Light in the Shadow

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Disclaimer: I do not own Hiei, Yu Yu Hakusho or other related themes.

Warning: May have some disturbing images, adult language, and some as in a little bit not like heavy sexual content sorta kinda like kissy kissy stuff in later chapters. D

Author:   ‡ Mercury Mechanics ‡

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Chapter Warning: There are some adult themes in the upcoming chapter, not too graphic but be weary that I might have to up the rating if I plan on going threw with things in later chapters. Also, its pretty bloody. :O

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Chapter 8 "Belonging"

Hiei's speech was interrupted as blood filled his mouth. He coughed to rid himself of the liquid, his strength melting away. Staring with glassy crimson hued eyes as Takani leaped up onto the Hellhound with the screaming Kohana in his arms, his hand still out stretched to her. As he attempted to say what he wanted to so badly to say to calm her down, he only managed to whisper hoarsely,

"Kohana...I'm coming..."

With that his hand fell to the ground, weak and wreathed with pain. Cringing he looked down...He was covered literally head to foot in his own blood that now ran in streams out of his body causing him to be lightheaded and dizzy with a kick of nausea to add to it. As he slowly planted his palm into the ground he managed to sit up and back onto his heels all the while holding his torn torso. Coughing he choked as blood sprayed from his lips.

"Damn it..." he cursed as he watched threw tired eyes as Takani took off with Kohana in his arms.

Looking sideward as a putrid smell filled the air about him, Hiei came face to face with a hellhound. With eyes that held no fear he stared strait faced into the creature's malevolent gaze and mentally tore it to pieces with his bare hands...Yet it was the whistle of the damned creature's master that saved him from having to move just yet. Watching as it left at the beckoning leaving him to his "death" Hiei felt suddenly felt insulted.

Crawling over to the tall root of a tree he grasped a hold of it and stood slowly as to not become light headed. As he turned towards the way Takani had disappeared into the forest he tripped over his own feet and fell back to the ground. With a loud gasp of pain he rolled onto his back and clenched his now shaking hands tightly, one firmly wrapped around his torn abdomen. After great struggle of keeping his eyes open Hiei slowly allowed them to close. Soon after his ears began to hear nothing but silence and his mind drifted back into a small utopia he had been able to salvage from the chaos around him...

Opening his eyes Hiei found that he was standing in a dim room with a haunting picture before him. A woman lay dead on the cold wooden floor, her face hidden behind a veil of white hair stained in blood. A young man, also whose head was adorned in long silver locks and who also sported wounds that bled strength from his body, kneeled defeated in front of a dark shadow hidden behind a veil of black hues.

As Hiei looked to the left there stood a young girl holding a small plushy doll. Her emotionless face was void of any sign of life and had a splatter of red blood coloring the flesh that was so pale it resembled that of snow. Slowly as she turned her head to look towards him, Hiei felt his heart wrench as familiar glowing azure blue eyes gazed at him...Kohana. Looking away his gaze was drawn to the fallen woman whose eyes suddenly opened as she yelled at him, "Get up!"

Snapping his eyes open Hiei could hear the rhythm of his heart beat drumming in his ears. Blindly staring upwards as his blackened vision began to clear, it became apparent that he was still were he had fallen and still in the condition he had been in before he had passed out. As he looked down he saw a small green ball resting on his chest. With shaking hands he picked it up slowly and brought it to his nose as he smelled it. It had a sent of mint and pine along with lilac and had a clean since to it. A voice in his head told him to take a bite...so he did and regretted it, at least momentarily anyway.

Hiei clamped his hands over his mouth as a searing pain ripped at stomach and caused his brow to heat in a fever. Crying out in pain he coughed as he enveloped one arm around his abdomen and twisted the other fist in the bloody grass he lay upon. Though he swore he'd never cry due to pain, Hiei clenched his eyes shut as he was overwhelmed with the most agonizing pain he had ever endured. Hiei cried out loudly in pain.

It felt as though someone had thrust a blade into his already ripped open stomach, widening the wound as they twisted the blade around a bit. Stinging numbness shot threw the tips of his fingers and toes and a weak since of lightheadedness caused his head to swim and his stomach to cringe. His strength that was nearly bled away caused his entire body to swell with aching.

Then it slowly began to subside and he could feel the fever melt away along with the sickness and pain... As he caught up with his breath Hiei slowly looked down to see his stomach completely healed. Sitting up with utter shock he removed the torn rags from around his abdomen to find with great surprise that even the stitch wounds had closed and healed. The once torn and tattered flesh had in a matter of the seconds patched itself back up.

Then that's when he heard it, the triumphant howl of the hellhounds in the distance as if they were announcing they had won against an undefeated foe...who was, without their knowledge, now quite well.

As he looked to the spear that the demon had used to nearly kill him Hiei walked over to it and picked it up. Staring down at the designs that decorated its blood covered blade he listened as Kohana's screaming echoed in his head like a haunting ballad...she was still blind and unable to fend for herself. As his grasp around the wood tightened, it creaked warning that it would snap in half under the pressure.

Leaping strait up into the treetops above Hiei made his way towards the howling as quickly as his now lithe and unscathed feet would carry him into the deep wood. With a renewed vigor the now very pissed and very determined red eyed demon dodged tree limbs and moved with the grace and speed he possessed before he had even met Kohana. Dropping down from the highest limbs down onto the lower ones Hiei felt a rush of prickling crawl up his spine as the cool damp air lathered his body.

Stopping as the howling stopped Hiei listened close. He heard nothing save the swish of the dancing leaves in the blowing wind. Barring his teeth in annoyance Hiei dropped to the ground as he began to follow the tracks, his pace swift. As several hours passed he came to hill that he was sure would lead him right to them. Leaping to the top his face went slack with a dash of disappointment and a whole lot of aggravation. There were three paw tracks leading in three different directions...

"Shit..." Hiei grumbled as he got onto his hands and knees to see which set of prints went deepest into the ground, hence they would be the ones baring the riders. "I'm coming Kohana...Hold on."

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Though she had stopped beating her abductor with her now numb and bleeding fists Kohana had not lost her fiery anger that burned with much fervor against the demon whom now carried her like a satchel over his lap. Blood dripped from the corner of her mouth were he had hit her due to her biting. To say the least, she stopped that pretty quickly.

As Kohana looked up at the demon, even though she couldn't see him, it is only fair of me to tell you that anyone who met his gaze were shocked at how plainly they screamed "Lecher." She didn't know what frightened her more being alone with the creep or the possibility that Hiei might not have lived threw the little blade slicing sounding incident...Definitely Hiei not living threw whatever happened when Takani stole her away.

Turning her gaze away from him as she felt tears well in her eyes, Kohana rubbed the sore orbs with her dirty hands. How she wished for a bath...and for the warmth of Hiei's hand to hold and his warm sent to clam her worries...

As the rough ride began to slow Kohana looked around in a paranoid manner as she listened as her captor spoke softly to the rancid smelling beast they rode upon. With a small cry she struggled against Takani's embrace as he picked her up and dismounted with her in his arms. Setting Kohana down, he still held tightly to her as he said,

"We are standing next to a pool...I thought you might wish to wash off a bit..."

The soft tone in his voice immediately sent warning bells off in Kohana's head. 'What the hell...' she thought, picking up the curse word from how many times she had heard Hiei mumble it. Though she was worried of his intentions she nodded and decided to just cooperate for his once, so that she could get a chance to wash off a bit. She reasoned that he wouldn't have gone threw all that trouble of kidnapping her to drown her.

Slowly as Takani let her go he led her over to the water with one hand resting on the curve of her back, which I may add, bothered her which caused her to twitch under the intimate touch. Looking down as she felt the cool water lather her feet she smiled. As she bent down to take a scoop of the water she felt Takani's hands push her down. With a cry she held her under robe closed and looked up with scorn at her abductor who was undressing himself. As she heard the sound of rustling clothes she felt a numbing cold rush over her...

Trying to stand quickly Kohana found that her legs would barely move as she tried to move away from him, fright causing her belly to tighten and a wave of nausea to kick in. As she felt his hands begin to touch her shoulders she tried to push and kick him away but was to no avail. Before she knew it he had pinned her to the grass, holding her there under the weight of his body. She knew exactly what he was doing; the thought causing tears to well in her eye as she thought of Hiei.

"Get off of me..." Kohana growled in a shaking tone. She cringed as his hot tongue slid across the flesh of her neck earning an angry hiss, "What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm going to play with you, my doll..." he hissed as he grasped a lock of her hair and tightly held it as he ripped open her robe.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she tried her hardest to push him off but due to the shaking bloody flesh that made up her hands she barely had the strength to hit him as he bit and scratched her delicate pale skin, causing her to make quite, repressed sounds of pain, sounds he enjoyed. Takani was disappointed when he found the bleeding teeth indentions on her sides from were his hellhounds had bitten her. He wanted to break his doll on his own accord and with no ones help... Smiling Takani looked down at Kohana, his eyes glowing.

"Hiei..." Kohana whimpered mentally. "Where are you...I'm scared..."

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The ground was wet due to the all the rain but never the less it was still a hard decision for Hiei to make. Each pathway's set of paw prints were as deep as the next. He did not under any circumstance want to choose the wrong path and delay his reuniting with Kohana hence the good twenty minute of thought before he chose which way to go.

As he caught a faint sound Hiei looked up and saw nothing but endless trees and greenery. Watching as the wind caused the leaves to sway he could smell the rancid stench of the Hellhound's and a light sent of blood in the breeze. As he stood from crouching near the floor of the forest his ears tuned into everything around him, from the whips of the dancing leaves to the small chirp of the birds...And then he heard it. A scream so loud it caused the birds in the tops of the trees to scatter. Yet what had been screamed had caused his entire body to wreath in goose bumps and a prickling sensation to shoot up his spine.

"Kohana!" Hiei cried as he sprinted forwards at such a speed that the trees passed by in blurs of brown and green.

Clenching his fists Hiei jumped up into the tops of the trees and did flips and turns to dodge trees and low limbs as he weaved his way threw the forest, the stench of the hellhounds becoming more potent with every yard. His heart was pounding so fast Hiei could have sworn the muscle had skipped a couple beats as he ran. As he saw a clearing in the distance he pushed his burning legs to move faster, sliding into the wide area of level ground. Slipping on the wet grass he nearly fell onto his butt but caught himself in time. Standing strait as he looked about the clearing he noticed it was of a good sized width due to the pond near the middle of it with tall trees that seemed to coil upwards for miles with branches weaving a top so thick that sunlight had a trouble breaking threw.

As he made his way across the clearing a flash of blood stained white caught his eye. Swiftly making his way to the edge of the pond he reached out and grasped the white cloth. Holding it up he recognized it to be the under robe Kohana had been wearing. He instantly felt himself pale and a numbing shock filtered threw him. As puddles of blood caught his gaze Hiei turned to see a section of the grass literally stained red with blood that trailed all the way back to the water's edge were he was standing.

Ripping the garment with anger Hiei threw it down and darted into the woods, following the sent of the hellhounds. As he leapt into the branches of the trees Hiei felt his blood heat and a boiling anger rise inside of him. In the distance, down a way he could see Takani sitting very relaxed like on the back of his hellhounds with a second walking beside his own with a small figure wrapped in his shirt lying on its back.

"That bastard..." Hiei hissed as he imagined how he would kill Takani and what he'd do to him.

As he crept up behind Takani, standing in the branches above the unsuspecting demons head, he moved without sound and masked his presence so well not even the hellhounds had sensed him. Spinning the spear around Hiei prepared for his revenge. As he did a flip out of the tree he landed softly in front of Takani with glowing eyes that screamed of a malevolent fire so fiercely that at the first gaze into them Takani froze.

"You took something that doesn't belong to you, now you will die," Hiei hissed as he plunged the blade into the hellhound's neck and pulled the trigger, severing the head from the body.

The two demons were thrown from the hellhounds back as the beast crashed into the forest floor, blood spraying the ground as the body twitched. Jumping up to his feet Takani started to laugh and whistled for his second hellhounds to come to him. With the great beast by his side Takani placed the beast under a spell so it wouldn't interfere with their spar.

"So she's yours then?" Takani laughed as he took a handful of Kohana's wet hair and brought it to his nose, inhaling the sweet smell. With a smile he produced a sword from a sheath that hung at his back and twirled it around. "She tastes so sweet and is just so much fun to play with. I don't think I'm going to return her."

Hiei stared blankly, his eyes showing no sign of where he might choose to strike next. "If you touch her again I'll make sure to make your death a painful one, Takani," Hiei hissed as he grasped the spear tightly and ready himself to dismember the demon.

"I'm so afraid," Takani laughed as he stepped away from the hellhound. "I thought I killed you..."

Hiei smirked. "You thought wrong..."

Taking a couple steps forwards Takani smiled and dropped down into a combat ready stance. The two males stared each other down, studying the other, vengeful red searing into sadistic green. As they prepared to begin, Hiei looked over at Kohana when he noticed that she hadn't moved from her spot on the back of the demon dog since he had come. Turning back to Takani Hiei felt his hate grow when the demon smiled and said,

"I bet your wondering what I did to your little girlfriend..."

Hiei frowned lightly and thought, "Why am I allowing him to live so long..."

Leaping forwards at each other Hiei and Takani sparred each other's first attack but soon broke out into all out sword verses spear war. Dodging and sparring attack's the two struck the other's blade so hard that sparks flew into their face. With the occasional punch and kick the two had bloodied each other up in the first couple minutes of the fight.

During the course of the fight Hiei had broken off one of the spring blades to use as a dagger and had managed to embed it deeply into Takani's side when he sparred Hiei's thrust attach with his sword. Staggering backwards Takani kept up his defenses well enough to slice threw the wood at the end of Hiei's spear and slice a gash in his upper arm.

Flipping up into the air as Takani swung at him, Hiei landed on the blade of his sword and hit him in the head with the splintered end of the wood, breaking off yet another piece. As Takani dashed at him Hiei jumped backwards. Breaking off yet another spring blade on the opposite end He threw it as if it were a Chinese star into Takani's stomach.

With a cringe the demon ripped it out as he did a spin while lunging towards Hiei. Though due to Hiei's superior speed he was able to divert the attach by jumping into the air, smashing his heels into the top of Takani's head and flipped off landing beside the hellhound who looked as thought it was nothing more than a restrained dog under the spell of a sick man.

As he looked sideward to Kohana he noticed the amount of cuts and bruises on her face, and this only the part he had seen that had not been covered with wet hair and the collar of Takani's shirt. With worry he tuned Takani out as he reached out to Kohana while softly saying her name. As her eyes opened sluggishly Hiei heard the snap of fingers and before he knew it he was dodging the clamp like jaws of the Hellhound she rested upon.

Standing in the tree limbs above, Hiei looked down at Kohana watching as her eyes only opened half way he saw the little fire he had sparked within her was nothing more than ash now and the blue depths were now hazy and filled with sorrow. As he turned his gaze up to the now snickering Takani Hiei hissed,

"What did you do?"

Takani only sneered and put his finger over his lips playfully saying he would not tell. "It's a secret," he said.

"Hi...ei...?" Kohana whispered in a hoarse voice, is sounding as if she barely knew who he was.

Hiei did not meet Kohana's wondering eyes as he said, "I'm here now, so you don't have to be afraid."

Deciding it was full well time to pay the piper Hiei tightened his grip on the staff and ran at Takani appearing before the demon before he could move. With the anger that fueled his attack, Hiei sliced right threw Takani's chest as he too delivered his final blow to Hiei's shoulder. Wrenching the spear upwards caused Takani to drop his blade. Swiftly Hiei pushed him back into a tree and released the trigger that caused the two remaining spring blades to slice open, severing his spinal cord while embedding into the tree behind him. Hate caused Hiei's eyes to glow and he enjoyed his revenge with a sick passion that yearned for more and screamed for him to continue to draw pain from the demon's body until he bled to death. Yet as Hiei reached up to snap Takani's jaw a small voice called his name.

"Hiei..." Kohana called as she slowly and weakly sat up from the hellhounds back. here...Leave him alone..."

Suddenly feeling violated Hiei gnashed his teeth and growled at Takani when he smiled.

"I don't want to listen to the fighting anymore..." Kohana said quietly as she slid off the hellhounds back and landed with a sick thud on the ground in a withered lump. "I don't want to listen to blood splash the ground anymore...please come to me..."

As he stepped away from Takani, Hiei ignored the struggling, demon as he walked to Kohana who had managed to pull herself up onto her shaking feet. Watching as she out stretched her arms to him he saw that they were badly cut up and bloody. Wearily she staggered forwards as she said in voice that cracked with emotion,

"Hiei...where are you?"

Rushing to her Hiei wrapped his arms around the small quivering demon as she collapsed and started to cry so hard she started to wheeze due to lack of air. Holding onto Hiei with every fiber of strength left within her Kohana broke down into his chest, her tears racking her entire body with sorrow. Though she had tried to be as strong as she could, Takani had succeeded in breaking her.

"Hiei, please don't leave me again," Kohana said brokenly. "Promise you won't let him take me away...please."

He had never heard anyone in his life beg him with such a pleading tone in their voice. Though demons had begged him to spare their life, he had never been begged to stay by a person's side and promise not to leave them and not allow someone to take them from him. Slowly he tighten his grasp around the pitiful demon lying in his lap as he said, "Kohana what happened...What did that bastard do to you?"

Asking this only made her cry harder, causing her to wind her bleeding fists in the cloth of his pants. For the first time in his life he had no idea what to do. Stroking her hair gently he rocked back and forth. He'd seen a man do this to a crying woman on some soap opera that Kurama called a good historical, tear-jerking movie. He's slept threw most of it, but he was damn happy he'd seen that part.

He was shocked at how much it seemed to calm Kohana down. Slowly her crying stopped and turned to just sniffling and a hick up here and there. Now that he had gotten used the gesture of rocking her and gently stroking the her head and back, Hiei couldn't believe that he had actually used what he had seen in a soap opera in real life. Though he'd be caught dead before he let Kurama or Yusuke see him...Yusuke already had doubts about his slack, "I hate humans and demons alike along with the whole damned world" attitude.

"You're just a big softy...!" Yusuke's annoying laughing voice echoed in his head as he looked down at Kohana.

Turning his head towards Takani Hiei saw that the demon was looking at him. The smile on his face was so wide Hiei could see the blood stains on Takani's teeth and lips from where he had coughed up the crimson liquid. "I've won and there's nothing you can do about it," he sneered as he laughed, blood trickling from his lips. "Once I die...my hellhound will tear you to piece...es..."

As Takani's eyes hazed and his head hung limply with death, Hiei looked up to see the spell on the hellhound wear off. Gathering a good hold around Kohana he leaped up into the air to dodge an attack by the demon dog. Landing on a thick branch high off the ground, Hiei set Kohana down on her feet and pressed her into the stem of the tree, protecting her with his body as the hellhound leaped up into the air and bit and pawed at the tree.

Wrapping her arms around his torso Kohana held Hiei close as she sniffled. Takani had awoken a renowned since of fright inside of her. As her hands began to shake Kohana whispered to Hiei, "Hiei, I'm scared..."

When he heard her sniffle Hiei looked down in a subtle manner. As he saw tears streaking down the corner of her face his brows furrowed. Dropping his head between his arms, either hand over her shoulders as he looked her in the hazy eyes he had grown so accustomed to seeing he nearly forgot what he had looked like before the poison had stolen her sight. "Stop crying," Hiei said in a tone that held an emotion he couldn't tag while he reached down and held her face in his bloody hand. "You've earned my respect, Kohana. I promise that I won't let anything happen to you." He stressed his words. "Do you trust me?"

Though she could not see Kohana turned her eyes up and stared where she thought Hiei's face to be from the warmth of breath blowing on her cheek. With a sad frown she said sternly, "I don't want you get hurt anymore, Hiei."

Hiei's face hardened as he frowned as well. "Do you trust me Kohana?" he repeated this time in a firm voice.

Stiffening her spine against the bark of the tree Kohana nodded as she said, "I trust you...Hiei but... please...be careful!"

Silent was Hiei's reply as he nodded. Releasing her he pulled away out of her arms as he did a back flip off the branch landing on the ground beside the tree. As he sprinted towards Takani's dead body to retrieve the spear Hiei leaped over the slain hellhound and worked as swiftly as he could. Closing the spring blades of the spear he tore the blade out the tree and threw Takani's chest cavity that had been torn open by his fatal attack. It was such a gruesome sight Hiei was glad that Kohana had lost her ability to see.

Turning on his heel he saw the hellhound growling, barring its razor like teeth as it stared Hiei down with its dark yellow eyes. As the beast made the first move Hiei waited until the last moment to jump upwards to avoid its powerful jaws. With a small spin he landed on the beasts back. It thrashed about wildly and attempted to buck him off. Hiei thought the distress of the demon was mildly amusing. He watched as it whined and tried to reach back and bite him.

With a firm grasp on the coarse hair of the demon hound's coat Hiei had no problem avoiding the teeth and staying on when it bucked. Then growing tired of it's noises and bucking, he thrust the nearly warn out blade of the spear down threw its shoulder blades causing it to crash into the ground with a deafening cry of pain. Standing before the fallen creature Hiei observed as it took lay before him wheezing as it drew in its last breaths.

"No one messes with me and lives," Hiei said as he turned away from it and ran back to meet with Kohana who had already began to make her way down the tree and who had also managed to get herself stuck in some vines. He repressed a snicker at the odd sight she made and covered it up with a blank expression.

"Hiei?" she asked softly as she reached out to him with one hand, not really sure if he was there. "How are your stitches? Do we still need to find that herb you needed?"

"If either of us needs the herb, it's you," Hiei replied as he helped untangle his intimate companion from the vines. "You're the ones who's hurt the worst."

"I am not!" Kohana protested the blood and bruises on her arms and legs speaking plainly to Hiei and yet Kohana had no idea of her appearance. "You have stitches to tend to! And what about the sound I heard? Takani must have wounded you so terribly that you could not move!"

Grasping her hand Hiei brought it to his chest and placed where a large wound had once been. "It was to say the least, a miracle..." Hiei admitted as he released Kohana's hand to watch as it wondered over his entire frame were she remembered were his old wounds to be.

"There...all gone? How is this possible?" Kohana said in a shocked voice as she pressed two fingers into her bruised, blue lips. She smiled. "I was so worried that Takani had done some serious harm to you and that I'd never see you again..."

Hiei cringed as he remembered. Takani had. Though he'd never tell her that. Not unless she asked him directly. He wasn't fond of lying and especially not to people like Kohana because he knew that she was the type of person who could tell when someone was lying to them just by the tone in their voice.

Kohana, who had cast her blind gaze to her feet, turned her head up and without saying a word she reached out with her bruised and scratched up arms as she enveloped Hiei in a hug. Though the true nature of her embrace was not known to Hiei, Kohana would attempt to mask her pain as well as she could.

Hiei did not resist her embrace and allowed her to do so as he loosely wrapped his arms around her shoulders as well. The smaller demon had unknowingly become his object of obsession and the bodies of the three creatures he had just slaughtered to save her proved it. Though Hiei, being of the male gender, hadn't even realized it. Though that's perfectly normal for a man to not understanding how he feels.

"Kohana...." Hiei said in a hushed voice with a plain look on his face, that which was turned away from Kohana's, his eyes narrow and mind cast deeply in thought. "I promise...that I won't leave you..."

"Thank you, Hiei," Kohana whispered as she snuggled close to Hiei, the sound of his heart and the warmth of his fiery body a comfort beyond what she had longed for.

"As long as you're with me, Hiei...I'll try my hardest to be strong for you and to not let Takani's words and actions against me to bother our bond...he was nothing like you are," She thought as she smiled a sad smile knowing that she had wounds of her own that were still to this point stinging and throbbing with a centered dull ache that had grown dormant, only awakening when she decided to move. Takani had stolen something precious of hers that could never be returned. Yet as she held Hiei, the pain began to increase...

She blatantly ignored it; which, may I say, was not a wise decision. "I wish I could tell you, Hiei..." she thought as she closed her eyes briefly.

Hiei hummed, "Hnn..."

At hearing the familiar noise Kohana laughed as she said, "I've missed that noise."

Arching a brow Hiei watched as she smiled. "Hn?"

Managing the best smile she could possibly she took Hiei's hand in hers as she asked, "Where to now?"

With a shrug Hiei spoke, "I haven't the faintest clue...but first we have to get out of the tree."

Kohana nodded in agreement at the rather very obvious statement. As the two began to climb down, Hiei lead Kohan down every step of the way until they set foot on the grass. Looking about Hiei lead his blind companion deeper into the chasm of adventure and darkness that they called a forest with her arm linked with his and their fingers wound together...

Then that's when Hiei noticed that Kohan was limping and that the red hue of the shirt she was wearing was not its natural color. It was her blood.

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Welllo thats that! Arn't you happy it didnt take me another year to update! X3 I promise on my life that I'll get better! ::ripsouthair::

‡ MercuryMechanics ‡