Fire's Heart

Ahknee/Kitteen

(Disclaimer: Owning Sailor Moon or Inuyasha would be such a privilage. . .I could rule the world by owning either one! *laughs evilly*)

Um. . . .This is chapter seven, ne? *isn't really that right in the head right now* Gomen, I kind of scared myself the other night. . . . .. . You don't want to know.

Anywho, I am getting writer's block for this fic already. Wai!! It's unfair, I finally make a wonderful fic and I get WRITER'S BLOCK! ARGH! *pounds head against wall*

. . . .Ouch. *rubs head*

Anywho, review responses:

Tenshi-Hotaru - Thanks a bunch! *feral grin* Gee, you think the plot's interesting now? Well, I am probably going to throw in a few twists, turns, and loops into here to try and make this one rollercoaster of a story. And yes, school is quite the horror. And, for that review on the author's ote I posted, yeah, well, I felt inclined to do it.

Skittles the Sugar Fairy - 'Total yayness'? *blink* Eherm. . . . Yeesh, you must be slightly easily amused because the night falling is quite an old one, from what I know. But hey, to each their own. *shrug* Yes, when people bounce off walls they tend to hit other people in the room, so sandbags to cower behind are the nessecity. Oh, for that review on the author's note, yup, so true.

Angel-eyes56 - Yup. Eh, not that big reaction from Setsuna, as you'll see. NEither could I've. @.@

Pyro Kitty Cat - Oh please, I could've left off at a much more untimelier place than that. *snorts*

Mageling - I write anime well? @_@ Yes, 'tis an odd thing to say. @_x And. . .*shrug* 'Twas that first thing that came to mind. And, for that second review. . . . .Rei and Miroku? X_@ How. . .original. And I'll make sure to kep it up. ^_~ And to that third review. . . .Yeah yeah yeah, I get it, I get it.

Ayeka Penor - You're the second person to find that joke very funny. And yes, but hey, it's nice to know why I don't every day.

Shadowkitsune - Er, thanks. *looks around shiftily before leaning in to whisper* Y'know, many fangirls out there think quite the contrary, hon, because I ~think~ I see a hoarde of'em coming from everywhere around the world for you. *leans back to recline regularly in her chair* And I doubt you can really make a death, for me, slow and painful. I'm an expert on torture, and I handle pain quite well. *grins ferally to reveal sharp, pointy fangs* Hehe. *smiles a fake cheery smile before going dead serious* Don't mess with me.

I DO NOT OWN DBZ - Thanks.

hentai - Um. . . .EWWW!! *gags repeatedly before whapping her head against a wall* Crap, what was the point of this review anyway?!?! O.o *gags again before stopping* Oh, wait, if I can look at yaoi things, then why the hell am I gagging at this? *shrugs before walking off* If I ever find out who this reviewer is, I'm going to send them a nice email with a big prettiful picture of two YuGiOh guys making out or having sex. Whichever I feel most prone to. *cackles insanely*

But seriously, I'm going to have to rant about this sometime soon, like at the end of the chapter, so beware, hentai, for I KNOW where you live. *cackles insanely once again* . . .Well, actually, I don't, but hey, I CAN find out.

Carrie - Well, the computer's fixed. ^^; And I don't know why they aren't either, maybe I should hold a poll for that on my website or something. ^^; And I'll make sure to do that, just so we can have some fun with the dramtic-ness of the plot.

fanfiction fanatic -Oh, I got onto ff.net with Windows XP on my laptop. *shrug* Maybe it just doesn't work for you, or maybe when you used XP the site was at a downtime? Ah, really? Lots of people notice it, they just don't really care about the resemblance between the two, since there are so many look alikes in the anime world.

angelwings6117 - Great! Well, here's an update!

Well, that's a lot of typing in itself for the reveiws. ^^; It's probably about a page long, give or take a few sentences. ^__^ Anywho, I hope all of you enjoy this chapter. *waves all the readers off cheerfully*

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FINAL COUPLE VOTES:

Rei/Sesshoumaru, by around twenty or so votes. Hope all of the voters are happy, and to those of you Rei/Kouga fans, I'll have that fic for that pair out sometime when this fic is near its end, maybe sooner.

Kudos goes to the voters who stood up for what they wanted and made out of this world votes. ^__^ *hands out bags of sweets and such to those who didn't have their couple honored* Honors to those who voted for Rei/Kouga, I'm working on that fic now.

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Rei sighed as she leaned against the tree, letting the cool wind that was gently blowing cool her off from the hiking she had been doing all day. In truth, this was starting to take a strain on her, despite her great amount of stubborn will power.

'I don't know how anyone can possibly hike so much for so long for so many days. . . . .'she thought.

She closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the tree, letting the breeze sweep her hair around her and blow some cherry petals around, causing a scene of peace to be seen around her. It was almost perfect.

'Almost' was the keyword, for, just as soon as anyone could possibly think it was, a brilliant garnet light flashed and a door appeared, right in front of Rei, causing her to jump in shock and utter out an 'eep'.

"Oh, it can't possibly be. . . ."she said as the door swung open and a white light flared to life, catching the attention of the other traveling companions, if it hadn't already.

Two silhouettes appeared in the doorway before stepping out and shutting the door, the taller of the two wagging a finger at the shorter one like a mother would her child.

". . .you could've ended up in an entirely different place, much less to say and entirely different time!"the taller of the two finished whatever was being said.

"Aw, but I just wanted to see what this place was like!"the shorter of the two whined childishly.

"It's dangerous here."the taller one reprimidaded. "And I am going to take you back right now where Haruka and Michiru can give you some proper discapline."

"Aw, but. . . ."

"No buts!"

Rei blinked and sweatdropped at the antics of the two, which had probalby pricked the attention of her traveling companions even more.

Figuring that the voices belonged to the people she thought they belonged to, Rei timidly called out, "Setsuna? Hotaru?"

The two figures turned to face Rei.

"Rei!"the shorter of the two called.

"Hotaru? What are you and Setsuna both doing here??"Rei asked as the short girl ran up and gave her a bear hug.

"Oh, Setsuna-mama said-"Hotaru began, but Setsuna cut her off. (Did I mention Setsuna de-transformed?)

"I came here because I just now sensed a rip in the Time Stream,"Setsuna began, putting emphasis on the 'I', pausing a moment to send a meaningful glance at Hotaru before continuing, "And it was by you. Now, I came here, planning to find you and take you back to your rightful time period, but then little Hotaru jumped into the portal after I did. So, we'll have to delay this little trip here longer than expected."

Rei's face brightened considerably. "I'm going to go home???"

"Hai."Setsuna replied, nodding.

Rei's face lit up and she jumped for joy. "YES! I was getting so tired of all this running around and getting super dirty!"

Hotaru, who was still clinging to Rei, sniffed said woman. "Yeah, you need a bath."

Rei glared at Hotaru playfully, lightly hitting her on the head.

"Awww."Hotaru pouted.

Rei grinned lightly at her before stooping down and enveloping the girl in a real hug.

"Ooh, you really shouldn't have come, Hotaru. This place isn't all that great. It's actually pretty dirty and stuff and there's no good place to get a private bath. The hot springs are all open to peeping toms and I get paranoid about it!"

Hotaru just shrugged. "Oh well!"

Rei grinned and patted the young girl on the head before standing and facing Setsuna, "So, when are we leaving?"

"All in good time Rei. We have all the time in the world, after all. . . ."

"Okay, enough with the time puns Setsuna. S'not funny anymore."

Setsuna smiled slightly.

"Seriously, when are we going home??"Rei asked.

"Depending on how soon I can get Hotaru to agree to come back. Even with force, she's a tough little girl."Setsuna replied.

"What, she pulls the puppy dog eyes on you or something?"Rei asked.

Setsuna sighed and nodded. "She learned it from Chibiusa."

Rei snickered. "The great Guardian of the Time Gates, who has been alive for centuries and has seen so many deaths beyond imagination without any effect on her, is affected by puppy dog eyes?!"

Setsuna sighed and rolled her eyes toward the heavens as if to ask why she had this put upon her instead of someone else. "You're never going to let me live this down, are you?"

"Nope. Wait until the other girls hear this, they're going to crack up."Rei burst into laughter at this.

Setsuna let out a long sigh as she blew a few stray bangs out of her face.

Hotaru just giggled to herself at that.

In the backround, Rin had huddled herself behindt Sesshoumaru's legs and Jaken was cowering behind some bushes, which made a sligh rustling sound with his quivering at the strange women.

Hotaru, who noticed the sound, looked over her shoulder towards where the group was.

"Hey, Rei, who're they?"Hotaru asked, nodding her head in the group's direction.

"Oh! Um, ehe, yeah, kind of forgot about them. . . .Uh, well, the guy with the white hair is Sesshoumaru, the girl behind him is Rin, and the toad quivering behind the bushes is Jaken."Rei replied.

Hotaru grinned and waved brightly at Rin, who smiled a little back with her own little wave.

Setsuna glanced at Rei, who had motioned Rin over to introduce her and Hotaru properly, before glancing at the ever-stoic Sesshoumaru.

'Minako would really love to be here right now.'she thought silently, wondering just what Minako would pull if she was here.

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Minako was desperately trying to stay awake through the boring bits of conversation Ami and the owners of the shrine were having.

'This is a huge drag.'Minako thought, looking at her reflection in her teacup, which was held loosely between her two intwined hands, to keep occupied.

"Minako!"Ami's voice cut through her daze.

"Nani?! I didn't do it!!!"Minako yelped, looking up while the other occupants of the room sweatdropped.

"Mina, we were just going to go out and tour the shrine a bit. They insisted."Ami said, a large sweatdrop overhanging her head as she tried to calm her blonde friend down.

"Minako blinked stupidly before grinning her thousand-watt grin. "Oh! Okay!"

Ami sweatdropped again before dragging her friend outside to look around. Once outside, and out of sight and hearing distance, Ami set a cold glare onto her friend.

"Next time, play along with the act! I managed to make it look like we were both interested in the shrine's history and they said we could freely tour around this place. Now, can you sense anything?"Ami stated firmly, flipping out her mini-computer and letting it scan the area.

"Um, uh. . . .,"Minako paused breifly, "I think I can sense something coming from that shack over there."

Ami looked up from her computer to glance where Minako was pointing at before turning her computer to that direction and letting it scan the old house.

"It's a wellhouse, Minako."Ami stated as she read over the lines of information the scrolled by, quite fastly, on the screen.

Minako shrugged, "Same difference."

Ami sighed and continued to read over the readings coming from the wellhouse.

After about two minutes of silence, Minako began to sing the song that never ends to keep occupied. Ami, on the other hand, tried to block out the annoying tune before snapping at the blonde.

"PLEASE stop that! First off, I have all that we need to know about the wellhouse, so we can head back and give the reports to Luna and Artimas."Ami said sharply. (It looks like I spelled Arty's name wrong. O.o)

Minako just pouted cutely before shrugging and marching off."Then let's go!"

Ami sighed, looked up to the heavens as if to ask why she was stuck with this, and follwed after the hyper-active blonde time bomb.

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Rei stared up at the sky before glancing back down to earth to watch as Rin and Hotaru pranced about, playing children's games and having fun doing whatever they wanted.

"Hm, Hotaru looks happy to have a friend to play with."Setsuna stated from her standing position of leaning against the tree.

"Yeah."Rei replied, watching the two children laugh and play as children should.

Setsuna smiled, "Hotaru was getting lonely without anyone to play with."

"I can tell. She's really trying to last as long as possible out there."

". . . .Rei?"

"Hm?"

"What do you ~really~ think of this place?"

Rei hesitated for a second, "It's natural. Very calm so far."

Setsuna was trying something, quite obviously to Rei, she was just trying to be subtle about it. . . .

"How much longer would you mind staying here?"Setsuna asked.

'What the heck is she trying to pull?'Rei thought before speaking, "I don't really prefer to stay here much longer. But it wouldn't be so bad."

"Then you may leave now."Setsuna replied, holding out her hand and letting her staff appear in it in a small spark of garnet light and sparkles. She proceeded to tap it on the ground and a the door from before appeared, still looking the same as ever, but with intricate markings upon it instead of being plain.

"I can?"Rei asked.

"Hai. You will be sent back to the Higurashi household."Setsuna replied, nodding.

"But what about. . .?"

"Kagome? I shall tell her. No worries."Setsuna smiled calmly.

"I. . .guess I'll go back then. . . ."Rei said, a bit hesitant sounding, but still walked up to the door. "Tell Rin I said bye."

"What about the other two?"

"Sesshoumaru and Jaken? . . . . .Tell then I said. . . .,"Rei paused, "Tell them I said it was an. . .interesting trip."

Sestuna smiled, "I will."

"I'll see you soon, Setsuna."Rei grinned before stepping up to the door and turning the knob, pulling it open and stepping into the bright light while gusts of air from the Time Stream blew out from the doorway.. Once she had stepped in, the door slammed shut and a last, stubborn gust of wind blew out with great force, Setsuna standing calmly as it swept by her, making her hair fly backwards, as it continued onwards to vanish into nothing. The door disappeared and any trace of Rei from this time was lost.

Setsuna stared at the spot where the door had been, hoping that her plan would work.

"Hotaru, we're going to leave soon."

"Hai, Setsuna-mama!"

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I had to have given you guys all a heart attack there with that twist-a-roony. *giggles insanely* I know quite well what I'm doing, so do not fear! All of you must seriously be making one of these faces: O.o o.o O.O X_o O_X o_o or some other variety of them. *grin*

Anywho, don't fear, I THINK I've got this planned out on where it's going. . . . .emphasis on the 'think'. *hasn't written this fic out on paper yet and has no real plan for it*

But seriously, trust me here, I am going to do some serious thinking ahead while I have the breakfast in French tomorrow. *nodnod* . . .Oh, shnap, then I go onto German. Hope the new teacher's cool. . ..

Lucky me, I've been practicing this part for some flame I got on some other fic I have. *rolls up sleeves* To our dear 'hentai', whom I have put onto my somewhat 'black list', shall have a few parapgraphs of wasted space dedicated to him:

Now, what you said was immature (ignore my childish antics up there, I had sugar and wasn't thinking straight). Nobody needed to know that information (unless you had a horny wife of girlfriend. Most 'normal' people don't go around saying such things. It's immature, childish, and makes you seem like a total idiot. Most people prefer *not* to look like total idiots.

You're a lucky I'm not some super genius hacker person, otherwise I could probably track you down and personally MAKE you apologize for that. . . . .Of course, it is NEVER a wonderful idea to leave such messages in people's reviews, becuase, for one, it isn't a review, and two; you never know who you're messing with.

Most smart people also use capitals only at the beginning of sentences. You, my aquaintence, must not have gone to school or have otherwise had a very bad teacher, otherwise you just wasted the teacer's time and said teacher should get a raise (haha! *points and laughs*).

I can tell you right now, any decent person my age would blanch at this, and any decent adult would gasp. Any person younger than my age would point an most likely laugh or gasp, but either way. . . . .The message you type wasted approximately one to five minutes of your life and about three seconds of my life to read it. Furthermore, it took another ten minutes out of my night right now in which I could be typing another fic to type this message. The moral of this story: Don't bother me with flames or pointless things that don't even comment on my fics. It's a waste of everyone's time (and fic space) and it annoys the hell out of everyone. So, if you aren't going to bother making at least one simple comment on my fic, don't say anything at all!

. . .Now, I hope that taught everyone a lesson. You bother me with flames or pointles things and I humiliate you in front of thousands of readers. Fun, no? *grins ferally*