Faithful readers I have been racking my brain for an answer and I have concluded that I will not possibly be able to finish this story in two weeks, so I shall try to update through the summer as I tour my home-state of Indiana. I originally, for this opening note, was going to write that I was discontinuing the story, but Nissi told me not to do that so I won't. Short chapter, but yeah!

Chapter Ten

"She's dying," Genkai murmurs, running her hand above Nissi's body. "Human diseases affect her differently now that her body has realized it's different."

It is night at the mansion. Yusuke, freaking out as he saw his friend passed out on the floor, called his mentor and insisted that she come down. He also contacted the other Destinies, Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, Jin, and Touya. They all came rushing down at once, worried, but none more worried than the Destinies.

"But it's just a common cold!" Meagan wails, wringing her hands. Yusuke tries to comfort her, but she will have none of it.

"Botan…take them out and…bring them to Shizuru's. I need to focus on Nissi."

"Who's Shizuru?" Vanessa demands, only to be dragged away by Kuwabara. "Let me go! We can't leave her!"

"Do you mind if I go out to train instead?" Olivia asks quietly.

Genkai nods in approval, and Olivia walks slowly out of the room, stopping to hug a shaking Kurama as she walks past. She proceeds to her favorite part of the forest and furiously begins punching the trees. One falls after three powerful blows, but this is no time to be celebrating her rise in power.

"Olivia?" Hiei grabs her wrist. "What are you doing?"

"Stupid freaking cold!" she wrenches her hand away. "Why does one small cold affect her like this?"

"You need to calm down," Hiei growls.

Olivia promptly turns and runs to the spot where Hiei had brought her before. But as it is night and she can't see very well, she trips and falls into the river. Baka onna, Hiei thinks as he jumps in after her, holding her in his arms as he drags himself to shore. Olivia sits stunned as if she doesn't know what is going on (which she doesn't).

"If you get a cold, you'll die too."

Hiei sets her gently on the ground and promptly shakes his hair.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes."

"Good." He begins to wring his shirt of water and sits down next to her, focusing on the amount of water that has attached itself to him. Olivia stares at him while he dries himself and sighs. "What?"

"Oh Hiei, I'm your girlfriend for Heaven's sake! Couldn't you be at least a little bit more romantic about this?"

He stops fiddling with his shirt, "Well what do you expect me to do?"

Olivia frowns and turns her head in frustration, "Hn."

How could he be so insensitive? Yes, Hiei wasn't exactly one to spout sonnets and pick flowers, but he had to have fallen in love before, right…? Suddenly the possibility crosses Olivia's mind and she just has to ask,

"Hiei, have you ever fallen in love before?"

At this a deep blush creeps onto Hiei's face, "That's a stupid question. Why would you ask me that?"

"You haven't before, have you?"

And it dawns on Olivia: Hiei has no love experience. Of course he wouldn't know how to act! And the red stain is refusing to let go of Hiei's face. A giggle begins to surface on Olivia's lips before it breaks all out and she has her arms around her stomach.

"What's so funny?"

"Your face!"

She begins pointing to prove her point and Hiei takes it very offensively.

"Cute!" he grabs her shoulders as she continues to laugh. "Is that all I am to you? Cute?"

He pulls her to him and kisses her in a possessive way, as if to say "I'll show you cute." Her giggles fade into his lips as he pulls her even closer.

"Mm..we need to go…" Olivia whispers, clambering onto his back.

The two shoot off back to the mansion and to the main room, only to find it in a state of turmoil.

"She's going cold!" Jin has his hand on her forehead.

"And she's shaking!" Touya adds.

"Leave her be," Genkai moves to comfort Kurama, who is rocking on his heels and also shaking.

Olivia, understanding Genkai's words, faints before she can finish her sentence.

"She is dead."

T.T Nissi my poor friend you are gone! (cries) Are you mad at me, readers? For leaving you at such a cliffy? Hahahahaha! Props for Nissi for the moment!