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:

"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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Everyone quickly ran outside to see that Hiei had already jumped onto the roof.

They all began to file onto the roof in their own way.

----MEANWHILE WITH HIEI---

Hiei was quick to jump onto the roof, immediately having to dodge a large sword being brought down towards his head. The sword's holder was a large, red demon that stood about 9 feet tall. It was widely-built and had three horns sticking up from his forehead. It was a wonder it didn't fall through the roof.

Hiei quickly scanned the roof for Kiya to see that she was fighting off another one of these demons. Her hands were glowing with blue energy and she was punching the hell out of it, occasionally shooting out energy orbs. The demon was just standing there, holding his arms in front of his head in a defensive manner. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the demon was scared of the fury coming from such a small demon. But Kiya didn't care, she looked totally oblivious to everything but her and the demon.

After seeing that she could handle herself, and questioning why he even cared, Hiei turned his attentions ahead of him to see that two demons were advancing on him. Hiei calmly whipped out his katana and disappeared from the giant's view, moving quickly to behind them. Hiei jumped up into the air and brought his katana down on the head on one of the demons, successfully slicing off half of his head. It slumped to the ground in a bloody heap, and eventually fell off the roof, it's dead eyes staring straight ahead.

Hiei looked over to Kiya once again to see that the small teen now had the demon pinned to the ground with a glowing blue hand at his throat.

"Why are you here? Who sent you!" she demanded loudly.

"……Go….to….hell.." the demon managed to say despite the fact that he was being suffocated.

Hiei smirked slightly then returned his attentions to the other demon, who was standing on the edge of the roof, his arms crossed, and an evil grin on his face.

"No! Hell is where you're going if you don't tell me why you are here, NOW!" she yelled.

Kiya glared at the demon as she tightened her grip on it's clammy neck.

"M-markusho….Markusho sent…….m…" The demon stopped speaking and his head began to turn blue. Kiya took her hand from the demon and watched in horror as the demon's throat looked like it was starting to….implode.

Then, it's head rolled off, it's neck being totally crushed by nothing, and Kiya gasped in fear. She stood up and backed away from the demon and turned around to watch in wonder as Hiei fought the other demon.

That is, until the demon suddenly disappeared.

Hiei was ahead of Kiya by about 10 feet and the demon, who once stood in front of Hiei had disappeared. Kiya spun around behind her to see that demon now standing next to her, right behind Hiei, his hand pointing towards the unsuspecting fire apparition, a red energy engulfing it.

Kiya's eyes widened in horror as she realized what was going to happen.

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HA! I had you going there for a second, huh? Do not worry, my dear readers, for this is Not a cliffhanger.

Read on!

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--------MEANWHILE, WITH KURAMA, YUSUKE, AND KUWABARA-----------

The three members of the Rekai Tantei never made it to the roof.

Instead, they were ambushed by three large, red demons like the ones that they had seen Hiei and Kiya fighting on the roof. They each took on one of them, after telling Yukina to hide inside.

The fight was going well, the demons weren't more than D class, at their best. They were all down within 5 minutes, and when that ten minutes was up, they all saw a demon's body falling from the roof, half of his head missing.

"EW!" yelled Kuwabara.

Yusuke was about to yell an insult to Kuwabara and laugh at him for being such a baby, when they all heard shouting coming from the roof.

"Oh no," Kurama stated when feeling a sudden increase in demonic energy coming from the roof. Then, they all saw a red light being erupted from the roof. They all watched, paralyzed by their wonder, unable to move.

------BACK TO HIEI AND KIYA------

Kiya's eyes widened in horror as she realized what was going to happen.

The demon was going to shoot Hiei!

The demon was seconds from attacking and Hiei was still oblivious to the fact that it was behind him.

Thinking as quickly as she could, Kiya yelled, "HIEI!" and flew to him as fast as she could. Hiei turned at the sound of his name just in time to be tackled to the ground by Kiya. As soon as Kiya and Hiei made contact, the demon released his energy. Kiya, who was in front of Hiei, received the blow instead, but the energy sent them both flying back 10 feet, almost falling off the edge of the roof. Hiei was surprised at the fact that he had allowed himself to wrap his arms protectively around Kiya as they were flying through the air.

Hiei looked over Kiya to the demon see that it had foolishly used the last bit of his energy, and dropped dead onto the ground.

"Hiei! What happened!" Yelled Yusuke from the ground.

Hiei looked down at the three on the ground and then back up at Kiya, who was still on top of him, her face buried in his chest.

"Get off of me, onna." He demanded, but Kiya didn't answer.

It was then that Hiei noticed that Kiya's breathing had gotten slower and more uneven. He looked to her back to see that the energy blast had ripped through her black t-shirt and her burnt and badly wounded back was exposed.

Hiei's eyes widened slightly as he realized that she was now unconscious, barely alive. That blast had been from the only B class demon in the pack that had attacked the temple, and that blast damn near killed Kiya. The blast that was made for Hiei. Kiya risked her life for him.

She had saved him.

(A/N everybody aw when I say …..ready? AWWWWWWWWWWW)

--------TWO DAYS LATER-------

Hiei had not once left Kiya's bedside at Genkai's temple, feeling all kinds of guilt, anger, and fury. He was currently yelling at himself while everyone else was down in the living room, being yelled at by Genkai about how she 'left for 5 minutes and when she comes back, there's dead demons everywhere and Kiya was almost dead…'

Hiei sat on the windowsill in Kiya's room, having yet another argument with himself.

WHY DID SHE DO THAT? That blast could've killed her when I could've easily survived it.

Kiya didn't know that. She thought you were in danger. She risked her life for you, Hiei. His sub-conscious told him.

That baka onna could've died! Im not worth that!

She obviously thinks you are.

Hiei looked over at the sleeping form on the bed, her blue hair in her face, the blanket pulled up to her head, covering her bandaged upper-body –where the bandage served as a shirt, covering everything. She was lying on her stomach, as to not irritate the large burn mark on her back. Yukina had done everything she could to heal the burn mark. So now, it was only about the size of Kiya's fist and it didn't hurt as much as it did when she had got it.

She hadn't moved from her position in two days.

Hiei looked up to see Kurama enter the room. "Please come downstairs, Hiei. You need to eat."

"Hn." And he turned his gaze back to the window.

"She's going to be fine, Hiei. I promise."

But Hiei wouldn't budge.

Kurama sighed in defeat and in worry for his friend, then disappeared into the hallway, closing the door behind him.

As soon as he was sure Kurama was gone, Hiei once again looked at Kiya.

Who shifted to her side, mumbling something.

Was she finally waking up?

--------------KIYA'S POV-----------

I woke up to a stinging pain on my back. I opened my eyes and waited for my vision to clear, and while I was waiting, I could've sworn that a saw a black figure jumping out the window, disappearing outside.

Once I could see clearly, I sat up, the blanket falling from around me, to see that I was shirtless, but thank GOD I had bandages around my whole upper body, covering everything…ahem…important.

Then, I remembered everything. From the demons attacking the temple, to the demon I was fighting having it's head pop off for no apparent reason, to Hiei…

Oh, yeah.

The reason I was in this bed right now was because of him. Not that im mad at him, not at all. How could I be? It was my idea to jump in front of the blast in the first place.

I just hope he's okay.

--------NORMAL POV--------

Here Kiya was, lying in the bed she's been recovering in for two days, thinking not about herself, but about someone else.

She stood up from her bed, stumbling a bit, but up-righting herself by gripping the wall. She saw a shirt on a chair by her bed, it was a black shirt, plain and simple. Wow, they knew her so well.

Kiya pulled it on over her bandages, careful not to irritate her wound, then walked out of the room, down the stairs and into the crowded living room.

Everyone looked at her in silent disbelief. How had she recovered so quickly?

"Wow, you're up early." Said Kurama, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, I'm a fighter." She shrugged.

Kuwabara and Yusuke, having broken out of their 'stare' state of mind, quickly scrambled from their place against the wall and ran to. They were about to wrap their arms around her in a hug, when a raspy, old woman's voice stopped them.

"Her back, dimwits!"

The two stopped in their tracks and looked at Kiya, their eyes full of relief. She smiled at them and gave each of them a hug. They actually cared about her, she could see it in her eyes, and that lightened her spirits immediately.

She looked around the living room, her eyes lit up with happiness as they looked over everyone in the room.

Genkai, Yukina, Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara…..they all cared about her!

But, one person was missing. Hiei. The one person who played the biggest part in her life right now, the guy she had just risked her life for, was nowhere to be seen-and that confirmed her worst fear.

Hiei cared nothing for her, unlike she cared deeply for him. Deep enough to almost die to save his life. And he was not in the room. Typical.

Scattered 'welcome back to the world' and 'glad you're awake' and other remarks of the kind erupted from the room. However, Kurama stayed quiet. Sure, he was more than happy that she was okay, but he was being silenced by the sudden drop of her expression, and he knew exactly what was wrong. He stood up and walked over to her, summoning into the hallway so that they could talk in private.

Kiya followed him, her head drooped slightly, her thoughts taking over her current attention….that is, until Kurama spoke.

"He never left your side while you were unconscious."

Her head snapped up and she looked up into those emerald eyes, searching for the tiniest appearance of a lie.

There wasn't any.

"Then where is he now?"

"He probably left. Hiei just needs time to think. He blames himself for what happened to you and he hasn't eaten or slept since the attack."

Kiya's gaze dropped to the floor, deep in thought. Her and Kurama both looked to the window to see Hiei climing through it.

Kiya didn't see it, but Kurama saw it clearly. Hiei's eyes flashed dull, before he blinked and his eyes were normal again. Kurama recognized that look immediately. Kurama didn't know whether to smile or be the tiniest bit worried.

Hiei's mating season had begun.

(A/N I thought I'd bring that out a little earlier than expected, but not much will happen with it until the next chapter. Just thought I'd let you all know.)

Hiei froze when he saw Kiya. Kiya froze when she saw Hiei.

Wow, talk about awkward.

Hiei was the first to snap out of it and he decided that he and Kiya needed to talk, so he flitted over to her, grabbed her wrist, and flitted, with her in tow, to wherever Hiei chose to go. Kurama just returned to the living room.

-----WITH HIEI AND KIYA-------

Hiei ran into the hallway upstairs and when he stopped running, sure that no one would bother them, he pushed Kiya up against the wall, careful as to not hurt her wound too badly. He held her by her shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes.

A feeling in the pit of Hiei's stomach began to grow, but he just had to push it back down. He knew what the feeling signified (1) and he didn't want to deal with that right now. Thank god his 'urges' weren't that strong when 'it' began. (2)

"Why." He growled the one word, his breath tickling Kiya's face.

"Why what?" she asked, although she knew perfectly well what he was talking about.

"Don't play stupid, onna."

"Okay, okay……..he was going to shoot you and you had your back to him. I would've felt guilty if I had just stood there while you had gotten hurt. So I jumped in front of you. How about you give a thank you?"

Hiei pushed harder on her, anger filling up. Kiya had to bite her bottom lip because of the pain of her wound.

"I don't need your help!" he coldly at her.

Kiya struggled to get out of his grasp, but he only pushed harder on her. "FINE!" She yelled back, beyond the point of hurt now that even after she saved his life, he thought nothing more of her than some baka onna. (A/N little does she know how wrong she is…….READER: shhhhh!) "Fine! You know what, I'm sorry that I saved your life, okay? I'm sorry that I thought that I could make you notice me by taking a blast for you. AND IM SORRY that I ever thought that I might actually care about you enough to risk my life for you! Now let me down!"

Hiei's eyes widened slightly from the emotion coming from this one girl. But then he returned to his normal stoic gaze and stepped away from her, looking once more into her almost teary eyes before disappearing, running away to go outside, where he could think in peace.

Kiya however, quickly ran into the room she woke up in and sat on the bed, her head in her hands. She yelled at herself.

"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid."

Little did she know that Hiei was thinking the same thing about himself.

--------HIEI'S POV---------

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!

Shut up!

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT TO HER!

Great, now I'm yelling at myself. I don't need this right now.

Hiei sat perched on a high branch in a tall Sakura tree, leaning against the trunk, one leg up and the other hanging down.

Why in the world had she done that? Hiei pondered this question like he had been for the past two days, and he always gets the same answer.

Because she cares about him.

Hiei didn't want to think that way. He was The Forbidden Child. No one is supposed to care about him, and he's not supposed to care about anyone in return, except for Yukina, but that was a different kind of 'care'

But Kiya didn't know that, and even if she did, Hiei got the impression that she wouldn't give a damn.

But now, Hiei had screwed it all up. Kiya was sure to hate him now.

And the thing that bothered him most about that:… was that he actually cared.

Oh yeah, his mating season had chosen the perfect time to start. (sarcastic)

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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie

Keep on Truckin'!