Yep July 12 is here and it's cool, and it's better than… SCHOOL! Yea that sucked. Any way disclaimer stays the same sob no Hiei for me. Right here we go. For my fans I'm a really slow up-dater and we have this computer for 6 people and my dad is writing a book and my brother is in college so it takes a long time just to get it SORRY!

July 12.

It was an unusually hot afternoon for the land of the Makai lands. So, in order to beat the heat, the Spirit Detective team managed to find a gorgeous lake in the middle of the great forest.

"WOOO-HOOOO!" Yelled a certain Yusuke Urameshi as he ran to the edge of the lake clad in nothing but his boxers. He dove cleanly into the crystal clear water of the lake, surfacing only to yelp "COLD".

"Wait for me Urameshi!" shouted the carrot headed, Kazuma Kuwabara. He himself was attempting to run and strip down to his whitie tighties at the same time. And he tripped, of course, but finally managed to get to the water, screaming like a girl at its frigidness.

"Are you going to join us Hiei?" Kurama asked, emerging from the shrubbery with a towel and his blue swimming trunks. Always prepared like usual. The fire demon, clad in black, despite the awful heat, gave his red haired and green-eyed friend a look of total disgust. He then glanced over at the idiot and the slick haired detective frolicking in the water.

"Do you honestly think I would?"

"I just asked," Kurama walked towards the water with his towel neatly hung over his arm.

"Morons," Hiei muttered as he trudged back to the tree line. While it was true he was roasting he wasn't in any mood to get into the water with those three and their childish antics.

To relieve him self a little, Hiei pulled of his black cloak, flinging it over his shoulder. The wind rose up on a treeless hill, cooling his face and sending his black up-in-the-air hair dancing for a second. His crimson eyes scanned the luxurious green landscape thriving with life. It was good to return to the Makai, even for a week. It was relief from the hustle and the bustle of the streets of Tokyo and it had lots giant of trees. Hiei took one last look before descending back to their camp.

A great clattering noise rose above the canopy form the tiny area that contained all their provisions. Hiei stopped just short of breaking into the tiny clearing to see a figure rummaging through one of the many bags, inspect them for a second, then throw most of them aside. He was, at one point, almost clobbered by a frying pan that whizzed past his head, sticking in the tree next to him. Hiei watched this act of trespassing for a few more seconds before making his presence known.

Hiei came forth from the tress, clearing his throat. The figure spun around at him wide-eyed, one of the Twinkies Kuwabara had brought with him, wedged in her mouth.

It was an earth demon by sight. She looked normal, no extravagant make up over accenting her features. In fact she wasn't even wearing any by looks of it, which was something you never saw with female demons. She was dressed in brown cloth pants, white T-shirt and green overthrow like Kurama's traditional yellow one. On her small clean feet, she wore nothing. A sure sign of an earth demon.

But her eyes were the exact same color as his; she had fire demon blood in her. With her simplistic attire, it could be said that she was an outcast, just like him.

Hiei made his features harden again after they stared at each other for a second.

"What do you think you're doing?" he drawled advancing a few steps towards her. The woman uttered a tiny gasp before shifting into squirrel form and high tailing it out of there.

There was most definitely a large mess to clean up; stuff strewn every where. Hiei grabbed a sandwich and left, his after imagine burning in the midst of all the clutter. He soon had found the largest tree in the great forest a few miles away and rested to enjoy his sandwich. Hiei soon found himself thinking of the woman he had seen.

He knew why she had red eyes. The woman was just like Yukina, part blood that meant she must have, or had, a brother or sister out there of the fire race. Hiei ripped the wrapper off his sandwich and took a bite. Peanut butter and jelly. Figures. He continued to eat it anyway. His mind soon wandering away and leaving his body behind.

Hiei wanted to see Yukina, to just leave and visit her. Well at least she wasn't in the land of the Koorime any more. He was already known as a bad omen and thrown off the floating island only a few days after birth. If a fire demon went up their and all the Koorime found out that he was the one they threw off the island all those 18 years ago, they would think he was out for revenge. The Koorime idiots would assume the apocalypse had arrived, and do only Kami knows.

Well Yukina was at Genkai's so he would just have to wait a few days to see her again.

Patience really wasn't his strong point.

A distant yell and disturbed crows squawking above his head brought him from his daze. The half eaten sandwich he had had disappeared, wrapper and all.

"Shut up moron," Hiei said as soon as he returned and found out that Kuwabara was the one who was making all the noise.

"Call the navy! The marines! I was robbed!" Kuwabara yelled frantically.

"Stupid! We can get you more," Yusuke said unsympathetically, "Binky breath will bring you more if you want him to!" Yusuke went on to continue picking up the mess. After a bit, Kuwabara begrudgingly helped.

"Any idea who may have done this, Hiei?" Kurama asked him after five minutes, him being the only reasonable one there. Well, besides Hiei, of course.

"Yeah. It was an earth demon female who stole your stuff why you all were frolicking like fools in the water…" Hiei fell away, seeing those piercing red eyes in his mind. Yusuke and Kuwabara had most of it picked up and now were gathering odds and ends. Yusuke even found the frying pan that nearly decapitated Hiei trying extra hard to yank it out of the trees. Kurama went to rebuild the fire.

"My Twinkies…" Kuwabara mumbled miserably.

"Stop your sniveling, idiot," Hiei shot at tall-red-and-stupid.

"You wanna fight shrimp?" Return fire!

"Only if you've written your will," Hiei growled, preparing for a long brawl. That was really the farthest that fight got because Yusuke really wasn't in the mood to ignore it. It ended soon after Yusuke threatened to tie them together and throw them into a closet for a day.

"I'd like to see you try detective," Hiei said coldly and walked out of the encampment. Something had ruffled his feathers and needed to sit alone some more. Again he left his after image behind and went really far away this time.

Hiei eventually slowed in some random part of the forest still grumbling about 'stupid human idiots' or close to it. He wove his way though the winding pillars of great tree trunks 'till he found one large enough to fit his requirements. But when he reached the top, he found already occupied.

It looked like a sloppily made tree house. The branches were magically bent and twisted to make a rough set of walls, ceiling, and floor. Hiei took a cautious step inside.

An earth demon or forest creature's dwelling. Cushions lined the floor, along with a couple candles. A few things of food here and there, and, in the far corner, there was a twinky on the floor.

Hiei immediately knew whom it belonged to; the woman who had ransacked their camp earlier. The idea of revenge sprung into his mind, but he wasn't going to stoop that low so he left.

For a good hour he sat right out side the small abode watching the sun fall over the west side of the horizon. It bathed the forest in an orange light as the day drew steadily to its end. Quietly he stood and disappeared from his perch leaving only a whisper of a shadow for a few seconds. He sped back and arrived just as the sun vanished.

"Finally!" Yusuke said from his right, "Thanks for deciding to come back, Hiei," Hiei looked to see them all gathered around the fire with a new arrival.

"Hello!" It was she. The woman who he saw earlier. Those red eyes glinted back at him from a spot by the fire.

"What is she doing here?" Hiei asked Kurama with an angry glare at the woman sitting next to Kuwabara, who was, in turn, all but drooling over her good looks.

"Riyann has come to apologize over what happened earlier," Kurama answered slowly. His face was slightly contorted with something that looked like pain.

"That's right! And a special apology to you for nearly taking your head of with that frying pan. Sorry about that," She flashed him an innocent smile that was sort of hard to ignore. The fire made her pale green skin glow biolumenscently and the brown braid tossed over her shoulder glowed like fiery embers. She stood up throwing over her shoulder a brown bag. "It was nice meeting you all, but I must be going. I still have a long way to go so I must get some sleep before starting on south,"

"Where are you headed?" Yusuke asked while shaking her hand.

"Well," she winked, "That's a secret, now isn't it, but you could call it family relations. Good bye!"

Riyann walked out, fading into the darkness beyond the firelight. The four men sat quietly until they felt she was out of ear shot. Kuwabara was the first to speak.

"Boy! Was she hot!" He exclaimed aloud, "She could steal my Twinkies anytime! I think I'm in love,"

"I have to agree with stupid," Yusuke said while tossing another stick in the fire.

"Oh yes she was beautiful. Even you have to agree on that Hiei," Kurama said.

On this Hiei said nothing. Yeah, she was beautiful but very dim witted, and obviously a very weak demon. Only enough power to play with her little plants.

"Well if you idiots are done tonight, I think I'll get some sleep," Hiei went for the blanket he had brought with him.

"Shorty's right," Kuwabara yawned, "we have more work to do tomorrow,"

Every one turned in for the remainder of the night.

Hiei immediately found the branch he had been using for the past few nights. He pulled the blanket over himself.

That night Hiei found himself falling asleep at a snail's pace. Not even the stars' lullabies had enough effect to take him to dream land. Too many things were on his mind. Among them was Yukina and his yearning to get a small glimpse of her. He thought of how much it peeved him to have to patrol the Makai day in and day out for 3 weeks, never finding a thing except the ruins of a town. Even the appetizing thought of returning back to the Ningenkai and sleeping fully in a bed. Then, the smiling image of Riyann sprang into his mind's eye, and the brief thought of her and all the mass death occurrences may be interrelated. But, no, she looked too stupid and was most definitely too weak to pull of such a stunt as those he had seen.

The task of hunting down the murderer that was killing hundreds in a swing was eating at him. Three weeks and they found neither hide nor hair of what ever or who ever was killing all those demons. The killer may have been doing all the people a favor by ending their pathetic lives but Koenma couldn't take the risk of what ever, or who ever, breaking into the Ningenkai and killing humans.

July 13.

The next thing he remembered was the bird that served as his alarm clock for that morning as it felt the urge to give its first morning note in his ear.

Hiei watched for a second or two as the little sparrow struggled in his fist.

"If I go deaf your death is yet to come," Hiei threatened it before the relieved little bird flew off.

"Hiei, are you ready to go?" Kurama asked as soon as Hiei dropped from his perch above the rest.

Hiei was able to catch are, ready, and go through the severe ringing in his ears. Piecing together what his friend had said, Hiei nodded his agreement and threw one of the nearest packs over his shoulder.

Then, the sky darkened, and all looked to the heavens to see billowing smoke engulfing a large mass of purple, black, and yellow.

"What the-" but Yusuke never finished the sentence for the large mass of energy and whatever evil was mixing and churning inside of it fell from it's place in the blue sky, crashing into the ground.

"RUN!" Kurama yelled but rather unnecessarily for they all had split in three directions. Hiei immediately began running north far surpassing the others in distance, but even that wasn't enough. The violent waves of energy soon came by him splitting the earth and all with its fury. Hiei was soon thrown back wards off his feet, pelted with bits of earth, tree, and dust.

Hiei went back first into a large tree, almost fully uprooted it was. Just as consciousness left him, Hiei went plunging into a river tree and all.

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