Hey everyone I'm back but I still don't have ANY idea about what is going to happen but I DO know that Hiei and Ash's relationship ship is going to go up from this point.

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Ok now I FINALLY have like two poems for my contest but I am still urging EVERYONE to take part I love to read new works especially if they are very emotional, suicidal, or just very sad. Also I just want to say, (even though I have said it BEFORE) everyone CAN send more then one entry but if you don't want to that's fine also!

Chapter 20. YAY I finally reached the big 20! I'm so proud of myself and just think we are only STARTING to get to a plot or the action! Whatever basically I'm saying that we've still got a long way to go!

Since I have this many chapters I'll put a disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, only in my altered mind that was altered by the evil squirrels, (Rue you know damn well what I'm talking about.) I only own Ash, or at least last time I checked I did.

CHAPTER 20 AGAIN

(IMPORTANT: Ok first everyone at my authors note i havea preview for my next chapter just to tick you all off it was left with a SERIOUS cliff hanger so please read it!)

Ash looked at Hiei for a moment before answering, "I like you to Hiei." There was joy everywhere in her voice. 'Does she even understand how much?' Hiei asked himself giving a small nod to her and starting for the window.

"I've always like you Hiei, I guess for some reason I just felt closer to you then to anyone else. Probably because you were the first one to really care about me." Ash explained following slowly. She knew she was going back no matter what.

"Just out of curiosity."

"Even so, no one else did and that just made a difference in me." Ash said with a smile.

Hiei sighed a bit as he grabbed her hand and they disappeared from view and reappeared outside her house. He let go of her quickly and started walking away.

Ash was just happy to be around him and ran over to him. "You have a odd way of showing you feelings."

"Hn." He said simply but didn't look at her as they reached the rest of the gang.

"Hey look Shorty's got Ash!" Kuwabara said as they all ran over and Hiei backed out of the crowd. Ash saw this and her smile fell for a moment. 'He doesn't like to be around people very much, even his friends.' Ash thought but soon snapped out of it.

"Why did you leave Ash?" Kuwabara asked first. "I don't know I guess I just felt like I had to." She lied.

"Well we're glad you returned!" Yusuke said happily leaning on her with a goofy smile.

They started to walk back to the temple with Yusuke and Kuwabara constantly asking questions out of know where.

Hiei and Kurama fell behind and started there own conversation.

"I felt you losing a large tension not long ago, what was it?" Kurama asked looking down at his fire demon friend.

"You were right Fox."

"About what?"

"I do have feelings for Ash." Hiei admitted looking down slightly.

"Hiei everyone knows that, well Kuwabara doesn't but that's not the point. Hiei you act like that's a weakness."

"It may be." Hiei didn't know what to think anymore his thoughts were all mixed up everything seemed to be a paradox where everything was right but still wrong at the same time.

"She may be a fire demon and she may be weak but so were you at one time. All she needs is some training and she would be very strong. But even if she is weak it's how you feel towards her that really counts." Kurama explained

"Yes but, to say the truth, I don't know what I feel." (I know he is out of character but I'm trying my best ok.)

"I'm not surprised but it should come naturally just loosen up a little for Ash and everything should go fine." Kurama said with a warm smile.

"Hey are you two going to catch up or what?" Yusuke called Kurama shook his head and walked up to the two. This left Hiei to watch the passing ground, unaware that Ash had fallen back with him now.

"What's wrong Hiei?" He snapped his head up at her voice. "Nothing."

"Hiei has anyone told you that it's ok to say how you feel?" Ash asked slipping her hands into her pockets. (Sounds more like Yusuke.)

"Constantly." Hiei replied. Ash just looked away. She honestly like Hiei, and wished to be more then friends but she could never let him know that.

"I'm not used to opening up to people." It sounded like Hiei was trying to apologize.

"It's okay, it's just not you, it's fine whatever makes you comfortable." Ash smiled as he looked up at her.

"Why are you like that? So able to deal with people and their situations?" Hiei asked wondering about her now.

"I don't know maybe I'm just like Kurama, I just have good people skills, something you seriously lack."

"But you're a fire demon, they are very solitary demons unless working with their own kind."

"Well I was raised by humans most of my life, I just never had that negative heart."

"Humans are weak."

"Maybe so but they are just blind to what they cannot see."

Hiei thought, this sounded more like a conversation with the fox, every time they opened their mouth you had to think before responding, Always a puzzle. (Lol I got that form another story and if you know what it is and if this IS the writer of it sorry for not asking this was a on the spot thing and I couldn't contact you. Please don't be mad at me!)

"It's not that they cannot see, it's that they won't see. They don't want to see and believe that there are unworldly creatures that can and will kill them, therefore they made us science fiction." 'He has a point.' Ash thought

She let out a sigh; it was so hard to get to know Hiei, once you figure something out there's just a new mystery to be unraveled. But that was what she liked about him, the mystery.

"Yeah," was the only thing she could think of to say.

They walked the rest of the way to the temple quietly. It wasn't until they reached the bottom of the steps when that voice came into Ash's head.

'Why did you leave with them?' It was mad and there was no hiding it.

'I don't know there my friends and I had to realize they would never think anything bad about me.'

'Fine then I will have to kill another that you love. No, I have a better idea and it will kill more then just you.' Then it went away again. IT was only then that Ash realized she had been standing there blankly.

"Ash?" Hiei asked looking behind at her.

"Are you coming?" Kurama finished.

"Yeah sorry just kind of dazed." She said running up to them.

'I don't think that's quite it.' Hiei said mentally when she walked beside him.

'Why do you say that?' 'For a moment I could sense a different presence in you.' He explained looking at her seriously. 'How can you sense what's going on in me?' She asked curious.

'Let's just say I can see it.' He said but for a moment a green light was emitted from under his headband.

'So what Kurama said was true.' Ash said with a smirk. Hiei's eyes widened and he shot a glare at Kurama's back.

"Chill I asked him to tell me a while ago." Ahs said lightly chuckling a bit.

Hiei let out a sigh and for a second Ash could've swore she saw smoke emitting from off him. But then he got back on track, "So why was there someone else in you?"

Ash didn't know how to answer as they reached the top of the stairs. Yusuke and Kuwabara raced each other back to the house while Kurama shook his head and followed, that left Hiei and Ash to answer.

"Remember when I told you about that voice?"

"Yes." His voice sounded way to serious and almost worried in a way.

"Well it was the one that told me to leave, and then it got mad that I left and said that it was going to kill someone I knew." She looked away.

"Come on." He said walking down the stairs.

"We just came up the stairs why are you making us go back down?" Ash asked almost falling over. "That was before I knew that someone was going after your brother."

Ash gapped at him, followed but before she could ask he answered. "We're having another training session. But a little probing never hurts anyone. It said it was going to kill someone you love and you obviously love your brother no matter what. Now put two and two together."

(Wow he said a lot there.) "Yeah I guess your right. But he did say he had a plan for it, what if he has something in mind?"

"I wouldn't doubt he does, but then we'll just have to be a little more on our guard now won't we?" He said before flittering away as they reached the bottom.

'Hey you can't just leave me here!' She shouted at him mentally.

'Just watch me.' He said back

A/N There I finished now don't kill me for it. I was like in bed this morning and literally saying what was going to happen in the next chapter. Here I'll be nice right now and give you a preview.

Preview: "Hiei!" Ash called walking a little from the door. He appeared right beside her. "What?" Ash was frantic for a moment and had to quickly collect herself.

"Kurama he he's…" But before she could finish Hiei had already spotted his best friend, leaning on the outside wall. He was bloody everywhere and his breathing was very uneven.

"Kurama what happened to you?" Hiei asked looking his friend up and down. It took a moment for him to answer but he finally did. "Ash, I am so sorry I couldn't stop." Before he fell to the floor.

OHH am I evil or WHAT! Now I already know what is going to happen like I said but if I don't get reviews you don't get to find out what happens to Kurama. Yes I decided to be evil to another character for a change. Please review or Kurama…