Chapter 13: Kibuntenkan change of pace

'Timber, what happened to Hiei?' Kurama asked upon the arrival of the two lovebirds. Timber didn't answer.

'Kurama, Hiei's sleeping in your room, as you have all of the medical stuff,' Timber told him sternly. Kurama was surprised to see Timber so serious.

'Hai, but where's Phire?' Kurama asked, worried about her as well. Timber twitched upon hearing Phire's name, but didn't answer.

'Your girlfriend tried to kill Hiei,' Timber muttered, as she laid Hiei on Kurama's bed. Hiei was sleeping, and didn't hear her. Kurama gasped.

'That isn't possible; the two have a tomodachigai true friendship!' Kurama screamed, checking Hiei's wounds. Timber was half-right; Phire was the one who attacked Hiei, but she failed to realize that Phire was helping Hiei train.

'Well then why did she attack Hiei, huh?' Timber demanded an answer. Kurama shrugged, but then had an idea.

'She was probably training him that hard; Hiei has looked for such a creature that could help him train like that,' Kurama explained to Timber, but she was stubborn, and didn't want to listen.

'No! Hiei wouldn't die for such stupidness!' she growled, closing her ears and eyes. Kurama sighed.

'Believe what you want; it will never be the truth,' he muttered as he wrapped bandages around Hiei. Timber ran outside, and Genkai had just arrived after hearing what happened to Hiei from Kurama.

'Are you okay, Timber?' Genkai asked, going over to her. She was crying her eyes out.

'Iie no!' Timber growled, still crying. Genkai noticed that Phire wasn't around; why, she was the one that would once in a while help Timber cheer up.

'Doushita, Timber-san what's the matter, Timber-san?' Genkai asked. Timber looked up at her.

'I don't want Phire training Hiei anymore!' Timber screamed at the top of her lungs. She really didn't want to lose Hiei; why, he was the most precious thing to her, much more precious than a best friend!

'Ittaizentai What on earth? Naze?' Genkai asked. Phire wouldn't kill Hiei, would she?

'Maybe I should get some training from her, then, eh?' Genkai joked around a little, but Timber was serious this time.

'ZAMAWOMIRO see what happens!' Timber growled, still crying. 'YOU'LL DIE, OLD HAG!'

'Then let me see Hiei's condition; it couldn't be that bad,' Genkai said, looking for Hiei. Timber couldn't take any more of this and just ran away.

'Phire, you almost took away my youkou sunshine… I'll take away whatever seems to be most precious of yours,' Timber growled to herself, running, trying to see if she could spy on Phire.

'KUWABARAKUWABARA!' Genkai yelled as she saw Hiei's condition. Blood was still flowing despite the bandages, and he could barely move.

'Shato shut!' Kurama whispered in a yell. Hiei needed peace, and yelling would just make the pain in his head worse.

'Oh, moushikaneru I'm sorry to trouble you,' Genkai apologized as she left. She felt bad and didn't want to make the wound worse.

'Is Phire really that powerful? She is very strange, but trying to kill Hiei? I doubt it, but the wounds…' Genkai kept thinking to herself. She decided to ask Phire herself, so she left. Before she left, though, she kept Keiko in charge of the place.

'Ku…ra…m…a,' Hiei whispered in a very low whisper as he woke up, still very hurt. Kurama looked to him.

'Hai, Hiei?' he said, going over to him.

'Sumimasen sorry,' Hiei told him as he knocked him out with a miraculously huge amount of strength. As Kurama fell, Hiei caught him and put him in bed, and covered him, as well as tied him with the bandages.

'Hm, he looks like a mummy; whoops, I overdid it,' Hiei thought to himself. He chuckled a little, but then left.

'Ow, Hiei has gotten much stronger,' Phire thought as she healed herself. She held her arm in her hand and gritted her teeth. 'Kuso, Timber, he could've come to my level… if you didn't interrupt…' she added into her thought as she looked at her reflection in the river. She had gone back to Natura.

'Hmph, same reflection as usual; wonder what my deceived appearance looks like,' Phire thought to herself as she glanced upon darkness swiveling around, forming the shape of a demon Phire. Hints of dark blue and blood red were there, making the darkness more tempting for others to desire than anything.

'Crap, I sense Timber and… Genkai?' Phire thought to herself as she sensed the presence of two beings with power. She teleported away, and then made a clone of herself, and kept it near the river, so Timber would fight the clone, not Phire.

'Phire…' Timber growled in a low growl. Her claws came out, and her wolf form was starting to truly awaken for once.

'Timber…' Cl. Phire told her, looking right at her. Timber sniffed to see if it really were Phire, and assumed it was; she didn't sense anything less or more.

'Phire, SAIKORO KATAI die hard!' Timber growled at Phire, rushing at her, the full moon's luminous radiance shining down on her like a spotlight.

'Aisu ice,' Phire said calmly, summoning an ice wall, causing Timber to hit it. Timber's eyes gleamed lavender within the moonlight, causing her to become stronger than she already is.

'Shakaku angel of fire,' Timber muttered, a spirit right behind her. It was an angel of fire! Timber held her hands out, and then broke down the ice wall with fire.

'She might be able to summon an angel,' Phire thought, as she didn't move; fire never affected her, so it didn't matter. 'She might be able to summon an angel… but can the angel handle the devil-like powers I locked away years ago?' she thought, closing her eyes. When she opened them, she completely changed. Her eyes were those of evil. She had stitched, and blood flowed from them. Even her sword transformed, and it was like the devil's sword.

'Nani!' Timber gasped, backing away. She always knew Phire was never evil, but Phire had an evil side? Since when did she have those powers? Timber never found out; besides, she was knocked out right after she thought about the questions.

After a while, Genkai found Timber and gasped, along with the gasping mice from the fairly odd parents.

'Timber! Timber!' Genkai tried to wake her up, but she wouldn't wake up. She was merely knocked unconscious, and that too it was painful.

'I guess I have to take you back first,' Genkai thought as she carried Timber out of there.

'Hiei,' the wind whispered. Hiei was at a lake in Natura. He was energetic, and needed to finish his training with Phire.

'Phire, come out,' he said, taking his sword out. He stopped, though, and thought for a minute, but was a minute too late; he was attacked.

'Nani!'He growled, clashing swords with the mysterious person. When Hiei was sniffing the enemy, it seemed a bit weaker than Phire, but it seemed really close to her. When he sensed the elemental power, though, it surpassed Phire's regular state.

'Yo,' the mysterious person greeted Hiei. His eyes gleamed with radiant fire, and his position stated that he was a sort of hunter, but more like a warrior, just not like Phire, though.

'Who are you?' Hiei asked, glaring death at him. He chuckled.

'I am Ranpu Hinote,' he told him. Hiei looked strangely at him.

'Ranpu? Wasn't that Phire's last name?' he thought. At one point, Hiei had found her wallet during training, and smashed it right in her face, but he had seen her ID card, and he remembered seeing Ranpu on it.

'Well, Juganshi Hiei,' Hinote told him, 'aren't you going to fight me? Or did Phire weaken you that bad? She is a mighty fine beast for one thing, but she, or else my cousin, is one of the best warriors, even though I am better than her.'

'How did you know my name?' Hiei glared at him, Hiei's eyes turning black with hints of blood. Hinote noticed.

'So Phire seriously trained you,' he thought. Hiei heard him and answered.

'Yea she did, why?' Hiei asked, looking at him. Hinote chuckled again, but had an evil glint in his eye.

'Well, I guess you really have no clue at the moment, right?' he said as he suddenly pinned Hiei to the lake. Hiei got out, and then head locked Hinote, who dodged him and burned Hiei's wrist, causing it to numb.

'You see, Phire is powerful, but when it comes to true fire temperatures and fighting, I definitely overpower her,' he told Hiei, who growled. The fire that Hinote used seemed to burn much more than Hiei could handle, and was more painful than Phire's fire attacks, only because the temperature was about 3,478 K more!

'So you are basically training me now? What about Phire?' Hiei asked, quickly shuffling back with a jump.

'Yes I am, and she has to heal her wounds; this was one of the first times I've seen her hurt this bad,' Hinote told Hiei. 'Besides, she didn't want to summon her actual strength; she rarely does, and she knows that she needs to summon it in your case, but she didn't want to hurt you with it,' Hinote added in.

'Really? She did seem weaker when we fought,' Hiei said, thinking, but keeping his guard up.

'So are you ready to start or what?' Hinote asked, but Hiei already slashed his back badly with his katana.

'I've always been ready,' Hiei smirked as the two fought.