rev er ie, take 1 -- Title: re al is tic

-Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction, Jaganshi Hiei

-rev er ie n. 1. a state of abstracted musing; daydreaming 2. a day dream

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re al is tic adj. 1. tending to or expressing an awareness of things as they really are 2. of or relating to the representation of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are

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He couldn't help it. Looking at the two graves of his closest blood relations, he just couldn't stop his lips from twitching. At least he had caught the laugh when it had really hit him as to just what his mother had done.

"So you understand?" Looking back at Rui, a part of him wondered if they were distantly related. He'd seen only one other Koorime with red eyes like them, and he guessed that she would be old enough to be Rui's mother; but that wasn't important, so he dismissed the thought.

"Yes." He felt... lighter, almost. He paused, then said, "Thankyou," and disappeared in a blur before Rui could say anything else. He needed to think, and he needed to get off the glacier, and he could do both at the same time.

It was (his lips twitched again) quite funny, and he took a childish delight in going back over what Rui had told him.

"I suppose that when Hina came back, she didn't know she was pregnant. She started to act panicked, and had to be sedated several times before it came out that she was to bare twins. The boy, the elder of the two, was taken from her hours after birth. Hina pleaded with the elders, but the boy was dropped into the lower realms, supposedly to his death. I... regret to say that I was the one who was tasked with that.

"Hina... she just wasn't the same after that. Though the girl, Yukina, was left in her care, she seemed to become disassociated from the world. Heartache, most supposed; I wouldn't know. Yukina, though, was... she was the most kind and beautiful little girl anyone had ever seen. Even though she was born from a coupling, she was still beloved by all who met her.

"Several years ago, however, Hina... I suppose that everything just became too much.

"She killed Yukina, and then herself."

This time he didn't bother with suppressing it. He tossed his head back and laughed, the wilds around him going silent at the sudden sound. With time, he stopped, though a smirk still lingered. His hands reached up and undid the ward around his forehead. The jagon flashed purple, searching, searching...

"Of course, since you are an old friend of Hina's... I believe that you should know..."

Hours later, the ward was replaced, and Hiei was again gone in a black blur.

"...that only ice and paper lie in those graves."