I think I'll be writing maybe two chapters max after this, I'm kind of sick of it and I really want to finish it up. Plus I have that new X-Files saga to work on. =P

          I now have italics!!! *grin*

          Disclaimer: Own nothing.

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          Hiei flitted through the trees, though to him it was more like trudging. He had to put up with these people. Again. And worse yet, they had forgotten everything completely. So he had to go through and tell them all the same things and ended up wishing that he'd be able to get out of this alive.

          That wasn't likely at this rate.

          The girl, Kagome, jumped him from behind and managed to take him to the ground. He let out a startled "AACK!!" before he escaped, running through the trees, backtracking so she couldn't find him.

          Inuyasha snickered.

          Hiei glowered.

          And Sango and Shippo remained oblivious to everything that had just happened, the former practicing boomerang techniques and the latter stuffing his face. Oh, this was just great, just swell. Just what he needed in his life. Some stupid female, a human female, at that, fawning over him.

          "HIEI!" Chichiri's voice snapped him back to the present. "Something has changed, no da! There's a rift in time! We're going to get caught in it, no da!"

          Hiei paused, senses extended as far as he could stretch. Metaphorically speaking, of course. He sensed a disturbance in the forest ahead of them, and before he could ready himself a massive demon knocked down the trees and stopped to regard them as a cat does a mouse. It had the head of a horse, the body of a lion and the legs of a cockroach.

          "AAAAAAAAAAAH! INUYASHA!!!!!!!" Kagome shrieked, the stereotypical female once more.

          Hiei resisted the temptation to whack his head a tree. I should just leave, these people aren't worth my time.

          Kurama, as always, somehow managed to get him to stay.

          "Hiei, we need to help them!"

          "They're perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, Kurama!"

          "Why would be sent back in time if not to help them!"

          To that he had no response and settled for a low grumble before jumping from the tree to the grassy floor.

          Inuyasha unsheathed his Tetsesuiga, Sango her boomerang, Kagome her bow and arrow, Miroku's hand on his string of beads. Kurama focused on his energy, and to anyone with the sight it was clearly visible, the fox inside of him swirling with carefully controlled energy.

          Hiei had his own ideas.

          If these humans need my assistance, I will aid them. Until then, I have no reason to take part in this fight.

          "Who are you, demon-scum!"

          Well, he didn't waste any words.

          "Your…uh…the thing that eats you…um….YOUR DOOM!"

          "Hn."

          Doesn't take a lot of thought to figure out who said that, Kurama thought cynically.

          Inuyasha took the offensive immediately, leaping at the demon with little tact and much brute force behind his haphazard swing of his sword.

          Idiot…

          With a war cry, the half-blood slammed the sword onto the demon, penetrating the purple skin only slightly. A deep, evil, laugh filled the forest.

          "Is that all you've got?"

          His laugh was cut short as a flash of white knocked his head clean of his shoulders and came soaring back to Sango, who returned it to her back.

          She looked around, feeling seven pairs of eyes watching her.

          "What?"

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          "Kurama, I get the impression we're not needed here."

          "We just arrived here – technically – give it time, Hiei."

          I don't like giving time.

          "It's not like we have much choice, anyway."

          "Hn."

          The kitsune chuckled, turning his green eyes to regard the humans and half demon. "These are some extraordinary people, Hiei. It's a wonder they even exist at all."

          "What's your point?"

          "Well, you only get transferred back in time once…well, twice, in our case. But the point is we shouldn't take this lightly. Enjoy yourself."

          Hiei gave him a "Yeah right" look.

          Kurama chuckled again.

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          The rest of the week was uneventful, and Hiei spent his time agonizing over Yukina, and if time passed at the same rate here or faster or slower than the time passage here. You never knew with portals.

          He'd grown continually restless, wishing he could do something. The demon had taken to exerting his frustration on unexpecting tree limbs. And if one or two "accidently" fell on the dog-demon, well, it's not like a few bumps on the head would change much at this point.

          He sensed the portal before Chichiri and at the same time as Kurama.

          "Let's go."

          "What if we're not done here? What have we really done?"

          "Brought them closer together?" Hiei mimicked Kurama's voice before glaring at the demon. "Honestly, why would it be here if not to take it?"

          "You're talkative today."

          I just want to find my sister. a/n: Wow, I just had a Mulder moment. Maybe this has something to do with my irrational crush phases on Hiei and Mulder…

          "You do what you want, Kurama, but I'm taking that portal and to hell if it takes me back to square one!"

          Kurama was taken aback by his outburst and was slow to react. BY the time he realized Hiei was actually going through with it, it was too late to do anything. The demon disappeared into the portal.

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I reallllllyyy want to get this done. I'm getting bored. It's bad when you're bored and you're to write. Hey, guess just what came up on my play list? Deep Forest. Go figure. Maybe it's a sign. I seem to be having a lot of those lately. I'm rambling. Woo hoo. So, what do you think? Should I end this the next chapter with Hiei getting back and Kurama being stuck in the past? Or should Chichiri make a portal and sneak off in the night with Kurama while everyone else is sleeping? Or without Kurama? Hmm…