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Chapter 9

Turing around Keiko broke the night with a scream. In front of her was a seven foot tall demon. The teen girl could only see the dark silhouette of a beast with two bull horns and eery green glowing eyes.

There was a moment, just a second, when the two creatures regarded each other. One with a look of fear the other with a savage, hungry look. She bolted, running away as fast as her legs could carry her. With no plan, no direction, just one thought: "Run away!" Keiko's senses were overwhelmed with the sound of falling rain, thunder, her feet and pounding heart in a strong beat, and the roar of the demon chasing her.

The girl dodged a tree and ran right into the muscular chest of her assailant. Before she could pull away the demon grabbed her around her neck and lifted her off the soddened ground.

"HIEI HELP!" cried Keiko in her mind.

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Hiei growled quietly to himself. A toddler in a blue and pink hat and matching pants and jacket. ( A/N: I don't know what the suit Koenma wears is called. Tell me if you know what it's called.) The 4-year-old was the prince of the Under World, known to the Detectives as Koenma. He was currently ranting about how dangerous the new mission would be and how it must be handled in the utter most care.

That's great. Just tell us what the mission is, thought Hiei bitterly.

"Now, I need you four to go to Human World and stop a demon who is guarding an open portal to Demon World. He is letting B-class and C-class demon through to terrorize humans. Go kill him and Botan will seal up the portal," Koenma said from behind his baby blue pacifier.

"HIEI HELP!" rang thought the fire demon's mind, startling him.

I must get to Keiko, Hiei mused.

"Onna, open up a portal to Human World. NOW!" Hiei commanded Botan. His eyes held no room for argument.

"B-But H-Hiei," stuttered the blue haired, pink kimono clad ferry girl.

"Now! Let's get this stupid choir over with," snarled the tense demon. Nodding dumbly Botan opened a swirling purple portal and Hiei jumped through.

"Wait! Hiei don't threaten my assistant! I didn't tell you about... and he's gone," the young ruler sighed and looked at Kurama, "Tell him that if he does anything irrational, anything at all, he will answer to my Dad." Kurama only nodded and glanced over at his two other companions, " We might as well follow him. And I will tell him Koenma, don't worry."

Yusuke and Kuwabara jumped thought the portal. Just before the fox demon followed he turned to the Prince and muttered something to him. The prince frowned and whispered something back.

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Hiei jumped from branch to branch swiftly. Regularly checking for the scent of Keiko which was being drown out by the rain. Stopping and looking down he saw Keiko struggling to get out of the bone crushing grip of a strange demon. The fire demon jumped down and, using his unnatural speed, zoomed towards the mysterious demon cutting its arm off and catching the human girl in his arms. Gently placing her behind a huge oak he stopped to try and talk to her. However he was interrupted by her scream and by being pushed to the side.

A large claw was lodged in the tree trunk where Hiei once was. Clinging to him trembling was the girl and she was bleeding from her shoulder. The smell of blood bombarded the demon's senses, a chill went up his spine his demon blood started to stir.

Engulfed in a dark purple flame Hiei stepped towards the demon, pulling away from the girl, with glowing red eyes, deep green skin and purple eye all over, and long claws. This new look didn't faze the opposing demon the slightest.

Using super speed Hiei circled the demon slashing at him in irregular intervals. The other demon was no match for the enraged fire demon. Large gashes appeared all over its body glittering black.

"HIEI!"

The green fire demon turned towards the scream of Keiko, momentarily forgetting his opponent. Paying for it by getting a large gash across his back.

"HIEI!"

Hiei noticed the urgency in the girls cry and rushed away towards the smell of her blood, letting the demon behind him escape in to the night.

Teleporting thought the forest towards the female he came upon a spider demon scurrying away along the tree tops with Keiko in its jaws. Smirking sadistically at how easy this opponent would be he slashed the new foe in to many small pieces. Hiei caught the girl in his arms for the second time that night as the sticky web around her perished along with its master.

Hiei didn't put Keiko down this time, however. He knelt down and sat Keiko on his lap. Her back was to him unaware of anything he was doing so she was startled when he wrapped one arm around her waist and a hand pulled down her jacket revealing her bloodied shoulder. Nuzzling her gently he started to lap up the coppery fluid. Keiko squirmed uncomfortably, " Hiei, please don't do that."

My saliva will help heal the wound. Stay still, the demon told her telepathically.

After a while of Hiei licking Keiko's cut he ceased the action and just held her tightly, resting his forehead on the crook of her neck.

"Umm? Hiei?" Keiko spoke again, nervous and confused beyond imagine.The fire demon, now in his human form, just "hn"-ed, lifted his head and gazed at the bushes in front of the two with his keen eyes. Yusuke crashed thought as if on queue. The Spirit Detective looked furious. His eyes held flames of pure hate in them.

"DON'T TOUCH HER!" he commanded.

The fire demon just looked on with a masked expression.

"Then you protect her if she's yours," Hiei said unmoved, pushing Keiko up to her feet.

Kurama gracefully stepped in to the clearing. Kuwabara came tumbling out of the bushes after.

"Where's the two demons?" questioned the latter teen worriedly, ignoring the leaves and twigs in his curly orange hair.

"The spider demon is dead and the other one escaped," the demon answer.

"Why did you let it ESCAPE? You could've stopped it and then this mission would be closed!" bellowed Yusuke.

"I was protecting your onna! How many times do I have to tell you fools that?" snarled Hiei, upset at being yelled at for a supposed good deed.

Without warning, Yusuke punched the shorter male in the jaw, sending him flying into a nearby tree. The fire demon didn't take three seconds to recover. He was on his feet and racing towards the detective with fists eager to break bones.

The red head fox spirit sighed and shook his head.

"Kuwabara try to stop those two. I'll check up on Keiko," Kurama said calmly to his team mate.

Walking up to the girl yelling at her two friends to stop fighting Kurama put a hand on her sore shoulder only to have her shy away from his touch. He gave her a comforting smile and spoke.

"It will be alright, Keiko. Now just let me see your wound."

"No. No it won't be alright,Kurama. Yusuke will beat Hiei to death. Hiei is already in bad condition he can't use his energy," replied Keiko tearfully. Weakly giving another tired smile the gentlemanly teen wrapped hie coat around the girl to stop her shivering.

"If I stop the fight will you let me check your wound?" Kurama inquired softly. Without waiting for a reply he summoned thick vine from the ground to interrupt the two teens from fighting. The unidentifiable plants expertly wrapped around the arms', legs' and torso's of the two combatants. Hiei and Yusuke seemed to still have the will to battle for they struggled helplessly like salmon in the jaws of a grizzly.

"AWWW! Why'd ya stop the battle, Kurama? I was just gettin' good," whined Kuwabara.

Ignoring him, the fox demon checked over for signs of blood. He stopped startled when he smelt Hiei's sent on Keiko's shoulder. Panic sized him when he thought the fire demon might have bit the innocent girl. His racing heart beat slowed when he found only a gouge on the teen girl's shoulder.

"Looks like Hiei beat me to the wound," mused Kurama to himself.

"Uh.. Kurama ," Kuwabara said nervously pointing towards the two captured friends.

"Wha-," Kurama said looking towards where Kuwabara was indicating. Hiei was almost out of his bindings, slashing at the troublesome vines with his claws.

"HEY! No fair," whined Yusuke struggling at his bindings unsuccessfully. The fire demon lost no time in charging at the bond teen boy claws ready to rip flesh.

"No Hiei!"

A bloody claw went through flesh and a soft pained gasp was heard.

To Be Continued


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