The next morning he woke up before her. After he made sure she was asleep, Hiei carefully turned her over. He wanted to know what was under those bandages. He winced as he sat up. That bastard had gotten him good. If she'd fought him off after that, did she really need a guard?

He pulled the bandages away from her arm slowly and cautiously. He revealed nothing. Why did she have them on, then?

She stirred a bit and he quickly wrapped it up again and lay back down. He grunted. If it still hurt like this it must've been pretty bad. He began to slowly, carefully pull the bandage up to look at the extent of the damage.

He had a fist in the side of his face within seconds. "Don't mess with that!" Unmei said.

He looked at her a curiously. "You just punched me."

"You were being an idiot." She stretched and looked at her arm. "Did you mess with my arm?"

"No," he replied. "You were tossing around in your sleep."

She sighed, got up, and grabbed some more clothes. "Stay in here, and don't mess with that," she said, pointing to his bandages. She walked into the bathroom to shower.

…:Flashback:…

She stood near a river close to a large waterfall. Her clothes, what remained of them, were ripped, torn, and far from clean. She looked behind her, tears in her eyes, at Heiki, his friend Yasushi, and a few of their other friends. Chinmoku was unconscious, hanging over Yasushi's shoulder. He was the leader of this rebellion.

"Get in the river, babe," Heiki said, smirking.

"You bastard!" she yelled back.

"Get in or I'll kill the rest of your family, like I did your mother," Yasushi said.

"And my brother…" she said quietly. Yasushi grinned at this.

"Your brother's still alive, but I'll find him and kill him if you want." He laughed when her eyes grew wider.

"Go on, babe, little princess," Heiki laughed.

Memories flooded her mind. How they'd kidnapped not only her, but Chinmoku, and what they'd done to her. She didn't know what'd happened to Chinmoku, they'd had her in another room. She only assumed something similar to what happened to her had happened to her friend as well.

She looked over the edge of the large waterfall, some of her ripped and matted hair falling over her shoulders. She slowly wadded into the river until it was up to her hips.

"Swim to the middle," Yasushi ordered.

She swam towards the center of the river and was swept away by the current. Yes, she could've stopped herself, but what was the point, they'd kill her if she didn't go over. She tried to swim as it pulled her. The current swept her over the fall. They heard her land and looked over the cliff. She floated, face down, she'd passed out on impact, but the others thought she'd died and left.

…:End Flashback:…

She was sitting down in the shower, the water pouring over her. She tried to stop crying but the tears wouldn't stop. She'd held this in too long. She'd been in there too long.

Hiei was getting curious as to what was taking her so long. He slowly climbed up out of the bed and walked over to the door. When he knocked she didn't answer, he stood there for a few minutes. "Stupid girl. If she got hurt trying to bathe…" He walked in. The shower was still running. She let out another sob. He looked curiously at the shower curtain and pulled it back. She was curled in a ball, crying, on the shower floor. He sighed, averting his eyes from her, and turned off the water. "Unmei," he said, voice still low and monotone, but a little less cold, offering her a towel. She took the towel but didn't look at him.

"You should get back in bed," she said quietly.

"Probably," he said. "You should get dressed. Stop crying." He left her alone.

She pulled herself up and started drying off, wiping the tears from her face. Carefully she pulled on her clothes, and brushed her hair. She walked back out into the bedroom, like nothing had happened. She looked like nothing had happened.

He looked at her; she was holding a little box, a bottle, and some bandages. The bandages on her arm were gone. "What are you doing?" She sat down on the bed next to him and opened the little box.

"I'm helping you," she said and she untied the bandages. "Turn around."

He reluctantly turned his back to her after he sat up. She removed the bandages from his back and looked at the wound. "It's healing quickly," she said, wiping peroxide soaked gauze over it.

"I'm a demon."

She cleaned it and started to bandage it again. Her arm was around his front, passing the dressing from one hand to the other when he grabbed her wrist. "What are you doing?"

Hiei looked at her arm. "The bandage is gone."

"I didn't need it anymore."

"Why did you need it in the first place?" he asked, still looking at her arm.

"None of your business." She finished dressing the wound and tied the end off tightly. "You should go eat something."

"Why did you need the bandage?"

"My arm was hurt. Go get some breakfast… or something."

He gave her a look then left the room. When he came back a few minutes later, with food for them both, she was gone. "Damn it."