Unlikely Soul Mates

Chapter 10

Truth and Illusion

Hiei seemed to disappear over the next few days. He didn't know what to do. Frankly, he was bored. It had been a long time since he was forced on a mission with Yusuke, Kurama, and the dumb human Kuwabara. He was itching for a fight. So one day he was jumping from tree to tree like he did so often spying. This time he was in the woods outside of town. He came to a small opening in the middle of the woods. 'I know this place.' He thought. He then remembered the first time he saw the human named Yusuke. It was a long time ago. He saw in his mind Goki, Kurama, himself, and Yusuke walking up to them his arrogant self. Hiei chuckled at this memory. Then he remembered when he fought Yusuke in the warehouse. That was when he first met her, then another enemy, now his love. Who was someone that he hadn't seen since his tear incident. He wasn't running this time. He just needed some time to think. He jumped from tree to tree again until he reached the end of the woods. He made his way to the warehouse that he remembered. He saw in his mind the fight that showed him that Yusuke wasn't just any human. He then walked for a while. Then he heard a voice coming from behind him.

"Hiei," said the voice. It sounded so familiar

Hiei turned around to see Tarukane. Hiei was baffled to see this enemy he thought he saw the end of standing there. Hiei growled and took out his sword. He ran at him with his sword drawn.

"HIEI STOP!" Yelled the voice of Botan coming from Tarukane

Hiei stopped his attack completely dumbfounded. Something was wrong here. Tarukane sounded like Botan. Then he looked again and saw that it was Botan standing there, now terrified of Him. "Botan!" Hiei said as he walked up to her.

Botan began to slowly back away. Her eyes widened as far as they could be.

Hiei saw the fear in her eyes, "Botan I was hallucinating, I saw something else. Something I wanted to kill. Believe me it wasn't you!" He told her.

Botan wanted to believe him but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She didn't say anything. She just turned around and walked away as fast as she could.

Hiei couldn't chase her. He felt too bad. These knew feelings were messing with his mind even more then before. He didn't understand what that hallucination could possibly mean. He just turned back in the direction of the forest and disappeared in a blur.

Botan finally stopped and looked back, 'he didn't chase after me?' she asked herself. She then knew that what happened back there was another regression into his old life, his life before his love for her. She was sick of all this. 'Why did I have to fall in-love with someone that can't handle love?' she thought, "IT'S NOT FAIR!" She screamed. She then fell to her knees and began to cry.

Hiei reached the forest, this time he didn't jump into the branches as he did before. This time he walked into the forest and reached the opening that he saw before. He leaned against a tree and fell to the ground and didn't move until morning.

The next morning Botan had a clear mind and now wanted to listen to Hiei. She searched all around town for him and all over spirit world, but she couldn't find him anywhere. She then went into the forest outside of town thinking that maybe he was hiding out there. She knew that looking there was going to be hard, especially because Hiei knew how to hide and if he wanted to hide it would be impossible. She was actually hoping that he would see her and want to talk to her. She reached an opening and saw Hiei against a tree seeming to be asleep. She walked up to him and began to shake him, "Hiei, wake up." She said.

Hiei was startled. He opened his eyes everything was blurry at first and then his eyes got used to the morning light as he saw all four of the Saint Beasts standing infront of him. He jumped back and drew his sword like the morning before.

Botan watched as he slashed the air beside her. She was so confused. She didn't know what was going on.

Hiei was also rather confused when he attacked Genbu and he just disappeared. Then he saw Byakko and ran at him and slashed, again he just disappeared. Then he looked at Seiryu, he knew that Seiryu was dead, he killed him. 'Well I'll just have to kill him again.' He thought as he ran and slashed him in half, and Seiryu too disappeared. Hiei then looked at Suzaku. Hiei readied himself to attack.

Botan saw him looking at her. She became scared again. She tried to back away but she backed up against a tree. She knew that if she ran Hiei would catch her and most likely kill her. So she stood her ground.

Hiei saw Suzaku cowering, he lowered his sword confused. This wasn't the Suzaku that Hiei thought he knew. He didn't care. He wanted to kill him. He ran at Suzaku ready to slash.

"HIEI!" Botan yelled as she ducked. She heard the sword going through the tree. She knew that could have been her.

Hiei closed his eyes when he heard Botan's voice because he knew that it was too late to stop. He heard the sword go through something. He prayed it wasn't Botan. He didn't have the nerve to open his eyes.

Botan looked and saw the feared look on Hiei's face with his eyes closed hard. "Hiei?" she said.

Hiei was happy to hear her voce knowing she was still alive. He slowly opened his eyes and saw his sword was lunged into a tree. He looked down and saw her looking up at him. He fell to his knees, "Your alive!"

"Hiei, may I ask, what was that all about?" Botan asked.

"It was all hilusinations I kept seeing our old enemies when I saw you and felt an urge to kill." He said.

"Does that mean you really want to kill me? Are you still regressing all this time? What do you expect me to do wait for you? Well I am ti—"Botan was cut off as she was pulled up by Hiei.

Hiei looked at her with love in his eyes as he kissed her gently on the lips. After the kiss he looked in her eyes. "I love you, and yes, I expect you to wait." He said.

Botan smiled and kissed him again. After the kiss she said, "I will wait for you."

END OF CHAPTER!

Aww cheesy ending! I own nothing! I am glad I had a hard time thinking up stuff...THANK YOU TO KURAYAMI NO KITSUNEYOUKAI!!!!!!!!! She helped me with the story! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways review, tell me what you think! I hope you liked it!