CHAPTER SEVEN- ESCAPE AND RE-ENTER

DISSCLAIMER- I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Thats right, I said it, I relize that, and I am proud of myself.


WORLD OF THE SAINTS

Hiei and Sarah walked inside, without much talking involved, they began cunstructing possibilities. "What if you end up staying here forever, like Koji?" Sarah was asking herself more than Hiei, wich was good, because he doesn't answer right away.

"Then I'm staying here like Koji." He didn't look up from the floor.

"Well that doesn't solve anything." Sarah looked right at him, hoping he would respond. He didn't. "...Could you...tell me your name now?" The small demon (smaller than Hiei anyways) was blushing, relizing she had yet to learn his name, and they were already arguing.

"...Hiei."

"Hiei." She said simply, testing the name.

After that, it stayed quiet for a long while. No one could think of anything yet, there was a very unsettling feeling in the air.


SPIRIT WORLD

Sitting in the infirmary, Kalli watched the boy laying in the bed next to hers. Still unaware of what was happening, she waited for someone to enter the room.

"Hmm...who is he? I think I know him from somewhere..." Kalli was so bored she began pondering on every subject she could think to find. Why the entire room is white. Why Koenma has 'Jr' on his forehead. Why the monitor only beebs when the person attatched is alive, instead of dead. She passed the time, slowly, but it passed. And an hour later Kurama entered the room.

"Oh, you'r awake. How nice." Kurama gave his best smile, witch Kalli only stared at. "Would you mind telling me what happened to the two of you?" He pulled up a chair and sat next to her bed.

"I don't know whats wrong him, but I was paralized." Kalli noticed Kurama's face grow more confussed. "When Sarah casts her little spells they paralize me, so that she can take controll of our body. I was still paralized from the last spell, and I don't know whats wrong with your friend there, or I would help you."

"Well, that does help a little bit, but that doesn't explain Hiei's problems. Last I could tell he was leaving, he quit, and then I find him in a corner, barely breathing." The fox took a deep breath, not quite sure what to do about his friend.

Kalli was looking around confussed, "Where am I?"

"You are in the infirmary. We found you on your bed, pale and barely breathing. You gave us all quite a scare." He was telling the truth, but he thought it best not to tell her WHO he found with her.

"Oh, well that would explain alot. Your friend, is he going to be alright?" She looked at the boy next to her. Worry lay in her eyes, but not in her voice. It was as strong and stern as ever.

"We can't be sure. Thats why we were hoping you could help us." His long, red hair swung at his shoulders as he stood up to check Hiei's pulse.

"I'm so sorry...I wish I could...but I don't think there is anything I can do." It was then that the idea hit her. SARAH! Sarah, answer me!

"Yes, my dear Kalli, you called?" Sarah was being sarcastic.

"Don't play innocent, what happened to that boy!"

"I don't know, what makes you think i would?" Sarah was playing innocent all right, and she felt quite proud that Kalli was oblivious to the fact. Of course, Kalli had her suspicions, but no proof.

Kurama was staring at her, she had gone pale again. "Um, Kalli, is there something wrong?"

"Oh...um...I'm fine, sorry, I was just thinking." She looked into Kurama's worried emerald eyes.

"Are you sure? I could get the nurse if you like."

"No, I'm fine, really, thanks anyways."

Kurama shook his head and left the room to get Koenma and the others. "Why is he here? You could see what was going on, I couldn't, now spill it!" Kalli was getting angry.

"No such knowledge. I was asleep when we were brought here. I don't know what happened to him, he could be here for a completely different reason, they are just jumping to conclutions." Sarah was trying her best to convince Kalli.

Hiei cut Sarah off, "Why don't you just tell her?"

"Because she doesn't need to know, it's that simple. It's not her buisiness."

"What if she can get me out?"

"What if she makes things worse?" Sarah countered.

"Hn..." Hiei was beaten, she made a point. Kalli didn't seem to even know how to use her powers, let alone separate their minds when they had tried all day with no success.

Sarah closed Kalli off from her. She began getting tired again. Bidding Hiei a sigh and a 'Good night' she slowly drifted to sleep in her spot on the floor. Hiei, too, fell asleep again, not sure why he felt tired every time she did.

Koji sat aside, watching silently as always. He felt a connection with Hiei, but wasn't so sure why. It seemed as though they shared the same feelings and outlook on the world. And for this reason, Koji also seemed to be on edge with him there, but still wasn't sure as to why.


THE NEXT DAY

Kalli walked into Koenma's office, not sure as to why she was there. "I've been waiting for you, it's good to see you are better." Koenma said, motionong for Kalli to sit down.

"Yea, I guess...look, if this is about your friend, I don't know whats wrong with him." She decided to get right to the point.

Koenma looked almost surprised at her remark. "Not at all. In fact, this time it's about Sarah." He said simply. Watching Kalli's face grow serious and surprised.

"I have nothing to say to her, or about her."

"Well, I was actually hoping to talk to her, not you." He sat down and enlaced his fingers with one another, arms on the desk

"Thats to bad. Sarah is not suposed to show herself to anyone, in fact, I rarely see her. The fact that she broke that rule, is enough, she is no longer talking to even me. She will no longer have contact with anyone on the outside." Kalli watched the young prince's face change once again.

Koenma rested his chin in his hands. "Well then, it seems my ideas were wrong, so I suppose you may go home now, if you like."

"I would like that very much. Now what ideas did you have exactly?" She began getting curious.

"I thought that Hiei, the boy you saw, might be connected to Sarah. That maybe she could help find out what is wrong." Koenma called for George, who came in an instant later. "Go check on Hiei's status. See to it that he is not bothered."

"Yes'sir." George left the room in a slight run.

"I already thought of that. Sarah does not know anything."

With that, Kalli got up from her seat and left without a sound. It seemed she was trying intentionaly to keep Sarah from speaking with Koenma.


WORLD OF THE SAINTS

"So, got any ideas yet?" Sarah was laying on her back looking up at the ceiling.

"Hn..."

"Of course you don't..." She sighed, rolling the gem from before in her hands. "Here. You can at least have this back." She said, getting up and offering it to him. "It is your's right? If that one is mine, then this is your's."

Hiei looked down at the gem. Pulling Sarah's gem from his pocket, they began the exchange. Slowly, they placed the two black gems into one-another's palm. And just as the two gems fell into their palms, the world was engulfed in a bright light. Blinding the two of them, they covered their eyes. When Sarah opened her eyes, she was back in the maze that connected her side of the mind with Kalli's. And when Hiei opened his, he was in the infirmary.

"Wha...what the...?" Sarah was obviously confussed. "KOJI!" She was lost in her own maze. For once, she didn't know where she was in her own mind. "Koji?" She wondered for a while until she came to the end. After passing what seemed like miles of brick and stepping on several sharp rocks, she was finaly there.

"Mrs. Sarah!" Koji called, running up to meet her.

Sarah almost callapsed in Koji's arms. "I was looking for you, hehheh..."

"Hush, you just lay down and sleep. Your mind is exausted." With that, Sarah instantly fell asleep in Koji's arms. Pickling her up, he silently walked back to the hidden door that led to her world.


SPIRIT WORLD-INFIRMARY

Kurama came into the room just as Hiei began to sit up in his bed. "Hiei, your awake!"

"Hn..." He looked away, avoiding Kurama's eyes.

Kurama was to in shock and full of questions to notice his failure to say any actul words. "What happened?"

"..." Hiei remained silent, hesitating.

Kurama turned without saying anything, and left in a quickened pace to go find Koenma. "What is wrong with you Hiei, surley you would'nt try to keep anything from us in a time like this..." He said to himself, as he entered Koenma's office.

Looking up from his papers, the prince of Spirit World was shocked to fing Kurama back so soon. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with Hiei now?"

"Thats just it, he is awake, but will not speak. I think you should come see him."

As the two walked into the infirmary, they imediatley noticed something missing: Hiei.

"WHAT THE!" Koenma raged.


KALLI'S APARTMENT

Hiei walked into the dusty room that Kalli had claimed as her own. The air smelled of dust, grime, and the faint scent of the girl who had been there only a day before. The light from outside shined through the windows in small streaks, outlining the dust that flowed through the air. As he walked the floor creaked and every sound echoed through the giant building.

Making his way towards her bed, he could sence the fainted barrier that she had placed there the night she was followed by Yusuke and Kuwabara. "She was careless to let them follow her like that...but I bet Sarah knew all along..." Thats right, I did know. But I decided to let her find out her stupidity on her own. Of course, she didn't, and I had to tell her eventually. Sarah's voice rang through his mind. At first, he thought she was speaking telepathicaly, but soon he relized she was not, that he was only imagining her answer. "Hn...why does she keep showing up. It doesn't matter where I go. I saw her in the Makai, and now I can't keep away from her here in the Ningenkai. Why? What force is it that binds us?"

After pondering his thoughts, and searching inside himself for any answer, he came up empty. Giving up after a while, he sat down on Kalli's bed. "Ow!" He said iritated. Standing halfway to see what he had sat on, a small uprise in the covers could be seen. Lifting the blanket, he found a small arrow head laying carefully on the bed. "Why would she have this? And that smell..." He sniffed the air around the small metal object, "it reeks of blood, her blood..."

He slipped the arrow head into his poket and walked out the door. Making his way back to Spirit World, he thought only of talking to Sarah again. An hour had passed since he had entered Kalli's room, and even more since he left the Rekai.


KALLI'S ROOM, SPIRIT WORLD

Kalli stared at the small envelope in her hands. Kurama had delivered it a few minutes before, and she had yet to open it. Someone had sent her a letter, someone knew where she lived, and they even tried to contact her.

Who could have done this? Why would someone go through the trouble of finding me just to deliver a letter? Or maybe its a threat, that it is a bad sign...

Kalli opened the letter slowly, the paper crinckling under her palms as she threw the enevlope to the trash can, just missing the rim. She began to read:

My dearest Kalli,

It has been a long time, and I grow weary of your efforts to elude me. You contiue to run from my love when it is inevitable. I have found you once again, mon ange, and I will succede in capturing your heart as I once did long ago. Please do not worry, for I will not harm you, and you know this. I will be in Mushiori City Park at 12:00 midnight, Saturday. Please, mon ange, come see me one last time, if not to stay with me for an eternity.

Yours truely, Thomas Leary Morviana

Mon ange: My angel (French )

The blue ink smeared when Kalli touched it. "My palms are sweaty, why is that? Huh. That lousy...had me all worried for nothing. And he just has to get so dramatic, just because he's french! Huh! Like I really need, or want for that matter, to see him." She said alloud as she walked to the trash can, picking up the crinkled paper and throwing it away along with the letter.

After that, Kalli went to see Koenma, in hopes of finding something to eat along the way. Finding her way to the large doors of his office, she heard George calling after her. "Mrs. Kaiten! I've been sent to escort you to the kitchen. It's this way, hurry now, no time to waste!" He pushed her along, in the opposite direction of the doors.

"Hey! That hurt! Eeek! Dont touch me there! Hey! Watch it!" She began complaining as a group of ogres ran over to her outside the cafeteria doors. They huddled around her, yanking her hair into a bun on her head, straightening her clothes, tapping blush here and there, "What is going on?"

"This way." George said, pushing her through the doors. As she entered with a slight trip over her own feet, she heard the occupants of the room saying "SURPRISE!" all at once.

"W-what?" Kalli looked flabergasted at the many ogres and Koenma, turning her eyes to see the Urameshi team as well. "What is this about?"

"It is your birthday today, right? So we decided to throw you a party!" Yusuke said, walking up and patting Kalli on the back.

"No it is'nt...my birthday is...is...TODAY! OH MY GOSH! I COMPLETLEY FORGOT!" She flung her hands up in the air and brought them back down on her cheeks.

"Hn, remember, it's not stupidity, it's a glorious absence of intellegance." Hiei said, walking up calmly, his face not changing. "Koenma, why must I be here, I have no buisiness with this girl. I told you before, I quit this mission." Kalli looked amazed at his rude remarks, but then laughed slightly. "Whats your problem? Nothings funny here."

"You really don't get it." Kalli said, smiling and laughing at her own relization of the situation. "You came because you wanted to, no one can make you come if you have already quit the mission. Or might I say, quit me, because it seems no matter where I go, I am the mission. Right guys?" She gave Yusuke, Koenma, Kuwabara, and Kurama all a angry and joking glare. "So really, you came on your own free will, so you can leave anytime you like."

"Hn." Hiei had no responce but to turn and head for the doors behind Kalli.

"Its not that you are the mission...though it may sound like thats what we've been saying-" Koenma was cut off by Kalli.

"No. It doen'st sound like that, it is what you've been saying, and continuously."

Kalli started walking backwards to the door, blocking Hiei's exit. "What do you want, wench?" He said, giving her a cold glare.

"Well, I'll let you pass if you tell me why you came to begin with." She gave an inoccent smile.

"Hn..." He thought for a moment, "I came to ask you if this is yours?" He reached out to show her his gem, watching as she reached to pick it up and examine it.

As soon as she made contact, a familiar bright light passed over the two, and Hiei opened his eyes to find himseld in Sarah's 'room'.


WORLD OF THE SAINTS

Sarah sat humming a lullaby from her childhood. It was a soft, sweet melody, that carried through the hall so beautifully. One could never imagine such a wonderful sound coming from such a dark and gloomy soul. But it did, and it carried its way through every corner of that huge mystic world.

Oh, and the woodpecker sings. Oh, and the young children swing.

To a happy place we fly, off to the distance. Soaring, oh, we soar.

Oh, the mothers all sob, in joyous glee. Oh, fathers all laugh, and this we see.

To a happy place we fly, off to the distance. Singing, oh, we sing.

Oh, the flowers all bloom, so perfect in grace. The light bounces soflty,

on the small petal face.

To a happy place we fly, off to the distance. Soaring, oh, we soar.

"HHmmmmm, hhmmm- oh! Hiei! What are you doing here?" She looked up from a notebook she was sketching in to see Hiei standing a few feet away.

"I found this in you room." He held out the small arrow head from before.

Sarah choked. "Uh...um...yea? So?"

"It smells like blood. Your blood. Care to explain?"

Sarah then looked away, hiding her face. "Its nothing, Kalli uses it for extra protection."

"Hn. Well then, does this 'extra protection' include self mudilation? Or is that just something she tosses in for fun?"

"SHUT UP! Kalli is'nt the one who...she's not..." Sarah began to choke again. Tears began welting in her eyes.

Walking over, Hiei said nothing, he just sat down next to her. Looking at the picture she had been drawing, he noticed a tall man, and herself. they are together at a park. Holding hands, and eating sweet snow like a happy couple. In the background, a dark shadow seemed to follow them. Sarah layed her head in his lap, unaware of her actions. She began to cry harder, more so than she relized, and she soon began to fall asleep. Hiei was shocked, stunned at first. But he soon relaxed and let her sleep, being careful not to wake her as he stared out the Hall's great door.


Eh, looks like Im stopping here. And it also looks like someones getting a lil touchy feely! Oooo, well, next chapter due out soon, so keep in check!