Title: Flame
Author: kbtwilight
Fandom: Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Prompt: 069. Fire
Claim: Sensui Shinobu/Itsuki
Completed: 4/200
Rating/Warnings: PG/AU (Element's Verse), original-character
Word Count: 418
Summary: Personally, Shinobu thought the eldest of Itsuki's sisters was insane.
Notes: This takes place before Shinobu started going nuts, so he's 15 or 16. Part of what will be dubbed Elements!Verse, an AU that actually could fit within the story line but unfortunitly, xxxHolic already belongs to CLAMP.
Personally, Shinobu thought the eldest of Itsuki's sisters was insane. She was also rude, loud and hotheaded; everything his partner and roommate was not. Also, the two didn't even look remotely alike, a fact he had mentioned to Itsuki the first time he had been introduced to the temperamental red-head. The Yaminade had laughed and said it was because they weren't blood related, none of his siblings, save the twins, were actually related to each other. It wasn't something that made sense to the Reikai Tantei but Itsuki hadn't elaborated and he hadn't found a way to ask.
At the moment, Rekka was poking through her brother's book collection while looking bored out of her wits. Against the white walls of their sitting room, her short red hair looked very much like the element of her name. Shinobu couldn't keep himself from asking.
"Your hair…" The older girl looked up in surprise. "Is that why your name is 'Flame?'" She chuckled, and then smirked at him.
"No, this is why." She snapped her fingers and was suddenly holding a fist full of bright orange flames. Shinobu tumbled backwards off the arm of the sofa where he had been perched. Rekka laughed, throwing her head back to let loose deep bellows of amusement. She was still holding the flame when he righted himself, it was causing smoke to rise from her palm but she didn't seem bothered by it. She wiped tears of mirth from her eyes with her other hand.
"Onii-chan didn't tell you that I was a fire demon, huh?" He started. Itsuki and his siblings were so good at hiding their Youki that it was sometimes easy to forget they weren't human. He swallowed then shook his head in answer to her question. Rekka smiled kindly.
"Well, I am, that's why my name is 'Flame.'" She scowled, "that and Kaa-sama was too lazy to be creative." She smiled again, "Itsuki and the twins are the only ones that got interesting names…" Trailing off, she flashed him a sheepish grin.
There were many other thing he wanted to ask her but Itsuki choose that moment to enter from the kitchen, drying his hands on a towel. He looked from Shinobu to his sister before heaving a long-suffering sigh and returning to the kitchen. His comment drifted back into the room behind him.
"Rekka-chan, put out your sleeve." The red-head screamed several interesting profanities and began beating her arm with a pillow. It was Shinobu's turn to laugh.