A/N: Okay so here's the next chapter and the next floor. These chapters are getting harder to write because my fight scenes tend to be…short and all my next four chapters are made up with fight scenes. Well enough of me talking and on with the story.

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Chapter 9: Floor Two

They approached the staircase and traveled upwards for quite some time before Kuwabara stopped and sat down. "Sheesh these stairs seem to go on forever," he muttered as he wiped sweat of his forehead. Yusuke frowned; "You aren't that tired are you?" he questioned, but stopped as he noticed Kuwabara's glare.

"It's not easy carrying Kurama up this flight of stairs y'know. He's pretty heavy despite his slim appearance," said Kuwabara as he glanced over at Kurama. Kurama opened one eye and Kuwabara yelped in surprise. "Why thank you Kuwabara," said Kurama as he stood up wincing slightly. He noticed the cloak that bandaged his wound and smiled turning his attention on Hiei, "And thank you too," he said. Slowly Kurama stood up leaning heavily on the wall. "You okay, Kurama?" asked Yusuke worried, "Kuwabara can still carry you if you like." Kuwabara opened his mouth to protest, but Kurama interrupted him, "I'm fine," he said. The group nodded and everyone continued their trek up the stairs. Finally after ten minutes they reached the second floor. Hiei was the one to open the door and step inside first. The door however closed behind him leaving him alone in the room. "Hiei!" shouted Yusuke pounding on the door with his fists. Hiei narrowed his eyes as he returned his attention back to the room. It was a fairly large sized room and in the middle was a raised platform. Hiei slowly walked towards the platform and stepped inside the ring. Suddenly opposite doorway disappeared with a flash and Hiei turned around to find that the door leading to his friends also disappeared. The temperature in the room dropped below zero, but it really wasn't a problem for Hiei because he was a fire demon and fire demons do not get cold. A figure materialized in the center of the platform, but the snow that was now swirling around the room blocked his vision. "Hiei," the figure muttered. Hiei froze as he heard the voice and chills ran down his spine. "Hiei," the voice whispered again and Hiei's blood ran cold. It couldn't be, but the voice was unmistakable. The snow died down and standing in the middle of the platform was an ice demon. She had long flowing aquamarine hair and sad red eyes. "Hiei," she whispered watching him slowly carefully.

"Yukina?" questioned Hiei as he watched his twin sister approached him slowly, "What are you doing here?" Yukina sighed and looked up at Hiei, "I'm here to fight you!" she said with determination. She launched into a full assault as an ice dagger appeared in her hands. Hiei stepped back watching her with astonish eyes as she came at him. He wasn't fast enough to block the ice dagger as it plunged into his shoulder. Hiei's breath stopped as he watched Yukina, her eyes were full of hatred and loathing. "Yukina…? You're not Yukina!" He said as his eyes narrowed. Hiei pulled out his katana about to strike when Yukina spoke, "Really. Am I not your sister? Am I not the one you watch from afar? Hiei you know it's me you're just too afraid to face the truth," she whispered with deadly coldness. Yukina watched Hiei slowly gauging his reaction which turned from rage to pure confusion. "No," he muttered, "You're not Yukina."

"I'm not Yukina? Are you sure?" whispered a voice in his mind, "You might be making a mistake. What if I am the real Yukina? Will you kill me?" Hiei hesitated, frozen by indecision. Suddenly the snow grew heavier, "Blizzard of Death!" she shouted and soon the whole room was blanketed by a foot of snow. Like mud the snow prevented Hiei from moving fast enough to get out of the way of Yukina's barrage of icicles. They pierced his arms and legs and one went through his stomach. Yukina suddenly appeared out of nowhere standing behind Hiei. She whispered slowly in his ears, "You know I know who you are. You lied to me Hiei…how could you lie to me?" Hiei turned around and was startle to find tears trailing down her face hardening into tears gems. "You really are Yukina," he muttered as he watched the tears gems fall silently to the ground. She looked up at him and slowly she wrapped her arms around her brother. "Why didn't you tell me? I could've ended my quest to search for my brother long ago. Yet you didn't tell me. Instead you say he's dead…it hurts just as much as it hurts you," she says placing a hand over his heart. Tears fell from Hiei's eyes as he watched his sister, "I'm sorry Yukina," he whispered his ruby red eyes filled with heart wrenching pain, "I'm so sorry." Hiei buried his face in Yukina's shoulder and she smirked evilly as she held up a dagger and poised it over Hiei's unprotected back. She lifted it above him and drove it downwards laughing evilly as it went straight through him. Yukina smiled triumphantly before frowning as blood dribbled out of her mouth. She backed away from Hiei and saw his katana plunged straight through her stomach. Hiei watched with hateful eyes as Yukina fell to the ground. Her form started to change and in her place was a long violet haired girl with lavender eyes. "How did you know?" she whispered.

"Your smell wasn't that of Yukina's. She smelt of the lands from where she came, Koorime. You smelt like fire and cinnamon," he said. Tears were still flowing down his cheeks as he watched the shape shifting demon gave a shuddering breath. "Hehehe, I knew the great Hiei wouldn't be fooled. By the way my name is…" she coughed violently and closed her eyes. Hiei watched sadly and bit his lip, "Yeah I know your name is Moeru." Hiei closed his eyes and fell to the ground as his blood stained the once white snow red as the setting sun. "Moeru…" he muttered as he started to remember his long child hood friend.

"Hiei watch this," shouted Moeru as she shape shifted into a flower. Hiei smiled and Moeru returned back to her demon form. She bounded over to Hiei and hugged him. Hiei closed his eyes as he let her scent drown his senses. She smelt of fire and cinnamon…

The doors appeared and Yusuke rammed the door down with his shoulder. Everyone rushed inside to find Hiei lying on the ground his eyes closed. "Hiei!" shouted Yume with alarm. Kurama walked over to Hiei and knelt down beside him checking Hiei's pulse. His eyes clouded over with a dark emotion, "He doesn't have a pulse," he stated. A heavy silence fell on the group and Yume rushed over to Hiei and kneeled beside him. "I-I can heal him," she stated as she watched his blood flowing freely, "I can try…" She placed her hands over him and managed to heal a few of the icicle wounds, but that was all. Yume sighed and collapsed from exhaustion. "Ah, Yume," shouted Yugure rushing over to her and gently putting her head in his lap. Slowly he brushed the bangs out of her face and looked back at Kurama. Kurama turned towards Kuwabara, "Can I have your jacket," he asked slowly. Kuwabara nodded and handed him his blue school jacket. Kurama tore off strips of cloth from Kuwabara's jacket and wrapped them around Hiei's wounds. The flow of crimson blood ebbed slightly and Kurama sighed as he used some of his spirit energy to temporarily hold Hiei's wounds closed. "I can't heal it fully because of my lack of spirit energy so this is the best I can do," Kurama said as he stood up. He swayed slightly before Yusuke steadied him by placing a hand on his shoulder. They slowly saw Hiei's chest rise and fall and Kuwabara sighed as he draped Hiei over his right shoulder, "I guess we should go on now," he said as they all headed towards the opposite door. Everyone nodded and Yugure gently picked Yume up cradling her in his arms. Yusuke opened the door and sighed as he saw more stairs leading upwards. "Great more stairs," he muttered as they started climbing, "Why can't these people put in an elevator?" Yusuke shouted.

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A/N: Okay that was hard…now let's see for whoever is reading this thanks to my sign I will explain a bit about Moeru and her relationship to Hiei. Well anyways she can shape shift into any form she wants after seeing a person. One day she was traveling through a forest and spotted Yukina. She recognized the similarities instantly between Hiei and Yukina because Hiei once told her of his twin sister. Then she was hired by Kura and Kunai to take out the Urameshi team just in case Jishin failed so she waited and Hiei just so happened to be the one that she was going to fight. So she shape shifted into Yukina, of course she was feeling immensely guiltily and stuff, but hey Kura and Kunai promised her that she would be able to see her family after she got separated from them. Of course that's a load of bs and stuff, but she didn't know. Anyways just when she was about to die she was going to tell Hiei her name and how did he recognize her…by her scent of course. Now Moeru is a mixed of fire and ice and is partially a half Koorime and half fire that's how she was able to almost fool Hiei by her tear gems. She's able to use fire and ice and since she was part fire she smelt of fire and cinnamon which explains the scent. So yeah…that's pretty much the basics. Anyways on to the replies!

The Sacred Bovine: I hoped this chapter wasn't too confusing. I really hope it isn't and well if you read my explanation above maybe you will sort of get it. Anyways thanks for all your support and compliments and kindness.

ToCOrNot 77: You're leaving, right, next Friday? I'm going to miss you! Anyways I'll try to get this story finish so then you won't be left in suspense when you leave. Like I said I'll try, but I might get it out because I have about four more chapters till the fight scenes are done. Maybe I'll do like four or five more chapters after that describing Yume's and Yugure's life. Well anyways thanks for all the support!

Dragon Tamer 103088: Well I hoped that this chapter wasn't confusing. I also hoped that To Become a Human wasn't confusing either. I'm really sorry because I couldn't think of a way to end that story so I just thought up of last minute chapter and it came out pretty confusing. I'm thinking of rewriting the story so people can understand what's going on.

emma: This chapter wasn't confusing was it? Please tell me it wasn't? ahem Well enough about that, thanks for the supporting and helpful reviews!