Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ, YYH, or the characters. Just my own OCs, and the current plot. You know how it goes. Honestly, if I owned anything more than my characters, I'd be rich and wouldn't be writing fanfiction. We all share the same sentiments :p

The rain continued to bear down on the little, Greek city. The streets were empty save for the occasional passerby walking a dog or running errands. All that could be heard was the sound of the drops hitting the pavement. Lightning cracked in the distance, which would cause problems for a few individuals in the group. It put a damper in the spies' plans for the day.

"Maya, you can't go out," Kiense warned. "Your powers make you a walking lightning rod."

"Well what about yours and Kaiya's powers?" the water psychic countered. "You can't even use them, right?"

"They aren't going either," Alexia stated with finality. This gained the demi-Saiyan's attention.

"We aren't?" Kaiya asked in surprise. She had been staring out the window, watching the rain fall as few cars drove by, head resting on her hand. But the fact that Alexia was mandating she stay was news to her. This had been her mission to begin with, and she had planned on seeing it through to the end. Despite the storm, she had still been planning to go to the hideout. She was going to force herself to deal with her irrational fear of lightning storms and this mission had been the perfect opportunity for it.

"Why am I staying?" she questioned, though Alexia looked away. Kaiya knew that her cousin had something to say, and she was hoping she could coax her to admit it. "You know that if I can't use my fire abilities, I can use my ki. Besides, I've used my abilities in the rain before. They aren't totally diminished."

"Kaiya," Alexia breathed out in concern. "You know I respect you more than anything, but I was there when you freaked out over a thunderstorm to the point where Hiei needed to coax you back to sleep. We don't know what sensors these guys have for demons either. Between the two unknowns, we can't risk you losing your life again."

Kaiya felt a slight jab when Alexia pointed out her fault that the rest almost didn't reach her. She grew quiet, staring into space intensely, her fists clenching slightly. "Lexi," she said sternly, "I can handle it. I'm a lot stronger than I was and, even if they realized I'm a demon, I can hold my own."

"That's why we need you here," Kuwabara interjected. "Look, Alexia is right about whatever defenses they have. They're demon hunters so it makes sense that they'd have something to prevent demons from getting to them. That means, until we know for sure, you, Kiense, and Yukina need to stay here."

"I'll stay too," Botan offered. "That way if you need us to track you down, I can use the detective tools."

Kaiya sighed and reluctantly accepted the proposed sentiments of her friends. "Fine. I'll keep my phone on me if you need me."

Kuwabara flashed a goofy grin. "Great! We'll contact you as soon as we know what we're dealing with."

Kaiya watched her cousin leave with the other psychics leaving her, Mayonaka, Kiense, and Yukina alone. It was difficult for Kaiya not to take offense, but she knew in her heart that Alexia was right. She needed to work through her fear. Looking out the window again, she realized that she could work on it even though she wasn't going to the hideout.

Vegeta had told her that she wasn't ready to train on her own. She knew he was right, too, but working on her fear was a different type of training. Deciding to go out on her own, she changed into a dark blue t-shirt and black sweat pants before grabbing her blue sweat jacket on the way out. Kiense, who had been waving the others off outside, grabbed her from behind causing Kaiya to still on contact.

"Where are you going?" he asked in concern.

"To train," was all Kaiya said before she disappeared from his sight.

Kiense stared off into the distance sensing Kaiya's demon energy. He understood what she was doing having had to face his friends' fear of him after his alter was returned to his dimension. His friends had refused to give up on him, not wanting to fear someone they had always seen as family. Since he had seen what they had gone through, he knew this was something Kaiya needed to work on herself. Still, she needed protection. Casting a worried glance at the house, he reasoned that the girls would be okay and went after Kaiya on his own.

"So, Mizuki," Yusuke said nonchalantly, "I get why you got into demon hunting, but why Jiro?"

Mizuki sighed. When her siblings were out training their abilities with Genkai, it became "20 Questions" with the spirit detectives. "It's not like I chose Jiro," she scoffed. "Jake was the one who got me involved. He had been a friend of mine and, when I lost my parents, he got me involved. This was before he went to New York and dated your friend's cousin."

"Hold up," Yusuke replied. "Jake dating Nariko was planned?"

"Well, Jiro does know Kaiya's family well enough, don't you think?"

"Fair point," the detective conceded. "Wow, that's wild. Jiro has been conspiring against Kaiya way too long. This has gotta stop."

"I agree," Mizuki responded. "I'm glad I came to you guys. I mean, I know I'm going to have to serve time for everything I've done, but I'm just glad there're no hard feelings."

"Actually," Kurama spoke up coming into the temple, "you haven't committed any crimes against us. Just being in an organization does not mean that you are with them. You haven't killed any humans or demons, and the only demons you've killed attacked you and your siblings. The fact that you've given us the information along with that deems you innocent."

"I take it you spoke to the toddler?" Yusuke asked. "What did he say?"

Kurama shook his head. "He's not sorry for the case he gave to Kaiya. I warned him that if anything happens to anyone involved, there'd be hell to pay. He assured me that wouldn't happen."

"How can he assure that?" Yusuke yelled. "He always does this crap and it usually ends badly. How do we know it won't?"

"Have faith in your friends," Mizuki offered. "That's the only way I can see you all getting out of this."

"Yeah, yeah," Yusuke muttered. "By the way, where's Hiei?"

Kurama shrugged, though he knew where the fire demon was. Hiei had decided to train on his own for the day at his and Kaiya's beach spot. He was concerned about Kaiya and Yukina, though he was loathe to admit it. For his sake, he hoped both his girlfriend and sister would make it back safely.

Bulma had finished fixing the training bots like she did every couple of days. She had been giving Vegeta the cold shoulder for that long, but she was starting to let go of her irritation. Hiei and Vegeta seemed to be on speaking terms again, so something must have happened. The heiress couldn't help but wonder if either of them had talked to Kaiya. She wanted to know how the girl was doing.

She had snapped just like Hiei had, their concern for Kaiya overriding their rationality. Really, Vegeta had been, in some way, expressing concern for Kaiya's wellbeing. If she hadn't been so distraught by what happened, things would have gone much differently.

Still, Bulma wasn't in the mood to talk with the prince. He had been brooding the last few days. His behavior had seemed troubling to her. All she could assume was that something big was going on. Hiei had even come over that morning to see if Vegeta was there. Something was definitely going on, and Bulma wanted to know.

Vegeta was training just as hard as he always did, starting up the GR at five in the morning and still going strong at noon. He had skipped breakfast and it was almost lunchtime. Bulma knew he needed to eat at some point, but lately he had been skipping meals to train. She wondered what he was so worried about that he needed to incessantly train for. It was either Jiro or the Androids. She decided to settle on the latter since Vegeta was so adamant about Jiro's weakness.

"Hey Vegeta, it's lunchtime," she told him through the door of the GR. She got no response at all. "Come on; I need to put the training bots back inside. You should take a break."

Vegeta still hadn't come out of the room, and Bulma decided to do something drastic. She had hoped that she wouldn't have to use her secret weapon anytime soon. She had been biding her time to revealing this secret to Vegeta. Well, it was time for it to be revealed now.

Vegeta was shocked when the gravity changed so drastically from 400 to 0 in a second. Such a drastic shift caused him to stumble back. How it had happened, he didn't know, but when he saw Bulma standing in the gravity room, he knew she had something to do with it.

"What did you do?" he said sneering at the woman in front of him.

"It's the emergency override switch," she explained. "After your accident, I decided it was necessary. You're working too hard."

"Too hard isn't enough," Vegeta retorted. "What do you want, woman? I thought you were avoiding me."

Bulma chuckled at his mind's astute nature. "I was that obvious, huh?" He scoffed at her remark and crossed his arms. "Okay, well, I thought about it and I may have overreacted. It was just upsetting to know that Kaiya was upset. She's been through a lot, you know?"

Vegeta didn't need to be told that his sister had been through a lot of emotional grief, but it didn't compare to physical warfare. The girl needed to make the realization that her emotions couldn't hurt her if she didn't let them. Sure, her father had killed her, but he wouldn't get the chance a second time. The second he tried to make his move against any of them, Vegeta planned on making the idiot suffer. The coward had underestimated the blood of a Saiyan and that was a mistake he would live to regret, and he wouldn't live long.

"I don't need your apology," Vegeta replied, his voice laced with derision.

"Oh trust me, I'm not apologizing," Bulma told him. "Just because I was wrong doesn't mean I'm sorry for reacting the way I did. As Hiei had said, we were raised with a different set of customs than the two of you were. Despite how rational we can be, humans are emotional people and most of their decisions are based on emotions."

"Pathetic," Vegeta muttered. "If you're done with your speech, I need to get back to training."

"You should probably eat first," Bulma suggested. "You skipped breakfast."

Vegeta was about to protest when his stomach betrayed his hunger. He glared at Bulma when her expression went from one of worry to one of amusement. "Fine," he growled before walking out of the room.

Closing the door, Bulma smiled at her handiwork. I'm so glad I installed that button.

Kaiya was attempting to mediate out on a mountain as the drops of rain cascaded down her body. Her breathing was centered, her ki focused, despite the cracks of thunder and flashes of lightning occurring around her. It was an indescribable feeling, being able to block all sound out while focusing on only one thing. Kaiya chose to focus on the sound of the rain. The sound of water hitting the pavement was calming; however, this feeling of peace was about to end.

"Kaiya."

Her eyes opened when she heard the voice of her sister's boyfriend. She looked over to him and played off her discomfort by acting indifferent to both him and the storm. "Kiense," she greeted with a curt nod. "What are you doing out here?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing," the fire demon countered, "though, I could pretty much guess."

"Really?" Kaiya said in interest. "Because you know so much about me, right?"

He held his hands up in defense. He knew that things were iffy between the two of them. "Okay, I deserve that," he admitted. Since his alternate counterpart had been an enemy of the girl's, he had kept his distance from her, and now she was pointing that out. "I only know what Maya has told me. I've avoided you because I don't know how you feel about me after what happened."

"It wasn't you," Kaiya stated. "He was a double, and he was the one that attacked me. I don't hold you responsible for something you didn't do. Trust me; there are other people who should avoid me at all costs yet seek me out to cause more harm."

"Jiro," Kiense stated. "Maya is nervous about him."

Kaiya frowned before roaring thunder rang out into the mountain range. She shook slightly, but ignored it. "With good reason," she replied.

Kiense nodded. "I did have my dealings with him, unfortunately," Kiense admitted.

"Really?" Kaiya asked in shocked. "How and when?"

Kiense shook his head. "Maya said she told you when she left, in a letter."

Kaiya thought back to that time and did remember the letter. It had been very vague. Mayonaka had told her that there was another human psychic that had worked with Kiense before and that no one knew what became of him. Her sister didn't even know who the person was. "I didn't know it was Jiro."

Kiense frowned and grew incredibly serious as he looked out into the range. "It was a long time ago," he explained her. "I didn't know who he was. I hadn't even met Mayonaka at that time. I only realized after she told me about when she met him and what happened. If I had known that he had had any connection to either of you, I would have told you. That man was unstable."

"Tell me about," Kaiya agreed. "Anyways, you never answered my question. What do you think I'm doing out here?"

"Working on your fears," Kiense stated while gaging her reaction. Kaiya chuckled and pulled her legs against her body. "What?"

"You caught me," she admitted. "The Saiyan/demon hybrid is afraid of a little lightning. And I try to hide it so well."

Kiense frowned at her. "You should never try to hide it," he warned her. "It prevents those who care about you from helping you."

"The one who needs to know is aware of the problem," Kaiya responded.

"Ah, so Hiei," Kiense said knowingly. "Well that's good. At least someone knows."

"Kiense," Kaiya muttered against her legs, "do you think something is wrong with me?"

Kiense was taken aback by her question. He didn't understand why she'd ask such a thing. When he didn't respond, Kaiya continued. "I mean, my father…Jiro…has caused nothing but pain and misery. I used to love storms and now I'm terrified of them because of how he killed me." She took a deep breath and sighed. "Still, even though he's plotted against me, my friends, and other alien races and even though he wants to kill all of us, a part of me still wants to forgive him. There has to be something wrong with me."

"I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with you," Kiense stated. "I think it's great you want to forgive and move past it. Forgiving is a good thing, but it's completely different from forgetting. Go ahead and forgive his past actions for your own peace of mind, but you don't have to forget what he put you through."

"Well, that's true. Mom always says that, too," Kaiya murmured as she looked out into the mountains and saw another jagged bolt of lightning. "I guess it can't really be erased, what he did, I mean."

Kiense flashed her a sad smile and shook his head. "I'm sorry, but no. If it makes you feel any better, Maya is still trying to come to terms with it."

It didn't make Kaiya feel any better that Mayonaka was still struggling with it. She had always said she wanted a twin when she was younger so she wouldn't have to deal with the pain her father caused alone, but now she felt bad that Maya would never have any closure with this. Even if Jiro was around they couldn't exactly sit and talk things out like civil, normal people. Jiro had it out for them, and going to him would result in nothing short of their deaths. It was his fault that Kaiya's life was traded to Frieza and that Mayonaka was shipped off to live somewhere else growing up with her adoptive parents. Kaiya wondered what Jiro had been thinking when he had signed her life away and had sent Mayonaka to some other county. The part of her that wanted to hang onto whatever remained of her innocence a little bit longer didn't want to know.

A loud boom of thunder sounded out into the mountain range making Kaiya shiver. At least she wasn't cringing like she had before, but she still had a long way to go. She couldn't let herself be paralyzed by fear.

"Hey," Kiense called softly and comfortingly. He had noticed Kaiya's fearful reaction and wanted to end her training. "We should head back. You've done enough today."

Kaiya didn't want to leave. After living around her brother who trained endlessly, she was trying to hold herself to a higher standard. Also, she still felt guilty for missing out on so much training. Part of her felt she owed it to Vegeta to get over her own irrational fear, especially when he had to deal with her irrational emotions.

"I-I…I should continue," she stuttered. "This is something I have to get over."

"And you will," Kiense assured her, "just not today. You'll have plenty of time when we're done with this mission."

No, we won't, Kaiya thought quietly. She was not naïve enough to believe that they actually had time. Jiro had told her he planned to go after her friends. She didn't know if they knew or how bad it was. Still, he made it clear as crystal that he planned to take them all down. There was no question that the others could hold their own against him, but she couldn't say she was confident in her own abilities. After all, she had already been his victim once. Could training with Hiei and Vegeta have even come close to giving her an edge against her villainous father?

"We're on standby," Kiense reminded her. "If anything goes wrong, we'll be needed."

Kaiya sighed and hated that Kiense was right. Somehow the hybrid needed to stop worrying about a future that wasn't set in stone. The present mission required all of her focus and nothing less. If she wanted to survive, she needed to push everything aside. No one knew what would happen.

"So, what exactly are you doing?" Shizuru asked Alexia.

Alexia looked up from the computer she was working on. Getting into the facility had been too easy. Because of their psychic powers, they were welcomed by the demon hunters. Obviously this wasn't the location of their leader. If it were, his security would have been so much greater. The best thing to do now was get as much information as possible before cutting their losses.

"I'm getting information off their computers," she said blandly. "I swear, they don't even have their system password protected. What idiots."

"Hey, at least that makes our job easier," Kuwabara retorted. "We didn't have to fight anyone to get in here, meaning no one had to get hurt. I call this a success."

"It won't always be this easy," Marissa told him. "Come on; you should know that better than anyone."

Alexia ignored the voices behind her as she copied a bunch of files to her flash drive. She was actually pretty happy that Kaiya hadn't had to come with them. This was the simple stuff that any person could easily do. Now, they at least had more information about the man they needed to bring in for questioning and his whereabouts.

"Let's go," Alexia said as she got off the computer. "We need to go through this stuff fast. The sooner we know who we're dealing with, the better."

Jiro was irritated at his lateness. When he had called his old trainee, he had warned him that it was a matter of great importance. Surely he'd be prompt for a meeting about demon activity.

As soon as he thought this, the doors slammed open revealing a middle-aged man, slightly younger than Jiro, who looked completely irate. "This better be important, Jiro," the man said. "I have work to do. Demon energy appeared in my town the other day, and I need to figure out who it is."

Jiro chuckled. "I can help you with that," he told him. "It's my daughter, Kaiya, and her friends."

The man looked at him incredulously. "You have a daughter?" he asked. "That's a surprise."

Jiro glared at his old friend and moved a picture into his line of sight. "Yes, well, I tried to rid myself of the problem years ago," he explained thinking of both her birth, when he had sent her to Frieza, and then her death. "Unfortunately the three times I tried to eliminate her, she managed to survive. She has demon blood in her veins which countered her death almost a year ago."

"Sounds frustrating," the man replied. "So let me get this straight. You have a demon daughter, she's in Greece in my town…why?"

"Spirit World mission," he explained. "You need to be brought in for questioning, and it's her job as well as her friends' job to make it happen. She has a lot of people on her side. My recommendation, separate them and fight her alone. She'll never be able to handle it."

Jiro smirked as his friend did. "That will be easy," he assured him. "Thanks for the warning, old friend."

"It's not a problem," Jiro replied, "Edward. Just make sure she doesn't win. I need her out of the way if I want my plans to work."

The demon hunter, Edward, nodded his agreement. It made no difference to him if he had to take out some demon. He didn't care about a demon's individual story. All he knew was that they were all evil. This girl, Kaiya, was not going to survive this mission. Besides, he really didn't want to travel to Spirit World for questioning, not at all.