Hey and thanks for the reviews, alerts, faves and all that good junk. XD Yep…couldn't have done it without you. Yeah, so the updates of new chapters of each of my fics are going quite slow right now because it's summer. And I want to sleep. Just kidding! But it is going slow, I don't know why. I write and type when I choose to. I used to have a nice orderly thing where I type up a chapter for each fic and continue to do that. But now it's just tying whatever, whenever. Yeah, sorry for the laziness. I'll try to be better soon. But I'm sure I will during the upcoming HS year. See ya!

Disclaimer: FHY does not own any of the Yu Yu Hakusho characters except for Ryuichi, Kera and Zaro. Mr. Togashi Yoshihiro does.

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Hiei's Love

Chapter 13: The Demon Within

The vicious demon flung itself on Ryuichi, knocking her back. She fell, but quickly got up, fending for herself.

"Ryuichi!" Hiei called her name, rushing to her side in a heartbeat. Ryuichi stared straight into the horrid demon's merciless eyes.

"I'm fine, she muttered, still looking as she gathered her spirit energy, "but I don't think he'll be." In the blink of an eye, she disappeared into the demon's arms. She punched it and kicked it in different areas: the back, legs, anywhere. A few drops of blood trickled out. The demon took no notice of this, continuing to charge and attack. Ryuichi dodged, evading all its attacks.

"Ha! You're no match…" she coaxed it on. Using her energy, she created a type of fire, black fire, in her hands. As she punched or made any physical contact with the fire, it would scorch and burn anything, eating away his insides. The demon howled in pain, calling for help to the skies.

"Blood…" she said, looking in the palms of her hands. Sure enough, there was the crimson liquid from the beast. She felt her heartbeat in her head. Bu-BUM…Bu-BUM…

'No…it's coming out!' Ryuichi panicked, grabbing her head, her raven locks between her bloody fingers. Bu-BUM…Bu-BUM…Bu-BUM…She clutched it, kneeling down.

"AHHHHH!" she screamed to skies like the beast did. She cried with all her might.

"Ryuichi!" Hiei tried to go to her, but was held back by his companions. "She's in pain!"

"Don't worry," Kuram assured him as the crying stopped.

"She'll kick his ass." Yusuke grinned. "Yeah!" The demon attacked Ryuichi, scratching her arm.

"Ahh!" she screamed in pain. She looked maliciously in his eyes. Crimson on black; Black on crimson. "Damn you." She disappeared and reappeared in front of him. She yelled as she burned him, punching through his face. It was dead. The tiny morsels of the beast, lay every, blood splattering on her clothes and on the dirt.

"Nice!" Kuwabara smiled, "although it was a little too graphic."

"You're just saying that because she can beat the shit out of you." Hiei retorted.

"No…" Kuwabara started, looking away, "that's not true!"

"Right…" Yusuke answered, curiously arching an eyebrow. As Ryuichi cam towards them, Kurama looked stern.

"Something is different," Kurama said. Ryuichi looked sternly up at him.

"I know, Kurama. It's inside of me and it's going to come out." She explained, Hiei appeared besides her, putting his arm around her small waist. Yusuke and Kuwabara came along as well. I mean, when one leaves the group, shouldn't you follow?

"Ha ha…" Yusuke grinned at Kuwabara, pointing at him about the earlier joke.

"Shut Up, Urameshi," Kuwabara muttered.

"There's a demon inside of me," Ryuichi explained.

"Is it your demon form?" Kurama asked. She looked hesitant, but nodded. "It's alright, then."

"No…" she started, "it's not."

"Why, love?" Hiei asked, pulling her closer to him.

"I…can't control it. Once it's out, I'll kill till the next day or so. It depends." She explained.

"Okay, now we have a problem." Yusuke replied.

"Have you been listening the whole time?" Ryuichi asked.

"Yep!" Yusuke smiled.

'Damn…' Ryuichi thought. 'But he's in the team. Might as well…' she smiled at him.

"I haven't touched blood, fresh blood, for a long time," Ryuichi told them. " I think it wants to relive the days. THE BLOODLUST days."

"I see." Kurama nodded. "Yusuke."

"Yeah?" he replied.

"Let's move on, shall we?"

"Oh yeah. OK."

"Can you turn into your demon form?" Kurama asked, with Hiei stilled attached to her.

"Yeah," she nodded, "but I can't turn back."

"The best advice I can give you is to not kill us. It's obvious that you can't stay away from blood. And it's probably hard to hold it in." he sighed.

"I'll try, but don't guarantee anything." Ryuichi replied.

"That's what you get for having a strong girlfriend who can fight, just like yourself, Hiei," Kurama chuckled. All Hiei could do was blush and look at the ground, speechless.

"Aww! You've embarrassed him!" Ryuichi smiled, kissing him on the cheek. They all laughed. "Wait." They all stopped laughing and any sort of movement to Ryuichi's command. Her eyes scanned the surrounding area, her ears alert. "Something's here, I can hear it." Suddenly, Kera appeared with her backpack in Ryuichi's arms. "Kera!" Ryuichi smiled, hugging her. Kera licked her face with her small, pink tongue. "Where've you been?" she asked. A note fell out of the back pack. Yusuke picked it up from the ground, reading it as everyone huddled around.

RYUICHI,

KERA WAS WITH ME. I TOOK CARE OF HER. SHE IS VERY FUN AND BEST OF LUCK TO THE TEAM. BOTAN EXPLAINED EVERYHTING. TELL THE WIMP TO DO THE PUSH UPS AND EXERCISES I TAUGHT HIM.

GENKAI

"Aww man! Thanks a lot, Grandma!" Yusuke complained, scratching the back of his head.

"Ha!" Kuwabara laughed.

"So, anyone else know anything about this Zaro dude?" Yusuke asked as they walked along the desolate plain.

"I do." Ryuichi volunteered. "When I was held captive, I heard that you'll know you're close by fighting a large horde of demons. He was assembling them during that time."

"Okay! So look for a horde of demons, guys!" Yusuke said cheerily.

"If you say so," Kuwabara replied.

A Few Hours Later

"I spy something brown and dead," Yusuke muttered as he sagged along, his feet aching and muscles stiffening.

"Dirt." They all replied in unison.

"Hey, not fair!" Yusuke argued.

"How? It's perfectly fair. You've said the same thing since we've been walking," Hiei replied.

"I feel something." Kurama stopped. Small trembling began under their feet. They looked at the ground and saw the dirt move and tremble. They searched beyond the horizon, finding their source.

'The demons!' Ryuichi explained, her crimson eyes widening as Kera hid in the backpack.

"Uh…" Kuwabara stammered pointing in the south. "There's your source." Thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions of demons were walking, running, flying to reach their target: The Reikai Tantei.

"There's your horde of demons, Yusuke," Hiei said, taking out his katana.

"Gee, thanks, Hiei," he smiled, forming fist, filled with spirit energy.

"Anytime."

"Prepare for bloodlust," Kurama rold them, taking out his rose whip. "Are you ok, Ryuichi?"

"I don't know."

"Uh…ok." Kuwabara replied. Ryuichi went in the back, running far from her team. She put the back pack in a safe place, taking out her own katana. She walked towards them. As she did, she saw a demon. "Hello, beautiful." She smiled at her shiny sword. The demon went for her. "Good bye, ugly!" she sliced its head off, blood squirting around.

'Ugh! Shouldn't have done that…' she looked away, fighting the urge. She went into battle, kicking and dodging and slicing and regretting.

"Shotgun!" Yusuke yelled, blasting away some demons.

"Spirit Sword!" Kuwabara called his sword, slicing and chopping away. Bu-BUM…Ryuichi felt the sensation again as she killed many more demons, staining her sword. Bu-BUM…

"Rose Whiplash!" Kurama moved his whip around, hitting his enemies. One on the left and one on the right. Ryuichi clutched her head.

'No…it's coming out! Stay back, stay BACK!' she couldn't help it. The demon inside was controlling her and she couldn't fight it any longer.

"Hiei!" Ryuichi's one last word was yelled as she transformed into her killer being. A snarling mouth formed with sharp, white, shiny teeth. Two black ears went to the top of her head and a black furry tail. Fur, black fur, covered her whole body as it enlarge 1000 times bigger than her normal self. Her paws, with white sharp nails, formed and her bandages that were located on her two forearms before, were now wrapped on all four of her legs, right around the ankles. She howled, her crimson eyes staring at the sky as she stepped on the demons.

"Oh…my…" Yusuke stared at the humongous wolf.

"…god." Kuwabara helped Yusuke finish his sentence. Ryuichi was big. Real BIG.

"Ryuichi…" Hiei whispered, clutching his katana. He continued to fight like the others.

"RARR!" Ryuichi snarled as fire came from her paws. She crushed demons' bodies, bones, blood and everything else coming out. She disappeared and reappeared killing even more. In a few minutes, they were all gone.

"Whoo!" Kuwabara cheered, his sword disappearing. Kurama stopped him before he continued.

"Don't." he warned.

"Why?"

"Because…" Kurama started. They all stared up at her as she continued to snarl, howl ad step on everything. "She doesn't know who we are." Her crimson eyes glared at the gang as she snarled, showing her teeth, and coming towards them.

Yep! Another cliffhanger! Anyways, how was it? I thought it was pretty good and I'm sorry for the people who read this and don't like blood. It was quite graphic. So I apologize. Read and review and wait for more! Ja!