Shrill Screams

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Shrill screams

Yusuke was sitting on the school roof skipping maths when you appeared. A sudden thump heralded your arrival and he almost fell off the roof at the unexpected noise. You stood up on shaky legs, your long, tangled cobalt blue hair falling across your face, your rose coloured eyes half shut in exhaustion as you look up at him.
“A-are you Yusuke Urameshi?” You whisper, your voice croaky.
“Yeah, I’m Yusuke. Are you alright?” He jumped down from his perch above the stairwell opening.
You nodded, then shook your head and then nodded again before falling to your knees in fatigue. He ran forward and caught you before your face hit the concrete.
“Who are you?” He asked, hoping for an answer before you passed out.
“(y/n)…Botan’s sister…” Your world went black; the last thing you saw was his mouth drop open in disbelief.
‘You don’t know the half of it…’

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Soft noises reach your ears as you claw through layers of sleep, your eyes slowly opening, the blurred shapes coming into focus. You were lying on a couch, or so you deducted by the fact that you could see what looked like a lounge around you. A pair of pink eyes came into view and your heart soared as you felt your lips curve up in a tired smile.
“Botan…”
“(y/n)! What happened?! Why are you here?!” She half gasped, half yelled as you sat up.
You observe the various scrapes, cuts and bruises that adorn your body and can’t help but give a small giggle. She stares at you oddly, taken aback by your surprising reply.
“(y/n)?”
“Hmm? Oh, sorry! I just…thought I look funny is all.”
Botan sighs in exasperation and hugs you tight, your eyes widen at the sudden contact but you hug her back quickly.
“Well, what happened?” She asks you again after letting you go.
“They’re back.” The Rekai tantei look at each other in confusion, hidden from your sight in the kitchen.
Botan gasped as her face drained of colour and she hit the floor. You stare in disbelief at your sister, suddenly remembering that she was always unstable around that subject. You suddenly find yourself surrounded by men as they pick up Botan and lay her on the couch next to you. You feel a nervous shiver run down your spine, scared by being surrounded by strangers, male strangers no less.
“(y/n)! Oye! Yoo hoo?!” Yusuke waves his hand in front of your face, knocking you from your thoughts.
“Sorry! What did you say?”
“What the hell did you do to Botan?!” Some ginger guy yells at you before another guy with red eyes smacks him across the back of the head.
Demon eyes you think to yourself, you recoil as he looks up sharply to meet your gaze.
‘Its like he heard me!’ You think, he looks away again just as quickly.
“I just told her why I was here. Where is here anyway?” You look around, trying to see what the place looked like.
“You are in my home.” You turn to see a handsome young man with long red hair smiling at you, you blush involuntarily.
“Ha! She’s blushing! Kurama, you sly fox!” Yusuke whoops before the red-eyed guy hits him as well.
“Shut up, detective.”
“Hiei! That bloody well hurt, you shrimp!”
Hiei’s eyes narrowed as he stepped towards Yusuke, his katana unsheathed.
“Hiei.” Kurama sighed.
“This will only take a second, no one that insufferable should be allowed to live.”
“Hiei! Later, we have to sort this out first.” The kitsune told him.
The koorime muttered something about annoying idiots under his breath before he sheathed the blade. You slowly let out the breath that you hadn’t realised you had been holding, your body relaxing noticeably.
“So are you guys demons?” You ask, trying to find a topic that would break the awkward silence.
“I’m the only normal one here sweetheart, the name’s Kuwabara but you can call me anything you want.” The ginger guy smiles at you as he sits down next to you.
“If insanity is the common state of mind then I suppose you are.” Hiei sighed as he drags Kuwabara away from you.
Kurama chuckles and sits down next to you but leaves you space to breathe unlike before.
“Both myself and Hiei are demons, Yusuke is half demon and Kuwabara is a ningen with high spirit power levels. I would assume that you are also a ningen but considering who your sister is I have to admit that I don’t know where to place you.”
You smile and nod, your hand stroking Botan’s hair absentmindedly.
“I was a ningen. I don’t suppose you know Botan’s story?”
The team shook their heads in confusion,
“I never assumed that there was one.” Hiei spoke aloud.
“We lived in a coastal village with our father, when I was six and she was ten we were thrown out of the house by our new stepmother. She had hated us from the moment we had met her. There was a fire, in which most of our father’s manuscripts and proofs were destroyed, he was a novelist you see.” You take a deep breath, the next part was always hard to repeat.
“Our stepmother told Father that we had started it because we were jealous of his success. He was so wrapped up in his rose-tinted world of perfection that he believed her. We had nothing when we were chucked out, not that anything would have helped what happened. We…we…” Your voice catches in your throat as the emotions flooding back threaten to swamp you, you feel a pair of arms wrap around you.
Looking up you see your sister holding you tightly, her face was grim as she continued the story.
“We were attacked by a band of demons, they thought it was amusing to chase ningens, especially females. We tried to hold out but they tortured us in ways that I dare not repeat…” At this point you wrench free of her grip and run out of the room to sit in the kitchen window seat, you can still hear Botan talking.
“…(y/n) suffered more, she tried to keep fighting even though it was futile. I had already given up and could feel myself fading from the pneumonia as they ganged up on her…they…they raped her continuously even as I died. Her screams were the last thing I heard before I found myself standing in front of Koenma.” Her voice was hushed as she tried to keep the tears from interfering, “She was only six years old…six…”
You stare out of the window but you can feel every emotion and thought sweeping through the room, you hide your face against your knees as you hear the collective gasp of the men. The tears running down your face shine brightly in the sunshine as you try to wipe them away, you hear your sister continue her tale.
“As I waited for him to find a place for me she appeared right behind me, they had…had slit her throat after they were done…”
“Shh…take your time.” You hear Kurama’s comforting tone, you suddenly wonder if there is something else to his friendship with your sister.
“Koenma told us that we were not expected and that we could join his ranks as ferry girls. I accepted but (y/n) said that she wanted something different, she became an assassin for Koenma, who was going to be suspicious of a little girl? I’ve only seen her a handful of times since then, she had to be made into a demon in order to live seeing as her body was completely beyond normal help.”
“Who are ‘they’ that she spoke of earlier? The ones that you are so terrified of?” Yusuke asked her.
“The demons that killed us, they were never brought to justice. Now they’re much stronger, they’ve never forgotten about us because (y/n) killed their leader by breaking his neck. I think they believe that it’s amusing that we have been given a second chance, they see it as a second chance to get us again.”
“I swear I will never let them get you or your sister, Botan.” Kurama’s voice whispered, confirming your suspicions about their relationship.

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You can’t bear it anymore and fling the window open, jumping onto the tree opposite before running away from the apartment, unaware of the shadow behind you. You suddenly fall from the treetops as something attaches itself to your leg, the weight causing you to lose your balance. You scream as you hit the floor, looking to see what had attacked you. Your face pales as you recognise the demon gripping your leg, his mouth curved in a sadistic grin.
“Thought you’d lost me (y/n)?” He growled.
You scream again, so high pitched that he lets go of you to cover his ears. You scramble to your feet and start to run as fast as you can, your hair flying out behind you like a cape. You scream again as you hear his footsteps getting closer, the noise forcing a yell of pain from him. Something drops down from the trees to land in front of you, they drag you behind them as you hear the sound of a sword being drawn. Hiei holds your hand as he battles the demon, you see that the demon still has the upper hand because Hiei is gripping you and clap your hands over Hiei’s ears before shrieking so penetratingly that it seems as though no sound has come out of your mouth. The effect is instantaneous, the demon drops to the floor twitching, blood running from his ears and mouth as his heart bursts. You remove your hands from Hiei’s ears and step back from the sight with a pale face, your knees give out and you sit down hard. Hiei turns from staring at the demon to stare at you instead,
“What the hell was that?!”
You sigh and hug your knees to you to hide your trembling body.
“I’m a demon.”
“I already know that baka onna.”
You look up at him with a tiny smile and laugh softly at his outburst.
“I’m a banshee.”
He stares at you with wide eyes for a moment before holding a hand out to you.
“Let’s go. Your sister is worried.”
You take the offered hand, he drags to his chest as he wraps his arms around you and teleports back to the apartment. As soon as you are back in the lounge he lets go of you as though you had burned him, your face falls a little at the thought that he didn’t want to be near you before forcing your smile back on your face.
‘What am I thinking? I don’t even know him.”
“(y/n)! You’re okay, thank you Hiei.” Botan hugs you as she thanks the fire demon.
“Hn, she could have handled it.”
Kurama frowned a little and dragged him aside as your sister continues to berate you. His eyes spoke volumes but he spoke anyway.
“Was it them?”
“I’m not sure but it seemed that way.” Hiei replied curtly, he couldn’t care less.
“If she could handle it herself then why did you help?”
He glared at him in anger,
“I didn’t know she was that kind of demon, if I had known then I wouldn’t have bothered.”
Kurama looked at him questioningly and he sighed in annoyance.
“She’s a banshee.”
Kurama’s eyes narrowed as his gaze flicked to the girl sitting beside his girlfriend.
“I didn’t know there were any left.” He muttered.
“Hn, well now you do know. Her screams seem like her only talent though, her speed is pathetic.”
“Not everyone is as fast as you Hiei. I wonder if Botan knew that her sister was that kind of demon, what was Koenma thinking?!”
Hiei looked at his best friend sharply.
“What are you talking about?”
Kurama pulled him into the kitchen where Yusuke and Kuwabara sat waiting for them.
“Banshee’s have within them the energy to kill anyone with a single note, this energy is very rare and can be manipulated into physical objects. If a demon managed to transfer this energy then he could kill multiple people with one blast of a whistle. That is why the demons are after (y/n), not the reason Botan told us.”
The team exchanged glances,
“Okay, no one jump out at her from the shadows.” Yusuke joked.
Kuwabara’s face paled,
“You mean she can kill us by screaming? But don’t women scream a lot? You know, at spiders and snakes and messy rooms.”
Hiei sighed and turned to stare out of the window,
“Baka.”
The silence stretched between them before there was a crashing noise from the lounge. On running through they saw you and Botan surrounded by three very ugly and large demons, they were staring at the two of you with hungry gazes. Botan was keeping them at bay with her oar but you realised that you had no chance; you clapped your hands over her ears. Hiei saw your actions and yelled to the team,
“Cover your ears! Now!”
They all did as he said just as you took a deep breath and screamed as loud and high as you possibly could. The three demons fell on the floor, thrashing in pain as the windows blew out in a shower of glass. You felt your chest grow painfully tight as your voice gave out, the strain of conducting so much energy at once causing you to lose your voice. Your head pounded agonizingly, your vision went black as you crumpled to the floor.

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It was dark when you came around again, this time you were on something a lot more comfortable than the sofa; a soft pillow cushioned your throbbing head. You let out a groan as you push yourself up into a sitting position, jumping slightly when you see someone sitting on the windowsill. Hiei looked over at you as you groaned, sighing in annoyance.
“Onna, lie down again, don’t push yourself.”
You stare at him in amusement.
“I didn’t peg you for being the caring sort.”
He growled and turned back to stare out of the window.
“I’m not. But your sister has only just shut up, I’d rather spend the rest of the night in peace.”
You roll your eyes and lie back down, noticing that you were wearing an over-sized t-shirt.
“Where am I?”
He looked back at you briefly.
“My room.”
Your eyebrows rose at his statement,
“Your room?”
“Are you hard of hearing onna?”
You scrunched your eyes up and stuck your tongue out at him. When you opened them again you almost hit the ceiling in fright, he was inches from your face. His eyes bore into yours as you shift nervously under the blankets, his expression turning amused as he smirked.
“What are you smirking at?”
He continued to smirk and moved away again.
“You.”
“Why?”
“Because I can.”
Your eyes narrow in annoyance and you begin to gently whistle underneath your breath. He spins around once more as he hears the noise, storming over and clapping a hand over your mouth.
“Don’t try any of your tricks against me, banshee.”
Your eyes widen, how did he know? Then it hit you; he must have been watching the scene in the living room. You smirk and bite down on the hand, laughing a little when he jerks it away from you. You catch his eye and lick the blood from your lips, slowly sitting up.
“You taste quite nice…”
Hiei growls and knocks you flat on the bed again before leaving the room to bandage his hand. You shiver nervously, why had you done that? He did something to you, something that set your nerves tingling and your body aflame. You giggle softly, what would your sister say if you mentioned this to her.

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~ Two weeks later ~

In the time that had passed you had become good friends with Kurama, trounced Yusuke everytime you played chess, and tormented Kuwabara at every opportunity. When you were near Hiei you closed up, afraid you would say something that you would later regret, no wonder considering every conversation you had with him ended in an argument. At the current moment in time you were at the temple with Botan and the girls, you had found a fast friend in Yukina, her easy love a catalyst to instant best friend status. Keiko was distant, you ignored her most of the time but Shizuru was hilarious. In your eyes she was a rebel, an older version of yourself complete with a working knowledge of how to really piss off her brother, Kuwabara. The ginger man had developed a fear of you, running in the other direction when he saw you, doubling his speed when Shizuru was with you. But at the moment you were bored. Humming to yourself you stepped outside and sat on the steps, you were shortly joined by your sister. The comfortable silence around you lulling you into a sense of relaxation, it was your undoing. The demons attacked out of nowhere, their slimy, oozing, hard, freezing hands gripping you painfully as they knocked the two of you out.

Hiei paced around the temple in anger, his Jagan unable to locate you for the time being. Kurama was staring out of the window trying to come up with a plan of sorts to get the two of you back. Yusuke and Kuwabara were completely clueless, whining about how stupid they were to let you out of their sight. Hiei finally snapped and threw a vase at them, it shattered when it connected with Kuwabara’s head.
“Shut up!”
They stared at him in disbelief, Yusuke was the one to pipe up.
“Why do you care Hiei?”
“Hn, if we don’t get them back the toddler will get in a mood.”
Kurama smiled a little at Hiei’s response, knowing that it was only a cover.
Hiei, why don’t you just admit it to yourself? You like (y/n)…
‘Fox, if you value your ability to speak you had better shut up, now!’
Perhaps if you remember something about her then you would be able to locate her more precisely?
‘Shut up!’
Kurama smiled back at the glare he was receiving from the koorime, but noticed that Hiei immediately went back to scrying for you. Except this time he was clenching one of his hands rather tight, the one that had been mysteriously wounded a couple of weeks ago. His head snapped up almost instantaneously,
“I know where they are.” With that he leapt out of the window, the others staring for a moment before running after him.
They could only hope that they would reach you in time.

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The bastard had punched you in the throat, it was a miracle that he hadn’t broken your neck. Be as it may you could only whimper quietly, the pain causing a sandpaper effect on your oesophagus. Botan noticed this, she was worried, Kurama had told her what type of demon you were and knowing this she realised that your powers were cancelled out. She would have hugged you if it weren’t for the chains that bound you to the wall; you look over at her, the tears running down your face as you try to speak.
“(y/n) don’t strain yourself!” She told you.
You close your eyes in defeat, your body too sore to rebel, the blood slowly oozing from the whip marks on your back and stomach. Your sister was in slightly better shape but she was exhausted with worrying after you, her eyes dropped shut as she collapsed on the wall. Both of you terrified of the demons who had come after you once again, you shiver in the cold air, your clothes having had been ripped off you hours before. The minutes passing by turned into hours, into days, into weeks for all you knew, you just wanted it all to end.
You were suddenly ripped down from the wall, your eyes snap open to see a demon holding you up. You try to hit him but seeing as your hands were chained it was a hard job. You shivered in disgust as his hand crept up your thigh suggestively; you looked him in the eye seductively. His eyes widened as though he couldn’t believe his luck, he leant forward and crashed his lips against yours. The boys hurtled into the room and froze as they saw you kiss the demon, Hiei’s eyes flashed in anger and resentment. You felt the gaze on your back and put your plan into action, you bit down on the demon’s lips and tongue. He threw you to the ground as he ran held his bleeding mouth, you embraced the cold stone with relief as your vision faded, you were finally off that goddamn wall. The last thing you felt were a pair of strong arms scooping you up.

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Hiei glared at you as you opened your eyes, you groaned and closed them again in retaliation of what you knew was going to happen next.
“What the hell were you thinking?!”
You tried to reply but your voice protested, you turned your back on him as you shifted in the bed.
‘As if I wanted to be captured by them…baka.’
“The only baka is you, onna.”
You look around again, startled beyond belief.
“What the hell?! You can hear me?!”
“Hn, if I couldn’t would you be hearing me?”
“What do you want, just go away.”
“I want an explanation…now!”
You sit up and glare at him, you notice that you’re lying in his room again, dressed in the dirty dress you were wearing the day you were kidnapped, they had obviously put it back on you for modesty’s sake.
“I don’t want to talk to you, thank you very much!”
You turn your back on him again, he grabs your shoulder and roughly turns you back over to face him. You wince in pain as your wounds burn with the friction of the cloth, his glare softens a little when he sees the look of pain sweep across your face.
“You’re hurt?”
You sigh and nod,
“Not that you care, right.”
“Onna, shut up and show me where.”
You blush, knowing that you would have to either lift the dress or pull it down, the fact of you not wearing underwear causing a mental conflict.
“Now, (y/n).”
You look at him in shock, he had said your name, your actual name. You blush deeper and pull the dress down, your arms covering your breasts from view as you kneel on the bed so that he could see your back as well as your stomach. You feel his fingers digging into your shoulders, looking at him you see his face contorted with anger.
“I swear that I will never let anyone hurt you like this ever again, you hear me?”
You stare at him in disbelief, your skin covering in goosebumps in the cool air.
“Do you hear me, onna?”
You nod slowly, the barest hints of a smile on your face. He growls a little in anger as he begins to clean your wounds, you twitch away from him, hissing in pain. He drags you back and holds you against his chest stop you from squirming away again as he bandaged your back wounds.
“Do that again and I will not be pleased.”
You close your eyes and stick your tongue out at him, knowing that annoyed him. The last thing you expected was exactly what he did. You were suddenly spun around so your chest pressed against his, his angry eyes boring into yours before you felt his lips crash down on yours. Your eyes widen in shock, his mouth gently sucking on your tongue as he held you tight to him. You couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think. He broke the kiss as suddenly as he had initiated it, his eyes still burning as he forced you to look at him.
“I can guarantee that you will be punished everytime you disobey me, give cheek or do something without telling me first.”
You shiver at the heat in his voice, suddenly aware that your bare breasts were pressed against him with your arms pinned at your sides.
“Am I understood?”
You can feel the tautness of his muscles beneath the tunic he was wearing, you swiftly grasp the meaning behind his tension.
“Completely, but can I ask something?”
“What?”
“Kissing that demon so I could escape…”
“That will never happen again, onna. Believe me…”
“I feel terrible about it…”
Hiei’s expression suddenly alters into one of burning desire, a smirk forming on his lips. You feel your knees quiver as he bent his head to brush his lips against your ear, his hot breath ghosting across your bare skin.
“As you should do…but how to punish you?”
He releases you arms just to push you back down against the pillows and pin you with his weight, his lips brushing your skin covetously as he made his way down past your collarbone and lower. You gasp as his mouth closes around a nipple, his hand pinching and fondling the other. His other hand travelling further south to slip between your legs, his fingers slowly stroking and teasing, tearing a lustful moan from you. With shaking hands you manage to pull his tunic over his head and toss it on the floor, he smirks even more against your skin and slowly moves his lips down your body. You silently scream as his tongue replaces his fingers, soft, slow strokes tormenting you, his tongue suddenly delves inside you, earning another moan. You clench the sheets with white knuckles as you use all your strength to keep from bucking your hips against him, the tight coil of warmth you had felt in you stomach gradually tightening. You could feel yourself getting close…almost there…your vision exploded into stars as the warmth spread from your stomach to envelope your entire body. He kissed his way back up to your face where his lips brushed over your slightly swollen ones; he smirked as your quivering hands undid the belts that held his pants up, your fingers tremble as you try to undo the buttons.
“Let me…”
His hands gently take yours away as he undoes the troublesome catches and slides the pants off his body along with his boxers. Your breath catches in your throat as you feel his hot erection against your skin; his hands slowly slide down to spread your legs further apart, his cock pressing against your entrance as he shifts to lie between your thighs. He torments you; one hand massaging your breast as the other teases your still sensitive clit, the tip of his rock hard cock poised against you. You groan as you see the smirk on his face intensify, he suddenly dives down to capture your lips, unable to restrain himself anymore. You moan loudly as he pushes himself into your tight wetness, engulfing him completely. He also groans at the feeling, you are so tight, so incredibly firm.
“Hiei…” You can’t help but project the thought, he feels so large inside of you, filling you entirely.
“(y/n)…”
You gasp as you feel him begin to move inside of you, your hands going back to clenching the sheets again.
“I…I want more…” You manage to verbalise.
He kisses you deeply and picks up the pace of his rhythm; he growls a little as the pleasure grows with each thrust. You keen lowly as he pounds into you, your eyes closed in ecstasy. His fingers tangle in your long hair as he buries his face in your neck, nipping and kissing your skin. You feel the coil begin to tighten again; your soft moans get louder and more urgent, tears beginning to run down your face. Suddenly, you feel the explosion again, this time it was even stronger than before, you bury your face against his shoulder as the satisfaction racks your body. The motion sends him over the edge as he moans loudly and spills his seed into you, his fangs sinking into your neck to leave his mark. You open your heavy eyes to see his crimson ones looking back at you with a level of emotion in them that scares you; he softly runs a hand over your cheek to wipe away the tears.
“Why do you cry? Did I hurt you?”
You shake your head and gasp a little as he pulls out of you to lie down beside you, his arms wrapping around you to keep you close.
“It wasn’t you…I…I wish my first time had been like that…”
You hear the soft growl emitting from his throat,
“I will kill every single one of those beasts for what they did to you and your sister. No one will hurt you again, understand?”
You smile softly and nod before leaning your head against his chest, slowly dropping off to sleep.
“Understood…”
“Sleep Onna.”
“Onna?”
You felt his smirk as he kisses the top of your head,
“Mine.” His lips moved down to your lips and he kissed you gently.
“Always, but let me sleep now. I’ve been punished enough for one day…”
“Heh, I’ll be here when you wake up.”
“You better, or I’ll be the one after you.”
“It sounds interesting…”
You smile and snuggle against him, glad that you seemed to have finally found your place in the three worlds.

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the end