"WHAT did you do to me?" Ari asked Hiei, after her match.
"Nothing." Hiei said, smirking.
"Aw, forget it!" Ari yelled. "It's done." Ari ran to her room and cleaned the POUNDS of makeup off her face.
Ari hid in her room for the rest of the day, taking care of Shadow. Petting Shadow, talking to her, brushing her, and mostly spoiling her.
"Are you coming out, yet?" Hiei yelled.
"NO!" Ari said. "Forget that, I'm staying in here the rest of my LIFE!"
"What about the tournament?" Hiei asked.
"The girls can win without me." Came the muffled reply on the other side of the door.
"ARI! Stop being a baka and let me in!" Hiei snarled. "Or, better yet, come out!"
"NO!" Ari yelled. "Everyone saw that!"
Hiei stormed off, and Ari slept in peace for awhile. Soon after, there was a pounding of the door.
"Ari!" Hiei snarled. "It's been an hour! Let me in, or I'll get in on my own!"
"No, DON'T!" Ari yelled. "I'M...UH...DRESSING!"
"YOU ARE NOT!" Hiei yelled.
"DON'T COME IN! I'M NOT APPROPRIATE!" Ari yelled.
"YEAH, RIGHT!" Hiei snarled. "YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR CLOAK OFF, REMEMBER!"
"Ooo." Ari looked around. She hid in the bedroom in their room, and locked the door.
She heard the door open and footsteps.
She heard Hiei's voice again, "Your dream last night wasn't appropriate either, but you let me know all about it."
Ari opened the door and layed down again. Hiei stormed in, eyes blazing.
Ari rolled towards the wall, ignoring him. Ari fell asleep fast. Hiei layed down too, and went to sleep too.
The next morning, Ari woke up long before Hiei. She got up. She made sure Hiei was asleep and decided that it would be OK to just get dressed since he was asleep.
She changed her jeans and went to the bathroom to try to clean herself, but the cloak wouldn't come off still. So she cleaned what she could and left the bathroom.
Hiei was still asleep, and Ari refused to leave her room, so she layed back down, thinking. Was there any way to remove the cloak? The cloak had fused with her skin just as it's energy had fused with her own energy. Maybe if she separated her own energy from the energy the cloak had supplied her with.
Wait...That was it! Separate her energy from the cloaks' energy! Ari sat up and concentrated. She slowly wound through her supply of energy, separating her supply of energy from that which the cloak had given her. She couldn't hurry up, because the path through her energy was a slow and intricate path. She slowly wound her way through, picking at her energy, separating it and...as she tugged on the cloak, it slipped right off.
Meanwhile, Hiei across the room, started to wake up for the day. He opened his eyes, rolled over and...froze. He blinked. Nope, still there. Ari had found a way to remove her cloak, and her undershirt left very little to the imagination. Hiei blinked again, to make sure what he was seeing was really what he was seeing. Yup. He tried to gather his dignity and look away, but couldn't. Ari celebrated.
"I did it!" Ari cheered. "Yay!...Wait, I don't have anything else to put on."
Ari puzzled over this a minute. She sighed. She turned towards the bed, turning her back to Hiei.
Hiei watched her. She had short cat hair on the back of her arms, up to her shoulders. He wondered if it covered her entire back.
(Enough.) He thought. He rolled over and closed his eyes. Ari turned and looked at him.
(He appears asleep...) Ari thought. (Oh, well.)
Ari sighed. She had no other choice. She slipped the cloak on, and felt the painful surge of power again.
"Oof." Commented Ari.
Hiei, then 'woke up'.
"Hm?" Hiei asked, frowning.
"Oh, Hiei!" Ari whirled on him. "I figured out how to take my cloak off!"
"Really?" Hiei asked, innocently.
"Yeah!" Ari grinned.
"Why'd you put it back on?" Hiei asked.
"Oh..." Ari frowned. "I had, like a nightshirt on underneath and didn't want anyone to see my night clothes."
"Oh..." Hiei said. He wasn't even gonna say anything to her about it.
"I've gotta go talk to Chetara." Ari grinned, then frowned. "No, I can't. Never mind. I'm still not leaving."
"Grr..." Said Hiei.
"No." Ari stuck her nose in the air. "Will you go get her for me?" Ari looked at him.
Hiei felt uncomfortable before, but now it was increased because he felt embarrassed.
"Fine..." Hiei got up and got Chetara.
"She wants you to talk to her." Hiei growled, then walked off.