CHAPTER TWO

For three weeks has he been following her, curious of whom she was. But none of his questions were answered. She traveled alone, she bathed every single day, she helped almost everyone she could, and she could fight. That is all he knew about her. He just couldn't figure out why a priestess would help demons too, when they should be her sworn enemies.

Currently she was fighting three demons that were after the jewel shards. She was already tired from the battle; she succeeded in killing two of them. As she turned to the third on she made a mistake. She miscalculated and thought that the demon was farther away from her. He managed to stab her in her stomach with his sword. She coughed up blood and turned her murderous gaze at him. She lifted her arm and blasted him with purifying energy, turning the demon to ash. She collapsed after that.

He came out of the cover of the woods and gathered her in his arms. He didn't know why he was doing this just that he couldn't let her die before he figured her out.

The next day she woke up in pain. She looked around confused.

"You're awake." She heard his voice. She looked at him, asking how she got here with her eyes. "I found you after your battle. I brought you here to heal."

"Thank you." She cleared her throat. "What's your name?"

"Hn." He turned away from her. She smirked a little at this.

"Well 'Hn'. It's nice to meet you. I'm Kagome." She laughed at the glare he threw her.

"Hiei." He growled.

"Well Hiei thank you for bringing me here." She sat up slowly. She concentrated on her healing powers and made herself whole again. "Say Hiei. Are you occupied with something? I have a proposition for you."

"And what is that?" he raised a brow at her.

"I am collecting the shards to the jewel of four souls. I could use a companion. What do you say?" she asked him and almost laughed at his now wide eyes.

"Why would I want to travel with you?"

"I bet you like battles and challenges." She saw him giving a small nod and smiled. "I get attacked almost daily for the shards and sometimes it's hard to rest between battles. Why don't you help me out?"

"Why are you collecting them?" he let his curiosity get the best of him and he listened to her story of how she found out that the jewel was in her body and how she shattered it. She told him about Inuyasha, and the others. How they cast her aside like trash. She told him everything except that she came from the future. She told him about Naraku and his disgusting deeds.

"Onigumo?" he growled out as soon as he heard his name. And so Kagome found out that Onigumo was the bandit that raised Hiei and how he beat him. Hiei burned Onigumo. It wasn't a question anymore. He was joining her in the quest. They began their journey that day. With Hiei by her side they gathered the shards much faster. They looked after each other. Kagome was the first person in his life that Hiei trusted.

It wasn't long before Naraku knew about his newest enemies. And of course like the bastard he is he tried to kill one of them.

Hundreds of low class demons surrounded them. They stood back to back, killing everything that attacked them. But before long Naraku's puppet appeared. Hiei only saw the tainted black shard thrown towards him. Even with his speed he didn't have time to move away as the shard embedded into his chest. He couldn't move, his thoughts blank.

"No!" was the last rational thing he heard from Kagome. He turned his feral eyes to her. Naraku and the rest of the demons disappeared. Hiei attacked her and she deflected almost every attack.

"Hiei stop!" she yelled at him, but the only thing he could think was that he wanted to kill her.

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