hieitheblackdragon:

The walk back could have been somewhat quicker, but, rather than just hop on to my back, she’d just used my shoulders for leverage to keep from using the stung foot. It was fine, and if anything, it meant drying off quicker than if she’d let me just carry her back to the temple. It was silent the entire way. It wouldn’t have been surprising was a result of her own embarrassment. At least… Sakura was slowly but surely learning to hold her tongue to keep from further humiliation.

I helped her to her room in the temple. Once the door closed, I considered leaving that hall way. She wasn’t the only one who returned still quite soaked with sea water. I was bound to find a change of clothing for myself that was likely buried away somewhere. Out of curiosity, I wandered away from that particular hall way after finding no such change of clothes within that vicinity. I moved quickly and eventually returned having no such luck. 

I leaned against the wall across the hall and shifted down to sitting with legs criss-crossed. I’d return just soon enough to overhear a question. I readjusted my legs, knees up to my chin with my arms crossed atop of them. 

What I think shouldn’t persuade you either way. If you wanted to find her so badly, you would have stayed there. The question is, do -you- think it was a mistake; does it -feel- like one?

I heard the door open and just about tilted my head up from my arms to see her in that somewhat obnoxiously colored attire from the Dark Tournament.

I looked to see he was wet. “I’ll get you a towel.” I said turning back to my room and getting a towel. I walked back out and handed it to him.

I heard him communicate to me telepathically. I…don’t know. That was all I could say to him because it was the truth. I felt like somehow along the lines my goals had blurred and I couldn’t see where I was heading anymore.

I then noticed his eyes and how they looked somewhat annoyed. I placed a hand to my hips and lowered my eyes. “What? This was the only outfit I have.” I grumbled. He acted as if his world was nothing but black and white, much like most of his attire. 

I liked the colors and I looked at the outfit overall. While it was more girly than my usual outfit, I thought it was beautiful. I rolled my eyes as I decided to go search for medicine for my foot. Which I had forgotten temporarily until I took a step and felt a jolt shoot through the foot.

“You should have some sense of whether you made the right decision or not,” I saw no point in communicating mentally when we were the only two individuals in the temple. “You won’t find all the answers to life in me.”

Truth be told, I wasn’t one to ask life-related questions. I had my own goals that needed to be accomplished. While at least one had been met, there was at least one other. Since my having gotten caught up with Yusuke and his detective work, my own goals had been put off to the side. 

Though, I can’t deny that aiding Yusuke in his work proved useful in the sense that I’d found my sister alive. 

I was sure what I said may have been a bit harsh, but it was fact. Although, Sakura quickly addressed what must have been a disapproving look coming from me.

“Then perhaps you should invest in new clothing,” I shrugged as she handed a towel to me. I didn’t see how a towel would help with soaking wet clothes. Anyone else would have foolishly shrugged it off and go on about how it was the thought that counted. There had to be something I could use laying about somewhere within the large temple the old hag owned. For the time being, I tilted my head down and ran the towel through my hair, not quite able to catch a glimpse of Sakura’s forgetting about her foot. It wasn’t like I knew where anything was in the temple anyway.

“Which is why I said I’d go shopping with Yukina.” I quipped back at him. “Sorry the towel can only help with the hair.” I shrugged as I used the walls to help guide me to somewhere in the temple that had something for my foot.

I suppose during my search I could find something suitable for him. I walked into one room and searched through the drawers as I stood balanced on one foot which was a lot easier when one was preoccupied with other matters. Of course the search was to no avail. 

I went in search of another room and noticed Yusuke had left his jacket laying around from the last time he visited Genkai. I sighed as I hopped over to pick it up and made my way back to Hiei. “Here.” I said as I tossed it to him. I didn’t bother to stick around for some snarky remark about what I found and went back to search for some kind of ointment laying around.

(Source: harbingerofstorms)

hieitheblackdragon:

I kept walking but because I was slower it was easy for him to simply just walk past me and step in front. He lowered his shoulders and I couldn’t tell if it was out of pity or actual concern that I’d irritate the foot. I let out a sigh as I placed my arm on his shoulders to steady myself and to walk better with as less weight as possible on the foot.

For the most part, walking back to Master Genkai’s place and my room was in complete silence. I’m sure I had embarrassed myself enough and I didn’t want to say anything stupid to add on to that.

We reached the temple and he helped me get to my room. I went in and closed the door to change. I don’t know if he had decided to leave or not so I spoke out loud as if he had decided to stay. If he didn’t well, I’d just be talking to myself. Nothing new.

I grabbed the only extra set of clothing I had and changed into it while I thought of what had been weighing on my mind lately. “Hiei,” I finally spoke. “Do you think I made the right choice.” I asked as I put the wet garments away to be washed later. “Do you think it was a mistake…to come back here?” I asked.

I had finished changing into my nice yellow and pink hakama that I had worn once at the tournament. I opened the door to my room to step out and see if he was even still there.

The walk back could have been somewhat quicker, but, rather than just hop on to my back, she’d just used my shoulders for leverage to keep from using the stung foot. It was fine, and if anything, it meant drying off quicker than if she’d let me just carry her back to the temple. It was silent the entire way. It wouldn’t have been surprising was a result of her own embarrassment. At least… Sakura was slowly but surely learning to hold her tongue to keep from further humiliation.

I helped her to her room in the temple. Once the door closed, I considered leaving that hall way. She wasn’t the only one who returned still quite soaked with sea water. I was bound to find a change of clothing for myself that was likely buried away somewhere. Out of curiosity, I wandered away from that particular hall way after finding no such change of clothes within that vicinity. I moved quickly and eventually returned having no such luck. 

I leaned against the wall across the hall and shifted down to sitting with legs criss-crossed. I’d return just soon enough to overhear a question. I readjusted my legs, knees up to my chin with my arms crossed atop of them. 

What I think shouldn’t persuade you either way. If you wanted to find her so badly, you would have stayed there. The question is, do -you- think it was a mistake; does it -feel- like one?

I heard the door open and just about tilted my head up from my arms to see her in that somewhat obnoxiously colored attire from the Dark Tournament.

I looked to see he was wet. “I’ll get you a towel.” I said turning back to my room and getting a towel. I walked back out and handed it to him.

I heard him communicate to me telepathically. I…don’t know. That was all I could say to him because it was the truth. I felt like somehow along the lines my goals had blurred and I couldn’t see where I was heading anymore.

I then noticed his eyes and how they looked somewhat annoyed. I placed a hand to my hips and lowered my eyes. “What? This was the only outfit I have.” I grumbled. He acted as if his world was nothing but black and white, much like most of his attire. 

I liked the colors and I looked at the outfit overall. While it was more girly than my usual outfit, I thought it was beautiful. I rolled my eyes as I decided to go search for medicine for my foot. Which I had forgotten temporarily until I took a step and felt a jolt shoot through the foot.

(Source: harbingerofstorms)

Hiei turned around and faced the portal. “I suppose I’ll run into you at some point Kurama so there’s no point in dragging this any longer.” He said. “That leaves just you Sakura.”

“Yes, just me.” My eyes were fixated on his backside for what felt like such a long time. I had nothing to give like Yukina and there was no chance of seeing him again like Kurama. This was truly goodbye.

But I didn’t want to say goodbye. 

hieitheblackdragon:

The gagging of the salt water didn’t last long before I found myself being pulled up by Hiei who had swimmed out in the first place. I sputtered out a good amount of water before I could mutter out a small ‘yes’ to Hiei.

I coughed a little bit more sea water before I released myself from Hiei’s grip and could stand. “I can swim just fine. Not my fault the waves got big out of nowhere.” I spitted out my words due to bad salty taste in my mouth. “What did you even swim out for? I told you, you’re not my guardian anymore.” I said as I walked towards the shore. 

After that experience, the beach was no longer such a calming place. Now I just felt uncomfortably wet and cold. I started to walk towards the shore only to end up tripping back on the process, but thankfully in shallow waters.

I yelped in pain as I looked down to see what I had stepped on. Jellyfish.

I kicked it aside on it’s smooth part as to not get stung again. I got back up and limped over to where my jacket was only to find out the waves had managed to sneak up to where I had placed it, and it too was wet. 

I grabbed my hair and twisted out any salt water. I picked up the wet jacket and shook my head. “I’ll catch a cold at this rate.” I looked back to where Genkai’s place was. I had one spare set of clothes there. I turned around to look at Hiei. “Thanks though.” I said rather embarrassed about the whole situation and how it unfolded. But he did save me from twisting and turning about the waves some more.

I turned around and limped towards the temple and I bet Hiei was probably smirking about the whole situation behind my back.

Again she brought up my not being her guardian anymore. Stubborn. And she told me. Reminded me. Was she really that set on that fact? I couldn’t deny that it was somewhat relieving to know she was going to refrain from relying on me. It didn’t mean that I’d just stop looking after her. I’d pretty much gotten used to it.

I left the water behind her. The air felt significantly cooler after getting soaked. I stepped aside, having spotted a jellyfish. I didn’t say a word. If Sakura wanted me to stop, then I would. I looked back to the sound of the yelp. She’d stepped on it.

“You may want to be more observant, since you no longer have a guardian,” I commented, with my own amusement fully concealed. She’d get herself killed. Though her fighting skills had improved, her ability to use her other senses to keep aware of any possible predators seemed somewhat lacking. 

Her own stubborness seemed to subside when she thanked me.

“Hn,” I shrugged and stepped forward and in front of her. It was pathetic seeing her limp. I lowered my shoulders a bit, “You’ll irritate that the more you walk on it.”

I kept walking but because I was slower it was easy for him to simply just walk past me and step in front. He lowered his shoulders and I couldn’t tell if it was out of pity or actual concern that I’d irritate the foot. I let out a sigh as I placed my arm on his shoulders to steady myself and to walk better with as less weight as possible on the foot.

For the most part, walking back to Master Genkai’s place and my room was in complete silence. I’m sure I had embarrassed myself enough and I didn’t want to say anything stupid to add on to that.

We reached the temple and he helped me get to my room. I went in and closed the door to change. I don’t know if he had decided to leave or not so I spoke out loud as if he had decided to stay. If he didn’t well, I’d just be talking to myself. Nothing new.

I grabbed the only extra set of clothing I had and changed into it while I thought of what had been weighing on my mind lately. “Hiei,” I finally spoke. “Do you think I made the right choice.” I asked as I put the wet garments away to be washed later. “Do you think it was a mistake…to come back here?” I asked.

I had finished changing into my nice yellow and pink hakama that I had worn once at the tournament. I opened the door to my room to step out and see if he was even still there.

(Source: harbingerofstorms)

thebeautifulsuzuka:

harbingerofstorms:

“I’ve noticed.” I laughed at his comment of taking things over the top. “Well I suppose with that quality things don’t get boring with you.” I grinned at the blonde haired demon.

My eyes drooped down at his explanation. “Careful Suzuka, your clown side is showing again.” I teased slightly. “Well if you do ever feel ignored you can always hang out with me. I usually don’t ignore people unless they’ve done something to piss me off.” I explained. I’d like to think I was generally a friendly person. 

Suzuka smirked, he was pleased he could still make some others laugh, even if he doesn’t mean to because his words were sincere. “I suppose not, but it usually depends on some things.” Suzuka said while laughing some.

Suzuka looked at the girl wide-eyed. “Oh, no. We don’t want that now do we?” Suzuka asked. There was a strange tone in his voice, almost like that question was more of a joke than anything else. “Heh, other than Hiei, that’s pretty much when everyone ignores me. It seems I have a habit of testing everyone’s tolerance for me.” Suzuka gave Sakura a toothy grin, “But I do suppose some people put up with me a lot better than others.” Mentally, Suzuka was able to list them. All the girls he knew, Kurama, Chu, Jin, Touya, and of course Itsuki.

Upon listing everyone in his mind he spoke up, “hmm… I think girls have a better time tolerating me than the males.”

I thought about his statement on how he got along better with the females. “Perhaps it’s because you get along so well with the females, that the males don’t like you?” I suggested. “Or maybe the boys are being just boys. They always just want a good fight.” I frowned at the thought that training always seemed to take priority over a good talk.

“Male company is nice, but it’s no fun if all they want to talk about is training and such. So the fact that you don’t seem to go off on that, it’s refreshing.” I smiled at Suzuka. “I enjoy talking to you so far at least.”

thebeautifulsuzuka:

harbingerofstorms:

thebeautifulsuzuka:

harbingerofstorms:

thebeautifulsuzuka:

harbingerofstorms:

thebeautifulsuzuka:

harbingerofstorms:

“That would be troubling. Thankfully my clan has some good healers so the hospital isn’t really needed at all!” I felt much better in their hands then others.

“Really?” I asked when he mentioned at the possibility of me being able to see them sometime. “That would be amazing! And Hiei said you were a fool.” I chuckled. While he seemed rather odd at both tournaments, he really was talented from what I could tell. Plus he was nice.

He then confirmed my description of the Itsuki I knew. I shuddered. “I did not enjoy being in his pet.” I thought about it more when he saw it a couple of times. I had thought Kuwabara had killed it with his new spirit sword. Perhaps he only critically wounded it. “So…Itsuki is about again?” I asked. “I thought he was staying with Sensui.” The guy was a real creep in my opinion simply because he wanted to stay with a decaying body. 

The thought of the decaying body then made me realize that if he was out and about, that could be the reason why. I didn’t hate Itsuki, I just wasn’t fond of him for trapping Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara and I. There was also that awful situation of him refusing to let us go when Yusuke was about to die by the hands of Sensui. It was all in the past, yes, but the memories were vivid. 

“Ah, well that is good to have friends with similar abilities like that. Then I trust you keep contact with your clan quite often?” Suzuka asked.

“Hiei calls everyone a fool.” Suzuka sighed, “but I think he finally stopped calling me a clown. It’s been quite some time since I’ve heard him call me such a thing.” The demon knows Hiei does that to get on his nerves. While he was sure Hiei thought he was a fool, and maybe even a clown, Suzuka was glad to know he only calls him an ‘old man’ to his face and not others. “That one has a bit of a temper on him.” He said, referring to the demon he often calls ‘the Chihuahua’.

“It was fine last time I saw it,” Suzuka replied. “Oh, but I do now recall hearing of that. Itsuki has a long scar from that cut. Runs from just above his eyebrow down to his chest.” The blonde couldn’t quite think of what Itsuki called the demon pet, so Suzuka always referred to it as it or that thing. “And as for Itsuki, yes, he does leave every so often. Right now, I do believe he’s in his little world. I did see him around just earlier today, so I expect him to come out later tonight as well.”

Suzuka could see the girl thinking about something. The demon inventor tilted his head slightly, “something on your mind?” he asked.

I nodded. “Yes, I stay with them when in makai.”

I laughed again at his description of Hiei. “He does have a temper.” I could definitely agree on that. He was always quick to push people away, but even then…he wasn’t entirely too bad. “But…that’s just Hiei being Hiei.” I defended him. “He’s not so bad.” I said with a warm smile about him.

I shook my head. “It’s nothing really. Just the memory of the encounter of Itsuki that’s all. I don’t know how he is now, but before it was him who prevented us from saving Yusuke the second time he died.” I looked down. “It’s hard to think of someone in a good light when you have that sort of memory etched into your mind.”

“Well, I suppose Hiei could be worse.” Suzuka said, and the mumbled under his breath, “I think.” The demon really hasn’t interacted with Hiei too many times, and every time they have bothered talking to each other ended in insults. “I would like him a little bit more if he would quit calling me a clown.”

Suzuka nodded, “That’s understandable. I don’t really have any bad encounters with Itsuki.” Suzuka honestly had difficulties imagining Itsuki mad or doing anything near violent. “He’s always quite clingy with me. He’s not so bad, after talking to him and getting past how dreadfully quiet he is.” 

“He’s really changed, though I suppose that’s hard to see when you haven’t been around him as much.” Often Hiei regarded me as a pest, so I’m not sure why I was so quick to defend him against some person I just met. I really needed to get my priorites straight.

“Clingy?” I could imagine him being that type when he was talking about how amazing Sensui was. “You’re right about one thing. He is very quiet. He hardly said a word, though I’m sure he was intent on watching the fight. Same with our side actually.”

“He’s changed?” Suzuka asked, raising an eyebrow, “I could hardly imagine that! And people say my personality hasn’t changed one bit.” The blonde demon couldn’t imagine Hiei being even more insulting and aggravating than he was now. The more he thought about it, the worse his over-imaginative mind exaggerated the Hiei he thought up of in his mind. “My condolences to Yusuke and the others for putting up with that.” Suzuka muttered. 

Suzuka smiled at the girl’s confusion, apparently there was another little fact escaped her about Suzuka’s group of acquaintances. “He probably was intent on watching that fight. But, no, he’s actually that quiet on a daily basis.” Suzuka blinked, “I sometimes can’t tell if he’s giving me the silent treatment or if he’s just being quiet.” The demon assumed that was something he will have to learn to figure out on his own. “I think he’s the first person to figure out how much giving me the silent treatment bothers me.”

I raised an eyebrow when he seemed to apologize for Hiei’s behavior. “I’m not sure why you’re apologizing.” I chuckled nervously. “Hiei really isn’t that bad. He’s blunt. I like that. He was the first person I knew to actually not care if I was demon or human or half of either. It was…refreshing.” I honestly spoke. 

“Why does silence bother you?” I asked curious when he mentioned he disliked it when Itsuki was too quiet around him.

Suzuka hadn’t thought of that. As of recently, Hiei had grown accustomed to both humans and demons. The blonde demon smiled as his index finger pointed to the side of his head, “My mind, likes to make situations seem worse than they really are. I guess sometimes it’s better to go a little over the top.” Suzuka let out a small laugh of amusement.

The flamboyant demon blinked. He didn’t quite know how to answer the question without making himself sound conceited. And, as the blonde demon knew everyone was aware of, he is far from that. “Hehe,” Suzuka couldn’t help but laugh at his answer, “well, because I like to be the center of attention, of course. Ignoring me is such a terrible punishment. For me and for the one depriving themselves of my presence.”

“I’ve noticed.” I laughed at his comment of taking things over the top. “Well I suppose with that quality things don’t get boring with you.” I grinned at the blonde haired demon.

My eyes drooped down at his explanation. “Careful Suzuka, your clown side is showing again.” I teased slightly. “Well if you do ever feel ignored you can always hang out with me. I usually don’t ignore people unless they’ve done something to piss me off.” I explained. I’d like to think I was generally a friendly person.