"Jeanie begin phase one," Dianrwe ordered to the Koorime that had carried me. An electric shock went through the entire room. I got electrocuted very badly because of the metal chain. I looked up at Dianrwe after the shock had stopped to see if she got hurt too, but she looked fine. "You're probably wondering why I didn't get shocked, right? Well guess what? Ice demons can't be hurt by electricity, but electricity is a fire demons worst nightmare," Dianrwe explained. "My worst nightmare is your face," I muttered to myself. "Did you say something?" Dianrwe asked suspiciously. "No, I think it was Jeanie," I replied calmly. Dianrwe stepped out of the room and went up by Jeanie. Dianrwe ordered Jeanie to do something and Jeanie pushed a red button. Suddenly the room was covered in flames and when it stopped I was covered mostly in soot. I felt the chain loosen and I dropped to my knees. "Now you fight me," Dianrwe said coming back in the room. "This...is…a…a fixed fight," I stuttered. The flames hadn't hurt me but I could still feel the electric shock. "Exactly, the fire demon will blame him self for your death and then he'll be easy prey," Dianrwe replied. She suddenly charged toward me and gave me a hard punch in the nose and a kick in the stomach. I fell back up against the wall and then fell forward, coughing up blood. "The fire burned your throat and you will eventually die if I kill you or not," Dianrwe explained. I stood up again ready to fight until the death. Suddenly I heard familiar voices. It was Yusuke blabbing on to his enemies, as always. I kind of figured that the rest of the gang would be with him and sure enough when Yusuke was done I heard everyone else's voices. Suddenly an alarm went off. "What?" Dianrwe asked in surprise. Just then the gang came down only to find Dianrwe throwing an ice blade aimed for my heart. Yuske blasted Dianrwe to pieces with his spirit gun but it was too late, the blade had made contact. I stuttered a bit and then reached up and pulled the blade out of my heart. I dropped the blade on the ground beside me and fell forward, into a state which I thought was dead. "Hiei," I heard Yusuke ask, "Please, you're the fastest out of all of us can you take her to Botan as fast as you can?" "Sure," Hiei replied picking me up and running faster than he ever has and got me there in about a minuet or so. When Botan saw me she immediately took me to my room. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama came into the living room about ten minuets later only to find Hiei sitting in the window sill calm as ever. "Is she going to be okay?" Yusuke asked. "I don't know," Hiei replied. Suddenly Botan came out of my room. "How is she?" Yusuke asked. "The wounds are fine but she's coughing up blood because her throat was burned," Botan explained. "What happened?" Yusuke asked. "I don't really know we will have to wait until she's conscious again," Botan said. About half an hour later I regained consciousness. I opened my eyes only to find darkness. I was in my room and the blinds were pulled down. I had a bandage around my waist, probably broken ribs, my right arm was taped up too probably sprained, and my head hurt like hell. I sat up only to find that the pain was unbearable and laid back down. Once I regained my strength I quickly sat up and got out of bed. I saw Botan asleep on the bed beside me, snoring loudly. I had wondered why I hadn't seen or heard her before. I crept out into the living room only to find it totally trashed. Everything was messed up. As I looked around for a clue or something I had wondered who did it. I turned to the boys' room only to see Yusuke's body lying on the floor. I ran over to him and tried to wake him up. "Yusuke," I cried, tears forming in my eyes. Luckily Kurama heard me and woke up to see what was wrong. He opened his door only to see Yusuke's body down on the floor and me, huddled against the back of the couch, crying not even two feet away from him. Kurama looked shocked. "He's dead," I said. Kurama came and sat beside me on the floor. He put his arm around my shoulders and I cried into him. He let me cry for a while until he pulled me away from him. He put his hand under my chin and lifted my chin up to meet his emerald green eyes. "You can't cry for the rest of your life," Kurama said. He put his hand down from under my chin and my head dropped down after a while. "You have to be strong," Kurama said. "I have no point….everything I start to love dies, eventually. I'd be better off not loving at all," I replied. I stood up and ran into the hallway. Suddenly without me knowing Yusuke stirred and Kurama found out he was just unconscious. I ran down the stair case and tripped down the last flight of steps. I picked myself up off the ground and ran out the door. I didn't stop running until I made it to the cave where Hiei and I always came. I sat in a corner and continued to mope but I wouldn't cry. I had decided not to love anything anymore only because it would only lead to more pain. I fell asleep eventually and woke up in the morning. I got up and tried to forget everything I had just found in the past week. I was about to walk away when a hand grabbed my shoulder. "Where are you going?" Hiei asked me. I pulled away. "I don't know," I replied, "I decided not to love anymore because it only lets people hurt you. So goodbye," I quickly kissed him on his cheek and walked away. He touched the spot where I kissed him and it took him a split second to realize what I had just said and done. He ran to ketch up to me. "I thought loving was painful too until…." Hiei stopped walking. "Until what?" I asked, stopping too. "Kurama explained it to me, and I met you," He replied, smiling. I was about to smile but I remembered it would only lead to liking him again. I shook my head and turned away from him. I was about to start walking again when Hiei said something I never thought he would. "Please stay! The only I'll bare this punishment is with you here," Hiei said. I stopped and looked at him. "Then come run away with me….we can become thieves and get revenge on your mother and try to find my father. He should be here since dead things come here… and we'd never be from each other," I said, holding my hand out to him. "But I can't," He looked away. "Fine," I said withdrawing my hand and walking away. He watched me go and I only looked back when I hit the tree line. I climbed up a rocky hill that had a water fall. I unsheathed my sword and went to the edge of the water fall. I thought if I stabbed my self with enough force no one would know I was dead because I would fall into the water. I raised the sword and was about to strike when Hiei rushed up and grabbed the sword and me from falling. "Let go," I protested, "You were the only thing I had left." "You still have me," Hiei replied. We sat down together until I calmed down a bit. "And there's another thing you have left …. Yusuke's not dead. He was just unconscious, from fighting some monster who had threatened us all," Hiei said. I looked up at him astonished. We returned to the room. "I told you I hadn't recovered ….another thing I didn't tell you….my father always said it was my fault and that he didn't need me anymore and I can still hear him yelling at me. That's what I haven't gotten over yet," I explained as we walked up the stair well. "I suddenly don't have such I bad life," Hiei joked. I smiled a bit, "but you had a horrible life…at least my father never threw me away like you're family did," I said. We stopped three floors from the top. "True, but I've improved my life, you haven't and it wasn't that bad. I was only a child and I don't quite remember," Hiei said. "Let's not fight over this," I said quickly. "Sure," he said moving a bit closer. We looked at each other for a moment and then we kissed. The kiss turned in to making-out. I was up against the wall when we finally stopped. I had pulled away to breathe. "What's wrong?" Hiei asked me. "We really should be going before anyone comes looking for us…only to find us here," I replied. Hiei smiled and started to play with my hair. I was still up against the wall and Hiei was still up against me. "Hiei," I said pulling his hand down. "Sorry," he replied. I smiled at him and we continued up the stairs only to climb the last staircase and find Rikku, Botan, and Yukina in front of the door. We looked at each other, started blushing and quickly looked away. Rikku giggled. "What was that?" Botan asked smoothly pointing down to where we had been standing. "What was what?" I asked quickly. "That," Botan replied again pointing to where we had been standing. I walked over to the railing and looked down. I looked at Hiei who shrugged. I nodded in reply. "Oh that," I said trying to sound innocent, "Nothing," I quickly pulled Hiei into the living room before they could ask anything else. "That was close," Hiei said. "Yeah….told ya we'd be caught," I replied. "Just act normal," Hiei said going towards the windowsill. "Sure I'll be back in about 20 minutes," I replied. "Sure take your time," Hiei said. As Hiei stopped talking Botan, Rikku, and Yukina came in. I slipped into my room that I shared with Rikku. About 5 minutes later as I figured Botan and Rikku came in. I was on my laptop picking out a background. It ended up a picture of Hiei that I got unnoticed. "So….how was it?" Botan asked. I looked up from my laptop. Rikku and Botan were sitting on my bed in front of me. "What?" I asked looking back to my laptop. "You know exactly what," Botan teased. "Yeah that, it was okay but nothing serious," I replied putting down my laptop and going to look out the window. "Nothing serious?! Kiri you were practically all over each other!" Rikku said. "So? As I said it's no big deal," I replied. "No big deal huh?" Rikku said plugging something into the computer. She finally turned the laptop around. I saw a picture of Hiei and I making-out in the stair well. "Where'd you get that?" I asked. "Sorry I just had to do that," Botan said.