Chapter 16: "Tomodachigai, or Netsuai?" part I

Kiyuna went over to Phire, who was chained up in poisonous chains, and injected more poison into her. She was about to growl, but Kiyuna put his hand over her mouth. She couldn't breathe through her nose, and now her mouth was blocked. She nearly suffocated, but Kiyuna let go, and she growled louder than a kid losing a doll.

'Don't…' Phire was trying to tell Kiyuna something. Kiyuna looked at her as he snapped, and Timber was chained next to Phire.

'Don't what?' Kiyuna asked Phire, putting extra chains on Timber, who was nearly suffocating from them. Kiyuna left with an evil laughter, and Phire struggled to cope up with the poison. She couldn't die; and the pain that people could feel but they don't because they die was the pain she was feeling, and she was nearly losing her voice.

'Tim…ber,' Phire tried to wake Timber up. Timber wouldn't wake up, but she was breathing.

'He gave her a sleeping drug, kuso,' she thought to herself. Phire struggled to get out, but the poison consumed her so much, and they just took away her energy, she could barely move. She knew what she had to do, and it was for the better; at least, that is what she thought.

Hiei never stopped running despite his muscles aching badly. He finally found the underworld after 2 days exactly from the day he started. When he tried to enter, the guards wouldn't let him, but he took them down with ease; the fury in him would explain how he had gotten extremely powerful.

'Phire, where are you? I just reached the underworld,' Hiei telepathically tried to reach Phire. Phire heard him, but decided against answering; her head was consumed and damaged badly, the message wouldn't reach Hiei.

'Kuso, she won't answer, but I know she's in here,' Hiei thought. 'She couldn't have been hurt that bad, could she?' Just then, a trail of fire ignited, and strangely enough, it was as though it was meant to show the way to Hiei.

'How obvious! Of course, a trail of fire makes sense, especially in this type of place,' Hiei thought as he followed it. It would twist and turn, and when it stopped, Hiei almost fell off of a cliff.

'Holy monkey,' he thought to himself as he wiped the hot tears off of his forehead. He looked to see a clearing, and it looked like an arena.

'An arena in a place like this?' Hiei thought, but then thought of another idea. 'Of course, Kiyuna must be nearby,' Hiei added into his thought as he ran down to the arena. When he reached, there was a chilly wind going past Hiei's face. It cooled him down, but then it was icy wind.

'Come out, Kiyuna,' Hiei growled, getting away from the wind. It turned into ice, and then it exploded. Hiei realized that it was an ice bomb; first it freezes on contact, and then exploded.

'Very clever intuition, Hiei,' Kiyuna told Hiei as he stabbed him in the back with a kunai. Hiei growled and kicked him right in the shin, but then Kiyuna exploded and the real Kiyuna came out.

'You fool; you have shown yourself too early,' the real Hiei was behind Kiyuna, stabbing him in the back of the throat. Kiyuna glared at him, and moved away.

'So you are smart, just like in Phire's description in you,' Kiyuna wiped the blood off of his mouth and told Hiei. Hiei glared ultimate death at him.

'You are going DOWN, Kiyuna! You are going beyond hell; the nightmare illusions world!' Hiei growled, his sword in his hand glowing blood red with hints of darkness. Kiyuna chuckled.

'Fool, I'll let you go if you let me kill either Timber or Phire,' Kiyuna said as he snapped. Both of their bodies were in chains, and the wall appeared with the two, hurt badly.

'Timber! Phire!' Hiei yelled, about to run to the two, but then Kiyuna stopped him.

'Choose one or I'll kill both; of course, isn't love the thing you've had longer than friendship?' Kiyuna asked, messing with Hiei's head. Hiei growled.

'Let them both go, you bastard!' Hiei growled. 'They both mean nearly everything to me!' Kiyuna looked right at him, and had an evil smirk way beyond malevolence.

'Oh really?' he said as he snapped, the chains that bound Phire to the wall emitting more poison into her body. She yelled miserably, and more blood oozed out of her. Hiei couldn't take it and punched Kiyuna right in the face.

'Now you've made me mad,' Kiyuna growled, snapping again, the chains that bound Timber tightening to suffocate her. Hiei twitched miserably and growled even louder. He then ran to the middle of the wall, and looked back and forth at Timber and Phire. If he were to quickly save one, Kiyuna would kill the other before Hiei would even try to save the other.

'Now if you defeat me,' Kiyuna added, wanting to make things more interesting, 'I'll let them both go, but you have to scream the name of one of them that you would have saved first. I'll let you have both of them, but you have to defeat me first.' Hiei looked at Kiyuna. If he could torture Phire this miserably, and Hiei hasn't even defeated Phire, what was the chance that Hiei could defeat Kiyuna? Just then, fire molecules that somehow appeared in his eyes blinded Kiyuna.

'Nani!' Hiei thought, but realized that it was Hinote who finally came. He felt relieved a little.

'Hiei, I'll give you my power; I do not know how to defeat Kiyuna, but you may know, and with the right power, you can and will,' Hinote told him, touching his third eye and transferring his great amount of firepowers, including fighting techniques, into Hiei. Hiei growled, trying to adapt to the major increase in power, and managed. Hinote's body collapsed, and Hiei put him near Phire.

'This all will not be in vain!' Hiei growled, his eyes almost literally on fire, looking right at Kiyuna. Kiyuna smirked and took his sword out.

'This will be interesting; Hinote was very clever with his powers, especially when he fought Phire's fire with fire,' Kiyuna said, laughing. 'But he's turned into a foolish teen!' The anger in Hiei that had built up from a while ago burst out in the form of darkness. Hiei, with incredible and god-like speed, attacked Kiyuna, and it was a big blow, too. Kiyuna fell back, and he threw a shurikan at Hiei, who dodged it with ease.

'Whoa, where did he get such power? Hinote never had such power,' Kiyuna thought. Just then, Hiei stabbed Kiyuna right in the stomach, and instead of going straight through, went up, but unfortunately missed his heart, and could only go up to his medulla.

'Kuso,' Hiei thought to himself. He really wanted to kill Kiyuna, and to do it; it would take much more than this. Hiei gathered an immense amount of darkness in his hand, and gave fire to his sword, which was glowing bloody dark red. As he combined the two, Kiyuna was making a combo of his own, but used divinity and darkness.

'Divirk blast!' Kiyuna growled, his fist, which had divine aura and dark aura surrounding it, stabbing Hiei directly in the jagan eye. In that moment, Hiei struck the sword through Kiyuna's right wrist, and paralyzed it, causing most of Kiyuna's source of power to diminish. Since Hiei had built up an immune system to poison, or at least learned it from Kurama, who taught him a while ago, the poison Kiyuna was spreading to Hiei did not affect him in terms of poison, but in terms of pain, yes.