Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ, YYH, or the characters

Kaiya was shocked when the words left her father's mouth and just stared at him waiting for something else to be said, but he just kept smiling at her. It was hard to believe that this man was the same one who had killed her, attacked her friends, and had been planning to destroy all of them. For the first time she didn't see her killer or enemy, but someone who cared about her. She took her eyes off of him and looked around the cell realizing there were talismans hanging everywhere. She gasped when she saw them and then turned back to her father in alarm.

"Dad!" she shouted in shock. "I mean…Jiro," she called out in desperation, "you need to take the talismans down. If Hiei can't sense me-" She stopped speaking, pursing her lips together as if she just revealed something she shouldn't have.

Jiro frowned at her before sighing. "I know," he told her, "but I can't just take them down. Jake and the other hunters will sense your demon energy return right away. It can't be done." Kaiya's face became full of fear and panic again, so Jiro clued her in on what he was going to do. "What's the number to that Capsule Corp. place? That Saiyan, Goku, was going there after we talked."

Kaiya's face became an expression of shock. "Y-y-you talked to Kakarot? When?"

Jiro took out his cell phone as his demeanor became dark. "When that idiot disobeyed my orders and captured you." He began to dial the local code and then turned back to Kaiya. "What's the number?"

Hiei was pacing back and forth while Goku watched him dumbfounded. The fire demon seemed to be forcing himself to concentrate on something, but Goku didn't understand what. The Hiei growled out and smashed his fist on the counter leaving a hole where his fist had touched. "They must have her guarded by talismans," he stated. "I can't locate her. Those bastards…I'll-"

"Calm down, Hiei," Goku said softly. "We won't be able to find her if you lose it like this. It's bad enough Vegeta stormed out of here. I doubt he even knows where to start looking."

Hiei shook his head. He couldn't disagree with the Earth-raised Saiyan. Vegeta had blasted out of there without any indication of where Jiro had taken Kaiya, though both Hiei and Goku knew Jiro was seemingly on their side for the time being. Suddenly, the phone of the compound rang, and both Goku and Hiei just stared at it like it was a ghost. "You don't think…" Goku started to say.

Hiei slowly moved to answer it at the same time Bulma headed down the stairs in her robe yawning, attempting to get the phone. When she opened her eyes, she noticed Goku was in the house and just blinked at Hiei answering the phone. "Hey, what's going on?" she asked, but no one answered her right away. She was about to snap at both boys when Hiei finally spoke into the receiver.

"Hello?"

The voice that answered him was the one he was expecting, but it still shocked him. "Hiei," Jiro greeted. "You and that Saiyan, Goku, you need to come get Kaiya. I can't release her without breaking my cover. The hideout is located near the mountains where I was wished back, about thirty miles west of the place. You can't use the Jagan to focus on her right now, but you can focus on me."

And then the line went dead and Hiei hung up. "Well?" Goku called out. "Was it him?"

"We need to get to the hideout now," Hiei stated. "Bulma, don't say anything to Vegeta. He's volatile as it is."

Both Goku and Hiei took to the air leaving Bulma alone in the compound with a broken porch door and immense confusion. "What the hell can I tell him?" she shouted to no one in particular. "I haven't a clue as to what's going on!"

Vegeta was trying to reach out to Kaiya through many forms of mental communication, through their bond as siblings and also using the telepathic connection, but she wasn't answering back. The only options he believed were that either Kaiya was unconscious or she was dead. The latter left him angry. Saiyans were the strongest warrior races and there was only a handful of them left, Kaiya included. If someone thought they could get away with attacking the pride of their race, they had another thing coming.

But Vegeta didn't know where he was going. He even tried to search for her ki, but he came up with nothing. This was another thing that led him to believe the girl was dead. It was possible, though, that since Jiro had worked for Frieza he was using ki restraints. If the creep wanted to live more than a few minutes, he had better have kept the girl alive, though even that wouldn't save him.

All of a sudden, the Saiyan prince felt the energy of his Saiyan rival and sister's boyfriend heading in a very specific direction. He paused, midflight, and focused on their energies. They were moving fast to an area close to where he and Kaiya had trained earlier that day. Maybe they had gotten a clue as to where Kaiya was being held and that alone was a reason to check it out.

He quickly caught up with them to both Hiei's and Goku's dismay. They knew he wanted to take down Jiro, but for once he was trying to help them. If he really had been a victim of the Arcosians as well, then there really wasn't much they could do. If he was willing to work with them instead of against them, then the past could finally be put behind them and Kaiya would actually have a shot at getting to know the person her father really was. But with Vegeta tailing them, that was going to be easier said than done.

They found a tall building hidden by mountains and painted the color of the rocks. It would have been easy for anyone to miss the building. The three fighters touched down in front of the building. "Are you sure this is the place?" Goku asked Hiei.

Hiei nodded. "Jiro is inside. The fact that he told us to track him helped. He's down underground, probably a dungeon area. He hasn't moved from the spot. It has to be where they're keeping Kaiya."

Vegeta looked over to the fire demon with disbelief shining through his eyes. From what Hiei had said, it sounded like Jiro had led them directly to the location. All he could assume was they were walking into a trap. As if Hiei read his thoughts, his next words shocked him more.

"No one is on guard down there," he stated. "All the hunters here are very far away from the dungeon, but the second we make a forced entry they will know. If we want to get in without alerting anyone, we need to be discrete…I hate that."

Goku grew serious and nodded. "Not much can be done about that. The important thing is keeping Kaiya safe."

"This is none of your business, Kakarot," Vegeta growled out calling their attention to him. They had known he was there, but they were hoping he would let them handle this. "Kaiya is my sister, and Jiro needs to pay for what he did."

Hiei glared at Vegeta and stood between him and Goku. "We don't have time to argue this, but don't do anything to Jiro. If his story is really true, then Kaiya would be devastated if any of us did anything to him."

"Listen to yourself," Vegeta scoffed. "The foolish, emotional drivel will get you nowhere. What happened to that story where he killed her, hm? Where is the anger I saw then?"

"Buried, at least for now," Hiei admitted. "I still hate him for what he did. That fight where I killed him, I would do it again if it meant protecting her, but that's just it. If he is helping her and the truth really is that he hadn't wanted her to live this way, Kaiya would need to make a choice that only she can make. We can't take that away from her. Even though I hate the idea of her wanting to have anything to do with Jiro, I can't change the fact that he's her father and she loves him, and neither can you."

The Saiyan prince crossed his arms and stood defiantly, proudly. He didn't care about the nonsense his sister's boyfriend was spewing. The guy was responsible for the destruction of Saiyans, a pawn of Frieza's that continued to be his, and now his brother's, yes-man. To continue working for the Colds because of fear…it disgusted Vegeta to think of allowing someone that weak and cowardly to walk away as if his crimes were nothing. "Do not believe you can tell me what to do," Vegeta stated, his voice dark and cold. "I care not what Kaiya desires for the future with this freak she calls a father. If I get the chance, he dies. End of story."

Hiei and Goku exchanged knowing glances. They knew that this was exactly how Vegeta was going to react, and they were prepared for that. Goku turned to face Vegeta and powered up. "Sorry, Vegeta, but I can't let you do that. Jiro was just another victim, and he might be able to help us. This Cooler guy is still out there. There has to be a better way to work out your differences."

"Oh not this bullshit again," Vegeta muttered before he took his stance. "You are a soft-hearted fool. You let Frieza live when I specifically told you not to. This is no different. Jiro will pay for his crimes and you will not stop me from being his executioner."

They charged at the other around the same time, their battle beginning. Flashes of blue and purple light collided up in the night sky, separating and joining as the two fighters landed their hits. Hiei was thankful that Goku had joined him there. While he kept Vegeta busy, Hiei could get to Jiro and Kaiya, figure out what was going on, and then get out of there and head to Genkai's temple where both his girlfriend and the human would be safe. Getting into the building was easy without anyone guarding it. Hiei didn't understand why there were so little people, but it didn't matter. He sprinted down to the dungeon without looking back, hoping Kaiya hadn't been hurt too badly by Jake.

"Why?" Kaiya breathed out. "Why did you do that? Do any of this?"

Jiro sighed again as he leaned against the cell bars. "First off, everything that happened last or this year is off the table while we discuss this," he explained. "You need to hear the real story, and not from some empath, but from me. I will tell you what I told Goku." Kaiya nodding was all he needed to continue.

"As you know, where I went to school, I met your mother, but that was after joining the fraternity disguised PTO. I didn't know about you then. At the time, I was simply in love with your mother. I never told her anything about aliens or the organization. I wanted to keep her out of it as much as possible. Our relationship was pretty much secret except to both of our immediate families. We planned on getting married after we both graduated from the university. I hoped that my involvement with the PTO would end then as well.

"One night, I had a vision that we were going to have a child that would, as you've heard, be my ultimate downfall, but at the time, I didn't care. The one thing about our visions is that they don't always come true. The face that we were having a healthy child was all that mattered to me, and I had been so excited when your mother told me. Until I found out my roommate had known. The next day, I was brought to some of the soldiers stationed on the campus and they sent me into a room with a screen and that's when I met Frieza over an intercom.

"Apparently I talk in my sleep," Jiro growled shaking his head, "because my roommate told him everything about the vision. In the vision, you were fighting me with flames and ki attacks, and you were a fairly aggressive fighter. Frieza wanted that and demanded for you to be given to him when you were born."

"Why wasn't I, if that's what he demanded?" Kaiya asked.

"I didn't want you to go to him," Jiro told her. "I knew of the rumors, and I knew he wanted you to be his soldier, so I tried to get rid of you. I know it's horrible, but I would have rather been the one to end you than have you suffer your entire life with Frieza. As for Mayonaka, I didn't know your mother was having twins. The reason I sent her away was because I didn't want the others to find out about her. I planned on telling them that the baby didn't make it and maybe my vision was of a different child. But my plans went wrong because of something I hadn't counted on."

Kaiya nodded in understanding, her lips pursed into a straight line before she voiced Hiei's name. Jiro shook his head in frustration and continued. "Believe me; I'm happy you found someone who would protect you and all, but at the time it just made everything worse. Frieza wanted you then, so I misled him to believe that human children grew a lot slower than what he was used to and I told him that your power level was much lower that it was."

"What do you mean you lied about my power level?" Kaiya asked. "When Vegeta read my medical file, it said I had a power level of forty as a baby. If that was high for a human, what exactly was my real level?"

"Because of your demon ancestry and spiritual energy, your level was 1000," Jiro revealed. "Honestly, it would have grown much higher if he performed the experiment on you then."

"One thousand?" Kaiya nearly shouted. "How the hell…you know what, I don't want to know. So you convinced him to let me stay on Earth for a few years. How?"

"I promised to have you enrolled in classes of some sort. Another friend at college had promised the same thing, so I made sure you two were together for a while." Realization dawned on Kaiya that he was talking about Edward and Alexia. "And then he contacted me again, once you had been tested in those classes. I acted as if I was considering letting him have you, but I begged him to kill you. He had been happy with my work that I assumed he would want to keep me on. There were always other soldiers to be made, and you only had the mindset as a spy, not a killer. I tried using all of this information, but he turned on me in the end. I had been hoping he would kill you so that you wouldn't be sentenced to years of breaking and molding. He sent me away that day and told me he was done with my services.

"I never expected the experiment he was planning to do, but I'm glad he did, because it gave the Saiyan prince a tie to you and he rescued you. He sent you home, and Frieza was done with me so, for years, you were free, as was I. It wasn't until you were fourteen when Frieza had me tracked down. That was the time where I tried to distance myself from you and tried to push you away from the family. In hindsight, I probably should have told you, but you wouldn't have understood. You had no memory of the encounter and I did not want to cause you pain by making you relive it if I said something to remind you of everything.

"I tried to kill you again once I knew you had finally found your fire demon boyfriend, because I knew nothing would prevent my attack from hitting you. I would have reported you dead to Frieza, but you came back as a demon yourself, a strong one, and then you remember the end of the battle. He had contacted me again to have you sent to Namek to fight the other Saiyans when I killed you. After Jake had brought me back with the Dragon Balls, thing became worse. Tbe honest, I'm thankful your boyfriend killed me so that I didn't need to worry about receiving angry messages from Frieza. Last message I got, Frieza swore that since I disobeyed orders, if he ever found me on Earth, he would kill me."

"That's why you didn't want to be around when you sensed him," Kaiya marveled. "Okay, well that explains the past, but it doesn't explain why you became a demon hunter and made all these plans against my friends, and it sure as hell doesn't explain why you were still continuing on with the charade after Frieza was killed by that guy from the future or why it was you that suggested the destruction of Planet Vegeta. Why did you do that, Jiro? The Saiyans had done nothing to you."

"I didn't mean to," Jiro argued. "Frieza was saying how much he hated them and that they were getting to strong and I sarcastically made the comment 'if you're so worried, what are they still doing there? I hear you have this thing about destroying planets.' After I said that, I regretted it, but Frieza had revealed he had already been weighing his options on that. Honestly, me saying anything wouldn't have made the difference. Once the Saiyans stopped being useful to him, he would have ended them. I only contributed to the timing of their destruction. And yes, that's why I didn't want to stick around when he was there. I'm very glad he wasn't around for long and that he didn't see you. Unfortunately, his death, and even his father's death, didn't end the PTO.

"His brother, Cooler, is still out there," he told his daughter who gasped at the fact that someone like Frieza had a brother, "and he contacted me and had me explain why I hadn't been answering to his brother's command. I explained I had been dead for a year and how it happened and he stated that I needed to end you and every Saiyan as my next order. That is why I continued to act as I did. You learning the truth, though…that changed a lot of things."

"You still haven't explained the demon hunters," Kaiya pointed out.

Jiro was hesitant to speak, not wanting to tell her his methods. "At first, it was suggested by my roommate that I join Kiense, that fire demon who Mayonaka is dating, when he was getting started on his plans. He had heard rumors that Kiense was gathering psychics to go against Spirit World. My roommate figured I could find information on why I couldn't kill you, but unfortunately for me Kiense was more peaceful than I thought so I broke away and created my own faction.

"If I couldn't use Spirit World to find your protector, I could as a demon hunter. All I had to do was learn everything about Demon World and its high profile residents. I figured they would be able to help me figure out a method to end you if Frieza ever contacted me again. Without knowing, though, you confirmed the names for me, when you told me of your friends. I knew one of them had to be the one that you had been protected by, so I just decided to bide my time. I wasn't going to come after any of you until the next time Frieza contacted me."

"What changed?"

"Jake did," Jiro growled. "Excellent fighter, good drive, perfect demon hunter…but horrible at following directions. He found my notes and spread them around. He said we needed to strike. They would have gone after you without my commands. I told them all to give me a few days to think of a plan…and that was when Frieza contacted me again saying he had waited long enough for you and needed you for something, my assumption is that that was when Vegeta mutinied. He wanted you as a replacement fighter, and he probably assumed I was training you all of those years. This was all one big mess that started because I wanted the scholarship being offered. I never knew what it would lead to. I'm…sorry, Kaiya."

Kaiya's eyes widened when she heard his apology. For her entire life, or at least the time where he was pushing her away, she had longed to hear those words being uttered so sincerely. Now, after thinking he hated her, thinking she was a terrible daughter, it was he who was apologizing to her. "I…" she attempted to voice as tears started to form in her eyes. "I always thought you hated me."

Jiro's face fell when he picked up on her dejection just by the sound of her voice. He had expected to push her away, make her hate him, but not tear her up inside to the point where she questioned herself. "I could never hate you, Kaiya," he assured her. "You are part of me, the best part in fact. I'm pretty sure your mother has said that from time to time."

Tears fell from the girl's eyes, but she was laughing so hard at the remark. "Just how long have you been spying on me?" she teased. "Seriously, how strange is it that my father has been my stalker?"

Her father laughed along with her before he heard a noise off to the side and then a gasp. He quickly turned to see Jake standing there and, with his telepathy, Jiro realized that his subordinate had heard everything.

"I had the feeling," Jake remarked while trying to contain the betrayal he felt and his anger. "You've been lying to me. To all of us. You never intended to kill her."

Kaiya scoffed. "Haven't you paid any attention or did you miss that part? Jiro made it clear he had every intention of killing me. It's just not for the reason you expected."

"Shut up, demon," Jake growled at her. "I have no need for your input. It's a good thing I took charge on this project."

"What project?" both Kaiya and Jiro voiced at the same time.

"Really? 'What project?'" Jake quoted in sarcasm. "Yours, Jiro. The one to take out Demon World. We may not have the mirror, but we have the manpower. You see, Mizuki told the demons we were planning the attack for the tournament, so they'll never expect it now, months in advance. Do whatever you want with the mirror. You would have to give up your life to make it. No one else can help you with that. I regret ever trusting y-"

Jake was silenced by a beam of lightning striking his heart, Jiro rubbing the temples of his head. "Idiot…this wasn't supposed to play out like this."

"Don't worry," Kaiya said in comfort, "everyone is ready for an attack. You don't think demons are stupid enough to sit back and wait for an attack, do you?"

"For his sake, I hope he doesn't answer that."

Jiro looked over to the stairwell, but saw no one. He looked back to his daughter's cell and saw Hiei standing in front of it with his arms crossed. Kaiya was smiling down at him and then at her father. "Now," he started, "there is no one else here, so I suggest we bypass any trouble and you release her before Vegeta gets tired of fighting Kakarot out there."

"That will never happen," Kaiya laughed. She knew full well that her brother wouldn't stop any fight with his rival no matter the circumstances.

Jiro didn't respond to Hiei, but he did open the cell door and went to remove the ki restraint shackles from his daughter's wrists. She caught herself as she plopped onto the floor and observed the slight bruising of her wrists from being hung there for so long. Afterwards, she was beaming with happiness at the sight of her father and boyfriend in the same room, neither trying to attack the other, though she knew Hiei really, really wanted to. "Okay, now let's go take out some demon hunters, once and for all."

Hiei smirked at her. "Sounds like a plan, onna."

Kaiya looked to Jiro expectantly, hoping he would join them. He just smiled fondly before growing serious again. "There is something I need to take care of here, first," he told her. "I will join you and your friends shortly."

Something like an alarm rang out in Kaiya's head, but not because she was worried Jiro would turn on them. "Well, if you're sure," she murmured softly. "There's just…one thing I need to do."

"Wha-" Jiro was about to asked her what it was she had needed to do, but Kaiya answered his question the second she ran over to him and hugged him tightly. He could see tears forming in her closed eyes and frowned again. She had been through so much because of him, and she had only ever wanted him to accept her from what he was gathering from her thoughts. He knew now, the reason she never hated him but instead questioned herself. His methods hadn't pushed her away. They only made her try harder in desperation to win his love, but she had never truly realized she already had it.

He remained quiet, a stern expression on his face as he placed his hand on top of her head and hugged her back with his free arm. "I love you, Kaiya, and I'm so proud of what you were able to accomplish despite what I put you through. Don't ever forget that, ever. If you ever question it, just remember what I told you today and nothing else. You are my daughter, and I will always be proud of you. You and your sister."

Jiro released her and raced out of the corridor before either she or Hiei could respond. Kaiya looked to the blank spot in front of her. "I love you too, daddy," Kaiya whispered, not understanding the feeling of dread threatening to consume her.

"Hiei, I can't go out there," Kaiya cried as she realized it was night.

Hiei looked at her like she was crazy. "Why not?"

"Don't you remember? It's a full moon tonight! If I go out there, I'm going to transform," she reminded him as her tail tightened around her waist, "and I haven't tried to learn to control it yet."

His eyes widened, but Hiei kept his calm and went to look outside. If the moon was full that night, it was being covered by storm clouds. If the two of them interrupted the fight between Vegeta and Goku, then they could have the Earth-raised Saiyan transport them to Demon World to fight and they wouldn't have to worry about the full moon or the Oozaru transformation.

Out in the desert, Vegeta and Goku were still going at it, neither backing down. Both of them were covered in blood, theirs clothes tattered in appearance. Unfortunately for Vegeta, though, Goku still had plenty more energy to go and hadn't once transformed to Super Saiyan. His fists clenched in anger knowing that despite his intense training, he hadn't reached his rival's level, and this was a battle he couldn't afford to lose.

He was already sensing his sister's emotions again, ever since she was released, and he now knew everything Jiro had said, both to her and to Kakarot. The story was believable, and his sister was so internally happy that it sickened Vegeta. He still wanted to kill this man for everything he had done regardless of the fact that he was unwillingly brought into the PTO as he had been. He still wanted to be the one to end Jiro for suggesting, however unintentional, the destruction of his home planet, but his sister's emotions were suffocating him even now. He didn't want to think of what they would do to him after he eliminated her father.

"Kakarot!" he heard her call. It made the fight pause briefly as his rival stopped mid-punch to see both Kaiya and Hiei in the air fairly close to their fight.

"Oh, hey Kaiya, you're out," he said stating the obvious. "What's up?"

"We need you to use that transmission technique to take us to Demon World," Hiei said, "before she gets a look at the moon. It's covered right now."

Due to no longer possessing a tail, Vegeta hadn't been paying much attention to the moon cycles. He had explained the Oozaru transformation to Kaiya since she had a tail, and the young girl had only really seen the full moon before Frieza's experiment. She had been lucky that she hadn't seen it since, though tonight might have made up for it if the moon hadn't been covered by the dense clouds.

"Sure, one second," Goku answered before facing Vegeta. "This takes precedence, Vegeta, but I'll be back." Vegeta nodded, irritated at their battle being disrupted, though he had been starting to lose ground. At least this way he could regroup.

What was he thinking? With Kakarot gone, even for a moment, he had direct access to Jiro and, even better, his sister wouldn't be there to see the carnage. He would be able to end Jiro's life and make up something for his sister to cope later. It wouldn't matter. He could tell her that he was alive and decided to return home and she would never know the difference. Well, lying to her would be difficult and dishonorable. He would work that out later, and would probably settle for telling her the truth because, honestly, he wasn't ashamed of his bloodlust and he didn't care what problems it would cause. This was the end of the PTO for good.

Hopefully…

The second Kakarot had transported away, Vegeta made his move and flew towards the roof where he was sensing Jiro's ki. He grinned, feeling his power course around him. It had been quite a long time since he had last killed an enemy, and he was ready for it.

Jiro didn't even flinch when he sensed the Saiyan prince land on the roof. He knew what Vegeta was there for, but it was a moot point. Before the Saiyan reached him, Jiro used his abilities to disperse the clouds. He had been the one to cause the cloud coverage, for he knew what night this was.

"Please," Jiro said. Vegeta smirked thinking the man was going to beg for his life. "Just let me do one thing, and I assure you I will accept my death. This is for Kaiya." He held out the broken mirror, the object Hiei had talked about. Vegeta eyed the man curiously and watched as he set the mirror down on the roof. The full moon reflected in the shards and a deep voice rang out on the roof top.

"The freedom of this girl," the mirror spoke out, revealing a picture of Kaiya, "is that what you desire?"