Hey everyone yeah I know it's only be a few days but I felt like updating plus two people were nice enough to give me a review thank you. Let me know if you have any ideas for the story (I'm not saying I'll put them in there though I'll consider it) Hope you enjoy this next chapter!

CHAPTER SIX SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

It was now night time. Yusuke didn't really give a rat's ass that it had been long since a couple hours since he last talked to Koenma. In short, he wasn't going to call him back. It was still raining though luckily there wasn't any sign of the snakes. All of a sudden he heard wood give way and some one yell, "Oh shit!" Yusuke whirled around from his place at the door to see Kurnue sitting in the middle of what looked like a broken trunk.

"What the hell happened?" Yusuke asked.

"I thought it was a chair and it was some sort of crate or something," Kurnue said as Keeda pulled him to his feet. He looked back and saw a book there in the middle of the broken wood. He picked it up, it was made of black leather and the ancient looking pages were stained with blood. He opened it up and said, "What the hell is this gibberish?" Keeda snatched it from him and flipped through it.

"Snake Tribe," she said.

"And you can read it?" Yusuke asked. She merely nodded as she flipped to a page that had been folded and began reading.

"So what is it?" Kuwabara asked.

"I think some one in the tribe wrote and some explorer got a hold of it."

"What's it say?"

"It's talking about how the outside world wanted something…the Blood Orchid…I think. It's suppose to make you immortal."

"What do you mean you think?"

"The word has blood smeared all over it. Oh shit."

"What?"

"The snakes they're guarding it. It says they're ruled by one main snake. It's called Naga. Some sort of snake with a lot of heads; he's immortal."

"You think Naga could be the snake demon that Hiei was spying on?" Kurama asked.

"Could be. If you ask me I think it's a false god."

"In laymen's terms," Yusuke said.

"This demon has the ones chasing us thinking it's some type of immortal when it's only in a higher class." Yusuke smirked; if it wasn't really some type of god then they could kill it easily.

"See what that thing says about these little creepy crawlies. Maybe it has an antidote for whatever poison Hiei's got," Yusuke said as he sat down on a chair.

"How can you read in this light any way? I mean there's only three small candles lighting up the room," Botan said looking at Keeda as she quickly read through the book.

"I can see; no problem," Keeda said not looking up from the book. Botan gave her a snooty look and turned away. Yeah she really didn't like her at all. And her distaste for her only deepened when she told them what she found out. "Ok," she said calmly then she said rather bluntly, "Hiei's in some deep shit."

"How deep?" Yusuke asked.

"Real deep. According to this the Anacondas get up to hundred and fifty feet. The pythons get up to only about hundred but, they have the poison. Which is actually stomach acid that they pull into what would normally be used as venom sacks. And they can shoot it up to a hundred feet maybe even more like a spitting cobra."

"Hold it! You wanna tell me that he has acid circling through his blood stream; that's not possible."

"Well supposedly neither is the existence of demons and the like but we know for a fact to be wrong. So yeah that's what I'm telling you."

"Well then how the hell are we suppose to help him? I mean that's not something you can give an antidote to."

"Well theoretically speaking if we make a potion out of the Blood Orchid and water let him drink it then it should heal his wounds. Making the poison disappear in a few weeks; if he keeps taking it until it's gone."

"Which he won't," Kurama said.

"Well we'll just have to make him."

"Keeda we'd have to go back to Japan. Meaning we're closer to that pacifier sucking brat," Kurnue said his arms crossed and his wings flapping to keep him in the air.

"Spider," Keeda said still looking at the book and not them when she talked.

"AH! WHERE!" Kurnue fell out of the air and landed on his head. Kurnue gave her a dirty look as she started talking again.

"Well if you don't wanna help an old partner in crime that's fine with me."

"Ha! I don't have to help him. Unlike you I'm not related to the asshole." Next thing they knew Keeda had chucked the book right at Kurnue's face. It hit him with a loud smack. Then the book floated back to her, setting back in her hands to the page she had it on.

"Kurnue you forget that the pact the four of us made all those years ago said we'd help each other even if we were dead and rotting in hell." Yusuke was amazed to see that she was speaking calmly through out this whole situation. Yusuke just sighed; man this was aggravating as hell.

"Ok so where is this flower thingy?" Kuwabara asked.

"I don't know and before some one yells why the hell not, it's because the damn book don't say. So I suggest we find one of those over grown worms and follow it back to the nest. There we can take down Naga and get the orchid."

"And why the hell does a demon care about killing another demon for the sake of humanity?" Yusuke asked. Hiei and Kurama had a reason. Hiei being on parole and Kurama; well… 'I think he's taking a liking to his human side.'

"I don't; but the dumb ass bastard messed with my family and for that he gets a one way express ticket straight to hell." Yusuke smirked. Botan started thinking, 'I can't believe what came over me. I started hating her just cause it seemed like she was Hiei's girl friend or something. Do I really like him that bad?' She looked at Keeda, 'Wonder how they're related. She ain't his sister so….' "So then we leave at sun rise?" Keeda asked pulling Botan out of her thoughts. She heard the others agree. They went to bed blowing out the candles and hoping tomorrow would bring better news.

That morning brought a bright sun and a damp hot tropical forest. And an argument between Keeda, Yusuke and Kurnue with Kurama merely saying what he thought and the other two looking on. Oh yeah this was going to start off real nice. "Look Kurama just said we shouldn't move him so just leave him here," Kurnue said.

"We can't those snakes could come back," Keeda said.

"Then leave some one here with him."

"We'll need all the fighters we have."

"Damn it Keeda if we bring him then he might cost one of us our lives."

"Well it's a cold day in hell when a friend won't die for you."

"Women; you pick an argument and you'll never here the end of it!"

"Especially if you lose. Look we'll take him with us. If it starts getting too dangerous or he gets worse then we'll just leave some one with him near where we're at," Yusuke said.

"Yusuke, you do understand that if we move him too much he could get worse," Kurama said.

"How worse?" Yusuke could see Kurama was worried there was something he hadn't told them.

"Think about what acid does. The only thing that has kept him from bleeding internally yet is his demonic blood in time that won't help either."

"How long?"

"Depends when he got hit and how much is in him. If it was day before we found him and he has enough in him to make him just sick then I'd say a day."

"And by just sick what do you mean?"

"Throwing up blood, running a fever; that'd be about it. But if it's more…" Kurama trailed off as he shook his head. Yusuke slightly banged his head on the side of the hut.

He walked to where the others were which was near Hiei. He saw Hiei's arm tense up a little bit. The others saw it as well. Yusuke sat down next to him, "Hiei. Hiei I know you can hear me." He shook his shoulder's a little.

"Come on Hiei…please," Botan muttered. Hiei jerked up nearly colliding with Yusuke. Bad idea; a sharp pain went through his chest; he gripped at it. Yusuke pushed him back down gently.

"Take it easy you're safe."

"What the hell happened?" Hiei asked, his voice was barely audible.

"That's what we were wondering. We found you in a stream we don't know how long you've been out." Hiei shut his eyes trying to remember what happened. His head started pounding.

"There was hissing…fangs…blood." He moved as pain shot through his body.

"Hiei it's ok you'll remember it later. Koenma said you came out here because the demon was tailing the girls."

"Half way, I couldn't get a portal here with out his knowing….he made a deal….saying if I made sure I got all the demons…he'd make a portal out here…That dumb bastard figured even if I couldn't get them…then the rest of you would get pissed enough to come out here…"

Yusuke got a pissed off look on his face, "He's playing us. Think about he could always just get another team." He stood up, "This is why I don't like playing by the rules." He looked at Hiei, he was breathing heavy and seemed to have gone unconscious. "Keeda, can you carry him back down until we reach the ground?" She nodded. Yusuke was surprised that she could lift him so easily. Her wings came out as she lifted him off the bench. She flew in the air as the others scaled down the tree trunk thanks to Kurama's vine. She felt Hiei stir in her arms.

"You must be pretty bad off if you didn't notice me and Kurnue's energy."

"Keeda…What are you doing here?"

"Heard my little cousin was getting his ass kicked by a bunch of slimy snakes."

"And you came to…bail me out."

"Like I always do." She flew down to the rest. Yusuke told her to let Kwurabara take Hiei. So she put Hiei on Kuwabara's back. He had to've been knocked out now because he would've killed Kwurabara had he known he was being toted around by him.

They set off hoping they could defeat the demons in time and get the flower but with the luck they were having things weren't looking good. Yusuke was definitely gonna kick Koenma's ass when they got out of this mess.

Well was this good or bad? Here's a warning Hiei's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before he gets better. So if you do like people being on the verge of death then you might wanna quit while you're a head. And that's the only warning you're gonna get. Any way please review I hope to have more stories up soon. And with all the horror movies I've been watching lately I wouldn't be surprised if they end up fighting Jason Voorhees or something. Sayanora.