-Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction, Janganshi Hiei
-rev er ie n. 1. a state of abstracted musing; daydreaming 2. a day dream
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re deem tr.v. 1. to fulfill 2. to pay off 3. to set free; rescue or ransom 4. to make up for 5. to restore the honor, worth, or reputation of
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There it was, hanging taut in the air between them, stifling any thought that didn't have to do with the fact that she had as good as made a binding promise to an infant. Her life in his hands, her blood on his blade; intimate as a lover's embrace in the way only a murderer and a victim could be... and damnit why did she do that?!
He could ask her that. She would answer -- she would have no reason to lie. If he asked, she would tell him that and more; tell him of his mother, of his sister...
He walked closer, keeping eye contact, absently noting that there was no sign of fear -- no tension, trembling, fisting of the hands, the pulse point in her neck still sedate -- just a dilation of the pupils focusing on his every move, a naked emotion playing across her face that he flinched away from identifying.
It's really too bad, because he thinks he might have liked to have heard a part of the only stories he now finds worth telling.
Her eyes are still looking into his as the sword descends.
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