And once again the sad disclaimer….

DISCAIMER: Hi unfortunately I don't own any of the guys (Damn it! I want my Hiei and my Kurama! crys again) Oh well some how I'll either get over it (sure, yeah right. Me get over it not possible even in dreamland), or I'll find a way to clone them or bring them to life (he he he I REALLY hope so but for now… a girl can dream right?).

"SPEAKING" and 'THINKING/TELEPATHY'

Got it? Good now read my loyal readers, READ! (Yes I'm crazy thought you would've realized that by now!)

You feel your arm being yanked as you're pulled out from behind the stairs. Looking up you see Boton's angry face as she raised the oar. You pull yourself into the fetal position and start whimpering as you wait for her to strike you. Boton looks at you weirdly and thinking that you were faking raised her oar again and swung. You shut your eyes and let out an earsplitting scream in your fright as it swings towards you. Boton collapsed along with a bunch of other demons that had gathered around you clutching their ears in pain.

"Lena! Lena what's going on? What's wrong with you, why are you screaming? Please stop," you hear Yusuke shout over your screams.

You stop and open your eyes looking around. You see Boton along with many other demons on the ground. Yusuke rushed over to you and got you to your feet. You were shaking so bad that he had to help you to stand and walk. You see that Hiei has your bags as you walk by him. You make it to the apartment and sit on the couch still shaking.

"What was that about Lena," Yusuke asked as he sat on a chair.

You shake your head signaling that you don't want to talk about it. Yusuke sighed and stood up.

"Can you walk Lena?"

"I think so Kurama," you say as you stand up slowly. You take a few steps and smirk, "Guess so."

You grab your stuff and walk to the hallway towards the rooms. You all got a room for yourselves, which you each redecorated to your personal preference. You end up painting your walls and ceiling black and replaced the florescent pink carpet with a VERY dark blue carpet.

It took 3 days total before you all finished with your rooms and by that time Boton had left. You were sitting out in the living room reading a book when your stomach suddenly growls hungrily. You stand up and walk into the kitchen searching for food. You go through the whole kitchen until you have only one cabinet left. You open it and see a piece of cracker.

You see a mouse heading towards it and dive at it yelling, "That's MY piece of cracker you stupid mouse!"

Unfortunately the mouse beat you to it and scurried off with it into a hole as Yusuke came into the kitchen to find out what your yelling was about.

When he got in there he found you sitting on the floor cussing at the empty cabinet, "Damnit! That was my fucking cracker, I'm fucking hungry you damn mouse. I can't believe I lost to a god damned mouse, I'll kill that little fucker. YOU HERE THAT YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE? I'LL KILL YOU! YOU'LL REGRET EVER STEALING MY DAMN FOOD LET ALONE EVER CROSSING ME!"

"Lena? Uhhhh why are you cussing at an empty cabinet," Yusuke asked.

"Because a stupid mouse took the only piece of food in this stupid fucking kitchen and ran off," you complain.

Yusuke bursts out laughing at your obsessivness, "You're hopeless you know that right?"

"SO? I'm hungry and there's no food in here!"

"You know that you're starting to sound like Yusuke and Kuwabara right," Hiei says walking into the kitchen.

"Do not!"

"Whatever you say Lena, whatever you say."

" Oka-Wait! HEY! What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing at all, why," Hiei asks innocently.

"Ok, ok, ok how about we all go to the market to pick up food and supplies," Kurama suggested as he entered the kitchen behind Hiei.

"That works with me! How about we meet in the living room in five minutes so we can whatever we'll need," you suggest happily standing up.

"Uh…Lena? Are you by any chance at all bipolar," Yusuke asks worriedly.

"I don't think so…why," you ask.

"Uhhhh…because you were pissed and pouting just three seconds ago and now your all happy-like. And just earlier you were scared shitless because Boton was about to hit…" Yusuke stopped speaking when your face paled dangerously.

Your face was now almost paper white and your eyes were widening in shock. You were reliving the memory again and it was killing you (not literally, just emotionally you dumbasses). You collapsed onto the floor not truly there anymore. You were now lost in your memory. When Hiei and the others approached you, you flinched. Your present mind was lost in the horror of your memory and your part of your mind that was present back then was now out. Kurama moved towards you again and you jerked back accidentally breaking a plate.

Your eyes widened to an impossible degree (think Yugi from yu-gi-oh…I nothing against the little dude but damn! He's got fucking huge eyes!) and said frantically, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to break the plate. Please don't hurt me, I won't do it again. Please forgive me. I'll clean it up and go back to work sirs."

Their eyes broadened at your change in personality as you scurried around picking up the pieces of broken plate not caring if your hands got cut up. Your eyes were lowered respectfully as you took care as to not look at the guys in the eyes. You finished gathering the broken pieces and put them into the trash before walking out of the kitchen. They find you out in the hallway picking up all the materials you all had used for the room's remodeling.

"Master Kuwabara, where would you like these to go," you ask respectfully as you bow.

"Umm… just leave them there," Kuwabara said nervously not used to this sorta respect, let alone respect from a person like you.

"Lena, please come out into the living room please," Kurama said gently.

Your eyes widened in shock when you recognized this act. You were going to be beaten out there for breaking the plate but still said softly as you bowed once again, "Yes master Kurama."

You follow him into the living room and wait for the blows to begin. Instead of being hit, Kurama leads you to the couch and motions for you to sit next to him. Knowing that you would get into trouble if you refused, you sit down obediently.

"You're hurt Lena, let me wrap your hands," Kurama says gently as he takes a hold of one of your hands. Your eyes widen in shock as he gently wraps your cut hands. Next he lifts your face in attempt of making you look at him but failed as you kept your eyes lowered. "Lena, please look at me," he asks.

You gasp shocked at his words. Then stutter out, "But Master, if I do then I'll have shown much disrespect to you. A slave like me isn't worthy of looking anyone in the eye."

"You're no slave Lena, your our friend," Hiei says in an uncharacteristically soft voice.

At his words you were finally pulled out of the trance. You look around confused and ask, "What happened Kurama? Hiei? Guys?"

"We honestly don't know, one minute you're all fine then you're in slave-mode. Were you a slave when you were younger," Kurama asked softly.

You sigh sadly and reply, "Yes Kurama, I was a slave when I was little. I was a slave for 4 years and I ran away countless times but got caught every time until the last time I ran away obviously. I was beaten constantly and had many broken bones. I was abused in every way imaginable, mentally, physically, and sexually but somehow I was able to stay strong through all of it even though it never looked like it. Other slaves broke within the first day or so but I didn't, and that's probably why I was treated worse than the others were. I'm sorry that you had to hear that my past wasn't as wonderful as you all had probably hoped or thought." You bow your head sorrowfully and look at your bandaged hands. Your blood was starting to seep through and trickle down your hands onto the couch and your pants. "Let's just get our stuff and go to the market," you say feeling their pity towards you.

Everyone headed to their rooms silently. You grab two athemes and put them in your gloves so that they were hidden. Also you strap on your katana and fasten your bow to your back. You hide some arrows in a secret pocket in your cape and put it on, positioning it so you couldn't tell that you had your bow with you. You walk out into the living room and find Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke waiting. Finally Kuwabara arrives and after putting up your hood so you could only see a faint outline of your mouth you all head out. You feel someone messing with your hood pulling it off inch by inch and whip around punching Yusuke in the stomach. Muttering to yourself about how nosy and annoying guys could be, you reposition your hood to its original position.

/(Market Place)/

"Ok first we get food," you say when you see everyone heading off in different directions.

You shove all of them towards the food building and manage to get enough food to last you awhile without losing anyone. "Ok, how about this, Yusuke and Kuwabara can go off on their own and me, Kurama, and Hiei will go off on our own. And in about an hour we'll meet right here? That work with everyone," you say when you had that part of your shopping done.

Everyone nodded in agreement and split. You, Kurama, and Hiei head to the weapons shop first to look at different weapons and maybe get a few. You spot a barrel full of arrows and stop without Kurama and Hiei noticing. You steal a few of the arrows, 28 to be precise. You see that the other two aren't with you but figure that they're already back looking at the katanas and swords. You start walking back and shy away from a man with a whip since you're a bit afraid of whips now. Suddenly the man whips you a couple of times. You yelp in surprise and pain when he hits you. You were very thankful that you had your hood up or else he would've seen the tears that were welling up in your eyes.

Hiei and Kurama heard your yelp and rushed towards the sound of a man chuckling. They saw you frozen to the spot in your fright. The man flicked the whip at you again hitting you on your legs causing you to yelp again. Your teal tear-pearls started to hit the floor as he whipped you again. Kurama and Hiei found themselves unable to move or speak in their horror.

The man played with the whip and said evilly, "Well, well, well. What do we have here? Come over to dear old Takaji."

When you didn't move he whipped you several more times. His last whip caught you in the neck and took your hood off your head revealing a VERY scared kitsune. You had unknowingly transformed into your kitsune form when he started whipping you. Your ears twitched nervously as he chuckled.

"Such a beautiful creature. With some training you'll be perfect," Takaji said as he circled you.

Kurama and Hiei stared in shock at the scene before them. Then they noticed that your tears had stopped. You suddenly whip around facing Takaji with an arrow fitted to your bow and pointed at his head. Your eyes were blood red and still held a frightened gleam in them. You were growling furiously at him and smirked at his surprise.

"Whipping people isn't very nice, especially when they have dangerous weapons with them," you say, malice and hate dripping form every word.

You shoot Takaji in the heart and putting your bow away you storm outside. You start running and head back to the apartment. You arrive there and go inside still VERY scared. Immediately you go into your room and sit on your bed to think and calm down.

(Over an hour later)

You finally hear the guys enter the apartment, they were laughing and talking together. 'Maybe I should just leave…not like they need me, they'll be better off without me anyways. All I bring is pain, misery and trouble,' you think sadly to yourself. With that thought in your mind, you begin packing your stuff up and get ready to go. You reposition your hood on your head and grabbing your stuff you walk out of your room coming face-to-chest with Kurama, and face-to-face with Hiei.

"And where do you think you're going missy," Kurama asked looking down at you.

You bow your head hiding your face even more and reply, "Away, I don't want you to get hurt by being around me. I'll only bring you guys pain and misery anyways."

You feel Hiei lift your hood off of your head revealing your tear-filled sea-blue eyes. You look away ashamed to even be in their presence.

"Lena…" Hiei says softly.

At that moment Kuwabara came out of his room shouting, "Hey! Why don't we go training! I wanna kick Urameshi's ass from here to America!"

"Good luck on that one dumbass," Yusuke shouted from the livingroom.

"Maybe in about an hour Kuwabara…We have a slight problem at the moment," Kurama said softly.

"What do you mean a problem," Kuwabara asked scratching his head stupidly.

"Me. I'm the problem, but don't worry I'll be out of your hair soon," you reply softly, "Once I'm gone you all can live without having to watch your backs constantly and worry about me all the time."

"Lena, you don't think that we didn't consider that when we were given the option of adding you to our team did you," Yusuke asked coming up beside you.

"I don't deser-"

"Lena, you do deserve this. What you don't deserve is the kind of past you have," Kurama interrupted you.

"But my past…"

"Lena, can't you see that we don't care about your past," Yusuke asked.

"But-"

"Hn, Lena, your not the only one that doesn't have a past that can come back to haunt them. Me and Kurama both have pretty bad pasts. Him with Youko Kurama's past and record. Me with my being cast out and raised by thieves," Hiei said interrupting you.

"Its not the same though…you weren't a slave, you weren't raped, you don't have as bad of a past as I do. How can you say that you don't care about it," you ask as tear pearls start hitting the floor.

"We know that but it doesn't matter. We knew what we were getting ourselves into, for the most part, when we asked for you to join the team," Kurama said gently.

"Let's go train now," you say softly.

"Wha? Oh, all right but only after you put your stuff back into your room little missy," Yusuke replied startled.

(20 Minutes later)

You all reached the training area in a forest nearby. You quickly hop up onto the arena silently declaring that you wanted to fight first. The guys looked at eachother and nodded. Yusuke quickly jumped up onto the arena with you.

"Ok you two, no weapons for this fight got it," Kurama said playing referee.

"Um, hold on then I need to get rid of all of mine," you say.

You take off your cloak and remove both your katana, and bow from your back. Then you pull out your knives from your boots and athemes from your gloves. Next you take off your 4 necklaces that held mini knives and other dangerous things, your bracelets that hold paralyzing powder, sleeping powder, itching powder, and confusion dust (I made that up all by myself, I don't think it actually exists but at least now it does!). Lastly you take down your hair which was being held up by two chopstick-knives (chopstick-like handles and sheaths). You set all of your weapons down by a tree and hop back up onto the arena.

"Someone's a bit paranoid…having all those weapons with you," Yusuke said jokingly.

"So? If you had gone through all the shit I have then you would be too," you retort.

"Enough chit-chat, ready? FIGHT," Kurama shouted.

Well that's all for now! Sorry it took me so long to type up. I've been going through so much shit lately that my mental stability was affected a bit. I wasn't able to talk much because of it and I'm still trying to get over what happened. It also made it hard to type because my hands wouldn't cooperate with me. PLEASE REVIEW!

Ja ne!

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