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Chapter Two

(Hiei)

Watching the girl sleep I wondered why she wanted revenge on Taro, he was known to be extremely ruthless with little room for mistakes, his trained assassins were the best. The underground system he ran had strict rules and was efficiently run by only the people he trusted completely, most of them were either family or criminals or both. His wife Midori came from a prominent demon family, she was the middle child of way too many, she was also the protector of the Nakari forest a sacred place to most demons and apparitions.

"Mmm," she sighed in her sleep rolling onto her back drawing my attention back to her. Critically I assessed her, she was shorter than me but taller than Genkai, maybe around four foot eight. A few locks of her white hair fell over her closed eyes which I remembered to be a pale ice blue like that Ice Master, Touya. Abruptly she curled up into a ball and with her left hand began searching the bed patting the empty space around her before sitting up and squinting at the covers.

"Oh," she muttered. "I never put the blankets on." Rubbing sleep from her eyes with the heels of her hands she grimaced and then massaged her neck. "How long have you been here?" She asked the question without looking at me or even acknowledging my presence.

"Does it matter?" I answered her question with a question.

"Nope, I was just wondering, how long have you been watching me sleep?" She swung her legs over the edge of the bed blinking her eyes a lot her face scrunched up in pain.

"Awhile," I said wanting her to make feel uncomfortable.

"Then can you answer my question?" She queried sighing and stretching causing her bones to crack, I shrugged noncommittally, it depended on the question. "Do I snore in my sleep?" Deeming that question stupid I gave her an annoyed look still watching her massage her eyes with her fingertips.

"I'll take that as a no," she stood up. "They should have put anti social on your record as well."

"You've read my record?" I demanded, her earlobe length hair was all over the place, her blue eyes were shadowed with sleep and her clothes were wrinkled and rumpled. Yawning she stretched her right arm up over her head while with her left she massaged her head.

"Yup, it's not that hard to obtain files, most people have files are on computers so it's easy to hack onto them." She mumbled squinting around the room, "I can't believe I slept in my contacts." She stumbled into the tiny bathroom picking up a pair of glasses that were lying on the bedside table. Entering the bathroom she closed the door and about ten minutes later the door opened and she came out her hair under control with her clothes no longer wrinkled. All signs of sleep gone from her face and her eyes were no longer a light pale blue, her left was a metallic kind of copper color while the other was violet with green fleck in it. Growling to herself she went over to the bedside table bending down close to it squinting and sweeping her hand over the surface.

"Where are my glasses?" She was talking more to herself than to me so I kept quiet about the par of glasses she had perched up on top of her head. When she was searching the room for the third time I finally decided to help her out because she was starting to panic.

"Try your head," I snickered watching her quickly reach up and find her glasses with her fingers.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!?" She growled and I replied by shrugging my shoulders, "Come on, let's go, that is if you're coming." She hoisted the small backpack over one shoulder looking at me pointedly.

"What's your name?" I demanded.

"Reiko," she then opened the door and stepped outside.

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"Here we are!" Reiko called and I looked up at the decrepit old building that stood in front of us. Walking up to the door she opened her backpack and pulled out a small fist sized rock that was glowing softly before roughly shoving the door opened. As she walked through the dark rooms with the rock lighting them up I could make out sheet covered shapes and lots of dust. When you walked it muffled the sound of your feet hitting the floor and made little clouds as well. Coming upon a closed door Reiko took out a little silver key and unlocked the door nudging the door open with her hip and yanking the key out at the same time. Crossing the threshold into the room I instantly knew there was something different about it just by the way the air felt.

"This is it, one of the secret portals to The Makai set up by Taro and only used by those who he wants to pass through." She spoke softly as if he was in the very same room as us and she didn't want him hearing.

"And you're one of them?" I asked sarcastically.

"No, but the two guys I killed the other day were." She placed the rock on the floor and slipped the key into her pocket pulling out two plastic rectangles that were violet and green. Crossing the room she pushed her glasses up onto the top of her head wetting her lips with her tongue as she examined the wall. Breathing in deeply she reached out and touched four of the knots in the wall in a certain order before quickly stepping back.

A small portion of the wall sank back into itself then separated half going one way into the wall the other going into the opposite. In the middle of the newly made alcove was a mechanical device with a small screen and some buttons along with a slot where I assumed the card went. Looking over at Reiko I observed her clamp the two cards in between her lips and crack her knuckles as if preparing for a fight. I stepped to the side so as watch and know how the thing worked for future reference. She pushed the green button and the screen lit up with a command in five different languages of The Makai telling the person operating to insert the card into the slot. Taking the card out of her mouth Reiko slid it into the slot and almost instantly a new command popped up telling her to please input the cardholder's code.

"Oh, where did I put that sucker's password?" She shoved her hands back into her pockets and a moment later surfaced with a small piece of paper with some stuff scribbled on it. Nodding slowly to herself she punched in the password careful to check each number and letter she inputted into the system. Password correct flashed up on the screen and then the card popped out of the slot for Reiko to grab which she did and then handed it to me as the contraption went upward revealing the portal to The Makai.

"Where would you like to go?" A mechanical voice asked politely.

"To Avasercha," Reiko answered stepping back and motioning me forward to the portal which I did standing directly in front of it.

"Please enter the portal, it is ready." The voice told me and so I did so walking straight into it without looking back, it was like falling off a very high cliff with no way to know what was at the bottom. Blackness surrounded me, utter nothingness, then suddenly there was a small dot of light that got bigger and bigger until I could fit through it into Avasecha. Now I was really falling so I quickly switched positions from head first to feet first for I knew from experience it hurt more when the head went first. Lightly I landed on the ground using my right hand to steady myself.

Standing up I began to take in my surroundings, I was in a rather thick forest with no demon, human or apparitions near by. Since there was no immediate danger I pulled off my ward, closed my eyes and concentrated on Reiko using my Jagan to find her in the Nigenkai and watch her. She was standing back in front of the wall, which I guess had closed up after my departure with a look of bone deep weariness on her face as she closed her eyes for a minute. After opening them she swiftly repeated the procedure that would bring her to this place as well.

Knowing she would be here soon I tied my headband back on and hopped up into a nearby tree to wait for her arrival in semi-comfort. A few minutes later I felt a disturbance, which could only mean she was coming so I stood up and looked up to see the portal open in the sky. Through it came Reiko hurtling toward the ground at a fast speed but she seemed to not be aware of the fact that if she didn't slow down she would be severely hurt. At the very last possible second she was encased in her Spirit energy, which was silvery colored and halted about two feet off the ground then gently floated the rest of the way down.

"Reiko?" I called jumping down out of the tree and walked over to her suspicious of the lack of life she was showing. Kneeling down next to her I leaned over her to see if she was breathing, which was but was obviously unconscious for some reason. "Reiko," I grasped her shoulders and gave her a good shake. "Reiko," I sat back on my heels and contemplated what to do.

Suddenly she came to violently jackknifing into a sitting position then flung herself onto her hands and knees and began to convulse hard as if she was trying to bring something up. It wasn't long before she vomited bringing up the contents of her stomach with one big heave and then hung her head breathing heavily from the ordeal. With a low moan she hauled herself up to her feet and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and spit out what was left in her mouth. Gingerly she placed her hand on her lower back wincing as if in pain.

"What was that all about?" I demanded.

"You wouldn't understand." She croaked and then cleared her throat spitting out more of the left over.

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