Getting out of her daze, she quickly followed Hiei. She looked at him sadly, and he noticed. Stopping, he turned around quickly.

"What do you think you're doing looking at me like that?" he asked.

"Nothing…" Meilin answered quickly.

"Listen I don't need sympathy from a weak human like you." he answered, starting to walk away.

Meilin looked at with hatred. How dare he call her weak? She was definitely not weak, she was strong, but then, she didn't have any way of proving it. "I'M NOT WEAK!" she yelled at him. Hiei stopped again, and turned around. "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have been able to defeat that Kurama imposter!" In a flash he was right in front of her. He looked into her ruby eyes, with his fiery eyes.

"Listen, I would've been able to defeat it even without your help." he shot back.

"Oh, so I guess you take back that compliment you told me then, just because you told me about your abandonment!"

"Don't mention it again!" he yelled with finality. Thinking that was going to be the end of it, he started to go back on the hunt for Olgin.

Meilin stood there. How dare he? Does he think that I'm some lowly human that's going to cower at him? He definitely didn't know who he was arguing with. she thought. "What?! You think you're the only one that knows what it feels like to be abandoned? To be alone?" she yelled back. Hiei stopped in his tracks, amazed at the girl's bravery.

"As a matter of fact I do."

"Well, how's about this, Hiei. I was born into a magical family and was the only one without magic. When my family learned of that, they disowned me! I try and I try to be better at everything else, to somehow make up for my magic, but does that please them? NO! No matter what, I'll always be worthless in their eyes. I'm lower than dirt to them. So put away your stupid pity party, and realize that you have friends that care about you!"

"So says the girl that runs away from her friends." Hiei said venomously. Meilin glared at him.

"So says the guy that's a demon that hates help and thinks that nobody knows what it feels to be him." She stalked off in the opposite direction, leaving Hiei to his thoughts.

- - -

"So tell me, this girl you're looking for, what's your relationship with her?" the old man asked Li as he led them deeper and deeper into the forest.

"Old friends. She has a crush on me, and when I let her down, she was pretty heartbroken." he said sadly. "I want to find her so I can set things straight again."

"Set things straight? Is she mad?" the old man inquired.

Li stared at him. He seemed suspicious, but he didn't feel any evil power from him, and besides, he was just being a normal human being. Curious, and maybe he could help him. He was old, so he must be wise, right? I have to stop being so paranoid like Meilin always says. he thought. "Yeah she's mad at me all right."

"What did you do?"

"Well, I knew she was still getting over me, and then I had to go and kiss my girlfriend right in front of her. I feel so bad…" he said. "My ancest-" Li started, and then caught himself. "Er…friend told me not to find her because she said not to look for her. He also said that if I went to look for her, I'd be putting her and into danger."

The old man stopped. "Do you want some advice?"

"Yeah, I'd love that." Li sighed as he leaned against a tree. "That's something I need right now."

"Next time somebody tells you not to go because it'll put someone in danger, do what they tell them to." the old man said.

"What?" Li asked. He felt a surge of evil energy coming from the odd man, and when he looked at him, he was no longer old. He was tall, muscular, with short blond hair and cold blue eyes. Light blue markings were on his face, and on his arm were tally marks. The man smiled at him. "Time to go to bed." the man said as he looked at Li. Li instantly felt drowsy and collapsed onto the forest floor. Picking Li up, he took him to a cave where an unconscious Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Botan lay. Throwing Li onto the floor next to the other sleeping bodies, he started to leave to look for the other two. Hearing footsteps nearby, he quickly transformed and left.

- - -

"UGH! MEN! I hate them all! They're all stubborn…" Meilin muttered as she walked. She was trying to look for the campsite. She knew Botan would probably give her some good girl advice, and she wanted to talk. Earlier she found an old bonfire, but she didn't think it was their camp since there wasn't anything that showed they were there. None of the food items were there that they had earlier, so she just figured that it was someone else's camp. Besides, Botan wasn't there. She kept marching on, determined to find the camp herself.

A sudden noise came from her left, and she quickly went into a fighting position. A boy about her age came up with messy brown hair, and brown eyes. Meilin gasped. "Li! What…what are you doing here?" she was thrilled that he came for her, but she didn't show it. "I told you not to follow me!" she retorted instead.

Li smiled at her warmly. "I know you didn't want me to follow you, I just had to. Once you left, I realized that I care about you more than anything…" he said softly as he came up to her and embraced her. Meilin's heart was pounding. She couldn't believe the words coming from his mouth. It had to be a dream. "That other girl means nothing to me…" he said in her ear. Meilin didn't want to let go, but something bugged her in the back of her mind. This was everything she wanted, but it seemed that Li let go of the one thing he cared about more than anything else rather quickly.

She let go of the embrace and looked into his eyes. She just had to be sure it was him, and not another imposter. "That other girl? You mean you were cheating on me?! How could you?!" she shouted to him. He looked at her confused.

"What do you mean cheating?" Li said, looking at her with a bewildered look. "We were never together in the first place!" Meilin looked at him, it could have been a lucky guess, or he really could've been the real Li. But, she still had to test him.

"What's my name?"

"Meilin." he answered.

"My full name."

Li hesitated and looked around. "That doesn't matter! Can't you see that I've been worried sick about you?" he said, as he advanced upon her.

"Where's the real Li?!" she shouted as she backed away from him. She didn't realize she was trapping herself.

"I am the real Li." he said sweetly.

"IMPOSTER!" she said as her back hit a cold dirt. She looked up to see that there was another level of forest, and she was stuck. Meilin quickly looked back at Li to see him transform. "Olgin…" she whispered.

"I'm glad you know me. You should be honored that you have seen my true form." the blond replied. "See these tallies?" he asked referring to his arm. "Those are the number of people I killed. Once I get your friend Hiei, there'll be seven more! As for you, since it seems you have a trouble soul, I'll be happy to take it away from you…" he said venomously.

Meilin closed her eyes, she never felt so defenseless in her life. So this is how I'm going to die… she thought miserably, awaiting the oncoming slaughter

A/N: CLIFFHANGER!! Guess you're going to have to wait for the next chapter to see what happens! Sorry! Thank you to everybody who reviewed! JupiterLover: I'll think about the story, and if I have time, I'll write your Kurama/Lita fic. O.k.? Please review!