CHAPTER 5 WHAT SHE KNOWS

"Hello," Robin said walking up to the demon. "I'm glad you're feeling better. Can I ask you a few questions on something?"

"Who are you?" Hiei asked, eyeing Robin up and down. Robin sounded like he knew something, unlike the others, not including Raven. Maybe this kid could tell Hiei where he was and how he got there. "I would like to ask you a few questions too," he said as he and the black haired human walked over to the sofa.

"Yeah?" Robin asked sitting down. "Like what?"

Hiei sat down on the sofa and put his hands behind his head and he propped his feet up on the coffee table (He does do that sometimes he did it in the final Yu Yu episode). "Who are you? Where am I? How did I get here?"

"Well for your first question my name is Robin. You're on Earth in Jump City (I hope I'm right) America, and from what I can gather you came out of a portal in the sky that a man named Slade opened up."

"Hmmm," Hiei muttered turning his attention toward the window. Earth... I figured that. But which Earth? This one feels different than that fool Yusuke's. A parrallel world? That has to be it. "So I came through a portal?" he took his feet off the table and faced Robin. "Do you make it a habit to help people who fall from the sky?"

Robin was taken aback by that question. "I guess," he said honestly. "You were injured, We couldn't have just left you there to bleed to death."

"Maybe you should have," Hiei said quietly.

Robin heard him and stared at him in confusion. "Why would I do that?" he wanted to know.

Hiei looked back out the window. "You might regret it," he muttered.

"Why would we regret it?"

The demon didn't answer. He just stared out the window thoughtfully.

Robin wondered what the fire demon was thinking about but didn't bother asking. He had the strangest feeling that if he did he wouldn't get an answer anyway.

"So," Robin started up again, leaning back into the sofa. "Where exactly did you come from?"

Hiei still didn't look back at the Teen Titan's leader. As he stared out the window he said. "The Makai."

"What is the Makai?"

"It's the Demon World," Hiei explained as if Robin didn't know anything. "It's like a parrallel world to Earth in my dimension. I was born there." he said as an after thought.

"So you came from another dimension?"

"I just said that."

"Okay. Umm... Do you have any idea why Slade would want to bring you here?"

"I don't know any Slade," the demon said. "But if I were to guess; he opened the portal that brought me and the dragon here so he could make us destroy your world."

That sounded logical but why did Hiei have to sound so smug about it?

"Are you planning on destroying our world?" Robin asked.

Hiei finally looked at him. A cold glare was on his face. "Do I look like an idiot?" he demanded.

"No."

"Then you already know my answer," the demon said getting up. "I have no reason to destroy this world nor do I have any desire to. I wouldn't gain anything from it." he started to walk away. "I hope that puts your mind at ease."

It did but Robin couldn't understand the demon's attitude. He was cold. Colder than Raven sometimes and more dark in his personallity. The teenager began to wonder if maybe Hiei had gone through similair problems in the past like the dark powered girl.

He might have, Robin thought, watching the demon leave the room. Similar or the same. He wasn't sure yet. He'd have to get to know the demon better before he came to that conclusion.

Raven was meditating on the roof of the Titan's Tower when she suddenly sensed that she wasn't the only one up there anymore. She felt a strange dark power beside her. Wondering what it was and why it was so powerful, she opened her eyes and saw it out of the corner of her eye.

A figure dressed in black.

Hmmm...

The pale skinned girl turned her head and stared at Hiei who stood a little ways away from her, staring off into the distance. What's he dong up here? she wondered.

"It reminds me of something," the demon said suddenly.

"Eh?" Raven was surprised. Did he know she'd been staring at him? Had he noticed her when he'd come up? "What?"

"The sun," he said softly, as if he weren't even talking to her but himself. "No matter where I am or what world I'm in it always looks the same."

Raven wondered why he was even telling her this and especially her. Before he'd been rude to her about staring at his chest and now...

"Maybe your world and our world have the same sun," she suggested.

The demon didn't reply. He just stared at the sun thoughtfully. Raven wondered what he was thinking about. What does one like him think about anyway? From what she knew and gueesed from the short time she'd been with him he looked like someone who would rather be left alone most of the time.

Mysterious...

"You know about it, don't you?" he said suddenly.

Raven looked up at him again. "Know about what?" she asked.

He shot her a glare, as if he thought she were being stupid. "Don't play games with me, wench," he snapped. "You know exactly what I am talking about."

Raven wasn't sure she did. "No, I don't," she insisted.

"Yes, you do."

"Maybe if you told me what I am suppost ot know about I can help you," she informed him.

"Fine." Hiei began to unwrap the bandages around his forehead.

Raven saw what he was doing and her eyes got big. "Don't-!" she began.

He didn't listen. As the last bandage fell to the roof he said, pointing at his forehead. "This. My Jagan. How do you know about it?"

"I..." she began staring at the fake eye.

The eye opened just then. It was still a greenish color and when it took in the light the puple grew instead of getting smaller. "GAH!" the de,mon groaned, putting his hands over his forehead as he fell to his knees.

Raven instantly stood up and went over to him. "I told you not to do that," she said as she picked up the bandanges before they blew away. "It's not completey healed yet."

"Damn!" he growled, pounding the roof with his fist. Then he returned to his earlier question. "How do you know about it?"

Raven made him sit up so she could wrap the bandage around his forehead. "I read about it," she replied as she started to re-apply them. "I read a lot. One day I found a book on things with great power and that's how I found out about it..."

"Are you the only one who knows about it?" he wanted to know, grabbing her wrist.

"yes," she said honestly. The others didn't know and she wasn't sure they should. "I'm the only one."

"Good," he said as if he aprroved of that. "Keep it that way."

Raven wondered why he didn't want them to know about it. Maybe he didn't think they'd understand it? Then again she didn't want them to know either. Why did she want to keep it to herself? Maybe because it was something that would be too hard to explain, especially if Beastboy was in the room and he already didn't trust the demon.

Hiei didn't offer any help to her thoughts anyway. He just watched her retying the bandage. Her closeness started to make him feel uncomfortable. He'd never been this close to a girl about his age before. Infact he'd only ever been this close to one person. Mukuro. But she was so much older than him and she was more of a mother than anything. Besides, this girl had a nice face and her hands were soft too...

Hiei caught himself before he started thinking like Kuwabara. He had to get away from this girl. Acting quickly, he pushed her away and stood up.

"Hey!" she exclaimed as she fell back. "I wasn't finished."

"You're finished all right," he said as he finished tying it himself. "Just to let you know, wench, I don't need your help. Not now or ever."

"I..." she began but he was already walking away.

Raven watched him go and started to wonder why he'd acted to strangely. What was wrong with her helping him out anyway? Why'd he suddenly push her back like that? What had he been thinking about? Hmmmm... I wonder...

A/N

I'm trying my best to keep everyone in character but Hiei's a bit hard to figure out. Sometimes he seems very nice in the anime and some times he's real mean. This guy's complicated. All welll I did my best and that's all that counts.

Just to let ya all know I'm not going to update again unless I get at least four reviews. So until then this fic will probably not be updated for awhile. It all depends on how badly you wanna see what happens next. I'M JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE I WANNA KNOW IF ANYONE IS ACTUALLY READING IT!