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28 — Nowhere

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His fiery temper billowed out with his grief, flooding his body and hers, pushing every one and thing away with a blazing wave.

"K-kagome!" he heard the hanyou's voice cut through the roar of his youki. "What're ya tryin' to do with—"

Hiei's temper skyrocketed dangerously high.

The miko had just attempted to give her life for that stubborn, ungrateful hanyou, and for what?

Naraku chose that moment to intervene, sending more tentacles in an attempt to capture the miko's body. Hiei grinned, a morbid yet rakish showing of his fangs that the spider hanyou ignored. The tentacles were succinctly burned to ash, the air shimmering around the little fire apparition with tangible heat.

"You will not touch her!" he snarled, his eyes alight with blood and fury. He glanced once at the evil hanyou, then back to her friends.

He couldn't stay here, no. He needed to get her away from this. The reminder tugged mercilessly at his nose as her blood continued to seep into his clothes.

Away…somewhere safe, anywhere.

Nowhere; where they couldn't be found.

His youki spiked and coalesced around them both and with a burst of speed, Hiei disappeared with Kagome in tow.