Hello everyone I'm sure you are waiting for this chapter but I have to say it's been hard to find things to write about now that Ryu's been taken care of and everything so I'm looking to all of you for ideas please send some or at least one!
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Sadandlonely: Of coarse he might I haven't decided but from the ending… wait that would spoil a good ending never mind!
Ok now onto the chapter.
Chapter 8: Training.
Hiei was awoken by the sound of Kurama calling his name mentally. He opened his eyes and looked down from his perch on the roof.
"Are you ready to go see Ash train?" Kurama asked. Remembering the incidents from the night before he flew down beside Kurama and asked, "Did she leave already?"
"Yes she usually spends all her free time training."
"Do you watch her?"
Hiei thought he understood what was probably happening to her, her being a fire demon and all he wouldn't be surprised if he were correct.
"Sometimes." The two started to walk off.
"Could she surpass you or me?"
"She could never beat you, me, or Yusuke the way she is now. Kuwabara maybe. Although she could put up a heck of a fight."
Kurama wasn't vivid enough in his description to answer Hiei's mental question but just by watching her he would be able to find out and have Kurama stop her if it was necessary.
As the two walked on Hiei's sensitive ears picked up the sound of her releasing attacks and sensed her releasing an amount of energy; more then would normally be needed to make a simple attack.
Then again he wasn't close enough to tell what kind ok attack she had done. But as far as he knew she had not learned to mask her own energy; something that one-day could lead to her downfall.
"Has she learned to mask her energy at all?" Hiei finally asked looking at Kurama again.
"Not at all." He looked at Hiei. "I know it's something that needs to be learned but when I offered to help she refused it."
"She's stubborn she'll never learn anything if she turns everyone away." Hiei explained looking back ahead of them.
"Hiei can I tell you something?" He didn't wait for a response he just went on.
"You're acting like when you just met her and you didn't care who, or what she was and whether she lived or died."
Hiei faltered with the statement for a moment finding the right words and realizing that Kurama was right.
"I try not to live in the past; what's done is done."
"Yes you try but you fail miserably and you have never lived by that." Kurama said. To Hiei it seemed like every time he put up a wall Kurama would just tear it down with his words.
They entered the place next to were Ash trained.
They decided it would be best to let Hiei examine her abilities and have Kurama wait in the dense area until after so Ash was at her usual and wouldn't stop for a disruption.
Hiei walked out to were she was and started his examination, explaining her odd movements more closely for Kurama who mentally noted on it all.
"She's not holding back at all, if anything she's pressing herself to and beyond her normal limits. It's all coming from aggression towards something."
Kurama had to mentally slap himself to keep from laughing; Hiei really couldn't see it.
'Maybe towards you?' Hiei glared in his direction and looked back at her as a stream of fire flowed from her outstretched hands.
Stopping them suddenly she slapped her hands together and pushed do hard her fingers were white. "Hn, I knew it."
'What?'
(Just so you know here is were you find out how Ash is unstable.)
Hiei thought, "How can I put this in a way your fox/human mind will understand?" Hiei quickly probed Kurama's thoughts and found the perfect way example.
(If this is wrong I'm sorry I sleep during science and didn't exactly memorize a lot of this information!)
"It's like a series circuit. When it's unconnected energy flows out unable to stop it pr control it. That's Ash when her hands aren't together." He paused.
"When they are together the circuit is connected again and energy flows threw out it."
'So you're saying energy is running threw her without control?' Kurama mentally asked.
"Exactly that is how she is unstable. Unlike most demons fire demons bear two types of energy. One for power and one just from the fire it is a lot more to control then just having one."
"If this is left the way it is she will surly die from it but there is no way of telling when it all depends on how strong her energy is at it's core." This was the new issue for the two to control.
'I never realized fire demons were so complex to understand. So what are we going to do about it?'
Hiei either didn't hear him somehow or was trying to figure that out himself.
"Fine, I'll contact her tonight." He started to walk away Kurama silently followed still telepathically asking, 'Why are you so hesitant about contacting her?'
"I don't know." Kurama looked down at his small friend deciding he wouldn't press for an answer.
A/N: Ok I'm leaving it there so the next chapter can be about him contacting her and stuff like that. Please review!
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