Yay! I finally get to update. Yes, I know I'm lazy, but you people gotta live with that.

Disclaimer : I'm a hobo... Don't ask.

Sooooooooo, where were we? Oh yes...

Hiei turned around to face the Balrog of Moria. It was a terrible sight, a hideous creatue wreathed in darkness and flame, with a long firey whip and fierce horns. As Hiei looked up at it the Balrog said :

'What fool dares to enter my domain?' The evil creature glared down at the rather short being before it (The Balrog talks...yes, I changed that. Also keep in mind the fact that it doesn't know Hiei is a demon).

Hiei glared up at the creature. He didn't like it's attitude.

'You are the fool to cross my path.' Said Hiei.

The Balrog laughed a hideous laugh. 'You have spirit for one so small, too bad I'm going to kill you now.'

Hiei didn't like the Balrog's attitude, he didn't like the fact that he was being delayed and he especially didn't like being called short. Of course he wouldn't let Kuwabara know that, or he'd never hear the end of it. 'You're annoying me, so I think I'll finish you off now.' He said, with slitted eyes.

The Balrog was quite amused by now and it decided to see if the dwarf-sized man had anything to back his daring words with. He blew his hottest and darkest fire onto the little man, then when he was out of breath he laughed and waited for the smoke to clear, expecting to see cinders where Hiei had been.

The smoke cleared and...

DUN DUN DUN (suspense music)

The Balrog blinked in surprise to see, well, nothing.

'I'm over here,' sneered a cold voice.

The confused demon turned to find Hiei right behind him, still holding his sister, frowning. 'Is that all?' he asked bored.

The Balrog turned and tried to slice the arrogant little man in half with his lightning whip. Again, he touched nothing. Frustrated, he said, 'So you're just going to dodge like a coward? Are you afraid of me little man?'

With that, Hiei's eyes narrowed considerably (even though they already were pretty narrow). He disappeared for a second and reappeared, this time without his sister.

He glared up at the Balrog.

'Not that it will make any difference if you do manage to hit me...' he stated, rather bluntly (this was by now starting to hurt the poor Balrog's morale.

The Balrog once again breathed it's hottest flames onto Hiei thinking 'what a fool, he fell for it. If he hadn't stayed still, I would probably never have gotten him...'

'#$!' said Yusuke rather vulgarly. 'What the hell are we doing?!?! Going for a walk? Aren't we supposed to be saving the world or something?'

'Oh, be quiet Yusuke, and stop swearing!' said Keiko, but obviously, she too was tired of walking.

'We must have been walking for.... ever.' Groaned Kuwabara.

In truth, they had only been waling for one day, but unlike the elves, most of our little group was not equipped to walk for longer than it took them to go to school every day.

Kurama tried to ignore the others' complaints and enjoy the landscape, which was beautiful, but his thoughts kept turning to Hiei and how on earth they would survive and other such pleasant thoughts.

Merry and Pippin, usually very cheerful and bright were traumatized by the loss of their 'fellow hobbit' from another world, and without them to do something stupid and cheer everyone up, things looked pretty bleak.

All of a sudden, Aragorn stopped the group and silenced them as he listened carefully to his surroundings.

'There is a small group of orcs coming our way. There seems to be only ten of them, but we should be careful nonetheless.'

So the group hid and as the orcs drew nearer (They were so shaken by their experience in Moria that they didn't even notice they were running headlong into a trap) the group attacked them, taking them completely off their gaurd. Surprisingly, they showed very little resistence...

'What is your business here orc?' Asked Legolas.

'There is a terrible creature lurking in Moria right now. All the orcs, except us, have been wiped out completely. Beware the Balrog! (for that is what he thought Hiei to be).

With that, the poor orc started babbling about something or other. Kurama worried; what happened to Hiei? Was he alright?

'Isn't that the place that we're headed right now?' asked Yusuke.

'Yes...' said Kurama,

He was cut off by Kuwabara, 'Wasn't Shorty supposed to meet us on the way?' (in other words now).

'The Balrog is a terrible demon that lurks in the deep darkness of Kazah-Duhm (is that right?) He is a powerful weilder of the Flames of Darkness... Hiei... honorably...' Gandalf said something of the sort but Yusuke wasn't paying attention. He wouldn't hear of it. Hiei? Defeated?

'You mean Hiei's going to meet us soon?' said Pippin hopefully. (obviously, he hadn't been paying attention either.

'No Pip,' said Merry sadly, 'He might not be alive anymore...'

'Shut up!!! All of you! Hiei's NOT dead!' Yusuke practically screamed at them.

'You're right, knowing him, he should be fine.' Said Kurama, happy that the talk of Hiei's death ceased as soon as Yusuke yelled out.

They let the orcs go (making sure that they headed away from Rivendell) and continued to make their way towards the forbidding Misty Mountains which loomed ever closer...

The Balrog ceased to smile as the smoke cleared, because as before, there stood Hiei, not even singed by the intense heat which had just been concentrated on him. Not even his clothes were burnt!!!!!

'Are you done yet?...' asked the little dwarf.

This question rather took the demon by surprise because up to now, nobody had ever attempted to attack him before and the thought of it was not a concept he would accept too quickly.

'...Good, because now it's my turn!' continued Hiei.

Blackish-purple flames began to form an aura around Hiei, and his look turned from sinister to downright evil.

'You will pay for underestimating me you foolish creature. You don't know one hundredth of the power I posess!' With that, the cave's temperature went from scorching hot to incinerating.

'Dragon of the Darkness Flame!' yelled Hiei as his attack, though only a mild form of the complete tecnique, scorched the Balrog and nearly incinerated it.

The Balrog felt the pain envelope him and before it was killed by Hiei's dark flames, he gathered his wits and retreated to the deepest pit and nursed its wounded body and ego.

After the Balrog was long gone, Hiei fell to his knees, panting slightly. No, the creature had not hurt him, but the tecnique 'Dragon of the Darkness Flame' was very demanding on his spirit energy. He fought against blacking out, reminding himself that Yukina was still in danger. Hiei slowly tried to get back onto his feet when he felt a cool, soothing hand on his shoulder.

'Are you alright?' Yukina, worried.

So she had regained conciousness?

'Hn' he said without thinking, then cursed himself. This was his sister! Couldn't he do better? 'I'm fine.' He said.

Her frown deepened. 'You're hurt,' she said. 'Will you please let me heal your wounds at least?' The fire deamon said nothing so she took it as a yes. Blue energy radiated from her hands.

Hiei could feel the warmth spreading through his body as Yukina's warm energy healed his wounds.

'Thank you. Now let's go.' he said when she was done.

Together they left the dark mountains and headed towards their friends.

I'm sooooooooo sorry that I left you guys hanging for so long please forgive a poor hobo ;; !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll update soon, promise! (and don't you forget to review, or I'll break my promise! )

See ya, Botan-chan