That night Selena was the last person up. Hiei sat by her on the couch, playing cards (poker no less). Hiei finally suggested (more like ordered) that she go to sleep.

"Ok " Selena agreed a little too quickly, she came over and threw her tiny arms around the fire demon and buried her head in his chest as a few tears escaped, turing to ice crystals. They fell and smashed on the floor.'whats this?' "Selena are you alright?" he asked

Selena pulled away adn nodded. "Im just glad I found you. I love you so much." she wiped her eyes and said "Well goodbye, oops I mean goodNIGHT...goodnight" and she slipped her frail arms around his waist again and flounced happily to her room.

When she shut the door, she cried silently into her pilllow. She wasnt happy while hugging Hiei, she was feeling an utmost sadness. Sadness for only she knew what she was about to do.

Hours later, long after Hiei had gone to bed, Selena opened her bedroom door and peaked out. All was silent, as it should be at 3 in the morning. She tiptoed down the hall and pressed her ear to Hiei's cracked door. She could hear his steady breathing, and murmering in his sleep. She knew she shouldn't, but curiosity got the better of her. She quitely cracked open the door a little more.

"Please! Put her down!" Hiei muttered in his sleep. Selena tilted her head to the side adn continued to listen. "You mad woman, she is just a child!" Selena was about to shut the door when she gasped at what she heard "Marcy, give Selena to me!" Selena fled from the room. Hiei stirred, but didnt wake. Selena grabbed her duffel and scrambled out, once again, she paused by hiei's room. "You have no buisness being a mother. Let me find someone to raise Selena. Someone like Kurama...Or...myself."

Suddenly, Hiei began to writher in pain. Selena whispered "Im sorry" and a tear slipped down her cheek as she continued out the front door and disappeared into the darkness.

The next morningas everyone was sitting around the kitchen table sipping coffee, nothing seemed amiss. When Yukina brustled in and out through out the house, nobody did anything, she did this every morning. Finally, it had gone on for a bit too long. Kurama saw the expression Yukina was trying to hide, he caught her arm. "Yukina, what is troubling you?"

Yukina searched Kurama's face with fear in her eyes. Finally, she turned to her brother, her expression frantic, "Hiei!...Selena's gone!"

The reaction was imidiate. Everyone began talking at once, no one could get a word in. Hiei remained silent, Yukina couldnt read his expression.

"Did you search the whole house?" someone asked

"Are you sure she not hiding"

"Where would she have gone?"

"What if she didnt go willingly?!?"

Yusuke shot his spirit gun through the window causing a tree to explode. Everyone was already past silent when he yelled "Quiet!"

Hiei stood up and walked to the window, he unwound the headband that was covering his Jagan eye. All eyes were on the parent. Suddenly he exclaimed, "How in the hell?!?" he kicked a wall.

Kurama walked up and put a hand on Hiei's shoulder. "What is it?"

Hiei shrugged his hand off. " How in the hell did she block my Jagan.!" everyone in the room gasped. no one had ever been able to block Hiei out. Yukina put her head in her hands and sat down on the couch. Hiei sat down on the windowsill next to his sister and gazed at her.

"But...why?" she sobbed. "Why would someone take Selena?"

"Im not so sure someone did take her by force." Said Kurama, everyone looked at him.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Demanded Yusuke. "That she went with them on her own two feet, or did she sprout wings?!?" he asked sarcastically.

"Im not even sure there was a 'them'" said Hiei, suprizing everyone. Kurama nodded, no one else had a reaction. Genkai came into the room.

"Selena may be Hiei's daughter, and he may be better suited of the two parents to raise Selena, but the girl is still bound to her mother."

"Are you saying Selena is going back to that...that...Monster!" Hiei exclaimed angerly.

"Not nessisarly." Said Genkai, "But if my predictions are correct, she just feels like a traitor, and feels she is stooping to the witch's very low level."

"So where would she go?" Asked Keiko, speaking for the first time.

"The first time I spoke with her, she declared herself as 'Selena of the Cursed Moon'" Said Yukina not raising her head.

"What does that even mean?" asked Kuabara

"Selena believes she was a mistake, and she was concieved under the blue moon while neither parent was sober. Thus, Cursed Moon." Explained Genkai. Hiei without even saying a word stood up and ran out the door so quickly, in one blink a few people in the room missed his exit.

Selena trudged through the woods, "Frickn' nature." She commented."I wonder what Hiei's doing right now." she wondered outloud. She had struggled 3 weeks straight to find him and had stayed in the temple for a little over a week. She also wondered what her mother was doing. Was she looking for her? It had been about a month. Selena didnt know where she was going next or where she was. She was only 13. She was tired of living with these monsters, and she didnt want to be a burden on Hiei anymore. Sure, he was her father, but what right did she have to just come into his life and expect him to raise her. The anwser: no right at all. But the words he had murmered in his sleep three days ago. stayed with her. "Marcy, you have no buisness being a parent. Let me raise Selena."

(in case you are wondering, Hiei didnt sleep nor rest, he just kept searching, determined)

But she also remembered the first words she had heard him speak. "Daughter?..J dont have a..." So, did that dream he had really happen or was he just trying to put on a 'good' face for Yukina.

Selena heard a twig snap behind her, ripping her from her thoughts, she whipped around. She found herself face to face with an ugly demon that kind of resembled a panther. He smiled at her with yellow/brown eyes, and licked her lips.

"Good evening, child. where are you headed to through this dark forest?"

Selena sighed, "I dont know"

The demon smiled a sticky smile "Can I ask your name, Child?"

"Selena"

"Well Selena, where is your mother?"

"I ran away from her house, along with my step father."

The demon tsked. "And your father?"

"Ran away from his house as well."

"You've been a naughty little girl, Selena." The demon said in a face sweet voice. Selena had been so hypnotized by his eyes that she hadnt noticed the crowd of demons slowly gathering around her. Her barrier went down, her eye closed."We'll have to treat you some OBEDIANCE!" and the demon pounced, as did the others, taking the cue. Selena tried to get free, but she couldnt. It was clear to her now they were going to eat her. She was shaking in fear when she realized...she was about to die.