Forbidden Soul

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, or story, of Yuu-Yuu Hakusho. It belongs to the wondrous Yoshihiro Togashi-sama who has brought something to my life that I love. So, don't sue me on that half. I do, however, claim a few of these characters in this story. Baku, Shinai, Ari, and the rest of the random people not seen in the Yuu-Yuu Hakusho Manga and/or Anime are mine. So, I'd rather you not steal them from me...and if you do, I'll have Shinai go after you. You wouldn't like that...Shinai is scary...oh, and if you want this fic on your site or what-not, please E-mail me.

Author's Notes: This one of the shortest chapters! I’m so sorry about that too...see, I wrote my fic without any chapters in it, so when I did have to split it up, I tried to split it at good areas...and this one just came up way too short. But, that’s okay. I’ve decided that I’ll write a small insert of this fic at the end of the chapter each time I have a really short chapter like this. So please, Mina-sama, enjoy my fic!

Warnings: My story is still PG-13 for the language in this chapter. Nothing too big, really.

Dedication: My stories are dedicated to my friends and all of my awesome reviewer fans. Especially the un-lazy bums of AdultFanFiction who actually do review. -Laughs- I love you all.

‘Forbidden Soul: Chapter 2: The Forbidden Child's Curse’

It was early when a young boy, who was a water-elemental, and Shinai came into the dim lit room. They lowered the red-eyed demon from the ceiling a bit more roughly than welcomed. The impact of the fall jutted Hiei awake, and upon the arrival to the world of the conscious, his old wounds renewed their pain and his arms and shoulders ached.

Hiei had had a dream. The first one he had in a long time. Too long, it seemed. Only bits and pieces were revealed in that dream but one thing stood out in his mind. There was a redheaded boy there…with gorgeous bright jade eyes. Why he was there, Hiei didn’t know. The boy had said something but Hiei couldn’t hear him. Suddenly, Shinai's voice rang through his mind.

"Damn...Baku took you all the way last night, didn't he?" Shinai spoke to Hiei as if they were best of friends. The other one didn't speak. He hardly ever did as Hiei recalled, knowing this boy to be Ari. A young demon, but quick. They both greeted him with a pained expression on their faces, as if they were disgusted by something... "Probably by what I look like..." The young demon didn't look away from them.

"Fuck you, Shinai...you were there also..." The fire demon shakily pushed himself off the ground as Ari cut the ropes that bonded his wrists together. "...Why didn't you just...cry?" The water element cocked his head to the side but then saw Hiei's sneer. He pulled away; his green eyes widening as he whipped some of his black strands away from his face. "...Baku would have let you go if you just dropped those tear gems..."

Hiei glared down at the wooden floor; he was standing on a dried up bloodstain. The youkai's mind wandered. Hiei was a half-breed. One half fire-demon where he got his fiery passion and temperamental attitude, and the other half was an ice apparition. A koorime. The tears that he spilt would turn into small, black, pearl-like gems, called Hiruiseki gems.

Koorime's were normally woman. Legend says that these women all live up in the ice world; hovering over the demon world, and never came down to this world, unless they sought death upon themselves. At a certain age, they would become pregnant and give birth to twin females of their race. It was said that since Hiei's mother was in love with a fire demon that had saved her, she gave birth to one female and a male.

Hiei was cast down from the ice world to live here, but they never told him that koorime woman had two children when they gave birth...and unknowing to his twin sibling, there wasn't much to live up to down here. Other than training and getting stronger, he was to the other demon's mercy. And they frequently made his shed his black tears.

Hiei knew what Baku used them for.

Where did they get all their weapons? Other demons. If Baku supplied them with the tears, they would give them weapons. Many people from the human world also had ties to the demon world, and the gems were very valuable in the ningenkai. Humans had dealings with demon power, and would trade with others to get whatever they wanted. Humans are very greedy creatures...

When they first took Hiei in and he was first beaten and used, Hiei had cried and they found out that he was a koorime. This had made his beatings all too more frequent and painful until he let loose his tears. Damn...baka Hiei...why did he cry? The poor boy only looked to be around nine years of age, but he was much older, being a demon.

"Hn..." Hiei snorted slightly and was pulled back into reality for a second. Shinai was staring at him as Ari began to clean up the floor around where Hiei stood. The boy gazed over to Shinai and suddenly turned away when he felt tears sting his eyes. This demon, Shinai, he had always wanted him to understand Hiei. He wanted Shinai to give comfort to him...but not the kind he always offered...

"...I wont...ever cry again..." The boy started toward the doorway, off to get new clothes and clean himself up. He was the only one who was going to do it, so he had better do it soon before other demons began to ask him what happened. Hiei stealthily started down the hallway, listening to the other's training sessions and them talking in the mess hall. A few words could be made out as he passed by.

"...I heard that Youko has been badly injured..."

The black-haired demon stopped. Youko? THE Youko? How did he get hurt? Youko was one of the most cunning kitsunes that had ever lived. He was amazing at his thieving skills and a master of plant elemental attacks...but how could he be hurt? The fire youkai then remembered a time where he was with Youko...it had been when he was younger...many times younger than now.

-Chapter two: Owari-

I’m sorry it took me so long to post this...and most of this isn’t even un-cut. Except for later on...which should get here sooner than most. Bwhahaha...just read it. Also, I know that this was a pretty short chapter...so, I’ll reward you all with a story about my fic-in-progress as well as the three...reviewed reviews at the end. When you review (If your kind enough to do it), please tell me how you like the characters, again, and what you think about Hiei’s black tear gems. I’ve read a lot of fics saying that, when he cries, they are normal...since he’s a fire demon. Well, Hiei doesn’t really have many qualities about him that are koorime...or ones that show. So, I decided that they’d be black. Anyone agree or disagree on this?

‘Complications (Extra!): Part 1!’

As anyone who has written a fic knows...they can be hard. You have things to deal with like...laziness, depression, school-work, stress, sleep, friends, family, more stress, exams, boredom, and anything else that plagues your life. Those can be overcome...but the worst is losing your fic to a damn floppy disk!

Yep, two years ago, this fic wasn’t over 5 pages long and was kept on a floppy disk. I was proud of my work, and I had ended up acquiring 24 pages of cra–I mean...hard worked story. You might not think that this was a lot...but at the time. Yeah. I was proud. One day, though, the floppy disk fell apart, along with my story. See, that was the only copy of it that I had...other than the 24 pages the I printed out about a week before.

So, with a bunch of motivation, I ended up working on it, adding more, and stretching it out longer. I had it almost all the way complete as well, so I have to say that this version is doing well. It’s quite an improvement to what I had before, let me tell you. So, you’re all lucky that this fic is even here right now... xD

Basically...the moral of the story is:

Don’t trust floppy disks!

-Reviews-

LittleKitsune: -Evil laughter- Yes, chibis that eat people are scary indeed. But, I’m sorry that I haven’t updated in so long. I’m a lazy bastard when it comes to alternative fics. Bah. I think I’ll get out of that ditch in a second. Anyway, thank you for reviewing again. I don’t mind if you review my fic a number of times. Heh...it shows you care. Also, yes, I will humour you. All the chapters are short, so you better get used to it. To answer your question about how long it was going on, not even I know. Still, it hasn’t been that long. Hiei still is a little kid, you know. If you cuff a little kid upside the head, they cry. Believe me, I know. Also, he wasn’t really ‘captured’ so to speak. He was at the bandit hideout a long time before Baku and Shinai came in. Baku is his master now because of what happened...ack. You’ll see sooner or later. But, yeah, if you have anymore questions, just bother me through reviews or E-mail.

Ryukotsusei: Indeed. It is really hard to have people who don’t review but will read your story. It pisses me off, but I deal with it, anyway. Oh, man. You’re looking forward to the evil, bloody massacres? YES! That’s great...heheh...you just have a wait a few good chapters. And, if you’d rather see it sooner, then go look at this story on FF.net. It’s under the user name: ‘AestheticAngel’ so it’s easy to find. I have a lot more chapters, but the rape chapter in this version is a lot better. The blood is coming soon. Just wait for it...

Drake: It’s okay~! It’s better than some people. Some people don’t review at all, and that just sucks. Oh, well. I really wasn’t going to quit my writing...I just like threatening people. That tends to make them want to review even more than usual. Heheh...it’s always fun to threaten people...and, I hope you do continue to read my story~! It gets better than just this, I swear...heh. Hope to see you back again soon!