Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon of Fire and Ice ❯ Chapter 2 ¡V Coincidence? x Who are you? x The First Fight ( Chapter 2 )

Dragon of Fire and Ice

By Gozilla

Disclaimer: I don't own anything (except for the cute little Blackie, please don't take it away from me) and I don't have anything. So don't sue me!!

Please excuse my poor English!

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"crap" - conversation

*crap* - thoughts

(crap) - author's note

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Chapter 2 - Coincidence? x Who are you? x The First Fight

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~One month later~

~Outside Genkai's temple~

Yukina was carrying out her daily ritual - sweeping the backyard of the temple. She stopped briefly to see if she missed any spot in the garden. She sensed and turned to look at a familiar presence nearby, a black dragon. The dragon was whirling around the trunk of a tree, playfully chasing a squirrel up and down the tree.

Yukina smiled and was about to return to her work before she heard someone's scream, "Help! Help me!!"

The koorime ran to the gate of the temple and saw a gang of evil-looking youths grabbed the backpack of a girl and pushed her on the floor.

By the time Yukina made her way to the girl, the gang was gong, leaving the girl crying.

"Are you alright?" asked Yukina while searching for any injuries on the girl.

"I hurt my ankle and I lost my travel pack." The girl answered through her sobbing, her blue eyes looked at the stranger kneeling beside her, "What should I do? I know no one in this district..."

"Why don't you come with me?" said Yukina, "You can stay in the temple until your friend or relative comes to pick you up. Genkai-san is out of town at the moment. But I am sure she won't mind if you stay for a while."

The girl stopped crying and looked at Yukina, "Really? Thank you so much! I will call my parents right away. They are working overseas at the moment and should be able to get here in a few days."

Yukina helped the girl to stand up and led her to the temple, "You are welcomed. I need to treat your ankle first." She thought to herself, *I'd better not to use my healing power on her. She may get worried if she knows I am not a human.*

A black dragon, hidden behind a pillar of the temple, watched the two girls went inside the temple, its ruby-red eyes shone with danger.

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~30 minutes later~

~A room inside Genkai's temple~

Yukina tied a knot with the bandage wrapped around the girl's ankle, "It's all done. You will be fine in a few days. By the way, what's your name?"

The girl looked at her ankle, "Thanks a lot Yukina. I wouldn't know what to do without you. My name is Kime. Oh, can I have a glass of water? I am really thirsty."

"Sure." Yukina got up and started walking towards the kitchen. Once the koorime was out of sight, Kime turned and stare at the ceiling, "I know you are there. Come out."

A black dragon revealed itself from the ceiling, staring at the girl dangerously.

An evil smile appeared on the girl's once innocent face, "Smart creature, seems that you know why I am here. Unfortunately, you can't tell her and you can't do anything to stop me..." She barely finished the sentence before she threw a ki dagger towards to dragon.

The small dragon dodged the dagger with lightning speed. It repaid its attacker with a tennis ball-size fireball. Kime dodged the fireball with ease. The fireball hit and set fire of a chair. Kime threw another ki dagger at the dragon. The dragon barely dodged the dagger. Before it could counter-attack again, Yukina appeared at the door.

"Blackie, what are you doing?" shouted the koorime, un-noticed that there were two ki daggers, which were darted deep on the wall of the room, were vanishing, leaving two holes on the wall.

"Yukina, help me!" Kime's face returned to the innocent scared look, "This creature came out of nowhere and started blowing fire at me! I am scared!" She stumbled behind the koorime, pretending as if her ankle hurt.

Yukina supported the girl and turned to the dragon, "Blackie! Look what you have done! I don't want you here! Leave!"

The dragon was taken aback, sadness filled with its eyes, and took one more angry look at the girl hidden behind the koormie before it took off from the window and disappeared in the forest.

Yukina looked out of the window, with a worried face, "What have I done..." What she didn't see was an evil grin on Kime's face.

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~Three hour later~

~Somewhere in Makai~

"Another boring patrol day." said a cat youkai, yawning.

"I would rather be bored to death than to meet a ningen, especially when I am not allowed to eat him." said a hawk youkai.

"Hn. Stop complaining. It's our duty, for losing in the Makai tournament." said the fire demon before walking away from the other demons. Hiei found a quiet corner of the patrol vehicle. He took the necklaces hanged on his neck and looked at his mother's and his sister's tear gems attached to them.

It had been a month since Hiei returned to Makai. When he returned to Makai, Mukuro acted as if nothing happen and asked the fire demon to start with his usual patrolling job straight away. But Hiei knew, from the tiniest gestures of the Makai lord, that she was happy to see him again. Though he would never admit it, the fire demon was also happy to see her.

The fire demon also found that patrolling job very boring. There were not many ningens strayed into Makai, often only once or twice in a month. Hiei spent quite a lot of his free time looking at the tear gem given to him by his twin sister, the one which she shed when he died for her about 3 months ago. It calmed his heart and reminded him of the one who was waiting for his return in Ningenkai.

An approaching ki interrupted his peacefulness. The fire demon sensed a familiar ki coming from one of the portals between Makai and Ningenkai. "Blackie?" Hiei looked afar at the sky, murmured, "What is it doing here?"

Ten minutes later, a small black dragon appeared and whirled happily around the fire demon before resting around his left arm.

"What happened?" Hiei asked gently, "Didn't I told you to stay with Yukina and look after her?"

The dragon looked at its master with its sad eyes. The fire demon somehow felt the frustration of the dragon. Suddenly, a rough picture of what had happened appeared in his mind, as if the dragon's mind was connected to his and transmitted the picture to his master's mind.

Hiei frowned and closed his eyes, *Kime... What does she want? I wonder what is her plan to Yukina... I'd better go and check out...* He opened his eyes, meeting the crimson ones of the dragon, which were eagerly looking back. He sighed, "Both you and I are unwanted everywhere. Don't worry, at least you have me here." he murmured to the dragon.

Hiei's thoughts was interrupted by the hawk demon, who rushed and kneeled beside the fire demon, "Captain, we have an emergency situation. We have detected the intrusion of around 10 ningens all around the place. The strangest thing is that they seem to have appeared out of nowhere. And we have never encounter such a large number of ningen intrusion in one go."

The fire demon narrowed his eyes, *Is it really a coincidence? I was just about to go to Yukina and this happens. But it seems that I have no choice...* He turned to the dragon on his arm, "Blackie, go back to Ningenkai and keep an eye on Yukina. Keep a distance and don't let her see you. I will be there as soon as possible."

The dragon nodded and flied to the nearest portal to Ningenkai. Hiei watched as the dragon became a black spot in the sky, "Protect her..." he murmured to the black spot before turning to the hawk demon, "Let's go!"

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~Twelve hours later~

~Somewhere in Makai~

The jagan of the fire demon looked straight to the half-opened eyes of a ningen, glowing with strong purple light, "You will forget everything about this place once you are returned to the Ningenkai." With a snap of his fingers, the human fell into deep sleep. Two demons stepped forward and took the human away.

Hiei closed his eyes, exhausted and dizzied. He put his hand on the wall to prevent his body from collapsing to the ground. "It's the tenth and the last one. I have never brainwashed so many ningens within such a short time. I wonder if the remaining ki and strength is strong enough to support myself to go to Ningenkai."

He was about to sit down on the ground and get some rest when he heard screams from the outside of the vehicle. He got up and rushed to the source of the screams.

"Nani?" the fire demon was shocked by the scene. The demons who worked with him in the same vehicle were all lying on the Makai forest floor, dead.

"So," came a deep voice from the shadow of the forest, "you are the one we have to destroy." A tall and muscular figure walked out of the shadow, with a group of vigorous looking demons behind him.

"Says who?" the fire demon replied angrily, hand on the hilt of the sword, "Who are you? What do you want?"

"My name is Akana." said the demon, "As you are going to die in a few minutes, I don't mind telling you the reason why you have to die. We are treasure hunters. Not the ordinary treasure hunters, but hunters of treasure-generating demons. One of our main targets is the koorimes. Their tear gems are invaluable and numerous buyers are queuing up to pay billions for a koorime. Because having one means having an unlimited source of wealth and power."

The fire demon's eyes narrowed, disgusted.

"What's wrong with that? You used to a famous Makai thief yourself." Akana looked at the fire demon, interested, "The koorimes are hard to find as most of them are hidden in a floating island in Makai. We have been trying to locate the island for centuries but failed."

An evil grin appeared on Akana's face, "Luckily, we found one about half a year ago in the least expected place - the Ningenkai. We sent groups of demons to capture the koorime several times but none of them returned. Finally, in the latest attempt, one of them managed to escape death and came back with valuable information - somehow, for reason unknown, the koorime was protected by a fire demon - the infamous Makai thief, Hiei."

*No wonder there had been so many demons creeping up to Genkai's temple... They were trying to capture Yukina...* thought the fire demon, fists tightened.

Akana continued, "We don't know, and we are not interested to know, why you protected the koorime. The only thing we know is that you are obstructing our plan and now, you will pay for it, with your life!"

The demons behind Akana rushed towards Hiei, weapons aimed at the small fire demon.

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~Meanwhile~

~In Genkai's temple~

The ruby-red eyes of a black dragon watched through the thick leaves of the tree in the backyard of Genkai's temple, un-noticed by the two persons inside temple.

Yukina was busy cooking in the kitchen, preparing meals for herself and her guest.

Kime, on the other hand, was wandering around the temple, drawing unknown patterns on the pillars around the temple, "We will get you this time, koorime." murmured the girl, with an evil smirk.

Not knowing what to do, the black dragon kept itself hidden, waiting for his master's return.

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~20 minutes later~

~Somewhere in Makai~

With a flash of light, a demon was being cut into half and slowly fell to the ground, along with the pieces of bodies of a dozen once-alive demons.

Hiei held his sword on his side, looking straight to the eyes of the only other demon standing in the scene. The fire demon was panting lightly. The group of demons was not strong, not at all as to Hiei's standard. But as Hiei had exhausted a lot of his youki in brainwashing the humans, he was way below his top conditions.

"Feeling tired?" said Akana, arms crossed, smirking evilly, "You should be. Otherwise, our efforts in delivering the 10 ningens to Makai will be wasted."

"You brought them here?" said Hiei angrily.

"Of course." the evil smile on Akana's face widened, "Otherwise, how the hell can so many ningens get to Makai all in a sudden? We knew that you are responsible to track down any ningen lost in Makai and you will brainwash them using your jagan. We also know that by doing this, you will spend a lot of your youki and, most importantly, it will weaken you substantially."

"K'so." groaned the fire demon.

"Now," Akana lowered his arms, "prepare to die!" He lunged towards the fire demon with great speed.

Hiei barely dodged the first attack. He rebounded from a tree and counter-attacked the demon with his sword in great speed. Akana did not have time to react and the sword cut deep into Akana's shoulder.

Despite of the obvious victory, the fire demon frowned. Somehow the feeling of the cut was not right. It was like cutting through... water.

Hiei retrieved the sword and jumped away from the demon. He turned and faced his opponent. There was no blood coming from the wound on the demon's shoulder. Instead, the wound was slowly covered by some transparent liquid and healed in an instance.

Hiei's eyes widened, shocked at what he had just seen.

Akana massaged his shoulder, "Let me tell you something. As a water demon, no wound can be inflicted on me. Just like you can't hurt or damage water by a sword or a fist. I am basically un-destroyable. You are destined to be doomed!" he yelled as water arrows shot from his fingertips with lightning speed.

Due to exhaustion, Hiei was only able to avoid most of the arrows. Two arrows hit and went straight through the fire demon's left leg and right shoulder. He fell and rolled behind a nearby gigantic tree, heavily panting.

"Damn it." as he used his hands to cover the wounds, trying to slow down the bleeding.

The fire demon sensed the approach of a powerful ki and dodged away from the tree, just in time as a large water ki-ball hit the tree and exploded.

In the chaos of all the flying wood chips and debris, Hiei was unable to see the other demon before it was too late. He was hit directly by an even larger water ki-ball. The explosion threw him far away from the spot, pushing down trees along the way.

The fire demon was finally stopped by another gigantic tree. His clothes were tore, deep cuts and bruises all over his small body, intensive pain surged from the inside as several ribs were broken. Blood overflowed from his mouth.

He struggled to open his eyes, seeing the water demon approaching slowly. *I can't die here. I can't let them take Yukina. I won't allow them!* his mind yelled as he gathered his remaining youki.

"Oh, what a surprise." Akana approached the battered fire demon, "You are still alive. You should be proud of yourself as only a handful of youkais can withstand the direct hit of my most powerful attack. But now, you will die!" he said and gathered his ki for the final blow.

"Dragon of Black Flame!" yelled the fire demon, as the black flame from his right arm formed the shape of a dragon and charged at the water demon.

Akana was caught off-guarded. He raised his right arm in front of himself, trying to shield off the dragon. The dragon hit directly at the water demon.

*Did it succeed?* thought Hiei, looking at the cloud of smoke and ashes in front of him, *I don't have enough ki and strength to launch another attack...* To his dismay, he sensed the youki of the water demon. The youki did not disappeared, though weakened significantly.

As the cloud gradually disappeared, a tall figure reappeared. Akana stood, wincing from pain, his left hand holding his right shoulder - without his right arm. "Damn you. I have underestimated you. You have evaporated my right arm. But I will be back and you will pay for it!" he shouted before he left.

The fire demon winced in pain as he struggled to stand up. He ignored the injuries and bleeding, *Got to go to Ningenkai and protect Yukina...* was all he could think of and started running to the nearest portal to Ningenkai.

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End of Chapter 2

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The other Reikai Tanteis will fight the water demon in the next Chapter! Stay tune!