A/N: I own what I own and nothing else. Hope you all like this chapter. Please review, and for those of you reading tbomw, please read the authors note that makes up chapter 14. Thank you to all of my reviewers, and I don't have a lot of time, so onto ch.4!

-telepathy-

Recap: Hiei: "I just realized I was brought here for my Koorime tears, and I never cry."

Chapter 4: Don't Eat The Food

Hiei's POV

"How ironic." Enrikka said, she continued smiling.

Author's POV

"That fighter better not have lied to us, or I'll go back and kill him." Kurama said. Yusuke gave him a strange look. "But, Kurama, he's already dead." Yusuke answered his friend. "Darn." Kurama snapped his fingers. Yusuke and Kuwabara exchanged glances. Where had their good mannered friend gone too? He was just scary in this mood.

"Well, here we are." Kurama said, looking around. They were standing in a big field, civilization nowhere in sight. "I don't think they're here." Kuwabara states the obvious. "Ya think?" Yusuke asks sarcastically. "Yeah." Kuwabara says. "Yeah what?" Kurama asks him. "Yeah, that's what I think." Kuwabara says, a little annoyed at being questioned. Yusuke and Kurama just stare at him and shake their heads. "Well, let's just ask Koenma if there's any way to track Hiei." Yusuke says, the others agree and they all walk off.

Enrikka's POV

"So, what's your power? I mean, you are human so…" "So you don't think my power would be that desirable?" I finish for Hiei, one eyebrow raised. "Well…basically yeah." He answers. "Well, I can bring back the dead." I answer, watching his face. His expression doesn't change. "Hn." He says. "Zombies huh?" "Not particularly." I answer, elaborating. "I can bring someone back from the dead, if their body is preserved, or I can breathe life into any body near me to make them rise again. The latter would be the zombie." "Hn. Interesting." Hiei says. "Hn." I mock. He smiles so briefly I'm not even sure he really smiled at all.

"So do you have to see the dead body to raise a zombie?" He asks me. "Nope." I answer. "Good, bring up an army and we'll escape. A place like this ought to have a lot of dead bodies around." Hiei says easily. "But I've tried. For some reason I can't use my power." "Hn." Suddenly Hiei is engulfed in his spirit energy. It's a red that almost matches his eyes.

"Well, I can use mine." He states and his spirit energy dissipates from view. "Why do they want your power?" Hiei asks out of the blue. "They want me to raise Toguro and the four Saint Beasts. They have Toguro's body preserved, but the Saint Beasts would be zombies held together with my power. I'm supposed to make them obey him when they rise." I pause, letting Hiei digest this information. "Of course there's no way I'm going to do that, because they would be raised in the human world, and sent on a killing spree."

"Hn. Koenma wouldn't like that." He replied, then more to himself than me he muttered, "I wonder if that's what our next mission was about." "Mission?" I ask curiously. "Yes, I'm with the spirit detective, if you know anything about that. You certainly know about the demons we disposed of." He acknowledged. "Yes, I've heard about your team. You guys do some good work." I smiled.

Hiei snorted. "Let me guess, you just like to kick some butt." I stated. "Yes actually." Hiei said. I rolled my eyes and laughed.

Hiei's POV

I don't know why, but I think I am starting to like this human's company. She doesn't bother me that much.

The cell door opened. Enrikka had stopped laughing a few seconds before. Two guards came in, they walked towards Enrikka. "Come on girl." They said as one reached down to grab her. I saw a look in her eyes I didn't like. It looked haunted, like she knew what was coming and was almost afraid, but knew there was nothing she could do about it.

In an instant I was by their side, with a hand around the guard's throat. "Hiei!" Enrikka breathed. "Don't. You'll only get yourself in trouble." She told me, I wasn't about to listen until I heard her next sentence. "Save your strength, we, uh, you, may need it later." I let go of the guard and backed away. I caught the meaning in the statement, I needed to save my strength for our escape. And our escape would only happen if we figured out how to tap into Enrikka's spirit power.

The two guards, one looking at me warily, picked up Enrikka. Each of them had one of her arms. They walked out of the cell with her. She had her head held high, like she wasn't afraid and wasn't going to cooperate. I didn't see her again for a few hours, and during that time I worried what state she would be in when she returned. I brushed off my sudden concern for her as concern for her ability to help me escape.

Three Hours Later

I woke up as the cell door opened. I recognized the two guards a second before they roughly threw Enrikka in. I used my speed to catch her, and the guards left us then. "Thanks for catching me." She mumbled into my cloak. "Why didn't we just escape then?" I asked her. "Too many guards around. There are a lot in the building." She replied.

I held her while she healed herself, then I put my cloak around her. "Thanks." She said gratefully. "Don't worry about it. I can keep myself warm." I told her gruffly.

More guards came, but this time they had food. They set one plate of food down, but I wasn't hungry. –we have to make escape plans.- I told her telepathically. She gaped at me. –if you could do that the whole time, why didn't you contact your teammates- I had already thought of that. –how could I tell them where I am, if I don't know where I am-well, I know what city we're in. I may be able to lead them here with your help.-we'll discuss this later.- I told her, lifting my chin to indicate the guards were still there.

The guards were looking at us curiously. "Eat up." They said in unison before they disappeared behind the cell door. Before Enrikka could move I had the plate and had picked up the cot. I dug some dirt up with my shoe, then dumped the food into it. "What are you doing!" Enrikka was staring at me. "There's something in the food to keep spirit energy inside you." I replied. I dropped the cot over the food.

"You can sense it?" Enrikka asks me. "No, just a hunch." I reply nonchalantly. "You would bury our food over a hunch?" She asked coolly. "Apparently." I answered. "We need food for strength." She informed me as if it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world. "And the faster you get your spirit energy back, the faster we bust out." I pointed out. "I guess your right." She said thoughtfully. "Human, I'm always right." She threw my cloak over my head and laughed.