Disclaimers: Ye know I don't own this anime, so why am I repeating my self over and over again?!?!

Yami: So we don't get sued from here to kingdom come…

Hikari:O0… oh yeah. So we don't own it. There ya go! We do own Rori and any one you don't recognize in this fic.

I'm sooooooooooo sorry its been so long. School started, I rearly had a melt down, my Aunt got merried, and its homecoming week!!! I'm SWAMPT!!!

I'm still waiting to see if anyone figured out what Hakusai City translates to. TT I'm so sad that no one wants to know… it was funny when I wrote it. But anyways… THANK YOU ALL FOR THE REVIEWS!!! I think I have sixteen now!!! The most reviews I've ever gotten on a story were Thirty-three…. Do you think I'll get more for this story?

Yami: Psh… no.

Hikari: I DIDN'T ASK YOU!!!

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Word Bank

Tori - Bird

Tenshi - Angel

Youkai - Demon

Youki (↑↑pronounced the same way) - Demon aura/energy

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The four remaining Tantei were escorted roughly from the pagoda and tossed out into the dark streets again where they were forced to wait while their newest team member negotiated with their mission target. They took refuge from the freshly falling snow under the awning of an abandoned building across the road and stayed there watching, and waiting.

"Man, this sucks!" Yusuke complained while they huddled close to the grimy wall to escape the icy breeze. "Why can't we just go kick some ass and get answers that way? It's always worked before."

"Because this demon is not like anyone we have encountered before Yusuke. To attack blindly without a definite strategy would be suicide." Kurama explained coolly, though the edge in his voice suggested that a little "ass kicking" would do wonders for his mood at the moment.

"So why's everyone so up tight about this Soshi guy? Is he really that bad?" Kuwabara asked shoving his hands into his shirt to try and thaw his numb digits.

"You've never seen the Chapter Black Tape, but try to imagine all the horrific and unspeakable actions that the Ningen race has ever committed." They all turned to see Hiei crouched down with his face half buried in his crossed arms as they rested on his knees.

His crimson eyes were trained on the building his mate was still occupying but his voice was deadly serious.

"Now imagine what a Chapter Black Tape might contain for Demons… Soshi is responsible for at least a quarter of everything that would be on that record."

"Whoa…" Kuwabara blinked in response. "So, why does Koenma think he knows the Demons running the Ningenkai operation that's after Rori?"

"Because Soshi has been apprehended and jailed several times for straying into Ningenkai and interfering with crime organization there." Kurama explained giving Hiei a hard glare that the other two did not understand. "His business is information."

"And why are we letting Rori talk to this creep by her self again?" Yusuke asked in a sarcastic tone that conveyed his obvious disgust for the situation at hand.

"Because she's the only one who can positively identify if he's lying and so long as Soshi doesn't know that Rori is an Angel she's safe." Hiei snorted at the kitsune's words drawing everyone's attention back to the apparition sitting in the snow.

"Hey Man what's your problem?" Yusuke asked annoyed with the small youkai's attitude. Hiei's eyes shifted momentarily to the detective as though he would respond then returned to their vigil of the building across the way.

"She's taking to long," He said quietly, the smallest hit of unease creeping into his words. The other three boys stared at him mildly surprised before Kuwabara spoke up.

"Hey man, don't worry. If she was in trouble she'd let us know. Besides, Rori's a tuff chick, she knows how to look after herself," The carrot top smiled reassuringly if only to hide his own worry for their friend.

I hope so…

Hiei sat, his feet buried deep in the falling snow as he watched the pagoda unmoving, unchanging. He felt something out of place, something to miniscule to notice by chance. Something wasn't right and he was certain it had to do with his onna.

He did not like to think in such terms, but Rori was his possession now, his charge, his life essentially, and he'd do anything to protect that. It was his duty… his purpose.

The other three men continued to talk in hushed voices beside him but he paid little to no heed. His crimson eyes fixed on the building opposite them and did not move, did not blink. His right hand was tense on the hilt of his katana, the muscles in his legs coiled, prepared to fly at a moments notice.

But nothing happened, there was no notice, no indication that anything sinister might be transpiring within the wooden parameters of the club for nearly another hour. Just silence and the wind, until…

HIEI!!!

The call was so sudden and so strong his teeth rattled as he shot to his feet, startling the other three Tantei.

"Christ, Hiei!" Yusuke complained loudly, clutching his chest where his heart had nearly leap from between his ribs while they stared at the apparition, half way through taking a step toward the building they had previously been evicted from. "A little warning would be nice!"

"Be quiet you fool," Hiei snapped and all way silent save for the wind as Hiei strained both his ears and his mind. Hoping for anything; a word, a whisper, anything…

HELP!

That was all the clarification he needed. Hiei shot towards the pagoda at a dead run, one thought fueling his speed. Rori.

"Hiei, what the hell?!" Yusuke yelled as he, Kurama and Kuwabara took off after the seemingly crazed fire youkai. Kurama was the first to catch up and match speed with the short apparition as they burst through the club doors and made a b-line for the nearest stare case.

"Hiei, what's happened? Did Rori contact you?" Hiei's crimson eyes flashed toward the kitsune and Kurama halted, unnerved by the amount of hatred in the blood red orbs. Hiei's entire body quivered and shimmered with a tangible aura of youki as his blood boiled with rage.

"If he hurts her I will rip him apart!"

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Rori's eyes jumped open at a distant thundering noise and immediately closed again as her surroundings assaulted her pounding senses. She groaned, rolling over into a fetal position clutching her head.

Hangover from hell… literally.

A soft patting on the floor near by brought the angel to her senses and she bolted up right in alarm. She found herself in a huge, low slung futon bed with sheer drapes and cushions of every shape and size. The sheets were silken and white and currently the only thing covering her. A heavy weight around her neck informed her that someone had found her charmed necklace and placed it on her retuning the gruesome scares in place of her opalescent wings.

She blinked in confusion as her silver eyes met a pair of large orange ones. A little girl no more than three feet tall stood at the end of the bed peering over the board curiously, her short straight sun set colored hair tousled and knotted around a pair of cat like ears.

"Ohayo gozaimass Tori-sama," The little girl squeaked as she came out from behind the bed and held out a bundle of cloth in her hands. "I've washed your clothing."

Rori's cheeks burned at the reminder of her complete nudity under the sheets and pulled them around herself tighter. "Where am I?" She asked hurriedly taking her clothes and dressing as best she could under the silken covers.

"In the Master's bed chambers Tori-sama," The girl answered flatly.

"What?!" Rori nearly lost her footing as she tried to pull her runners back on. "How long have I been here?"

"Nearly six hours. The Master will return shortly, you should stay here." The little feline child said watching inanely as Rori pulled her jumper on and walked to the door of the room while hurriedly tying her butchered hair out of her face.

"Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather not be here when that creep comes ba…" She froze as she swung the heavy wooden double doors open and Soshi appeared looming over her petite form, framed in the darkness of the corridor beyond the room.

"You're awake. I was beginning to think you'd sleep forever, Tenshi-san." He began to advance on her slowly with his velvet smile and Rori found her legs propelling her away from him in time with his own steps, fear filling her slowly.

"Tori…" She managed to amend jumping slightly as her back bumped into a chest of drawers against the far wall. "Not tenshi."

"Oh come now," Soshi tisked, his teeth gleaming with underlying menace as his icy blue eyes captured hers in a frightening hold. "I knew as soon as you tried to enter my mind that you were no ordinary tori and the many hours I have had to… examine you while you were disposed have proved so."

Rori's eyes hardened at the mirth in his choice of words and her fists clenched. "Examine?"

"Yes," Soshi chuckled softly seeing that his words hade struck a cord. "You have been unconscious for nearly seven hours. I must say that I found the marks on your body captivating. Particularly the mark on your neck," Rori's hand shot to her neck where Hiei's fang marks lay and a white hot anger boiled in her chest. That mark was personal, sacred even.

"You may tell Koenma that I commend him on the craft and ingenuity of Reikai. The enchanted stone which conceals your angelic features is ingenious." Soshi seemed to be playing with her as he spoke, his hands folded carelessly over his broad chest, confident smile ever present.

"So I've been naked and unconscious in your bed for seven hours and the only thing you've been exploring are the marks on my skin? Am I really supposed to believe that?" The defiance in her voice was more than Rori herself hade been expecting and she felt a fleeting since of self assurance before the disturbing glint reappeared in Soshi's eyes

"I did not say that, Tenshi-san, you assumed." He cooed pressing himself close to her now that there was no where for her to go. "I must say I am far more interested in you than I thought I would be. You're abilities are tempting in themselves but you are quite captivating as a woman as well." Rori's cheeks burned bright red with anger and indignation.

"Get away from me," She tried to command, but her voice fell back on itself, becoming soft with the turmoil of emotions. Soshi chuckled deeply again which only fueled the angel's anger further.

"Your gift is a rare one Tenshi-san and with my help you could master it, turn it off and on at will as I do. I would offer you a place by my side and under my apprenticeship here in Makai, but I get the distinct feeling you don't like me."

"What could have given you that idea?" Rori bit back, finding just enough strength in her small voice to sound defiant. Soshi's seemingly immortal smirk dropped from his face so quickly that Rori felt the change in mood as though the temperature had just plummeted several hundred degrees within seconds. By instinct she called out for help, telepathically reaching for the closest being to her soul.

HIEI!!!

Then Soshi struck out. Rori didn't even see a single muscle flinch until the blonde demon's palms were pressed against her temples, his fingers holding her face in a bruising lock. She screamed in surprise and pain and grabbed futilely at his wrists with her small fingers.

"I am through playing games onna, you will cooperate with me or I will make you regret it!" Soshi's suave voice was suddenly harsh and menacing as his ice blue eyes bore into her silver ones. Rori felt his mind reach out to hers and knew what was going to happen next. She struggled harder against his hold, kicking and screaming, but could not stop his invasion.

He entered her thoughts like a cold fog sweeping in at midnight. Everything he touched froze and became mixed up as he seemed to dig deeper, searching for something.

HELP!!! Rori screeched again telepathically before Soshi blocked her mental voice and locked her into her own mind. She watched as Soshi skimmed through her memories as though looking through a picture portfolio of her life. Memories of birthdays, first days of school, her mother singing her to sleep, her friends in elementary school, the car wreck…

NO! Rori screamed in her own thoughts as Soshi dug deeper into her emotionally scarred past. He took great care in viewing the night her mother died then moved on to the next tragedy. She relived her father's suicide, the time she spent in federal care, the hospitals and psychiatrist visits… and then he went further.

Soshi stumbled upon the night Rori and Hiei first slept together. He seemed deeply intrigued by the memory and lingered on it. Rori felt cold sweat mingle with hot tears on her cheeks, felt the corner of the wardrobe behind her burrow into her flesh, but still could not move away, could not shut her mind to the invading demon's eyes. She saw the memory as Soshi saw it, watching from a third person point of view.

Soshi seemed to freeze the memory at a precise moment and Rori could not help but stare at the image through his eyes. She saw herself; her hand more specifically caressing Hiei's hip with a whisper of affection and a pop of white sparks, almost like a bolt of static, attacked a small patch of the apparition's skin. It seemed to hurt him for a split second, but was soon lost in the haze of heat clouded memory.

Soshi pulled out of Rori's mind so abruptly that she thought she might be drawn out as well. She dropped heavily to the marble floor and grasped at the sides of her face, now bruising from the force of Soshi's grip. She sobbed uncontrollably, feeling as though he had just scrapped every bit of personal information from inside her scull and examined it while laughing in her face. It was both humiliating and painful.

It was torture.

"I have what I need Tenshi-san," Soshi said bluntly straightening the cuff of his suit jacket. "Tara," He barked and the little orange eyed neko girl walked calmly and briskly up to the pair. Rori peered up at her through streaming eyes and saw the girl staring down at her; no look of pity or fear, or even unease clouded her expression. Her small, youthful face showed nothing more than bland attention and obedience.

"Please help Tenshi-san to the room next door, and be sure she remains there," Soshi's cold command sent shivers down Rori's spine as the small girl took on a menacing glint in her orange eyes and advanced on the angel, retractable claws sliding from their sheaths on her tiny fingers with a metallic ring.

But before the neko could even reach out to grab her, an explosion roared around them like a bomb being dropped and the doors to the room splintered completely as they were forced inward.

"Get your fucking hands off her…" A cool and deadly voice demanded followed by a strident crash that shook the entire room.

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Hikari: Yup, I'm evil. I stopped right there cuz I couldn't think of anything else and I was afraid if I waited any longer I'd piss some people off. So there you have it, CHAPTER 11!!! This is my longest story yet, and it's still not finished!! The plot will start coming together really soon though I hope. But I need to know if I should introduce a new character in this story or if anyone is interested in a sequel.

To tell you a secret, this story has had soooo many different plots in the last few months it's been ridiculous trying to keep up with it all! And in one version Kurama meets his significant other through Rori.

Yami: Yeah, but she failed to mention that his significant other was a MAN!!!

Hikari: HUSH! Yami's just mad cuz she's secretly a Kurama fan-girl.

Yami: glares weapons of mass destruction at her opposite

Hikari: Okay, so in one version of this story Kurama is gay. But I decided I needed a new OC to thicken the plot so I gave Kura a really cool girl to chase after. Unfortunately she will complicate the plot… A LOT!!!

So VOTING TIME!!! Bust out those poles, I need a general consciences on this one. PLEAZ TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! I'm writing this for ye, so if you don't give me feed back I'm going to assume I can take this thing to hell and back and you won't care! And trust me… you don't want that! P

Until next time READ, REIVEW, AND BE MERRY!!!!!

P.S. this is a test of the HPB system. (Not human papa Loma virus, Hikari's Public Broadcasting system!!!) If you read my authors note, say so in a review. I get the feeling no one is reading them and it would save me from repeating myself in review responses if ye did read them!!!

HIKARi