Title : Arrows and Whips

Disclaimer : I do not own Inu Yasha and YuYu Hakusho.

"..." Talking

'...' Thinking

~@~@ Time gap

~*~*~* Scene change

*......* Telepathy

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Previous Chapter:

"Thank you." said Vixinia as Hiei helped her to her feet. "Please don't do that again next time." she said to Botan.

"Botan smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that." Her expression turned serious. "Hiei, you have to go help Yusuke and the others now. They are facing some difficulties in killing the demons."

Chapter 7 :

"What kind of difficulties?" asked Hiei, bored.

"Well, you see we had found some lesser demons and fought them, but they ran so we have to chase them. We reached a park and were ambushed by a hoard of demons." Botan explained hastily.

"Hn, they can't handle a bunch of low leveled demons? Pathetic." Hiei snorted. Botan glared at him

"Correction. The demons are of the second class."

"Are they hurt?" asked worried Vixinia. Botan's face grew dark.

"Not yet. But I don't know how long they'll last if we don't help them."

"I'll help." she stated. Not helping a friend in need was against her nature. Botan smiled.

"Great! Hiei, are you coming?"

"Hn. Stupid weaklings can't handle themselves." Hiei muttered. *You won't need your sword, Vixen. Just bring your fox.* Hiei said to Vixinia. She gave him a confused look. *Your training, remember?* Hiei glared.

Vixinia nodded dumbly and whistled. After sometime, Youko came out with her mask. Botan teleported them to a deserted park. The first sight that greeted them was a pile of demon's corpses. Vixinia had to put on her mask due to the heavy stench. They raced through the demon's corpses to the center of the park. The nearer they were to their friends, the higher the level of the dead demons.

At last they reached a clearing. They saw the Spirit Detectives were fighting a bunch of demons. Yusuke and Kuwabara had managed to kill some of them, but they were out of spirit energy. Kurama had turned to his demon form and was desperately fighting the demons with his Rose Whip. They were all tired since they had been fighting non-stop for the last few hours.

Vixinia was about to rush to help them, but Hiei stopped her.

*I'll take care of this. Come out when their leader appeared.*

Vixinia gave a slight nod and stayed hidden with Botan. Hiei and Youko ran out and helped Kurama in finishing the remaining demons. Vixinia, however, was not interested in that. She watched the shadowy part of the clearing warily. After Hiei, Kurama and Youko finished killing the demons, from the shadow, two strong demons stepped out.

One of them was a snake youkai. He had waist-long, braided, black hair. His pupils resembled those of the snakes and were green in color. He was smirking, showing his fangs which were quite similar to Vixinia's, only a little longer. He was clad in dark brown shirt and black trousers. A katana was by his side.

The other was a scorpion youkai. He had shorter hair which was tied in low ponytail. His eyes were black and cold. He wore dark green trousers and had a long scorpion tail. He stood there looking bored.

"Oh my god! There are two of them!" exclaimed Botan.

"Three." corrected Vixinia coldly. She had felt her necklace throbbed. It was the sign that some other necklaces were worn by someone else beside her family or most trusted friends. Botan who was shocked at her statement, looked back to the clearing. Sure enough, the third youkai materialized from the shadow.

He was a cat youkai. He had a handsome face, light brown hair which was tied in high ponytail, a pair of orange eyes and a pair of fangs appeared from his mouth. Unlike the other two, he wore a light blue haori and hakama. His tail was wagging behind him. He had the most mischievous look among them. He had a katana and a dagger which was strapped to his waist by a sash. Most of all, from his neck dangled two necklaces with different pendants. One of them had a black dragon while the other had a silver fox.

Botan was surprised when Vixinia started to growl. She flexed her claws as if wanting to rip something apart. it was then, Botan noticed that her necklace was glowing blue.

*Hiei, can I come out now?* she asked.

*Hn.* he agreed.

Vixinia wasted no time. After she put on a barrier around Botan, she rushed to the Spirit Detectives. She was suppressing her anger. This was easy to be guessed since her eyes had hints of red in them.

*What is it, Vixinia?* Youko asked.

*The necklaces.* she growled.

Youko observed the demons. When he got the sight of the two necklaces, he growled also. Hiei had heard their conversation and noticed that Vixinia's pendant was glowing. He decided to ask later and focused on the demons in front of them.

"My, my. what do we have here." said the Snake in a mocking manner.

"Another Spirit Detectives." taunted the Scorpion.

"And some foxes. It's been ten years since I saw one. And that was a tough one." said the Cat. "But he died in my hands."

Vixinia growled. "The fox even left me some beautiful souvenirs before he died." the Cat gestured to his necklaces. The demons laughed. Vixinia and Youko were growling harder. They were starting to lose control. The Spirit Detectives was confused and shocked at the same time. Even though the trio demons had killed a fox ten years ago and insulted his death, there was no reason to be so angry. The Cat youkai stopped laughing.

"What are you growling at, Vixen?" he sneered.

"Prepare to die, vile cat!" Vixinia hissed and disappeared in blur. Youko had attacked the snake youkai. Hiei snarled,

"Foolish foxes." as he drew his katana and attacked the Scorpion. Kurama who had some energy left, fought with Youko.

The demons proved to be tough opponents, but this didn't troubled Hiei or Vixinia. Hiei cut off the Scorpion's tail after he used it once. The Scorpion cried in agony. Hiei stabbed him on the chest and the scorpion fell down, dead. Hiei turned and watched his 'student' fought while trying to find out what had happened to her that she went to a tantrum.

He saw Youko and Kurama were having difficulties with the Snake. Youko was not strong enough, while Kurama was exhausted from the former battle. Hiei dashed towards them and in no time, he had his katana through the Snake's stomach who then fell down motionlessly.

Meanwhile, Vixinia was clawing madly at the cat. Her form had changed. her eyes were red with blue pupils, two jagged, blue streaks were on her cheeks and her claws had grown dangerously long. Her hair became pure auburn. Her mask was ripped from her, showing two long fangs. (imagine the different version of Inuyasha's demon form with different colored hair and streaks.)

Vixinia clawed the Cat viciously. She made deep gashes on him which were painful but not enough to kill. The Cat clawed back only to be blocked by Vixinia's vines. She put a hand on him and started to purify him. The Cat let out a shrill cry. Vixinia stopped and let the Cat fell the pain. She wouldn't let him go that easy. The Cat drew his katana and struck Vixinia with it. She caught it with her hand, causing it to bleed.

"Your life ends here, weak Cat! I can't believe you're the one who killed him." Vixinia stated calmly.

She had returned to her normal form. She snatched the cat's katana and stabbed him with it. She stabbed him on a spot where was fatal but would not cause instant death. She pulled out the katana and watched as the cat fell to his knees. Vixinia crouched and took the two necklaces from his neck. She stood.

"I claim back what were once, my father's." she declared.

She turned from him to the flabbergasted Spirit Detectives.

"What?" she asked as if nothing had happened. She stroked Youko's fur. "Thanks to all of you, I managed to avenge my father's death." she said.

"How do you know the necklaces are your father's? They maybe some others that look the same." asked Yusuke.

"My pendant reacts to them. It was not given to him as a gift so he was not its owner. Besides, there are only four pendants that was made in my family." she explained. "The pendants which was stolen from their masters will reacts to the other, as if asking for help to release them from their thief."

"What the use of it?" asked Kurama.

"The pendants are the symbols of siblings in my family. Like I said, there are only four of them. One is mine, one is my brother's and these two."

"What will you do with those? You already have one." said Kuwabara as Vixinia put on the necklaces.

"I can give it to someone I consider as my family. These necklaces had the same function as mine and Ellon's."

"Watch out!" cried Kurama. He shoved Vixinia behind him and received a dagger in his stomach. They were too busy talking that they didn't realized that the Cat youkai had pulled his dagger and threw it towards Vixinia. Vixinia caught Kurama before he hit the ground. She looked at the dying Cat and yelled,

"DAMN CAT!" and the Cat's body burst to flame. Vixinia laid Kurama down.

"This will hurt." she whispered. Vixinia pulled the dagger causing Kurama to wince. She tried to heal the wound.

"Shit! The dagger is poisoned." she cursed.

"Can't you heal it?" asked Yusuke. Vixinia shook a 'no'.

"I haven't learned how to nullify demon's poisons. Dammit, I should have learn that from the first place." she said. "We have to take him to the temple." Botan rushed to them.

"Botan please take us to the temple, Kurama is badly injured." pleaded Vixinia. Botan looked pale and nodded. In no time, they were in Genkai's garden. Yukina was already waiting for them.

"Oh my god! What happened?" she looked at them frantically.

"Yukina, Kurama is poisoned. I can't heal him." said Vixinia.

"All of you will stay here today. Kuwabara, Yusuke, you can use Ellon's room. Vixinia bring Kurama to your room. Hiei help her. Botan, you help me in the kitchen." Yukina ordered. They all obliged.

After she laid Kurama on the futon, Vixinia asked Hiei to watch him. She went to the kitchen and helped Yukina. Since Yusuke and Kuwabara suffered no fatal injuries, they decided to heal Kurama first.

"Will he be alright?" asked a worried Vixinia as Yukina cleaned Kurama's wound.

"The poison had entered his blood. I'll heal the wound, but I don't know if he can go through this. The poison is too strong." Yukina answered grimly.

"It's my fault. If only I killed that Cat faster. It's all my fault." Vixinia said as tears welled in her eyes. Yukina put a hand on her shoulder.

"It is not. I'm going to make some potion for him. I want you to heal Yusuke and Kuwabara. Will you do it?"

Vixinia wiped her tears and nodded. She went to their room with a bucket of water. She cleaned the boys' wounds before she healed them. Botan came in with two glass of potion. The boys drank it and were soon asleep. Botan sighed.

"They really need some rest. I'm going to report to Koenma and tell their family that they're not going home for few days. I will visit tomorrow if I can." she informed. Vixinia nodded sadly. Botan knew what was in her head. She smiled.

"Don't worry. Kurama is strong. He won't die easily." she assured the worried vixen.

"I hope." Botan heard her whispered before she went for the Spirit World.

*~*~* Vixinia's room *~*~*

Hiei was leaning on the wall, watching his sister took care of his 'friend'. Vixinia came in just after Yukina had healed Kurama. Yukina handed her a glass of potion.

"Vixinia, I'm going to rest. Please make him drink the potion. This will take care of the poison. The rest is up to him." Yukina said.

"Alright. I'll call you if there's problem." Vixinia said in a leave-it-to-me tone. Yukina smiled and left the room. Vixinia looked up from the cup in her hand to Kurama, then to Hiei.

"How? He is not conscious enough to drink it." Vixinia asked. Hiei went to the door.

"From mouth to mouth." he stated as he quickly went out of the room with Youko following, leaving a gaping Vixinia alone with Kurama. Vixinia looked at Kurama and blushed.

'Have to do it! If not he'll die.' she kept repeating in her mind. She took half of the potion first and put them in Kurama's mouth. She repeated it again with the other half. When she had finished, she was blushing like mad.

'His lips are soft. Eeep! What am I thinking!'

She was brought out of her thought as Kurama whimpered in his sleep. He was sweating and an expression of pain was on his face. Vixinia put a hand on his forehead and them she ran to the kitchen.

'The potion is working!'

The thought lifted her hopes. She grabbed a bucket of cold water and two pieces of clothes. She ran back to the room. She dipped the first cloth to the water, squeezed it and placed it on Kurama's forehead. She used the other cloth to wipe his sweat.

"How is he?" asked a cold voice from the corner of the room.

"The potion is working." Vixinia replied shortly. Hiei came out of the shadow and sat across to Vixinia, while Youko curled beside her. Vixinia held one of Kurama's hands, trying her best to give some comfort to her unconscious friend. Kurama's whimpering ceased eventually. They sat in silence. Until,

"I'm sorry, Hiei." apologized Vixinia.

"..For what?" the fire apparition replied.

"For using my purifying energy when I had promised you only to use my claws and demons abilities."

"Hn."

"Get some rest, Hiei. I'll take care of Kurama."

"Hn." he nodded and closed his eyes.

Kurama started to whimper again. Vixinia gave his hand a light squeeze and stroke his hair. He leaned to her hand, looking for every comfort it could give. Vixinia's heart break to see one of her friends in this miserable condition because of her.

'This is all my fault. I have to help him.' she thought. 'I hope my miko power is strong enough for this.'

She closed her eyes and tried to use her power to fight the poison in Kurama. It was a hard task since she had to be careful not to purify him. She was glowing in soft blue light. She channeled her power to Kurama. Now his body was equally glowing as hers. Vixinia's eyes were blue and unfocused.

"You can't die Kurama. I won't let you."

@~@~@ In Sengoku Jidai - that afternoon @~@~@

*~*~* Kaede's hut *~*~*

"Where have you been yesterday?" asked Inuyasha to Sango and Miroku.

"We've been visiting Lady Kagome, Inuyasha." stated Miroku calmly.

"How can you pass through the well while I can't?" yelled Inuyasha. Miroku and Sango didn't answer this since they couldn't trust him at the moment.

"That." said Sango "is our little secret." She left for the forest.

"Where's Kikyo, Inuyasha" Miroku said before Inuyasha could asked anymore question regarding Kagome.

"She's somewhere in the Forest. She said she wanted to be alone." answered Inuyasha grumpily. Miroku nodded and went to follow Sango.

*~*~* Somewhere in the Forest *~*~*

"Come out Naraku. I know you're here." Kikyo said coldly. A figure clad in baboon pelt came out from the shadow.

"Ku Ku Ku Ku. Hello to you too, Kikyo." answered Naraku.

"What do you want?" asked Kikyo angrily.

"My, my. I hope you haven't forget our deal, Kikyo." said Naraku. "You kill the future miko and take Inuyasha to Hell."

Kikyo fisted her fists. "How can I forget, Naraku."

"Ku Ku Ku Ku. Good then. I hope you found out the way to go pass the well." warned Naraku. "I saw the demon huntress and the priest went to the well yesterday. I wish to do the same."

"That girl's magic is strong. I can't break it easily." informed Kikyo. "But every spell must have its weakness. I will need a more time to figure out what it is."

"I shall wait for the good news, Kikyo. And don't even think to betray me or you will leave this earth, again."
With that, Naraku disappeared. Kikyo walked back to the hut.

*~*~* Near the Bone Eater Well *~*~*

Sango had felt Naraku's present somewhere in the Forest.

"Do you feel him too, Sango?" asked Miroku from behind her. Sango jumped a little.

"I do, Priest. What is he doing here?" she asnwered.

"I hope he didn't find out about the well." sighed Miroku.

"With Kikyo in our group, I don't doubt it. She will betray us sooner or later." Sango spat.

They saw the Saimyosho flying across the Forest. Sango readied her Hiraikotsu.

"They're going in the Well's direction." exclaimed Sango. They both ran to the well and saw Naraku besides the well.

"Hiraikotsu." Sango threw her boomerang towards him. It managed to sliced Naraku into two. The body turned to dust.

"It's his doll. Dammit!" cursed Sango. Miroku's eyes caught something glimmers in the baboon pelt.

"It's the Shikon shard." he said as he picked up the tainted shard.

"It's too easy. Do you think it's a trap, Miroku?" asked Sango.

"We can't tell now, Sango. We better hide this shard from Kikyo and give it to Lady kagome next time we visit." suggested Miroku.

"It won't be hard." Sango stated, "I think that clay bitch couldn't sense the shards anymore."

"Maybe, but I don't want to risk anything." Miroku put a spell to hide the Shikon's presence. "Let's go back before they get suspicious."

Sango nodded and they both went back to the village.

@~@~@ The next morning @~@~@

Vixinia hadn't slept throughout the night. Hiei was shocked to see his friends glowing. He saw Youko frantically whined to Vixinia about something. Vixinia didn't spare him a glance.

*Stop it! You're running out of energy. Stop!* Hiei heard the fire fox said. He saw that her aura was weakening.

"Vixen, Kurama is healed. You can stop now." he said. Vixinia's eyes closed and the light faded. She opened her eyes and looked at him wearily. She smiled.

"Good morning, Hiei. How's your sleep?" she asked weakly.

"Hn. What did you do, Vixen?"

"I was merely giving Kurama some help." she whispered. Just then, Yukina came in.

"Vixinia! What happen?" she asked. Yukina was shocked to see her friend in such weak state.

"Nothing important."

"You have to rest! Go get some sleep." she ordered. Vixinia shook her head.

"I have to make sure that he will wake up." she said. "It's all my fault that he is injured."

"He will wake. Now at least go and have some sleep." pleaded Yukina. Vixinia gave in and nodded.

She went to her tree and leaped to her favorite branch. She slept there. Yukina sighed.

"Is he alright?" asked Hiei. Yukina checked Kurama.

"He will be. Vixinia's power had helped him. But he will be unconscious for a couple of days." Yukina sighed again. "The problem is Vixinia. She won't leave his side as soon as she wakes later. The only ones that could tell her not to are Genkai or one of her teachers who are all going to somewhere."

'Teachers.' thought Hiei. "I'll take care of that." he said.

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A/N : There! Like it? Please review. I've decided that only Hiei will know about it. All will know eventually, but the first one will be Hiei. Though It's a Kag/Kur story, Hiei will be the person Kagome trusted most. As a brother, nothing more. The Spirit detectives WILL go to Sengoku Jidai, but not all of them. I'm trying to make this story short, but I can't do it, so you have to have the patience to bear the nonsense I'll write. Please? If any of you happen to be a writer of kag/kur, hiei/kag, yusuke/kag or youko/kag, please tell me, I'll read your story. Till' next time.

Sincerely
~Flying Phoenix~

P.S. Currently looking for a Youko/Kagome story. Any recommendations accepted.

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