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Three Eye Blind

Chapter 6: Meeting Miko

They had made their way into the larger city of Los Angeles. And if anyone knows L.A. it is definately not a one starbucks town. In Los Angeles two teenagers can slip into the shadows unnoticed. And that's what they did.

Hiei had heard, from another demon, that there was a group of teens that supported themselves and accepted anyone. He knew their adress and they went to look them up.

The house that they lived in was an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of town. It had been condemned but no one cared. It fit the part of a haunted house but they were just stories.

Hiei knocked on their door. Behind him was Noel, shivering in the cold of night.

"Newbies?" the girl, who answered the door asked. She had long brown, almost blonde hair with brown eyes. She looked a little rough around the edged.

"Yeah, I suppose," Hiei stated.

"Ok, then I'm Miko you're Eye," she said, pointing to Hiei, noticing his thrid eye. "So, what's your real name girlie," she said to Noel.

"Noel," she said.

"Ok then, you are Chris," Miko stated, gesturing them in. "I really don't care why you're here or who you are. No one but me knows you're real names.

They nodded. "Okay, then you guys'll have to share a room," she stated, leading them up a winding staircase that looked as if it was about to break at any given moment but Miko assured them that the house was perfectsally safe.

She lead them up to a large room with one bed and a plush couch. Both were red and faded with holes in them. Then Miko left, closing the large doors behind her.

"You can have the bed," Hiei stated, ploping down on the couch.

"You sure?" Noel asked getting a nod from Hiei. She then lay down on the bed and fell asleep instantaly, weary from the travel.

Hiei, however remained awake, staring at Noel. For the first time he realised how weak and fragile she looked. He started to wonder if it's all worth it. If he went back Yukina would live and Noel could go back to her life. With him here Yukina could die and Noel had to sleep in abandoned houses.

It wasn't fair, he thought,. What did he do to the world to make him deserve this? What had Noel or Yukina done? Yet, both of them were worse off because of him.

Hiei got up off the couch and walked down into the foyer. It was deserted at this late hour, save for Miko sitting on the large blue couch.

"What are you doing up?" Miko asked, not looking up from her book.

"Couldn't sleep," Hiei remarked, coldly.

"Chris kick ya out?" she asked. It took Hiei a while to figure out who Chris was then he realised, she meant Noel.

"No," he said, coldly.

"Right," Miko replied, it was evident that she didn't beleive him.

Then a girl, about Miko's age, walked down the stairs.

"That's Nike," she remarked, poitning to the red head.

Hiei just walked outside silently to sort out his thoughts. He decided that walking to the pier would help him think. The smell of salt hit his nose before he could even see the ocean.

A sign on the pier revealed that it was called the Santa Monica pier. Hiei didn't even notice though. He walked to the end and sat down, watching the cresent moon's reflection in the water.

It calmed him. The ocean. He grew up near it and given the circumstances, one might think he would hate it. But, at times it had seemed tpo be his only friend. Unlike humans the ocean was unbiased. You could be black, white, human, or demon either way it would kill you if you swam out to far. To it money meant nothing.

Hiei had made his decision and he started to walk back to the house.

Noel was tossing and turnign in her sleep. She saw a demon attacking Hiei and their was nothing she could do to stop it. He was dying and she didn't do anything. She was paralysed.

She sprang up in bed with a shock. It had been one of the worst nightmares she had ever had.

She noticed Hiei wasn't on the couch so she assumed that he went out for a walk.

The doors opened and for some reason Noel pretended to be asleep. Hiei walked into the room and stopped by the side of Noel's bed.

Noel, for some reason, just pretended to be asleep. Hiei leaned down and kissed her cheek. "Goodbye, my angel," Hiei said, as he walked out of the room.

A/N: here is the part for you readers to fill in. Should I continue the story from here or leave it as is. REVIEW or else I'll stop.