Chapter 6: "Fight fire with fire? You mean like this, right?"
I climbed through my window after sleeping on the roof that night. I perched on the window's edge and sighed. I pulled my wings tight against my back and dropped quietly to the floor. I kept quiet as I grabbed my cloak and climbed back out my window. Vash had been gone since I came here and maybe long before I came. I began to wonder where he was and if he was out looking for Knives. I went to put my cloak on but paused as my wings got in the way. I swore vividly in a whisper and tossed it back in the window.
I looked down at all the humans walking the streets. Silently, I wondered what they were doing. My Jagan opened and I easily slipped past one humans pathetic mental barrier. I went through his thoughts.
Work problems… money problems… life problems… Is that all he thought about? His problems and not how to solve them? Hn, pathetic. I left his mind and went into another human's mind.
Again, problems, but this one was thinking about how to solve them. He was also thinking about his family. Two children and his wife. I blinked in slight surprise at how much alike I was and he was in that category. He was heading off to work and was away from them for no more then a half hour and already missed them. Here I stood up on the roof realizing I missed the others back home.
"Hn." I left his mind and my Jagan closed and I tied my bandana around it.
"Remembering how pathetic they are?" someone asked from behind me.
I glanced over my shoulder at Jigoku. "What do you want?" I asked in a cold, emotionless voice.
"Nothing. I just noticed you were using your Jagan eye and became interested." He kept his distance from me and watched me warily.
"'Interested'? Alright, what in Makai do you want to say to me?" I asked, sensing he wanted to say something but was afraid to.
"Nothing," was his quick reply.
/So he's 'interested' about my Jagan eye. Maybe I'll give him a demonstration then./ I thought to myself. I pulled my bandana off and my Jagan eye opened, eager to break the barrier around his mind. Demons were slightly harder to break than humans and considering Jigoku used magic my Jagan hoped he had a strong mental barrier that we could break.
I searched around the barrier, prodding with my mind every now and then to test weak spots. Jigoku's eyes widened as he realized what I was doing. "Wait-- Don't you dare--"
My Jagan found the weakest point and attacked the barrier. Jigoku only knew I was trying to break into his mind because he could see my Jagan glowing an eerie blue. Few could sense when the Jagan was trying to break into their mind. I was one of them.
My Jagan broke the barrier and started rushing through his mind, reading thoughts, viewing memories, learning secrets.
Jigoku had insulted my Jagan eye once before and now we were both looking for something to use against him. In a way… my Jagan had a mind of it's own. I found what I was looking for and moved it from the back of his mind to the front. An image of Hina, my mother.
Jigoku glared at me, his dull crimson eyes full of anger. "You bastard…" He climbed back through the window, leaving me alone.
He wanted to ask me about the Ensatsu Ken. The Darkness flame. He had small hopes of learning it and becoming more powerful then me. I was the master of the Ensatsu Ken and no one else. I wouldn't tell anyone how to use it. As I jumped from the roof and landed on the ground Jigoku came from the front door.
I glared at him and he glared back. No words were said but the air around us heated up and people sensed the inevitable fight as they made their way quickly to the next street. Soon the street was empty.
"Hn, Do you plan to fight fire with fire?" I asked.
"Fight fire with fire? You mean like this?" Jigoku shouted as he threw a ball of fire at me.
I pulled my arms up to cover my face as the ball hit but did nothing. I glared. "You're pathetic."
"I'm pathetic! You're the pathetic one! " Jigoku summoned up another fire sphere.
I summoned up the Darkness sword. "You can't even control your temper."
"Well, I'm sorry if I'm not heartless like you!"
Sora chose that moment to walk out. "…Hiei…?"
I opened my right hand and the Darkness sword disappeared. "Hn."
Jigoku made the flame sphere disappear. He silently walked off.
"Did… I miss something?" Sora asked.
I shook my head. "No, everything's fine."
