The humans held up their thick shields and circled around the small man. Once the shields began to spark against one another, he grabbed his ears, grimacing away from them, but the five police continued to tap their shields until he was on the ground with his hands tightly closing off his ears. "Stop it!" He shouted at them as loud as he could.
One of the police officers quickly jumped forward from behind him and sunk an injection into his back. Hiei screamed in pain and twisted to kill the human who caused it, but another blast of the offensive noise made him stumble back to the ground.
Hiei felt the chill start in his back and that's when his teeth started chattering together uncontrollably. It felt like ice was being injected into his veins and freezing all it touched, which meant him. He screamed in pain when it started spreading to his shoulders and chest and tried to warm himself up, but all he felt the more he raised his energy was the jagan opening and his body transforming into its jaganshi state. That didn't help stop the ice, it kept spreading.
He had to stop his screaming to try and breathe, but with how cold his chest was becoming, he knew that was going to become harder.
The humans circled around him, each grabbed his arms and hoisted him up. Before he felt like ripping someone or something into pieces with an ice storm, he was trussed up in sutras containing his energy, handcuffed, and tossed into the back of the squad car to be carted off who knows where. Hiei could barely see as he struggled to move his arms, back or legs. The more the ice crawled through his body, the less he could move it.
Hiei felt like he was going to die, and at the hands of humans at that. In all his years coming to see Kurama, he'd never once been treated this way, and it confused him and also deeply worried him. Was Yukina alright? Kurama? The detective? Were they dead from this? All the battles he'd been through and he was going to be frozen to death by some shot in his back by some aggressive humans.
"He's just a boy," one of the humans commented. He could see them looking down on him, but the ice had gotten to his eyes and he couldn't move them, he couldn't blink.
"Maybe, we don't know that. You remember what the ambassadors said? Demons look all ages and look the same once they reach adulthood."
Hiei wanted to scream at them for help, or to scream that he knew demon ambassadors, and that he wasn't just some low life. He saved them! He saved humans all the time! He even went so far as to fix them mentally, so they wouldn't have to suffer through it and they had the audacity to do this to him!
"And you're sure he didn't just have it somewhere else? You're sure he didn't have a chip?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
Hiei felt his shoulders start to shake as he shivered. He needed a fire.
"He looks like he's having a seizure." The passenger remarked blandly like it was no big deal.
"I am not turning on the siren for some illegal demon. They've got all that energy to keep them alive and that one is good and strong."
Hiei wanted to scream in frustration, but he couldn't even stop the shaking from reaching his legs or arms. He felt the usually hot spot in his core start to cool, and he knew he wouldn't be able to warm himself up.
"This might as well be animal cruelty." The passenger commented.
"He's not an animal, he's a demon. Animals can't fend for themselves and they don't know our laws. He knew damn well what he was doing walking through Human World without a tag."
No one had informed him the laws had changed! If they had, he would've gone through the process, so he could continue to save their sorry asses and see Kurama! At least the one was somewhat compassionate.
"Hey, do you want anything from the coffee shop?" the driver asked.
"No, we need to get him to the healers. We can stop later. If we show up with a dead one in our cab again we're going to get written up." The one who had been watching him faced forward and sat back down in his chair.
Again? Again? He wanted to rip the driver's head off.
"Fine. If you say so, but it's just because I have a record to uphold."
If he ran across the driver in Demon World, he was not saving him. Or he would at least let him live with the trauma of the event for the rest of his life.
They pulled into a parking lot and parked. The passenger got right out and grabbed Hiei's arm, yanking on it. To Hiei's shock, his body caved and bent for the man like it wasn't frozen stiff. He pulled Hiei from the back, wrapping an arm under each of Hiei's to drag him into the police station. He dumped him into a wheelchair and processed him, taking fingerprints, a mug shot, and assigning him a number then wheeled him into a cell where he pushed him onto a bed and hit a red button on the wall by the bed. A little light flashed above the bed and continued to flash as the cop left the cell, locking it down.
It was a couple of minutes before a man with long black hair wearing a white coat came over to his cell and unlocked it. He could feel his energy sweeping over him as he came over. When Hiei didn't respond, the man came over and touched his cheek before frowning deeply.
He turned to the cell door and then back at Hiei before he left, but he didn't lock down the cell like the cop had. He hurried away calling for someone.
When he came back he was followed by a little girl with cat-like red eyes and long black hair pulled up in a messy bun. She was dressed in messy clothes, but she hurried over to Hiei and as soon as her hand hit his chest, he felt relief. It was warm. His legs and arms still shivered, but he was slowing down, and he wasn't in danger of knocking himself off the bed from the convulsions.
"Thank you, Riva. He must be some kind of mix of demons, and the injection brought this out."
"You're welcome Kiba." The girl sat next to Hiei on the bed and continued to slowly expand the warmth through his body.
"I'll be back with some blankets to help." Kiba left again.
"Thank you." Riva nodded, and focused on Hiei again. She reached up and gently closed his eyes. He wanted to sigh in relief and managed a small one with his chest warm.
"It's going to be alright. We got to you in time," Riva soothed. "I have to warm you back up slowly or you'll get frostbite, but I am doing it. Just be patient."
He wanted the Fox. He didn't know these people, but he didn't fight her. He couldn't fight her, he was still paralyzed.
He heard Kiba come back and dump a few blankets beside them, "Let me know when he's capable of speaking, we can get this sorted out."
Hiei felt blanket after blanket piled onto him and then the lower one was blissfully heated.
Kiba didn't leave immediately despite his comment, Hiei could hear him shifting on his feet, "We have to somehow educate the cops on things to look for, this could have killed him. They showed up with that one demon," He sighed, "It's disappointing."
Hiei really wanted to find that cop and tear him to shreds, but for now, he just had to warm up and contact Kurama so he could warn him, and also so he could come and get him and help him recover.
Hiei could finally wiggle his fingers and toes again when he tested his voice. He coughed, and Riva jumped nearly off the bed from the sudden noise. "Oh good, you're recovering." She checked her watch. "It looks like you'll be moving again in half an hour at this rate."
"I need to make a call." He coughed again.
Riva frowned, "Make that twenty-five minutes." She shook her head, "You're not able to make a call right now. You still have to be processed by the police."
"I'm a border patrol agent for Lord Mukuro."
"Yes, well," She shrugged, "The police here don't recognize that as an excuse to be wandering around untagged."
"I'm Hiei Jaganshi."
"I'm not a member of the police Hiei. I can't do anything to make the process go faster."
"Get one of them in here."
Riva nodded and stood. Once her hand was removed from Hiei's chest, he began to shiver again, and Riva went back to his side, warming him once more. "Or not? Kiba will be back shortly to check on your progress"
"Fine."
"I know this is hard for you Hiei, but Demons have very little control here."
"I wasn't made aware of the change in laws or I would've gone through the process without this hassle."
She sighed, "Unfortunately, it's not that easy. This is the process."
"Well fuck this, they need a way for demons to do it without being attacked, like people from other human countries do."
She nodded, "I agree, but the humans are in control of the laws here and they don't see a problem because it doesn't affect them."
"It will when some demon decides to go on a murder spree out of revenge."
"Yes, I suppose they will have to see to a new method then."
Hiei felt himself shift back into his normal body and he sighed in relief, "I'm not a real jaganshi, that wasn't my true form."
"I can't say I'm too surprised with how cold you are," Riva agreed.
When about twenty minutes passed, Hiei tested out using his arms and legs, and when he deemed them acceptable to use, sat up, but kept a hand on Riva's arm. He'd just settled his feet on the ground when Kiba came in.
"You're looking better!" Kiba offered, "How are you feeling?"
"Not normal, but better."
"Alright, you're probably alright to go through the rest of the process then. I can go tell a police officer you've recovered enough."
"Fine."
With that, Kiba left them.
A police officer came in about half an hour after that, and by that point Hiei was ready to kill something but still dependent on Riva to keep warm.
"Name," The police officer demanded holding a clipboard in front of himself.
"Lord Hiei Jaganshi." If he could get them to start calling him Lord Hiei he wouldn't mind that, maybe they'd realize who they were dealing with.
"Hiei, right," the man wrote down. "You know, in the hundreds of demons I've processed, you're the first one who actually had a last name. It's about damn time you idiots realized names come in first and last."
"Eh, I wasn't born with it. People just started calling me 'Hiei Jaganshi' so I went with it."
"I didn't ask you a question, demon, keep your trap shut until I ask you something." The man looked up from his clipboard, glaring at him.
"I didn't tell you my name was Demon, Human." Hiei snapped, "I'm not some little D class you can order around. I protect humans, it's my job."
The human put the clipboard against his side and sneered at Hiei, "I don't think you realize what position you're in yet. It doesn't matter what type of demon you are, you're a two-bit nothing to me, and you're warded. You can't do shit."
"Well then why don't you go step in Demon World and tell that to the first demon you see? I won't be there to save you."
"Oh, I'd love to go to Demon World and wipe that snarky ass attitude off a few thousand of you, but it's forbidden."
"Yeah and die. Have fun being gutted or killed from a long distance. Did you know the plants eat things too?"
"Officer Aaishi, please, this doesn't have to be difficult." Riva implored. "Hiei Jaganshi here is one of the officials of Demon World."
"I'm Lord Mukuro's right hand man, and I know the ambassadors, and we were not informed of this change in law."
"Don't talk to me like that you gutter shit!" The officer yelled at Riva, holding his clipboard ready to strike her.
Riva jerked backwards, "Sir, there's no need for violence!"
"And there's no need for a street-rat like you, who shouldn't even be in here, to be interrupting my interrogation!"
"Shut up and ask the next question! I need her to live because you stupid human idiots don't realize that your stupid injections are dangerous to demons! Now! The next question!" Hiei demanded.
"I don't give a damn what you think you need, demon, and I'll start my questions again when I'm damn good and ready!"
Hiei rolled his eyes and waited, bored.
After a moment of challenging glares, the man shook himself off and continued, reading from his clipboard, "What is your primary purpose in Human World?"
He frowned, "To relocate humans to their homes."
"No, that's not one of the answers."
"Well, then, what is?"
"Recreation or work?"
"Work then, both."
"You can't have both, you have to have one or the other."
"Well put down work, god." Hiei sighed.
"Hiei, work means if they find you in the private residential areas they'll bring you back here."
"Oh my fucking god, recreation!" He was ready to kill something.
"Recreation it is," he lifted his eyebrow at Riva, then went back to his questions. "Age."
Hiei frowned and looked at him, "I don't know accurately."
"Guess."
"Ninety."
The man looked him over, "Nineteen."
"No, I'm ninety you idiot, nine zero, demons don't age like humans do."
The cop glared at him, worked his lips, then put down something on the clipboard.
"That had better be ninety."
"Gender."
"Male."
"Occupation."
"Border Patrol Agent for Lord Mukuro."
"Home Address."
"None, Mukuro's Bug."
"Well which is it? Mukuro's… bug? or none?"
"Mukuro's Bug."
"And where is it you were going?"
"I was going to a friend's house."
"A human dwelling?"
"Yes."
"For what purpose?"
"To visit them."
"How many years have you been in Human World?"
"Do you mean in a row or visiting?"
"Visiting. How long have you been coming here?"
"Uh," Hiei had to think about it, "About, 14 years?"
"How did you gain entrance to Human World?"
"I walked in." Hiei shrugged.
"So, you are a low-level demon."
"I'm strong." Hiei amended, "The barriers are down."
"I know that, but they weren't fourteen years ago."
"I wasn't as strong back then, I've grown stronger."
"If you were to power up to your full potential standing on a corner of a block, how many blocks across would you level?"
Hiei shrugged, "With just my energy?"
The officer nodded.
"He's trying to mark you as a threat to Human World."
"Ah, well. I'd do damage, but it wouldn't be a city. Maybe a couple of blocks."
"Like five or six?"
"I said a couple, like two." It was probably more like five or six.
"Well, you see," The cop pulled off a small device from his hip and held it up pointing it at Hiei, "This says your power level is pretty far up there. Most of the demons we get through here are in the hundreds, and you're," he nodded appraisingly.
"Yeah, it is. I know I'm probably considered a threat, but I have no interest in destroying Human World."
"But if two thousand is your resting energy while under a binding sutra," the man looked pointedly at him.
"It's up there when I'm charged, yes."
"Uh huh." The man recorded down the data.
"You could be getting interference from me, officer." Riva admitted. "My resting level is about that too, and I'm not under a sutra. It would pick up on my energy before it picked up on Hiei's."
"That's true." Hiei nodded.
"I'll make a note of that," the officer admitted, then skimmed his paperwork. "Right. What's your breed?"
"Fire demon."
The man chuckled, "Try again hotshot."
"Fire demon, jagan implant, ice apparition." He admitted quietly.
The man nodded and recorded that information down. "Now, if you fired a charge of your energy off, how far would it travel, what size would the impact location be, and how well could you aim it after you fired it?"
"I'm not a shooting demon." Hiei shrugged, "I don't know, that's not how I fight."
The officer nodded, "Unwilling to comply," he muttered.
"I said I don't know. It's not like I've gone out and tried that, that's not how my powers work."
The man looked up at him like he was bored, then looked back down at his paper, "Have you ever had a sexual encounter with a human?"
"No."
"Do you plan on having any sexual encounters with a human or humans?"
"No."
"Have you been sick within the past year?"
"After you fucktards did this to me." Hiei huffed.
"And what is your weakness?"
"My weakness?" Hiei frowned, "Why would I share that?"
"You either share it or you stay in here until you do," the cop threatened.
"Human forced injections." Hiei nearly sneered.
"Good. Now then, you are being charged with illegal immigration to Human World. You can plead guilty now and be free to go after paying a fine of one thousand dollars, or you may fight the case and stay in here for months until we can process your case."
"I don't have a thousand dollars on me. Will you let me leave and get it?"
The man laughed, "No of course not, but you can make a phone call to someone who has access to your funds."
"Good, then I need a phone call now."
The man nodded. "A phone will be brought to you." He turned and left shutting the door and locking it behind him.
"Don't step in Demon World." Hiei offered as he watched him leave.
"Yes, well they're trying to make that a threat for Human World too."
"Hn, if I ever see him in Demon World I'll save him but he's not getting a complimentary mind wipe."
Riva chuckled. "I'm sorry about all of this Hiei. They really don't have to be so mean about any of this, but they feel threatened."
"They could at least inform us and give us a place to do it legally."
"Well the original intention was for that to happen, but Demon World doesn't pay attention to Human World, and humans don't give a damn about demons."
"The ambassadors should've contacted us."
"They did."
"Well apparently not well."
"There's no official contact system. Not after Koto and Juri began broadcasting here and lost most of their demon viewers."
"Ugh." Hiei laid back down and sighed.
"It's something we have to work on," Riva nodded. "Now then, how are you feeling?"
"I still don't feel normal."
"You do have your energy restrained. Chances are you feel abnormal because you don't have enough energy to regulate your own temperature due to the sutra."
"I don't want to freeze to death."
"Even if you are released from here, you might have to wear a sutra in Human World because of your strength."
"Then I can't come here, I'll die, if it's this same kind of injection."
"That's, sort of the point, sadly."
"Fuck humans, I should've taken over their world when I had the chance." Hiei huffed.
Riva stayed silent, watching him.
Hiei closed his eyes and tried to nap.
An hour later, one of the cops came by with a cellphone. "You wanted a phone call, here you go."
Hiei took it and started punching in a very familiar number. He held it up to his ear and waited. He needed to answer.
"Minamino residence."
"Fox, I need your help."
"Oh, hello Hiei, how are you?"
"Not good, I was almost killed earlier. I'm here at the police station, they charged me with illegal immigration."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want a lawyer or the money?"
"The money."
"If you confess to it, there will be ramifications. You'll be a convicted felon in Human World Hiei, and humans don't take kindly to convicted felons."
"Aren't I already? What else am I supposed to do?"
"Well you could fight it but it's a no-win situation."
"But I'm going to die if I don't get out of here. Sell what you need to Fox, I need to get out of here."
"Alright. I'll be down in a few minutes to pay your fine."
"Be careful."
"I understand Hiei. I live here after all."
"Hn. Bye Fox."
"Goodbye Hiei."
