This chapter reminds me of...me.Lost and confused in a dark,dark world with no

mercy...

Chapter 8 Mixed Emotions

Rini's POV

"I just sat there with me head in my arms,crying.The window was open for quite a while.

The cold night breeze came flowed in and stung my eyes.I looked up and started talking

to no one. (I'm so confused...Hiei just left like he didn't care...maybe he really didn't...but I'm

crying like there was something more between us..." Rini wiped her tears,got up,and walked

over to her window. "Hiei...what is this feeling only you bring out from me?Could there really be

something more between us than me being your personal nurse?" Rini looked up to the sky.In a

split second,a shooting star went by.Rini closed her eyes,lowered her head,and thought to herself.

"(Mother...I'm so confused...I feel like Hiei and I met for another purpose...but what?Mother in heaven

is Hiei...a guardian angel sent by you to protect me or something?Please mother I need a sign!

Anything!I just don't wanna be alone anymore...)"

Hiei's POV

"I ran like I never ran before,through the pitch black forest.I came to an immediate halt.I stared at the

portal between the human world and the demon world before me.I didn't look back.I sat down and regained my composure.Then I began to think. (I don't understand,why do I feel so...strange?I...I really didn't want to leave her like that...then why did I?She made me feel something I never felt before...a sort of...comforting

feeling.No one ever brought out such a feeling from me before.She's so good to me and she's so kind and gentle.She took care of me without even thinking of her own safety.So what is this feeling I have?Could

it be...love?No!It can't be!I have never and will never fall victim to such weak emotions as love!

...if it's not love then what is it?God I'm so confused...)I held my head in minor pain.I stood up and faced

the direction I came from.(I have to figure out what's wrong with me,and Rini's the only one who can tell

me.)I suddenly had a sense that something was missing.I looked down to find that my mother's tear gem was missing!I sped off to Rini's house as fast as I could.I had to get my mother's tear gem back,and find an answer."

Rini's POV

"I turned away from the window and walked to the door.I felt something under my foot.I bent down

to see what I had stepped on.It was a sort of gem.I picked it up,and suddenly,an image appeared

in the gem.It was Hiei!I don't know why,but I then fell into a state of unconciousness.When I woke

up,I was in a world of snow and ice. "Ice world...?...the ice realm of the demon world!" I ran aimlessly

to keep from freezing.

Then I came across a village.All of it's inhabitants were gathered at the edge

of the realm.A woman was screaming.She was begging them,begging them not to do something.

"Please don't!Don't hurt my child!" The woman screamed,but the village elders payed to attention.I ran

up to a woman who was holding an infant in her arms.I yelled out to her,but she didn't seem to hear me.

I ran up to her and tried to grab the child.But when I did,I went through her,as if I was a ghost.I then

realized what was happening,what I was seeing was a memory of some sort."

"When I got closer to see the infants face,I realized that the infant was Hiei! "This must be what Hiei meant when he said he was banned from the ice realm.Hiei is part Koorime.Oh Hiei,if only I had known what you've been through..." But before she had time to say anything else,she woke up,back in her bedroom.

"Hiei...?" She look at her hand,it had something clasped in it.She opened her hand to find the same gem

she had just seen. "...but what does it all mean?" I felt a presence behind me.But before I could

turn around,I was hit in the back of the head,very hard.I dropped out cold and the floor and the gem

fell out of my grasp as I was carried away by an unknown shadow.

I was listening to a Tenchi Muyo midi while typing this up,and I've come to the conclusion that I
need help.Don't ask,because I will not explain.