Angel Selene 93: Sorry but unexpected test and assignment plus project given by evil rapid teachers have kept me too busy to type. Please enjoy this chapter because I might be unable to type another one until the school has finally ended. Please don't hate me but I got to cram as much information as possible into my head before the test. So please review and tell me what you think about this chapter.
(Black blur passes behind her) Angel Selene ignores it knowing no one was going to believe her/ Still doesn't know Hiei is missing from tree.
Chapter 24-Hiei-
Hiei supported the slayer's weight as best he could with his short height, for the first time in a hundred years Hiei wished to be taller. Hiei had accepted his short height very early in his life as he saw useful it was to be smaller and faster then his opponent. Hiei was never really disturbed by the name calling or slid remarks he gained from others because he would soon shut them up by slicing them into tiny pieces in a few split seconds. Right at that moment though he wanted more then anything to be taller, he could not only give the slayer more support but they would be going at a much faster rate then they were going now. He would have sighed in frustration had he not been so stubborn instead he decided to pout. He gave a glance towards the slayer who was panting heavily while at the same time trying to hide it as they continued their slow pace forward.
"Hiei?" Sango voice came out softly as she turned to look at him.
"Hn?" He said wondering what she wanted now perhaps a rest or to just to complain about her injuries, that what he expected from her a human especially a human women.
"Have you been able to locate any of the others?" She asked, he looked at her hiding his slight surprise that she was not complaining about her injuries. But know that she mention the other he realized that he had not even though about them but of just getting out of this goddamn forest as quickly as possible. He took a quick swift of the air and like he had expected he could not smell anything apart from Sango who stood beside him or the trees that surrounded them. He tried to see if his senses could pick up Kurama or the detective, he even tried to see if he could fine the idiot but was not successful since the only thing he sense was a bit of demonic energy coming from the forest itself.
"No." He finally told the slayer, he heard her give a small sigh. It looks like the slayer did not enjoy being with him alone. He used his senses on her to see if she was maybe afraid of him but all that came to him was worry. He probed her mind out of curiosity and found gave a small huff, it was just like humans to worry about others well they themselves were in trouble. He growled silently when he was thrown out of her mind with a sudden jolt that the slayer herself did not create.
"The air around this forest is unusual." The slayer told him as her eyes scan the area ahead of them as if she expected a demon to jump out of nowhere and attack them. "Can you sense the strange energy that it is releasing."
"Hn" He replied, he wasn't about to tell her that not only could he sense a strange energy but it was somehow controlling his superior demonic senses while weakening his demonic energy. Sango made a slight movement beside him with a glance he noticed her struggle to relocate her large weapon, Hiraikutsu, doing her best to do so discreetly. He stopped as a quiet whimper escaped her mouth, had it not been for his demon hearing he was sure he would have missed it completely. He gave a huff as he let her hold herself against a tree. "Humans you are all so weak." He stated, in one quick movement he had the giant boomerang over her head and was placing it on his back never showing the surprise of it heavy weight. He had assumed since the slayer was a human, not to mention a women, that her weapon would be light. He was surprised that the women could lift such a weapon in her current state, in reality he could not believe she could lifted at all hurt or not. Hiei also took her sword and only vaguely notice that this weapon was also heavier then any regular sword would have been, he strapped the sword on his belt next to his own.
"Why are you helping me?" Sango asked him not bothering to hide her surprise. He grabbed her around the waist once again and allowed her to put her arm around him.
"Because you're slowing me down slayer." He made sure his voice came out cold, she gave a single nod as she accepted his answer.
"I thank you anyway." The exterminator gave him a small smile as she placed most of her weight on his shoulder. He rolled his eyes as they began to walk again going at much faster pace. He let himself become calm by the slayer scent unknowingly as they walked together.
They weren't going to admit it to each other but the only reason they weren't arguing was because they needed each other. Sango needed Hiei because of her physical state at the moment and Hiei needed Sango's higher then average human senses. At that moment Hiei knew he was slowly losing his demonic energy and if that wasn't bad enough his senses had been reduced to that of a human child, the only sense that was not was his sense of smell. Lucky Hiei still powerful enough to fight. Sango on the other had was in far worst shape then she was letting on, she was finding it difficult to breathe normally. She already knew she had a couple ribs broken as well as deep gashes all over her body that hurt like hell but the last thing she was going to do was show weakness to the arrogant demon that was helping her. Sango was had always been seen as the strong one and she wasn't going to let anyone see her as a weak child.
It had been about an hour and they had luckily not encountered a single demon as they walked silently. (Heeeeemmmmm I guess I'm being a little too nice.) Hiei estimated a couple more hours of walking before they finally got out of this reechoed forest as long as nothing set them off their coarse. Suddenly the curse of jinxing oneself happen, as a scream broke threw the trees immediately the wing change giving him a blast of a familiar scent.
"What was that?" Sango asked looking around trying to find the source of the scream. He answered her question with one word.
"Rin." Hiei didn't wait for her to register what he said before he had her bridal style in his arm, while running as fast as he could towards were the children were. As soon as the wind as shifted his nose had picked up the faint scent of Rin and the miko's kit as well as the grotesque scent of a boar demon in a rampage. It didn't take him long to get to were Rin and the kit were but what he absorbed made him heart race with a new feeling he could not recognize. The Hog gave a massive stomp on the ground and the cliff broke underneath Rin and the kit. After dropping Sango onto a patch of moss he disappeared only to reappear passing threw the hog demon that had turned into a million flies after he had in a blink of the eye cut it into a million pieces. Hiei sheath the sword he had used not noticing that it was not his blade he used but Sango's. He continued to run not stopping once even to consider what he was about to do, or in what he just did. Hiei had literally jumped off a cliff headfirst. He put his arms against his sides and place his legs together making himself fall faster; it didn't take him long before he reached both Shippou and Rin. He did a backflip in the air and grabbed hold of both of them one in each arm, Both children clung to him giving him all their trust, something Hiei had never had someone do. (Way did Hiei do a black flip? Because I wanted him too, simple huh?) For the first time he looked down and realized that they would never make it pass the sharp rocks and even if they did Rin and Shippou would never survive the raging water of the river underneath them. He tried to think but nothing came to his mind but it wasn't long before something rapped around his waist and their fall came to a sudden halt. Hiei manage to dough the side of the cliff easily and finally he was able to look up, his eyes locked with chocolate brown, Sango was standing on the edge of the cliff using the rope he had given her to keep them from falling. A smirk was plastered on her face as she looked down at them, thought she obviously in excruciating pain.
"Kit move to my shoulder." He told the fox demon who was holding onto his shirt.
"Right!" Shippou moved to his shoulder using his arm as a ladder. With a free hand he grabbed onto the rope. He tried to clime the cliff using his feet but rocks gave way causing him to lose his footing, Rin gave a small scream as the rope gave a jerk and Sango cry of pain didn't go unnoticed either. It looked like he would have to put his trust and life in the slayer's hands, which was a bit unsettling seeing as she was human and hurt.
"Women, use the side of the cliff to pull us up." He instructed the slayer whom had one eye closed in pain.
"The cliff's too sharp it'll tare the rope easily." Sango shouted, Hiei looked at the edge of the cliff sure enough it was sharply jutting out.
"It won't break." He told her having to talk louder then he would have normally done. He knew full well the rope would not break no matter how sharp that cliff was.
"How can you be so sure?" Sango asked him, had he been thinking he would have just told her what it was made off but his mind was not really working at that moment. "Why don't…."
"Women, I made it." He interrupted, irritation getting the best of him. The slayer's surprise was evident as she stare back at him, but without a asking a question she started to walk backwards using the side of the cliff like a pulley and bring them slowly. After a few minutes they reached the top, Shippou immediately jumped onto the hard ground of the cliff, he grabbed hold of the edge of the cliff and lifted Rin over his head handing her to the slayer who had tied the rope around a tree. After placing Rin on the ground Sango held her hand out offering to help him. He ignored it and lifted himself over the side of the edge and onto the hard ground. Hiei dropped the exterminators Hiraikutsu onto the ground and soon followed suite as he sat on the ground next to Sango who used a rock as support.
"Lord Hiei!" Rin latched herself onto his neck and gave him a hug. Rin started tell him about how brave Shippou had been as he tried to protect her, he gave a nod only half listening to what she was saying. He gave another glance towards the slayer, and he looked at her in wonder, she had gashes and bruises all over her body. Her ankle had started to swell, her face was pale white and the bags under her eyes had doubled in size. As the detective would lightly put it 'She looked like shit' the slayer needed medical help immediately.
"Rin hush." The little girl on his lap fell silent. He yanked his bandana off his as his Jagan eye glowed with power. The intake of breaths didn't surprise him one bit as he started to concentrate.
"Cool!" Shippou finally exclaimed after a few seconds.
"A Jagan eye." Sango whispered. Rin stayed quite as she observed his third eye with fascination, a smile on her face.
"I'm surprise you even know what it is." He stated slightly disturbed by the silence. The eye started to glow a stronger shade of violet as his concentration increase.
"The slayer tale said that those born with the third eye died young or eventually became insane. Those who were brave enough to implant it were killed by the operation or lived in a weaken state of power for the rest of their lives. The eye was said to give great power but at an enormous price." Sango told her, "How can you be so powerful yet manage to have the third eye?"
"…" He didn't answer her instead he tied the put the bandana back on hiding the Jagan eye form view. "It's no use something is blocking all my demon senses." He told them of course the loud arguing that they heard didn't need demon sense to hear.
"Come on you stupid bird get us down form here!"
"Stop it!" the arguing continued loudly.
"We should check it out." Sango said using the rock she had been sitting on for support as she stood.
"Hn." Hiei answered. Rin jumped off his lap and ran to Shippou side with a giggle. He picked up the slayer Hiraikutsu and placed it on his back once again, he then walked over to the slayer and took her by the waist and they all started to walk towards the loud arguing. Hiei had been proven wrong that day by Sango more then once and even though he would never tell her he was impress by her strength.
Angel Selene: I was going to type more but I couldn't due to timethat and I have test to study for, but anyway I hope you liked the chapter Please Review and tell me what you think. And thanks to everyone who is still readying this even though I take forever to update it.