A/N: Yes I know I'm so sorry... I know you guys must hate me now but try to understand. I mean it happens to everyone who writes a fanfic...right? (Writers block)

Anyways thanks for sticking with this fic even though it's not turning out the way I wanted it to but I will give it a proper ending.

So enjoy this chapter.

Oh yeah. Ian this chapter is dedicated to you. Hope you enjoy it

Chapter 7

Rei couldn't believe that Yusuke was really going to leave Kuwaabara out in the hallway, then again he did deserve it.

As they made their way down the hallway Rei felt someone watching her. She turned and sure enough Hiei was glaring at her. Boy he really was pissed. (A/N: I would be to if Hiei just up and fell on top of me in my room... actually...)

They made a turn into a comfy looking living room.

" Ok everybody sit down." commanded Botan

Yusuke gave her a skeptical look but said nothing and sat down besides Kurama on the couch.

Hiei went and sat on the windowsill while Rei leaned against the furthest wall.

Botan stood at the center of the room and said, "Look Rei, first of all I wanted to apologize for what I said before," she made eye contact with Rei, "I can be really stupid sometimes."

"Well that's an understatement!" said Yusuke, glad that the stillness in the room had now evaporated as he felt the girl relax and say,

"It's alright."

"Botan I think Hiei needs an explanation of what's going on here, after all he's going to be the one to train her most of the time." said Kurama.

Rei's eyes widened.

Hiei now glared at Kurama.

"Her life is in danger and while she could do harm to many, she can only do it while they sleep." stated the kitsune.

"She's not a demon and I don't sense any high spiritual qualities about her." said Hiei not even turning to look at the girl.

"That's because her spiritual awareness has just recently started to develop." said Yusuke (a/n: Yusuke sounding smart?)

"That's were you come in Hiei!" exclaimed Botan "Rei needs to be able to attack her opponent when it's needed not only when they sleep."

"Hiei you'll be showing her how to bring out her spirit energy and between the two of us we'll teach her to control it." said Kurama.

"Hey Kurama," upon getting the kitsune to look at him, "you seem to be well informed, where do I come in?" asked Yusuke.

Kurama didn't know what Yusuke's job was going to be so he turned to Botan and raised a delicately shaped eyebrow.

Botan smiled and said, "Well Yusuke Koenma said that you were to teach her some basic techniques like how to defend herself from humans the demons might use to get to her."

The door to the room was opened and Koenma stepped in.

"When I said for you guys to get some rest I meant sleep." he almost shouted

"Oops! Sorry Koenma sir. I guess it is pretty late." Said Botan in her all to cheery voice.

"Yes well. And could someone explain to me what Kuwaabara is doing out in the hallway?"

"Well I guess it's time to turn in!" exclaimed Botan.

Everyone took this as their chance to leave. Rei was the last one to walk towards the door. Koenma stopped her before she left, he gave her a questioning look and she new what he wanted to hear but she just said, "Not much to go back for."

"She's small." Said Hiei to Kurama. They were inside Hiei's bedroom, Kurama had come by after making sure that Rei was safely in her room.

"Hiei, don't tell me you're going to judge her because of her height? If memory serves me right I believe you weren't much taller yourself a while ago." said Kurama with a smile of his face.

The red haired kitsune was sitting on a black cushioned chair.

"It's not that it's just she…" Hiei trailed off not even sure how to explain why the woman annoyed him.

Kurama looked at his clearly annoyed friend and noticed his flustered face.

"Could it possibly be that you are falling for her?" asked Kurama.

"Love is an emotion that I have no use for." Hiei sated coldly.

"Yet you love Yukina."

"You know that is different."

"In a way yes," said Kurama before stepping out of Hiei's room, "yet it's still love."

Try as he might Hiei could just not fall asleep. He tossed and turned and finally growled in frustration, "This is so stupid!"

He stepped onto the balcony his room shared with Rei's (a/n: yeah it's been conveniently located there.)

He walked closer to her room and decided to step inside. After all she had gone into his room so he had every right. Right?

Hiei pulled one of the window drapes open and was surprised to see that the room was identical to his. He turned his head to the dormant girl, she was tossing in her sleep.

He walked closer to her, wondering what was causing he unease (a/n: uhu..Riiight.) He stretched out a hand to touch her shoulder then stopped as a feeling of utter loneliness overcame him. Coldness and emptiness, this wasn't what he was feeling. Hiei knew that for a fact.

'It must be what she is feeling.' He thought.

He closed his eyes and found himself in a field full of flowers, but his gaze settled on a black rose. He knew of their existence, the roses were black because the owner had not found that which their heart looked for. He at one point had own one, given to him by a sage who had told him that once he found what he was searching for the rose would turn back to it's original form. It had and Hiei had given that white rose to Yukina on their birthday (of course this was done without her knowing from whom came the rose)

He opened his eyes to find that he lay in Rei's bed with the now calm woman in his arms. He didn't remember getting into her bed, much less pulling her up against himself. He slowly pulled away, making sure not to wake her up. He did not want her to make a scene.

Hiei walked back to his room where his cold bed awaited him.

So what did you think? I personally think it's one of my best chapters.

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