This chapter focuses on Mizuki... She's on the run from Hiei! Oh, this is Shi, by the way! LOL

Chapter Three
On the run!

Well, while Aki, Takara, and Mizuki took their seperate ways, Mizuki headed forward to a portal that would land her safely outside the Reikai vault she was going to steal from. There were three power-enhancing amulets in there, and the security typically around the vault was pathetic... So, it was Mizuki's job to get them, so she and her companions can properly keep them safe.

Thus, she now stood in front of a huge titanium door. There were only two guards, but the wolf demon paid no mind as they were drunk and weren't even doing their job. "This is so pathetic... Any demon could just walk in here and steal any ONE of these things!" Mizuki fumed aloud quietly, a small glare crossing her face. She sighed, "Oh well... Better for me to take those amulets than some bad guy demon who'd use it on humanity..."

She walked up to the vault door, and her fingers nimbly typed in the right password after reading one of the guards' minds. Too easy, she snickered and waltzed into the vault. There in a darkened room, were many objects, none of which were important to her until she reached the very back of the room, where the three amulets sat in a row in a glass case. Oh, did I neglect to mention the many lasers between Mizuki and the glass case?

"Always with the pathetic attempts, hm?" the wolf asked herself exasperatedly, not knowing that there were two crimson eyes watching her every move. Her silver hair pulled into a sloppy ponytail swished absently as she walked towards the lasers, her dark blue eyes staring intently at the amulets. She stopped just short of the lasers to wrap her coal black tail around her waist, her black wolf ears listening carefully for any signs of danger. Her two, long black bangs hung limply, framing her face perfectly.

With a small sigh, she leapt forward, easily and gracefully moving between the ruby red lasers. She wasn't even breaking a sweat! Simple. She may not be able to beat Aki when they trained, but she could easily do this. The lasers were just a sorry attempt to protect the amulets, and soon enough, she was right in front of the glass case.

Lifting a clawed finger, she used her pointer finger claw to slowly draw a circle on the glass, and the glass cut under her sharp claw, leaving a small hole in the case, just small enough for Mizuki to slip her hand in and smoothly snatch the three amulets. "Aha," she grinned and turned back around to smirk at the lasers.

It took very few minutes to get on the other side of the lasers again, and she headed to the door, humming as she inspected the amulets in her hand. "Nice," she murmured with a grin. "Now, time to go home, and--." She was interupted when she felt another's Energy, and the feel of a cold metal was pressed against the back of her neck. She growled, cautiously turning her head to see Hiei behind her.

"Time for you to come with me," Hiei stated coolly, crimson eyes glaring into Mizuki's dark blue ones. He inwardly smirked at how he had so easily snuck up on her. He had thought she was supposed to be some great thief. Guess I was wrong, he pondered arrogantly.

"Ah, ah, ah, your arrogance will be your downfall," Mizuki sneered, having just read Hiei's mind. She thought it would've been much harder to get past his barriers in his mind, but she had overestimated him, too bad...

"Did you just read my mind?" Hiei asked with narrowed eyes. He didn't like this... If she could look into his mind, and him not even sense it, he'd have some problems.

"Darn right you got problems," Mizuki snarled, smirk long gone from her face. "You're invading my personal space," she said angrily, indicating to how close her and Hiei's bodies were pressed. She didn't even know this detective, and he was WAY too close to her personal self.

"You're just going to have to get over it," Hiei said dully, pressing the blade of his katana more forcefully against her throat in a threatening way. Why was he standing around just talking to this thief! He wanted to get this mission over with!

"I don't think so," Mizuki scowled and suddenly stepped down hard on Hiei's right foot. He hissed in pain and went to slice the wolf's back, but she ducked and spun kicked, knocking Hiei off his feet. His sword clattered to the ground beside him as he landed on his rear end. "Toodalo!" Mizuki exclaimed smiling brightly and sped off out of the vault and through the portal, landing herself back in Makai.

"Phew," she sighed and took off down the path back to their hideout. "What?" she asked herself dumbly. Takara and Aki had both just sent her a telepathic message that both of them had been... captuerd! "Crap!" Mizuki whined and stomped her foot impatiently, "Now I got to go save their butts..."

"I don't think so," Hiei's voice drifted from behind her, and the wolf tensed, slowly turning around to see Hiei standing on a tree branch above her. He looked really angry, too...

Mizuki gulped, "Wow, look at the time! Is it that late? I got to go... bye!" she exclaimed and ran in the other direction. She heard the telltale signs of Hiei following after her and upped her speed some. He's faster than I thought, she thought, lightly biting her bottom lip as she ran. He caught up to her, and she was forced to tuck the amulets into a pack that was tied to her right leg. She quickly drew her sword to block Hiei's katana just in time. She pushed him away with her blade and took off again, going even faster.

"Guess I'll just have to fight him," Mizuki mumbled with a small frown. She turned sharply to the right, heading for the perfect spot to face off against Hiei.

Her turn was so quick that Hiei temporarily lost visual on her and was forced to use his Jagan eye to find her. Also taking a quick right, he after her. He was getting annoyed by now and was ready for this mission to be over. The fire demon came to a halt on a tree branch on the very edge of the forest. He was looking out over a rocky area. Big rocks, little rocks, every kind of rock was scattered over the area. A suspicious sound caught his ear, but it stopped before he could tell exactly what it was, and discarding the noise, he cautiously glanced around.

Mizuki was crouched among the rocks as she removed a bow from its place on her back. Sliding an arrow quietly from its holster, she strung the arrow, pulling the bow string back silently. With one dark eye shut, she took aim on the fire demon that had been chasing her.

With a sudden, small swoosh, the arrow flew from the bow and whizzed through the air, quickly coming to pierce Hiei's left shoulder. Luckily, the fire demon had moved slightly when he turned to the noise of the arrow's approach. He flinched, letting out a small grunt at the feel of the arrow digging into his flesh. "What?" he asked, a little surprised that he'd been caught off guard. Gripping the arrow firmly, he yanked it from his shoulder, a small hiss of pain escaping him. With a growl, he threw the arrow away, crimson eyes calmly searching for where the arrow had come from, completely ignoring the blood trickling down his arm.

As Mizuki strung another arrow, she cursed herself for missing hitting his heart, but he didn't know where it had been shot from, so she still had another chance. She hurriedly took aim again and shot the arrow. Just as it was about to strike, Hiei's hand rose to catch the arrow before it hit him. He glared straight at the place where Mizuki was hidden and snapped the arrow clean in half with one hand.

"Crap!" Mizuki whispered and quickly replaced her bow on her back, sliding her katana out just as Hiei vanished from the tree limb. Extending her senses as far as she could, she had just enough time to turn around and block a sword with her own blade. She struggled to hold Hiei's katana away as she glared up at the fire demon, who returned her glare full force.

Shoving Hiei back with her sword against his, the silver-haird thief jumped from one rock to another, only landing after she was a short distance away from Hiei. The two fighters' gazes met, and a swift breeze flew by. When the wind calmed, as if it was a sign for the fight to start, Mizuki shot forward, sword poised for attack.

Mimicking this move at the exact same time, Hiei too launched himself at the wolf, katana at the ready. Closer and closer the got until, with a ringing of metal striking metal, the blades viciously met, and their owners pushed the blades up against one another with all their might.

After a moment, the two jumped apart again, and again, no words were exchanged. After a small silence, the two engaged in another battle, looking to any passersby as merely flashes of light and sounds of blades meeting one another. The clash on blade on blade went on for a few more mintes, sometimes the blades meeting actual flesh.

The fight wore on with Mizuki and Hiei trading blow for blow, silver blades clashing and clanging continuously, the sounds echoing through the land around them. And, coming to a pause in their fighting, both demons landed simultaneously on separate rocks, both slightly out of breath. Mizuki absently wiped the back of her hand over her cheek, smearing blood that oozed from a shallow cut Hiei had managed to inflict.

Hiei didn't make it out unscathed either, though. He had a long, fairly deep cut across his abdomen, the arrow wound still bleeding pretty good on his shoulder. He was having to fight with his sword in his left hand, seeing as his right arm was pretty much useless with the arrow-inflicted wound. "Hn, not bad," he stated, slightly out of breath, keeping to his defensive stance.

"You're pretty good yourself," Mizuki retaliated, a smirk grabbing her lips. She too never moved from her ready stance, awaiting another scuffle, but the next attack that came wasn't from the front, but from behind. She felt something painfully sharp swipe across her back, drawing crimson blood out of her flesh. Her eyes widened, and she turned fastly around to see who, or what, was behind her for Hiei had not moved when she had felt her back being sliced.

It was a grey-skinned omi, a chain, which was held in his hand, that connected to a small sythe that lay behind Mizuki on the rock with her blood staining the shiny silver. "I've finally found you," the oni smirked and yanked his sythe back to his hand.

Mizuki snarled, teeth bared threateningly and the hairs on the back of her neck sticking up. She moved to stand sideways, so she could easily watch both her enemies, one she had just made the day before and the other she'd made years ago when stealing from a Makaian castle.

"I think it's high time you face the consequences from stealing from the great Oshani castle!" the ugly oni hissed and was about to attack when a black blur chased towards the oni, and a blade flashed quickly in and out of view. The blur vanished, and the oni fell dead to the ground.

"What the..?" Mizuki asked dumbly and blinked in surprise a couple of times. Turning sharply back to the fire demon detective to see him standing there still glaring. She didn't even have to ask again.

"You are no longer his concern. He was merely in the way," Hiei stated drolly, eyes boring into the wolf's. This was getting tiresome...

"Well, you're in my way," Mizuki said casually, careful to watch the other demon for any signs of an attack. She moved back to a defensive position and stayed cool and calm.

"Hn," Hiei replied and kept still as a statue, sword at the ready. His scathing crimson eyes searching for any possible way to knock out his opponent, but to his surprise, he was having great difficulty in doing so. She seemed to be very skilled and experienced because he couldn't find a single opening in her stance.

Mizuki suddenly remembered that Takara and Aki were still in need of rescuing, so she said, "sorry to leave you like this, but I have something I have to do." She smirked and winked at him before taking off back into the forest.

It took Hiei a minute or two and a few confused blinks to finally recognize that the wolf demon was gone. He growled a curse under his breath and sheathed his sword to take off after the thief, faintly remembering that the wolf had winked at him before running off, and he got even angrier, urging him faster as he caught up to Mizuki.

"Jeez, I know I'm hott and all, but must you continue to chase me like this?" she asked innocently and tossed a fanged smirk over her shoulder. Here she was, flirting with a complete stranger, who just so happened to be here to capture her for thieving.

Okay, now Hiei was getting very, very, very angry. He just wanted to catch the wolf, dump her at Koenma's, and forget this whole mission, but he couldn't do that until he actually caught her...

It was then, though, that Mizuki stumbled and fell to the ground after something cracked in her ankle. She had fallen, one reason, from so much blood loss, and another reason was because she had landed wrong on a tree root while running in between tree trunks.

Hiei saw this as his chance and sped down to where Mizuki was clumsily running forward, barely able to keep her balance as she ran, trying to ignore the throbbing pain in her ankle. She gasped as she was kocked unconscious by the hilt of Hiei's sword, and the fire demon hoisted her onto his uninjured, left shoulder and took off to Koenma's office. And.. as much as Hiei hated to admit it, capturing Mizuki had taken a lot out of him, and he was growing weaker with every drop of blood he lost. He knew that if he didn't get his wounds treated soon, he'd be in big trouble. So, he barely made it to Koenma's office to find that the other two thieves had been caught.

Kurama cleaned and treated everyone's wounds while the three thieves were each restrained in some weird bubble things just big enough for each one to sit in. Of course, Mizuki's wounds were treated before she was contained in one of those bubble things. And with that, mission accomplished. Aki, Takara, and Mizuki were caught left to struggke and yell in the bubbles only to have their voices muffled by the containment bubbles.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Shi: So, what did you think? I think this chapter is more detailed than Aki and Kitsunes, lol. They're waiting to read this so, here it is! I'm finally done!

Aki:About time.. lol

Kitsune: At least you got it done though. lol