Zilveren was watching the "Beautiful One" sleep. He kept going over that beautiful face with his eyes. Over the bandage on his forehead to his closed eyes, over his cute little nose to his pretty lips, then down his stubborn chin and back up.

He would have liked to be watching that pretty little body laying in his bed but every time he dwelled on it, he felt himself start to stir, a thing that hadn't happened to him since Youko Kurama was his lover. It unnerved him.

He leaned over to kiss the "Beautiful One" but at that exact moment the "Beautiful One" opened his eyes. "What do you want, kitsune?"

Then, before Zilveren could answer, the other demon bunched up into a ball as if protecting himself. "Kitsune? Kitsune? Who is Kitsune?" he whispered to himself, so quiet that Zilveren could hardly hear him. "Why did it hurt so much in my......in my.......in my heart when I said that name?"

"Are you ok?" Zilveren asked, placing his hand on the "Beautiful One's" arm.

"Fine," was the reply as the small demon began to uncurl himself, knocking Zilveren's hand off his arm. "I just had a .... a.... a cramp that's all. No need to worry over me."

Zilveren was just about to reply when the tree root moved and a vine slipped in calling *Friend, Friend, there are three humans approaching. Do you want us to stop them?*

*Are you sure they are all humans*

*They have strong ki, but they are definitely human. What shall we do, Friend?

*Stop them from getting to my den*

The vine sort of nodded, bobbing itself up and down before going back out the way it came letting the tree root slip back into place.

"Three humans with high ki? Hmm, what to do?"

He walked out of his den, after seeing that the "Beautiful One" had fallen back to sleep.

He opened his mind and brought up his Ki calling with his mind to all the plants in Wooded Trap. *Friends, three humans have invaded our home. Do your best to defend it, please. I need your help, each and every one of you. *

He went back into his den and sighed. He went to a spot on the ground covered in vines. *Move aside, please* The vines parted and there was a hole filled with ice. He leaned over and pulled an ice flower out. It was made of Pure ice and they only grew on Mount Hiei.

He send a mixture of his ice ki and his plant ki and the flower's stem grew into a huge whip, much like Youko Kurama's whip but this one was made of pure ice yet it was as flexible as Youko Kurama's.

They had worked together to figure out how to make the whip flexible enough and it was Youko Kurama who told him how to mix his two Ki's up to make just the right amount of each, to let the rose still stay frozen but be as limber as a normal whip.

He hadn't been in a good fight for almost 23 human years, not since Youko Kurama had left him.

He remembered that fight as if it were yesterday.

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The end of chapter 8 hope you liked it. Tell me how you like it.

Bye, Athena AKA hiei_fireyoukia