22Demon Lullaby22

Demon Lullaby

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Chapter 1

School Trip Horrors

"Mrs. Tonaki please pay attention and put that book down!" yelled Mrs. Ramon, the history teacher. Her beady black eyes, crazy out of control rats nest of hair, bulging cheeks and thin lips made her look like a cross between a chicken and a toad frog thing. Taiso giggled and closed the book setting it down nosily on her desk. The teacher's face turned red as she turned back to the slide show she was giving about some stupid Egyptian mummy person named Tut… tut tut Mr. tut! They put him so sleep in a stone hut, Mr. tut tut, to sleep in a mummy hut! Taiso giggled at her own creativity causing many people to cast odd looks at her.

Her two friends, Suichi Minamino, a tall young man with long red hair and green eyes that made most girl swoon over him, and Hiei Jagaonshi, a short boy, only a few inches taller then she was with tall black hair with a star burst and red eyes, caste her looks that said 'are you ok?' and 'baka onna'… yep it was a normal day, but even better! They where all going on a field trip next period! To some place called Higerashi shrine… she didn't know what that was but it meant no more Mr. Tut tut or Mrs. Chicken-frog either.

Taiso spent the rest of the day naming people after animals; Missy and pixy toad; Brady the beagle; and so on. When she got to Suichi, she couldn't think of an animal so she asked him his favorite one.

"… I'm partial to the silver fox. What about you Hiei?"

"Hn…"

"Ok fine! You shall be a porky pined dragon!" said Taiso loudly.

"SHH! MRS. TONAKI BE SILENT!" said Mrs. Chicken-frog. Taiso covered her mouth with wide eyes and looked around to the front to see a very red faced chicken frog thing and busted out laughing. Every one in the room either glared at her, stifled their own laughter or gave her looks that clearly said they thought she was nuts. Suichi smiled sheepishly and Hiei twitched before punching her in the back of the head.

"Hn, baka onna…" he said to Taiso's dizzy form on the floor. Then the bell rang and Hiei grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the room to their next class Suichi following behind leaving a shocked class with a few fits of laughter breaking through the silence.

"WHY aren't I being carried like a PRINCESS? Show the respect I deserve!" Taiso chimed from her spot on the floor watching as students walked by giving her odd looks once again.

"Silence onna. I could have just left you in there with Mrs. Ramon, so be thankful I thought to grab your useless carcass." he said with a slight glare. Taiso growled and pulled her self up licking his hand. Hiei recoiled and shook his finger's trying to send the offending saliva flying.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!! FREEDOM!" she yelled standing and pumping her right fist into the air.

"Um Taiso, we're in the class room do try not to cause another seen."

"Roger that captain!" she said with a solute to Suichi as she took her seat at the back of the class. Suichi and Hiei joined her and awaited the teacher's arrival. Students filed in over time, the room soon full except for two seats in front of them. Yuskie and the baka must be skipping class again. They seem to do this a lot. Taiso stared at the door waiting for the teacher when her view was obscured by the bear midriff that was Missy Lang.

School slut and head cheerleader, she was the kind of person that Taiso would kill if given the chance. Her long platinum blonde hair was pulled into a messy bun at the back of her head, her blue eyes dulled by two pounds of mascara, eye liner, and bright blue eye shadow, her slightly tanned skin turned pink and fleshy by the amount of blush smeared over her cheek bones, and the bright red lip stick made her lips look to big and fake.

Her spaghetti strap shirt that stopped just above her midriff; clinging to her bony body as if trying to keep it together; her small beast' barely holding up the shirt, and her to short short's hugging her flat little ass. Yes this was a normal day for Taiso. First History with the science experimental chicken frog and now her slut ohmmeter was going off.

Taiso glared up at her, her own blue eyes challenging Missy to any thing she could dish out. No one knew it, but Taiso was no push over. In the third grade she made some kid go to the hospital just by punching him in the gut.

"Hi Suichi, Hiei, Taiso." She said sneering in Taiso's direction. Taiso glared harder up at her, her hands clenching and unclenching under the desk.

"Hn…"

"Hello Missy, may we help you?" Suichi said politely. Hiei was glaring at her as well; 'that onna had tired one to many times to get into my pants…' is what he had told Taiso last night over the phone.

"Actually I wanted to know if you two wanted to sit with me in the back of the buss. That's the best place to sit, the bumps are really fun." she said leaning forward into Hiei's bubble. How did Taiso know she had entered said bubble? Well Hiei has this invisible bubble around him and if you get with in the bubble, with out his permission, his left eye brow starts twitching in an annoyed fashion. Well his left brow was going crazy. Taiso smirked and grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled the words 'Slut be gone' on it before licking it and stamping it on Missy's forehead.

"SLUT BE GONE!!" she yelled and held her fingers together to form a cross as if to ward off any evil spirits that might fly from Missy' body at any moment. Missy turned bright red with anger and embarrassment, her blue eyes glaring daggers at Taiso.

"Taiso, you little whore! What was that for?!" she yelled crossing her arms over her nonexistent chest.

"Repelling a slut from Hiei's bubble " she said with a truthful smile on her face. The class had all turned by this point and most where now laughing much to Missy' embarrassment. Suichi was chuckling in his normal manner; his teeth sinking into his thumb to keep the full blown laughter inside; even Hiei was smirking, witch made it even better for Taiso. Missy huffed and stormed back over to her seat crumpling up the paper into a small ball and throwing it away.

"Hn, baka slut…" Hiei said with a smirk just as the teacher came in. He saw the giggling class, an angry Missy and the very strange sight of the three in the back all smiling to some existent, Taiso looking rather triumphant. So Missy finally got what was coming to her…he thought with a chuckle.

"Alright every one calm down and let me take roll call-"

"Mr. Tanya, Taiso called me a slut!" said Missy in a winy vice.

"Well are you?"

"What?!"

"Are you a slut?"
"NO!"

"Then don't worry about it and Taiso if-

"If you can't say anything nice, don't say nothing at all, yes dad," said Taiso in a playful way. Mr. Tanya nodded and smiled at her before starting roll call. Once finished, he split the students into groups of three. Taiso was with Hiei and some guy named Gary, while Suichi was with Mr. Tanya and Missy. Taiso was kind of upset that he wasn't with them but got over it once Hiei said they could all still sit together on the buss ride over. So they all followed Mr. Tanya out and to the busses. The three friends all took the seats at the back of the buss much to Missy's displeasure. She sent them a dirty look over the back of her seat.

"Sorry to steal your favorite seat Missy, but this time I get the bumps!" said Taiso. Missy glared at her again and turned back to her posy of cheerleading friends. Suichi chuckled, and many other students who had heard the whole conversation in the class room laughed. The ride was long, longer then they thought it would be. Taiso fell asleep on Hiei's shoulder who had fallen asleep on the window and Suichi sat there reading a book he had brought with him knowing about the long ride (smart guy).

After what seemed like 5 hours the buss started slowing down, waking Hiei up instantly. Looking around at first trying to decipher where he was, he noticed extra weight on his right shoulder. Looking over he came face to face with a silver head of hair. Taiso was still sleeping although the buss had now come to a complete stop. Suichi was listening to Mr. Tanya talk at the front of the buss, leaving Hiei alone with Taiso.

He examined her face; thick eye lashes free of the clumps of mascara curved against the soft skin of her cheek bone, her naturally rosy lips slightly parted in her sleep, and a pink tint was over her pale flawless skin. Her silver hair was pulled over her left shoulder pooling at the end in her lap, two strips of bangs framing her face softly. Hiei could feel the others getting up to leave and gently touched her shoulder shaking her slightly.

"Onna, we're here, get up." he said in his calm deep voice. Taiso steered slightly and sat up her eyes still closed muttering something about purple kangaroos and their running shoes, and rubbed her eyes while yawning. Still groggy she got up and got off the buss Hiei following behind her slightly. Once they where off the buss they joined their other teammate, Gary, and waited for further instructions.

"Ok today we are going to have a scavenger hunt. Here is your list of things you must find in order to complete the hunt and get an A+ on this project." he said passing out slips of paper to each team member.

Acorn

Petrified wood

Demon ward

Stone from bottom of Bone Eaters Well

Oak leaf

One blue gill fish

One crawdad

A Comb of Hunny

One Cicada Shell

One Snake skin

"All these items must be found and recorded in your notebooks. You are to record where you found them and what they look like as well as what the area looks like." said Mr. Tanya with a smile. Most looked excited Taiso and Suichi being two of them, while others, like Hiei, seemed kind of reproached about this whole thing.

Taiso looked over at her two team mates, one with an annoyed look on his face and the other with a strange look that Taiso had never seen on a persons face before; Gary was looking at her strangely, making her feel vulnerable and weak.

"Onna, are you coming or not?" Hiei said from behind her breaking her starring contest with Gary.

"Oh, Hai!" she said turning and heading towards Hiei's retreating form. A hand reached out and grabbed the back of her lose t-shirt pulling her back against a firm body that was many times taller then she was.

"…RAPE!!" she screamed and jabbed the other person in the ribs and running off to follow Hiei who glared over her shoulder at Gary who was clutching his stomach.

"Ok first on the list is acorn… why an acorn?"

"Hn, search me…"

"Does that include a frisking?"

"…what?'

NOOTHING!" she yelled and jumped onto his back Hiei used to this looping his arms under her legs to keep her on. "On ward steed!" she said and pointed forward down the path.

"Hn, don't make me drop you…" he said with a twitch.

"Do not threaten me steed now on ward!" she said poking his hair with a stick. He growled lightly and trudged forward Gary following far behind them.

Two hours later they had over half the items on the list; Taiso had abandoned Hiei's back and was now playing a stream a few yards form the buss Hiei sitting in a tree just above the seen and Gary sitting a few feet from the waters edge. Taiso splashed the water up towards Hiei who glared down at her and went back to staring at nothing.

"Aw, come on Hiei! Have a little fun!" she whined and folded her arms over her chest with a pout. Hiei looked down but quickly averted his eyes; her pout face always made him do the stupidest of things. Gary looked over and smirked.

"I'll play with yaw." he said with a smile. Taiso looked over at him and smiled before glaring up at Hiei.

"At least some one will have some fun." she said and stuck out her tongue at Hiei who just glared down at her then at Gary. Gary just smiled and waved sheepishly before Taiso was in front of him.

"So what we gonna do?!"

"We're gonna play hide and seek and you can be it; count to 30." he said and stood starting to walk away into the deeper parts of the woods. She nodded and closed her eyes while counting in her head.

1-2-3-4-6-no-5-yes-6-7-8…23-24-25-26-27-28-29-ummmmm-------30! "Ready or not here I come!" she yelled and took off in the direction Gary had gone.

Hn maybe this guy wouldn't be to bad to have around; he keeps her occupied… Hiei thought while rolling his eyes; he settled into the tree branch to take a short cat nap.

Taiso walked deeper and deeper into the forest; she stopped every once in a while to look behind trees and undergrowth trying to find Gary she sat at the bottom of a tree and sighed. This game is difficult… where did he go? she thought.

Suddenly she felt her self being watched and looked up; her scream was muffled by a clawed hand of what looked like a rotting corpse and she was dragged up the tree. She swatted at what she guessed was its face causing it to roar loudly its long dripping fangs showing them selves just before then implanted themselves into her neck.

Hiei's eye's shot open at the sound of a loud roar that echoed through the trees.

"I assume you heard that Hiei?" said Suichi who had seemed to appear from no where. Hiei nodded and jumped down next to him as Suichi handed him a Katana.

"Where's Taiso?"

"She's some where in the forest."

"Then we should find her before what ever made that noise does." Suichi said and took off into the forest Hiei right beside him soon passing him up and seemingly disappearing from sight. Suichi ran for what seemed like for ever following Taiso's scent Hiei flitting into and out of view every few seconds; a scream tore through the air slicing fear into Suichi's heart like a razor blade.

"TAISO!" he yelled; he could hear Hiei say something above him and then his presence disappeared all together and Suichi picked up his pace trying to catch up to Hiei. They came to a clearing and looked on as Taiso went flying through the trees landing in a heap on the ground. Suichi ran over to her and turned her on her back recoiling at what he saw; a large bite mark covered over half her neck and gashes where all along her body.

He heard a loud roar and looked over seeing Hiei decapitate a very large and ugly demon then proceeded to slice him into tiny pieces.

"Hiei… I think you got him…" Taiso said with a slight chuckle surprising Suichi; how could she still joke around in her condition? She should be screaming her head off or even dead by now.

"Hn baka onna…" Hiei said with a smirk and walked over and started evaluating her wounds. She had a large chunk missing form her shoulder and a few shallow gashes along her body.

"She needs medical attention and she should probably see Koenma to have her memory erased…"

"WHAT?! Why do I have to go see the baby?!" she said in a very a loud raspy voice; coughs racked her body blood spurting all over the front of her shirt.

"Shut up baka; you'll kill your self with talking." Hiei snapped rolling her onto her side to keep her from drowning in her own blood.

"Heh, right, sorry, my bad." she said sheepishly before finally going unconscious. Hiei sighed and picked her up like a child one arm under her bottom and the other up and across the surface of her back her head coming to rest on his shoulder the injured side facing toward the sky her arms and legs hanging limply at her sides. Suichi watched as Hiei turned and started walking deeper into the woods and followed saving all questions for later.

A few minutes latter they stopped in a more secluded part of the forest and Suichi pulled a compact out of his pocket and opened it; then he started talking into it and a voice answered back.

"Hello Boton, we need a portal."

"Oh of course - here you go " she said and blue swirling vortex appeared before them and they stepped through landing in a large round room; a desk sat at the other end its large swivel chair sitting behind it the back facing them.

"Koenma, we have Taiso…" Suichi said and motioned over to the motionless girl in Hiei's arms; the chair swiveled around the occupant coming into view. Koenma sat there his binky in his mouth and his small toddler body looking even smaller in the massive chair and office.

"Well its about ti- what the hell did you do to her?!" he yelled out suddenly his voice shaking as he looked at the bleeding form that was Taiso.

"Hiei you better have good reason for thi-"

"Hn…" Hiei said with a glare towards Koenma.

"Koenma, it was not Hiei who did this to her; she was attacked by a death being in the forest surrounding the Higerashi shrine," Suichi said in defense of his friend. "I don't think Hiei could hurt Taiso if he tried." he said ignoring the glare from Hiei.

"Very well; Hiei take her to the hospital wing to get patched up then come strait back here." said Koenma with a sigh. Hiei nodded and left the room leaving Suichi and Koenma alone.

"Koenma; you did tell Hiei why we wanted her here didn't you?"

"I thought it best if you explain it to him; he seems to take your words into consideration over others and he listens to you."

"Hm, I see." Suichi said and they both fell silent. Soon Hiei returned the room and looked at the both of them before closing the door and walking to stand next to Suichi.

"Fox why was it needed for her to come here? These doctors can't be trusted…" he said mumbling the last part to him self. Suichi smiled but it soon fell.

"Well Koenma, why was it needed for Taiso to be here? What could you possibly want with a human?" Suichi said.

"I thought I told you to tell him Kurama." Koenma said with an angry glare towards Suichi. Suichi, or Kurama, smiled and looked away form him

"Sorry it seemed to slip my mind."

"Tell me what fox?"

"Well Hiei, sense Kurama seemed unable to do so, I will tell you; Taiso is a very unique human; she was made my spirit world in order to be used in a series of experiments to analysis the human race."

"…What?"

"We are going to test her to-"

"I heard you the first time."

"Then why-"

"hn…"

"I think Hiei means, what do you want to that for and why Taiso?"

"Oh well why didn't he just say so; well to put it simply we gave her a little boost form some demon DNA to help her heal quicker and be able to with stand wounds and not die as quickly as a normal human-"

"Hn; you made sure she wouldn't die during your little test's."

"Yes well they are very dangerous and we cant have a human death on our hands; this will lead to the discovery of how to deal with human disease and weaponry; with her body healing like a demon's we can perform multiple experiments on one person-"

"So you are going to infect her with these diseases and then try to figure out how to cure them? What if she dies from the disease before she gets the cure?" Kurama said with a stern look. Koenma just sat there and stared at his desk for a few seconds. He looked up with a sad look covering his face.

"…Then we call in subject #2 and continue with the experiment."

"Hn, so your going to let her die?!"

"Koenma there must be something else you can do-"

"I'm sorry Kurama but there is not; this is why we are looking into these diseases now; if demons contract them it could lead to death but if we have the medicine to treat it then that means more lives saved; we may even let them out into the human world at a reduced dosage. This could help should a human disease break out in spirit world."

"Hn…" Hiei said a walked towards the door.

"Hiei where are you going?"

"Where do you think?"

"Tell Taiso I say get well soon."

"Hn…" he said and left the room with one last glare at Koenma. Koenma gulped and rubbed his temples.

"For your sake Koenma, you better hope Taiso survives your experiment; I afraid Hiei has taken a liking to her and will protect her at any cost."

"And why do you say that?"

"… You should have been watching your television at the shrine; I've never seen Hiei be that brutal sense before we joined the team, not even in the Dark Tournament or the Demon World Tournament; he will kill you should any harm come to her under your hand." Kurama said and walked out of the room leaving Koenma to think on his words.

He walked down the many hall ways until he came to the hospital ward and looked into the windows on the doors before stepping in. Nurses walked from room to room checking on patients as Kurama walked down the hall checking name plates until he found Taiso and opened the door just a crack stopping when he heard voices.

"Why did you go so far out into the woods? What-"

"I know, I know, you told me not to wonder far when we where at the spring; me sorry; that demon was pretty cool though; it was all 'gawk I'm gonna suck out your blood'" she said and raised her hand in a clawed manner and stuck it in Hiei's hair ruffling it lightly with a giggle. Hiei sighed and smirked before shaking his head tossing her hand out making her giggle again. Kurama smiled lightly and left; he would visit some other time.

Koenma, you better not take her from him… he thought as he left the ward and disappeared down the dark hall way.