Chapter 3: The day off the match turns into a struggle for survival!!!!

Disclaimer: For those of you who have read the first and second chapter of Hiei's First Love, there's a description of Ivil..but since I don't wanna get kicked off the site...I'll be repeating it until I am finshed with this story.

I do not own YYH even though I wish I did...more specifically I wish I owned Hiei...I luv him so fricken much! XD But I do own the character named Ivil, a very mysterious, yet attractive female who happens to bump into Hiei while out for some air right before Genkai is meeting with Toguro for the last time. Quick prof: she wears something similar to Hiei.only more feminine with a sleek black tank top that was cut quite low, tight black pants, a black tunic that's to her ankles and soft black boots. She has purple shoulder length hair usually pulled back in a ponytail and also has a lil bandana buts not covering a 3rd eye, a symbol that is feared by so many (that once they saw it she's have to kill them.) and dark green eyes that can practically freeze your brain if you piss her off..

Random person: just get on with it!

Luna: okay okay! Jeesh! Chill out!

r.p.: c'mon!

Luna: just one more detail...

r.p: JEEESH! JUST SAY IT!

Luna: *growls* I just wanted to say that Ivil also carried a katana that is a bit longer and sharper. There u happy?

r.p: yes..

Luna: Enjoy! R&R please! And don't you dare steal my character! Or I will come after you! *evil glare*

It's the day of the match between Team Explosion and Team Urameshi; Hiei and Ivil's nerves are dying to see whose team would win and whose would lose. On the 12th floor of the hotel, Ivil had gotten up at five o'clock in the morning for last minute training in the woods. She quietly got up from her bed in her private room and got dressed. After she got her tunic from the chair and put it on, she grabbed her katana and hair brush from under her bed. She put the katana on her bed and then brushed her messy purple hair as she sat on her bed and put it up into an unusually high and tight ponytail with a very special silky silver ribbon..~*Flashback*~

"Whenever you are going into a tournament, wear this ribbon as a sign that you are still a true member of the Anakari clan." The female leader with a silver tunic, dark green eyes and really long red hair said as she handed a roll of the silky silver ribbon to a 5 year old Ivil..then pictures of the leader showing her how to put it in her hair and keep tight for several hours...~*End Flashback*~

Ivil's eyes started to water as she painfully remembered, but quickly stopped before it became heavy; (by the way every hotel room had the same look: a small little living room connected partly to the kitchen, then a short corridor connecting 5 individual rooms with a bed, desk and chair, and a very cramp closet.) She finished tying up her hair, then got up and searched the desk to the left of her bed for the pad of paper and pen stashed in every desk; she wrote a short and brief note saying:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- "Everyone, I have gone to do some last minute training. Please do not follow me and I shall meet everyone outside the arena 15 minutes before the match begins. And, make sure that you keep your hoods on until your name is called after the match has begun."
Your leader, Ivil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------

She then opened the door to her room and walked to the kitchen counter. There she found some tape, pulled off a short piece and taped the note to the back of the hotel door. With that complete she went out the door and down the corridor to the window, opened it and without bothering to close it, jumped at the speed of light through the forest to a small little clearing which was near a cliff and began her training.

~2 hours later.up in Team Urameshi's hotel room~

"G'morning everyone." Kuwabara yawned as he walked in the living room/kitchen fully dressed and rubbed his eyes to also find everyone fully dressed. Kurama was at the kitchen counter having a cup of orange juice while Botan was making a simple breakfast of bacon and eggs for anyone that asked; Yukina and Shizuru were sitting on the couch talking about the upcoming round while Hiei just sat in the same place like yesterday, just staring out the window not saying a word.

"Ah, good morning Kuwabara" Botan said cheerfully as she put the latest batch of bacon and eggs on a plate and slid it towards him. "Everybody's had something to eat except you, so eat up." Botan smiled as she made the last batch for herself.

"Thanks Botan." Kuwabara said as he made his way to the couch were Shizuru and Yukina were. "Hey Yukina. How'd you sleep?"

"Oh, hey Kazuma. I slept fine thank you." Yukina said softly and smiled at Kuwabara, and then turned back to Shizuru. "So tell me more about Team Explosion's leader." Yukina asked Shizuru.

"I read in the papers that she's very mysterious. Nobody really knows much about her..." Hiei snapped his head towards Shizuru and listened carefully. "She's about 5 feet, close to Hiei's...with purple hair, and dark green eyes....hey wait a minute." Shizuru flashed back to yesterday morning when she opened the door. "That was Team Explosion's leader at the front door..hey Hiei. What do you know about the leader from Team Explosion?" Shizuru questioned as everybody looked towards Hiei, also wanting to know what he'd done for 8 hours yesterday.

"Not much really. Probably only what's in the paper." Hiei calmly said as he turned his head back around to stare out the window.

"Aw, C'mon Hiei. You can tell us if you've got a girlfriend." Yusuke joked as everybody lightly laughed...but strangely, Hiei didn't retaliate to Yusuke's remark as he just stared out the window.

"Hiei, is that true?" Kurama put down his o.j., got off his chair and walked to Hiei still staring outwards into the woods.

"There's something fishy about shorty not telling us." Kuwabara thought to himself; Botan finshed eating her breakfast and almost choked on her last bite as she looked towards the clock.

"OH, my god! Its almost 8! C'mon guys we've got to get down to the stadium! The match is going to begin in 15 minutes!" Botan yelled at everyone as she got up and ran towards the door; everyone soon followed.

~Outside the stadium.. .~

Ivil just jumped down from a tree to find her team waiting with black capes and their hoods up.

"Hey everyone. I see you received my note." Ivil said in a monotone voice.

"Yea, so what's this all about Ivil?" One of the male team members spoke in a bit of an irritated tone.

"Calm down Talon. All I wanted to say is who ever we face, never to go even a little soft." Ivil had hesitated to tell them that she had met somebody, but still hid most of her feelings.

"That's it?" Talon said irritated.

"I'll tell you the real reason later." Ivil telepathically said to Talon and then motioned everybody to follow as she led them into the stadium to their door, not noticing that Talon had raised an eyebrow.

~Inside the stadium..~

Everybody was beginning to find their seats as both teams positioned themselves behind their doors; little did Ivil know that somebody was looking for her. Koto steps in the ring and clears her throat.

"Okay! Now welcome to yet another match of the Dark Tournament. Today's match is between Team Explosion and Team Urameshi." Koto says loud and clear as the crowd cheers.

"To my left we have Team Explosion!" Koto hollers as the doors creaked open and Ivil, who had a hood attached to her tunic over her head, leads her team into the cheering stadium. "Aaaaaaaaand to my right..Team Urameshi." Koto hollers as Yusuke leads to the center of the stadium floor.

"Okay now, for this round we've already selected who's going to against who." Koto speaks as the crowd murmurs in confusion; so did team Urameshi..'cept for Hiei.

"What gives lady?!" Yusuke hollers at Koto. "Why all of a sudden are you choosing who goes against who?"

"Don't yell at me. Yell at the judges." Koto spat back at Yusuke.

Not wanting to put this off any longer, Ivil walks into the ring.

"Can we just get this over with Koto." Ivil says coldly and impatiently.

"Okay, fine." Koto snarls at Ivil. "First up is Team Explosion's leader Ivil and Team Urameshi's Hiei."

Ivil slowly lifts back her hood, unlatches it from her tunic and tosses it down to her right; as Hiei steps into the ring, Koto backs off onto the grass realizing who she had yelled at.

"O-o-okay well, for this match you can use any style of fighting. Aannnnnnnnnd begin!" Koto jumps off the ring as Ivil and Hiei unsheathe their katanas and both disappear.

"Hey...where's they go?" Koto asked confused.

"Yea Kurama, where did they go?" Kuwabara asked Kurama. "I can't even see flashes of light!"

"Hmm..this is very interesting. I never knew Hiei could move at such speed for so long with out tiring." Kurama said surprised.

All of a sudden they both reappear and stood as they had just given each other the final blow; Hiei showed the first sign that he'd been hurt: his clothes were severely ripped that showed several bleeding scars appeared on his arms and he started breathing heavily, grasping his knees for support..but where was his katana? Ivil used her katana for support as she showed similar symptoms as Hiei, but there was one big difference, her arm had Hiei's katana stuck in her upper portion of her left arm!

"Okay, what happened between you two?" Koto questioned Ivil, seeing her struggling to pull out Hiei's katana out of her arm while trying to maintain a sense of balance.

"What....does it....look like happened Koto?!" Ivil said in a very harsh and cold way as she snapped her head at Koto, her eyes narrowed smaller than usual as she started to slowly freeze Koto's brain a quarter of the way; she stopped suddenly as she wobbled to a standing position, pulled out Hiei's katana and tossed it to Hiei.

"Okay! Stop it! I won't ask such stupid questions! Just stop freezing my brain!" Koto screamed far worse than Ivil thought she'd scream.

"Hiei, let's go." Ivil said as she grabbed her hood and tied it, as a temporary bandage, to her left arm and softly, yet painfully groaned; she grabbed her katana with both arms and disappeared. Hiei soon followed.

"Go Hiei!" Yusuke shouted over Koto's screaming; she stumbled about, clutching her head tightly.

~Moving at the speed of light.~

Hiei and Ivil were fighting as if they were enemies; they weren't holding back anything because they didn't want anybody else to know that they were starting to grow soft spots.

"Ivil, how's the arm?" Hiei said telepathically in a worried tone as he blocked Ivil's katana on his left side.

"The bleeding's stopped, if that's what you're asking." Ivil replied as she blocked Hiei's attack to her right arm.

"It must be hurting like crazy. I'm sorry." Hiei said telepathically, trying to move faster, but couldn't.

"No hard feelings Hiei, really. This isn't the first time that my left arm's been severed." Ivil telepathically chuckled as she dived under Hiei's katana and created another slice in his shirt.

~Eventually....~

Ivil and Hiei reappeared again and collapsed completely; their bodies were cut severely and their breathing wasn't much better. They had dropped their katanas and were on their hands and knees; Koto, had stopped screaming because her brain had defrosted, walked onto the ring and looked hard and long at both Hiei, then Ivil.

"This match is a draw!" Koto shouts into her microphone as Ivil tries to get herself up, but stumbled and fell back onto her knees. "Get these two to the Nurse's room."

Yusuke and Kurama get up onto the stage to carry Hiei to the stretchers, but Hiei refuses.

"Do...not..touch me. I can..get there...by myself." Hiei said coldly as he looked towards Ivil as her team also tried and she refused just as harshly.

"Don't you fret over me. Continue with the match and watch out for your opponents." Ivil heaved herself, grasping her katana for support and slowly walked off the ring and onto a stretcher; Hiei soon followed.

After Hiei had gotten himself onto his stretcher, they were taken away through the Urameshi's door and disappeared; there was a light applause as they left the arena.

~5 hours later...in the Nurse's room.~

Ivil woke up to find herself breathing from one of those oxygen tanks to the left on her bed with 2 conjoined tubes going a short way up her nose; she heaved herself up into a sitting position and clutched her rib cage. She lifted her severely ripped shirt to find it very heavily bandaged; she felt the soft cloth of the bandages as she looked over to her left at Hiei noticing a chair which had both ripped tunics and both pairs of boots on it.

He was also on an oxygen tank, but his was separate from Ivil's and was to the right of his bed. She looked around for her katana and found hers and Hiei's to the left of his bed on the window sill under a medium sized square window.

She swings her legs over the left side of her bed and tries to walk on the cold tiled floor, without her boots, to the window, but her oxygen cords pulled the tank and it fell with a loud clank; Hiei awoke, startled by the noise.

"Well, I see you manage to get up just fine." Hiei says in a joking way, as he heaves himself up slowly and grabs both katanas off the window sill and handed Ivil hers.

"Heh. Yeah, and make quite a lot of noise. Sorry 'bout that." Ivil said a bit embarrassed as she took her katana from Hiei's hands and sat down on her bed, trying to reach the oxygen tank on the ground since her rib cage wasn't exactly healed yet. As she got a hold of it the female nurse popped her head in.

"Well, I see that you both are doing just fine. I'll get that for you." She said in a foreign accent as she walked around Ivil's bed, but Ivil had already done it.

"I can do things just fine on my own." Ivil said in a monotone voice and looked at the nurse, but she didn't try and freeze her; she wasn't worth it. "You wasted your breath and time coming over here."

"Okay, well how 'bout I'll get you something to eat? You must be hungry." The nurse said as she reached for Ivil's katana, but Ivil's left eye twitched and she grabbed her katana away from the nurse, slightly unsheathing it.

"I don't wanna have to, but if you try to touch my katana again, I will kill you." Ivil said in a creepy kind of way, as the nurse backed off and ran out of the room.

"Well, well, aren't we touchy?" Hiei said sarcastically.

"Ha ha Hiei. Right now isn't the time for sarcasm." Ivil sarcastically replied as she put her katana down on her bed as she grabbed her oxygen nose clip and ripped it out. "Ow." She said softly; Hiei began to laugh and Ivil couldn't help but laugh along with Hiei but quickly stopped as her left eye twitched again.

"Somebody's coming. Somebody's going to try and kill us both off. Our best bet is to climb out that window and hope to know where we're going." Ivil said as she walked to the chair and grabbed her tunic and boots after tossing Hiei's to him as he got ready. She had gotten on her tunic and boots on she walked to the window and unlatched the window; as she pushed it up all the way, a guy appeared in the doorway.

~End of Chapter 3..sorry to leave you hanging ^_^~