Washio: hey all you readers! Thank you for coming to another chapter of Hiei in Love (the re-do). I'm telling every this from now, I am NOT giving up on this fic. I just may take a long time to update… I am a known procrastinator. But I will finish! Thank you all for reviewing and telling people about this fic (cause I know that you told lots of people ^__^). Ahem, Kurama be a dear and do the disclaimer for me please?

Kurama: sure Washio-chan. Washio does not own anything except for her own procrastinating self.

Washio: great, thanks! Oh and please read my friend, MB Otaku, hilarious fic called THE THEORY. It's worth the read, trust me. And without further delay, please enjoy the chapter.

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Inner thoughts or narration

"talking"

(random author notes and thoughts)

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Chapter 3: Protection Program

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Hajime came the next morning as promised. She ran up the stairs and told Genkai, who was on the front porch smoking, a pleasant good morning. She felt Hiei's familiar demon energy and followed it. When she reached the clearing in the forest, she saw Hiei practicing and training with his sword. She sat down quietly so as not to disturb him. Up, down, back, a flip and then forward. Slice, slice, clank, clank and then a perfect landing. Hiei was breathing was uneven and hard. Sweat was rolling down his arms and face. He gripped his sword tighter and charged to the imaginary enemy. One last thrust of his sword, the imaginary enemy seemed to be dead. Hiei sheathed his sword and closed his eyes as he tried to control his breathing. After a couple seconds, he turned to face Hajime who was sitting on the ground. Seeing her sitting there brought back a feeling of nostalgia for both of them. It was just like before when they were younger.

"Can I spar with you?"

"Hn. Do you think that you can take me?"

"Not really, but I'm not as weak as before. So I think I can do a decent job if you don't come at as if this were a serious fight"

"Heh. Fine"

And with that, Hiei drew his sword and got into a fighting stance. Hajime sprang up and took a fighting stance as well. The wind ruffled the leaves in the trees for a second, and as soon as it died down, Hajime rushed towards Hiei taking the offensive. Hiei dodged, and then swung his sword after her. However, Hajime anticipated this and seemingly out of nowhere pulled out a pudao (AN: a Chinese long handle sword, they look kinda cool……go Google it) and blocked the strike of Hiei's katana. Hiei's eyes got a bit wide; Hajime wielding a weapon was new to him. Then again 90-odd years was enough time for a person to change. He smirked slightly realizing that he didn't have to go completely easy on her. So he continued a decent sparring session with her and had to admit to himself that actually enjoyed it a bit. This girl knew when to move and where to move. If he stepped to close, she would jump up and then come back down with the blade of her weapon pointing straight at him. If he moved to the left, she would move to his right (her left) and slash after him. He was impressed. After about an hour of going back and forth, they finally tired out and headed back to the temple to freshen up and get ready for some lunch.

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When they arrived at the temple, Koenma was there in the living room with Genkai having tea. Seeing them enter, Koenma jumped up and said how he was glad to see them both together and how he needed to talk to them.

"Since it appears that the two you know each other, I think that Hiei will be the one best suited for this job."

"What job?" the two asked in unison.

"Hajime, did you that you have dormant powers?"

"Nope"

"What element do you control?"

"Earth…you know like trees, the ground, things like that."

"When in the world did you acquire that power? You certainly didn't have it when you were with me."

"I guess you could say I was a late bloomer. Why does this matter?" Hajime said turn her attention from Hiei back to Koenma.

"Ahem. We have come to realize that you have the dormant ability to be able to control all five elements"

"Five elements?"

"Hn. He means earth, wind, fire, water, and life"

"Yes, it's just as Hiei has said. So far it seems that you only control one out of the 5, earth."

"Ooookkkaay. So is having these powers bad or something? And what does this have to do with Hiei?

"During your childhood, I suspect that after you ran away from home you encountered many demons either trying to kidnap you or kill you."

"You have no idea" the two demons once again said in unison while Hajime gave Hiei a sheepish look.

"Well these people were after you to get that power. They would extract the power from you and therefore killing you in the process" Koenma relayed while sipping the green tea from his cup casually.

"WHAT!? Kill me? How…how can we prevent this?"

"That's where Hiei comes in"

"So you want me to play babysitter and protector for this girl, I don't think so."

Genkai cut in, "Don't be so selfish Hiei. There are grave and deadly consequences not only to the human world but also the demon world if that power falls into the wrong hands. I would also like for you to help me to train her to control these elements. The use of your jagan eye will help to awaken the elements one by one and also prevent her from being overwhelmed by the awakening of element."

"Can't you get one of your spirit world lackeys to do it? Or maybe Kurama? He's better at people interaction than I am."

"Neither Kurama nor those lackeys have a jagan Hiei," Genkai retorted.

Hiei huffed and folded his arms. He glared a bit at Hajime and then a harder, longer glare at Koenma. He sighed and turned to walk away. Hajime was now left with Genkai and Koenma who were now telling her of how she was not to go off on her own, and that she'd be staying at the temple from now on. Genkai showed her to her new room and told her that she could come back either later or tomorrow with her belongings. She opted for tomorrow, tonight seemed too sudden. After Genkai had given her the grand tour, Hajime excused herself and headed outside to find the grumpy fire demon. Said demon was sitting under a tree near the temple. She went up to him and stared at him for a moment. Even though he was less than 2 feet away from her, he felt so far away. Hiei had become more distant and aloof over the years since she last saw him. She sighed and knelt in front of him. Hiei then opened his eyes and raised his eyebrow, to silently question what she was doing. Hajime looked Hiei dead in the eye, and then…

SQUISH!

Personally as author of this fic who is looking on at the scene, I don't think that Hiei's face could have looked more contorted or more comical at that moment, because Hajime has now smushed Hiei's face between her hands. She rotated her hands in a circular motion as if Hiei's cheeks were dough.

"Stop being so damn grumpy! Remember that I always say that your face will get stuck that way if you forever have a grump frown on your face." Hajime said with a little smile. She always used to do this exact same thing years ago when Hiei was getting to sulky or grumpy for her tastes. It worked basically everytime, not that Hiei gave a 100 watt smile, but his mood would seem a little better. Happily this time was no different. He grabbed her head into a headlock and messed up her hair, reprimanding her even thinking of touching his face like that. Hajime knew that he wasn't truly angry, and he had a smirk on his face while messing with her to prove that. After a fully messed up head, Hiei just leaned against the tree trunk and relaxed a bit. She was always able to put him at ease this easily. Soon enough Hajime fell asleep in Hiei's muscular arms. When Hiei felt the limp mass in his lap, he lifted her up and carried her to her soon would-be room. He lay her gently on the bed (dropped her ungracefully without a care is the same thing right?), and climbed onto the window sill. He closed his eyes and eventually fell into a light sleep.

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Light streamed through the curtains and cut through the darkness in the bedroom. Hajime woke up since the hot sun was beating down directly on her face. Ah she was pissed, and slightly irrational. She picked up a pillow and groggily threw it at the window, hoping that the sun would get the message. Damn it! It was still shinning! How inconsiderate. Eventually, Hajime dragged herself to the door to find Genkai and ask her for some clothes. Genkai was in her dojo having some green tea and buttered bread; she wasn't that hungry. The elderly physic pointed out a closet that she could get clothes and bathroom items from. She quickly chose an electric blue yukata with black dragons on it, and took a towel and headed for the bathroom. She turned on the warm water and stepped into the bathroom after taking off her clothes. She needed a good scrubbing after all that sparring yesterday.

How wonder is it that faith would allow Hiei to want to take a tinkle a few minutes after dear Hajime goes to shower. So the little demon jumps through the bedroom window of Hajime's room, and makes his way to the adjoining bathroom totally not paying attention (or not caring…again) to the sounds of the running shower. As soon as he entered he lifted the toilet seat getting ready to his business. Hajime heard Hiei and violently started twitching.

"I'm in here you know?"

"Yes I know…so?"

"It's kinda an invasion of privacy, and this curtain is partially see-through" she replied while trying to shield herself.

Hiei couldn't have cared less, he pulled down the zipper at this point proceeded to…tinkle."It's not like I haven't seen you naked before," he said with a smirk on his face. He knew how to provoke her, and loved her reactions to his provoking ways. It was so much fun, and she was just too easy.

"THAT WAS WHEN I WAS SEVEN! GET OUT!" Hajime shrieked with a now very red face.

"With all that time you just spent yelling at me and hiding your body you could have finished your shower," Hiei remarked while zipping up his pants and moving to wash his hands. He then walked calmly out of the bathroom, quickly enough to avoid the flying shampoo bottle. Like he said, too easy.

After Hajime changed and came out she sat down to comb her hair. Hiei was sprawled out on the bed and watched, with a bored expression, Hajime fix her hair. He then idly asked her, "that song that you sang at that…human courtship place, it sounded familiar."

"It should, I used to sing it as a lullaby for us to sleep to sometimes. My mother used to sing it to me all the time."

"Hn. That's kind of a sad song to sing to your child right before bed."

"I saw it as a song that expressed hope"

"Whatever, just hurry up so we can go and get your crap"

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Hajime packed out the last of her stuff in her new closet and shut it closed. She gave a sigh and then headed down stairs where she heard a commotion going on. When she went into the living room she saw a young black haired boy with three bottles of beer in hand arguing with a slightly shorter brunette girl. A 6'0 orange haired guy had three of those flower necklaces that you'd get at luaus; pink, blue, and yellow. He was putting out bowls of chips on the coffee table. Hajime blinked once, then a couple more times, and then she quietly slinked away into the kitchen to get a soda. When she got there she saw the refrigerator door open and half of a body sticking out. It sort of looked like the fridge was trying to eat this person. Then a red covered head popped up, victorious from the fridge with a tiny Motts apple juice box. When he turned he got so startled by her presence that he almost dropped the tiny box of juicy goodness.

"Whoa, sorry" Kurama said with a slight smile on his face.

"Don't apologize, I'm the one here standing like your stalker or something like that." Hajime replied while situating herself in front of the now open fridge. She glanced about the contents and then chose a Pepsi can. It was either that or Mountain Dew which wasn't so tasty in her opinion. She looked at Kurama who was now sipping his juice through a straw and looking quite content. "I'm Hajime"

"I know, I'm Kurama. I'm a good friend of Hiei's"

"Ah, I see," she replied with another burning sip of carbonated beverage, "and who are all those other people?"

A chuckle escaped the red-head, "that's Yusuke, the girl is Keiko and that's Kuwabara."

"And what in the world are they doing?"

"Planning a party….or trying to anyways"

"For who? Somebody has a birthday?"

Another chuckle, "no, a party for you Hajime-san"

"Me? What for? And you can drop the 'san'"

"A welcoming party to the temple and into our lives. And also to get to know you better"

"Wow that's sweet of you guys, you don't have to. But why are they fighting?"

"Keiko is saying that the only reason Yusuke thought of this party was so that he'd have a 'legitimate' reason to drink alcohol" Kurama said with a sigh while shaking his head.

"I'm fine with the booze drinking as long as no one pukes on me," Hajime replied with a shoulder shrug. With that, the two headed out to the living room and said that it was all thumbs up for the party.

"Woohoo! That's the spirit Hajime-chan! Let's goooo!" cheered Yusuke

Well after Kurama located and dragged Hiei to the living room, the party commenced. There was music, the playing of racing video games and DDR dance-off (Kuwabara beat everyone, surprisingly). Eventually, as Yusuke planned, everyone slowly got either tipsy or very drunk. 'I'm Too Sexy' started to blast through the stereos, at this wonderful point decided to start dancing to the song and do a sexy strip tease. Unfortunately he chose to do this in front of the very lucky Genkai. First, off came his shirt. Then he took off his pants and started to swing it in the air as best as a drunken man can. As a great physic, Genkai could foresee the outcome of this train wreck and promptly kick the poor orange haired youth off of his stage (aka the coffee table). Yusuke cheered, for the attempted strip tease or the kicking I'm not so sure, and then turned to Hajime, the sweet sweet child who was now terribly wasted, and promised to give her 50 bucks if she gave Hiei a actual lap dance (no fake or stiff stuff here folks). She starred at the 50 dollars with squinted eyes, truly evaluating the green piece of paper. She slowly nodded as if trying to comprehend something that the 50 dollar note had said to her. She finally said, "Okay Mister George Washington" with a slight, uncoordinated salute. She then unsteadily rose and 'walked' over to said fire demon.

When she stood in front of him, he just raised his eyebrow wondering what she was going to do. Hajime licked her lips and clumsily straddled Hiei's lap. Hiei sat wide eyed as Hajime started to grind him to the beat of the music. He couldn't move, at all; he was in such utter shock that this was actually happening. Hajime got up, turned around, and then plopped ungracefully back onto his lap and continued with the dance. Like the best friend that he is, Kurama made sure to come and help the distressed and shocked demon by making sure that he was video tapping and taking many pictures of the moments on his camera (good friend right?). So Hajime shook her tushie in Hiei's face and acted like a puppeteer and did a weird clapping with Hiei's hands. Did I mention that Hiei is still in shock, so much so that he can't properly process or react because his brain is still in: WTF? mode. Then as the song was reaching its end, Hajime decided to bring Hiei's face closer to hers and give a nice big kiss! Okay, so no one at the party saw that coming. Kurama almost dropped the camera, Genkai spilt her drink, Keiko and Boton just couldn't close their mouths, Kuwabara choked on lint from the carpet and almost died, and Yusuke was laughing his ass off. And what of dearest Hiei? Well, in his mind, his thought process went something like this:

In Hiei's Brain

We're very sorry, but this Thought Processing Centre of Hiei Jaganshi's brain is temporarily out of service. I repeat the TPC is temporarily out of service. We will notify you as soon as possible when the TPC is back in working mode. We're very sorry, but this…

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Washio: awesome! Chapter 3 is up and I'll get the next one up ASAP. Well wasn't that a …nice chapter? You know the drill review and keep on reading. No seriously I want at least 3 reviews before the next chapter (I'm not that demanding) and suggestions are welcomed ^_^

Yusuke: just review and no one will die of waiting for the new chapter okay? Okay!