I'm soooooooooooooo sorry! I wanted to post this before school started, but I failed miserably cuz we're in December and it's finally vacation! Soooooooo sorry for the delay! I hope you can forgive me with this chapter! Anyway I hope you all enjoy this story as much as I like writing it...

Disclaimer: I own my characters, no one else.

Chapter3:Chase...

"Who are you?" inquired another weird voice as he lifted Hisa's chin to meet her eyes, the demon wasn't disappointed to read fear and pain in those gorgeous red eyes. All of a sudden shouting was heard, a small demon appeared "We've got him! He locked himself up in the--" he stopped and looked at Hisa, "Who's she?" he wanted to know, "We don't know but we'll use her to get Shu, start walking!" ordered the leader, Joji.

Hisa was taken to the front entrance and everyone looked up at a window. "Shu!" yelled Joji, "Surrender or assist at this girl's decapitation!" The window opened and a worried Shu appeared, seeing Hisa captive he lost all hope of living for him and her. "Fine! Let her go and I'll come down!" shouted Shu, "You come down first then we'll talk!" argued back Joji.

"I will come down only if you promise me not to hurt her!" replied Shu, making Joji grinned "Fine with me as long as I have your head in my tent!" said Joji. "I'm coming! But no one will touch me before I get to talk to her!" ordered Shu as he closed the window to end the argument.

-With the gang-
"So Kurama, are you sure it's her blood?" asked Kuwabara who had caught up with the rest of the gang. "Yes Kuwabara, it smells human and it looks like it's been there for quite a while... But now we have no clue in which direction we should go..." said Kurama on his mysterious voice. "Hn, I can hear the noise of a battle..." said Hiei with his eyes closed and his bandanna glowing blue, "Which way? And where?" asked Yusuke getting ready to leave.

"Hn. It's north, where it's cold... And it's far from here... We'll never get there in time to assist to the battle and determine if the onna was there..." said Hiei frowning. "North you say..." whispered Kurama as if thinking of something drastic, "Well we better get going if we want to save this girl and get the hell out of here!" said Yusuke impatient as always. Kurama stood up and nodded in agreement, Kuwabara just followed while Hiei sighed before going on north...

-With Hisa-
"Master I don't understand why he wants to save her! He didn't take the secret passage, but she did..." questioned a curious demon while pointing at Hisa with his ugly head, "Why does he care so much?" The leader smirked, "You'll never be able to understand humans as much as I do Hitako, just ignore that fact for now and you'll be just fine..." replied Joji.

The crowd of demons, because they were after all at least a few hundreds, made a passage for Shu, closing it after he passed. It seemed to take ages for Shu to arrive in front of the leader, "Joji." "Shu... we meet again." they both said to each other, Joji pointed to Hisa "You have five minutes." Shu glared at Joji, who rolled his eyes "Fine... ten minutes but no more!" he snapped/ordered. Shu walked calmly to Hisa, glared at her 'guards' as to say I-have-ten-minutes-alone-so-let-her-go-creeps. The demons snorted then let go of Hisa and joined their Master a little further back. As soon as Hisa was free she fell to the ground; Shu knelt down, took her head and gently tapped on her cheek.

When Hisa opened her eyes, Shu sighed in relief "I'm sorry..." he apologized, Hisa stared at him 'Why?' asked her eyes. Shu smiled at her innocence but lost his smile when he spoke, "There is 99 of chance you'll be tortured to death, they like when you cry or even better when you scream... and if you survive they'll kill you without a remorse. I'm sorry, it's all because of me." warned Shu looking pale, Hisa looked at the ground.

"Listen, you have to be strong! Don't let them enjoy torturing you, it's your best way of survival, be stronger than before and you'll get out of this winner. And... I'm going to die soon, I wasn't going to let them the pleasure of torturing me, so I took some poison..." confessed Shu in a whisper.

Hisa's eyes widened in shock, Shu smiled again "Don't worry about me... it was time." he stated and slowly, collapsed on the ground, next to Hisa. "What the..." exclaimed Joji, running to Shu before turning him on his back. Shu was smiling. "You bastard!" fumed Joji "Fine... but I'll have revenge on your soul by saying this: this girl of yours is not going to die, no... we're going to use her as slave and punching bag! You hear me! She's going to suffer your stupidity, make her die slowly and painfully!" exclaimed Joji.

-Back with the gang-
"Aaaww, wait up guys! Pfff pfff waaiiiit!" yelled Kuwabara trying to catch his breath from the running they had done all morning long, or almost. "Hn, you know you really are slow for a ningen, even a baby could run faster than you." snorted Hiei when Kuwabara finally caught up with them. "What did you say shrimp?" yelled Kuwabara panting, "Hn, you heard me." replied Hiei.

"Guys, enough! We have a mission to accomplish here... Once we're done, you can bite your heads off for all I care..." reminded Yusuke, Kurama nodded "Agreed, we should hurry. We have a long way to go." said Kurama glancing at Hiei who just looked away. "What's the matter Hiei?" frowned Yusuke when he saw Hiei didn't move an inch, Hiei blurred out of sight and appeared in front of the group, "Hn, what were you looking at detective?" inquired Hiei raising an eyebrow. Kuwabara was like OO, and Kurama just shook his head while Yusuke ditched them and ran towards Hiei, even though he couldn't win. 'If only they knew where we're going...' thought Kurama.

-With Hisa-
Shu's smile fainted, and his eyes closed... he was dead. Hisa sobbed over his lifeless body, "You!" shouted Joji, Hisa raised her head "Stand up and follow..." he said turning his back to her and started walking; demons grinned and caught Hisa by her arms. Without giving her the time to stand up, they dragged her along like a puppet; and they weren't watching where she was dragged, or maybe they did it on purpose.

I'd go with the second argument, in any case she slid on rocks, branches, in the middle of bushes which hit and cut Hisa's leg, and every time she wanted to get up on her feet a demon walking next to her would trip her so she would fall and be dragged again. Hisa gave up, determined not to give her captors more pleasure, and she endured the rest of the long, painful walk without a movement or sound. Finally they halted at a camp with green, black, and brown tents. Hisa was mercilessly thrown into a cage, which was horribly small even though she could stand up, but her head touched the ceiling.

She thought the farther away from the exit, the safer she would be because the demons were tall and if it was hard for her to get to the other end, it would be extremely hard for them to get to her. Hisa found a corner with acceptable hygiene conditions and curled up in a tight ball. She cried silently. Crying for Shu's death, her pain and her worthless being. Hisa began to think suicide was the only remedy for her pathetic live, she cried until sleep claimed her.

The next day, Hisa was awakened by yelling. Opening her eyes, she saw a massive crowd of demons in front of her cage. "Get up bitch!" "There's work for you!" "I'm hungry!" "I need to work out!" were some of the fragments Hisa heard. Trembling, and with difficulty, she got nearer and nearer to the exit of the cage. Hesitating to come out, a demon grabbed her arm and pulled her forcefully out. Immediately she was received with punches in the stomach and arms, kicks in the face, legs and back, everywhere! It seemed her entire body was bleeding, and the only thing she could was to curl up in a tight ball and wait for the wrath to end.

-Renkai Tentai-
"I think we're getting closer and closer." said Kurama sniffing the air as he ran, Hiei stopped abruptly 'It's near...' he thought, "Hiei? Hurry we're almost there!" said Yusuke looking back, Hiei sighed but nodded yes. 'Poor Hiei. I don't know if he'll be able to stand up to it...' thought Kurama sadly. Finally, they arrived at the place where Hisa had fallen through the portal, "So where the hell is she?" asked Yusuke frowning.

Kurama shook his head "Don't you recall what Koenma said? We won't be able to find her yet, we are two weeks behind her..." Kuwabara sat on the ground, "Well I'm taking a break, I'm too tired to run some more." he said stubbornly, Yusuke agreed and laid on the ground, Kurama simply sat as Hiei jumped in a tree. 'Hopefully they're not too close to it...' he wished with all his being, shivering at what could possibly happen.

I... think it makes sense... but then I thought I caught myself writing something stupid but... then I thought it was fine. Maybe I should read through it again. I have writer's block for this story and another one, though I can't explain having started 6 other fics... Tis all a big mystery to me.