Chapter 17: "Tomodachigai, or Netsuai?" part II

'Hiei, choose either your friend or your girlfriend,' Kiyuna muttered, who was in a great deal of pain. Hiei could barely move or do anything, but shook his head, and when he tried to attack Kiyuna, he had his wrist grabbed by Kiyuna and broken.

'Grrrrrrr!' Hiei growled in pain, but couldn't give up, after so much hard work and training. He just had to defeat Kiyuna. Kiyuna could not stay alive.

'Take this; Kasai assault!' Hiei growled, attacking Kiyuna with his other wrist, fire surrounding it. Kiyuna used water to put out the fire, and grabbed Hiei's other wrist, breaking it as well.

'Give up, Hiei; you used up Hinote's power; and for what? Nothing,' Kiyuna told him, trying to make him give up.

'I will never'-

'YOU FOOL! THEN I'LL SEND YOU TO THE NIGHTMARE ILLUSIONS MYSELF!' Kiyuna growled, throwing Hiei into a wall with sharp spikes and thorns. Hiei moaned in pain, but then suddenly felt better, in his mind, anyways.

'Kiyuna, stop,' a voice whispered. Kiyuna looked to Phire's corpse, which was actually a clone! And Timber's was a clone, too!

'PHIRE!' Kiyuna yelled out loud. 'GET OUT HERE AND FIGHT ME, YOU BAKA!' Phire came out, bloody and "ripped apart", and had Timber with her, who was still unconscious. There was dead silence; all that was heard was Phire's breathing; the low, miserable breathing.

'Ph…Phire?' Hiei looked up, seeing Phire stand in front of him with Timber in her hands. From the corner of his eye, Hiei saw the corpses fading, and that resulted in Phire bleeding more from the head. She fell on one knee, but then gently put Timber down, and got Hiei out of the spikes and thorns.

'Phire! What are you doing! You are disobeying me! I am your sub-conscious!' Kiyuna growled. Phire glared at him with bloody red eyes bloodier than a fresh corpse.

'You do not control me anymore, unless you haven't noticed,' Phire said in a kind of low voice due to her injuries. She looked to Hiei.

'Hiei, love means much more to you, right? Take Timber and I'll teleport you out of here along with Hinote. Live the best and take care of yourself and Timber,' Phire told him. Hiei couldn't believe what Phire was saying; was this for real?

'Phire, stop joking, you are coming as well after we take care of'-

'Hiei, leave now!' Phire growled in pain. 'Leave with Timber, I'll keep Hinote safe, so it will less burden you, now GO!' Hiei felt stunned; he couldn't leave Phire, and in this state, how was she going to kill Kiyuna?

'HIEI!' Phire growled, her sword out. 'Go or I will never forgive you for giving me the sense of actual friendship!' Hiei couldn't bear to see Phire struggle to yell, so he nodded hesitantly, wiped the tears off of his face, carried Timber and had Phire teleport himself and Timber back to the forest.

'Kiyuna, I want freedom; you've given me a sense of so much knowledge, tatsujin, but still… I don't have to let you live after all the crap you made me go through,' Phire told him. 'Even if it did benefit…'

'Phire, would you really want me to die? After all the good times'-

'GOOD! ARE YOU MAD! THAT WAS CRAP! YOU FRIGGIN BASTARD!' Phire yelled, darkness surrounding her, along with Gogyou and extra divine and dark elements. This was the last shot to defeat Kiyuna, assumingly, and Phire was ready to kill him. Kiyuna built up his energy, but Phire was quicker and hit him, but he did hit her despite the damage he took, and sent her flying. Kiyuna died, and Phire was merely breathing; breathing as low as the cry of an ant.