I groaned slightly as the man pressed against my burnt skin as he held me. Slowly I became aware that we were moving very quickly through the forest just as dizziness started to overtake me. Stay awake. Come on Kira, you have to… I ordered myself but finally I couldn't take it anymore and drifted into unconsciousness.

Slowly my eyes inched their way open and I stared straight ahead, too weak to force any unnecessary movement upon myself and deciding it best to save what little energy I had for a quick getaway if I got the chance. I saw the blurry green outlines of trees above and closed my eyes again to clear my spinning head. I listened intently for surrounding sounds and was slowly able to make out the crackling of wood fires and the aroma of roasted fish filling the air. There was also a small stream rushing past nearby. I forced my eyes open once more, flinching as someone shouted.

"So, she awakens!" The wolf leader who had carried me away was kneeling beside me, staring down but smiling. I assumed he didn't mean any harm because of this. He shifted, plopping down cross legged at my side while I lay there weakly and regarded me closely. "So what were you doing with that demon alone and while you're so badly hurt?"

I frowned and forced out a word. "Learning."

"Learning? Learning what exactly?"

"How to… Withdraw my wings." I gasped. I'm even more out of it than before, what's going on? I thought fearfully. Did he do something to me?

"A winged wolf demon?" He questioned and I barely managed a nod. He shook his head and dismissed his thoughts. "Well, I am Hitaru. And you are?"

"K-Kira." I grunted faintly.

He smiled. "Well Kira, you're feeling unusually drained, is that right?"

I jumped noticeably. "What… did you do?"

Hitaru raised his hands harmlessly in the air. "Don't worry, it will pass. You are very hurt and we're brining you to someone who will heal you. But you have to be unconscious for him to take you in. We didn't want to have to hurt you so we turned to this method instead. You're doing well though, it should have taken affect long ago."

I opened my mouth to yell at him and felt my lips moving yet no sounds came out. My eyes widened as I realized this and I paused, staring up into the seemingly concerned face of Hitaru. It seemed like I had no choice than to trust him and whoever he was taking me to, but what about Kyoshi? He got left behind again and I had no way of showing him where I was… Suddenly darkness surrounded me and the more I fought it, the faster it took over. Soon I was totally consumed and out cold once again beside a stranger. This seemed to happen to me way too often.


My ears started working before the rest of my senses and I remained still, listening to the sounds around me. I heard wind rustling the leaves of many trees and realized we were still in a forest. A steam bubbled past nearby and I tried to reach for it, only to find I couldn't move. I forced myself to stay calm and focused, hearing the breathing of another nearby. I sniffed the air and caught Hitaru's scent. He's still here… I thought slowly. Where am I? I somehow managed to force my eyes open and my guesses were confirmed. I was in a tiny clearing of a forest leaning against the base of a tree and maybe ten feet away, winding itself through the trees, was a nice little stream. Hitaru was on my right only a few feet away.

He turned suddenly and, seeing I was awake, smiled at me and came to my side. "You're awake already!" He cried. "Does it feel any better?"

I suddenly realized that my body wasn't enveloped in the dull ache from the burns and stab wounds any more. Instead there was just a faint tingling where the deepest cuts had been but the burnt skin felt as if nothing at all was wrong. I tried to open my mouth, make a sound, but found I could do neither.

Hitaru nodded, as if understanding. "Yes, it may not have worn off yet. You did breathe in quite a bit of the stuff since you wouldn't black out right away. But as you can probably tell your body has been healed fully while you were asleep."

I nodded, my head moving so slightly it almost seemed that it hadn't moved at all, as I wondered nervously about what stuff he was talking about.

My eyes had fallen lazily to watch the ground but they jerked quickly back up as I felt a hand stroke my cheek. I realized Hitaru had moved closer, sitting kneeling in front of me, between my outstretched legs. I tried to pull them to my chest, raise a hand to push him away but couldn't move. He smiled at me, brushing my hair from my face. "You're so beautiful…" He murmured. My eyes widened slightly as I sat helplessly with him inching even closer. He traced a clawed finger over the crescent moon on my forehead and I became suddenly aware that we were alone. His men and wolves seemed to have vanished while I was asleep.

My eyes seemed to be the only part of me that would move and I searched frantically for any signs of life to call to for help but nothing moved except for the wind blown leaves and the bubbling stream.

He pressed still closer, his hair now falling in lose strands from his ponytail to tickle my cheek. He leaned forward and kissed my forehead, sliding his lips down past my eye and down my cheek, coating the skin with feathery kisses. One of his hands held my cheek gently yet firmly and the other found its way to my waist.

My widened eyes sunk to a lazy half open position, an effect I assumed of whatever he had given me to knock me out. They flashed rapidly between colors in my nervousness and fear but I couldn't even cause my body to tense. It was as if I was lifeless.

Hitaru pulled back slightly and brought his lips to hover over my own as he spoke in a gentle whisper. "Yes, you are beautiful. I didn't want to do this with you so injured. It wouldn't have felt right." He paused, kissing me lightly on the lips, his just barely brushing my own, and then continued again. "But now you are healed so it's ok, right?" He gave a slight laugh along with a smirk as he kissed me again, pressing slightly harder his lips to mine. His hand moved from my waist, sliding across to my upper back, tracing it along the tender freshly healed skin. He felt the blood there that came from the wings, and pulled away. He brought the bloody hand to his face and licked it, grinning. "Your blood tastes good." He murmured.

He lunged forward and his lips found mine, pressing hard this time. My eyes shot wide again but quickly sunk back to rest half closed. Hitaru didn't pull away this time. His lips rested firmly against mine and I felt his tongue maneuvering into my mouth, easily passing the slack jaw. My eyes rolled back and I seemed to grow even more relaxed instead of tense. What… is he doing… to me? I thought, my head jumbled and cloudy and both arms hanging limp at my sides. I felt his hand resting on my cheek as he still kissed me, running through my hair, rubbing my head softly. His other went to my back, tracing down the shirt, pausing at the holes where the wings had been to feel bare skin and then moving on lower. It reached the bottom of my shirt and the fingers began to creep just below my pants line in the back, sliding around my waist to the front where they inched slightly deeper, massaging the skin briefly and then returning to my back to pull me forward to him.

His body was pressed tightly against mine now, his tongue searching rapidly around the inside of my mouth. I felt the silent tears falling and I know Hitaru did as well as they ran down my cheeks and onto his. He pulled away finally, smiling as he wiped away my tears. Still more came and he whispered, "What's wrong? You don't like me?" He smirked again and I grew even more afraid. He didn't take pity, he just wanted to please himself. "You'll grow to love me, I know it." He growled suddenly. Thoughts immediately flew around my head. What? Does that mean he doesn't intend to let me go? The tears doubled at this thought as he pressed his lips to my forehead again, and inched by my eye and down the cheek to the chin, running along it and creeping down my neck to my chest. He paused, feeling the cloth covering it and I felt his hands leave my cheek and back, sliding across my skin to find my waist and then moving up my sides to my chest. They searched briefly, nudged the locket aside, and found the neckline of my t-shirt and the claws took hold.

My ears stood rigid as I heard the tearing of fabric, maddeningly slow. I closed my eyes as his lips found mine again and his tongue disappeared once more inside me. As he kissed me his hands worked rapidly at the cloth, tearing lower and lower. My eyes grew ever wider with terror and before I knew it I had slammed both hands into his chest, my claws piercing him in ten places.

Hitaru fell back, his lips leaving mine with a small smacking sound, and brought a hand to his chest. He pulled it back and found blood, his blood now and stared at me with wide eyes as I sat against the tree in shock, trying to make the already torn parts of my shirt's front stay together while my eyes never left his.

Suddenly he smiled and smirked again. "Already recovered? You're tougher than I thought but that's ok, I like my women strong." He took a folded piece of cloth from his shirt and crawled towards me. "But I always keep the upper hand, remember that." He held it towards me and even from a few feet away I could smell what was on it and felt my eyes sinking closed. No, I have to get away! I thought frantically as I scrambled weakly backwards. He just laughed. "Trying to escape? You're too weak to make even a sound and this drug greatly effects you. I've built up immunity to it."

"W-wrong…!" I said in a hoarse whisper as inched to my hands and feet, crouching low as I glared at his shocked face.

"How are you…?" He shook his head. "No matter, you won't get very far."

"D-don't underestimate me." I snarled as I raised myself a little higher.

Seeing that I was almost able to stand, Hitaru lunged forward. My reaction was just delayed enough by the drug that he caught my foot as I leapt away and dragged me back. "No you don't…" He growled as he pulled me to him. I lashed out with my claws but he caught my hand in his and kissed it lightly. He forced me under him and got on top, one of his knees in the dirt on either side of my stomach. He let himself collapse with a smirk and the wind was knocked momentarily out of me as he lay on top across me. His head rested firmly on my chest and I couldn't move no matter how much I thrashed around. He turned it to the side and kissed, once again tracing up along my neck and stopping on my cheek just under the eye. He smiled and pulled back slightly, an elbow across my stomach and his legs and waist on mine to hold me down beneath him. He raised the free hand that clutched the drugged rag and pressed it to my face, smothering me with the strong smell. I thrashed wildly, trying to fight the immediate affects of it.

Slowly I stilled and Hitaru smiled in satisfaction. He lifted himself from me and placed one knees on either side of my legs, moving down my body so his stomach was over my waist. His hands began to work rapidly at the belt I wore, trying to tear at the metal buckle I was so glad I had worn. It slowed him down as he hadn't seen anything like it before. I flinched back into the ground as he placed his teeth around it, gnawing it into nothing. With a soft snap the belt fell from my waist and he smiled with satisfaction before tearing down the front of the actual pants, biting off the button and yanking awkwardly at the zipper. I meanwhile let my head fall to the side, trying not to let panic overtake me as the rag slid off my mouth. I held my breath and when I had to, only took tiny short breaths of air at a time.

Growing momentarily bored of wrestling with my pants, Hitaru dragged his body along mine, smearing the blood from his wounded chest along me, his hand caressing my cheek. With a huge effort I snapped, catching his hand in my teeth and biting down, felt his blood entering my mouth. I gagged and he freed himself, rubbing his hand yet still smiling. "You are a naughty girl. Time to be punished." He laughed evilly as he kissed my lips briefly, not venturing to stick his tongue in this time as I spat out his blood hatefully. He slid himself uncomfortably along me again, pausing at my lower stomach. He lifted the shirt slightly, kissing and sucking on the skin as I felt his hands return to working at my pants.

I heard the zipper sliding down and desperation took me as the entire clothes began sliding down my hips, beginning to reveal the top of my underwear. Closing my eyes tightly shut I did the first thing that popped into my hazy head, pictured the wolf. There it was, clear as day in my head. A pure black wolf with green streaks and strange facial markings. In the next second I heard Hitaru's startled cry as he found his cheek resting on the side of a large wolf instead of my stomach.

I thrashed out with a clawed paw, catching his arm and leaving fairly deep gashes. He fell back and I scrambled to my feet, glaring at him with crimson eyes before turning and taking off through the woods. I heard him cry out and come crashing after me and tried to increase my pace but he was definitely gaining. I crashed through the stream and to the other side, venturing into the darker parts of the woods. Out of the corner of my eye I saw an old hollowed out tree leaning to one side as if ready to topple over. Without a second's thought I shrunk down to the size of a puppy and ducked inside the tree, hiding in its shadows and closing my eyes so they wouldn't glow obviously from the gloom.

I heard footsteps run quickly past and huddled further into the tree, shivering slightly but otherwise remaining still. "I know you're here, Kira. I can sense your scent!" Hitaru cried out and I barely suppressed a whimper. After a heart stopping moment of silence the footstepsfaded into the distance and I relaxed slightly yet didn't move, scared to death of what would happen if he found me again.


A while passed and I heard nothing more when suddenly a face appeared in front of the hole. I yelped loudly and a hand reached out, clamping my muzzle closed together. I whimpered hystericallybut then noticed the eyes staring at me were red. Hiei…? I thought in disbelief.

Hiei nodded and pulled me out from the tree, next scooping me into his arms. "What happened?" He asked aloud.

I shivered, snuggling into him for comfort and he didn't protest, seeing how bothered I was. It was a wolf demon, Hitaru. He stole me away, drugged me and had me healed. Then while the drug was still in effect he… I paused and Hiei nodded solemnly, motioning that he understood as he clenched a fist in hidden rage. Let's go home… I whimpered and he started walking.

"Wait, where's Kyoshi?"

My whimpering increased with my growing worry. I don't know! I was taken away from him!

Hiei nodded again and assured me, "We'll find him, don't worry." He held me, a black puppy sized wolf, shaking and shivering with terror in his arms as he walked through the dark forest silently.