Of Life and Love | By : LuciferDragon Category: Yuyu Hakusho > General Views: 2765 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Theme 47: Moon
Pairings: None
Time setting: After "The Pesadilla Tournament”
A Child's Dream
“Help! Dad help me!” Hiei rolled his eyes. “Dammit not again.” He went outside in the cold night air to see his son Kiete hanging by his wings in a tree. Again. “How many times have I told you to not try to fly away?” Kiete rubbed at his tear-stained face, keeping his black eyes closed. While he had inherited his mother’s eyes, his white-streaked black hair was a dead giveaway to who gave him that one. “I… had a purpose this time for trying,” he said, his five-year-old voice oozing his innocence. “And it better be a good one or I'll make sure your mother hears of this.” He leapt up to the tallest branches and did the careful process of getting the leathery appendages out of the tree. “I didn’t want to vanish them like Mom taught me. I’d be in a worse situation.” “You’re in a bad situation either way. Get on and I’ll help you down.” He knelt down so the boy could grasp tightly on to his shoulders, allowing them to both fall to the ground safely. Once Kiete was on his own feet, he pulled them into his body through the tattoo marks on his back. No question who gave him those, either. Instead of forcing him to sit on the damp grass, Hiei led him to the swing set not too much farther away, making him sit. “Explain yourself.” Kiete took a sudden liking to his shoes. “I won’t hesitate to ask your mother to restrain your wings for awhile.” This made the little boy speak. “I saw it on the human TV when I went to visit Uncle Kurama. It was a space thing, all about the moon. Of how there has been man on there.” He looked up at the glowing orb in the demonic sky. “I wanted to be the first demon to go. How cool would that be Dad? Not even the first demon, but the first demon kid!” Hearing this, Hiei couldn’t help but crack a small smile. The naïveté of children… At least this is better than being kept up all night from the screaming of his younger self. He took a seat in the swing next to him. “There’s a lot of complications to that.” “We’re different than humans; we don’t need those big suits to breathe or survive up there. We can go without a rocket.” “I’m not a scientist, I can’t tell you everything and explain it, but there are certain things different up there that we don’t have here. It would be colder than it is on the surface, or even in the highest atmosphere. There is no oxygen, which, even as demons, we need to breathe. The only time you don’t need to breathe is if you’re dead, or your body doesn’t carry lungs. Which ours do, by the way.” He saw his son’s face fall. “But it never hurts to dream…” “I guess not. But one day, I want to fly higher than Mommy can!” He smiled a bit again. “Of course.”After helping him back up the stairs to their apartment and telling him to go to bed, Hiei looked out at the moon from his bedroom window. “I suppose it really doesn’t hurt to dream, does it?”
“No. Otherwise, the majority of what we have now wouldn’t be possible,” Shakaku answered, sitting up in their bed. “You told him right.” “Something tells me we won’t have to get him down any time soon again.” “Good. Now come to bed; it’s getting late.” He nodded, slipping in beside her once tossing his shirt to the floor. The glow of the moon in their room made him reflect on his words. His dreams will eventually fade to that of other things, but at least he has a chance at happiness. Something neither of us had until recently… “Inspiration comes from the strangest of places sometimes,” he heard his wife mumble before he drifted off to sleep.While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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