CHAPTER 13 TESTING HIS SKILLS

Disclaimer: I don't own Hiei or the Teen Titans

Meanwhile back at Titan's tower Raven sat on her bed in her bedroom with her legs tucked up against her chin, thinking about Hiei and everything he'd said to her. He sounded so sad, she thought, remembering when he'd said the word home in that voice full of longing. Maybe he wants to return to his friends.

She stared down at something in her hands. The device that brought him to her dimension in the first place. Maybe I should tell him I have the way to send him home... she turned the the device on and a READY message blinked on. She turned it off. But do I really want him to do that? she asked herself. Should I let him go?

Her heart began to pound as she thought about him. His face, especially his eyes. She set the device down and looked out the window. Do I want to let him go? she wondered. Would it be unfair to me if I did? What about them? Does he miss anyone from there for real?

Then she remembered he'd mentioned soemone he did care about. "The most important person to me is my twin sister, Yukina," he'd said during their discussion earlier that day. "She's the only person I truely care about."

Yukina, Raven thought closing her eyes halfway. The sister who doesn't realize who he is... he cares for her so much! her heart began to beat faster. Does he care about me as well? Even a little?

She set the portal remote down and stood up. He never said he cared about me! she reminded herself. He probably doesn't even have feelings for me. She shook her head. I don't care! I care about him. she put the remote back on her nightstand. It would be selfish if I made him stay here because I have feelings for him...

She felt her face getting hot and realized she was blushing again. She remembered the first time she'd blushed because of him. She'd been staring at his chest and he hadn't liked it. Maybe that was when she first realized she did have feelings for him but somehow she was starting to admit it to herself now.

I do care and have feelings for him, she thought looking out the window at the darkening sky. But...

She turned from the window and headed for the door. Then she changed her mind and returned to her bed. She lay down on a mattress and hugged a pillow to her chest. She closed her eyes and tried to get her mind off of him.

Hiei woke from a dream and stared at the ceiling for a moment as he let himself wake up. Absently he lifted his hand, forgetting for a moment that he was stuck to a table. To his surprise his hand came up and he stared at it a moment in confusion. What? I'm loose? he thought, sitting up. How in the world did that happen?

He looked around the lab, making sure Slade wasn't there. I don't see that stupid bastard anywhere. So maybe I can get out of here before he realizes I found out I can get away...

He jumped off the table and started walking in the direction he thought the exit was. But it seems... just a little... suspicious...

Just then he heard a noise behind him. The fire demon turned slightly and spotted one of Slade's robots aiming a gun at him. Damn it! he thought, clenching his teeth. Just what I don't need!

He turned on the robt and came at it. The thing couldn't match his speed and wasn't able to move out of the way before Hiei planted a fist in its face, breaking the working system. As it crumbled to the floor Hiei looked up to realize that there had been more than one.

About fifty robots seemed to come out of nowhere and were coming at him.

Damn it! he thought angrily as he looked around for a weapon. I need something to get rid of these guys!

He spotted his sword lying on the floor. Huh? he thought, staring at it for a moment. Where did that come from? I'm sure it wasn't there before.

No matter. He ran to it and picked it up. He then turned back to the robots and charged at them. As he dealt with them he imagined doing the same thing to their master. I'll enjoy torturing him if I ever get my hands on that sick bastard! he thought as he chopped the robots to pieces. Nobody treats me like that!

By then he'd destroyed every single robot in the area and it didn't look like more were coming. He stood over the spare parts he'd created and figured things out. The small fry are no challenge at all. Even though they ganged up on me. I get the strangest feeling that this might have been planned...

Suddenly he felt a presense that sent electricity up his spine. He knew that feeling. He'd felt it before. In the alley he'd been ambushed in.

"Impressive," said a voice behind him.

What the? he thought turning his head in surprise. Slade. Where did he come from?

"Get the hell away from me!" Hiei shouted, raising his sword to strike the man.

When he did the steel impacted painfully with a metal staff. the vibration temporarily stunned him and he couldn't move for a second. Slade took that moment to grab him by the arm and shove him roughly against the wall.

"Did you really expect me to let you get away that easily?" the man demanded.

I knew it! the fire demon thought, grinding his teeth in ager.

Slade then turned him around and, grabbing him by the wrists, roughly slammed Hiei's back into the wall. The man held him there and leaned his face close, much to Hiei's disgust and displeasure. "You have spirit," Slade said in his annoying voice. "Just like the Teen Titans."
Hiei glared at the man, annoyed that he'd been put in the same catagory as five well four meer teens (He didn't consider Raven a meer teen since she's half demon because of her daddy). "I'm nothing like them," he growled.

Then he broke Slade's grip and gave the man a uppercut. "ARGH!" the man screamed in agony as he fell away form the fire demon.

Hiei moved away from Slade and picked his sword up off the floor where he'd dropped it. "Here's your one way ticket to hell, you bastard!" he shouted, coming at the human.

Just as he was about to strike Slade down something strange happened. His body seemed to stop functioning and he froze with his sword just inches from Slade's face. What the hell? he thought shocked. What's going on?

Slade gave him a bored look. "You should watch your language, boy." he said before shoving Hiei roughly backwards.

What? How'd he? the demon thought as he fell back and his sword dropped out of his hand with a clatter. The fire demon stopped falling poff balance when he hit a wall behind him he felt his spine crunch painfully against it. "Gah!"

Suddenly he heard something snap and glanced at his right arm. The bindings from before closed tightly around his wrists and ankles making him realize Slade had knocked him back against that cursed table.

No! he thought grinding his teeth, Damn it!

He glanced back at Slade who was coming toward him. "What kind of game are you playing?" the fire demon demanded angrily. "I don't know what you're after and I don't have it!"

SLAP!

Slade swung his hand painfully across Hiei's face, leaving a dark red hand print on it. Hiei stared at him in shock. Did he just hit me!
"I don't want anything you have," the man told him. "But there's something you can give me... with time."

The fire demon glared hatefully at Slade. What's up with this idiot? he wondered. Is he playing with me?
Either way it didn't matter to Hiei. The only thing he wanted more than going home at that moment was killing Slade.

A/n

HE CAN'T GET AWAY YET!

Incase you might be confused. Slade let Hiei loose for awhile to trest his skills. The guy might be fucked up in many ways but he is a genious when it comes to things like that or am I just giving him too much credit?