Hey everyone sorry it is taking a while to update my stories I don't have any ideas so I'm writing off a blank and I am SERIOUSLY thinking my writing is bad now although all of you seem to think differently.

Well anyways I'm still glad you support my writing and all my stories!

Chapter 4: School thoughts.

"Well I have to go to school." Ash said grabbing her backpack and turning back to the kitsune who sat at the table still, "you coming Kurama?" She asked a questioning look setting across her face.

Kurama's emerald eyes locked onto her, "no not today I'm claiming sick." Ash looked back at his face that folded into a smile. "You want me to pick up the work for you or anything?" She asked the look deepening on her.

"No that's okay but thank you for caring." He said as Ash started to turn towards the front door returning his smile. "Your welcome hey if u see Hiei can you tell him to come get me after school?" She asked taking hold of the doorknob.

"Of coarse." Without saying anything more Ash went out the front door and into the cold winter air. Breathing in the cool scent of the nearby trees she started her way to the awaiting school.

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Hiei walked into the room about an hour later finding Kurama sitting in the living room with Ginsei curled up beside him. It seemed odd to the fire demon that the kitsune was home on a school day but he would question him later.

"You didn't kill anyone did you?" He asked continuing to read a rather large leather book all written in demonic text. (Sound familiar in some way? Chapter 1 of Changing Decisions!)

"Where is Ash?" He asked sitting next to him and looking at the book's pages as Kurama flipped threw them. "She went to school."

"Why aren't you there?"

"I had research here to do but she says to come and get her after school I don't know why though." Kurama explained stopping on a page as he sat back and read the text and pet Ginsei with one hand.

"How much longer?"

Kurama looked at the clock for a moment before back down at the book, "about an hour or so." He answered.

"What are you researching?"

"Ryu."

"Why?"

"I have a feeling he has a new second in command." Kurama said which didn't really help Hiei on his part. "Explain." He ordered his friend.

"Well when he took Ash Kianna was his second, the demon he used the most. Now that she is with us he has to have someone else so I was trying to find anything to help depict what type of demon he could have chosen."

"Hn how did you figure this out?" Hiei asked confused as to how anyone could have figured this out without anyone telling him. "Observations." That really didn't seem like the true answer.

"And Kianna told me." Hiei rolled his eyes. "I'm going to get Ash." He stated standing up and moving to the door, "okay I'll tell you if I find anything." Kurama said as the fire demon opened the door.

"Hn."

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Ash's P.O.V

(Don't see this very often ne?)

I sat in my last class thankful for once my math teacher Mrs. Toruko had put me near the window. I had already finished my daily assignments so I sat now just starring out the window feeling very boxed in.

Thoughts were constantly running threw my head with no sign of an end. I had asked Kurama to have Hiei come for one main reason… okay two.

First I just plain liked being around him knowing someone as vicious as Ryu is on the loose makes me very uneasy and I guess I just want to be around my koi and try and drown out all the memories of when I caused his death.

I shuddered a bit at the memory of when I had been forced without regret to kill Hiei.

Flashback:

She stopped in another stance and gained more energy. She felt herself changing once more but this time it was faster and more powerful till finally everything came to a sudden stop and she looked upon her target; Hiei.

'Bang.' Ryu's voice said and suddenly a force of a funnel of fire hurled out of Ash towards Hiei.

The force of the fire was enough to send Ash herself back a ways and even then she could feel herself using some new psychic ability to hold Hiei in place.

All options were gone the raging fire hurled toward him and he was frozen in place.

There was no escape for him, he would be consumed and burned to death by this fire. The fire his lover had made. The very flame he had helped to bring out of her.

End Flashback

Finally I sighed and let my breath out slowly against the cold windowpane as I looked at a bare tree that sat in the front of the school.

To me it seemed like my life was just… odd like nothing would ever be normal for me ever again. I have someone who I love and he loves me back but would we ever be completely fine and normal?

I would give anything for that to happen… if only for a moment.

The end of the day bell finally rang making me jump in surprise a moment. I stood with my bag and entered into the crowded halls. How much I hated being in these halls small spaces with a lot of people always made me uneasy.

The voices of everyone speaking to one another that I had learned to ignore suddenly started getting to me hurting my ears. I winced and stopped suddenly as my head started to pound

'What's going on?' I thought to myself trying to regain control over myself.

'Dang Mr. Brown gave a lot of homework.' Came one voice as my eyes snapped open and I looked around the hall. Everyone was bustling from one place to another talking to a variety of people.

'I wonder what Mom is making for dinner tonight.' Came another voice. My head suddenly started to pound more as I realized I was hearing thoughts of people.

It didn't make sense though I hadn't been able to hear thoughts since… Ryu captured me. My eyes grew wider for a moment with realization that he had tracked me down and now had a firm hold over me.

More pain from so many thoughts flooded my head and I grabbed onto my forehead falling to my knees before I could catch myself.

People turned towards me I knew it and were saying things but now I couldn't hear them at all. Someone knelt in front of me and asked me something but I was unable to understand.

'Oh my god what happened to her?' No there is to many thoughts for this one place. I let out a loud but short cry and collapsed right there.

I was still conscious but barely some people ran threw the crowd for some reason while someone else lifted me up by my shoulders. I hated myself right then for not being able to withhold my pain long enough to at least get out.

More thoughts entered my head and I felt my breathing become ragged it was obvious Ryu was doing this to me on purpose and intended on doing it till I collapsed.

Unfortunately for him I wouldn't give up that easily.

Hiei's P.O.V

I felt Ash's energy surge up fast then decrease to almost nothing I quickly increased my speed desperate to get there.

I stopped at the perimeter of the school seeing a large crowd of people looking in threw the open doors at something but I was unable to see what.

Maybe Ash is in the crowd I told myself as I stepped back and waited for anything to say that she wasn't.

'Hiei!'

'What Kurama?' I answered the fox keeping my gaze transfixed upon the students the whole time.

'Kianna's been taken!' He said obviously frantic about it I didn't really care myself.

'so?'

'Hiei!'

'Well why did you let her get taken?' I asked a small smirk playing across my face. 'I didn't she just started disappearing until nothing are you with Ash?' He questioned

'No I'm at her school waiting for her.'

'Well find her Ryu will be targeting her next.' Kurama warned cutting the link after words. Well what did he want me to do? There was a lot of people out here and I would never be able to find her.

Ash's P.O.V

The school nurse ran up to me and checked my pulse and my heartbeat, which must have surprised her to hear it beating faster then a normal human.

I needed to get out of here now but had no energy to make the slightest move my eyes were the only things I could make move and even then my sight was blurred.

Suddenly I felt someone picking me up and bringing me to the nurses office I supposed.

Normal P.O.V

"Jake do you know her family's phone number?" The nurse asked after a shaking Ash had been set on the small bed. "No her family died." The boy Jake replied.

"Guardians?"

"Not that anyone knows of."

"Whom does she live with?" The nurse asked looking oddly at the green eyed boy. "No on knows." The nurse breathed out and started towards the door.

"Alright well come with me we'll go get her records and find someone." She said as the two exited the room leaving Ash in the freezing room.

Ash's P.O.V

'H-Hiei.' I finally got myself to call out weakly to him slightly being able to sense him in the area. 'Ash where are you?' He asked as another wave of pain went threw me making me shriek a bit.

'Third floor second window from the-.' I cried out again from a large amount of pain, 'flag pole.' I finished; thankfully he didn't say anything in return.

A moment later I saw his black form at the window going threw an open one immediately right beside me. He asked me something but I was unable to understand what it was let alone answer him.

He looked around once more and picked me up bridal style and going out the window. I felt myself continue to shake from something most likely cold but maybe something else.

Hiei's P.O.V

I pulled her closer to me feeling her shaking body the whole time wondering what happened to her; I refused to believe that Ryu had gotten a hold of her now.

I pushed myself faster to get back to the temple knowing she needed to get help for whatever was happening to her.

Ash's P.O.V

I felt the pain slowly melt away from me as we moved farther from the school I still felt very weak but at least I knew the pain was gone for now. "Hiei." I said quietly forcing myself to speak.

He looked down at me for a moment to signal he was listening then back to directing where he was going, "I'm sorry." I said in a very quiet voice as I felt my energy leaving me.

I would give anything to have a normal day with my koi… if only for a moment. Was my last thought before blackness consumed me and I felt myself being taken from Hiei's arms.

"Don't worry sweet Ash you will have a moment like that soon enough but first you must succumb to my power." Said a rather happy Ryu watching Hiei take Ash back to the temple.

"You did excellent Shinku I'm proud." He said as the screen turned black and he turned to the little ice demon who stood gray eyes starring out at nothing. (I never said what her eye color was so now I'm saying it's a light gray.)

The Kuroi Bara that she held with both hands shined a violet purple color for a moment before going back to it's normal black and her left hand dropped from it. "How did it work for you?" He asked her.

"Easy." A smile appeared on her master's face, "good did you get Kianna back here?" He questioned her. "Hai master Ryu." She said as the psychic turned and started down a path Shinku following close behind him.

"Well then let's go pay our new prisoner a visit." He said thoughts of what to do and what to say playing over and over in his mind.

The two walked silently down many staircases and threw a old wood door with the word 'Prison' engraved on it. Shinku knew this place well it was where her master kept his prisoners and tortured them or even killed many if not most.

He had even moved his surgeon from above down into the prison so he could perform his attachments on them there instead of someplace else. (Remember Ash had that device put on her neck that controlled her? That's what it is.)

"Hello Kianna." Ryu said walking up to the bars as Shinku stopped behind him. The blue haired water demon looked up at her previous master in pure fright afraid for her life.

"It's been to long my dear." He said to her a evil smirk playing across his face as she pushed back onto a wall. "Well as you could have guessed you are no longer my second in command she is now." Ryu explained as Shinku took the que and stepped into view.

"Shinku." Kianna said in almost a whisper, "well since you two know each other no need for introductions let's get straight to the point shall we?" Ryu asked looking from the ice demon to the water demon.

"Are you going to kill me master?" She asked her eyes filling with fright, as his evil smirk only grew larger. "Well I am glad that you still address me as your master."

"Of coarse I never did leave out of my own free will they took me." Kianna explained deciding that if she played on her old master's side then she might actually live longer.

"True I suppose you can be of some… other use."

"May I ask what kind?" She asked a questioning look appearing on her face. "Shinku run down to Shen and tell him to get ready to do another operation." Shinku nodded and went out of the room.

"You will be getting a new operation we just made." Ryu explained

"What kind of operation?"

"A new one we just made a little while ago."

"Will I survive it?"

"Well we'll find out then won't we?" He said walking out of the room as two guards came in to take Kianna while Shinku waited in the hallway.

"I want you to stay outside the Surgery room while Shen does the operation on Kianna. After words take her to me we will have to test and find out if it works."

"Understood." The small and fragile girl said bowing to her master as the guards walked out with Kianna in hand.

A/N: NEXT TIME: you will find out what happens to Kianna and Ash, how everyone reacts to it and basically you get to see Kianna put threw A LOT of pain.