If you can't tell, This is going to be a very long story! And I WILL finish it. Since I type slow, remember that I will probably be posting in large chunks and have long spaces between...

I do not Own IY or YYH

Can you tell I love character interactions!?

Taken Captive

Hiei looked down at the girl bleeding all over Kurama.

"My Yukina could heal her." Kuwabara offered.

Hiei growled.

"I doubt it, if Boton can't get past the barrier spell-"

"It's not a spell, Koenma-sir." Boton said. "It's a natural barrier."

They digested this a moment, at a loss for what to do.

"Here." Hiei stripped off his overshirt and pressed it to the ragged wound. Kagome's eyes fluttered open with the increased pain. She tried to push him away with a weak hand. Her eyes were deep blue with pain and unshed tears.

"G'way..." she said softly, closing her eyes again.

"No."

She pried one eyelid back open to glare at him. She mummbled something else he didn't catch. Suddenly both eyes snapped up when she realized someone was holding her. Suichi's upsidedown face peered at her in concern.

She closed her eyes again. "How much worse can my day get?" she wondered out loud as she lay there bleeding over the one guy who had been so nice to her.

With her eyes closed she missed the stunned and hurt expression on the boy's face.

Hiei chuckled. Her eyes popped back open to glare at the fire demon again. He grinned.

Kagome groaned. "What ever you find amusing here, please feel free to share. God knows, I could use a good laugh."

"Girl-" Koenma's childish voice pushed Boton aside.

"Oh, it's the floating baby..." Kagome whispered as she slipped back into unconciousness.

"WHAT!?"

"WHAaaahahahahahah!" Yusuke laughed. Koenma pouted.

"What do we do with her now?" Boton asked.

"Stop the bleeding."

"I'm trying." Hiei growled.

"We need to get her out of sight," Kurama said. "We will not be able to explain our way out of this if we are caught here."

He lifted her into his arms while Hiei tried to re-adjust the pressure he was applying to the wound.

"We can take her to my place." Kuwabara said. "Shizuru is home. She can help."

"Too far." Kurama judged.

"Well your place is closest." Yusuke told him.

"Hn." Hiei agreed.

Boton filled Koenma in on what happened. "I missed all that in five minutes?" He looked at the girl draped in the arms of the fox spirit. "And she defeated the shadow demon alone?" he mused.

She had a power like none I've ever felt before." Kurama commented.

"Yeah, it was strange." Kuwabara said. "But it wasn't like demon energy at all. This was pure..."

"Pure..." Koenma repeated, thinking.

"Look, she's bleeding all over me now, too." Hiei reminded them. He sounded disgusted.

They hurried to Kurama's.

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Kagome cracked her eyes open with great effort. She was in a strange bed, in a strange room, wearing strange clothes...she felt...strange. The day had indeed got worse. "Where am I now?" she wondered resigned.

Her side screamed in pain as she turned over in an attempt to roll to the edge of the bed she was in. It made her dizzy. She sat on the bed clutching her head in her hand, waiting for the room to stop spinning.

When she finally managed to stand up, she had to clutch the dressor for support. She inched her way around the wall until she reached the door frame and pushed the door open.

A long hallway was revealed. Along the walls were various pictures of a red-haired child and a woman with dark hair. A mother and child that aged in appearance as she moved toward the sound of voices at the other end of the house. Suichi's house if the pictures were anything to go by.

Kagome made it to the doorway that led into the living room where everyone from earlier that day sat, sprawled or stood talking.

They were all facing the other direction except the child but he was too short to see her sillouette framed in the dark passage that her trembling legs had strived to stumble down.

"So we aren't going to tell her anything?" Kuwabara whined. "Don't seem fair. I mean, if we expect her to tell us everything, shouldn't we return the favor?" His sense of fair play was paining him.

"We can't tell her anything about spirit world. It could turn into a disaster if others knew."

Spirit world? Kagome frowned.

"She wouldn't believe us anyway." Yusuke said.

"I think you underestimate the girl," Kurama said from his position by the wall. "She obviously has some experience with spirit energy and youkai."

"Yes, but the question is what experience? How much does she know? and why?" Koenma pointed out.

"That, and how do we get her to agree to talk?" Boton asked.

"We can just hold her captive here until she talks." Yusuke lounged on the couch with his arms crossed.

"Or you could just ask her." Kagome said peeved. "before you resort to such drastic tactics."

They all turned around.

She took two shaky steps into the room when she felt two sets of arms helping support her. Kurama held her up while Hiei made no qualms about lifting the hem of the dress-shirt someone had put on her, to check the wound.

SLAP!

Hiei dropped the shirt and touched the angry red mark on his cheak. She dared!

Kurama led her over to an overstuffed chair and helped her sit. "You shouldn't be up. You lost quite a bit if blood." He scolded.

She ignored his mothering.

"Who are you?" Yusuke demanded.

"How many times are you going to ask me that?" she replied. "I am still Kagome and next time you ask, I will still be Kagome." She pushed the stray strands of ebony hair from her eyes.

"I need a better answer." He said.

"That is the only answer there is!" she shot back.

She shifted her weight and winced when the bandages pulled. Boton carried a lap blanket over and offered to check the bandages. Kagome accepted and covered herself decently.

Boton gasped. "I'ts half healed already!"

"I heal faster than some." She glanced down and winced at the sight. "I've had worse. This won't kill me."

"Hn." Hiei said from behind Boton. He stared intently at the wound.

When did he get there? she thought, pulling the shirt back down with a huff.

Kuwabara nudged Yusuke and pointed. He shrugged. Yusuke figured he would ask Kurama later what was up with the koorime since Hiei would never explain himself.

"Maybe he likes her." Kuwabara whispered.

"..." Yusuke just grinned evily.