Chapter 1: Lost Hina, Lost Love

Deep in the outskirts of Makai in a huge plain away from the danger of the woods, a large house built for five sat next to the river as a pair of now seven year old twins ran around playing tag.

"No far I caught you Hiei."

Yukina cried frustrated trying to tag her quick moving brother.

Sometime around the age of five Hiei had become very fast. He moved so quickly that barely anyone except his father could see him.

Yukina spun in a circle trying to touch the fast streak of blue that buzzed by her she laughed as she felt what seemed like a hand tickle the back of her neck.

"Hiei you're cheating, you know I can't run that fast. If you don't stop I'm going to tell mommy that you were the one who cut up her black roses playing with daddy's sword."

Hiei sighed in defeat and stopped next to his sister.

"Tattle tell….. So what are we going to play now? I was having fun."

Yukina frowned thinking hard about what they should do next, they had been playing tag for over an hour now and she was getting bored because she could not catch her brother.

She scratched her chin and poked out her bottom lip.

"I GOT IT! Let's play tea party, you dress up as daddy, and I be mommy."

Hiei stuck out his tongue in disgust.

"No way how come we always have to play what you wanna play. You're spoiled and I don't want to play with you anymore."

Hiei smirked, he was only joking but he knew that it would upset his sister and make her cry, and that is exactly what he wanted.

Yukina was older than him by twenty minutes but he wanted it to seem like he were the mean older brother and he got his wish.

Yukina's eyes watered up as her bottom lip quivered, she balled up her small fist and began chasing Hiei around the yard, crying because she could not catch up to him.

Hiei laughed as he smiled back at his little sister. He began taunting her, telling her that she could never catch him only to get her even angrier.

He was so busy looking at the different shades of red her face was turning, that he didn't have enough time to stop himself before he collided into his father's arms.

Kage lifted Hiei onto his shoulder then he grabbed his raging daughter and rocked her into his chest.

"Now what is it sweetheart?"

He asked already knowing the answer to the question as he glanced at his son.

"He...sniffs...He said he didn't want to play with me anymore and...Sniff...he called me spoiled."

Yukina broke into tears truly hurt about what her brother said to her.

Kage set Yukina on the ground and attempted to calm her down.

"Don't cry sweetheart, look Daddy will beat him up for you is that better?"

Yukina nodded her head as she wiped a few tear gems from her eyes and stuck them into her pocket.

Kage smiled and grabbed Hiei from his shoulder he put his son into a head lock and pretended to punch him in the head.

Hiei laughed happily and attempted to fight his father back. Kage chuckled and pinned his son to the ground, as he began to tickle him.

"Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha... please stop...Ha Ha Ha Ha...Stop"

Hiei kept laughing as his father tickled him harder.

"Yukina come on, he was picking on you and you should be over here helping."

Yukina cheered and ran over to help her father in the tickle war with Hiei.

"Ok son this can stop when ever you want, all you have to do is apologize to your sister."

Hiei was laughing so hard that he could barely breathe, but he was not ready to give up that easily.

"NEVER!"

Hiei cried in vengeance. Kage broke out laughing.

"Man you are one stubborn kid. Oh well I guess the tickling won't be stopping anytime soon."

Yukina and Kage continued to tickle little Hiei until tears weld up in his eyes.

"OK OK!...I'm...I'm...I'mmmmmm HA HA HA...SORRY!"

Yukina cheered her victory and jumped on Hiei. Kage picked them both up and proceeded to throw them in the air and catch them.

Both children screamed in joy as they played with their father.

Just then Hina ran outside, worried after hearing her children scream.

"What's going on? What's happening? Are the children ok?" Kage set his twins on the ground and ran over to Hina, picking her up bridal style.

"Calm down they were laughing, not crying, damn you are going to give yourself a heart attack worrying like that."

Hina put on a fake smile she couldn't help but worry, ever since that day in the woods when they were just babies, she never got over the fact of almost losing them.

So since then she was very protective especially with Hiei, who managed to get into all types of trouble. Kage smiled as he purposely drops his wife on the ground and fell on top of her.

He straddled her hips and then planted a passionate kiss on her lips. Hina moaned as she wrapped her arms around his neck. They rolled down towards the river and continue their little make out session there while their children watched.

"Ewww dad your kissing a girl. Your gonna get the cooties."

Hiei scrunched up his face as he watched his parents. Yukina frowned.

"You don't get cooties from girls dummy, you get them from vegetables."

"No you don't you get them from icky girls." Hiei argued.

"No you don't watch I'll show you."

Yukina grabbed Hiei and kissed him on the cheek.

"Gross! My sister just kissed me eww. Call for help." Hiei pretended to faint on the ground which really pisses Yukina off.

"Get up stupid I did not give you cooties and you know it."

Hiei opened one eye and frowned at Yukina.

"What ever, I'm outta here this is getting boring."

Hiei got up and walked towards the house door ready to go inside until he spotted his father's sword sitting against the side of the house.

"Hmmm...Maybe I won't go inside just yet."

Hiei smirked and grabbed his father's sword.

He ran into the woods thinking nobody saw him but Yukina saw him and she wasn't about to let him get away with this.

She ran towards her parents about to squeal until she remembered how Hiei called her a tattle tail.

"I am not a tattle tail…..But I have to tell daddy...No I can't do that."

Yukina remembered how she saw Hiei get a beating the last time he took his father's sword and ran off.

She didn't want to see that again or hear the sound of her brother's crying, so she decided to go after him herself.

Kage and Hina didn't seem to notice as both their children ran into the woods.

Kage finally broke the kiss between them and grinned down at Hina.

She was so beautiful in his eyes and he wanted to prove that.

"How about we go inside and finish this?" he spoke seductively.

"Ok but first let's feed the kids."

Hina looked to the spot where her children were just standing.

She shrugged her shoulders. "Hm, I guess they went inside?"

Kage got off of Hina and helped her up.

"I guess so, why don't you go inside and tell them to get ready, I'll catch some fish."

She nodded and walked inside the house while Kage removed his shoes about to jump into the water.

He took off his cloak, tossed it on the ground with his shoes and jumped in. He dunked his head under the water a few times and then began to swim.

"Let's see... here fishy, fishy, fishy." he taunted.

Kage loved to swim unlike his son who never took a liking to being under water.

He remembered a time when he had tossed Hiei in the water trying to teach him how to swim.

He had watched as his son got really mad and tried to boil the whole river.

Kage figured it was the fact that Hiei was a little shorter than the rest, so his feet never really touched the ground when he floated in the river.

Yukina on the other hand was a perfect swimmer, despite the fact that she was just as short as Hiei.

But, he never blamed his son for being self-conscious after all he was the same way when he was younger.

Kage never thought he was strong enough so he always trained but now here was his son, and Hiei was already stronger than Kage was when he was seven.

"I really expect a lot from that boy." Kage smiled as he continued to think about his boy.

Then suddenly his thoughts were interrupted.

"Ah ha!"

Kage dunked under the water and grabbed a large fish, that had just swam past his feet.

"Gotcha!"

He yanked the fish above water, wrestling it into submission.

Kage swam over to the bank and tossed it onto the ground. He climbed out of the water and stood on all fours, as he shook himself dry.

Kage then picked up the fish and proceeded to walk towards the house, when all of a sudden his wife runs out frantically.

"They're not here, THEY'RE NOT HERE! Are they out here with you? Kage I can't find them."

Hina turned around again and again searching for her children.

"Hina calm down, I'm sure they didn't go far, let's jus..."

Kage froze dead in the middle of his sentence as he looked towards the spot where his sword use to be.

"Oh no... They went into the woods."

Hina blinked confused.

"What?"

"Hiei took my sword, and Yukina must have followed him trying to bring him back. Look we don't have time to think this over. We have to find them before someone else does. Come on let's go!"

Hina didn't protest as she followed her husband into the woods.

Deep inside Makai Woods:

Hiei ran around different trees swinging his father's sword around like a pro.

He chopped down a couple of branches then jumped up and cut right down the middle of a small tree branch.

"This is great, with this sword I can be the strongest around."

Hiei admired his father sword as something crept up behind.

"I already know your there."

He sighed as Yukina jumped from behind a bush ready to jump on him.

"How did you know?"

Hiei shook his head as he turned towards his sister.

"Call it..."

"THE TWIN'S SIXTH SENSE." they both completed together.

"Yea whatever." cried Yukina.

"You just better hurry up and get that sword back before dad notices."

"Yea, Yea I know, just give me a few more minutes."

"No we have to take it back now!"

Yukina grabbed the sword in Hiei's hand and attempted to pull it away from him.

They both began tug-o-war with the sword, each trying to get it away from the other.

"Man you're annoying….. just let GO!"

Hiei yelled at Yukina but before his sister could respond her body jolted to the left and slammed into a tree. Hiei watched as she fell limp to the ground.

"YUKINA!"

He ran over to his fallen sister. He lifted her head onto his lap and attempted to wake her up.

"Get up, come on please...GET UP!"

Hiei continued to shake her violently.

"Oh she won't be getting up anytime soon." said a voice from behind a tree.

Hiei looked up and out stepped a tall man he looked human, but Hiei felt a terribly strong power coming from him.

He had a long face and in the middle of his forehead was a dot. His black hair was pushed flat against his head and he had a nasty smirk on his face.

Hiei got an ill feeling so he lifted his sister onto his back and got ready, in case he had to run.

"Who are you? Why are you here? Did you do this to my sister?"

Before another question could escape his lips Hiei found himself pinned to the tree by this large man.

He grabbed Yukina and held her to his chest in a fatherly manner.

"My name is Sensui."

The man spoke with such venom that it made Hiei shiver.

"That's a nice sword you have there, little fellow. It looks like the one that belonged to Kage. He's an old friend of mine and he owes me a little favor. So how about you hand the sword over, so I won't have to take it from your dead little fingers."

Hiei was frightened by the calm look on Sensui's face. He had been approached by some fierce looking demons before, but none ever looked this calm.

He wanted to run as far away as he could, but he couldn't leave his sister behind, and he wasn't about to let this man take his father's sword.

"NO! It's not yours!" yelled Hiei.

This not only surprised Sensui but it made him very angry.

He used his left hand to keep Hiei pinned to the tree as he used his right hand to pull Yukina away from his chest.

He wrapped his long fingers around her neck and held her out for Hiei to see.

"I don't think you understood me clearly. Hand over that sword or I'll break her pretty little neck."

Sensui proved that he was not joking by tightening the grip he had on Yukina's neck making her already pale face scrunch in pain.

"NO! Leave her alone she doesn't have anything to do with this." whispered Hiei as he lowered his head to his chest, tears threatening to fall from his eyes. He hated showing weakness.

"What was that?" laughed Sensui "I don't think I heard you clearly."

"HE SAID LET HER GO!"

Kage stepped into the scene followed closely by Hina.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY DAUGHTER!" She stared at her daughter's body being held like a rag doll, in the hands of this strange man.

Sensui smiled at all the attention he was getting.

"Fine take her." he said as he tossed Yukina over to Hina.

She caught her carefully and broke down to her knees as she rocked her little daughter. Kage watched with rage as he saw how poorly this man was treating his baby girl.

"YOUR DEAD!" he screamed as he charged towards Sensui.

"Bring it on." taunted Sensui as he grabbed the sword from Hiei's hand and dropped him to the ground.

"Hina take the kids back to the house. I can handle this by myself."

Sensui noted the fact that Kage did not want his family to get hurt.

So he thought up a quick plan to get him fired up.

"Ok. But be careful." sobbed Hina as she got up and ran over to where Hiei was dropped.

She leaned over her son and notice that he was frozen in fear.

"Hiei….. Sweetheart…. Come on it's time to go."

She kept trying to get him to move but Hiei would not budge. Sensui felt that this was a good time to put his plan into action.

He ran towards Kage as if he was going to attack him but instead threw the sword behind him and plunged it right into Hina's back.

She cried in shock as the sword went right through her body, piercing her heart and coming out the other side.

Blood dripped from her back and her body fell to the ground. Hiei snapped out of his trance and jumped up to catch his mother's body.

Her body dropped heavily into his arms as he turned her over to see her face... she was smiling.

Blood was dripping from the corner of her mouth and loose tear gems dropped from her eyes.

"...Hiei please be a good boy and take care of your sister."

Hiei was confused at what his mother was saying. She wasn't going to die... was she?

"Mom what are you saying? Come on get up. PLEASE!"

Hiei felt his mother's head get heavy in his arms as her eyes slid close and her breathing ceased.

"... MOM?...MOM PLEASE GET UP! YOU CAN'T DIE! YOU WON'T DIE PLEASE. I'M SORRY, I'LL PUT DADDY'S SWORD BACK! JUST PLEASE DON'T DIE!"

Hiei dropped his head onto his mother's chest and began to cry.

Black tear gems fell to the ground as he cried. They sparkled brightly as they dropped from his cheeks.

"He cries black tear gems. That's weird."

Sensui thought as he watched the whole scene with amusement.

He then turned his attention to Kage who had dropped to his knees on the ground as he watched his son hold his wife's bloody body in his hands.

"No..." he whispered. "She can't be gone."

Sensui smiled he had done what he came to do. He broke Kage down, to the point that he could barely speak.

"Well I guess my job here is done. I would kill you right now…. but I want you to live with the guilt of not being able to save your precious wife."

Sensui took off running into the woods but not before yelling.

"Oh and Hiei…. I'll be seeing you later kid! We'll talk good business about those tear gems of yours."

Hiei continued to cry as he grabbed Yukina's still unconscious body and pulled her into a tight hug.

"I promise mommy ...I promise I'll take good care of her just for you."

Kage had finally gotten up and walked over to his wife's dead body. He had a blank look on his face that no one could read.

Hiei looked up to his father with tear filled eyes.

"Dad... I'm sorry I didn't mean to..."

"Don't talk, just come. Bring your sister and pick up those tear gems."

The look on Kage's face never left, he never looked at his son and his words were eerily calm. Kage picked up his wife's body pulled the sword from her back and preceded to walk home.

Hiei trudged slowly behind his father with his head low. He did not know that this was the end of his innocent childhood.

END

Poor Hina I know…. Well that's the end of my first chapter. Review and tell me what you think. If I get good reviews I will update soon.

Preview Of Chapter 2:

"PLEASE DADDY STOP!" cried Yukina, as she fought against her father's strong grip. "You just had to look like her. YOU JUST HAD TO REMIND ME OF WHAT I WANT TO FORGET!" Kage yelled as he tossed his daughter onto the bed. "Well now you have to pay."

Hiei dropped the fish in his hands, as he heard a scream come from inside of the house...