Sesana was putting her finishing touches on her painting. The painting was of Hiei blowing in the wind, or something like that. Rycloose seemed jealous of Hiei. She didn't blame Rycloose. Ever since she met Hiei again she couldn't get him out of her head. Hiei hadn't come back in about a week now. Finally a cold wind past and she heard footsteps. Not Rycloose's but, someone else's. "Hiei."she knew. She turned to meet the footsteps. "Hey Hiei," she couldn't think of anything else to say.

"The answer is yes" "Huh?" "For the Dark tournament." "Oh, yeah thanks for asking."

Hiei spotted the painting behind Sesana. Sesana blushed a little, and looked at her feet. Why was she so.flustered? Hiei looked at her, "Did you paint that?" "Yes.Yes I did," was all Sesana could muster to say. Hiei had caught interest in the painting and then turned to Sesana. "The tournament is a month from now," he reminded her.

"May I see your sword," Sesana asked. "Sure," he Hiei unsheathed his sword and handed it to Sesana. She took it by the hilt and slashed the air with it twice, at lightning speed, and twirled the hilt around her fingers a couple of times careful not to cut herself with the blade. She then stopped and examined the blade, then, handed the sword back to Hiei. "That's a nice and light sword you have. Very useful indeed," she finally said. Hiei sheathed it back and Sesana looked at him with amusement, "You want to fight again? I won't even use a sword this time." Hiei found amusement in that, " Ha! I think you'll need it fool!" Sesana got Hiei into a headlock and gave him a noogie (a hard one at that). "You're still the same little punk you use to be Hiei! You still have to find it though," Sesana laughed, releasing Hiei. Hiei rubbed his head and smiled.

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Sesana and Hiei were sleeping on the ground. Sesana had her back to him and Hiei had his arm around her comfortably. Sesana woke up and blushed. She jumped up startling Hiei. "Hey what happened?" Hiei asked. "You had your arms around me," she exclaimed. Now Hiei blushed, "Sorry I didn't know, I was sleeping." Then they just stared at each other and then Sesana gasped, "Oh we better get going. I'm sure the boat to the Dark Tournament won't wait for us." She helped Hiei up and rushed him out the portal and half way to the area where the boat would be until he stopped her. "The boat won't be there for another fifteen minutes," Hiei said, calmly and smoothly, "So we can slow down, it's a ten minute walk from here."

"Well it's a ten second run from here," Sesana countered, with the smile of victory.

"She always has to have the last word," Hiei thought, not really bothered by it. "I must protect her no matter what," Hiei thought more viciously and didn't know what to make of his thoughts. Sesana could of read Hiei's mind but decided to let it go.

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