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:
He came up behind Kiya, with his katana in hand and into her mind said, "This is for your own good."
With that, Hiei sent the hilt of his katana hurtling towards Kiya's head. The two objects collided with a muffled 'thunk' and Kiya's body dropped in a limp heap into Hiei's awaiting arm.
Hiei sheathed his katana with his free hand before using it to pick up Kiya, one hand under her knees and one beneath her back.
It looked to Hiei that there would be no more sleep for him for a while-which was fine with him. If he were to chose between sleep, and the safety of his koi……
……..he would force himself never to sleep again if he had to. Kiya was his main priority.
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Chapter 25: Dead Baby Waddling:
Bands. Bondage……bindings.
All these things came to mind as Kiya finally came to. There were firm bindings on her wrists and ankles, tightly keeping her down. She groaned outloud as she tried to turn onto her side, but the bindings wouldn't let her.
As soon as Kiya felt breathing on her face, she allowed her silver eyes to peep open. There, above her, was Hiei- or that's all she could see, for her eye sight prevented her from seeing anything else. Hiei was leaning over her as Kiya again tried to move.
She asked the first question that came to mind. "What the hell is on my wrists?" And legs…
Hiei just stayed silent, as he walked away from the bed to go get something. It was then that Kiya turned her head to look at her wrists and saw…….rope?
"Well, Hiei. I didn't know you were into the kinky stuff.." she joked.
Hiei growled at the immature onna as he walked back to the bed and untied Kiya's bonds. She sat up quickly, rubbing her sore wrists, then looked back at Hiei.
"How did I get here."
"You sleepwalk," came the short reply.
Kiya was about to ask what he meant, but someone answered her un-asked question from the door. "Your elemental side took over your body last night, and wanted to take you to the elementals. It would have succeeded if it weren't for Hiei." It was Kurama, and he was walking into the room. "I'll admit he did use a very……violent way of stopping you, though," Hiei glared at this, and Kiya turned to look at Hiei. Yes……Kiya could remember walking down a corridor, but not ebing able to stop herself. She thought it was just a crazy dream. Then it dawned on her—Hiei had hit her in the head with his katana! She didn't know whether to be thankful or pissed.
She chose to go with thankful, because if she was pissed, then Hiei might get pissed, and that katana might just have a little meeting with her head again, and she didn't want that. Wait, who was she kidding? Hiei wouldn't hurt her!
It was then that Koenma, Yusuke and Kuwabara rushed into the room.
"Kurama told us what happened, Kiya are you alright?"
"I'm fine guys." Kiya sighed. She didn't know why, but right now she really didn't feel like being surrounded by a bunch of people.
Shower! The one word of her reprieve flashed in her mind, and she smiled. "I'm off to take a shower," She turned to look at Hiei and, knowing that he –again- was reading her mind, like he had been a lot lately, she sent him her message. "No following,"
Leaving everyone silent and confused, Kiya walked out of the small room and down the hall, stumbling slightly on the way- still dizzy from Hiei's "attack". She eventually made it to the bathroom and closed and locked the door behind her. She walked to the shower, all the way stripping off and discarding her clothes, until she was finally beneath the heavenly current of water.
-------------------WITH THE YYH GANG-------------------
As soon as Kiya had left the room, arguments erupted in the room.
"This is stupid! Those bastards will not get Kiya!" Yelled Yusuke. "Why'd you knock her out, Hiei?"
Hiei didn't even grace the stupid detective with an answer, instead walked out the room to stand guard outside of the bathroom door. So what if Kiya told him not to follow her? He was going to protect her no matter what.
The remaining people left in the room looked briefly at each other before looking to Koenma.
"What's going to happen?" Kuwabara asked.
"I wish I knew." Koenma answered. "But I do know that a portal has been opened from Makai into Rekai. I'm pretty sure it was opened by the elementals, but no one has come through it yet. I need you three to go and close the portal before anyone can come through it."
"Hey, why doesn't shorty need to go?" Whined Kuwabara.
Kurama sighed. "We couldn't get Hiei away from Kiya for anything."
Everyone nodded in agreement and Koenma summoned a portal to Makai. The three Spirit Detectives disappeared within it's open doorway.
-----------------------WITH KIYA---------------------
As much as she hated getting out of the shower, she needed to do it before she turned into a walking raison. And Kiya hated raisons. So, gathering all of her will power, Kiya managed to turn off the heavenly flow of water that beat upon her grateful back and stepped out of the shower. She brushed her hair briefly and pulled on a robe before stepping out into the hallway…..
…….where she was met face-to-face by none other than her koi, Hiei.
"I told you not to follow me," Although inside, she was sort of glad he did.
"Hn." Hiei said before grabbing Kiya's hand and walking with her behind him to her room. Once inside it, Hiei closed and locked the door and turned to look at Kiya, who was staring at her feet.
Kiya, who was deep in thought at this point, managed to say the fire youkai's name softly.
"Hiei?"
"Hai…"
Kiya looked up to him, and in her eyes, Hiei could see distress. "If anything……happens to me…….I want you to know that…….." Kiya's voice broke off as she rushed to Hiei and threw her arms around him, digging her face into the scarf around his neck. She wasn't crying, Hiei knew that- but she was so emotionally exhausted that Hiei knew she had something important to say.
Hiei wrapped his arms tightly around her back, and said, "Finish your sentence…"
It took a while for Kiya to respond, and when she did her voice was hardly above a whisper. "…..that I love you…."
Hiei's eyes widened. Partly because she had said 'I love you,' just like she had the night he left, and because the way she said it made it sound awfully like a good-bye- which told Hiei one thing.
Kiya was afraid. She actually felt that the elementals would find some way to take her away from him and she would never get another chance to speak her mind to him.
That bothered him more than anything else could. She actually doubted his ability to protect her. To keep her safe.
Hiei tightened his hold on the elemental in his arms. His entire world (besides Yukina0 was in his arms right now, spilling her heart to him, and he felt complied to do the same.
"They will not take you from me, koi." I swear…
His response took away Kiya's worry like nothing else would. Koi…. Love. Hiei loved her….and that made her feel alright again. Taking her face away from it's burrows in Hiei's scarf, she leaned up, her eyes still closed, and met his lips with her own.
I love you Hiei……I trust you.
When Hiei's Jagan overheard that one thought, he lost it. He kissed back deeply, running his gentle yet impatient tongue against her bottom lip, demanding entrance. Smiling, Kiya granted it and parted her lips for Hiei ever so slightly.
If anyone had ever told Hiei two months ago that he would have changed so much because of one little girl, he would've sliced them with his katana for speaking such nonsense. But now that he was standing here with such a girl, that he had changed so much for, all he could do is relish it. Relish her, relish the moment- for she was everything he denied himself of for so long. Emotion.
----------------WITH YUSUKE---------------
Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama had just gotten to the open portal. Nothing seemed to be out of place, Kuwabara wasn't picking up any aura of a demon or elemental nearby……
…….Which was completely confusing.
Was it a fluke in the system? No, it was much worse than that. The little white card on the ground by the portal said so.
Kurama silently picked it up while the others watched him and he read it out loud.
It was a trap. Thank you for making the retrieval of Kiya easier for us.
The letter fell from Kurama's hands as he gasped. "Oh no, Kiya!"
------------------BACK TO KIYA------------------
Kiya felt it almost immediately. The change in the room's energies, it was so sudden that neither she nor Hiei had time to react before Hiei began to shudder. Backing away from her mate, Kiya's eyes widened as she saw Hiei's eyes. They were completely black. He coughed, and from his mouth spurted blood.
"HIEI!" Kiya screamed. She didn't know what was going on. All she knew was that something was wrong with her koi. Kiya lunged for Hiei, catching him right before he fell to the ground. She fell with him, with her landing on her knees and Hiei landing on her lap.
It pained her to see Hiei like this- for this had never happened. She had never seen Hiei in a state of weakness before and it stirred something so powerful within her that she wanted to scream.
It stirred fear.
When Hiei's eyes finally shut, Kiya gasped. "Kami, Hiei no….. Hiei wake up…." He was still alive, thank kami. His chest rose and fell unevenly.
"Now, now Kiya. We can't have you crying over someone who couldn't even protect you," came the voice that Kiya hated most from behind her. "Don't worry about him, he's not dead…..yet. Now, if you come with us, Aerosaku will make sure that the Jaganshi lives. We got tired of waiting, Kiya (1)."
-----------------------------A FEW HOURS LATER---------------------------
Hiei woke up yelling.
"KIYA!"
"Hiei, please be calm," came Kurama's distressed voice. Hiei looked around him quickly, trying to remember what had happened.
Kiya…….opened portal………I love you……….KIYA! Now he remembered! He was last with Kiya, when suddenly an immense pain had filled his body and he fell to the ground, on top of Kiya. He could hear someone speaking to Kiya before he had gone under.
That person…..who was it?...
"Jasaro…." Hiei growled murderously, his aura flaring.
They had taken Kiya away from him.
He had not been able to keep his promise. (2)
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(1): The elementals got tired of waiting, sot hey decided to just go and have Kiya come with them. If they used 'persuasion' to have her go with them, it wouldn't be considered 'taking' and her elemental side would still cooperate.
(2) "They will not take you from me, koi." I swear… (remember?)
-Kendra a.k.a. Blazin' Blondie
Keep on truckin'!
