Aurora smiled as she walked through the forest of tall trees, arms carrying an assortment of different things. The wind blew gently as she made her way to her favorite spot. "Such a beautiful day." she told herself as she found her way to her destination, sitting down a full plastic bag that occupied one arm. A light scent of pine and sap hit her nose and she sighed with adoration. She loved this, this beautiful creation, this smell, just everything.

Her small frame bent down and sat down what she carried in her other arm. Books. She brought two with her today, but normally she would have three or four. She loved reading and enjoying the quiet escape that they allowed her. Her attention went to the plastic bag and she dug in, pulling out a tub of Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream. Smiling to herself, her next actions weren't typical of just a normal person. Aurora took that tub, walked a few feet forward and sat it on the ground.

"I brought a new kind today." she looked up and smiled, seeming to talk to no one in general. "I hope you like it, it's my favorite actually." She took a few steps backwards and waited.

Not surprising to her, she blinked and it was gone. Now that she felt amused that it disappeared, she walked over and grabbed her books and pulled out another tub of Ice Cream. This time though, it was a smaller version and she pulled out two spoons. "Oh shoot." she pouted, not believing she forgot the most important part.

Instantly a man appeared before her and she smiled with joy. "Sorry about that Hiei." she told him, holding out the spoon to him. He still had that scowl on his face as he snatched it out of her hand.

"Hn." He disappeared.

That was the first time he had shown himself in this past month to her since that day. She was becoming quite fond of the man that was about her height with such gravity defying black hair. Actually seeing him again was a nice change.

Aurora went and sat down by the large tree she normally laid against. This was her routine for the past month and she wasn't going to stop anytime soon. She popped open the lid to her desert and placed the spoon into it, scooping some up and placing the cold flavor into her mouth. "My goodness this taste good." she swallowed and looked up. "Hope you're enjoying it as much as I am." she told Hiei, who of course never replied back.

That was normal though and she didn't mind. She owed him her life so she wasn't going to be picky.

Giving her attention over to her books, she opened one and began her first journey of the day.

Many hours passed, the sun was already starting to set as Aurora was sleeping against the large tree. Ice Cream container empty already put away and tucked away in the bag of hers, one book finished and the other half way done as it lay open against her stomach. Her long brown hair curled more and more from the humidity throughout the day, lightly covered some of her face. The wind blew softly against her causing chills to run through her body. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned, stretching as she did so.

The wind blew again, a bit harder this time and Aurora woke up enough to realize what time it was. Luckily her tight jeans and T-shirt kept her warm, but that's not what caused worry and fear to cross her features. She jolted up and quickly grabbed her books and the plastic bag. "Damnit! I'm late! No no no!" she almost sounded as if she was crying. This wasn't a good scenario at all! This was horrible and she couldn't control her outcome for the rest of the evening. Aurora took off as fast as she could, hoping, no praying that she wasn't too late.

What she didn't realize was that those crimson eyes watched from the shadows as she took off.

Aurora made it back home and quickly climbed through the window of her bedroom. She jumped in, throwing her books onto the bed and shutting the window behind her. Her heart pounded, she breathed heavily.

'Please, please, please don't be home yet!' she prayed in her thoughts. It was now pitch black outside and in her room as well. Walking over to her bedroom door, she quietly turned the knob... she just had to check... if only...

Slam! Aurora got the wind knocked out of her as she was slammed into the door from behind. She would have instantly fallen to her knees if it weren't for the large body pressed up against her. She felt so small and so weak compared to the huge muscle holding her up.

"Where the HELL have you been!" a dark voice growled. "Do you even know what time it is!" he snapped, pulling her back and slamming her again against the door. She cried out in pain as her chest area had taken most of the blow, which were a nice size, but that didn't mean that it didn't hurt.

"Please! Don't! I was just out reading! I promise! I lost track of time and fell asleep!" she cried, pleading for him to stop.

"I don't believe you!" he growled again, turning her around and pressing himself against her once more, but this time grabbing her sore breasts and handling them roughly. His mouth found her neck as he started biting at the lower part of it, taking in her scent as well. As his mouth opened so close to her nose, she now got a huge whiff of alcohol on his breath.

"Jack! Just... leave me alone!" she cried. Even after all these years, she still refused to play the victim. She had to make sure she was not going to fall into a pattern of the same thing as they did.

"You were with another man, weren't you!" he growled into her neck. "That's why you don't want me! DAMN GIRL! You'll pay for that!" he pulled back and smacked her across the face, hard, as she cried.

"I never have wanted you!" she spat at him.

"Shut the HELL UP!" he yelled, pulling on her long brown hair and throwing her across the room. Her ribs made contact with her bed post and she cried out in pain. "I'm going to make you scream my name!" he laughed horribly, as he made his way towards her, removing his pants one button at a time.

Aurora slowly made her way through the forest of trees again, this time with only a plastic bag. No books. She wore a long sun dress, dark blue with green lace around the waist. And even though it was on the warm side today, she wore a light long sleeved green sweater over it. She didn't feel too good as she winched in pain from walking and breathing. Damn Jack, he was such a bastard.

Finally making it to her spot, she still seemed to take in the scent and it helped calm her nerves. "Hey Hiei." she tried not to whisper. Stabbing pain going through her lungs and ribs. This time though, she was surprised as Hiei jumped down and stood before her. A small smile formed on her lips as she was eye level and she slowly pulled out the Ice Cream and held it out to him with a spoon. "Sorry it's smaller than what I normally get for you. My step dad ran off with all my money so I couldn't get the normal size. Luckily, a friend of mine works there so she got me this." It hurt to hold it up, and normally he didn't waste any time, but he didn't move. Just stared. "Is something wrong?" she asked him, curious.

"Hn. Your hurt." he stated, keeping a straight face, arms crossed against his chest.

"Oh, that? haha. Nah, just a little sore. See, I did a new workout routine last night. Kicked my ass and then some." she told him. "You want this?" she still held it out for him.

"Hn." he snatched the carton from her hands and glared. "I'm not an idiot. You can barely stand."

"Why do you care?" she asked.

"I don't." he stated bluntly.

"Exactly. So let's just not talk about it, alright?" she smiled at him, then very, very slowly made it to a sitting position. Pain ran through her entire body as she did so, but standing took so much effort. She just needed a few minutes of rest.

"Hn." Hiei didn't understand this woman. She wasn't afraid of him, apparently afraid of something else, and a victim of some kind, yet she didn't play the part. Ahh, hell who cares, he got his Ice Cream. That's when Hiei disappeared and jumped back into the trees to enjoy his treat.

Aurora carefully took deep breaths as she sat, sharp pain stabbing at her ribs. Her legs hurt, her hips hurt worse, especially after Jack had gotten to her and had his way. Damn that man and his sick desires. She thought she had finally escaped, but she guessed that was never going to happen.

A little while passed and Aurora still sat there, relaxing, or in all reality not able to get up just yet due to pain. She still cursed Jack's name as it was a constant reminder of what he did on a regular basis. She wished she had brought a book to read so that she could at least get lost in her mind. She had forgotten as it took most of her strength to just get here.

Snap.

Aurora jerked her head and looked in the direction that a twig had snapped. Who the heck could be out here? She knew it wouldn't have been Hiei. She only waited to see who would appear, trying to ignore the fear rising in her gut. She couldn't really move too fast, she would only hope that Hiei would not be too far off away and that he was in a saving mood.

A tall, red headed man appeared before her and she took in his green eyes.

"Shuichi?" she asked, a bit shocked.

"Annie?" he asked back, equally as shocked. He ran over to her and bent down, cupping her cheek gently as he noticed she was hurt. "Are you alright? What happened! What are you doing out here?" He studied her big brown eyes and waited for an answer.

"Oh Shuichi!" she cried as a few tears fell, her wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly. "I'm so glad it's you! I haven't seen you in so long!" she cried. He just held her for a moment and allowed her to calm herself.

As soon as she calmed down he pulled back slightly and studied her eyes once again. "You going to tell me what you're doing out here?"

"I come out here to relax. I kind of got winded so I sat down to take a break." she explained, leaving out the Hiei part. She didn't know they knew each other, and knew that Hiei was... different. Her fingers wiped the tears from her cheeks and she sniffed.

"What happened to you? Your hurt badly..."

"I'm fine, really." she told him, ignoring the horrible amount of pain she was in and slowly stood to her feet. He followed suit but still kept his distance close to her. She didn't look too good as she instantly became light headed and dizzy. "I'm... f-fine..." she whispered as he watched her eyes roll behind her head and she fell forward, passed out. Kurama caught her of course, worried as ever. What had happened to her?

"Annie?" he whispered. Still nothing, she wasn't in good shape at all.

"Hn. What are you doing here Kurama?"

He looked over at his fire demon friend as he carefully picked up Aurora bridal style.

"I was looking for you, there was word from Koenma and it sounded urgent. It looks as if we must take care of Miss. Aurora first though..." he looked down at her with a soft look. Poor girl, so fragile. Anger began to boil inside his stomach as he wanted to hurt the person who did this!

"Whatever. Fine." Hiei replied, not caring and not exactly minding either. Hey, she did bring him sweet snow after all! She was at least good for something! Kurama eyed him, surprised that he actually didn't refuse that offer. Normally Hiei didn't care at all what happened to humans, and Aurora should have been no exception.

Kurama held her close, but not too close for when he did she let out a yelp of hurt. He nodded in silent agreement with Hiei and they both took off in the direction that Aurora would be safe. Kurama's home.

A couple hours later had passed and Kurama had checked over the badly hurt Aurora. The poor thing had bruises in places that no woman should ever experience. He had used a few potions to help heal most of her wounds, but she had yet to awake from her slumber. He was relieved to know that she was going to be alright, but still had anger built up as to the one who had done this. Or multiple people had done, from what it looked like. Kurama still knelt beside his bed as she slept soundly on it.

Honestly, it had been such a long time since he saw his good childhood friend. Aurora Annabelle Yumira, should be about 17 now, still looked to be the sweetest girl ever. He studied her soft features; her hair was much longer and much more wild than he remembered. She had grown into her body that was for sure, with curves he didn't realize she could have produced. She had always been an attractive girl, and he remembered when they were growing up together, he would always protect her and she even had a small crush on him. He loved her big brown eyes, which still seemed to be the same. Her lips were smaller and sweet looking, she still looked so innocent.

How could anyone hurt her like this?

Kurama reached over and brushed her hair off her cheek and gently stroked it. They had always been so close, but after her father had passed away, she had to move in with her Aunt and Uncle and they traveled a lot for work.

He never saw her again after that.

The door opened and Kurama quickly pulled away, standing to his feet and watched as Hiei entered the room. His eyes traveled over and looked at the girl, then back to Kurama.

"What's her diagnosis?" he asked, a little sarcastically, but actually curious.

Kurama raised a brow at his question, but rubbed it off and looked back down at her.

"Annie is alright. Just got to wait till she wakes up to find out what happened."

"Hn. It looks pretty obvious as to what had happened to her, fox." he snorted.

Kurama glared a bit at his short friend, knowing he was right, but still, he didn't have to be so blunt about it. "I want to know who did this."

"Why do you care so much?" Hiei asked.

"Annie is an old friend, and the sweetest girl there is. She shouldn't have to go through something like this." Kurama sighed. "I'm guess everyone is here then?"

"Hn. You mean, Yusuke and the idiot? Then yes."

Hiei watched as Kurama looked down once more at Aurora and then turned his attention back to the task at hand. He made his way out of the room to join with the rest of the group. Hiei waited and walked out last, but not before getting a good look at Aurora himself. There was something different about her and he was going to find out what it was, one way or another.

He also walked out and shut the door behind him.

Yusuke and Kuwabara sat on the floor in front of the box communicator, as Hiei and Kurama stood and watched the small screen. Within seconds the screen turned on and Koenma appeared, looking troubled as usual.

"So what's this about toddler?" Yusuke sighed. He was on a date with Keiko when he had to ditch her for seeing Koenma. This meant, he was going to have to make it up to his girlfriend once again. Damn job.

"Well Yusuke, if you let me speak then maybe you'll know!" he snapped, already annoyed.

"Fine, whatever."

"Ahem! Well, I have gathered you all here today to inform you of something troubling..."

"Your constipated again?" Yusuke chimed in.

"Shut up Yusuke! And no, thank you very much, I got that taken care of last week. Anyways, as I was saying, there has been word that some demons have made it into the human world and are in search for something." he went quiet for a moment.

"For what?" Kurama asked, intently listening.

"That's uh... the thing. We don't know."

"Wow, what a way to stay one step ahead Koenma." Yusuke glared.

"SO what!" Kuwabara put in his two sense, well if he had any. They all gave him their attention. "We will just find then and defeat them! No need to worry about... whatever it is we don't know!"

They all gave him a blank stare as they all found his choice of words... stupid? Yeah that.

"These are no ordinary demons, Kuwabara. They have been able to mask their appearance, and we can't even sense them. They have found a way to become human, in the sense that we can't tell that their demons. We would need to be able to see through dimensions, which is hard to do since there are so many that they could be in."

"So what are we supposed to do then?" Yusuke asked, still upset because this all seemed so stupid.

"Well, just keep an eye out. As soon as I find out more, I will let you know." The screen went black and Yusuke started yelling at the screen as if Koenma could still hear him.

"Well, this is truly interesting." Kurama spoke as he thought carefully. How could you look for someone who you didn't have any way to find them?

"Shuichi? Hiei? Yusuke? Kuwabara? What are you all doing here?" a small sweet voice filled the room as they all looked behind them to see Aurora standing there, confused. "And... who was that child on the screen?"

Author's Note:

Okay all! SO here is my first fan fic in a longgg time! I hope you like, there is a lot more in store for this one! Review and let me know what you think! :D Thanks so much! It will get better with time!

Sachiya!