Okay, I hope you like this chapter...It took me awhile to thing of how to sort everything out, but I finally got it and typed it down!

Chapter 3:Help from a small fire demon.

Hiei tightly gripped the piece of paper in his hand. He stopped on a nearby branch and looked at the piece of paper. He almost had to beg the fox to let him run this little errand, he tried to make any excuse as possible.

Flashback

"Alright Hiei, i'll be back in awhile. I need to go run this little errand." Kurama said, as he slipped his jacket on.

"What's in the bag fox?" Hiei questioned as he stepped down from the windowsill.

"Oh, this? It's just Naoko's sketch pad. Remeber she forgot it." Kurama replied.

Hiei's eyes widened but returned to it's normal almond shape in no time.

"Why don't you let me do it?" Hiei said, walking over to the fox.

"Huh?" Kurama looked at Hiei.

"You still have to do all that ningen paper." Hiei said, by that he meant homework.

"Don't worry, I don't have much homework tonight." Kurama said, slipping his shoes on.

"Besides I was going out anyways." Hiei quickly said, missing what Kurama just told him.

Kurama smirked. "Alright. You can take it."

Hiei took the bag from him and a little piece of paper with Naoko's address on it.Hiei quickly jumped out the window.

"Be back soon!" Kurama yelled out of the window.

End of flashback

He was certain her house was close. Her jumped down on to the solid ground, then began to walk down the sidewalk.

"BITCH!" He heard someone yell from a nearby house.

He looked at the address on the little piece of paper then at the house he heard people yelling from.

'It's her house.' Hiei said, before he began to walk up to it.

He stopped imidietally.

CRASH!

He heard the loud crash of a shattering window, on the side of the house. He quickly ran to where the window was to see a small fragile figure falling out of it. He quickly caught the small figure in his hands and ran up into a tree.

He looked at the figure's face and noticed it was Naoko's. She had tons of cuts from the glass, and was laying in his arms unconscious. He gripped tight onto the bag, the piece of paper and her.

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Hiei jumped right onto a branch hanging outside of Kurama's window.

'Fox, open your window.' Hiei said telepathically.

'Hiei?' Kurama asked.

'Yes, Open your damn window.' hiei replied.

With that Kurama walked into his bedroom and quickly opened the window as he saw someone in Hiei's arms.

"Hiei!" Kurama yelled out as he saw the person in his arms.

"Move fox!" Hiei yelled out as he jumped in.

Kurama's eyes widened. "What happened to her?"

Kurama pointed at his bed, so he could lay Naoko in it.

"I don't know. I was going to her house, then I saw her falling out the window, so I caught her." Hiei replied, as he gently set her down.

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Both Kurama and Hiei decided not to take her back to her home. Kurama thought it might be a good idea to let her stay at his home.

"Hiei, I want you to go keep an eye on her. I will call my mother and tell her we're going to have a guest for awhile. Alright?" Kurama said.

"Hn." Hiei replied, before going to Kurama's room.

He slowly walked in careful not to wake her and made his way next to her. She was sleeping peacefully now, he could tell because her breathing was even now. He sighed and went into Kurama's bathroom and got out the first aid kit. He knew were it was from all the times of seeing Kurama go and get it. He returned back to the room, took a cotton ball out, soaked from alchohol in it and began wiping some of her cuts.

"Mm.." Naoko whined as the cotton ball stinged at one of her burns.

Hiei stopped, but then noticed she was still asleep and continued to clean her wounds, gently.

As he finished cleaning all her wounds, on her legs arms, face, everywhere he noticed something. She had many many bruises.

'This aren't accidental bruises. Someone must have beat her...almost to death.' Hiei said, as put away the things and began to make his way towards the door.

"Thanks, Hiei." He heard someone softly say.

He stopped and smirked. Naoko did sound like a small child. He walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.

"Alright. Bye mother." Hiei heard Kurama from the kitchen.

He quickly put the first aid kit in it's place, and made his way over to Kurama.

"She's able to stay." Kurama said, with a smile plastered on his face.

"Kurama. She has several bruises." Hiei said.

Kurama got the hint almost instantly. "Don't tell her you saw them. It might not be good for her to know."

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Naoko woke up as the sun in Kurama's room seeped in. Her light purple eyes shot open, and she cornered herself on the bed.

'Where am I?' she asked herself.

But then she figured anywhere would be better than were she was.

She slowly calmed down and looked around her. She noticed Kurama sleeping softly on a recliner chair, in the corner of his room and Hiei nodding off on the windowsill. She smiled, they both looked adorable sleeping.

She soon began to feel the pain coming from her cuts.

"Ah.." She let out an almost silent whine.

She looked at her hands that had tons and tons of cuts. She was happy they didn't bandage these cuts right away, they needed to air out.

She noticed a bag at the foot of the bed and curiousity got the best of her. She went over to it and opened the bag, revealing a sketch book. She looked around the room and noticed another sketch pad, which belonged to Kurama.

'This one must be mine.' She thought as she carefully stood up off the bed and made her way towards Kurama's desk. She took a pencil out of Kurama's pencil holder and walked back to the bed, where she layed down and began to draw.

Of course you all would love to know what she drew right? Well, it was what she was seeing now. Kurama and Hiei...sleeping. She was infact a really good artist, she drew them exactly alike, but added a few other things. She put a title: KAWAII! Then she added small teddy bears by each of them.

She closed the sketch pad as she noticed them move and silently put it under her pillow, laying down into a fake slumber.

Kurama got up from the chair, as he saw her go back to her slumber. He smiled, he wans't planning on bothering her. He just needed to get to school and check a few things out. He wasn't going to force her to go.

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It was late in the afternoon now.Everyone was gone and Naoko had even finished more drawings. Naoko stood up from the bed and made her way across the room towards Kurama's closet. She had decided since earlier that she would not return to live with her stepdad. SHe didn't really know if her mother was alive, as a matter of fact, her second sketch was what she had seen in the room at night, what her stepdad was doing to her mother. Her third sketch was of what she saw a couple nights ago, her stepfather raping her mother. The fourth one was of her mother's smiling face. The fifth one was of when Kurama gave her ice cream, when she, Hiei and Kurama were sitting eating and enjoying it. She was indeed a good and fast artist.

She was now dressed in some jeans and a shirt, Kurama's clothes of course. It smelled of roses, which delighted her. She needed to get her things, and money. BUt she would return to Kurama's. SHe wasn't going to stay home, she couldn't. She quickly walked out of Kurama's room and out of his house.

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Kurama entered his home, to notice it was empty. There was no Naoko, nor Hiei. He didn't get very upset though. He knew Naoko wasn't going to stay put. What seemed weird was that Hiei wasn't here yet.

He shrugged his shoulders, smirking a bit, and headed to the kitchen to make dinner. His mother was returning home today, very late, and he wanted to have something done for her, and the other two.

Besides he still needed to make the guest room for Naoko, so she can have somewhere to stay. He sure wasn't going to let her stay at her house, nor in the streets. His house was the only solution. Besides she had someone to watch over her for awhile...or maybe for a long long time...

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Naoko quickly grabbed her back pack and school things, covering her face up. She could smell the wretched stench of rottening blood. She didn't bother to take any of her things, which were now all stained with bloody handprints, no doubt her stepfathers. The only reason her school things weren't stained was because she hid them under her bed mattress, otherwise it would be stained too. She couldn't hear any movements from the house, ever since she sneaked in through her window. She was sure her stepfather wasn't home.

She walked out of her room and over the dried blood on the floor, into her parents room. Her mother was nowhere insight.Maybe he took her to the hospital or something? She walked over to her stepdad's drawer and opened it, he stored loads of cash in there. BUt he forbidded anyone to look in there, saying if they did, that he would ripped their hands off. So it was just another place off-limits for Naoko. But now, it was her fortune.

She began to stuff her backpack and pockets with money. She was well packed now, surely over $300 dollars. Even so she kept sticking money in her pockets.

SHe heard the door slam open downstairs and her heart began to race. She closed the drawer, a little too hard, and then heard someone racing up the stairs.

"RAT! IS THAT YOU?" Her stepfather yelled out.

She began to panic, she looked towards the ends of the room. One window. She walked over to it and quickly opened it. She crawled out, and onto the small ledge. SHe could barely hold on, and there weren't any trees around. She wasn't going to risk, throwing herself down. Last time someone was there to rescue her, this time there wasn't.

YAY! CLIFFY!But I must leave you all. Review and I'll update faster...LOL.