CHAPTER SIX, MIND CONECTIONS

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WORLD OF THE SAINTS

Sarah walked through the desert land of her imaginay world. Once she had tried to create trees, but all she could ever manage was a shrub or stump of some kind. Watching her other self tell so many lies to those people made her very agitated. So she decided she would tell them all the truth later, but then she caught sight (or voice) of the small demon man.

Who is that? I know that voice. Sarah had yet to relize, until she felt the round jem in her coat poket. At first, she still wasn't sure, the jean material and gloves made it harder for her to feel around the poket. But when she did get to the round, black, circular jem she decided to show herself right then.After causeing a small scene with the team of boys, she was escorted to a room. It was plain, a wooden bed frame, white sheets, wooden dresser, and a door leading to a private bathroom. After she had planned out a small speach of what to say about Kalli's lies, she let Kalli, herself, take back over.

She now sits in her bed, Koji, wolf form, at her side. "Do you think he will talk to you?" Koji broke the silence that had been lingering between them.

"I do not know. He may be ignoring me for a reason of his own, or maney he isn't who we thought he was." Sarah let a deep sigh rise from within her."Mabey, just a guess, but mabey he is avoiding me because he is afraid."

"Afraid? Why would he fear you?"

"I don't know, it was just a sugestion." After that things were quiet for a long while. "I think I am going to go to bed now, good night Koji."

"Good night, I will be listening if you need me, just call." Koji then hopped up and walked towards the door, dissapearing before a whole twenty feet.


Later that night...

Sarah was not yet asleep, she could not find a peaceful thought to dream of. Also, she felt another strange feeling, like the one Koenma gave her earlier, but this one different. Mysterious, curious, someone had entered her territory. Witch seemed impossible, because only her and Koji were capable of that.

Walking, once again, through the vast desert, she could feel the presence of another mind, entertwined with hers. "Near the enterence, whoever is here is near the enterence." She made her way in the dark, witch was fine, she could see better in the dark. As she aproached, she could sense the outline of a figrue, a man. Not much taller than she, with long hair that spiked up.

"Hello? Who are you? What do you want, this is my land and I demand you leave!" Sarah's voice was stern and cold, much like Kalli's. She was more curious than angry, but she wanted to make sure the other person knew how she felt, that she was serious.

"Hn. I thought you might recognize me. I guess living with the humans has dulled your brain, as well as your strength." Hiei spoke coldly as well, showing that he was not there to mess around.

Sarah was more than surprised now. "How did you get here?" She took a step closer. "You should not have been able to enter."

Before Hiei could respond, he was forced to the ground, pined down by massive claws and faced with wet, dripping, fangs. Koji was growling fiercly into Hiei's face, his two different colored eyes watching, taking care not to move from their current position.

"KOJI!" Sarah screamed, afraid he would do something horrible. But her worries grew for Koji's health instead as Hiei threw the giant beast from his torso. "Koji, be careful! Don't hurt him! Stop!"

Koji was not listening, Hiei and him locked glares, posed for a fight. The wolf youkai, who had enlarged himself to be as tall as Hiei, was growling and snarling, legs spread and hair on end. The fire youkai, who had drawn his katana, let a small growl of anger escape his lungs, he too, was in a ready position. "Koji! I'm going to say it one more time, STOP!" At the sound of her voice, Koji enclosed his teeth into his mouth, his hair fell back onto his muscular body, and he slowly walked over and sat next to Sarah. Not once did he take his eyes from Hiei.

Hiei also relaxed, sheathing his sword and straightening his back, he never took his eyes from Sarah. "I don't know any more than you do. All I tried to do was read you'r mind. But then I found myself here. You tell me whats going on."

"Like I know. And as for you Koji, I asked you to stop, and you didn't listen. Care to explain?" Sarah looked coldly at the giant wolf beside her.

"I was being over cautious. I apologize, to you and the fire demon." Koji said this first, then turned, in a flash of light, into his tall, beautiful self. "I am sure I was mistaken in you'r reasons for being here, I am sorry." He gave a bow to Hiei, welcomed with only a scowl.

Hiei was getting annoyed. He didn't care about the little incident, he just wanted answers. "I want to know why you gave me this gem." He extended his palm out, revealing the black sphere from before.

"I gave it to you because it belongs to you. You left it when you were invading my territory." Sarah sounded cold, but she was mainly confussed and tired of all the talking. After all, the only person she has talked to for the past ten years is Kalli, or Koji, and those conversations never last long. "Please explain why you were trying to read my mind." Sarah turned and began walking back towards her bed, where she knew it was warm and safe. Aware of the fact Hiei had not moved, she stopped and turned, stared at him, and then began walking again.

"I tried to read you'r mind so I could find out why you gave this to me. And I guess you are unaware of the fact that you gave me the wrong gem." Hiei said as he walked up next to the girl. He now noticed her blue eyes, and the fact that she wasn't concentrateing them at all while she walked through thte night.

"Not you'r gem? Then whos' is it? You have another firey friend?" Sarah was looking at Hiei now, at his red eyes, how they seem to glow at night. She was joking with him, a little more at ease, but she could sense he wasn't interesed in her jokes. "Okay, ask your questions and I will ask mine. We will both get answers that way."

"Alright. Whose gem is this?." Hiei held out his palm.

"Well, if it's not your's then I must have mistaken one of mine for it." Sarah said simply, "How do you think you got in here?" She said asking the big question.

Hiei stopped walking. They had reached their destination. The giant, broken, gold and blue building stood out in the middle of the wasteland. It seemed so strange he hadn't noticed it until they were at the front steps. "This is where you stay?"

"Yes, this is my 'home'. You could say that it is our's, Koji's and mine. We have lived here foe ten years. Or at least I have, Koji has been here for eight." Sarah began walking up the steps and into the hall. "You can come in, and Koji, you may leave now, I will call if I need you."

Koji hesitated, as if to protest, but then thought better of it and dissapeared into the dark. Hiei walked up the long steps and entered the hall. The tiled floor shined bright, despite the fact there was no light outside. The only light was a few candles placed neatly by the many portraits on the coresponding walls. "I think that neither of us know how I got here. You know this place better than anyone, you should know how I got here, but you claim you dont." He walked over to the bed where Sarah had lain down. Leaning against a near wall, he stared as she sorted through her possabilities.

"Well, Koji is able to stay here because I fused our minds, you tried to read my mind, witch is like fusing, but not a complete comination of the two. So... mabey your here only because our minds touched." Sarah was laying with her eyes closed, very tired, and very comfortable.

"Well how do you suggest I get out? I can't dissconnect, that would put us both in danger." The demon was also tired, and thought the bed looked very tempting, but he decided getting out was much more inportant. "There must be some way."

"Hmm-mmhhm" Sarah was slowly drifting to sleep, no longer aware of her guest or what he was saying. "Stay here, mmhhmmm, if you waannhhhaaa" She was mummbling in her sleep, yawning the last part of her sentence. But, with the suggestion, Hiei found himself sliding down to the floor. His eyes closed, his breathing softened, and he fell asleep at Sarah's bedside.


SPIRIT WORLD, HALLWAY

"I don't know Urameshi, this doesn't seem like a good idea. I mean, what if we get caught?" Kuwabara was tip-toeing down the hall behind Yusuke, nervous and cautious as ever.

"Shut up, and c'mon. Koenma wants us to find out more about her, she is our mission. Now lets go!" The black haired, demon king was now sneaking as well, he didn't want to get cought either, but he didn't want to leave.

"I don't think he meant for us to sneak into her room and look through her things!"

"Wait... she doesn't even have anything with her, does she?" Yusuke pointed out an obvious flaw an their plan, and they both felt like they had been smacked in the face.

"Then that settles it! Lets go back to Koenma's office, tell him bye, and ask Botan to take us home!"

"No way, don't be suck a chicken, now we'll just wake her up and take her out somewhere. We can make friends with her and ask her questions." Yusuke was going faster now as he thought of more plans in his head. Kuwavara followed hopelessly behind, unable to sway his friends thoughts.

As the boys slowly snuck into thte room Sarah (or Kalli, they were still quite confussed) was staying in, they could see only a dark figure laying on the bed. Assuming it was the girl, they made thier way towards the dresser. As soon as they thought they were getting away with their little plan, Kuwabara the klutz decided to trip over a book on the floor. Landing with a loud crash into the corner of the wooden dresser, Yusuke and Kuwabara both began hushing one another, positive the resting girl would awaken.

When no response came from the body, Yusuke couldn't help but comment. "She sure does sleep hard, you think she's dead?" He whispered.

"OF COURSE NOT! She's probably just a heavy sleeper, now come on, Urameshi!" He was ready to leave, sinse he hadn't wanted to be there in the first place.

"Hold on, I want to see something." Yusuke was slowly walking towards the motionless figure. "She isn't a heavy sleeper, remember how easily she woke up when we snuck into her house that night? Now come on!"

Kuwabara was hesitant, but soon inched towards his friend and the two aproched the girl with two names. As they came closer, they began to relize she was barely breathing, as well as pale. "Look, whats wrong with her?" Yusuke was studying her with worried and surprised eyes.

"Who knows. Maybe we should get Koenma, or Botan." Kuwabara was much more worried than Yusuke, and his eyes grew wide with every worriesome thought that entered his mind.

Just then, Kurama burst through the door, looking worried as ever. "You two, what are you doing here? No time, something is wrong with Hiei, he isn't breathing well and he's gone pale... oh no! Not her as well!" Kurama was looking at the girl, even in the dark it was obvious that she was not well. "Lets get to the infirmery right away, Hiei is already there."

The three boys picked the girl up, and slowly made their way through the winding halls to the infirmery. As they walked in, the small demon was already lain down gently and hooked up to a monitor. The room was white, metal carts and machines lined the walls and counters, there were three white beds, two of wich were now occupied by the two fire youkais. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama were all in awe of the sight. Kalli, or Sarah, looked so peaceful, yet her face and comlection said otherwise.

"What do you think is wrong? I t must be something strange if the both of them are out cold." Yusuke said as Koenma walked in the room, coming up next to him.

"It could be multiple things." Koenma wore a solemn look, "All we can do now is hope one or both of them come to and tell us what happened." After that, the room stayed quiet for a while, until everyone eventualy decided to go back to bed and wait for morning. Kurama lingered behind, watching the two figures for a moment, before following his friends from the room, closeing the door behind him.


WORLD OF THE SAINTS

As Sarah opened her eyes in the morning, she was flooded with light, squinting her eyes to block the light that came through the holes in the roof, she noticed Hiei in the corner. Still sleeping, the small demon's chest rose slowly and then fell, rose and fell. Sarah watched him for a moment, the directed her attention to the wolf in front of her. "Hello Koji, sleep well?" Sarah smiled and stood up, stretching.

"Ha, like I would sleep while you are sleeping? I see you did though, Ms. Sarah. I'm glad." Koji walked over to the bed, trasforming as he walked, by time he reached the blonde girl, he was a beautiful man, no longer a beautiful wolf. After giving Sarah a kiss on the cheek, he dissapeared to find himself a resting spot. He stayed up all night to watch Sarah, so now he felt he needed some sleep.

Hiei awoke with blurred vision, he to, covered his eyes from the light, watching the wolf youkai kiss the fire youkai. "Hn, thanks for leaving me all alone to plan last night."

"Don't even try it, I know for a fact that you fell asleep as soon as I did." Sarah was chuckling as the demon blushed. "You are in my head now, you can't hide your thoughts anymore." Sarah's smile grew.

Hiei looked away, and Sarah began walking out to the sandy planes of her mind. She wasn't sure what to do about Hiei, so she walked out of the great hall and out to the mucky river in front. "You know... things can't be all that good in the real world right now..." the girl bent down and touched her finger tips to the water. The reflection blurred with ripples as she spoke more to herself than anyone.

"What are you going on about?" The fire apparition was walking out, stopping to stand next to the kneeling girl.

"Well, think about it, I can't controll my body right now, and Kalli is currently frozen in a state of paralysis from my last spell. You are stuck here, unable to controll your body, so if the others have found either one of our bodies, something has to be going on. They are going to start thinking things, and if they figure out that you are stuck in here, they might try and do something drastic. That could result in a huge accident, such as my mind exploding and killing all of Spirit World." Sarah said the last part simply, as if she didn't mind the thought.

"And thats bad how?" Hiei was being sarcastic, but serious at the same time, he isn't exactly a fan of the place, or people.

"I dunno, I just thought you might want to know, I couldn't care if my mind exploded anyways, its only caused me trouble over the years." Her eyes dimmed, and the thought of her not existing brought a slight smirk to her face. It was now that she finaly began to notice his features, she had never really looked at him ir the others enough to know what they look like. He had black hair, with a white burst coming up from his forehead. He wore black, a long jacket with a white hood. A white headband, his pants, and boots, were both black.

Hiei watched as her expression changed. Why would the thought of dieing bring someone joy? ...Oh well, it's not my buisness, not that I care anyways... He thought to himself, not really sure wether to say anything or not.

Sarah smiled again, now she smiled because she could hear Hiei's thoughts, It's so cute how he lies to himself, he cares, his curiousity leads him to care. Hmph, and he thinks I have been in the human world to long. Sarah delighted in the fact that Hiei couldn't read her thoughts as she could his. "Well, I suppose it's time we got you out of here, so lets start planning."

"Hn." Hiei agreed, though it's never that easy to tell when he just said the same thing he says all the time. The two of them walked back inside, both planning out ways to try and fix their dilema.

Meanwhile...

Kalli began to slowly regain controll of her thoughts, so now she could try and take care of her own body.

In a far corner of Sarah's world, Koji began to stir, the uneasy feeling that had lead him to attack Hiei was back, and he bagan to worry.


Hello all, I would like to start by saying this: If you are reading my story, and not reviewing, I have no way of knowing how many readers I actually have. If I need to improve, I would like to, and I can't do that unless someone besides my one and only fan reviews (thank you TakiLori, you are my bestest fan/friend ever ). Also, I would like to hope the next chapter to be out within the next two weeks, I just got a new video game (Fullmetal Alchemist) and I won't have as much time to write until I beat it. Bye byes, later!