CHAPTER 3

Though Hiei was no longer in pain his mind was still battling with old memories made nightmarish thanks to the poison in his eye. He drempt of Yukina, his sister, running toward him, holding flowers and looking so happy. When he tried to call her name he discovered he had no voice. As he watched her come toward him he suddenly noticed two huge red eyes appear behind her then sickle-like hands.

He called to her again reached for his sword but found he still had no voice and didn't have a weapon. He watched helplessly as the demon screeched and Yukina turned to it, her eyes filling with fear. Wanting desperately to save her, he tried to run toward her but he couldn't move. All he could do was watch as the demon came down upon his sister with its sickle hands. The demon sliced into the ice maiden and as she fell flowers were blown everywhere in the breeze.

Hiei woke up screaming his sister's name. "YUKINA!" His blood red eyes searched around him for the demon but there weren't any demons and he wasn't in a field. He was in a bedroom. Flopping back down on the soft pillows he breathed heavily until he calmed down. Only a dream, he thought staring at the ceiling that looked like a starry sky. Only a dream...

Then he sat up again and looked around himself. He realized once again that he was in someone's bedroom. A window was to his left and he could just see the sun beginning to rise. Inside the room he saw a dresser with a silver heart shaped jewelbox on it. There wasn't much else in the room except a chair, a table, and the bed he was lying in.

Where am I? he thought, looking around. How did I get here?

Then, as he stared at the door, he had a hallucination of a strange red haired girl in a weird purple outfit come barging into the room and start chattering nonstop.

"Hello, friend," the girl said happily. "I hope you feel better." she grabbed up his clothes from the floor (A/N Raven left them there when she was done) and smiled at him. "Let me fix these with the machine ofsewing! You rest up and friend Raven will check on you in a few hours!"

Then she was gone.

Hiei sat there a moment staring at the after image of the girl then flopped back down on the bed and rested his arm on his forehead, only to remove it a second later when it began to hurt. The demon touched it gingerly and felt a bandage. When his other arm fell at his side he felt another bandage.

What? he thought, sitting up and looking at his chest. How did? He looked toward the door. Did she? He flopped down once again. Man am I tired... He closed his eyes again. I'll figure it out later...

"Azerath, Metrion, Zinthose," Raven floated six inches above her bed, mediating.

As she tried to empty her mind of thought it began to fill more and more with images of that strange boy who had fallen from the sky. She couldn't figure it out, but there was something about him...

"Friend!" a perky voice exclaimed, throwing Raven out of her meditation.

Raven opened her eyes and glared at Starfire who had barged into her room uninvited. The red haired alien girl was grinning at Raven and holding an old looking sewing machine.

"Friend Raven," Starfire said walking forward. "I am in need of you assistance at threading the machine of sewing."

Raven stared at the machine. "Why do you need me to help you thread that?" she asked.

"Because I want to fix our new friend's clothes," Starfire replied, holding up Hiei's coat and shirt.

"Fine," Raven said using her powers to thread the machine. "There, now will you please get out of my room?"

Slade returned to the spot where he'd lost the remote to open the portal but, after an hour of searching, he found nothing. Well not exactly nothing, he found the corpse of the dragon still lying on the pavement with it's abdomine sliced open like a Thanksgiving turky. As he stared at the dragon he realized that the Titans would never do anything like this, they were too humain. But if they didn't do it... he remembered the second thing that had come out of the portal.

It had been much smaller but very powerful. If the smaller demon had done this it would make a very useful ally. But where was it now?

"Don't worry, you'll be all right," a dark figure was speaking to Hiei in his dreams. "Just hold still so I can see what is wrong..."

Something touched his forehead and he winced, making himself wake up again. As he sat up he saw that the sun had risen higher in the sky and was now above the horizen.

Morning, he thought as he stared at the big bright star. But I still have no idea where I am...

He slid out of the bed and his foot banged against something on the floor. When he looked down at it he saw it was his sword. Leaning over, he picked his weapon up and looked at it. Well whoever brought me here wasn't smart enough to steal my weapon, he thought.

Then he remembered the perky hallucination who had come into his room hours earlier. Maybe it wasn't a hallucination after all...

Suddenly he heard the door open. "You shouldn't be up yet," a voice said behind him.

He looked over his shoulder and watched someone come in.

This person wasn't the same one that had come in earlier. This one was also a girl but she was pale, even paler than him. She had dark purpleish hair and purpleish blue eyes. She wore a blue cape and a black leotard with a golden belt covered in shiny red stones wrapping around her waist. She held a book in her hand that had Japanese writing on it. She was also very pretty... not that he would notice that part... or so he thought.

"Who are you?" he asked, staring at her, eyeing her up and down and making sure she wasn't a threat.

"My name is Raven," the girl said in an emotionless voice.

"Raven?" the demon said as if trying out the name. He had never heard of anyone with that name before, especially not a purple haired girl in a black leotard, with a gold belt studded with red stones, that read books in Japanese. "What kind of name is that?"

Raven didn't like the way he asked the question. He sounded like he was making fun of her for being named Raven. She might have a weird name but he was the phsyco who had painfil tear your eyes out surgery just to have a fake eye implanted. Compared to that; her name was perfectly normal and he couldn't talk. The pale girl raised her hand and Hiei's coat and shirt appeared over it. She thrust the clothing at him and his fast reflexes made his left hand reach up and grab them before they hit his face.

She was surprise at how quick his reaction was but wasn't about to let him know. All she said was. "It's the kind of name you give someone who doesn't like looking at a man's naked chest." Then felt stupid for saying that. He actually had a very nice chest, a whole lot better looking than even Robin's (not that she would know) and this boy was about the same age if not a little older.

Hiei began putting his shirt ion as he eyed her in annoyance. "Shouldn't you not be watching then?" he asked.

"What?" she inquired taken by surprise by the question.

Hiei explained as he slipped on his shirt. "You said you don't like looking at naked chests yet you keep staring at me," he replied, his voice and face grouchy and annoyed. "And by the look on your face you don't look like you really mind. That makes you a liar."

Raven felt her cheeks burning. She;d been staring without realizing it. Ooops... So maybe she did but never realized it before.

Stop that, Raven! she barreted herself, still not bothering to get out of the room. What is it with you lately? Yesterday you think his face looks cute and now you're saying you don't like looking at men's naked chests yet you don't look away!

Hiei was still waiting for her to move. "Would you get out already?" he demanded. "I don't like being stared at when I'm getting dressed!"

"Oh... uhh...," Raven's face flared red as she backed out of the room. "Okay... fine..."
When she was finally gone Hiei put on his coat and gingerly felt the bandage covering his jagan eye. She did this. He didn't know how he knew but he guested it was because of the book she had been holding. Though it had been a little hard to read he'd seen the title. Legendary Objects of Great Power. Under the title had been written. Secrets and Facts About The Jagan.

So she knew about it and knew what it was. If she knew that much what else did she know?

Hiei let his hand drop to his side and wondered why he cared. Maybe it was because she'd used some sort of dark powers to materialize his clothes out of thin air.

Dark powers, he pondered as he wrapped his white scarf around his neck. Interesting...

A/N

I think I spelled Jagan wrong...

I sorta got the dream idea from an Inuyasha episode where Sango's dreaming about her little brother and she's in a field.

So they might be a little OOC in this chapter. I tried my best. The only person I have an easy time getting their character right it Starfire. Don't hurt me!