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Bewitching Ties

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Chapter Four: Half Bound, Fully Irritated

"Wow...That's alot of stairs." Katrina said, gaping at the long flight of stairs leading up to a shrine.

Yusuke shrugged. "Personally, the stairs are easy once you've gone through Granny's training. Though fortunately you won't experience her training." Yusuke grinned.

Katrina wondered what he meant. -What's he talking about? His grandma training him? In what?-

Once they reached the shrine, Katrina was near to colapsing. "These boots are great for self defense, shocking people, sometimes turning on guys and moshing, but not for climbing," she panted.

"Hn," a male voice sounded.

Katrina looked up to see that 'young man' standing just outside of the shrine. Her eyes widened in shock. She thought about casting a spell to shield Yusuke and herself from the demon, but stopped when she heard Yusuke call out to the demon.

"Hey Hiei, meet Katrina," Yusuke said, gesturing to her.

Katrina blanched, thinking, -Hiei? The demon has a name and these people know him? He's only been in this world for less than three weeks, and why is he running around as a human?-

Hiei watched the girl with the amethyst eyes carefully. -I wonder if she recognizes me?- He tried to read her thoughts, but found that she had quickly set up shields around her mind, quite strong shields at that.

He was about to peirce them when Katrina, thinking of a way to explain why she was gaping at the dark haired young man, said, "Holy-! You're hot!"

Yusuke laughed. "Look Shrimp, you've got a fan!" he said, walking past the slightly surprised Hiei. He threw over his shoulder, "Hey! Kat, come meet the Grandma and Yukina." Katrina nodded, walking past the dark man, blushing, which wasn't quite fake.

"Hey! Grandma!" Yusuke called as he and Katrina entered the shrine.

An old woman came into the large training room. "Shut up Dimwit. I might be old but I'm not deaf," she said. She looked at the girl beside Yusuke, not at all shocked by the girl's appearence, but slightly surprised to see the power within the girl. "Who's she?" Genkai asked.

"Genkai, this is Kat." Yusuke said.

Katrina bowed, holding the back of her skirt. "Hello, my name is Katrina Lee."

Genkai nodded. "Hello girl, glad to see someone has respect for their elders," she said, then turned to Yusuke. "Are you here to train or to hide from Keiko?"

Yusuke gave a sheepish grin and rubbed the back of his head. "Weeell..."

"Genkai? Do we have guests?" a sweet voice asked, the owner soon coming around the corner. It was a pretty girl in a kimono. She saw Katrina and bowed. "Oh, hello. My name is Yukina."

Katrina bowed again. "My name is Katrina Lee." Katrina felt a little uneasy around the girl, noting how her psychic hackles were up.

Yukina turned to Genkai. "I will get some refreshments for our guests," she said softly as she left.

Genkai nodded and turned to Yusuke, saying, "Come one Dimwit. Let's go train." They then headed out the side door.

Katrina looked back through the front door to see the dark clad boy still outside. She decided she would take her chance. She walked towards the boy. "I know your secret," she whispered.

Hiei turned sharply at these words, eyes narrowing. -How can she know?- he thought.

Katrina, pleased that she had his attention, continued. "I can see it. You can't hide the resemblance. It's plain as day to me. I know your secret," she repeated. "And I will tell it unless you bind yourself to me." She fingered her choker, the stone a great substitute for her amethyst.

Hiei whispered deathly, "I can kill you easily if you so much as say a word."

Katrina shook her head. "I'm telepathic, I can tell your secret before you can kill me, so, despite my death, your secret would still be out," she smiled evilly. "Besides, if I die, my sisters in magick will hunt you down and exact revenge. They're pretty powerful by themselves and extremely powerful together. I already told them that I found you."

Hiei's eyes narrowed further. -She's right, I can kill her, but not before she tells Yukina. Even if I sliced her in half, her brain would still function for a few seconds, enough time to tell her. Damn.-

Katrina smiled. "It's your choice, partially." Hiei stayed quiet and she went on, mistaking his silence for assent. "Good. Now let's get started."

She slipped out a knife that she hid inside of her boot and sliced her hand. Then, without warning, the knife flew to Hiei. Hiei swatted it away, but the knife accomplished it's job and sliced his hand. Then the knife flew back to Katrina's open hand. She smiled. "A trick of mine," she said as she smeared the blood from the knife onto her palm. She then closed her eyes. "I, Katrina, represent Spirit, the great element that encompases all. I call on my element to bind this demon, Hiei, to myself, and myself to Hiei." A purple glow laced with gold sparks surrounded her. Hiei's eyes widened as he felt the reiki surround him too and a burning sensation start from the cut on his hand and spread to the rest of his body. "With our intermingled blood the pact is made," she said quietly, though her voice seemed to boom around Hiei. Suddenly the light around them merged and flashed. Hiei felt something like a rope tie around him and jerk him towards the ningen witchling.

When the light died he was face to face with the small girl. Hiei growled. "What did you do?"

Katrina smirked. "Exactly what we had meant to do when we summoned you from Hell. Now that you're bound to me, you have to follow my orders and protect me. Because if I die, you die too. And you won't be going home when you die," she again smiled evilly.

Hiei stared at her, then examined the tie between them, after a bit he smirked inside. -She goofed. I wasn't a willing participant. The link is weak. I doubt that it will last, or that I'll die when she does. Hn. Baka witchling.- "You don't know what you're dealing with, do you? You're messing with powerful forces, watch out or you might get burned," he said, then he jumped into the nearest tree and disappeared, leaving a stupified Katrina.

After a few seconds she swore. "Dammit! How did he do that? He shouldn't have been able to leave without my permission!" She stormed back into the shrine, griping. "I'll have to talk to Lisa about this."

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Roaming the forests under Genkai's protection, Hiei managed to find a portal back to Makai. He smirked, here the Kekkai barrier was ripped and he would be able to go home. He started to enter the portal but ran up against an invisible wall and felt the tie binding him to the ningen girl tighten and pull him back. "What the hell?" He asked, irritated. He put his hand against the portal but again met up with an invisible wall and again felt the binding rope tighten and pull him back. He swore, "Damn! I can't leave Ningenkai because of that baka onna!" He looked back to the shrine. "Well, if I'm stuck here for the time being, I won't stay in this town. I'll wait it out until the binding breaks." He disappeared, leaving only an after image as he sped away.

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That night Katrina sat at her computer, reading her email.

To: GoldenAmethystEyes

From: EmerldLies

Subject: Hell NO! Don't try a binding!

Katrina you can't attempt a binding! It's too dangerous. If he resists, the spell will backfire and you could end up being the servant of the binding. You won't be able to tell, it's a very subtle different feeling from being the master of the binding. But since you've never bound anyone before, you wouldn't be able to tell. I know you're asking how do I know. Me and Alex tried out the binding spell, each of us getting the turn at being master (No, we didn't do anything, though we were still going out), except we made it to where we can end the binding if we so choosed. We wanted to know the difference between being the master and servant. Please listen to me! Don't try it, stay away from him!

Lisa.

Katrina grimaced as she hit the reply button.

To: EmeraldLies

From: GoldenAmethystEyes

Subject: Re: Hell NO! Don't try a binding!

Uhoh...I did try it. But I coerced him into agreeing. He was staying with humans and hiding like their friend. I told him I would tell his secret if he didn't agree. He agreed. But it's not working like it should. He was able to leave me without my permission...Is that possible? Sorry.

Trina-Kat

Katrina sighed, hoping to the gods that she hadn't screwed up and became the servant of the binding. She didn't even want to think what the demon would want her to do. She remembered reading somewhere that some liked to rape innocent girls. She shook her head and the goosebumps away. "Eeegh! That's a scary thought, though he is cute in his human form, but still, yeak."

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Kurama looked up at Hiei's favorite perch when he finished climbing the steps to the shrine. Sure enough, Hiei was there, and fuming from the looks of it. "I thought you were supposed to be looking after the girl?" he asked, not quite innocently.

Hiei glared at him. "That witchling cast some kind of spell, binding me to her, now I can't leave Ningenkai or even the city that she's in!" he growled.

Kurama laughed. "How did she managed to do that? Did you just sit by and let her?" he teased.

Hiei looked away. "Hn."

"Well, I guess I should warn you then. I saw her heading this way." Kurama smiled as Hiei glared at him and walked into the shrine.

Hiei stayed hidden in the trees as the girl came up the stairs, now dressed in tight black hip hugging jeans patterned with white skulls going down in lines and various stars spangled everywhere, a belly showing black spagetti strap shirt and a short sleeved fishnet shirt. She had her usual accessories, her make up was done in dark purple eyeshadow, light pink blush and neutral pink lipstick and her hair was in the 'sex hair' style. -Is she trying to impress somebody? Or does she dress like this all the time? Wierd ningens and their fashion sense.- Though he couldn't talk, his fashion sense was as weird to ningens as their fashion sense was weird to him. He usually wore his black cloak with the red underlining, black baggy pants, numerous belts and sometimes a black sleeveless shirt. Very rarely did he use any other color, one of the few times being when he wore the light blue robe in the +Ankotsu Budujai.

He watched the girl carefully as she turned around, looking like she was searching for something. Suddenly she looked up at where he was hiding. "Hiei, come here." she ordered. Hiei 'hn'ed, thinking of ignoring her order, but soon he found himself pulled down to the ground by some invisible rope. She giggled as the demon fell on his head. Inside she sighed in relief, -I guess that means I am the master of the binding spell.-

Hiei got up growling "What the hell did you do ningen!"

Katrina looked at him confused. "What's 'ningen'?"

"It means human."

Katrina 'hm'ed then started to bounce. "We're going out on the town today," she said.

Hiei glared at her. "What do you mean by 'we'?"

"You and me is what I mean."

Hiei shook his head. "No we're not."

Katrina glared at him. "I order you to get dressed in normal clothes and come with me into town."

Hiei smirked. "And I order you to get lost."

Katrina got a dazed look in her face, then stormed down the stairs.

Hiei watched the odd witchling disappear down the stairs, smirking. -She can't always order me around it seems.- He jumped back into his favorite resting perch.