The Scientist Returns

When Hiei was finally awake after a few hours later he felt a terrible aching in his chest. He put his hand over it and he felt it throbbing as if something was moving under his skin. He suddenly became worried and sat up. Then he noticed Caralama wasn't with him. Hiei got a bit more scared and began to call out her name but there wasn't an answer. Then he noticed a folded piece of paper on the bedside table. Hiei stared at it for a while, "Well what are you waiting for?" Alfred was in the room and he didn't sound all too happy. He got out of the bed and went over to the letter, with his hand over his chest to stop or at least ease the pain in his chest. When Hiei unfolded the piece of paper he found out it was a letter from the scientist.

Hello Hiei

Thought that if you got your heart back you would be free from my control? Well you will pay dearly for this. I took your little girl friend. Don't worry I wont hurt her. Not unless you come to me alone. If you don't then I might do some thing you might not like. Also Hiei I took Yoko as well, and I can easily persuade him to hurt Caralama. Also I am feeling a bit generous, get to me on time and I will let you take one of them. So what is it going to be? Your love that was there for you when you got your heart back and took away some of the pain to make it more bear able for you? Or your friend that risked his life to get Caralama and bring her back to you so you could survive? The choice is yours. Meet me at midnight you know where to go. Come alone or they both will go through so much pain like they have never felt in their lives. I will make you see all of the pain that they go through, because I can also control what you can see through your Jagan eye so I will make you see every second of pain they go through.

Hiei stared at the letter in disbelief "I told you he would take her didn't I? I knew that he would take her so what are you going to do?"

Hiei couldn't hear Alfred yelling at him all he could think about was, I can't believe he actually has Yoko and Caralama! I had promised Caralama that I would protectr her and then she is stolen while I was sleeping. And Yoko... What am I going to do? He knew what the answer to that was. But before he moved he saw Yoko only face down lying on a normal operation table unconscious and the scientist moved the fox demons from the back of his neck and dropped some kind of liquid onto his bare neck. Hiei heard his friend gasp in pain and heard a voice in his head "Just a tiny bit of what I am going to do Hiei. Your girl is still unconscious and unharmed but for how long?"

Caralama was woken up by someone gently shaking her awake. She opened her eyes and saw that Yoko was looking down at her with a relieved tired smile, "You okay Caralama?"

"I'm fine just a bit sore. Are you okay? What happened?" Caralama asked as she looked around. They were in a steal dark room with nothing in it. The door was also made out of steal with no windows so it was completely dark.

Yoko looked at her with the same tired smile on his face and leaned against the far corner of the cell, "I'm fine Caralama. As for what happened your guess is as good as mine. All I remember is walking back to the hide out and then I heard a voice behind me. I turned around and I was suddenly unconscious. Before I knew it I was shoved into here with you next to me." Caralama went over to Yoko and looked over him to see if was really okay, "What are you doing Caralama?" he asked her with a questionable look on his face.

"Seeing if you really are okay. I have a tendency of not believing people who are to proud of them selves and say that they are all right when something is really wrong with them." Caralama said partly being funny but mostly being serious.

"Well I am okay Caralama you don't have to do this." Yoko insisted in his tired voice.

"Yoko what's this on the back of your neck?" she asked as she gently touched what looked like a small hole that was burnt into the back of his neck. Yoko gave a quick gasp of pain when she did and she took her hand away from it.

"It's nothing someone just put some kind of liquid on it and it must have burnt into the skin," Caralama was looking worriedly now as Yoko laid his back against the wall and dragged his legs up to his chest.

"You can sleep now if your tired," she suggested seeing as how tired Yoko looked.

"No I can stay awake just some idiot just hit me in the back of the head to knock me out, that's all," immediately Yoko wished he hadn't said that for two reasons. One he was deathly tired and could barely keep his eyes open, and the other was Caralama was instantly at his side checking his head for any injuries, which was kind of uncomfortable. But he also felt kind of weird when Caralama searched to see if he had any head injuries. When she was done he was partly relieved.

"Well except for the bump on your head and the strange burnt mark on your neck you seem to be all right." he couldn't help but smile. No one had ever cared about him before.

Caralama hadn't left his side and he was kind of great full for that. She also did something strange. She began to move her arm around his back and held him close. Yoko tried to jerk away but Caralama was a lot stronger then she looked, "Yoko your tired just lay against me and get some sleep. Or have you forgotten that I am without power of my own?"

"You can't kill anyone until your eighteen Caralama," he said but this time he didn't resist as she brought him closer to her shoulder and she began to wrap her other arm across his chest.

"You mean to tell me you have already forgotten the fireball attack I did on both you and Hiei that knocked you both unconscious for a week? It would have been a lot longer if I hadn't thought of healing the both of you"

Yoko could barely hear her as he slowly drifted off to sleep but he did still hear her words and with a smile on his face said, "No, I haven't forgotten," and with that Yoko fell asleep against her shoulder with a little chuckle and a smile on his face. Caralama began to wipe away some of the hair that had fallen over his face and smiled to herself. Sweet dreams...father.

Fool! Came a laughing thought from the evil scientist (Shigure), as he was watched Caralama and Yoko through a hidden camera Now that the fox is asleep he is now under my control! Now lets see how he likes to hurt those who have cared for him especially since the girl thinks of him as her father and he thinking her as his daughter. Shigure (who was hidden by the shadows so I can't give a good description of him) flipped a switch and pair of earphones that were hidden behind Yoko's fox ears and were so small that Caralama hadn't seen them, were switched on. Now lets see if Caralama will hurt her beloved wishful father. His body is mine to control!

Yoko was instantly awake with a weird buzzing sound in his ears, "Yoko I'm going to be fine you just go to sleep," Caralama was beginning to say but she saw the look in his eyes. His eyes looked empty like as if Yoko was gone and someone was controlling him then it looked like he was back. Then some vines began to grow from his wrists as he began to stand up. He looked at Caralama and the vines went straight toward her. Caralama was instantly out of the way before the vines had hit her and was on the other side of the room.

"Yoko what are you doing? Are you trying to kill me?" Caralama dodged his vines again. Ahe looked at Yoko and saw that his eyes were fully aware of what he was doing but that they also looked worried.

C"aralama! Watch out!" came the plea from Yoko's mind trying to reach out to Caralama but some how his mind was frozen and when he realized this he also realized that all he could do was look on helplessly at Caralama as she dodged another one of his vine attacks but this time Caralama was scratched slightly across the cheek, "Caralama I'm sorry I cant control my body! Some one else is!"

Caralama had been in Yoko's mind that time and had heard his worry. She was suddenly worried now, "I'm sorry Yoko this is going to hurt but I think this is the only way to stop what your doing."

Caralama turned around and went right at Yoko and hit him on his temple. Yoko's vines slackened and he fell unconscious on the floor. Caralama went over to him carefully. She knew now what kind of liquid was put on his neck. It was a kind of 'man made' liquid that once dropped on the back of the neck of a person the person would instantly have to take orders from the person who had dropped the liquid. This scared Caralama because unless the scientist had some how found out how to make that liquid it meant that the Dark Signs were in this world. Because that liquid was from another world. And Caralama was hoping that the scientist had accidentally made it. She checked her neck and found that she was still wearing the pendant that protected her from the Dark Signs just to be sure. When Caralama saw that Yoko was asleep she began to feel around the foxes ears and suddenly her fingers found something. She carefully lifted up one of the small earphones. Once she saw it she was angry and set the mini earphone on fire. Then she found the other one and set that one on fire as well.

After a few minutes Yoko woke up and found his head was lying on Caralama's lap. He instantly stood up moving a bit away remembering what he had inadvertently done to her. He looked at Caralama and saw the scratch on her face and the worry in her eyes, which relaxed shortly. He went back to her and kneeled down beside her and touched her face gently over the scratch, "Caralama I'm so ..." Caralama put her finger on his lips to make him quiet.

Shigure saw the whole thing through the camera and thought this would be nice to show Hiei.

Hiei was about forty miles away from the scientist's laboratory when he heard his voice in his head "Do you want to see your girlfriend and best friend? Well here take a look for your self," instantly Hiei saw Caralama and Yoko in a dark room made out of steal and he stopped running. He looked harder as Caralama put her hand on Yoko's cheek and looked closely at him. Hiei saw everything as Caralama rubbed one side of his face with the look of concern on her face. Then she fell forward and she was laying against Yoko with his arms around her. Yoko looked like he was trying to say something but Hiei couldn't hear, "Looks like they would make a lovely couple now wouldn't they Hiei?"

Hiei looked at Yoko's lips trying to see what he was saying but he couldn't. "What did you do?" Hiei asked with anger in that thought trying to get it to Shigure.

"Me? You should have been more considerate of what you were doing. Think on how you acted toward her when you first meet her you weren't actually thinking she could love some one like you did you? You also used your so-called friend's life to save your own. Not very considerate are you now? We'll talk more when you get here," and with that Shigure broke the connection and Hiei resumed running.

Caralama had fainted and Yoko had caught her in his arms and began to call her, "Caralama, Caralama are you okay? Please say I didn't hurt you too much. Caralama you have to wake up!" He gently pressed his hand on her neck to look for a pulse and he found one and was still beating strongly. Relieved Yoko touched the bruise that was beginning to swell and the side of his cheek. He winced as he touched it and had to smile. I guess she can take care of herself. Whether she can kill or not, he had to smile again. No one had ever punched him before and knocked him unconscious ether with just one blow well not if you count that sneak up but he was aware of Caralama. Caralama was indeed a very remarkable girl. Yoko gently laid Caralama across his lap and saw that she was still sleeping and gently used some of his energy to heal the scratch on her cheek. When he was done he brought her head to his chest and laid his head on top of hers. Sweet dreams...my daughter. And he began to rub behind her ears and she started to purr.

All of a sudden the door began to open a few minutes later. Yoko could feel Caralama in his arms moving as if trying to wake up. The light on the other side of the door almost blinded Yoko and he was hit in the face on the same side that Caralama had hit him. He went sprawling to the other side of the room and saw Caralama beside him still trying to wake up. Then someone pulled him up and another person said, "Hurry it up! The girl is almost awake!" Yoko felt like he was being heaved onto a shoulder and then he heard a door slam behind him and everything went black.

Caralama had regained consciousness but not in time to save Yoko. The door was slammed behind the people that had come in and everything went dark. Caralama knew the voice that had spoken and it had confirmed her worst fears. It was Kelsey's voice one of the Dark Signs. She instantly began to rub her pendant and it began to glow. She pointed it toward the door and a beam of light hit the door and it shattered to pieces. But them she heard a spell and before she could do anything she fainted.