"Where are you taking me?" Selena asked as Milicent drug her through the dark caverns.

"You'll see," was the only answer she got.

The ferry girl began to get the worst feeling. She wasn't sure where she was being taken but she felt wherever it was she was going to wish she'd never been taken there. Is she going to kill me? she wondered. Is she going to hurt my baby? What is she going to do? Should I try to get away? She looked around herself. She saw no way out and nothing to help her get out if she tried.

Hikaru had resorted to his teeth to try to free himself. He was just starting to chomp away at the vines, which were leaving a bad taste in his mouth, when he heard footsteps in the corridor. He spit out the vines and looked toward the door, wondering what Milicent was going to do when she came back it. He knew it would most likely be her because he figured Akio and Hojo didn't know where he was and it would be highly unlikely that either of them would have found out where he went so easily. He glared at the doorway, hoping his look would intimidate her if she came in. He was not expecting what he saw when she did come in and his face filled with surprise when he saw Selena being drug in behind her.

"Selena?" he said.

The ferry girl looked up at him, her face mirroring his expression. "Hikaru?" she said, startled.

Now Hikaru was angry, not just at Selena but at everything, but he took it out on her first. "You baka onna!" he shouted. "What the hell are you doing?! How did you get here? Why didn't you stay in the hospital, wench? What in hell were you thinking?!"

Selena looked away, intimidated. "I was looking for you-" she began.

"Why didn't you stay in the hospital, you stupid bitch?!" he shouted.

The ferry girl said nothing but Hikaru noticed a strange triumphant look on Milicent's face. "What are you smirking about?" he demanded of her.

"You weren't expecting that were you?" she asked.

"What?!" he asked, confused by her answer. "What are you talking about now?"

"You didn't think I could come up with a way to get to you," she replied, looking smug. "Well now I have."

"What?" Selena asked.

Milicent grabbed Selena by both arms and started digging her clawlike nails into the ferry girl's pale arms. The ferry girl started squirming and letting out little pained sounds. Milicent didn't let go, she just stared at Hikaru, watching for his reaction, as she tortured the girl. Hikaru reacted angrily, jerking his body toward her in an attempt to stop her, to get at her and tear out her heart, but sicne he was still being held by her vines he got nowhere.

"Stop it!" he shouted at her.

"Why?" she asked, raking her arm down Selena's until she drew blood and made the girl cry out. "Don't you like that?"

He saw the pain and fear in Selena's eyes and couldn't stand it. This was the worst kind of torment. "Stop it right now!" he ordered. "She doesn't deserve that!"

"Why do you care about her?" Milicent asked, a challenge in her eyes. "I thought you cared about no one but yourself. I thought you liked seeing people suffering!"

"W-what?" Selena managed. She met Hikaru's eyes again. What does she mean? she asked with her eyes.

Hikaru read the question easily and looked away. He hadn't been responsible for what happened to her child. It had been someone else. If he had been he would have remembered it. "It wasn't me!" he shouted at Milicent.

"It was too!" she yelled back at him, giving Selena's arms one last scratch before letting her go. The ferry girl fell to the floor.. "It was you! He was there outside playing in the yard. Minding his own business! Playing with a little red ball, then... you come out and kill him for no reason!" she waved her arms franticly as she screamed. "You killed my son!"

Suddenly a thorn pierced through Hikaru's hand and he cried out as he looked at the wound. Blood flowed from it and down his arm and sleave. He looked back at Milicent who glared at him. "How about I show you what real pain is?" she demanded. "How about I show you what it feels like to lose a child?"

"What do you-" then he saw Milicent roughly yank Selena from the ground. A child! he knew what she ment. The baby. Selena's baby. The one growing inside her. This crazy woman was going to kill it!

"Don't!" he shouted.

She stopped and looked back at him. "And why shouldn't I?" she demanded.

Hikaru winced at the pain in his hand but answered her question. "Because it would be foolish," he told her. "Killing that unborn child won't bring your back."

"No but it will give me the satisfaction of knowing you lost yours," she retorted.

"That is stupid," he growled. "It won't change anything!" A sudden change came over him. "Besides; if you want to kill it go ahead. I won't care."

Selena gave him a look of shock. "Hikaru!" she gasped, tears springing into her eyes.

He ignored her. "I didn't want that child to begin with," he said, his voice low and without any emotion. "It wasn't my fault the baka onna became pregnant. If she had told me I would of had her get rid of it."

"HIKARU! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!?" Selena exclaimed, not believing what she was hearing.

Hikaru glared at Selena. "I don't need to have any spawn!" he shouted at her.

Milicent gave him a look. "Typical man," she said, disgusted. "You don't care about it because you'll never know what it feels like to lose it. You wouldn't understand." she looked down at Selena who was crying. "She didn't kill my child." she let Selena go and she fell to the floor crying. She glared up at Hikaru.

Suddenly the vines web holding him began to untangle him. He fell to the floor, holding his mained hand and ignoring Selena.

Milicent left the room for no reason, but Hikaru knew she was coming back, he just didn't know when. He didn't know what she was doing now. Was she trying to confuse him? If she was it was working. He glanced over at the bawling Selena.

"Onna," he said.

She hiccuped and stopped crying. She looked up at him, her eyes cold. He knew why. She didn't like what he said and was mad at him. He didn't care. It had worked. For some reason he smirked.

Selena saw it and lost her temper. "Jerk!" she shouted, flying at him, her fists clenched and ready to beat him up. "You inconsiderate jerk! How could you!" She landed on him and stared beating his face. "You heartless son of a bitch! How could you say something like that?! How could you be so cold?!"

"Selena," he began.

"This is our child!" she screamed, beating on his face and chest now. "Our child! Well I'm not getting rid of it!"

"Selena," he tried again.

"You can do what you want but I'm not having an adortion!" she shrieked, slapping him. "I'll keep this baby and make you be a man for once! You no good-"

"ONNA!" he shouted, hoping that would shut her up.

It did. She stopped talking and beating him and stared at him, her eyes never losing their anger. "What?" she demanded.

"I was lying," he said.

"What?!" she exclaimed in disbelief.

"I was lying," he said again, pushing her off of him so he could look at his hand again. He didn't feel like looking at her at the moment. "You think I want you to kill it? What else was I going to say? I couldn't have her killing you and the baby right in front of me! Did you want to die!?'

"No," she said. "But you didn't have to say it like that."
"Then how did you want me to say it?" he asked, still not looking at her.

Selena said nothing.

Silence hung in the air for a few moments. Hikaru stared at his hand, hoping it wouldn't be a serious wound. He needed his hand. He couldn't use a sword without it. Suddenly a pale hand reached out to touch his bloody one. He jerked it away but the hand gently touched it and pulled it back. He looked up. Selena was looking at the hand. "Let me have a look," she offered.

"Hn," he said, letting her look at it. "Fine."

Selena pulled his hand into her lap and carefully inspected the wound with her finger, being careful not to touch the actual wound. "It doesn't look that serious," she said, bringing up to her face for a loser inspection. "I don't think that vine hit any nerves. I think you'll still have full use of it."

That was good news but he didn't smile. He was still confused about why Milicent let him go like that and left. What was she planning now?

Suddenly he heard a ripping sound. He looked toward Selena and saw her ripping off some of her hospital gown. "What are you doing?" he demanded, not wanting her to lose more clthing that she already had.

She looked up and him and smiled slightly. "I'm going to use this to bandage your hand," she replied, starting to wrap the cloth around his wound.

"Hn," he said, looking away from her again. So that's what it was. "Thank you," he added in a small voice.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw small smile get a little bigger. "You're welcome," she said softly as she wrapped his hand up in the bandage. "That's what I'm here for."