Hiei never wanted to admit to himself that he was seeking out Mindy or Kiyo or whatever name she took on next but he could never state a reason good enough to explain his travels led by phenomenons or oddities happening in the world. He learned all major languages in the human world to ensure he could converse with whatever form she took next, but every location was a dead end.

His latest bust took him to the heart of Siberia.

Supposably a man was supposed to die almost a week ago according to Keonma, but for some reason seems to be among the living. In the past while such things aren't unheard of, ever since the discovery of an unaccounted soul that potentially is reborn over and over again Hiei has been sent, of his own accord, to every possible location. Every time an unexplained living or death is explained away as slight variations in the life that sets them on a slightly different life and is corrected by the universe in a few days. This particular place while scares of people has had two people live that shouldn't have in the last four months.

The town seems small and insignificant in the southern part of Siberia with dry desert plateau surrounding the town. In the epicenter stood a large old Russian Orthodox Church. Seeing the church being the best place to start Hiei heads towards the church.

The church on the outside looked extremely similar the Moscow typical older buildings: golden dome towers, slick stone and beautiful stained glass windows. On the inside the aspect of church was far greater than the metal crosses on top of the domes. Several rows of wooden benches lined the entrance, a confession area, a giant altar carved out of wood and painted freshly from the looks of it, and a pew for the parish. It wasn't just that the church was the center of the town that attracted Hiei to this place, the closer he approached it the stronger a familiar presence grew.

"Welcome," a woman in all black robes with a cylinder black head dress greeted Hiei as he waltzed in. Nothing could be seen other than her white hands and oval shaped face with brown eyes. She was extremely boring looking and indistinguishable from a crowd, but her energy was not that of a normal person. It was on a level similar to that of Kuwabara before he passed and this woman just let it radiate outwards.

"What are you," Hiei demands. The woman smiles warmly in a way that made the corner of her eyes crinkle. It was meant to be disarming but long exposure to Kurama pacified that affect.

"I am merely a sister of this church. What are you though, dear sir? You're appearance would lead me to believe you are a demon, but yet your spirit does not scream a threat to me. Are you holy or unholy?" Hiei's skin is bristled and his hackles raise. This woman should not be able to read his energy with it suppressed the way it is currently.

"Do not worry, you are not the first to pass through here. So long as you do not wish harm on anyone we will take you in. Our Parish is extremely welcoming to all of God's creatures." Hiei silently walks closer to the strange woman. He couldn't tell if she was Mindy without getting closer, but one thing is certain: she is cause of the phenomenons.

"Are you the one who is keeping people alive when they're supposed to die?" The woman looks up towards the ceiling looking to God in her eyes.

"In the bible many Saints have brought the ill and dying back to life, some even from death itself. They all lived a hard life traveling and preaching to the masses the word of God despite persecution. While some may consider me a holy woman chosen by God to breath life back into the church I am no saint. I serve to pay back but I have impure thoughts and desires. If God is angry with me and you are here to smite me for it I only ask that you wait until Parish passes away. I can feel his life fading. He has maybe a day left. I simply wish to be there with him then we may leave so that my fellow sisters and people do not need to suffer more than they must." The woman finally looks back from the heavens and directly at Hiei. Just like last time he knew it was Mindy.

She was so different than either of the previous times. Before she was so full of life and joy, but now it was as if she was defeated. Her eyes crinkled and she smiled at him unafraid of death, yet why did she seem so sad. She spoke of impure thoughts and selfish desires but it seemed as if she was already mostly dead inside.

"Do you desire to die," Hiei asks instead.

"To wish such a thing would be a sin, surely you know this." She rounded the question back on him in a clever disguise to not answer the truth she held inside as lying is a sin as well.

"Do you desire to die?"

"Are you an angel of mercy my dear friend?" Again Hiei's skin is sent crawling. It seemed as if he wasn't the only one who sensed a familiarity.

"I am no angel."

"Than you must be a demon." She spoke so calmly that even the idea of a demon sent after her did not seem to bother her the way it should.

"Not the way you're thinking." She nods and walks over to one of the wooden benches and sits hands folded neatly in her lap the way she was taught as a child.

"To commit suicide or even wish it is a sin. We are to trust our lives in the hand of God and believe that he has our best interest at heart and that despite what is happening now there will be a light at the other side we simply must get to that point. Yet I believe many forget that our merciful Lord is the very same person who wiped out an entire village and even killed one of his own followers because she held compassion for her captives and abusers. She simply looked back as they were all being brutally killed with no discrimination for age, gender, or whether they truly did anything against his people but were just born in a different class of people. I am not saying God is cruel but rather that as humans we can not speak to God's plans or understand him as he is as fickle as any human man. He could use any of us to prove a point or somehow aid another being just as he did that woman who showed compassion for her captives that enslaved her."

"Are you saying that your God pushes people to suicide to prove a point?"

"Would you rather I believe that God turned his back on his own children and that everything that happens is for nothing with no place that the bad may be punished and the good are rewarded for their efforts in this life?" She did not speak like a nun and perhaps it is simply her cynical nature or maybe she had been through something in this life.

"For a woman who devoted her life to an idol you seem to have little faith in his teachings." She laughed a harsh laugh.

"If I am to be honest with myself I never wanted to stay in this little town or serve my life away as I live without ever knowing what is out there. I came to live like this because I felt the need to give back for my gift that has come to entrap me here."

"Then leave." The woman just shakes her head at Hiei's suggestion. As much as this life pains her she could never just leave. Where would she go? She has no money and has never stepped foot out of her little village.

"Do you desire to die?" Hiei asked again.

"Yes," she answers pained to admit it out loud. She didn't want to live this life nor could she continue on feeling encaged serving someone she felt had long turned their back on her.

"Sister Nadia, Parish is asking for you!" another woman dressed like the person before him rushes up to the woman known as Nadia but will forever be Mindy to him

"You must excuse me," Nadia says while heading over to the new sister. Curious as to what was going on Hiei follows after them.

The two sisters walk briskly to Parish's room where the elderly man lay surrounded by three other sisters all wearing identical outfits. As Nadia enter the room she could sense the last little bit of her dear friend's life slipping.

"You asked to see me?" Nadia asks as she approaches.

"Yes, I wished for all of you to be by my side so as to leave surrounded by my family as my last memory on Earth." Parish rasps in a heavy, grouf Russian accent.

"I can ease the pain as you past Parish," Nadia offers stepping forward to his bed side. The pain in knowing their Parish, some for all their life, is dying radiating clear on everyone's face. This wasn't just the Parish of the church this was a family member who looked after them, taught them the word of God, and helped raise them. This man embodied the true meaning of Parish: father. Not only of the church but of the community.

"There is no need to push yourself," the Parish replies placing a hand over Nadia's. Nadia ignores his rejection choosing instead to closes her eyes pulling forth her power and sending calming waves out not only to her beloved Parish but to the whole room. It was an artificial calm that would pass shortly after she stopped sending the waves out, but it was all she could offer everyone at the moment. The room seemed to visibly sigh and the Parish began to breath easier. His lungs were still failing him, unable to give him the oxygen he needed, it simply hurt less so the urgency his brain sensed previously was not there causing him to breath even less than he was previously.

Hiei, who stood outside the open door relaxes more than he has in several decades. He fights the drowsy, relaxing sensation that is washing over him, but the more he fights it the more the waves seem to try and cox him into giving in.

If she was ever to use this in battle it would be the demise of many demons. Hiei thinks to himself despite his belief that the woman never thought of fighting anyone or using this power for anything other than to help people.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." One of the sisters begin as she says a prayer to comfort not only herself as well as all those around her, wishing Parish the best in the afterlife.

"My lord and my shepherd, please take Parish Yegor among you. For no other man has given more since the biblical times. He loved you, this church, and all of your creatures with open arms, heart, and mind. Amen." Another woman prayers rise an amen out of the others. Feeling it was time to stop sending the calming waves and to allow her fellow sisters their deserved time of morning Nadia ends her small comforting waves. The shift in the room is so great it was as if a switch flipped and everyone began to cry.

Nadia walks out of the room, passing Hiei who quickly follows her. He could sense that her emotions were unstable based on the waivers in her energy, but she didn't seem to show it. There were no tears of sadness or emotion showing on the woman's face, just her honest unsuppressed spirit energy.

"I need to pack a few things if my sisters are to believe I left. Weather you help me or not I intend to die tonight." Nadia does not look back while she talks to Hiei instead she continues at a brisk walking speed down a corridor until she reaches a room. She grabs a bag and stuffs random clothing items in a bag turns then stops suddenly. Looking around the room Nadia frowns:

"This will only hurt them more, I should leave a note to ease their pain." Redirecting her attention she pulls out paper and a pen from a desk and begins writing a note.

Dear fellow sisters,

I know you must be concerned by my sudden absence, while I know I should have discussed this with you all before leaving I decided to leave the church. As you all know God has blessed me with gifts that I do not fully understand. Nor do I understand why he gave them to me. Until now I have never wished to travel the world showing everyone what it is I can do in fear of what could happen. The world is not like our village and because of that people would try to use me or experiment on me. Parish Yegor was a kind man and he always had faith in the world and in what I could do so now in honor of his memory I will fulfill his wish for me.

May God always be with you,

Sister Nadia

With the letter written Nadia places the pen down and leaves for the surrounding area. She travels on foot until she believes that she's far enough away from the village, deep inside a canyon. She wasn't afraid. Nadia was never afraid. More than anything she was ready for whatever would come next and hopeful for the future.

"Is this truly what you want," Hiei asks looking Nadia in the eyes. He had every intention of helping her if this is truly what she wished for, but when he looked at her all he could see was the smart mouth English teacher, the little girl he trained to use a sword that would hug him and wasn't afraid of anything not even her father's wrath. This isn't the same woman but it was her all the same which made seeing her in a state of being only half alive and suffering hurt him as well. He wants to see that spark and love for life. This life would never give her this, but perhaps her next one would

"Yes," Nadia answers taking a deep breath. Hiei steadies himself as well before pulling out his sword and stabbing her clean through the heart before she could blink an eye.

Hiei catches Nadia's falling body and pulls her close in his arms. He didn't know who he was morning: the sassy teacher he knew for a week, the little girl he knew for 18 years, or the sad kind hearted nun he knew for several hours, all Hiei knew was he felt his heart physically ache with the lost of this woman. This woman he barely knew somehow hurt him with her passing. Wishing to truly see her face Hiei pulls back the black head dress and wrapping around her head to reveal brown locks of curls. He grabbed a lock in between his fingers and began to swirl it. He had found her again after nearly 30 years of searching only for him to be forced to lose her. This couldn't be her fate. To be born over and over again, never to rest.

"The phenomenons were caused by Mindy's soul. She was born into the body of a nun with spirit abilities. Several hours ago I killed her."

"You what?" Keonma shouts at Hiei not believing that after all these years of searching for her Hiei would just kill her. Furthermore there was no way for the spirit world to track down her soul and figure out what was going on.

"I killed her," Hiei replies coldly.

"Why would you do such a thing? Don't you understand that we need her alive if we're ever going to figure out how she keeps being reincarnated?"

"She asked me to." As if the statement made everything valid Hiei left the discussion at that.