Chapter 12: Yuushoureppai, part II of the Nibukyouju

The sounds of swords clashing filled the air as the fight began. Many elements were racing to distract the enemy, while others were negating the attacks.

'Makura assault; 1st kyu 1st rank!' Phire growled, her eyes glowing bloody red. Darkness came into her hand just like Yondaime's rasengan, and then waves of darkness were directed from behind Hiei. As he dodged those, another wave of darkness attacked, and as he dodged 2 more waves, Phire ended up right in front of him and put the "dark rasengan" into Hiei.

'K-kuso,' he thought as he coughed out blood, but then grabbed Phire's wrist, and sent a shock of dark lightning into her. She took the pain as she bit him right in the neck, weakening it. Hiei growled, causing it to increase the pain Phire was feeling, and Phire bit harder because of the pain, so it was like a cycle.

'Shinsei… assault,' Phire thought as she kinetically got her sword out, and it stabbed Hiei right in the back, nearly slicing his spinal cord. She then summoned the moon to come out.

'Shinsei counter!' Hiei thought to himself as he tried to summon a shield, so it would negate the divine waves that would attack him. Unfortunately, it only blocked out 36 of the radiation; the other 64 hit him badly, and then Phire had the advantage.

'Yami no shinsei!' Dark divinity Phire growled. The moon started to become darker, and hints of dark blood were apparent. The moon emitted waves of dark divine into Phire, and then she struck Hiei's Jagan eye, as Hiei was thinking to himself, 'Kenpei nami no bakuha' Power wave blast, striking Phire right in the stomach. As they both coughed out blood, Hiei grabbed Phire's neck, but then lost the grip as she lifted him by sticking her fist into his stomach, lifting him, throwing him into the air, and then increased the regular 9.8 N gravity to 67.8 N gravity, sending Hiei right through the Earth, and into space.

'Kuso,' he thought as he tried to regain balance and somehow fly up.

'Da-ku no dageki!' Dark strike he growled, as he took his sword out, raced against time and space as he went into orbit, and then threw his sword with such an enormous force, right at Phire's forehead.

'I sense something,' Phire thought as she blocked the sword, but it went through her hand, and making it extremely numb to the stage of almost becoming paralyzed.

'I hope I got her this time,' he thought as he raced down into the troposphere from the exosphere, and charged right for Phire, but then as she moved, he grabbed her ankle and twisted it.

'Ow!' she growled as she broke his wrist when she grabbed it. He growled as well in pain, and then the two fell on top of each other.

'Pinned you down, Hiei,' Phire told him telepathically as she stuck her sword into his throat, and by using kinesis, she had 4 shurikans pin his wrists and ankles.

'Great, Phire,' he said, somewhat sarcastically. 'I feel much stronger, though. Now when do you want to start the death match? I think the practice is enough.'

'Hiei, when you learn how to heal yourself, we'll get to the death match,' Phire told him. 'But for now, are you sure you don't want me to heal you?' Hiei growled at her asking him that.

'Phire, the day you aren't there to heal me, I should learn to get over pain quick and fast until the match is completely over. I want to keep fighting you,' Hiei told her, his eyes glowing bloody red, somewhat near Phire's bloody red eye color.

'In addition,' he added in before Phire could say anything, 'you are the only one who can hold out for as long as I want to. Everybody else who trained me needed breaks; you personally don't care, right?' Phire smiled very slightly. She may have trained great warriors, but for someone to dare say such a comment that could get them killed, she was highly impressed of Hiei.

'Well then,' Phire told him as she stuck a kunai directly down his throat through his mouth, 'prove to me that you aren't bluffing about what you just said. It is true; I could train you for more than a year continuously. It all depends upon whether you want to be up for it or not.' Hiei coughed up more blood than ever.

'Shin…shinte…shinteki…no…da…dage…ki,' Hiei thought, as he was trying to form a new mental attack. Lucky enough for him, it worked. Phire felt a piercing shot of pain within her head, and loosened her grip very slightly, but it was enough for Hiei to get out of the shurikans, as they were controlled by her mind, not her physical strength. He then pushed her off and was on top of her. He quickly stuck his sword through her neck, but instead of going straight so it would pin her to the ground, he decided to worsen Phire's condition by sticking it up, severely damaging her brain, including the medulla oblongata, and the cerebrum, but instead of just stopping, he hurt her cerebellum, and then went down, destroying nearly every organ she possessed, but when he got to her "heart", his power started weakening. It was as if her "heart" was absorbing the demonic aura that Hiei was using.

'How can Phire control her heart if I already destroyed most of her brain?' Hiei thought, trying to get his sword out of her. It wouldn't come out, and Hiei got off, but didn't take his sword. It started melting, and Phire was healing, but didn't use her energy to heal; instead, the aura she absorbed from Hiei was used to heal her brain and other organs.

'No freaking way,' Hiei thought as he saw her "heart". He didn't open her chest, but did make a hole where her heart would be a small one, and fainted after looking into her "heart".

'Now I'm convinced that having a dark heart is much more beneficial in battle than one of the light,' Phire thought as she started beating the stuff out of Hiei, using physical strength. He couldn't move, as he felt his energy draining from him.

'Ph-Phire,' Hiei was telling her something telepathically. 'Ph-Phire… your heart is filled with nothing… how do you live with nothing and everything? How is your heart so cruel, and yet we are friends? You aren't evil, and you aren't good… you aren't even neutral, whom goes against the two… what are you? I want a similar type of heart… one that won't interfere with emotions… just like you… kyomu no tomodachi.'

Even though Phire kept attacking him, her attacks were a very slight bit weaker, maybe by around .89, not even 1. If she were to stop, Hiei would growl at her with whatever energy he had, and that would worsen his stamina, so Phire kept attacking, and held nothing back.

'Hiei, I am more than just a demon with dark powers,' was all that Phire told him. She gave another blow, and suddenly, a poisonous kunai was aimed at her, and she used Hiei as a shield, so it went through him, and affected him worse.

'PHIRE, STOP TRYING TO KILL MY BOYFRIEND!' a voice growled through the night. It didn't stop Phire, though. It only made her use much more weaker attacks. Hiei woke up, and told Phire to stop, as he needed to talk to Timber.

'Hai, Hiei-kun,' Phire telepathically told him as she lay him down on the hard, rocky surface. Timber ran over to Hiei and pushed the weakened Phire down the mountain.

'Obutsu, garbage, but it is used for the word meaning, "crap"' Phire thought to herself as she gained balance within the air and flew back up with a bit of difficulty.

'Well, at least Hiei has improved by a dramatic crescendo,' Phire added into her thought, looking at Timber hugging Hiei, cuddling him like a stuffed teddy bear within her arms.

'Hiei, why did she do such a thing to you? I'm so sorry,' Timber told Hiei. Her eyes became of ones like akisame autumn rain, and as they left her eyes, Hiei could feel a dense hitonami stampede within his heart; why, he felt how badly Timber wanted to kill Phire in that same moment she mourned over not being able to protect Hiei.

'Timber, it'-

'No Hiei-chan, don't speak,' Timber interrupted her, hugging him tighter. He hugged her back, but tried to calm her down. It was technically his fault for getting the wounds.

'But Timber,' Hiei explained, 'it wasn't her fault.'

'What do you mean?' Timber asked, confused.

'I asked it from her; I asked her to train me,' Hiei continued after Timber asked her question. Timber looked aghast; her face paled and she was thinking that Hiei was brainwashed by Phire, so he was saying such words.

'Oh no!' she screamed, hugging him tighter. 'She performed sennou no jutsubrainwashing technique on you!' Hiei looked to her and kissed her deeper, and with much more passion, than the amount of pain a mother goes through for her son. Timber froze, and as she kissed him back, he pulled back after 5 minutes, and explained to her again that it wasn't Phire's fault, and she pretended to be convinced.

'Well Hiei, I have to get you healed,' Timber told him, 'so I'll take you home personally, and then we'll do whatever you want.'

'Uh… hai, Timber-san,' Hiei agreed, and fell asleep. As she took him home, Phire watched from the shadows.

'Maybe it is time to leave for good, then,' Phire thought to herself, 'unless of course, Hiei wants me to stay… at this rate, if Timber finds out, I doubt I can stay here alive.' After this thought, she left back to Natura, and when she got to her base, she looked through her research and the books she wrote.

'Something wrong, Phire-san?' a voice asked within the shadows of the wind.

'Nothing, Hinote-ni-chan,' Phire answered. She turned to him, and he was wearing dark flare jeans, along with a muscle top. He touched her shoulders and started giving Phire a massage.

'Don't give that crap to me, sis,' he told her, trying to make her feel comfortable. She sighed.

'I need to help Hiei with his training, but his girlfriend doesn't want me to hurt him, and has the wrong idea, and thinks that I'm killing him on purpose,' Phire told him, lying her head back, facing him. He chuckled.

'That seems to be a hard mission, now doesn't it?' he asked, flicking her forehead. She growled, and then sank into her chair.

'Well, if you want to beat Kiyuna, why don't you do it yourself?' Hinote asked.

'You know how powerful Kiyuna is; besides, the others, like Mizu, are still on his side. You and I are the only ones who are against him, and there is a weakness in Kiyuna that Hiei only knows, not us. I've tried researching it for years and years to come by, and yet I haven't found out anything,' Phire explained to him. He looked serious now, and thought for a while.

'So you are training Hiei to become nearly as strong as you, so when you take Kiyuna down, and he's weakened, but then Kiyuna assumingly might poison you, Hiei will take over and then Kiyuna will finally die, right?' Hinote analyzed the situation from what he knew and what could happen, according to him.

'Hai,' she said, relieved that he finally figured it out. 'I think Hiei just needs a tad bit more training, and he'll be at my level, which is a totally different level from everybody,' she added in. Hinote nodded.

'Yo, let me continue his training. I'm at your level too, you know… I am much stronger when using regular fire powers than you, you know,' Hinote whispered into her ear. She looked up, a little startled, but it was true; she was the best at darkness, while Hinote was the best at nearly all types of fire.

'Good luck, then,' she told him as she got up. Before she went into her room, she stopped.

'Don't forget; Natura sector 12, 1, 11, 5,' Phire told him as she started leaving. He nodded.

'I won't fail you, Phire; I'm on your side for this fight… but are you sure that Hiei will permanently kill Kiyuna?' Hinote thought as he left.