Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I do own Katrina, Lisa, Serena, Marissa, and Alex.

WARNING: A lot of the D word in this one.

Bewitching Ties

Legend

-Thought-

-Telepathy-

Noise

Chapter Five: Lost, Found, and Switching Places

Katrina walked through town to a nearby bus station, where she boarded the bus, not knowing where she was going, but feeling very irritated. -Damn demon. Why doesn't he follow my orders? Maybe the binding is flawed. If so, how do I fix it?- She stayed in her thoughts for nearly an hour before she decided to pull the string to signal the bus to stop. She got off near the edge of town. She looked around herself, wanting to go exploring. She saw a group of people and walked up to them. "Excuse me, but do you know of any interesting attractions here?"

The group of teen boys smirked and decided to have a little fun with the girl. "Yeah, there's a cave system down that road. It's called Demon's Door Cave. Really interesting, though you might want to ride there," one said, looking at his cronies. "We can give you a lift."

Katrina looked really interested. -Demon's Door Cave? I have definately gotta check this out.- "Thanks, I'd appreciate that."

The boys looked back and forth at each other, leering, as they rode for an hour in the jeep. Katrina, unusually oblivious, watched the forest to her left. When they got to the cave system, she and the boys walked up to the mouth of the cave. Katrina whistled. "How big is this cave? Is it as big as the mouth makes it out to be, or does it get smaller real soon?"

One of the boys smirked. "It's big alright. It's too dangerous for a tourist to go in by themselves, they could get lost. Why don't we show you around?"

Katrina looked at the guy. "Sure, why not?"

They hadn't gone far into the caves before one of the boys grabbed her from behind and forced her onto the ground, one hand over her mouth, the other fumbling with her pant button and zipper. The other guys gathered around, lust in their eyes. Katrina glared at them. -They have another thing coming if they think they're getting away with this!- She kicked her knee into the guy's groin, making him cry out and roll off her, clutching his crotch. Katrina sprang up as the other guys started to come after her. She high kicked one guy in the face, right hooked another in the nose and kicked the last guy in the balls with her steel toed boot. She then ran deeper into the cave while she had them stunned from her retaliation. They guys started to run after her but soon gave up, opting for leaving her to get lost in the caves.

Katrina ran deeper into the caves, not knowing that the boys had given up the chase. She ran until she came to a large cavern with a lake in the middle of it. She looked behind her, expecting the boys to run around that last bend. But several minutes went by and they still hadn't shown up. "Did they get lost?" she wondered aloud. She walked out of the cave and around the bend to find numurous tunnels. She started to fret, she didn't remeber which way she had come from. "Oh great. I'm lost!"

She then heard a growl come from the large cavern.

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Hiei snoozed in the tree for about an hour before he felt that tug that informed him that the witchling was out of town. "Damn," he growled as he was tugged in the direction she had gone. He soon found himself at the edge of town having followed her trail that zig zagged through town. If he didn't have such a good sense of direction and hadn't prowled the whole town that he had been probationed to for two years he would have been lost. -Lost...Shit...- He realized that the baka witchling had followed his orders and probably gotten lost.

By now he had spent an hour following the tugging and now the tugging was becoming more insistant as the girl moved farther away. Hiei sighed and hurried in the direction the tugging was taking him. Soon he found himself at Demon's Door Cave, just in time to see four teen boys drive off in a jeep. He glared at them, hearing their thoughts about what just happened and how they had been thinking of raping the witchling. Hiei had an odd urge to kill the worthless ningens, but dismissed it as the tugging led him into the cave.

He would have sped to the girl except for the fact that the cave system was like a maze. However, he knew where he was going after awhile. He was heading towards the cavern that Sensui had used to open a tunnel to Makai.

He just managed to catch up with the girl to see her in the clutches of a big tall red youkai with several horns on his head, large teeth that protuded from his mouth and wearing nothing more than a loin cloth.

Katrina tried to gasp air into her squeezed lungs to scream as the demon opened it's large mouth and prepared to eat her. She caught a glimps of a dark blur in the corner of her eye. The next thing she knew, she was falling from the near two story drop, landing in someone's arms, and hearing blood splatter on the floor as the demon literally fell to pieces. She looked up into the face of Hiei, who glared down at her.

"What the hell were you thinking of, going along with those filthy ningen boys," he growled. "I thought you were supposed to be telepathic, couldn't you read their minds and intentions?"

Katrina shook her head, clearing away some type of fog that had been in her head. "I, I don't know what happened, I couldn't think straight," she said weakly. Hiei growled and dropped her on her ass. "Ouch!" she complained.

He started to walk towards the exit. "Where are you going?" she asked as she stood up.

"Where else? Out of here. Are you coming or not?" was the irritated reply.

Katrina followed him, going over everything that had happened after she had left the shrine. After awhile a light came into her eyes. -Damn! I did as I was ordered to. I got lost. Maybe I am the servant of the binding.- she thought, distressed.

Hiei caught her thought since her shields had nearly colapsed with her near death experience. His eyebrow quirked. -Servant of the binding? Does that mean she'll obey what I say?- He shrugged, -Might as well give it a try.- Without turning around he ordered, "Take off this binding spell."

Katrina stopped, "Hell no! I'm not going to let you loose to wreak havoc on the world." Inwardly Katrina sighed, -Maybe the spell is warped and the rolls of master and servant switch.-

Hiei's eyebrow started to twitch, -Because of this baka onna I am now bound to where ever this girl is and cannot seem to make her undo the binding even though I can order her around on other things. Dammit.- he growled to himself.

Katrina, deciding to be spiteful and test out the binding, slyly said, "Hiei...kiss me, on the lips." She saw the demon go stiff. She flinched in expectation of the oncoming shout, but it didn't come. Slowly Hiei turned around and walked towards her, showing that he was exactly her height. He grabbed her head and roughly kissed her. He then stepped back quickly, shock all over his face. Katrina was equally shocked. -It worked.- She thought for a few seconds then swore. -Damn! Why did I waste an order? Especially on that?-

Hiei stared at the petite blonde, disbelieving what had just happened. -...I...I can't beleive that witchling was able to order me to do that! I thought she couldn't order me around?- He thought as he wiped his mouth, unsure of what to make of what had just happened.

Katrina saw his glare and wilted. "Sorry," she squeaked. "I order you to forgive me..." she said, hoping that it would work.

Hiei shook his head, "Not likely."

-Damn...I guess it means it's his turn to order me around.- she thought, wincing at what he might order her to do.

Hiei stared at the girl for along time, then growled, "Never order me to do that ever again."

Katrina looked at him, feeling a slight tug on the binding. She decided to give it a try. She opened her mouth to order him to kiss her again, but no words would come out. She sighed. -Well, at least it's my turn to be master now. I'll have to save it for when I need it.-

As she was thinking about what would classify as 'needing it' Hiei disappeared around a bend. Katrina panicked and ran after him, crying "Hiei! Don't leave me by myself!" Hiei immediately came back to her side, cursing himself at why he was doing this. Katrina cursed herself too, she had wasted another order. -Damn, gotta watch it.- she thought as Hiei escorted her to the exit.

When they emerged outside it was very dark. Hiei turned to Katrina, "Where do you live?" he asked, still wondering why he hadn't left the witchling in the cave and especially why he hadn't left her side.

Katrina looked at him in surprise, she had been sure that he would leave her the minute they got outside and let her find her own ride into town. "Uh...In town. I really don't remember how we got here."

Hiei rolled his eyes. "Tell me your address," he ordered before he remembered that he knew where she lived, then cursed himself, he had also caught on that the one who did the ordering switched with every order. Katrina didn't waste a second in popping off her address to him. He just sighed, wishing he had been thinking.

He picked her up and sped to town. Katrina clutched at Hiei's neck, terrified at the speed of the demon. When he reached the town in less than a few minutes, he stopped at the bus station briefly, thinking about dropping her here and forcing her to take the bus home, but something changed his mind and he decided to just take her home himself. After all, he usually prowled the abandoned building near her house. Katrina had just started to loosen her grip when Hiei took off again. She squealed as he started to jump buildings.

In a matter of minutes he had reached her house and had dropped her ungracefully at her doorstep. For some reason he waited in the shadows next to her until she went inside. Once he heard her start to get chewed out by her parents he fled to the abandoned building before the girl could order him to come in and meet her family or some other stupid thing like that.

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That night Katrina laid in bed and went over the day's events. She took extra long time in reviewing the events that happened when Hiei had rescued her. She touched her lips, then blushed. Despite the roughness he was a good kisser. Better by far than Jack, he had always tried to put his clumsy tongue in her mouth. That should have been the first signs of his main motive for getting with her, just for sex. Luckily she at least heeded the advice of her parents and friends to wait, though her friends had ignored their own advice. She smiled when she remembered when she had gotten together with Jack and what her friends had promised her. If he hurt her in any way, he could kiss his ass goodbye. She smiled even more, knowing that the first thing the girls did when they left the airport was hunt down Jack, she didn't need to use her talent as a seer to know that. A promise made in the circle was kept at all costs.

As she drifted to sleep a thought came to her, Hiei had used his 'master card' when he ordered her to tell him where she lived. She smiled again, wondering what she would buy with her 'master card'.

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The next morning Katrina was shocked to find Hiei standing at her door, waiting for her. "Uh...What are you doing here?" she asked.

Hiei shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I'm following your order of never leaving you by yourself," he growled the last part. He was thoroughly irritated by the girl and her silly order that had forced him to come back and camp here the whole night.

Katrina smiled as he followed her to school. Before they got to the gates she turned to him. "Hiei, I order you to always truthfully answer me whenever I ask you something."

He looked at her oddly. "What?"

Katrina smiled and tried out her new order. "Hiei, how old are you?"

Hiei smirked, he'd never tell anyone that, let alone a ningen. But for some reason his lips and voice betrayed him. "Ninety-nine."

Katrina whistled as Hiei stared incredulously at her and if it were physically possible he would be giving his lips that stare as well. "I thought you were about eighteen or nineteen," she said as she made a step inside the gates, then she stopped again and turned around. "What is your equivalent age to humans?" she asked.

Before Hiei could clamp his hand over his mouth he said, "Nineteen." She smiled as she walked to the doors of Meiou High. Hiei stood there, cursing any deity that had the gall to pair him up with this witchling.

As he watched the girl disappear into the school he caught a glimps of something gold and purple. -What the?- He shook his head and when he looked again the gold and purple was gone, just like the girl. Hiei shook his head again as he felt the tug on the binding spell, forcing him to obey the girl's order to never leave her alone. -But she isn't alone.- It confused him, he thought the order meant that whenever anyone wasn't around her that he was supposed to be there, but here he was, following her movement in the school through his Jagan and positioning himself so that he could look through the window at her first class, even though she was surrounded by multitudes of other ningens. Hiei sighed as he hid himself in the leaves of the tree, thinking of what he would order her to do. -Maybe order her to take back the order.- He thought about it some more. -But which order?- He silently smoldered as he watched the girl take her seat, wishing not for the first time that he had just left the portal open at the witchlings' camp and let some youkai come out and eat them.