Tired

"Kagome," said Hiei as he followed his favorite demoness, Kagome into the forest.

Kagome was silent.

"Kagome," said Hiei with a little more force, then again silence.

"Kagome!" Hiei said with more enthusiasm of trying to get her attention.

They had been in this silence for two days already, not a single peep coming from Kagome. All she did was stare straight on and walk, and walk.

"KAGOME!" yelled Hiei as he grabbed Kagome's arm and pulled her around to see tears in her eyes.

"I'm so sorry for bringing you here…" she said as the tears held their position in her eyes and didn't dare to shed. "I didn't want you to come. This is a place like no other. No rules apply like the Tournaments. If they get a chance they'll kill you. There's no practice with the enemy you die. This is where I am most at home."

"Kagome, I came here on my own," Hiei said.

Then Hiei realised he had talked with Kagome more then he did with his friends. Was she his girlfriend? Just like all the other girls and human guys? Or was she something more special? But most importantly… what was going on?

"You came here, on your own free will?" asked Kagome as she stopped dead in her tracks to look at the demon.

Kagome's long black hair was whisping around in the breeze. As the leafs of the tree's rustled their brown, yellow, and red colours. The dense foliage left good camouflage for the twosome.

"Yes," stated Hiei as he realised he was still holding onto Kagome's hand and let go.

"We'll sleep here," said Kagome as she turned around and grasped out her katana.

In one swift movement, Kagome whipped out 3 trees. This is where they would be sleeping.

The twosome did not sleep far apart for warmth was becoming an issue, a fire would be too risky at this time of the year. So Hiei and Kagome were only 2 feet apart, they used Kagome's long tail for a blanket.

The blinding morning rays spread across the sky. The smell of wood lay dense in the forest, the dew spread across the leaves and ground. The grass swayed as if it was dancing, as the twosome continued to sleep.

"Hm… they look tasty!" hissed a snake demon to its fellow snake.

"Yesss let usss eat them!" hissed the other as he went forward to grab Kagome's hair.

Suddenly flame red eyes snapped open, all the snake demons had time to do was blink before they're guts lay spred across the forest floor.

Kagome was such a heavy sleeper, that she didn't even wake up! Oh well, Hiei picked her up and continued to walk away from where they were.

"Kagome wake up," said Hiei as he continued to look for a safer spot.

But Kagome didn't stur.

"Kagome wake up!" growled Hiei.

All Kagome did was turn over and press her face to his chest. Suddenly a creeping hot blush smeared across Hiei's face.

What was this feeling? It was… fuzzy? Whatever it was, it was quite (as humans would say) butterfly-in-your-stomach-like. It was actually a good feeling, for once he felt good inside about what he was doing.

"Kagome, it's time to wake up," whispered Hiei, with his cold eyes aflame.

"No…" whispered Kagome in her sleep as she didn't even stur.

But all was ok, soon she would wake up, but for now she slept.

The soft pitter-patter of rain dripping from the sky onto the trees and hitting the back of Hiei's neck. The roaring scent of wet wood spun in and out of Hiei's nose with every breath. Hiei decided to take shelter under a near-by tree; there He set down Kagome on the dry grass. He sat there waiting for her to awaken….

Ta dah! Once again I came through and put in another chapter! I know it's been a Hell of a long time since I last updated, but assignments don't just do themselves! Oh well, I responded to your reviews. But I'm sorry for this chapter not being very long, I couldn't think of anything else to put….

Well, Ja ne! Ookami out.