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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So, enough of my babbling and no more delay, here is your next chapter! (Consider yourself warned: this is one of those "get- it- out- of- the- way" chapters.) Oh, and happy late Turkey day. (Language warning.)
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Previously:
As soon as I had yelled their names, the Elementals walked gracefully into the room, a stoic look on all of their faces.
"Yes, Kiya my dear?" Jasaro cooed falsely
Don't call me that… I sucked down my disgust and put on an evil grin. "Is it too late to start being the queen I should be?"
Jasaro, along with Terra and Aerosaku grinned triumphantly. "Of course not, Kiya-san." Terra declared. Jasaro inhaled deeply, then came to my side, putting an arm around my shoulders and pushed me along down the hallways towards the throne room.
"I knew you'd soon see it our way,"
I tried my hardest not to gag at the contact between the two of us. Goddamn I hope this goes by quickly. When I get Hiei out, you're the last to die Jasaro. And I swear to you that Hiei and I will both make sure that you die slowly.
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Chapter 5: It's All For Hiei:
Acting is a bitch.
You have no idea how hard it was to just sit there, in between Terra and Jasaro in my dinky little 'throne' and at least try to look like I was enjoying every minute of being the stuck up ruler I was pretending to be.
It really started to suck when Jasaro just had to strike up a conversation.
"So Kiya, what caused your sudden change of heart?"
I inhaled, knowing that this was my time to bring up my acting skills I had gained from a play I was in during the fourth grade. "I realized that it would be a waste of time to live my life trying to hide and keep up this endless game of ignoring my fate. Is that a good enough answer?" I drawled sarcastically. Hey, I'm 'acting' remember? I still need to act like myself if I'm ever going to get them to believe and trust me.
"Yes, it is a perfect answer," answered Jasaro as he placed his hand atop of mine on my armrest. I looked sideways at him and saw a satisfied smirk resting on his features. Trying not to react to hastily, I removed my hand from beneath his by placing it on my lap. When his yellow eyes flew to me in question, I just gave him a defiant glare.
"Just because I decided to side with you does not mean you can start being all touchy with me."
I saw his fist clench and his jaw tighten and saw this as the perfect time to add, "Aw, c'mon. Rejection doesn't hurt that badly." I made sure that my voice was high-pitched and baby-like, just to piss him off.
Acting like this for a while might actually be fun.
"Kiya is right Jasaro, suck it up and be a man." Laughed Terra.
Whoa, did my ears deceive me? Terra, laughing and backing me up? Joking with me? What the hell was going on? You'd expect Terra, being the 30 year old she was, to scold us for our immature arguing, but no- instead she was joking like a teenager.
I tried not to laugh as Jasaro growled in annoyance and snatched his hand back into his lap. "Do not think that just because you joined our side you can start acting like a defiant little child. We are still your superiors and demand your respect."
Whoa, talk about PMSing. One minute he was being all touchy-feely, then the next he was moping like a three year old girl. Oh well, I want going to yell at him- let the baby have its bottle, I say. "Superiors my ass."
"LORDS! LORDS!" Yelled a small flying youkai as he barged into the large room in which the four of us sat. I immediately straightened, getting the feeling that this was important.
"What is it, Yuki?" asked Jasaro impatiently.
"There's a fight starting outside, many ningens are joining."
Terra and Aerosaku groaned. "Can't they just behave?" Terra whined.
"You two stay here, I'll take Kiya to see what it is we do." Said Jasaro. He stood from his throne and began walking towards the door. I followed suit, being careful to keep the scowl off my face from having to follow him around. It's all for Hiei…it's all for Hiei…
Terra scoffed. "I doubt she can handle it,"
"I can handle it better than you, you old hag." I retorted. As I said before, I needed to act like myself to be believable.
I turned back around, still walking after Jasaro when he stopped suddenly and turned back, looking straight at Aerosaku. "Aerosaku, lift the flying binding from Kiya's band. We'll get there faster if we fly."
I watched Aerosaku nod and he grabbed the tall silver staff that rested at his chair-side. He held it out in front of him and stared into the now glowing orb on top of it. I felt the headdress across my forehead begin to glow with a warm essence, and as soon as it had began, it stopped.
Jasaro nodded his thanks, then turned back towards the door. "You do remember how to fly, do you not?"
Instead of giving him an answer, I closed my eyes and focused on the little blue orb in the back of my mind that Genkai had taught me to find. Normally, I wouldn't have to use this method of flying, but I hadn't flown in a while (thanks to some people I will not name. Cough -the elementals- cough) so I really had no choice. I envisioned the orb slowly rising and I could feel my body slowly begin to rise as well. I couldn't help the smile that crept onto my face- I had forgotten how good it felt to float.
I re-opened my eyes to see Jasaro already in the air. I raised my eyebrows in an 'are you going' look and he smirked, turned, and flew out the doors. I was close behind him.
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It turns out that there had been a small brawl outside the manor between two ningen males concerning a loaf of bread one of them had found and they were both fighting to gain the food for their families. They had been fighting pretty hard by the time Jasaro and I got there and I was impressed by the amount of blood was shed by just these ningen's fists.
What I was not impressed by, however, was the way Jasaro broke up the fight. After landing, Jasaro walked straight up to the men and sent a low blow to each of their guts.
"Jasaro! What the hell!" I yelled as I ran over to the two now doubled over men. After inspecting them to make sure neither of them was too seriously hurt, I turned to Jasaro, giving him a death glare.
"This is the way we deal with things now. I would've ordered a guard to do it for me, but I wanted to demonstrate to you how The Elementals run things."
"Well, as one of the Elementals, I disagree with your form of 'government'-" Jasaro looked as if he were going to interrupt, so I quickly continued. "This is not the way these poor people will be treated whether you like it or not…" Whoa Kiya, slow down. You need to gain his trust, remember? You sure as hell won't get it by arguing with him like this. Suck up your pride and compromise if you ever want to see Hiei again.
I sighed, knowing my self-conscious was right. "What I mean is that we should be a bit more organized in our ruling. Let me take over the part of ruling the people- so that you won't have to worry about it."
Jasaro narrowed his eyes at me, staring into my silver orbs. It seemed as if he was searching for the presence of a lie that wasn't there; I really did believe these poor people needed to be treated better. He obviously couldn't find any presence of a lie because he straightened his back and said, "Fine. I don't want to have to deal with these filthy creatures anyway. Come back to the manor in an hour after you get things situated here."
With that, Jasaro turned and flew back into the large building. I turned back to the crowd of ningens and a few youkai and smiled. "Things are going to change."
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As soon as Jasaro reentered the throne room, he saw both Aerosaku and Terra standing.
"What is it?" The Fire Elemental asked his companions once seeing the look of contemplation on their usually stoic faces.
"What if she knows about the Jaganshi?" Asked Terra, getting straight to it.
"She doesn't," Jasaro hissed. He had made sure that Hiei's energy would be blocked from everyone who knew him.
"Yes, but what if she does? What else could explain her sudden surrender?" inquired Aerosaku.
"Did you ever stop to think that her intentions are genuine? That she truly wishes to be at our side and rule?"
"You're being blinded by your infatuation with the girl! Open up your eyes, Jasaro: Kiya is not the kind of girl to just give in! Especially to the people who murdered her parents and had her uncle assassinated." Argued Terra.
Jasaro closed his mouth, thinking. What if what Terra and Aeroskau was saying was true? What if Kiya was only trying to appease them by joining them? It was impossible.
"No. No that is not what is going on. Kiya's demeanor would've faltered by now if she were faking; she would have tried a little too hard and changed her personality hoping that we wouldn't see past her new sweet attitude, trust me. That's what she would have done if her intentions were false."
"Should we relocate him? Just until he dies?"
"No! It's much too risky! We could not afford one of the servants or even Kiya seeing him. We will leave him where he is. Besides, we're not positive if she knows of his existence in the manor."
Terra sighed. "There's no way to be positive-"
"Yes," Aerosaku interrupted, "there is." With a knowing smirk, Aerosaku called out the name of the person who would help them to find out Kiya's intentions from right beneath her little unsuspecting nose.
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I must admit, I felt pretty darn proud of myself. I had just calmed the two men that had been fighting, earned all of the ningen's trust and respect by saying that this would all be over soon and by promising them all better treatment now that I was in charge. I left the village with a smile plastered on my face.
No later than I had stepped through the open front doors of the Elemental's manor, I was being dragged into a dark corner by someone's strong grip on my lower arm.
"What the-" I was silenced by an impatient yet gentle hand strapping itself over my mouth.
My body was pulled back into a tall and warm chest, and a head was dropped so close to my ear, I could feel the person's breath on my shoulder. Who the hell was it?
"Shh, please- don't make a sound, I'm here to help you."
My eyebrows rose. I knew that voice!
"When I turn you around and let go of your mouth, promise me you'll stay quiet..."
I nodded, eager to get this crazy person's hands off of me.
"Alright, remember that you agreed…" The person sighed as they relinquished their hold on me and my mouth and turned me around to face them slowly. I looked up into the person's shadowed face and even though it was dark in that corner, I recognized the person immediately.
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I was going to stop it here, but I guess I might as well add some more- just to celebrate the 100 reviews.
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"Haku?" I screeched, then yelped when his hand flew to my mouth again.
"I said be quiet!" I whispered.
I prepared myself to bite his nasty little hand because there was no way I was going to associate with the same bastard who'd had my uncle murdered.
As if he read my mind, Haku's usually smug expression dropped. "I guess I have a lot of explaining to do,"
I glared and nodded at him, pissed that his filthy hand was still on my mouth.
Haku ignored the fact that he was still silencing me with his hand and began his 'sorry speech'. "First of all, let me just say that killing your uncle had nothing to do with me-" I cut him off with a look of pure hatered. He quickly continued in hushed tones. "Please, please understand that it wasn't my idea, it was my brother, Aerosaku's. He simply had me carry out his plan. I did it only because I had to gain his trust enough for him to allow me into his life after you all had performed the ritual- otherwise my plan would never have worked."
'What plan?' I asked with my eyes.
He sighed, then froze when we both heard two guards passing our dark gap in the wall. I could've made a noise to let them know where I was, and I'm not sure why I didn't. I guess I wanted to hear Haku's sorry little excuse.
When the guards finally passed, chatting about the ningen fight outside earlier, he looked back at me and continued. "Back when I was 5 years old, Aerosaku had our mother murdered out of spite for her kicking him out of the house for using his mind-control powers on our father. I never forgave him for taking my mother from me and I'm here to avenge her death. It's simple as that. So, what I'm going to do is help you gather information about how to dispose of the other Elementals- which will be beneficial to both of us. I can also help you find the one you hold so dear to your heart."
My eyebrows rose yet again, but then fell. Of course, being Aerosaku's right hand man, he must know about the fact that Hiei was under the very floorboards we were standing on.
He paused for a moment, drawing in a deep breath. "I know you probably don't believe me and there's nothing I can do about the except for tell you that what I'm saying is true in every sense of the word… and I hope that you will change your opinion of me. I'll meet you tomorrow in your quarters to share with you what I have found out…And I doubt I need to tell you not to tell anyone of our little meeting." With no more to say, Haku removed his hand from my mouth, took one more pleading look into my wide silver eyes, then disappeared around the corner.
For one pregnant moment, I just stood there, looking at the place where Haku once stood, thinking; What the hell just happened? But of course, I wouldn't be getting an answer to that question any time soon.
Peeking my head out of the small gap between the large wall pillars, I made sure that no one was around to see me exit the highly suspicious corner, and then made my way down the hallway to the large throne room. I had to get back to Genkai's because I just remembered about how I left Lanaria there in my rush to get back here. Heh…oops.
As I pushed the large doors open, I found it ridiculous how I now ruled the world, and yet no one was opening the doors for me. However, no matter how ridiculous I found it, it was also a large relief that I was not being waited on- which was something I loathed.
"There you are Kiya! I was wondering if you'd ever come back." Said Jasaro, grinning as if he knew something I didn't. Deciding not to look too much into his expression, I put on a fake grin.
"Things have been settled outside, and now I feel like going for a walk." I wasn't asking their permission…or so I tried telling myself- I hated asking anyone for permission to do anything, not to mention these three bastards. It's all for Hiei…It's all for Hiei.
"Of course. But, before you go," Jasaro looked to Aerosaku, who merely nodded, looked to me and waved his hand once in the air. I felt a cold chill creep across my forehead that I figured was coming from my headdress.
Oh great, the binds are back…
"That's just for insurance to make sure that you don't 'fly' away. Even if you joined our side, you still need to prove yourself worthy of our trust." Aerosaku said.
"Be back before midnight." Said Jasaro as if he were my father…
…oh wait, he's the one who killed my father.
"How about I'll be back whenever the hell I want to be back?" I shot them all a fake smile, tossed my hair and stomped out of the room, muttering, "Murderers."
As soon as I had left the room, Jasaro turned to smirk at Terra and Aerosaku. "See? She's acting perfectly normal."
"I agree-" Started Aerosaku, but he was cut off by Terra.
"But that's no reason to dismiss our suspicions. Our little spy that we sent after her will confirm or dismiss our accusations and only then may we choose to completely trust her."
Jasaro nodded absently before looking back to the doors his Kiya had just exited through. You will be mine, Kiya. The Jaganshi will be dead soon, so it matters not if you know of his existence. I will not let anything get in my way to you.
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Alright, and so ends another chapter of Prisoner of Destiny! Keep the reviews coming, mis amigos! They make me smile. Also, for those of you who actually care what I draw, I just drew a chibi picture of Hiei behind a bid ol' tub of Ice Cream and am going to be posting it on Deviant Art soon (Screen Name: BlasinBlondie), so check it out because it is hella kawaii!
Anyways, here's a joke from the wonderful Jokes Jessy (who gave me the cold shoulder last chapter because I was slow to update: I'm glad you're not mad at me anymore!)
JOKE
Two women friends had gone for a "girl's night out." They both were very
faithful, loving wives... however, they had gotten a bit over
enthusiastic on Margaritas at the Rio.
Incredibly drunk and walking home, they needed to pee, so they stopped
in a cemetery. One had nothing to wipe with so she decided to take off
her panties and use them. Her friend, however, was wearing expensive
panties and didn't want to ruin them... luckily she had squatted next to
a grave that had a fresh wreath with a ribbon on it... so she proceeded
to wipe with that.
After the girls completed their "business" they continued toward home.
The following day, one of the husbands was concerned that his normally
sweet and innocent wife was still in bed and hung over. He phoned the
other husband, and said "These girls nights out have got to stop! I'm
starting to suspect the worst! My wife came home with no panties!"
"That's nothing!" said the other husband, "mine came back with a card
stuck to her butt that read:
"FROM ALL OF US AT THE FIRE STATION... WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!"
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