After hours of running to the forest, it was beginning to get dark. Hiei stopped on a tree branch and saw Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan around a fire below. He sat down, leaned back, and remembered getting the jagan eye and how Shigure insisted he would scream and wondered what he would say.

"Yukina!" he shouted as he sat up, then remembered where he was. It was already morning.

Botan asked, "Did you hear something?"

"No," Yusuke replied, "Kuwabara get up!"

Hiei jumped out of the tree in time to stop Kuwabara from seeing him and made his way to the mansion through the trees. Long before he got there explosions ripped through the ground. He stayed still. "What the hell was that?" he asked as he saw fire ahead, then blasts of spirit energy ripped through it like it was nothing.

He ran ahead and saw the building as the flames went out. Then, a single snowflake fell from the sky. He imagined Yukina as a little girl, running and playing in the forest with animals back in ice world. I wish I could have been there, he thought to himself sadly, I should have returned to the glacial village sooner. I shouldn't have been caught up in my own killing spree. The flake melted in his hands as he moved forward.

Hiei ripped his way through a side entranced and knocked out a human before he could attack. Using his jagan, he moved toward the side of the mansion he couldn't see through for some reason. He passed countless beasts and monsters and moved up a narrow staircase to a dark hall. On the far side near a window was a small cell. "So this is her filthy prison," he said to no one.

He got closer to the walls. It was clearly empty, but talasman cards hung on nearly every square inch of the place. Talasman cards? He thought, Why? He used his right hand and reached out and touched them. His fingers burned with a single touch. He grunted in pain and looked at his hand. His fingertips were nearly completely burned off. Guess that's why, he thought.

He tried to use his jagan eye but he couldn't see the room at all with it, even while standing right in front of it. "These talasman cards," he said to no one, "that's why I couldn't find her all this time." He turned around and saw that Yusuke and Kuwabara were fighting demons and making their way toward the basement. The ugly human and Yukina were waiting down there with the Toguro brothers.

Hiei opened the door she was in and knocked out all of the humans guarding her before they could blink. Yukina stared at him while he stood in front of her. "Who are you?" Tarukane demanded.

As they talked, Yukina examined her savior. His energy, I've felt it before. It's him. When I was born I felt his warm energy cutting through the cold and dead air. This guy standing before me, he's my brother! She thought happily. Hiei began wailing on Tarukane.

"Wait!" she pleaded as she held his arm, "Don't kill him!"

"What?" he asked.

Yukina saw his right hand and that his finger tips were all burnt. Then she looked at him and said, "Don't take this from me. Do you know how long I've been waiting for this?! Move!" She pushed him away and cut off Tarukane's head with her ice powers while looking away. "Is he dead?" She looked at Hiei nervously.

"He's more than dead," he replied, surprised, "you had that power the whole time? Why didn't you do that before?"

"He was always surrounded by at least three guards, if not more," she explained, "I'm not strong enough or fast enough to take down that many people. It only would have made my situation worse." She looked down at Yusuke and Kuwabara, then the Toguro brothers, then back over the Hiei. "It's you."

"What are you talking about?" Hiei asked.

She explained, "Your energy, it's exactly the same as when I was born. You're my twin brother!"

Hiei stared at her in shock. "What?" he asked in disbelief, "You remember?"

"Somewhat," she said, "I remember soon after I was born I was placed next to something that was so warm and so alive. For years I wondered what that warmth was, then my mother killed herself. Rui told me everything; that my brother was born in fire so intense no one could touch him and that she was told to drop him off of a cliff in order to kill him. But you're alive! I knew you'd be alive!"

"I wish I came sooner," he whispered.

She released him and asked, "What's your name?"

"Hiei."

"My name's Yukina," she smiled, "your hand. It's burned. Here." She took his hand and healed it instantly.

Hiei said, "You didn't have to do that."

Yukina explained, "That's also how I can tell you must be related to me. Those talasman cards only burn the skin off ice maidens."

"Hn," he replied, looking at his newly healed hand, "that must be what it means." Damn ice maiden skin, he thought angrily.