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:
When Kiya got around to looking on the back of the cloak, her eyes widened. She gasped loudly, and threw the cloth onto the ground, away from her.
She backed away from the cloak and into the wall, her eyes wide with fear.
Everyone in the room looked at Kiya, then at the cloth that was lying on it's front on the ground, it's back fully exposed to everyone.
There, on the back of the cloak, was a silver sign. A water drop encircled by a long, blue spiral.
Beneath the sign that clearly meant, 'water', was another note, pinned to the cloak.
You belong with us, Kiya.
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Chapter 7:
----------LATER THAT NIGHT------------
Long after everyone had gone home from a tiring day at Genkai's temple (Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama all to their own houses and Hiei stayed at Genkai's temple), Kiya sat cross legged on her bed, staring out the window that was directly in front of her bed.
She was thinking of one thing.
That cloak. It had matched the cloak that the other elemental's in her dream wore. They had sent her own to her, telling her that she'd 'need it soon' and that she 'belonged with them'. She never wanted to see the cloak again, that's why she left it with Koenma with the instructions to burn it.
But, knowing Koenma, he would probably keep it and try to track it's fibers to the cloak's origin.
God. That deep red color made her shudder. Most red things did. Cloaks. Blood. Eyes.
Wait, eyes?
……..Hiei!
Hiei's eyes. They were the deepest crimson Kiya had seen in……ever. Yukina's were red as well, but not that deep.
But, unlike the other red things that made Kiya shudder, Hiei's eyes almost made her want to break out in goose bumps and run to her bed and burrow under as many thick, cotton comforters she could get her hands on. That's how cold his gaze was.
God, Hiei, what could've happened to you to make you so cold?
Kiya wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer.
…….WAIT! Why the HELL was she thinking about Hiei?
Kiya gripped her head angrily and fell over sideways, her head being instantly buried into a pillow. She closed her eyes in an attempt to fall asleep, but she only succeeded in seeing a certain fire youkai……in her mind…….shirtless…….
Her eyes shot open.
STOP IT! STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT VERTICALLY CHALLENGED, TALL-HAIRED, TOTALLY HOT AND ALLURING JACKASS! ………wait……….that came out wrong. Ugh, whatever. She groaned in frustration.
She glanced at the digital clock on her nightstand, the red numbers blinked, '12:37 am'
Man. She had to go to school tomorrow. Koenma said. And, to top it all off, they had to go to Genkai's immediately after school, the whole 'training' order still very much in effect.
She sighed and turned onto her stomach, and dug her head into her pillow.
Totally oblivious to the presence outside her window.
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The elemental of fire floated above the ground right outside Kiya's bedroom window.
(A/N bet you thought it was Hiei, huh?)
Word had gotten to him that demons under the rule of Markusho, the demon lord of a group of bandits in the north-western Makai, were ordered to some to Ningenkai and retrieve Kiya, so that Markusho could try to obtain her powers, therefore becoming the elemental of water.
The demons would be arriving shortly, if not today, in a couple of days, to take Kiya away.
His Kiya.
The same girl whose parents he had murdered so they would not be in the way when he would come to claim her, and rule the three worlds.
Jasaro's piercing yellow eyes stared at the now-sleeping form on her bed.
"L-lord Jasaro?" sqeaked a short, green hanyou asked, popping out of nowhere.
"What?' The red-haired- 17 year old snapped, ripping his gaze from his 'sleeping beauty' to the despicable demon slave at his side.
"L-lord Maero and Lady Lila have requested your presence in the great hall. N-now."
Jasaro groaned in frustration. "Fine. Tell them I will be with them in a moment." He said to the demon, referring to the two other elementals who had remained in the elemental's lair while Jasaro had gone out to watch over his mate-to-be.
The demon nodded, then disappeared in a puff of green smoke. Jasaro took one more look at his 'sleeping beauty' before flying off, towards the elemental's lair.
From the tree tops in the forest nearby, a pair of crimson eyes were watching the whole scenario, thoughts going through his head.
So, that was the elemental of fire. Jasaro. What was he doing outside that onna's wiondow?
What are you doing outside her window?
What are you talking about?
Hiei's eyes widened slightly when he suddenly found himself right outside of Kiya's bedroom window, staring right at her. Her steady breathing, her blue hair fallen in front of her face. Hiei was very taken aback when a tiny part of him was pissed off at the hair for blocking her face from sight, and even further taken aback when that same tiny part of him felt the urge to move the stray hairs.
When Kiya shifted in her sleep, Hiei immediately flitted away, thinking she had awoken. The truth was, she was still very much asleep, only searching for something while she was dreaming. She found it too. It was her pillow. She brought it to her face and bit it.
We all can only imagine what sort of an odd dream she was having.
But, Hiei didn't know that, so he went back to Genkai's. To check on Yukina.
------------------THE NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL------------------
The day at school went by as usual.
Completely and utterly boring.
Kiya practically jumped out of her chair when the bell for the end of the day finally rang…..but then she remembered the whole 'training' thing, and her demeanor soon went from happy to utter loathing. She did not feel like getting her ass kicked by Hiei… again. She was still sore from yesterday's events.
She and Yusuke would've ditched school and gone out on the roof a long time ago, if it weren't for two things. One: Keiko. Two: Koenma had this freaky way of telling when they skipped, and when they did, he got pissed, so they both decided that it would be best if they just stayed in their classes. Koenma said they couldn't ditch. He never said anything about going to sleep.
So that's exactly what they did, they both slept, until the end of school. Only waking up when they had to go to their next class and when Keiko yelled disapprovingly at them.
Kiya got up off her desk and kicked Yusuke to wake him up.
"Huh, wha…….Hey, where's everybody?" He looked around at the empty classroom.
"School ended about 5 minutes ago, retard. C'mon." Her and Yusuke met Kuwabara in the hallway. Kiya could tell he was recently sleeping because he still had some drool on his chin. She decided against telling him. She wanted to see how long it would take for him to notice it on her own.
The three of them walked down the hallway until they heard a familiar voice.
"Hey, it's the sexy freak."
Kiya recognized that voice. Brian Mcdougal. An exchange student from America. He was your typical jackass jock. Fine-toned, blonde hair that fell into his eyes, and bright blue eyes. Oh, and he went out with the head cheerleader. She kept walking, ignoring him.
"So Kiya, tell me, was your mom as hot as you are? Because if she was, it's such a shame she's dead now, huh Ronnie?" the bastard asked a tall, black haired kid standing next to him. Behind the two was the entire football team, looking for their afternoon fun. And that just happened to be a short, blue haired 16 year old, by the name of Kiya Shikina.
"Oh yeah." The tall boy, Ronnie answered.
Kiya stopped dead in her tracks, gritting her teeth and clenching her fists. Yusuke turned to her while Kuwabara yelled to them, "Hey, say one more word and l'll punch your ugly face in!" To Kuwabara, that was supposed to be an insult, but it wasn't. Especially because he had called them ugly when he wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.
"C'mon Kiya, they aren't worth it."
Now Brian started talking again.
"So, tell us Kiya, why'd you kill her huh? Why'd you murder your own par-----." His sentence was cut off by him being roughly thrown into the wall of lockers, a small yet powerful gloved hand at his neck. Kiya had, again, lost control of herself and her eyes returned to that menacing midnight blue. His eyes went wide with surprise and shock.
"Don't you dare finish that sentence." She growled through clenched teeth.
Although Brian looked scared out of his mind, he still had the nerve to smirk and yell one word. "RAPE!"
Kiya held up her other hand in a fist, which shut him up fast.
Behind her, the entire football team was cowering in a corner of the hallway, afraid to help their friend in the event that they too would get their asses kicked. By now, they were all dead quiet, so was everyone else in the hallway. The few students that hadn't caught their busses already and that were wandering the halls froze, watching in wonder as the football captain was being ordered around by this short girl.
Yusuke and Kuwabara came up to her and tried to pry her off of him.
"Kiya! We need to go now!" Yusuke said while yanking on one of her arms.
Kiya's eyes suddenly turned back to their normal silver, and she ripped her hand from his neck, making him collapse onto his knees, gripping his neck and coughing wildly.
Kiya glared at him before shaking off Yusuke's and Kuwabara's hands and turning around to walk with them.
And that's when she turned back around suddenly, throwing a punch right into the cowering boy's face, making him dizzy and fall to the floor. She smirked evilly in satisfaction and turned back around, walking ahead of the shocked duo.
"She's almost as scary as the shrimp." Kuwabara whispered to Yusuke.
"No kidding."
--------------AT GENKAI'S----------------
The three had met up with Kurama on their way to Genkai's and now Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Yukina and Genkai were all forming a circle around a very confused Kiya in the middle of the clearing outside of Genkai's temple in the forest. Hiei was, as usual, perched in a tree, watching everything.
"This is a part of your training. We're going to try to get you to fly today while standing up. Maybe even get you to move around while you're in the air." Said Kurama. Kiya looked to Genkai who said one thing. "Medidtate."
Now she knew what they wanted her to do. Kiya closed her eyes and began to meditate like she had done yesterday. Again, she envisioned the same blue orb floating.
She stood like this for about 5 minutes until she finally felt her feet leaving the ground. She opened her eyes, still keeping her focus on the orb, to see that she was slowly rising.
"Good, now envision the orb rising." Ordered Genkai.
Kiya nodded and envisioned her orb going up. But her only problem, she accidentally imagined it rising, quickly. Very quickly.
"AAAAHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……" The circle of people could not hear Kiya anymore. She had shot up in the air so quickly, that she barely had any time to scream.
"What the hell?" asked Kuwabara while everyone, including Hiei, was looking up.
"aaaaaaaahhhhHHHHHHHHHHH-OOF!" They all saw Kiya plummeting back to the ground, quickly. Everyone, out of instinct, stepped back, hoping Kiya could begin to float before she hit the ground. Everyone, that is, except Kuwabara. That's where the 'OOF' came from. Kiya landing on top of the idiot, which sent both of them to the ground.
Kiya rubbed her head and quickly sat up, getting off of Kuwabara, who once again, had swirls in his eyes.
"Heh, sorry."
Kuwabara groaned in pain and sat up, almost falling back again because of the sudden head rush.
"THAT'S TWO TIMES NOW THAT YOU'VE TRIED TO KILL ME!" Kuwabara yelled, scrambling to his feet and cowering from her behind Yukina- which was a funny sight, let me tell you.
Kiya just smiled sweetly and said, "And that's two times now that you've survived. You're on a roll."
"Come, Kiya. It's time to return to your training." Interrupted Kurama. She nodded and followed him, mouthing a quick, 'sorry' to Kuwabara.
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So, that's how it went for an entire week.
She trained with her flying abilities with Genkai. She had actually gotten quite good, she flew almost everywhere now, except to school. Speaking of school, Kiya hadn't seen Brian since their whole little 'meeting' in the hallway. No teachers bothered her about it either, probably because none of them knew. Everyone who had witnessed the fight the other day kept their mouths shut, in fear of becoming Kiya's next 'victim'.
Kurama had been training her to harness her powers better. That blue wave that Kiya had sicked on Kuwabara the other day, remember that one? Yeah, now she was capable of harnessing that power and controlling it. She even gave it a name. Energy Wave. Yeah, I know, original, right? Anyways, they had also discovered her other powers. Kiya was able to manipulate water-which she wasn't very good at yet. She couldn't create water without liquefying a living thing, which was another thing she still needed to practice. She was still wearing gloves. She was not yet able to control when and where she turned a living thing to water, and Kurama didn't know how to get that part of her under control. The last power that Kurama had discovered was that she was able to send out energy in the form of a powerful blue orb from the palm of her hands. That was Kiya's favorite.
While everything was fine and dandy with Kurama and Genkai, Kiya couldn't say the same for Hiei's training sessions. Everyday, Hiei had gone out of his way to make Kiya sorer than the previous day. She didn't know what his problem was, but he seemed to love beating Kiya up. And what pissed Kiya off the most, was that she couldn't kick his ass back. Sure, she had gotten way better with her speed and with a katana, but she was no match for Hiei. Not by a long-shot. But, what she could do, was fly. Yep, that was her means of revenge. Whenever Hiei had kicked her ass so badly and made her really mad, she would fly up above the trees-and stay there. Ooh, Hiei hated that. She refused to come down. One day, she made the mistake of flying to close too the top of the trees and Hiei had jumped off the top of the closest tree and tackled her in the air to the ground. Yeah, Kiya doesn't make that mistake anymore. She stays in the air until it's time to go home. It's quite funny actually. Not to Hiei, though.
(And, just between you and me…..she had begun to get sort of a crush on our little Jagan-bearing friend.)
To Kiya's surprise, one of their training sessions actually went some what well.
Hiei stopped suddenly in the middle of an attack. He sheathed his katana and looked Kiya straight in the eyes.
"Take your gloves off."
"What?"
"Do it onna." He growled, not liking her questioning him.
Hiei had been watching Kiya train with Kurama and noticed how much she had gotten her powers under control, and Hiei had a theory.
Kiya sighed at the death glare Hiei was giving her and reluctantly took off her gloves.
"Now what?"
Hiei pulled out a flower from behind his back and held it out to her.
"Aw, Hiei, thank you."
"It's not for you, baka. Touch it." He hissed.
Kiya pretended to be disappointed, even though a tiny part of her was, while the rest of her was deathly embarrassed.
Kiya had no clue where this was going. Hiei knew it was going to turn to water.
But, Kiya didn't want her head chopped off by and angry fire apparition, so she complied. She took the purple pedaled flower from Hiei's hand and waited for it to glow blue.
It didn't.
What the…. Kiya asked herself. Why wasn't it glowing? Why wasn't it turning to water? Why was Hiei just standing there?
It suddenly hit her, and she kicked herself for being too stupid to notice it sooner. She finally had control of herself! She could finally get rid of those blasted gloves! Sure, she liked them, but having them on for a straight week, anyone would be eager to get them off. Kiya was so overwhelmed with happiness that she suddenly found herself throwing her arms around Hiei's neck and saying "YAY! Thank you, Hiei."
(A/N oo, she's soo dead)
Hiei's eyes widened in surprise. What the hell was this onna doing!
Wrap your arms around her, Hiei.
WHAT!
You know you want to.
Hiei was so overwhelmed by the dilemma his sub-conscious mind was putting him through, that he found himself roughly pushing Kiya away from him.
Kiya, who was not at all expecting this, stumbled back a few feet before falling to the ground. She gaped at Hiei, her silver eyes full of confusion, shock, but the emotion that stood out most to Hiei, was hurt.
Kiya didn't know why she had hugged him, but she knew that she kind of liked it. And it hurt her to know that Hiei didn't.
Hiei, overtaken by all of the things happening in one day, took one more look at the girl on the ground, his eyes once wide were now once again their normal emotionless stare, and disappeared. Flitting away to go wherever, leaving the poor girl on the ground, confused, and hurt.
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Since the training session with Hiei sort of ended early, Kiya went to the temple. She figured she could help Yukina with something. Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Kiya were all planning on staying at Genkai's tonight because tomorrow was Saturday, and none of them had anything better to do. Thank god it was now fall break and they got 3 weeks off from school.
"Hey, Kiya, where's the shrimp?" asked Kuwabara as soon as Kiya had stepped into the temple.
"How the hell should I know? Im not his babysitter!" She growled then dissapeared into the kitchen.
"Wonder what he did to her.." pondered Yusuke. Kurama nodded in agreement while he was, himself, pondering the same question.
Kiya stomped into the kitchen to find a cheery Yukina cooking something. She smiled happily at Kiya while Kiya began to rummage through the freezer.
"Hello Kiya-chan."
"Hey Yukina." Said Kiya glumly, but her spirits soon picked up when she saw a carton of Cookies n' Crème ice cream in the very back. She pulled out the whole thing, grabbed a spoon from the silverware drawer and sat, perched on the counter, with the tub in her lap, spoon in hand and a big grin on her face. "Yum."
Kurama, who had come in to the kitchen to see if Yukina would like any help with dinner saw Kiya sitting on the counter with an ice cream tub in her lap. Hiei's ice cream tub.
"Kiya, I would not eat that ice cream if I were you…" he started. Kiya stopped the spoon covered with ice cream 2 inches from her mouth and asked, "Why not?"
"Well, it's Hiei's and he's very protective of his….." Kurama's sentence was cut short by a black blur speeding into the kitchen and tackling Kiya off the counter to the floor. "…sweet snow."
"AAHH, HIEI! GET OFF!" Yelled Kiya from underneath Hiei, but she couldn't help but blush slightly at their position. Hiei grabbed the tub of ice cream from her hold and the spoon from her hand. Holding the tub of ice cream protectively, he got off of Kiya and glared at her. "Don't. touch. My. Sweet. snow." He hissed dangerously. Kiya got up off the floor and just as Hiei was about to put the- still- ice cream- covered spoon into his mouth, Kiya put her mouth over it, quickly consuming the ice cream, then running like hell into the living room.
"Onna.." Hiei growled coldly before he too disappeared into the living room.
Kurama chuckled at the sight of the two then turned his attentions back to what he and Yukina were cooking.
Kiya ran as quickly as she could into the living room. Hiei, right behind her, pinned her roughly to the wall with the tub of ice cream in one hand and his katana, which was now at Kiya's throat, in the other.
Gee, this brings back memories. She thought to herself about her first meeting with Hiei.
"Stay. Away. From. My. Sweet. Snow." Then he disappeared in a black blur and reappeared on the windowsill, eating the ice cream while all the time glaring at Kiya out the corner of his eye.
"Hey, Kiya. Back at school, when Brian asked you why you murdered your mom-what did he mean?" asked Yusuke, bringing up the one thing she'd hoped that they had forgotten. She closed her eyes and sat on the couch slowly, trying to think of the right way to tell them this. No matter how much she didn't want to bring up this soft subject, she felt like she sort of had too. Consider it a favor for all the times they had saved her sorry butt.
"Okay, well you all remember that my parents were murdered, right? And no one knows how?" she started, addressing everyone in the room (Kuwabara, Yusuke, Genkai, Hiei and now Kurama who had come out of the kitchen), leaving out the part of her vision and her and Hiei seeing how her parents died.
Everyone except Hiei answered with either said 'yes' or nodded.
She continued. "Okay, well, that day when they were murdered, I was the only one seen entering that house. So, everyone just automatically assumed that I had done it. Me! I was 3 years old for Christ's sake and they still thought that I had murdered and mauled my own parents then hidden their remains! It's bullshit! So, to this day, everyone still thinks that I killed my parents, despite the lack of evidence." She finished, feeling weird. She had never told anyone that.
Yusuke was the first to recover from the sudden silence. "Wow, and they never put you in jail."
"Nope. They didn't have enough evidence to prosecute me. Plus, I was only 3 years old, that's too young of an age to be put away. But, that didn't stop everyone from accusing me, hating me and thinking that I was such a messed up kid that I would murder my own parents. I've had to live with that since."
"That's so sad." Said Yukina who had just come into the living room from the kitchen.
Kiya smiled reassuringly at Yukina and said, "Yeah, but at least I know I didn't do it."
"Yeah, I don't think you killed them either." Said Yusuke.
"Me either!" came Kuwabara's reply.
"I never would've believed such a rumor in the first place." Kurama smiled sweetly.
Kiya looked over at Hiei who hadn't said anything. He had already finished off the tub of ice cream and was now looking out the window.
"Do you think I did it, Hiei?" Kiya asked, then realized it was a stupid question because Hiei had seen what really happened.
But Hiei's reply came nothing short of shocking. "Hn. What's your proof?"
……"What?" but, she stopped herself. She should've expected such a thing to come out of Hiei's mouth.
Yusuke and Kuwabara suddenly started yelling at Hiei about how Kiya was only 3 and how stupid he was being, but they soon shut up after receiving one glare on Hiei's part and his hand moving to the hilt of his katana.
"It's ok, guys. I should've known he would say something like that." She stood up, hurt apparent in her every word. Her every movement. "I'm going outside." And with that, she disappeared outside.
Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at the door where Kiya just stood, then left for the kitchen, muttering something about 'stupid midgets who cant keep their damn mouths shut.'
Kurama, however, stayed in the living room, looking at his old friend in confusion. "Why did you say that, Hiei?"
"Hn."
"I understand." He began to stand up and began to walk towards the kitchen. "You just don't know how to handle your feelings towards her. Don't worry, you'll get used to it sooner or later."
And with that, Kurama disappeared into the kitchen. Hiei was about to follow him to tell him off, but he decided against it, and returned to scowling out the window.
That damn kitsune was too wise for his own good.
-----------WITH KIYA-------------
Kiya sat on the roof, watching the sun set, her knees tucked up under her chin, her arms placed around them.
She had flown up there when she decided to go outside. She just needed some fresh air.
Why did Hiei say that? He knew perfectly well what had truly happened, he had seen it when he had intruded her thoughts.
That guy was so hard to understand and Kiya wasn't sure if she could put up with him much longer. She was now fully aware that she had what some people call a 'crush' on him, and she had NO clue why.
He was mean, rude, cold, distant, rough, mysterious, hot…………
Goddamnit! Why did her thoughts always shift that way?
She growled at herself while looking at the sunset, and suddenly, a song came to mind, and she started to softly sing the melody, her eyes closed and her body swaying to the beat. It seemed to fit her situation perfectly.
"I'm
not supposed to be scared of anything,
But I don't know where I
am
I wish that I could move but I'm exhausted
And nobody
understands (how I feel)
I'm
tryin' hard to breathe now,
But there's no air in my
lungs.
There's no one here to talk to
And the pain inside is
making me numb.
I
try to hold this under control,
They can't help me, cause no one
knows.
Now
I'm goin' through changes, changes.
God, I feel so frustrated
lately.
When I get suffocated, save me.
Now I'm goin' through
changes, changes
Feelin'
weak and weary
Walkin' through this world alone
Everything they
say every word of it
Cuts me to the bone, (and I bleed)
I've
got something to say
But now I've got nowhere to turn
It feels
like I've been buried
Underneath all the weight of the world.
I
try to hold this under control,
They can't help me, cause no one
knows.
Now I'm goin through changes, changes
God, I feel so
frustrated lately
When
I get suffocated, save me.
Now I'm goin' through changes, changes
I'm
blind and shakin', bound and breakin'
I hope I'll make it, through
all these changes.
Now
I'm going through changes, changes
God I feel so frustrated,
lately
When I get suffocated, save me.
Now I'm falling apart,
now I feel it.
But
I'm going through changes, changes.
God I feel so frustrated,
lately.
And I get suffocated, I hate this.
But I'm going
through changes, changes."
(A/N I don't own! It's a song called Changes by 3 Doors Down)
---------------WITH THE GANG INSIDE---------------
Everyone save Hiei and Genkai, who had left to run some errands not too long ago, was eating a delicious dinner in the dining room, compliments of Yukina. Hiei was still glaring out the window.
"AAAHHHHHH!" They all heard a familiar scream being emitted from the roof, and Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara ran quickly into the living room, just in time to see Hiei quickly disappear out the window, obviously in a hurry to see what had happened to Kiya.
If it weren't for his current situation, Kurama would've smiled knowingly, but now, everyone's priority was getting to the roof.
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