Chetara was sitting in her room, discussing some important things with her flowers when Kurama knocked, asking to come in.

"Come on in." Chetara smiled.

"...It's nice talking to you again." He smiled, sitting down.

"Same here." Chetara smiled. She frowned slightly at how close he was, but tried not to concentrate on that.

"How are the girls?" Kurama asked. Chetara frowned for a second, thinking he meant her friends, but he meant her plants.

Hi, Shuichi! They called, happily. We're doing fine! We're comfy cozy here, and having fun. The sun's extra warm today!

He smiled. "That's good to hear."

Chetara tried not to laugh. "The sun's extra warm?"

He smiled at her. "It is 75 out there today."

"Oh, I get it. The air's extra warm?"

"Yes." He smiled.

Chetara smiled. "They're really fun to..." She fell quiet as Kurama put his arm around her but quickly picked up her 'plane of concentration' (OOC: Really bad private joke. She picked up her train of thought.) "-To spend time with."

Kurama smiled. "You'd make a good mother someday."

Chetara blushed. "As silly as this sounds, so would you."

Kurama laughed. "Because I'm so tolerable of my plants?"

"Yup. They're so much like children, it's silly." Chetara smiled.

Kurama laughed, thinking it over. "Yes, I often feel like I'm running a daycare."

"Kurama?" Chetara asked. "I can talk to these plants. You didn't do anything to incur this random event, did you?"

Kurama shook his head. "No."

"Promise?"

"Yes, Chetara, I did nothing to make you understand the plants." Kurama said, quite seriously.

Chetara sighed. "Alright..." She looked up at Kurama. He smiled at her, looking into her eyes. She blushed, as Kurama kissed her on the mouth.


Hiei was bored and tired. He walked into Kurama's room and was bombarded by two dozen different kinds of plants. And Daphne and Ane.

"Hi, Hiei!" Daphne giggled. "How are you?"

"..." Hiei eyed her suspiciously. "Fine. And you?"

"Good. I am a little thirsty, though." Daphne smiled. Hiei sighed and poured some water into her pot. Daphne cheered.

"Thank you!"

"Yeah, yeah, where's the fox?" Hiei asked.

"Shuichi?" Ane asked. "Oh, he's out trying to pollenate that girl. Chetara."

Hiei coughed. "Trying to what?"

"Wait, that's not the right word." Ane frowned.

"No, for humans that's courting." Daphne laughed. "Not pollenate. Youko explained the difference for humans to me."

"Oh? You'll have to fill me in later." Ane said, a bit unhappily. Her name is 'older sister' and it was her job to know things before her little sister, so she could tell her in the easiest way.

"Alright. Anyway, he's trying to court Chetara." Daphne smiled at Hiei. "Pollenation comes later."

Hiei coughed and shook his head. "I have to go."


As the days went by, Nenin seemed to be driving a wedge in Ari and Hiei's relationship. Especially once he became mobile. He was always walking in on a deeply intimate kiss between them. Shadow HATED Nenin. On one such occasion, she hissed extremely loudly. Nenin jumped. "Woah, kitty. Calm down."

"Hey, Nenin, what's up?" Ari asked, turning away from Hiei slightly.

"Oh, just coming to say hi and see what's going on." Nenin smiled, sitting down.

"Well, uh..." Ari frowned, she had her arms around Hiei's neck and he was holding her.

"Oh, am I intruding?" He asked.

"Yes, you are. You always do." Hiei growled.

"Um, I don't want to be rude, but can you please leave for awhile?" Ari asked.

"Oh, alright." Nenin nodded. "I guess you two are embarrassed about your relationship?"

Ari and Hiei paused, uncomfortably. Embarrassed? Ari thought, (I'm not. Maybe Hiei is...Is he? Maybe he is.) Hiei was having the same thought about Ari.

"Well, you know, who am I to come in and judge your relationship?" Nenin shrugged. "Well, see you." He left, but the seed of doubt was planted. Ari turned back to Hiei and looked in his eyes. Hiei looked back. Ari layed her head on his shoulder. She didn't feel like being intimate right now. She needed to think.


That night, Ari walked into Chetara's room to see...them kissing.

"Oops!" Ari gasped, turning and walking out. She paused and glanced back in. "Uh...hello."

Chetara blushed. "Uh...hey, Ari."

Kurama studied the ceiling, blushing. Kurama and Chetara were in the middle of an intimate moment of their own.

"Sorry, I'll leave." Ari grinned. She left.