Chapter 1: Discovery

He was walking through the park after the latest mission. Again it was a threat to human world and of course the whole team had gone, even if they were no longer a real team for the spirit world. Life for them would have been boring if they didn't do these missions every now and then, but this was another story.

As I was saying. He's walking through the park when he smells a tint of blood on the air. He followed the smell in the direction of which it was getting stronger. By the time he reached the smell he was dizzy. It was a sweet scent but so much of it concentrated in one area was sure to overwhelm his senses. And what was worse for him was the fact that it was his mating season. He was able to resist it all the times before, but this year it had been incredibly strong, stronger now with the scent of blood in the air, and the source was before him in a bloody heap clutching to something tightly.

He knelt by the figure only to hear a soft moan escape from the figure. It seemed that they were waking up now. He would get answers soon.

She opened her eyes and clutched her side tightly to try and stop the bleeding as she held her other fist closed tightly. The object must have been important if she was holding it as so. But he wouldn't press her right now, especially since she seemed a bit weak right now.

"Mm." She sat up but flinched when she heard a crack, like the breaking of another bone. In all honesty, she had three broken ribs, a sprained ankle, a concussion, several holes through her shoulders, a ripped up side, miasma scarring across her right thigh, an acid burn on her left cheek, and claw marks down her back. All together she was a mess and it was a miracle she was even alive. Any normal person would have died from such wounds, but she wasn't exactly normal either.

"That hurt. I think that was another rib." She tried to stand again and managed it. "Ugh. It all hurts, but I've…" She never finished because she collapsed and fell face first to the ground, blood loss getting the best of her.

"Hn." He picked her up and started to run off to the apartment he was currently staying at. It was no use leaving her there. The others would have given him hell if he left the girl there to die, and his imouto would have been extremely disappointed in him if they told her. He couldn't afford to have them on his back the whole time, saying how despicable he was for doing that, even if they didn't even know what despicable meant. Even more, maybe even his best friend would have turned his back on him, even if they had been through so much together already. He couldn't lose such an important friend and ally.

He made it to his apartment within minutes and stepped inside before closing the door behind him. He headed towards his bathroom and somehow managed to turn on the lights. He placed her in the tub, still fully dressed and started to run the water. He watched as it slowly filled and turned pink from the blood. He turned it off after a while and started to pull off the ruined clothes she was wearing.

He noticed how her hand was still clenched tightly around the object still. He didn't really care and started to look over her injuries. He could tell most of them were deep, but he didn't know the true extent of all the damage. He could see the deep holes in her shoulders and the acid burn on her cheek, not to mention the huge slash in her side and the scar of miasma on her thigh, and he tried his hardest to stop the perverted thoughts from coming but it was hard when there was a naked female in your bath tub, it's your mating season, and you haven't gotten action from a woman in such a long time. Boy was he hurting now, but his pride and honor kept him from taking advantage of her.

'Not now,' he thought, 'but soon, when she heals. She can't refuse. She owes me her life.' And so he removed her from the tub when the blood was gone. He could see her face more clearly now. It would have been flawless if it wasn't for the acid burn. 'Not bad at all.' He took in her curves and her long legs. He could see her breasts. 'The perfect size.' Her hair was raven and long. Her skin was pale but he knew it was from blood loss.

'There is no telling when she'll get better, but it better be soon.' He left the bathroom and headed towards his room where he proceeded to treat her wounds and wrap her ribs. It would help with the healing, but only time would tell if she was to live.

They separated from their partner, more like he walked off. They didn't much mind. That was how he usually was after a mission. They had agreed to grab something to eat before they all went there own ways, and back to their homes. It had been a tough day for them and some rest would do them well, not to mention food.

"Something's up," the seeming leader spoke up. "Those demons were in such a rush to get into human world. I'm starting to wonder why."

"Relax, Yusuke, it's over right now," the calm and collected one of the group said.

"Actually, now that you mention it, I've been feeling something huge for sometime now. I can't really explain what it is."

"Another premonition, Kuwabara?" The one identified as Yusuke asked.

"Not so much a premonition, more like a… uh… I don't know how to put it." He thought for a moment. "Like an energy. Yeah, that's right. An energy."

"Energy?" The second asked. "What kind of energy?"

"I don't know but it's strong." He looked at the red head. "Kurama, I'm not sure how to explain what it feels like. It's holy but not and it isn't human."

"Holy but not? Not human?" He seemed to think. "Do you think a demon managed to slip into the human world?"

"I haven't felt it in the demon world last time we were there on that one mission. I don't remember the details but I don't think the energy was ever in the demon world. It just seemed to appear." Kuwabara wasn't sure how to explain it.

"But energy like that doesn't just appear," Yusuke said. "It had to have already existed."

"Yusuke is actually thinking today," Kurama said amused.

"Whatever." He scowled.

"But Kuwabara has a point Yusuke. It had to have been here before."

"But tell me why he hasn't noticed it before today? If it is so large and not human, then why hasn't spirit world picked up on it?" Yusuke argued back.

"I wonder…" And Kurama went back into thinking mode.

The sirens were going off in spirit world. It seemed that an energy so large had just appeared in human world. It wasn't a human energy either but it had every single siren going off. The sirens that were going off was:

A demon in human world

A large appearance of holy energy in human world

A threat to spirit world

A possible threat to human world

A possible threat to demon world

Father is going to kill me

The place in question had several ogres running around and what appeared to be a small child running around in circles screaming "Father's going to kill me!" The situation wasn't going too well for him or the spirit world at the moment.

"Koenma, sir, should I get Yusuke and the others?" A collected fairy girl asked.

"Yes! Right away!" He went to pace on his desk. "Father's going to kill me."

Moments later three of the four team members were there.

"Where's Hiei?" The toddler asked.

"Well, sir, I couldn't find him," the fairy girl replied. "No one has seen Hiei since the last mission. The demons were in such an uproar."

"No matter." He turned to the three present. "You three need to locate and arrest the one with this weird energy."

"I told you it wasn't there before, Urameshi!"

"Can it, Kuwabara."

"Anyways. It has set off every siren in spirit world. This energy is a threat to all three worlds, therefore you must bring the person in for questioning. After that is done we'll see where it goes from there. You have an hour. And if they make an attempt to resist, kill them." And they fell through a portal.

She felt oddly warm and so she started to stir. She knew the majority of her injuries had healed during her time of unconsciousness, but didn't much worry about it. What she was worrying about now was where she was and why she felt so naked, aside from the bandages she could feel wrapped around the most of her body.

She sat up, holding the blankets to her chest, and looked around. The room was relatively dark, but that was from the lack of light in the room. The bed she was sleeping in was large and the blankets were comfortable, as was the pillow her head had been laying on. She really wanted to go back to sleep but right now wasn't the time for it. She had to find out why she was here and who had brought her here in the first place. Once she got those answers she'd go home.

She stood and wrapped the sheet around her before actually leaving the room. She traveled down the hall and entered a living room, only the living room had no television, just a table and a few couches. She could see a black lump on the couch and approached it to see a man with black hair and a headband wrapped around his forehead. She didn't want to disturb him so she backed away slowly and headed towards the kitchen, her precious item still in hand. She would not ever be able to get rid of it so now it was her burden. Her life would be different from now on, she knew. She, however, didn't really care.

She entered the kitchen and managed to secure the sheet around her before looking around. She found unused pots and pans, a couple dishes, utensils, a few bowls and finally what she had to work with. None of it was instant but she hated cooking instant anyway and started to chop up some vegetables and meat. She cooked what she chopped and turned it off before moving back to the room to see if she could find something that would fit her.

He could smell food, but he didn't know where it was coming from. It was a smell he wasn't really used to. It smelled better than what Kurama had cooked for him that one time he decided to just show up, and it smelled far better than his own cooking, which he admitted wasn't all that good. After it bugged him too long he stood and walked into his kitchen. He saw the pan of food on the stove and became satisfied that it was in his own home.

He turned and walked back towards his room to see if she was awake. It would explain the food since not even Kurama knew where he lived. He moved a bit quicker now and entered his room to find the woman he saved removing the bandages from her body. He doubted she should do that and made a move to stop her but when he saw the lack of holes through her shoulders, he stopped and just stood there. He could see the bandages slowly falling away from her body and onto the floor around her.

There were no signs of bruising or internal bleeding and the slash on her side was no longer there. In fact it looked as if she wasn't attacked at all, even though he knew she had been. He couldn't speak though, only watching as her flesh was revealed to him. He could see her now removing the bandages from her right thigh. The bandage from her cheek was still there. He figured it hadn't healed yet. The miasma scarring looked better but it was still there. It would need to be cleaned again. Then the bandage from her cheek was removed and he saw a faint trace of the acid burn on her left cheek. Her over all appearance had been a good one and he had to fight down the possessive growl he felt coming on.

"As long as you've been standing there, the least you could have done was give me back my clothes," she said, not looking back at him.

"Your clothes are ruined. There would be no point in putting them back on." He watched as she picked up the bed sheet and wrap it around herself. She turned and faced him and that is when he saw her stormy blue eyes. They were captivating.

"Then what am I supposed to wear? I can't exactly walk around in public like this, now can I?" She looked him over and met with a pair of blood red eyes. "Maybe you can answer a few questions while you're at it."

"Hn. I owe you no answers, onna," he commented back to see her reaction.

"I wake up in a place I am not familiar with in the bed of a stranger, and I deserve no answers? I don't see how that's fair." She shifted her weight to her left leg to take the pressure off of her hurt leg.

"I pick up your nearly dead body in a park, the least you can do is tell me why."

"I don't see how my life is any of your business," she commented dryly. "If you will lend me some clothes I'll go and you'll never see me again. I have to get home." But then it hit her. The memories of the night before came flooding back to her. Despair hit her quickly and her eyes widened. "No," she whispered. "It couldn't happen." Tears started to trail down her cheeks. "He did." And her knees gave out as the realization came to her. She had no home to go to. Even if she did, there would never be anyone there to greet her.

"YOU BASTARD!" She yelled at the top of her lungs but she knew he would never hear it. The man responsible had died at her hands. He was burning in hell now. She was too strong for him. The inu brothers were gone and so were her friends. She had no one left in her life. "HOW DARE YOU!"

He looked at her. She seemed so upset but he could do nothing about it. As it was now he couldn't approach her. A weird energy was surrounding her. This was something he never expected from a human but he was guessing that it was all an illusion. Most demons wore disguises when they walked around the human world. The power, however, just continued to grow. This was the strength he wished he could posses.

He could pick up on the energy really well now. It was almost like a beacon to him and he was now running towards it with Yusuke and Kurama behind him. "It's really close. I can feel it and it's getting stronger by the second. It even passes Urameshi's power."

"Not possible," Yusuke whispered.

They came to an apartment building and Kuwabara looked up. It was on the seventh floor. He could see it now, a swirl of several colors. It was confusing. But Kuwabara ran in the building and into the elevator and pushed the button for the seventh floor. The doors closed just as Yusuke and Kurama made it in the door. They made it to the seventh floor and Kuwabara ran down the hall and stopped in front of a door.

"This is where the power is coming from." He looked at Yusuke and Kurama and they nodded before busting the door in. They ran down the hall only to stop in their tracks. Before them was Hiei. He was looking at a girl that was in a sheet. They could see the bandages on the floor.

"Hiei?" Yusuke asked and Hiei turned towards them. "What the hell?"

"Hn." He looked back to the girl. He had to find some way to calm her down. He approached her but carefully. He was unsure as to what she could do but he stopped in his tracks again at what was going on with the woman he had found nearly dead several hours ago.

She knew she wasn't human to begin with. That was what made her the only person to be able to defeat such an evil. So now her true form was revealing itself to her. She could feel the claws replacing finger nails and the fangs that grew in her mouth. Her hair grew longer and turned into a silver color. Dark slashes appeared on her cheeks and her remaining injuries vanished. Her eyes remained the same though. She calmed after this took place and decided to sit down and relax. She knew more people had shown up.

He decided it was best to approach her now that she was calm. But the others didn't dare approach her. They seemed either too afraid or too shocked to move. He was neither. He was simply amazed at her power and the new discovery that she was a demon.

"Hn." He stood in front of her. She looked up at him.

"I thank you for saving my life. I do not know how to repay you." She stood just a little taller than him. "If not for you I would have died."

"Hn." He already knew how she could repay him but he wouldn't mention it right now, not with the others present.

"By saving me, you just might have saved the world." This shocked everybody. Hiei saved her. "I am sure you want answers. As to my name, I am not able to tell even that to you. My name alone would have demon world in an uproar again." She smiled at him.

"You knew about the uproar?" Kuwabara asked.

"Of course." She looked to the three. "I know of all the worlds too." She turned her attention back to Hiei. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Hn." He looked her in the eye and she leaned down towards his ear.

"Is it your mating season?" She giggled when she pulled back. She knew of the affect she was having on him. She wasn't stupid. He had been restraining himself quite successfully.

"Hn." He turned away.

"I knew it." She laughed again.

They couldn't see how this woman could be such a threat to the three worlds. She seemed so good natured, but then again they couldn't even tell what kind of demon she was. The markings told them alone that she was powerful. They had to bring her in though. Their time was running short as it was.

"Perhaps there is a way to repay you after all." She smiled at him innocently, already knowing what it was that he wanted in return for saving her life. She wouldn't refuse him that. He was a man after all and every man had needs. She just wasn't sure if she was ready to lose her virginity, especially to a stranger.

"You wouldn't mind coming with us real quick, would you?" Kurama asked politely after snapping out of his stupor.

"Why would I go with you? King Enma already knows of my existence. It is probably why the SD force hasn't come yet." She seemed to know more to the situation than they knew. "But it is probably Koenma that sent you." She shook her head. "Such an incompetent being he is. No wonder King Enma takes vacations so much."

"You know the toddler?" Yusuke asked.

"I know of him. He really is slow when dealing with problems. He's probably worried sick about getting in trouble with his father." She laughed again. "But I guess he said if I resisted arrest you were to kill me. Tsk. His father would be highly disappointed in him for saying that. To think, I've already done so much behind the scenes." She thought about that. "Whoops. I've said too much."

"Behind the scenes?"

"Anyways, off we go then." She moved across the room and opened a portal. They were surprised by this but Hiei followed her anyway. The others soon followed behind him.