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I'm SOOOOOO sorry I'm taking so long! (I'm afraid you will all hate me for what I am about to do to pyro.)

There was already a portal waiting when Botan and I finally rejoined the gang. The whole of the temple's population turned out to see us off. Jin took one look at me and ducked out.

"He's so emotional sometimes." Touya gave me an apologetic shrug.

I hugged the ice master twice. "Give one of those to Jin for me, and I'll kick both your arses if you don't and he refuses."

Kuwabara was next, along with Yukina. "Don't let the shrimp keep you in your room the whole time. If he tries, call me, and I'll come take over." Kuwabara looked a little bashful.

"Take good care of my brother. He needs you more than you need him." Yukina looked to be on the verge of tears.

"No worries, Kina, remember? I will do my damnedest to keep your big bro around to glare at your lover for a long long time." I hugged her tight.

"Hey! That's my nickname for her!" Kuwabara protested.

"Shut up Kazuma. My brother's intended may call me whatever she wants." Yukina said very calmly. It kept him distracted as a single tear gem hit the ground.

I scooped it up and turned to Yusuke. "Zombie, don't beat yourself up, its not your fault."

"Yeah, right. Whatever." He scratched the back of his head and didn't look at me.

I hugged him and growled a little. "Its not your fault. It was going to happen anyway."

Hiei growled a little. I guess he still didn't like me showing any affection toward the zombie. "You ready yet?"

I stepped over to his side. "Yes, Hiei. Take me home."

We were lucky this time. Koenma made the portal open directly into my apartment, in the sitting room. I moved through the rooms, cursing at myself for letting the boys rush me through the move about nine months previous.

The sink was still stacked with dishes, but the water had long since dried, and any food remains had succumbed to the molds. Even the molds had disappeared. I still washed them in scalding hot water, with lots of soap.

"I'm not going back, no matter how much you ignore me." Hiei's voice floated over from the doorway.

"I'm not trying to ignore you, I'm trying to wash the dishes so we have something to eat off of tonight." I said, without much feeling.

He caught my hands in his, beside me before I'd finished speaking. "You've hurt yourself again. The scratches on your face haven't even clotted over yet."

I turned to face him. "Why do you even care?"

"Because I can't help it. I thought I was immune to these feelings." He put my hands under cold water.

"But why, Hiei? I do nothing but cause trouble and make you get hurt."

"Baka. You don't make me get hurt. The other demons hurt me because I make sure they don't get to you. You are mine until the day I die, and I have made it my mission to ensure you a very long life of causing me trouble."

"Gods, Hiei, you make it sound like you're in love with me and about to propose." I giggled slightly.

"Because I am. I know I can't have you in a demon mating, but would you have me in a human mating?" His eyes were full of apprehension.

I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him. "Of course I will firebug! Gods, you're so full of surprises."

He held a ring out to me on his palm. The band was silver, and the stones looked familiar.

"Hiei, are those..."

"Mine and my sister's hiruseki stones? Yes. She volunteered them." He smiled at me as he slid the ring onto my left ring finger.

I threw my arms around him again. "Its gorgeous. Now lets go get some groceries so that I can cook my fiancee something to eat."

"Better idea. Lets go to the store after we go out for dinner."

I pecked his cheek and started for my bedroom. "Let me just go grab my cash stash, then we can go."

I went back to being a fortune teller. Hiei became my partner in the business. We worked from the apartment, so we wouldn't have to file paperwork for renting a space.

I was up before Hiei every day. We somehow managed to fall asleep together every night, which was nice. But those damn memories kept showing up right around dawn.

After about a month and a half of playing daytime gypsy, Hiei had the brilliant idea of adding a kind of spirit medium to his list of occult services. He would use his jagon to find dead relatives that clients would request to contact or whatever, and feed them lines from their memories. The little demon could start a reality show.

I generally assisted him for the seances. Mostly because I was afraid to be alone with the demon in my head. As the months added up, so did the frequency of her memories getting into my head.

A month of twice-nightly seances passed without incident. The night of our last séance, I got mad at him. I was sure he'd overstepped his role.

"Seriously, Hiei, did you have to tell her THAT?" I hissed as soon as the door shut behind the last client.

"Yes, I did. She wanted the truth, and I gave it to her." He spoke softly, so the client wouldn't hear. I half wondered why he didn't just do the telepathy thing.

"But you told her that her recently deceased husband is rotting in Hell! Not cool." I hissed, stalking away from the door to the kitchen. I needed tea, or something.

"She hated him." He grabbed my arm. "He was to her like Eoghan was to you. She wanted to know that she was finally getting justice from some power, since ningen courts failed her."

We stared at each other for several moments. I looked away first. "Fine. I think I'm going to take a walk. I need to cool off and sort out my head." I moved to grab my cloak from the hook by the door.

"If I am banned from coming with you, please don't take long, it is very late." He didn't move to follow me, except with his eyes.

I flashed him a little smile. "Of course dearest. Humans can be just as dangerous as demons." I carefully shut the door instead of the slam I had been planning. For all of his bluster, my oni-san still hated it when we fought.

I went a couple of blocks, then turned around. My timing was one block off, because I soon became aware of the footsteps and aggression of someone following me. I continued my even pace while stretching my demon senses like Hiei had taught me. Three males, all human.

'Shit. I really don't have the time or patience for this shit now.' I growled to myself.

::I do, let me play with them.:: Lotus purred.

'Bitch, stay in your box. No killing humans.' I rolled my eyes.

The footsteps got closer. I was half a block from home. I leaned down to mess with a shoelace that had chosen just then to come undone.

I was grabbed and held with my back against one of them by a big forearm around my throat.

'Hiei, honey, just so you know, I'm being attacked by some humans. Lotus may try something, but I can handle it.'

The arm at my throat tightened a bit. "Hey there little fortune teller, we want you to predict our future." The owner of the arm said in my ear.

"Ok, I predict that you're gonna get hurt." I felt my shields slip. 'Shitshitshit, she's gonna get out.' I hoped Hiei heard me.

"I think I want my money back." The jerk behind me laughed.

"I think we'll just take it out of your sweet ass." A skinny dirty looking boy said, grinning like a jack o'lantern.

'Oh gods, she's half out...' "Actually, you're not going to touch me at all." my voice, yet not my voice growled. "And your friend here is going to lose the use of his arm for daring to choke me."

"You little bitch..." The other two started to close in.

I flipped the one holding me over my head by the arm around my throat. He landed on his friends, but I had yet to let go of his arm, yay demon strength. To make good on my prediction, I kicked his elbow to bend the wrong way.

Hiei was suddenly at my side, prying the boy's arm out of my hand. "That's enough, onna. You have proven to them how unwise it is to attack a gypsy at night."

"He touched me. Choked me." I growled, still glaring at the heap at my feet. 'He made her come out.'

"And you ruined his arm, he'll never use it again." Hiei chuckled. "Prediction correct as usual."

'Koenma would be pissed if I killed them.'

'To say the least. Now lets go, the ningen healers have been called, along with the police. Unless you want to spend the night in a cell.'

I let him pick me up and flit me to the apartment.

Hiei locked the door and sat beside me on the couch. I based that on the clicks I heard, and the feeling of the couch dip beside me, because I had my eyes tightly shut again.

"Onna, look at me." His demand came in a soft voice, tinged with concern.

I looked over at him, trying to mask my fear. "I know, that was too close."

"You're getting better. Her eyes and voice came out, but you showed restraint. She could have used any number of powers to take them out completely, but only broke the baka like she said she would." He gave me a half smile.

I pinched the bridge of my nose. "At least our séance and tarot schedules are clear for the next couple of weeks."

"That vacation is out of the question."

"Aww, please? Just one day at the beach?"

"Too dangerous for the innocents." He chuckled at my pout.

"Fine. But it would be so nice to have just one day to cut lose and get away." I flopped back to slouch in my seat.

He slid his arm around me and brought me in for a cuddle. "We can still cut lose, we just can't get away until after the next attack."

"Gods I hate being me sometimes." I sighed and nuzzled his shoulder to get comfy.

"I still like you exactly the way you are." He kissed the top of my head.

I giggled. "You're biased."

"Perhaps. That was a pretty ruthless move, where did you learn it?"

"Touya said I might need it in a 'dark ningenkai alley' one day when the mission was over and you all went back to Demon World. He wanted to give me some protection against the brutality of my own species." I finished speaking very softly. It made me sad to think my oni-san might leave me.

"I will not leave you when the mission is over." He pulled me close until our bodies were almost flush against one another.

"You'll stay till I'm old and can't keep up." I said sadly.

He held me tighter. "I will not leave you until I am forced to leave your body in the ground. Who told you that lie about your age meaning anything?"

I shrugged.

He looked me straight in the eye. Well, as straight as one could look someone in the eye from the side. "I chose to fight for you and kill for you, to keep you safe. I would not do that if you were not worth the effort of staying here for several more decades."

"It was an e-mail. I only gave my e-mail address to Yukina, Botan and Keiko, so I don't know how this person got it."

"Will you show it to me? I know all the writing styles of the demon's who trained you."

I pulled my computer out from under the couch. I tended to hide it there during seances.

I'm gonna stop here. You'll find out who the meanie-head duo is next time.

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