'Why, what do we have here?' the evil stranger approached Phire and Hiei, but seemed to have his attention towards Phire. She was moaning in pain so unbearable, so painful, it was worse than hell.
'Who are you?' Hiei growled, blocking his sight of Phire by standing in front of her. She looked up at Hiei, and her eyes turned bloody red, but had hints of calm, ocean blue within them.
'R-run, H-iei,' Phire whispered, trying to get up. Hiei glanced at her and thought that she was drunk or something for her to tell him that.
'Are you crazy, Phire? I'm not leaving you,' Hiei told her telepathically.
'Aw, Phire-chan, you have a little kareshi boyfriend supporting you, how cute,' he told Phire. Phire glared death at him, or at least tried to. He was about to slash her throat when Hiei clashed swords with him.
'Leave her out of this,' Hiei growled, his eyes gleaming with green moonlight. Phire coughed out dark blood.
'Hiei-kun, this is… is… my…sensei,' Phire told him, trying to get up. Hiei picked her up and moved back.
'And she's NOT my girlfriend!' Hiei growled. 'She's my meiyuu sworn friend' Hiei told Kiyuna. Phire looked up at him in surprise. Blood dripped down her face from her eyes as she coughed out more blood, and then rested her head against his chest, tired.
'Yea yea, deny it all you want; you two look too cute together to be saying that you guys are just friends,' Kiyuna chuckled and told them, leaving. 'Phire, you remember that it is time to go; I mean, you finished your job, right?' Kiyuna asked her. Phire did finish her job, but she was so attached to Hiei, she didn't want to leave, but she never had her way, what made her thought that after so many years, she'd get her way?
'Well,' Phire started, but then Kiyuna snapped, and Phire was thrown into the air by gravity that Kiyuna controlled. Kiyuna grabbed Phire and was about to teleport, but then Hiei bit his arm, getting a piece of his sleeve off, as well as flesh and blood.
'Hiei-kun,' she muttered as she fainted. Hiei pushed Kiyuna hard to the ground, but then Kiyuna teleported out of there with Phire.
'PHIRE!' he growled, trying to grab her out of his grip, but it was too late; she was gone. Hiei fell on his knees and with his fists, made fissures by punching the ground.
'Kuso, she's gone! Only because I'm such a friggin weakling!' Hiei growled out loud. He looked up into the sky, and it started turning normal. He looked into his hand, and had the piece of cloth.
'Kiyuna, when I find you, you are going down!' Hiei growled. 'And I'm going to take everything away from you!'
'Hiei, there you are!' a relieved yell called out to Hiei. Hiei looked and it was Genkai holding Timber. Hiei immediately ran and got Timber out of her grasp.
'What's going on?' Genkai asked Hiei. Hiei didn't answer.
'Who did this to Timber?' Hiei asked, his eyes gleaming with fire like no other type. Genkai sighed.
'You see, she went out looking for Phire to kill her, but Phire just knocked her out with ease, not trying to kill her, and didn't,' Genkai explained to the worried and anxious Hiei. He sighed in relief that her damage was only minor. Hiei hugged Timber tightly, and the purest tears splashed on the grass.
'Hiei, you're crying,' Genkai told him, smiling a little. Hiei growled; he couldn't be crying; he had too much at stake and needed to fight; there was no time for emotions!
'Genkai, once Timber is fully healed, I will have to be going somewhere important,' Hiei told her, holding Timber tighter and closer than usual. He held her tight and snug, but then carried her bridal style as Genkai and Hiei left back to the others.
'Hiei, where's Phire?' Genkai asked. A small tear trickled down his face when she mentioned Phire's name, but he shook his head and sped up. As he reached, Timber woke up.
'Hiei-chan!' Timber exclaimed in a weak yet happy voice as she hugged him. He smiled for once and hugged her back.
'Timber, listen to me carefully,' Hiei told her as he put her down gently once they got inside. Everybody was in the living room waiting, and they greeted Genkai and Hiei.
'What is it, Hiei-chan?' she asked, glad to have the sunshine come out of the thunderstorm.
'I'm not brainwashed, and I really did ask Phire to go as hard on me as possible in training,' Hiei explained. He didn't have time; who knows what would happen to Phire, especially in the hands of Kiyuna, someone related to the devil. He couldn't take any chance whatsoever.
'But Hiei,' Timber tried to tell him that Phire almost killed her, or what Timber assumed, but Hiei wouldn't stop. He was just so confused. He loved Timber so much, and Phire meant a lot to him, as she was his meiyuu. He didn't know what to do.
'No, really Timber, Phire didn't try to hurt you; she only knocked you out for a while because you attempted to attack her,' Hiei told Timber. Timber felt like crying; she couldn't bare the fact that her best friend attacked her nushi in this case, lover, but Timber knew that Phire wouldn't do such a thing, knowing how close as friends to Hiei she was.
'I see,' Timber said, looking down. She then started crying.
'What is it, Timber?' Hiei asked, feeling bad that she was crying again. He just wanted Timber to be happy, and he wanted to be with her and have a happy life with her, but he was tearing apart as he couldn't be happy or cheer up anyone at the moment. What was he to do?
'I'm sorry!' she said as she kissed him. Hiei kissed her back with the utmost passion that anybody could show to his or her partner, and hugged her tighter.
'Timber?' Hiei broke the kiss after many a minute 30 minutes.
'Hai?' she asked, awaiting the words of whatever Hiei had to say. Hiei was about to tell her about Phire, but remembered that Phire told him not to tell anybody, so he had to do something, but didn't want to.
'I'm sorry, but you won't remember anyways, so,' he said as he knocked her out badly. Everybody gasped, but then he knocked them all out, too.
'Phire-san, I'm coming for you,' Hiei told her telepathically as he ran through the forest. He sniffed the cloth, and he sensed that Kiyuna was in the underworld.
'Hiei, will you let Phire die, or agree to losing your love?' Kiyuna's evil voice filled the background.
