Prisoner of Destiny:
Summary: Sequel to Water and Fire. Now that the elementals rule the three worlds, everything is under their reign- ningens and youkai alike have all been enslaved, even the YYH gang….and Kiya can't do anything about it. Or can she? Alone she will try to uncover the elementals weakness and use it to return the worlds to their rightful state. But…… where's Hiei? HieixOC.
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I'm not worthy! …..of all you wonderful readers, that is. You are all so damn awesome---(oops, excuse the language). Have any of you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Read The Da Vinci Code? They're both so freaking awesome! Anyways, due to a little encouragement from a few readers and my own decision, I have decided to speed up this story a little and this series will be short, just like I told you all in the beginning. You all are going to LOVE me by the end of the next chapter, but for now, I think I'll keep you all squirming.
If any of you saw the supposedly "new" Yu Yu Hakusho episodes, let me just say that I am disappointed. In Cartoon Network, not you guys. They said it was going to be new! But it wasn't! Those……I want to call them a dirty name, but they still provide me with my anime, so I'll keep my big ol' mouth shut. Also, I've just posted another picture on my deviant art page (Blazin Blondie) and it's of Hiei and Kiya together, please go see it!
I am so sorry about taking two whole weeks to get this damn chapter out, I feel so horrible. I deserve to be disowned.
Enjoy.
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Previously:
It wasn't very hard to notice movement in the barren land I used to call Kyoto, and when I looked closer to the source of movement, I nearly fainted.
I inhaled deeply, preparing to call the name of the very familiar people who approached me slowly. One of the people, I had never thought I'd be this happy to see, so I called his name first.
"KUWABARA!"
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Chapter 3: Familiar:
-------------------------KUWABARA'S POV-----------------------------
It had all changed so quickly that I hadn't even realized it at first. The world was soon way different; it was like horror movie material. There's been solemn and quiet people walking around all over the place, and at first when I woke up, I had been alone in a dark alley in the ruins of Kyoto, but then- by some fricken miracle, I met up with Kurama and Shizuru.
That was about a week ago, now I was walking with them both- we were careful to avoid panhandling or any trouble starting youkai. No need to beat the crap out of anyone for no reason.
Suddenly, the sorta-quietness of everything was interrupted by a voice. A very familiar voice.
"KUWABARA!" My head- along with Kurama's and Shizuru's- snapped up immediately to see a very familiar girl running my way. I was so happy to see her; I think I peed in my pants.
"KIYA!"
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"KIYA!" He yelled back.
Without thinking, I stated running towards him and Shizuru and Kurama- who were also with him. "SHIZURU! KURAMA!" I don't think I had ever run so quickly. I looked behind me to the young girl still waiting by the gate. "Lanaria, wait right here," Expecting her to comply, I turned back to my friends and as soon as I got up to the closest one, which was Kurama, I threw my arms around his waist and hugged him harder than I've ever hugged anyone in my entire life.
Kuwabara and Shizuru quickly joined in the hug, smothering me. Behind the mass amounts of hair and clothing, I was able to mumble a few words. "I………thought………you………were….dead…."
"No, no, Kiya. We are very much alive. I'm so relieved that you are okay…" Kurama muttered back.
Reluctantly, I let go of Kurama, then backed away from the group hug. My happiness to see the three of them was beyond words, but there was one thing I needed to know. "Where are the others?"
All three of their expressions dropped. "We don't know. We haven't found them, yet..." said Shizuru.
I looked down at the ground for a moment, thinking- then looked back up at my new-found companions. "Where have you all been staying?"
"Nowhere really. There's nowhere TO stay- everywhere has been destroyed. We've been wandering," answered Kuwabara.
I didn't know what to say at first. But, then an idea struck me. "Have you been by Genkai's temple yet, to see if it survived? Surely, because that place is so close to the ground and because of Genkai's psychic aura, it should still be standing….." I left the sentence hanging.
"We have not yet been able to enter the temple. Many guards are blocking the road we need to travel on to get there. We've tried many times." Answered Kurama.
I cursed beneath my breath. I don't know what the hell the guards are doing blocking a public road, but I know for a fact that they will let me by. After all, my "fellow elementals" are the ones that give them their paychecks-----(if they even get paid…) "Okay, here's what we're going to do. Since you all need a place to stay, I need a place to stay because I really do not want to go back to the manor, and since if the others are out there, the first place they'll go is back to Genkai's temple, I say we should go there."
"Sounds good….but-" Kuwabara looked over my shoulder at something. I followed his gaze to see him looking at the young youkai that stood against the gate, looking at the ground.
"Oh yeah. She's fine- she'll come with us. There's no way in hell I'm letting her stay here by herself….hold on one second…." I turned around to face Lanaria. "Lanaria!" I said loudly so that she'd hear me. Yellow eyes met my silver ones and I motioned for her to come over with a waving of my hand. She looked a little shy at first, but quickly made her way over. "You guys, this is Lanaria. Lanaria, this is Kurama, Kuwabara and Shizuru." As I said they're names, they all either; smiled politely (Kurama), saluted her (Kuwabara) or smiled and nodded (Shizuru). Lanaria bowed respectively.
Kiya smiled. Everything was slowly coming back together in her life. "Alright. Let's go to Genkai's…" Meaning: I can't wait to get out of here-
"Hai," agreed Kurama. Everyone else just nodded and we began walking. I walked in the back next to Shizuru and Lanaria, letting the guys show us the way.
We walked down old torn up streets that were once so familiar to me back in the days when I was "free". Turning a corner, we came up upon a smaller path, blocked by those damn youkai guards Kurama had told me about. I groaned in frustration and began walking more hastily to the guards, walking with my chin high- as if I owned the place.
Which- by some idiotic irony- I kind of did.
The guards immediately tensed at the company coming towards the path they were blocking. But, as soon as they had seen my small stature and blue hair, they immediately fell to one knee, their heads dropped.
"Kiya-kyou-" The one in front began, but I cut him off.
"Why are you blocking this path?" I smirked on the inside by how demanding my voice sounded.
"We were ordered to do so by the other Elementals. No one gets in, no one comes out.."
That meant that Genkai was still in there….
"Get up and move aside." I commanded. I looked back to motion to my friends that everything was okay and they could come through, then turned back to see that the guards had not moved.
"Move!" I shouted, my patience nearly gone. I wanted to be at the temple! Not here trying to deal with these sad excuses for youkai.
"S-sorry, Kiya-kyou," It made me delighted to see the effect I had over these youkai. If it were anyone else fearing me as the youkai was now, though, I don't think I'd be able to stand it. "We have d-direct orders-"
"-From the Elementals!" I finished. "Have you forgotten that I am an elemental!" I swished my long blue hair away from the right side of my face to reveal the blue tear-shaped mark I had next to the right eye. The mark that proved I was an elemental- all the elementals had one, but on different parts of their body. I haven't seen the other's yet- and frankly, I don't care if I ever do.
The youkai struggled with his next words- I had got him there. I could hear my compadres coming up from behind me, but I didn't look at them. I was too focused on my task.
Finally, the youkai in front sighed. "Please do not tell the other Elementals," He, along with the four other youkai standing behind him stood in unison and stepped to the side, clearing the way for our group.
"I won't if you don't." I answered. Looking at all my companions, I smiled. I won!
I quickly made my expression stoic, leered at the guards, then walked past them all. I couldn't help but notice how they all shrank back in fear. I snickered. You still got it, Kiya…
As we were walking in silence, I had the unnerving feeling that someone in the group wanted to say something. "Out with it Kuwabara."
Kuwabara walked next to me and said, "Why didn't you just blast those guys out of the way? Threaten to turn them into water? That would've been more like the Kiya I know, what you just did was not like you----using un-violent ways….."
I sighed, then pointed to the silver headdress still strapped to my forehead. "Two words. Bind. Ing."
I chuckled while Kuwabara mouthed the word binding to himself while counting his fingers.
I smiled broadly and I'm sure my eyes lit up when I saw the long staircase leading to the temple unfold in front of me.
"I never thought I'd be this happy to see that staircase," I mumbled.
As we neared it, the growing desire to fly increased within me. But no, the headdress bound that too. Basically, the only thing I could do power-wise was create an energy orb and manipulate water- and I couldn't even do that well!
"Well, well. I knew you'd all come back- I just want to know what took you so long," came the scruffy voice that belonged to my favorite old hag.
"Genkai!" I yelled out as soon as I saw the old woman emerging from the trees. A small girl, no taller than myself was behind her and I was about to scream out her name, but Kuwabara beat me to it.
"YUKINA!" The short koorime beamed.
"Kazuma! Kiya, Kurama, Shizuru! I'm so glad you all are alright!"
I was about to run over to Genkai and Yukina, but I was stopped by a voice. "What, no hello for me?" I would know that arrogant voice anywhere.
"Yusuke!" I spun around to see Yusuke, Keiko and Koenma (In his teenage form) emerging from the trees. "I'm so glad you all are okay!"
"We could all say the same for you. We were worried we'd never find you...," Started Koenma. His eyes searched the entire crowd of people smiling in the midst of the trees, then returned to me, clearly concerned. "Where's Hiei?"
If anything could make my demeanor drop, it was that. My eyes dropped to the floor and I let out a weak, "I don't know."
It was silent for a moment- I guess everyone was taking in the information. I was hoping that Hiei would be with Genkai, or with the other half of the Rekai Tantei- but he wasn't. No one knew where he was.
"I do," Said a sultry, un-familiar, feminine voice into my head.
"Who-" I realized I had spoken outloud. I averted my eyes when everyone looked to me to find out what I was talking about. I continued the question in my head. 'Who are you?'
"Genkai knows-…. listen…" It said. Confused, I looked to Genkai, who looked as if she had just remembered something.
"Ah, yes Kiya. Something came for you yesterday. I must say its timing was very undesirable- but at least it came."
"Do you mind clarifying? I don't speak 'mysterious psychic',"
Genkai narrowed her eyes at me and said, "Do you know what a familiar is?"
"I'm drawing a blank," I admitted.
"A familiar is a guide- a 'teacher' of sorts in the form of an animal. A familiar can speak to its master telepathically---it's sort of like Puu's and Yusuke's relationship."
"Ah," I said. I had no idea where this conversation was going.
"Yours came here yesterday. She was looking for you-" Genkai would've finished her sentence, but a loud, shrill cry sounded through the air and before I could turn my head to find out what the hell was making that noise, something rather big, but unusually light landed on my shoulder.
I was too scared to turn my head, so I whispered, "What the hell is it….what is on my shoulder?"
"Your familiar, dimwit. Her name is Sasha."
I allowed myself to look at my 'familiar'.
To sum it up, she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
She was a bird, if even that. In actuality, she looked like a mini, blue phoenix. She was about the size of my arm (my elbow to my wrist) and she was staring straight into my eyes with the prettiest blue eyes I had ever seen. Her feathers were a shinning silver except for her flowing blue tail feathers that nearly went to my back, the underside of her wings (blue) and two long hanging feathers on her head that fell to her clawed feet- also blue.
"Wow," everyone but Genkai mouthed at once.
"She's beautiful," murmured Keiko. I nodded in agreement.
I held out my arm in an open invitation for the bird to move so I could look at her without nearly breaking my neck. She accepted the invitation and stepped onto my outstretched arm carefully, trying not to cut my arm with her dangerously long claws.
'Were you the one talking to me?' I asked in my head, not expecting an answer.
"Yes," her beautiful voice drawled in my head.
I was so caught up in the majestic presence of Sasha, that I almost didn't hear Genkai. "She's an elemental phoenix- just as rare as you are, Kiya. She represents water, of course."
Sasha seemed impatient and annoyed that Geknai kept talking. It seemed as if she needed to tell me something important. 'What is it?'
"I know where Hiei is."
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Ah! Finally, I'm done!
Alrighty, by next chapter, you all will worship me- or so I hope. Anyways, here's a joke from the ever-wonderful Jokes Jessy and then a little short thing I've been thinking about all week. Prepare to fall off your computer chairs laughing, lovelies.
Joke! This one shall be rated pg-13 just because of content.
An elderly gentleman went to the local drug store and asked the
pharmacist for Viagra. The pharmacist said, "That's no problem, how many do you
want?" The man answered, "Just a few, maybe 4, but cut each one in 4
pieces." "That won't do you any good," said the pharmacist. "That's all right,"
continues the old man. "I don't need them for sex anymore as I am over
80 years old. I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on
my shoes."
And here's the little insert provided by yours truly.
(This is a BLOOPER by the way)
(The Water and Fire/ Prisoner of Destiny cast just finished a scene)
Kendra: And…..cut! That's a rap, people. Good work today.
Kiya: YES! We get to go home! (Hugs Yusuke because she's so happy)
Yusuke: Uh….
Kiya: (suddenly lets go of Yusuke) Uh, Yusuke…..(pokes one of his pecks) I touched your man boob, sorry…
Yusuke: That's not a man boob. It's a peck……
Kiya: (Pokes it again) ….psh……it's a man boob.
Kendra: (goes over to see what Kiya's saying) What's going on?
Kiya: Kendra, would you say these.. (Pokes both of Yusukes …..cough…..bosoms…)..were man boobs or pecks?
Kendra: Hm…. (Leans in) Man boobs, definitely.
Yusuke: (stumbles backward) WHAT!
Kendra: (sees his "man boobs" while he stumbles back) Oh, Yeah. They're man boobs. Damn Yusuke, you need a bra.
Kiya: (smirks) Told you…
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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie
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