Hello! Darkdemon here!

I would just like to apologize for the slowness. As I explained in my last chapter, I'm taking finals, so I'm studying very hard. (Kinda.)

So to make up for it, I've decided to put out two chapters! Just in case I don't get to updating later on this week.

So for now, I bid adieu to you and introduce

Chapter Ten: Torture; Questions

With love,

Darkdemon

She was gone. Now I knew something was definitely wrong. I had never known her to leave school before. It was her dream world. I looked around and frowned when I saw Hiei appear in front of me.

"She's attacking the cultivated humans that were left in Maze Castle." His information shocked me.

"How did she…"

"She used the hole in the her house." He cut me off, agitated he had go and find her before she hurt someone. I stared at him before he grunted and turned away.

"She doesn't want to see you." He stated coldly before disappearing.

I ran. My emotions overwhelmed me and one latched on. Jealousy, rage, hatred. What did he have to sacrifice to love me? What he have to sacrifice to live in his perfect little life?

He has his mother.

I don't.

He has control.

I don't.

He has friends who know about him and accept him.

I don't.

He has the ability to use his powers for good.

I don't.

He hasn't killed humans.

I have.

My own sister was attacked because I couldn't even protect her or sense the demons coming. I ripped through the 'cultivated humans' Shuichi had mentioned and I began to feel better. Soon I collapsed to my knees, breathing heavily as my claws retracted with my fangs. I stared at my hands covered the green sap these 'cultivated' humans claimed as blood and smiled. If I took out my anger this way, I wouldn't hurt anyone else. I could gain control of my temper. I had discovered this all on my own, too. All in all, I felt very proud of myself. Until my thoughts turned to Shuichi. I had left him at school in the human world, alone. Of course he could handle himself, I noted with disdain. The sudden sound of cracking knuckles caused me to look up as my eyes widened. I hadn't seen them before when I had been training. I was weakened and that was what they had been waiting for I suppose. Their bodies were slightly deformed and they had teeth hanging outside their mouths. They all drooled and grinned wickedly at me. I realized I couldn't defend myself and knew they had realized it as well. They began to close in on me and my heart beat rapidly against my chest. I was suddenly thrown back into the chest of one of them as they all guffawed at my terror. My screams were lodged in my throat and I felt my body grow rigid. I knew I should try and run. I knew I should kick and scream. I knew all of this yet I couldn't get my body to respond. I felt the searing pain as they cut open my skin, allowing my precious blood to flow into their hands. They seemed to take pleasure in this torturous act, as I had with the demons before.

Was this what I would become if I didn't gain control?

Was this what I wanted to be?

The coppery scent of my own blood entered my nostrils and I felt the scream burst from my lips. The sound reverberated in the air around me and the laughing just grew more intense at it. As if my screaming brought more pleasure than my blood. My vision began to blur as the pain increased.

I felt darkness beginning to overwhelm me.

I felt ill. As if all the blood in my body was being drained from me, yet I had no wounds. When Hiei had disappeared, I thought he was going back to keep an eye on Aniko. I found how wrong I was when I got an emergency call from Koenma.

"She's being attacked by demons! She's too weak to fight them off on her own!" My heart stopped as soon as I heard these words.

My Aniko was in danger? My Aniko was being attacked? No one was saving her?

Where was Yusuke?

Kuwabara?

Hiei?

Me? I knew where I was. Stuck in this blasted human institution called school.

Where were the others?

Where were they when the one I loved needed their help?

Was she not good enough for them? I left the school as fast as I could get away with and found Hiei lounging in a tree without a single care in this world.

"She's being attacked!" I yelled in between breaths at the fire demon as he turned to me with a raised eyebrow.

"Who? That woman?" He asked and I glared at him.

"She may be some woman to you, Hiei! But she's not to me!" He rolled his eyes before jumping to my side.

"Stupid fox. She is safe." He muttered before walking ahead of me into a clump of trees where we knew a portal would be. We landed gracefully in the deserted Maze Castle and were shocked to see the bodies of not only cultivated humans but also boar demons strewn across the ground. The boar demons' bodies had not been ripped apart as all of Aniko's other victims had. Something about these bodies was different. Their murder had been cleaner. I searched for her among the carnage and froze when I saw her blood drenched body. She stood breathing heavily and turned to face us with crimson eyes. I barely acknowledge the ears and tail that protruded from her body. Her body was wrapped in a silver mist like aura that mixed with mine, draining me. I had never seen anything like it. Once she recognized us, her eyes slowly faded back to their original color and she fell to her knees. I was by her side in moment and I saw the wounds the demons had inflicted upon her once flawless body. Some of them would leave scars. She looked up at me and smiled a soft smile, acknowledging my presence and her safety. I lifted her into my arms carefully and Hiei looked toward the ground, guilt written all over his stance.

"She was fine when I left her." He muttered lowly and I frowned.

"Why didn't you stay with her?" I asked, though I already knew his answer. Why should he have stayed? Why was she important to him?

"Koenma said to leave her be. So I left." He explained and I stared at him.

"You tried to stay?" I was shocked. He had said he didn't like her.

"Of course, I did. The woman is clearly important to you. If something were to happen to her, you would cease being of use to us. I don't think I could stand the idiots without you." He muttered as if it were a secret. I smiled softly at him.

"Thank you, my friend." He rolled his eyes again. He scoffed and walked away from me, kicking at the heads of the deceased demons.

"She's still very proficient."