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!

Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue

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Previously:

If Hiei was going to do something, he was going to have to do it quickly. He began to untie the bandana around his forehead.

"What are you doing, Hiei?" Demanded Koenma. He was about to go over to him, but Kurama held him by the shoulder.

"Do not interfere. Hiei knows what he is doing."

Koenma looked at Hiei uncertainly, but then nodded. Kurama's gaze returned to Hiei, who was leaning over Kiya, his bandaged arm suspended over her head.

Hiei took one more look into Kiya's empty eyes, then closed his own, willing his Jagan to open. He quickly touched her cold forehead with his fingertips, immediately sending him into her mind.

What he saw shocked him to no extent.

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Chapter 4: "Happy" Birthday

When Hiei entered Kiya's mind, he did not expect to see what he did.

Nothing.

That's right, as soon as Hiei's Jagan allowed him to see into Kiya's mind, he was met by blue lights. He looked around. For as far as he could see, there was a flat plain, all submerged in a dark blue light. His attentions were soon averted to the figure sitting on her knees, her head dropped, long Blue hair flowing over her, almost touching the ground. Her hands were at her side, palms on the ground next to her.

Suddenly, Kiya's head shot up, her still blank silver eyes staring right ahead at a scene playing ahead of her.

Hiei turned his emotionless, crimson gaze to where her dead gaze rested. Right before his eyes, the scenery changed. He was now in a park, accompanied by a young girl who was oblivious to Hiei's presence.

On her back, there was a small purple back pack. She looked to be about 3 years of age. Her short blue hair pulled into two pigtails on each side of her head. In her hand, was a sippy cup full of a white liquid.

Hiei recognized it as the ningen drink called, 'milk.'

The girl walked across the sidewalk, stumbling now and then because of her little legs, but Hiei made no move to catch her if she fell.

The little girl continued down the street until she reached a pretty good-sized house and she walked up to the door. She had to stand on her tip-toes to reach the door knob. She opened it. For a 3 year old, she was pretty capable of doing things on her own. When she walked into the house, Hiei followed, still needing to know more about what was causing Kiya's seizure.

The little girl walked into the hallway, saying, "Momma, Daddy, More milk." She said, waving the now empty sippy cup in her hand.

She walked into another room, Hiei guessed was the living room, because there was a couch against the wall and a TV against the other wall Crimson colored everything.

Wait…..crimson?

Yes, there was a crimson liquid splattered on the walls, it covered the once-white carpet The little Kiya stumbled across the room, slipping on the blood.

"M-momma?"

Hiei was then thrown out of that memory, and quickly pulled into another one. This next one was a vision, he could tell, because the aura of the scenery in front of him was different than the last one.

The real Kiya was now standing, looking around. They were in the same house Hiei was in not too long ago, except for two things.

There was no blood, and there were two people sitting on the couch, watching the TV.

They were the two people from the video. Kiya's parents. Lykia was snuggled under one of Sanku's strong arms.

Hiei looked at Kiya, who looked confused. He could tell that this was the first time she was seeing this.

'CRASH!'

Kiya spun around and Hiei looked over his shoulder. Shattered pieces of a window now lay on the ground, and two demons stand among the glass.

The demons, after seeing Sanku and Lykia, laugh menacingly run over to them and Lykia screams.

"MOM!" Yelled Kiya, trying to go to her parents, but being held back by an invisible wall. Hiei just stood there, watching the scene play in front of him.

The demons each took out a two long blades and started slicing the two figures that were trapped on the couch.

"NO!" Kiya screamed, banging her fists on the invisible wall.

Blood began to fly across the room, the demons, thankfully, blocking Kiya's view of her now mauled parents.

A severed hand suddenly fell from the couch, covered in blood. Kiya suddenly felt nauseated.

She fell to the floor, on her hands and knees, her body jolting. She couldn't finish watching the murder of her beloved parents.

She looked up. And that's when she finally saw Hiei.

"H-hiei?"

Hiei just looked at her, his stoic gaze meeting her confused, hurt and angered one.

"What are you doing here?"

Hiei didn't answer, instead looked back at the two demons, who were now picking up the bloody mess they made and stuffed the severed remains into bags.

A new form then slipped into the scene. He was wearing a long black cloak, with a silver marking on the back. His back was to Kiya and Hiei, but over the raised collar of the cloak, was a very visible head of spiky red hair.

Kiya's eyes shot open.

The cloaked figure turned around to look at Kiya, who he could obviously see. His piercing yellow eyes looking amusedly at her, almost like he was mocking her. Almost like he enjoyed what was happening.

It was him! The fire elemental from her nightmare!

He opened his mouth….and laughed.

Oh, god. It was a menacing laugh. Smooth and velvet, yet deep and cold.

Then, everything went black, and Hiei was thrown back so hard, he got thrown back out of Kiya's mind.

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Everyone in Koenma's office was taken by surprise when suddenly, Hiei flew back away from Kiya and into a nearby wall, making a small hole. He landed on his hands and knees, but got up quickly, growling.

"Hiei, what happened?" asked Kurama.

Hiei growled even louder while walking over to the now awake Kiya, his hands balled into fists. Kurama saw the menacing look in Hiei's eyes, and quickly got up to stand in between Hiei, and Kiya.

"What happened, Hiei?" he repeated.

'She threw me out of her mind.' He hissed telepathically to Kurama, now looking past him at Kiya, who was standing up with the help of Yusuke and Kuwabara, holding her head.

"Yeah, that's only because you didn't belong in there in the first place." Kiya argued.

Hiei stopped dead in his tracks, and Kurama's eyes widened.

"You could hear that, Kiya?" asked Kurama.

"Duh, I'm not deaf."

Kurama glanced at Hiei, who was staring emotionlessly at Kiya.

"Hear what?" asked Kuwabara stupidly.

Everything was silent for a moment, then Kurama spoke. "Nothing, Kuwabara."

Koenma shot a look at Kurama, and Kurama nodded. Koenma then looked at Kiya, his eyes wide.

"Kiya, you wouldn't happen to have a Jagan, would you?"

"What he hell's a Jagid?"

"It's pronounced Jagan, and never mind." Koenma looked over to Kurama and shrugged his shoulders.

Kiya saw this interaction between the two, and said, "This is all too much. Listen, I need some sleep, so I'm going to leave." She walked over to the door, then stopped.

"……how do I get outta here?" she asked.

Koenma summoned a portal and Kiya was already on the other side when she yelled, "You've got the key Yusuke!"

Yusuke groaned and whispered to Kurama, "Im setting up a surprise party for Kiya at a club called Flare tomorrow, tell everyone and be there by 9 o'clock, okay?"

Kurama nodded and Yusuke disappeared into the portal, followed by Kuwabara, who also believed it was time to call it a night.

Kurama told Koenma about the party, then he and Hiei left the toddler's office, ready to go to his house.

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When Kiya and Yusuke got to the Urameshi household, they were met by a very wasted Atsuko.

"BABY! There you are…..(hiccup)" The swaying woman looked at Kiya. "What's she doin herrrreee?"

"She's spending the night, mom."

"Ooooookay, but don't go getting people pregnant, Yuzeeekay."

"MOM!"

Yusuke and Kiya quickly hurried into his room, trying to avoid Atsuko and her beyond wrong comments.

When they were within the safe confinements of Yusuke's room, he closed the door.

"Jeez, is your mom always this perverted when she's drunk?"

"Shut up, Kiya." Said Yusuke, tossing her a pillow and blanket. Kiya found a place to sleep right under the window. She laid down, placed the pillow beneath her head, and covered herself with the large cotton blanket that Yusuke had given her.

"Night."

"Night…..and Yusuke?"

"Yeah?'

"Thanks for the shirt."

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Part 2: October 3

"Hey, loser! Get up!"

A pillow made contact with Kiya's sleeping head.

"What the…….YUSUKE!"

"Uh……heh………good morning?"

"Ugh, What time is it?" Asked Kiya, sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"Noon."

"Oh, ok."

"Guess what."

"What?"

"HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYY!"

"Thanks, Yusuke."

"Hey, get up, I gotta show you something."

Kiya stood, and followed Yusuke as he walked out of his apartment.

"Where are we going?"

"You'll see" a knowing grin appeared on his face. Yusuke went right across the hallway, stopping in front of the neighboring apartment's door.

"We're going to see your neighbor?"

"Sorta."

Yusuke opened the door to the apartment and stepped inside. The apartment was dark, the drapes were obviously drawn. Yusuke closed the door behind Kiya.

"Uh, Yusuke, why are we in your neighbor's apartment?"

Silence.

"Yusuke?"

"SURPRISEEEEE!" The lights flashed on and Kiya saw Yusuke, Kuwabara, Keiko, Rob and Kurama standing in the living room.

"Oh, my god. You guys are so cool!" Kiya hadn't had celebrated a birthday like this in….forever.

She walked over to Keiko and gave her a big hug. Keiko had been like Kiya's sister, always keeping her in line at school. She was one of the coolest people in the world to Kiya, even though they hardly ever hung out.

"Happy Birthday, Kiya."

"Thanks." She looked at Rob and jumped to him, hugging him as well.

"Happy Birthday, kiddo." He laughed as Kiya shot him a glare. She hated being called that, but she figured she'd let it slip because she was in a pretty good mood.

She looked to Kuwabara who was smiling stupidly. "And you, you big oaf! I didn't think you'd remember."

"Of course I did!" he stated proudly, crossing his arms, his nose in the air.

"No you didn't! I had to call you twice today to remind you that it was her birthday!" Yelled Yusuke, making everyone get a sweatdrop.

Kiya's gaze caught Kurama. She walked over to him.

"Hey, Kurama, what are you doing here?"

"Yusuke told me it was your birthday, so I wanted to come. I hope you don't mind."

Kiya smiled wide. "Of course not!"

Kurama smiled back.

Then, Kiya finally remembered about the whole fact that this was Yusuke's neighbors apartment. "Uh, Yusuke, where are your neighbors."

"They're right here!"

"What?"

"It's, uh, sort of a birthday present from Koenma."

"What do you mean?"

"This is your new apartment!"

Kiya stood there shocked. Everyone waited for her response.

"……are you serious?"

"Yup. It's all yours."

"Oh. My. God! I love it!"

Kiya looked around. There was a pretty good-sized TV in the living room, across from a black, leather couch.

"Cable?"

"Yup."

She didn't need to say anything, her look said it all. This was more than she could ask for. For the first time in 13 years, she finally had a home. After all that had happened recently, finding out she was an elemental, learning that she was being pursued by demons and elementals alike, to learn and see how her parents died and to have a certain fire apparition also know how her parents died, the thing she needed most right now was a place of her own.

"Tell Koenma I said thank you sooo much."

"I don't need to tell him, we're gonna see him later anyways."

"Huh?"

"Hey, Kiya," interrupted Keiko, saving Yusuke from having to reveal the other surprise of the day. "For my birthday present, I've decided it would be best to take you clothes shopping!"

"Uh, Keiko, I'm not much of a mall fan."

"Oh, nonsense. Come on." Keiko grabbed her wrist, dragging her out of her new apartment.

Kurama chuckled after they were out the door.

"Are they meeting up with Botan?"

"Yup, Yukina too." Answered Yusuke, looking at Kurama.

"Who?" asked Rob, not knowing what the hell was going on.

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Keiko managed to drag Kiya to the mall, but after much complaining on the elemental's part.

"Keiko! Hi!' said a tall, cheery girl with blue hair up in a ponytail as Keiko and Kiya stepped into the mall. Kiya saw that the girl was wearing a pink t-shirt and shorts.

"Hey Botan." Keiko looked at the girl at Botan's side that was a little shorter than Kiya. "Hey Yukina."

"Hello, Keiko-chan."

"You guys, this is Kiya, Kiya, this is Botan and Yukina."

Kiya smiled uncertainly at the cheery, blue-haired girl and she looked at the shorter girl with turquoise hair and a blue kimono. Her eyes were a deep shade of crimson.

That's odd, I swear I've seen eyes like those somewhere…. Kiya shrugged off the thought, then followed as Keiko and Botan led the way to a store they planned on going into.

Kiya looked up at the store and a muttered, "No way in hell im going in there."

Keiko frowned at her then looked back into 'The Gap.'

"Why not?"

Kiya just scoffed at her and turned around, looking at the other store across the hallway.

She walked into it.

Keiko looked up at the sign of the store, it read, 'Hot Topic.'

She sighed, and summoned Yukina and Botan to follow her.

Kiya's eyes scanned everything in the store and she immediately began pulling clothes off the racks, stopping just long enough to admire a Family Guy hoodie, before grabbing it as well.

Botan, however, was not enjoying her time as much as Kiya. She even 'eep'ed when the store's clerk looked at her. Botan huddled up to Keiko and whispered, "Keiko, this place creeps me out."

Keiko just laughed.

When Kiya was done buying what she needed, and done feeling bad because Keiko had spent money on her, they all walked back to the gap, and Keiko, Botan and Yukina disappeared inside of it. Kiya, however, stayed outside, holding up her fingers in the form of a cross and yelling, "AH! EVIL!"

You can imagine how many weird looks she'd gotten after that, so she quit and sit on the ground, surrounded by her 3 bags of clothing, glaring at the evil store.

Finally, Keiko, Botan and Yukina came out of the store, each carrying 5 or 6 bags in their hands. Kiya glanced at the clock to see that it was 8:00 pm. They had been there for 8 HOURS!

Kiya got up, her legs sore from sitting down for too long, and she said, "We ready to go, guys? It's already 8:00."

"It's already 8:00?" yelled Keiko. She and Botan exchanged worried glances and suddenly grabbed Kiya's arm and started running out of the mall.

Kiya turned to Yukina who was running beside her and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I do not, Kiya-chan."

Keiko pushed them all into her small car and drove off to Yusuke's house. (A/N In my fic, Keiko's 16 and she has a car, okay?)

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Kiya was very confused. She knew something was up, but didn't know what.

Keiko drove to Kiya's house as fast as the speed limit would let her (A/N there's Keiko for you) and as soon as they got there, Botan and Keiko insisted that they all change.

Yukina had changed into another blue kimono, Botan changed into a pink kimono, Keiko dressed in a long skirt and a blouse.

Kiya, however, changed into a pair of faded, tattered jeans and a black and crimson cross-tie, strapless corset. On the front was a skull and cross bones sign. Again, black and ,red this time, bracelets adorned her wrists. On her feet, were her favorite, black combat boots.

"You cant wear THAT!" Keiko shouted, pointing to Kiya's outfit.

"And why not? You haven't even told me why I had to change in the first place….." Kiya thought about something, then a grin appeared on her face. "Either you tell me where we're going, or I stay in this."

Keiko sighed in defeat, knowing that if she told Kiya where they were all going, she'd be in 'trouble.' one, let's go."

On the way out, Kiya grabbed and put on her newly purchased long black coat.

Once in the car, Botan put a black bandana over Kiya's eyes, and Kiya didn't question anything. She already knew what was going on. They were taking her somewhere for a birthday party. The question was: where?

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"They should be here by now," whined Yusuke as he glanced down at his watch. It read 9:05.

As if on cue, Kuwabara shouted, "THERE THEY ARE!" he had to yell to get the attentions of the others at the table over the roar of the club.

Yusuke and Kuwabara waved their arms in the air, signaling to Keiko and Botan where to bring Kiya.

Keiko obviously saw them, because Keiko lead the blindfolded girl, followed by Botan, who kept getting bumped into by drunken dancing people, and Yukina, who stayed close on Keiko's heels.

When they reached the table, Kiya, still blindfolded, yelled, "IT'S LOUD IN HERE!"

Keiko untied the bandana to let Kiya look around. Kiya's face immediately lit up and she looked up at Yusuke. While taking off her long coat and placing it on the chair behind her, she yelled to Yusuke,

"HOW DID YOU KNOW I WANTED TO COME HERE?"

"JUST A GUESS!" he answered back. Kiya looked around at everyone at the table. Yusuke. Keiko. Kuwabara. Yukina. Botan. Her. Unknown brunette male teenager. Unknown brunette female teenager. Kurama. Hiei.

Wait. Hiei? He came?

Kiya guessed it was against his will, because he sat with his arms crossed, glaring at Kurama.

But Kiya didn't have time to care about the gothic-looking boy's feelings, because she wanted to know who the new people were. "Who are they?" she asked Yusuke, not yelling anymore, because she was leaning into his ear.

He responded, "The girl is Shizuru, Kuwabara's sister. And that guy in Koenma."

"That's not Koenma, stupid. Koenma's a baby."

The guy next to Kiya obviously heard her, because he said, "I have two forms, Kiya. This is my teenage form."

She recognized his voice and asked no further questions. Except for one. "Why do you still have that pacifier?"

"I'll tell you later. Right now, we're here to celebrate your birthday."

Kiya smiled, then hugged Koenma, catching him by surprise.

"Thanks for the apartment." She told him what she was hugging him for. He answered with a returned hug and a quick, "You're welcome."

Then, Kiya looked back at the rest of them. "THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME."

Everyone, except Hiei, yelled back a "You're welcome." Or a, "No problem."

Kiya frowned at Hiei, who was still glaring Kurama. She decided to try to talk to him, but she didn't feel like yelling, so she got up to sit by Hiei.

Hiei turned his glare to her. Before he got a chance to insult her or do something along those lines, she said, "You don't have to be here if you don't want to be."

"Hn."

She sighed, giving up. "Whatever." She got up to go back to her seat, unknowing of the pair of crimson eyes following her, then looking away when she sat down.

Unknown to Hiei, Kurama saw him watching Kiya, and he was now smiling to himself behind the glass of water he held to his lips.

Over head, 'All the things she said,' by T.A.T.U. started playing.

"Oh my god, I love this song." Said Kiya to no one in particular.

Besides the fact that she usually hated every kind of music besides rock, she liked techno, and she loved T.A.T.U. (A/N don't own)

While everyone told the waitress what they wanted to drink, Kiya began to sing the lyrics to herself.

"All the things she said, all the things she said,

Running through my head, running through my head……." She was cut off

'CRASH!'

Everyone at the table quickly turned their heads in the direction of the loud sound, to see a wall of the club in ruins on the ground. In the opening created from the now demolished wall, stand three, tall men, all in red cloaks, their heads covered.

People in the club began to scream loudly, all running to the back door in hopes of getting as far away from the three intruders as they could. The music was now no longer playing, the D.J. was already out of the club and somewhere down the street.

Kiya looked around in panic, seeing that none of her friends had made any move to go to the door, but Keiko, Botan, Shizuru and Yukina had began to back up towards the abandoned D.J. stand. They obviously knew what to do in this kind of a situation. Kiya just sat there like an idiot.

"YOUKAI!" Kuwabara yelled over the few screaming people left in the club.

Everyone at the table besides Kiya and Koenma got into a fighting stance.

After everyone had left the club, one of the three hooded figures spoke. "We've come for the girl." His voice was incredibly low and hoarse. He raised one muscular, gloved hand and pointed his finger right at Kiya.

Koenma, after hearing this, looked back at the scared stiff elemental and grabbed her hand, ran with her to behind the D.J. stand, where all the other girls were, and pulled Kiya into a crouching position.

Kiya finally recovered from her state of shock and whispered hoarsely to Koenma, "Who are they?"

"I don't know, shhh."

Kiya peeked over the side of the tall, black table when she heard a yell and a lot of movement to see that the three figures had moved closer to the four guys and that they, had in turn, began attacking. Yusuke and Kuwabara were against one of them, Kuwabara with an orange sword in hand and Yusuke's finger….was glowing…?

Kurama was against another one. Kiya was confused to find that he had a thorny whip as a weapon, and he was assaulting the cloaked figure with it, who was attacking back with a long metal pole.

Hiei and the other cloaked figure, however, were no where to be seen.

"Kiya, look out!" squeaked Botan's voice behind her.

Kiya turned around to see one of the cloaked figures standing right above her. She gasped and tried to backwards crawl away from him, but he merely bent over, and grabbed Kiya by the neck with one hand.

While Kiya was clawing at the man's gloved hand, she looked at the shadow where his face was hidden by the hood. All she could see were menacingly glowing yellow eyes.

"KIYA!" yelled the 4 people who had once shared the shelter of the D.J. stand with her, but were now scattered among the floor, hiding from the evil man in red.

"Hm, you're comin' with me." The man in the cloak said in a low, almost ghostly voice that made Kiya shiver.

Her eyes widened in realization. Her breath supply would not last much longer.

'Happy' birthday, me.

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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie

Keep on Truckin'