Epilogue: Memories
by ARaZhi
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth hoping that someday - BUoS
You'll come back to me
I'll be praying for whatever it's worth
Believing that one day you'll come back to me
I'll be standing at the edge of the earth
Hoping for someday
Makai, twenty-three years after the failled assassination of Koenma...
Hiei snapped awake. He grabbed onto the tree's branch before he fell. Though he'd grown taller a lot taller than before, he still preferred to sleep on tree branches.
Weird dream.
"I'll remember! I have to!! Kim..."
The words from his dream echoed on his head.
He's a bit disoriented. No. His *jagan* is disoriented. It seems to be remembering things that his mind can't.
"Hiei-sama?" someone called out from under his tree.
Hiei jumped down the tree. The youkai handed him a message globe then disappeared.
Hiei threw the globe, it shattered on the tree and Koenma appeared.
"Hiei, Botan and I would like to invite you to Kim-chan's eighteenth birthday . I hope you could come. It's been a long time since we've last seen you," Koenma smiled.
Kim... He fingered the ring she gave him.
Koenma and Botan named their child after Kim.
Botan appeared, "Hiei!" she grinned. "Yukina's been asking about you. I hope you'll come, she misses you."
He could almost hear her unspoken statement. "I also hope that you'll tell her that you're her brother."
"Ja ne!" Botan ended the message.
"Hn."
He walked towards the edge of the cliff and looked at the vast stretch of Mukuro's land.
"Ai shiteru, Hiei-chan," those were Kim's last words to him before she disappeared. Words that the others didn't hear. He asked Kurama who she was but all he got was, "she's a time traveler."
No one had ever said those words to him before.
It's unlikely that he'll ever hear it again.
He refrained from visiting Botan's daughter because word has it that she looks like Botan, with Koenma's dark hair and hazel eyes.
She'll only remind me of the woman I barely knew...
He looked at his ring.
"I'll remember..." echoed in his head.
He looked at the rising sun.
"I won't forget you Kim. Never."
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Notes: Started: 04/10/2000 Finished: 04/13/2000