Kaze's okay, just like we knew she would be. And I tried to describe Hiei's annoyance with Kaze, but I feel like it wasn't the greatest description in the world...
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or its characters.
Halfway down the hole, bright white wings, burst from Kaze's back, lifting her jacket up with their force and ripping through her shirt. A bright light circled her head and her eyes opened, clearing of all darkness and she straightened, her wings beating the air and she landed gracefully on her feet.
"What the hell was that?!" Yusuke shouted in surprise.
"Wrong direction," Kiara mumbled, gathering her energy and jumping straight off the ledge to land heavily beside Kaze, who was pulling her jacket off to allow her wings to flap around her. "Are you okay, Kaze-sama?" Kiara asked slowly, peeking up at her best friend.
"I'm good," Kaze replied, her voice suddenly soft and musical. She looked around in mild surprise, her expression clear of all the pain she'd been feeling over the past couple weeks. "Where are we?"
"We're… ah, in America?" Kiara began. "Currently on an island off the coast of California. What do you remember?"
"Feudal japan," Kaze replied as the boys finally joined the two women. "A coffee shop. Konoha." Kaze's face warped into pain, the perfection being cut sharply by the ugly feeling. "It's all slipping again." Her wings disappeared into her back again and the light around her head dimmed as Kaze fell over into a faint. Kiara grabbed her friend and put her on her back, struggling slightly under the weight but using her energy to keep her upright.
"What just happened?" Kuwabara asked, breathing heavily from their run.
"Can you guys take her wristbands?" Kiara asked instead, indicating Kaze's arms. Hiei and Yusuke did so as Kuwabara tried to continue asking questions.
"Shut up for a moment and hold her belt," Kiara said, unclipping Kaze's belt and hefting it over to Kuwabara, who was nearly thrown to the ground by the weight.
"Why are these so heavy?" Yusuke complained, he and Hiei struggling under the weight of the armbands.
"Be lucky I didn't ask you to take her jacket," Kiara snorted, adjusting Kaze again and asking Kurama to adjust Kaze's jacket so it wouldn't fall off. "It's much heavier than those."
"Can you tell us what happened while we walk?" Kurama asked, unclipping bands on Kaze's legs and throwing on at Yusuke while holding the other.
Kiara sighed, adjusting Kaze one more time on her back before beginning to walk, trusting Kurama to lead them to their hotel for the tournament. "We've gone through a lot since we were young," Kiara began, each step cushioned by chakra to keep from slipping into the ground. "We were ninja when we were younger, in our home village. But that wasn't all we were." Kurama led the group past shops that were just setting up, most of the groups not expected to get to the island for another week or so. "I'm a werewolf, I guess you could say. And Kaze's a vampire."
"Aren't those two enemies naturally?" Yusuke asked, each of the boys taking it all surprisingly well.
"They are, and our parents weren't any different. But we were civil," Kiara explained. "Until an accident. My family didn't think much of me and wasn't careful enough around me. As a child, a werewolf is extremely volatile and I lost control. I killed most of our families during a gathering, leaving only Kaze and both our fathers. I was dragged home by both our fathers and they tried to kill me but Kaze, even in the shock she was feeling, broke into the room and used a sword to kill both men before they reached me." Kiara took a deep breath to calm herself. This was the first time she'd done this without her best friend by her side. "We were shunned for years due to both our abilities and our past, but eventually people began talking to us. We were happy until we were about nineteen when this witch found us and attacked Kaze, taking her memories away. We had to leave after that, both to keep from over-stimulating her and to find this witch to try to get her memories back."
"That still doesn't explain what just happened," Hiei said when Kiara paused again.
"I'm getting there, impatient," Kiara grumbled. "Kaze's heavy." She adjusted her friend again before continuing. "When we left we got settled down in a country called Japan for a while until we stumbled into Feudal Japan where we met some demons."
"So she's a demon?" Hiei asked, almost sounding interested.
"Will you shut up?" Kiara asked him as they finally reached their hotel. They checked in and got their keys to their rooms and slowly made their way up the stairs to their suite. "While we were there we ran into some problems that led to her near death. As a result, an angel possessed her to save her life. What you saw back then was the angel coming out to save her life again."
They reached their suite and Kiara lay Kaze down on the couch stretching to straighten her back before taking the weights from the boys and putting them back on Kaze's arms and legs, giving up on her belt and laying it on the floor beside the couch.
"So what happened after that to get you here?" Kurama asked, interested in more of the story.
"After Kaze's possession, she and the guy she was with at the time ran into the witch again and Kaze lost her memories," Kiara told him, sitting down on the couch to rest. "We spent some time moving from our home in Kyoto and moved to Tokyo, just on the edge of it. We were there for some time and I'd gotten a letter from my friends back in Konoha, our home village, and slipped into a deep depression until I'd drawn a baku to me."
"What is a baku?" Kuwabara asked.
"A dream-eater," Hiei replied, rolling his eyes at Kuwabara for not knowing that
"Right, so I was possessed by a baku and Kaze and I weren't sure what to do," Kiara continued. "We eventually heard from an acquaintance that another baku was in the town and we went to see him. Kaze and I spent some time there until the witch found us again. This time I'd seen her and I made it my mission to find her and take her out. The baku we were with led us to the doorway between our dimensions and gave us a few spell books. Turns out Kaze and I are very good at magic, so we didn't have any problem learning it."
"So then you were here," Yusuke said.
"And have been here for about four years without any leads," Kiara replied. "This is the best lead we've had since arriving here."
"Are you sure Kaze's still asleep?" Kuwabara asked suddenly.
"Yea, she sleeps for a long time," Kiara replied, standing up and leaning over Kaze to check. "Yea, her breathing's still even. I'm going to go take a nap myself, so I'll see you guys later."
Kiara left the room, Kurama and Hiei going to another room soon after. Kaze opened her eyes, surprising Yusuke and Kuwabara. "As a ninja one should wake up without alerting anyone if there's information to be gotten," Kaze explained, turning on the couch to lay on her side. "She's the one who said I was a ninja."
"We thought you were asleep," Yusuke said, worried that she would get another headache from listening to Kiara talk about their life before.
"I was," Kaze told them. "I woke up immediately before Kiara started saying we were ninja. And I'm a vampire, I guess. Sounds pretty impossible." Kaze sighed. "I'm getting another headache, so this must have been what she was talking about. I'm going to pass out soon and not remember any of this when I wake up again. Give me a piece of paper and a pen." Kuwabara ran to obey and handed them to Kaze. She wrote down quickly "ninja, vampire, angel, witch" before her eyes closed and the paper and pen fell out of her hand, her breath evening again to show she'd fallen asleep once more.
Kaze stayed asleep for a few days. Kiara decided that she should stay with Kaze for the first few days in case she woke up without her memories again, but by the third day Kurama convinces her that they could leave Hiei and Yusuke in charge as he and Kuwabara took her out to the shops. More people had begun arriving, just a couple teams at a time, and some of the shops had opened up to meet their needs. Kiara admitted that they were running out of food stuff and allowed Kurama and Kuwabara to pull her out of the suite, leaving Kaze on the couch.
Yusuke left the room soon after, feeling trapped, to go to the roof and left Hiei alone with Kaze. Hiei sat on the couch reading a book at Kaze's feet to make sure she didn't roll off and hit her head or anything. An hour passed in silence before Hiei realized that Kaze had been awake for some time. "Ah, how are you feeling?" Hiei asked, trying to sound nice and unthreatening.
"Hungry," Kaze muttered, sitting up and looking Hiei over. Hiei sighed and looked over at Kaze to see why her voice was so suggestive, but then froze when his eyes met her black ones. She was watching him as if she intended to eat him and he wasn't entirely too sure he should let it happen.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Hiei asked, annoyed that his voice had wavered, as Kaze crept closer to him.
"Nothing that will hurt you too much," Kaze whispered to him, crawling into his lap. His hands immediately spread, allowing Kaze access, and his book fell over the end of the couch as he looked up at Kaze. "There's a good boy," Kaze said to him, grinning when his hands rested on her legs and he looked like prey caught in a snake's gaze.
"I'm not too comfortable with this," Hiei said, gulping as Kaze began nipping his earlobe. "I'm still trying to get over that you aren't a man and that I've been attracted to a woman this entire time."
"Aw, you're attracted to me?" Kaze purred in his ear, chuckling as Hiei's pulse jumped in excitement at the sound.
"I was, but I feel betrayed that Maru was just a disguise," Hiei whispered, tilting his head back to allow Kaze access to his neck.
"And now that you see that Maru didn't exist?" Kaze whispered back, kissing his neck gently.
"I'm still attracted but… confused," Hiei mumbled, hiding a groan from Kaze's attention.
"Let me help you then," Kaze said, sitting up suddenly and startling him. He lifted his head from the back of the couch, just to have Kaze push him back, latching onto his mouth. Hiei moaned into the kiss, their tongues wrapping around each other until he fell back to the couch, his head back as he breathed hard. Kaze took the chance and sunk her suddenly large fangs into his neck, pulling another moan from him as she drank. She only took enough to satisfy, making sure to lick his neck to close the holes, when Kiara and the others returned.
"Kaze!" Kiara shouted, realizing instantly what her friend was doing and ran forward only to have Kaze jump out of the way.
"I didn't hurt him," Kaze pouted, crouched on the floor a few feet away.
"What did you do?" Kurama asked, helping Hiei sit up, who was having some trouble seeing straight and staying awake. Hiei stood, only to sag against Kurama, the blood loss making him weak.
"I have to eat, you know that as well as I do," Kaze said to Kiara, her vision already swimming. "And, considering how long I'd avoided it, I'm lucky I didn't drain him completely." She pitched forward, falling to the ground unconscious as Kiara reached her.
"Well, she'll feel better when she wakes up," Kiara sighed, picking Kaze up easily and putting her on the couch again. "And at least she attacked him now instead of the day before the beginning of the tournament, so he'll be fine by then. I didn't think she'd attack him, though."
"What happened?" Yusuke asked, running in then.
"Kaze attacked Hiei," Kuwabara said. "I think she fed off him."
"He looks like he enjoyed it, though," Yusuke snickered, seeing Hiei's flushed face and heavy breathing.
"Shut up," Hiei commanded, allowing Kurama to lead him to their bedroom so he can lay down. "Next time she can drink from you."
"It is natural for the toxins in Kaze's venom to turn a man on," Kiara explained. "It makes the blood sweeter and, of course, makes it move faster through the body to make up for the loss it'll be feeling soon." She watched to make sure the door was closed before she added, "And he looks like he's really attracted to Kaze."
"I heard that!" Hiei yelled through the door as Kiara snickered with Yusuke and Kuwabara.