Hiei woke up from his nap in a tree. "That feeling," he said quietly to himself as he remembered his dream. His sister was crying and there wasn't anything he could do to stop it. He looked down at his necklace and felt immediately at peace.

He jumped out of the tree and started heading back to camp with his sword. Then, two members of his group showed up. "I don't think you realize just how precous that stone is," one of them said.

"Give us the necklace Hiei," one said as he charged forward, "And you won't get hurt!"

Hiei started running away, hoping they'd follow him in a fun chase. They kept running after him. "Hand it over, Hiei!" one of the said.

"Give us the necklace!" the other said.

Hiei turned around and cut them down easily with his sword. They were dead before the hit the ground and the blood splattered everywhere. "Too weak to be any real fun," he said to their dead bodies. He walked back to camp as if nothing had happened.

"I'm sorry, Yukina," Rui said to a little Yukina, "your mother is no longer with us. She killed herself last night."

"Why?" Yukina cried into her arms.

Rui picked her up and held her in Hina's home. "I'm sorry," she repeated, "you're not alone, okay? I'll be raising you from now on. Hina's a friend of mine. Would you like that?"

Yukina said, "I had the same dream last night, it's always scary and sad."

"What dream?" Rui asked as she walked into the snowy outside.

"Someone takes away my fire," she said sadly, "it happened again last night. There wasn't anything I could do, I just wanted my fire back!"

Rui froze in place, unsure of what to say or do. If the elders hear her talking about that she could be in serious trouble, she thought, it must be about her brother, Hiei. "That's a bad dream," Rui said nervously as she walked away from Hina's house, "I'm sorry people keep stealing your fire but maybe if we make a fire tonight you'll feel better."

Yukina asked, "Will that really work?"

"I hope so!" Rui said as she passed by other ice maidens in the street, hoping they didn't hear too much of the conversation.

That night, Rui quietly made a small fire just outside of her hut with Yukina. Little Yukina looked into a orange flames of the burning dead wood and felt comfort for the first time in ages. "My fire!" she said happily, "I have my fire back!"

"Careful!" Rui warned as Yukina ran through it, "Yukina!" She grabbed her from the flames before they could consume her. "You're not burned."

"It felt so safe and warm," Yukina said happily, "I have my fire back!" She jumped up and down from excitement.

Rui examined her carefully and looked back at the small fire. "Maybe she was concieved with a man as well," she whispered to herself. She remembered holding Hiei and throwing up off of the cliff a few years before. "Alright, Yukina," she said, "do you feel better now?"

Yukina nodded.