Disclaimer: YuYu Hakusho belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi

Companion piece to Tourou Nagashi

Obon

Several hours later, Yukina changed her mind and removed the Obon offering from the altar. The cicada songs faltered as she approached the tree and set the plate of sweets in its shade.

Yukina retired to the porch to wait for birds.

"I didn't think humans did it that way," Hiei commented. He'd probably watched Kurama-san and his family.

"The dead have no mouths. An act of compassion does no good if it can't be received."

Let this offering of compassion, Yukina thought, free my brother from his self-imposed suffering in a hell of silence. To him, she said nothing.

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-Windswift