeping soundly. Yukina lay the youkai down on the sofa and wrapped him with a
blanket, she felt his forehead and smiled when it was feeling warm, a sign that
Hiei was going to be fine.
She
stood up and brushed off, she was about to say goodbye to Yuusuke when
something caught her eye. Her eyes widened in surprise and she knelt down on
the floor to get a closer look.
She
picked up a small tear gem, black in color but a tear gem nonetheless. She
looked back and forth in shock at the fire demon on the sofa and the tear gem
in her hand.
She
felt like a heavy burden lifted itself from her shoulders and she smiled
happily, a tear streaking down her cheek and forming into a bluish tear gem.
She caught it and held both tear gems in her hand.
Finally,
she had found her brother.
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End
of Part 18