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Chapter 14: Jealousy

Rei poked her head out of her bedroom and looked around swiftly. After seeing that the close was clear she slithered her way towards the bathroom. Right when she was about to enter the bathroom the door slammed in her face. Tears formed in her eyes as she pounded the door.

"HIEI! Come this isn't fair! I have to go to school all you have to do is sit on your butt all day! I already missed two days I can't be late today! Hiei! Why are you doing this to me?" Hiei opened the door a smirked.

"Because it's fun," he said.

"You know what else is fun? Blackmail." Hiei's face instantly frowned. Rei grinned at this. "Yup, I got you doing the Can-can in a frilly pink dress. Pigtails too. Only a fool wouldn't take advantage during our little switch-a-roo."

"How do you know I didn't?"

"Because Ki-Ki wouldn't allow it." Rei pushed Hiei out of the bathroom and shut the door. "Hey, you won't tell anyone about Ki-Ki will you?"

"Hn."

"Thanks."

"Onna?"

"Eh?"

"How the hell did you get my hair in pigtails?"

"It wasn't easy." Hiei smirked and went down stairs.

"Great I'm going to be late and it's all thanks to Hiei," panted Rei as she ran down the sidewalk a block away from school. She slide passed the gate of the school and a mob of girls. Backing up a little she pushed her way through the crowd. In the middle she found-guess who- Shuichi. "I knew if I'd find the biggest crowd of girls you'd be in it."

"Ah Rei, how are you?" Kurama asked with a smile that can make any girl bush, which it did.

"Uh fine why?" she asked confused.

"Because of flu bug that made you miss the last two days." Kurama winked.

"Oh yeah that! I fell much better!" smiled Rei getting the jiff. When the warning bell rang all the fan girls scattered to their homerooms. Rei and Kurama slowly walked to class.

"So you told everyone I had the flu?"

"What did you want me to say: 'Oh, she and my best friend got their souls switched so she couldn't come to school'?"

Rei sweat dropped and rubbed the back of her head. "I guess you're right." Kurama stopped but Rei kept going and when she realized she wasn't being followed, she turned back around.

"Isn't this you're homeroom?" asked Kurama.

"Uh…yeah. Opps." Rei said goodbye to Kurama and went into her homeroom. Inside she was meant by plenty of glares. "What?" The bell rang and the teacher walked in. She was a harsh teacher with brown hair in a bun and little squared glasses. She wasn't that old, about 30 or so. She wore a similar brown dress suit that looked like the one form the day before…and the day before that… and the day before that day…and so on. Her name…Ms. Ryan! (Lighting appears in the background and thunder is heard.)

"Alright everyone go to your seats! Since everyone has this class first we'll just start now," she said. Everyone groaned.

"But the bell for first period doesn't started for ten more minutes!" said one random kid.

"Detention for you! Lets get started. Everyone take out your math homework!"

"Shuichi!" Shuichi looked up from the book he was reading to see who called him but he already had a good idea who it was. He found a girl with long blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and way to much make-up, waving at him. Yup, he was right. It was Alexandria, the girl from 3-D; also know as his fan club president.

"Alexandria, shouldn't you be in homeroom? First period is about to start," he said smiling even though he was frowning inside.

"This is more important! It's about are relationship and where it's heading," wailed the girl. Kurama sighed and shook his head.

"For the millionth time: We do not have a relationship."

"Not yet! Look it's when the year ends I'll be off to collage and we won't be able to see each other so we need to spend as much time as we can now!" Kurama was about to answer when the teacher came in and yelled at Alexandria to get out.

Art Class...

Rei dragged her feet into the classroom and took a seat by Kurama.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Math class started ten minutes early because are homeroom teacher is evil! I hate math!" she cried.

"I presume you have Ms. Ryan." Rei nodded. "I didn't have the greatest start either. The president of my fan club came and paid a visit. The bell rang and everyone quieted down.

"Okay class today we are going to start to a three day project. We are going to draw, paint, or make a clay model of some one you admire. Boys will make one of the girl you most admire and girls will do a boy you most admire. Begin," said Mr. Potter, the art teacher. Rei leaned back in her chair and balanced a pencil with her lip.

'What guy do I most admire? Hmmmm…' thought Rei.

"Shuichi, who are you doing?" asked Rin, one of the few girls who wasn't in his fan club. She and Rei had become quick friends. It was probably due to similar personalities, insaneness.

"I'm going to paint my mother. What about you?"

"I'm going to make a clay model of my father! He's always there for me especially when my mother left!"

"That's great! What about you Rei?"

"Um…I'm not sure," she said.

"Why don't you draw your father?" suggested Rin. Rei didn't answer.

"How about Ayame? You're best friends aren't you?" said Kurama.

"Not gonna happen! If I do that then it will all go to his head!" yelled Rei.

"You could do one of your old friends from your last home."

"Yeah! I know exactly who to do now!" Rei started to get to work right away leaving Kurama and Rin in the dark. By the end of class Rei had sketched a picture of a boy with straight out spiky hair and a tattoo under his right eye. The tattoo looked like a backwards seven that followed the curve of his face. A mask covered up his nose and mouth and around his neck was a white scarf.

'Better leave out the ears,' thought Rei.

"Who's that?" asked Kurama looking at the picture.

"A friend," she said. Rei looked at Kurama's almost finished painting. "You're mom's pretty."

"Thanks."

"What does your mom look like?" asked Rin.

"Um…She looks a lot like me! But she has green eyes! People use say we could have been twins if I was a few years older."

'I can't remember… The only picture of her face that crosses my mind is…I don't want to remember it!' I reamber thinking that. The pain would always find it's way back to the surface.

Rei put a hand on her forehead."Are you okay?" asked Kurama.

"Yeah, headache."

The final bell rang and everyone raced out of school.

"Finally!" yelled Rei as she stretched. Outside she found Kurama waiting for her by the fountain in the middle of the courtyard.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yup." As they walk towards the gate Rei looked up into a random tree and sweat dropped at whom she saw in it. Hiei as sleeping on one of the branches. She was laying down on it with his hands behind his head. Kurama turned to see what Rei was looking at. He chuckled when he saw Hiei.

"Well he hasn't done this in a while," said Kurama.

"You mean he's done this before?" asked Rei.

"Yes, everyone once in a while he would wait for school to let out, then he'd follow me home and get a free home cooked dinner."

"I knew you two were a item," Rei said slyly. Kurama narrowed his eyes at her.

"For the last time we are not gay. He's just my best friend!"

"Sure whatever you say!" Rei picked up a rock and walked closer to the tree.

"Rei what are you doing?"

"You're smart. You figure it out." Rei threw the rock. She smiled when it hit her target, Hiei's head. Hiei fell out of the tree but to Rei's detest, landed on his feet.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" yelled Hiei. Rei shrugged and headed home.

Kurama blinked and looked over to his friend. "Why don't you just ask her out and get it over with." Hiei glared at his fox friend.

"I do not like that manic!" growled Hiei.

"Some how I highly doubt that, Hiei."

"Fox," warned Hiei.

"Fine be stubborn." Kurama sighed and walked the direction Rei was going. Hiei flowed him.

"You're house is the other way, fox."

"I have no school tomorrow so I'm going to the mansion. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and the girls are coming to."

"Great."

Around 7:00 pm Rei and Kurama were finishing their homework when they heard a crash from down stairs. They rushed out of Rei's room and downstairs. They saw Hiei, with his sword drawn, swinging at a man. He had white straight out spiky hair, golden-green eyes, gray cat ears, a gray tail, a red backwards seven tattoo under his right eye, a mask that covered up his nose and mouth, and a white scarf around his neck. The girls were watching the fight from behind the couch. Yusuke and Kuwabara were looking of an opening to catch the mysterious intruder off guard. Hiei slashed the guy's upper right arm but the guy didn't falter. Rei cringed for a second and sighed.

"Hey," she said tying to get everyone's attention but nobody heard her. She growled and grabbed her upper left arm. The boys yelped in pain and pulled his hair. Rei screamed. Hiei stopped swinging in confusion and everyone looked at Rei.

"Ow, ow, ow! Let go!" yelled Rei.

"You let go!" yelled the boy.

"3,2,1" the both said. Rei let go of her arm and went rubbed her head and the guy let go of his hair and went to his right arm. Rei looked at the window that was now currently broken.

"We just go that fixed Kai," pointed out Rei.

"That wasn't my fault," Kai said calmly. "The spiky-haired chipmunk threw a fireball at me." Hiei eye's looked murderous.

"You've been stalking this house for a couple of days and I finally got tired of it, so I threw a fireball at you," growled Hiei. "And don't call me a chipmunk!"

"Aww, did a hurt the chipmunk's feelings?" taunted Kai. Hiei growled and attacked Kai.

"No! No! No! No! No! No! NO!" screamed Rei flaring her arms around. She stood in front of Kai, who was smirking. "Do not hurt Kai!" Hiei growled and sheaved his sword.

"Hn." He said angrily and went up to his room. Rei blinked.

"What's his problem?" The gang looked at each other.

"Conference," said Yusuke. Everyone but Rei and Kai huddled in a circle. "Is she completely clueless."

"Yeah can't she see that the shrimp is jealous?" said Kuwabara.

"See even a baka like Kuwabara can see it!"

"Hey!"

"So Hiei-kun likes Rei-chan?" asked Yukina.

"Looks like it," said Kurama.

"We have to get them together!" squealed Botan.

"But it kind of looks like Rei likes that Kai guy," said Keiko. They all looked over to see Rei swinging Kai's arms back and forth while smiling up at him. Everyone turned their attention back.

"I don't know," pondered Kurama.

"Us girls shall sort this out!" yelled Botan.

"Sort what out?" asked Rei.

"Nothing!" everyone yelled together.

"Okay…well I'm going to go get Imai. I'll keep Kai here so get to know him! Be back soon!" Rei skipped to the garage and left on her motorcycle. Kai stared at the gang and the gang stared back.

"So is there a relationship between you and Rei?" blurted out Botan.

"Botan!" everyone yelled.

"I would hope so. We are bound together," said Kai. He smirked and headed up stairs leaving everyone stunned. He past Hiei on the way up and smirked. Hiei growled and stomped his way outside.

"What did he mean by bound together?" asked Yukina. Recovering form the shock Botan answered.

"I think he meant marriage," said Botan.

"NO WAY!" yelled Yusuke.

"She would have told us!" said Keiko.

"What do you think Kurama?" asked Kuwabara.

"I'm not sure," said Kurama.

"I'm back! Fix the window!" Rei ordered Imai.

"Yes oh great one," said Imai. Hiei stomped in, glared at Rei, and stomped up to his room.

"That's it!" Rei followed Hiei up the stairs. Seconds later they came tumbling down the stairs. Rei somehow pined Hiei to the ground. "What is your problem? Ever since Kai came you've been much more of a pain than you usually are! Do you not like Kai, is that it?" Hiei didn't say anything he just looked away.

"Rei why didn't you say anything?" asked Botan.

"I didn't think it was that important," said Rei.

"NOT THAT IMPORTANT? This is very important!" yelled Botan.

"Okay chill it was just shoes." Everyone stared at her.

"What are you talking about?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You and Kai!"

"I'm talking about borrowing you're shoes with out asking."

"You borrowed my shoes?"

"Yeah you know the cute ones with the-"

"Can we get back to the Kai thing?" yelled Yusuke.

"I heard my name," said Kai coming downstairs.

"Rei-chan why didn't you tell us?" asked Yukina.

"Tell you what?"

"About Kai," said Kuwabara.

"Kai? He's not important," said Rei.

"It is when you're going to spend the rest of your life with him," said Yusuke. Hiei growled and raised his body heat making Rei jump off him.

"Rest of my life! That's not going to happen!"

"What did you think marriage was?" asked Kuwabara. The sound of glass braking caught everyone's attention. They looked over a saw Imai laughing.

"Sorry. Ignore me," laughed Imai.

"Marriage? Kai, what did you say?" asked Rei.

"Nothing. I just said we were bounded together," said Kai. Rei blinked.

"Okay so how did you get- Oh! Ew! Not bounded like marriage. See I went to steal this thing from a witch and Kai was going to steal the same thing and the witch put a curse on us that couldn't be broken for 2½ years. Now when ever I fell pain Kai feels pain…"

"If she dies I die," interrupted Kai.

"I'll show you an example," said Imai. He slammed his foot onto Kai's right foot. Rei cried and grabbed her left foot.

"Everything's the opposite," observed Kurama.

"That's right. It's called the mirror curse," said Rei.

"How much longer do you have before the curse is broken?" asked Keiko.

"1½ years," Rei and Kai said in unison.

"Show them your tattoo Rei," said Imai. Rei nodded. She put a hand on the left part of her face. When she took her hand off there was a red tattoo that looked like Kai's. Then she lifted the sleeve on her right arm to show another tattoo that looked like the one on Kai's left arm tattoo.

"These tattoo's are our curse. They bound us together," said Rei.

"Once the tattoos are gone we're free," said Kai.

"There I finished your window. Can I go home now?" asked Imai.

"Yeah I'll take you home," said Rei. "Let's go Kai! I'm sure everyone wants to see you." Rei grabbed the back of Kai's collar and dragged him out the door with Imai following behind. "Be back soon!"

Rei tiptoed back in the house because everyone was already asleep.

"About time," said Hiei sitting on the windowsill. Rei jumped.

"I got kidnap by cazy elemental pain in the butts, sue me. What are you still doing up?" yelled Rei.

"Hn."

"You were worried about me!" Hiei face faulted off the sill.

"I was not!"

"Right, and you weren't really jealous of Kai."

"That's right, I wasn't." Hiei got up and walked upstairs with Rei close behind.

"Sarcasm is a foreign language to you isn't it?"

"I wasn't jealous!"

"Yes you were!"

"You're a baka!"

"And you were jealous." Hiei stopped at his door and pushed Rei into the wall. He leaned in and whispered in Rei's ear.

"Fine, I was a little jealous." Rei blushed.

"W-why?" Hiei didn't say anything; he just pressed his lips against Rei's. Rei went wide-eyed but then closed her eyes. Hiei ended it, smirked, and went to his room. Rei slid down onto the floor, still blushing. Rei put her face into her hands.

"Wow…Oh my."

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