"Hiei, you sure you want to go?"
"Just let the shrimp go, Urameshi. We don't need him."
"Now, Kuwabara, you know that's not ture. Hiei comes in handy lots of times."
"Don't waste your breath, Kurama, the fool obviously doesn't comprehend. I'm going back to Makai."
"Fool!? Who are you calling fool!?"
"Kuwabara... Hiei left. He's gone." Yusuke said and put his hand behind his head. Kuwabara yelled something and walked outside. Kurama sat on the couch and glanced at Botan. She blinked. "Something on you mind?" Kurama looked at Yusuke. The young spirit detective waited for an answer. "No," Botan cocked her head. "Yes, you do. What is it, Kurama? You act as if you suspect something bad to happen." she implied. Yusuke agreed. "It's... just a hunch." Kurama murmured. "But your hunches are usually correct." Yusuke declared. Botan fidgeted. "Was it... about Hiei?" she asked. Kurama nodded.
Hiei stared up at the Makai sky. He smirked and glared forward. "Who ever you are, come out." he said plainly. Out of the black tree forest came a demon. He had sewer green hair and two tusk-like horns coming out of his head. He stared at Hiei with hungry eyes.
"What do you want?" Hiei demanded. "Yooooooooooooou..." the demon growled. "Hn." was Hiei's reply. "Oni, leave before death." Oni didn't take Hiei's warning and lunged at him. Using four steel claws he slashed at Hiei's neck/shoulder area. Instinctivly the fire demon disappeared with his amazing speed. Oni's head whipped around trying to find Hiei.
Silently Hiei landed in a tree. He crouched low and put a hand on his sword hilt. He learned forward and prepared to strike. "Found yoooou!!!" Oni growled. A streak of a light gray white shot forward. It looked like a rocket flying toward the offending demon. Two clawed hands erupted from the lgiht. The claws flexed, and the arms crossed over one another. A flash of the light turned upward to reveal a foot, dressed in a sleek black boots that reached over the ankle only. Baggy, light black cloth legging flapped in the wind. Whoever, or whatever, it was in the light kicked off the ground and flew towards the chest of the oni and ripped it's chest apart.
Hiei watched with interested eyes as the lighted form ripped through the gut of his oppontent. The warrior slashed all the way into Oni and out. The form walked forward a few steps, the oni falling on its back to the ground. The wind began to blow, brushing the light away. The fighter was dressed in flowing black pants that flickered in teh wind. The shirt was maroon and tight. One sleeve was torn to the elbow. Long crimson hair cascaded down the back to the fighter's waist. The wind played with the crimson locks, along with medium gray white tipped fox-tail. 'Fox tail!?' Hiei shouted in his mind. Whoever it was was clearly a fox demon, having the signature foxtail and fox ears. One of the fox's ears twitched. "Youko..." Hiei whispered. He jumped out of the tree and faced the fox's back.
He thought this to be his fox friend, Youko Kurama. But... how could he mix his human and demon form? This figure wasn't as tall, its hair and fur color was obviously darker. Before Hiei could ask who the demon was it turned around and stared at Hiei with dazzling blue eyes.
"A friend of yours?" she asked. 'A... shefox? Hn, how could I suspect her as Kurama? He has much more class, and grace.' He thought while saying nothing. The she-fox brushed at the vile blood of the befallen Oni. It seemed as if the blood staining her skin offended her. "You have nothign to say.." she said pointing out the obvious. "No friend of mine." Hiei said plainly. "Good, then you won't want revenge and I won't have to waste my time killing you." Hiei smirked at her comment. "Full of yourself?" he stated questingly.
She walked up to him and looked down. She wasn't as tall as Kurama, but closer to Yusuk'es height, around an inch or two taller. Hiei glared up at her, awaiting some stupid insult like he usually recieved from the fool Kuwabaka. "I usually don't kill unless I've been wronged, buuuuuuuuuuuut... for you" she said and cupped his chin in her hand, leaning down to his eye level, "I might make an exception." Her claws tapped lightly on his cheek. "Take your hands OFF." The she-fox's eyes widened slightly then closed half-way. She grinned and let him go. "Of course, forbidden Koorime." Hiei's eyes widened. "What did you say?" The she-fox just grinned.
"Jaganshi Hiei, born in the land of Koorime, cast away because he was a fire demon. Had himself an operation to recieve a Jagan eye." she said. 'How... could she know!?' asked Hiei in his mind. "You know you're demons." he said calmly. She laughed softly. "I know my rivals."
"Rivals?" Hiei repeated. "Of course, you're a thief. Like me which makes you my rivals, just one of my rivals." she said. She looked at the dead Oni. "This is Makai, always be on your guard, Demon-traitor." She turned away and walked off. "Demon traitor?" Hiei wondered. "Who... was she?"