V. enter Sohliel

The Weiß was hard pressed by the Schreint, helpless to interfere as the Schwartz was taking Aya-chan away from them. Ran raged as he tried to fight against his current foe Schoen. Then all of a sudden the Schreint was gone, killed by Schwartz but they were too far for Ran to affect. K'so, they're going to get away with Aya-chan! Got to do something…

A black blur took Aya-chan from Schuldich in a flash to take her to Ran and safety at least it tried. For another blur intercepted him and took the comatose bundle from him and return in where it came from. A man resolve itself from the blur with a curse. Ran was shocked to see that it was Hiei. Then the other blur resolved itself also to another man, a tall, blue-hair with feral yellow eyes similar to Farfarello's one in a dark blue suit. Ran saw him turn to Crawford and speak to him. The latter's voice carried eerily clear over the intervening space.

"I'll take care of these Crawford, get the objective out."

Crawford said something too soft to hear.

"No, just do what you're suppose to do, I can handle this."

Crawford said something and Ran cursed as Schwartz disappeared in the night with his sister. He noted that for some reason Hiei had a glazed expression on his face.

"Rose Whip." He heard a shout from the shadows. And saw to his amazement to see his otouto standing just left of the blue-hair with a long green barbed whip.

"Ah Yoko, so you're siding with these humans too. I wouldn't have thought it."

His brother growled something and lashed out almost inhumanly fast. The blue hair guy with equal speed avoided the attack.

"I forgot to introduce myself, how rude of me. I am Sohliel." The blue hair faced Ran and the rest of the Weiß and bowed mockingly. It shifted his little brother's attention to them and a stricken look entered Shuuichi's expression.

"Now, Yoko, why not side with us rather than this humans. I'm sure Bolshai-sama will be most grateful for your help in his release he might even give you half of the Makai in gratitude."

Icy silence and another lash which Sohliel dodged.

"How is it any different from what you did to that poor boy's soul, ne? Half the Makai rather than the third Yomi promised you and the fire demon would probably be worshipfully at your feet. Judging from the way he seems to be caught in the Dreams of Power spell I threw at him and how he stayed with Mukuro." Dodging several lashes as he said it.

Kurama decided to bide his time after sensing that the spell wasn't harming Hiei at all. It was he sensed an illusion spell. He needed to know about the enemy's strengths and weaknesses for he sensed that the latter wasn't showing as much as he should have. Besides they needed to know if Bolshai had other allies. This "Sohliel" seems to be most talkative and the best source of information right now. Koenma didn't seem to have the necessary information or at least none that he could have given them. He damped down his anger at Hiei's bespelled status. He didn't want to charge into a surprise trap of this enemy.

"No one touches my family and gets away with it." Kurama wondered what the demon was up to and wondered at what type this one was. His ki signature was cloaked and he wasn't using his abilities much either.

"Oh so these pitiful ningen are your family now are they? Will they still remain your family when you reveal your true self to them I wonder…" Silken malice threaded that statement as Sohliel unleashed a ball of ki at Hiei.

Kurama, seeing the unknown ki ball coming at his partner, hurled himself in its path, praying to Inari-sama that he would make it in time. With his need to defend Hiei clouding his judgement, he missed the evil look Sohliel had trained on him as the latter threw the ball. He felt the ball of strange ki around him and then it…just vanished. Odd, Kurama didn't feel any different at all. He swished his tail and wiggled his ears in puzzlement, what was that all about? Wait, swished his tail and wiggled his ears? He looked down on his body. He wore the white robe he usually wore in this form, this form that was of a seven-foot tall fox demon. Sohliel had thrown something to dispel his ningen form!

"Jao Ensatsu Ken." A shout came from behind Kurama and an angry Hiei was streaking past him try his level best to split Sohliel who dodged the careless attack and disappeared with a mocking bow. And they were left with a very awkward situation.

Author's Notes:  This is neccessarily short since I'm nearing the part where I'm not so happy with the way the story is going.  ^__^()  Of course there's also the suspense factor.*grins evilly*  Thanks to LunarBard for the review and thanks to everyone who's still reading this.

My Other Fics: My romantic muse Avril has decided to take a beach vacation taking my other muse Sharve with him/her making Jari sulk as he is left with the paperwork...  In short, nothing else is moving. :P

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