Wow, the tenth chapter. Double Digits! Woohoo! I'm sorry that this took so long. Some one I knew just died, and my mom's best friend just announced that she is moving back to New Zealand. I've been doing a great deal of counseling. Luckily I don't need counseling myself or I'd be severely depressed. It's a good thing that writing makes me feel better! Heheh. On with the show!

I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. But I do own a katana! And a Spork!

Chapter 10

Leora sat in her room, finally able to just sit down and think in silence. She had never been as obsessed with anime as Kali, but now that she was face to face with her favorite character, she didn't know what to think. She was sure that Kali was being more realistic then her. This was no Disney fairy tale; there was no definite happy end.

"How does she do that? She just died, she had flash backs from a not so happy past, and she still puts on a happy face." Leora sighed, knowing that it would be impossible to really understand her best friend. "She's right though, we don't belong here, and who knows the consequences of our being here." Leora snorted, "I thought that I was supposed to be the smart one." With that she turned out her light, deciding that she must be tired because she was talking to herself. As she drifted off to sleepa hint of a smile appeared on her face.

Kali on the other hand was tossing and turning. She had been so tired that she had fallen asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. In her dream she found her self once again dressed in her genie attire. She heard a male voice calling for her. She turned to see a man talking to her, but it wasn't her. She decided that her dream must be another flash back.

"Kali, there you are, I know what I want to wish for, I wish for the ability to break the lock"

"You know that I cannot grant that wish. There is only one that has the ability to break the seal."

"Then I wish that one person is here. I have it; I want its power Kali." Kali glowed and a young woman appeared. She looked at Kali, fear shining in her eyes. Kali just smirked, humans have always been too cowardly, and soon they will have a real reason to be afraid.

"You, girl, we have a task for you. You break the seal on this chest." Calyx smiled kindly, trying to comfort the timid girl. The girl's eyes flashed and in an instant she attacked Calyx. But Kali tore her away from him, and threw her to the ground.

"You will not lay a hand on my master."

The girl gasped, "You're a genie."

"Yes, she is a genie, she's my genie." He waved Kali's lamp in the girl's face. "Now, if you would open this chest I would greatly appreciate it. I don't want to force you." He nodded towards Kali.

"I was sent down to protect this chest. I will never open it." The girl tried to run. But a golden barrier stopped her.

"You don't understand Pandora. These humans deserve this. Why protect them? All they ever did was hurt you. They killed your mother didn't they? They killed your sister too. Burned them as witches. And you couldn't do anything about it, could you? I bet you still hear their screams echoing through your head." Kali took a step towards her and kneeled in front of the girl who was now sobbing on the ground. "If you open this chest, those cowards that killed your family will be punished. You will have the power to punish them. You might even have the power to bring your family back." Pandora just shook her head, her body shaking. "Pandora, I've been around for a little while. You are wasting your time trying to protect the humans. By opening this chest, you might just help them, give them a common enemy, and bring them together. Pandora, human's need to realize that they aren't at the top, that they can still fall. If you don't do it, it will happen some other time, when it is out of your power to protect them." The girl looked at Kali. Kali smoothed the hair from her face. She lost her mother, her sister, and her father by human hand, yet she protected them. Kali smirked, Pandora reminded her of herself. But she realized that humans don't understand how to be thankful. So they will have to fight their own fights.

Pandora sat there thinking about what the genie had said. It made sense, which really confused her. Everything that she had been taught as a child was being contradicted. A strange calm seemed to envelope her as she looked into the genies eyes. She felt almost like she was under a spell, she step forward her hands running over the chest. She knew what she was doing was wrong. But she did it anyway. As she threw the lid back a blast of darkness threw Pandora, Kali and Calyx back.

Kali stood as the darkness swirled around, releasing terror upon the world. Soon screams of terror echoed through the darkness and the air was stained with scent of blood as it drenched the ground. As Kali watched herself do these things tears welled in her eyes.

"I did this. I opened Pandora's box."

Hiei walked towards Kali's room. She had left before he got to talk to her. And he really wanted to talk to her. She had granted Yukina's wish! Knowing that he wanted to keep his relation to her a secret! He wanted an explanation, and it'd better be good. He came up to her door ready to pound it down. He didn't care what she'd been through, she wasn't doing anything until she gave him some answers, and not the half-assed answers she kept giving. Just as he went to bang on the door, he heard a soft whisper. He opened the door to see Kali tossing and turning mumbling inaudibly.

In Kali's dream, evil creatures ran everywhere. She had watched herself give her life to the darkness, as a replacement for Pandora. Her own body now lying limp on the ground.

Pandora turned staring at the chaos that surrounded her. "How did that bitch convince me to do this? Sure she gave up her soul in place of mine but that doesn't change what she's done. She paid the price of releasing the darkness." Pandora looked back at the body of the genie, anger welling up inside of her. Not far beyond the genie's body stood a girl, who was just standing there shocked. She looked closer. The girl was the genie. But she looked different. Her eyes no longer held hate. Pandora growled. "How are you still alive?" She shouted at the genie, prepared to avenge the human race. She didn't even look at her, she didn't even respond, she just continued staring in shock. Pandora unsheathed her daggers, sacred daggers, that her mother had created to kill evil.

"No words will save you! You tricked me. I will not rest until you pay for your actions," Pandora ran at her, slashing upwards at the genie's throat. Kali, caught off guard raised her arms to protect herself. Pandora winced expected to hear her dagger to hit her arm cuff, but it slid through her arm, blood splashing onto her hand.

Hiei heard Kali gasp. He walked over to the bed, suddenly feeling that he shouldn't be there (P.R- Duh). He noticed a dark shadow hovering over her bed. He searched for the source, but the shadow seemed to have no source. The shadow crept down the bed till it was over Kali's head.

Pandora held Kali up by the throat, prepared to take her life. Kali choked and pulled at her arms, trying to free herself, but it was no good. Hiei heard Kali gasping for air. He tried to get the shadow away from her, but realized quickly that shadow was not solid. He rushed over and flipped the light on. The shadow shot back into the corner, shrinking away from the light. But Kali continued struggling, scratching at her throat.

He pulled her hands away from her throat, trying to keep her from hurting herself.

"Kali, wake up!" He shook her lightly. "Kali!" Kali's eyes shot open, her mouth wide open in a silent scream. "Kali, it's okay, it's me. It's okay. It was just a dream." Hiei felt something warm trickle over his hand. He looked down at Kali's arm he saw blood running down it. A huge gash ran across her arm, it didn't look like any accident either. He looked at her curiously. "What's going on?"

Kali pushed him away. "Nothing! Nothing...I just…I just found out whose soul I'm housing at the moment." Kali spat as she walked to the bathroom. "Jeez angels like cruel ironies" She grumbled as she searched the cabinets for a bandage. She pulled one out, her left arm still hanging at her side. She tried wrapping the wound, but oddly her fingers didn't quite work and the fact that she was still shaking like a leaf didn't help either. Hiei watched as she stubbornly continued, refusing to ask for help. He walked over and snatched the bandages away.

"It must have cut your tendons, you won't be able to move that hand anymore." Hiei stated as he wrapped the wound. "Pity, I would have enjoyed fighting you. But with only one hand you would have a chance." Hiei smirked, but her shaking made him stop, with a frown. "So do you want to tell me what really happened?" Kali pulled her arm away when he finished, looking down at the floor.

"It was just a dream. Just like you said." She tried moving her fingers, and failed. "I just had a little flash back."

"The last time I checked dreams don't do that" He pointed at her arm. "And you faced death bravely, but now you seem terrified. I know that was no dream. Tell me the truth." Kali looked up at him, prepared to lie again, but she stopped when she looked in his eyes. She quickly looked back down again.

"The soul that Gabriel gave me was someone I used to know in my past life. Someone that wanted me dead. She's an angel now, an angel of death. Not accepted in heaven or hell because of her actions. The actions she took because of me. She took an oath that she would pay for my actions. I've been in hiding ever since."

"You don't seem like the type to hide." Kali just shook her head

"I wasn't hiding from Pandora. I was hiding from the darkness. He wanted my soul back." Kali started shaking harder. "I escaped. I hated it so much. I love the night, but the dark is completely different." Kali's dream still haunted her. Her memories were back and they weren't happy. Tears welled in her eyes.

"You arm must really hurt, why don't you take some of the human pain killer." Kali raised her eyebrow; the pain must have been going to her head, because Hiei sounded nice. Hiei just scowled at her. "Stupid onna."

"I've died Hiei. Compared to that, this is just a flesh wound…Heheh Monty Python heheh." Kali changed the subject trying to take her mind off of her dream. "So what were you doing in my room, you hentai? Hiei just stared at her a few seconds, he had forgotten why had come in the first place. Kali tapped her foot, her eyebrow raised.

"You granted Yukina's wish. You know that she's my sister, so I'm guessing that you also know that I don't want her to know." Kali nodded. Hiei braced himself for her lecture, that he should tell Yukina. But there was no lecture she just sighed.

"Well I know it's not my place to tell you whether or not you should tell her. It's your decision. The wish was a loop hole. She wished to find her brother. Well she found him, she just doesn't know it." Hiei's eyes widened with shock. Not only did she not lecture him, but she had protected his decision.

"Why did you do that?"

"Because if Yukina is going to find out who her brother is, I think it would be best to come from her brother himself, not from some stranger. I also understand why you don't want to tell her. So, I went with the loophole." Kali yawned but shook herself awake.

"Why don't you go back to sleep? You said yourself that you'll need a good night's rest in order to get back to your realm tomorrow." Kali shook her head.

"No, the darkness will find me through my dream. He'll attack me again. He'll make me remember. The darkness is in every realm, which is one of the reasons that I was able to come into this realm, I'm connected with the dark, so I'm connected with every realm." Kali let out a dry bitter laugh "I should thank the darkness though. I used to dream of coming here. Escaping the boring life of a human. Fight demons, meet you. I guess I granted my own wish."

Hiei's ears caught Kali saying that she wanted to meet him. 'Why would she want to meet me?' But he immediately stopped thinking like that.

"Go to sleep. I'll stay here, I got that shadow away from you once, and I could do it again." Kali looked as if she were going to say no, so he continued. "Think of it as a payment for keeping my secret. Now go to sleep so you can get outta my realm tomorrow." Kali smiled, that was the Hiei she knew. But what he was doing for her meant more that anything to her.

"I need to change the bandage first, I've bled threw this one." She grabbed a bandage from the first aid kit. As she unwrapped the bandage, she winced. "You know something about this doesn't feel right." She looked at it closer. She summoned a small dagger, and carefully slid it through the wound. She bit here lip. "There," She whispered. When she pulled out the dagger she pulled out with it, a piece of blackened glass. "It's part of Pandora's dagger. Her daggers are made of glass, they're sacred, unbreakable." She threw the shard on the ground. "I guess she needs a refund." The wound began to bleed again. Hiei walked over to Kali, just in time to catch her as she passed out. He carefully wrapped up her wound and placed her back in bed.

"I'm going to miss you." She mumbled in her sleep.

"What do you mean?" Hiei asked trying to see if she would answer.

"I won't be able to come back."

"No, why will you miss me?" Hiei asked again, taking advantage of her talking while asleep.

"Cause I c..."Kali yawned and turned over. Hiei threw his hands up in frustration. He was so close to getting truthful answers and she went to sleep.

'What did she mean she wouldn't be able to come back?" He went to Kali's window sill, staying there watching over Kali's sleeping form, as he had promised.

The next morning…

Leora woke up bright and early, wanting to spend time in the Yu Yu Hakusho realm; she knew that Kali wouldn't wake for at least another hour. But still went in to check on her. She thought she had heard her talking to someone, and she wanted to know if Gabriel had come back with more information. She walked into her room quietly not wanting to wake her unless she had to; she figured that the angel may have left a few feathers in her room. But Leora stopped at the sight that greeted her. Kali was attached to Hiei's cloak, Hiei sleeping in a chair his head resting on the bed. Leora smirked. Hiei opened an eye, seeing Leora he jerked up.

"Sleep well Hiei?" Leora whispered, still smirking.

"Hn, while you were sleeping last night, your friend was attacked." Hiei hissed back.

"And this involves you how?" Leora hissed right back.

"I was… near the door, I heard her struggling, and I went in to help her."

"And you stayed why?"

"She…wanted me too." Leora raised an eyebrow. "She was scared."

"Kali...afraid...of what? She's the tough one." Leora shook her head, and raised her hand before he could answer. "Let's continue this conversation out of Kali's room." Hiei just glared at her and pointed at Kali's hand which was still holding onto his cloak. "Take it off stupid." Leora said as she walked out off the room. Hiei stood there, surprised that he had not thought of that.

When Kali arrived in the kitchen she found everyone there, waiting for her. "Hey guys, what's up?" Yusuke and Kuwabara snickered. "What, do I have something on my face?"

"No, no, it's nothing." Yusuke reassured her. "So did you sleep well?" Kali raised an eyebrow. "Good dreams maybe?" Kali looked over at Hiei, who pointed at Leora. Kali glared at Leora. "Alright, would someone mind filling me in here?"

"Leora found Hiei in you room, sleeping next to you " Yusuke told her, trying to hold back his laughter, but not succeeding.

"What! Next to me! You pervert!" Kali yelled at Hiei

"Umm, Kali?" Kali turned to her friend fuming. "It's not his fault, you see, you kinda grabbed his cape cloak thingy, and…yeah" Kali stopped in her tracks.

"What were you doing near my bed in the first place?" Hiei just looked pointedly at her left arm, which was still hanging at her side. "Oh."

"Sorry, we didn't put a night-light in your room Kali. We didn't realize that you were afraid of the dark." Yusuke joked around trying to change the subject. Kali's eye's flashed with anger, and before anyone could do anything she punched him in the face. "Ow! What was that for?"

Leora held on Kali's arms and gave her a shocked look. Although her friend had a short temper she rarely lost it like she just had. Kali took a few short breaths. "One would hate the dark if trapped in it for one hundred years." Kali growled her fists tightening. She squeezed her eyes shut tight. "I'm sorry. I'm just…I've just been through a lot of changes." Kali held out her hand to help Yusuke up. "I really didn't mean to lose my temper like that, I'm sorry." Kali looked away ashamed

"No problem." Yusuke continued, "You don't hit like a girl that's for sure." He stated as he rubbed his cheek. Kali laughed, but Leora could tell that she was hiding something. She was hurting inside, and she was hiding it, again.

"Kali, Leora, you should really get back to your own realm now. You have responsibilities waiting for you." Kali and Leora jumped half a mile when she heard a new voice behind them.

"Xavier, you stupid text book, you scared me!" Leora yelled at the book. "Jeez where have you been? I'd forgotten all about you."

"Yes, well that's clear. Leora, Kali, your presence here has created a large problem in your realm. It'll probably cause some problems in this realm too. But that won't be so bad since this realm already has protectors."

"Alright we'll go. But there is still the matter of Kurama and Hiei's wishes." Kali turned to the boys. "I know that I'm cutting your time short, but it seems that we need to leave. If you don't want to make the wish out loud, I can create a wishing coin for you." Kali looked at Hiei. "That way, if you don't want someone to hear you wish, then they won't. I won't even know what it is. But I'll still be able to grant it. It is one of the many beauties of a wishing coin." Hiei nodded, but Kurama shook his head.

"I know what I'm going to wish for, and it doesn't need to be a secret." Kali nodded. "I wish that I could summon any seed that I need, with out wasting any energy." Kali shimmered momentarily, as if to prove the wish was granted. She turned to Hiei and held out a coin.

"Doesn't he need to throw it in a well?" Kuwabara asked.

"Do I look like a wishing well? No, all he needs to do is think the wish, and request that I will grant it."

Hiei stared at the coin for a few minutes. "Kali, will you grant my wish?" He asked quietly. Kali nodded and the coin shimmered then disappeared.

Kali smiled, "Another beauty of the wishing coin. Only good for one wish. No exceptions."

Leora had already begun her chant and was beginning to glow. As Kali turned to go she seemed to remember something. "This is for you Hiei." She handed him her lamp. "It has something for you inside. It's not a genie though" She winked at him, and then began to chant along side Leora. There was a flash and the girls were gone.

"They weren't here for long. But I'm going to miss them." Kuwabara said, as he walked away.

"Yeah, well, let's go. We promised Keiko and Yukina that I would meet them for breakfast." Yusuke looked at the time. "An hour ago! Keiko's going to kill me!" Yusuke and Kuwabara raced off.

Kurama walked up next to Hiei, who was still examining the lamp. "What's inside of it Hiei?" Hiei opened the top to find a rolled up piece of paper. As he unrolled it he found the drawing of him and Yukina with the symbol for Gemini at the top. Just something to remember me by was written at the bottom of the page next to Kali's signature. Hiei smirked as he rolled the drawing back up and put it back in the lamp, the lamp disappearing into his cloak. He wasn't going to forget her, not a chance.

Well, that turned out to be rather long… over 3,000 words! Heheh, I bet you want to know what Hiei wished for! Well…I gotta run sprints away

Ciao

Phantasmic-Reality