Flame of Hiei
Introduction
It was another ordinary day in April around Alicia's house. Hiei had gone on a trip to the Makai to go check in on Yukina. The kids were away at school. (It had been quite difficult to place the children in a school, considering Kuronue's long black wings and Yoko's fox ears and tail.) Alicia sat alone in the master bedroom reading her Flame of Recca mangas.
Perhaps it was fate that the books had fallen on her when she went into the closet. Maybe it was the fault of her destiny that what was about to happen should happen to her…
Halfway through the first novel, Alicia looked up from her reading and came to a shocking revelation. The room was shifting, fading. Things that had been in the room were disappearing and objects that were never there in the first place came to take their places. Crossed dimensions, she figured. She'd seen it before. She had never seen it change people's clothes though.
"What's… this?" Alicia looked down at the new fabrics she was clothed it. A page of Flame of Recca came to mind and she instantly panicked. "I'M YANAGI SAKOSHITA!?"
"Alicia," Hiei came upon her, "where are we? And what the hell am I wearing?"
"Well… things could be worse," Alicia thought, circling her love. "We are in 'Flame of Recca,' Recca-chan, and you are dressed like that because you are Recca-chan."
"You mean to say you got me stuck in one of your blasted comic books!?"
"They're mangas, Recca-chan," Alicia took his baseball cap, revealing an awfully Recca-like hairstyle, and placed the hat atop her own head. "Gosh that haircut looks cute on you."
"Will you give that damn hat back!?" Hiei reached up and grabbed the hat off Alicia's head, restoring it to its rightful place. "So… how do we get out?"
"Act out the series to the last manga I believe," Alicia replied.
"We've got to act it all out?" Hiei asked, wide eyed.
"Yep. Now let's go find the rest of our cast and explain it to them!" Alicia insisted with a smile.
"Well here comes some of our cast," Hiei said, pointing to Yukina who was rushing toward them.
"Hello! How are you two?" she asked with a smile.
"Hm?" Alicia circled Yukina. Short skirt, band across the forehead, pocket full of ice picks-- "Fuko!?!"
"My name is Yukina," Yukina reminded her, afraid that Alicia had lost her memories.
"Um, excuse me Alicia… but why are we here?" Kurama asked, approaching the trio. "I should be at school but I know I am not there."
"Tokiya-chan!" Alicia smiled, pulling Kurama's hair back to make him look more like Tokiya.
"Alicia, what on earth are you doing?" Kurama asked.
"I shall explain in a minute. Wait a moment for Yusuke and Kuwabara. I'm sure they got dragged into this too."
"Hey guys… sup?" Yusuke asked when he came to meet up with them, with Kuwabara directly behind him.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Alicia fell to the ground in hysterics. "Ohayo gozaimass Hanabishi-san! Konnichiwa, Domon!"
"Hey…" Kuwabara stared at her, puzzled. "Did she lose her mind again, shorty?"
"For your information," Hiei began bitterly, "once she lost her mind she never got it back. You're thinking of losing memories- and, no, she didn't lose her memories."
"Indeed… I may be a psychopath but I'm not an amnesiac," Alicia jumped up, giggling, and dusted herself off. "We're stuck in Flame of Recca. Allow me to introduce our cast. I am Yanagi Sakoshita. Hiei is Recca. Yusuke is… Recca's dad--"
"Wait just a damn minute! You mean I'm playing the role of--!" Yusuke yelled.
"That is correct, Yusuke- you are Hiei's father," Alicia chuckled. "Anyway, moving on… Kurama is Tokiya--."
"If you don't mind my asking, Alicia, what is Tokiya like?" Kurama asked quite politely.
"He's a lot like you… but he's slightly psychopathic," she answered.
"So my character is like me but he belongs in a mental hospital?" Kurama questioned, sweat trailing down his face.
"At least you didn't get stuck in the position Yukina and I got stuck in. We're both stuck playing our exact opposites. I am Yanagi- Yanagi is a naïve, gentle, sensitive, weak person whose only true power is healing. Yukina is Fuko- a bratty stuck-up tomboy who shows her affection for others by pounding the snot outta them."
At this point, most everyone was staring at Yukina, wondering how she was going to manage to act so vicious. Yukina just stood there smiling innocently back at them. However, Hiei had his eyes on Alicia instead and she had noticed it.
"Nanda, Hiei-chan?" Alicia blinked at him curiously.
"Well…" Hiei said, his face a bright red, "is it just me or… did you get a bit… 'smaller'?"
Alicia, having some faint inclination as to what he was talking about, followed his glance down to her chest. The instant she had confirmed in her own mind that that was indeed what Hiei was talking about, she smacked him so hard that it echoed solidly through a two mile radius. "I DID NOT NEED TO HEAR THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Come now, Alicia," Kurama placed a hand on his enraged friend's shoulder. "Shouldn't you be used to him saying things like that to you? You have been married to Hiei for nine years."
"Of course I'm used to him talking about my chest, just not in public!" Alicia whispered.
"I see…" Kurama nodded.
"Shouldn't we get on with this so we can get the hell outta here?" Yusuke asked. "How do we start this?"
"Well let's see… Volume one begins in an old junkyard where Domon and Recca are fighting each other. Okay! Kuwabara, Hiei, get out there!" Alicia pushed them forward, toward the junkyard. "And you better beat Hiei up good Kuwabaka or you'll be looking at a lifetime of pain and suffering!"
"Never thought I'd hear her rooting for Kuwabara over Hiei," Yusuke admitted with a nervous laugh.
"Well, guess I'll have to grant the lady's request. Ready to get pounded, shrimp?" Kuwabara asked smugly.
"Just shut up and get out here before I decide you are unworthy to keep your life," Hiei replied with a sneer from beyond the junkyard fence.