Disclaimer:I only own Akimi, Tien-su, Boko, Yukei, and Homi! No one else! KuramasGirl owns Aruma!

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Author's Note: This is da first chapter! Hiei is horribly OOC, gomen! _____________________________________~*~*~__________________________________ _________

"Akimi! Get up!" called Hiei, yelling up the stairs. Nothing. "Akimi!" He sped up the stairs into her room. "Akimi. Wake up." The lump under the covers stirred. "I 'on 'anna." Akimi said, her voice muffled by the comforter. Hiei pulled the cover off her and rolled it up. "Up. Now." The young girl shivered. "You are EVIL, Hiei-san!" "Only when I have to be." He threw the roll at her and walked out the door, giving her a small, un-Hiei-like smile. (a/n:HIEI? SMILE? I told you he was OOC!)

As Akimi walked downstairs, she was nearly decapitatied by Hiei's sword. "Ack!" Cat ears popped up on either side of the nearly- removed body part. "Hiei, please don't remove my head. I use it sometimes." He glanced at the brown ears sticking out of Akimi's black hair. "Obviuosly not this time. What have I said, over and over?" She sighed. "Be prepared, even if you think you shouldn't be. Why do you DO that, anyway?" "What?" He asked, sheathing his sword. "Try to attack me every time I walk down the stairs." "Your father told me to teach you to defend youself." She considered this, then launched herself at Hiei."Hyah!" Her foot connected with his forehead. He fell over, backflipped, landed on his feet, and drew his sword, all before he hit the ground. Akimi straightened her school skirt, gathered a fireball, and launched it at Hiei, all before he touched the ground. He blocked it with his sword, jumped into the air, and brought his sword down between Akimi's cat ears. "Gotcha." She glared at him. "I utterly despise you." Hiei smirked. Akimi pouted, rubbed her ears back ito her head, and glanced at the wall clock. "Crappit! I'm gonna be late!" She ran out the door, shooting another small fireball at her guardian before taking off down the street. This one connected, singeing the tip of Hiei's hair. Luckily, it was well above his head, and he didn't notice.

"Minamino Akimi, late AGAIN?" Urameshi Keiko asked as she ran in the door to room 8-A. "Training..........session........." she panted. Keiko and her husband, Yusuke, knew all about Akimi's.....home life. Sometimes Keiko looked at Akimi with such remorse.....like she knew something the girl didn't. Akimi took her seat beside Keiko's son, Yukei. He flashed her a peace sign. She nodded, absolutley exhausted. The black- haired ningen's eyes widened. He pointed to his head and mimiced little, pointy ears. She froze. Then she noticed the class. They were all staring at her. She launched herself out of the room. *I run _way_ too much these days,* thought Akimi, making a beeline for the girl's room.

"Come on........go away already!" she muttered, rubbing the cat ears furiously. "Hiei-san's gonna kill me....." She rubbed harder and harder, succeding only in making little tufts of hair fall into the toilet. Akimi banged a fist on the wall, tears brimming in her amythest eyes. If her father was alive, he'd know how to make these damned things go down......no! She mustn't think things like that. Those thoughts would make her cry. Too late. Tears spilled down her cheeks as she realized that she had no idea about what her father knew. Hiei never spoke of him, there were no pictures... She looked at her dingy surroundings, then grew angry. "This is not the place for a youko!" She exclaimed, banging the walls. "I belong in the Makai! As Queen!" She felt her powerful cat tail burst through the pleated skirt, brown as her ears, and her vision shifted. "I am QUEEN!" She yelled, running through the halls. "Akimi!" Keiko looked fearful. "Calm down, honey." She laid her hands on Akimi's shoulders. "Get off of me!" She yelled, slashing at the frightened woman, causing her to scream. "That's right, you stupid ningen." She sneered. In her rage, she didn't reconigze Keiko. She snarled at the ningen and ran back down the hall.

Keiko dug in her purse until she found her cell phone. She dialed the number for the Minamino house, anxiously watching the halls. "Hello?" Hiei's voice came over the phone. "Hiei? It's Keiko. Akimi's......gone insane! She's running all over school in youko form!" She could almost hear him get mad. "I'll be right there." She waited for a moment, listening to Hiei mumble, "Hn. Which button to you press? I'll never get used to this ningen thing." She shook her head, then went to find the other children.

There were 2 other children who knew about Akimi's true life. Her own son, Yukei, and Kuwabara's son, Homi. Homi wasn't much good, like his father, but he _was_ Akimi's friend. The two of them formed a roadblock at the front of the school, where they thought the girl would end up. Sure enough, here came the fire maiden, straight down the hall. "Kids, get ready..." Akimi stopped, unwilling to hurt her friends. "Akimi! What are you doing?" Yukei yelled. "What the hell's the matter with you?" Yukei said. "Hello? I'm trying to get to the Makai?" said Akimi, a trace of the ningen Akimi still lingering. Homi, the spitting image of his father, asked, "Why?" The girl sneered. "To take my rightful place as Queen! I have no time for this." She gathered fire in her palms, preparing to attack. "DRAGON WHEEL!" She yelled, sending the fire rolling towards the three children. "No!" Hiei yelled, jumping in front of them and slicing the fire in two. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He yelled, standing erect. "You have no damn reason to attack these people! Why did you becaome youko, in front of everyone? You were told when you were young to keep your powers secret!" Akimi gathered more energy, but didn't throw it, not wanting to attack her guardian. "Where is my father?" She screamed, glaring at him. "Calm down and I'll tell you!" Still suspicious, she powered down, becoming her ningen form. "Alright, Hiei-san. Let's go home." She didn't look at him as they walked out the door, past the children she had tried to kill.

After punishing her, (forty laps around the outside of the house, no feat for a youko, but Akimi was young) Hiei sat her down in a chair, and faced her. "Akimi-chan, what I'm about to tell you is going to hurt." Akimi looked down. "Nothing could hurt more than what I just tried to do." He stared at her. "Your parents are alive." she looked up, shocked. "What?" "Your parents are alive." "No, I _know_ what you said! But it _can't_ be true! My parents died when I was born!" Akimi nearly yelled, and her tail popped back out. "Calm down, Akimi!" She took a deep breath and sat back down, but the tail remained. "What is are their names?" The girl asked, tears spilling down her cheeks. "Kurama is your father." She stared at him again. "Wha.......Kurama? The Makai theif?" She sat back, stuned out of her wits. "Yes," said Hiei. "And he is training your brother to be the same." She shook her head. "Brother?" "Yes, brother. Twin, to be exact." She closed her eyes. "I don't believe this." Hiei cupped her chin, another un-Hiei-like gesture. "It'll be okay, Akimi. Your mother is Aruma, Princess of the Makai." Tears flowed from her eyes, and she did something she had never done. She pressed her face into his shoulder and sobbed. This surprized Hiei. "Uh...." he awkwardly placed his arms around the girl, patting her back stiffly. "Is there **sniff** any way to contact him? In the **sniff** Makai, I mean?" He shrugged, still rather uncomfortable. "We could ask Koenma..." She nodded. "Hai! That's perfect." She sat up and wiped her face. "Sorry about that." He tilted his head. "About what?" She looked down. "Crying....." He shook his head. "Hn. You are young. It is forgivable." Akimi changed her skirt and walked out the door. "Where are you going?" asked Hiei. "To find Koenma-sama!" He ran out the door after her and accomapined her to the Urameshi apartment.

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Hooble:Why, exactly, did they go to the Urameshi apartment? What about her father could cause Akimi to go insane? Find out next time on The Legacy Born:A Maiden of Fire! Hiei:Hn.

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~The Great Hooble~