Chapter 2

Some One Inside

Nayoko was not the type I was used to seeing. Women I saw were brought up well. Their hair was pulled back. They wore skirts, long shirts covering there stomachs. They only wore earrings every day. Nayoko, however, had a mother who was raped, and thrown out of her home. Her demon father was a powerful being, who despised his daughter. After several years in the demon world, she couldn't take the pressure. She slipped through a small portal form the demon world, the same year I did.

"So, Hiei, I have heard about you before." I stared at her.

"How did you hear about me?" I said, my eyes grew colder then the silver slivers in her hair. She pulled out a raggedy looking newspaper. It was old the ink was fading, and blotchy. She turned the pages to a laminated section. I could see my picture, and writing under it. Yes, this had to be older, I was so young there, maybe ten or eleven.

"It's a 'Warning and Wanted' sign. You know, they have a price on your head demon..."

"They can't catch me though. They think they will have me beg at their knees. I refuse to go to them."

"You're an idiot demon. They are going to chase you until your death."

"Then let me die." I stared at her for a moment. Her eyes darkened and she looked at me, as if she was staring at the cherry tree behind me. She put her arms around me and began to kiss me. We stood there for a while her arms still around me. She opened her eyes and let herself stare at me for a while, I looked away. She took my sleeve, and pulled me toward her. My chest was touching her, and her eyes softened. What happened next was difficult to explain. When I looked directly at her, her eyes I couldn't explain what had happened to me. She seemed to say, go ahead, you know what I mean. With that I fell to my knees and began to cry, it was late, maybe nine, and no one was here to see me but Nayoko. She bent down next to me, and stared softly. She said something, in a language never, but all the time I had heard.

"Gean, no sakui lemseto, noski, someanui, tuyi, loyiko..."

"Never, it there anyone to pursue the mind, but the mind itself..." I said. I knew what she said but I did not know how. Those words sounded so familiar. She got down on her knees, looked at me, and put her arms around me. The last tear rolled down my cheek, when stood up her still cringed on to me. When she pushed herself against me, I remembered.

"I have to go! Meet me here tomorrow. I'm sorry!" I yelled as I ran away. Kurama, I had to meet him at the grave sight. As I ran I saw him walking from the tree. I caught up with him. I looked at him. Silence. He smiled and I knew he was ok with the fact that I was very, very late.

We walked into his house and up stairs into his room. There he laid out some where I could sleep, and I did what he expected, I slept.