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Hiei stood outside of my room on my balcony, staring in. Did he expect me to let him in?

I considered yelling for the guards, but I figured I could handle this one on my own. I didn't let him in. I had no reason to. I did, however, keep an eye on him as I sat on my lounging couch and started to read a book.

He broke my glass door. I jumped, and watched as he walked in, smirking.

"What business do you have here? Leave!" I stood.

"Or what?" His smirk grew and he continued toward me.

"I'll kick you so hard, you'll land in Human world." I suspected that he came here to fight. Well, he'd get what he wanted and this time. He'd lose for sure.

He just laughed. "In the condition you're in, I'm surprised you can even lift one leg, let alone kick me."

"Using your Jagan Eye, huh? I wonder what would happen if I poked that out of your head?"

He glared. "If you even think about it, I'll kill you."

This time I laughed. "Shall I get you a stepladder? What are you going to do, bite my ankles?" That did the trick.

He drew his sword and ran toward me. I jumped up into the air and threw some balls (blasts) of energy at him, and in front of him, causing him to have to keep switching his route to get close to me. That slowed him down a little. Slowing him down was good. I was slow because of my sore muscles, and my slowing him down made it a little bit more even.

He disappeared. I knew this trick and spun around, kicking him into one of the walls. I was surprised he didn't go through it. I landed.

He disappeared again and appeared on my right. Unfortunately, I couldn't turn fast enough. He slashed at my arm, creating a large gash. I tried to kick him again, but he grabbed my ankle and twisted it. It snapped.

I couldn't let myself feel the pain. While he still had a tight grip on my ankle, I flipped backward and slammed him into the floor, and he returned the favor by pulling me down. I hit the ground just as hard as he did, only he was the quicker one to get up. He grabbed my hair and threw me across the room. I crashed into what was left of my balcony door and was covered in glass shards. I got up and threw another energy blast, this one hitting his shoulder, knocking his sword out of his hand.

This was the perfect opportunity. I got up and, ignoring my complaining ankle, ran toward him and punched him in the face, sending him flying into, and destroying, my lounge couch. I'd have to get a new one of those.

We continued fighting, both of us willing to kill the other for hours. The guards kept trying to intervene but I commanded them to stay back. This was my fight. I was going to win it. Both of us sustained more and more injuries as time went on. I shattered some of his ribs, and tore his left arm out of place and he had various other injuries. He had succeeded in crushing my right wrist and blood was rushing down the side of my face where he's thrown me into my mirror. I'd repaid him by using one of the larger mirror shards to rip into the side of one of his legs.

After a few hours, neither of us could really walk straight.

He smirked. "You may not be… As weak as I thought…"

"And you… I didn't have to get you a stepladder…" I responded, also smirking.

I could sense my father again. He'd returned to Gandhara. I knew Hiei could sense him too. He grabbed his sword and lunged toward me for a fatal blow. I used what little I had left to dodge and throw him out my window. He didn't come back in. The coward! So afraid of my father…

My father burst into the room, and the guards parted. "Rein!" He stopped in front of me. I must have looked worse than I thought because he was speechless.

Finally, after a moment, he spoke. "When did Hiei get here?"

"Uh…" I couldn't name the specific time. "About… 3 hours ago?"

"You could have been killed!" I figured he was saying that more to himself than to me. I didn't respond. He bent down and looked over my injuries. "You're so hurt…"

Uh oh. Hurt was a bad word to use. The adrenaline had stopped flowing, and now I was beginning to feel all that I had been trying to suppress. It felt like I was being run over by a steam roller. I screamed as loud as I could. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if all of Gandhara heard me. I fell back and lay on the ground screaming from the pain. I started to cry.

I heard my father command one of the guards to go and get a healer. The guard ran off.

As my body started to go into shock, I screamed and cried less and less. My father was trying to calm me. All of a sudden, I felt like I should sleep. The blood loss was getting to me.

"I'm tired… I'm going to take a nap…."

"Rein, no. Don't sleep. Do not sleep." My father slapped my cheeks lightly. "Look at me, Rein."

It was getting darker. I tried to keep myself awake. My father was yelling at me, but it was getting harder and harder to hear him.

My eyes closed and I was surrounded by darkness.

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