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

AN: Hints of full undressed people in this one. This is getting a bit more risque! Ooh, I hope it's not too risque that it gets taken off. Also, if you've noticed how I switch from using 'Kurama' and 'Shuichi' it's so that you can tell who's the 'main person', like if it's from Kat's view it will be 'Shuichi' any of the Rekai Tantei it's 'Kurama'. Sorry if it's gotten too serious, I'm trying to steer it back to light heartedness.

REVISED Note: A few small details have been changed, yet they're VERY important to the time line of certain events! Watch out for them!

Bewitching Ties

Legend

-Thought-

-Telepathy-

Noise

Chapter Ten: The Storm, Blushing, and Tempers

Katrina woke up to find gentle and strong arms around her, and a warm body lying against her back. She turned over in the arms to be face to face with a sleeping Hiei. -He looks troubled, like he's having a bad dream.- she thought. He also looked cold. Katrina thought about the cloak wrapped around her. She bit her lip in thought, then shrugged. -I can't leave him out in the cold. Besides, I doubt he would do anything.- she thought as she unwrapped herself then rewrapped the cloak around herself and Hiei. She then laid back in his arms again. She blushed as the demon, fire apparition, mumbled in his sleep and pulled her closer, one arm encircling her waist and the other going over her chest, hand resting on her colar bone. -Uh...well...I guess he wouldn't do anything conciously, too bad he's unconcious now.- She listened to the unnatural storm and wondered who or what was causing it. She jumped, blushing bright red. In his sleep Hiei had moved his hand lower and was now holding her breast. -That does it!- She rolled over out of his arms.

The sudden movement woke Hiei up. He sat up abruptly, fully alert. He turned to Katrina, asking "What's the matter?"

Katrina covered herself with her arms. "Uh, your 'the matter'," she said irritatedly. "For crying out loud, what were you dreaming to make you go fondling me?"

Hiei blushed bright red, trying hard to avert his eyes from her near nakedness. For some reason the fact that she was trying in vain to cover herself was making it all the more...-All the more what? Sexy?- He then blushed even harder as he remembered the dream he was having just before he woke up.

He decided to change the subject. "It sounds as if the storm is letting up. I think we can get out of here now." Katrina nodded. Hiei handed her the cloak back as she put her boots and jewelry back on. Once she was 'decent' Hiei picked her up and zipped outside.

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In no time they were back at the shrine. Once they arrived Yukina immediately took Katrina to a room to change into some dry clothes. Hiei headed off to the wash room to wash and dry his only articles of clothing, his black baggy pants, his boots and his cloak. He had no underwear, so for a second he was nude until he could get a towel then some left over clothing that Yusuke stashed here for whenever he came to train days on end.

At that moment Katrina, wearing a simple kimono, came into the wash room carrying what was left of her clothing. She stopped dead in her tracks, just as frozen as Hiei. In less than a split second Katrina's face turned bright red and she spun around and ran down the hall. Hiei, once he got over his shock at the witchling seeing him naked, cursed, grabbed a towel from the clean clothes basket and ran out of the room to the room Yusuke would use on his stays here.

Katrina hid in the bathroom, hands to her hot cheeks. She was horrified at having seen what she just saw, but at the same time she was oddly pleased and excited to have seen Hiei naked. -Well, if that was to be my first sight, it was a damn good one!- She wasn't sure about the scale on male sizes, but she was pretty sure that Hiei wasn't 'small'. -Marissa is right. 'Size doesn't matter as long as the package is great'!- She blushed even more for having thought that. -Katrina! Get a hold of yourself! He's an apparition for crying out loud, not human!-

After several minutes she decided that she might as well go face the others. At least her cheeks were normal color again. When she walked to the big room she passed a closed room and heard a 'puu' sound, sort of like a bird coo. Her interest peaked, she was a big animal fan. Besides, it sounded soo cute. She slowly opened the door, not wanting to spook whatever animal was inside.

Even before she fully opened the doors her eyes widened. Inside was a large blue bird, so big that it filled up the room. "Wow..." she said, awed. As she looked at the bird she got an odd feeling from it, sort of like the feelings she got from various strangers and Hiei, not to mention Yukina. -...Wait...Is that feeling I get actually telling me what's a demon, I mean youkai?-

"Very perceptive," a deep voice whispered behind her. Katrina jumped and turned to find Hiei behind her, now clothed in jeans and a large dark blue long sleeved t-shirt. He stared at her with the stoic expression he mostly wore.

"Pperceptive about what?" she stuttered, feeling her cheeks go red as her eyes fell on his crotch for a split second. -Dammit Kat! Get a hold of yourself! Don't look there!- she thought feircely.

Hiei, catching a whif of her thoughts tried very hard not to blush. -Am I having the same effect on her as she does on me? I would say 'paybacks a bitch' except I'm not so sure how I feel about driving her and her hormones crazy...- He shook his head. "There are other youkai around town, and Puu," he pointed to the bird that was now inspecting Katrina with his large yellow beak and warm brown eyes. Katrina laughed and petted him between his large ears on the black fur. "Puu is also slightly demonic. He's techincally a spirit beast but since his master has now turned into a youkai he has also become slightly demonic."

He knew he should have shut up the moment before he said 'master' when Katrina turned her beautiful eyes to him, questioning. "Who's his master?" she asked.

Hiei mentaly cursed himself as he told her. "Yusuke."

"WHAT!" she practically yelled, scaring Puu slightly. Hiei rubbed his temples, severely damning the binding and the orders she had given.

Before she could ask anymore questions Shuichi came down the hall saying, "Ah, there you two are, Yukina has some tea ready for you while you wait for your clothes to dry and before you leave." Katrina, before he could get any closer, jumped out of the room and closed the door. She didn't want an innocent human to come face to face with a youkai, even if it was cute and cuddly. "I also called your family Katrina, I told them why you have been gone for the a whole day. I told them that you got lost in the woods and Hiei had gone looking for you right before the storm but you became trapped by the storm and had to find a safe place to stay. Once it let off a little you two were able to get to the shrine and now you're staying here until the storm dies." His eyes smiled. "They yelled at me why I hadn't called sooner and I told them that we didn't know the number and that any how the power went out here for a bit. I believe they had called out a manhunt for you." Kurama saw the stiffness between the two petite beings. Then he noticed that they were standing by Puu's room. -Oh my, I guess Katrina stumbled upon Puu and is now trying to keep me from finding him. It's going to be a shocker once she finds out the truth about all of us.- He sweated. "Why don't we go sit down and wait out the storm in comfort."

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The storm didn't end that day or the next day. Katrina had been given a room to stay in for the duration of the storm. Right now she was sitting just inside her sliding door that led onto a covered walkway, watching the rain drown the lawn. -The storm isn't natural, but still it shouldn't have lasted this long.- she contemplated. -The creator of the storm should have been drained of their energy before the first day had ended. Something else is fueling this storm.- She looked at the sky and sighed. -I have to find out what's going on but I really don't like the idea of sending Anitra out in this storm.-

She sighed again as she closed the door and went in search for her purple stone necklace. When she found it she sat cross legged and held the stone in between her cupped hands. She closed her eyes and concentrated. After awhile she chanted. "I, Katrina, represent Spirit, the great element that encompasses all. By the power in me I summon my familiar, the pheonix Anitra. Come to me Anitra!"

As she chanted the stone started to glow bright purple and rise into the air. When she finished, slightly shouting the last line in a commanding voice, the stone flashed bright. When the light faded a bright purple bird as big as Katrina's chest hovered in front of her, it's wings spread wide, showing iridescent under wings. The long and flowing crest feathers and tail feathers were also iridescent. It stared at Katrina with bright gold eyes. Katrina smiled and held out her arm to the pheonix. "Hello Anitra, beautiful girl," she cooed. Anitra cooed in responce and flew onto her arm and butted her head into Katrina's chin. Katrina laughed and petted the head.

After a few minutes of showering the pheonix with affection Katrina sighed. "Anitra, I have a job for you, but it might be dangerous." Anitra looked at her summoner, listening. "It involves going out in that storm." Katrina stood up carefully and walked to the door to open it. She pointed outside. "You don't have to go if you don't want to." The bird studied the storm then looked to Katrina and bobbed her head saying that she would brave the storm. Katrina sighed again. "I need you to find what is causing this unnatural storm. Will you do that?" Again the pheonix nodded. "Alright, but come back if it gets too dangerous, understand?" The pheonix nodded once again then lifted off of Katrina's arm and flew outside into the storm.

Katrina sat down to wait for her familiar. She reflected how she and her circle came to find out how to summon a familiar. They had been going over some books they had found in a magic shop, the kind of magic shop that actually dealt with real magick, not like the cheap trick stores. Lisa had decided they should try to summon a familiar that would help them in their magick. Lisa had managed to summon Sila, the green tiger. Serena had summoned the little yellow pixie Resa. Marissa summoned a ruby colored three tail fox named Aria. Alex had summoned a small thin blue dragon and named her Adra. Katrina and Cassandra had both summoned a pheonix, except, like their summoners, they were totally opposite in coloring, where Anitra was bright purple with gold eyes, Ancra, Cassandra's familiar, was gold and purple. All of the familiars were female like there summoners. Normally the familiars were only called on when the circle was doing magick that required support from others and the familiars filled that roll. Sometimes the familiars were sent on missions to find something out that was impossible for their masters to find out on their own, such as going somewhere their masters couldn't go, like now. The girls hated putting their familiars in dangerous situations, but sometimes it was neccessary.

Katrina waited close to fifteen minutes before Anitra returned, mostly okay except drenched and shivering. Katrina quickly closed the door behind her as she carried the pheonix inside, then took off her clothes and wrapped the pheonix in the robes to warm her. After the bird had warmed Katrina knelt down to it. "Anitra, what did you find out?"

Anitra lifted her head to touch it to Katrina's forehead. Instantly Katrina had visions of several gray skinned beings with three horns on their heads and in darker gray robes. They were surrounding a large stone, arms raised to the sky. Above the stone was a large hole in the air. Then the vision stopped. Katrina sat back, wondering at what she had just seen. Anitra cooed and Katrina turned her attention back to her familiar. She petted it and smiled. "Good girl. Now you can rest." She then chanted, "Anitra, familiar of Spirit, return whence you came to await upon my next call." Anitra cooed one last time as she glowed bright then faded out of existence.

Katrina sat back, thinking. The door slid open and she squeaked and reached for her clothes.

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Hiei was walking past Katrina's door when he felt her thoughts. For once her mind shields were down and he was able to see what she was 'seeing'. After the vision died away he narrowed his eyes. -Didn't expect that many youkai. What are they doing, going against Enki's law of no mischief in Ningenkai?- he thought, referring to the king of Makai. He had won the tournament for king in Makai and kept up the law of no mischeif in Ningenkai. But now here was several storm youkai causing a large storm and trying to open a portal to Makai.

He turned to Katrina's door and slid it open. He found the girl only in her panties. Katrina squeaked and reached for her oddly wet clothes. Hiei backed up and closed the door. "Uh, sorry," he said hurridly, slightly blushing.

After a few seconds Katrina slid the door open, glaring at the fire apparition. "What is it?" she growled.

"I caught your vision. Those are storm youkai and they're opening a portal to Makai," he answered. "I was thinking of going to deal with them, but I need a little more slack in your 'leash'," he said, thinking that maybe he could trick her into allowing him to go home.

Katrina wasn't easily fooled or maybe she just wasn't thinking, because she ordered, "Fine come back after you deal with these youkai and seal the portal," She slid the door closed.

Hiei cursed, it hadn't worked. He sighed and headed off to confront the youkai.

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Katrina watched the storm for a good thirty minutes before it suddenly died. She smiled, -It looks like Hiei did it. Now I can go home.- She got up and walked to the big room that Genkai, Yukina and Shuichi were sitting in. "Hey, thanks again for letting me stay and borrow the clothes but I think I should hurry home in case the storm kicks up again," she said, acting like the storm was natural, she didn't want normal people to know about the storm being unnatural and caused by youkai.

Shuichi stood up, "I think I should escort you home, then I should be off too." They walked to the large doors, turning to bow in goodbye then hurried out the door.

Katrina and Shuichi made their way carefully down the stairs. Katrina didn't need to wait for Hiei, he would follow inevitably and be next to her before they had even gotten home.

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Hiei cursed as he closed the portal. "Dammit! A golden opprotunity and I couldn't order her to let me go back home." He started to walk back when he felt the 'leash' tighten uncomfortably, telling him that the witchling was leaving Genkai's and that he had better hurry to her side. He cursed again. -That damned witchling! How could I have been so foolish to let her get away with this!- he ranted as he sped to the amethyst eyed witch.

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Hiei met them at the bottom of the steps, surprising Katrina despite that she was expecting him to pop up sometime. Hiei turned to Kurama, saying brusquely "I think I can take her home. You don't live anywhere near her and I think your parents are just as worried as hers." Kurama nodded, not wanting to argue with Hiei in this temper.

Shuichi turned to Katrina and smiled. "I guess I can't argue that. I'll see you later then. Bye." He turned and walked in the opposite direction that Katrina's house lay in.

Katrina turned to Hiei, glaring. "You didn't need to be so rude you prick!" She stormed past him.

Hiei, fed up with dealing with her tongue growled and nearly jumped on her as he grabbed her arm and got in her face real close. "Listen here. I'm fed up with your little hissy fits and your tongue. I've been polite so far, trying my damnedest to keep my own temper under control, and trying even harder to keep my body under control, especially whenever I see you in your underwear, which seems to happen so often I'm beginning to think that you're doing half of it on purpose." Katrina opened her mouth but Hiei stopped her. "For almost two weeks I have dealt with your little antics, have obeyed your foolish orders, have been stuck in Ningenkai with baka ningens, and to top it all off, I just spent a a whole night with you in the forest with you only in your scanty lingerie. For some insane reason you're making my body act like a hormonal nineteen year old ningen and it's very frusturating especially when I had to use body heat to warm your unconcious body. I have no idea why I didn't leave the portal that you and your witchling friends pulled me through open and let some stray youkai come and eat you five. Now I'm stuck with you when I would rather be somewhere else. If I'm to be stuck with you then I will but I won't put up with your tongue or temper anymore!" he growled, his voice staying a husky level, eyes narrowed dangerously.

Katrina, pissed, jerked her arm away from him and growled just as angrily as he. "Go fuck yourself you damned infernal asshole. Next time you touch me like that I will order you to inflict great damage on yourself, such as racking yourself repeatedly until you need testical retreivals on both sides!"

Hiei got into her face, eyes glowing, but didn't touch her. He thought fast before he said, "I order you to never use the words 'fuck', 'screw', 'hump', 'rack', 'injure', 'damage' or anything to do with causing bodily harm to myself when giving an order."

Katrina tried to tell him that he could shove his stupid order up his ass but words wouldn't come out. She finaly realized that she wouldn't be able to say it to him until she used her order. -Dammit!- She huffed and turned around. "Lets go home," she said irritatedly stalking off. Hiei growled but followed her.