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Chapter 12: The awakening
(In Kila's dream/nightmare/wherever she is)
Kila was looking at a scene from her past. When she first moved in with her brother, Kuroi.
"Let me go, jerk!" The younger Kila yelled as she tried to get away from her brother's grasp. He only jerked her into his room and threw her into the wall.
"Shut up, you useless btch!" Kuroi yelled, hitting Kila across the face. (The present time Kila (The one that has bishies) will be referred to as older Kila. Younger is just Kila.)
Kuroi smacked Kila around a little bit, getting a bit bruised himself, then shoved her onto the bed and ....... (I'm not going to tell you, but the first person to get it right gets a cookie or pocky! Whichever one I feel like giving out at the moment.)
Older Kila closed her eyes tightly and looked away from the horrid scene, her younger self's screams penetrating the darkness around her. Older Kila sobbed into her hands, not daring to look at the "screen" again.
(Outside the dream)
Hiei was sitting next to Kila, the tear gem on a necklace that he had put over her head, when she started to cry softly. He wiped away her tears and looked at his younger sister. 'If she dies, what will I do? I would have nothing here now. Wait. Yes, I do. I have to fight Kuroi, whether Kila is alive or not. I would owe her that much,' Hiei thought to himself. 'I'm gonna go train.'
He flickered out the window and went to see if anyone was still awake. He found that almost everyone was awake. He sat down and watched as, one by one, the sad companions walked to their rooms. Jess was the last one up.
"Hey, Hiei?" She asked softly, looking over at him.
"Hn?"
"What will we do if Kila dies?" Jess asked, trying not to cry.
"We'll just have to defeat Kuroi. That is what she lives for now. To get her revenge and "save the world" from Kuroi. We would owe that much to her, at least," Hiei said, not looking at the sad trainer. "You should get to bed."
Jess nodded and went to sleep. Hiei sat on the chair all night, on guard for anything, any sign of life from his sister's half of their link. There was nothing. Finally, he drifted off to sleep.
(One week after Kila's accident. She has not awoken yet.)
As everyone was walking around, in one big group, Yuko suddenly got a good idea.
"Hey, how 'bout we go check and see if there is any gym or something around here. I dunno about you guys, but I want to keep my skills up! And bet some money!" Yuko said, looking around at the group.
Most everyone nodded. The only person that didn't was Danny, who wandered off, saying that he "Have some business to attend to." Everyone shrugged off his absence, though. He did that all the time. Wander off for a couple of hours, then come back and fall asleep.
They found a gym and Maria went first, trying out the Inu-Yasha that she had gotten from Sarana. Sarana hadn't wanted anything, saying that she would prefer to catch her bishies.
After the fight (I'm not that good at fight scenes, trust me!) everyone went outside for a little bit and saw that the gym leader was following them.
"Yeah?" Jade asked, turning around. "Didja want something?"
"Actually, yes. I thought that you might have been the companions of one Kila Maho," the girl said. Everyone stiffened.
"So what if we are?" Yuko asked, her foot sliding back a bit.
"I just wanted to know how she's doing," The girl said, holding her hands up in defense. "My friend happens to be the nurse that looks after Kila, and I haven't heard from her in a while. All I knew was that she was traveling with a group that matches your description. My name is Kat Ice."
Now that they got a good look at Kat, they noticed that she had long, braided silver hair, was wearing a white silver-trimmed Chinese outfit, and had stunning silver/blue eyes.
"I'm Sarana, and this is Narina, Jade, Maria, Jess, Yuko, and Danny isn't here right now, but he's the only boy in the group that isn't a bishie," Sarana said, extending her hand. "Pleased to meet you."
Kat shook hands then repeated the question. "How's Kila doing?"
"We don't know," Jade answered.
"All we know is that she hasn't improved, but she hasn't gotten any worse," Narina said, looking at the ground. Her newest bishie, Kurama, comforted her.
"I see. Well, I suppose I'll see you around sometime! Come visit if you ever want a match!" Kat said as she trotted off.
"You know, Kila's really starting to worry me now," Maria said, looking around at the others. "And that doesn't happen very often."
"Yeah, I'm really worried about her," Sarana said.
"So am I, but I wouldn't say that in front of her if my life depended on it!" Yuko said.
"Why?" Jess asked, looking up from where she had been looking. (CoughLegolascough)
"Because she'd kill me if I did, so, either way, I'd lose my life," Yuko said.
"Oh! I just remembered! I gotta go do something really quick, okay?" Jess said before dashing off. She went back to her house (The one that she shares with Danny, remember?) and going into her room. There, she picked up her baby, that had slightly pointed ears, and put all the information and such that she and Danny had gotten onto disks that she put in her backpack. She then ran out of the house and back to the others that were, by now, almost to the hotel.
"What took ya?" Yusuke asked, looking at Jess. It was then that he noticed that she was carrying the baby. "Hey, who's the kid?"
"The "kid", Yusuke, is me baby." Jess looked around at everyone; they were all staring at her in shock. "WHAT?! I am 21, after all!"
Yusuke sighed and shook his head while the others smiled slightly. Jess's Legolas came out and smiled at her, then glared around at everyone else. They backed away slightly.
Hiei chuckled. Everything was back to normal, except..... 'Kila...' Hiei let his thoughts wander to his sister. 'When are you going to wake up?'
Yusuke noticed that Hiei was spacing out and pulled him off to the side. "Hey, you okay?" Yusuke asked. Hiei glared at him. "I mean, your sister hasn't woken up yet or anything, and I think that you miss her, even if you'll never admit it."
Hiei looked away and nodded slightly. Just then, Yuko called, "Hey, guys! Do ya want dinner or not?!"
Yusuke immediately raced towards them and Hiei followed him, chuckling. 'Yep, everything is almost the same now...'
After they ate dinner (An early dinner 'cause they are gonna go do somethin') they went outside and left Hiei and Rei in the hotel. After all, they were going to go exploring for a little bit. (I think 3 miles or something like that is the limit. I'm not sure.) Yusuke and Inu-Yasha led them into a grove of trees, Kurama following silently. They came to a small clearing and got out their weapons.
The trainers got out all their bishies and started to train to get their minds off of the events of the past week. Danny was with them now, helping here and there, but generally just staying in a tree and watching them. Sarana, Jade, Maria, and Narina all practiced with the knives and such that they had gotten earlier and forgotten. Sarana had borrowed Kila's sword as well.
(With Kuroi)
Kuroi was rather ticked off. He had been feeling rather sluggish lately and he suspected that his sister had something to do with it. He now had four bishies: Kitiara, Raistlin (Black-robed, for those of you that care), Karasu, and younger Toguro.
Kuroi grinned evilly from his spot on Skie, Kitiara's blue dragon. His other bishies were either in their ball, studying spellbooks, (CoughRaistlincough) or in their ball with nothing to do, extremely bored.
"So, Kuroi, what do you want to do?" Kitiara asked, looking over her shoulder.
"I think we should train a little bit, don't you?" Kuroi said. "It would be to our advantage to have another spellcaster in our ranks. Not that Raistlin isn't good, but I think that we may need another."
"Alright. Let's find a nice, secluded spot so that you don't hit anything if you miss." Kit grinned over her shoulder at her trainer, to see him fuming. "IT was only a joke!" She complained as he hit her over the head.
"Oh, shut up and drive," Kuroi said irritably. He glared at the back of Kit's head, wishing that he wasn't so bad at aiming sometimes.
(In Kila's dream)
Kila watched as her dream self—in demon form—grinned at Kuroi, a fanged grin.
"So, Kuroi, I see that you have survived thus far. But no farther shall you live, brother!" Kila's demon form said. "For I shall kill you here, tonight, and you shall not kill me!"
"Yeah right! In your dreams!" Kuroi shouted back. "Now, let's just finish this."
"I quite agree, brother. One blast, all out, everything or nothing. What do you say?" Dream Kila asked, her fangs protruding over her lower lip.
"Alright. The strongest one lives...and wins!" Kuroi said as he started chanting. Soon, an ice-blue orb was in his hands.
Dream Kila did the same thing, only with spirit energy, not magic. Soon, the two orbs—fire and ice—were bigger than the wielder. Kila opened her eyes and saw that Kuroi's were open as well.
'Okay, here goes nothing!' Dream Kila thought. "3...2...1...ATTACK!!" She screamed.
"ICE SPHERE!!!" Kuroi yelled, launching his orb at Kila.
"FIREBALL!!" Kila screamed as she, too, launched her orb at her brother. The two orbs met in the middle and fought against each other. Kila pressed a bit of her own energy twined with her brother's into the orb and watched as it started to advance upon her brother.
Suddenly, both orbs exploded and Kila and Kuroi were both sent reeling backwards, hitting their heads and falling unconscious.
(Out of Kila's dream/with her friends)
"Hey, Hiei, whatcha got there?" Yusuke asked as he saw Hiei buy something.
"Oh, it's nothing," Hiei said, hiding the object in his pocket.
"Kurama, did you see what he got?" Narina asked, looking at her bishie.
"Yes, I did." Kurama smiled, looking over at Hiei.
"Well?? What did he get??" Jade asked.
"I think that that is Hiei's choice to tell you or not," Kurama said, smiling mysteriously.
"Dmn it! KURAMA!!" Yusuke complained.
"Oh, shut up, Detective," Hiei snapped.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever, shorty," Yusuke mumbled, getting hit over the head by Hiei for the "Shorty" remark.
Everyone else laughed. They were on their way home from training. Jade and Maria had stopped at a place that had neat necklaces and had each gotten one. Jade had gotten an amethyst (Sorry if you don't like the color) and Maria had gotten a blood-red stone. (Again, sorry if you don't like the color.) Hiei had looked over there and saw one that caught his eye. A black dragon pendant with ruby eyes and claws and jade teeth. He had gotten it, intending to give it to Kila when she woke up.
Sarana had checked out everything in there and had settled on a small, amber stone set in an emerald. She now wore it around her neck. Narina had gotten a black stone with a purple stone in the middle of the black one. She, too, was wearing hers.
All in all, by the time they got home, all of them were tired and wanted to go to sleep. Hiei was the only one that could not sleep. He felt that something lay ahead. He just did not know what that was. Eventually, he drifted off to sleep.
In the morning, all of the others, except Rei and Hiei, went into the nearby forest to look for bishies. When they didn't find any, they decided to go back and go see if the other two wanted to go to lunch, when they heard a rustling sound in front of them. It was Kat.
"Hey. What are you guys doing here?" Kat asked, looking around at the group.
"We were just exploring and seeing if we could find any bishies," Jade said with a small smile. "Do you wanna come?"
"Sure!" Kat said with a smile. They all went off into the forest again and got lost in there for the next two and a half hours. (Sweatdrop)
(With Hiei and Rei)
"Hey, Hiei?" Rei asked, looking over at his fellow bishie.
"Hn?" Hiei said, looking briefly over at Rei to show that he heard.
"When do you think Kila's gonna wake up?" Rei asked softly, looking around the room, avoiding Hiei's eyes.
"I don't know. I just don't know," Hiei admitted. Rei realized that this must have taken a big effort, since Kila was his sister, after all. Rei nodded and looked out the window. He thought he saw a blur rush past his window, but he quickly shook the thought out of his head.
The Yoko that had just passed the window that Rei was staring out of smirked as he felt Hiei's ki. Hiei he called mentally.
What do you want, Kitsune? Hiei asked, looking over at the window.
I want to know more about your trainer/sister, Yoko said, smirking.
Hiei nodded and went out the window without a word.
"So, I see you found your sister, Hiei," Yoko said, smiling a little bit.
"Yes, I did. Right now, she's over at the—"Hiei started, but was cut off.
"Hospital, yes, I know. I have visited her a few times," Yoko said, smiling slightly. "Sometimes I wonder how she survived those attacks."
"So do I," Hie muttered, but Yoko heard and they both knew it. "So, what is your real purpose for coming here, fox?"
"I merely wished to know more about your trainer before I did something I may regret," was all Yoko said before he sped off into the trees.
At that moment, Yusuke came into the small clearing and found Hiei staring at him with an odd expression.
"Hey, guys! I found Hiei!" Yusuke called over his shoulder.
The others came into the clearing and, with most of the bishies away, they all fit. Barely, however.
"Hn. What is that supposed to mean, Detective?" Hiei asked. Then it hit him. "You got lost, didn't you?"
Yusuke looked away, but nodded all the same. Hiei sniggered quietly, looking over at Kurama. "You know you could have just asked Kurama to lead you home, right?"
Everyone was silent and Hiei knew that that meant "No, but we're not gonna admit that!" He sniggered some more and ducked as Yusuke aimed a blow for his head.
"Shut up and lead the way back to the hotel, Hiei," Yusuke growled, glaring at the small fire Koormie. Hiei nodded and led them back to the hotel, where they sat down and let out any new bishies that they might have caught.
Narina had caught a Shippo, Sarana had caught a Sano, and Danny had caught a Tamahome.
"Man, when are we gonna get there?" Tamahome complained.
"Soon," Danny said, looking over his shoulder at his newest bishie. 'Why did I have to catch a Tamahome, of all the bishies it could have been, why Tamahome...?'
Hiei leapt up to the window of the rooms and knocked on the window, waiting for Rei to open it for him.
Later that night, Hiei thought he felt something from Kila's side of the link. So, he tried to contact her. Kila? Kila, are you there?
He was answered with a small groan, then the link being cut off again. He sighed; this was really starting to get to him.
Surprisingly, Tamahome was still up and heard Hiei's sigh. He went into the other room and saw Hiei sitting on the windowsill.
"Hey," Tamahome said softly. "Something bothering you?"
"No," Hiei lied. He knew that Tamahome knew, but he didn't care.
"Okay, am I going to have to make you tell me or what?" Tamahome asked, cracking his knuckles.
"Hn. I doubt you could get that far," Hiei said, amusement clearly in his voice.
"Oh, yeah?" Tamahome challenged. "Let's take this outside."
"A little on the headstrong side, aren't you...?" Hiei asked, looking out the window.
"Well, you're the one that won't tell me anything!" Tamahome said, a little louder than he intended. Hiei winced slightly.
"I have my reasons for not telling you," Hiei said harshly, turning away. "Now go to bed before I have to knock you out."
Tamahome didn't think that Hiei wouldn't do that, but, still... (Curiosity killed the cat, or, in this case, the Tamahome.) Tamahome took a step forward and grabbed Hiei by the shoulder, turning him around so that he could see his eyes.
Hiei growled, his crimson eyes glowing slightly in the darkness. He glared at Tamahome, who took a step back at how dangerous Hiei looked at the moment. He then shook his head, sighed, and walked off, muttering something about, "Stubborn demons."
Hiei fell asleep on the windowsill, holding the dragon pendant in his had tightly. He woke up the next morning to see Kurama looking down at him.
"Good morning, Hiei," Kurama said, smiling at his friend.
"Hn," Hiei replied.
"I think that what you got for Kila is very nice, Hiei," Kurama said. "May I see it?"
Hiei handed it over and watched as Kurama's eyes widened.
"Hiei, did you feel the aura around this before or after you got it?" Kurama asked, looking Hiei directly in the eye.
"After," Hiei said.
"That's what I thought." Kurama examined the necklace carefully, then handed it back to Hiei, saying, "I think you may find that it does something unexpected, Hiei."
Hiei nodded and hid it in his pocket again. At that moment, Yusuke came into the room, being chased by Narina, who was yelling something about, "BAKA HENTAI TEMEE!!"
Kurama sighed and raced after his trainer. She, of course, woke everyone else up, so they were all soon in the living room, doing absolutely nothing.
Then, Hiei felt it. The telltale signs of life and awareness from the other side of the link. His eyes widened and he raced out of the room, closely followed by Kurama and Yusuke.
Hiei ran over to the hospital and opened the window to his sister's room. There she was, yawning and stretching, awake and alive.
Hiei raced over to her and hugged her, smiling happily. Kila blinked, then hugged him back, burying her face into the soft fabric of his cloak. She cried and felt Hiei comfort her. She sighed after a few moments and looked into Hiei's eyes.
"Welcome back, Kila," He said softly before hugging her again. Hiei carried Kila back to the hotel and waited for everyone.
"Hey guys. What did I miss?" Kila asked as she looked around at her staring friends. They all bombarded her and hugged her.
Hiei smiled as he watched his sister try and pry everyone off of her, yelling things like, "Okay, enough with the mushy stuff already!" and "Okay, you can let go now!" and "IF YOU DON'T LET GO OF ME, I WILL SCREAM AT YOU ALL!!" He finally went in there and pulled a few of them off of her.
Kila then sat down, breathing heavily. "Well, so much for a "calm group"," She muttered, glaring around at her friends. "You guys almost suffocated me!"
All the others laughed nervously, then smiled as Kila looked over at them and sighed.
"Oh well," Kila said. "That is to be expected, I s'pose!"
Chapter 12: The awakening
(In Kila's dream/nightmare/wherever she is)
Kila was looking at a scene from her past. When she first moved in with her brother, Kuroi.
"Let me go, jerk!" The younger Kila yelled as she tried to get away from her brother's grasp. He only jerked her into his room and threw her into the wall.
"Shut up, you useless btch!" Kuroi yelled, hitting Kila across the face. (The present time Kila (The one that has bishies) will be referred to as older Kila. Younger is just Kila.)
Kuroi smacked Kila around a little bit, getting a bit bruised himself, then shoved her onto the bed and ....... (I'm not going to tell you, but the first person to get it right gets a cookie or pocky! Whichever one I feel like giving out at the moment.)
Older Kila closed her eyes tightly and looked away from the horrid scene, her younger self's screams penetrating the darkness around her. Older Kila sobbed into her hands, not daring to look at the "screen" again.
(Outside the dream)
Hiei was sitting next to Kila, the tear gem on a necklace that he had put over her head, when she started to cry softly. He wiped away her tears and looked at his younger sister. 'If she dies, what will I do? I would have nothing here now. Wait. Yes, I do. I have to fight Kuroi, whether Kila is alive or not. I would owe her that much,' Hiei thought to himself. 'I'm gonna go train.'
He flickered out the window and went to see if anyone was still awake. He found that almost everyone was awake. He sat down and watched as, one by one, the sad companions walked to their rooms. Jess was the last one up.
"Hey, Hiei?" She asked softly, looking over at him.
"Hn?"
"What will we do if Kila dies?" Jess asked, trying not to cry.
"We'll just have to defeat Kuroi. That is what she lives for now. To get her revenge and "save the world" from Kuroi. We would owe that much to her, at least," Hiei said, not looking at the sad trainer. "You should get to bed."
Jess nodded and went to sleep. Hiei sat on the chair all night, on guard for anything, any sign of life from his sister's half of their link. There was nothing. Finally, he drifted off to sleep.
(One week after Kila's accident. She has not awoken yet.)
As everyone was walking around, in one big group, Yuko suddenly got a good idea.
"Hey, how 'bout we go check and see if there is any gym or something around here. I dunno about you guys, but I want to keep my skills up! And bet some money!" Yuko said, looking around at the group.
Most everyone nodded. The only person that didn't was Danny, who wandered off, saying that he "Have some business to attend to." Everyone shrugged off his absence, though. He did that all the time. Wander off for a couple of hours, then come back and fall asleep.
They found a gym and Maria went first, trying out the Inu-Yasha that she had gotten from Sarana. Sarana hadn't wanted anything, saying that she would prefer to catch her bishies.
After the fight (I'm not that good at fight scenes, trust me!) everyone went outside for a little bit and saw that the gym leader was following them.
"Yeah?" Jade asked, turning around. "Didja want something?"
"Actually, yes. I thought that you might have been the companions of one Kila Maho," the girl said. Everyone stiffened.
"So what if we are?" Yuko asked, her foot sliding back a bit.
"I just wanted to know how she's doing," The girl said, holding her hands up in defense. "My friend happens to be the nurse that looks after Kila, and I haven't heard from her in a while. All I knew was that she was traveling with a group that matches your description. My name is Kat Ice."
Now that they got a good look at Kat, they noticed that she had long, braided silver hair, was wearing a white silver-trimmed Chinese outfit, and had stunning silver/blue eyes.
"I'm Sarana, and this is Narina, Jade, Maria, Jess, Yuko, and Danny isn't here right now, but he's the only boy in the group that isn't a bishie," Sarana said, extending her hand. "Pleased to meet you."
Kat shook hands then repeated the question. "How's Kila doing?"
"We don't know," Jade answered.
"All we know is that she hasn't improved, but she hasn't gotten any worse," Narina said, looking at the ground. Her newest bishie, Kurama, comforted her.
"I see. Well, I suppose I'll see you around sometime! Come visit if you ever want a match!" Kat said as she trotted off.
"You know, Kila's really starting to worry me now," Maria said, looking around at the others. "And that doesn't happen very often."
"Yeah, I'm really worried about her," Sarana said.
"So am I, but I wouldn't say that in front of her if my life depended on it!" Yuko said.
"Why?" Jess asked, looking up from where she had been looking. (CoughLegolascough)
"Because she'd kill me if I did, so, either way, I'd lose my life," Yuko said.
"Oh! I just remembered! I gotta go do something really quick, okay?" Jess said before dashing off. She went back to her house (The one that she shares with Danny, remember?) and going into her room. There, she picked up her baby, that had slightly pointed ears, and put all the information and such that she and Danny had gotten onto disks that she put in her backpack. She then ran out of the house and back to the others that were, by now, almost to the hotel.
"What took ya?" Yusuke asked, looking at Jess. It was then that he noticed that she was carrying the baby. "Hey, who's the kid?"
"The "kid", Yusuke, is me baby." Jess looked around at everyone; they were all staring at her in shock. "WHAT?! I am 21, after all!"
Yusuke sighed and shook his head while the others smiled slightly. Jess's Legolas came out and smiled at her, then glared around at everyone else. They backed away slightly.
Hiei chuckled. Everything was back to normal, except..... 'Kila...' Hiei let his thoughts wander to his sister. 'When are you going to wake up?'
Yusuke noticed that Hiei was spacing out and pulled him off to the side. "Hey, you okay?" Yusuke asked. Hiei glared at him. "I mean, your sister hasn't woken up yet or anything, and I think that you miss her, even if you'll never admit it."
Hiei looked away and nodded slightly. Just then, Yuko called, "Hey, guys! Do ya want dinner or not?!"
Yusuke immediately raced towards them and Hiei followed him, chuckling. 'Yep, everything is almost the same now...'
After they ate dinner (An early dinner 'cause they are gonna go do somethin') they went outside and left Hiei and Rei in the hotel. After all, they were going to go exploring for a little bit. (I think 3 miles or something like that is the limit. I'm not sure.) Yusuke and Inu-Yasha led them into a grove of trees, Kurama following silently. They came to a small clearing and got out their weapons.
The trainers got out all their bishies and started to train to get their minds off of the events of the past week. Danny was with them now, helping here and there, but generally just staying in a tree and watching them. Sarana, Jade, Maria, and Narina all practiced with the knives and such that they had gotten earlier and forgotten. Sarana had borrowed Kila's sword as well.
(With Kuroi)
Kuroi was rather ticked off. He had been feeling rather sluggish lately and he suspected that his sister had something to do with it. He now had four bishies: Kitiara, Raistlin (Black-robed, for those of you that care), Karasu, and younger Toguro.
Kuroi grinned evilly from his spot on Skie, Kitiara's blue dragon. His other bishies were either in their ball, studying spellbooks, (CoughRaistlincough) or in their ball with nothing to do, extremely bored.
"So, Kuroi, what do you want to do?" Kitiara asked, looking over her shoulder.
"I think we should train a little bit, don't you?" Kuroi said. "It would be to our advantage to have another spellcaster in our ranks. Not that Raistlin isn't good, but I think that we may need another."
"Alright. Let's find a nice, secluded spot so that you don't hit anything if you miss." Kit grinned over her shoulder at her trainer, to see him fuming. "IT was only a joke!" She complained as he hit her over the head.
"Oh, shut up and drive," Kuroi said irritably. He glared at the back of Kit's head, wishing that he wasn't so bad at aiming sometimes.
(In Kila's dream)
Kila watched as her dream self—in demon form—grinned at Kuroi, a fanged grin.
"So, Kuroi, I see that you have survived thus far. But no farther shall you live, brother!" Kila's demon form said. "For I shall kill you here, tonight, and you shall not kill me!"
"Yeah right! In your dreams!" Kuroi shouted back. "Now, let's just finish this."
"I quite agree, brother. One blast, all out, everything or nothing. What do you say?" Dream Kila asked, her fangs protruding over her lower lip.
"Alright. The strongest one lives...and wins!" Kuroi said as he started chanting. Soon, an ice-blue orb was in his hands.
Dream Kila did the same thing, only with spirit energy, not magic. Soon, the two orbs—fire and ice—were bigger than the wielder. Kila opened her eyes and saw that Kuroi's were open as well.
'Okay, here goes nothing!' Dream Kila thought. "3...2...1...ATTACK!!" She screamed.
"ICE SPHERE!!!" Kuroi yelled, launching his orb at Kila.
"FIREBALL!!" Kila screamed as she, too, launched her orb at her brother. The two orbs met in the middle and fought against each other. Kila pressed a bit of her own energy twined with her brother's into the orb and watched as it started to advance upon her brother.
Suddenly, both orbs exploded and Kila and Kuroi were both sent reeling backwards, hitting their heads and falling unconscious.
(Out of Kila's dream/with her friends)
"Hey, Hiei, whatcha got there?" Yusuke asked as he saw Hiei buy something.
"Oh, it's nothing," Hiei said, hiding the object in his pocket.
"Kurama, did you see what he got?" Narina asked, looking at her bishie.
"Yes, I did." Kurama smiled, looking over at Hiei.
"Well?? What did he get??" Jade asked.
"I think that that is Hiei's choice to tell you or not," Kurama said, smiling mysteriously.
"Dmn it! KURAMA!!" Yusuke complained.
"Oh, shut up, Detective," Hiei snapped.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever, shorty," Yusuke mumbled, getting hit over the head by Hiei for the "Shorty" remark.
Everyone else laughed. They were on their way home from training. Jade and Maria had stopped at a place that had neat necklaces and had each gotten one. Jade had gotten an amethyst (Sorry if you don't like the color) and Maria had gotten a blood-red stone. (Again, sorry if you don't like the color.) Hiei had looked over there and saw one that caught his eye. A black dragon pendant with ruby eyes and claws and jade teeth. He had gotten it, intending to give it to Kila when she woke up.
Sarana had checked out everything in there and had settled on a small, amber stone set in an emerald. She now wore it around her neck. Narina had gotten a black stone with a purple stone in the middle of the black one. She, too, was wearing hers.
All in all, by the time they got home, all of them were tired and wanted to go to sleep. Hiei was the only one that could not sleep. He felt that something lay ahead. He just did not know what that was. Eventually, he drifted off to sleep.
In the morning, all of the others, except Rei and Hiei, went into the nearby forest to look for bishies. When they didn't find any, they decided to go back and go see if the other two wanted to go to lunch, when they heard a rustling sound in front of them. It was Kat.
"Hey. What are you guys doing here?" Kat asked, looking around at the group.
"We were just exploring and seeing if we could find any bishies," Jade said with a small smile. "Do you wanna come?"
"Sure!" Kat said with a smile. They all went off into the forest again and got lost in there for the next two and a half hours. (Sweatdrop)
(With Hiei and Rei)
"Hey, Hiei?" Rei asked, looking over at his fellow bishie.
"Hn?" Hiei said, looking briefly over at Rei to show that he heard.
"When do you think Kila's gonna wake up?" Rei asked softly, looking around the room, avoiding Hiei's eyes.
"I don't know. I just don't know," Hiei admitted. Rei realized that this must have taken a big effort, since Kila was his sister, after all. Rei nodded and looked out the window. He thought he saw a blur rush past his window, but he quickly shook the thought out of his head.
The Yoko that had just passed the window that Rei was staring out of smirked as he felt Hiei's ki. Hiei he called mentally.
What do you want, Kitsune? Hiei asked, looking over at the window.
I want to know more about your trainer/sister, Yoko said, smirking.
Hiei nodded and went out the window without a word.
"So, I see you found your sister, Hiei," Yoko said, smiling a little bit.
"Yes, I did. Right now, she's over at the—"Hiei started, but was cut off.
"Hospital, yes, I know. I have visited her a few times," Yoko said, smiling slightly. "Sometimes I wonder how she survived those attacks."
"So do I," Hie muttered, but Yoko heard and they both knew it. "So, what is your real purpose for coming here, fox?"
"I merely wished to know more about your trainer before I did something I may regret," was all Yoko said before he sped off into the trees.
At that moment, Yusuke came into the small clearing and found Hiei staring at him with an odd expression.
"Hey, guys! I found Hiei!" Yusuke called over his shoulder.
The others came into the clearing and, with most of the bishies away, they all fit. Barely, however.
"Hn. What is that supposed to mean, Detective?" Hiei asked. Then it hit him. "You got lost, didn't you?"
Yusuke looked away, but nodded all the same. Hiei sniggered quietly, looking over at Kurama. "You know you could have just asked Kurama to lead you home, right?"
Everyone was silent and Hiei knew that that meant "No, but we're not gonna admit that!" He sniggered some more and ducked as Yusuke aimed a blow for his head.
"Shut up and lead the way back to the hotel, Hiei," Yusuke growled, glaring at the small fire Koormie. Hiei nodded and led them back to the hotel, where they sat down and let out any new bishies that they might have caught.
Narina had caught a Shippo, Sarana had caught a Sano, and Danny had caught a Tamahome.
"Man, when are we gonna get there?" Tamahome complained.
"Soon," Danny said, looking over his shoulder at his newest bishie. 'Why did I have to catch a Tamahome, of all the bishies it could have been, why Tamahome...?'
Hiei leapt up to the window of the rooms and knocked on the window, waiting for Rei to open it for him.
Later that night, Hiei thought he felt something from Kila's side of the link. So, he tried to contact her. Kila? Kila, are you there?
He was answered with a small groan, then the link being cut off again. He sighed; this was really starting to get to him.
Surprisingly, Tamahome was still up and heard Hiei's sigh. He went into the other room and saw Hiei sitting on the windowsill.
"Hey," Tamahome said softly. "Something bothering you?"
"No," Hiei lied. He knew that Tamahome knew, but he didn't care.
"Okay, am I going to have to make you tell me or what?" Tamahome asked, cracking his knuckles.
"Hn. I doubt you could get that far," Hiei said, amusement clearly in his voice.
"Oh, yeah?" Tamahome challenged. "Let's take this outside."
"A little on the headstrong side, aren't you...?" Hiei asked, looking out the window.
"Well, you're the one that won't tell me anything!" Tamahome said, a little louder than he intended. Hiei winced slightly.
"I have my reasons for not telling you," Hiei said harshly, turning away. "Now go to bed before I have to knock you out."
Tamahome didn't think that Hiei wouldn't do that, but, still... (Curiosity killed the cat, or, in this case, the Tamahome.) Tamahome took a step forward and grabbed Hiei by the shoulder, turning him around so that he could see his eyes.
Hiei growled, his crimson eyes glowing slightly in the darkness. He glared at Tamahome, who took a step back at how dangerous Hiei looked at the moment. He then shook his head, sighed, and walked off, muttering something about, "Stubborn demons."
Hiei fell asleep on the windowsill, holding the dragon pendant in his had tightly. He woke up the next morning to see Kurama looking down at him.
"Good morning, Hiei," Kurama said, smiling at his friend.
"Hn," Hiei replied.
"I think that what you got for Kila is very nice, Hiei," Kurama said. "May I see it?"
Hiei handed it over and watched as Kurama's eyes widened.
"Hiei, did you feel the aura around this before or after you got it?" Kurama asked, looking Hiei directly in the eye.
"After," Hiei said.
"That's what I thought." Kurama examined the necklace carefully, then handed it back to Hiei, saying, "I think you may find that it does something unexpected, Hiei."
Hiei nodded and hid it in his pocket again. At that moment, Yusuke came into the room, being chased by Narina, who was yelling something about, "BAKA HENTAI TEMEE!!"
Kurama sighed and raced after his trainer. She, of course, woke everyone else up, so they were all soon in the living room, doing absolutely nothing.
Then, Hiei felt it. The telltale signs of life and awareness from the other side of the link. His eyes widened and he raced out of the room, closely followed by Kurama and Yusuke.
Hiei ran over to the hospital and opened the window to his sister's room. There she was, yawning and stretching, awake and alive.
Hiei raced over to her and hugged her, smiling happily. Kila blinked, then hugged him back, burying her face into the soft fabric of his cloak. She cried and felt Hiei comfort her. She sighed after a few moments and looked into Hiei's eyes.
"Welcome back, Kila," He said softly before hugging her again. Hiei carried Kila back to the hotel and waited for everyone.
"Hey guys. What did I miss?" Kila asked as she looked around at her staring friends. They all bombarded her and hugged her.
Hiei smiled as he watched his sister try and pry everyone off of her, yelling things like, "Okay, enough with the mushy stuff already!" and "Okay, you can let go now!" and "IF YOU DON'T LET GO OF ME, I WILL SCREAM AT YOU ALL!!" He finally went in there and pulled a few of them off of her.
Kila then sat down, breathing heavily. "Well, so much for a "calm group"," She muttered, glaring around at her friends. "You guys almost suffocated me!"
All the others laughed nervously, then smiled as Kila looked over at them and sighed.
"Oh well," Kila said. "That is to be expected, I s'pose!"