Water and Fire
Summary: There are only four elementals that walk the three worlds. Fire, Water, Earth and Wind. United, they could rule the world. When the YYh gang finds the elemental of Water, they must keep her hidden, so that a horribly powerful prophecy does not become a reality. But what will the other elementals do when they find out that she is being kept from them? Will she and a certain fire apparition become closer than they should be? Read to find out. RATED T FOR LANGUAGE!
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Previously:
"Koenma, you did not tell us which one of the elements she represents." Said Kurama.
Koenma opened his mouth to answer, but someone else did it for him.
"Water." Said a shadow sitting at the windowsill, looking out of the window to nothing in particular.
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Chapter 2:
WITH KIYA
Kiya sat on Kurama's couch, incredibly bored. The guys had been gone for half an hour! What could possibly be taking so long? They just went up to Kurama's room to get something, right?
(A/N ahahah, if only she knew……oops, sorry)
As if on cue; Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara and another guy walked in. The new guy was about Kiya's height with an all black ensemble except for a white scarf around his neck and white headband around his forehead. Her eyes trailed upwards, past his eyes…….Wait….those eyes. Kiya took a closer look and they were…..crimson?
That's odd
The other thing about him that was odd was his hair. It wasn't the black color, or the white starburst running through it, but the way that it almost seemed to really like heights. She swallowed her laugh.
"Hey, what took you guys so long? And who is that?" she asked as they all filled into chairs….except for the mysterious-guy-in-black. He sat on the windowsill, his face carrying no emotions. She guessed he was bored.
"My apologies, Kiya. We were talking about something. And this is Hiei." Said Kurama.
Kiya looked at the guy again, who just acted like he didn't hear anything and continued to stare at the window. 'ooookkk….'
"You never did tell me how you knew my name." she remembered her question from earlier.
'Hn, answer that one, fox.' Kurama heard the familiar monotone voice in his head.
'Koenma will be here in a moment to explain everything. I'll wait till then to tell her.'
Kiya's head thrashed to the side violently when she swore she heard two male voices talking in hushed tones. That caught Hiei's and Kurama's attention. Kurama looked like he was pondering something, and Hiei just looked……Hiei-ish.
Just then, Koenma appeared in the room in a puff of blue smoke and a loud 'POP'
"HOLY HELL!" yelled Kiya as she jumped behind the couch.
Yusuke and Kuwabara screamed as well, a little higher- pitched than Kiya, "KOENMA DON'T DO THAT!" yelled Yusuke, clutching his chest.
Koenma (in his toddler form) ignored Yusuke for the time being and walked up to the couch that Kiya was currently peeking her head over..
"Hello, Kiya."
"…….Yusuke……The baby talked…..."
"I am not a baby! I am Koenma, prince of the Spirit World." He stood with his back straight and his arms behind his back.
Silence.
No more silence, "AAAHHHHH! DEMON CHILD!" ( I heard that in another fic, but I could NOT for the life of me remember which one, so whoever that line belongs to: I am so sorry for not asking you to use the line, and please don't sue me…)
Kurama winced. "Please, Kiya, just listen to what he has to say."
Kiya stopped screaming and looked at the red head. Something about his voice was just so calming. Before she even had a change to start yelling again, Koenma spoke. "Now that that's over, Kiya you might want to sit down."
Kiya rolled her eyes and jumped back onto the couch. She gave him a 'continue' look.
Koenma cleared his throat and began. (A/N You know as well as I do how long it would take to explain everything about Makai, Rekai and Ningenkai, hes already explained about Yusuke and Kuwabara and that Hiei and Kurama are demons, yadda yadda yadda, so I'm just going to skip to the part about the prophecy. He's already explained to her that she is the Elemental of Water and he's explained that there are three other elementals) "There's a prophecy concerning the four elementals that if all four of you should unite, they worlds would be at your feet. We must keep you hidden from the other elementals so that that does not happen." He finished, finally inhaling.
Kiya just stared at him. "…Wouldn't it be a good thing to rule……?.." Koenma didn't let her finish.
"Kami, no! All three world are at balance right now and to throw that off would mean the eventual fall of humanity as we know it! We must not let the other elementals find you!"
"And they're looking for me?"
"We do not know that yet. All we know is that the other three have united already."
"Alright, so what is it that you want me to do?"
"Well, I suppose it would be best if you stayed here in Ningenkai. Yusuke will be letting you stay in his apartment with him and his mother, until I can find you an apartment for yourself, seeing that you don't have any remaining family. If anything….happens, you will move in with an old friend of Yusuke's, named Genkai. Understand?"
"Yeah, but one more question."
"Yes?"
"I don't have to go to school anymore, right, since I'm hiding and all."
"Wrong. You still have to go to school. If the elementals are smart, like they are said to be, they will not try anything….illegal in a highly crowded place. I think the safest places you can be right now is with the Rekai Tantei and at school."
"Damn." She muttered.
"Well, with that, I believe I will bid you all farewell. I have a lot of work to do. Good Bye."
No one had time to say anything back because Koenma was gone with a slightly quieter, 'Pop'
Kiya looked at everyone uncertainly. Her eyes fell upon Yusuke and a smirk crept onto her face. "So I guess you'll be having to put up with me for a while, huh Yusy."
Yusuke glared at her, "Don't call me that, kiddo."
Kiya glared even harder at him, "Then don't call me kiddo."
"Kiya, if you don't mind me interrupting, you seemed to take everything so well….i thought that was kind of odd." Said Kurama. Kiya looked at him.
"Yeah, well, when you spend two years hanging around with people as weird as Yusuke and the moron, you kinda get used to weird things. It's hard to explain, but everything Koenma told me, I felt like I already knew……" She left the sentence hanging.
"Well, that certainly made his job easier." He chuckled back.
Yusuke glanced at Hiei. Kiya followed his eyes and looked at Hiei as well. Kiya, not knowing any better, tried to talk to him. "Hey, you! On the window, You're Hiei, right?"
He didn't even look at her, just replied with an uninterested, "Hn."
Kiya leaned over to Yusuke, "Is that even a word?" she said, barely above a whisper.
"It is if you're Hiei." He whispered back.
Kiya nodded, then did the unthinkable. She walked over to Hiei, who glared at her out of the corner of his eye. She then ( A/N Drum roll, please)(oops, sorry, ill stop interrupting) stuck out her hand, and poked his shoulder. "Hey, can you………AGG!"
She would have finished her question, if it weren't for the fact that as soon as her finger made contact with Hiei's arm, she was being roughly thrown against the wall, a katana blade at her neck, Hiei inches from her face. Her feet weren't even touching the ground.
"Don't. Touch. Me. Onna." He said through gritted teeth.
"Hiei…put her down." Came the warning voice of Kurama behind Hiei.
Hiei gave her a death glare, before taking a step away from her and letting her fall to the ground. She landed on her knees, clutching her throat, thankful it was still intact.
"Hn. Despicable onna." He hissed before disappearing through the window.
Kurama helped Kiya to her feet.
"Is he always such an ass?"
"Yes, I'm afraid so. Although, it is a wonder he didn't harm you." Said Kurama as Kiya glared out the window.
"Gee, that's reassuring."
Yusuke was the first to break the silence. "How about we watch a movie."
"Hey, how come you get to decide what we do, Urameshi?"
"Because I'm smarter and better-looking than you are, therefore, it's my decision." He answered, running a hand through his greasy hair.
"WHAT?"
While Yusuke and Kuwabara continued squabbling at each other, Kurama and Kiya stated a conversation of their own.
"So you've had to put up with these two longer than I have, huh?" asked Kiya. Kurama chuckled.
"Yes, but no matter how annoying they may get, they are a great addition to team Urameshi, although Hiei would say otherwise."
"Yeah, it seems like he doesn't much….appreciate social……-ness." Nice choice of words, retard. She scolded herself.
"Yes, but that's just Hiei." He glanced at the clock on the wall. "Oh, my. My mother will be getting home soon. You all should leave."
"I thought you were a demon? And old. You're mom is still alive?"
He chuckled again, "No, she is the mother of my human form, Suichi."
Kiya understood. "Okay, well I guess ill drag these two out of your house. It was nice to meet you, Kurama."
"It was very nice to meet you as well, Kiya. Have a good evening."
"You too, bye." She called, already having Yusuke and Kuwabara by their ears and being halfway to the door.
Kurama smiled to himself as he closed the door politely after they had gotten outside.
"Ow! Jesus, Kiya, do you have to pull so hard? It'd be kinda nice if I could keep my ear for a couple more years!" whined Kuwabara. Kiya groaned in annoyance and let go of both of their ears, making Kuwabara crash to the ground. Yusuke laughed at him while rubbing his own ear.
"Alright, Kiya and I should get to my house before Atsuko gets home. (A/N I'm pretty sure that's his mom's name)"
"Yeah, you should head back before Shizuru has a cow." Kiya added to Kuwabara.
"Wait……my sister cant have a cow……wouldn't she…..die…?"
Kiya rolled her eyes and smacked him on the back of the head.
"HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
"For being a moron."
Yusuke pulled Kiya away before she could REALLY piss Kuwabara off.
Kuwabara groaned, then stomped off to his house.
While walking back to Yusuke's home, it was silent. Yusuke figured that Kiya was probably thinking about what had just happened and what she had been told, so he stayed quiet.
When they reached Yusuke's apartment, they walked in and Kiya heard a sigh coming from Yusuke. She closed the door behind her and looked at what Yusuke sighed about. Atsuko. She was sprawled on the couch, you know, head off the side, leg hanging over the other side, arms in unimaginable positions. Yep, she was passed out…..again. Kiya had been here enough to know how much Yusuke's mother drank. And how much Yusuke hated it.
He groaned.
"You can sleep here." He pointed to the love seat that was against the wall next to the couch that Yusuke's mom currently occupied.
Kiya nodded and took the blanket from the back of the couch and laid it over her as she laid down.
"G'night, Yusuke."
"Night, Kiya."
With that, the light in the living room shut off and Yusuke disappeared into his room.
Darkness enveloped the small apartment.
But Kiya couldn't sleep. No matter how much she had tried to look like she understood everything that she was told, she still had a hard time grasping the whole concept.
Demons, elementals, spiritual energy, three worlds, domination of those three worlds……jesus Christ (A/N sorry) I mean, really. There was no way this girl was going to get to sleep any time soon.
So Kiya just lay there, trying to process everything while starting to count the spots on the ceiling. It wasn't until hours later, that her eyelids began to drop. She wasn't even aware that she fell asleep. (A/N that can happen)
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Dream:
Kiya sat in silence at the sight before her. It was like watching a movie.
Three people were sitting at a large, round, marble table, their words filled with anger and urgency.
"That foolish spirit prince thinks he can hide her from us? Ha!" said a girl at one end of the table. She looked to be about 34, with green hair to her shoulders and brown eyes.
"They're going to have to try harder if they want to keep her from my all seeing staff!" exclaimed a man from another end. He looked to be about 25, with long white hair and silver eyes. He waved a silver staff proudly in the air. It had what looked like an eye on the end of it.
"She will be ours…when the time is right. For now, we will let them all think she is safe. When her 16th birthday comes around, her powers will make themselves known, and she will not be able to fight the urge to return to us for long." Said the last person. He was a boy, looking to be about 17 with red spiked hair, two longer strands hanging in his face.
They all wore black cloaks with silver signs on the back of it. For the woman with green hair, the sign on her back was an oval, with two lines crossing through it like an 'X' and a spiral around it all. It meant Earth.
The man with the white hair had a sign with a crooked line down the middle with two other wavy lined encircling it. It meant Wind.
The last guy had a sign like a wavy flame on his back, with two dots above the flame and one line encircling it. It meant Fire.
They all laughed menacingly and the boy with red hair turned towards Kiya suddenly. The other two were oblivious to his actions. He stared Kiya right in the eyes, making her shudder.
"You will be mine, Kiya. Together, we will rule everything!"
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Kiya woke with a start.
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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie
Keep on Truckin'!
