'…So shouldn't we get Kiyuna back alive if we want to defeat him?' Hiei asked Phire. They were discussing as to how to defeat Makaze. Phire shook her head.
'Hakuchi idiot, if we do that, it'll increase the amount of evil we have to kill,' Phire smacked him behind the head. He fell face flat on the ground and tackled Phire to the ground when he got back up, pinning her.
'Get off, Hiei, we need to be serious,' Phire told him. He glared at her and didn't answer.
'C'mon, we have to think of ideas,' he growled. Phire sighed.
'Yea, true… besides, this guy is way older than Kiyuna,' Phire told him, 'and Kiyuna was way older than me, along with the other 6 dudes.' Hiei looked to Phire; she was the youngest! She didn't really look like she aged, so that could explain it; she looked really young, around 17-20.
'When you mean way older than you,' Hiei asked, 'does that mean they saw cavemen and you got information from them?' Phire shook her head.
'I time-traveled, as I didn't believe them,' she told him. He nodded, and then had an idea.
'Then why can't we time-travel back to the past and see how Makaze was resurrected? By the ways, who killed him?' Hiei asked. Phire thought for a minute, as she wasn't alive during that time.
'Well, Kiyuna said that during the time he was going through death, he was born,' Phire remembered. Hiei widened his eyes; even the old monkey was young? That refers to Kiyuna
'Did Kiyuna kill him?' Hiei asked, anxious to know. Phire shook her head.
'Kiyuna would know who killed him, though,' Phire told him, 'as he had told the 6 warriors when he remembered, and forgot to tell me, as I was the newest addition to his friggin army thing.' Hiei sighed.
'Then can you summon his spirit or something and ask?' Hiei asked, now desperate to kill Makaze. Phire sighed.
'I know Kiyuna well enough to know that if I asked just for one thing, he would want something from me in return,' Phire sighed, 'and it will be something I would never do; it would be out of character.' Hiei raised an eyebrow to that.
'Could you try? See what he would want you to do first, and he doesn't have to tell you, so if you say no, he could go back to hell and leave us alone, and you could erase his memory,' Hiei suggested. Phire shook her head.
'Tried that 3 times; he literally controlled me to do the thing he said I had to do if I wanted something,' Phire told him.
'Kuso,' Hiei muttered. Phire thought for a while, and had an idea, but didn't get time to tell Hiei, as a haze arrived. Phire knew that haze, as she had seen Hiei's reaction to it, and she teleported herself and Hiei out of there, only to be near a poisonous haze.
'Crap!' she growled, teleporting to many different places. When she teleported to Natura, the garden area was half-burned, and the smoke had carbon monoxide hints in it!
'No… no! NO!' Phire growled. She was in charge of Natura, and now it was getting destroyed; that too, it was from Makaze! She glared at the sky with bloody red eyes, and Hiei glared in the other direction.
'Phire, you're early… how did you wake up Hiei without me knowing? Kiyuna trained you all too well… but that monkey was a fool and tried to fight me…he died instantly,' Makaze's voice pierced through the sky. She didn't say anything, and Hiei was surprised that Makaze found out.
'How did you find out, anyways?' Phire asked, still glaring right at the sky. Makaze laughed.
'One of your comrades told me, actually,' Makaze chuckled. Phire widened her eyes and threw her sword right into Mizu's stomach as he approached 100 yards away.
'Whoa, how did she do that?' Hiei thought, blinking. He couldn't sense people that far.
'It was Mizu,' she muttered, angrier than ever. Hiei growled, and saw Mizu coming.
'Phire, come on and join Makaze's army,' Mizu said, his voice much darker than it was supposed to be. Phire knew that he was controlled.
'Makaze, stop controlling him,' she growled, calling her sword back to her. Mizu didn't take much pain, as Makaze gave him ultra protection.
'Why should I? Besides, after I get you and Hiei to join, I'm going to look for that Hinote guy Mizu told me about,' Makaze laughed in an evil way. Phire looked to Mizu, and couldn't believe it; he had no life; his corpse was being controlled. Phire glared right through the sky and saw Makaze, who was looking for Hinote.
'You filthy bastard,' she muttered in a growl. Hiei also realized that Mizu was dead.
'Aw, Phire, what's wrong? Do you want your comrade back? If you join my army'- Phire threw a kunai right into his shoulder without him realizing. He growled and threw it right at her, but she caught it.
'Interesting, caught me off guard, didn't you, Phire?' he asked, chuckling. The wound did hurt, but he didn't show it. She smirked a little.
'It hurts, doesn't it?' she asked, remembering things about the type of kunai she threw. He growled and realized what she had just done.
'You little,' he growled, 'I didn't realize that you were such a difficult child to deal with. No worries, though. I'll deal with you myself.' She raised an eyebrow, and then sighed. Hiei pushed her right as she looked into the direction of an arrow coming right towards her.
'Watch out!' he screamed as he landed right on top of her. She pushed him so he was next to her, and she stayed down, and kept Hiei down with her hand.
'Hiei, don't move,' she told him as invisible arrows, but now visible to them, had filled through the area they were in. She then noticed that a haze was coming right at them at their ground level around 89 mph!
'Kuso, I haven't been in such a dangerous fight in a long time,' she thought as she grabbed Hiei and flew into the stratosphere, remembering to keep an oxygen spell for Hiei; she, of course, didn't need one.
'Very good Phire, I'm impressed,' Makaze chuckled as he touched her and Hiei's shoulder. She froze along with Hiei, but then they exploded; those were exploding clones! Makaze growled, as a sword head locked him. It was Phire's sword.
'Even more impressive,' he said as he exploded, but Phire had a dark force field around her, so it didn't affect her, and she stabbed the real Makaze right in the stomach; he was right behind her.
'Intriguing,' he said as he stabbed her right in the back. She exploded, and he gasped; he didn't realize that she could go this long doing the exploding clone thing! She appeared right behind him, grabbing his throat with her claw. He glanced at her from an angle, and she glared at him.
'So, where's your friend, Phire?' Makaze asked. She shrugged, and Makaze sweat dropped. He teleported her and himself back to his lair.
'Timber, I have to go again,' Hiei told her. He had gone back to the others to make sure that they were okay; besides, it was pretty much his responsibility. Timber sighed and hugged him.
'Why do you have to go?' Timber asked, making a puppy face. Hiei was serious now.
'Friendship's responsibilities,' he told her as he kissed her and then left. Timber sighed, but then noticed that Kurama was gone.
