Ice Cream Introductions

Hiei spends a lot of time helping you recover, helping you get to a point you can feed yourself, helping you get to a point where you can walk around the room by yourself, etc. though he doesn't show much more kindness than when you first met, 'cept he's not dragging you to your feet by your arm when you fall.

Eventually, you start venturing out of your room, usually heavily bandaged and moving much slower than normal, but still moving of your own accord. You sit on the couch, now and again.

One day, Yusuke sits beside you. "Hey, Kali. Are you okay?"

"Yeah," you say. "Wanna go for ice cream, or something? I'm feeling adventurous today."

He looks at you oddly, then nods very slowly. You giggle and pull him by the hand to the portal to your house, then lead him to your garage.

There's a motorcycle in the garage. Yours. Christmas/birthday gift from Ender for... roughly ten years. You won't get anything from him for the rest of your life, but this bike has proved worth it.

You get on and start it. He climbs on behind you, and you race out of the garage down the street. You feel Yusuke's grip around your middle start to creep up to your chest, and you elbow him in the chest. He falls off, so you turn and let him back on, then continue, giggling constantly. Yusuke, though you never see it, is staring at you like you've grown horns. ((Oh, wouldn't that be cool?))

You pull into the closest Baskin Robbins and get a double scoop of ice cream for yours, and pay for his to be nice.

"You're a great friend," you mutter over your ice cream.

"You're the one buying me ice cream," he says, grinning dumbly.

"So?"

"Dumb thing to be telling me."

"Meh, I just wanted company," you say, shoving another bite into your mouth. Yusuke quirks an eyebrow.

"You mean besides Hiei?"

"Yeah."

He laughs a little, and you get a great view of what half-"chewed" ((Well, what exactly do you DO to ice cream that makes it more digestable?)) ice cream looks like. You settle on the chair and grin at him. "Sooo... How's it between you and Keiko?"

"We're goin' pretty good. You haven't met her, yet, have you?" he asks. "Or Yukina."

"No, not really. Bumped into Yukina while I was blind, but the only reason I knew it was her was because... well, she was quiet, and anyone you'd go out with couldn't be quiet."

"Funny, I figured they'd make you go shopping with them when you joined the team. They usually make us do it to carry our bags, but with another girl around, I'd figured they'd haul you with them."

You laugh and lean back in your chair and grin at him. He laughs, too.

"Soooo..." he starts.

"So what?"

"Do I get to hear your story?"

"Oh... Sure. What of it I can remember. Memories tend to come and go as they please," you say. He nods and sits back.

The story is very, very, very long, and you tend to skip from here to there. Genkai's training you when you were four, actually beginning to work for Koenma when you were seven, training with Ender all your life, being adopted, what little you could remember of your mother... He heard what you could get together in your head.

"And then I met you guys."