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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The following chapter is dedicated to my very good friend, Jessica, who is the coolest person I've ever met. YAY Jess!...say hi to Sam for me!

Chapter 16: Fun Night:

Kiya had been at Genkai's temple now for about four hours. As soon as Markusho left, Kiya and Hiei left the hospital before any of the hospital's employees came to check out the source of the noise. But, as soon as they had gotten home, Hiei disappeared. So, having nothing else to do since Yusuke, Kurama and Kuwabara were all at their houses, Kiya retreated to her room in an attempt to get some sleep.

Which wasn't really working all that well.

Kiya sat up in bed, her eyes wide open, just staring at her far wall, thinking. You cant really blame her either. Markusho's words rang through her head.

"If you chose not to join us, your friends will die. Every. Last. One of them…Ciao darling."

Kiya groaned in frustration and attempted to smother her thoughts by placing her face firmly into a pillow- which didn't work. She sighed flopped back onto her bed and stared at the ceiling, dropping the pillow back onto the bed. What was she going to do? No doubt Jasaro and the other elementals would strike again, harming someone else that was close to Kiya……unless she joined them.

No! Kiya refused, she would rather die. But- if she didn't, her friends would die.

GODDAMNIT! Kiya glanced at her clock and it was already 1:31 am. Kiya burrowed herself under her covers and closed her eyes, forcing her thoughts to shut the hell up so that she could sleep.

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Knock. Knock. Knock.

"Mfm, Go-way!" Kiya mumbled then turned over, hiding her head under her pillow.

"Um, Kiya-chan. It is 7:20."

Kiya's head shot up, sending her pillow flying from the bed. School started at 7:30. Great- just great. Kiya yawned and rolled out of bed, literally. She landed on the ground with a loud 'thump.'

"Damnit," she mumbled. She stood up and walked to the bathroom. She showered quickly, not even getting all of the conditioner out of her hair. She then walked out of her bathroom with a towel on, picking her clothes for today. She picked a black t-shirt with a superman symbol on it and some faded light blue jeans. She put on her converses, and then walked out of her room to go downstairs, while brushing out her long, straight, midnight blue hair. She had thrown away her uniform a while ago, she hated skirts with a passion. She ran past the living room, stopping when seeing Yukina cooking something. She waved to Yukina who waved back before continuing to run outside. Once outside, Kiya lifted herself into the air and flew high, all the way to school, unaware of the black blur speeding beneath her.

When she got there, she quickly dove onto the roof, trusting that no one saw her. She entered the school from the roof and ran to class, not even bothering to go to her locker for her things. She jolted down the hallway, almost colliding with someone, before turning a sharp corner and sliding into her math class, right as the bell was ringing.

"HA!" Kiya shouted triumphantly. Eyebrows rose quickly and Kiya made her way to the back of the classroom, where Yusuke and Kuwabara sat and took her usual seat between the two.

The teacher, was about to address Kiya about actually being on time, when two people entered the room.

One of the people was the dean. The other person was someone who Kiya had met just recently.

Haku.

"Oh, welcome. Class, we have a new student." She turned to Haku. "Would you like to introduce yourself?"

Haku nodded and turned to the class, his gaze falling upon Kiya. He smirked coyly and he said, "My name's Turimo Haku. I'm an exchange student from England and my family used to live in Japan when I was five…" he left his sentence hanging and turned to the teacher, obviously having nothing else to say. The teacher smiled to the dean and he left, but not before sending a warning glance at Kiya and Yusuke, who just smiled back sweetly. The teacher looked for a seat for Haku and Kiya cursed to herself.

The seat in front of her was empty. The teacher grinned and pointed to the seat in front of Kiya. Haku made his way back to the seat, all the while staring at Kiya. Kiya let her head drop and her forehead made contact with the desk with a loud 'thud'.

She lifted her head up again, to see Haku looking at her through the corner of his eye. She also saw that basically every girl in class was either drooling at him or glaring at Kiya. She returned their glare- since she was tired, her glare wasn't as threatening as she would've liked it to be, but it got the job done. They turned away from her, their eyes wide, and Kiya snickered to herself.

That's about when Kiya fell asleep.

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Poke. Poke.

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Poke. Poke. Poke.

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Pokepokepokepokepo-

"STOP POKING ME, DAMNIT!"

"Sor-ry! Jeez. It's time for lunch, Ms. PMS."

"I do not have PMS, dumb ass. I'm just tired." Kiya yawned as she stretched her arms out above her head, letting out a small squeak. Thank Kami that this was the first day back at school. On the first day back from a break at their school, you would spend the whole day in your first hour class, just catching up on everything and getting your new schedules.

She stood up, but froze when she saw the only other person in the otherwise empty classroom besides Yusuke, Kuwabara and herself. Haku. He was leaning against the far wall and Yusuke bent down to whisper something in Kiya's ear. "He hasn't stopped looking at you all day. The guy's a creep."

Kiya nodded in his direction, then walked with Kuwabara and Yusuke past Haku, who kept watching, then outside to eat. Kiya cursed to herself when she realized she had forgotten her food at home. They made their way past the other students that were sharing this lunch hour over to an abandoned sakura tree about 100 feet from school. The trio plopped on the ground and when Kuwabara brought out his lunch box, Kiya snatched it.

"Hey!"

"Shove it, barf-for-brains. I'm hungry." Kuwabara scowled and Kiya rummaged through his box, finding a cup of ramen. It was cold, but food none-the-less. She grabbed his chopsticks and dug in, leaving him with a rice cake and a pork roll. Kuwabara snorted grumpily and ate his food.

Kiya turned her attention to the small group of girls that had approached Yusuke. "Hey, have you seen Keiko? She never showed up for school today."

Kiya watched as Yusuke's demeanor dropped and he replied solemnly, "No." That's what Koenma had instructed them all to say. To say that she had gotten hurt would result in nosy kids asking questions, and they couldn't afford letting any classified information slip-like the fact that she had gotten attacked by an elemental.

The girls left and Kiya looked sympathetically at Yusuke. Her eyes lit up- she had an idea. "Hey, Yusuke, I know what will cheer you up. A little fun night at the temple tonight. It would take your mind off Keiko and we all need to have some fun." Kiya left out the part about her probably leaving soon. Yusuke looked at her and nodded weakly.

Kiya continued to eat her ramen until she felt something change. It was like a change in the aura's around her. One aura was familiar and very strong, and Kiya smiled to herself.

"You can come down now, Hiei."

"Hn." Kiya took it as a no. She looked above her to see Hiei sitting on a high branch in the tree. She would've flown up there, but there were ningens around. So she placed her ramen on the ground, which soon got snatched back by Kuwabara, and she began climbing the tree, thankful that she wasn't wearing a uniform. Hiei's hawk-like stare followed her as she reached up, grabbed Hiei's branch and she sat on the one parallel to it. Hiei was sitting with his back to the trunk of the tree, one leg on the branch, the other hanging loosely to the side. Kiya just sat on her branch facing him, both feet hanging. Hiei turned his gaze forward again, watching nothing it seemed like.

She stared at him, tracing his every facial feature with her sharp silver eyes.

Hiei turned his head swiftly to face her. "What, onna."

"I have a name."

"Hn." He turned his attention forward and she suddenly had the urge to hit him. She smiled at the thought, but the smile soon faded as she heard and felt someone knocking on the base of the tree. She looked down to see the one person she didn't want to deal with right now, his snobby, pretty boy sneer directed at Kiya.

"What do want, Haku?"

"To talk."

"Too bad."

"Okay," he began to walk away, letting out an over-exaggerated sigh, "I guess I'll just have to throw away your party invitation…" he left his sentence hanging.

Kiya was going to let him keep walking, she didn't care about some stupid party, but that damned spirit detective just HAD to open his mouth.

"Party?"

do……not…choke……Yusuke…

Haku turned around, a sly grin appearing on his face. "Yeah. I got a hold of the skeleton key for the school, so on Friday night, I'm unlocking the doors and I'm throwing a party." He reached into his pocket and pulled out 2 folded pieces of paper, handing them to Yusuke and Kuwabara. He looked up at Kiya, who jumped down from the tree and asked, "How did you get a key?" she crossed her arms.

Haku just smirked. "I have my sources."

"Aren't you worried about people telling the principal about your little party?"

"Nope."

Kiya raised an eyebrow and Haku held out an invitation to her. Kiya groaned and took it, admitting her defeat. Haku smirked then let out a quick, 'Later,' before leaving, probably going to hand out more invitations.

Kiya looked down at the piece of paper in her hand.

When: 9:30 pm-midnight on Friday

Where: The school

Short, sweet and to the point. Kiya shoved the paper into her pocket as Yuske and Kuwabara started yelling, "PAR-TY, PAR-TY!"

……par-ty…… Kiya cheered sarcastically in her head.

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Kiya groaned in frustration. She was back at the temple now, and was supposed to be setting up for her little 'fun night', but no. She had to train. With Hiei-the king of mood swings. Yippie.

They were again in the clearing in the forest, except this time, Kiya didn't have a katana in her hand. Instead, she had a pair of identical Sais'. The hilts of the Sais' were colored a deep midnight blue with small silver cords tied around the base. The blades were a sheer black metal which reflected the sunlight nicely.

Kiya had already put on the belt in which the Sais' went into and had the Sais' held properly in her hands. She looked quizzically up at Hiei, who had his stoic gaze on her.

"Where's the katana?"

"Hn, you will not be fighting with one today."

"Why not?"

"The fox believes that the Sais' will be easier for you to handle."

Kiya shrugged and took her usual fighting stance; her right foot in front of the left, both separated by about 2 feet and her knees bent, her hands up and ready to attack and defend. She was somewhat worried about how she was going to fight Hiei when her blades were each about a foot long and Hiei's katana was about 26 inches. Not to mention that his blade was Way thicker than Kiya's blades were.

Kiya looked up, shutting out her thoughts and forcing herself to focus. She looked Hiei straight in the eye, and he looked frozen for a second……Kiya remembered something that Kurama had said to her earlier.

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"……just because his mating season is over does not mean that Hiei will cease to be attracted to and protective of you. During his mating season, his demon side had chosen you as a 'target', and even after his mating season has ended, Hiei is still very fond of you."

Kiya nodded emptily, thinking. A question went through her mind and she looked back to Kurama. "What is a 'Forbidden child?'" Kiya had heard Markusho call Hiei the 'Forbidden one' and had once heard someone talking about the 'Forbidden child'. She had no clue what they were talking about.

"I think I'll leave that for Hiei to answer."

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Kiya shook her head to rid it of Kurama's voice.

Then, Hiei disappeared. Here they go again. Kiya tensed almost immediately, looking around her frantically for any sign of her gothic-looking acquaintance. A small sound to her left caused her to thrash her head to that side, just in time to see Hiei in the air above her, aiming his katana for her head. She quickly raised both her Sais' and made the blades cross. Hiei's katana hit right smack in the middle of the 'x' made by Kiya's Sais' with a loud clank of metal. Thinking quickly, Kiya brought down one of her Sais' and slashed it towards Hiei's chest. She didn't have time to see if she had hit him, because he soon flitted out of view again. She quickly returned to her original posture and waited for Hiei to attack. Her senses heightened and she felt him behind her. She quickly used her ability to float to flip backwards over Hiei, who was running towards her. Obviously, Hiei had anticipated her move, because he stopped dead in his tracks and turned around, skillfully swinging his katana towards Kiya's torso. When Kiya realized that Hiei was retaliating, it was too late. In a matter of seconds, the bottom of her shirt was ripped open and a small line of blood trickled down her stomach. Thank kami Hiei hadn't cut into her too deeply. She looked up and glared at Hiei, who was now sheathing his katana, looking stoically at Kiya.

"Hn. You are weak." He hissed.

Kiya's eyes widened in surprise. Where had THAT come from!

"Gee, thanks for the compliment." Kiya sheathed her Sais' and turned around, about to fly back to the temple. She was stopped by two strong hands being placed on her shoulders, stopping her from moving. Kiya looked up into the crimson orbs that were glaring daggers into her widened silver eyes.

"You are not able to defend yourself. You will be taken away all because you are WEAK!" Throughout his exclamation, Hiei's voice had gotten gradually louder until the point that he was yelling at the end. Kiya flinched from the tightening grip on her shoulders, but said nothing. She was frozen in place, just staring at Hiei. Where had this sudden outburst of anger come from? She could not bring herself to look away from his eyes, but from the corner of her eye, she could see a thin trail of crimson trailing down his black tank-top. She had gotten him.

Just as suddenly as Hiei had confronted her, he left. Flitting away to leave Kiya standing there, questions running through her head, her eyes still staring into the place where Hiei's eyes once were. A sigh escaped her lips and Kiya finally allowed herself to blink. She looked around herself, seeing that she was all alone. Normally, she would've been relieved that she was alone, but now she was just lonely.

What did he mean by that?

She sighed again, and floated sadly back to the temple, attempting to put aside her now-confused feelings and set up the temple for her little 'fun night'.

She was going to need this night a lot more than she thought she would.

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Knock. Knock. Knock.

Kiya quickly finished putting the bowl of chips and soda on the kitchen table and she ran to the door. She flung it open to see Yusuke, Kuwabara, Botan, Kurama and Shizuru. (A/N Hiei is already in the house- in his room. Yukina is in the living room with Kiya.)

Kiya raised her eyes at the unexpected extras. She was only expecting Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama. She was going to need more chips.

"We brought back up." Stated Yusuke plainly, seeing the confused look on the blue-haired girl's face. Kiya nodded in understanding and stepped aside, letting them all in. They took off their shoes respectably at the door and they all walked to the living room, with Kuwabara snatching the chips form the kitchen and bringing them with him.

When in the living room, Kuwabara's eyes landed on the small girl sitting on the couch and he immediately dropped the bowl of chips.

"YUKINA!" He quickly ran to the petite girl and took one of her small hands in his. "Yukina, my love," his face flushed and Yukina smiled at him.

How can she stand having him touching her? She is truly brave…

"So, Kiya. When does this little 'fun night' begin?" Yusuke turned his attention to Kiya. She looked at him and could see that he was trying desperately to mask his concern for his life long friend that was in the hospital. Kiya smiled wetly. She was going to do her best to make this night perfect for everyone- to try to take their minds off of Keiko.

"It starts now," she looked out the window and smiled, pleased to see that it as already dark. They all still had school tomorrow, but frankly, none of them cared. Keiko would have been very disappointed. "Lets play a game. Hide-and-go-seek tag. In the dark." Kiya smiled as she saw Yusuke's demeanor immediately brighten. That was his favorite game. Sure, a simple game could not tear his thoughts from his beloved Keiko, but it would make him lighten up a little and at least have some fun. Keiko would've wanted that.

(A/N wow, I'm making it sound like she's dead. KEIKO IS NOT DEAD!)

Kiya smirked to herself as everyone else in the room diverted their attention to her. She inhaled then shouted, "Onetwothree NOT IT!"

"NOT IT!" Yusuke was quick to respond.

"NOT IT!" Yelled Shizuru.

"NOT IT!" Kiya was surprised that Kurama actually yelled.

"Not it." Ah, quiet and innocent Yukina. Kiya was surprised that she knew to call out those two words. She didn't seem like the type to play H.G.S.T. (Hide-and-go-seek tag)

"NOT IT!" Botan giggled.

"………….." Everyone looked at Kuwabara. "……What's it?" Kiya rolled her eyes at his stupidity. Surely he wasn't so stupid that he didn't know the rules of H.G.S.T.

"You're it, dumb ass."

Kuwabara kept that look of stupidity on his face, even having a little drool dribble down his chin as he looked around at everyone, wanting an explanation.

Yusuke groaned and told Kuwabara what 'it' meant, giving him a quick smack for being so dumb. Kuwabara gave him a quick 'hey!' before Kiya declared the rules of the game.

"Alright everyone. Here's the deal. You can hide anywhere you want within and outside of the temple. You can NOT go into the forest or past the temple's steps. Remember, this is hide-and-go-seek TAG. So, if someone sees you, you are not 'it' until they tag you, so feel free to run away all you want. The living room couch is base and NO powers allowed." She finalized, referring mostly to herself and Botan for their flying abilities. She turned to Kuwabara. "Alright, you will sit on the couch with your eyes closed and count to a hundred, assuming that you can count.." That earned another 'hey!' "…..Do NOT open your eyes, that's cheating. You cheat and so help me kami, I will chop of your fingers." Kuwabara gulped and Kiya smiled. "Okay everyone, as soon as Kuwabara starts counting, run and hide, alright?"

Scattered 'all rights' and one 'Okey dokey' came from the living room's occupants. They all turned to Kuwabara who began counting. Not paying attention to everyone else, Kiya quickly dashed outside, knowing exactly where she was going to hide. She jolted down the temple stairs, smiling as the wind whipped her long blue hair around. She ran around the temple to the back. There next to the wall was a small bush, yet big enough for Kiya to get inside of it and hide.

Kiya had a reputation among everyone she knew that she was the best at H.G.S.T. No one could ever find her, and she wasn't going to stop being the best now. No one would see her in this bush. After much difficulty and getting cut like 15 times from the damn branches, Kiya finally settled down, resting her thighs on her feet, crouching- ready to run if the time came.

After about 5 minutes, Kiya finally heard Kuwabara yell. "ONE HUNDRED! READY OR NOT HERE I COME!" Kiya figured that he must've lost count a couple of times. She heard him run in the opposite direction of where she was hiding and she smiled. She quickly and quietly climbed out of the bush and began to creep to the front of the temple. While walking, she began to think that Hiei would kick ass at this game…too bad he hasn't come out of his room since their little quarrel in the field. Kiya crept to the side of the temple and peeked over the side when she heard no noises. That was a mistake. Kuwabara was walking right to the place that Kiya was. He caught a glimpse of her head and shouted, "HA! I see you!" He began to run after her, but she was already scrambling back the way she had come. When she ran past the bush, she contemplated re-hiding, but she knew that would be another mistake.

Kiya knew that Kuwabara was right on her tail, she could hear him. She quickly turned the corner and looked up to see an open window…..right next to a tree. YES! She quickly jumped up onto the lower branch and began to climb as quickly as she could into the high window. Kuwabara had just rounded the corner when Kiya jumped unseen into the open window. She sat against the wall underneath the window and listened as his footsteps got farther away. She sighed in relief and stood, finally looking around the room. It was dark. The walls, the bed….everything was black or a very deep blue. There was a double bed in the middle of the room and other than a small table next to the bed, the room was bare. Kiya would've given in to her nosy nature and looked around the room more, to find out whose it was, but she needed to get to base before she was declared 'it'. She was about to walk out the door, when a noise came from the door next to her, like a shower running- the room's bathroom, she guessed. She looked at the door and noticed that light-along with some steam- was coming from the bottom.

Shit! Whoever this room belonged to was taking a shower! Kiya quickly ran to the door in an attempt to open it and she was so caught up in her struggle, that she didn't even hear the water flow stop and a door open.

"What. Are. You. Doing. In. here!" growled a cold voice form behind Kiya. She slowly turned around and literally fainted when she saw what was behind her.

Hiei……with only his pants on………wet…….black hair falling around his face due to the weight of the water……….

To say that she 'blushed' would be an understatement……

……to say that that was an 'understatement'…would be an understatement.

"…uh……er……" Kiya tried desperately to come up with an excuse as to why she was in Hiei's room, which wasn't all that hard because the truth was believable, but she lost her train of thought when her gaze drooped to Hiei's naked chest. The fact that he was all wet and his hair was down was a HUGE plus.

"Leave." He stated plainly in his cold voice that sent shivers down Kiya's spine.

Kiya didn't need to be told twice. She scrambled to her feet, letting her eyes fall once more to his amazing torso- before high tailing it out of there.

She quickly tried to shove the thoughts of Hiei out of her head and ran down the stairs, down the hallway and into the living room. She saw that everyone was already on or touching the couch, but there was no sign of Kuwabara. She quickly jolted into the living room, not seeing the figure that was hiding behind the wall.

A hand made contact with her shoulder and an annoying voice called out, "GOTCHA!"

"Damnit.." Kiya muttered to herself as she glared at the ugly orange haired giant next to her.

So that's how the night went. All 7 of them played H.G.S.T. for 3 whole hours! Hey, that games addicting! Kuwabara ended up being it most often…no surprise there. After they were all tired of H.G.S.T., Yukina announced that they should all go to the hot springs that were located right outside of Genkai's temple.

The hot springs were a blast. Botan and Yukina had taken off their kimonos and Kurama had taken off his shirt while everyone else just kept all their clothes on and they got in.

Kiya decided to pull a little prank on everyone.

While no one was looking, Kiya ducked her head beneath the water and again, when her body was totally submerged, the familiar fluttering in her stomach returned and she smiled to herself. Kami- she loved being in the water so much. She immediately tried her best to dodge the bunches of legs that were flailing to get to the bottom of the springs- which was pretty hard to do because she couldn't see underwater

She could breathe underwater….but not see….how screwed up is that?

Thankfully, Kiya had discovered her little 'talent' in the bathtub and never told anyone….so no one would be the wiser when they figured out she was no longer at the surface…..

……Which wasn't very long.

"Where did Kiya go?" Kiya could hear Kurama ask from above the surface. Did you ever notice that when you're underwater, you can hear everything happening above the water, but not in it?

"I don't know." Kiya snickered to herself at what she guessed was Botan's response, but was careful not to send any air bubbles to the surface. She looked up as she saw the blurry images above her starting to get out of the Springs. Once everyone but one person was left in the springs, Kiya began to smoothly swim to the surface, making no sudden movements as to not be seen.

She inhaled deeply before wrapping a small bet firm hand around the person's ankle and roughly yanking them into the water. She could hear them yelp. She quickly swam to the surface to see their facial expression.

Yusuke sputtered to the top and his arms flailed everywhere, sending the water flying everywhere.

"WHAT THE FU---!" Yusuke looked around him and his gaze fell upon the smirking elemental next to him. "KIYA!"

"…guilty.." she muttered, then broke out laughing. The rest of the group was right behind her, but their laughing wasn't as loud.

A small beeping that sounded like it was bubbling broke their laughs. "What's that?" Kiya asked and Yusuke looked like he was thinking…then his eyes widened. He reached underwater into his pants pocket and pulled out a small round compact mirror, that was still beeping like it was broken. He smile sheepishly and opened it up.

"What do you want binky breath?" he spoke into the opened mirror. Kiya, wanting to know what the hell he was doing (A/N she has never seen the mirror before) climbed over his shoulder to look inside it and she saw Koenma.

"Hey! Sup, Koenma?"

"I need to talk to you Kiya. Now. Tell Botan to make a portal for you to get here. Come alone." He spoke quickly, and then the screen went black.

Kiya'e eyebrows rose and she looked sheepishly at Botan. "Uh…..I guess I need a portal…"

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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie

Keep on Truckin'!