Ohhhh, Shit.

You

You're left in the room with the man. You sense that the woman has gone somewhere else. he grabs your arm again and drags you into a rough kiss, and picks you up. You scream and fight until he puts you down, and then you fight it away from you, then run to the left. You hit the wall harder than you mean to, inducing a yelp of pain, and you fall down a hole when you stagger, and you fall wildly. You don't feel or smell anyone on the way down. You suddenly realize that you're falling head-first. You only just stifle your screams.

Hiei

You pace the room slowly. You're in a room on your own, right now. You had landed on your feet uneasily and collapsed because they weren't ready for the sudden appearance of the ground, but you're okay, other than a knot on the back of your skull, from where the ground was not such a help in breaking your very fast fall.

Then you hear a flumping noise, and a slight groan. Yusuke. Screams sound all the way down a second hole, until the thing screaming hits the ground and goes quiet. You wait for a little while, and you hear a soft noise as Kurama lands badly in a crouch, though he collapses into a small heap and doesn't move, though he moans. Then there's a period of silence, and you all wait for Kali to hit the floor.

You hear another flop, and a near-silent moan. You can see that she landed on her neck and head and shoulders, and flopped the rest of the way to the floor and bounced a little bit, and she hasn't moved since she hit the ground the second time.

"Kali."

"He tried to hold onto me. And tried to catch me," she tells you, probably thinking that you asked what took her so long or something.

"They want us, not her. They intend to drug us and use mind control, and use us as mindless soldiers in their army," you growl quietly, leaning against the wall.

"Why not Kali?" Yusuke asks.

"She is immune to mind control, and all mind-affecting drugs. Her other organs are very easily affected, thus her blindness and deafness. We weren't meant to get a hold on her, you were supposed to be taken after you found her, but I distracted them when I freed myself. We would have been trapped, if she weren't helping us find the doors. She is a risk. They were probably going to kill her, up there."

Kali makes a whimpering noise and you feel her grab your shoulders, hugging you tightly. It was frightening to her, you guess.

"It smelled like blood up there. Blood and death. That under-scent Botan carries with her," she whispers, not letting you go. "They almost had me, and now they'll have you. Goddammit, I can't fight! I feel so fucking useless!"

You stare at her, then pet her head gently. She sighs and you hear how her breath is shaking, and the flush in her face burns through your clothes, and you feel the heat on her cheeks through to your stomach. Is she weeping? you think for the second time.

After a minute, she lets go of you and puts her face in her hands and tries to hide that she's about to cry and still shaking. Yusuke sits down next to her and pulls her close to him. Her shaking calms, and she puts her face to his shoulder.

Kurama walks over to you and whispers to you, "Is there any way out of here? We can't see."

"No, there's not a way out, other than the ceiling, but none of us, not even Kali, can jump that high," you answer. Kuwabara comes to with a complaint.

"My head hurts!"

"Deal with it! Light your damn sword up, we can't see shit!" Yusuke growls. Kali moves a little, then jumps up and spins around, walking around uneasily.

"Guys, there's something coming, something big, oh, my god, guys, it's not even close and it's making so much racket, and it smells like death, it smells like blood and pain and death!"

She sounds panicked. It worries you to hear someone as powerful as her, blind and deaf or not, to sound so frightened. She keeps walking backwards, holding her hands out, probably completely lost. Then you feel it walking, too, and you get scared. It's big. And you can sense it. It's powerful, too. It was going to take all of you to bring this down when Kali could fight. And now she can't, and the rest of you don't stand anything resembling a chance, with her fighting ability gone.

Third person point of view

The wall breaks down. Kali doesn't make any sound and doesn't move, yet. Yusuke gets up, Kuwabara pulls out his Spirit sword, Hiei has his fist already on fire, and Kurama has his rose whip out in a little less than an instant. Kali gets up as Yusuke does, but she just backs to the wall and stays there.

"Who first?" Yusuke asks.

"I think this will take a team effort. Hiei, save your strength. Kuwabara should run out of energy, and you will be the only one that can see," Kurama cautions

"He won't kill us, but he's strong enough to not have to," Hiei says.

No one notices Kali stand up in the back of the room. Her back is pressed to the wall, and, suddenly, a spirit shotgun hits the creature in its belly. It staggers slightly. Hiei takes the opportunity to start using his attack of the mortal flame where he can get it in, ignoring Kurama's warning to be cautious. Yusuke fires a few shots from his Spirit Gun and hits him in the nose, and Kurama tries to cut up one of his legs or arms, whichever happens to be more in-reach, and Kuwabara hacks uselessly at its leg. Kali helps when she can, but it moves a lot, and it's hard to get a clear shot when all you know is where its right foot lands when he staggers.

Kurama, surprisingly, is the first to go. He is thrown when he wraps his whip a little too tightly around a particularly thick part of his arms. It is cut, but its limb is still attached, and it uses this to throw Kurama into the wall. Kali hears him hit and goes to him and drags him close to her, waiting quietly for a shot.

At the same time Kuwabara is taken out, something in the wall lunges out for Kurama. She snatches him back and drags him back to her, and uses her energy to bring Kuwabara over to her, and she creates a barrier around the three of them and protects them from the bastards in the wall.

Hiei is third to go. He gets punched into the wall when he tries to stab it in the head. She pulls him to her, also, but has to let the barrier fall. Kuwabara gets nearly dragged through the wall, and she drags him back by the ankle that happened to have hooked her arm.

"Yusuke, when he knocks you out, fall this way, would you!?" she calls. Yusuke is having trouble fighting in the dark, but Kali's barrier offers enough light for him to aim, and she's helping out where she can, as well.

"I'll try!" he grunts, getting kicked into the wall. Kurama comes to, and jumps through the barrier to help, but Kuwabara hasn't even offered to stir, yet.

Kurama

The creature finally falls. Yusuke passes out on the floor, but you manage to keep consciousness. Kali, by now, is laying on the floor, sightless-eyes closed, and keeping her palms pressed to the floor. You drag Yusuke as you force your way through the barrier, ignoring the burning pain, and check on the others. Yusuke will be out until his energy returns enough, Hiei has been stirring for a while, now, and Kuwabara will, probably, jump up any time soon.

You pick Kali up very carefully, but she doesn't drop the barrier. It travels with her.

"Good girl, Kali," you murmur to her. She rocks against you. You get to the middle of the room, where the bands seem to have too much trouble getting to you, and you sit down, holding her in your lap.

She sighs and puts her face to your arm.

You feel bad for not trusting her only a day ago, and worrying that she may kill all of you. She's very honest, and very loyal, and the most evil she seems capable of is needing this in return. She is probably more likely to turn into a gigantic centipede that likes to dance to polka than to harm any of the four of you with malicious intent.

As Hiei and Kuwabara return to consciousness, you stand up and shift Kali to your back. Kuwabara does the same for Yusuke. Hiei is left without any extra weight, and you walk slowly through the opening the monster left. Hiei cuts the various attempts at seizing you, until, finally, they stop, and the man and woman appear in front of you.

Less than an instant passes before their heads have hit the ground, and Hiei is standing off to the right with his sword wide to the left.

"Tired. So fucking tired," Kali whispers as she stretches for the ground.

She drops the barrier, and she gets strangely heavier on you, and too limp to manage to move so you can carry her.

Hiei takes her when you kneel, and you start to walk while he holds her to his chest, almost protectively.

You keep pace with Hiei, though Kuwabara is falling behind little by little, and you wait for him to tap your mind. When he does, you can ask your question.

I don't think we have any reason to fear her. Anyone that trusts so easily is trustworthy.

I suppose you'd know all about that, hm. What about all her secrets? Hiei answers, shooting a glare out of the corners of his eyes.

Hiei, you're carrying her because she risked herself to save us with little regard to her own safety. Besides, I may point out that you have hidden your fair share of things through our adventures together.

Of course, the only answer you get is "Hn." But you know that he knows that she is honorable, and you know that he can't make any move to hurt her until she betrays that trust