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:
That tear was all Hiei needed to see to prove his fears. He was causing Kiya pain. The one he denied his feelings for was crying because of him. Hiei took one last look at the tear that was now sinking into the ground at Kiya's feet……..
……………and disappeared.
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Chapter 20: Eaves Dropper; The Truth Revealed:
That night's transformation lasted a whole painful 3 and a half hours. The whole time, Kiya was in her room, her eyes shut tightly, floating above her bed. Meditating was something that Genkai had said would take her mind off of anything.
And Kiya had a lot to take off of her mind right now.
To her surprise, it was actually helping. She relaxed every muscle in her body and focused on her breathing.
Inhale deeply through the nose. Hold as long as you can. Exhale slowly through your mouth. Repeat.
---------------SOMEWHERE ELSE------------------------
Three figures were in a room, sitting at a large round table. Two were males, one was female.
One of the males looked to be about 19 gazed into the transparent sphere that was on top of his silver staff. His eyes were unfocused and completely white, until he blinked and his eyes re-focused, returning to their normal grey. He turned his gaze to the table's other two occupants.
"It seems that the Jaganshi has left her."
"Perfect! Now there wont be anyone to interfere when we go to get the girl." Hissed the woman at the table, rubbing her smooth hands together.
"That's the problem. Now that her transformations have already begun, we can no longer bring her here against her will.." he left the sentence hanging.
The other two demanded that he should continue with their waiting glances, so he did. "Now that her transformations are occurring, her elemental side is more in tune with the rest of her. Kiya does not want to come to us, but her elemental side does…..sort of…..it's being drawn to us, whether it would like to be or not. After the 8th through 10th night of her transformations, she will no longer be able to resist the urge to come to us. She will come. Until then we will have to wait. If we do not allow her to come to us naturally: on her own, then her elemental side will be less likely to cooperate with us when we perform the ritual of domination."
There was silence in the room until the youngest person in the room, a young man with fiery red hair groaned loudly. "I guess we wait, then."
----------------------BACK TO KIYA------------------------
Kiya woke up to find that she was laying on the floor, curled into a small, tight ball. She blinked and stood shakily to her feet, stretching her arms up and out and yawning. She looked at her clock to see the flashing red numbers: 8:37 am.
Yes! It was Saturday……….no school…….no transformations until tonight…….
…….no Hiei.
The memories of everything that happened last night flooded into Kiya's mind like a speeding car. Her meditation session last night had only temporarily removed her painful memories. She had announced her love for Hiei and probably scared him off. The thing that hurt worse, though, was that he had not said it back.
Kiya kicked herself mentally. What was done could not be taken back- half of her was yelling at herself, calling her an idiot for even going to that damn party, but the other half of her was relieved that that was now off of her chest. She could relax now, knowing that Hiei knew the truth.
Kiys shuffled her tired feet over to her bathroom, lazily discarding her prices of clothing on the way. By the time she reached her shower, she was completely nude and she turned on the water, quickly stepping inside her shower, not really caring how hot or cold the water was. It was freezing! But she didn't care, cold or not, the water was still intoxicating. She let out an almost inaudible moan as the water cascaded over her body, slowly turning warmer. Something deep within her reacted very naturally and happily to the water, the smooth rhythm lulling her, hypnotizing her to the point that her eye lids had closed halfway.
She washed her hair quickly, loving the scent of her floral shampoo and conditioner. With the water went the suds and Kiya's thoughts; all running down the drain between her feet. All her thoughts left her as the liquefied ecstasy rolled over her skin….
…..all but one. The one remaining thought just happened to be a certain fire youkai, with raging crimson eyes that could make Kiya's heart stop.
Trying to get him and what she said to him out of her mind, she finished showering, vigorously rubbing the suds out of her hair, hoping that with them, the thought of her Hiei would leave.
Her Hiei. That's what she thought of him. As hers.
Good Kami, this was ridiculous! She had never had a crush on anyone before in her life! And now she was declaring her love for a cold and distant soul, who happened to be a youkai, no less.
But, it was the truth, there was no denying that. She did love him- or at least, that's what she figured was that feeling she got in the pit of her stomach whenever she was near him, or how her skin rose into goose bumps every time he looked at her…..
……or maybe she was just allergic to him.
Whatever it was, it had caused her to say a few personal things and now Hiei was gone. Nothing mattered anymore, other than keeping her own sanity. Kiya had a feeling that Hiei wasn't going to be returning. At least for a while. She hoped he would come back.
Come back to her.
Her eyes widened slightly as she turned off the shower water and she realized something.
She had cried in front of him!
Kami……kill me now.
Groggily, Kiya slumped to her closet and pulled out what her hand felt first, which happened to be her baggy blue camouflage pants and a black spaghetti tank top. She pulled a black jacket over her bare shoulders and gasped. She knew what she could do to get her mind off of her favorite little pyro.
She could go visit Rob's old restaurant. Since he had never gotten married of had children, the restaurant would be put up for lease. Kiya would have gotten it if Rob had written a will, he had told her that countless times. But because he was…..murdered before he could write a will, the space was up for grabs.
Speaking of murders, the police had yet to figure out who exactly had murdered Rob. They claim that there weren't any leads and that there was no evidence left behind by the killer, so Rob's case would most likely turn out to be a cold one.
Kiya hated the police.
Anyways, the young elemental pulled on her clothes and walked out of her room. Not hearing anything downstairs, she continued casually down the hallway. Frankly, Kiya didn't want to be seen by anyone because then questions would pop up about last night and what happened between her and Hiei and that was nobodies business but hers and Hiei's. Plus, she didn't even know if anyone noticed that he was gone.
As she was walking past the living room, a calm voice reached her ears. "Where are you going, Kiya-san?" Kiya cringed as the sweet voice finished it's question, and she froze.
"Nowhere, Yukina." Her response sounded harsher than she would've liked it to, it was just that she was in a hurry to get out of the temple. To make up for her rude tone of voice, she shot the koorime a small smile. Yukina happily smiled back and Kiya tried believing that Yukina had any blood ties to Hiei. They were complete opposites! Before her thoughts could further return to Hiei, Kiya turned to the door and walked out of it, silently wondering where the rest of the group was. She had a feeling that they were with Koenma, no doubt he knew of Hiei's sudden disappearance.
Kiya focused on floating. Closing her eyes, she focused on her blue energy orb in the back of her mind and imagined it rising, her body soon following its example. Everything after that was as natural as breathing. Kiya flew (close to the clouds) over the large forest that surrounded Genkai's temple. Swiftly, Kiya dove into the cover of the trees, her feet landing gracefully on the ground and Kiya adjusted her wind-blown hair. She casually walked out of the forest and looked up at the two story building on the other side of the street. The words that she saw plastered on the front of the building made her stop in her tracks.
Penthouse.
They had turned Rob's restaurant into a STRIP CLUB! Another painful memory slipped into Kiya's mind of her threatening Rob about turning the restaurant into a Strip Club. Oh, the irony made Kiya want to weep. The only thing she had left of Rob in her life had been into a horny man's paradise!
A figure moving briskly in the corner of her eye removed Kiya's attention from the bar. She turned her icy silver eyes to look at the person, and her brows lifted, her eye lids opening widely. That guy walking briskly across the street, in his baggy jeans and black hoodie, his blonde hair spiked upwards….was Brian.
What was that bastard doing here? If he was up to something, Kiya wouldn't have known (sarcastic). He looked totally suspicious; glancing from side to side, looking over his shoulder to make sure no one could see him. When he had glanced her way, Kiya had dove behind a wide tree, then peeked around the trunk to see him disappear into the alley by the 'Bar'. Kiya quickly flew to the roof of the bar, to hell with no one seeing her, this was important. Kiya crouched low, walking on the balls of her feet so that she wouldn't be seen. The wall of the roof was about three feet high, so she didn't have to do too much ducking.
Kiya peeked over the wall to see Brian standing in front of another figure, who was too incased in the shadow of the building. When Brian glanced up in Kiya's directions, she quickly squatted next to the wall, out of sight, but still close enough that she could hear their hushed conversation.
--------------------WITH THE YYH GANG--------------------
Koenma had called Yusuke, Kurama and Kuwabara into his office at 7:00 that morning. Of course, Yusuke wasn't too happy about that, but no one cared.
"Hiei has left." Koenma started, not giving Yusuke a chance to start whining.
They all blinked. "What?" came Yusuke's and Kuwabara's tired replies.
Koenma sighed, irritated that he had to repeat himself. "I said, Hiei left. He disappeared last night and has not been seen anywhere."
"Wait, if Hiei isn't with Kiya, then…..is she alone?" Came Kurama's worried reply. Youko was more worried than Kurama was, he still had a thing for Kiya. But, he agreed to be quiet about it. Kiya was 'Hiei's property' and he respected that, no matter how much he didn't want to.
"Yes, but she is safe for the time being. The elementals have backed off, for some unknown reason. My ogres are researching it right now. Their energy that was coming from the Makai has suddenly vanished, which means that they are not attempting to come get her any time soon."
The three teenage boys sighed in relief.
"…But while she's gone, I have something I need to talk to you all about…"
The blank stares being directed at him made him continue.
"…We know who killed Rob.."
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Kiya listened intently to the two hushed male voices, both familiar, coming from the alley below.
"….this isn't going to work…." It was Brian's voice. He had said a name, but she couldn't hear it.
"Yes it is. Just don't let your guard down and keep things from slipping, and everything will work out."
"Yeah, well, you're not the one who had to murder someone."
Kiya gasped in her mind. What did he mean, 'murder someone'?
"You let anyone know what you did, then our whole plan will be ruined. You had better keep your damn mouth shut."
"Fine, but if anyone finds out….."
"They wont."
Find out what, damnit!
"Yeah, well the Jaganshi is a telepath. He'll find out I killed Rob, then what do I do?"
Oh, they must be talking about Hiei-………… WHAT?
"SHH! Damnit, don't say that out loud!"
Kiya tuned out the rest of their conversation, leaning against the wall, her hand to her forehead. So, now she knew. Brian killed her uncle.
He murdered her only family left…
……mutilated her Rob.
He was so fucking dead.
Kiya didn't even care if those two saw her now. Brian and whoever was down there with him were in for it. Those bastards had taken her Uncle Rob away from her and her mind was set on one thing. Revenge.
Kiya's jaw clenched, and she quickly stood up and leapt over the wall of the building, using her ability to fly to slow her fall. Whether it was luck or not, Kiya landed right on top of Brian, earning an ungrateful 'umf' She looked quickly to the end of the alley to see who he was talking to, but whoever it was; was gone.
Kiya got up quickly, grabbed Brian by the collar of his open jacket and threw him roughly against the wall. All those training sessions with Hiei had made her pretty strong for her size. She only came up to Brian's neck, but the look she was giving him was enough to make anyone squirm.
"So…you did it. You BASTARD! You killed Rob!" She yelled at him through clenched teeth.
Brian looked like he was about to crap his pants, but soon try to regain his composure a put on a brave smirk. "And what if I did?"
Kiya let out a furious battle roar and shoved Brian up against the wall harder. "WHY?"
That was when Brian took over. He grabbed Kiya by the neck and switched positions so that she was against the wall, his large hands clutching her neck. "Wouldn't you like to know.." he smirked down at her.
Kiya lost it.
She suddenly brought up her knee, sending it swiftly into his groin. If she weren't so corrupted by her anger right now, Kiya would've snickered at his pain. He backed away from her, doubling over, groaning in pain.
Kiya's eyes suddenly returned to their deathly blue and silver like during her transformation, her aura glowing dangerously around her body.
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Koenma suddenly stopped talking, his attention, along with Yusuke's, Kurama's and Kuwabara's all on the ogre entering the large office in a hurry.
"Lord Koenma- There's been a dramatic increase in elemental energy in Ningenkai!"
"Kiya…." All four of them muttered.
---------------------BACK TO KIYA--------------------
Kiya, in all her fury, tackled Brian to the ground, her small hands squeezing his neck shut. Brian's hands flew to Kiya's, but nothing could remove them now. Kiya took only one hand from his neck and held it above his face, letting it turn blue.
"You will meet the same fate you made my uncle meet, you bastard." She growled dangerously, then lowered her hand so that it was centimeters form his face. Brian's started trembling.
"Now, I'm giving you one chance and one only…….why did you kill my uncle?"
"……s-someone p-p-paid m-me…….Please don't k-kill me.."
If sane, Kiya probably would've let him go with no more than having every bone in his body broken, but no. Brian had done a ghastly crime and Kiya wasn't leaving this alley until he, along with her uncle, was gone.
"When my uncle asked you to spare him, did you do it!" She hissed. "Who paid you!"
Brian didn't answer, he was instead staring in fear at Kiya's glowing hand. She guessed that he knew that with one touch of her hand, he would turn into a pathetic pool of water. That was good, now Kiya didn't have to explain his choices. Either tell her who paid him to kill her uncle, or meet the unmerciful fate of her hand.
"WHO PAID YOU!" she screeched.
"S-some guy n-n-named-" Brian's eyes suddenly widened and Kiya's own eyes also widened when she figured out what happened. Her hand had unconsciously found it's way onto Brian's chest, and now his entire body was glowing that all too familiar blue.
"No!" Kiya cried! If only she knew how to reverse this effect, then she would be able to find out who paid him to kill her uncle. She yanked her hand from his chest and stumbled back.
Brian's face, along with the rest of his body, suddenly began to become tracparent, and Kiya clenched her eyes shut in disbelief.
No…..no…..not again….
When Kiya's eyes re-opened, she was kneeling in a shallow puddle of water.
Kiya scrambled back away from the water. She had never meant to kill anyone! She just wanted answers. In her rage, she had killed Brian.
Now she was no better than him.
She was a murderer. (1)
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(1): Okay, I know you might be saying, "Didn't Kiya kill a couple of demons before?" My answer: yes she did, but she had never considered herself a murderer until now. Killing demons doesn't really count as 'murder' in Kiya's mind.
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-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie
Keep on Truckin'!
