Sorry this chapter is so short, the end just seemed like a good place to put a cliffhanger…so keep hangin' on that cliff until I get the next chapter in!!

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Hiei lay up in a tree, watching the people pass him by. Each one was different, and yet they had so many similarities. There goes another one with black hair...and another... The spiky haired fire demon snickered to himself. "Boy, I really need to find someone to harass..." He stretched and slid out of the tree. His ruby eyes glinted in the afternoon sunlight. He looked around for a good victim.
He was about to go after a particularly hastled young man when a strong energy field caught his attention. Hiei whipped around, head turning this way and that, looking for the demon that was the source of the sudden distrubance. "This is that dunce Yusuke's job, not mine," he muttered to himself as he took off unnoticed through the crowd.
His super speed led him to a back alley. Odd, he thought. Most demons would be out trying to get their fill of human flesh, not basking in shadows... He peered into the darkness, slowly letting his eyes adjust. There, underneath a fire escape, lay a young woman. She had long, wavy black hair, and she was just as short as Hiei was.
Leave her, was his first instinct. But as he turned to go, the girl groaned.
"Hiei..." She murmured. She turned bright red eyes on the little fire demon. "I've found you at last..."
"I've never met you before in my life. You'd better tell me how you know me or else your head will go rolling across the gound."
She just smiled mischievously at him for a few minutes. "Let's just say I've seen you around."
"I don't have time for this." Hiei turned on his heel and started to walk back down the alley.
"Why? You seem to have nothing better to do. I've been sent by King Hidetokeru to keep an eye on you."
Blast! He thought. An agent of the king! "What does he want with me?" He asked warily.
The girl examined her sharp nails nonchalantly. "Nothing in particular."
"THEN STOP TOYING WITH ME!" His hands blazed with red fire. He pointed a finger at the girl. "What's your name?!"
"Sayaka." Sayaka looked up at him with leering eyes, very much like his own. "Why are you so worked up? Don't tell me that you're scared of a little girl like me."
By this time Hiei was furious. "I AM NOT SCARED BY INSOLENT LITTLE GIRLS!!"
She laughed. "You're just as hot headed as everyone at home says. You know, I have a notion to report your existance to the ice demons...AND your relation to the Ice Apparition, Yukina."
"Erk..." Hiei weighed his chances. He could strike the girl and be done with it...but what weapons did she have hidden underneath that cloak?
His thoughts were cut short when Kurama appeared around the corner. "Hiei, come with me. Yusuke has bumbled up yet another mission...We need to help him."
"Why do I have to help that stupid little fartknocker?" He waved his hand airily. "I have my own affairs to deal with."
Kurama ignored his friend's insolent tone and leaned over to see who the little fire demon was talking to. "Who's your girlfriend?"
"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND I JUST MET HER GODDAMMIT!" Hiei threw a rock at Kurama's head. The red headed boy laughed and stepped to the left, letting the stone whiz by him harmlessly.
"You're losing your touch, pal. Say, miss, want to come with us? We have to go sort out a mess our friend made."
Sayaka's bright red eyes bored into Kurama's emerald ones, making him look away. "Yes, I suppose. I'm supposed to watch this little cretin anyway."
"YOU'RE the only cretin around here, you little bitch!"
She looked innocently at him. "I thought you said I was a cretin? Make up your mind, wouldya?"
Kurama smiled sheepishly. "I guess all fire demons are the same, aren't they?"
"WE'RE NOTHING ALIKE!" They both yelled at the same time. They glared at each other furiously afterwards.
"See? You even think alike!" Kurama ran down the street laughing and being chased by two particularly pissed fire demons.

Hiei and Sayaka grappled all the way there.
"Why are you so stupid?!" Hiei smacked her across the face.
"Why are you so arrogant?!" Sayaka blocked and tried to kick him somewhere painful. "WHY THE HELL DID I EVEN TAKE THIS JOB?!"
"Because I'm too damn SEXY for you to resist!" Hiei stuck his tongue out at her.
BAM!!!
The two fire demons smashed into Yusuke and Kuwabara. Kurama had easily avoided the collision, and was now staring down their enemy.
A tiny demon, barely 5 inches tall was glaring back at them. "Come get me, suckers!" He made a face.
Hiei stared blankly at it. "THAT is what that idiot needed me to help him with?!" He snorted.
"IT'S FRIGGEN FAST!" Yelled Yusuke. "WATCH!" He ran at it, but the demon skittered this way and that, avoiding his grasp.
"NYAH NYAH! CAN'T CATCH -- ERK!! LEMME GO!"
Sayaka was holding him around the teeny little waist. "What the hell was the big deal?"
All eyes turned to Kuwabara and Yusuke. "Uhm..." Said Yusuke.
Kuwabara was circling Sayaka. "Oooh, who's the girl? She's pretty!"
Sayaka booted him over the horizon.
Hiei sniggered. "The first thing you actually did right."
Yusuke watched his friend go sailing into a billboard. "Ouch...he's gonna feel that in the morning. Well, I'd better get going. I have to meet Keiko at the movie theater. Catch up with ya later, guys." He started off down the street. Right as he was about to turn the corner, he looked back and yelled, "I HOPE THINGS GO WELL WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND, HIEI!" Then he took off running.
"BASTARD!" Hiei threw a fireball at him.
Kurama rolled his eyes. "C'mon, Hiei. Let's go to Yusuke's house." They'd been staying in the juevenile delinquent's house since they became part of the "squad". "Bring your friend too."
"She's not my friend," he grumbled. But at least Kurama didn't say that she was his girlfriend.
Sayaka looked at him sideways then walked after Kurama. Hiei sighed and folled.

That night, Hiei lay awake like always, sitting in the windowsill letting the night breeze filter through his ebony hair. The moonlight danced across his face, illuminating his eyes. He took a deep breath then swung his legs back into the room.
The fire demon jumped when he heard someone whisper his name in the dark. "Hiei..."
He looked around. Seeing no one unfamiliar, he examined Kurama. The redhead was sleeping peacefully with his head under his pillow. Nope, not him. He looked at Yusuke. "If you're playing tricks on me again, you little idiot, I will personally rip your head off and mount it on a pike." Yusuke just drooled. Not him either. That left only one person...
He slowly trudged over to Sayaka.
"Hiei..." A single tear ran down her face.
Hiei extended a finger and poked her in the side. "Why are you calling me?"
She reached out and grabbed his hand. She squeezed it tight. "He-man-chan..."
He jumped at this sudden nickname. Only one person had ever called him that.