The night was quiet as the fireflies swarmed through the air and lit up the sky even more. The flowers danced along with the wind, as the trees swayed here and there. Rabbits hopped around and went into their burrows. The moon was shining along with the light of the stars and the fireflies. Birds that camouflaged with the darkness soared through the air. This was the usual nighttime for Natura, a place that has many terrains, and they are all natural; no man-made matter existed in Natura.
Hiei woke up around 1 in the morning. It was still dark, and the darkness seemed to soothe him all around like chocolate in one's mouth. He was lying in a bed of carnations, and they melted along with the starry and darkened sky. As he got up, he saw gleaming butterflies wandering within the flowers with such a flirt and flutter.
'What the… so Natura is much more beautiful in the night, eh?' Hiei thought to himself as he slowly got out of the velvet-like carnation bed. He looked around, and he could taste the pure air of darkness.
'This air of darkness… it tastes like special dark chocolate with hints of… kuso, I cannot analyze the whole thing,' he told himself as he "licked" the air. He turned around and saw Phire sleeping in dirt and mud.
'Why is she sleeping there? I should have been the one in mud; she deserved the carnation bed,' Hiei thought to himself as he went over to her. She was sound asleep, or at least that was what Hiei assumed. As he went closer to her, he smelled blood; it was all over her. He took her arm and put it around his shoulder, and carried her to the bed of carnations.
'What the… I feel… warm… no mud, no dirt…no blood… nothing, but warmth,' Phire thought to herself as she started waking up. Hiei was beside the bed, watching her and wiping off her wounds. He also bandaged her with sleeves from his shirt.
'You're awake, Phire,' Hiei said as he put a band-aid on her face. Her eyes were fiery red, or else her normal eye color. She looked right at him, and blushed a little.
'What are you doing?' she asked, as she was trying to get up. He signaled her to just stay down.
'I'm helping your wounds,' he told her. 'Why? Do you not want your friend to help you? So I should just leave you like this? You stink like crap, you know,' he added in. She glared at him a little.
'It usually is normal for me to heal my own wounds by just sleeping,' Phire told him. 'But, if you really want to, I guess you can heal the wounds,' she added in, turning her head to the side, and glanced at the reflection of the moon, which was in the nearby lake.
'May I ask why you didn't get a bed, such as a tree, and just slept on the ground?' Hiei asked her, rubbing one of the wounds on her arms, so the bleeding would stop. She looked at him, and then smiled a little.
'I never sleep in beds; the trees are sacred, and I don't want them dying or getting stained. The only beds that are good are the carnations, sakura blossoms, and daffodils. They give warmth and the mud takes away the pain, as the flowers soothes you and relaxes one,' Phire explained to Hiei.
'Well Phire, knowing the type of warrior you are, you should really get a bed; you deserve it,' Hiei told her. Phire looked at him strangely.
'This whole world hates me for good deeds I do, and now you're telling me to get a bed? What is this human world coming to?' she said, puzzled. Hiei went to her and put an arm around her shoulder.
'Hey, you do deserve a bed even though you think that you may not seem worthy because of the pathetic humans,' Hiei explained to her. Before he could say any more, Phire interrupted him.
'And what am I going to do about the bed, sleep with you? You need the bed more than me; the carnation bed is the only one available at the moment,' Phire told him. As they both blushed, they started laughing and fell on top of each other. As a result, the gap closed rapidly, and stayed closed for a while; why, they really did treasure the sweet moment of friendship.
After a while, Hiei got up, but Phire was still sound asleep, assumingly. He went back to the arctic-like waterfall, and decided to start training there.
'Br, it is cold again,' he thought as he shivered. He shivered less this time, for some odd reason. As he finally reached, he went into the lake part of the waterfall, and stood still, shivering his "pants" off.
'K-k-kuso,' he thought as he forced himself to move. He slowly took his sword out and stabbed himself somewhere near the heart, but not at a critical point. As the pain spread rapidly, it was the same amount of chilliness that Hiei was feeling, and then there was a state of equilibrium; in other words, the two forces cancelled out. Hiei rushed under the waterfall, and as he started getting used to the coldness, his chest pained severely.
'Why must I feel pain now?' he thought as he held his chest. The force of the waterfall was so great, that he was on his knees, holding his chest. He growled, and his firepowers helped him ease the pain from the wound. Now it was only the waterfall he had to worry about.
'I-I can do this with-without Ph-Phire,' he told himself, gritting his teeth. He couldn't expect Phire to save him every time, now could he? He was finally off of one knee, but then as he got up within the speed of gravity, his back ached more than anyone could imagine. He stood still and let the crystal cold-water molecules "freeze" him in place.
'M-m-must l-live with-with-out call-calling for h-help,' he thought to himself as he gritted his teeth even harder, almost breaking them, and clenching his fists, making them bleed. His eyes finally opened, and blood was surrounding him everywhere. All of a sudden, his demonic pyro auraincreased dramatically, and he stood, able to flex himself, the fire power warding off the cold, chilly water that was rushing down onto him, and he was able to stand still with ease for a while. Finally, after many long hours, he collapsed; glad and angry that he could stand for that long.
'M-must d-defeat Ph-Phire,' he thought to himself before he went into a state of coma.
