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The next morning, Vegeta had stopped training to get fed at breakfast by Bulma's mother who had apparently been cooking all morning, surprising since she and the doctor had been out the majority of the night. For some reason, the prince felt a peace which was strange for him. Peace was never something he had been used to experiencing. The only thing that came close was back after he had sent Kaiya back to Earth. He had known she was safe, and at the time he had some of her things as reminders. It was ridiculous that Frieza had attempted to erase their knowledge of one another. Did he really think that somewhere down the line neither of them would remember? Saiyans were much stronger than that.

Still, after having experienced such rage the previous day, he hadn't expected to feel calm. The only thing that made sense to him was that Kaiya felt calm. A smirk made its way to his face when he realized that his sister had won her battle. It wouldn't be long before he saw her, then.

Bulma had made her way into the kitchen, stopping for a moment as she saw him standing there. Vegeta looked at her with hardened, emotionless eyes, but she just smiled at him and shook her head. Instead of confronting him about the night before, she simply grabbed a muffin and bottled water and made her way to her lab for the day. At least he wasn't going to have to deal with that at the moment.

Spirit World was hectic as Koenma had ogres running around. At the end of the mission, things had flown out of control. Humans were dead, but they had been demonized. The one they wanted captured for questioning was unconscious. Koenma, though, had been relieved that Kaiya and Yukina had come out of the mission alive. Hiei would have had his head otherwise.

Hiei still wanted his head for putting the two people he cared about in danger, but he was willing to let it go in that moment. Currently, he was in the infirmary waiting for Kaiya to wake up. She had expelled so much energy during the fight, especially to fight off Edward's attack. Hiei didn't know what she had seen, but she had obviously been able to deal with it. He wished he knew how she had broken free, but from what she had said to Alexia it sounded like positive thoughts combatted the negative fears. How she had determined that, Hiei didn't know. He was just content knowing that she succeeded.

Yukina had been reluctant to leave Spirit World after they had returned, but both Hiei and Kuwabara had convinced her to return to Genkai's to rest, for the sake of herself and the babies. Kuwabara had left with her, nodding to Hiei to let him know his sister would be safe. It reminded Hiei that Kaiya also had a brother now, and he should follow Kuwabara's lead and let said brother know she was all right. Sending Vegeta a quick message through telepathy, he heard Kaiya coo softly as she shuffled in the bed.

"Mm," she groaned out as she stretched. She then opened her eyes and looked around smiling when she saw Hiei. "I thought I smelled your scent," she said softly.

"Oh?" Hiei said with a quirked brow. "And what is that?"

"You smell like forest," Kaiya teased. "I take it you've been sleeping in trees since I left?"

"Hn," Hiei grunted. "You haven't lost your observant edge."

Kaiya just flashed him a soft smile before lying back down. "Why do I feel so drained?"

Hiei looked at the girl like she was nuts. "Do you not remember yesterday?"

"I remember," Kaiya replied closing her eyes. Then her eyes opened with alarm and she shot up in the bed. "Oh my God, I remember. Hiei, where's Vegeta? I need to tell him-"

"Kaiya," Hiei stated sternly causing the girl to effectively become quiet. "There is something I need to tell you." She could sense the seriousness of when Hiei wanted to tell her and nodded for him to continue. The fire demon sighed before he spoke. "Koenma found information on Jiro that had been unknown prior to all of this. It turns out that Jiro attempted to kill you once before."

"I know," Kaiya said shocking Hiei. "That's what I remember. He arranged for Frieza to kill me, but Frieza turned on him and decided to use me as a soldier."

"What?" Hiei nearly spat. He had known about the deal backfiring, but not Frieza wanting her to be a soldier, though he probably should have assumed. "No, Kaiya, I mean before that. Jiro physically tried to kill you, back when you were born."

"Wh…What?" Kaiya squeaked out before she became quiet once more, this time she seemed more solemn than before and she just looked at the demon searching for anything to tell her it wasn't true.

"He had a vision, one where you would destroy him. He knew you would have demon abilities, and he recognized the tail which is what led him to suggest Planet Vegeta's destruction to Frieza," Hiei started to explain. "He tried to kill you the day you were born, but you had been protected and he couldn't touch you."

"How was I protected?" Kaiya asked. "I was only a baby. I didn't know how to defend myself."

Hiei blushed slightly which confused Kaiya and he looked away from her. "Yes, well, that's why Spirit World hadn't known at first," he said awkwardly. "It turns out that when two people are soul mates and the other is in danger, regardless of whether they know each other, they can somehow protect each other until they meet. You were protected by flames, flames that apparently came from me."

"We're soul mates?" Kaiya asked with wide eyes. "I didn't know soul mates actually existed."

"They do," Hiei murmured. "It's rare, and because of that Spirit World isn't allowed to interfere. Now tell me; how did you know about what Jiro arranged with Frieza?"

"Well," she started, "when Edward used his ability, I thought about Frieza for a moment and something stirred in the back of my mind that I had never felt. Alexia had mentioned that I black out sometimes when we go on missions and, because of that, I lingered on the feeling and uncovered a memory of the actual experiment Frieza performed. I remembered Jiro kidnapping me and me begging him to let me go. And now Frieza's comment about me being Jiro's undoing makes sense. Anyways…Frieza wanted to test what would happen if he used Saiyan blood on a severely injured alien through a blood transfusion and it kind of backfired on him. I ended up growing a tail and the passing out from both the wound and the changed physiology and Frieza throwing me into a wall..."

"What do you mean 'severely injured?'" Hiei asked darkly, his bitterness shining through.

Kaiya frowned and said, "Frieza ordered his henchman to blast a hole through my stomach. They then decided they were going to use their 'experiment' against Vegeta because I had the DNA of his sister. They said I was his new 'mission.' Because I had hit my head so hard, it was easier to repress the memory. I didn't even remember it when I had woken up with Vegeta."

Hiei shook his head and forced himself to rein in his anger. "Jiro is a vile ass, and Frieza…I don't even have words to describe him."

Kaiya smiled and moved to place her hand on Hiei's. "Let's not focus on that," she suggested. "Frieza's gone, and Jiro…well, we can deal with him a bit later. Let's focus on the good, like the fact that we know we're soul mates. I actually think it's very cool. A little like some twisted, supernatural fairytale, but still a good thing."

"Hn," Hiei replied with a smirk, lacing their fingers together. "Fine, onna. We'll deal with the other stuff later. Now, let's get you out of here."

"Sounds good to me."

Kaiya survived and she is in Spirit World recovering energy at the moment.

Vegeta had been in the GR when the telepathic message reached him. So he had been right in assuming the peace he had felt was from his sister. He sensed the familiar stirring in his mind shortly after meaning she had woken up. He did his best to block her out as he continued to train, but eventually surrendered to the lingering peace in his mind.

It was getting more and more troublesome to attempt to block Kaiya out. He recalled how Kaiya mentioned, before the mission had arisen, asking Hiei or Genkai to help them figure out what had happened and maybe correct the problem. The girl hadn't worded it as such, but that is how Vegeta had seen it…a problem. Her emotions were distractions he didn't need. All he had seemed to come across on the planet were distractions. Even the woman had become a distraction.

If Vegeta didn't stop thinking soon, he was going to drive himself crazy.

Aren't I already? he asked himself with a frown. Technically, he had lost his sanity after isolation, and he wasn't sure if or when he had gotten it back. Obviously it didn't matter anymore. Frieza was gone; his organization was pretty much gone, at least after he took out straggling groups in space. Now all that was left was a pathetic human threatening his existence despite his weakness. One day he too would be dead by his hand.

Out of nowhere, Kaiya's energy appeared at the compound with Hiei's. A little curious as to how they just appeared, without knowing the blasted instant transmission technique of Kakarot's, he turned off the gravity simulator and exited the room just in time to see a portal disappear.

"I feel like I never left," Kaiya said with a smile. "How have things been here?"

Hiei shrugged his answer. "The same, I guess. Oh, except for that girl who worked for Jiro. Turns out she didn't know what she was getting into when she joined. She came to us to ask for protection for her younger siblings."

Kaiya nodded and frowned slightly. "How many people have we met that ever truly know what they've gotten into? It's not fair."

"If there's anything I've learned about life, nothing is fair," Hiei reminded her. "She did tell us what Jiro was planning."

"I knew he was planning to come after you guys and my brother and Kakarot, but he wasn't too specific. What's he planning?"

"To use some mirror that grants wishes," Vegeta interrupted making his presence known.

When Kaiya saw him, her wide smile returned as she ran over to him and jumped to hug him. He awkwardly caught her, not missing the amusement in Hiei's eyes. Rolling his own, he looked back to his sister.

"Kid, you must be bipolar to go between different emotions all the time," he remarked seriously.

Kaiya just laughed. "I don't know what I am anymore," she joked. "And I'm only side-stepping the fact that you called me 'kid' again because I'm happy to see you. I missed you, Geta."

"It's only been a couple of days," Vegeta deadpanned.

"Yeah, yeah," Kaiya muttered with a chuckle. "Anyways, I need to catch up on what I missed, because I've obviously missed a lot in the last couple of days, but I'm going to need to talk to you about something later, after you're done training."

Vegeta's expression darkened and he set her down. "You can tell me now."

"Nope," Kaiya replied. "No, I can't. I don't want you to train while you're mad. We'll talk later." She flashed him a smile. "We can also talk about my training some more too. You were right; I definitely need more training."

Before Vegeta could say anything, Kaiya ran off and pulled an unsuspecting Hiei into the compound. Whatever Kaiya needed to tell him had soured her mood, but she bounced back to her sprightly self in a few seconds. Vegeta shook his head in disbelief. Sometimes he thought his sister was stranger than the Briefs.

"So, tell me more about what's going on," Kaiya said to Hiei as she started making herself a few sandwiches. Hiei glared at her slightly making her pause in what she was doing. "What?"

"You need to eat a lot more than that," he remarked.

Kaiya continued to make the sandwiches. "I know that," she told him. "This is just a snack, promise. I don't want to eat a full meal until I know what's up."

Hiei noticed, once she sat down in front of him, that she was nervously playing with the tear gem he had given to her before the mission. He took her hand to stop her and placed both their palms on the table. "You're still wearing it," he stated.

"Of course I am," Kaiya replied with a smile. "It's yours."

"Human sentimentality," Hiei scoffed. "I blame you that I actually have an understanding of it now."

"Yeah, blame, sure," Kaiya teased. "So come on; tell me what's up."

It didn't take long to explain everything going on. She took everything rather well, which made Hiei wonder if what she told him about Jiro and Frieza and that experiment was worse than she was letting on. Even what she told him had made his blood boil.

She rolled her eyes at the fact that Koenma had called him, Kurama, and Kuronue in for questioning on the missing Forlorn Hope mirror that Vegeta had mentioned to her, especially when it had been such a long time since Hiei and Kurama had ever caused trouble in Spirit World and had served them somewhat loyally to protect the balance. She wasn't surprised when Hiei told her Jake had stolen the items. Jake was always out to get them because of the fact that Hiei had killed Jiro to protect her. The demon hunter hadn't believed they had any right to defend themselves, just because they were demons. That boy had a lot to learn.

Then when he told her more about Mizuki, Kaiya caught herself feeling guilty. "I can't believe he would go after his own people like that," Kaiya sighed sadly. "I thought…actually screw it. Whatever I thought about that creep was obviously wrong. So this Mizuki girl, her parents were killed by demons, and she's raising her younger siblings?"

Hiei nodded. "Kala and Tristen. They remind me a lot of myself and Yukina…minus the whole separation thing."

Kaiya nodded. "We were both separated from our twins," Kaiya reminded him. "Kind of ironic."

"There is too much irony in all of this," Hiei muttered. "Do all of these villains get off on it?"

"Interestingly put," Kaiya chuckled. "I'm with you. Too much irony."

"Speaking of…Jiro plans to go to Demon World during the tournament to attack the competitors and viewers there. If that fails, and he can't kill all of the demons, he's planning to use some unknowing worker of his to make a wish on the Forlorn Hope to destroy the rest of us. He planned on using Mizuki as the sacrifice."

"I want to talk to her," Kaiya stated earning Hiei's confused expression. He was looking at her as if she thought she was crazy. "You really can't judge her, Hiei. You weren't necessarily a friend to the spirit detectives at first. She wants to help us now. We should take all we can get. I believe she could tell me more about Jiro than I could have ever known."

"Is there anything more you need to know?" Hiei questioned.

Kaiya nodded. "I may not know what it is, but I feel like there's something more I need to know about him."

Hiei didn't agree. He had had enough of Jiro to last him more than his lifetime, but he was still, after all, Kaiya's father and she had always been one to want to know her family history. It was turning out to be darker than she could have ever imagined, but she was handling it. Hiei could only let her satisfy her curiosity and help keep her afloat when she was sunk. "We can stay at Genkai's tonight. It's probably better after all the chaos that we are all together."

Eyes widening, Kaiya's cheerful expression fell and she stared at a spot on the table. "Oh my God…Alexia. Is she okay?"

"For the most part," Hiei answered, squeezing Kaiya's hand. "Don't worry about her, onna. She'll get over it."

Kaiya whispered, "Don't be so sure…" And then she thought about something else. "Wait, have you guys warned the other demons? What if Jiro-"

"Kurama and Kuronue went to warn the major players of demon world, including Mukuro who I have served in the past. Everyone has been made aware."

"Good," Kaiya replied, relieved. "Anyway, if I'm going to the temple tonight, I better get this over with and tell Vegeta what I remembered."

Hiei's frown returned and he crossed his arms. "Just think, at least you don't have to relive through that ever again. Frieza is dead. He can no longer hurt you."

"I know that, koi, but thank you."

Hiei nodded and watched Kaiya leave the room to talk with her brother. He thought about how crazy everything had become for all of them, and figured taking a break after Jiro was dealt with would do them some good. Once all of this was over, he would make sure they could get away, even if it was just for a little while.

Vegeta was surprised when he heard the light banging on the GR door. Kaiya had said she was going to leave him to train, but she must have changed her mind which alone irritated Vegeta. Opening the door, he glared slightly at his sister who looked more serious than she had been moments ago. "What?" he growled out, though it did not seem to faze her.

"I'm going to be leaving tonight to meet Mizuki at Genkai's," she explained. "I have things I need to ask her. We need to talk first, before I go. It's important."

Vegeta mentally sighed, not wanting to stop in his training and give Kaiya license to interrupt him again in the future, but this did sound like it would be important so he left the room and motioned for her to follow him. There was a table on the lower deck that the two of them sat at. The Saiyan prince just stared at his sister while she tried to find the words of what she wanted to say.

"So…" she started, "when I was fighting Alexia's father, he used this power on me that brings out certain thoughts. He had said fears, but really it's anything, even happy stuff which is how I got out of that. Thing is, before I realized that, he was using my fears of everything, including Frieza and whatever it was he had done to both of us." She didn't notice Vegeta's expression darken as she mentioned the former space tyrant. "Lexi had told me about my zoning out, so I figured that I must be repressing something big that even the mind scanner couldn't see. When he used his power on me and I thought about Frieza, I felt something brushing in my mind so I focused on it. And that's when I remembered…"

"Remembered what?" Vegeta snapped.

Kaiya looked down at a random spot on the table, her expression darkening in both anger and sadness. "Jiro kidnapped me when I was little, and he brought me to Frieza's ship. I learned from Hiei about the deal Jiro had made and about the vision, so now I at least know why he did it. I had remembered after the mind scan meeting you, you risking your life to save me, and I saw your memories, but I never remembered the experiment her did. I assumed I was unconscious, but Lexi asked me if I was completely sure about that."

Vegeta glared at the table as she was. He knew for a fact that Frieza was all about pain and torture. There was no way he would do something as humane as knock someone out so that they experienced less pain. "You were definitely awake."

"Well, I know that now," Kaiya stressed. "They were taunting Jiro about how he thought that some weak kid was going to be his undoing and-"

"They?" Vegeta hissed. "Who's they?"

"Frieza, Zarbon, Dodoria," she listed off not even noticing her brother's ki flaring slightly. "At least, those were the names I remembered. Zarbon said my power level then was high enough to cause damage to other weak races, which seemed to be what Frieza wanted to hear. He then ordered Dodoria to take Jiro back to Earth. That's when Jiro started worrying and requested to stay to make sure I died so that he wouldn't have to worry about me in the future. That's when Frieza told him that it wasn't the terms of their deal. What those terms were, I have no idea.

"Then even Jiro was scared. Frieza basically threatened him, which is why Jiro seemed so panicked when we all sensed him. After that, he told me there were two things he wanted from me. One was to join his army, and the other was to help him figure out if a severely injured alien could survive a blood transfusion using the blood of another race without repercussions. He chose Saiyan blood, I'm guessing because of the healing abilities, but it didn't work out how he wanted."

"Who injured you?" her brother questioned. When she looked to him shocked, he said, "You said severely injured. If that was his experiment, he would have injured you."

Kaiya nodded, telling him his logic had been correct. "Zarbon blew a hole through my stomach, and then they did the transfusion all, like you said, while I was awake. When it started healing, I honestly felt a lot better, like I could handle it, but then I caught their attention again and I kind of grew a tail, which neither of them had expected at all. A doctor came and explained what happened to my blood and that I had both human and Saiyan DNA. Then Frieza told Zarbon to take his 'experiment' to a room and said they were going to find a way to use me against you…and then I flipped out and attacked because he called me an experiment."

Vegeta was seething, but that last statement managed to make him chuckle very quietly. He knew if it had been him, he would have done the same thing, but then he became furious again. Was she nuts? She was a lot weaker than he was and would have never stood a chance against Frieza. He was about to remark on her stupidity when she spoke up again.

"In hindsight, not my brightest move, especially against him. He fought back and I ended up hitting my head, so I take it that's what made it easier to repress the memory. Up until remembering all of this, I thought the first moment I saw Frieza was after they took me away from your room. And that's pretty much what happened. It bothers me that they wanted to use me against you."

"Dodoria and Zarbon are dead," Vegeta told her, "by my hand."

Kaiya smiled slightly. She didn't tell Vegeta that she had seen parts of his actions and fights on Namek. He already knew that she saw what he had done to Nappa. She wasn't ever really planning to bring any of it up, but unfortunately Jiro had done that while she was sleeping to try to turn her against Vegeta. It wasn't going to happen, which is probably why Jiro hadn't done anything like it since. As for Namek and his battles with Frieza's henchmen, she realized him telling her was his way of trying to assure her that they'd never hurt her again. "I know," she whispered. "I know you did it for yourself since you didn't remember me or know any of this, but I'm still thankful. Now, somehow, we just have to take care of Jiro."

"We?"

Kaiya hesitated before responding. "I know I shouldn't care about him, like at all, but I still do. There's no way I can fight him on my own, especially when I couldn't even kill a stranger that was trying to kill me. I don't have it in me, honestly, but I am aware that I will need to fight and defend myself and my friends. I've gotten better with fighting, but I'm definitely not on his level, and that's why I want to resume training as soon as possible. Tonight, I need answers, but tomorrow I'll be ready."

Vegeta didn't answer her, simply sizing her up as she stared back at him. "We have hours before nightfall," he pointed out. "Gravity room, now."

It wasn't that she didn't want to train in that moment, but she was still exhausted from the previous day and that is why she suggested the following day. Still, Vegeta was her teacher now and she needed to get used to his schedule. No longer was she training to control her flames, for she had that mastered. Hiei had done all he could to help her with her speed, endurance, and how to fight using a sword. To survive she would need to increase her power and learn strategy and how to fight in less than ideal conditions such as injury and exhaustion. She had to do this Vegeta's way.

"Then let's make every minute count."