Hiei walked through the woods with a stern look on his face. Just when he got a good distance away from the others his face turned from angry, to sad and worried. He wandered with so many things one his mind, How do I break the barrier? Who was dumb enough to take Rika? How can we save her? How strong is this enemy? Every thought echoed in his mind. Then all of the sudden, something jumped down from the cliff above him. Hiei stopped and saw a neko. She wore a black airy shirt with big sleeves and she wore blue jeans and black healed boots. she stood up. "I thought I seemlt something..." Hiei said in his natural tone. "You might want to be nice to me if you want to find out how to break the barrier." She said to him. "WHAT!?" Hiei said in shock. "The barrier. You want to break it right? Well I know how to." She answered. "First off, how did you know I want to break the barrier?" Hiei asked cautiously. "I heard you talking to your friends. I'm a neko, I can hear anything I want to on this island." She said in a gloating way. "FINE! Just tell me how to break that barrier!......Wait! Why are you helping me?"" Hiei asked. "Because I hate Atamis! And I couldn't defeat him if I tried....." She answered. "Why?" Hiei asked. "He keeps us stuck on the island and he is taking our clan for his little experiment. He took all of my family and most of my friends! All of our power combine can't take him down! But I sense a lot of power from you and your friends, so I think you might be able to beat him for us." She explained. "Just teach me to break it!" Hiei said walking to her, "and I'm not doing it for you." "Your trying to get something back from him." She said. "sssss-someone..." Hiei said turning his head. The girl smiled arrogantly, "Girlfriend?" "JUST TEACH ME THE DAMN WAY TO BREAK THE STUPID BARRIER!" He yelled. The girl took him to a spot next to the barrier. "Now, just hit your fire sword at that spot on the barrier and it'll break. That's the weakest spot on it." She said pointing to a weak colored spot. Hiei stepped forward to look at it, "But how did you know I was-" As he turned, the girl had disappeared. Hiei turned to the barrier and looked at it for a long minuet. Then he unsheathed his sword.
"I don't know if I can trust her.....but I have no other way of breaking this thing." he thought to himself. The fire swirled around the blade of his sword and he jumped up high. He managed to get high enough to were he was at the 'weak spot'. Then he swung his sword as hard as he could at the area. Then the barrier sparked a bit, and then the whole barrier disappeared. The rest of the group turned to see the barrier disappear and then the saw Hiei falling from the sky. They all ran to where he landed. He wasn't hurt though. They all got back together in a group. "Hiei, how did you do that?" Yusuke asked. "A neko told me." He answered without an expression on his face. "A neko?" Kurama wondered. "There is a tribe, under the demons will, living on this island." He said. "Will?" Kuwabara questioned. "He seems to be using the neko to use some type of power." Hiei said. "Let's not waste anymore time." Genkai said heading for a cave a few yards behind them. The others followed. As they walked trough the cave it grew darker. "So is this were Rika is being held?" Kuwabara asked trying to look around. "I can only imagine since there is practically an energy beckon coming from here." Genkai answered. "This place is generating enough energy to attract every demon in the demon world. I'm relieved we're in the human world or we'd need to fight every demon imaginable, and beyond that...." Kurama said. Yusuke had a nervous look on his face, "Every, demon?" "Yes, or at least those who are foolish enough." Kurama answered. At last, after traveling through the dark for a while they reached an opening to a room. When they saw it, it was all lit up from lights at the top. But, there was nothing in the room when they looked. "What kind of a place is this?" Kuwabara asked. "I'm not sure." Kurama said. Then something dropped on Hiei's nose. He looked up and saw the demon who took Rika. (not Atamis, the slunky girl one.) The demon swooped down at Hiei, and he jumped to the side, unsheathing his sword. Then swung it down at the demon, it blocked with one of it's tentacles. Hiei's sword didn't break but got thrown back. Hiei didn't lose grip as he swung it again and again. Then the demon used another one of it's tentacles and hit him away. The Yusuke came from behind to punch it, only to find the demon hitting him away as well. Then Kuwabara tried, and failed. "If that won't work..." Kurama said taking out his rose, and turning it into his rose whip. The charged at the demon and sliced off one tentacle. Another one hit him to the wall. "YOUR GOING TO REGREAT THAT!" Kuwabara said taking out his Spirit Sword and charging the demon. Suddenly the demons tentacle extended and hit Kuwabara back. "SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke yelled shooting a spirit bullet at the demon. But unfortunately the demon dodged to the side. Then Hiei jumped up behind it and sliced it's head off and landed in front of it. "YEAH!" "ALRIGHT! HAHA!" Yusuke and Kuwabara shouted. But then, suddenly the head on the monster regenerated. Then it grabbed Hiei by the throat and held him in the air. "HIEI!" The others called. Then giant thorn plants rose from the ground and wrapped around the demon. The thorns dug into its flesh and it released Hiei. in the doorway form witch they came, they saw Yuniko. She held her hand toward the demon and her eyes glowed. Hiei gasped for air for a moment. Then the demon broke free from the veins and extended it tentacle and hit Yuniko to the side. Kurama was just in time to catch her before she hit the wall. "Yuniko! YUNIKO!" He called to her. She woozily opened her eyes and smiled at Kurama, "Hi..." she said. "Are you all right?" He asked, so worried. Yuniko smiled at his expression and nodded. Kurama sighed in relief then said, "What are you doing here? I thought you were helping the girls at the tower?" Yuniko closed her eyes tightly, then took in a deep breath, opened her eyes and sat up. "Yuniko..." Kurama said as his worry grew. "I'm fine. I felt really worried about you and had to come." She said putting her hands on his cheeks. "WHEN YOU TWO ARE FINISHED! WE COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP OVER HERE!!!" Yusuke yelled. They looked over and the rest of the team were fighting and dodging the demon. Yuniko turned to Kurama and nodded, "Let's go..." She rose to her feet. "Yuniko, I don't think-" She knelt back down and gave him a kiss on the lips, then wrapped her arms around him and embraced him. Then she moved away and took his hand and stood up with Kurama. She nodded and let go of his hand as she ran for the demon and punched it as hard as she could, knocking it into the wall. Kurama, smiled and nodded from the attack then ran for the demon himself, bringing out his rose whip again. The demon ripped from the wall trying to make a second attack at Yuniko but she jumped up and landed on its tentacle, ran up it, and hit the demon again. The demon took another tentacle and wrapped it around Yunikos waist pulling her away from it and constricting her. Hiei then cut the tentacle with his fire sword and freed Yuniko. Yusuke and Kuwabara kept trying to punch and slice it. The as Hiei tried for another attack, the demon hit him into the back wall, and surprisingly the wall behind him crumbled. It was about 100 feet high in height and another 100 feet wide. Hiei emerged from the ruble only to be hit by the demon again. "YOU WON’T GET RIKA!!!" The demon said in it's raspy tone. "So that's were she is." Hiei said. "HIEI! GO GET RIKA! WE'LL SRALL THE DEMON!!!" Kurama yelled dodging the demons attacks. Hiei nodded and ran into the tunnel. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" said the demon extending a tentacle after Hiei. "DON'T EVEN TRY IT!!" Yuniko said as she made giant thorn vines rear up from the ground, wrapping around the tentacle. "WRETCH!" The demon said hitting Yuniko with another tentacle. Kurama then sliced the demons head with his rose whip. The head regenerated again and the battle raged on.
In the mean time Hiei was running fast through the dark tunnel, and Atamis, was watching. "HAHAHA! Though your friend got thus far. There is no way he came save you." Atamis said turning to Rika in the vat. Then he waved his hand slowly at the screen and the picture changed back to the fight. "Why are you changing?.....Hiei will be here and kill you....Normally I'd think a demon about to die would want to keep an eye on his killer." Rika said. "Dear child. he won't be here for a while now. That tunnel is exceptionally long, even for his speed it will take him long." Atamis said. He turned back to the screen to see the fight.

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