Hey everyone! Guess what? I figured out an ending to this story! And you're all going to hate me for it! But if anyone wants anything more of it then you'll have to tell me… I'll explain this more as it gets closer to the end.

Disclaimer: I own YYH! Angry lawyers attack me NO I DON'T I OWN NOTHING! … Well I do own my friend Tiff, and most of my friends… but other then that I don't own anything

Chapter 20: In search for power…

The hour was nearly seven in the morning; the sun was steadily rising over the trees and the nearby city. Hiei slept quite lightly in his tree when the morning sun lit the forest floor and his perch on a high branch.

His eyes opened slowly surveying the area, when all was assured safe he flitted to the main house up at the temple. He remembered Yusuke and Kuwabara had come over and apparently stayed the night there.

"Fox." He said after making his way to Kurama's room. "Nani?" He asked in a very drowsy tone not moving from his place.

"It's morning."

"Okay." He then turned away from the fire demon.

"Kurama you said we could leave in the morning, let's go!" He ordered his tone becoming deadly. "Fine go get Yusuke and Kuwabara up." Hiei huffed a bit but walked out of the room and down the hall to where Yusuke and Kuwabara slept.

"Get up baka's!" He called, nothing happened. Patience was running thin with him this morning and he wasn't about to repeat himself; especially not to them.

Flaring his energy he touched each mattress and instantly a flame shot forth beginning to burn the beds; it was Yusuke who woke up first.

"What the… oh my god Hiei!" He screamed as he jumped up when he saw the flame and Hiei. "Shut up Yusuke!" Kuwabara said turning over.

"You idiot!" Yusuke shouted kicking the oaf out of his bed then glaring over at Hiei. "What the hell was that for?"

"I told you to get up." He said heading for the door 'just be glad I didn't burn your bodies.' "We're leaving." He exited out of the room and down the hall where Kurama stood near the front door.

"I sense her… even now. The sense of hatred is filling her." Hiei stated suddenly looking blankly at the door. "Can you sense anything for Kianna?"

Hiei was quiet for a moment, "pain fills her a lot more then her longing does." Now it was Kurama's turn to be silent.

"Hiei go ahead of us and go to the castle, from there I can't say what you do. The others and myself will follow you shortly." He explained holding the door open and offering his fire demon friend a smile.

"Fine." He was gone with that said.

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Ash sat on the side of the training stage. A gasp and a appalled look crossed her face as she witnessed the blood fall. Ryu stood stilled in place the energy radiating off of his body.

The body of a helpless man fell to a bloody death. This was the twenty-forth murder she had been forced to witness that night. "It's your turn again." He said turning towards her and moving out of the ring.

She swallowed hard but took her place in the ring as she had been shown. A door opened and a large man brought in a young woman probably only in her early twenties. "Go." He said.

Ash looked down at the crouching and cowering woman on the ground. She looked so helpless and so afraid as she tried to cry silently knowing she was going to die. "Go Ash, her life, it means nothing." 1

She didn't want to do it; it felt like something pulling at her… telling her not to take this innocent woman's life. But on the other side something was forcing her to do it.

She squeezed her eyes shut configured a blade of fire and silenced the woman's tears forever. She opened her eyes but turned from the sight of the dead corpse.

Ryu walked over. "You have a very innocent soul, a good trait you inherited from your mother." He smiled. "Your love might be the thing that saves you someday."

"How much more of this must I go threw?" She asked her now mismatched gray eyes locking onto his violet ones. "No more." His gaze ventured to a nearby wall. "They're here."

She sensed around the area for any ki signatures and sure enough picked up on Hiei's familiar sense of power. "Hiei."

"Hai."

"What are we going to do?" She asked. He thought about it, there were so many options with so many outcomes… it would be difficult to put them all in perfect sequence. "Nothing."

"What?" His eyes transfixed back on her. "You heard me, nothing. You are Hiei's weakness. Do you not see it?" She was his weakness… "Oh!" She said finally understanding what he meant.

Hiei loved her, at least he used to, even is she fought him she could hurt or even kill him without a large care now, but he wouldn't allow himself to hurt her. "Shinku will stay with you at all times." He explained to her starting to walk out the door.

"What about you?"

"Ash, I cannot decide your future, or tell you what will happen as your mother did." She listened intently to him. "Only you can decide what you will do now."

"What do you mean?" He sighed and turned towards her.

"The reason you felt resistance to killing all those times in because you're mother still lives strong in you even if you cannot feel it."

"The reason you wanted to kill them is because your demon side is fighting for control over you, that's one reason why you're unstable so much."

"If you want to kill him, I won't stop you. And if you want to go with him the same goes." He walked the rest of the way to the door then turned to her again.

"You are so much like your mother and like her I'll stand by you with whatever you choose." He left, Shinku sat quietly only a few feet from Ash. 'What am I going to do?' She thought the locking her eyes on the sitting ice demon.

"What do you think Shinku, what do you think I should do?" The girl was silent. "Hiei is… or used to be your love, we don't know anymore. He hurt you in your time of need is that truly forgivable?"

"Master Ryu wishes to save you from what your unstable power will bring onto you; death."

"You make a good point… well let's go." Shinku stood and followed her out of the room. "Shinku how old are you really?"

"In whose years?"

"Human."

"Around 6 I suppose." She stated staring completely in front of her. 'She's six years old but as mature as someone in their twenties or thirties.' She thought, 'I can only imagine what she went threw that has replaced everything she has… or had.'

A/N: Ending it here because I need to stop to make more chapters to make the story longer (I have a thing about long stories I guess.)

1: I know I said that Ash wanted her name to be called Tuuli and everything but I think it would be confusing for readers to hear Ryu call her Tuuli but I call her Ash in normal P.O.V. So I'm keeping it Ash.