Waiting

A small girl watched as Hiei cut off several heads of demons within less than one minute. She had Peach hair that fell into her gold Dragon eyes. She was a few inches shorter than Hiei as well. She wore baggy cloths so no one could see her feminism features. A shackle with a shingle chain link was on her left wrist.

I want to meet up with you and show you what I am thinking.

I'll take you anywhere that you want to go.

I'm sitting here bored and lonely and you know.

That anytime you're free to show me how you feel.

We'll take it anywhere that you want to go

Anywhere you want to go

He fought along with the spirit detectives. She knew though even if he wouldn't admit it he trusted them with his life –even that stupid one called Kuwabara. They where fighting off a hoard of demons that decided to jump them on there way back to the human word after their mission so needless to say they where tired. Even Hiei was even if he wouldn't admit it.

I'd make it right if you wanted it.

I want it back more than you know.

I'd cross the line if you wanted it.

I want you back.

I'm waiting for you

To get that feeling once again

To be reunited in end

I've been waiting for you

To capture my imagination

Cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

She watched as even more demons rushed into their deaths. She knew who was sending these demons to there deaths. She even knew why. She turned her attention to Kuwabara and Yusuke they where lagging behind but making up for that they were looking out for each other. Now I realize I never had it so good

You took me anywhere I wanted to go

Now I'm sitting here dreaming of the days

When any time I wanted I could show you how I feel

I can't go anywhere that I want to go

Anywhere I want to go

Kurama just like Hiei was holding his own. He used his rose whip and did small movements to save his energy. He occasionally helped Yusuke and Kuwabara when they needed it.

I'd make it right if you wanted it.

I want it back more than you know.

I'd cross the line if you wanted it.

I want you back.

I'm waiting for you

To get that feeling once again

To be reunited in end

I've been waiting for you

To capture my imagination

Cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

Suddenly there where more demons on Hiei then she knew that he could handle and the guys where unable to help him. Pulling out a stick about a foot long she jumped into the battle behind Hiei. The stick that she was holding was no longer a stick. It had two double edge three-foot long blades on each end. She took out the big demon that was about to take off his head. Hiei spun around to see her shock went across his face for only a moment.

"Miss me?" She asked sweetly.

"Onna, if you know why there are demons attacking endlessly you better say so before I kill you." Hiei told her.

I'll take it anywhere

I'll take you anywhere that you want to go

"That's a fine way to treat an old friend." She snapped as she took out three more demons that where coming at them.

I'd make it right if you wanted it.

I want it back more than you know.

I'd cross the line if you wanted it.

I want you back.

I'm waiting for you

To get that feeling once again

To be reunited in end

I've been waiting for you

To capture my imagination

Cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

Hiei ignored her and went back to attacking the demons once again. Hiei and her placed themselves back to back and fought. When her back touched Hiei's she spoke once more.

"Okashi's still alive. He is after both of us." She told him. "This is only the beginning Hiei."
"Okashi made this happen?" Hiei demanded.

"Unfortunately yes." She said. "Hey, think you can keep these demons away from me for a bit? I am sure that I can send them away I just need a little time."

She smiled when Hiei only nodded his head. She jumped up into a tree but not before kicking a few demons in the head on the way up. Hiei took a spot under the tree and killed any demon that even thought of getting close.

It took a good ten minutes for her to get into their heads and copy Okashi's voice telling them to retreat and come back. Just as quickly as the demons had come they left. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama looked around. They then heard a yelp and then saw a young girl tumble out of the tree that Hiei stood under and fell on top of him.

Hiei muttered curses as the girl on top of him tried to get up off him. He placed his hand on the small of her back to push her off of him but froze when he felt it was wet. Taking a closer look at it as she stood up he noticed that there was a long gash on her back and it was bleeding freely.

"You're wounded." Hiei spat out disgusted.

"Yeah, a demon got me from behind." She told him. She placed her hand to her head and swayed a bit. Suddenly she began to fall. Hiei caught her before she hit the ground.

Hiei sat on the windowsill looking out the window waiting for Rei to wake up so he could question her more about Okashi. Anyone that looked into the room would see an impatient Hiei looking out the window waiting for the girl in the bed to wake up at least anyone that wasn't Kurama. Well, then again, maybe Kurama was reading in on it too much. However, whatever the reason he kept his mouth shut about Hiei's constant vigilance over the girl. No one was yet able to get a name for the girl out of Hiei.

"Ugh…man, I feel like I just got hit by a ton of bricks." A soft slightly slurred voice said quietly.

"So, you're finally awake." Hiei said as he turned to her.

"How long have I been out?" Rei asked him.

"How long have you been running from Okashi?" Hiei asked her. Rei sat up straight in the bed that she was in considering how hard it was for her stiff body.

"What makes you think that I have been running?" Rei demanded.

"You have less energy than you normally do and more injuries than you normally accumulate. You have been being chased. Don't lie." Hiei told her his red eye's digging into her golden ones.

"Okashi is out for revenge." Rei told him. "He's extremely pissed that we robbed him of his precious gems of Gem of Glory and Gem of Kazakon and now he wants you dead and wants me as his mate. He thinks that is the prefect way to get revenge."

"Okashi was nothing before. What makes this time so different?" Hiei asked.

"Hiei, Okashi doesn't make the same mistake twice. You and I both know that. After his near death experience thanks to you, he went off and found this gem called the Force Gem that granted him eternal strength. He put his money into the best fighters to guard him and teach him how to fight. It doesn't help that he is a fast learner either. So if you did manage to get pass the guards you'd have one hell of a time trying to kill him I'm afraid." Rei told him "Next we go to his hiding place, just because he knows how to fight doesn't mean he still doesn't like to run. He moves frequently to many of his different homes in the demon world. I don't even know where all of them are."

"You've been tailing him?" Hiei asked her.

"Yeah, when I heard that he was still alive and kicking and planning to kill us I planed on doing it before he got a foot hold on life once again." Rei told him. She stopped for a moment then took a deep breath. "However he learned of my attempt, don't ask me how, and put a stop to it as soon as I entered his house. I barely made it to my house to get an antidote for the poison that he got me with. Okashi is a persistent person he will stop at nothing to get us back. I even heard that he was going after the Amulet of Life. If he got his hands on that before you or I could kill him, I doubt that either one of us ever could."

Rei looked over at him on the window. He sat looking out the window but she could see his annoyed reflection. She stood up and looked around the room. I was a dark room. The walls where painted black and so was the ceiling. The floor was a deep mahogany wood. The bed that she had been sleeping had a black comforter as well. The wall right in front of her had weapons placed on it. She knew that each had a story. She smirked.

"I never knew that you where so sentimental about your swords." Rei told him.

"That is not the problem that is at hand onna." Hiei snapped at her.

"Hey, I told you all that I know okay?" Rei told him. "And I thank you for your generous hospitality that I know your friends forced you to do. However I must go, I have a guy to kill for trying something with me."

With that, Rei walked up to him and opened his window and jumped out of it. Hiei went to stop her but stopped himself.

Stupid onna. He thought as he watched Rei run into the woods. You'll get yourself killed.

I'd make it right if you wanted it.

I want it back more than you know.

I'd cross the line if you wanted it.

I want you back.

I'm waiting for you

To get that feeling once again

To be reunited in end

I've been waiting for you

To capture my imagination

Cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

Rei took a deep breath as she landed on one of the tree limbs when she knew that she was far enough away from Hiei. Being back in contact with him took a lot out of her. They both agreed that it was over between each other. However, it seemed that Rei was wrong in that fact.

I still love that dick. She thought in disbelief. She shook her head and ran faster than she ever had. She wouldn't admit it but she was running away from the truth more then running to the problem ahead of her. However, I can't help but wonder, does he still feel the same way? Never knows best. I should have listened to my mother before she had died.

"Hiei I brought some food for your friend when she wakes." Yukina's voice said as she opened the door. She turned to see that Rei was gone and Hiei looking out of the window. "Where did she go?"

"She left." Hiei told his sister.

"But she shouldn't have left. She is still in danger." Yukina said her eye's growing wide with fear. Hiei turned to her and she continued when he nodded his head. "There was still a slow acting poison in her blood system. Somehow, her blood system had kept the slow acting poison at bay for longer than it should have. However, with her blood system doing this it had made the poison twice as strong somehow. I don't think that she will be able to survive when the poison takes affect."

"Tell the Fox, detective, and idiot what you told me. I will go ahead and see if I can find her." Hiei said and was gone out the window.

Rei appeared out of the portal on the outskirts of a village called Silent Lake. Suddenly she felt a pain through her right arm. She cursed as she went to a knee. Trying her best, she went to move her arm but couldn't. Slowly the pain continued though out her body then taking away her ability to move. Swearing worse than a sailor, she tried to stand and make it to the village.

A sudden flash of pain that racked her whole body made her cry out in pain and fall to the ground. Fire ran though her veins and to her head. It felt like her head was on fire. Noises where ten times louder than they normally were and every move that she made sent a new wave of pain though her body. Finally, the pain was too much for her that she fell unconscious in her huddled up form.

Hiei walked out of the portal and was surprised that he found the girl that he was looking for huddled up in a ball. He looked around then knelt down next to her and felt for a plus. There was one and it was strong. He sighed and picked up Rei once more and then walked back through the portal.

"Who is that girl Hiei?" Kurama asked. As he came out of the room after giving Rei an antidote for the poison. His curiosity was getting the best of him by now.

"She's an old friend." Hiei told him. "She came to tell me that there is a certain demon after us."
"So you are just going to let her go out on her own? Why not have her stay and all five of us can take care of this demon." Kurama told him.

"Because, she doesn't like being in a group any more than I do." Hiei snapped.

Kurama looked at his friend then back to the room that he had just left.

"She should be fine though, after a good nights rest." Kurama told him.

"So, did we figure out who the girl is yet?" Yusuke asked.
"Rei." Hiei snapped and left the temple.

"Rei? He's kidding? That's his kind of scene of humor, right?" Kuwabara asked. "What sane demon would name their child Rei?"
"A demon mother that would want nothing but peace for her daughter." Kurama told him looking at the door to Hiei's room that Rei was staying in.

Clinking brought Rei back to the world of the living. Her wrist was being pulled. She sat up and looked in the direction that her wrist was being pulled and gasped.

"So you did live though the poison. Granted I didn't want you to die from it my dear. A Dragon demon would be great to have at my side. However, it looks like I will have to kill that pesky half fire demon before that." A hansom man said. He had ice blue hair that fell into he green eyes. He was tall and skinny but you could see newly formed muscle. He wore only a pair of black shorts and black shoes.

"Okashi." Rei hissed as she moved away and fell off the bed.

"Now, now, I wouldn't hurt you my dear." Okashi told her as he lightly jumped into the room and walked over to her. The chin link on the shackle began to violently rattle. Okashi looked down at it was he reached her. "I see. You couldn't take it off so you used it as a warning for yourself. Very becoming of a Dragon demon."

He grabbed her wrist and pulled her up.

"Let me go you basterd!" Rei hissed at him. She trough a leg into his side and he barly recoiled.

"You haven't figured it out yet have you?" Okashi asked. "That poison that you have running though you blood system feeds on your spirit energy. Keeping you in a reasonably weak state."

"Back off!" Rei hissed and brought her fist up to his face. She placed all of her spirit energy into the one punch plus some of her Dragon strength into the hit. Okashi was taken back by the force behind the hit and let her go and fell backward onto the bed. After a moment, Okashi stood back up and glared at her.

"I'll have to teach you how to treat your mate." Okashi hissed at her his forked tongue sliding in and out of his mouth, as he walked toward her a dangerous glint in his eye.

"A Dragon demon would never mate with a low life snake demon. No matter how much he hides his scales." Rei told him taking a fighting stance.

The door to the room suddenly busted open and there stood Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara. Okashi glanced over at door and saw that he was out numbered. He grabbed Rei's wrist and began to drag her with him as he walked to the window.

"I won't go with you snake!" Rei hissed as she pulled out of his grip with more force than he thought that she had. She stumbled back and caught her self on the night stand.

Okashi glared at Hiei and then left the room and disappeared.

"Are you alright?" Kurama asked her as he walked up to her.

"Yes, I will be fine." Rei told him as she looked over at Hiei. He glared at the window where Okashi had left with such hatred that it made her blood go cold.

Why is he so pissed? Rei thought as she walked over to the window and leaned out she tried to catch a vision of him on the wind but he was no where to be seen as if he had just disappeared into thin air. She frowned and looked at Hiei who stood by her side waiting for her answer.

"Nothing. It's like he just up and disappeared." Rei told him slightly aggravated herself with his talent for disappearing. "I see nothing on the wind. He is no longer in this area or the winds would have told me."

"You can see images on the wind?" Kurama asked greatly interested. "The only demons that I knew who could do that were Wind Dragon demons."

"I'm one quarter Wind Dragon, one quarter Ice Dragon, and half Black Dragon." Rei told him. "I have a lot of special abilities some I am not to proud of."

"So can you even hear conversations that come across on the wind?" Kurama asked curiosity getting the better of him. Rei laughed at his interest in her kind and gladly answered all of his questions.

"Yes, I can. As long as the wind is coming my direction. I, however, lack the power to control wind." Rei told him. "I don't have any real control over what I see and hear."

"Is it true Ice Dragons really make ice crystals that can see into the future and past?" Kurama asked as he sat down on Hiei's bed. The others just stood listening to the two of them.

"Yes, however it requires a full Ice Dragon to pull that kind of magic together and freeze it all together." Rei told him as she leaned against the door to the bathroom. "As you can tell there are few Ice Dragons that can do that. I believe that my grandmother on my mothers side could though."

"How much control over ice do you have?" Kurama asked.

"As long as there is ice around? I have as much control as any full Ice Dragon demon. However, I cannot just make it appear like a full Ice Dragon can." She told him.

"I don't know much about Black Dragons." Kurama said as he watched Rei shifted on her feet as she turned her head to look out the window.

"Black Dragons are well known for their temperament." When Hiei scoffed Rei gave him a warning glance and continued. "They are even worse than a fire demon's temper. They are basically a loner and like the dark for very good reasons because that is where they are strongest. Every one thinks that they can manipulate shadows, however this is wrong we cannot. However, we have dipped our claws into the dark arts. We can go into peoples dreams and turn even the harmless ones into nightmares. We also have physic abilities. Black Dragons have one excellent poison immune system, which I lack greatly I might add. However, Black Dragons are known well for their strength and speed."

"So if you ever piss off a Black Dragon?" Yusuke asked.

"Run your ass off, especially if you don't know them." Rei told them.

"So, never piss you off?" Yusuke asked.

"I'm pretty hard to piss off, but depending on what is going on will mostly decide that." She told him.

"What's wrong with your spirit energy onna? It's driving me crazy with its jumps and falls." Hiei snapped at her. She then turned and gave him a nasty glare.

Every one looked at her, this time they actually looked at her spirit energy. That was actually kind of hard seeing as she was hiding it quiet well. When they saw the black energy swirling around her they saw nothing unparticular suddenly though it dropped to almost nothing and then after a bit it jumped back up and then fell back down.

"Shorty's right!" Kuwabara said as he watched it repeat itself one more time.

"It's nothing." Rei snapped still glaring at Hiei who knew very well that she wanted to keep it a secrete from everyone. She knew that she was not going to be able to hide it from Hiei because of his Jagan. "I can fix it on my own."

"GUYS!" Koenma yelled as he ran into the room in his teenage form. Everyone stopped their staring at Rei's dancing energy in favor of looking at a heavily breathing Koenma.

"What's so important that you had to come to us? Why not send Botan for us?" Yusuke asked biting back a comment that was sure to get him mad.

"This is of the utmost important Yusuke." Koenma told him.

"What is it Koenma?" Kurama asked.

"I was going to-"

"Okashi's stolen the Amulet of Life Hiei." Rei said cutting off Koenma and looking at Hiei.

"When?"

"Last night. Koenma didn't get the information until this morning." Rei told him.

"And how do you know that?" Koenma demand looking at her.

"I looked into your mind. You have a tendency for taking awhile to get to the point so I decided to speed things up." Rei told him.

"Who are you?"
"My name is Rei." Rei told him.

"She is a friend of the group." Kurama told him when he was going to ask more questions.

"How do you know that it was this Okashi person that stole the Amulet of Life because I didn't know who stole it?" Koenma said as he stood up straight.

"There where rumors going around that Okashi was going to steal the Amulet of Life from its keeper. I also assume that she was killed." Rei said as she mercilessly pushed her spirit energy down to the core.

"And you act like you really don't care." Koenma said.

"I don't. It is actually a thorn out of my side. She was a spy." Rei told him.

"How come nobody tells me that there are going to be thief's?" Koenma demanded to no one.

"Because, it goes against one of the unspeakable laws of being a thief and not only that you lose the trust of your equals and then you begin to lose jobs. Not to mention you would have half of the underground after you." Rei told him.

"Back to the Amulet of Life please?" Yusuke asked.

"Well, what is there to explain about it? The name says it all. Amulet of Life." Rei told him. "It gives the wearer eternal life you nimrod."

"You mean we can't kill him?" Kuwabara asked in disbelief.

"I really feel for you Kurama, Hiei." Rei said as she turned her attention to them.

"I don't suppose you know where this Okashi is hiding do you?" Koenma asked her.

"Why? So you can go get your detectives killed?" Rei asked. "He went and found a gem called the Force Gem that gave him eternal strength. I hate to say it but, if he has those two then he will be damn near impossible for your detectives to stop him."

"Did Okashi have the Amulet of Life on him when he attacked you?" Hiei asked turning to Rei. Rei frowned and thought back on the earlier incident.

Lets see, he didn't have a shirt on and there was nothing around his neck so I assume that he didn't have it. However, there was a different air about him then the last time and it wasn't his strength. It was almost as if he knew…

"That basterd was testing me." Rei said though her teeth.

"Wait, that guy that was here, that was Okashi?" Yusuke asked.

"How?" Hiei asked.

"You know as a Black Dragon I am suppose to have an immune toward poisons. Well, he was seeing which ones I am immune to and I don't have an immune system for poisons." Rei told him.

"He'll try to poison you more often now." Hiei said.
"Unfortunately, yes." Rei said. "The only way he can do that though is to catch me and I plan to do circles around him my friend." Rei told him.

"Not alone your not." Hiei told her coldly.

"And why not?"
"You can't use your spirit energy."
"And what makes you think that?"

"Because you forced it into the main core of your body and put a lock on it."
"You can do that?" Kuwabara asked.

"Yes." Rei said and then turned her attentions to Hiei once again. "That is besides the point Hiei. I can unlock it anytime that I want. Another thing Hiei, I have my Black Dragon abilities."

"What are you two bickering about?" Koenma asked them.

"Koenma, it seems that the Okashi that stole the Amulet of Life is also the same Okashi that is after these two lives." Kurama told him.

"No, its' more like he is out to take Hiei's life and wants to take over mine." Rei told him. "Basically Okashi is doing all of this for revenge on the two of us."

"So, we take Okashi out now." Yusuke said.

"Good luck trying to find him." Rei said as walked over the window near Hiei and leaned against it. "He has several houses and he doesn't stick to just one. He moves often and never in the same pattern."

"Do you know where they are?" Koenma asked.

"Some of those."

"Good, come with me and you can show me on one of the maps in my office then I will send other people to see if he is in one of those places and if he isn't then I will have to send out some search teams to find him." Koenma said as he walked out the door with Rei following him. "And in the mean time I would like you to stick around with the group. Your information my come in handy."

"What ever you want toddler." Rei said as they both walked through the portal.

"You know, for some one that is suppose to be temper mental she sure is laid back." Kurama said.

"You can say that. Though she does have a bit to her bark." Yusuke said looking at the door.

"She is a pain in the ass." Hiei said greatly annoyed by the way the guys where liking her so quickly. In a way he was jealous but, he wasn't about to admit that to himself or to anyone else for that matter.

I still love her. What a stupid thing love is. Hiei thought to himself disgusted. We ended it and it will stay ended as far as I am concerned.

"I like her." Kuwabara said. "She doesn't treat me like a complete idiot."

""Don't worry she will soon enough." Yusuke told him. "Say, Hiei. How did you come to be friends with that chick?"

"Hn" Hiei said and left with out telling them.

Now I realize I never had it so good

You took me anywhere I wanted to go

Now I'm sitting here dreaming of the days

When any time I wanted I could show you how I feel

I can't go anywhere that I want to go

Anywhere I want to go

Hiei took a good look at the place that he was about to rob. It was an old Victorian house out in middle of the woods in the demon world. He was still a bit perturbed about his last attempt on a different job. Somehow he had run into a young female Dragon demon, trying to rob the same house, they had both come to the conclusion that they had been set up and decided to kill the guy. After that they had done that had left each other. Hoping never to see each other again. However, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was going to happen that he was not going to enjoy.

He jumped down the cliff and ran into the house shutting the door behind him so he wouldn't cause any suspicions. He went down the stairs that to where the Gem of Glory was. As soon as he reached the bottoms stairs he stopped and stared at the familiar back the female that he had met a few days ago.

"We have got to stop meeting like this." She said she slid open the door and looked at him. "Well, at least this time I know it is not a set up. I am after the Gem of Kazakon. What about you?"
"Gem of Glory."

"What is your name anyway? Mine is Rei." She told him.

"Hn. Hiei." He told her.

"Well, it was a pleaser meeting you and all, but I have a gem calling my name. I have a feeling that we will be seeing each other some more. Even if we don't want to." Rei said and was gone.

And Rei was right. They had saw more of each other and they fought a lot until they got use to each other. In the end they decided to team up together and that was that.

I'll take it anywhere

I'll take you anywhere that you want to go

Rei walked at a leisured saunter to the temple doors and walked in. Yusuke and Kuwabara where sitting on the couch playing the playstation2. she recognized it as the game called 'Project Snowblind'. She watched for a moment as Yusuke took Kuwabara out. She then turned her attention to Kurama who was watching the two idiots occasionally and read his book most of the time. She looked around and didn't find Hiei. She frowned.

Now where would my sparing partner be at a time like this? Rei thought as she walked over and placed her arms on the back of the couch and looked at the book that Kurama was reading.

"'Eyes Wide Open'" Rei said "That is a good book."

Kurama looked up at her and closed the book.
"So I assume that you are staying here." Kurama said.

"Unfortunately, yes." Rei said. "Do you know where Hiei is?"

"Yes, he is out back, training, I assume." Kurama told her.

"Okay, good. I shall go assist him in that wonderful goal. Thank you Kurama. Have fun reading that book." Rei told him as she walked back out the temple and then around the temple to the back where Hiei stood he sword in hand. She pulled out her weapon and walked up to him. When he was in the middle of a butterfly swing she trough one end of her blade at him she wasn't to surprised when he blocked it with ease. They then jumped back away from each other.