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Chapter 7

Hiei sat up in his bed when he heard Botan's voice outside his door. She was talking to someone; Hiei could smell the strange man's scent through the door. 'Who is talking to my mate?' He growled as the door opened. She was alone and the scent of the man was still there. Hiei didn't like this at all as she closed the door and moved closer. The closer she got the stronger the scent got.

"Hiei I have come here to….Hiei you must win my heart." Botan stood firm on the ground, though she was horrified he was going to jump her and just take what he wanted, she stood firm.

Hiei's eyes widen as his inside turned. 'She dare ask such a thing of me?' He growled feeling dizzy and then he felt something new. His eyes widened in horror as he felt a familiar tingle in his arm. His anger was getting the better of his power. He was angry she had let another man close to her. He was anger she had challenged him to win her heart, but most of all he was angry because she was warring a scarf that covered his mark on her.

"Fine" He growled pulling her towards him with his mind and trying to control the dark power with him his arm. As she stood in front of his bed, Hiei ripped off the scarf off her neck. He hissed in her ear as he willed his power to stay with in him. "But who ever you new friend is better watch his back, because I am going to kill him when I find him." He felt his powers getting harder to control. "That is if he is doing anything more then talking to you." With that Hiei fled the safely of the cold room. Where his feet touched scorch marks remand. As Hiei thought it was safe… He prayed it was safe. He wasn't interested in killing any humans thank to this sickness. He fired the dragon of the darkness flame. The hungry monster tore through the woods and ate anything in it's path. Bringing down a mountain with ease as it went.

For those that could see it all happing, it looked like seven thousand bombs had gone off. As the dragon returned to Hiei, it called out to him. 'I have fed, now I rest until I feed again.' The words made Hiei mind raced with question. Never in all the time's he had use the dragon had it spoke to him, nor had it ever needed to feed. What had brought on the sudden change? Was it the cold making this all happen? Did he imagine it all? If he hadn't would it need to feed again soon?

"What is going on?" Was his last thought as he fell into a deep slumber.

(Back at Genkai's)

Yusuke was walking up the steps to his old bat of a master's house when he felt it. He knew Hiei's energy signal through and through. But it was different somehow, as if the power itself was alive. As Yusuke turned to look in the direction Hiei's power was coming from, he saw the dragon smashing into a mountain top. Even from miles away Yusuke could see its large jaws open as if it was eating.

"What the fuck is going on?" Yusuke started running toward it. The last time he had ran to Hiei side, he had been burned horribly. Fortunately Yukina could heal all his wounds and of course she did. But this time Yusuke wasn't so sure anyone would be able to heal him. That is if he lived long enough for anyone to find him.

As he ran toward Hiei, Yusuke wasn't at all surprised to see the rest of his team joining him.

"Sometimes I think Sortie is more trouble then he's worth." Kuwabara yelled it was his way of saying he hoped Hiei was alright.

"Let's just hope he's got that thing under control and it isn't going to eat us all!" Yusuke yelled back.