Hiei scanned for his sister within the trees of Genkai's estate in human world. Another headache was coming over him as he tried not to use his jagan eye. He finally spotted the temple and ran into it. Yukina was walking through a side door from outside. "Hiei?" she asked as their eyes met.

"Would you take those things off of you?" Hiei demanded, "They're giving me a headache."

She replied, "It's about time you showed up. I've been waiting for you to come here for days. I'll only take them off if you talk to me."

Hiei's eye twitched as he asked, "About what?"

"Kurama told me everything," she said sadly, "that you knew who I was years ago. Why didn't you tell me?"

I will torcher him to death, Hiei thought. "I'll answer when you get rid of the talasman cards," he replied as he looked at how ridiculous she looked.

She looked at him and said, "Come on, you're staying by my side." She grabbed his arm and pulled him into her bedroom.

Without objecting he went into her room with her. He turned around as she changed out of the dress with all of the cards on it and into her old kimono. Hiei asked, "Why do you want to know so bad?"

"I asked first."

He turned around to face her and said, "I was sure you wouldn't want a brother like me. I'm still sure of it. No one wants someone like me in their lives. If you knew the truth-"

"Kurama told me," she interupted, "he said you were very murderous in the past, which does bother me. Why did you feel the need to be so violent?" He stayed silent. "Hiei, please say something."

"You wouldn't understand," he answered.

Yukina said, "Kurama also told me you most likely didn't have any friends before meeting him. Is that true?"

"I never said that," he said, "but he's not wrong."

"We're more alike than you realize, Hiei," she said, "listen."

Our mother killed herself when I was still very young. What I do remember of her is that she'd cry on a regular basis. None of the other ice maidens wanted to go near her. That spread to me too, especially once she died and I was raised by Rui.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" one little girl asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked, "They're normal."

"They're red," another girl said, "Hina's eyes were green. Why are you different?"

"I don't know."

"My mommy says you're impure," a girl said, "and that we shouldn't play with you."

I left for the forest and found animals, foxes, squirrels, birds, butterflies, and others all in that area. I noticed the void that had grown in my heart would start to disappear when I was out there alone. It was the only time I'd feel alive.

As I got older I noticed Rui was obviously hiding something. "Rui?" I asked, "Why do the others call me impure?"

"You're different from us, Yukina," she said, "that's all I'm permitted to tell you. You're very beautiful, the most beautiful baby anyone had ever seen when you were born."

I sat down across from her and said, "Rui, were you there when I was born?"

"Yes," she answered hesitantly.

"It's strange," I confessed, "I remember a time just after I was born. Something was so hot that it almost hurt that I was near it. It felt so alive, whatever it was. It feels like something is missing from my life and I think that heat is part of it. I don't know what it means. Don't you feel like there's something missing in all of our lives?"

She sat across from me and answered, "No, Yukina, but your mother did. She left the ice world many years ago and met a man."

"A man?" I asked, "But that's forbidden."

"Yes," she said, "I know. I tried to stop her but she insisted she should meet a man before judging them so harshly. When she came back it I could tell she was changed forever. The truth is, she gave birth to twins."

"I have a sister?"

"No," she insisted, "the other baby was a boy. You have a brother. The elder insisted he be destroyed or else he'd grow violent and kill us all. In the past apparently something similar had happened. I was there, I could tell he understood everything we said about him. When he was born he was surrounded in an orange flame so intense no one could touch him. We had to wrap him in a sacred cloth and I was forced to throw him off our cliffs to the ground below. He survived. I'm sure of it, and one day he'll return to kill us all."

I asked, "How can you be so sure?"

Rui explained, "His eyes. He knew what we were saying. I'm sure one day when he comes back he won't be pleased Hina was driven to suicide."

Not long after that I knew I couldn't live there any longer. Once I found out I had a brother the void in me started to subside. It was like I had a purpose in my life, to find my brother and be reunited with him. If he was going to kill all of them it didn't bother me in the slightest. They didn't deserve to live anyway, so I left without saying goodbye to anyone.

When I met demons on the survice world everyone thought I was so beautiful. They'd still avoid me. It's like they could tell I was cold and heartless back then. Then I fell into a portal to the human world. They all felt so alive when I met them, then I was entrapped by that evil man and forced to make tears.

Yukina looked up at her brother to see Hiei's expression was shocked. "You felt my heat when you were born?" he asked.

"I didn't know it was you until years later," she explained, "but yes, I did. Now that I've left the ice world for so many years I've realized love was what was missing from my life. Those animals were so full of it but I didn't even feel it until I left. It's missing from your life too, isn't it?" He didn't say anything. "Hiei, tell me about your life," she said, "what was it like?"

"It makes me sick just thinking about it," he replied, "you don't want to know what was my life has been like."

Yukina stepped closer to him and said, "Please, Hiei. For so long I've felt so alone. That's why I want a brother, so we don't have to be alone anymore." Hiei looked at her pleading eyes and agreed.