Heart's Starlight
Chapter 44: Kaida's training
Her body moved like an artist's hand moves over paper and her hands moved in grace as she weaved and bent and laid low. Her lips were tight and her body tense, as well as relaxed. She kept her body moved in a slow fashion and a very graceful motion. She had an arch so large in her back, it was amazing how she didn't snap it.
She crouched and stepped over a thin red line, ducking her head and pressing her hands firmly against her back. A loud buzzer went off and she growled, staring up at window, which had her team and Kirei laughing her head off as Koenma shoo his head. "You touched the line behind you, Kaida! Try again," Koenma's voice said, echoing slightly.
"That big old booty of yours touched it," Kirei's voice yelled. Kaida laughed and walked to the beginning, sighing and staring at the millions of red lasers that she had to memorize. Koenma said she'd have to memorize where each one was and by the end of the week, before they'd go, they'd try it blindfolded, just to test Kaida.
Kaida popped her neck and stared down at her skin tight black leotard before stepping forward, pointing her toes like a ballerina. She crouched low and bent her head back, squeezing between two lasers and quickly falling to her hands, bending her elbows at an acute angle as she ducked under another laser.
She rolled over, keeping her body tight and sat up, her stomach muscles clenching, and raised herself, using as little space as she could. She cart-wheeled over another laser, her feet ducking under a laser above her. Kaida let out a smirk and she stood over a laser, one leg on each side, and her torso bent low, her head inches from another laser. She glanced up at the window and saw everyone staring at her, their eyes wide. Kaida chuckled when she noticed Kirei's face pressed against the window, her nose flattened and her eyes wider than anyone else's.
'Wow, she's really good at that' Kurama thought, staring at her bending in ways that no normal human would be able to do. 'She's very flexible…I wonder…' Kurama blushed and glanced around, wondering if anyone saw. He cleared his throat and continued to watch Kaida, but every time she bent and crouched or arched her back, Kurama felt a strange tingle inside the pit of stomach, which caused him to blush as his thoughts raged.
Kaida looked at the lasers and breathed in heavily, with a rapid breath at the end and let it out very slowly before standing between two lasers that were amazingly close to each other. Kaida lowered herself with her knees and crawled over a laser, glancing around and watching every angle. She bent low and with amazing strength, pushed herself over a laser and under another one. Her hair almost grazed a laser, causing her to sweat a little, even if it was just training, but this was around her tenth time and she was getting tired.
She smirked, seeing the end, but didn't loose concentration like other thieves, and kept her eye on the lasers ahead of her. She rounded up to about ten or eleven more. She nodded and crept pass some, ducking and hovering and sometimes ending up in weird positions that made the people behind the window tilt their head with confused looks or curiosity pondering.
She crouched under the last laser and smirked at the replica of the Isle de Marco. She grabbed it and showed it to Koenma, who was smiling slightly. "Good job, Kaida! You can take a break." Kaida nodded and the lasers were shut off. She set the replica down and walked to the door, which looked part of the wall. She pushed it open and smiled, seeing the team rushing to her, minus Hiei who was walking at a casual pace.
"That was so awesome," Kirei exclaimed, grinning, before wincing and laying a weary hand on her stomach. "When I'm all healed, I want to try!" Koenma chuckled.
"Kirei, you're so clumsy, you wouldn't make it passed the first laser," Yusuke teased, causing Kirei to glare threateningly up at him. Kaida chuckled and caught Kurama's eyes, blushing slightly. Kurama smiled and she smiled back, glancing at the mischievous looking Kirei who was grinning at both Kurama and Kaida.
"I can do better!" Kuwabara yelled, out-of-the blue. Kaida rolled her eyes.
"I highly doubt that, Kuwabaka!" Kuwabara glared at her and Kaida glared back. Even if they've been together, in the same house, for almost two months now, Kaida was still highly irritated by Kuwabara and sometimes annoyed and Kuwabara was always trying to make himself appear superior to Kaida.
"She has some point to it, Kuwabara," Kirei said, taking Kaida's side and grinning. Kuwabara's jaw hung low and Kaida smiled, her eyes glinting.
"Hey, since you think you can be better at it than me…you try it!" Kuwabara turned smug and walked through the door. Koenma sighed and without looking inside, turned the lasers on with a green button. Almost five seconds passed before a loud buzzer went off and it was like second after second, the buzzers were going off.
"Oh my Kami, shut it off," Kirei yelled, covering her ears. Kaida winced at the annoying buzzers and Koenma shut them off, as well as the lasers. Kuwabara came out, his head held high, and he cleared his throat, glaring at Kaida, who chuckled.
"It's not easy, ningen," Kaida commented before walking away with Kirei, who was giggling slightly. The team followed, Koenma as well, and they all walked back to Koenma office, which had many busy ogres running through door to door or stacking papers neatly on Koenma's desk. Some ogres were just tossing papers on the desk.
"Oh, Koenma, sir," Botan yelled out, seeing the infant walking in. "Your father called and was wondering when the Richard's file would reach his desk." Koenma sighed and summoned a portal.
"Go head home, team! I have some business to attend to." Without another word, the team walked through the portal and into their custom home. Kaida instantly walked upstairs, wanting nothing more than out of the skin tight, riding up leotard that Koenma gave her, which was one size too small, almost. She stripped it off and pulled on some sweatpants and a nice, long sleeve shirt. She tied her hair up into a ponytail, yawning, and walked downstairs, her eyes blinking multiple times quickly before relaxing.
"Tired, Kaida?" Yusuke asked as she plopped onto the couch. Kaida said nothing. She just nodded. Kirei threw herself on the couch, softly but it ended up looking lame, in which Kaida laughed a bit and Kirei grinned, chuckling herself.
"I tried to make it smooth, but…" Kirei sighed, rubbing her stomach, which had tight, clean bandages, which Kaida had done earlier, before her training of lasers. "Hey…in an hour or so, you have to redo my bandages. It's starting to puss and it's getting the bandages wet!" Kaida wrinkled her nose, staring at Kirei in disgust, as well as Yusuke who heard, and Kirei giggled. "What? It's healing, and fast. I'm figuring by tomorrow, I'll be able to do three crunches in ... thirty minutes!"
"That's like a man who weighs 500 pounds trying to do crunches. His will to push his body up and into a crunch takes ten minutes," Yusuke joked, causing Kirei and Kaida to chuckle a little. Kirei yawned, which caused Kaida to yawn and in return Yusuke yawned.
"Do you know why people yawn when other's yawn?" Kurama asked, coming out from the kitchen and sitting beside Kaida. Kirei looked at him curiously while Kaida sighed. She heard this theory so many times, since every time she yawned, Kurama yawned and he'd tell her. Kaida thought it was just to get on her nerves a little.
"Why?"
"Well, because when you yawn, you have too much carbon dioxide in your system and to yawn, you're sucking in oxygen!" Kurama said, smiling. "And when you see someone yawning, your brain thinks you have too much carbon dioxide, so it makes you yawn!" Kirei gasped while Kaida giggled. He's such a nerd, Kaida thought, smiling up at Kurama who was blushing slightly.
"Wow. That's so cool," Yusuke said, sarcastically, which earned a hit on the arm from Kirei. "What was that for?"
"Just because!" Kirei said before giggling. "Hey…do we have anything good to eat? I'm in the mood for something fattening and full of carbs!" Kaida laughed and shook her head as Kirei got up walking to the kitchen and the sound of rummaging came to Kaida's ears.
Kaida looked around: Yusuke and Kuwabara were playing a slow game of gin and Hiei was sitting at "his" windowsill. Kaida chuckled, thinking of what would happen if someone sat on the windowsill before he got a chance to sit there. Kaida told herself to tell Kirei her plan later.
"You know, Kaida," Kurama said in her ear. Kaida looked at him, confused. "You looked real sexy arching your back like that!" Kaida blushed and Kurama blushed as well, looking away. "I'm sorry…don't know where that came from." Kaida laughed.
"You're a pervert and you know it." Kurama smiled goofily before staring away, causing another laugh from Kaida. Kurama stood and grabbed her hand, leading her outside. Kaida blushed and looked back at Kirei, who was in mid-bite of some ice cream and staring at her suspiciously and mischievously. Kaida's eyes widened and Kirei pointed her ice creamed filled spoon at her and then screaming as the ice cream fell, but the door shut before Kaida could see anymore.
I stared at the ice cream on the floor, my eyes wide and my lips still parted from my scream. I stomped my foot, which caused sparks and my stomach to lurch in pain along with my back, and I quickly grabbed a towel, cleaning it up, mumbling death threats to my spoon. I looked up and noticed Yusuke and Kuwabara were gone. I glanced at Hiei and smirked maliciously.
I grabbed the carton of ice cream and a new spoon, walking out into the living room. I knew Hiei had a fancy for ice cream because I hear him every night, walking down and eating an entire carton of ice cream and then casually walking upstairs. I sat at the armchair, which was closest to him, and began eating the ice cream, moaning. Hiei glanced over and his eyes glued to the carton of ice cream. "So good..." I moaned, breathing in heavily through my nose. "It's like heaven…without dying."
I glanced at Hiei and saw him staring at the ice cream. "Want some, Hiei?" I asked, smirking. Hiei narrowed his eyes and looked over, glancing at the carton. I got up when he looked away and leaned against him, moaning as I took another bite of ice cream. Hiei shot up and reached for the ice cream, but I held him out and since he was behind me, it was hard for his short self to reach for it.
"Like I said yesterday, you aren't one to talk about height," he commented, still reaching for the ice cream as I laughed. He went to walk around me, but I kept my back to him, pushing my butt into him. I pushed him back with my butt, causing him to blush, and bit into a large spoonful of ice cream and then opening my mouth to him, moaning.
"Ice cream is so good," I moaned, walking away from him. He bolted for me and I ran around the couch, ignoring the sharp jabs of pain in my back and stomach. They weren't that painful, but they still hurt nonetheless. I turned sharply as Hiei jumped for the ice cream. "You really like your ice cream, huh?" I teased, licking the spoon and moaning.
Hiei glared at me and vanished and then his arms were reaching for it behind me. I screamed and held it out. His hand touched my pelvic, pushing it back as his other hand reached for the ice cream. My hand was on his thigh, but to a wrong angle I knew it'd look like it was somewhere else, and my other hand, holding the ice cream, was slightly red from the coldness. "Give me!" Hiei hissed.
"No!" I yelled, as we stepped in a rhythmic circle. I growled and heard someone clear their throat. Hiei and I looked up and saw Kaida and Kurama staring at us, with amused eyes and slightly mischievous grins. I blushed, realizing where Hiei's hand was, and then looked at my other free hand and then at Kaida, whose eyebrow was peaked. I blushed and shoved Hiei away, who stumbled back, blushing as well.
"Looks like we came in at the wrong time," Kaida said. "Kirei and Hiei were getting their kinky on!" I blushed more and then threw the empty ice cream carton at her, which she caught and dipped a finger in, sliding it along a side and licking her finger. She moaned, "Heck yes. Cookie dough!" I laughed along with Kurama, but Hiei still had his cheeks tinted pink. He was sitting back at the windowsill, staring out bashfully.
And you call me shy! I thought and saw Hiei glance at me.
'You'd be like this too if you knew where my hand was!' I giggled.
I did know where your perverted hand was!! Hiei glared over at me and I smirked, flicking the TV onto CSI. Kaida sat next to me and I smirked at her. "Where'd you and Kurama go, huh?"
"Just to the forest. He just walked me around and we talked." I nodded, not believing her and she laughed. "No, Kirei!" I pouted and she smiled lightly. "I'm not into that this early." I nodded and went back to watching as Nick and Katherine (from CSI) began dusting for fingerprints.
