Hey everyone sorry about last time I didn't have it done and everything… BUT THAT'S IN THE PAST! Time to get to the chapter!
Chapter 22: The Makai's riches
Hiei and Shi stood in front of a swirling blue portal. "So." She started. "Are you going to go or what?" He gave her a odd look. "Why am I going first?"
"So if there's a demon on the other side when you get across it'll kill you and not me!" She smiled as he glared at her sending a wave of pain up his body.
"Hn, fine." He walked threw the portal as if there wasn't anything there and suddenly reappeared in the place he called home.
Suddenly Shi was right beside him, and the portal closed. "Wow this place feels so much different then regular," she stated looking around the wooded surroundings. "Because they're so many in this area you're picking up on them; you'll get over it."
He started walking, "so where are we going?" She asked as she followed after him.
"How should I know you're the one who wanted to come I'm just here for protection." She sighed. "I guess this is going to be hard."
"Excuse me." Both turned around to the voice of a man. He was about as tall as Hiei and Shi with light gray hair that was cut unevenly and hung down to the end of his pale ears. He wore a smile on his face and his light purple eyes twinkled with delight.
He folded his arms in his brown clothing that resembled something a olden day monk would wear. "I am wondering if you might be Alli Kaamai?" He questioned his voice clearly showed that Japanese was not his strong language.
"Uh, no Ava actually." His smile only increased. "It is you Alli, I haven't see you were born! With you're father's blood in you I thought you to have gotten rid of that ningen name by now." He said.
Hiei looked from Shi to the man. "Well I call myself Shi but my true name is Ava, who are you?" She questioned.
The man put a hand to his forehead, "oh I'm sorry I should have introduced myself, my name is Jokil Tylann I am a-."
"The master at making weaponry and spells in all three worlds." Hiei filled in but he stayed with the blank expression on his face as he continued to look the man up and down.
Jokil gave a chuckle, "well that and a servant to the Kaamai family. I was your father's friend." He said. "Alli I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your father, it was so unexpected and so wrong." He started to explain.
"When I heard of his death I moved out here knowing his daughter would come to in the need of answers and anything from him, but I never was to be expecting you to bring someone with you." He looked over to Hiei his smile falling some.
"Oh, this is H-."
"I know, you know everyone thought the Forbidden Child had died a while's time ago but here you are standing before me." Shi grabbed his hand as Hiei made the attempt to unsheath his katana and attack Jokil.
"Well, would you like to inherit your father's possessions?" He asked turning slightly in the way they would be heading. Shi nodded and the three started off further into the dense forest surrounding
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After about ten minutes of walking in silence they came to a log home in a small clearing. "You don't have many defenses." Hiei stated as they were led threw the area.
"I let the barriers take care of that." He said curtly; Hiei glared at him. 'I almost forgot what being hated by everyone felt like, almost.' He thought as the old man unlocked the door and let it creak open.
The inside was open, and not very furnished and showed the truth in Jokil's words; that he hadn't been here very long. "Stay here I'll be right back." He said to them then went to the other side of the room where a locked door stood.
He went into the dark room leaving Shi and Hiei to stand in place. "I wonder what I'm going to get." She said more to herself then anything. "Hn."
Suddenly Hiei's communicator went off with its annoying ringing sound, he opened the little top. "Hiei." It was Kurama. "You took Shi to the Makai didn't you?" His voice was firm with the fire demon.
"Can't they just call on a cell phone like normal people?" Shi asked from the side and received a odd look from Hiei in response. "You're a cunning fox, you figure it out." He said halfway ignoring Shi's random question.
"You and her are going to get in some serious trouble with Koenma for doing this you do understand?" Hiei starred at the screen blankly as if thinking of something to retort against it.
"And?"
"You two need to get back here before anyone finds out what happened, if they already haven't." Shi took the communicator from Hiei, though he didn't protest much against it.
"Look I'm just picking up some stuff and then we'll be back so don't worry about anything." With that she closed the top cutting the connection with Kurama just as Jokil was coming back with three containers in his hands.
Two were an almost oval container with a deep purple silk sheet over both of them. The other one was a wooden box that looked as if it had been threw a fire and the wood was seriously warped.
He set the two containers gently down and brought the over to a table then motioned for them to come over. "I'll give you this for now, but everything in that room and myself are yours, or your property. But I felt it to be better if we left most of it there until it was needed." He explained to the two demons.
Then he opened the lid of the box to reveal jewelry, gems, and gold coins. "The treasure of Catom." Hiei said in a voice close to a whisper. Shi gave him a confused look "he beat me to it."
"Well yes, as was said this is now yours." Then he grabbed the two containers and set them down next to the still open box. He pulled off the silk cloth that hung over it to reveal the it was a cage; they had the dragon things from in the picture she had seen.
In one cage they were white and in the other black. "Henkis, dragon demons never seen, caught, or barely heard of. They are used as protectors, the white ones are the daughters of the two Yusa had." He explained. 1
"But they are of light not dark for you, so I had to catch two dark baby ones for you." The two black Henkis floated in place just watching her.
"What's so special about them is that they are born A class demons and as they grow older they become S class and very attracted to their owners." He unlocked the two cages and allowed the four demons to fly out and around Shi's body.
She watched them with a smile on her face as they checked every part of her out. "Anything else you might be interested in?"
"No not really… wait yeah, what was my Dad like? I've only known him as he was in the Ningenkai." Jokil watched her a moment before drawing in a breath.
"He was a good man as all light demons are by nature but his mind was set on having a child and being able to let them have a good life. In many ways he was just a light demon trying to fulfill a goal." Shi nodded and stepped back.
"I think we should be going then, I wasn't exactly allowed to come here freely." He smiled. "I understand, but if you need anything I'll be staying here." He said that bright smile he had welcomed them with in the beginning coming back on his face.
She smiled back and closed the box up and picked it up off the table. Then she started for the door and the Henkis followed her. "Yes they will follow you or stay in close vicinity of you unless you give them other orders." He explained but she didn't seem to hear them.
It was obvious that she didn't mind them following her like that, but once they stepped outside they floated a bit away from her each one seeming to survey the area.
"Thank you so much Jokil." She said turning back to him and smiling even larger. "I figured you would be needing these things as you're changes took over you."
"What do you mean?" She questioned.
"You'll see when it starts to happen." He smirked and she turned slightly but a concerned look was plastered across her face.
"Bye Jokil." She said trying to make her voice sound lively and failing at it as they walked away.
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On the way back to the spot where the portal she looked over at Hiei every once and a while and now and again she would catch him looking at her also. What surprised her most was the look that she saw on his face.
The look showed a bit of longing as if he was mentally battling himself on whether to talk to her about something or not. But what it was he wanted to say she couldn't figure out.
Hiei's P.O.V
I looked away from her as her gray eyes when they snapped over to mine trying to get my mind off the subject that has plagued my thoughts all day.
"What do you think Kurama will say about me coming back with all this now?" She questioned me. I turned to her once more seeing as it would be a right thing to do in this situation.
I saw her holding her hand up loosely as she walked on beside me and instantly a black Henki floated down from above the trees and landed against her soft skin.
I can't take this any longer, I think it's time I told her the truth about how I feel, and what is real happening.
A/N: Oh my god you guys are going to kill me for what I put in the next chapter! HAHA I love it! But sadly you might have to w a little while longer so I can get all my wording perfect for it!
1: Alright individually they are called "Henki" but since there is four of them together i have to refure to them as "Henkis" 'cause that's the only thing that sounds right to me i guess. So... yeah now you know the jist of that!