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Chapter 4

Hiei's inner organs where hanging out as he laid on the forest floor. The grass beneath him was tainted with blood. Black pieces of clothing were spread around and across his body. His eyes were no longer visible beneath the red fluid pouring out of his face.

His chest; still and lifeless, mouth filled with blood and vomit, with skin deathly pale. This was the scene Botan can across. Her chest constricted from shock, she felt like she was suffocating. In the back of her mind all she heard were the words breathe…but her mind was too far gone to even begin to listen. Her face felt like it was frozen, but her throat burned, and her lungs screamed…yet she could not look away.

She felt the ground give way underneath, causing her to fall to her knees. 'Hiei…' She slowly got on her hands and knees and crawled to the body…his body…Botan cried. "You weren't suppose to go. You still haven't told Yukina. What are we going to do without you?…I tried to save you!"

Carefully she edged towards his bloody form.

"Hiei?"

No answer…

"Hiei…?"

She looked at his face. Tears rolled heavily down her cheeks, warming her cold face. She had seen a lot of death in her afterlife…and yet, she still couldn't get use to the notion. She touched his marred face. If he were awake, her hand would have been clear across the other side of the forest, leaving a dismantled stump behind. 'Hiei!' She felt her mind going into hysteria, but she didn't care. As she continued to stare at his face a large eye opened in the middle of his forehead. 'The Jagan'…the same eye that saved the team countless time and his secret weapon that summoned one of his most powerful attacks, The Dragon of the Darkness Flame.

Instead of its usual bright glow the eye moved from side to side. Until it rested on her face. Botan shuddered…it stared at her, blinking, emotions of pain and suffering surfaced.

She wanted to leave. To take Hiei back to the Ningenkai to serve the rest of his community service, and to be around those that love him. The want and need to go home, eat, and watch T.V. grew. She wanted to lay in her bed, crank the heat up until she started to sweat out of every pore in her body, and go to sleep knowing that everyone she loved was save. What she wanted most of all was to prepare for their next mission, where she knew she would see Hiei, in his usual foul mood.

"Hiei…Come on lets go home…I'll buy you a gallon of ice cream if you come." She said. The one thing he could not resist would make him to follow. He remained limp, as if she never spoke those words. Through tears, she knew the dreadful truth, the thought made her want to vomit. He was strong, brave, and honorable…It couldn't be him. It must have been someone else that was meant to leave…not Hiei…

She knew the undeniable fact, yet could not find herself believing it.

Hiei passed on…

Something broke in her soul. She sobbed uncontrollably, not wanting to see what laid in front of her, not wanting to believe that the person who hated her guts, yet stood on the side of good, was really gone…

She felt herself loose her mind, wanting him back…needing him back.

Needing...him…back.

'No, not just me, everybody…everybody would want him back…'

"Hiei…" She said in a whisper "Please let's go…"

A one of soft hands touched his torn shoulder, shaking him gently. The call of large demonic vultures pitched through the cloudy sky as they circled the air. She didn't dare look up. Her focus was to get Hiei back to where he was needed and away from the open danger.

The vulture's shrieking came closer as they dove in for their meal, ignoring Botan's presence, feeling they waited long for her grieving.

She screamed as they mauled Hiei.

Her eyes shot open, tears stung her tired eyes.

A blindingly white ceiling was the first thing that rushed into her line of vision. She jumped up from the bed she was laying in; examining it she saw it was a Rekai hospital bed. Yusuke got them here, they made it. A sense of relief entered her body, but was short lived.

'Hiei.'

Her body was drenched in sweat, her mouth was dry, and her heart raced uncontrollably, the nightmare still fresh in her mind.

'Where is Hiei?'

Yusuke had slept in the waiting room for a long and unknown amount of time. His body ached and was becoming restless. Changing into a new set of clothes was one of the few things he did earlier, as he waited for the others to arrive. A sleeping figure rested peacefully in a chair next to him.

'Keiko.'

When she made it to the hospital she was sobbing uncontrollably, worried sick over Botan, Yukina and Hiei. Rubbing his bloodshot eyes he looked at his sleeping and/or tired allies, who were all scattered around the waiting room.

Kurama sat stationary in his chair, staring fierily at the surgical hall, he had been awake most of the night and looked like he had no interest in sleeping anytime soon. Yusuke directed his weary attention toward the obnoxious snoring across the otherwise noiseless room. Kuwabara was sprawled out on four different chairs, since one was not large enough to support him. Kuwabara would have been sleeping in the same room as Yukina if it wasn't for the doctors telling him she needed rest because of her extreme loss of spirit energy and that his constant rants about his undying love for her was not helping her in the healing process. Shizuru shook her drowsy head at her young brother and went out of the room for her fifth cigarette break.

Yusuke looked over towards Kurama once more. He needed answers and was hoping Kurama would be able to assist.

Kurama's emerald eyes had caught Yusuke turning his head in his direction. Their eyes met. They stared intently at each other; the same thoughts were going through their exhausted heads. The thoughts of how could this have happened and why Hiei?

A Demon hoard breaking through the barrier to Human world? Not something you see everyday.

Yusuke took a deep breath and sighed, all that was known was what he had gotten out of Koenma...yet the question still remained.

Why?

Yusuke was brought back to the memories of what happened earlier, when he had talked with Koenma.

Flashback

"Why the hell weren't you doing your damn job?!" Yusuke yelled as his fists drove into Koenma's desk, making individual pieces of paper scatter. He stared at Koenma with fire in his chocolate eyes. "If we were told earlier none of this would have happened!"

Koenma pushed himself off of his large chair, and circled his desk, carefully picking up the sheets of fallen paper.

"Yusuke, this was a surprise to everyone…we did not expect this." Koenma placed the pile of papers back on his desk and pushed himself back on his luscious chair.

"What do you guys see!? First my death and now this?!?" Yusuke crossed his arms angrily. "Aren't you supposed to be all knowing?!"

"We are all knowing." Koenma said while stamping random sheets of contracts. He looked up from the mass of papers. "This was no ordinary attack, this was completely unseen." Koenma's drained and impatient eyes gazed into Yusuke's furious ones. "Who ever they were they wanted Hiei, and possibly the rest of the team, dead."

Yusuke uncrossed his arm and turned to the door, without giving Koenma a second glance, obviously frustrated.

"Tell me one person who doesn't!" Yusuke shouted as he as he slammed the door on his way out.

End Flashback

It was dark outside of her room. The sounds of machines beeping, dripping and pumping masked her footsteps. Dodging all of the nurse was easy since she had been here an uncountable number of times; typically after every mission, and knew every one of their shifts, but the dark halls made it impossible to find the room they were keeping Hiei.

Back when she was in her room she asked a nurse if she could see Hiei, but was told no one was allowed to see him since he was in an unstable condition. Of course that wouldn't stop her, she needed to know if he was alright and seeing was better than believing.

After her dream she was determined to see Hiei. Even the mere thought of loosing anyone close to her made her anxious and scared. What would she do? How would she go on? What if he doesn't make it? She felt light tears run down her face as she dodged another nurse. These questions were closer to reality than she liked to have them. Hiei could die…

She shook herself from the morbid thoughts, she needed to find Hiei.

She didn't even know where she was going…she was lost.

She looked for a sign in the dark night. Her only light source came from florescent lights inside a few of the rooms. On the wall to her right she saw bold letter, squinting her lavender eyes she took a closer look…Pediatric ward.

She stared in disbelief…She was completely off.

She fell to knees and buried her face into her hands. Her loose cerulean hair fell over her shoulders as she sobbed. The thought that she wasn't in Hiei's room drove her crazy. In her mind it seemed that if she was there watching over him, he would be fine, that it would impossible for him to die…but something else was bothering her, it was the feeling that as if a plain and simple answer wasn't good enough, that there was more hidden emotions and feelings that laid beneath the surface. Her mind could not shake away the strange ache that clawed at her heart and soul. She felt her body go into autopilot as she probed the deep regions of her mind. She walked aimlessly down the corridors, not even noticing she was even moving. She was far to busy trying to dissect her thoughts. 'What could it be?'

Before long she heard hushed whispers ahead in a room she could not see very well, just shadowy figures talking to one another. She contemplated asking for directions, but decided it wasn't in her best interest since no one was allowed to see Hiei.

…but they might mention something about him, hopefully what room he would be in.

The minute she could understand what was being said she recognized the voices as Yusuke and Kurama.

She stood at the doorway, looking at the sleeping and tired people. As soon as the two sensed her presence they jumped from their seats, dodging the limps hanging from chairs. Kuwabara's limbs.

"How are you doing?" Yusuke asked loud enough for Botan to hear as he embraced her into a gentle hug.

"I'm better now" She whispered, looking around she saw all of her friends. She knew they were all here because they were all worried, she didn't mean to scare them, even though she wasn't the only injured one she feel really sorry. The look of sadness surfaced on her delicate face as she looked at Yusuke and Kurama, slowly, she pushed herself from them.

"Where's Hiei?"

They stared at each other for a few seconds, wondering if Botan was ready to put more stress on her body. She pleaded with them, begging them to show her where he was being kept. Her health was their concern, but they knew how determined she was. Both stared at the hall that spelled 'Surgical room.'

'Surgery?'

"They had brought him out of the…operation, not too long ago and placed him into the room on the far right." Kurama worded his statement carefully, doing his best not frighten the fragile girl. He gave Yusuke a glance that he would easily understand.

Yusuke was no fool, only if he wanted to be. He knew they were going to keep what the doctor said a secret from Botan, just for now, until she was strong enough to handle the news.

Botan nervously pushed herself farther from the two and made her way to the hallway they took Hiei in.

She could hear Kurama's fading voice as she edged closer to the door.

"I suggest preparation for what you are about to witness."

He was right.

What if he was still bleeding? What if she could see his stitching through his bandaged body? What if he was missing a limb?

Visiting Hiei was becoming harder and harder for her to do. The thoughts that ran through her mind scared her. The what ifs where always an enemy to her. They never helped her in any situation; all they did was make her feel even worse than she already did.

She stood in front of the door, staring at it. It looked like any other hospital door, clean and dull. Without thinking she grabbed the handle, turned it and pushed.

A white fluorescent light blinded her for a second, but she quickly adjusted to its radiant glow.

Her eyes immediately fell on the bed covered with blankets. Her heart was racing as she examined the bed. The constant beeping sound echoed throughout the room, telling her that he was still alive. Relief washed over her. He's alive…

She edged closer to the bed. Wires and tubes crawled all over his body. Machines were breathing for him, pumping his heart, giving him blood, they were living for him. It was hard to watch, but she needed to stay as strong as possible, for him and everybody else.

As she took a closer look she realized that he was in his demon form. How low was his spirit energy if he couldn't even conceal the demonic part of him? His previously torn eyes were covered in thick bandages; blood lightly spotted the cotton fabric.

She felt sick 'How could this have happened? Hiei is strong and tough.' She gazed sadly at her hospitalized friend. His ebony spiked hair laid gracefully on the pure white pillow. His chest rose and fell under the covers, some of the tubes and wires hid underneath the cover, probably plunged into his chest. His mouth hung open, slightly exposing sharp fangs, a large clear and hallow tube was shoved into his esophagus, taped at the mouth.

'It's my fault.' Giving herself a reason for what had happened to him, whether true or not. 'If I hadn't left he would be fine or if I didn't drop my compact I could have gotten help sooner.'

She placed her hand on his closed Jagan causing it to twitch. She found a chair placed neatly in the corner, she wasn't planning on leaving anytime soon. 'Might as well get comfortable…'

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