A/N: I have been dreading writing this because I was lost as to my plot. But now I have seen as much of Chapter Black as is released in the US and I have plenty of ideas now, so this will be active again. I also want to mention a few errors between chapters. I went back and re-read everything to see what needed to be next.

First, in the first scene of the first chapter, I have Kurama and Lorin being friendly, but not friends. By the beginning of the DT they are suddenly best friends. They are best friends and the first scene needs to be that Kurama does not want to get Lorin involved with the Sprit World stuff, so Koenma makes other plans.

Second, I have Hiei giving Lorin a pendent in the second date, but I have not mentioned it except in the first fight of the DT. She still has it, just its hidden under her shirt. It will come back. I also have her katana with the ability to morph into a black glove. It has not been mentioned due to the fact that she carries it openly at the DT.

Last, I have Lorin worrying over the fact that Risho is her first kill. Well, she killed youkai in the second date, when she and Hiei fell into the Makai. So it should be her first INTENTIONAL kill. She was fighting for her life in the Makai.

Please review. If you have ideas for what should happen or things you'd like to see, please tell me.

I am sorry this is so short, but it ends nicely here. the next chapter will be up within the week.

Note: All Japanese words I use will be translated at the bottom of each chapter.

Note: single quotes(' ') are thinking, usually telepathy. Double quotes( " ") are speech

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the YYH universe. Just my character Lorin.

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Lorin walked barefoot around the edge of the lake. She was limping slightly and several new scars could be seen on her arms. Her right wrist was wrapped tightly in white bandages. Even though she was a Healer, sometimes wounds were too deep to heal cleanly without scars. That also didn't include the fact that she had used most of her powers to heal the others first. She had saved little enough for herself.

It was quiet, just the gentle lapping of the water and a slight breeze. It was done, over. They had finished what they had set out to do. They would all go back and nothing would be the same. She and SK, as she had taken to calling Shuichi Kurama, would go back to their school. Yusuke and Kuwabara to theirs, and Hiei.....Lorin didn't know what Hiei did during the day. She knew that Koenma confined him to the City, but what could possibly keep him occupied?

Lorin smiled as she reached the spot of their 'water training'. Poor Hiei. He was so serious all the time. He even thought that a simple soaking fight was training. She laughed. What would Hiei think of roller coasters or video games? She enjoyed a brief mental image of Hiei glaring at an arcade game. He would probably think roller coasters were too slow and video games pointless.

As if summoned by her thoughts and location, Hiei's ki flared in her senses. A moment later he was standing next to her, staring across the lake. It was obvious that he had been training due to the bare blade in one hand and the even barer chest. Didn't he do anything else besides train?

He said nothing, allowing Lorin the freedom to be a typical teenage girl and admire the hard muscles and smooth skin she saw. She was perfectly content that his shirt was MIA. Her thoughts returned to the other day and the kiss they had shared at the lake's edge, then later in her room. Her mind wandered to more intimate daydreams.

Suddenly, Hiei faced her, his Jagan glowing softly under the white headband, a knowing smirk on his face. Lorin blushed a deep red as she realized what he had done.

"You know, one's thoughts should be private." She protested.

He chuckled, amused. "Then one shouldn't date a youkai. Privacy is not as prized for us as for Ningen." Lorin blinked. Date? Did he still think they were dating?

"I thought youkai didn't date." She pointed out. "Not like Ningen do."

"They don't. But when one has spent a great deal of time with them, certain concepts become less repulsive than before." He slid his katana into it's sheath and tossed it onto the grass. Lorin smiled at Hiei's choice of words. She was starting to understand that Hiei's sentences needed translating most of the time. Like now.

She lay back on the grass and tucked her hands behind her head, being careful of her wrist. Hiei let his eyes roam over her stretched out frame appreciatively, until she noticed what he was doing. She blushed again, reached up and grabbed his hand.

"Aren't you going to join me?" she asked, pulling him down. He smirked and let himself fall to the grass. She tried to reclaim her hand, but he caught it. He was surprisingly gentle as he turned her hand palm up to show red seeping through the bandages. He looked at her questioningly as he slowly unwound the cloth.

"I don't have an reiki left after healing all of you. It doesn't want to stop bleeding; too close to a vein, I think." Lorin explained, trying not to wince as the last of the fabric fell away. The gash underneath was close to a vein, running horizontal. If Hiei hadn't known that it was from a partially blocked attack, it would have looked like Lorin had cut herself. The skin around the wound was smeared with fresh and dried blood and the cut itself was still oozing slowly. Hiei studied her wrist for a moment, then looked back up at her.

"Do you trust me?" he asked, an odd tone in his voice.

Lorin looked startled. "You know I do." He smirked and the healing began.

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