3 months later

You and a much younger and thinner Kira, the only fighters left on your boat.

'Kisa!' You turn to see Kurama, Yuskey, Kuwabara, and Hiei walking towards you.

"Hi. I thought you weren't competing."

"So did we but we were invited."

Suddenly the room grew quiet and everyone looked the door, a girl walked thru the hotel lobby. Her bloodstained cloak swayed behind her. Her silver hair fell to her feet and her dark blue eyes were cold and emotionless. A large black panther walked by her side. She stopped and turned her head and scanned the crowd. Her eyes stopped on hiei and a look of surprise and anger appeared on her face. It quickly was replaced by the same emotionless mask she had walked in with. She looked forward walking out of the room. You turned and caught hiei looking away, a look of slight confusion on his face.

"Who was that?" asked kurama when everyone started talking again.

"Mahiru," said a voice from behind you. You turn to see James, your team leader. "She is as bad as they get. She killed everyone on her boat even her teammates. She has control of the Dragon of the Darkness Flame but it makes Hiei's look like a parlor trick. She has no loyalties and will kill anyone and everyone in her way. Now get some sleep. Your first match is tomorrow and you need to be well rested." With that we all went our sprat ways. Sleep was out of the question. You were to busy worrying about what tomorrow would bring.

That Night

Mahiru's P.O.V.

"Did you see him?" asked Mahiru. "Yes milady." The midnight black panther was lying on the foot of her mistress's bed. "Excuse my bluntness milady but you are notorious for being a cold blooded killer. Why destroy it all on this one boy."

Mahiru sighed. "Now Kaila, you weren't there." she sighed again. "and then the first time I saw him" she fell back on the bed.

#flashback#

A 5 year old Mahiru was kneeling on a marble floor in front of a large oak door. Two men were sitting in front of a monitor.

"Are you certain you found the other one?" A man she recognized as Jamaal, her tormenter said. She lived in a large house in a small room she rarely left for it was locked. Her whole life she had been tormented and tortured by everyone. She had no name and was referred to as "it". She had never been outside except before they had taken her. All she knew of her past was that she where half ice half fire demon. Her mother had been a Koorime. Her name was Rui. She also knew that there was one other "it" and that it was a boy.

"Yes" the other man replied. "We have slipped a tracker into his cloak and the only whey to destroy it is to destroy this computer."

"Once this thing is caught we will kill it and that girl. Then they can't disgrace the fire clans name any longer." Jamaal smirked.

They are going to kill me!? Not if I could help it. If they didn't find this boy then I will be safe! So all I have to do was destroy this computer. What was a computer anyway? I wander if it burns. Yes I can do that and if it doesn't burn I can freeze it. She thought. Being locked in a room for years she got bored and found she could freeze things with a flick of her hand, and produce fire from her palm.

The men moved so she could see the monitor. A boy was leaning over a stream in the middle of a forest. He was about your age and was wearing a shabby black cloak and baggy black pants. His hair was raven black and defied all laws of gravity. To her surprise the picture moved. The boy looked up and she gasped. She quickly put her hand over her mouth and hoped the men hadn't heard her. His eyes were large and a deep crimson. Just like her. But he was different her whole life she had been called an ugly waste of space. He was not ugly.

The picture disappeared suddenly. She wished it hadn't. She took a moment and memorized him, sitting there on the stream bank, implanting it forever in her mind. She never wanted to forget it. And then and there she decided to protect him. She would not let him end up like her. Even if it killed her he would not end up like her

#end of flashback#

Next Day

Kuwabara yawned. "I don't see the point in watching the matches. It's not like were going to fight today."

"We have to get to get an idea of what we are up against." answered Kurama. "And I would like to see this Mahiru fight."

"It's probably all talk" Hiei commented. "She will most likely a disappointment."

"Hiei's jealous that someone's rep is worse then his!?" asked Yuskey in mock surprise.

"Watch it detective" growled Hiei.

"Hey guys!" It was Kisa. She walked over to stand next to kurama. "get any sleep?" she asked stifling a yawn.

"No" answered Kurama and gave her a very warm smile. She blushed a bit.

"Are you fighting today?" she asked.

"No were just sizing up the competition" answered Kurama "are you?"

"Yes. I'm a little nervous though." She looked more then a little nerves. "Well I've got to go" but before she could leave a hush fell over the crowd. Walking towards them was a girl with short slightly spiked light purple hair and bubblegum pink eyes. She was wearing dark blue fighting kimono. She had a board look in her eyes and was talking to a large black panther at her side.

"Let then stair. Why should I care?" the girl was saying.

"But milady couldn't you look a little more…. Intimidating?" said, to everyone's surprise, the panther.

"Now, now Kaila you know intimidation is over rated." She smirked. "I'm going for small and innocent but it seems everyone has heard of me." She sighed and caught sight of the boys and Kisa. She gave then a wide smile and made her way over to them.

"Hello. My name is…"

"Mahiru!" came a male from behind them. Mahiru turned and a look of hatred came over her face

" Jamaal" she whispered.