Another day, another chapter. Gomen! The last chapter was short and I didn't post yesterday, but this chapter is a good one. (I hope!) Oh yeah and if you haven't figured out =thoughts. Plus in this chapter [] =telepathic message

DISCLAIMER: Like I've said in the last three chapters, I don't own YYH.

^^^^^^^^^IN MAKAI^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

'Okay, little girl, are you ready to start your training? This will be like no training you have ever done before.'

Kutsu had been with him for thirty minutes total and she already decided she hated him. Him calling her 'little girl' was more insulting than Kuwabara calling her Shorty. 'I can take anything you throw at me.'

Hiei picked her up by her collar and started jumping through the trees. 'The first part of your training will be to apply what you learned sparring against that fool.'

'What?'

Instead of answering, Hiei suddenly dropped her. 'DAMN IT! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR?'

Kutsu looked around. Her eyes widened in shock. Hiei had thrown her in the middle of a large group of demons. 'WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS?' The only demons Kutsu had seen had been Kurama and Hiei and they looked like normal humans.

'They're your first test! They are low-class demons. I want you to defeat them all,' Hiei said, sitting down in a tree.

'Your making me fight all of them. ALONE!' Kutsu started mumbling under her breath, '…little bastard…can't believe he's making me fight alone…I'll show him…'

'Hn. You have no choice now.'

'What have we got here?' The demons circled around Kutsu.

'Looks like a little girl.'

'Why don't we have some fun? Eh, boys.' At this all the demons started cheering.

One of the demons started coming towards Kutsu. She noticed and pulled her sword off her back. She concentrated her energy and the sword glowed red.

'Look, the little ningen has some Spirit energy.'

Kutsu's eyebrow started twitching.

'WHY DOES EVERYONE MAKE FUN OF MY SIZE?!?!' Kutsu screamed and then cut the demon in half. This seemed to shock everyone.

'You just killed our leader! Get her!' Suddenly all the demons jumped to attack.

'Here's a little trick I've been practicing on my own.' As Kutsu said this she looked up to make sure Hiei was watching. 'FIREBALLS!' Kutsu eyes turned red and she held up her fingers. At the tip of each one grew a fire ball. She through her hands into the hair and the fire balls went in every direction. When the smoke cleared, there were only half as many demons as before. The ones that were left looked completely shocked. Once they realized what had happened they ran for their lives. Kutsu looked up at Hiei and smirked. 'How was that?'

'Was that the fastest you could defeat them? Pathetic.'

'Like you could do better.'

'Of course, I could do it 10 times as fast. You didn't even aim. I could have used half the energy.'

Kutsu face turned red from anger. Instead of fighting with him she remained silent. Hiei jumped down from the tree and started walking away. Kutsu followed. They walked out of the woods and onto a plain. After about fifteen minutes or so of walking they came to the edge of a cliff. Kutsu turned to Hiei. 'What now?'

Hiei wasn't there. Kutsu looked all around and then Hiei appeared behind her and pushed her off the cliff. After falling about one hundred feet, she grabbed onto a ledge. 'DAMN YOU, HIEI!'

'Your next training is climbing back up, I'm not going to help and you're not allowed to quite until you reach the top.'

Kutsu wasn't going to give up, so she began climbing. While she climbed Hiei was at the top practicing with his sword. He, too, needed to be stronger for the tournament. After climbing ten feet, Kutsu grabbed a ledge that was loose. She fell another fifty feet before grabbing on to another ledge. Hiei looked down and smirked. How could she ever consider herself a fire demon? She is weak and pitiful. At least with my help she might be able to do something.

It tool Kutsu three days to climb up the cliff. When she finally got up, Hiei said nothing. She was drenched in sweat and could hardly stand. You'd think he would congratulate me or something.

[I'm not going to congratulate you, because it took you so long. Just be happy, I'm not yelling at you for wasting my time, little girl.]

'AH! Get out of my head! How are you doing this? Wait…I remember Kurama said you have a Jagan eye thing and that allows you to send telepathic messages.'

[It's easy to read your mind. With your Jagan uncovered and untrained it makes it easier for people to invade your mind.]

Hiei reached into his pocket and pulled out a red bandana. 'Here put this on. I don't need your thoughts and memories screwing up my concentration.'

Kutsu took the bandana and tied it around her forehead. Suddenly she felt secure. As if without the bandana, she was exposed to too much trouble. Hiei began walking and like before, Kutsu followed silently behind. She could hardly keep up, because she was so tired. When they got to a clearing, Hiei sat down. Kutsu happily sat down across from him, trying not to show the pleasure of getting off her feet and getting to rest. She would not give him the satisfaction of seeing her tired.

'Since it seems you know nothing of the Jagan or how to use it, we will spend the next couple of hours working on mind reading and telepathy.'

They spent the next six hours training Kutsu's Jagan. At the end of the six hours, Kutsu could send telepathic messages, read a few of Hiei's thoughts (very, very few), and block Hiei from looking through her memories. They had to quite, because Kutsu worked herself to exhaustion trying to prove to Hiei that she was not weak. In the end, she passed out.

Fool, it will be her biggest weakness, if she doesn't realize when she's reached her limits. I had to learn it and she will too.

'…I'm…not…weak…' Kutsu said in her sleep.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^TWO WEEKS LATER^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Training had only gotten more difficult. As she began to climb the cliff faster, Hiei put weights on her wrists and ankles. She learned how to control her Jagan and even how to control some lesser demons' minds. She started learning fire techniques and sword fighting. Hiei went from saying she was weak to saying she might be some help. Eventually he admitted she was stronger than Kuwabara (Which isn't saying much).

They were in a sword fight. Hiei was holding back his power to match Kutsu's. She had gotten a lot better with the sword. Hiei struck downward. Kutsu brought her sword up and blocked. They continued with Hiei attacking and Kutsu defending. Finally Hiei jumped backwards into a tree.

'Stop defending and attack, girl. Or are you too weak to attack. You can't win a match by defending.' Hiei had stopped calling her little girl and just called her girl. Small things like this no longer got on Kutsu nerves. She learned to deal with it and realized she fought better when she was angry at Hiei. He was constantly saying that emotions were her biggest weakness and that they ruined her focus too often.

'Fine. Let's continue.' Kutsu learned that his insults were merely his attempt at giving her advice. He actually was a very good trainer. Hiei jumped down from the tree and their fight continued. This time Kutsu struck downwards. She knew Hiei would block, so she immediately changed her attack to his stomach. He saw the change at the last moment and blocked. Kutsu decided to take one more shot. She put all her energy into the swing. She swung downward again. Hiei brought his sword up to block. The two swords clanged together with a loud ringing sound. Kutsu's hands went numb from the hit. Suddenly she heard a huge crack. Her sword blade broke off at the hilt.

'DAMN! What the hell am I going to do now?' Kutsu threw down the hilt.

'Hn. What did you expect? You shouldn't have put so much energy into that ningen-made sword. We shall worry about your sword later. At the moment we are going to go to west Makai to finish your training.' Hiei turned and jumped into a tree. 'I want you to try and keep up with me. No running on the ground.'

'Damn!' Jumping through the trees was Kutsu worst thing. After two weeks of training, she still fell out of the trees every three seconds. She could keep up perfectly with Hiei, if she was on the ground. She jumped up into a tree next to Hiei. As she landed, Hiei started flitting through the trees. I'm going to do it this time. I will get stronger.

Hiei heard this thought and smirked. He could tell she was a fire demon. She was stubborn as hell. He flitted through the trees, slowing down whenever Kutsu got too far behind. Kutsu managed to stay in the trees the entire time (though she did almost fall out several times.) Hiei jumped out of the tree. Kutsu followed. They were next to a river. The water was clear and the grass was green and healthy. In the distance, Kutsu could hear the rushing of a waterfall. It was amazing to think that this was in Makai, the demon world.

'This place seems very familiar.' Kutsu looked around. She had seen this place before, but wasn't sure where or when.

'It's possible you came here in your other life.'

Through all the training Kutsu undertook, she still had no memories of her past. It was beginning to infuriate her.

'We'll do one more day of training her and then rest.'

Kutsu had become used to training for up to three days without rest or sleep. At first she worked herself until she blacked out. Now she could hold off her exhaustion and then rest for a few hours and be fine.

'Why are we here to train?'

'This place has plenty of water. Water is the main weakness of all fire demons. She must learn to overcome it.'Except, like me, water doesn't affect you as much, because you're half Koorime.

Kutsu still had no clue about being the Second Forbidden Child or being half Koorime. Hiei walked over to the river. As usual Kutsu followed, without question. Hiei turned around and looked at Kutsu, suddenly red energy surrounded her like ropes. (A/N: Like in the episode where Hiei and Yusuke fought.) Hiei walked over to her.

'All you have to do this time is break out of these bonds, using only fire techniques.'

'Is that all?'

Hiei gave a slight nod. Kutsu started gathering energy. As she did this Hiei grabbed her and tossed her in the river. 'Oh, and did I mention, you have to do this underwater.'

The water surrounded Kutsu. It was freezing. Kutsu tried to bring out some energy, but the cold and lack of oxygen made her loose focus. She knew Hiei wouldn't save her. He would just let her drown and never feel an ounce of guilt. Memories of Kutsu's training came back to her. 'Little girl, how could you ever be a fire demon? ...You're pathetic …Fool, use your brain as well as strength.' All the things Hiei had done and said came back to her. She became furious and as her anger grew the water started boiling.

Hiei was still standing on the bank of the river, looking into the water. He saw the water start to boil and knew Kutsu would be free of her bonds soon. No sooner had this thought crossed his mind, Kutsu jumped out of the water.

'DAMN YOU, HIEI! YOU BASTARD!' When Kutsu jumped out of the water, her eyes were glowing red. She immediately saw Hiei and punched him in the face. Hiei hadn't expected this, so he stumbled backwards. After she did this, she blacked out.

Hn. It seems she is not as useless as I thought. When I get done with her, she will be a great asset to the team. Hiei picked her up and put her in a tree. She had been sleeping on the ground until the same group of demons she fought the first day try to ambush her.

Oh, no! I knew I should not have kept them alive. A group of water demons surrounded Kutsu.

'We're tired of you, wench! You will no longer torment us.'

I still have one thing I do before I die. Kutsu pulled a necklace out of her pocket and took her sword off her back. If those foolish Seers were right, then I'm going to need these when I'm reincarnated. I just hope my reincarnation can find him.

Kutsu hid her things. She started running, but the water demons found her. They formed a circle around her. The circle opened temporarily and a figure walked in.

'I'm glad to see my minions gave you such a false sense of power. I will now kill you and take your place as ruler of northern Makai.'

'Wh..Who are you?' Kutsu was scared at the power she felt from this demon.

'I am your executioner, Kyto.'

Suddenly a serious look crossed Kutsu face as she remembered what the Seers had said. 'Well, executioner, I will see you again in fifteen years and I will kill you, once I find him.'

'What are you rambling on about? Never mind. Just kill her.' The water demons surged forward.



Hiei awoke out his sleep and looked around. He knew something was not right.

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