(A/N: Phew! Finally I got the next chapter down. I hope you'll will enjoy this. Okay, on with the story!)

A Date with Fire

"What are we going to do about Kira?" Noda asked. The SSS were sitting around in their AAHQ. Everyone was waiting anxiously for Yuri's orders.

"I don't know," Yuri said in defeat. "It's difficult to figure her out. She's more of a challenge than Angel ever was."

The SSS decided to have breakfast that morning in the cafeteria. After they got their breakfast and sat down they spotted Kira in her demon form eating a couple of warm toast and drinking dark coffee in the far right of the cafeteria. "Look, it's Kira in her true form," Yuri said, pointing to where Kira was sitting at, and the others could detect a hint of disgust in her voice.

"It looks like she's having breakfast, too," Otonashi said.

"Where are her teammates?" Takamatsu asked.

"Maybe she came alone," Ooyama suggested.

"Who cares if she's alone or not," Noda yelled. "I say we take her out now!"

"Yeah, I'm with you on that one," Fujimaki agreed. They both got up from their chairs, ready to face the coyote girl, but was stopped by Yuri.

"Let's not do anything rash, Noda, Fujimaki," she said. "Remember what she did last time we caught her." They both shivered at the memory. "And we don't want to start an unnecessary fight if we can avoid it." Noda and Fujimaki sat back down in their chairs with a 'humph'. Yuri faced the rest of the members, especially Hinata. "What are we going to do about Kira?" she said, more to herself than them. "Hinata!"

"Yeah, what?" he asked, giving her his full attention.

"I want you to ask Kira out on a date." Everyone stared at their leader in shock. Hinata was the most shocked out of all of them.

"What?!"

"I want you to ask her out," Yuri repeated. "We might learn about her if you talk to her personally."

"Why can't someone else ask her out?" he asked in a panic. He was trying to get out of this. Hinata acted like a playboy sometimes, he could admit that. He was used to asking out girls and being asked out himself, but asking out Kira was just playing with fire!

"You're the most flirtatious out of all of us," she said. "This is perfect for you."

"Yeah, Hinata," Ooyama said. "Remember during the testing period about a month ago you complained about all I had to do was ask Angel out, so why can't you ask Kira out?"

"That's different," Hinata argued. "Angel obeys the rules and doesn't kill us unless we break them, but Kira doesn't care. She'll kill us in a heartbeat, whether we break the rules or not!"

"Whatever, Hinata. Just go and ask Kira out, and that's final!" Yuri demand, leaving no room for arguing. Hinata sighed and got up.

"Fine," he said, defeated. "But if I die I'm blaming ALL of you!" After that he started walking towards the ruthless girl, contemplating what to say to her.

"I'm the leader of AHB," Kira thought while subconsciously stirring her coffee. "I've got teammates and people I need to lead and protect. Then why do I feel so alone?" She sensed that someone was coming. It was one the boy with the blue hair. He was in the Battlefront. What was his name again…oh yeah, Hinata. "What do you want, human?" Hinata was startled that she noticed him right away. She looked so deep in thought.

"I was wondering if you don't mind if I sit with you?" he asked nervously.

"Yeah, sure. Whatever. I don't care." Hinata was hesitant at first, but if he doesn't go through with it Yurippe's going to kill him, so either way he loses. Yet secretly, he always wanted to talk to Kira, to get to know her as a person, not an enemy. To get closer to her, to hold her, to kiss her. He stopped in his thoughts and blushed. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was that? Did he just think about KISSING her? Seriously, where did that COME from? Pushing those thoughts aside, Hinata steeled his courage and sat down next to her. They sat together in absolute silence. "Aren't you going to say anything?" Kira asked, but he could hear the slight irritation and annoyance in her voice.

"I was wondering if you like to h-hang out sometime?" he asked nervously.

"Hang out?" she asked curiously, cocking her head to the side. Hinata found it rather cute.

"You know…to talk," he inquired. "To get to know more about each other."

"Okay, alright. Meet me on the school's roof at night." Kira got up and walked away after throwing her trash away.

"I've got a date with Kira," was all Hinata could think about. He blushed slightly then proceeded to the SSS meeting room.

At the principal's office everyone was seated in their usual positions. "So you got a date with Kira, Hinata?" Yuri asked.

"Yeah, what do you want me to do?" he asked.

"All I want you to do is to get to know her, her secrets, her powers, everything. If we can figure out how she got her powers then we can copy it, and use it to finally defeat Angel once and for all! And of course take down God, and finally rule this world!" she said, triumphantly.

"That is IF she doesn't kill you first, Hinata?" Noda mocked.

"Naw, if it was you she would have killed you before you had chance to talk to her, idiot," he retorted. Noda quickly got angry and pointed his axe at him.

"What did you say, you bastard!" he yelled.

"Noda, knock it off!" Yuri yelled. He sighed and put his axe away. "Okay, Hinata. Whenever you need us, we'll be here. Alright, everyone dismiss!"

Hinata was getting nervous about this whole 'date' thing. "Maybe this was a mistake," he choked.

"What are you talking about?" Otonashi asked him. They were at the baseball field. Hinata was getting nervous about his date with Kira, so he asked his closest friend, Otonashi, for advice.

"What should I do, man?" Hinata asked, panicking. "What if she does kill me or worse. You know how she is…she's cruel, mean, and vicious."

"Like Yuri," Otonashi joked.

"This is serious, Otonashi! Help me!" The red-head sighed.

"Hinata, stay calm," he advised. "Remember she doesn't attack unless needed to or provoked, so relax." He put his hand on the bluenett's shoulder. "Like Yuri said, everyone will be here for you. Not just me and her, but everyone in the Battlefront, so don't worry."

"Thanks man! I needed that!" It got dark all of a sudden. "I guess I better get going. I've got a date with Kira."

"Yeah, good luck and see ya."

"Later!" Hinata ran off to the school's roof to meet Kira for their 'date'.

When he got to the roof seemingly no one was there. "Hello!" he shouted. Still no answer. "Hey, Kira! Where are you?"

"Not so loud," a rather annoyed voice said. "I heard you the first time." The bluenett turned around to meet Kira in her demon form in a traditional priestess outfit like they wore back in Feudal times. Her top was white with black pants and white sandals, and her golden hair was tied into a loose ponytail at the nape of her neck by a black ribbon. She walked over to the blue-haired boy. "My ears are sensitive, you know."

"Sorry," Hinata said sheepishly.

"So, what did you want to talk about?"

"If you don't mind me asking HOW did you get your powers?" he asked, getting straight to the point, which was so unlike him. Kira looked at him long and hard then sighed.

"Are you humans really THAT stupid?"

"No…we just don't understand why you have supernatural powers."

"I've had these powers since the day I was born." Hinata was in awe-shocked at this. "Hey, Hinata, do you know what a hybrid is?" He was stunned again. Did she JUST call him by HIS name, and not 'human' or 'mortal'?

"Isn't it a mix breed between two different species," he answered, snapping out of his daze.

"Correct." Kira started walking over to the railing.

"Then you are…"

"That's right I'm a hybrid…" she interrupted Hinata before he could finish. She turned around to face him. "…Between a demon and a human." Hinata stood there in total silence and awe. "But we don't call it a demon hybrid. We just call it being a half-demon. You know, half-demon and half-human, mixed." She sat on top of the railing.

"How can anyone be part demon? That's impossible!" the blue head exclaimed, surprised as he came to lean against the rail next to the coyote girl.

"It's possible. Whoever says that humans only marry other humans are idiots. I've seen lots of humans marry a demon. In fact, some of the so-called humans on Earth are actually demons. (A/N: That's only when demons are allowed in the human world for five to ten years every one hundred years or so. Just want to tell you, so you don't get confused in later chapters.)

"What do you mean?"

"Have you ever heard stories of some human getting murdered or kidnapped, and the criminal never getting caught."

"Yeah?"

"Well those are demons," Kira said nonchalantly, like it was no big deal. Hinata looked at astonished for the millionth time that day. "Aren't you going to tell me anything about yourself?"

"Huh? Oh," he said as he came out of his state of shock. "I play baseball."

"What's baseball?" she asked, cocking her head to the side. It was the golden girl's turn to be confused.

"You don't know what baseball is?" Kira shook her head. Hinata chuckled a bit. "Man, I've got a lot to teach you." He started telling her what baseball is, and how he started playing it. All the games and teams his team competed against. Overall, it sounded like he had a pretty good life, except when he cost his team an important game. He became depressed afterwards, and started taking drugs from a stranger. Sometime later he got hit by a truck, which he didn't see coming, and ended up here in the Afterlife.

"Wow," Kira said after his life story was over. "I'm not one to sympathize with other people, so don't expect me to say anything."

"I guess not," he chuckled. "You're not at all how I imagined you'll be." He watched her as she got down off the rail. She sat down on the ground, bringing her knees to her chest and leaning against the railing.

"What do you mean?" she asked as he got down next to her.

"Well…I thought you were cold-hearted, emotionless, cruel, and vicious. But really you're actually calm, intelligent, sweet, and pretty." He blushed on the last part. Kira was blushing slightly also. No one has ever called her pretty before, at least, not in her face cause they were also scared of her.

"Well, when you're over four hundred years old, you gain a lot of knowledge about the world." Kira turned her head to face a wide-eyed Hinata. "What?"

"You ARE over f-four h-hundred years O-OLD?" he stuttered out.

"Yeah, why? Does it bother you?"

"N-no…it's just that you look WAY younger."

"Demons age a lot slower than humans. I'm about four hundred years old in demon years, but sixteen in human."

"Oh," was all bluenett said. There was a comfortable silence between them. "Well, aren't you going to tell me about your life?" Hinata asked, breaking the silence Kira visibly stiffened. Hinata could feel the incredible anger and sadness radiating off of her, and could clearly see her claws digging into the ground. Her face was covered by her bangs, so he couldn't see the expression it showed.

"Why?" was all she let out after a few minutes. It was pained, and it made Hinata's heart wrench in pain, too, seeing her like this. He didn't know why, but somewhere deep down he wanted to make her pain go away. He wanted to make her happy. He wanted to see her smile, and hear her laugh. Not the lonely, menacing laugh she had when they first met after they captured her, but a happy, joyous one. Hinata grabbed her shaking hands, which had dug deep into the roof of the school, and held them.

"Please tell me," Hinata pleaded. Kira lifted her head up to look him in the eye, gold-green staring at royal blue. Her face was the same emotionless expression they always are, but he could clearly the anger, pain, sorrow, and extreme loneliness in those gold-green depths.

"Why do you want to know?" she repeated. She mentally cursed herself. Her voice wasn't how she wanted it to sound. She wanted it to sound angry for him causing her THAT question, but instead it came out pained AGAIN.

"Because I'm your friend." This made Kira's eyes widen in surprise.

"Why do you want to be my friend? I'm a murderer! You've seen what I did, I KILLED all those NPCs! Why do you still want to be MY friend?"

"Because you're not evil!" Hinata shouted, causing Kira to gasp. "I can tell somehow. You're just angry, sad, and lonely. If you were truly bad, you wouldn't have gone on this 'date' with me. You would 'killed' me the first chance you got. I KNOW that you were just…misunderstood…deep in your heart…you're kind, smart, sweet, good…," he paused as he thought back to Kira, and how beautiful she looked in her dress she wore to the Grand Blandid. "…And the most beautiful girl I ever laid my eyes on." This caused Kira to blush a deep red.

"Are this much of a flirt?"

"Hahahaha." Hinata was blushing, too, while scratching the back of his head nervously. "Well, yeah. I get that a lot." Then the bluenett got serious again. "But please tell me. What happened in your life?" Kira sighed in content.

"Alright, I'll tell you, but you have to promise you won't tell anyone else…ANYONE." Swear it on your life."

"I swear I won't tell anyone," he promised.

"Alright." She took a deep breath, and leaned back against the railing while looking up at the starry, night sky. "My life…is something I wish to forget. And not just the horrible parts…everything…and I mean everything. When I came here I was hoping I will never regain my lost memories, but that didn't happen." Hinata was astonished beyond belief. Why was she saying all this?

"What about your parents?" he couldn't help, but choke out.

"My parents?" The golden girl thought for a moment. "My father was a full coyote demon, and my mother was a human. They meet when my father saved my mother from a vicious bear demon. He saved her, and then they fell in love. They had to keep their love in secrecy because the people of my mother's village will never approve of her falling in love with a demon. They had a happy life together, but that didn't last long though." Kira paused.

"Well? What happened?"

"The day I was born my father died. I don't know how. My mother said he died protecting us from an evil demon. All I know about my father is from the stories I hear from my mother."

"What about your mother?" Kira's breathe hitched.

"My mother was a kind, gentle, beautiful woman. She was the only person that ever cared about me. She loved me more than she loved herself. My mother always said that I had her beauty, but my father's personality. I can still remember the looks of disappointment and hatred they gave my mother and me. The look of hatred and anger towards me, and the look of utter disappointment and disgust towards my mother for given birth to a half-demon. Everyone hated me for what I am. I can remember the hateful and spiteful comments they gave my mother and me." She paused again, taking a deep breath before continuing. This was too emotional for her, but she wasn't going to cry. She was a warrior! She wasn't going to show any weakness! "My mother would always…cry and worry…when I could…never make a single friend. I would always come back home with cuts and bruises, and sometimes a broken bone. I remember…the first time…I asked my mother…what a half-demon was. My mother was…crying…crying for me. She knew what it meant, and what my life would be like. Then that day…that HORRIBLE day…the villagers did something so sick and twisted just to get rid of me. One that day on the dead of night, I was just five years old at the time, they put our house on FIRE, hoping it will burn me alive.

(FLASHBACK)

There was nice looking feudal-like mini, mansion. It was on FIRE! Inside the building was a tall, beautiful, human woman with long black, silky hair dressed in a gorgeous robe, pale skin, blue eyes, and glossy, red lips. She looked like she was in her early twenties. There was a small child with her that looked to be about five-years-old. She had long golden hair with two gray coyote ears, a coyote tail, and gold-green eyes wearing a yellow and blue kimono. "Run, Kira!" the woman urged the frightened, little child in desperation. "Hurry! Get out of here!" The building was falling apart.

"I'm not leaving without you, mommy!" Kira cried out in fear. Just a piece of flaming wood fell off heading straight towards her. Kira stood frozen in fear and fright of dying.

"Kira, look out!" The child was too scared to hear her mother. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. Kira woke up outside the mansion with Robe of the Fire Rat wrapped around her. When she got up, she winced in pain and looked down at her leg. There was blood gashing out of her left leg on the right side and burns around it.

"Mommy!" the little girl said in a worry tone as limped towards the crumbled house. "Mommy, mommy!" the child cried desperately, tears forming. Kira was stronger than most children, for she was part demon. As she began lifting the wood, and moving them out-of-the-way she saw a pale burnt hand under the rubble. Kira felt incredible fear and sadness grip her heart as she hurries to quickly the remaining wood out-of-the-way. After Kira was done what she saw made her heart sink and her world collapse. Laying there was her mother. Blood was coming out from all over her, and her beautiful, pale skin was covered in burns and bruises. "Mommy!" the little girl cried as tears ran rapidly down cheeks as she desperately tried to shake the woman awake. "Mommy! Please wake up! Mommy, don't leave me all alone! Mommy! MOMMY!"

Little Kira was still crying over her mother's dead body when she heard footsteps approaching. "Damn, we failed to kill that wretched half-breed child," one of the villagers said.

"Let's just kill her right now while we have the chance," another one spoke. They started approaching her with torches, pitchforks, axes, and other various items found during that time. Kira was completely petrified.

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" Those thoughts kept racing again and again in her head. They villagers finally reached her, weapons raised, ready to end her life, and then everything went black after that.

(END OF FLASHBACK)

"After that," Kira continued, staring at her hands. "When I came to the villagers were all dead, and my hands were covered with their blood." Hinata was beyond shock. This girl has been through SO much at age five, no less.

"What did you do after that?" he asked, trying to sound hopeful, hoping that her life didn't get any worse. But that wasn't the case.

"I buried my mother outside the village by her favorite spot under a cherry blossom tree, and left the village, never to return. I was all alone after that for the rest of my life. I had to learn to adapt, cook, clean, and all the other things needed to survive, and most importantly how to fight because if I didn't I would have died. I was always being hunted by both demons and humans because of what I am. So that's basically it. My life was a living hell! All I want right now is revenge, and I don't care if I have to burn into the depths of Hell to get it." Kira finished.

"This girl HAS been through so much," he thought sadly. Hinata couldn't help, but feel sorry for her. Her life was FAR worse than Yuri's, and he thought hers were the worst. Yuri only lost her three siblings, but she still had her parents and friends to look after her. Kira had no one. She lost her home, her parents…everything. She had to live alone the rest of her life, with the thought of being hunted everyday of your life, wondering if you'll be able to live to see another day. He could never survive like that. He would have probably committed suicide long ago. But Kira…Kira…she managed to stay alive till the very end. She never gave up! She's one the strongest people he knows, both mentally and physically.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Kira glowered. Hinata was giving her a sympathetic look, which angered her. She swiftly got up on her feet. She didn't someone else's pity. She was a fighter! She never felt sorry for herself, and she sure as hell didn't need it from someone else! She hates it when someone always feel sorry for her. She wasn't weak! It's so damn annoying!

"I'm sorry," the bluenett said while standing on his own two feet.

"I don't need your sympathy," she growled, cutting him off. "I don't need your damn pity! I don't need anything from you!" Her voice was getting louder and louder, and she was getting angrier by the second. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed." Kira turned to walk away when a hand grabbed her wrist, pulling her towards the bluenett's chest. Hinata was…was…embracing her? Kira's anger quickly vanished when he tightened his arms, that were already wrapped around her slim waist. He was a head taller than her. Usually, she will feel angered if a man was hugging her, but with Hinata, all she felt was comfort, and that all her pain and loneliness was going away. She rested her hands on his chest. Her heart was beating rapidly against her chest, and her cheeks were turning red.

"Tell me," Hinata whispered in her ear, tighten his arms, causing her blush to darken. "Tell me what I can do to make it all go away." They stayed like that in each other's embrace under the night sky.

(A/N: And there, chapter seven is FINALLY complete. Sorry it took so long. I had to think of something romantic for this chapter, and it took me FOREVER to think of something. It was hard for me cause I know little about romance, only from things I've seen on TV. Thank you for your patience wonderful readers, especially Bloodshot111 and Sakura Suzuhara. You guys are awesome. Well, please read and review, and if anyone has any romantic ideas between Hinata and Kira, please PM me or send it in a review. Well, that's all folks! See ya next chapter!)