My Demon Escorts (Hiei x OC)

Tea with a Demon

My face was still beet red and my sister in law definitely noticed it because the second she saw me walk through and spotted my face a smile burst across her's.

"Someone hit on you?" She asked way too excitedly.

"No" I snap and I know it's too fast because she already starts laughing.

"What did he say, your face is red as a beet." She snickered when my face got hotter but I gave into her.

"I need tea." I turn my kettle on and stand by the stove. "He commented on my form and then something about the ability to back up your confidence and then he came at me, I guess just to test my skill and then he said..." I trailed off my face getting hot again just thinking about him.

"Yeah?" She prompted me

"He said I did have some skill and had I not dodged that I should be on my back."

Kaity snorted and threw her head back laughing and my face got even hotter.

"I hate you." I pour my tea and plop onto the couch beside her. "what are we watching?"

"Game of thrones."

"Uuuugggghhhh, again." I dropped my head back.

"You're broken." She scoffed at me, I carried on with my dramatics and held my tea in my hand to warm them. Why this house has to be so cold I have no idea. I nozzled into the couch blanket and tried to ignore the nagging feeling that something was missing but that was hard when my heart ached with the absence of whatever it .

At night I dream of tricolored hair and soft eyes and hands so gentle with me I don't flinch away and then after those I dream of hands that hurt, that are too rough and that rip me from sleep.

I can feel the stop on my lips, I can't yell here though. I don't want to wake the kids and I don't want to be asked why I scream,'just a nightmare' only works so many times.

I clamp my mouth shut and get out my laptop to work on a new client's website because sleep is not coming back for me tonight. Oh well, four am isn't that early.

By six am I was tired of all the lines of code and decided to go for a run. I wore a long hoodie, leggings and running shoes because Cali was kind of cold in the morning.

I followed the usual trail around the neighborhood and then through the woods. Everything was normal until I crossed into the wooded area that felt so much like home it was like I was born there. Today it felt foreboding, like there was something waiting for me there. I ran harder, my skin prickled the deeper I got and my body did it again. I didn't see it but I felt it. I crouched and felt it fly over me.

A foot in front of me there stood a man but there was something off about him, he had horns coming out of his forehead and he was dressed kind of funny to.

"Why are you wearing a robe outside?" I demanded. Every sense stood on end, feeling a danger I had yet to confirm but my instincts assured me was there.

"Nuni Riku" he drew a sword from the band on his side. "I've been hired to bring you to the pharaoh." He smiled and I could see just how cruel this thing was. "Dead or alive"

"I don't die easily." I stayed low where I had the advantage, he'd have to throw himself off balance to pursue me. He lunged and I dodged letting my body react, trusting it to know what to do.

He advanced on me again and again and my body moved, faster than I thought it could. This was a new level of fight, I wasn't thinking I was just doing and it was good and bad. Good because I was dodging, bad because I don't know how to fight like this.