Author's Notes: Ok, I'm thinking I'm getting kinda messy in the
story. Not sure though. This episode is going to be leaving a couple of
characters angry and disappointed, as well as surprised as Hikage is forced
to reveal her past that she has tried so hard to conceal from the world.
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The rest of the team was sitting on the couches and eating their dinner while Hikage was sitting at the mini bar in front of the mini kitchen. Her fingers were seeped into her hair as she stared at nothingness. She was thinking about when she took Shishi's soul. When she took it, her stomach made her feel sick. She was still recovering from the feeling. She was still recovering from the scare that Hiei gave her as well. Her eyes were starting to get filled with tears once again. She didn't want the team to see her cry, so she got up and started for the bed room. Kurama saw her heading for the bed room at the corner of his eye. He then said to Hiei " I'll be right back." He then got up and headed for the bed room.
When he opened the door quiet enough for Hikage not to notice, he closed it behind him and said " He really scared you today didn't he." Hikage then lifted her head from her knees, showing the tear stains on her face. Tears were still rolling down her face. She then quickly shoved her face back into her knees and said " Don't look at me." Kurama walked over to her with a sympathetic look. He then sat on the bed next to Hikage and held her against his chest. He then said " It's ok, you can cry as much as you need when I'm around. I won't tell." Kurama then kissed the bottom of her neck. He untied the cloth around her waist and took the shall off of her. Kurama then kissed her luscious lips. He slid his hand into her shirt and across her bare shoulder.
Everything she had lost in her past made her hurt or realize the sad truth, but Kurama made time stay the way it was. So, still and frozen. In a world where nothing moved was a place where she wanted to stay with Kurama forever. The place where nothing sad or depressing could happen to hurt her anymore. She had wished to see the day when she would wake up in this place. This place of happiness. That's why she risked her life so very many times. She had hoped to see if heaven was like what she desired. At the same time she wants to stay alive so she can be with Kurama. So she fights to find her desired place and she wins to stay with Kurama. She can only have one after each battle, but her biggest desire is to be with Kurama so he can make her feel better after her mistaken life. She didn't plan on telling him about her past life because he was now her life. The past wasn't behind her, but she loved Kurama. If Hiei had died, it would have been one more person she held close to her dead. She just couldn't take another death. She would blame herself and it's one more scar that effected her life forever.
At this point Kurama was hiking Hiei's shirt half way up Hikage's back as he was kissing her. Kurama felt Hikage weaken in her kiss as if she had fallen sad once again. He then stopped kissing her and said lifting her chin with his fingers so that she could look at him " Are you ok?" His face was rather worried. Hikage wasn't sad. She was just finishing a sad thought. She then said " No, I'm just worried about something. Nothing too important. I was just thinking if Hiei was really as healed as he lead us on to believe." Kurama smiled and said " I'm sure he is. You were there with him when I came in the injury room so he must have been." He started kissing her on the lips again. His hands wondered all over her body until he found his hands wandering all the way up Hikage's shirt. As his hands were clinging to her back, he noticed that she wasn't wearing a bra. He couldn't put one on her this morning because she was too weak. He had just remembered.
He couldn't go any farther than shoving his hands in her shirt without calling it sex. You'd think a guy would want that, but he had his respect for her. He didn't plan on doing it with her anyway. Sure, in actuality he was three hundred and fifty years old, but in this life he was fifteen, making out with a thirteen year old. He was probably old enough to be ready for sex, but she was thirteen. So he didn't do anything further. He let his hands wonder else where on her body, but was very cautious not to offend her.
Hikage then stopped Kurama and looked up at him with a blank stare as she said " Kurama, can Ieave my past behind me? I don't want to remember it." He then made a shocked face as if he had not intended for himself to find out about her past anyway. He then returned a warm smile and said putting his soft hand on her cheek "I don't need to know your past in the first place. I'm sure it's safe to say that you can forget your past, but you will never be able to erase it from your memory. I won't ask you of your past, but only what you consider to be your life now. I'm sure it hurt when you searched your past for a reason to be born." She couldn't believe it. For the first time in her life she had someone understand her. He had told her the truth of a memory. Once again she had heard the truth she didn't want to hear, but he accepted that she wanted to now think of the present. Hikage then puled away from him and said " Thanks for telling me the truth. I don't come across too many people who have the guts to tell me the sad truth of everything the world tries to protect from themselves." Kurama smiled and said tilting his head to the right " You're welcome."
After a couple of hours everybody went to sleep. Everyone sleeping quite well I might add. Hikage was having a dream. Hiei was walking in a misty fog, up to Hikage. The scenery was like a realm of fog. When Hiei was finally accurately visible and standing right in front of Hikage, he held out his hand with a nice looking smile. The first one she had ever seen since she had met him. He had his right hand out as if he wanted to shake hands with her. She then lifted her right hand and gripped it to his. It appeared as if her were going to start shaking her hand, but instead her tore her arm off. Hikage fell to her knees. Hiei had now put up his left arm and still smiling. It still looked nice. She then lifted her left hand and gripped it to his. She then tore his arm off. He then fell to his knees and looked at her with the smile still on.
NEXT DAY
They had two days before the tournament started up again so they decided to go out and have some fresh air. They had all headed for the edge of the ocean. Hikage was sitting on a large rock at the top of a cliff. She was holding her legs against her chest. She was looking out at the sea with a blank gaze as if she had something other than the ocean on her mind. Hiei then said behind her " You shouldn't sit up there, you might fall. You wouldn't want Kurama to sulk over your death would you." He said with a snicker afterwards. Hikage then said, still dazed in her own world " So, does it matter? I'm not good enough for this wold, so why should I be here anyway? Is the only reason to fight not to die because people would be sad if we did die?" Hiei then grunted and mumbled "Acting like an idiot as always. You wonder why Kurama likes you so much." Hikage didn't answer his comment and said " I assume you didn't just come here to criticize me. What do you want?" He then said " Kurama asked me to bring you back to the group." She then slid off the rock and walked up to Hiei and followed him back to the group.
When they got there Hiei then said yanking her arm " It's about time you told us about yourself! I'm quite curious!" Kurama then tried taking Hiei's hand off of Hikage's arm, but Hiei was forced to hit his fist to his head as Kurama fell from Hikage's arm. Hikage wasn't budging from his hand. He was too strong. Hiei then said " Awww, you aren't strong enough to pull away. How sad, I was hoping for a better fight. Botan then yelled "Hiei, what do you think you're doing?! She's your team mate!" Hiei then said " Does it matter? I'm just challenging her to practice. All she needs to do is make sure she doesn't die and give me the information I want at the same time." She the nodded her head yes. Hiei shoved her away and said " Now, tell me, what exactly are you?" He said charging at her with his sword. He swung at her and in-between swings she said " I do suppose it's about time you knew." Hiei's sword finally hit a tree. She then punched him in the gut and said " I'm three thirds demon. . ." She was interrupted by Hiei's sword loosening from the tree and taking another swing at her. She ducked and said attempting to trip Hiei "and one third human." He attempt to trip Hiei was unsuccessful. His speed was formidable, but so was Hikage's. Hiei was about to slice her in two when she caught his sword between her hands. A simple technique. She then pushed herself away from the blade. He then asked her as he disappeared from her sight "What happened to your parents? Who are they?" Hikage couldn't concentrate on the question and sense his presence at the same time, so she tried answering one of the questions quickly " They died." Even when her answer was that short Hiei had gotten enough time to sneak behind her and slice her side open, leaving the her organs without a scratch. She didn't flinch, but she leaned forward a little to recoil the pain. He then said " And their names?" She then said charging at him for a punch or two saying "My fathers name is Yue Taiyo. My mother was named Sora Yukino." She new that Hiei would be able to dodge her punches, so she made it appear that she was going for a direct approach. When Hiei dodged Hikage disappeared only to appear in back of Hiei and kick the back of his head. She then swiftly appeared in front of him and gave him an upper cut to the stomach. Hiei responded by retuning an upper cut to her side and she was down. He then slammed her against a tree and held his hand to her neck. He held her up to his height so her could talk to her. He then inched his face closer to hers'. He gave her a disgusted face and said "Maybe Kurama likes you so much because you have the same sympathetic feelings for humans. Because you have lived with them so long you are weakened by feeling. You will pay for your foolish acts dearly." Hikage then said with a blank face " No, that's not it. It's quite the opposite. I despise humans for their ways, for what they believe is right. What I want to know is why you want me dead. I'm not in the way of anything you want accomplished that I know of." He then said inching to her ear " If you haven't noticed, you're quite a confusing and suspicious character and I don't intend on taking chances. I usually don't care about ones life, but you could be in the way of the continuation of my life if you're an assassin sent from somewhere to kill me." She then smirked and said " Let me tell you the truth, I'm not here to kill you. I'm really just here on a mission to become a spirit detective, but some how the team ran out of some luck one day and the toddler sent me down here to be on your team. I only know all these spells because my dad was a demon and my mom was a spirit detective. They taught me all kinds of things. They were hunted down by their enemies and killed. The only thing left for them to do was burn my house down. That explains the vision I allowed you to see." Hikage's smirk turned into a weak smile. She then lifted her hand with most of the strength she had left and tried to plant it on his cheek, but he batted it away. Tears started to for in her eyes. Hiei wasn't touched by her sympathy. He threw her to another tree. She slid down the trunk of the tree.
Kurama ran over to Hikage and supported her body in his hands. His hand stroked her cheek about two times and then it stopped as he stared at her tearful eyes. He finally figured out why she was crying for Hiei all this time. It was because he had been the one who was always putting his life on the line. He often got himself hurt just because his body didn't do what he wanted it to do. He was someone who was close enough to a friend to her and she had probably seen all her friends and the people she held dear die in front of her. One more person would break her. If Hiei died it would be one person too many.
Hikage attempted to lift her body from the ground. She was succeeding slowly and with wobble after wobble until she was fully up right. Kurama tried supporting her and said " What are you doing? You're beat to a pulp, you shouldn't attempt to fight him." Hikage then said with a tear rolling down her cheek " I might be able to earn his respect if I do win against him. Then I probably won't have to fight him like this anymore." Kurama paused and then he he gave her a hug. His chin rested on her head. He then slightly pulled away and lifted her bangs with his hand and kissed her on the forehead and said " I hate that you're doing this just for his respect, but I see no way that I can stop you from fighting him without hurting you myself."
Kurama got out of their way and looked at Hikage with a mix of worried, sympathetic and a blank face. Hikage wiped the tears off her face and then gave Hiei a disgusted stare. Hiei smirked and appeared to have disappeared with his extreme speed. He then kicked Hikage in the back. Hikage swirled around kicked Hiei in the air. It showed little effect on Hiei once so ever. She attempted to punch Hiei, but he was already gone. She heard him behind her and elbowed him to the stomach. Once again it seemed like it had little effect on him.
She had to bring out some energy power, but she shouldn't make a random shot or give herself time to aim, or power up. She needed to think fast and be able to use spirit energy fast enough so he doesn't find out her strategy too fast. She decided the easiest way to make her spirit energy seem invisible is to concentrate it into simple attacks. It was the fastest way to use her spirit energy without Hiei noticing.
It now looked like some dodging and missing punches circle. Hiei was always jumping in the air and Hikage was doing whatever she needed to dodge Hiei's attack and turn her stance into an attack like a graceful beast. If she didn't start getting sloppy this circle would be going on until she was good and tired. She was getting quite bored of Hiei jumping up and down. She then made a decoy move and changed it into grabbing Hiei's ankle and throwing him against a tree. Yes, a tree. They're everywhere. Hiei smirked as he got up from the tree and said " I never thought you'd try such a sloppy move. You seemed more like the graceful beast type of fighter, but maybe I'm working with someone who's fighting technique is only revealed in difficult battles." Hikage then said charging at him going for a punch " No, I'm just a compromiser." She then missed and used a spirit energy punch to her side. Hiei was blasted through a couple trees. Hiei flinched and then thought to himself getting up " Maybe it's her human jean that makes her so very powerful. Then against can't be. Nothing has happened to her present loved ones." While he was trying ot get up Hikage appeared as if from no where and continuously punched him in the gut. His forehead was dripping with blood and he was coughing up blood every punch she got in. Hiei hadn't let his guard down yet. He then punched her to bring her attention somewhere else, but it didn't work. She then quickly put her right hand in front of Hiei's Jagan. It nearly gave him enough time to give her a blast to her stomach, but a blue substance was being sucked from his Jagan through his head band. Hiei's eyes started to close. Hikage then said " It looks like I won." Hikage then tried carrying Hiei back to where the others were.
Kuwabara then said as he heard foot steps toward them " I'm getting a chill again guys." Out of the shadows came Hikage carrying Hiei.
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Hiei had just woken up from a long sleep that was about five hours. His eyes were slowly opening. He could feel a weight holding down his right arm down. He sat up and saw Hikage with her hands holding onto his arm as she used it as a pillow. Kurama said looking out the window of the new bed room which was a whole door way of glass letting the sun shine through " She's been sitting there since we brought you here. She's been worried about you, Hiei." Hiei then said with his hand over her forehead " What the hell did she do to me?" Kurama slightly turned just enough to eye him and say " From what Hikage told me, she sucked some of your energy out of you and that's when you fell. She must have taken a lot out of you. You were out for five hours." Hiei replied " I don't get how her power increased so much during the battle. None of the people she cared about now were getting killed, or kidnapped." Kurama then turned completely around and walked up to Hiei's new bed and said " You were the one that made her become so powerful. She was worried about you. She thinks of you as a friend, or the closest thing ot it." Hiei with a hiss " Sorry, I'm that the kind of person you make friends with. You must be thinking of someone else." Kurama then said " No, I'm pretty sure she thinks of you as someone close to her. You were the first person she had cried for since she was a child. I could see it in her eyes. In fact, she only fought you to gain your respect." Hiei paused and then looked down at Hikage sleeping on his arm. His face was blank and he didn't intend to change the way it looked. Hiei then said " I'm not expected ot hang around her every second of the day am I?" Kurama chuckled and said " Oh no, you don't have to do that. That's my job. All you have to do is not die." He smirked and then said " Surely a girl would want to hang around a person like me before I died, but then again I don't intend on dying any time soon." Kurama smiled and said " Well I suppose, but at least return a hug or let her hug you when she's relieved that you survived yet another impossible assignment. Anyway, here are now more rooms available in the hotel, so we got to split into a couple more. It appears is three will be taking this room."
Hikage started to wake up and noticed that Hiei was sitting up. She then said with a tired voice " Kurama, Hiei's awake see. . ." Kurama then said bowing down in front of her and smiling " Oh really? I didn't notice. I was watching a certain angel sleep on Hiei's arm and make it fall asleep." Hikage then said " Really?! Oh I'm sorry Hiei. I didn't mean to be a bother." Hikage then leaned in to give him a hug. Quickly before the hug she gave him a kiss in the cheek and then hugged him. Kurama grew jealous of the kiss. Kurama then said to Hikage " Can I see you outside the bed room for a minute?" Hikage then released her hug from Hiei and said " Sure." Hiei was starting to have second thoughts about agreeing to let her hug him.
When Kurama and Hikage got out in the hall way Hikage then said " What is it you-" She was cut off when Kurama slammed her against the wall. Kurama forced his elbow on the wall to support his weight. He then said breathing on her lips with his eyes calmly closed half way " I just wanted to say how much I love you. . ." His voice faded into a kiss that forever would stay in her memory. It was strong and kept her tongue busy. He then started putting his hands on her waist and they started moving toward an extra bed room. When Kurama's back hit against the door he then slowly released his kiss and turned the door knob behind him. Then then continued into the room and then closed the the door locking it behind them. Kurama then threw her on the bed and proceeded on the bed with her. He was doing quite a good job at messing up her hair. Kurama's jealousy have faded away when he was kissing Hikage in the hall way. Kurama was happier that she was wearing a buttoned shirt today unlike yesterday. She dressed herself this morning, so she must have a bra on. Kurama then started unbuttoning Hikage's shirt about six buttons down. Yep, she was wearing a bra. Kurama decided not to take her whole shirt off so that it wouldn't lead to sex. If he completely took it off chances are he'd go further than that. He delicately touched his hands to the middle of her collar bone and spread his fingers out as they moved across her collar bone to her her soft shoulders, letting the collar of her shirt fall from her neck to the pillow she lay on. Kurama kissed her neck with most care. His hand slid down her arms as her shirt was forced down farther. Kurama hovered over Hikage with a warm smile. Hikage unzipped Kurama's purple shirt. Kurama then threw the shirt else where in the room.
Hiei was till in the other room knowing they weren't coming back any time soon. He knew they were probably making out or something related to flirting and up the scale. He couldn't believe that he was the closest thing to a friend to Hikage. Heck, then again she didn't seem like the friendliest person herself when they met her. He thought to himself about the combination her parents made of her. One human, a spirit detective. The other a demon, a master criminal and both of their sides joined forces to destroy the couple that had stayed hidden until they were attacked by one another's' sides. When her house was burnt down she seemed as if she didn't care. Not a tear was on her face when she was five years old. Her eye brow hadn't twitched. She was all alone for all those years. Not even her brother stood by her when the house burnt down. He thought a little girl would probably cry if her parents died. After all, she was a girl. It was in their nature to cry a lot. Well, at least some girls' nature.
Mean while Kurama was putting his shirt back on and Hikage was buttoning her shirt. Before Kurama was finished zipping his shirt back up Hikage wrapped her hands over Kurama's shoulders and placed it in front of where the zipper was suppose to zip up. The zipper was still half way down. Her left hand was touching his chest. Kurama then said with a smile " How come you can touch my chest and I can't touch yours'?" Hikage smirked and said " Who said you couldn't touch it. You just missed your chance. Your chest is just so much more appropriate to touch in public than mine." Kurama then laughed and said " I suppose that does make sense." Hikage then let her hand slip out of his shirt. She then said laying on the bed " I call the room next to Heie's." Kurama then said " Why that room? There's only one bed." Hikage responded, lifting her hands behind her head " I know, I just want to see the sun rise when I get up. Before I go to sleep I want to gaze into space." Kurama leaned over her and planted on Hikage's cheek saying " Look no further than me then." Her shocked face then turned into a warm smile as she said " I'll be fine. You're welcome to visit the room any time you like." Kurama then gave her a warmer smile and said " You should be seeing me very often then." Hikage then smirked again and sat up as Kurama pushed away from the bed. He then suddenly brought up a subject that had nothing to do with the previous subject " By the way, when's your birthday, Hikage?" Hikage then said without care " April first. I suppose it's almost here." Kurama then said staring down at his feet " Yeah, in a couple of days. We'll have to throw you a party or something." Hikage then stared at him in question an said " Why would you throw me a party? Don't you just go on with regular life the day of your birth day?" Kurama had remembered that she mentioned her parents had died at an early age. He then said " Well, when you have people you love they want to celebrate your birthday with you, so they usually throw parties for the persons' birthday. I would like to celebrate your birthday with you." Hikage then said " I suppose I could try it as a first time. My parents always just baked a cake for me, but I guess I could try a party." Kurama then said forgetting about the kiss Hikage gave Hiei on the cheek "I have to go out and do something, so could you look after Hiei?" She nodded her head yes. Kurama then got up off the bed and out the door he went. Hikage then got off the bed and walked onto the mini hall way to Hiei's room. She opened the door and closed it behind her. She then said " Kurama had to go do something. He told me to watch you. Then again, you might not like me being in here." She then opened the clear balcony door. She said turning her head just enough to see him "I'll be sitting out here. I suggest you stay in your bed. I took a lot of energy out of you. If your going ot be fighting tomorrow then I suggest that you have all your strength back."
She then walked out side. She looked to the sky as if she was waiting for something or someone. She then held her knees to he chest with her arms. After ten minutes of sitting there a raven came directly to the rim that made sure people didn't fall off their balcony. Hikage got up and went straight for the folded piece of paper. She took it off of the ravens' ankle and opened it. Then letter had said:
Dear Ms. Taiyo
We have come to the tournaments to bring you down and make sure that your testing will be discontinued. We made the mistake of leaving you behind instead of killing you when we had the chance. We would like to reintroduce this chance by fighting you in the ring tomorrow. We will not take no as an answer. We're not after your friends, so don't even try to team up. We've put five of our best on a team. They're going to want a good fight, so don't die too soon.
Mr. Kouki
Hikage then leaned down t the side of the ravens' head and put her hand to the side of her mouth and whispered " Tell them I'll enjoy kicking their asses." The raven automatically turned into a dove and then flew away. She then walked back into the room. Hiei then said with his hands over his head which was on the pillow " What was that about?" Hikage then looked at him and said " Sorry to say, but if we're going to fight the other team I have to be the only one fighting the other team tomorrow. I can't imagine how unfair it will be for the team, but I'm willing to do so." Hiei jumped to the edge of the bed in non agreement. He didn't like the idea that she was the only one to fight tomorrow. Not because he was worried about her, but because he wanted to fight. He then said " Who the hell are these guys?" Hikage then said " I appreciate the fact that you'd like to fight tomorrow, but in order for them to agree on a battle form they need only me to fight them. They're giving our team no choice but to have only me fight." Hiei then started to get angry and said " Stop trying to be a fucking hero. It makes you sound stupid." Hikage then bowed down in front of his face looking quite angry. She said " Excuse me for making the plans. Oh wait, I didn't write the fucking letter. That's right. If you want to convince the fucking Demons of Yami to reconsider I suggest you take a watch and find out how long it takes you to realize that they're only after me." Hiei then responded " Why the hell would they want to kill you. You're a fucking girl. Quite harmless looking to the eye." Hikage then said " Right, I just look so harmless I guess. Maybe I'm too flimsy to fight at all." Hiei then yelled back " Yeah, with all those scars it shows." Hikage yelled back " You should talk. You're always going off beating your arm to a pulp and you used that Dragon of the Darkness Flame attack near the beginning of the tournament. You do everything as if it's a simple task."
Hikage then saw Hiei staring at her. She then yelled " What are you looking at?!" Hiei then said " I could have sworn that your eyes were blue." Hikage then said sitting next to Hiei " My eyes change color sometimes. They stay blue most of the time, but they sometimes turn red. When my eyes turn red I can't notice unless it is dark out. When my eyes turn red it gives me the ability to see in the dark. I can't control it when it changes like this when I don't need it. When I want to use it I can purposely turn my eyes red, but other than that it just turns red and blue." Hiei then asked " Why doe they change colors?" Hikage said closing her eyes " They change because of my mix in demon jean. I have two demon jeans. One is a Phoenix, the other is a fox. My father was a Phoenix demon in a human form with red eyes that could see in the dark. His mother was a fox demon with blue eyes. I got both of their jeans, but I was born with my grandmothers' eyes and they kept on changing colors from then on. My mother was a human with green eyes. Her eye color never got mixed in with my jeans. This is what I look like as a human. My mother was on the case of my fathers' murders and was trying to catch him. She was instead captured by my father and eventually fell in love. When a couple other spirit detectives came my father escaped, but my mother lied to the others and said she didn't know where he had gone. Of coarse she knew. My father confessed his love for my mother and they lived in a house shrouded in a forest for ten years. They had my and my older brother while they lived in the forest until the spirit detectives found where my mother was and as the news spread through the worlds. Then demons had found out that my father married a human and they made an alliance with the spirit detectives for the first time. They killed my parents and left me and my brother living, not knowing that we existed." Hikage let herself fall back on the bed with her hands behind her head and said " That's why the team wants to make the fight so unfair for tomorrow."
Hiei got up off the bed and looked at his shirt sitting next to the bed. He then shrugged his shoulders and didn't care if his shirt was off. Heck, Kurama could come barging in at any moment and get jealous, or over superstitious and go suck faces with Hikage again. He looked at Hikage closing her eyes on the bed. Her long hair of flaming color was wildly spreading around the bed sheets. Hiei then said " You wanna stop hogging my bed while I get something to eat, or are you going ot stay there all day without food." She then opened her eyes and sat up saying " What are we eating?" Hiei then said " What ever looks edible in the fridge." She then said "That doesn't sound bad." She go up on her feet and walked to the door with Hiei opening the door. They walked to the living room and made hot dogs. Hikage flipped the T.V. on and it was the Dark Tournament news. It showed the fights that had happened before Hiei's fight. When Hiei was getting the hot dogs ready Hiei's fight came on. Hiei jumped on he couch and gave Hikage her hot dog. Then it showed when Hiei got blown across the arena into a wall. Hiei then said " Oh, that was Friday wasn't it. Pf, must have flopped big time to loose against that idiot." Hiei looked over to Hikage as she didn't respond to the comment. He saw a tear roll down her face. She seemed as if she was trying like hell to keep her tears in her fucking eye balls. She couldn't hold her tears back. Her face was gushing with tears. She then said to Hiei " You fucking scared me you idiot. It wasn't funny at all." She then leaned her head on Hiei's chest. At first Hiei paused his arms open and then held her as she cried. He was having serious doubts about agreeing with Kurama now. He was uncomfortable like that. It was about ten o'clock and she was doing this now. He felt annoyed.
Kurama then walked in the door and saw Hikage crying on Hiei's chest. He then said " What's wrong?" Hiei turned his head and said "She saw the match I had on Friday that was on T.V. Kurama walked over to Hikage and took her away from Hiei. He could see he was getting annoyed. He then walked her to her room and inside, closing the door behind him. He then asked looking at her tear stained face " Are you going to be all right for now?" She then nodded her head yes and said " I think I just need to go to sleep. I'll take a shower in the morning like I did today." Kurama then nodded his head yes and left the room so she could get dressed into her night clothes. When Kurama left the room he saw Hiei going back to his room and yelled after he closed the door " Where the hell is your shirt you fucking flirt?!" Hiei then said calmly " I decided I didn't need to put it back on." Kurama walked to his room right across the mini hall from Hikage and closed the door behind him.
After a couple minutes Hikage was finished dressing and went straight to bed, turning off the light and closing the blinds to the balcony window.
While she was in bed she heard a knock at the door. She then said " Come in." Kurama came in with purple boxers and closed the door behind him. He then said " I couldn't sleep in my room. Could I sleep in yours?" Hikage then said " There aren't any other beds in this room, so I don't think that would work." Kurama frowned, but then smiled again. He walked over to the bed and lifted the covers, sliding under them with Hikage. Hikage then said turning to Kurama " What are you doing?" Kurama then gave her a warm smile and said " I figured we could share a bed since there were no others in this room." Hikage didn't make any motion to kick him out and turned the other way. Kurama then folded his arm over her chest. Hikage then rolled on her back looking at Kurama. Kurama was now hovering over her body. He inched closer and then kissed Hikage letting his chest connect to hers' ( Anime Skittals: Now that I think of it, Kurama and Hikage sure have been making out a lot more than they've been just kissing. Pf, oh well, it's my story anyway. Not that I'm taking advantage of any characters.) He started unbuttoning her shirt. He kissed the skin below her collar bone. He kept on kissing lower and lower until he was about to move the collar to her night shirt bellow her nipple ( Anime Skittals: Uh, please don't make me repeat that word.) Hikage then said to Kurama before he could do that " Kurama, stop. . ." Kurama looked into her eyes and saw that she was uncomfortable with him going that far down, so he stopped and worked his way back up to her neck. Kurama could see Hikage blushing. A drop of sweat fell off of Kurama and onto Hikage. Hikage lifted her hands and let her fingers seep through Kurama's hair. Kurama lifted his head from Hikage's neck and said " Is something wrong?" Hikage smiled at him and said " No, nothing's wrong." Kurama looked at her eyes and saw nothing indicating a problem. Kurama then traced her lips with his finger in curiosity. He then kissed her luscious red lips.
Hiei barged into the door hoping that it was Kurama's room since he wasn't in the other bed rooms. He was hopping to talk to him about the agreement he made to hug Hikage and stuff. Instead he saw Kurama and Hikage making out which, to him, looked a lot like sex. He then said yelling from his sickened view of them " God Kurama, could you tell me before you plan in having sex?!" He had finally shut the door.
Kurama didn't blame Hiei for thinking it looked like sex. The bottom half of his body was under the covers and Hikage's shirt was open. Kurama then said to Hikage as he delicately touched his hand to her cheek " I think I should sleep in my room tonight. We don't want Hiei getting the wrong idea." Hikage nodded yes. Hikage buttoned her shirt while Kurama got off the bed and headed for the door. He then left the room. Hiei then stopped Kurama from going ot his room and asked to talk with him in the living room.
Hiei then asked Kurama " Do I really have to let her hug me. I'm getting to be quite annoyed at it already. Do you think you could get her to just hug me once a day or something?" Kurama chuckled and then said " I suppose I can do something about it. I'll ask her in the morning. I'll make sure the it doesn't sound like we've talked." Kurama was about to go to his room when Hiei then said " Wait, I have another question." Kurama then turned around and listened to his question. Hiei then said " Has Hikage talked to you about her past yet?" Kurama then looked down to the right and said " She and I don't talk about her past much. She is very uncomfortable with it. She once asked me if I would let her forget her past. I could see her past was very painful. It was easy to see in her eyes. I've noticed her eyes turning red and blue. When her eyes turn red I can see all of her emotion mixed into one and I can barely tell how she's feeling, but when her eyes are blue they are quite easy to read. Why do you ask?" Hiei then said " She told me the details about her parents. I've heard of the legendary Yue Taiyo, but I never heard how he died. She was talking about how she had very mixed jeans. She has two different demon forms because of her grand mother and her father. She has both a spirit fox jean and a spirit phoenix jean. It's very rare to get two different demon jeans. There was a raven that appeared with a note on the balcony today. They don't want any of us to fight except for Hikage. I didn't understand the concept of it turning into a dove when she whispered something to it." Kurama then looked at him with question " The raven turned into a dove you say?" Hiei nodded his head yes. Kurama held his chin and said " A long time ago in my past life as a spirit fox turning a dove into a raven meant a death match. When one sent a dove with a note it meant good luck for the person that received the note. Which must mean she has to kill tomorrows team before she gets killed." Kurama was just about to say good night to Hiei when he remembered the incident that happened in the bed room and said " Oh and Hiei, we weren't having sex. We were making out." Hiei smirked in disbelief and then said as he walked to his room " Whatever." They all went to sleep after that.
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Hope you all liked this chapter. Please review and thanks for reading.
The rest of the team was sitting on the couches and eating their dinner while Hikage was sitting at the mini bar in front of the mini kitchen. Her fingers were seeped into her hair as she stared at nothingness. She was thinking about when she took Shishi's soul. When she took it, her stomach made her feel sick. She was still recovering from the feeling. She was still recovering from the scare that Hiei gave her as well. Her eyes were starting to get filled with tears once again. She didn't want the team to see her cry, so she got up and started for the bed room. Kurama saw her heading for the bed room at the corner of his eye. He then said to Hiei " I'll be right back." He then got up and headed for the bed room.
When he opened the door quiet enough for Hikage not to notice, he closed it behind him and said " He really scared you today didn't he." Hikage then lifted her head from her knees, showing the tear stains on her face. Tears were still rolling down her face. She then quickly shoved her face back into her knees and said " Don't look at me." Kurama walked over to her with a sympathetic look. He then sat on the bed next to Hikage and held her against his chest. He then said " It's ok, you can cry as much as you need when I'm around. I won't tell." Kurama then kissed the bottom of her neck. He untied the cloth around her waist and took the shall off of her. Kurama then kissed her luscious lips. He slid his hand into her shirt and across her bare shoulder.
Everything she had lost in her past made her hurt or realize the sad truth, but Kurama made time stay the way it was. So, still and frozen. In a world where nothing moved was a place where she wanted to stay with Kurama forever. The place where nothing sad or depressing could happen to hurt her anymore. She had wished to see the day when she would wake up in this place. This place of happiness. That's why she risked her life so very many times. She had hoped to see if heaven was like what she desired. At the same time she wants to stay alive so she can be with Kurama. So she fights to find her desired place and she wins to stay with Kurama. She can only have one after each battle, but her biggest desire is to be with Kurama so he can make her feel better after her mistaken life. She didn't plan on telling him about her past life because he was now her life. The past wasn't behind her, but she loved Kurama. If Hiei had died, it would have been one more person she held close to her dead. She just couldn't take another death. She would blame herself and it's one more scar that effected her life forever.
At this point Kurama was hiking Hiei's shirt half way up Hikage's back as he was kissing her. Kurama felt Hikage weaken in her kiss as if she had fallen sad once again. He then stopped kissing her and said lifting her chin with his fingers so that she could look at him " Are you ok?" His face was rather worried. Hikage wasn't sad. She was just finishing a sad thought. She then said " No, I'm just worried about something. Nothing too important. I was just thinking if Hiei was really as healed as he lead us on to believe." Kurama smiled and said " I'm sure he is. You were there with him when I came in the injury room so he must have been." He started kissing her on the lips again. His hands wondered all over her body until he found his hands wandering all the way up Hikage's shirt. As his hands were clinging to her back, he noticed that she wasn't wearing a bra. He couldn't put one on her this morning because she was too weak. He had just remembered.
He couldn't go any farther than shoving his hands in her shirt without calling it sex. You'd think a guy would want that, but he had his respect for her. He didn't plan on doing it with her anyway. Sure, in actuality he was three hundred and fifty years old, but in this life he was fifteen, making out with a thirteen year old. He was probably old enough to be ready for sex, but she was thirteen. So he didn't do anything further. He let his hands wonder else where on her body, but was very cautious not to offend her.
Hikage then stopped Kurama and looked up at him with a blank stare as she said " Kurama, can Ieave my past behind me? I don't want to remember it." He then made a shocked face as if he had not intended for himself to find out about her past anyway. He then returned a warm smile and said putting his soft hand on her cheek "I don't need to know your past in the first place. I'm sure it's safe to say that you can forget your past, but you will never be able to erase it from your memory. I won't ask you of your past, but only what you consider to be your life now. I'm sure it hurt when you searched your past for a reason to be born." She couldn't believe it. For the first time in her life she had someone understand her. He had told her the truth of a memory. Once again she had heard the truth she didn't want to hear, but he accepted that she wanted to now think of the present. Hikage then puled away from him and said " Thanks for telling me the truth. I don't come across too many people who have the guts to tell me the sad truth of everything the world tries to protect from themselves." Kurama smiled and said tilting his head to the right " You're welcome."
After a couple of hours everybody went to sleep. Everyone sleeping quite well I might add. Hikage was having a dream. Hiei was walking in a misty fog, up to Hikage. The scenery was like a realm of fog. When Hiei was finally accurately visible and standing right in front of Hikage, he held out his hand with a nice looking smile. The first one she had ever seen since she had met him. He had his right hand out as if he wanted to shake hands with her. She then lifted her right hand and gripped it to his. It appeared as if her were going to start shaking her hand, but instead her tore her arm off. Hikage fell to her knees. Hiei had now put up his left arm and still smiling. It still looked nice. She then lifted her left hand and gripped it to his. She then tore his arm off. He then fell to his knees and looked at her with the smile still on.
NEXT DAY
They had two days before the tournament started up again so they decided to go out and have some fresh air. They had all headed for the edge of the ocean. Hikage was sitting on a large rock at the top of a cliff. She was holding her legs against her chest. She was looking out at the sea with a blank gaze as if she had something other than the ocean on her mind. Hiei then said behind her " You shouldn't sit up there, you might fall. You wouldn't want Kurama to sulk over your death would you." He said with a snicker afterwards. Hikage then said, still dazed in her own world " So, does it matter? I'm not good enough for this wold, so why should I be here anyway? Is the only reason to fight not to die because people would be sad if we did die?" Hiei then grunted and mumbled "Acting like an idiot as always. You wonder why Kurama likes you so much." Hikage didn't answer his comment and said " I assume you didn't just come here to criticize me. What do you want?" He then said " Kurama asked me to bring you back to the group." She then slid off the rock and walked up to Hiei and followed him back to the group.
When they got there Hiei then said yanking her arm " It's about time you told us about yourself! I'm quite curious!" Kurama then tried taking Hiei's hand off of Hikage's arm, but Hiei was forced to hit his fist to his head as Kurama fell from Hikage's arm. Hikage wasn't budging from his hand. He was too strong. Hiei then said " Awww, you aren't strong enough to pull away. How sad, I was hoping for a better fight. Botan then yelled "Hiei, what do you think you're doing?! She's your team mate!" Hiei then said " Does it matter? I'm just challenging her to practice. All she needs to do is make sure she doesn't die and give me the information I want at the same time." She the nodded her head yes. Hiei shoved her away and said " Now, tell me, what exactly are you?" He said charging at her with his sword. He swung at her and in-between swings she said " I do suppose it's about time you knew." Hiei's sword finally hit a tree. She then punched him in the gut and said " I'm three thirds demon. . ." She was interrupted by Hiei's sword loosening from the tree and taking another swing at her. She ducked and said attempting to trip Hiei "and one third human." He attempt to trip Hiei was unsuccessful. His speed was formidable, but so was Hikage's. Hiei was about to slice her in two when she caught his sword between her hands. A simple technique. She then pushed herself away from the blade. He then asked her as he disappeared from her sight "What happened to your parents? Who are they?" Hikage couldn't concentrate on the question and sense his presence at the same time, so she tried answering one of the questions quickly " They died." Even when her answer was that short Hiei had gotten enough time to sneak behind her and slice her side open, leaving the her organs without a scratch. She didn't flinch, but she leaned forward a little to recoil the pain. He then said " And their names?" She then said charging at him for a punch or two saying "My fathers name is Yue Taiyo. My mother was named Sora Yukino." She new that Hiei would be able to dodge her punches, so she made it appear that she was going for a direct approach. When Hiei dodged Hikage disappeared only to appear in back of Hiei and kick the back of his head. She then swiftly appeared in front of him and gave him an upper cut to the stomach. Hiei responded by retuning an upper cut to her side and she was down. He then slammed her against a tree and held his hand to her neck. He held her up to his height so her could talk to her. He then inched his face closer to hers'. He gave her a disgusted face and said "Maybe Kurama likes you so much because you have the same sympathetic feelings for humans. Because you have lived with them so long you are weakened by feeling. You will pay for your foolish acts dearly." Hikage then said with a blank face " No, that's not it. It's quite the opposite. I despise humans for their ways, for what they believe is right. What I want to know is why you want me dead. I'm not in the way of anything you want accomplished that I know of." He then said inching to her ear " If you haven't noticed, you're quite a confusing and suspicious character and I don't intend on taking chances. I usually don't care about ones life, but you could be in the way of the continuation of my life if you're an assassin sent from somewhere to kill me." She then smirked and said " Let me tell you the truth, I'm not here to kill you. I'm really just here on a mission to become a spirit detective, but some how the team ran out of some luck one day and the toddler sent me down here to be on your team. I only know all these spells because my dad was a demon and my mom was a spirit detective. They taught me all kinds of things. They were hunted down by their enemies and killed. The only thing left for them to do was burn my house down. That explains the vision I allowed you to see." Hikage's smirk turned into a weak smile. She then lifted her hand with most of the strength she had left and tried to plant it on his cheek, but he batted it away. Tears started to for in her eyes. Hiei wasn't touched by her sympathy. He threw her to another tree. She slid down the trunk of the tree.
Kurama ran over to Hikage and supported her body in his hands. His hand stroked her cheek about two times and then it stopped as he stared at her tearful eyes. He finally figured out why she was crying for Hiei all this time. It was because he had been the one who was always putting his life on the line. He often got himself hurt just because his body didn't do what he wanted it to do. He was someone who was close enough to a friend to her and she had probably seen all her friends and the people she held dear die in front of her. One more person would break her. If Hiei died it would be one person too many.
Hikage attempted to lift her body from the ground. She was succeeding slowly and with wobble after wobble until she was fully up right. Kurama tried supporting her and said " What are you doing? You're beat to a pulp, you shouldn't attempt to fight him." Hikage then said with a tear rolling down her cheek " I might be able to earn his respect if I do win against him. Then I probably won't have to fight him like this anymore." Kurama paused and then he he gave her a hug. His chin rested on her head. He then slightly pulled away and lifted her bangs with his hand and kissed her on the forehead and said " I hate that you're doing this just for his respect, but I see no way that I can stop you from fighting him without hurting you myself."
Kurama got out of their way and looked at Hikage with a mix of worried, sympathetic and a blank face. Hikage wiped the tears off her face and then gave Hiei a disgusted stare. Hiei smirked and appeared to have disappeared with his extreme speed. He then kicked Hikage in the back. Hikage swirled around kicked Hiei in the air. It showed little effect on Hiei once so ever. She attempted to punch Hiei, but he was already gone. She heard him behind her and elbowed him to the stomach. Once again it seemed like it had little effect on him.
She had to bring out some energy power, but she shouldn't make a random shot or give herself time to aim, or power up. She needed to think fast and be able to use spirit energy fast enough so he doesn't find out her strategy too fast. She decided the easiest way to make her spirit energy seem invisible is to concentrate it into simple attacks. It was the fastest way to use her spirit energy without Hiei noticing.
It now looked like some dodging and missing punches circle. Hiei was always jumping in the air and Hikage was doing whatever she needed to dodge Hiei's attack and turn her stance into an attack like a graceful beast. If she didn't start getting sloppy this circle would be going on until she was good and tired. She was getting quite bored of Hiei jumping up and down. She then made a decoy move and changed it into grabbing Hiei's ankle and throwing him against a tree. Yes, a tree. They're everywhere. Hiei smirked as he got up from the tree and said " I never thought you'd try such a sloppy move. You seemed more like the graceful beast type of fighter, but maybe I'm working with someone who's fighting technique is only revealed in difficult battles." Hikage then said charging at him going for a punch " No, I'm just a compromiser." She then missed and used a spirit energy punch to her side. Hiei was blasted through a couple trees. Hiei flinched and then thought to himself getting up " Maybe it's her human jean that makes her so very powerful. Then against can't be. Nothing has happened to her present loved ones." While he was trying ot get up Hikage appeared as if from no where and continuously punched him in the gut. His forehead was dripping with blood and he was coughing up blood every punch she got in. Hiei hadn't let his guard down yet. He then punched her to bring her attention somewhere else, but it didn't work. She then quickly put her right hand in front of Hiei's Jagan. It nearly gave him enough time to give her a blast to her stomach, but a blue substance was being sucked from his Jagan through his head band. Hiei's eyes started to close. Hikage then said " It looks like I won." Hikage then tried carrying Hiei back to where the others were.
Kuwabara then said as he heard foot steps toward them " I'm getting a chill again guys." Out of the shadows came Hikage carrying Hiei.
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Hiei had just woken up from a long sleep that was about five hours. His eyes were slowly opening. He could feel a weight holding down his right arm down. He sat up and saw Hikage with her hands holding onto his arm as she used it as a pillow. Kurama said looking out the window of the new bed room which was a whole door way of glass letting the sun shine through " She's been sitting there since we brought you here. She's been worried about you, Hiei." Hiei then said with his hand over her forehead " What the hell did she do to me?" Kurama slightly turned just enough to eye him and say " From what Hikage told me, she sucked some of your energy out of you and that's when you fell. She must have taken a lot out of you. You were out for five hours." Hiei replied " I don't get how her power increased so much during the battle. None of the people she cared about now were getting killed, or kidnapped." Kurama then turned completely around and walked up to Hiei's new bed and said " You were the one that made her become so powerful. She was worried about you. She thinks of you as a friend, or the closest thing ot it." Hiei with a hiss " Sorry, I'm that the kind of person you make friends with. You must be thinking of someone else." Kurama then said " No, I'm pretty sure she thinks of you as someone close to her. You were the first person she had cried for since she was a child. I could see it in her eyes. In fact, she only fought you to gain your respect." Hiei paused and then looked down at Hikage sleeping on his arm. His face was blank and he didn't intend to change the way it looked. Hiei then said " I'm not expected ot hang around her every second of the day am I?" Kurama chuckled and said " Oh no, you don't have to do that. That's my job. All you have to do is not die." He smirked and then said " Surely a girl would want to hang around a person like me before I died, but then again I don't intend on dying any time soon." Kurama smiled and said " Well I suppose, but at least return a hug or let her hug you when she's relieved that you survived yet another impossible assignment. Anyway, here are now more rooms available in the hotel, so we got to split into a couple more. It appears is three will be taking this room."
Hikage started to wake up and noticed that Hiei was sitting up. She then said with a tired voice " Kurama, Hiei's awake see. . ." Kurama then said bowing down in front of her and smiling " Oh really? I didn't notice. I was watching a certain angel sleep on Hiei's arm and make it fall asleep." Hikage then said " Really?! Oh I'm sorry Hiei. I didn't mean to be a bother." Hikage then leaned in to give him a hug. Quickly before the hug she gave him a kiss in the cheek and then hugged him. Kurama grew jealous of the kiss. Kurama then said to Hikage " Can I see you outside the bed room for a minute?" Hikage then released her hug from Hiei and said " Sure." Hiei was starting to have second thoughts about agreeing to let her hug him.
When Kurama and Hikage got out in the hall way Hikage then said " What is it you-" She was cut off when Kurama slammed her against the wall. Kurama forced his elbow on the wall to support his weight. He then said breathing on her lips with his eyes calmly closed half way " I just wanted to say how much I love you. . ." His voice faded into a kiss that forever would stay in her memory. It was strong and kept her tongue busy. He then started putting his hands on her waist and they started moving toward an extra bed room. When Kurama's back hit against the door he then slowly released his kiss and turned the door knob behind him. Then then continued into the room and then closed the the door locking it behind them. Kurama then threw her on the bed and proceeded on the bed with her. He was doing quite a good job at messing up her hair. Kurama's jealousy have faded away when he was kissing Hikage in the hall way. Kurama was happier that she was wearing a buttoned shirt today unlike yesterday. She dressed herself this morning, so she must have a bra on. Kurama then started unbuttoning Hikage's shirt about six buttons down. Yep, she was wearing a bra. Kurama decided not to take her whole shirt off so that it wouldn't lead to sex. If he completely took it off chances are he'd go further than that. He delicately touched his hands to the middle of her collar bone and spread his fingers out as they moved across her collar bone to her her soft shoulders, letting the collar of her shirt fall from her neck to the pillow she lay on. Kurama kissed her neck with most care. His hand slid down her arms as her shirt was forced down farther. Kurama hovered over Hikage with a warm smile. Hikage unzipped Kurama's purple shirt. Kurama then threw the shirt else where in the room.
Hiei was till in the other room knowing they weren't coming back any time soon. He knew they were probably making out or something related to flirting and up the scale. He couldn't believe that he was the closest thing to a friend to Hikage. Heck, then again she didn't seem like the friendliest person herself when they met her. He thought to himself about the combination her parents made of her. One human, a spirit detective. The other a demon, a master criminal and both of their sides joined forces to destroy the couple that had stayed hidden until they were attacked by one another's' sides. When her house was burnt down she seemed as if she didn't care. Not a tear was on her face when she was five years old. Her eye brow hadn't twitched. She was all alone for all those years. Not even her brother stood by her when the house burnt down. He thought a little girl would probably cry if her parents died. After all, she was a girl. It was in their nature to cry a lot. Well, at least some girls' nature.
Mean while Kurama was putting his shirt back on and Hikage was buttoning her shirt. Before Kurama was finished zipping his shirt back up Hikage wrapped her hands over Kurama's shoulders and placed it in front of where the zipper was suppose to zip up. The zipper was still half way down. Her left hand was touching his chest. Kurama then said with a smile " How come you can touch my chest and I can't touch yours'?" Hikage smirked and said " Who said you couldn't touch it. You just missed your chance. Your chest is just so much more appropriate to touch in public than mine." Kurama then laughed and said " I suppose that does make sense." Hikage then let her hand slip out of his shirt. She then said laying on the bed " I call the room next to Heie's." Kurama then said " Why that room? There's only one bed." Hikage responded, lifting her hands behind her head " I know, I just want to see the sun rise when I get up. Before I go to sleep I want to gaze into space." Kurama leaned over her and planted on Hikage's cheek saying " Look no further than me then." Her shocked face then turned into a warm smile as she said " I'll be fine. You're welcome to visit the room any time you like." Kurama then gave her a warmer smile and said " You should be seeing me very often then." Hikage then smirked again and sat up as Kurama pushed away from the bed. He then suddenly brought up a subject that had nothing to do with the previous subject " By the way, when's your birthday, Hikage?" Hikage then said without care " April first. I suppose it's almost here." Kurama then said staring down at his feet " Yeah, in a couple of days. We'll have to throw you a party or something." Hikage then stared at him in question an said " Why would you throw me a party? Don't you just go on with regular life the day of your birth day?" Kurama had remembered that she mentioned her parents had died at an early age. He then said " Well, when you have people you love they want to celebrate your birthday with you, so they usually throw parties for the persons' birthday. I would like to celebrate your birthday with you." Hikage then said " I suppose I could try it as a first time. My parents always just baked a cake for me, but I guess I could try a party." Kurama then said forgetting about the kiss Hikage gave Hiei on the cheek "I have to go out and do something, so could you look after Hiei?" She nodded her head yes. Kurama then got up off the bed and out the door he went. Hikage then got off the bed and walked onto the mini hall way to Hiei's room. She opened the door and closed it behind her. She then said " Kurama had to go do something. He told me to watch you. Then again, you might not like me being in here." She then opened the clear balcony door. She said turning her head just enough to see him "I'll be sitting out here. I suggest you stay in your bed. I took a lot of energy out of you. If your going ot be fighting tomorrow then I suggest that you have all your strength back."
She then walked out side. She looked to the sky as if she was waiting for something or someone. She then held her knees to he chest with her arms. After ten minutes of sitting there a raven came directly to the rim that made sure people didn't fall off their balcony. Hikage got up and went straight for the folded piece of paper. She took it off of the ravens' ankle and opened it. Then letter had said:
Dear Ms. Taiyo
We have come to the tournaments to bring you down and make sure that your testing will be discontinued. We made the mistake of leaving you behind instead of killing you when we had the chance. We would like to reintroduce this chance by fighting you in the ring tomorrow. We will not take no as an answer. We're not after your friends, so don't even try to team up. We've put five of our best on a team. They're going to want a good fight, so don't die too soon.
Mr. Kouki
Hikage then leaned down t the side of the ravens' head and put her hand to the side of her mouth and whispered " Tell them I'll enjoy kicking their asses." The raven automatically turned into a dove and then flew away. She then walked back into the room. Hiei then said with his hands over his head which was on the pillow " What was that about?" Hikage then looked at him and said " Sorry to say, but if we're going to fight the other team I have to be the only one fighting the other team tomorrow. I can't imagine how unfair it will be for the team, but I'm willing to do so." Hiei jumped to the edge of the bed in non agreement. He didn't like the idea that she was the only one to fight tomorrow. Not because he was worried about her, but because he wanted to fight. He then said " Who the hell are these guys?" Hikage then said " I appreciate the fact that you'd like to fight tomorrow, but in order for them to agree on a battle form they need only me to fight them. They're giving our team no choice but to have only me fight." Hiei then started to get angry and said " Stop trying to be a fucking hero. It makes you sound stupid." Hikage then bowed down in front of his face looking quite angry. She said " Excuse me for making the plans. Oh wait, I didn't write the fucking letter. That's right. If you want to convince the fucking Demons of Yami to reconsider I suggest you take a watch and find out how long it takes you to realize that they're only after me." Hiei then responded " Why the hell would they want to kill you. You're a fucking girl. Quite harmless looking to the eye." Hikage then said " Right, I just look so harmless I guess. Maybe I'm too flimsy to fight at all." Hiei then yelled back " Yeah, with all those scars it shows." Hikage yelled back " You should talk. You're always going off beating your arm to a pulp and you used that Dragon of the Darkness Flame attack near the beginning of the tournament. You do everything as if it's a simple task."
Hikage then saw Hiei staring at her. She then yelled " What are you looking at?!" Hiei then said " I could have sworn that your eyes were blue." Hikage then said sitting next to Hiei " My eyes change color sometimes. They stay blue most of the time, but they sometimes turn red. When my eyes turn red I can't notice unless it is dark out. When my eyes turn red it gives me the ability to see in the dark. I can't control it when it changes like this when I don't need it. When I want to use it I can purposely turn my eyes red, but other than that it just turns red and blue." Hiei then asked " Why doe they change colors?" Hikage said closing her eyes " They change because of my mix in demon jean. I have two demon jeans. One is a Phoenix, the other is a fox. My father was a Phoenix demon in a human form with red eyes that could see in the dark. His mother was a fox demon with blue eyes. I got both of their jeans, but I was born with my grandmothers' eyes and they kept on changing colors from then on. My mother was a human with green eyes. Her eye color never got mixed in with my jeans. This is what I look like as a human. My mother was on the case of my fathers' murders and was trying to catch him. She was instead captured by my father and eventually fell in love. When a couple other spirit detectives came my father escaped, but my mother lied to the others and said she didn't know where he had gone. Of coarse she knew. My father confessed his love for my mother and they lived in a house shrouded in a forest for ten years. They had my and my older brother while they lived in the forest until the spirit detectives found where my mother was and as the news spread through the worlds. Then demons had found out that my father married a human and they made an alliance with the spirit detectives for the first time. They killed my parents and left me and my brother living, not knowing that we existed." Hikage let herself fall back on the bed with her hands behind her head and said " That's why the team wants to make the fight so unfair for tomorrow."
Hiei got up off the bed and looked at his shirt sitting next to the bed. He then shrugged his shoulders and didn't care if his shirt was off. Heck, Kurama could come barging in at any moment and get jealous, or over superstitious and go suck faces with Hikage again. He looked at Hikage closing her eyes on the bed. Her long hair of flaming color was wildly spreading around the bed sheets. Hiei then said " You wanna stop hogging my bed while I get something to eat, or are you going ot stay there all day without food." She then opened her eyes and sat up saying " What are we eating?" Hiei then said " What ever looks edible in the fridge." She then said "That doesn't sound bad." She go up on her feet and walked to the door with Hiei opening the door. They walked to the living room and made hot dogs. Hikage flipped the T.V. on and it was the Dark Tournament news. It showed the fights that had happened before Hiei's fight. When Hiei was getting the hot dogs ready Hiei's fight came on. Hiei jumped on he couch and gave Hikage her hot dog. Then it showed when Hiei got blown across the arena into a wall. Hiei then said " Oh, that was Friday wasn't it. Pf, must have flopped big time to loose against that idiot." Hiei looked over to Hikage as she didn't respond to the comment. He saw a tear roll down her face. She seemed as if she was trying like hell to keep her tears in her fucking eye balls. She couldn't hold her tears back. Her face was gushing with tears. She then said to Hiei " You fucking scared me you idiot. It wasn't funny at all." She then leaned her head on Hiei's chest. At first Hiei paused his arms open and then held her as she cried. He was having serious doubts about agreeing with Kurama now. He was uncomfortable like that. It was about ten o'clock and she was doing this now. He felt annoyed.
Kurama then walked in the door and saw Hikage crying on Hiei's chest. He then said " What's wrong?" Hiei turned his head and said "She saw the match I had on Friday that was on T.V. Kurama walked over to Hikage and took her away from Hiei. He could see he was getting annoyed. He then walked her to her room and inside, closing the door behind him. He then asked looking at her tear stained face " Are you going to be all right for now?" She then nodded her head yes and said " I think I just need to go to sleep. I'll take a shower in the morning like I did today." Kurama then nodded his head yes and left the room so she could get dressed into her night clothes. When Kurama left the room he saw Hiei going back to his room and yelled after he closed the door " Where the hell is your shirt you fucking flirt?!" Hiei then said calmly " I decided I didn't need to put it back on." Kurama walked to his room right across the mini hall from Hikage and closed the door behind him.
After a couple minutes Hikage was finished dressing and went straight to bed, turning off the light and closing the blinds to the balcony window.
While she was in bed she heard a knock at the door. She then said " Come in." Kurama came in with purple boxers and closed the door behind him. He then said " I couldn't sleep in my room. Could I sleep in yours?" Hikage then said " There aren't any other beds in this room, so I don't think that would work." Kurama frowned, but then smiled again. He walked over to the bed and lifted the covers, sliding under them with Hikage. Hikage then said turning to Kurama " What are you doing?" Kurama then gave her a warm smile and said " I figured we could share a bed since there were no others in this room." Hikage didn't make any motion to kick him out and turned the other way. Kurama then folded his arm over her chest. Hikage then rolled on her back looking at Kurama. Kurama was now hovering over her body. He inched closer and then kissed Hikage letting his chest connect to hers' ( Anime Skittals: Now that I think of it, Kurama and Hikage sure have been making out a lot more than they've been just kissing. Pf, oh well, it's my story anyway. Not that I'm taking advantage of any characters.) He started unbuttoning her shirt. He kissed the skin below her collar bone. He kept on kissing lower and lower until he was about to move the collar to her night shirt bellow her nipple ( Anime Skittals: Uh, please don't make me repeat that word.) Hikage then said to Kurama before he could do that " Kurama, stop. . ." Kurama looked into her eyes and saw that she was uncomfortable with him going that far down, so he stopped and worked his way back up to her neck. Kurama could see Hikage blushing. A drop of sweat fell off of Kurama and onto Hikage. Hikage lifted her hands and let her fingers seep through Kurama's hair. Kurama lifted his head from Hikage's neck and said " Is something wrong?" Hikage smiled at him and said " No, nothing's wrong." Kurama looked at her eyes and saw nothing indicating a problem. Kurama then traced her lips with his finger in curiosity. He then kissed her luscious red lips.
Hiei barged into the door hoping that it was Kurama's room since he wasn't in the other bed rooms. He was hopping to talk to him about the agreement he made to hug Hikage and stuff. Instead he saw Kurama and Hikage making out which, to him, looked a lot like sex. He then said yelling from his sickened view of them " God Kurama, could you tell me before you plan in having sex?!" He had finally shut the door.
Kurama didn't blame Hiei for thinking it looked like sex. The bottom half of his body was under the covers and Hikage's shirt was open. Kurama then said to Hikage as he delicately touched his hand to her cheek " I think I should sleep in my room tonight. We don't want Hiei getting the wrong idea." Hikage nodded yes. Hikage buttoned her shirt while Kurama got off the bed and headed for the door. He then left the room. Hiei then stopped Kurama from going ot his room and asked to talk with him in the living room.
Hiei then asked Kurama " Do I really have to let her hug me. I'm getting to be quite annoyed at it already. Do you think you could get her to just hug me once a day or something?" Kurama chuckled and then said " I suppose I can do something about it. I'll ask her in the morning. I'll make sure the it doesn't sound like we've talked." Kurama was about to go to his room when Hiei then said " Wait, I have another question." Kurama then turned around and listened to his question. Hiei then said " Has Hikage talked to you about her past yet?" Kurama then looked down to the right and said " She and I don't talk about her past much. She is very uncomfortable with it. She once asked me if I would let her forget her past. I could see her past was very painful. It was easy to see in her eyes. I've noticed her eyes turning red and blue. When her eyes turn red I can see all of her emotion mixed into one and I can barely tell how she's feeling, but when her eyes are blue they are quite easy to read. Why do you ask?" Hiei then said " She told me the details about her parents. I've heard of the legendary Yue Taiyo, but I never heard how he died. She was talking about how she had very mixed jeans. She has two different demon forms because of her grand mother and her father. She has both a spirit fox jean and a spirit phoenix jean. It's very rare to get two different demon jeans. There was a raven that appeared with a note on the balcony today. They don't want any of us to fight except for Hikage. I didn't understand the concept of it turning into a dove when she whispered something to it." Kurama then looked at him with question " The raven turned into a dove you say?" Hiei nodded his head yes. Kurama held his chin and said " A long time ago in my past life as a spirit fox turning a dove into a raven meant a death match. When one sent a dove with a note it meant good luck for the person that received the note. Which must mean she has to kill tomorrows team before she gets killed." Kurama was just about to say good night to Hiei when he remembered the incident that happened in the bed room and said " Oh and Hiei, we weren't having sex. We were making out." Hiei smirked in disbelief and then said as he walked to his room " Whatever." They all went to sleep after that.
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Hope you all liked this chapter. Please review and thanks for reading.