Remembering
prologue
by Emerald
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Warning and Disclaimers: This fic contains yaoi(m/m) relationship. Still mild, though. Anyway, YYH doesn't belong to me.
Prologue
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I had waited too long.
My hands weakly clenched into fists as another spasm of pain went through my frail body. This human body which houses my spirit can only last so long. I close my eyes and inhale sharply and I see your face once again.
It has been too long, Hiei. Why didn't you come back to Ningenkai, even once in a while? You didn't probably care, ne, Hiei? Ch, I'm such a baka...for hoping.
I felt myself smile grimly, and I recall that last time I saw you. He! I remembered teasing you about that tear gem, though deep inside I truly hoped that it was meant for me.
Sigh.
Maybe i shou.ld've told you. Then again, maybe it was better that i didn't. Would you have stayed if you knew? Or would it have driven you away further, as far as to forgetting the friendshiip we have? I'm so afraid...afraid that you would reject me, and my love. Oh well, there's nothing more i could do, ne? I can feel myself slipping away from this world --- I only wish I could see you through the eyes of Minamino Shuichi one last time. I don't know if we will meet again when, no ----
IF I would be reborn in my youko form.
To see you... oh, I've got lots of things to say to you, even in my weak state. Hn...maybe I could give you one of those lectures about telling Yukina-chan the truth, eh? When are you going to tell her, Hiei? Though now, she thinks less of her brother now that she has her hands full of kuwabara and their family, I could still perceive her sadness and longing. If you could only see how tears seem to well up in her eyes as she fingers the tear gem...
Now, I lie in silence. This room holds so much memories, the tree outside and the windowsill there. But now I'm alone. Tousan and kasaan died, Shuichi and his family moved to America. Yusuke and the others--- they all have familes now, and we see each other sometimes, though, not lately. Nothing has really changed in me. I'm not boasting, but ningen females still watch out for my every move and gather round me like predators circling their prey. But I still feel empty, incomplete, because
I don't have a certain fire demon by my side.
For a while at least, I could drop my facade of being well during the day. My body is sagging and I feel so exhausted, For so long I had concealed my incurable ailment, and today is no exception. Hard as it may be, but I don't want to bother them with my "ningen illnesses", as you'd call it. Che, humans are really weak, huh? But I feel no remorse whatsoever. If I had not become a ningen, I would not have met yusuke and the others, and most of all---you.
Cough. Cough. Cough. I think I am having trouble breathing now. That's the sign. The end is near. I struggled to get a piece of paper from my bedside table and clasping them between my hands. My last words....I hope that Yusuke and the others will notice it when they come and see me--- my body tomorrow. I hope they'll all understand... Yusuke, Kuwabara, Genkai, Botan, Koenma, Keiko, Shizuru, arigatou. Hiei...arigatou gozaimasu---for everything. Ai shiteru.
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End of Prologue
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