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7.
Normal POV
You breathe heavily as you jolt up and look around the room. You feel strong arms wrap protectively around your waist from behind and you jump, obviously not expecting it at all. Your eyes turn a vivid pink as your cheeks flush into a rosy pink color when you feel someone set their head gently on your shoulder. The only thing between the skin of your shoulder and their chin was the damp piece of fabric that was your pajamas.
Your blush only becomes deeper when you see that the person latched onto you is Hiei as you feel his warm breath tickle the skin on your exposed neck. You're very confused at this point. Hiei's eyes are closed and he has a peaceful expression on his face as he holds you on the bed. You have no idea why he's so affectionate all of a sudden and its scaring you a little though you do like his embrace.
"Hiei? What exactly are you doing? This isn't like you at all," You ask nervously as he places you in his lap. You begin to have suspicions that it was a shape-shifter, like Bret, that was sent by Naraku.
"I'm not completely sure. I guess you could say its like that time when I told you that I can't control my actions around this certain person…Lea, that person is you," Hiei whispered into your cat ear in a husky voice. You continued to blush even more furiously until it was impossible to blush more as Hiei confessed his feelings right there and then.
You definitely weren't expecting him to admit it, much less this soon after everything that's gone on, or out loud. You guessed that he'd just had enough of getting jealous whenever he saw another guy with you and wanted to officially announce that you were off the market…or something like that. The fact that you told him you loved him yesterday may have been the queue for him to tell you how he felt as well. This was all seriously confusing.
You remembered that on one episode on Yu Yu Hakusho, when Yusuke had been kidnapped, the only way to make that dude, Yanagisawa, who transformed into other people and became exactly like them turn back, was to punch him with a considerable amount of spirit energy. You now debated on whether you should or not to make sure he wasn't a stupid shape-shifter. You wanted to make sure that it was really him, but you also didn't want him to be mad at you for punching him for no apparently good reason. All of this contemplating also made you wish to bash your head against a stone pillar about a hundred times. You then remembered that there was only one thing that would prove whether it was Hiei or not without hurting him. There was no possible way that a shape-shifter could be able to create a copy of the jagan eye where it also worked, not even someone like Yanagisawa. You hated to ruin the moment but it was necessary to stay safe.
"How do I know you're really Hiei? Can you prove to me that you are?" You reasoned and suppressed the urge to moan when he suckled your neck a bit by biting your bottom lip 'til it bled into your mouth.
"Lea, are you telling me that you don't believe me? How could you not believe that it's really me?" Hiei questioned as he drew back from your neck and stared at you in slight disbelief.
"Its nothing personal Hiei. Really. It's just that I've always known you as a cold and ruthless killer who never admitted to something like this. It's completely beneath your honor and pride to subject to something like this human emotion. I just need conformation that its really you so I can really accept it," You assured with a gentle smile turned towards him. Your eyes held a deep sadness to show that you were sorry for doing this to him and your gentle smile was a bit broken but at the same time, filled with a love that could only be meant for Hiei.
"What can I do to show you it's really me?" Hiei asked, his voice now as cold as it usually was in front of the others and his glare set in place though it still held that love it them.
You smirked and reached over your shoulder and up to grab his bandana. You pulled it off and saw the small slit that was the jagan as it started to open slowly, revealing that purple pupil it held.
"How about you show me in our fights today? Only the true Hiei should be able to know how to use the jagan and the dragon of the darkness flame. How 'bout it? If you end up not needing them in your fight, then we can have a small spar afterwards," You propose. Hiei smirks at this and accepts. You smile at him and thank him before placing a quick kiss on his lips and getting up to get dressed. As you walked out of the room with your clothes, you quickly glance over your shoulder and see a stunned Hiei sitting on the bed still. You smirk at the fact that your actions can still affect him like that. It really was fun to mess with his head in so many ways.
You finished getting dressed in the bathroom and came out as the boy with the hat to see Hiei ready with his katana currently being placed on his hip. You grab a couple of weapon holders and strap them to each of your legs, filled them with the various small throwing weapons, poisons, bombs, antidotes, etc. You then strapped on your wooden sword to your waist as well as a short sword and your new sword. It was time to break it in. Once all your weapons were in place and secure, you headed to the kitchen and grabbed an apple and tossed that to Hiei who came in a couple of seconds later. You grab a banana for yourself and just ate it in silence until you finished and heard a rather loud knock at the door. You rolled your eyes and threw the core away on your way to answer the door. You opened it and found none other than Yusuke Urameshi about to knock on it again with more force.
"You guys ready? The fights gonna start in a few minutes," Yusuke asked enthusiastically with a grin to match.
"Sure, I'll just grab Hi- oh there you are. Well let's go," you reply simply with a smile as Hiei appeared beside you ready. You both exited the suite and locked it before heading with the others to the stadium. On the way, everything was quiet until you spoke up suddenly after splitting apart from Koenma and the girls.
"Hey you guys, I have a question. How do you suppose this tournament was arranged if last time, the Toguro brothers killed all the sponsors, save for Koenma and Sakyo, who died in the stadium's destruction?" You question, after finally realizing that fact.
"I don't know, maybe another group of demons or humans on the black market was there last time and survived decided to start it up again," Kurama reasoned. You shrug and enter the battle arena as Koto called your team.
"And on your left, Team Tatsukane!" Koto announced as the crowd cheered enthusiastically, obviously favoring a full demon team instead of yours regardless of your team's title.
Through the doors on the other side of the arena, you could see a team of five demons with more humanoid features then your last opponents enter. 'Great, more neko. Seriously, I love cats of all kinds, but why are all these chicks such sluts?' You thought as you spotted the two female cat demons, one blonde, one brunette, enter wearing somewhat sluttish outfits, earning some howls and catcalls from the audience of mostly male demons. Your right eye twitches visibly at this while you examine the other three members. One man appeared to look like a human, but the only thing that threw that idea out the window was his high demonic energy and pointed ears. The other two were fairly normal looking as well save for their red fox ears and tails. They were more than obviously identical twins as you looked at their identical smirking and arrogant faces.
"Team captains please enter the ring to decide the conditions of the fights!" Koto calls as Yusuke and the pointed eared man walked to the center of the ring. They talk a bit and then walk back to their respective teams as Koto calls that it will be an elimination match.
The brunette neko steps up onto the arena immediately and makes meows mockingly 'cute' at our team. Secretly challenging me to come up and face her in a duel to the death.
"Perhaps I should go up first. I can use my plants to trap her and finish her off in one attack. Maybe I can use a bit of catnip-," Kurama suggests before you cut him off.
"No. Her little meow was sent towards me and a challenge to a death match. I'm guessing she sees through my disguise and wants my so-called title as princess or something. Remember, they have a pair of kitsune twins on their team, they will have experience against foxes like yourself Kurama. I'll go," You explain emotionlessly as you glare at the neko on stage and get on the arena, leave no room for the others to protest.
"And it looks like our first match will be Coco from Team Tatsukane vs. Lee from team Urameshi! Now let's get this match started!" Koto screams and stands back. Your eyes narrow more as you allow your claws to extend, along with Coco's manicured ones, instead of drawing any of your weapons. You attack each other ruthlessly with your claws at the same time and receive a few scratches here and there but nothing serious. In this process, she had accomplished in removing your hat, which now lay on the grassy ground outside the arena, forgotten. You curse yourself for forgetting to rid your figure of your ears as you launch an attack.
You launch your claws at her again and cause a gash on her left fore arm. She howls in agony before retreating and smirking as she refrains from her fighting stance and pulls out one of her kunai, twirling it on her finger.
'What is she planning? All I've got are a few scratches that are hardly bleeding and she's got a gash on her arm. And all she's doing is twirling that kunai and looking at those damn manicured fingernails of hers. Why is she-shit!' you think while standing in place when suddenly your body feels like it's going numb, while at the same time scorching in a burning agony. That's when you realize the nail polish on her nails are mixed with a poison as your eyes widen in realization.
"You like? I mixed in a bit of poisonous venom from a rattlesnake demon. I find that it makes the loveliest shade of green as well as work as a superrrb weapon that will kill it's opponent soon after it enters the blood stream if not given an antidote quickly. Those little insignificant cuts aren't so insignificant as long as they were cut by these beauties. You should be dead in about fifteen minutes tops. Only I have the antidote in this little vile I have," Coco explains silkily, as if she was talking about the weather, and held up the bottle with a brownish liquid, Koto broadcasting it all as it happened.
You growl threateningly and disappear from her vision for a second. She gasps as you reappear a foot in front of her and desperately reach for the vile. It seemed that the poison spread more quickly as you used your abilities. The neko quickly comes to her senses and hurriedly jumps away from you just as your fingers were less than a centimeter from the bottle.
You breathe heavily as you desperately looked for the possibility of an antidote in your weaponry holders while trying to dodge the neko demon's attacks with her kunai. You were trying everything in your power just to stand up, much less keep from dying by her hands. You fall to your knees in pain as her kunai lodges itself into your shoulder blade. You give up your searching and turn to face her while struggling all the while. The poison limited you from using most of your powers but fortunately, it didn't seem to limit your telepathic abilities as much. You smile slightly at this through your labored breathing and laugh quietly, knowing your next move might kill you if not done quickly. You faintly hear your team screaming at you in support that you could win over Koto's broadcasting.
You take a deep, shaky breath as you stand still and close your eyes, Coco stopping as well. "What the hell are you laughing at bitch?! Have you gone insane at the fact that you're going to die in five minutes? If that's how it is, then I'll be nice for once and spare you a few minutes to reflect on your past while the venom consumes you. How's that? It's not like me but hey, I feel generous," she grins cattily and stands still, watching you carefully in amusement.
You, on the other hand, block her out, along with Koto's broadcasting, the audiences' shouts, and your friends' cheers, and focus on entering her mind. It was risky but you'd done it before against Kurama and Cammi, so you decided to take a chance and go for it. You place your hands together as if to pray and suddenly, you see yourself in a pink hallway with numerous doors. Yes, a pink hallway. Your eye twitched again but nonetheless, you started jogging down the corridor and reading the labels until you came upon 'control center.' You opened the door quickly and opened your eyes to see yourself back in the arena, staring straight at a neko demon with a blank and glazed over look. You smirk slightly through even more heavy breathing before coughing up a bit of blood onto your hand and wincing in pain at such a simple involuntary movement.
You collapsed into a hunched over sitting position on the arena floor and weakly stated, "Neko, come here and –cough- bring me the antidote you carry. Hurry." Coco nodded and jogged over to you worriedly. She lifted your head gently and poured the brown liquid into your mouth as if you were a weak and frail child, before backing away and disposing of the bottle as you had commanded.
"Wow viewers, I can't believe what I'm seeing. Coco had poisoned her opponent so why is she pouring that brown stuff down her throat as a mother would to nurse a child? If I recall, she clearly stated that that was the antidote. And she seemed actually worried. Would someone please explain to me why the fighters are taking pity on each other!" Koto announced to the audience.
"Tell me neko. How long does it take before the antidote takes effect?" You question her as you weakly look up at her, trying to refrain from loosing your male form.
"Only a couple of seconds majesty, but it takes at least a day to recover full power, and even longer the more you expend energy beforehand. I'm sorry that I have hurt you so. Please forgive my sins," Coco pleads with a low bow of respect and apology. You certainly hadn't commanded her to do that and was surprised to see her do so.
"There is no reason to apologize. We were fighting a match to the death and you were simply doing your best to win and survive. That alone is understandable. But I'm afraid that I will have to return the favor," You smirk out in response as your strength returns a bit and you charge at her. She stays still, having been mentally commanded that, and is soon sliced in half by your new katana as you swipe it out of your scabbard, immediately replacing it back to it's proper position with a click, after whipping the blood off.
You smile gently at the corpse and place a flat hand up and prayed for her soul, just as you did for the one that took your voice several weeks ago, while Koto announces you the winner enthusiastically. You had become so used to prayer, you could probably walk into almost any church as a normal human, regardless of your demon heritage and bloodthirsty demeanor.
You walk back to the center of the ring by Koto and watch as the blonde neko soon steps up with a death glare that wasn't at all that intimidating to you, being that even Hiei's didn't have any effect on you. Koto announced this next match and steps back once again to avoid being hit. 'I have to be more careful. As far as I know, her nails could also be poisonous, as well as her weapons. I can't afford to even be scratched. I don't think I can afford to pull that little stunt again. And she will no doubt have her mind guarded as well, making it harder for me to enter it,' you though carefully as you slowly drew your sword again.
The blonde cat merely smirked at you and placed a small black ball on the ground, informing Koto to get off of the ring if she wished to live. Koto complied immediately as the ball let off a sort of thick bluish smoke, blocking your sight of the neko and quickly spreading to cover the arena. You immediately sheathed your sword and formed a mask and goggles from your shadow and placed them on before the smoke reached you. You pulled your hat down and formed a sort of hood that hid your entire head and neck with a black fabric. You then pulled on some weighted gloves you packed and made sure no skin was unprotected, knowing full well that the smoke might enter your body through the pores on your skin. Once you were satisfied with yourself, you looked around you to find that the smoke covered the entire ring and blocked your line of view.
You concentrated hard as you summoned up some air to help you fly above the ring. Seeing as you only used this element once, you needed to concentrate a little more than usual so you could use it properly, though it also used quite a bit more of the little energy you had gathered then you would have liked. Not only that, but the neko had launched a ninja short sword in the smoke, and being occupied as you were, it had hit you and had embedded itsself into your stomach. Once you were overhead and clear of the smoke, you removed the safety goggles and mask as you looked over the ring. It kind of reminded you of the time when Ura Urashima fought Kurama and made him revert back to Youko for the first time, what with the color, large amount, and bright yellow beams forming a sort of barrier so as to not reach the audience.
You quickly located your opponent's energy signature looking for you. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Come out and play will you?" you heard her taunt in a sickeningly sweet voice that made you gag a bit. You quickly formed a bow and arrow from your fire, only to see that the arrow was black and purple like the darkness flame. You thought about this for less than a second before taking careful aim and shooting the arrow at the oblivious neko demon. Less than a second after it disappeared into the smoke, a rewarding scream of absolute pain was heard all around the arena. The smoke soon disappeared along with the beams of light to reveal the crumpled form of the neko demon surrounded by a pool of her own blood and covered in burn marks all over her body with a look of pain and shock on her face, her eyes now small and void of life.
You land on the arena by her as Koto took the ten count and announced you the winner while you prayed silently. 'Stupid elimination matches,' you thought bitterly as you remain in your place and the leader stepped up with an arrogant smirk on his face.
"Too bad little kitty boy. I know all your techniques and abilities after watching you fight today and in your last round. You won't be able to surprise me like with the other two. An Elemental and a feline demon. Quite a rare combination, I'll admit, but nothing I can't handle," the demon, Alan as Koto had announced, pointed out confidently. His voice sounded sadly enough like Karasu's and this only made you smirk at him with a malicious glint in your eye.
"You wouldn't happen to be a demon from the quest class, now would you?" you ask with mock interest.
"Why yes I am boy. Though you may have realized this, it doesn't mean you have even the slightest chance of surviving against me. Much less winning. I will take you all out, starting with you," he confirmed and pointed at you. Your ears twitched slightly as you clearly heard Hiei growl in fury. The match had already been called to begin, but you two just stood there for a while, talking. You turned your head to look over your shoulder and at Hiei and gave him a reassuring smile, sending him a message that said to calm down and not to worry so much.
"Yes well, let's stop this rambling and get down to why we're here. Come on, I'll let you make the first move," You say and get into your battojutsu stance.
"Oh I agree. Let's not waste our time talking. It's time for you to die, insolent boy!!" Alan shouted and lunged at you with his fists lit aflame. 'Great. I get the Zeru/Karasu copycat. Speaking of which, I wonder why my arrow was black like the darkness flame. Oh well, I'll think of that later. I'm getting tired and my energy's draining fast so I'll injure him some then forfeit while he's weak. Then one of the others can fight him and win without a sweat,' you think quickly before drawing your sword at lightening speed and cutting off his right arm and creating a large gash across his chest that bled profusely.
"Oops. Didn't mean to hurt ya that bad. I need to work on my control better after this. Oh well. My turn," you say innocently to yourself and disappear in front of everyone's eyes. As everyone watches closely, Alan gains many more cuts across his body while he cries out in pain. When you finally reappear after a few minutes, Alan is bleeding profusely and breathing heavily as if he just ran for ten days nonstop while you merely slash the air with your blade to remove the blood almost boredly. Soon enough, Alan falls to pieces in a bloody mess where he stands, dead. You turn towards Koto with a cold-blooded killer's eye and she trembles in fear slightly at the thought that you might kill her, regardless of your still heavy breathing from exhaustion. One of the twins, immediately come up into the ring for their turn once they see Alan hit the ground in pieces.
"I'm done. Go ahead and call whoever's next the winner by default and let someone else finish him off. I give up. If I continue, I'll push myself too far and only succeed in hurting myself in the process. Each of the two remaining will be too much for me to handle in this state," you state blankly with a shrug and walk towards your team at the edge of the arena.
"Umm. The winner is Lee. I don't really know what's going on but it looks like he has forfeited from the next fight, making Rio the winner by default. Team Urameshi, if you could bring up your next fighter," Koto calls slightly confused and baffling everybody else but you. You jump down from the ring and calmly walk over to the wall to sit down and relax. The other four soon recovered and Kurama walks onto the stadium to fight one of the twins while Yusuke and Kuwabara storm over to you, Hiei walking calmly but with a firm glare pointed at you in confusion.
"Why the hell did you forfeit?! You're hardly injured and could have taken on those two easily! What's wrong with you?!" Yusuke shouted in your face, causing you to grab your poor sensitive ears from the volume of his voice.
"Yeah, I thought you were someone that never gave up!" Kuwabara put in.
"There is a difference between giving up, and knowing your limit, Kuwabara. Besides, Yusuke, The snake's venom is still not completely gone from my system. I still haven't gained some of my energy and won't get it back until it's completely gone. I drained a good portion of what energy I had without it when I controlled that brunette and when I launched that arrow on the blonde. Not to mention what I had to do to control the winds to get me to safety with already having little to no energy. I didn't know if the smoke was a poison or just a screen, but seeing those beams of light acting as a barrier confirmed that it was poison. I suppose neither of you noticed the color of the flames on my arrow earlier either did you?" you explain through forced calmness, turning your attention to Kurama's match which you could see he was easily dominating in.
"What do you mean, the color of the flames? I noticed that they seemed like a black and purple color, but what does that mean?" Yusuke asked as he too directed his attention to the ring while Kurama won against Rio and started his fight against the other twin. You noticed that both Yusuke and Kuwabara seemed to have calmed down from their outrage, as well as Hiei's confusion and glare disappearing.
"Yes. They were black and purple flames. If you remember, those are the colors of the Darkness technique. I don't know how, but it seems as if I may have summoned the darkness flame and formed it into an arrow. We'll probably have to investigate this later and see if we can find anything. I don't have any clue how it was possible though," you explained as you watched Kurama quickly finish his fight and Koto call team Urameshi the winners. Kurama came over and Hiei quickly explained to him my reasons of forfeiting and my thoughts of the arrow I attacked with. I stood up and walked behind them as we exited the arena for the next match, heading towards the girls in the stands to watch team Inuyasha. Kurama hands you your hat as he passes you through the door and you thank him as you two exchange smiles.
Everyone walked with Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara chatting amongst themselves and Hiei and you staying quiet as you headed towards the stands. Being as low on energy as you were, it was still quite difficult to walk though you somehow didn't let it show. Soon, Hiei fell back a few paces a fell into step beside you.
"So what now onna? I didn't even fight last match and I'm not about to use the dragon against you while you barely have any energy to make that dome of yours. How do you intend on proving it's me now?" Hiei asked you so only you could hear as you returned to your normal form.
"-sigh- No need anymore Hiei. I know it's you. That was definitely confirmed when you growled at that Alan guy. Hehe, only you would actually growl at someone for threatening my safety like with Bret, Hiei. There's no longer any reason to believe that you're a shape-shifter impersonating Hiei. Come on, Let's hurry up before we miss all of the matches!" You smile at him and give him a chaste kiss on the cheek before grabbing his bandaged wrist and dragging him to the stands where the others now were with the girls, Shippo, and Kirara. You let go of Hiei's wrist and walk over to stand beside Sabera and Yukina, only to have Hiei stand to your left and grabbing your left hand with his bandaged right hand. You looked at him in shock for a second before smiling at him and giving his hand a gentle squeeze and turning back to the fights while conversing with the rest of the girls, glad that you two were on the end and no one could see you two holding hands like this.
You scan the stands briefly when suddenly you spot something directly across from your group's position on the other side of the stadium that makes your ears perk up and tail bristle straight and your muscles tense up. There in the top of the stands, was none other than Naraku with his four other team members. Two looked to be small children, one a boy with long white hair and a ningata twice his size, the other was a young girl with a mirror, white hair and white clothes that radiated no sort of aura, scent, or even emotion or thought. Another one was an older woman that wore a kimono and had a fan in her right hand. The last member of the group of five was a man that was about Kuwabara's height and was well toned with a somewhat attractive appearance, not that you were really interested in him. He didn't really have the quirks needed to attract you like Hiei did, though you were pretty sure that several other girls would find him all out gorgeous. He had chestnut brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes. Strapped to the waist of his feudal style men's kimono was a sword, and his arms were crossed over his chest. Naraku stood there with them, his head still covered by the baboon's pelt as he watched Inuyasha and his friends fight. You could clearly see the smirk that was planted on the bottom half of his face that showed.
Hiei felt you tense up from your hand and looked to see you staring intensely at something on the other side of the stands. He followed your gaze and saw the five standing there as he wondered what could have possibly caused you to react like this just by looking at them. Suddenly, you started to growl as your intent gaze turned into a menacing glare with matching crimson eyes aimed towards the group as Hiei let go of your hand, which immediately balled into a fist. Your growl continued to increase in volume until the others were able to hear it with ease and stare at you in question, and followed your glare to the five just as Hiei did.
"My lady, what is the matter? Why are you glaring and growling at those people? Did they anger you in some way?" Sabera asked curiously as she turned back to you.
"-growl- Bastard. They will all die," was all you said as a reply as you drew five kunai and threw them in a flash at Naraku and his 'friends.' Your ear twitched when you heard Naraku say, after seeing the kunai approach, "Kahna."
As soon as he said that, the girl in white adjusted her mirror and the other four stepped closer to her, standing behind her. When the kunai were about a foot away from them, they all redirected paths and headed straight for the girl in white, Kahna. You watch as each kunai was sucked into the mirror one by one. Soon, with the matches below finished and all attention on your group and Naraku's, the kunai shot out of the mirror and headed towards you and the four spirit detectives at the same pace you first sent them.
You quickly use your wind power to try and use what little energy you had left in order to redirect the kunai away from everyone. Your attempts fail as you didn't have enough energy to control the wind and instead collapsed onto the floor, once again breathing heavily. Just as you thought that, a gust of wind blew the kunai to your right, knocking them off course completely to land in a wall. You quickly look to your left with everyone else to see Jin flying in the air with a smile and his wiggling ears. Soon, Touya came through the doorway along with Rinku and Chu, ready to fight if necessary.
"Aye now, tha's no way t' behave! I didn't expect ya t' do sometin' like tha lassie," Jin stated, turning towards you.
"Sorry Jin. It ain't my fault that stupid demon in the baboon pelt pissed me off!" You shout over to Jin with a large grin on your face.
"A baboon pelt?!" Inuyasha shouted up to you.
"Yeah! That Damn Naraku tried to make a deal with me yesterday! Hey bastard! This enemy you were trying to destroy, it wouldn't happen to be team Inuyasha would it?!" you shout at him angrily.
"Heh, very perceptive girl. I seem to have given you less credit than you deserve. So, how about it? The offer is still open, if you have changed your mind," Naraku stated once again.
"Hell no! Kagome's my friend! A friend of hers is a friend of mine, and I don't betray friends! Understand?! Get out of our lives and go kill yourself why don't ya?! If not, then I'll make you do it! I'm not giving you the damn key! You got that?! You can just forget about me agreeing to anything with the likes of you!" you shout from the ground and clench your fists in anger until your palms bled from your claws.
"That's too bad. Nonetheless, you still have another day to change your mind. Until then, I'll be waiting. Kagura," Naraku informed, then addressed the girl in the kimono with a fan. She grunted before plucking one of the two feathers from her hair and causing a gust of wind that made you and everyone else, but Jin of course being a wind master himself, cover their eyes. When you looked back at them, they were no longer standing there. You looked up to see the two girls, Kagura and Kahna, riding the feather that had grown along with the unknown man. Naraku and the small boy were flying on their own as they flew off to wherever they were staying for this tournament. You growl even more as you look in the direction they had departed while getting back up with the help of Sabera and Yukina.
"Come on, we should probably head back to the hotel and get something to eat," Kurama suggested while inspecting you carefully, seeing as how you were still leaning on Yukina and breathing with difficulty. Everyone nods in agreement while Jin lands in front of you and hands you the kunai he retrieved. You take them and put them away while thanking him and being helped to walk back to the hotel.
"Please, Lea-chan, you shouldn't walk. Hiei-san, could you carry her, please?" Yukina insisted. Hiei nodded and picked you up bridal style as your arms instinctively latched around his neck and you all met up with Inuyasha and his team. The members of team Inuyasha all stare at you and Hiei as you blush considerably. They shrugged off whatever they were thinking as you all continue heading to the hotel. 'Great, more explanations. I can see it now, everyone will be complaining and wondering why I hadn't said anything about this sooner. Then I'll have to explain how I didn't get a chance to tell them and blah, blah, blah.' You thought annoyed. You felt and heard Hiei chuckle slightly and look up at him to see him smirking, nonetheless, you failed to miss his grip on you tightening protectively.
/Hn, you're not anxious are you onna?/ Hiei asked telepathically with a raised eyebrow in amusement.
/I'm anxious for it to be over with already…Wait, did you just make a joke? I must be loosing my mind. The serious and cold Hiei Jaganshi is making jokes./ you reply grinning up at him.
/Just be glad no one noticed the little mark you have on your neck, onna./ He replied with a smirk.
/What mark?/ you question and take out your compowder, looking at the base of your neck in it's mirror/screen. There, on the right side of your neck, where it connects with your shoulder, lay a faint hickey that popped halfway out of your shirt collar. /Hiei you ass! You left a stupid hickey on me this morning! You better hope the others don't notice this! Kurama and Cammi are very observant and if they notice, there's no doubt the others will in time too. I don't have anything to cover it up and I'd rather not explain how I got it and who I got it from on top of this./ you scream in his mind loudly. Your sudden outburst causes Hiei to jump a little and thus, nearly drop you. You let out a little yelp and cause the others to look back and see what your yelp was about.
"BAKA ONI! I almost fell!" you scream out at Hiei with scarlet cheeks, not liking the unwanted attention in the least. The others blink in confusion before turning back and continuing on their way in front of you two. You sigh in exaggeration as Hiei just grunts and decides to take to the trees instead of walking on the ground.
Whoo! Chapter seven complete! Now I just need to start chapter eight and junk…man I hate writing explanations like this. I end up thinking I make the characters talk too much. –sigh- oh well. Onward my retarded cursing steed! (I am not your steed! And I am not retarded!) So say you. Last I checked, you might have well been retarded when that "pretty man" practically had your face burning off with how much you were blushing. –smirks evilly- (shut up about that!) no it's too much fun! (b1tch) XP