Chapter 3
The Escape!
(For those of you who have watched Yu Yu Hakusho, I hope I don't have to explain who Hiei and Makuro are. If you don't, then what the hell are you doing reading this? And for those of you who hate Makuro i'm not gonna kill her, so I apoligise, but she gets totally yukipwned later!)
"What was that?" Rag'aan, a small imp demon, asked Hiei.
"From what I can tell it sounded like a wolf howl." He said, staring ahead of him as he stood atop the large termite demon that acted as both a home and as transportation for Lady Makuro, one of the three "kings" of demon world. Hiei was destined to be her replacment in the event of her death.
"But aren't wolves human world creatures?" Rag'aan asked.
" Yes," Hiei answered, "But we do have wolf demons here, you idiot. Probaly a clan getting into a territory squablle or on a hunting patrol." He said not looking at the small demon.
"Plus," He went, "Even if it is a wolf, it's nothing we need concern ourselves with. Just ignore it."
" And why is that?" The imp questioned.
"Because," Hiei growled," I've got more important things to do than waste my time on some worthless human world dog."
At the same time, Koyuki had shifted back to her normal human frm, and was summoning her dove traits. Large white wings sprouted from her back and unfolded in all their, white, plimy magesty. She pumped them once, the wind from them forcing the lizards back even further and she lifted off the ground, heading higher into the sky.
"What is that?" Rag'aan shouted, seeing birds fleeing a group of trees and catching a quick glimpse of something large and white. Hiei and Rag'aan stared intently at the spot where they had seen the birds fly from. Suddenly Koyuki burst through the trees in a flurry of feathers and leaves. The two demon's eyes widened in shock. Here was what looked somewhat like a human girl, with silver hair, forest green eyes and angel wings. It was incredible, definatly not something you see every day.
"Quickly, shock the line, we need to get her down now, and let's hope that the patrol hasn't seen her yet." Yelled one of the lizard demons and another pulled a switch on a power box that was conected to Koyuki's chain. Two-thousand volts shot up the chain and into her body. She let out a bloodcurdling scream.
Hiei winced and Rag'aan covered his ears. "Ahhhhhh that sound, it makes me feel like my ears drums are bleeding!" Rag'aan said throught gritted teeth.
Pulse after agonizing pulse coursed through her, rakcking her entire body. She felt as though her mind would explode and she could do nothing but scream . It hurts! It hurts! Make it STOP! She cried out in her thoughts.
Because of hus Jagan eye, one of his abiliteies was reading minds. He hadn't tried to read her's, but it was so loud that her inner voice hit the frequency his Jagan was on and he heart her screams ringing in his ears and coursing through his mind.
Hiei covered his ears and squeezed his eyes shut.. Not only was he hearing her scream regularly but she was screaming even louder in her thoughts. Dammit! It's so loud!Hiei thought.
Suddenly everything went silent. There was no screaming from her anymore, physically or mentally. She must have fallen unconscious. Hiei thought. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw her fall out of the sky, back into the cover of the trees.
He stared at the spot where she'd dissapeared, pouring over is options. Hiei had seen and done his share of cruelty and he'd expeirienced some of the worst of it. But his year in human world, where he had met the now former spirit detective Yusuke Urameshi, Hiei had changed. Yusuke had changed the way he viewed certain things. Plus his friend, and former partner-in-crime, Kurama, who was somewhat the re-incarnation of Youko Kurama, had helped him see the world in a new way.
Sixteen years ago Youko Kurama was thought to have been killed while escaping a botched burglary. In his weakened state he fled to the human world where he spent his time rebuilding his strength while inhabiting a human body. That was Kurama, or Suichi Minamino, as was his name to his "mother" so to speak. Hiei hadn't seen him though since the Demon World Tournament six monthes ago. He suspected that he had gone back to the human world once the tournament had ended.
Meanwhile, Koyuki was fighting the constant lizard demons that were roping her wings and tieing her down, so that she couldn't fly away again. Damn, what am I gonna do! She thought angrily. Her vision was getting blurry and she could feel herself getting weaker. She was finding it difficult to move after the shock therapy had scrambled her nervous system and she felt her motor skills sharting to shut down.
"That'ssssss it boyssssss! Tie her down!."
"I'm going." Hiei said at last, not looking at Rag'aan.
"What do you mean 'you're going'? Going where? To help that girl? Absolutely not! If you leave, Makuro will leave without you, the communications are down and on foot it takes at the very least, two months to get to the check point. Plus with an injured human, reaking of blood, it'll take over three!" Gragort fumed orders and warnings and questions all at the same time. Hiei was certain the little demon was throwing some curse words at him in impish but he ignored them.
" I know all that already. And I don't care if you go on without me because I'll meet up with you at the check-in point in about two months, maybe less depending on what happens." Hiei told the imp.
"But who's going to tell Lady Makuro where you are and why you left?" Rag'aan asked thinking he'd won the argument and that was that.
"Easy. You will." Hiei told him.
"WHHHHHAAAAT?" The imp screamed. He could hardly believe his ears.
"You heard me." Hiei said.
" I most certainly will not. Lady Makuro will have my hide! I will not allow you to...hey Hiei!"
Too late. Hiei had jumped off the termite and had dissapeared into the trees. Rag'aan sighed. "What am I going to do with him?" he wondered out loud. But more importantly, what am I going to tell Lady Makuro? The imp sat down so he could think up a way to tell Makuro what had happened to her leiutenant without getting killed.
