A/N: I'm sorry about the wait! I get distracted easily... not to mention, it's finals week so I've been studying like crazy.. I hope this chapter and the next are alright, as they're both primarily in Hiei's POV... I don't know why, but I just wanted to show his thoughts about everything that was going on.. He may be slightly OOC, but, hey, do we really know what Hiei thinks? ENJOY :D
Prior to Mitsukai's rescue
"Come now, Hiei. This isn't so bad. It's better than jail time," Kurama reasons to the smaller demon as they make their way to Koenma's office.
"Hn. How is this any different?" the perpetually grumpy Hiei responds. "We're stuck on that toddler's leash for however long he wants, doing whatever menial taks he wants." Kurama sighs at the small imiko.
"You couldn't have expected him to release us already. So far, the only real mission we've completed is defeating the Four Saints Beasts." Again, the plant-wielding fox attempts reasoning with the fiery-tempered man.
"What about that vile creature that kidnapped Yukina?" Hiei asks, snarling at the memory.
"We weren't actually a part of that mission," Kurama says quietly.
Hiei's POV
"Hn," I grunted at the fox. I don't care what he said, I didn't like being the toddler's lap dog. Me and the fox entered the child's office to see the detective and the oaf already there.
"Hiei, Kurama," the detective greeted seriously. His eyes were fixated angrily on the image of a silver-haired angel on the monitor. She looked frail, though I suppose she was somewhat beautiful.
"Good, you're all here," the toddler said. "I have a very...special...mission for you." The toddler looked nervous.
"Special how?" the fox asked.
"We're saving my sister," the detective said, an edge in his voice.
"You have a sister, Urameshi?" I heard the oaf exclaim. I was just as surprised as the oaf, but I wasn't about to act the fool. That silver angel must be the detective's sister.
"So why I am here?" I asked the detective. Why was saving his sister my problem? The glare the detective sent me was surprising.
"Because, I've done the same for you."
"Hn. Fine." So, he was going to play his rescue of Yukina on me. I saw the oaf look stupidly between us. He didn't know of my relation to Yukina. But even he had enough sense to stay quiet. The detective was angrier than I had ever seen.
"Yes, well, Genkai and myself have been searching for her for some time, as you requested, Yusuke," the toddler explains. "She's been kept under pretty heavy lock and key, but we managed to track her captors to the Mashinmaru FreakShow. They're very strong demons, Maru and Mari, twin panthers."
"She's at a...circus?" the detective asked, his serious expression left his face for a moment.
"Yes. And from our reports, a very heavily guarded one. I'll open a portal a mile from where they're currently located." The detective nodded, soon followed by the oaf and the fox. A portal opened and we jumped in one at a time.
The portal teleported us to a clearing in a forest of the Human World. "Which way?" the detective asked, not cracking any of his usual jokes. I closed my eyes, allowing my Jagan to sense the demonic energy.
"One mile to the south of our location." The detective obviously meant business, and I didn't blame him. I made plenty of sacrifices to save Yukina.
"Yusuke, would you perhaps tell us about this sister of yours? I, for one, had no clue you had a siter. How long has she been missing?" the fox asked before we began moving. Leave it the fox to want to know all of the details of a mission before entering enemy territory. A remnant of his past life, no doubt.
"Her name's Mitsukai. As you guys probably noticed, she's an angel. I'm not sure how, but she is. She was taken eleven years ago," the detective said quietly, clenching his fists tightly.
"Eleven years?" the fox asked. "That's a long time."
"Yeah. The only reason I even know about her is because my mom left a picture and the note the kidnappers left when they took her out.
"I'm sorry, Yusuke."
"Yeah, Urameshi, that sucks." Bakas, the detective doesn't want your pity. That was plain to see. He wanted aid in bringing the onna back.
"Hn. Let's go." The detective took no time agreeing. We began running to the south. It was slow going, thanks to the oaf. When we got to the entrance of the circus, there was a small table with a weak neko demon collecting funds from the guests, both demons and ningens alike.
"You're sure she's here?" the detective asked, eyeing the scenery.
"That's what Genkai and Koenma said," the fox answered. We followed Yusuke into the circus, ignoring the neko completely. Soon, we came across a lage white tent with a picture of hte girl and the words 'Silver Angel' on a sign near it.
The first thing I saw when the four of us entered the tent was the small angelic girl. She was sitting on a wooden stool in a small barred cage. The bars no doubt concealed her energy, which is probably why the toddler and old hag had such a hard time finding her. It was very familiar to that creature's treatment of Yukina. She didn't notice us when we entered, she just continued combing her silver hair with her fingers. She must have had her wings concealed, as they were not visible.
I heard the detective suck in a breath to speak, but we were soon surrounded by five slug demons. I hated slug demons. They were strong, but extremely stupid. They made the oaf look intelligent. They followed their orders without a second thought and had an unsatiable desire for blood.
I heard the detective's sister gasp, she was thinking something about a 'wave of bloodlust' and 'four auras'. Through her mind's eye, I could see what she saw. Pitch black masses and five crimson colored outlines surrounding a light blue, yellow, light green, and 'a beautiful combination of icy blue and flame red', as she put it.
The slug's coiled their muscles to attack, and my hand twitched towards the hilt of my katana. I felt a slight wave of sickeningly pure energy rush past me and the five slugs got this stupid grin on their faces and skipped out of the tent. My eye twitched. What the hell? I heard a sigh from behind me, and I turned to face the small onna.
"Are you alright?" the onna chimes, her voice was like a sweet melody. Her silver eyes were intriguing and full of worry.
We're fine, no need to worry, Miss Mitsukai," the fox told her in his sickeningly kind voice.
"I'm very glad," the onna sighed. Then I heard her thinking about how she couldn't place how the fox knew her name. "How do you know my name?" she asks him after a moment of thought.
"Well..." the detective began. I could understand his nervousness, meeting his sister for the first time. She wouldn't know who he was, just like Yukina.
"Yusuke!" the onna suddenly squealed, her delicate features lighting up in a smile. "My little brother!" I heard her exclaim in her mind. She was so... cute... WAIT! What the hell was I thinking? First I was thinking about how sweet her voice was, then her delicate face, and now I'm thinking about how adorable she is... It must have been from the pure energy. It was messing with my mind.
"You remember me?" the detective asked. How could the onna remember him? He would have been an infant when she was taken. She had thought something about the light blue aura and it's familiarity... Maybe she recognized his energy signature?
"Of course! How could anyone forget their little brother?" she asked, that large, somewhat adorable grin still plastered on her face. Why did the detective get a happy reunion with his sister?
"Save your reunion for later, detective. The guards are coming back," I grunted.
"Why is the boy with the beautiful aura jealous of Yusuke?" the onna thinks, followed by the feeling of someone trying to pry into my mind. It was such a gentle force that I barely felt it. So, she thought I was jealous of thedetective. Hn, baka onna. But it was interesting, she is a telepath, also. The detective nodded at my statement and then nodded to the fox, telling him to undo the large lock on the onna's cage door. The fox quickly did away with the lock and gingerly helped the onna out. For a moment, I got angry at the the fox for touching the angel, but I quickly suppressed the irrational emotion. It was becoming evident that she could sense emotions, and I didn't want the baka onna getting any ideas.
"Where are we going?" the onna's voice sung as she stepped onto the dirty floor of her tent. For some reason, I noticed that she was barefoot. Couldn't the bastards keeping her captive afford to buy her decent foot protection?
"Maru-sama will be angry, but I don't care! My little brother's here!" I heard the onna think.
"Home," the detective said to her with one of his stupid grins. "Hiei, carry her." I glared hard at the detective for ordering me around. "You're faster than the rest of us. Get her to safety, please." The detective had a pathetic look on his face, but I understood his desire to protect his sister.
"Hn. Fine." I stepped over to the frail girl and swept her into my arms; she squeaked as I did so, and I left the others behind as I tried to take the detective's sister to safety. As we ran, she clutched to me, her face was buried into my chest fearfully. It was actually kind of ado..no. I won't allow that energy to foul my mind any longer. But I wanted to tell her she didn't have to fear... I'd protect her... Grrr! No. I was forced to stop suddenly, and she lifted her head from my chest.
"We're surrounded," she thought, "by eleven..no, twelve bloodthirsty blood auras." I was intrigued by the way she saw things. She seemed to see things by their energy signatures. Also, she could sense emotions and was a telepath. She was interesting.
I carefully set her down and gently pushed her behind me. I don't know why I was being so gentle to the onna, maybe because of how fragile she seemed. "Stay behind me, onna," I ordered softly as I drew my katana.
The onna didn't listen. I felt her body move so she was standing beside me. Her fists were clenched and a look of rage painted her face. Her thoughts were centered around protecting her brother and his friends... I assumed I was included in that. I couldn't help but notice, but she looked much more beautiful when she was smiling. Right now, she looked more like a vengeful angel, than the innocent angel I had met previously. But I couldn't think like that. When was the effect of the energy going to wear off? I was about to yell at the baka onna for disobeying, but I suddenly felt a rush of violent, yet somehow pure, energy pass through me into the dozen enemy demons.
Then, as odd as it sounds, the twelve of them began mercilessly slaughtering each other.