Forbidden Roses

Yusuke put Kagome on the bed. They were told that they had to stay in Rekkai until Koenma figured out just what had happened to Kagome when she was with Kaze… and how to protect her from him. Kuwabara, who had been pestering him the whole way to the room, had disappeared after getting his ass kicked. Kurama was sitting in a chair in the corner. Hiei had just walked in… carrying the cub.

"Are you really going to take care of that thing?" Yusuke asked. Hiei glared at him and leaned against the wall. Tora, the cub, had just woken up and stared at Hiei… then looked around. The cub started crying out. The mewls were not unlike that of a kitten calling for it's mother.

"What the hell is it's problem?!" Yusuke said panicking. If the cub kept it up then it would wake Kagome, and she needed all the sleep she could get after transforming so much.

Hiei looked down at Tora.

'Cub, why are you crying?' he asked the cub through a mental link.

'Mother. Gone.' the cub answered

'Who?' the cub sent him a mental image. It was of a girl with silver hair with black tips and two inky black locks framing her face. Her hair went down to the swell of her back. Her eyes were also silver but with light blue rings around them. It was the girl from before, the one who wanted him to take the cub.

'Your mother gave you to me to keep you safe.'

'Mother in trouble?'

'Do not worry she'll be back'

'promise?'

'I promise, and until she does I will protect you. Now stop crying.' The cub immediately stopped crying and curled up in Hiei's arms. Tora fell asleep once again and silence filled the room.

A few hours later

Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She looked around. Yusuke had fallen asleep on the couch on the other side of the room, the redhead-Shuuichi was it?- was sleeping soundly in a comfortable looking chair not too far from the bed. The tall Elvis guy was nowhere in sight. And the Black haired boy—Hiei- was leaning on a wall… his crimson eyes gleaming in the dark. But there was another set of eyes glowing about six inches under his. She looked closer as her eyes grew accustomed to the darkness she saw what looked like a tiger cub. Kagome stood up and walked towards the two pairs of eyes. She reached out her hand to pet the cub, but stopped when the cub tried to get away from it.

"Hn, it does not like strangers" Hiei explained with a bored expression.

"Whose cub is it?" Kagome's curious eyes landed on the cub once more.

"Some girl appeared out of nowhere and gave it to him asking if he'd take care of it… he hasn't left that thing alone since. If I didn't know better I'd think Hiei had a soft spot for little girls." Yusuke, who was now obviously awake, snickered. Hiei glared at the spirit detective and walked to a corner and sat, still holding the cub.

Hiei's thoughts

'Hn, damn detective. I do not have soft spots for "little girls"'

He looked down at the cub, watching as it played with its own tail.

'Why did I agree to take care of the cub? Who was that girl? What does she know about the detective's sister? Is she really coming back? If that girl knows something about Kagome then shouldn't we look for her and see what she knows? Why am I so worried for a little girl? Still, she is just a child... a forbidden child. Why is she in danger? Does Kagome know her?'

Hiei silently vowed to himself that he would find the answers to all his questions.

"Hey Kagome…" Yusuke's voice brought Hiei out of his train of thought. He looked over towards Yusuke and Kagome.

"Hm?"

"How come you don't have the same demon blood I have?" Both of the boy's attentions were on Kagome now.

"You have demon blood?" Kagome gave him a confused look. "Interesting. Well I have miko powers, perhaps it was purified?"

"Nah, I have spirit powers too."

"Hmmmmm, well maybe I do have the same blood and it's just that it's dormant because the forbidden blood in me, or whatever it is that that man did to me, cancels it out."

"Maybe" was Yusuke's oh so intelligent reply.

Kuwabara walked in the room rubbing the back of his head with a confused look on his head.

Kagome's stomach growled. "Hmmmm, I dunno about you, but I'm so hungry I can ride a horse!" The two boys who were awake gave her a weird look. Hiei just gave her a bored one.

"Uhhh, don't you mean eat a horse?" Kuwabara asked with an untintelligant look on his face.

"EWWWW WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT TO EAT A HORSE! THAT'S FRIGGIN NASTY!" she shouted. The two boys sweatdropped and fell over (ANIME STYLE) while Hiei just rolled his eyes and started playing with Tora. "Why are you two on the floor? Oh well" Kagome started humming… seeming to be in another world. When Kurama woke up, the first thing he saw was Yusuke and Kuwabara on the floor, twitching, Hiei was playing with the cub (Hiei hasn't been acting like himself, I wonder why) he thought, and Kagome was in her own little world.

"Um, did I miss something?" Kagome snapped out of her little la la land and looked and Kurama.

"Hey! Do you know your way around this place?" She asked referring to the Rekkai office.

"Ummm, yes I believe so" He replied politely as he stood up and stretched his sore limbs.

"Well then, would you mind showing me to the kitchen or something? I haven't eaten for a while and the Elvis guy and Yusuke-Nii-Chan are too busy acting dead to show me around, even though it should be my brother since he's the one who brought me here" she kicked Yusuke's foot. Once again he twitched.

"Of course, follow me Miss Kagome." Kurama lead her to the kitchens so she could get something to eat.

~With the other three~

Yusuke, now over his shock, got up and looked around. Kagome was nowhere to be found. He looked at Hiei, who just so happened to be glaring at him.

"Hey, where's Kagome?" Hiei glared at him then looked away as if he was wasting his time talking to Yusuke.

"Kitchen"

Yusuke headed towards the Kitchen.

'Hiei's been acting weird lately. He's been talking more since Kagome's been here, and that girl with the cub. What was her name anyways? If we ever see her again… I'll have to find out what she knows about Kagome.' Yusuke dismissed his thoughts of the mysterious girl and turned his attentions to finding Kagome.

with Kuwabara

Kuwabara sat up and wiped the drool off of his face. He looked around. The room was empty except for Hiei. Hiei seemed to be playing with something. Kuwabara took a closer look and saw it was a…

"KITTY!"