Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu or its characters. I do however

own my own characters, the plot and story. Please enjoy.

Author's note: Sorry there's only a lot of dialog at the beginning, but I think the fast paced

storyline will hopefully more then make up for that. Especially the little fight scene

between Raina and Hiei. Hope you like.

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Morning found Raina awake and more alert then she'd been in two weeks. She was lost in thought, thinking of the bits and pieces that she had managed to remember of her emotionally draining, but powerful dream. She wondered, not for the first time, if it was all actually just repressed memories of that painful night. Or just a figment her subconscious had come up with to help her try and deal with her partners gruesome death.

Slowly, painfully she raised her hand and brushed the hospital gown from her left shoulder and arm. There, in the exact place from her dream, her arm and shoulder were covered in thick, heavy, white bandages which slightly restricted movement of her arm. Well, it seemed that part was at lest true, she thought darkly. A slight twinge of pain lanced through the wound, as she explored it carefully. Then if this was real she thought, as she brushed over her arm again. Does that mean that everything else was real too? Including that mysteriously, feral cold, handsome man, who had come to her aid?

Well if it was true, then why wasn't he here now, making sure all his work hadn't gone to waste, and that she had infact survived. Surely with something like what had happened that night, the media would have gotten wind of things and let something slip. Even if it was only that she had survived her injuries. So where was he? What had he even been doing there that night anyway, when it had been a police situation, and he was obviously anything but a cop? And why wasn't he walking through the door now and at least finishing what he had started? Sighing, she looked up at the door in question, a look of confusion and the hint of a scowl gracing her gorgeous features.

Just then the door did open, but it wasn't her rescuer that stalked through the door, only the doctor walking calmly in. Coolly, she masked her features and visibly shook herself from her dark thoughts, as she addressed the doctor before her.

"So what's the word doc? She asked. "Give me the 411 straight out. How bad is it, can I go home finally?"

"Well." The doctor said. "You were hurt extremely bad, Ms. Harrigan." The doctor started as he looked up from her chart and scowled lightly at her.

"Frankly, I've never seen anyone with wounds as bad as yours survive before." He said as he looked back at the chart.

"However it appears your vitals are stable, and you're well on your way to recovering. Amazing, I've never seen anything like it, especially in just two weeks time." He looked up again and smiled.

"Now yes, I believe you can go home, however you might want to take it easy for awhile. Is there someone you can call to come get you?"

Raina smiled at the news before saying. "Yah, I'll call one of my friends."

"Good, then I'll start the paperwork. We'll have you out of here by the afternoon." With that said, the doctor retreated from the room, leaving her alone with her thoughts again.

Slightly after one o'clock found Raina out of the hospital, and sitting in her friend Jean's car. On her way to fill a prescription for painkillers and then home to rest. Or so Jean thought, she was however sadly mistaken, as beside her Raina voiced her pent up thoughts.

"I'm going back to that warehouse. I wanna do some digging; see if I can find out exactly what went down that night."

"Raina, no way!" Said Jean, almost stopping the car, as she looked seriously at her long time friend.

"You heard what Linda said, you've been relieved from the case while you recuperate, and they plan their next move."

It was as jean had said. Raina had indeed been visited by her captain shortly after dealing with the doctor earlier this morning. She had stopped by to see how she was doing and to give her the reluctant news from the higher ups, that for the time being, she was off the case. To say the least, Raina was pissed and had not been afraid to voice it as well. She and the captain had gotten into quite a heated argument. It had only stopped when Jean had walked through the door and managed to talk some sense into Raina. But now all that was falling apart. She could just tell her friend was headed for trouble, and probably more then even she could handle. And it was all due to fact that she never knew when to back off and down from any given situation. A bad habit that she desperately needed to break, Jean thought especially if she was going to live past her twenties, or even her thirties for that matter. Jean thought briefly of voicing this opinion. However before she could speak Raina overrode her with her own thoughts.

"Don't remind me. Those cowardly sons of cock suckin bitches…to scared of blowing their pr campaign, besides I won't be hurting anything, I'm off and on my own time so they can't do anything to me. And what they don't know won't hurt them, unless you decide to blab on me. Are you gonna do that jean?" Raina asked, the hint of a threat low in her questioning voice. Jean almost visibly blanched at her friend's quiet words, and the cold look on her face, but managed to maintain her composure as she answered.

"You know, I should." She said, as slowly Raina turned her head to face her and dangerously slow narrowed her exotic eyes and zeroed in on her friend as she hastily finished her sentence.

"I should, for your own good and all that bullshit. But…no, you know I'd never do that to you."

"Ah huh." The beauty in the seat next to Jean said, as she raised a skeptical eyebrow at her friend's words and visibly relaxed. But then quickly she grew even more anxious at Jean's next words, as her friend said.

"At least not if I can go with you that is." At these words, Riana's eyes grew wide in genuine fear for her friend's safety. She immediately and vehemently voiced her opposition to her friend's foolish ideas.

"Ohh no…..no, no, no, no, no, no way am I gonna let you put yourself in harms way for this shit. I don't even know what I'll be walking into, besides you're a P.I. not a cop, woman. Jesus what are you thinking?" Raina growled, smoky eyes snapping with barely restrained anger.

"I was thinking…" Jean started, but couldn't finish as Raina spoke up again.

"That's right, you're not thinking. That's the whole problem. Get a grip girl. I just lost someone I care about to these fucks, I'm not going to lose you too. Besides you've got kids to raise, right now they need you more then I do. And have you forgotten, I've been doing this since high school, and I'm damn good at it." She said, eyes glowing dark blue, as she glared at her friend, before sitting back and sighing. Slowly, quietly she spoke trying to get Jean to understand the situation she was possibly facing.

"I can do what needs to be done. Can you say the same?" She asked. "Can you seriously look someone in the eye, draw down on them, and pull the trigger if need be? You know you can't. I, on the other hand have no such problems." Raina finished in a mere whisper, while staring steadily and intently at Jean.

" your lack of morals aside." Jean countered. "Don't you think you need backup, even if all I do is just stay outside and watch your six?"

"My morals are irrelevant to the situation, when it's a question of survival. When it's something like that, it's you or them, simple as that. And preferably I would prefer that it was me, not them. That was the first thing I taught you, you know that." Raina snarled. Jean was seriously starting to get on her nerves with this overprotective bull, though considering the situation and Ted's brutal death, she guessed that she couldn't really blame her friend. Decisively Raina decided to end this before it got out of hand and she was left with no room to deny what her friend wanted. Gathering what was left of her temper, she tried to rationalize with Jean.

"I said no way and I meant it, you know even if I'm off the case and on my own time, I'm still a cop. And as such, I can't have civvies in the way possibly mucking up evidence and getting in the bad guys line of sight. Especially when I don't know just what kind of a situation I'll be walking into, you hear me girl?" Raina repeated herself in an effort to make Jean get it.

"Now, this isn't up for discussion. And this isn't a democracy either, this is a dictatorship. I'm the head dick, and the head tater, got it? And that's final!" She said, as she saw Jean gearing up for another try at dissuading her from her chosen path. Jean immediately shut her mouth and turned her eyes back to the road.

"I hope you know what you're doing."

"Just drive!" Raina growled, exasperated.

"I also hope that this doesn't come back to bite you in the ass." Jean said unwilling to give up the last word, but failing as Raina said.

"Me too. Now will you drive?" So Jean did as she was told and just drove, and they spent the rest of the trip from the drugstore to Riana's ranch in silence.

It was hitting three pm when Raina was finally ready to head out to the warehouse. She was fixed up on painkillers. As much as she could be, and still legally be able to drive. She was also freshly bandaged. Which had been a feat in and of it's self, with no one to help her. But the nurses had shown her how to do it before she'd left the hospital, at her insistence, so she could stay as independent as possible. Now as she headed for the door, she loaded the clip of her Browning nine mil. She slammed the clip home in the weapon, and chambered a round by pulling the slide on the top of the gun back then pushing it forward again. Then she flicked the safety off, readying it for firing if need be. She slipped the gun into the inner pants holster, on the left side of her jeans. Checking to see that it fit snugly, but that she could still easily pull it out. She then tried a couple of practice draws, just to see how fast she was with the right front quick draw. She nodded satisfied with herself and headed out to her black SUV, slamming the door behind her.

It didn't take her as long as she thought it would to reach the warehouse, what with traffic and all. Sooner then she thought she found herself in the parking lot, staring up at the charred remains of the nightmare building. Slowly, as the events from that night replayed in her mind, she put one foot in front of the other till she was at the entrance. Here she stopped, and quickly taking a deep breath, she squared her shoulders and gathering her courage; she put her graceful fingers on the door and pushed, entering the building.

She stood for several seconds in the entryway, allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloom before proceeding further into the building. As she walked, the events of that night fully crystallized and began to play back in her mind, as she heard her last conversation with Ted in her inner ear.

"Raina, we've got to stay together or this fucker is gonna pick us off one at a time."

"Ted, we don't have time for this. Keep the grunts in check and cover me, I'm gonna swing around back of him. See if I can get up on his six. Make sure you keep everybody back and outa my way, I've got this guy."

"Raina no…lets think about this." Suddenly Ted's voice rang out painfully through her mind, as she walked the last few steps into the room. Totally unaware that she was being watched intently by a dark, shadowed figure standing above her. She crossed the room, all the while she was tracked by glowing garnet eyes, as she moved to stand over a particularly big and dark blood stain on the floor. As she stood there she was again assaulted with memories, and it was all she could do not to clutch her head and cry out in pain, as the memories flowed before her inner eye. In her mind, Ted had screamed something almost incoherent at her as she moved to put the plan into action.

"Raina no…..get back here, girl…Ohh god no! Raina watch out, he's got a grenade…"

BAABOOOOM, CRASH, RUMBLE, BOOM!!!!!!

That's right she remembered now. Just as she thought she had that little prick, he had pulled an incendiary device and had thrown it at them. Right in her path. Ted then jumped on her, pushing her out of the way. He had taken most of the total brunt of the damage. But the cost had still been severe, both Ted and her entire team had all been killed horrendously. And she had woken up minutes later to find herself seriously hurt and all alone.

Damn that fucker, she thought as she stood there. Taking her friend and partner, not to mention all the others who had been with her that night. She couldn't even remember any of their names, how sad was that? She growled to herself, as she shook her head violently to rid herself of any more memories wanting to surface at the moment.

Rest bro, be at peace now. We started it together, but now I'm gonna finish it. I'll get that son of a bitch, just you wait. I love you man. She thought fiercely, as she bent down beside the stain on the floor and caressed it almost lovingly, while an intensely dark look graced her normally stoic, beautiful features.

As Raina crouched there, saying her last goodbyes to Ted, she felt a sudden strange sensation run up her spine. Almost as if someone was in the room, watching her. Without showing any outward signs, she flicked her eyes back and forth, slowly taking in her surroundings. She just couldn't shake the feeling. She tried to pinpoint where it was coming from. In a flash of lithe movement, Raina pulled the Browning from it's holster. Then aimed at the darkness, as she kneeled, one leg on the floor. Raina narrowed her eyes at the darkness and slowly looked around in front of her. Tensely and on high alert Raina slowly raised her eyes to the loft above her. There in the gloom, for just an instant, she thought she saw pair of slanted, glowing red eyes. But she wasn't sure, for as she blinked they disappeared. Now doubting what she had just seen, she shook her head slightly and stood up slowly. Eyes on the loft, searching for any movement.

The feeling was back and it was stronger then ever. Over the years, Raina had learned to trust her feelings. After all, by going with her gut instincts, her life had been saved countless times. And right now her instincts were telling her just that, to go with it. And despite what she had thought she had or hadn't seen, her instincts were telling her that there was definitely someone or something up there above her.

She slowly began inching her way forward, keeping both her eyes and weapon trained on the loft. She was ready to fire at a moments notice. Starting to feel rather foolish, but not ready to discount her instincts just yet, Raina cocked her head to the side and sighted down the line of the gun. She called out to the possible intruder in her strongest, hard assed cop's voice.

"Come out where I can see you, hands raised. NOW! This is the police." Nothing happened. However just as she was about to lower the gun and turn away, the shit really hit the fan.

There was a noise, as if something was bumped. Then a deep, rich voice growled out what she thought was a curse in a foreign language, almost too soft for her to hear. Then something came flying out of the darkness, straight at her. Quickly, she turned back, stepped lightly to the side avoiding the object and out of instinct, pulled the trigger before she realized what she was doing or what the possible consequences could be. There was another growled curse, much louder this time, and Raina looked up startled by a strange noise and a sudden gust of light wind.

As she peered into the gloom, trying to get a read on her target she cursed herself, at prematurely firing her weapon and obviously not hitting her target but only grazing him. Something that rarely if ever happened to her. She thought she saw a murky outline along with a blur of motion, and then there was nothing there. Confused and a little pissed now she took an involuntary step back. She blinked a few times and looked again. Surely he couldn't have moved so fast that she wasn't able to track him, now that she had seen him, however slightly. But no, a second look confirmed it, there was nothing there now.

What the hell….. Impossible, how can that be? No ones that fast, she thought. Even if they were, she should still have been able to see him make a break for the exit right? But no, she had nodda. What the fuck was going on here? Bewildered, Raina lowered the gun and tapped it a few times against her leg in thought. She backed slowly away, trying to get a better look at where he could have gone or where he might be hiding. Little realizing she now had a wounded and irate figure at her back.

In the time that it took her to take three steps back towards him, the wound in Hiei's arm closed and healed. He was still in slight pain and more then annoyed that she'd been able to hit him in the first place, however clumsily. But the point was, she had hit him and it had not been pleasant. It must have been shear dumb luck, Hiei decided. Not only that, but how had she even known where to aim, much less fire that asinine thing to begin with, he thought, now then highly perturbed. As Hiei wondered this, she continued to back up. If this kept going she was going to run right into him, the baka ningen onna. Enough of this stupidity, he thought. Hiei growled deep and low in his throat in warning, just as she turned surprised eyes his way and quickly raised her weapon and aimed it at his chest. She was preparing to fire again. Fuck, was all he had time to think, before he just reacted.

Raina had been backing slowly away from the loft, her eyes scanning the scene for possible movement. When she suddenly sensed a presence behind her. At the same time she thought she heard the growl of an animal coming from behind her. Turning quickly, she had only seconds to realize two things. One, it wasn't an animal making that noise, but a man. And two, he was dangerously close to her. Enough to put her in harms way if he chose. Damn, how had he gotten out of the loft without her seeing him? Not only that, but how had he managed to get on her six? And since when did men growl like that, and end up sounding more animalistic then a true animal did? All these thoughts hit her mind in quick succession, as she raised the gun and aimed. This time there was no holding back as she fired. Not hitting to wound, but to kill. Right now her life was in danger; she could always ask questions later. If there was a later for him, that was.

The weapon fired and Hiei moved lightning quick, even for him. As she fired into his chest, he quickly ducked under it. Hiei stood again quickly to his full six foot height, and as he did so he brought his hand up and grabbed her arm holding the weapon. Almost gently, he pulled on the wrist in his grip, swinging her around to hit the wall behind him. Casually, Hiei grabbed her other arm and unceremoniously lifted her off her feet, with her arms above her head, until she was completely level and face to face with him. His garnet eyes snapped cold fury, as Hiei leaned in so close that their foreheads brushed. Hiei growled deeply again and spoke in almost a whisper to her.

"Others of my kind don't feel pain, onna. I do. DON'T…..DO THAT…..AGAIN!!!"

For slight emphasis, every word was punctuated with a jerk on her arms, as he shook the helpless female in his ruthless, vicious grip. Only to learn the hard way, that this was the wrong move to make with this particular onna. As she cursed rather imaginatively at him in return. Then using his grip on her wrists as leverage, she pulled herself up, and rammed her knee into his groin for all she was worth. For a minute, all Hiei saw were stars, and all he felt was immense mind racking pain in his nether region, as he quickly let her go. For several seconds, Hiei leaned on the wall for support, as he practiced relearning how to breath without pain. His lower body throbbed in time with his heart, while he consciously worked hard not to tear her apart for this indignity.

After Raina fired the gun, she lost track of her senses. When she came back to herself, it was to find that she was locked in his tight grip, and dangling bodily off the floor by almost two feet. For a minute she panicked, as he leaned forward and growled softly and menacingly right in her face. Then he spoke to her. Barely listening to what he said, she hissed back at him.

"Fuck you, come guzzler." She said, glaring at him, as with all her might she pulled back and racked him. Almost immediately he let her go. Seizing her chance, she dropped lithely to her feet. Raina crouched under him for a few seconds, as she looked up at him bracing himself on the wall while he panted in obvious pain from her attack. Wasting no more time, she slid to the side and out from under him. Quickly she stood by him and took off, running for the exit at top speed. Not even bothering to try and arrest him for assaulting a police officer. At the moment her instincts were screaming at her that this guy was bad news. So she listened and ran. Stupidly, Raina looked back in time to see him recovered enough, that he appeared to be tracking her. He was watching her over his shoulder, as he leaned his head on his right arm, and propped himself up with his left hand. His eyes, once again looked like they were glowing. Shaking her head she chose wisely not to question things and instead turned around and ran. Only to run right into him.

The pain was fading, however slowly. It had receded enough for him to open his eyes. In doing so, Hiei found himself staring directly down at the vicious little female, as she stared back up at him. Briefly their eyes locked, and Hiei blinked at her in surprise. Then she turned and as he watched, she slid gracefully to the side and out from under him. As she stood up beside him, Hiei considered pulling her back and teaching her just how to respect a youkai of his class. But quickly let the thought go, as another throbbing wave of pain shot through him. Hiei instead watched her sprint away from him, with a rather colorful curse of his own on his lips. He snarled in rage. For the moment she had for all intents and purposes rendered him virtually helpless with her underhanded little tactic.

Ohh…FUCK, are you going to pay for this, my little ningen, Hiei thought savagely through gritted teeth, as he rolled his eyes in pain.

"Human, you piss me off!" Growled Hiei, as he tracked her movements over his left shoulder with glowing bestial eyes. He raked his claws deeply down in the fire abused wood of the warehouse wall. Leaving five long, deep grooves in the wall, before flitting out of sight. Only to reappear in front of her, in pain and highly pissed.

Hiei moved so fast, they nearly slammed into each other. But by now he was far to pissed to care. He watched with slight satisfaction, as she quickly pulled up short to avoid running directly into his broad chest. Only to back pedal so fast that she nearly tripped and fell over her own two feet right in front of him. It seemed that they appeared to be on the same wave length for the moment. For just as she raised her weapon hand, Hiei reached out and savagely grabbed that arm. Partially to avoid being shot again. But mainly, he wanted her to drop the weapon. So that he could just maybe bring things under some sort of control. Before they killed each other, so to speak. For several seconds they fought over the weapon, with no one clearly winning things. Then growing exasperated with her, Hiei clamped down on her fragile wrist with his claws unsheathed. Hiei cruelly ground tendons and muscles into bone, as his claws slashed razor like cuts into her soft skin. She gasped and resolutely stifled a cry of pure pain, as he did this. For she knew that if she let the weapon drop now, then she would be defenseless and as good as dead. Because she just didn't have the strength to fight with him anymore. Just as she was past her breaking point and ready to cry out and drop the weapon, Hiei finally beyond rage, settled things decisively between them. With a frightening snarl he pulled back his right fist and backhanded her. Even as pissed as he was, he still tried to pull his hit by more then half of his normal strength. But still, she flew more then half way across the warehouse floor, skidding to a halt on her stomach. She partially sat up and tried to get her senses back, as Hiei stalked gracefully towards her with a repressed predatory power.

Raina gasped in pain from her stomach wound, as she felt the stitches there, pull tightly against raw sore skin. She clutched at her stomach briefly. Then looked over her shoulder, he was stalking towards her slowly. She was now unarmed and totally fucked, and she knew it. Now as Hiei briefly passed through a beam of late afternoon sunlight, Raina gasped for a different reason. Her wound was temporarily forgotten as recognition coursed through her being, as she looked up into Hiei's menacingly handsome face. He couldn't be, but he was, the man from her dream. So it was all true, all of it. He was here now, stalking dangerously towards her, lethal anger clear on his face. Weakly she tried to scramble back from him, as she fought to control the disbelief and fear on her own face. Finally, as he stopped in front of her, she managed to school her features into something resembling contempt towards him.

Hiei towered over her, crimson eyes blazing, as he silently cocked his head from side to side appraisingly. They locked eyes again, in a new test of wills. Blood red against smoky blue. It was a test that he easily won. Slowly he smirked slyly down at her. She shivered at that smile and wondered what he was going to do. But she only had seconds to puzzle over it. Suddenly she felt a strange sensation within her mind. Instinctively, she tried to fight whatever it was, only to be completely overwhelmed. With a gasp, she arched her back and threw back her head, as she felt herself become entirely overcome. Slowly she felt herself blacking out, and fought desperately to stay awake. Only to feel herself powerfully pushed back and under, as he took complete control. Dimly, she feared just what he could do to her, before she felt herself totally taken over by his power. Then she blacked out completely.

Several hours later, Raina woke up shivering and completely alone, on the floor of the warehouse. Slowly, stiffly she sat up. Immediately she winced and regretted doing so. Damn, both her jaw and head hurt something fierce. What the hell had happened to her? Fuck but she couldn't remember, without causing further pain to her head. So she gave up and simply tried to get the pain to recede some what. As she looked around a little, she spotted her Browning lying abandoned on the floor some yards away. Slowly, holding her aching head, she got to her feet. Then, crossing the slight distance, she retrieved her weapon. Holstering it inside her jeans. Taking one last looked around; she shrugged her right shoulder a little and turned, quickly exiting the building.

Crossing the parking lot to her waiting SUV, she fished her keys out of her pocket. She then unlocked the door of the vehicle and slid behind the wheel. Unbeknownst to her, through out all this, she was watched by a narrowed, glowing, red gaze that tracked her every move, as she safely slammed and locked the SUV door. Smoothly, Raina slid the key home in the ignition and started the engine. She pointed the vehicle in the direction of home and drove.

Meanwhile, a lone dark figure stood on the roof watching her retreating SUV and pondering all that had taken place inside the warehouse. He cocked his head one last time in the direction the vehicle had gone, before moving so swiftly from his place, that he appeared to shimmer from the spot. As the sun set behind the hulk of the warehouse.

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Onna – woman

Youkai – demon

Ningen - human

Baka – foolish/fool/idiot

Six – Police & military speak for your back

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Author's note: Next, things from Hiei's perspective. See ya next time…Ja Ne peeps.