Black Dragon and White Kitten

Chapter 1

The First Move

Hiei was a demon, a fire demon that was born from an ice maiden, how is that possible, father must have been a fire demon, or when a male is born to the ice maidens, he becomes a fire demon instead of ice maiden. Despite his short size, standing at five feet even, he has a lean, muscular build to him. He wears a white headband that conceals his Jagan Eye, which is placed on his forehead and has a purple iris. His eyes are crimson with an angular and slightly slanted shape, giving him a very sinister look. He has spiky black hair with blue outlining and white streaks with his skin complexion set as a regular peach-tan. Living up to his classic villainous persona, he usually dresses entirely in black wearing a long black cloak-like jacket with a white collar and black pants tucked into black boots. He wears a black sleeveless undershirt beneath the cloak-like jacket with a long red belt where he frequently carries a sword with him that was strapped across his back.

It had been a grueling year for Hiei, first steeling the shadow sword to make finding his sister easier with demon minions, and then he got arrested by spirit world when they sent a detective named Yusuke Urameshi after him. Then teaming up with said detective to fight the four saint beasts, where he faced Seiryu in a battle between himself and the ice user, he came out victorious in the end of course. Then he finally found his sister, she was being held captive by a crime lord by the name of Gonzo Tarukane, Hiei worked from the shadows while the detective did all the work. In the end his sister was free and ignorant of the knowledge that they were related at all, she knew she had a brother, but nothing more than that. Then came the Dark Tournament, a trial in of itself, but he eventually gained control of the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, and with it was able to help his team secure their victory. Genkai, a psychic training the detective, got killed the day before the final round though, after they won is when the ruler of spirit world revived her, since they did earn a prize after all. Then a renegade former spirit detective decided to open a portal between living world and demon world because he liked it better than living world. They won after the former spirit detective killed the current detective and then was revived as a demon himself to beat the former spirit detective.

It was peaceful for a while after that, but eventually messages arrived for three demons, Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke were all invited to become direct underlings for the three demon kings of demon world. Yusuke was going to become heir to Raizen, Kurama was to become second to Yomi, and Hiei was to become second to Mukuro. Now they were all in front of a portal going to demon world, and Yusuke had just jumped in and headed to Raizen.

"We'll redirect the portal to put you closer to Mukuro's camp," the leader of the spirit defense force told Hiei as the others began to redirect the portal.

"Hn," Hiei grunted as he watched on as he was leaving that night as well, though, didn't think they would redirect the portal for him.

"You're not really going right now, are you Hiei," Kuwabara stupidly asked in over exaggeration, was it too much to ask for him to use his brain.

"That's what it looks like fool, and quit yelling like that, I'm getting tired of hearing your exaggerating voice," he replied without turning around, that shut him up.

"Mr. Hiei, can I ask you something, if you happen to come across someone in demon world who happens to carry a stone like mine, would you please give this to him," Yukina asked before taking out her hiruseki stone. "It's sacred, it belonged to our mother, an ice apparition sheds a tear, only one at the moment she gives birth to her baby. When that tear crystallizes, it appears different from the other hiruseki stone and is given to the child, but I was told when my mother had twins, she shed two tears. I wear one around my neck, and the other stone is supposedly held by my brother, where ever he is."

"I'm surprised you managed to keep it from that greedy human bastard," Hiei commented carefully.

"I hid it where he would never find it, my stomach," she informed him before finally handing over her tear.

"So, if it's that important to you, why are you giving it to me," he asked as he held it up by the string to look at it.

"Even as a baby my brother was surrounded by an intense flame, it was so intense that they wrapped him in a sacred cloth and tucked his stone inside, that's what miss Ree told me," Yukina stated.

"Ree," Hiei said questioningly, although he did actually remember the name, she was the one that threw him off the cliff.

"Oh, she was my mother's closest friend, so as I was saying, his demon energy was so radiant even then, then he shouldn't be so hard to find with your gifted eye. So, if you see someone with that same stone, will you please give that to him and tell him that his sister is looking for him in the human world," she informed.

"He's been missing for years, correct, what makes you think your brother isn't just dead," he asked to dissuade her from the search for him.

"I believe he's alive," Yukina informed with a bright smile on her face that shown that she meant it.

"I get that, but why," Hiei asked, hope like that just seemed to naïve and foolish to him.

"It's something miss Ree said to me, that he could understand every word they were saying and that he'll have his revenge, she was confident and so am I," she informed with sad eyes. Hiei remembered something, it was Ree, and it was when she told him to kill her first for throwing him off the cliff, at least she showed remorse. "If the only way for our ice world to survive is for our people to freeze their hearts, well then, they don't deserve to survive, that's how I feel."

"Hugh, so that's the real reason why you left, and all that crap about you being allowed to stay in the human world to look for your brother was just a lie," he deduced. "Never depend on others, if you want them dead then do it yourself, quit waiting for a phantom twin for all you know is dead."

There was a silence between them for a moment before Yukina bowed her head a little bit, "I guess you're right, thank you Hiei, I think that's the sort of advice a girl might get from her brother."

"Just wisdom from a fellow demon that knows about vengeance, but if I see him I'll give it to him," Hiei told her before walking to the portal that must have been moved by now.

"Portal's ready, all that's left is for you to go through it and then we're done for tonight," the spirit defense force leader informed him before stepping out of the way.

Hiei just nodded in acknowledgment at the man before turning to the portal and feeling the familiar sense of demon world wash over him, except, there was no sense of demon world within that portal. Just as he was about to turn back and question what was going on, someone kicked him into the portal and he could have sworn he heard someone shout out 'brother' as he went in.

Unknown universe

Hiei woke up to a pounding in his head, the air didn't feel like demon world at all, but it was clearly not the human world with so many demon signatures he was picking up. But it didn't feel like spirit world or any other known realm, the only thing close was human world, and even than it doesn't feel like the human world he knew. Now Hiei was pissed, he knew where he was going and chose that place as the place to die, mainly because if he died anywhere, he wanted it to be in his home. Hiei was a warrior, he achieved all his goals and did so because of his own power, using all the tools at his disposal and not looking back. The last and only thing left for a warrior to do when they achieve everything they set out to do is to die a warrior's death in their homeland, now spirit world has deprived him of that.

Despite what many would believe, Hiei was not kill first and think later, he thought within seconds of what others think of in minutes, and what others come up with in seconds, he comes up on the spot with no time at all. He knew what would happen if he didn't show up to Mukuro's, he wouldn't get a warrior to test, he knew that's why the mummy asked for him, he wanted a warrior to increase his chances. Now that he wouldn't be getting his promised prize, and yes, he knew of spirit world's deal, Mukuro would rampage and spirit world would know that they condemned themselves. He didn't think the spirit defense force would go behind King Enma's back and act of their own accord, that was one thing that Hiei was actually counting on.

"Just goes to show how far fools can be trusted with intelligence of any sort," Hiei thought out loud as he stood from his grounded position laying on his stomach. He looked around while he was on his right knee and it appeared that he was in a forest of some sort, by the smell of the trees, they were human trees, with a fresh water source. He stood up and began walking until he found a small river running through the woods and decided he could do with some water, he reached down and took a drink and found it refreshing. He began walking from there until he came across what looked like the edge of a park, and given the position of the sun, it was just now getting to be noon.

Hiei walked until he came across an area where old men come to play chess, thinking that he needed to think on where he was so he could get back to his own realm, he set at one of the empty tables at the end of the line. He crossed his arms, bowed his head, closed his eyes and began to think, 'I'm in a different world, demons still exist in this one so there's one similarity. If there's demons then there must be a demon world, or at least a place where demons gather together if there isn't a demon world. More than likely I can't go to this world's demon world though, I don't have a reputation there like I did back in my demon world, so I can't use that to my advantage. The only options I have open to me include seeing if this world has a spirit world and use them and their bleeding hearts to help me get home so I can die a warrior's death. Spend years getting a reputation and then use that fear to inspire a research team to get me home, or I could wait until they realize what a foolhardy move they've made and come get me. That last won't happen, but it's still an option, there is always the local demons though, they might be ones that have been corrupted by humans enough to help. Wouldn't you know it, there's one coming right to me as it is, and it can at least hold its own given the amount of power it has in it,' Hiei opened his eyes and stared blankly at who set in front of him.

Earlier that day

Koneko Toujou is a petite girl with white hair and hazel eyes that wore the standard Kuoh academy uniform for this time of year, a long-sleeved button-down shirt accented with vertical stripes. This was paired with a button-down corset with a black collar ribbon and a magenta skirt with stockings that covered her shins and brown dress shoes. She stood at four feet six inches and was known all around the huge school as the mascot of the mansion known as a school. The look on her face is always in a stoic pose, she hardly ever showed any emotion aside from that, troubled past and all that.

One more thing, she's a devil, literal devil with bat-like wings coming from the small of her back and everything, she also happens to be one of the servants to Rias was a rook to be exact, based off of chess pieces, a high-class devil can reincarnate any being to become a devil, this is done through having an evil piece implanted inside of someone to remake them. The high-class devil is the king, from then on, the king can implant any being with one of these evil pieces and becomes an embodiment of a chess piece. A queen is the second strongest to the king, and second in command when the king is not around, its power is a combination of a knight, rook, and a bishop. A knight is known for their speed, they often have swords when fighting, but a knight is also known for its agility. A rook is known as the tank thanks to a strong physical strength and high defensive capability, often being used for full frontal assaults. A bishop is known for magical abilities, they are mostly used for support instead of actual battle, but every now and then you'll see a bishop in battle instead of a supporting role. A pawn is the most versatile piece, once they are promoted they can become a queen, knight, rook, or bishop, most go for queen since they are the most powerful, but the others have value.

Koneko's life has been a moderately strained one, before meeting Rias, it was just her and her sister, then her sister went mad with power and decided to kill her king. Okay, she didn't really believe what everyone was saying or said about her sister, she had a feeling of the truth but wouldn't ever forgive her for not taking Koneko with her. All they had was each other and then she kills her king and leaves her, that's what she's mad at her over, not the kill but the fact that she never came back for her. She could have at least visited over the years, explained even one time why she did what she did, but no, Kuroka abandoned her to live on her own until she met Rias. Which is why she refused to use her shenjutsu, using it would mean being like Kuroka, someone who would abandon her family and run free while Koneko was left like trash on the side of the road.

After that things got better, she was still persecuted by quite a few of the other high-class devils, but they never did so openly, just judging her from a distance while she ignored them. Soon, Rias brought home other people as well, a bishop that she had to lock away, a knight with issues against the holy swords, and a queen with a sadistic side. Together they go to school at Kuoh academy as part of the Occult Research Club, all of them seen as the best-looking people in the school.

Now though, Koneko had been called to the club room by her king on her lunch break, she didn't know what though, but from the text, it sounded looked to be quite urgent. She walked into the old school building that was just styled like an old mansion and made the track to the club room that was styled quite fancy looking. A coffee table was in the center of the room with dark blue couches with a dark brown frame on either side of it and a large wooden desk towards the back wall. The desk is where Rias was sitting all professional looking with Akeno, the queen by her side looking professional as well.

"Koneko, there was a disturbance near one of the parks in town, the one with the chess tables there, we need you to scout out what it was, since you're the best tracker out of any of us, you can go without being seen. Also, don't worry about Sona, I've already informed her about it, I'll leave it how you handle it to your discretion," Rias ordered.

Koneko nodded and walked out to find her target, when Rias said disturbance, it could have meant any number of things, most often was a stray devil on the loose. However, when only one person is sent and not a familiar, it turns recon to find out what it is, and hopefully it isn't something too dangerous that involved the others. More than likely some low powered devil used an unauthorized teleportation circle to get to the human world instead of going through proper channels.

It didn't take long to tell where the disturbance came from once she got near the area that was said to house the magical signature of the disturbance, from there the tracks led to a small river. From there she was led to a park where people were playing chess, all the tables had some people there playing chess, all but one. At the far end was a devil she had never seen before, not that surprising since there were a lot of evils, but she thought she would remember seeing a face like his in a crowd.

He was stoic, like her, and seemed to be sitting there in deep thought about something, and even with his baggy cloak-like jacket one, she could tell he had a lean muscly figure under it. His arms were crossed over his chest with his head bowed and eyes closed, he wore all black except for on his cloak-like jacket where he had a white collar. The last thing she noticed was the cloth on both his right hand and forehead just below black hair with a blue outline and a white streak in it. Other than that, he looked like any other guy, except the devil aura she was getting was huge. How had she not sensed anything from the school with an aura like that, it wasn't until she searched harder that she saw the reason, simple suppression. Only reason she could now sense it was because of the closer proximity to him, the aura was greatest in his right hand and forehead though.

'Could he be a sacred gear user, maybe a devil released from his master's services, I wonder if he really is a stoic and not just deep in thought, oh well, time to find out,' Koneko thought before walking up to him.

Present

There was a silence between them as Koneko was standing there with a lollipop with a swirl in her hand and Hiei was sitting there staring at her with crimson yet stoic eyes. 'So, I was right, he is a stoic,' Koneko thought before sitting down and continued to stare at him while the only thing that was heard was a beard flapping in the distance.

One thing was on both of their minds though, why were they staring at each other, neither was speaking, neither really moving either, until Koneko decided that since there was a chess piece, might as well play. She would be white, and he would be black, she moved a pawn to A3 as a way to start things off with.

It was quite clear what the stoic girl was trying to do, talk over a game of chess wasn't the normal way demons did things, but Hiei isn't normal either so who was he to judge. Hiei moved his black piece to H6 instead, but didn't speak, he waited until the girl decided to speak of her own accord, either that, or finish this game and leave.

Koneko thought it'd be best to start off with simple conversation, maybe get his trust before outing him as a devil, she was suppressing her devil energy to the point that he shouldn't know that she was, she moved another piece, "you from out of town?"

That wasn't the voice he was expecting, he expected a slightly chipper tone coming from her, not a monotone, Hiei knew that he wasn't one to talk about voices, he had a stoic voice, and he knew it. 'What a strange demon,' he thought before answering her question, "something like that," he grunted out in his ever-stoic voice before moving another of his own pieces.

That voice caught her attention, she never heard a stoic voice like that, sure she heard her own voice, and she was a stoic, but her voice was monotone while his was genuine stoic. Kind of scary when the calmest person you know is yourself and then you find someone better at it then you, she moved another piece but didn't say a word.

Thus, began another round of silence between the two, they moved chess pieces and then just watched each other, they never spoke again until there was a ringing from Koneko's pocket. She took out her cell phone and answered the call from Rias, "Koneko, where have you been, I figured you would have reported in by now."

She saw the time at a clock placed in the park and noticed that they had been playing in a game of chess until three o' clock, "wasn't anything too serious, a stray was trying to get home, went rabid when I showed up. Tried to attacked a bystander and thought I'd make sure nothing was wrong while I stayed with them for a game of chess, didn't realize it was so late," what the hell did she just do, she just lied to her master.

"It's fine, things do tend to get out of hand when in the midst of an emergency, try to at least report back to school next time, okay, bye," the girl at the other end said, careful not to give anything about the supernatural away.

"Bye," Koneko said before she hung up, she moved a piece as if nothing was wrong and nothing happened, but it did. She just lied to Rias, her master, over some guy she just met, not even officially met since she didn't know his name, never mind the fact that he could be a stray planning on killing her. They played for a minute more until she noticed that he wasn't saying anything about the phone call, or the fact that she obviously lied about him, "not going to ask?"

"No, your business is your business, not mine," Hiei said, in truth, he was intrigued by the conversation, their wording was obvious to cover up the fact that they knew of demons and the such. To get her to tell him was going to make this difficult, but in the end, Hiei had to get this done to get home, mainly to die in the place of his choosing.

"Name's Koneko," she mentioned casually, he obviously must have heard her name from the conversation, but she thought she'd tell him in case he didn't hear that part.

"Hiei," he grunted out as he moved a piece on a plan to capture her queen, didn't work because she came out with a strategy to get out of the trap that he didn't notice, or didn't care to at least.

They continued to play until in the end, Koneko won the match, they reset the board silently and without even asking the other to continue, began to play again. Same as last time, Koneko was white, Hiei was black, Koneko moved and another game began, in the end Hiei won because he paid more attention this time. They played again with Koneko winning, then Koneko again, then Hiei won twice, Koneko once more, Hiei two more, and then, as night was coming in, Koneko won the day with seven victories over Hiei's five.

"Night," she stated as she stood and silently walked to her home, her mind was still going over what had transpired this day, she met a guy that was a devil, possibly a stray, lied to Rias, and kept playing chess with him.

"Hn," he grunted as he walked off in the opposite direction, he found a tree and began to rest for a while as he thought about what he had decided, if he followed on this path, it would take a little longer than liked, but he would get home. The plan was simple, ally himself with the demons of this world, eventually they would let their emotional bleeding hearts help him in getting back to his own dimension where he could try finally die in demon world.

Regardless of what plan the two made though, a teenage boy named Issei Hyoudou would make sure, knowing it or not, that the first move had been made.