Okay… this story is becoming really hard because I don't have any ideas! I don't believe in 'giving away' a story for numerous reasons just as I don't believe in deleting a story so I HAVE to continue this. I ask you guys for idea's now or else this story might not become of it's full potential!

Chapter 24: Coming to the losing hope

"So, where are you going again?" Shiori asked as she watched her sun packing up a backpack. "The Makai, I need to get Hiei." He said getting some seeds and putting a few in his pockets and the rest in small pockets of the backpack.

"How long will you be gone?"

"I don't know." He said.

Kurama's P.O.V

I truthfully don't know how long it will take me to find Hiei, It had already been three days since Koenma told us about the 'mission', I planned before now to go get Hiei; but trouble here has held me back.

Realization had slowly started to hit me while not holding anything to mercy, how was I ever going to find the Koorime island in the first place?

Hiei had to have his Jagan implanted just to find it so how was I going to? I have no idea; I'll deal with it when I get there.

"Can you give me an idea at least?" She asked, the question meant to press into me. "I don't know." I repeated as I zipped the bag closed and slung it on my backpack.

It would be easier to leave her with a 'I don't know' rather then try to explain to her to actual situation and how hard it would be… oh well maybe I'll explain it to her when we get back.

Yeah that's the spirit be optimistic, WE will come back together I will find Hiei and we will come back together or not at all.

"I'll be back." I said simply. There really wasn't much more to say, I could not give her a time and my mind wasn't focused on saying things well as long as they were said and understood.

I went out of the house and down the road towards the forest where I had called up a portal into the Makai; I took a deep breath and went threw it so starting my search.

-With Hiei-

Three days, it had been three days since I had unwillingly been brought here. My wrists hurt from trying so hard to pull free of my restraints, my stomach pained me for food I was basically being denied of, the only thing they have given to me is a small portion of bread once a day.

The ice all around me chilled my body to the bone. Everyday seemed to get longer and longer even though it had been so few of days.

As the hours wore on and on my ability to sleep receded… maybe that's why it felt like so much longer then it was.

My mind started to think about things that I really shouldn't… what if what the elder said was true… what if Kurama really did hire them to kill me like this?

I could not settle on just one answer.

I don't know what to choose, I don't want to honestly. Optimism has never been a strong point in the way I am and I know it well… but now I guess I need to use it as much as possible, even though I feel so forsaken.

Three days… it's only been three days.

Normal P.O.V

Hiei let out his breath and pulled again at the shackles. A small pain where the bruises on his wrists made contact with the ice cold metal rushed up and down his arms.

His body was numb to the pain, it was simply nonexistent, and after a minute of pulling he went slack again with another exhaled breath.

"If you keep working yourself by doing that you're going to freeze your lungs." Came a soft voice to his ears. His crimson eyes opened and looked up to see a young Koorime girl standing before him; how he had not sensed her he didn't know.

She looked like all the other Koorime's with the pale skin, mint colored hair, blue eyes and the blue kimono they wore.

"What do you care?" He snapped at her. She didn't respond by simply kneeled down in front of him. In her arms hidden by the cloth of her kimono were food, an Apple and half loaf of bread.

"This is all I could get without looking suspicious, but I guess it's better then what they are giving you ne?" She said placing the food on the ground and then moving up to the shackles that held his arms in place.

"What are you doing?" He asked watching her with a blank stare. "You can't eat properly when you're like that, or would you rather stay like that?"

"Hn." She smiled taking a key out of know where and unlocking on of the restraints. His arm fell to the ice before feeling went up it again and he was able to see what three days of shackled torture had done to him.

Bruises scattered his wrists in a rough outline of where the restraints had been before. His eyes snapped back up to her, "why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" She asked.

"Helping me." He took and apple and examined it.

"I don't believe you're as bad as everyone says." He looked confused biting into the apple and looking at her. "And if I were?"

"Then it would be my own fault for underestimating what everyone says."

"Hn, then why don't you let me go then?"

"Because they would track it back to me and I would be severally punished for it." He was silent for a moment deciding if this girl was fit to truly trust or not, finally he decided she was for unknown reasons.

"Why did they really bring me here?"

"The story is that your kitsune did get them to kill you but details weren't told to me, but I think it also has something to do with the other non-pure birth waiting to happen."

"Non-pure?"

"Hai, a birth such as in your case, a Koorime sneaking away and having a male mate such as Hina did." He listened intently to her words as he ate. "She's supposed to produce a girl child of most likely shadow demon abilities."

"The elders have been planning to kill the child when she is born so I think they are going to kill you along with the child to truly get rid of the ones with origins such as yours."

Hiei couldn't decide exactly what to say to this, his fate now rested on his fox or this girl helping him to escape before a child like him was born. "What's your name?" He asked then wondering why he had even asked at all.

"I'm Arya." She said sweetly with a smile. "You've asked a lot of questions can I ask you some now?" She sat herself fully down in front of him.

"Hai." He said then wondered to himself why he was being so open with this girl surly she meant nothing much to him, so why? He couldn't figure it out, his emotions had gotten the better of him, how he disliked his emotions.

"Do you love Kurama?"

"That's a stupid question." He said, "there is no such thing as a stupid question, sometimes you think you know the answer instantly, but then when you have to truly think about it… your whole perspective changes, I was wondering if the same went for you."

"Of course I love him." He said and she smiled, "does he love you?"

"Hai." She didn't say anything towards that.

"Do you think he is really the reason why you're here?"

"No."

She hesitated a moment with the next question, "how are you going to get out of this? Surly you are not going to let the elders kill you without some sort of fight ne?"

"I don't know." She looked pallid at him for a moment then a smile crossed her face masking the way she had just looked moments before. "Well I agree with you, I don't think Kurama would have done that to you so easily."

"How would you know?" He snapped at her, she seemed unaffected by this, "everyone knows about you to being in love and basically everything that has been going on with you, the elders show us the images they get from you."

"Images?"

"Hai, they had spy's to get video's of you and your love, I guess so they could find the easiest way to bring you down."

The whole situation confused him, on one end Kurama did abandon him to this icy hell and on the other the Koorime elders brought him here to kill him… both seemed logical in their own way but which one was the truth?

"Hn." He said simply.

Arya stayed and talked with Hiei for a few more minutes before proclaiming she had to go before anyone noticed she was gone, she locked his arm back up but promised she would be back the following day.

Hiei's P.O.V

And she left, as if she had never even been there the wind whipped by covering the tracks she had made in the snow, the evidence that she had even been there.

Maybe not all Koorime's were as cold-hearted elders are.

My mind trekked back to what she had told me before, how they were going to kill that child when it was born, as they had done to me years ago. Should I care? Should I even risk the attempt to save the child's life, what purpose would it hold only to cost me the risk of being caught again?

But still… should that child die for crimes it never committed? Is there really a difference from its situation from the one that I was in?

No, no I don't think so, it's the same and I am left with the choice of whether it has the chance to live or die, why do I always have to make these kind of decisions?

I sighed letting my head fall back against the ice wall I was bound to once again and desperately tried to regain the sleep I hadn't gotten in days.

Three days.

A/N: Well that turned out better then I thought! I have an idea for what is going to come up in later chapters but I still need some for more recent chapters! If anyone's got any please feel free to send them!

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