There was something so annoying about her that irked me every time my eyes saw her petite figure, but of course, I had no idea what that something might be. I really did not want to guess why either. And even though it does bother me, I always catch myself doing so, looking at her that is, whether it be when she goes to that school of hers or when we're walking together, and sometimes it actually feels good, like I'm content with something.

I still don't know much about her, but I'm listening and finding out new things about her. At night she cries silently, arms wrapped around an old and worn stuffed bear, and sometimes I really wish that I could comfort her, but I don't.

There's something real special about her, obviously. Why would someone target her otherwise? But what was so special about her? She herself didn't seem to know.

And even though I do have a lot of questions, I won't ask her. I'll keep my mouth shut and wait until she decides to tell me, and if she doesn't, I still won't ask. I guess it's just me, listening and making sarcastic comments, and saying something every once in a while.

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Bad Ass Girl by: Jineka

Disclaimers: I don't Yu Yu Hakusho, surprise surprise.

I haven't updated in a while… No excuses except that I'm lazy… Sorry about that people.

Also you may have noticed but the dividers I used to use aren't working and if the ones that I'm using now don't work, just try to figure out where the breaks are.

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Chapter 5 Hospital

-Hiei-

I eyed the demons warily. They looked weak enough, but why send such weak demons and such a small number of them for an assassination? Surely whoever's behind this had realized that Hitomi was no ordinary girl. She could take a couple of ugly lower class demons.

I pulled out my sword and made pieces of the demons. The pieces seemed to sizzle and evaporate, turning in an odorous purple gas. "Oh my god, that smells nasty," Hitomi said covering her nose with her jacket, "Hey, what's it doing?"

The gas was reforming and becoming solid again. The demons were back. Though they were ugly and big, signs of a weak lower class, these weren't ordinary demons. Reformation and regeneration were pretty rare among the race. What were they?

I sliced through the herd again and once again the pieces sublimated into a purple gas. "Get back," I said to Hitomi. She nodded and stepped back a bit. The demons were back and their number seemed a bit larger...

They were reproducing! The solid ones were giving off gas that formed new monsters. "What the hell are they?" Hitomi asked backing up.

"Some species of demon," I answered vaguely, I didn't know exactly what they were either. I stepped back and sliced through the first row, but they were back almost immediately. I narrowed my eyes. There seemed to be no weak spot. How could anyone get rid of something that wasn't solid, but was a gas? I grabbed Hitomi and began to run, pulling her behind me, "Let's get out of here."

The demons followed, sluggishly crawling at such a slow pace I turned around and stopped. The demons started to sizzle even though I hadn't touched them. "Hiei! They're changing forms!" And sure enough, the demons were becoming gas again. They hovered in the air for a short period and suddenly launched themselves at us.

"Come on!" I grabbed Hitomi again and ran, looking back only to see that the gas was following easily. I picked Hitomi up and started to run again. "I can run you know," she said with a small pout.

"Too slow," and I was right. The purple gas followed and when I sped it, it sped up. At the pace we were going, it was going to catch us soon.

The gas slowly surrounded us, suffocating us with its horrendous smell. Hitomi began to cough, "Hiei, I can't breathe…" Her words faded, her eyes closed, and she lost consciousness.

I squinted through the purple haze and stopped. It had already surrounded us; Hitomi was already out of it, what was I supposed to do? I coughed, feeling the gas' effect on me. I could barely breathe.

All of a sudden, I heard an explosion. I turned my gaze to where the sound had come from. The purple gas was exploding itself! My eyes widened as I realized what this meant. I felt an explosion on my left side and felt a sharp pain on my left leg and arm. I dropped to my knees, dropping Hitomi onto the ground in the process, coughing and grabbed my arm with my other hand.

Another explosion sounded and engulfed Hitomi's lower half in flames. "Shit." I tried to move closer to her, but the rest of the gas exploded, blinding me in a flash of light. I felt my body howl with pain and then…

It was black.

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I opened my eyes slowly. I was surrounded by white, white walls, white curtains… I sat up suddenly, where was I? A jolt of pain ran up the side of my body and I dropped back onto the bed. I was in some sort of human hospital.

I rested a couple of minutes, thinking back to the fight I had had with the gas demons. Hitomi! I sat up suddenly again. Where was she? Was she ok? Another jolt of pain and I was back lying on the bed. I closed my eyes tightly and opened them again.

First things first. I checked myself for damage. My left leg was throbbing with dulled pain and completely bandaged up, as was my left arm. My right side seemed unharmed. I tried moving my right arm, but it wasn't responding. Unharmed? Yeah right.

"Hiei?"

I turned to face the source of the voice. It was Kurama. I grunted to show that I was conscious again.

Kurama let out a sigh of relief, "You're pretty mangled up, you know? What happened?"

I sat up again, slowly this time and pulled myself back so that I could lean on the wall. "How's Hitomi?"

Kurama smiled, "Worried? Her body is in worse condition than yours, but Koenma has a healer tending to her and she should recover fine. How'd you manage to get hurt this bad anyway Hiei?" I pulled a chair over to the side of my bed.

"Hiei!" The new voice belonged to Boton, Koenma's oh-so-helpful assistant. "We were so worried! Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Koenma are looking at the girl. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine," I said dryly with just a hint of sarcasm.

"Oh goody," Boton said with a smile, "How did you so badly hurt anyway?"

"Demons."

"Demons. Demons? You couldn't beat them?" She asked raising one eyebrow slightly.

I kept my mouth shut. I hated to admit that I couldn't beat those demons. Boton put her hands on her hips, "Well you're just a fountain of information today. I'm going to check on the boys." With that, she left the room leaving Kurama and I alone in the room.

"What kind were they?" Kurama asked with a frown, "You're not one that can't defend himself."

Kurama was someone I could talk to. "I really don't know. They could turn into a gas."

"Sublimate?"

"Yeah, into this purple gas that suffocates you. My sword had no effect, they just sublimated. The gas moves very fast and I couldn't out run him because I was carrying Hitomi." Kurama raised his eyebrows at this and almost smiled, "She runs too slowly," I replied to the implication.

"Go on," Kurama said calmly with a small smile playing on his lips.

"The gas smells really bad and it chokes people and then it explodes. I was weakened by the suffocation and the first couple explosions took me out, so I don't know much more."

Kurama frowned, "We found you in the morning. When were you there?"

"Yesterday evening."

"There was no trace of the demons when I found you, so we don't know if it suicides or just has explosives with it." He paused, eyebrows furrowed in thought.

"Hiei!" It was Koenma. "I see that you are up. What happened?"

Kurama smiled, "I'll tell you later, sir."

"Oh, ok. Come Kurama, we'll leave Hiei to rest."

I didn't want to rest, but they left anyway, leaving me to do nothing. The throbbing pain on my side was almost gone and I had nothing to do or focus on. This was going to be boring.

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This chapter was an action-y filler. I'm really not good at action (I specialize in romance, drama, and angst.) so don't completely hate this story if the action sucks.

I don't know why this story is ROMANCE/HUMOR. I might change the humor to drama when I feel like it. If you wanted humor, then you probably would be better off reading something else. The rest of the story will be a combination of action and romance with a splash of humor and drama. I can't wait until we get fluffy, fluffy scenes with Hiei and Hitomi! LOL

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