A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long. My computer wouldn't let me on ff.net
for ages. Now I'm finally on and working my butt off to get more up. Just
a warning, I have a lot of work at the moment so new parts are still going
to be slow. So on we go.
Disclaimer: You know the drill by now I hope, see part 1. Later much
Helkakuive
Part 9
The walls that surrounded the courtyard that helkakuive was located in weren't too hard to penetrate. Then again, how hard is it for a fire demon to blast a hole in three feet thick ice? Getting through the living defenses were a different story. Demons were almost lined up in a straight line, waiting for me to come barreling through them. Each took longer and longer to defeat but I succeeded until only one remained.
"Impossible," I murmured. It couldn't be. Why would he be here? Doesn't he have better things to do than guard a flower? He was on e of the Shinobi after all.
"I see you remember me, Hiei." Touya the Ice Master stood before me. I responded with a simple nod, felling like a fool. "Tell me, what business have you here?"
'I've wasted too much time already. It'll take me five hours to get back. Touya will take too long to defeat.' I realized this in an instant. "I don't have time to talk. I need that plant." Touya glanced behind him.
"Running out of money?" Touya asked as he looked back at me.
"Not in the least. Assassinating brings in more than enough." I started reaching for Kurama with my Jagan as I conversed with Touya. I didn't have a clue as to how much of the stupid little plant I needed.
"Then what in the Rekai could you possibly need helkakuive for?" He watched my face. "Surely you aren't going to try and transplant it. You don't strike me as the gardening type."
While he had been talking I had reached Kurama and asked the question that was on my mind.
"I need all of it. Including the roots so don't scorch them!" He ordered. "Hurry," he added, "we're almost out of time."
"I don't need it." I told Touya now as I returned my attention to him.
"Then who hired you?" He inquired of me.
My impatience was growing. "I wasn't hired!" I cried at him, "Would you move already?!"
"Ah. I get it now." A small smile curled the edges of his lips. "Kurama wants it. Well, he can't have in unless you go through me first." His cold eyes glinted as he formed a blade of ice over his hand.
"You stupid, idiotic moron! My cousin is ill with a disease that only this puny little plant can cure. Move aside before I run you through!" Rage boiled in my veins. Time was slipping away quickly.
"You have a cousin?"
"What is it with you people and your amazement of me having a cousin?! I'm trying to help her at the moment and you're in the way!" I sent heat into the ground, thawing the area inside the courtyard. Touya's eyes widened in surprise as he felt this. Immediately, he dropped into an offensive stance.
"Swear that you'll use it for the use of healing and nothing else and I'll let you take it." Touya murmured as he made a rapid decision.
"I swear on my cousin's head. Now, MOVE!" Throwing my spirit energy out in the form of a net, I pulled the plant, roots and all, out of the ground. A little moist dirt fell away as the plant came towards me as Touya stepped aside.
Carefully, so as not to damage the plant, I rapped it in my shirt forming a protective case for the roots. "Thank you," I said to Touya and started my race back, missing his look of surprise at my momentary lapse into good manners.
'Only five more hours Ree'.' I thought using her nickname form when we were children. 'Hold on just another day or so.' I pleaded as I sprinted head long for the barrier.
Disclaimer: You know the drill by now I hope, see part 1. Later much
Helkakuive
Part 9
The walls that surrounded the courtyard that helkakuive was located in weren't too hard to penetrate. Then again, how hard is it for a fire demon to blast a hole in three feet thick ice? Getting through the living defenses were a different story. Demons were almost lined up in a straight line, waiting for me to come barreling through them. Each took longer and longer to defeat but I succeeded until only one remained.
"Impossible," I murmured. It couldn't be. Why would he be here? Doesn't he have better things to do than guard a flower? He was on e of the Shinobi after all.
"I see you remember me, Hiei." Touya the Ice Master stood before me. I responded with a simple nod, felling like a fool. "Tell me, what business have you here?"
'I've wasted too much time already. It'll take me five hours to get back. Touya will take too long to defeat.' I realized this in an instant. "I don't have time to talk. I need that plant." Touya glanced behind him.
"Running out of money?" Touya asked as he looked back at me.
"Not in the least. Assassinating brings in more than enough." I started reaching for Kurama with my Jagan as I conversed with Touya. I didn't have a clue as to how much of the stupid little plant I needed.
"Then what in the Rekai could you possibly need helkakuive for?" He watched my face. "Surely you aren't going to try and transplant it. You don't strike me as the gardening type."
While he had been talking I had reached Kurama and asked the question that was on my mind.
"I need all of it. Including the roots so don't scorch them!" He ordered. "Hurry," he added, "we're almost out of time."
"I don't need it." I told Touya now as I returned my attention to him.
"Then who hired you?" He inquired of me.
My impatience was growing. "I wasn't hired!" I cried at him, "Would you move already?!"
"Ah. I get it now." A small smile curled the edges of his lips. "Kurama wants it. Well, he can't have in unless you go through me first." His cold eyes glinted as he formed a blade of ice over his hand.
"You stupid, idiotic moron! My cousin is ill with a disease that only this puny little plant can cure. Move aside before I run you through!" Rage boiled in my veins. Time was slipping away quickly.
"You have a cousin?"
"What is it with you people and your amazement of me having a cousin?! I'm trying to help her at the moment and you're in the way!" I sent heat into the ground, thawing the area inside the courtyard. Touya's eyes widened in surprise as he felt this. Immediately, he dropped into an offensive stance.
"Swear that you'll use it for the use of healing and nothing else and I'll let you take it." Touya murmured as he made a rapid decision.
"I swear on my cousin's head. Now, MOVE!" Throwing my spirit energy out in the form of a net, I pulled the plant, roots and all, out of the ground. A little moist dirt fell away as the plant came towards me as Touya stepped aside.
Carefully, so as not to damage the plant, I rapped it in my shirt forming a protective case for the roots. "Thank you," I said to Touya and started my race back, missing his look of surprise at my momentary lapse into good manners.
'Only five more hours Ree'.' I thought using her nickname form when we were children. 'Hold on just another day or so.' I pleaded as I sprinted head long for the barrier.