Disclaimer: I only own my OC's and the crazy plot. This plot line occurs a few days after the last chapter.

Mika: They knew that already.

Kaiya: Not that last part.

Suki: Yeah, Mika-chan. They didn't know how long-

Mika: BLAR BLAR BLAR!

Kaiya: Huh?

Suki: Mika, I don't think they-

Mika: BLAR BLAR BLAR, HAGFISH!

Kaiya and Suki: ...um?


"So, where are we going?" Kaiya asked as she was putting on a pair of earrings.

"My parents arranged for us to go on this camping trip," Suki answered. "I hope the idea of going camping deep in the woods doesn't freak either of you out." Suki grinned at that.

Kaiya smiled. "Nope, not at all. I miss camping. Sui and I used to go camping with her family before the divorce. We always went into the woods to gather firewood. I miss making s'mores and just camping in general."

"Good to know," Suki chimed.

"Well, I don't know if I'll necessarily have a problem, but who cares," Mika said. "This trip sounds fun." She turned to Kaiya and grinned. "So I take it you're meeting your boyfriend in a little while?"

Kaiya smirked. She was in fact meeting Hiei at Kurama's, but Mika and Suki didn't have to know that part. "Actually," she started with a matter-of-fact voice, "I am going to Kurama's for a while."

Suki and Mika looked at each other and started laughing. "Oh my God," Mika joked, "Kaiya is seeing Kurama on the side. Someone alert Hiei."

Kaiya couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, sure Mika. I'm sure he'd believe that. Especially coming from the girl who is holding something over his head."

"What is it?" Suki asked.

"Well, if I told you, Suki, I wouldn't be able to hold it over his head." She wiggled her eyebrows and Kaiya rolled her eyes.

"Anyway," Kaiya said, "I have to be going."

Kaiya moved towards the door. "Hey, Kaiya." Kaiya looked to Mika. Mika wiggled her eyebrows and said, "Tell Hiei I said 'hi.'" Kaiya shook her head and left the apartment.


"Hello, Kaiya. It's been awhile."

Kaiya bowed. "Hi, Shiori-sama. I'm here to see Hiei."

Shiori looked confused for a moment. "I didn't realize Hiei had come over."

Kurama came down the stairs at that moment. "He came earlier, mother. I forgot to mention it."

"Oh, okay. Well you guys have fun. I'll make some lunch," Shiori said before heading to the kitchen.

Kaiya walked over to Kurama and whispered, "Window?"

Kurama nodded and monotonously said, "Window."

Kaiya shook her head in disbelief. "He does realize that he can knock on the door instead of using the window, right?"

"You would think," Kurama stated light-heartedly.

Kaiya laughed. "He's ridiculous, but hey, I love him anyway."

She and Kurama started walking upstairs. "I have to admit," he said, "that I never thought Hiei would ever fall in love with anyone; however, I knew if it would be anyone, it would be you."

"Thanks for your confidence," Kaiya scoffed. "But honestly, I never thought either of us would ever get to this point. We are both way too stubborn."

Kurama chuckled. "I agree, but I'm surprised you can admit it so casually."

"I would never say what I didn't believe. I thought I made that point clear. Does everyone just forget?"

"Forget what?"

Kaiya and Kurama turned around. "Hey," Kaiya said.

"Hn," Hiei responded. "What were you two talking about?"

"You and me," Kaiya admitted. "How are you? I haven't seen you since the day at the beach."

"Kurama has been preparing us for this 'camping trip' as you humans call it. We have been acquiring provisions over the last few days. You?"

"Well, the day after we went to the beach, us girls went shopping with Shizuru, Keiko, Botan, and Yukina. The day after that we had to get Mayonaka ready to leave. The next day we sent her back to America, and today I am here."

"Before I leave you two," Kurama interrupted, "Kaiya, have you heard anything from Sui at all?"

Kaiya shook her head. "I spoke to her mother two days ago and she said that Sui had her number changed and said not to give it to any of us. I asked her why and she said she didn't know. I tried to chat with her online but she never responded. I don't get what's up with her and, frankly, I'm starting to not care. I am sorry."

Kurama smiled sadly. "It's fine. I will leave you two now." Kurama walked back downstairs to help his mother in the kitchen.


Kaiya frowned. "I feel so bad lying to him."

Hiei was taken aback. "You did what?" he asked bitterly.

"I talked to Sui the other day and she said that she's done with this life. She wants to live as normally as she can. And now she's dating some creep who's changing her for the worst. Even her mother doesn't like him. She's become a liar and has been saying nothing but hurtful things to me lately. I don't even know her anymore. I just didn't know how to tell Kurama how bad she's become."

"Hn. Did she and Mayonaka change personalities?"

Kaiya scoffed. "Yeah, I know, right? I actually miss Mayonaka a lot right now. I'm considering asking my mom if she can come again at some point. How would you feel about that?"

"I don't care. She's your sister. She didn't act like the whiny bitch she acted like months ago when we met her so I can stomach her for a few weeks if I had to."

Kaiya hugged Hiei and kissed him on the cheek. He gave her a dirty look, but he did that to mask the fact that he was blushing. "Get off me, onna."

"Nuh-uh," she said in a cutesy innocent voice. "I don't wanna."

"Whatever," Hiei muttered.


"So, what do you think they're doing?" Suki asked. Mika and Suki had gone to Genkai's temple. Yusuke and Jin were already there.

"What do you think they're doing?" Yusuke asked suggestively. Mika laughed, but elbowed him.

"Don't let either of them hear you because you'll only get fried like you did at the graduation match."

"Yeah, don't remind me," Yusuke muttered.

"So what brings you lassies here today?" Jin asked.

Mika blushed. "We just wanted some company," she answered.

"Yeah, we also wanted to talk to you guys about the camping trip," Suki said. "Like, who's coming?"

"Well," Yusuke started, "we know that Kurama is coming. You girls are obviously going. Kaiya, Hiei, Touya, Jin, me, that Kuronue guy. Keiko said she would like to go. Kuwabara convinced his sister and Yukina to come."

"Yukina's coming?" Mika asked. Oh, this will be fun, she said to herself while grinning.

"Is Botan coming?" Suki asked.

"No," Yusuke answered. "She said she has to do some work in Reikai this week. So we are going to meet your parents, huh, Suki?"

She shook her head. "No, they just booked the site. So you won't be meeting them. This is just a late birthday present. I can't wait for us to get there."

Jin then got excited and flew into the air. "Whoo-whee, I be gettin' excited as well. My ears be wigglin' again. When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow," Suki chimed. "I can't wait either!"

Mika and Suki stayed at Genkai's for a few more hours to train with Jin and Yusuke. After beating on Yusuke a few more times after training, Mika and Suki left for the apartment. They had to finish packing the cars tonight.


"So, who's going with whom?" Kaiya asked.

"Stop talking grammatically correct, will you?" Suki asked.

"Not going to happen," Kaiya responded. "Well?"

"Well, Kuronue, Jin, Touya, me, and Suki will be taking Suki's car. I know Hiei will be with you in your car with Kurama, Yukina, and Kuwabara…good luck with that. And Shizuru is driving Yusuke and Keiko."

"Why aren't Yukina and Kuwabara going with his sister?" Suki asked.

Kaiya shot a panicked look over to Mika who just rolled her eyes. She wasn't planning on giving up her leverage yet. She had some fun things planned for Hiei and, for them to work, she needed him to be under her control in a manner of speaking. "I don't know. This is just how things were decided. Anyway we-" They were cut off by some loud banging upstairs.

"I swear, I'm ready to set those guys on fire," Kaiya said. "They are just so loud. It's like, what are they doing up there? Throwing bricks at the floor just to see if it breaks?"

"Kaiya, why don't you just go talk to them? They're your neighbors," Suki stated.

"They're your neighbors now, too," Kaiya replied.

"Oo, yay," Mika said. "I can have fun with this." Mika stood up and walked over to the wall.

"Mika, what are you-?" Kaiya stopped mid-question when Mika became a part of the shadow on the wall. "Never mind," Kaiya said. "This should be fun."

A bunch of college students were sitting around the living room while watching TV when Mika appeared through the floor. They all screamed and stared at the upper-body of some girl in their floor.

"Hey," Mika said coolly. "Do you mind keeping it down? You guys stomp around a lot and it's getting kinda annoying and really old." She looked at their terror-filled faces. "Oh, this probably freaks you out, huh? Well, bye then. Just keep it down."

Mika returned to the living room of her apartment. "Those guys shouldn't be making any more noise for a while. Oh wait, I forgot something."

She went back through the ceiling and the three people screamed again. "I forgot to mention…If anyone asks, just tell them you were on something. Usually works. Okay, time to go now. Bye again."

And she was back in hers and her friends' living room again. Kaiya and Suki looked at each other with confused expression before bursting out laughing, laughter in which Mika joined in.

"Mika, that was perfect!" Kaiya said.

"That'll keep 'em quiet," Suki said. "And probably give them nightmares."

"That was the plan," Mika responded. "Besides, I was bored and you know I like to torment people when I'm bored. Hey, at least that entertained me enough to avoid flirting with you two for the night."

Kaiya and Suki sweat-dropped and they became nervous. Kaiya giggled nervously. "Well, g'night," Kaiya said quickly while running to her room and slamming the door shut.

Mika grinned and then looked over to Suki. "Well, it's just us now," Mika said flirtatiously.

Suki followed Kaiya's lead and ran to her room while saying, "I've gotta pack."

Mika laughed. Yup, living with her friends was amusing. I better finish packing, too.


"Where is everyone?" Kuwabara asked. "I thought they'd be here by now so that we could get going to the site."

"Oh, there's no rush," Yukina said. "This is my first camping trip ever. I want to take every part of it in, including packing."

"Whatever you say, Yukina, my love," Kuwabara replied.

Hiei had been up in the tree watching in disgust. I won't kill him, I won't kill him, he willed himself mentally. Yukina likes him and I have to stay out of it. Oh, how much I want to kill him.

"Hi," Hiei heard snapping him away from his thoughts. He looked down and saw Kaiya looking up at him, smiling.

"Hn," Hiei responded. Kaiya giggled when he looked away. She knew he was blushing.

"Oh, come on," Kaiya teased. "It's time to pack up. You better come down or you'll get left behind. And we wouldn't want that."

"Hiei!" Mika shouted. "Get down here, now!"

Hiei growled. "Why should I?" he snapped.

"Because if you don't help us pack, I'm telling your secret!" Mika grinned like a Cheshire after her retort.

"Oo, blackmail," Kuwabara said. "I don't even want to know what you have on him."

Mika smiled. "You never will know," she started at normal volume before she raised her voice to say, "as long as somebody does what I tell them to do."

Hiei muttered some curses and jumped out of the tree. The SUV's were packed with tents, air mattresses, sleeping bags, pillows and blankets, cooking utensils, suitcases of clothes and some toiletries, flashlights and lanterns, and food.

"Okay," Suki said. "I think that's everything. Let's head out."

"We'll follow you," Kaiya said.

"Yeah, wouldn't want to get lost," Yusuke joked.

Everyone got into the SUV's and followed Suki to the camp site. Suki had said it would take them an hour to get there. What would everyone do for an hour?