Look what I found

Botan and Hiei walked to the beach together, back to the spot where Yusuke and the others were sitting just before the kidnapping. Botan looked all around but found nothing. She slumped down in the sand in a depressed heap. Hiei just watched her.

"Hn. giving up that easily?" he said and shook his head disappointedly.

"I don't see you trying to help, Hiei dear." She said evilly.

"Don't call me dear." he snapped, "You want my help? Fine." He closed his eyes and pulled off his white bandana and his Jagan eye opened.

"You could have done that the whole time? Why did you make me worry like that?" Botan yelled

"Shut up." He said and tried to concentrate. "I can't find them. That's odd." He muttered.

"What?" Botan asked, "Did you find them?"

"Hn." He shook his head no.

"What!" Botan's eyes filled with tears. Hiei put his bandana back over his third eye. Botan's hand then brushed against something in the sand. She shot up and dug it out. "What is this?" she held up a blue orb. Hiei looked at it in recognition.

"Ransom note," Was all he said. He used one once when he was on a job.

"How can this be a note?" she said

"Baka onna! Haven't you ever heard the saying things aren't always what they seem?" he quoted. And took the orb from her hands. He held it in his closed hands. And it began to glow, and then he threw it onto the sand. And image appeared.

"I have your friends. I think I'll kill them one by one. Started with the ice apparition." Hiei jumped in anger. "That is if you can find me before a week is up. I'll be waiting, Hiei." Said the voice. Then the orb shut off but Hiei picked it up and threw it into the ocean, where it exploded.

Botan was dumbstruck, "that was meant for you? This whole thing?" Hiei looked away. "Do you know who that was?" she pressed.

"Hn." He disappeared. 'Baka. Like she would care.' He thought

Botan was left on the beach to think about what it was that happened. Why was Hiei acting so weird? Was it something she did? Botan dropped the matter and headed home, she had to wait for Hiei to tell her what they were looking for. Or who they were looking for, for that matter.

Later that night

Botan sat on her bed and brushed her blue hair as she always did before she went to bed. "Hiei." She said, the look of sadness that he held made her feel uneasy.

She could not fall asleep so she turned on the TV to the rock music channel (I have that channel. Rock 24/7 score). She fell asleep at one in the morning, the music still blasting. The last though she had was of Hiei, but she erased it because he was a jerk and she did not want to waste her time on him (I used the right waste this time)
Do you like it so far? What kind of things do you think should happen to them? If you help you help if you don't you don't. This is fun.

What is Hiei's problem? How far will they have to go in order to find their friends?