Catse: Here's chappie numbah six. I hope you liked the previous ones, and I hope you like the ones to come? Anyways, I've almost finished uploading all of the chapters (I had nine in total), and everything I have should be up soon. Enjoy!
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Disclaimer: You already know all this, so with out further ado, I present Chapter six!
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That night, she had another seizure, in which Hiei was able to enter her room and hug her again.
At the moment, the only thing he knew to do in this situation was to hug her and the pain would stop.
This time...it didn't.
She kept shaking violently, and salivated a lot to where her pillow was drenched.
Not only that, but her eyelids flickered in her sleep, and he could see the whites as she shook.
His only option left, was to try and contact someone in the castle that could help.
He tore the bandana from his Jagan and sensed the castle for anyone that would do him good.
Botan was asleep...Kuwabara and Yusuke were no where to be found...but Koenma was up...talking to...Kurama!
Kurama could help!
He always knew how to take care of a situation like this.
He instantly sent a telepathic message, asking for help in Suta's room.
It only took five minutes for the Yoko and the child ruler to get to the room and enter.
Instantly, Kurama knew what was happening, and what to do.
He held her down to the bed, with help from Hiei, and found a seed in his back pocket.
This seed he forced to grow into a small plant, and then he plucked the first blossom off of it, and poured a powder like substance from the pedals and into her mouth.
As soon as the stuff landed on her tongue, she stopped shaking and fell back into the deep slumber she had had before.
"What happened?" Koenma asked, rubbing his temples.
"I'm not exactly sure what this is, but I have a feeling I know what caused it." Kurama answered, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"What?"
"The demon that's after her."
Kurama explained his theory to the two of them, telling them every detail he could think of.
So far, what had happened was that the demons that had apparently tried to kill her the night Hiei first saw her, and had poisoned her, and so the poison was causing her to go into tantrums as they slowly tore at her body.
She only relaxed the last time Hiei had hugged her, because external warmth had subdued the effects for a while.
But this poison was demonic, so it was cleverly created.
Whatever worked the first time, would never work the second, for the poison would read the first antidote, and then find a way to make itself stronger for the next time it would be administered.
Kurama didn't know how to destroy it, but the drug he had given her would help to lessen the severity of the plague.
It wouldn't work a second time.
Hiei suddenly didn't know how to react.
This was his first real friend.
The first person he had ever been comfortable enough around to talk to...the only one he could lower his defenses around...
He could tell her anything, and she would accept it with out sarcasm or disgust.
He didn't know what he would do if she died.
Probably never trust a living being again...
Kurama and Koenma left, leaving Hiei to watch over Suta.
She was dying, there was no mistake about that, and if they didn't find whoever had given her the poison quickly, she would not live very much longer.
So this was what the note had meant.
She was next.
Her grandfather was killed brutally, but quickly, and yet she was left to die slowly, but painfully.
Hiei couldn't stand the feeling of helplessness that he felt.
She was slowly dying near him, and he couldn't do anything about it!
He punched the floor underneath him to help relieve the pain he felt.
He didn't even realize how much he cared for her...
It had been a short time, and yet he liked her enough to risk his own life for her.
She was like family to him...
Like family...?
Yeah...
Like family....
It was then that Hiei noticed the jar on the table, still containing the little fire fly.
The poor thing had been in there since he had caught it.
Hiei picked up the jar, and nearly smiled at how the little thing was still glowing off and on in the dark.
He should be free...little thing...
He was sure Suta meant to free it...but had forgotten about it...
So he decided to do it instead.
The firefly flew fast once the jar had been opened, and soon, had had rejoined the ocean of fireflies outside her window.
They were so small...and yet so beautiful...
Just like Suta...
It was settled...
He would find the person who poisoned her...and when he did...that man would pay...
Hiei smirked angrily to himself as he jumped out of the window.
He would pay...!
Hiei searched Suta's house, but found no clues as to who would have poisoned her...
He searched her dojo, but again found nothing...and then the alley he had remembered saving her at.
There, he found blood from where the demons had been killed, but nothing else.
He figured their boss had cleaned them up.
No lower class demons would have planned so well as this.
This demon was smart.
He would of course send lower classes to poison her, a slightly higher to kill off her last relation, and then leave her to die slowly and miserably by herself.
This demon would regret ever having done so.
When Hiei found him, he would regret even being born.
Hiei contemplated what he would do when he found the demon.
Probably poison him with the same stuff perhaps...or nail him to a wall and cut him up so much he would bleed to death...That was an idea too.
Hiei did find something there that caught his interest.
There was a small pile of a reddish powder lying near the farthest wall from the street.
He bent down and picked up a little between his fingers.
One sniff told him that this was what had poisoned Suta.
The demons probably hadn't been able to give her the entire amount, and so that's why she was still alive.
He thanked his lucky stars that he was so bored that night that he had come to kill them.
Had he not, he would never have met Suta, or discovered so much about the human race, or himself.
He figured that later, he would show a sample of the powder to Kurama, and see if he knew what it was and what was capable of making it.
That decided, Hiei returned to the outside of Suta's room, hoping that she was awake.
Again, he found that she had risen and left with out him.
In hopes of finding her quickly, he used his Jagan to sense her out.
He discovered that she was on the street leading to her home.
Hopefully she wasn't planning on returning to the mess her grandfather's blood had left.
As it was, the human authorities were probably looking for her, wanting to ask a few questions, and then they would wonder where she had disappeared off to.
Hiei took the portal back to the human world, and followed the trail of energy Suta had left behind.
When he was close, he heard the sound of a muffled cry, and a laughing voice.
The cry sounded like Suta...but the voice that laughed was human...he could tell by how rough and silly it sounded.
"I have you wench!" It whispered.
Hiei jogged to the area the voices had come from, and found that the alley had been blocked off by three bulky humans in the same color uniform as Kuwabara usually wore.
"Go away midget. This alley is off limits for now." One of the men told him with a grunt.
Another one snickered loudly, and the third began to laugh uncontrollably.
"Midget! That's a good one!"
Hiei glared at them, trying to think of the best way to hurt them, but not kill them.
He wasn't allowed to kill humans.
What a stupid rule!
"What's wrong short stuff? So afraid of us big guys you can't move?"
Hiei smirked.
There we go...that would work.
"Hey! You see that! He's smiling at us! I think we got us a crazy guy here."
The second one laughed, shoving Hiei away in the shoulder. "Run along shorty!"
Now it was Hiei's turn to snicker.
"Fools." He whispered, before jumping up and kicking the middle one in the face with the use of the tennis shoes Suta had bought him.
Yep, he was correct.
They made great weapons!
He punched the one on the left in the gut, and the one on the right received the handle of his sword in the chin. All three lay on the ground, rolling around in pain, as Hiei walked up to the man that was covering up his friend.
The man wasn't too big, probably about Yusuke's size, with ruffled brown hair and the same blue outfit as the others he had beaten.
As Hiei came up behind him, he happened to notice a knife up against Suta's neck, and a hand clamped over her mouth.
Hiei was disgusted.
Who did this guy think he was, doing this to a woman?!
When Suta saw him, she was overjoyed with relief.
But the man on top of her wouldn't let her go.
Sure he turned around to glare at Hiei, but he never moved.
This angered Hiei greatly.
"Who are you?" The human asked, looking Hiei up and down. "You a punk or something?"
Hiei was still wearing the clothing Suta had bought for him at the mall...He found that he had really liked the clothes...and so hadn't found the desire to change them.
At the moment, Hiei found himself too angry to even return any sort of reply.
"Get lost man! I'm busy!" And the guy turned around to continue what he was doing.
"You get lost!" Hiei returned, snatching him by the shoulder in a tight, threatening squeeze.
"Who the hell do you think you are?!" The man returned, glaring back.
"A demon." Hiei returned.
The man looked frightened for a moment, and then, almost suddenly, he pulled the knife away from her neck and stabbed him in the shoulder.
Hiei would have felt the pain of the stab, but he was just too furious.
This human was hurting one of his friends, and he would certainly pay!
Hiei reached up and snatched the dagger from his shoulder, slipping it out and throwing it into the man's leg.
The man jerked up and glared at Hiei, half afraid, and half angry.
Then in a rage, the man stood up and jumped at him, hoping to hurt him if he could.
Hiei was too fast though, and moved away just enough to kick the man in the guts. Then, he grabbed him by the end of the jacket, and threw him into one of the walls.
The man stumbled away from the wall, and tried to punch Hiei, but again Hiei was faster, and he managed to slip his feet in front of the other's, causing him to trip.
When the man had turned around enough to look up, Hiei had jumped on him and began punching like a mad man.
It took Suta's words to keep him from killing the man.
"Hiei...enough...he's learned his lesson...Please stop..." She replied, sounding a rather bit sick.
Hiei obeyed her words and stepped away from the beaten man, simply to turn around to see Suta.
What he saw made him flinch.
She was holding her hand over her throat, but it wasn't enough to stop the flow of blood that was pouring down over her shirt.
He was instantly at her side, prying her fingers from her neck.
Bleeding...?
But...how?
Hiei figured that when the man had gone to stab him, he had accidentally slit her throat.
Stupid human...
Oh what Hiei would do if he would be allowed to kill the man!
How he would enjoy the man's blood on his hands.
"Hiei...? You're wounded...." She coughed, closing her eyes in pain.
With out a word, Hiei pulled off the bandana over his eye, and used it to bandage the wound until he could get her better help.
Suta kept trying to see his as well, but he didn't let her. In anger and rage, he slipped into a portal and dropped down right in front of Koenma's desk, with her suspended in his arms.
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Botan were all there as well, and they looked extremely surprised to see him there.
Suta by now, was already unconscious due to the lack of blood.
"She needs a doctor." Hiei said angrily, glaring at Koenma.
"Ogre!"
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Catse: What do you think? I know...I know...I shouldn't of had Suta wounded, but I figured if she were in a better life or death situation, Hiei would become closer to her. Next chappie will be up soon if not tonight. Hope you liked this one...Ja Ne!