A/N: Hey all you lucky people! Yes I have started another one. No this will not slow up The Boy Outside My Window, since that one is almost finished anyway. I was going to update that one today, but I left that notebook at home and had this one with me. Sorry if this annoys anyone, if anyone is reading this… enough babbling, on to the prologue!

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The Other Captive

Prologue: To Lose A Battle-Hiei's POV

I swore as I was cut on my left arm. These warriors had attacked out of nowhere, and they were highly skilled. I still would have beaten them if I hadn't been outnumbered ten to one. This was all Koenma's fault, stupid toddler.

I had only managed to kill three, and injure the rest. Oh, make that four, six to go. I was pretty injured; with cuts all up both arms, and a slash on my side.

I swore yet again as my katana was knocked from my grasp. "Fists of the Mortal Flame!" I yelled, brining my attack onto the one who had knocked away my katana. 'Five to go.' I told myself as I used my speed to retrieve my katana before the enemy could.

Even though there were only five left, I was having serious doubts that I could beat them without some help. Kurama.' I called to him telepathically. I had been on my way to meet the gang for a meeting about a new mission, when I had been attacked. Hiei, where are you?' Kurama answered. I've been attacked.' I told him, trying to keep the sentences short so I could at least dodge while I was communicating. Are you badly injured?' came the reply from my teammate. Still…fighting. Lost some blood.' I answered, going on the offensive. Where are you? How many are left?' I cut down one of the last five, and the others lunged.

Four to go.' I thought to Kurama, as I cut down another one, though not well enough for him to stay down. One of them cut my other side and I sliced open his. How many were there in the beginning of the fight?!' I could hear Kurama's disbelieving tone in my mind. Te-' I lost the thought as one of the last three fighters charged me. When he was close I stepped to the side and beheaded him as he rushed past me.

Where are you?' Kurama asked again. But I was listening to the other fighters talking. They had stopped charging and regrouped, or, re-paired. "Pull it." One told the other, I was assuming one of them was the leader of this group. "It wasn't supposed to come to this. The boss may be mad if he is killed." The other answered. "This has been a slaughtering!" The first one hissed.

I would have interrupted with my katana before now, but I wanted to see if I could pick up on something that would tell me why I was being attacked. I know I have a lot of enemies, but I wondered who would send ten human lackeys after me, with orders I was not to be killed. I knew they had intended not to kill me from the start. All their attacks were to the side, in non-fatal places. I should have disintegrated all of them with the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, but I had figured I could take them without it. Now I couldn't call it, I had lost too much blood to be able to control it. The thing would probably kill me too.

Behind the school'. I thought to Kurama. I used my speed and killed off the one who had told the other fighter to 'pull it'. He was also the one I had previously injured. 'Maybe I'll do it without backup after all.' Then my vision blurred a bit. 'Then again, maybe not.' The last fighter pulled out a handgun he had been concealing the whole battle. It was aimed at my head. I felt dizzy and knew I wouldn't move in time to miss the bullet entirely.

I jumped out of the way as the gun went off. The bullet grazed my shoulder as I was in the air, and I hit the ground rolling. By the time I had gotten up and gotten my bearings I heard a second gunshot and I was hurled back to the ground. Kurama had been trying to ask me something and was now shouting in my skull. Yusuke's school.' I thought to him. 'Why do they want me alive? To think I lost to a bunch of humans.' Were my last thoughts before I was pulled into blackness.

A/N: Yay! Another story! What happens to Hiei? Review and find out what happens next!