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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As always, I was very pleased when I got home from my mom's house to see how many reviews I got for the last chapter, and I was very pleased that you all found the last chapter humorous. Personally, I was chuckling while writing the tackling part.

Alright, I don't feel like writing much more, I have cramps, you see, so I'm in a foul mood. But not foul enough to keep me from writing for you! Aren't I the coolest? Psh, yeah I wish. Also, I changed the rating for this story to mature, just because of language and some gore that will come later. Perhaps even some sexual moments… Sorry if there's grammar mistakes in this one; I had to hurry to get it out today.

Read on!

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Previously:

I turned to glare at the fire youkai, who in turned grinned back at me. I was so pissed that I clenched my fists…

….and I tackled the bitch.

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Chapter 7: Caught:

Those bastards are so lucky I'm where I am right now, or they would be having a very long and heated discussion with their makers.

But of course, I had to go and tackle Lanaria, and when I was on the ground, punching the hell out of her smug little face, the other Elementals –mostly Aerosaku- took advantage of my distraction to blast me with an energy orb- and thanks to my current state of weakness due to the headband I wore- it easily knocked me out.

So, in my state of unconsciousness, the Elementals tossed both me and Haku down into the dungeons…or I'm guessing that's what happened, considering the dungeons is where I woke up not too long after attacking Lanaria.

"Ugh…my head…." I groaned as I raised my hand to cradle my aching forehead and I attempted to sit up.

"Kiya?" inquired a worried voice, one I knew well.

"Haku?" I called back, noticing how far away his voice sounded. I opened my eyes in an attempt to find where he was, only to be welcomed by an almost devastating darkness. The only source of light in the large room was coming from a torch on the wall; whose flame was slowly dimming.

"Kiya," He called again, his voice getting closer as I sat up straighter. "Where are you?"

"Over here," Not like I could give him a more specific answer.

I narrowed my eyes as a dark figure stumbled from the darkness covering the far corner of the room and try to make its way towards me. "Kiya, where the hell are we?"

"The dungeons…you were unconscious before you could hear what your brother and his little play mates planned to do with us."

"Ah. I should've known. When I left your room I saw Lanaria and the Elementals in the hallways. I hid behind a wall pillar and listened as they told her to go in your room and try to get you to talk about Hiei without making it seem too obvious. Once I was sure they'd left, I was going to go into your room to ambush the little traitor and tell you the truth, but the Elementals came out of nowhere and got me first." Haku sat down in front of me slowly, and I noticed the slight limp in his right leg.

"Listen Haku…I'm sorry I-"

"What are you sorry for?"

"Don't interrupt me; you're lucky I'm even apologizing because this doesn't happen often." I snapped. "I'm sorry for not trusting you. I thought that you were- well, I knew that there was going to be a little Elemental spy and I thought you were it."

Haku sighed and said, "You don't need to apologize-"

"Just take the damn apology; I'm being incredibly nice considering the situation I'm in."

"Okay, kami."

It was then that I decided to look around for an escape route, knowing that I probably wouldn't find one.

I was right; there wasn't a door or window anywhere…which didn't make any sense considering I had to have been thrown in here by somewhere.

"Kiya—do you hear that?" Haku whispered.

I froze, listening to whatever it was that Haku was pointing out.

I soon heard it, the small sound that a cat makes when it's drinking water. It was coming from my right, in the corner of the large, dark room.

"What is that?"

"Shh," I hissed. Okay, so I was being a bit ruder than I should have been to Haku, but I still hadn't forgiven him for almost kissing me at his party and causing all the trouble between me and Hiei. Forgive and forget? - screw that, I hold grudges.

Haku complied and became silent once more as our ears strained to listen to the strange sound.

I looked over to the corner of the room where the sound was coming from, to see that the entire other half of the room was covered in darkness. I stood slowly, careful not to make myself dizzy, then took precautious steps towards the darkness. I could hear Haku's heavy footsteps behind me as we neared the darkness.

I tried to still my uneven breathing. This whole situation sorely reminded me of a bad horror movie: strange noises coming from the dark place, and the dumb ass (being me) following the sound without a second thought and ending up in the stomach of some poorly thought up monster.

It was then that I caught a glimpse of some source of light. As I got closer, I saw that the light seemed to be coming from four horizontal glowing bars, each about 4 feet long and 2 inches wide. Beyond the four red glowing lines, there seemed to be another, very small, room. My heart leapt: if my guessing was right, then the person in that room should be…

I ran to the opening in the wall, no longer caring about my tender head. I stopped inches from the red energy fence to peer inside the dimly lit room to see a figure kneeling on the ground, crouching over something. The slurping sound was coming from the figure—who I recognized immediately.

"Hiei…" no way…it couldn't really be him. After weeks of searching- who's to say I wasn't imagining this? "HIEI!" I screamed, but he made no sign that he heard me.

"Kiya, stop screaming. I have a headache." I turned to glare at the silver haired teen before quickly turning my attention back to my mate. I made notice that he was moving, his back rising and falling rhythmically – signifying that he was alive.

"Kiya, please. He can't hear you."

"And why the hell not!"

"Because that's a shielded room! This force field," he motioned towards the four red stripes blocking the opening in the wall, "Is keeping everything: sounds, auras and people out. Hiei doesn't even know you're here. The Jagan might, but…" He left the sentence hanging.

So that explained why I couldn't sense his aura as soon as I was put into the basement. I gazed longingly into the small cell as Hiei finally sat up slowly, his back to me, and he ran the back of his arm against his mouth. Unconsciously I placed one of my hands on the highest red stripe, wanting to rest my arm, but as soon as my hand made contact with the force field, a searing pain shot through my entire body and I was shot back through the air about 5 feet before landing ungracefully on the hard ground with a thump. I didn't even have the chance to scream.

"Kiya-you alright!" Haku rushed to my side as I sat up slowly, my head swimming with dizziness.

"Kuso-" I swore beneath my breath before I stood up slowly. "The hell?"

"I tried telling you…"

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Bang. Bang. Bang.

Bang…….Bang……

Bangbangbangbangba-

"KIYA! Geez, you're going to go brain dead!"

I stopped, resting my head against the cold wall. "Yeah well what else am I supposed to do?" I resumed to my time consuming activity of repeatedly banging my head on the wall.

Bang…..Bang…..Ba-clink..

I blinked as I felt something across my forehead snap and heard it fall to the ground in metal pieces. Looking down, I saw that what had broken was my silver binding head band.

"You're kidding. All I had to do to get that damn thing off was bang my head on a wall?" I scoffed, bending down to pick up the pieces while rubbing my forehead with the other hand.

"What is that?" Haku came up behind me. "Oh, that thing. Did that just fall off?"

"Yeah it did…" I stared at the pieces for a moment before tipping my hand and letting them fall to the floor. "How are we going to get Hiei out?"

"I've been thinking about that. My brother used this sort of holding cell for our mother before he killed her and I remember him pressing a button to make it go away…..I don't see any buttons."

I sighed. Hiei was so close, but I couldn't get to him—and it was about to make me burst!

"Hey Haku, you know what you said about the Elemental Sphere…How do I destroy it?"

Haku seemed hesitant to speak. "You know what'll happen if you do destroy it.."

"Yes I know, but I don't care right now." I looked over at Hiei. "Just as long as everyone I love will be okay…"

Haku sighed. "All the book said was; to destroy the Sphere, the Elemental wishing to reverse the ritual will have to gather a being of each element excluding their own and once they're all together, they will place their right hands on the sphere at exactly the same time. Everything will go back to normal and no one without rei or youkai energy will remember anything."

"And the Elementals will be dead." I finished for him.

"Yeah," He said bleakly.

I nodded, looking at Hiei as he slowly began to stand. I rushed over to the opening in the wall, careful not to touch the barrier, again. I watched closely as Hiei staggered to his feet, placing a hand on the wall for balance.

"Kiya…." I heard him say in a hoarse voice, barely loud enough for me to hear.

"Hiei," I called back. I saw Hiei stiffen and watched in wonder as Hiei slowly turned around, his crimson eyes that I had missed so much scanning the empty part of the wall where he could only see stone due to an illusion…

…but that isn't what I had my eyes on. I was looking straight at Hiei's open Jagan eye, its bright purple aura glowing as it stared right at me. Hiei's eyes weren't far behind, so soon all three eyes were staring straight into mine.

"Hiei," I said again, quieter as he sauntered weakly closer to the barrier, his eyes narrowing as he looked me over.

"Through his Jagan, Hiei is able to see past the barrier." Haku muttered from behind me. "Oh my Kami! I think I see it!" he suddenly yelled.

"See what?" I snapped without looking away from Hiei. We continued to stare at each other, not knowing what to do or say. I thought I saw Hiei's fists tighten just a tiny bit.

"The button to remove the barrier! Hiei was standing in front of it before. Look, its behind him up on the ceiling." I looked quickly, immediately seeing a small blue button up on the roof of the ceiling. It was much too high for Hiei to reach unless he jumped, and he didn't have the strength for that at the moment.

"I think they're mocking us: placing the button to unlock the door inside the cell." Haku muttered.

I swore beneath my breath. How the hell were we supposed to push that damn thing? It was then that I looked at the floor of Hiei's cell, contemplating something. If my headdress was now off, and I could control my powers…..and since there was water on the floor of his cell….

I looked back into Hiei's eyes, smirking. I'm going to get you out, Hiei.

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Sasha, Kiya's beautiful familiar, suddenly started squawking very loudly, startling everyone in the room.

"What is it, Sasha?" Inquired Keiko as she scooted closer to investigate the bird. The Elemental Pheonix took Keiko's closeness as an open invitation for what she needed to do. Sasha placed her silver beak on Keikos forehead and Keiko immediately went limp, but stood standing.

"Hey what the hell!" Yelled Yusuke as he ran to Keiko.

"Yusuke, do not touch Keiko or Sasha." Warned Kurama as he stepped foreward.

"Why not? What did the stupid discolored bird do to Keiko?"

"I advise you to watch your tongue, Yusuke or I'll bit it right out of your head." Came the low voice that once belonged to Keiko. Everyone looked to Keiko to see her crouched in front of Sasha, who's beak was still against her forehead.

Yusuke shut up and he, along with everyone else in the room watched as Sasha replayed her message through Keiko.

"I no longer have any connection to Kiya. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I do know that in the last moments I had contact with her, she was knocked unconscious. Obviously, things do not bode well and I suggest an immediate rescue." It was clear how concerned the familiar was for her master. With her message passed along, Sasha removed her beak from Keiko's forehead and Keiko's brown eyes blinked once before she straightened up.

"That was…weird."

"Indeed." Kurama mumbled, his mind lost in thought. If what Sasha said was true- which he didn't doubt that it was- then they would have to act quickly in order to retrieve Kiya before she got either hurt or killed…not to mention they had to somehow also find Hiei in the process…

….but how?

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"Haku, you said that these barriers keep auras out. Do they also keep powers from passing through them?"

"Hai, all youkai and rei power is not able to pass through."

I looked back at him as if he'd just missed something painfully obvious. He seemed to catch on. "But…I don't think the barrier blocks Elemental energy…" Good boy, he caught on quickly.

I turned back to the opening in the wall, where Hiei still stood. If this worked, as I hoped it would, then Hiei would be out of that damn cell momentarily.

"Hiei, I'm going to need you to move to the side." I said out loud, knowing that with his Jagan, he could hear me.

Hiei complied, his scarred face stoic as always. He stepped to the side, leaning against the wall weakly. I was almost overflowing with my haste to get Hiei out of there and feel his touch again.

Alright, Kiya, concentrate. Thanks to not being able to use my powers for a while, I guessed that my skills would be a bit rusty. I concentrated on the small stream of water flowing into the room from a hole on in the wall. The only power in existence that can stop water from flowing with gravity is my own… I reminded myself, trying to give my confidence a head start.

I held out my right hand, careful not to touch the barrier, and spread my fingers so that my wide open palm was directly facing the stream. I furrowed my brows as I dug deep into my consciousness to find that familiar blue orb that I used for all my Elemental purposes.

Once finding it, I tapped into it like Genkai taught me to and focused its energy into my palm. Almost immediately, I saw the small stream of water begin to rise. Hiei turned to watch the water as it slithered up the wall in a snake-like motion. I concentrated on not letting the water fall as my mind slowly pushed it further up the wall towards the button on the ceiling.

My fingers twitched with my concentration as I inched the water up the wall, coaxing it in my mind to not fall…

…then I lost concentration as my eyes unwillingly shifted to Hiei and the water immediately fell.

"Damnit!" I hissed. Hiei turned to look at me.

"Concentrate, Kiya." I heard Hiei's smooth voice in my head. It was so unsuspected, it startled me.

Hiei?

"Concentrate," He repeated, staring into my eyes intently. By the hungry look in his eyes, I got the feeling that as soon as I got him out of there, he was going to glomp me right in front of Haku. Either that or I'd glomp him.

Either way, it worked out.

I tore my gaze away from Hiei's to focus once again on the now splattered trail of water on the cell ground. Using my powers, I gathered all the water into one rounded puddle and made it once again begin its journey up the wall.

Since I was no longer unfamiliar with my powers, I was able to move the water a little quicker, no longer having to make the side-to-side snake motions. I felt a bead of sweat roll down my brow as the rolling ball of water reached the ceiling.

"Now to push the button…" I muttered to myself, not losing my concentration as I focused on pulling the water's molecules closer together to make the ball a bit more solid.

I watched as the water's color darkened into a deeper blue color as the ball became smaller and more firm. Once positive that the water was as solid as I could get it without making it an actual solid, it inched the water across the ceiling and over the button.

Taking a deep breath, I used my powers to have the ball press down on the button ever…so….slightly….

And the button clicked down with a small 'tat' and the barriers separating myself and Hiei disappeared. I finally allowed myself to relax.

Getting up from the wall, Hiei slowly made his way to me, while I could only stand stock still- not being able to believe that he was actually there.

Hiei stopped right in front of me and we stared at each other intensely while Hiei slowly raised his hand to brush his warm fingertips against my cheekbone, as if to see if I were real.

I closed my eyes in bliss while Hiei's hand brushed my face; my cheeks, my forehead, my lips- it wasn't until I felt his hand leave my face that I opened my eyes.

I saw that Hiei's eyes had lost their lively glow and he was wavering slightly.

"Hiei," I was alarmed, and both my hands shot out to hold his upper arms.

"Kiya…….koi…." It was after he had whispered those two words that Hiei's eyes (all three of them) rolled back into his head and closed and he fell limply into me, succeeding in sending both of us to the floor.

"Kiya!" Haku rushed to my side.

"No…..give us a moment…" I muttered, my eyes not leaving Hiei's peaceful face as I removed my body from beneath his and placed him gently on the ground next to me. I sat on my knees next to his unconscious form and gazed at him lovingly.

"Hiei-koi….." You're alright. Thank Kami-sama, you're alright…

…now we can go maul those Elementals…

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Yes, I am terribly evil, I know. 'Tis a cliffhanger- sort of. Don't worry, we will get to the Hiei and Kiya kicking the Elemental's asses soon---maybe. Anyways, there's only about 4 or 5 more chapters in this story, THE END IS NEAR! Oh my! What will happen?

I'm such a dork.

Anyways, review as always and I will have the next installment uploaded no later than next Tuesday. Oh! I have good news- my living schedule has changed recently and I will soon have more time to update, so I might be able to get in two updates a week- as long as I get lots and lots of super reviews.

Kendra: Hey…..hey Yusuke

Yusuke: What?

Kendra: Guess what?

Yusuke: (sighs) What?

Kendra: (Grins)…..

Yusuke: (Raises eyebrow)………

Kendra: Hey…….hey Yusuke:

Yusuke: WHA- (Gets glomped by Kendra) oof!

Kendra: I like Pop-Tarts!

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Joke (You're lucky you're getting one today, folks. I had to do some digging for this one. Where are you Jokes Jessy? Are you giving me the cold shoulder again?)

Braggadocio

Four guys are drinking in a bar, bragging about their sons.

"My son," the first one says, "started out washing cars at dealership, but now owns the dealership and just gave one of his friends four new cars of his choice!"

"My son," said the second, "started out serving lunch in a real estate office, but now owns the real estate office and just gave one of his friends a new mansion!"

"My son," said the third, "started out sweeping the floors at the Stock Exchange, but now practically owns the Stock Exchange and just gave one of his friends a $1,000,000 in stock."

"Well," the fourth guy said, "my son's turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. He's a gay hairdresser and he has SEVERAL boyfriends. On the plus side, between them, they gave him four cars, a mansion, and a million dollars in stock for his birthday."

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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie

-Honk if you love peace and quiet!