Chapter 3: Juusui and Okibi clash heavy water and blazing fire clash

'What the hell… everything seems fine, but why do I feel so… uncomfortable?' Hiei thought to himself. Just then, he heard howls of wolves. Even though it wasn't night, he had gone into a forest, and it was pretty dark in the forest.

'Hiei!' a voice called out from a distance. Hiei sniffed the air, but it wasn't a foul scent, so he turned around. It was a very strange person, and his scent was somewhat similar to Hinote's, strength-wise.

'Who are you? How do you know my name?' Hiei growled, his katana out. The stranger had his sword, which was of watermark, and backed away a little.

'Yo, chill! I'm not going to hurt you or bite, you know,' the stranger said, smiling, his hands backing off, trying to say that he comes in peace. Hiei narrowed his eyes, but then sighed.

'Well then, what the hell do you want? And you didn't answer my questions,' Hiei growled, still glaring at him. He laughed a little, and put his sword in a sheath.

'Oh, I'm Mizu Aranami,' the stranger told Hiei. 'Do you remember Hinote Ranpu?'

'Yea, why? Does it matter to you?' Hiei asked, still glaring at him. He chuckled.

'He was my best bud, you know,' he told Hiei, 'until Phire came along, but we are best buds again ever since Phire killed Kiyuna-sama.' Hiei widened his eyes. Phire! This guy knew Phire!

'Wait, how do you know Phire? Do you know her whereabouts?' Hiei asked him, anxious. Mizu sighed, giving the hint that he had no clue, or assumingly he didn't.

'Well you see, I think Phire must have told you, but I'll sum it up. Kiyuna was the cousin of the devil, and wanted to write about all worlds, so he decided upon 6 warriors; of course the 6 were all guys, and 2 of them were Hinote and myself. Now ever since the times of the rise of Egypt for some odd reason, the worlds starting increasing rapidly, and Kiyuna decided on an addition for just one more warrior,' Mizu told Hiei.

'And Phire was the new addition, I'm assuming?' Hiei said, narrowing his eyes. Mizu nodded.

'Exactly; either because she was the only female, or Kiyuna wanted her skills, or who knows, she was tortured the most; and you remember her fighting tactics and genius? It all came from the torture. Well, the fighting and strategies, anyways. She also went to school, or else elementary, middle, high, and a science institute as well as college. She knows pretty much everything that human guys have discovered, and she has coined new formulae. She was nearly the perfect warrior, but her weakness threw everybody off, so Kiyuna gave her extra torture for about 4 centuries just for stamina,' Mizu told Hiei. Hiei started remembering that Phire had told him nearly the same thing.

'Well, then what the hell do you want from me?' Hiei asked after the huge-ass explanation. Mizu sighed.

'I thought, because you were the last one that saw her, you would have known her presence, but I believe that you do not know,' Mizu explained, 'so now, I was wondering if you knew where Hinote was.' Hiei shrugged. Mizu sighed.

'All I know is that Hinote isn't dead,' Hiei told Mizu. Mizu sighed in relief. He took out his sword and raised it to the sun.

'So I'm assuming you use water to fight, right?' Hiei asked. 'It seems to be like that because of your name.' Mizu nodded as a tsunami almost hit Hiei from behind, but Hiei jumped really high in the air and dodged it. Mizu looked at him from a glance.

'You have a very good intuition; did Phire train you?' Mizu asked, making the tsunami go away with a snap. Hiei sighed and nodded.

'I need more training to become stronger,' Hiei told Mizu, 'Phire was almost done training me, but then… yea.' Mizu thought for a moment, and then out of nowhere, another tsunami attempted to hit Hiei, but as Hiei dodged it, Mizu slashed his back with the 'Juusui no katana,' or else the 'heavy water katana' and Hiei had managed to take his sword out to slice some of Mizu's skin off as he fell back.

'Well Hiei, as you know, Phire was and is the strongest out of all of the 7 warriors, but remember; that doesn't mean I'm weak. Phire and I used to be rivals as I used to be the strongest, but then Hinote's fiery aura increased rapidly after finding the 'Tenka no katana,' fire caused by lightning no katana. He defeated me badly, giving me a scar on my back, so I think you get the point; I'm third best, and I don't give mercy to anybody,' Mizu told Hiei as he pinned him with water shurikans. Hiei's fire aura surrounded him, and had gotten the water shurikans out, so Hiei was out of the pin.

'Mizu, I can tell that you are strong; but I'm better,' Hiei smirked in an evil way, and fought Mizu with his katana. It was not much of a fight at first, but when Mizu summoned a huge tsunami when Hiei slashed Mizu's back, things started getting interesting as Hiei used his fire to make the water go away, and then would hurt Mizu.

'Very clever, Hiei, very clever,' Mizu told him as Mizu took a different form.

'Nante,' Hiei muttered, glaring at Mizu's new form. Mizu didn't change at all physically; only his powers had increased.

'Meet my new form, benzaiten eloquence and water,' Mizu said in an evil voice. Hiei narrowed his eyes, and then gasped; he didn't have just the power of water.

'Nami wave!' Mizu growled, waves of water smashing Hiei from all different directions. Hiei stuck his sword into the ground and held on as tight as he could so the water wouldn't wash him away. Mizu then gathered his demonic aura into his sword, which was flinching and darkness surrounded it.

'Harike-n no dakegi hurricane strike!' Mizu growled. It became silent, and then out of nowhere, a hurricane that was beyond category 7 smashed Hiei into the ground, going into the ground over 2,000 feet! Hiei used this to his advantage and threw his sword into the eye, which the sword was in to be the source, and slashed the sword out of the eye, causing the whole hurricane to stop. Hiei took his hand back, and an amazing amount of fire gathered into his hand, that it started surrounding him, as well as the environment.

'Kasei force of flames!' Hiei yelled, the flames going right into the water sword, nearly destroying it, and half of Mizu's power diminishing.

'Impossible,' Mizu panted, his shoulders going up and down due to the dramatic energy change. 'You could not have done that; only Phire has the strength to do such immense skills,' Mizu added in. 'Well, I still have enough energy, anyways, because of our location.' Clouds started going over their heads, and then Hiei felt a few drops and gasped. Mizu had an evil like smirk, and then a strike of lightning hit a tree, causing it to almost fall on Hiei.

'Nante!' Hiei growled, glaring at Mizu.

'I knew a storm was coming, so I decided to meet up with you at this particular location,' Mizu chuckled, and then laughed in an evil-like way. Hiei just looked at him, and then laughed. Mizu raised an eyebrow, and then gasped along with the gasping mice of Fairly Odd Parents.

'Apparently, this is a raiu thunderstorm, and when lightning strikes,' Hiei said, smirking as he held his hand up along with his sword, 'there will be fire.' Mizu widened his eyes; he thought that only Phire and Hinote were the ones that could control the Tenka, but now Hiei!

'Phire was right when she said that she saw a true warrior within you,' Mizu chuckled, putting his sword away. It started raining heavily, and when lightning struck a tree, Hiei had control of not just the fire, but also the lightning bolt! He used it to strike Mizu, so when the water would put the fire out, the lightning would electrocute Mizu.

'Kuso, Phire, how much did you teach him!' Mizu growled within his mind as he stood in a defensive position. As the fire approached Mizu, though, it stopped when it was right in front of him, and then diminished.

'Nante!' Hiei gasped, as he fell on one knee and panted; he did use up a lot of energy.

'No, no, no! This can't be happening,' Mizu thought as he backed away and started running. Hiei looked at him strangely.

'What's going on?' he asked, confused.

'Hiei, get out of here! He'she's back!' Mizu yelled to Hiei. Hiei only heard the "He's back!" part of it, and he thought he was talking about Kiyuna. When he smelled the foul scent, though, it was much more than what Kiyuna had, and as haze spread, Hiei fainted.

'Mwa ha ha HA HA! Prepare to feel my stinging wrath as I come back from my grave!' was the voice in the background, and Hiei just lay there, confused, and unconscious.