Hiya Minna! May I say that you all look absolutely marvelous today!

'Stop sucking up. They're still gonna be mad at you.'

sigh- I know, but it was worth a try!

'If ya say so.'

I say so, so shut up.

Anyway, as I was saying before Kitzuko so rudely interrupted...

I'm SOOOOOO sorry! Really, really sorry!

I know it's been almost three months since I've updated, and I apologize!

It's just that between my writer's block and complete laziness, I never got around to finishing the damn chapter!

But I finally finished, so read, enjoy, and review after you're done!

Last Time:

"Hopefully, binding her powers to you will also join her soul to yours and help block Kikyo's spell." Hiei kept quiet, processing all the information. He had wanted to know about Kagome, but this was way more than he had intended to learn. He had been looking for birth date, place of residence, trivial things like that. Not all of this.

Now his protective youkai instincts would make him want to take care of her. And if he didn't, and resisted, he knew that his nice, peaceful life would be turned into a living hell. He might even go insane. Fighting with yourself tended to do that to you.

This Time:

Midoriko sighed, the koorime seemed to be lost in his thoughts. She sat down on a fallen log, one that was conveniently placed in the perfect position for spying on the other clearing. "Sit down and make yourself comfortable, the show will be starting soon."

Her voice jarred Hiei out of his musings. "Show? What show? We're in the middle of a forest, you baka ningen!" Midoriko sighed again, she seemed to be doing that a lot lately. "We're in Kagome's memory, remember? Of course we're going to see something. Why else would we be here?"

Hiei growled threateningly at her. He didn't like her tone. He had killed countless others for less than what she had already done. First, she wakes him- by shaking him, no less- then, she yells at him, and now she had the nerve to mock him! "Watch it, ningen." "What? Are you going to kill me? I'm already dead!"

"As soon as I find out why I'm here and how to get out, you are going to find out what it means to hurt," he promised her solemnly. "The mind and soul can still feel pain, even if they are no longer housed in a mortal body," Hiei said, his red eyes glowing with malice as he thought of ways to bring about this onna's death. Preferably if it involved lots of pain on her part.

"Oh, calm down, munchkin. You should really look into getting a fuck buddy. I hear it relaxes the body." Hiei growled, this ningen assumed to make suggestions on his sex life! She was a ghost! A bloody ghost! He didn't care about causing her pain anymore, all he wanted now was to bathe his katana in her translucent blood!

Hiei was brought out of his gory musings by a twig snapping in the forest. "What was that?" "That, my dear munchkin, is our cue to take our seats. Our show is about to start." As soon as she finished talking, a figure stepped out from the shadows and into the other clearing. And not just any figure, either- Hiei recognized the man as the inu hanyou in Kagome's thoughts that afternoon.

"Inuyasha." "Oh, so you do know some of Kagome's history." Midoriko said, sounding pleased. Hiei reverted back to his favorite word, "Hn." "Shush, you." Midoriko reprimanded, then turned back to the other clearing.

"Kikyo. What are you doing here?" the hanyou asked. "I have come for you Inuyasha. Or have you forgotten your promise already?" "Of course not Kikyo, but I need more time. I can't go to hell yet, we haven't recovered all the pieces of the Shikon." "Is it the jewel that you stay for, Inuyasha? Or is it my reincarnation?"

"Kagome? No way Kikyo! I love only you! The only reason I keep her around is because she can sense the jewel shards, that's all." Kikyo looked skeptical of his proclamation. "Are you sure Inuyasha? You have no feelings for my reincarnation?" "No Kikyo! As soon as the jewel is finished, I'll send her back to her time and then I'll go to hell with you, I promise."

Kikyo seemed satisfied with his answer, because she smiled. Well, it was more of a slight upwards turn of her mouth, but Inuyasha seemed happy with it. "Are you going to stay this time, Kikyo? Last time you left really fast." "Of course, if that is what you wish, Inuyasha."

He grinned in pleasure, and leaned in for a peck on the lips. A sudden rustle of the bushes nearby brought the attention of all the people in both clearings to the thicket of plants. "Inuyasha? Are you out here? Sango said that you had just left suddenly, so I came to look..." Kagome's voice trailed off when she finally cleared the trees and got a good look at the occupants of the clearing.

"Oh. Konnichi wa, Kikyo-san." Kagome said with forced politeness. "Will you be coming back to camp soon, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, focusing her attention only on Inuyasha and trying to ignore the woman that looked so much like her. "Nah. Go back to camp, Kagome. You shouldn't be wandering around alone; you'll get kidnapped again and then I'll have to waste my jewel-hunting time saving you." Inuyasha replied scathingly.

Kagome visibly flinched at his accusation, but shrugged it off to say, "Just don't do anything stupid." Inuyasha snorted, "When have I ever been stupid? You're the one who broke the jewel, wench." Kagome sighed in defeat. "OK. But don't let her take you to hell." With a final glance towards Kikyo, Kagome turned and walked off in the direction that she first appeared from.

"That's it? You brought me here to see that? Now I'm really going to kill you onna. You wasted my sleeping time." Hiei scowled up at the deceased miko, promising death with his glowing ruby eyes. Midoriko sighed yet again. "Calm down, munchkin." Hiei growled at the little pet name she had decided to use for him.

"The point of having you see this was to give you a heads-up about what you're getting into. While Inuyasha might be an indecisive moron, he is still strong and won't like you hanging around Kagome. He has deemed her as 'his,' whether or not it's true is another matter."

"So the whole point of this was to tell me to be careful around the hanyou? That was unnecessary. The hanyou can't touch me. He is a hanyou, after all." Midoriko smirked, "Now, now. Don't get cocky. I'm not doing it for your sake, anyway. It's Kagome I'm worried about. If Inuyasha starts to get possessive, she might get her hopes up again, only to have them crushed like all the other times."

"Hn. I doubt the hanyou will get jealous. There will be nothing to get jealous of. Now, if we're finished here, I'd like to get back to bed." "Yeah, okay. Just close your eyes," Midoriko instructed. Hiei glared at her suspiciously for a second, then closed his eyes. In a shimmer of white sparkles, he was gone. "This will be interesting, to say the least." Midoriko smirked happily. "I hope things go alright."

Ah, I'm done! And now I can get to the reviewer responses!

K-chan - Thanks and I'll see you on Tuesday!
Skitzoflame- Thanks :)
Magemaster- I know! Hiei/Kag all the way!
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Jess- Sorry for taking so long!
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I-Love-Hiei - Yay! We love Hiei! We should start a club!
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