Sorry it took a wile had to move, but now I have interwebz again and I bought the second season on DVD whoo! I'm on top of the world. As a reward for y'all's patience I'll post two chapters tonight. As long as I'm up, have Schmirnoff and am off tomorrow I might even post three. ^_^ Read, Review, and Repeat.

Ash walked down the hallway. She was a demanding presence; looking like war with a determined expression on her face. She had left her leather jacket in her room. She wore camouflaged fatigues with lots of pockets and a black velvet halter top that gave everyone a good look at the tattoo on her back. Her black gossamer wings were out and resting on her back, and her midnight hair was done in a tight braid that swung from side to side with her hips. She carried her sword on her way up to her team owners box.

"Cairu has expressed to me concerns he has about you killing Hai." Ash spun and met the black eyes of Galen. She straightened up and bowed her head in respect. When she looked back up she noticed he was staring at her neck with a smirk painted on his sensual mouth.

"And do you share his concerns?"

"Walk with me," he took her non-dominant arm and escorted her up the stairs. "If you tell me I shouldn't be concerned I won't be concerned."

"You shouldn't be concerned. Hai dies today."

"Even though she's your sister?"

"It's not like she's blood. We just trained together under the same master."

"Then I am not concerned. About your mission." He spun and slammed her against the wall. She glared into his sizzling black eyes. She thought back to before this tournament and how she would have loved to have been pinned against a wall while Galen looked at her like that. She would have ran her fingers through his spiky blue hair and kissed him till her lips were chapped. But now all she could think about was the night before and Hiei.

Galen ran his hands up her neck and ran his thumb back and forth over her pulse. That's when she remembered that Hiei had left a mark and her cheeks turned pink.

"Now this I'm concerned about. Who here is worthy enough to not only mark my executioner, but also make her blush."

"It's just a hicky. I wasn't a virgin when you met me and that hasn't changed." She tried to shove him off, but he wouldn't budge.

"Who is he?"

"Why do you care?"

"Because I'm head of the council. It's my job to know."

Ash could hear the roll of the dice announcing who would fight the next match. She smirked at the news of it being anyone from team Urameshi. She knew Hiei would be fighting as much as he could.

"Has the little fire apparition tamed my executioner?"

"No one has tamed me," she scowled at him, "now if you'll excuse me I have work to do."

Galen took a step back, "I will find out Ash. I always do."

Ash continued her way up the stairs when she placed her hand on the doorknob she heard Galen's voice follow her, "I'm returning to demon world. I expect you to bring me Hai's soul right after you obtain it."

She hung her head and replied with a, "yes sir."

Ash entered the V.I.P. box the billionaire who was funding her mission sat in front of the large glass window watching Hiei fight Kuro. There was a billionaire on each side of him several feet away, and a dozen body guards to each bureaucrat. She stepped up behind him with her eyes focused on Hiei.

"You know," the billionaire spoke to her reflection in the glass, "I tried to pull strings to have this fight be between you and one of them, so that you would face team Tuguro in the finals. Higher odds."

"Hm?"

"Someone pulled better strings. I think Tuguro himself is emotionally invested in the Urameshi boy."

"That is not my concern nor my care."

All he cared about was more money. It was his terms that she actually had to go through the tournament. The more she won the more money he made. Her cut was thirty percent; not because she wanted the money, but because she felt a strong sense of happiness watching the aneurisms he had every time he wrote her check.

"What is that crude mark on your neck?"

Ash's reply was an annoyed growled.

"My sources say you have been spending quite a bit of time with the human team." Ash shrugged. "I don't like it."

"My personal is none of your business."

"It is if it interferes when you fight them."

"IF I fight them. They haven't won yet and neither have we."

"But they will and you will."

Ash smirked as Hiei's Darkness Flame Sword sliced through Kuro.

"The finals are not my fight to fight."

She could see the vein in his forehead pop, "What? If you plan on…"

Ash's sword was through his chest cavity before the guards had a chance to react. She smirked as she pulled it out. The guards rushed her and one by one they fell to her sword. After about five dead henchmen the other guards and humans ran screaming from the room. She smiled to herself as she gazed around the room at her massacre.

She started walking towards the door with a dance in her step. "I said Whose house? Runs house! I said whose house? Runs house!" She laughed as she exited the bloody room.

(Point for Dogma reference! Woo!)