Red and Black                         

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Chapter 1 

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Written by,me, Sheik83

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Neither MKR nor YYH belong to me, but I'm sure you know that.

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Hiei growled as a red haired human girl ran into him. She whispered something that sounded like "sorry", but it was to faint to make out. The red head began to run away, but she stopped and looked back at Hiei. Their eyes met for a split second before the girl turned and ran.

Hiei stood in total confusion. That girl had red eyes just like his . . . he mentally shook himself. "How uncommon could red eyes be?" he thought, "besides that girl was clearly human." Her spirit though seemed to be woven with fire. "Her hair looked like fire too . . . what am I thinking?" His thoughts were cut off as a blue-haired Grim Reaper tapped on his shoulder. Hiei turned to look at Botan. Today, for some reason, Botan looked quite serious and unnaturally grim.

"Hiei," She began piercing him with her pinkish eyes. "I need to bring you to Koenma immediately."

"What could possibly be so urgent?" Hiei said sharply.

Botan sighed. "Believe me," She said, "You'll want to hear what he has to say."

Hiei thought for a moment. He had nothing to do really so why not? "Fine." He said at last.

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"Hiei, there is something I need to tell you," Koenma said.

"I figured," Hiei grunted.

Koenma took a deep breath obviously getting ready to say something. He didn't. After a minute or so of uncomfortable silence Botan cautiously walked over to Koenma's desk.

"Koenma, he needs to know," she said softly.

Koenma nodded. "Right." He took another deep breath. This time he did speak. "Yukina isn't really your sister!" He said very quickly.

Hiei blinked. "Excuse me?" Hiei took a step closer.

Koenma sighed he knew Hiei had heard what he said, he just wasn't believing it. "You heard me, Yukina isn't really your sister."

"What?!" Botan wisely took a couple steps backwards. "Of course she's my sister!"

Koenma shook his head. "Only 'adopted' sister you could say." Noticing the thoroughly confused Hiei, Koenma began to explain . . . but not before giving himself extra points for annoying Hiei. "Well," He began, "It started when Botan brought this girl to me . . .

=Flashback=

"Koenma-sir, this is the girl that had requested to see you." Botan waved her hand to indicate the girl in a red cloak next to her.

Koenma nodded. "Thank you."

"Should I leave?"

"You may stay."

Botan nodded and leaned up against the wall, watching the cloaked girl curiously. Koenma looked the red-headed girl up and down. Her flame like hair and blazing red eyes indicated her spirit had some relation with fire. He could almost see the fire flickering in her soul. Her skin was a pale cream color and smooth without a single wrinkle. It seemed this girl was able to keep herself from aging. The circlet she wore was made of gold and encrusted with fiery red rubies. In fact every single piece of jewelry this girl had on was golden with rubies, including her earrings which looked more like little balls of fire than stones. Her cloak was trimmed in gold and surprise! There were rubies on it too. At the bottom, Koenma noticed, was a fiery lion woven with ruby red thread. From the look of her, this girl was wealthy and important.

There was silence. "What does your world plan to achieve by invading?" Koenma asked breaking the silence.

The girl shook her head. "We do not wish to invade we are simply in need of a favor." She said softly. Her voice was smooth, too smooth to be human, but her spirit was clearly that of a human as was her body if you don't count she didn't age.

Nevertheless Koenma was interested. "And what might that favor be?"

"We need to hide one of our kind here," she said looking down at her arms where, as Koenma had just noticed, she held a bundle of red and orange blankets.

=End Flashback=

"Don't tell me..." Said Hiei, surprised but not quite sure whether or not to believe the toddler's story.

Koenma nodded. "Yes, now let me finish."

=Flashback=

"Why did you go such lengths to hide just one?" Koenma asked.

"This child would be the main target in the case of an attack. He is . . . very important to Cepherio's survival. His death could bring our downfall."

"Is your world going to war?"

"Yes it seems so. We have made many deadly enemies in our many years, most of whom we have already disposed of. Our worst enemy, Debonair, is still alive though. Our master mage, Clef, believes that she has many spies and allies, and she may be seeking to get rid of us once and for all." 

"We could help you," Koenma offered.

The girl shook her head. "That is not necessary."

"All right then, now how are you planning on doing this?"

=End Flashback=

Hiei stared, now more bewildered than before, at Koenma. His story so far was interesting, but it held no proof that what he was saying was true. It could be all a big joke, but he didn't think it possible for Botan to look so serious. "So how did she pull it off, my memory is still a bit fuzzy, sir. So I can't remember." Botan said to break the silence.

"Well, she put some spell on you," He pointed at Hiei, "and sent you through a portal. She asked me to make every arrangement that I needed seamless. Mind you it was a whole lot of work. After that she chanted something and I fell asleep. When I woke up I didn't remember anything. All there was of that girl was a piece of parchment saying, "When I perish, you shall remember" I never threw it away. I felt like I needed to keep it for something . . . but now I understand everything - everything that I didn't understand before." Koenma looked up and stared into space. "She sent you here to protect you from the war that her world was being plunged into. She couldn't have anyone know of you being here because Debonair was looking for you, and should even the faintest whisper of a disturbance reach her ears, she would investigate at once. So, referring to the note she left, your true mother just died."

For some reason Hiei now believed the toddler sized ruler. If the procedure was truly seamless, then no one could detect that he didn't belong. Maybe this was why he never told Yukina that he was her brother . . . because in the back of his heart he knew he wasn't, and he respected Yukina too much to lie to her. "it is a possibility" He thought. "Tell me. What was her name?" He asked out loud.

"Hikaru."  

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   ~End Chapter 1~