~ Chapter 9~

Kurama looked around at the mess he looked under his bed.

(Well obviously they are in his room ^_^)

"What do you mean you can't find them" said Hiei plainly as they looked under a stack of clothes.

"Well they're not here I can't even sense them" said Kurama sitting on his bed defeated.

"Hn maybe they are and you're just losing your touch" said Hiei getting a glare from him.

"What about you can you sense them?" he asked as Hiei looked around the room.

"Yes" he said making Kurama stand up.

"Well why didn't you say anything where?" he asked

"In your closet" he said as Kurama made his way over to the closet opening the door, to reveal two very sick kittens, Kurama looked down and picked them, they mewed in pain as they flopped over each other.

"There sick, that means that" Kurama stopped as he stuck them into his shirt pocket.

"Come on Hiei I have a feeling Ross is need of your assistance." He said pulling Hiei out of the room.

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Ross rolled around her in her bed, one foot hanging off the side, she groaned and moved to her side.

She wore the same light green shirt from before but only had on a pair of gray boxers on, her brace was off as well though her feet were bound with bandages as well as her knee, she had her eyes clung shut, she held her sides from the pain.

~ Dream~

" You can't escape it my dear" said Marshall, as he watched Ross struggle in pain in the middle of the storm,

"YOU WILL PAY" he said hitting her in the stomach,

"FOR LEAVING THIS PLACE" he hit her again making her scream.

"WITHOUT PERMISSION" he said hitting her hard in the gut, she screamed in misery.

~ End of Dream~

Ross struggled in her sheets; Kurama put a hand on her shoulder she shot up putting a dagger to his throat.

She gulped; "OH" She said taking it away from his throat and sheathing it.

"YES are you alright?" he asked sitting on her bed.

"Yeah- im- fine- just- a- bad- dream" she said with a pause between each word, she looked up at Hiei he raised an eyebrow.

"Im fine really, just tired" she said as the kittens came to her and began to comfort her, they knew the pain she was holding back not showing her weakness in front of them.

"Alright then, it's just Shadow and Ray were acting a bit odd is all" said Kurama going to the door.

"Oh yeah sorry they were up all night playing with my feet last night, sorry if they were a hassle" she said, Kurama shook his head.

"NO not at all" he said with a sweat drop, she smiled.

"Well get some rest" he said as he closed the door behind him, Ross threw her head back onto the pillow exhausted.

'Damn these pills' she thought as her kittens licked her face in hopes of easing the pain.

'I hate this, Never take pain killers, never GRRR. damn this, if it wasn't for this saiyan blood I wouldn't be having such a negative effect on it, and it would have taken them longer to react' She thought as the Ray snuggled by her cheek and Shadow under her free arm, she smiled and cringed at the serge of pain.

'JUST KILL ME NOW' she thought as her eye-lids grew heavy and she fell asleep from her won exhaustion.

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The boys sat eating dinner, chatting about random things.

"Funny haven't seen Ross since this afternoon, what about you?" he asked the others they shook their heads.

Hiei ate his so called food, 'we are still meeting tonight am I right?' asked a voice in his head, he looked up for her but she was not in sight.

'HN I suppose' he said back to her.

'Alright, meet me in front of the stair way at 11 alright' she said as he nodded.

'Alright?' she asked again.

'Yes, whatever woman don't scream at me'

'Sorry, well eat up' she said as he looked up to see the table staring at him in silence.

"Did I grow a second head or something?" he asked as they went back to what they were doing.

~ ALRIGHT WHAT DID YOU THINK!!!!~