As promised, the first chapter of Hiei's Claiming the DragonHeart! Let me know what you think and I promise the first chapter for Kurama's (A Rose of Another Name) will be up tomorrow!

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-TL S0nya


"Hiei!" Sonya screamed, staring down at the two figures below her as the creature from her nightmares carried her away with a dark laugh at her cry. "Calm down, little Star. Soon you'll be in my capable hands once again and I will mold you into what you used to be." He crooned, his sweet voice nearly making her sick with how kind it sounded. Her memories wouldn't lie about the torture she went through under his hand as he 'Molded her' last time. Only now, she could fight, she would fight!

Twisting herself around, she stared up at him as he carried her, studying the chain that connected to the metal band that wrapped around her waist before determining it was steel, or at least something close to it. With a sharp breath, she held it and reached out, gripping the chain tightly and willed the ice to creep from her fingers, feeling the faint pulling sensation from her chest as she did. What did Kurama call it? A tearing of her own self, fighting against something violent and struggling to pull it back before she did damage.

Ignoring the irritating feeling, she focused harder, forcing the ice into the metal itself, weakening it and before long, she was earned with a crack and free-falling down to the trees below. At least I'll die before he can do that again. She thought to herself, a pang of regret once the thought surfaced that she never told Hiei what she felt under all the irritation she showed around him. She couldn't say love, that had died out of her a long time ago, but there was a connection she couldn't deny.

Sorry, Hiei. Death is better than his hands.

If you give up on me now, Woman. Then you are weaker than I ever imagined.

Hiei's voice broke through her thoughts, causing her to jerk slightly and twist herself just enough so the branch meant to impale her only opened a gash in her side. Letting out a gasp of pain, she twisted again, trying to get away from it and fell farther down the tree, the old phrase 'Hitting every branch on the way down' surfaced in her mind with a wry sense of humor before finally landing face-down on the ground. Thankfully the moss muffled her groan of pain, giving her a few seconds before He found her. Clasping a hand to her side, she tried to staunch the blood as it flowed freely from the wound and looked around quickly.

This was a portion of the forest she had never been in before, the trees were even different. Older, full of a strange energy that almost caused the air itself to vibrate around her. "Little Star, where are you?" His sickly sweet voice sounded above the trees, moving closer towards her as he searched, a light edge taking it's place at the very end of his words, warning her of his anger and how very close he was to simply ripping his way through the trees in order to get to her. Keeping silent, she crouched down and reached out with her mind, trying to call to Hiei frantically.

Hiei, where are you?

I should be asking you that question.

I don't know, I haven't been anywhere other than where you took me! There's lots of old trees full of some energy.

He was silent for a moment, she suspected he was talking to Kurama before returning with a simple, terse command. Stay where you are. And vanished again, leaving Sonya alone to deal with the throbbing in her side and the sounds of her tormentor from the past moving around above where she was, his circle slowly growing smaller as he sensed her out. "Sonyaa, come out come out wherever you are." Gone was the soft tones to be replaced by a darker, angrier voice, one that sent chills down her body and locked her muscles out of fear. Yes, this was the voice she remembered. This was the one that lashed her back, this was the one that greeted her in the market the day she was put on sale.

Stifling a whimper of despair, she burrowed herself into the hollow of a tree, determined to wait for Hiei and Kurama so they could find her. It wouldn't take long, he could sense her for miles if he wanted to. Never said it himself, but she knew, that was how he found her so easily at her home, that was how he knew when she was angry about something or frustrated. He knew, and his offer to train was his way to help work through it. Hiei wasn't one to talk, she knew that well, but the way he communicated was through body movements or offers to do things he wouldn't normally do, the prime example was to train her.

He cared, in his own way. She knew, but it was so difficult for her to think he cared enough to hear what she had to say to him. Maybe she could work out a way to using his technique, somehow let him know by getting him to do something. While she thought, she curled tighter around herself, attempting to stop the bleeding by stiffening her muscles up and remaining immobile. She couldn't move if she wanted to at the moment, the small hollow in the tree was barely big enough for her curled up in a ball anyway. With a frown, she suddenly realized the forest around her was silent, something wasn't right.

Even the animals and bugs she had grown used to shifting around her were still, alerting her of something dangerous and making her body grow even more tense than it already was. It was him, it had to be, his voice stopped and he was just prolonging the terror a little longer. That was how he worked, he wanted her scared, it was so much easier to break someone while their scared. Hissing softly under her breath, she cupped her hand in front of her, forcing her energy into the palm and waiting for his face to appear so she could blast it.

She didn't have enough energy to kill him, that she knew. But she sure as hell wasn't going out without a fight and she could give him that much. A faint footstep right outside the tree she hid in perked her ears and she pushed her hand in front of her, waiting. The second the hole darkened with a figure, she let out a yell and sent out a wave of ice in it's direction, earning a muffled curse and bolted out of the hole before he could recover. Without looking, she turned and ran straight into a pair of waiting arms.

He brought someone! Her mind screamed a warning, making her arms flail about and tried to connect with anything and everything that was within her reach. "Sonya! Calm down!" Kurama's voice broke through her panic, slowing her movements until she finally looked up at his face in confusion. Green eyes stared back, wide with worry and a slight spark of panic. "Oh god, I shot Hiei." She gasped, spinning around as the realization reached her in time to see him straighten up and raise an eyebrow up in an uncommon gesture, a hand pressed to the frozen half of his face.

"So it would seem." His cool voice rang with an undertone, something she didn't recognize in her state of mind. "He ran when we reached this part of the forest, Sonya. You're safe." Kurama's soothing voice explained behind her, letting her arms go so she could walk towards Hiei. "We should get you back to the temple. Genkai can look at that for you." She murmured quietly, reaching up and placing her fingers hesitantly on the back of his hand that still clutched his face. "No need." He muttered, his one eye blinking at her before the ice dropped away from his face. Moving his hand away, he blinked the other eye, testing it for a moment before locking Sonya in it's red gaze.

"Right... I forgot about that." She murmured, a faint flush crossing her cheeks and earning a faint smirk from him as he spotted the pink in her cheeks. "Come on, I'm sure everyone's worried by now." Kurama murmured from behind them, resignation in his voice as they all turned as one towards the direction of the Temple, prepared for a long walk back. Between the two of them, Sonya felt an awkward buzz of energy on each side, a sad sort of one from Kurama's side, and one she couldn't identify from where Hiei was. Sighing internally, she settled herself in for a very silent walk back.