Chapter 9: Naishoubanashi kamikaze Whispering divine wind

'…' Hiei was still knocked out badly, but his forefinger tended to shake a lot; apparently, no one noticed.

'Nee Kikoe Masu ka…Can you hear me?' Hiei's forefinger moved faster, and now his whole hand was shaking.

'…Ph…'

'Nee Kikoe Masu ka…' Hiei whole arm started shaking, as well as his other arm.

'Phi…' Hiei's whole body started shaking, and his breathing increased rapidly.

'Nee Kikoe Masu ka…watashi wa tomodachi desumy friend?'

'Phire…Phire!' Hiei woke up, panting and anxious. He grabbed his sword and threw it into the ceiling, causing his aura to come back to him; his aura was stored in the ceiling somehow.

'What happened? Where am I?' Hiei thought, sitting up in bed. He observed the whole area.

'Hiei-kun, look next to your bed,' a voice in Hiei's head told him. He looked obediently and found a sword. It was mostly black, and had many shiny decorations on it. On one side of the blade, his name was engraved, and the other side had the words 'meiyuu' on it.

'Phire, where are you?' Hiei asked her telepathically.

'Right next to you,' she said as Hiei turned and saw that she was really right next to him. He smiled and tackled her to the ground, hugging her.

'What took you so long?' Hiei asked her, cold sweat trickling down his face. She sighed, but then looked back to him and stroked his cheek.

'It doesn't matter right now. What matters is that we get out of here and find Timber and Kurama,' she told him. He nodded, as he got up and helped her up. She teleported him to Natura, and they saw that there was a huge forest fire.

'Tsunami strike!' Phire growled, the whole forest fire finally gone. Hiei immediately ran and with the help of Phire's training for finding someone, he found Timber lying next to Kurama, unconscious.

'Timber!' he yelled, hugging her. Phire sighed and helped Kurama. She raised an eyebrow when she saw that his arm was bandaged.

'Hiei, your sword struck Kurama's arm,' Phire said after looking at his arm for about a minute. Hiei took his sword out and it had bloodstains all over it. He had no idea what happened while he was knocked out.

'I really don't know what happened while I passed out,' Hiei told Phire. She sighed and healed Kurama, as well as Timber. The two didn't wake up, but the wounds were gone.

'Phire, we have to find Genkai and the others,' Hiei told her. She nodded.

'I'll take care of Kurama, and you take care of Timber and find the others; I have some business to attend to,' Phire told him. He raised an eyebrow, but agreed.

'Wake up, damn kitsune-kun,' she tried to telepathically talk to Kurama, but he wouldn't wake up. Just then, she had an idea.

'I'm going to hate this,' she thought as she set him down on the ground. She looked at him and ran her fingers through his hair.

'Nee Kikoe Masu ka,' she sang, but her mouth didn't move. Kurama woke up, and looked at Phire, but didn't smile; he sighed.

'Kurama, just to let you know, don't trust Kurama,' Phire told him. Kurama got up slowly and looked at her weird.

'Why not?' he asked, narrowing her eyes at her. She sighed, and answered.

'Let's just say that he tricked you; there was no revival plant,' Phire told him. Kurama grabbed the collar of her shirt and pulled her closer, growling at her.

'Then why didn't you come out of wherever the hell you come out of and SAY SOMETHING!' Kurama growled, his eyes showing hints of Yoko. Phire looked right at him and didn't say anything. He took his rose whip out and choked her with it.

'Kurama,' she said, sighing. The rose whip didn't affect her, but Kurama didn't know that.

'Tell me Phire! What the hell were you doing for 10 friggin years! Why did you keep quiet and not tell everybody that you were friends with Hiei! Why are you so secretive!' He growled at her. She burned the rose whip and glared at him.

'Where was I for 10 friggin years? I was in a different dimension; I was called there for something important. Why did I keep quiet? I didn't want anybody to know that Hiei and I were friends so there wouldn't be trouble. Why do I keep to myself?' Phire answered almost all of Kurama's questions, but then she grabbed him by the shoulders and closed in on him, kissing him. Kurama closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back.

She stopped after 20 minutes. They sighed, and then Phire took her sword out.

'Listen to me. There is a bad guy that made Koenma unwillingly make you guys go into Natura and that evil guy tried to kill you and Timber,' Phire explained, 'and he's after me, too, but he doesn't know I'm alive right now. He sent Kiyuna to find the note that summons me, but neither one knows that I destroyed that note a while ago. Right now, we have to get Koenma out of his grasp.' Kurama nodded.

'So what you want me to do is to go with Hiei and find Genkai and the others, while you stop Koenma,' Kurama said. Phire nodded. Before she left though, Kurama grabbed her wrist. She stopped, and when she turned around, she gasped.

'Yoko,' she muttered. He pulled her towards him and hugged her tightly.

'It's been a while,' she said, her hand feeling down his chest. He nodded.

'Yes; too long,' he said, kissing her neck. She sighed as she just let him.

'Crap, Suuichi won't let me stay,' he told her. She let go of him and left.

'What the hell? Crap, I lost control of him,' Kurama growled, shaking his head. He then ran and looked for Hiei.

'Now how am I going to wake up Timber?' Hiei thought, still looking for Genkai and the others. He thought that if he did what Phire did, it would probably work.

'Nee Kikoe Masu ka,' he thought to himself. Timber did wake up, and she hugged Hiei tightly.

'Hiei-chan!' she exclaimed in a child-like voice. Tears ran down her face. He smiled, and set her down. She got up.

'Timber, we've got to look for the others,' Hiei told her. She nodded, and hand in hand they went looking for the others.