Hiei PoV

I was back to the living room and sat down on the sofa. My heart is now pounding so hard that anyone that is close to me may hear it. Calm down Hiei! Don't be nervous everything will be alright once you killed the youko. I told myself this but i just could not calm down at all! Gina came to me and asked why was my sleeves torn. How could I explain? Tell her that the youko nearly raped me? I just kept quiet to let her think the answer herself. "Fine if you don't want to answer." "I just needed to mend your sleeves that are torn." It was amazing that she took out of a needle and thread from her pocket and sew the torn sleeves. Did she always have these sorts of things in her pocket? She finished sewing just in time as we were called to assemble. We were led to the garden and were asked to wait for awhile. Soon the test that was supposed to take started. I never imagine that the test was "Singing." Great! Even Inari wanted me to leave this place, I never sang in my life before except for once when I sang a song to my sis Yukina. They had written the name of the songs behind each leaf; we just had to choose one and started practicing singing. Everyone had only an hour to prepare for it. I anyhow chose a leaf and guess what the name of the song is? (A/N: Ok, now whatever song u wants could just imagine the name.) Inari! What type of song is this? Every Heart? I had only one heart not more than that! (A/N : haha! I like this song a lot so I use it) I just took the paper where there were lots of word they called lyrics. I went to a corner a rested there. If I wanted to lose, practicing is just a waste of time. But Gina happened to walked past and wondered why I wasn't practicing. I just told that I wanted to lose. Her face turned red not because of being embarrassed but ANGRY! She threaten me with a potion of hers saying if I don't win she would forced me to drink a potion that will made me permanent as a woman. I had no choice but practice with as she told. I would not want to be a woman and I could not just run away without killing kurama as a revenge for all the things he did to me. Sing .sing .sing was what I did for the past half an hour. If I could I would ask Gina to represent me since she sang so beautifully. Under her strict coaching, I could finally sing perfectly. Oh mind, I swear this singing thingy was harder than practicing my sword. I was restless by the time the hour had past. Gina never let lose even a minute without telling me what was wrong with my singing. I was the last to sing so that was lucky. I could made use of this time to rest, my throat was VERY dry now. I needed water and as if Gina was reading my mind, she gave me a glass of water. Singing test started with women from that kuronue side. The first woman sang out of tune and her pitch was so high that it breaks the glass that the kurama was holding. Water went splashing on his clothes. Ha, that serves him right. The second one was ridiculous. Really! Her voice was so soft in the beginning than just because that King called Yumi told her to sing louder. She was shouting the song than singing it. I was trying so hard to stop the laughing so were the others. The third woman sang quite fine till she opened her mouth so big that something went flying into her mouth. She was choked by the thing. I could hardly stand this test anymore. It was so funny that I nearly forgot my lyrics. So the singing test went on and on. There were some perfect once while the others were like the first three. Finally, it was my turn. Gina and she gave me a...If -you-lose-you-- know-what -will -happen -to -you stare. I just sang liked what I did during the practice I did not notice that the sweet and beautiful voice that was sung out was actually mine. I sang and remembered what Gina had taught me. From the first verse to the next until it ends I was rewarded with clapping sounds in the end. I was glad I did well but wait a minute! Why should I do well? I must lose the next test if not I won't be able to leave this place! But I was surprised by myself, how could I be able to sing so well? I leave this thought aside when another announcement was made. "Ladies please made your way to the kitchen." Why must we be going there? I wondered. Someone helped me to solve this question. "Haven't we finished the test?" "Iie, the singing was just a warming up. It wasn't your real test." Everyone started groaning away that include me! I shouldn't have practiced that silly song at all! We made our way to the kitchen. The ten women that Kuronue chose should cook first then it would the next ten. The other nine women and I sat outside in our own chairs waiting for the rest of the ten to start. I could hear screaming from the kitchen. Also things seem to be dropping all this time. I was nearly choked when I heard the first sound. "CRASH". I assumed that must be plates. From where I sit, I could see everyone giggling all the time when all those screaming and crashing were heard. But the two youko didn't even bother about those things. One of them was reading something and the other was talking happily away. They left their seat after ten minutes. I knew that they could not stand it. If it was me I would rather die to stay hear listening to the noise. The two youko were outside sparring with each other. Every woman inside the dining room were drooling seeing that kurama sparring. I turned to look and they spar like there's no tomorrow. I did not like to admit but their skills were good or should I say prefect. Every movement of theirs attracted me. Of course, I am not like the women. I liked the sparing show and not the youko who were sparring. Forty-five minutes went past very fast. Noise pollutions were heard through out the forty-five minute that was give to the ten women inside to cook. The women took the plates of food that they cooked and placed them on the table while I and the rest went to the kitchen to start the scary cooking test.

I was shocked when I finished listening to the instructions. We had to the food that we cooked. But we will get some for the youko to eat. I hate putting the PINK apron but I had to do so. Since I would rather eat something eatable than something that look like rubbish. I learned cooking when I was nine but quit it when I found it boring and a wasting of time. While washing the ingredients that I needed I found myself in a messy place. It was already in a mess when we came in now with the addition of the mess created by the women, I MUST be careful not being hit by pots or boiling water. From what I observed when I had my food cooking in the pot, cooking was a dangerous thing. I saw a woman next to me cutting the ingredient. That seems perfect but she just continue cutting without knowing until I told her that she had already cut her finger. She was really a blur woman. She could still stand there staring at me for don't know how many minutes before she went screaming away. Next, I found boiling water being splashed on the floor and someone slipped because of that. I was stirring my food in the pot when I felt something flying above me. Ingredients were flying everywhere. Some in the sink, some on the floor and there's some on the head of the women. But they did not realize it! It was so funny to see food on their head. The last incident that happened before the time was up was.. A woman was in a rush cutting her food into pieces to place them on the plate. When the youkai called time's up, she just threw the knife she was holding away. The knife hit the pot and it dropped on the floor, the base hit the handle of a pan and the pan went flying in the air. It hit the ceiling before landing on the woman who threw the knife. She fainted after that and was sent back to her room. Wondering what happen to her food? It landed so nicely in the bin with a "Pop". It was actually bad, I would like that kurama to eat up all those disusing, burnt food! My conclusion was that Cooking was really dangerous! So kids don't do it at home!(A/N: Hey Hiei don't say these to the kids!@)

We let the two youko ate a small portion of the food. We ate our own food too. But no one finished eating what they cooked except some and that include me. The noodle I cooked was nice with sauce on it addition of cheese and onions. We left for our room early. It was night time when we returned back to out room. I was exhausted from the singing and cooking. I would never want to do those things again. I finished the day with a bath and lay back on my own bed. Gina left for other work that she was told to do. I just lay on the bed and slept without knowing it. I was waked up by the sounds of water. I opened up my eyes and had a blur vision of someone having a bath in my bathroom. I sat up and took the knife I took from the kitchen out. I would kill whoever it was. The youkai walked neared and nearer to the door until it opened. I saw the youkai and that's Kurama!

Author note" Ha ! so how is it?? I like this chapter. All the cooking and singing made me laugh while I wrote it. I hope u will laugh till u dropped on the floor. Got to go. Reviews please.