Why?
"Why'd you go up for adoption? Why'd the demon family adopt you? Why the hell was Genkai so nice to you?"
"I don't know, because Koenma told them to, and because I was four years old and not a smart-ass fourteen-year-old."
"What's your mother look like?"
You smile slightly. "It's in my pocket, check the jacket."
He has to empty your coat pockets before he finds three or four pockets that he doesn't know about, and starts emptying those ((Oh, THAT'S what happened to those pens!)) and finds it and looks at it.
"Oh, you were cute," he says, narrowing his eyes at you. "But that's your mom? She's... she's obviously a demon, why'd you think you're human?"
"Didn't think she was my birth mother, either," you say. "I look completely human, and I have human bones and everything. And it's not so odd for women to die in childbirth," you say, scratching your nose. He starts loading everything into the pockets, then pauses.
"Do you have anything in any particular pockets?"
"No, I just look through them all until I find whatever I'm looking for. 'cept that fourth one that I'd forgotten about."
"Ah. So why'd you bring me here?"
"Told you earlier, I'm tired of being alone."
"Ah. I see. Why not Hiei?"
"Hiei. Ice cream." The thought itself makes you giggle. He'd have a little chocolate smear around his mouth. And then you could lick it off, the idea of which makes you giggle hysterically.
Yusuke looks at you like you're insane. You smile cheerfully and grin. "I'm sorry. Thought." You grin.
"Ah. Can I ask of what nature?"
"No."
"Please??"
"Shut up," you say, pegging him with a tester spoon. He ducks and holds his arms up to shield himself. You laugh, and he throws it back, also laughing. It bounces off your forehead and goes up to the ceiling, but you catch it when it comes down and throw it back. He dodges it and it hits the chair behind him and you both start laughing like lunatics.
"What are you two doing?" Kuwabara asks. Yukina and Shizuru are with him.
"Are you the new girl working with my baby brother?" Shizuru asks, taking a drag off her cigarette.
"Yeah. Name's Kali."
"Shizuru. ... Say, kid, that's a load of spikes stickin' out of you. S'at healthy?"
"That's her spirit energy, Shizuru," Yukina says quietly. "It looks like a bunch of spikes. What kind of demon has that aura?"
"No kind in particular. Just everything in existence."
"Pardon me, but, what do you mean?" Yukina asks. You smile. Hiei's sister. You've never actually seen her, but now that you've gotten to see her, you can make the connection between her and Hiei, but only because you've been admiring Hiei for a time now. She has the same color eyes as Hiei and her face and head is the same shape. The only reason you knew she was Hiei's sister before was the smell you detected when you were still blind.
"I mean that I'm a mixed breed," you answer.
"Like my brother, I heard," she says. "That's why he wasn't allowed to stay with us. Oh, I'm sorry- I don't mean to do that, but I've been thinking about him a lot," she says.
"You'll find him, he's probably right under your nose," you say, seeing Yusuke wildly shaking his head behind Shizuru's back and drawing his finger over his throat. So she doesn't know Hiei is her brother? And my wish-were future sister-in-law. Hee...
"So have you met Keiko?" Shizuru asks.
"No, not yet. Heard she and Botan would drag me into shopping with them."
"Yes, they would," Botan answers from behind you. You jump and turn and are about half a centimeter from elbowing Botan in the head, but you pull the blow.
"Egh... Don't sneak up on me, you dipshit, I could kill you like that," you growl. You look at Yusuke, who is no longer behind Shizuru. He's busy flirting with Keiko, who is about three feet away from Botan, but steadily squirming away as Yusuke gets closer.
"No! Not shopping!" you yelp, climbing onto Kuwabara's head like a scared cat.
"That's an odd behavior shift," Botan says. "What's the moon phase?"
"New," you say. "But no matter- I'm not going shopping."
"We'll make you come, one way or another."
"Wanna bet? You're talking to the most powerful demon hunter in existence," you say, glaring.
"You won't hurt us."
"Oh yeah? I can tie you up, pin you to the ground, hang you from that wall, that light post, or drag you behind my motorcycle."
Botan goes suddenly very quiet, and then pulls Keiko with her over to Kuwabara and Shizuru and Yukina. Yusuke's glaring at you.
"Don't hurt Keiko, I'd have to kill you," he says quietly. You stick your tongue out at him, and you start to leave, but all of them except Yukina tackle you and pin you to the ground. You wriggle, but you're too afraid to hurt them.
"Guys, you'll have to get off me at some point. And the only way to do that is to give me the chance to get to my bike. No way in hell am I leaving that here."
"Please? Just for a little while!" Botan pleads.
"No!" you scream, twisting and trying to wriggle away from them. "Please! I hate shopping! Especially with girls!"
"How about we make one of the boys come along. Would you agree, then?"
There's a long pause. They're not getting off any time soon, you decide, and then you growl and nod. "Fine. They'll draw straws, so we're gonna go back. You guys can follow me to my house and we can take a portal.
"Nonsense! I can make one, and then we can come back here after the decision is made."
