Memoirs of an Ember
Laying across the couch, eating ice cream, Peyton and I were watching I Survived a Japanese Game Show. Personally, we thought it was a pointless show, but we get amused when people are hurt so we watch it anyway. My head was turned to the TV as I felt something in my ice cream bowl. My hearing ability instantly turned on, as I whipped my head around to face Peyton. She was bringing a spoon full of MY ice cream to her mouth as my jaw dropped and my brows furrowed. I kicked her hard on one of her hips as I said, "You hoe! That was my ice cream!" She made an "Ugh," sound as she dropped the bowl onto the floor, thank god it was a plastic bowl. She glared at me and yelled, "Skank, that hurt," as she kicked me back and made me drop my ice cream too.
I slid off the couch with anime tears running down my face as I cried for my lost ice cream. I heard Peyton start to laugh at me, and my eyes locked on hers and they blazed with a vengeance like no other. "That does it Pastry!" I screamed, using the nickname I gave her, which she hated by the way. I lunged at her from my spot on the floor and tackled her so hard it forced the couch to fall backwards too. We wrestled on the floor for who knows how long throwing insults at each other. Peyton had me in a headlock, choking the life out of me, as I twisted her arm back painfully when we heard a voice say laughing, "Wow, they're like us all over again, Kuwabara." Our heads snapped painfully over to the sound of the voice as we let go of each other and went into attack positions.
There were six people, two girls and four boys, all matching Genkai's description of the group that would be staying here. Peyton relaxed a moment before I did, noticing sooner then I, my ears taking a moment longer to distinguish their faces. I sighed in relief, not wanting to fight, as I opened my mouth, "Hi, you must be the people whose name I can't memorize." Beside me, Peyton snorted at my comment forcing me to grin like the maniac I truly am. The one with the badly attempted Elvis Presley styled hair stepped up to me, "Whoa, Genkai never told us one of her grand daughters was blind." I twitched as I glared and replied, "Amazing, gran'ma didn't tell us you were a baka." I hated it when people mentioned to me that I was blind, it made me think of the fact I can't remember my own parents. He stepped back in shock as I continued, "I can see quiet clearly with my ears now thank you."
The boy, Kuwabara, was about to reply before Genkai stepped into the living room, "That's enough Embri. He didn't know." I huffed as I walked to the kitchen to get something to clean up the mess. I walked back into the room with a role of paper towels in my hands. I listened to find Hiei sitting on the window seal, Youko sitting in our new lazy boy chair, replaced after the incident, and Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Peyton sitting on the newly up righted couch. I turned to Genkai, who was sitting in the rocking chair, "Where did those two girls go?" "We're right here," I heard behind me and I fought the urge to spin around and attack then. "Mmkk," I said turning to them with a smile on my face then turning back around. I walked over to Peyton handing her some paper towels.
When she looked confused for a second I simply just gave her a "look" saying "it's your mess too," she took it wordlessly. Sitting on the floor, we began cleaning the mess as the others conversed around us. "So these two girls are Koemna's new Spirit Detectives?" We heard a deep silky voice say. My hearing had seen that it had been Youko who talked, his golden eyes shaded by his silver bangs. I saw Peyton glance at him every once in a while and rolled my eyes every time. "Yes, believe it or not they aren't spiritually powerful, but they have unique abilities and good fighting skills." I felt their eyes on me and Peyton as Peyton and I stood up done with the mess.
Peyton walked with me to the kitchen this time, once we were in there I sat on the table as she sat on the counter. I smiled at her with one of those smiles telling her I knew something. She snapped a, "what," at me and I just grinned harder, "Oh you know… you've known him for what? Ten minutes and you've already starting to have a crush on him!" She shushed me while she laughed, "Ha! That would be impossible, my dear. He may be gorgeous, but I can't forget the stories of how he uses women to…do it… then throws them away the next day." I was silent for a moment in thought then, "Touché."
We grinned at each other again as we hopped off our seats and made our way back to the living room. As we sat down on the floor in front of the couch cross-legged the TV turned on and Koenma popped up on it. There was a variety of different hellos to him ranging from a, "Hn," and to a screamed, "Binky breathe! How ya been?" Peyton and I sat silent as we glared at the TV remembering the voice you could hear in the background. When it got quiet and the reunion was over Koenma looked at us with pleading eyes, "Embri, Pey-" He was cut off mid-sentence when Peyton and I abruptly said, "No," at the same time.
"Please! I need to finish my paper work and he keeps messing everything up!" He whined back at us. Peyton then said, "Koenma. Your baby brother is the sporn of evil. Last time we baby-sat him he tried to shave my hair bald!" The three of us argued for about ten minutes until I got tired and sighed, "Fine. We'll watch the brat for you, but you can't complain about the way we watch him…Deal?" Koenma, just wanting to get his paper work done, replied without a moment's hesitation, "Deal!" and turned off the TV. Peyton looked at me furious, and was about to yell at me so I said something before she could, "Relax, I'll just knock the kid out."
I heard two gasps so I turned around to find Keiko, Kuwabara and Yukina looking horrified and the rest of the boys just looking amusedly at us. "What? You heard what Peyton said didn't you?" I asked. Keiko replied back with, "He's just a baby! He doesn't know anything! You can't do that!" Peyton then said, "Fine, then you watch him. It'll be your funeral," as we both got up to go to our different "safe zones." Mine being that cliff and Peyton's being a small-secluded waterfall. Before we made it out the door though we were stopped, "What are you two doing?" asked Yusuke. "Dip-setting before evil incarnated gets here," I threw over my shoulder as I shut the slider to the back yard.
The Cliff: half hour later
I was laying down in the grass again with my ears wide opened listening to the earth, my arms and legs spread wide, and peaceful, a contented look on my face with my eyes closed. I twitched as I felt a presence in the tree on the edge of the field on the cliff. 'He really is to fast for my hearing.' I heard a "Hn," and then Hiei say, "Yes, I am." I twitched again realizing he could read my thoughts, "I'd appreciate it if you kept out of my head." I didn't hear a reply so I assumed he wouldn't listen to me, why would he? He's years older than me, I'm just a kid to him.
"I'll assume that you didn't like the brat either?" No reply, I'll try again. "So why'd you come here of all places?" Again, no response. I guessed if he didn't reply to those questions he didn't want to talk and that he just wanted silence. 'That's fine with me.' I thought as I lay back down on the soft grass. I don't know how long we sat there in silence, but it was a comfortable silence so I didn't mind. I sat up suddenly, probably startling Hiei, I don't know. I just had the biggest urge to listen to my ipod. I guess Hiei was still listening to my thoughts sense I felt a small item drop into my lap. I looked down to see my ipod and picked it up.
"Thanks," I said to him. He "Hn-ed," again and said "Genkai told me to bring it to you." His voice was deep and rough, but sexy. I started to get chills down my back, but controlled my body just in time before he noticed. I smiled as I put my headphones in my ears and he went back to his tree. As I listened to the songs I started to think about simple things likes Butterflies, wolves, our last mission, and the puffy white clouds that began to look like monsters to me thanks to the soft breeze blowing through, making a soft sound. I have a very imaginative mind I'm told. That's when I heard a, "Baka onna." I sat up again and paused my music glaring at him, "Teme!" He glared ten times worse right back at me…
Oh no. I just made him hate me. Wait! He just called me a baka! That insensitive, self centered, jerk!
(I thought it would be funny to put that last line in there...it's something I would do/say. I hope you injoyed their meeting with the boys, and yes. I decided that Koenma need and annoying evil little brother. He'll be useful in the future. Mwahahaha. Oh! I would like to thank Crazy4YuYuHakusho, Daeth101- Fox version, dragonwingedangel, Sabixa-luvs-Axel, and hemsut kane for reviewing! I hope you guys like it the most! I read your guyz reviews and it made me want to up date! Review if you've read please! Oh i need someones help to tell me how to make it so i can have anonymous reviews. Thank you!)