Kirei na Kanjou
~ Beautiful Feeling ~
by feifu
01/14/2003
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Disclaimers: (Can't make a fanfic without putting this) Yuyu Hakusho, and all its characters and plot, is the original creation of Yoshiro Togashi. I do not claim to own any of the characters in this story except for Faith Phillipp and Annette Barton, who are my own creations and are inspired by people I know in real life. Any similarities to real life people/events or if you by chance know anybody whose names are similar to the two characters, I avow that these are mere coincidences. I don't profit from writing this fanfiction so please don't sue.
5
"Oh jeez whiz, Ann-chan," Faith hurried after her roommate who had just banged the door close on her face. She pushed it open again and went after the irked brunette. "It was just a harmless little kiss. It wasn't even a kiss so to speak! It was just a little smack on the lips. He didn't even kiss me back, so there's nothing to get mad about!"
"I am not mad," Annette fairly hissed.
"Uh-huh… sure you're not." Faith grinned. "Like you didn't just give me that death glare right now. Oh! Pish-posh, just quit being so prudishly British and admit you actually like the guy."
"If you stop being so obviously French and a flirt!"
"What's so bad about being a flirt? I like being one. It gets things out in the open more easily than hedging around and waiting for the other person. Beats waiting, I say."
"You're totally hopeless! You just don't understand!"
"Ann-chan, if it's any comfort to you," Faith couldn't anymore suppress a giggle at Annette's expression. "I'm not, in any way, interested in Minamino Shuuichi. At least not romantically. He's just not my type."
"So what was that for?"
'The what?"
"The kiss that's what!" Annette exclaimed, not believing the other girl for a second. How can anyone not be interested in Minamino Shuuichi? The guy was a perfect specimen of man! Anyone and everyone was crazy about him!
"Oh, that," Faith grinned, "I told him I did that so you'd get mad."
"What?!"
"And that you actually like him but you're too shy to say so."
"WHAT?!" Annette screeched and her eyes went as big as saucers. Her disbelief was only slightly offset by her mortification at what her roommate had told Minamino-san. "You didn't… Please tell me you didn't tell him that…!"
"But I already did."
"How could you?!"
"It's true, isn't it?"
"Why'd you do that for?!"
"It is true, right Ann-chan?"
"Well," Annette wrung her hands, "I do admire him a lot…"
"Admire? Is that all?" Faith grinned, "And here I thought you were in love with him and everything…"
Annette collapsed on the sofa, looking definitely defeated. "What do I do now? I can't possibly face him after that…"
"Why not? You didn't do anything wrong."
"But you told him I liked him!" she wailed.
"So?"
"So! So this is so mortifying, Faith."
"No it isn't."
"It is for me!" She put both her hands on her face. "You don't go up to a guy and tell him you like him, much less have someone do it for you! It just isn't done!"
Faith sat beside her and patted her shoulder. "Tell you what, I'll do damage control and tell him you aren't interested in him after all. That I made a mistake."
"That's even worse if you tell him that."
"Then what do you want me to do?"
"…Absolutely nothing. This thing ought to blow over, somehow."
"Oh… okay…"
But of course Faith just couldn't do "absolutely nothing".
She was bored, for one, and she really wanted to see what would happen if Annette and their neighbor do get together. She sensed that Annette really did like the red-haired man. Had been sure of it since she saw how tongue-tied and flustered her roommate was whenever Minamino-san was in the vicinity. She planned to make sure that Minamino Shuuichi would be present as much as possible in their lives.
Smirking behind a book of notes Annette had lent for her to study for her make-up tests – she did have those annoying tests to make up for the time she was hospitalized – she plotted on how she would "accidentally" bump into Minamino-san at the University tomorrow, with Annette in tow of course, and manage to leave the two alone to talk. She just had to make sure that the two hapless people would be forced to stay where she'd leave them or else it would all be for naught.
She frowned, thinking about how she could cure Annette's tongue-tied-ness. She shrugged. Annette would have to get over that on her own. So next question was, how was she to make sure that Minamino-san would…
Faith almost squeaked when Annette's face suddenly appeared in front of her. "Quit daydreaming and start studying!"
"Hmmm? Who's daydreaming? I'm studying, can't you see that?" Faith motioned to the lowered notebook and realized she had started doodling on it, for atop the page were Annette's and Minamino-san's names inside a rather crooked-looking heart. She immediately hid the notebook with a sheepish smile at Annette knowing it was too late and the other girl had already seen what she had written.
At the opposite side of the street, at the Minamino house, a figure in black was just opening a second floor window so he could step through it and meet an old comrade who he hasn't checked up on for a whole week.
"Oi."
"Hiei. Where have you been?"
"Here and there."
"You've been gone a whole week," Kurama pointed out as he sat on his study table.
"Had some business to attend to."
"But what about the case?"
"I thought Botan would've already told you." Hiei shrugged, "Took care of it a week ago."
"Took care of it, how?"
"Killed the thing that was causing all the unnecessary fuss."
"What was it?"
"A youkai. Male. Low class, maybe B at the most. Won't cause any more problems now."
"Well, there hasn't been any reports about new victims since last week."
"Told you I took care of it," Hiei said a matter-of-factly.
"So what do you plan to do now?"
"Go back."
"The Tournament?"
Hiei nodded.
"You joining?"
"No."
"How come?"
"Mokuro is."
"Oh."
"And you?"
"I'm not sure."
Hiei studied his comrade and friend for a while and then quietly pointed out, "Yomi and Shura are definitely gonna be there."
"Yes, they most probably would," Kurama smiled remembering the blind youkai and his energetic son.
"So you're not gonna join them."
"I don't know yet."
"Yusuke's probably gonna go at it again."
"He would." Kurama smirked, "He said he would."
"What if he wins?"
Kurama laughed, "Keiko won't be too happy about that."
Hiei joined him by smirking, "No she probably won't."
They stayed in a companionable silence remembering their friends, some of whom they haven't seen in several months, and in Hiei's case, years.
Hiei finally stood up after a few minutes and motioned to the window. "If anything happens, you know how to contact me."
"Yeah."
Nodding once, Hiei left.