"It's him," Yukina whispered as she looked down at Hiei walking down Genkai's stairs. She turned to Kurama who was standing next to her at the top of the stairs and said, "Hiei's my brother, isn't that right?"

Kurama looked back at Hiei and said, "You should talk to him about that."

"I've tried," she explained as she watched Hiei walk out of her life once more, "but he seems to think that I don't know anything, even after all of this time has passed. He's saved my life so many times over the years Kurama, can you do me a favor? Please?" She turned to him.

Hiei walked through a thick forest to the border of demon world when he felt a strange energy suddenly flash through his neck from behind. He spun around and saw Kurama standing behind him nonchalantly, as if he was completely innocent. "What are you doing here?" he demanded, what was that energy?

Kurama replied, "I was thinking of going back to demon world sometime soon, that's all. Besides, it's not like we're strangers."

"Hn," Hiei said, "suit yourself." He looked around and saw mist forming from nowhere. "Where did this..." he felt dizzy and started falling forward. Kurama grabbed him before he could hit the ground.

"I'm sorry Hiei," he said, "it's what Yukina wants."

Hiei woke up at Mukuro's centipede in a bed he recoginzed as his own. He sat up suddenly. What the hell just happened? he thought as he looked around.

"About time you woke up," Mukuro said as she entered the room, "Spirit World wants you, something about a demon looking for revenge from your friends."

Hiei looked around the room and saw the same mist from before. "What's this foggy mist doing in here?" He stood up and thought to himself, How did I get here? Wasn't I just in the forest in living world? What the hell just happened?

She asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Nevermind that," he said, "I'm not working for Spirit World anymore."

"I'll tell them Yukina being kidnapped doesn't mean anything to you," she replied.

"What?!" Hiei shouted, "You could have started with that!"

At Genkai's temple Kurama explained to Yusuke and Kuwabara, "His name is Riku, and he used to work for Tarukena."

Kuwabara asked, "How do you know that?"

"That's what it says in this note left behind be her kidnappers," he replied as he handed it to him, "apparently he lost everything when he died and has been working on a stragedy to get back at us." Hiei appeared behind him in the doorway.

"Shorty?" Kuwabara asked, "What are you doing here?"

Hiei demanded, "Where is she?"

"According to the note," Yusuke answered as he read it, "the same stronghold she was in before when we first rescued her a few years ago. Damn it feels like forever ago when all of that happened."

Kurama said, "We should hurry. There's not telling what they're doing to her as we speak."

Hiei jumped out of there and toward the old mansion in the mountains before the rest of them could move. I'll get there first this time, he thought as he jumped through the tress, I won't let her get hurt again.