A/n. Yeah. New story. I'll keep with this one, i promise! Beautiful Disaster is being worked on lol Tell me if you like this one--

Disclaimer: Yu-Yu Hakusho does not beling to me.

Forever, Fornever

Chapter One

From defending humans from un-ruly demons to now, once again, defending human's mind from demon world. Pathetic humans. Not even bright enough to stay in their own world.

And so went the usual thought of Hiei Jaganshi. While already through two and a half years of his sentence to patrol demon-world barrier, or that is, the non-existing one, his opinion of humans grew meeker and meeker still. If that's possible.

"A human... at least I think." Hiei turned to the imp standing next to him. Well, standing being a bit of an overstatement. The imp barley reached up past Hiei's knee, and he was squatting now. Who would have ever guessed that the 'presence' would have been gifted to this little fellow.

The 'presence' was the opposite of Kuwabara's gift. While Kuwabara could feel demonic presence, certain demons who honed their ability were able to trace, or find, human presence. Nifty little trick, especially in Hiei's line of work...er, punishment.

"You think? Either there is or there is not, which is it?" Hiei turned his gaze downwards on the little imp, not an ounce of hostility in it. Only the same bored calm that had claimed him ever since he had been sent on the first day of this job.

The imp jumped a bit, scared at being directly addressed by his boss. But as soon as he met Hiei's eyes, he scoffed. How could this demon be the Hiei Jaganshi, wielder of the Jagan?

As if reading his thoughts, Hiei suddenly slanted his eyes, the hostility now growing in them.

The small imp 'eeped'.

"Hiei, er, my lord! I can not tell weather it is human or not! It feels human but..." The imp trailed off and shudder. "It is in that direction, my lord."

The imp raised his hand, and pointed in the direction from which the presence came from. South.

Hiei followed his hand. "Hn."

Hiei turned on his heel to tell the pilot there would a be a change in direction.

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When they reached the designated spot, there was not a soul, or soul-less, person to be found. It was an open field surrounded on all sides by trees.

Hiei stopped as he got to the center of the field, black blood was pooling in the center. Hiei studied it, and then bent down to touch it. It was cold.

"What game are you playing, imp?" Hiei stood up and wrapped his hand around the hilt of his sword, his eyes warily watching the trees.

"Imp?" Hiei questioned, his back to the demon. Sencing no presence in the trees, Hiei turned.

The imp in question was now impaled to the ground, a spear going through his heart.

"Hn." Hiei stood silent as the breeze blew through the clearing. He drew his sword, and raised it infront of him. He didn't like it.

The branch behind him snapped, he whirled ready to lunge at an invisible foe.

There was no one there. Hiei swallowed down a curse.

He was being hunted.

And the hunter was close.

A small prick at his neck was all he felt. "Don't move."

Hiei sniffed the air, but smelt nothing. He could not detect what was behind him.

"Put your sword away, red eyes." Hiei twitched his ear. Five sharp pricks confirmed it was someone with their nails against his neck. That probably meant the spear was their only weapon ,and they had used it.

"I said put away-" Hiei disappeared and the thing behind him fell forward.

Hiei flitted behind the thing that had threatened him, the second he felt the pressure of the nails increase. When he moved, it fell.

Face first too. Hiei put his sword on the humans neck. "Don't move, human." Almost automatically Hiei could tell the thing in front of him was human, simply because well... it looked like one.

Hiei hid his surprise when the human moved it's neck, causing the tip of the blade to slice the back of the neck. Black blood spew from it. The humans eyes locked with his, and Hiei was surprised to find himself with his blade at the neck of a minor. And by minor, Hiei saw by the innocence in her eyes that she was at the most 8 years old.

He drew his sword back and sheathed it. The child was no threat to him.

Hiei threw a look at the imp. Well... he placed his foot on her back, holding her down. "Do you remember how you got here?"

The girl laughed, and it was not filled with childish glee. "Remember? Of course. How could I forget?" The girl suddenly smiled. "This is after all, my eternal damnation. Are you the devil here?"

Hiei remained silent as he watched the innocence on her eyes fade into hate. A hate that ran so deep, and so terrible, that it filled her blue eyes with a red tint. The hate was strong.

Hiei lifted out his blade again, and watched as her childish eyes once again changed. The hate turned to a fear. For all her hate, she did not want to die.

Hiei flinched as he saw the girls bottom lip start to tremble, and instead of facing her death, she turned her head again and let her hair hide her face.

The stench of salt attacked his senses, and Hiei hesitated. Mukuro could help the girl.

"No." The girl stopped trembling and lifted her head, looking at Hiei. "I'm worse." He brought the flat of the blade down across her head, and for a split second Hiei thought he hadn't hit her hard enough, when a smile graced her lips and a bark of laughter pealed out. She then locked eyes with his, and her world went black.

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"So you brought her here?" Mukuro hid the smirk behind her folded hands, the situation getting the best of her.

Hiei nodded from across the room. "She said this was her 'eternal damnation'. I think she was sent here as punishment."

Mukuro stood from her throne and walked over to Hiei. A monitor was set up before him and on the monitor was the small girl, screaming, kicking and punching at the walls of her confinement. Hiei had un-plugged the audio a while ago.

"So why did you not kill her where you saw her? If this was her punishment then death would have claimed her, no?" Mukuro placed a hand on Hiei's shoulder, which he shrugged off.

"Hn. I don't think so. She speared the imp with me, and I didn't even sense her until she was directly behind me. She wanted to survive." The girl in the room stopped suddenly and turned, facing the camera directly. She glared at it, then picked up a piece of rock she had managed to crack off the stone wall. She flipped off the camera, and before Hiei could even say "Hn" she had tossed the rock, and static filled the screen.

"Temper, temper." Mukuro sighed as she touched the off button on the screen and started waking towards the door. Hiei made no movement to follow. "So you want to help the girl, I understand. What I don't get is why." Mukuro paused and faced Hiei. "When you can tell me why, I will do all that I can to help the child. Until then Hiei." Mukuro nodded and walked out the doors.

Hiei snorted. Damn nosey woman. Hiei snorted again, walked over to Mukuro's chair, and closed his eyes.

Red-tinted eyes were imprinted on the back of his eyelids.

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"So what's your name?"

Silence. The demon sighed.

"How old are you?"

Silence again. Not surprising.

"Do you talk?"

A swish of hair this time, then silence. The demon sighed. For the past 6 hours the cell next to him had been occupied. In the last 50 years he had been there, he had never had a neighbor and now he did. Not only that, but it was a pretty little thing too. He had been excited at first, but now 6 hours later and not a single word from the girl except for the first hour she had been here (where she had done nothing but scream and fight), he could say he was less then excited. He sat against the wall. He knew when to take a hint.

"Where... where is this?"

The demon turned his head fast enough that he heard bones pop. He winced but answered to the head half turned to his. "Mukuro's cells. This is Mukuro's castle here."

The blue eyes of the girl flickered to the ground, and then her head nodded and turned back to staring at the wall. Her black hair fell back in place covering her back.

The demon watched the girl for a moment, then sighed. Obviously that was all he was going to get out of her. Oh well. He'd sleep and when he woke back up, he'd try again. That was one thing about prison. You had plenty of time.

A moan filled her cell, and suddenly the girl collapsed sideways, spilling her hair out around her. The demon jumped to his feet.

"Girl? Hey onna!" Black blood blended in so well with her hair that the demon had to look twice to see that it was flowing from her hand and neck. Her hand was holding onto her gut.

"HEY!" Two demon guards suddenly came running, enticed by the sound of yelling.

"What happened?" One guard asked while the other fished for the key.

"Dunno. She wasn't talking very much and then she just collapsed. She's hurt."

The guards looked at each other and the one stopped looking for the key. "Hm, typical human. Her fault then for being born with such a weak body. She'll die soon. I'll go get the new guy so he can clean her place up."

The demon growled. "I wouldn't if I were you."

The guard turned and stared at the demon behind bars. "Yeah? Well good thing you ain't me, huh?"

The demon growled again. "The lord brought her in. She seemed special to him, if you know what I mean."

The guards stopped. The demon smiled. Of course he doubted the girl was one of the palace whores, but the dundering block heads didn't need to know that.

The gauds looked at each other and nodded. "Uh, right. I'll um...go get... Jaganshi-sama"

The demon smirked as both Demons turned tail and run, both eager to get to Hiei before the other.

Well, what ever worked as long as he got to keep his neighbor... and a pretty little thing too.

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Hiei popped one eye open as the doors to the room swung open, two out of breath guards running in.

"Who gave you fools permission to enter?"

"My Lord, its'" Speaking took too much effort, and he began coughing, sucking in air. The other one spoke up. "The girl in the cell, she-"

"Go."

The demons stood upright, despite the lack of air, and marched out, closing the doors behind.

Hiei sighed as he stood up from the chair and started walking towards a door in the back. It would take him right down to the cells, and save him time. Hiei walked though. No use in running. Either the girl was dead, dying or had ecscaped. The last one wasn't possible. .

No, he hadn't forgot about her wounds. He knew she had been bleeding from somewhere since the blood in the clearing had been hers, despite the weird coloring and lack of scent. He had not been able to find any evidence of the wound when he had carried her back, even the slice on her neck seemed to have vanished even though she kept bleeding all over the place.

As Hiei strolled down the stairs to the cells, Mukuro's words kept replaying in his head.

Why did you not kill her...

Why do you want to help her...

Why had Hiei not killed her the moment she had threatened him? Well other the fact she was human. But if the human had attacked him, he was, by demon law, allowed to kill the human. So why hadn't he?

Was it her age? Hiei honestly had to qualms over who or what he killed if it attacked him. Was it the shock that it was a minor? That a minor could have killed an imp, powerful and threatening, or not?

Was it the innocence in her eyes? Or... was it the lack there-of? When he had seen the hate.

Hiei paused mid-step as the vision of the tinted eyes came back to him.

The hate that had coursed through her, it had almost felt like it was his.

As soon as the thought filtered through his mind, Hiei cursed.

Of course, that was why. The hate the girl felt, Hiei could relate. When he had been abandoned at such a young age, that was the hate he had felt. He had felt the hate that was in her eyes and he was doing what he wanted someone to do for him, so many years ago.

Help him.

Hiei had the urge to bash his head against the wall when he realized exactly why he didn't want to kill her.

He fucking wanted to help her.

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"She's got a good gash in her side and on the back of her neck, along with a concussion and loss of blood, but yes. She should be waking up soon." The medic demon told Hiei. Hiei nodded as he looked down at the small girl, who was by some miraculous miracle, still alive. By blood tests, the medic could tell she hadn't been fed in 2 weeks, and she had been losing blood from the gash on her side for a little less then five days. How she still had hidden it from Hiei, he couldn't say.

"If you don't mind me asking..." The medic hesitated as Hiei looked up at him.

"I'll mind"

The medic hesitated again, but he just had to know. "She has no scent, but other then her recovery, she is human... why?"

Hiei looked back down at the onna. "Hn."

The medic was about to pry, but suddenly, the girl's eyes flickered open.

At once they settled on Hiei.

"...Fuck"

Hiei chuckled then turned on his heel while the girl tried to sit up but found restraints on her ankles, wrists and chest.

"Hey! What is this?"

Hiei stopped and turned to the girl. "Hn. Your hell."

Hiei kept walking out the door, but no matter how hard he tried not to hear the reply, his demonic hearing made him.

"Funny... I always imagined the devil to be a little bit taller."

Hiei growled. This onna better have one damn good reason to keep her alive.

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