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:

Kiya stood, deciding that it would be best if she just forgot everything that had just happened, when a thought suddenly came to mind.

Hiei had almost marked her. She knew about demons marking their mates.

Wait……then didn't that mean that Hiei wanted her to be………

Her thoughts were interrupted by yelling coming from downstairs. She quickly opened the door and flew downstairs to see what the commotion was about.

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Chapter 10:

Kiya flew into the living room to see………..Kuwabara and Yusuke fighting over a soda.

"DAMNIT URAMESHI, I HAD IT FIRST!"

"SO! DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD LIVE ONE DAY WITHOUT SODA? I HEARD THAT SODA DESTROYS BRAIN CELLS, SO I SUGGEST YOU HAND OVER THE DR. PEPPER AND SAVE WHAT LITTLE BRAIN CELLS YOU HAVE LEFT, YOU BIG OAF!"

"GUYS, SHUT UP!" Yelled a small but intimidating Kiya from the stairs. They both froze and watched Kiya with wide eyes as she flew over to them and snatched the soda.

Kiya flew over to the windowsill as Yusuke and Kuwabara both yelled, "HEY!"

Kiya just stuck her tongue out at them and popped the top open. She then brought the can to her lips and downed almost half the can before stopping and gasping, the familiar bubbling sensation running through her nose.

"THAT WAS MY SODA!" Yelled Kuwabara. Kiya licked the top of the can then held it out to Kuwabara as if to say, 'want it now?'

Kuwabara held up his hands in defeat. Apparently he didn't. His attentions soon turned to the small girl walking into the room accompanied by Genkai and he called out, "Yukina, my love!" and he ran over to her.

Kiya looked down at her can, listening to the swishing of the liquid inside of it as she thought of recent events.

She suddenly turned to Kurama and said, "Hey, I think I'm going to go home."

He looked at her and nodded. "I'll be going with you, then. In fact, Yusuke and Kuwabara need to go home as well. They've stayed here a lot longer than the original week that they promised their families."

Kiya nodded and turned to the 'geniuses' while getting off the windowsill. "Hey, we're going home. Come on."

On her way to the door, Kiya thanked Genkai for letting them all stay at her temple and train and they all bowed respectfully before filling outside to walk home.

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Kiya sat in her living room on her couch, listening to her Green Day (don't own) CD, writing in a black book that she had found in the mall a while back when she lived in it. She had grown attached to the small book, so she even gave it a name. Blaze.

The entry goes as follows:

I don't know what to think anymore, Blaze. So many things are happening all at once, and all I can think about is Hiei. I keep on wondering why he attacked me today. My sub-conscious told me it was his 'mating season', if that even makes sense…….. See? Im losing it! Im listening to my self-conscious! I feel so confused right now. First, he kissed me, then he left…again. I wish I could leave my prolems, just like he does. But I cant.

I wish my parents were alive right now. They'd know how to comfort me. They'd tell me that everything was okay and help me wake up from this nightmare. Hiei and Kurama just seem so…….'okay' with everything. Makai, Ningenkai, Rekai and demons. But, I guess that's because that's all they've ever known. Me, on the the other hand, all I had ever known up until about 4 weeks ago had been the human world. Now, I know about Makai and Rekai as well. Demons, spiritual energy, Yusuke having died, TWICE! This is all too much.

I need someone to talk to. No offense, Blaze. I mean, you are great to write things down in, but I need someone to actually talk to. Someone who can reassure me that everything will be okay.

……….I need to go.

Kiya closed her book hurriedly and went into her room to change out of the pajamas that she had changed into as soon as she had gotten to her apartment. She decided that she knew exactly who to talk to.

Rob.

She glanced at the clock to see that it was 9:00 pm. The restaurant was still open right now. She figured that she could fly there, because it was dark and if she managed to stay high enough, she could get there un-seen.

She changed into baggy camouflage pants with a studded belt, a black t-shirt with a pentacle on it (A/N PENTACLES ARE NOT SATANIC! I hate it when people try to tell me that they're satanic.) and her long black coat over it. On her feet were none other than her combat boots.

She walked out of her apartment and began to fly to the restaurant, careful to stay high enough as to not be seen by the civilians walking or driving on the street below. Kiya dove into the forest right across the street from the restaurant and walked out of it…..to see numerous cop cars and one ambulance parked outside the entrance.

Oh, Kami, no. Please, no.

Kiya ran up to one of the police officers. "Sir, what happened?"

He turned to her and began to push her away from the restaurant. "Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to step back."

"MY UNCLE OWNS THIS RESTAURANT!"

At this, the police officer stopped pushing her and his eyes softened.

"Oh boy. Listen, kid, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but, you're uncle, Rob Haruko, was shot earlier today. It was an unmotivated shoot-out in the restaurant. He-uh, he didn't make it."

Kiya's eyes stayed dull. It had to be a joke. Not so many bad things could happen to a person in one day….it wasn't possible.

And yet, the look on the police officer's face said it was.

Kiya's eyes immediately teared up and the police officer looked sympathetic. She shook her head and looked pleadingly into the police officer's eyes, silently begging him to take it back. To tell her it wasn't true, that the one man who had been her only source of comfort for 13 years was still alive and this was all a big joke. But he didn't.

Another cop came over to the cop that Kiya was talking to and pulled him aside to talk to him for a moment, but he motioned for Kiya to stay put.

After all the years of thinking she was alone, she was now sure of it. Rob was gone. Forever. Kiya suddenly dropped her head and allowed herself to do the thing she swore she would never, EVER do.

She cried.

The cop that Kiya was talking to suddenly came back over to Kiya, with a very stern looking face on. Kiya looked up at him and he suddenly turned Kiya around and grabbed her wrists, hand-cuffing them behind her back.

"Miss, you are under arrest for the murder of Rob Haruko,"

"What?" Kiya yelled at him while he began to recite to her her rights, but Kiya wasn't paying attention to him. She was looking at the cop that had talked to the cop she talked to. He was talking to a tall, blonde boy, pointing and nodding at Kiya, and she could hear three words that he said clearly. "She did it,"

Kiya's eyes widened as the cop thanked the boy and the boy turned around, looked at Kiya and grinned evilly at her.

That boy, was Brian.

Kiya was then taken over and shoved roughly into a cop car. Kiya turned around in her seat in the back of the police car, to look back at Brian, who was still evilly grinning at her.

Why did Kiya's life have to be so fucked up?

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The police man had taken Kiya down to their station in downtown Tokyo and he had immediately taken off her handcuffs and shoved her into an empty cell.

Kiya sat in the far corner, knees pulled up under her chin, she was crying uncontrollably.

First, she was blamed for the death of her parents. And now, she was being blamed for Rob's death, and she wasn't even there when it happened! All the police had against her was the witness-statement from a certain blonde haired teenager named Brian who had set her up for the sole purpose of getting revenge on the girl who had kicked his ass in front of half the school.

She had asked if she got a phone call, like all the prisoner's in the movies got, but the police man just laughed at her, so she just sat in her cell, face in her knees, pleading to god-if there was one- to kill her. To just make her life end right now. Now that Rob was dead, she didn't have much more to live for.

Without knowing it, Kiya dozed off.

Kiya opened her eyes to see that she was in Rob's restaurant. She was sitting up at the bar and Rob was behind the bar, washing some cups.

"Don't blame yourself, honey." He said, stopping what he was doing to look at Kiya.

"How can I not blame myself, Rob? There's no doubt you were killed by a youkai just because you were close to me. If I were never alive, you would still be and you would be happy. Everyone I know would be happy."

"Aw, now that's not true. Kiya, don't you ever think like that. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been the happy old man I was, I would've been bitter and alone because I would've have had the best niece in the world."

"Who killed you, Rob?"

Rob looked troubled by this, but Kiya needed to know, so she asked again, "Who Killed you, Rob?"

Suddenly, Kiya's dream began to fade away, and Kiya yelled, "No! Rob, don't leave me again! PLEASE!"

"Im sorry, Kiya. I love you."

Then the dream ended.

"I love you too, Rob." She muttered quietly under her breath. Kiya looked up from her knees to the sound of her squeaky cell door opening.

What she saw made her rise to her knees. The person that the cop was letting into her cell was Yusuke.

Yusuke quickly went to her and pulled Kiya into a brotherly hug. "Kiya, im so sorry."

Kiya just nodded and returned the hug, digging her head into Yusuke's chest.

"Get a room." Came Kuwabara's voice from behind Yusuke. He was trying to be funny, but no one was laughing.

"Kuwabara, now is not the time for jokes." Came Kurama's caring voice.

Kiya pulled away from Yusuke and she looked into his eyes. "Rob's dead, they think I did it…….i don't know what to do, Yusuke." Yusuke once again pulled her into a hug and said, "I know, c'mon, let's get you outta this place." Kiya nodded again and walked out of her cell, clinging to Yusuke's arm. While walking through the police station, Kiya received many nasty looks, and a couple whispers that said, 'Look, it's the girl that killed her family,' and 'it's the psychotic 16 year old murderer'.

She looked up to Kurama after they had gotten out of the building and asked, "How did you convince them to let me out?"

"Hiei has incredible…..persuasive abilities. He got you out, not us." Kurama smiled down at her and she could've sworn that she saw a hint of gold in his eyes before he looked away.

Kiya nodded and faced ahead again. So, Hiei had gotten her out….but where was he? Why wasn't he here?

It's because he doesn't want to force himself on you again.

Will you stop popping up like that? Cant I have a moments peace inside my own head?

Yeesh, so-rry!

And her thoughts suddenly got quiet.

Yusuke and the others took her back to her apartment.

"Are you sure you don't want at least one of us to stick around? I mean, after what just happened, I figured that you could use some company."

"No, it's ok Yusuke, go home. I'll be fine."

"Okay, good night Kiya."

"Night, Yusuke."

Kiya closed her front door with a sigh and closed her eyes, leaning her forehead against the cold surface, loving the release it provided for her from her thoughts. She didn't want to think about….things, because she didn't want to cry again. Rob wouldn't have wanted her to cry, he would've wanted her to be strong, to be………….aw, crap. Now she was crying again.

Kiya turned around to go to bed, when she saw a black figure sitting at her windowsill. She gasped in surprise and tried frantically to dry off the tears that had fallen down her face.

"H-hiei, how'd you get in here."

"Hn." Was all he said as he suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of Kiya in an instant. She gasped. Oh, god, Hiei, please be sane now.

She didn't know what came over her, but she suddenly found herself wrapping her arms around Hiei, seeking his warmth, seeking his comfort.

Hiei stood still. What was this onna doing? Hiei had to clench his fists to keep himself under control at the mere smell of her. Didn't she learn her lesson? Didn't she realize he was not safe to be around right now? When Kiya finally realized that Hiei wasn't going to hug her back, she let him go and began to walk away from him. She said, "Sorry. I don't kno……" Hiei grabbed her wrist, making her shut up.

She looked back at him and into those crimson orbs and he had to quickly look away before his thoughts could ……….roam.

Hiei pulled Kiya to the couch and sat her down, he looked down at her, keeping his fists balled up tight.

"H-how did you convince them to let me out of jail."

There it was. The question of the night, and Hiei had to answer it. She had a right to know. But Hiei wasn't going to tell her how, he was going to show her.

Hiei began to untie the bandana on his forehead, while Kiya just sat and watched.

Hiei let the bandana drop to the ground and he looked into Kiya's eyes, and stated simple instructions. "Whatever happens, don't move."

Hiei closed his eyes and that's when Kiya saw the slit on Hiei's forehead. She nearly fell backwards when the slit opened to reveal a purple eye.

"I said don't move." He growled and Kiya sat still, still staring at his Jagan eye. Hiei reaches out his hand and gently places his fingertips onto Kiya's forehead. Immediately, they were both thrown into Kiya's memories.

Kiya's memories:

She walked out of her apartment and began to fly to the restaurant, careful to stay high enough as to not be seen by the civilians walking or driving on the street below. Kiya dove into the forest right across the street from the restaurant and walked out of it…..to see numerous cop cars and one ambulance parked outside the entrance.

Oh, Kami, no. Please, no.

Kiya ran up to one of the police officers. "Sir, what happened?"

He turned to her and began to push her away from the restaurant. "Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to step back."

"MY UNCLE OWNS THIS RESTAURANT!"

At this, the police officer stopped pushing her and his eyes softened.

"Oh boy. Listen, kid, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but, you're uncle, Rob Haruko, was shot earlier today. It was an unmotivated shoot-out in the restaurant. He-uh, he didn't make it."

Hiei decided to change the pace and they entered one of his memories.

Hiei watched as Kiya was taken into the police car, anger welling up inside of him. He glared at Brian, the boy that had set Kiya up. Hiei wanted nothing more than to make his life miserable, maul him until he was barely alive, then leave him to die, Koemma couldn't send him to prison for that. But Hiei instead followed the police car.

When they arrived at the station, Hiei watched from a window as they threw Kiya into a cell and she immediately curled up in a corner. After a while, Kiya began to sleep.

Hiei went to go retrieve Kurama, but he just HAD to bring the bakas with him. Hie took them back to the police station and showed them that Kiya was there and told Kurama in his mind what happened.

Kurama nodded and the three of them walked into the station. From the window, Hiei removed the bandana around his forehead and his Jagan eye opened as his two other eyes closed, Altering the thoughts of the police man the three were talking to. The police man emptily nodded and opened Kiya's cell door. Yusuke entered it and that's when Kiya woke up. Hiei flitted away.

Hiei tried to take his hand from Kiya's forehead, but he couldn't. It's like it was glued there, and they both began to enter another one of Hiei's memories. Well, actually, there was about 5 different memories floating around in front of them, like large TVs floating.

Then, it hit him. Kiya was doing this. Somehow, she had managed to take the connection between them and swing it her own way. She wanted to know about his past.

The first one they saw was of Hiei on an operating table, screaming in pain. Hiei could feel Kiya tense a little bit. Kiya saw that they were implanting that third eye on Hiei's forehead.

As soon as that memory had come it ceased and was replaced with another one. This one was of a child. Just a little infant, with glowing red eyes. They didn't see what was happening to him at first, because he was enveloped in darkness, but as the memory soon cleared up, they saw that the baby was falling. He had just been cast off a cliff……

Hiei had had enough. Reliving these painful memories was almost as bad as going through them the first time. Summoning all the power he had, he was able to break out of Kiya's connection, which sent him back to reality and he snatched his hand from Kiya's forehead immediately, making him slightly stumble.

Kiya's eyes, however, were still closed, but Hiei could see that she was visibly cringing. A glowing blue light was being emmited from her forehead. She soon began to scream in pain.

"AHHH! HIEI MAKE IT STOP!" she whimpered through her tears of pain as she clutched her forehead and fell onto the floor. Hiei was soon by her side, picking her up bridal style. But Kiya still held her forehead and when Hiei picked her up, she only screamed louder. Hiei didn't know what was going on, so he had to get her to Koenma's….fast.

That's when Kiya passed out, falling limp in the fire apparition's arms.

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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie

Keep on Truckin'!