Okay! Hope you like the story! To tell you the truth, I have no clue as to how I am going to end this thing. --- mew. For any of you who don't know, that is my Boton cat face. Anyway, just go along for the ride and you may be surprised as to how it turns out!


Chap. 7-Dragons and Messanger

The next morning, Yusuke woke up with a horrible hangover, Kurama woke up feeling refreshed, and Kuwabara just... woke up. In a guest house near Genkai's temple, a demon girl slept happily. Little did she know today would change the way she lived.

Natsuki opened her eyes. The room was still semi dark. She looked out the window. It was going to be a beautiful day. Just as she was getting ready to turn around, the sun started to come up over the mountains. It slowly spread light across the valleys and crept its way up to Genkai's temple. It was the best thing that Natsuki had ever woken up to. She turned away and stretched. There was a white spot in front of her from looking at the sun too long. She walked over to the door and slid it open.

She walked into the kitchen. The room was orange with the first light from the sun. Hiei was nowhere to be seen. Just as she was getting ready to walk outside looking for him, he walked in the door. He was holding two bowls of Genkai's famous soup. He quickly made his way around her and set the soup down on the table. Natsuki walked over.

"Thank you." She said smiling. Hiei made a sound like a punctured tire. Natsuki laughed. This made Hiei even angrier. He sat down and began to eat his soup quickly. Natsuki sat down also. She picked up the spoon and began to sip her soup.

"What will we be working on today?" she asked. She was in a very good mood. Hiei looked up.

"I was thinking about showing you a few attacks and then play it by ear." He said stirring his soup around. Natsuki was still interested.

"What attack?" she asked pleadingly. Hiei smiled.

"You are just going to have to find out when we get there." He said teasingly. Natsuki smiled and finished her soup. She put the bowl in the sink and went to her room to get dressed.

She met Hiei at the clearing where they had their lesson before. He stood facing her as usual.

"Now..." he said quietly. "shall we get down to business?" He removed the white bandana that was wrapped around his fore head. Natsuki had never really pondered why it was there. She knew right away after the soft fabric fluttered softly to the ground. A large eye was positioned right in the center of his fore head. A memory came flooding back to her. She was standing in that room again. The person was speaking. The wielder of the Jagan, he is the enemy. She was thrown back into reality.

Hiei was worried. Had he shown her his Jagan two soon? Her eyes were glazed over and she was shaking. Humph. She would just have to tough it out. Her eyes returned to normal. Hiei let out a little sigh of relief. Not as to where she could hear this sigh though.

"Y-you have a J-Jagan?" she said weakly, stuttering terribly. Hiei closed his eyes. The Jagan did not close with his normal eyes.

"Do you know the powers of the Jagan?" he asked, his eyes still closed, head pointed down. Natsuki shook her head then realized he couldn't see her. She was about to say no when Hiei replied.

"Well then, you will learn today." He said opening his eyes and looking at her. Natsukis' mouth dropped open.

"How? How did you know?" she said. Hiei assumed she meant how did he know she said no. he smiled.

"I can hear your thoughts." He said solemly. Natsuki squeaked. A thousand thoughts went racing through her head. What if he heard something! Just stop thinking. What if he found out...? Stop thinking! But what if he knows... STOP THINKING!!! Hiei could tell he had sent her into a nervous break down. He smiled. It was kind of funny. He decided to let her mind rest.

"Only if I want to, and right now..." he looked her up and down. "I don't think I want to." He turned and walked away. Natsuki breathed a big sigh of relief. Hiei stopped.

"Now," he said whipping around. Natsuki looked at him. He looked so serious. He lifted his right hand. There was a bandage on it that Natsuki hadn't really paid that much attention to either. He slowly began to unwrap it. A long black scar spiraled across his arm. It looked like a dragon. Finally the bandage dropped to the ground. The clouds overhead grew dark. A black flame surrounded his arm. Natsuki was in awe. At the same time she was extremely frightened.

"This is my most powerful attack. It is called Dragon of the Darkness Flame." Hiei said menacingly. His Jagan began to glow. He turned away from her and held his arm out.

"I can only show you this once so pay attention." He yelled over the wind that was circling them now causing Natsuki's hair to whip wildly around her face. She should have put it up. Hiei closed his eyes. His Jagan started glowing brightly.

"Stay behind me. It will do us no good if you get swallowed." He yelled. The wind was really loud now. His eyes snapped open.

"Dragon of the Darkness Flame!!" he yelled as a long, black cloud of energy, resembling a dragon, shot out of his arm. It weaved around all the trees finally pulling up out of the forest and into the sky. It flew on, until it dissipated into the sky. Hiei was still in the same position as when he had sent the dragon. His breathing was heavy. He lowered his arm and walked over to Natsuki. She was on the ground leaning up against a tree.

The sky had gone back to normal above them. The wind had stopped. It almost seemed peaceful. Hiei reached his hand out to her. Natsuki wasn't quite sure what he was going to do. She flinched as a natural reflex, but Hiei took offense.

"Did you think I was going to hit you?" he asked angrily. Natsuki shook her head vigurously. She reached up and took his hand. He pulled her to up right. He was still breathing very heavily. The sleeveless shirt he had had on had obviously disintegrated during the attack leaving him shirtless.

They just starred at each other for a moment. Then all of a sudden, Hiei looked sleepy. He yawned. Natsuki was taken aback by this action. His eyelids began to droop.

"Hiei?" Natsuki asked worriedly. Hiei began to waver. She grabbed his shoulders.

"That attack..." he yawned again. "...takes a great deal of energy out of me." He slowly sunk to the ground with Natsuki desperately trying to hold him up.

"I just need to rest...." He said quietly.

Natsuki was suddenly stuck with a semi conscious Hiei. She dragged him over to a tree and tried to prop him up against it. The problem was, she was caught between the tree and Hiei. His head flopped over onto her chest. Natsuki's eyes got wide. Her heart began to pound wildly. Hiei mumbled a soft sorry but nothing else. She relaxed slightly. So did Hiei. She could feel his weight on her now.

Natsuki slowly wrapped her arms around Hiei's chest. He tensed ever so slightly. Natsuki smiled. She closed her eyes. This reminded her of something, something along time ago. Out of no where she began to sing a song:

Been a long road to follow,

Been there and gone tomorrow,

Without saying good bye to yesterday.

Are the memories I hold still there?

Or have the tears deluded them?

Maybe this time tomorrow,

The rain will cease to follow,

And the mists will fade into a warm today.

Something somewhere out there keeps callin',

Am I going home?

Will I hear someone

Sing a song into the silence?

Zero gravity will save us.

Am I alone?

Is somebody there beyond these heavy, aching feet?

But the road keeps on telling me,

To go on.

Something is calling me,

I feel the gravity

Of it all.

Natsuki ended her lullaby from long ago. Hiei was fast asleep. His breathing was soft. Natsuki lowered her head until it was equal with his. She kissed him lightly on the cheek. Immediately, butterflies filled her stomach. She slowly began to drift off, her head on his shoulder. The sound of nature softly singing around them lulled her to sleep.

Natsuki was not aware of how long she had slept, but she was woken by a voice she did not recognize.

"How romantic," Natsuki's eyes snapped open. A girl stood in front of her. She was about a half a foot taller than Natsuki from what she could tell. Her eyes were a greenish blue and she had long black hair. Not to mention she had two dog ears and a tail. These were also black with red tips at the end. She was very pretty and wore almost the exact same thing Natsuki wore when she had just come to earth.

"Now step away from the target." She said harshly.

"Target?" Natsuki asked, squeezing out from between Hiei and the tree. He flopped onto the tree sleepily. The demon girl looked at him.

"Is he really asleep?" she asked unimpressed.

"What is he isn't?" Natsuki said stepping in front of him. The girl smiled showing small fangs.

"I thought it would be a little harder than this. Oh well." She quickly summoned flames into her hands.

Natsuki didn't have her chopsticks in her hair!!! What could she use? Think! Okay imagine her chopsticks. Where were they? By her bed. Okay, now imagine them coming to her, flying through the air towards her. This is stupid. Keep imagining!! The demon was approaching her. What does she do!?! A whooshing sound came from the trees. She looked over to see her two chopsticks flying at her. The demon girl looked confused. Natsuki jumped up and caught them in mid air. She flung her body around causing the swords to appear. The demon stepped back hissing.

"So your going to protect the one you were sent to kill? Fine. I knew we couldn't trust a half-blood!" She threw the flame. Natsuki was flooded with memories. Hey eyes turned to a yellow/gold. She blocked the flame with ease.

"I thought it would be a little harder than this." Natsuki said menacingly, spinning one of her swords around in her hand. "Oh well." She lunged for the demon. the demon pulled a sword out and it collided with Natsuki's energy swords. Natsuki bounced off sliding across the dirt staying up right. She growled and lunged again. The demon blocked her swords, only by a little though. It sliced through her upper arm leaving a shallow cut. The demon girl hissed.

Natsuki landed a ways away. She turned and smiled. The demon was holding her arm. Maybe the cut was deeper than she thought. Blood trickled through her fingers and down her arm. Natsuki was not going to show mercy though. She lunged again, flying across the ground, cutting the demon's ankle. The demon growled and thrust her sword into Natsuki's leg. Natsuki yelled and tumbled off to the side. She turned over to look at the sword imbedded in her thigh. She pulled it out and threw it to the side. She stood up and turned towards the demon smiling evilly.

"What is you name?" she asked. The demon girl looked at her.

"Sh-Shadowflame." She said. Natsuki closed her eyes.

"I'll try to remember that. I doubt I will though." She started running towards her. Shadowflame dived out of the way of her sword.

Hiei's eyes slowly opened. He sat up and looked around. He gasped. Natsuki was lunging at some demon girl with her energy swords. She dodged Natsuki and spotted him. She smiled evilly and ran at him. Natsuki's eyes changed back to red.

"Hiei!!" she screamed. She pushed off a tree and sped towards Shadowflame. She collided with her. They tumbled away from Hiei, Natsuki pinning her on the ground. She held the sword to her throat, only it had gone back to being a chopstick. Shadowflame laughed.

"Shut up! I can still put this through your throat!" Natsuki spat. Shadowflame took this advice.

"I'm not the one you should be worried about." She said breathing hard. Natsuki pushed the chopstick down on her throat.

"What do you mean?" She asked almost hissing. Shadowflame smiled.

"I mean, that I am just a messenger. I am just supposed to tell you that there will be others soon." She said coolly.

Out of nowhere, Kurama jumped into the clearing. Everyone looked over at him.

"Kurama?" Natsuki asked.

"Kurama?" Hiei asked.

"Kurama!?" Shadowflame asked surprised.

"Shadowflame!? What are you doing here? Why does Natsuki have you pinned on the ground?" Kurama asked the demon.

"How do you know them and why do you look like a human?" Shadowflame asked back.

"How do you know her?" Natsuki and Hiei asked at the same time. Kurama chuckled. Shadow flame pushed Natsuki off her. She landed near Hiei and was about to jump back up when he grabbed the back of her shirt.

"Kill the motor. I think they know each other."


Okay. The song is off of Wolve's Rain for those of you who didn't catch that. I could make up a song if I wanted to, but I didn't. Also, Hiei could have taken care of himself when Shadowflame was lunging, but how alert are you after you just woke up? Besides, Natsuki's a little over-protective.

Kitariki

Chapter 8 coming soon!