A/N: Sry again been really lazy... AGAIN. Well still need to work with my other stories. Once more this isn't entirely my chapter. Some of it belongs to Cara. She did the rough draft and once again I edited. This time much more editing than last chapter, though.
The nearly set moon casts a ghostly blue glow over the forest, the near by stream makes a beautiful tranquil sound as it rushes downhill.
Everything was peaceful... except the two figures sitting around a campfire in uncomfortable silence.
Hiei's gaze once again falls on the 'Baka Onna', Stupid Woman. Why in the damned world did had to be stuck with this damned woman who returned his damned memories of his damned past? She was making it more complicated than he preferred and he hated when people do that.
Just Ask her. The one thought that had been repeating in his mind; a thought that he wanted gone from his mind.
Yet he couldn't muster up enough, can you believe it, courage to say anything. Hiei was becoming frustrated; women where obviously not his subject.
He sighed.
Finally deciding to just ask and get it over with, he turned to her, mouth open to speak when he saw her standing.
His mouth snapped shut and he raised an eyebrow at her. He must have looked like a fish right then.
"I'm going to the stream; I need to take a bath. Will you make sure the Houshi stays away?"
He looked away with a, "Hn" and sat there for a few minutes before deciding what to do.
Stream
Humming softly to herself she slowly undressed; unaware of the figure in the tree behind her.
He was watching her in a strictly professional way; eyes scanning over the multiple scars on her arms and legs.
When his eyes fell on her back they widened considerably. For there was a particularly large scar in the upper-middle part of her back, surrounded by 5 or 6 small scars that the ordinary human wouldn't have been able to see from this distance.
She slipped into the water with a small sigh and continued to hum softly. The song comforted him.
He didn't know where he'd heard it before but he remembered hearing it.
His Jagan was absolutely resonating from behind the white bandana. He could feel the strange aura again. It was a little like Yusuke's aura but the sense of power and strength were greater.
He turned away, having seen what he wanted; he remained only long enough for her to finish the short song and start again.
(song- Final Fantasy IX: Lyrics available.)
For the first time in a few years, Hiei relaxed.
Kagome sighed and rolled over, just happening to have her arm fall over on Inuyasha, jolting him awake.
He was about to yell at her to get away from him, when he saw her face.
Her face was scrunched and a few tears were leaking from her eyes, she was mumbling something that he had to lean near her to hear.
What he head made his eyes widen.
"Inuyasha! mumble, mumble Don't go with her. Inu... don't leave. Inuyasha... Inu..."
She just kept repeating it; over and over in a voice that paralyzed him.
Kagome cares... For me?
Finally deciding on what to do he hesitantly snuggled closer an arm between them; her chin in his hand, and whispered so soft no one but her could hear; even so she could barely hear.
"Kagome, I'm not going anywhere. Not even if you push me."
He stroked her cheek with his thumb and the tears stopped coming.
"Nowhere Kagome; nowhere. I promise."
And with that they fell into a deep sleep... for a while.
Unknown to them two kitsune was watching closely with a smirk on his face. Apparently he found the two very amusing, but then again who wouldn't?
1 and a ½ hour later.
Kagome's eyes fluttered open to see Inuyasha's face a few inches from hers. After a few moments of blushing she quickly stood, leaving him awake, blushing, and shocked at her feet.
She was glaring daggers at him, and then she did the one thing he DID NOT want her to do.
"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A loud crash was soon heard, waking the only member of the group; who just happened to be Yusuke.
"Itai."
Only there was this little girl watching her. She had to admit; the girl certainly didn't belong in a cold and dreary place that she was in right now.
"Rin brought food!" the little girl announced happily.
Botan stared at the girl. Why is she talking in third person?
"Girl not hungry?" the girl called Rin asked looking slightly offended.
"Oh no!" Botan said trying to make the girl happy again. "Um, its just that I can't use my hands."
Which was true because she was still stuck on the chair all tied up.
"Rin free girl then!" the girl said all too cheery.
A toad looking creature came in the room looking the exact opposite of the girl.
"Master Shessomaru has told you that you are not allowed to enter this room!" the toad thing barked at the girl.
"But Jaken" the girl responded putting her hands on her hips. "Girl looks very hungry!"
"I shall feed her then!" Jaken said trying to make an excuse for Rin to leave the room.
Botan panicked a bit. She did not want a toad thing shoving food down her throat. "Uh, that's okay I feed myself. You could just untie me and lock the doors."
"No!" Rin said pouting. "Rin want to help."
A tall figure walked in the room and Botan could only guess who he was.
Stream: In a tree
Hiei was sleeping; she had to admit he WAS LITTLE bit cute when he was sleeping. But GOD he made her so MAD!!!
"That Hentai." She hissed quietly. "As bad as the Houshi."
He started to wake up so she did the only thing that made sense to her.
She sang.
She sang a song she had heard once before, yet not knowing where.
A song of belonging. A song of love.
Hiei was awake. But his eyes were closed and his breathing was even.
He was confused. Confused beyond reason.
Several questions haunted him.
Where did she learn that song?
Where did he hear it?
Who sang it?
Is she really dead?
No.
She wasn't dead. He could hear her slightly heavy heart beat. She wasn't dead.
At least... not anymore.
How did she survive?
He mentally sighed as one more question was added to the mix.
He resided himself to continue to 'sleep' and relaxed once more lost in a world of memories. Everyone that knew him well knew that he hated his past and how much he wanted to change it; even if he couldn't.
Memory 1
"Hiei!"
"HIEI MOVE DAMNIT!!"
'Yusuke' His mind registered that, then immediately reacted as the demon's axe swung down towards his head.
He dodged but was stabbed through the stomach with a sword.
His head hung and his mouth opened and closed for a few seconds before he was through against the red wall.
He was in a heap on the floor when all of a sudden a soft song reached his ears.
He closed his eyes and listened.
The song was comforting, relaxing and it made him feel reassured that he had strength to get up and kill the demons.
He slowly stood.
And saw a sword on the ground near his feet; it had a hilt wraped in black lengths of fabric, as if someone took a roll of black 'gauze' and wrapped the sword. It also had a hole in the hilt, through the hole a pink/red see through fabric was strung through. The blade was stainless steel and was so sharp that he was certain it could pierce through anything; even that demon's armor.
He grabbed it and had the demon's head swung off in an instant.
The head rolled to the corner and promptly stopped moving.
He looked to the sword only to find nothing in his hand.
His own sword was at his feet.
He shrugged picking up his sword as the others were released from the chains, which had held them captive on the ceiling, and put it out of his mind.
End of memory
His eyes opened, wide.
But he didn't see Sango anywhere.
Must have gone back to camp.
"Where did you learn that Sango? And who did I hear it from?"
Just two more questions on his mind.
Two more to torment him for the time being.
Just two more questions to float on the wind.
Naraku looked at his castle, and smiled. His plan was working perfectly.