Hey sorry for the long wait ppl, I've been busy lately and I have also been kicked off of FF.net for the stupidest reasons. But I'm back and ready for action!

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Hiei's Problems

Midnight Escapade

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Her eyes slammed open and immediately looked around the room to see every one else asleep. The clock said exactly midnight so she figured she must have been out for quite awhile. Taking another glance around the room, she noticed something.

Hiei was nowhere to be found.

Cahadras sat up in her cot and tried to fully stand up. (Come on people you should have known it was her waking up in the first place.) Instead of standing up quickly, he felt her hands had been tied down to her bed. Probably to keep her from writhing around in her sleep. Shrugging off the questions in her mind, he jagan began to glow and immediately the bonds were burned off of her. She stood up quickly and began to explore around the cottage.

When she came back to the room where every one was sleeping, her suspicion was proved right; Hiei was nowhere in the cottage. She turned around and quickly left the cottage and into the freezing night air.

Hiei leaped to another tree branch and tried to sleep once more. A few minutes later he growled and leaped to another tree branch. No matter what he did, he couldn't get to sleep. Images of Cahadras still thrashing about on her cot was plaguing his mind and he seemed to see visions of Dende electrocuting her with electric chains over and over in his mind. This for some reason would not allow him to sleep for the night.

He growled again and leaped to another tree where a more comfortable tree branch was. Closing his eyes once again, he tried to allow sleep take him. The rustle of the leaves from the wind was slowly helping him reach his goal when something happened that made him growl once again.

That DAMN vision of her!

"Hn, will that vision ever leave me alone?!?" Hiei asked out loud. He was really close to having conniptions and destroying the whole entire forest. A few seconds passed and when he didn't get his answer he tried to go to sleep once again.

"What are you doing out here?" Cahadras' voice rang in his head and he mentally cursed. 'Now except the visions I'm hearing her voice! What have I done wrong to deserve this!?' He mentally thought to himself.

"I asked you a question and since your heartbeat quickened when you heard my voice I'm sure you are not asleep now answer my dumb question!" Damn Kitsune hearing, Hiei thought before opening his eyes and suppressing a gasp. What he had thought was Cahadras' voice in is head was actually Cahadras herself standing over him on the tree branch. My how stupid he felt just then.

"Hn, sleeping ugly has finally woken up." He mumbled. He only saw Cahadras roll her eyes.

"I think I asked you a question." The girl muttered in agitation. Hiei could hardly suppress a smirk at this. It was so easy to annoy her.

"Hn, couldn't stand your snores so I went out here." He mumbled back although he knew this was a full fledged lie, he didn't feel like telling her the truth just then.

"Your heat beat quickened at that as well, stop your lying your not good at it." Cahadras accused. Hiei mentally groaned.

Has he ever mentioned that he hates Kitsune hearing? Because he is going to mention it again.

"Damn Kitsune hearing." He grumbled. Cahadras only smirked at him in triumph making him want to wipe that smirk off her face. "Well for one, your thrashing in your sleep was annoying, and number two every time I went near you, you tried to use me as a life line." He closed his eyes for a second and could just sense a light colored blush cover Cahadras' cheeks. He smirked.

"You're lying again." Cahadras accused trying to get rid of her blush. She tried to listen to his heart again and judging from its beat, he was only partially lying. Her blush deepened at this.

"Damnit why do you want a bigger explanation." Hiei mumbled. "Hn." He tried to leap to another tree branch, but Cahadras quickly grabbed the collar to his cloak keeping him from going anywhere.

"You are not going anywhere!" Cahadras snarled out and threw Hiei against the bark of the tree and kept him pinned there. "I just woke up and I want some answers! What are you doing out here? Don't you know it's below 0 degrees in temperature right now and you are trying to sleep on a tree!?! As comfortable as a tree may be that is suicide to try and sleep at such low temperatures." Hiei only glared at her. So what if she was telling the truth, he wasn't going to let her know he knew she was right.

"And why the hell do you care?" He asked. She blinked and adverted her gaze.

"Hn, that's none of your concern." She mumbled before making her grip tighter on his shirt collar. "Now answer me!"

"Hn, fine." Hiei grumbled. She nodded her head and let go of his collar so he could get in a good dose of air. "I left because I was pissed off at what Sakura told us and also I didn't feel like coming back just then and needed to be alone and despite the cold air I felt like sleeping outside and no matter what I damn did I couldn't get to sleep and you are now making it ten times worse!"

Cahadras blinked in confusion. 'Did he, just tell the truth and empty his mind out without much of a fight?' She asked herself before shaking her head. 'That's not like him.'

"What did Sakura tell you all?" she asked suddenly taking a few steps back. 'Sakura o baka you idiot Kitsune please don't tell me she told you about my past with Dende please.' She pleaded with her mind.

"She told us why you had a break down when you saw Dende." Hiei muttered icily. Cahadras mentally growled. 'Damn Kitsune I never wanted people to know about that.' She thought some more as visions of Sakura being mass tortured floated through her head just then.

"Hn, damn Kitsune." Hiei heard Cahadras mutter quietly.

"So, Dende is here for you and more than likely we will be fighting him in the tournament." He muttered and sat down on the tree branch mentally willing the girl to leave so he can maybe get a decent night of sleep.

"WE will not be fighting him." Cahadras muttered icily. "I will be fighting him and me alone, and if I lose," She paused for a second. "I'll be going with him, if I win, well I win and never see his face again. And hopefully Keyasha can take out her sister."

Hiei looked up at Cahadras in surprise. "So you lose the match, you go with him you say." He muttered out icily. Cahadras looked down at him in surprise. 'Why does he sound so mad all of a sudden?' She asked herself.

"It's all I can do." She muttered out. Hiei stood up and grabbed her by her shoulders to make her face him.

"Hn, even if I don't like you." He muttered out. "No woman should throw her life away because of a lost match and end up living as the wife to a man she does not love." Cahadras' eyes widened. "I won't allow that." He gently shoved her down onto the tree branch and leaped off the tree and ran off towards the cottage, leaving Cahadras at a shocked stand still.

"I-I- uhh..." She tried to think of something to mumble out, but no words other than a crazy stutter would come out. 'Is he serious?!?!' She asked in her mind.

Hiei ran off to the cottage with himself mentally slapping himself over and over. How could he have said that to her? Now she is going to think he actually cared! He didn't really care that much! She could just go off with Dende for all he cared.

But then again, why did he feel as if he was lying to himself when he told himself that?

Unknown to Hiei and Cahadras, two Kitsunes had been hiding in the bushes watching the whole conversation. Sakura was writing not upon notes of black mail on Cahadras while Kurama was gently shaking his head back in forth at the two fire demons expenses.

"If this keeps up, they will never get together." Kurama mumbled.

"Who cares? I now got my black mail! Muahahaha!" Sakura laughed out. Kurama looked dat her.

"Sakura, you once told me you wanted to plan a wedding once right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Well if we get those two together you got yourself a wedding to plan."

Immediately thoughts of black mail left her system and she grinned widely.

"Sounds like fun to me! I'm gonna plan a wedding, I'm gonna plan a wedding!" She quietly chanted to herself. Kurama quickly covered her mouth with his hand.

"But first, we need to win this tournament for Keyasha and then make sure Cahadras does not go off with Dende." He said. Sakura's face fell off her face.

"Damn it all, there goes my fun. Oh well at least I get to fight! That's fun too!" Kurama mentally sighed to himself and grabbed Sakura's elbow and began to drag her back to the cottage.

"And for now, we go to sleep." He dragged her off more as she started whining about not being tired although she was yawning every ten seconds.

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I'm having the tournament start off again next chapter. Sorry if its short and bad. I had a writers block!