Chapter 4

"What are you doing?" She looks up and at Hiei where he still lay on the couch. His head turns to her and his eyes open.

"Cleaning," she says in a vain effort to talk and hide the fangs that she had grown over night, "You should try it come time." He watches her carefully as she looks back to the window that displayed a wet day.

" What's with the fangs?" She looks at him still able to feel the familiar feeling of fangs against her lips.

"I'm hungry." She says simply and he looks confused.

"What kind of demon are you again?"

"Again? I never told you to begin with." He nods and sits up on his elbows fighting off the dizziness that she knew he was feeling.

"So what is that?" She shakes her head.

"Why would I tell you to begin with?" He shakes his head.

"The fact that I just spent the night here and you wake up with fangs. That would be a good reason to me." Kivan closes her eyes for a second.

"Ever heard of a Saint?" He looks at her like she was crazy before scoffing.

"And you expect me to believe that?" Kivan shakes her head.

"Believe it if you want, I don't care, that's all that you'll get." He looks at her and Kivan walks into the kitchen and over to the sink running hot water into the basin.

"So if you're a Saint, what are you?" She looks at him and smirks.

"Thought that was obvious." He nods.

"Nightmare." She nods and smirks softer.

'That's me. The Saint of Nightmare. Or I was." He watches her as she turns off the water and grabbing the sponge quickly washes out the blow and cup that had been used the previous night.

"So what do you eat?"

"Innocence." He sits up and then quickly falls back down. "It'll take a while for you to get your balance back. But you won't be clawing your head apart and running it into window in the mornings for the next few weeks." He nods.

"That's great. Unbalanced and tired," He looks out the window, "Out there." Kivan looks out the window above the sink.

"You can stay here for a while if you want. They won't be back for a few days. I drowned that woman in so much pain that she should be dead in weeks. They'll stay up there for the burial," She looks over at him, "You have all the time you need to get back on your feet and then some." She walks over and sits down on the armchair.

"Why are you doing this," He says his eyes never leaving her. She looks at him for the first real time. Straight in the eyes.

"I gave up hurting people a long time ago, the day I gave up control of the Nightmare."

"How long ago was that?"

"When was the last time that you saw a child in the demon world not scream for their life as they woke?" He looks at her. "I never want to see a Saint again if I can help it. But I know that they'll take back up interest in my abandonment in no time." He just looks at her like he had never seen her before.

"Not everyday a Saint gives up what they do."

"Not everyday the one person a Saint cares about is killed… by a Saint… and then the Saint is killed and they want revenge, on the only person that ever loved that other person." He looks at the floor and thinks about it. "My sister was killed by the Saint of Lightning, he hubby, killed Lightning, and they killed him." He looks up at her. "I know you have a sister," He nods, "Would you have killed me if I had killed her if you didn't know anything about me, and maybe ever then?" He looks back up at her.

"Yes."

"So do you get it? Because if you do you have more understanding than the Saint Assassins." He nods.

"They just couldn't understand that?"

"I don't know, didn't try I'd say."

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"What's it like," I look up from the paper to where Hiei lay on the couch that he still hadn't moved from, "In the demon world these days?" I smirk softly.

"Cold. Like always." He nods. "But it was spring when I left. Little warmer than normal."

"Why'd you leave in the spring?"

"I left when I couldn't stand it anymore. It jut happened to be the spring."

"How many people have you killed?" I stop. My mouth was open a little and I knew I had to look visibly stunned. I catch up after a minute.

"Eight hundred and forty-two." He continues to look at the ceiling.

"You kept count?"

"They aren't just kills. Every one of those eight hundred and some people had a life and at least one person that ever cared for them. I killed that, but I don't regret it."

"So, you kept count?" I look at him for another second.

"Yes." He nods still looking at the ceiling, void as ever.

In the last day he had become that, void. Stunned. 'Maybe the Nightmare did something to him.' "Hiei?" He looks at me. "Would you mind… if I checked for, damage?" He stares at me for a second, before seeming to understand what I was asking and shakes his head.

"Not really." I get up from where I was sitting on the floor and walk over to the couch just above his head, facing him. "What are you looking for?" I look down at him. He seemed still just as void but still with a little understanding now.

"Anything that's conflicting with what you know."

"So you know, everything up there?"

"I know enough from the Nightmare, anymore, I don't want to know." He nods and closes his eyes. I place my fingers on his temples and close my eyes after him.

His mind was cold. Darker than most I have known, but still stronger. Scattered, but surprisingly strong. I call into the darkness. No response. But then all in one wall, the memories come running back almost painfully. I had to bite I mouth closed to keep from screaming. I pull out quickly. All the information still going through my head, there was no time to stop the flow.

Within minutes I was on the phone with Yusuke. "What do you mean it's wrong," He says and I shake my head.

"There's something wrong in his mind. Everything's… wrong. There's no other way to describe it." I look over to where he was once again asleep on the couch. "He hasn't been awake more than three hours in the last two days. I think the nightmare did something to him." Yusuke doesn't say anything for a minute before sighing, and then stopping at whatever he was going to, say thinking about it for another second, and then startin over.

"I'll see if I can find someone to get over there to look at him." I nod.

"Thank you." I hang up the phone and stands there for a minute, simply watching him. "What's going on up there," I whisper and walk over to the couch standing behind it and looking down at him again. "Please don't let go yet. If you're as hurt as I think… I don't know what you can do though?"

I stand back and watch him sleep until there comes a knock on the door about twenty minutes later. I open it without moving and Yusuke walks and looks down ta Hiei. "Now if only it was you there and Kurama was Hiei." I shake my head while rolling my eyes. Yusuke looks down at Hiei. "I've never seen him sleep, only passed out but he's really calm."

"Right now anyway," I say, "Last night I don't think it was dead yet." He nods and looks at the red-head behind him.

"Kurama, Sugian. Sugian, Kurama." Kurama nods and I nod back. "What do you think," Yusuke says looking from Hiei from Kurama.

"Well he looks pale if anything."

"That's probably just the vomiting."

"Damn, Sugian, what you feeding him."

"Nightmare medicine." Kurama walks around the couch and looks down at Hiei. He turns his head to the side and continues to look at him. After a second he pulls back a little scared and looks up at Yusuke.

"I think you're going to need Genkai for this one, Yusuke." Yusuke gives him a pained look and then looks at me.

"Are you sure you can't handle this?" I glare at him.

"Stopped making people mad a century ago, Yusuke. And I've done all I can. He can't take any more of what I was giving him."

"What were you giving him," Kurama asks without looking at me and I look at the back of his head.

"A mixture of Whisky, blood and Diave herbs." He looks at me a look of awe on his face.

"And what's your real name?" I smirk.

"They called me Nightmare." He looks a little taken back. "Guess you've head of the Saints." I stand up and walk back to my room getting a blue bottle and walking back out to the living room. I throw the bottle to Yusuke and he looks at me breaking the fight he was having with Kurama. "Get him out if the fox doesn't like it." Kurama looks at me and glares. I wanted to send a Nightmare into his head, but held back looking at Hiei. 'Sorry,' I wanted to say to his face but never had to. He opens his eyes and looks at the ceiling. He looks over at me, paying no attention to the other two.

"I know what to do," He says and I look at him curiously. I blink once and then he sits up and stands quickly form the bike. He jumps over to me and I never see it as he picks me up and runs out of the door. The next thing I know I'm sitting on the back of my bike and Hiei is in front of me, key in the ignition and engine started.

"Do you know how to drive this?" He looks back at me and grins menacingly.

"Time to find out." He pulls out of the driveway and takes off down the road. I could feel Yusuke and Kurama watching us and I knew this was all wrong.