CHAPTER FOUR OF 'YOU'RE SO GOOD LIKE THAT'
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu yu hakusho, Yoshihiro Togashi does. So I can't be sued! ^_^ Nyah-nyah!!! ALL ORIGINAL CHARACTERS ARE MINE, PLEASE DO NOT STEAL THEM!! I WILL HAPPILY LET YOU USE ANY OF MY CHARACTERS OR CONCEPTS IF YOU EMAIL ME AT RADICAL1EDWARD3@AOL.COM!!! Arigato!
Hiei peeked out into the crowd. On the balcony above them, he and Kuro were about to anounce their resignation from the throne. Even Kuro wanted to raise their children in the ningen world.
It had been a few weeks since they had last seen the Reikai, and Koenma. Hiei had pretty much patched his relations with Yusuke and Kurama, so they were now on good terms. Kuwabara had begun courting Yukina, under Hiei's watchful eye to see that he followed all 152 rules he had set for the ningen. Hiei had also finally told Yukina that he was her brother, and they were now good friends, catching up on everything they had missed.
"Hiei, don't be so nervous. You were there for the rehearsal, you know how it will all go," Kuro said, from behind him. Her armor, made of a steely gray metal only found in the makai, shone in the morning sun.
"Yes, I know. I just don't want anything to go wrong." He blinked, and shifted his black armor. It also shone, but with a more malicious gleam. Hiei had picked it out himself.
"You're such a worrywart! Nothing will go wrong," She reassured him.
"Well, Hiei, look at you. You look almost...Noble!" Botan's bubbly voice came from behind them. She had been allowed in, along with Kurama.
"Thank you, Botan. Hello, Kurama," Hiei greeted them.
"Are you really going to resign for all of this? Any demon would kill for even the chance to be King of the West Makai for even a day. I know I would," The youko said.
"You haven't put up with the rabid courtjesters for as long as I have. Hey," He said and smiled at Kuro, who had just play wacked his armor.
"Thank you for coming. After the speech, we'll have the wedding, all nice and proper. I just truly hope that my mother-" Kuro started, when a human woman burst through the door. "Oh, h-hello, mother..."
"Kuro! There you are, you know, it took me so long to even find this place, then they wouldn't let me through the gate, and-Who are you?" Kuro's mother looked at Hiei, blinking. He was taking off his bandana, to reveal the Jagan eye.
"Uh," He cleared his throat,"Hiei."
"You remember Hiei? I wrote you about him, to tell you we were getting married? Come on, don't tell me you don't remember!" Kuro linked arms with Hiei, who was still bewildered at the woman.
"Oh, yes, yes! What have you been feeding him, dirt? He's so skinny!" The woman looked him over.
"Uh, sir, do you want this woman, uh, removed? She somehow slipped in through the front gate..." One of the guards, a tall black-skinned demon with huge fangs, muttered to Hiei.
"No, thank you. Just find her a nice seat for the wedding, Daisuke. Erp!" Hiei nearly fell over when the woman poked him in the chest.
"Now you better treat my daughter right! You three-eyed hooligan, don't you know how to ask for someone's hand in marriage," She started to ramble once again.
Kuro shot her mother a glare. "Mother, please....Daisuke, find her a seat where we're having the wedding now, please," She said. Soon the nigen woman was being led away by a reluctant demon guard, ignoring her rambling.
"Well, she's even worse than I am!" Botan blinked slowly.
"Dear Kami, what was I thinking when I sent her that invitation....Good thing Daddy isn't alive still." Kuro leaned on Hiei, laughing half-heartedly.
Soon Yusuke, Keiko, and Koenma had joined their number. Hiei and Kuro greeted them each, when another gueard came from the gate.
"Your Highness, we're all set for the speech. Anytime you're ready," He said, sliding his sword back into the sheath.
"Has a ningen man and a Koorime arrived yet? Then I'm not starting," Hiei told him, while adjusting the cape at his shoulders.
"Uh, yes sir." The demon blinked, and started to say something else.
"No. Now send someone to tell me as soon as the ningen and the koorime get here." He sent him off to his post again, without another thought.
"Hiei, I still don't see why you're backin' out of this. This is a sweet deal, man," Yusuke whistled and looked around the room.
"I don't like everyone everywhere knowing what I wore out to lunch. You wouldn't believe some of the tabloids they put out about me. I woke up one morning to see three cameras out my window," He explained. "Let someone else take that job. Not me."
"Oh, Hiei. You loved all the attention, and you know it," Kuro said, gently.
"Hn," He said and blushed.
The door opened once again. Yukina and Kuwabara came in, Yukina smiling cheerfully.
"Sorry we're late, O'Niisan!" Yukina blushed and smiled more.
"So, you finally spilled, Hiei?" Koenma chuckled and chewed his pacifier, calmly.
"Konnichiwa, O'Neesan...." He blushed more and looked at her.
"Now, are we ready?" The guard form the front gate loomed out of the shadows, smiling.
"Yes, I think we are, Tokage." Kuro smiled and bowed, then threw back the curtains.
Billions of demons were gathered, and they all let out a deafening roar at the appearance of Hiei and Kuro. Soon they were all chanting, "KING HIEI! KING HIEI!"
Hiei raised a hand to silence them. If there was one thing that he had learned, it was how to get people to listen to you. "My people, thank you for gathering here today!
A decision has been come to. As you all may or may not know, I asked you all here today for one reason! My queen and I have made the decision to resign!"
The crowd was shocked into silence. All of a sudden, one voice called out from the far back, "You can't go, Your Highness!!!"
"Yeah!" The crowd burst into the saying of things like, "You can't go! Stay here! Why?!"
"The King and I have our reasons! We do not wish to burden the people of our kingdom with our worries! We want you to be a happy people! Therefore, we must go!" Kuro's normally quiet voice rang out stern and loud among the crowd, who were shunned into silence by her words. "Who are you to question the commands of your King and Queen?!"
"Our replacement is being chosen at this moment. He is being chosen out of the most valuable prospect in the kingdom as we speak. I am sorry, but I wasn't made to be king! Please forgive me," Hiei told them, looking at the floor of the balcony. They remained silent. At last, he sighed and walked back into the room where his friends waited.
"KING HIEI KING HIEI KING HIEI!!!" The crowd continued to chant, even after their king had left for the other room. Kuro followed him, hanging her head.
He looked like a terrific weight had been lifted off of his shoulders. Not even bothering to look at his friends, he bustled past them to where they were holding the wedding. He wanted to get back to his quiet life in the ningenkai where Kuro and he had purchased a house in the deep mountains, where they would rarely be bothered.
"Hiei, wait up!" Yusuke led the others after him, jogging to keep up.
He turned around. 'Good,' He thought, 'they're smart enough to follow.'
"Hiei, you stop right there." Kuro's freezing voice called after him. Noticing a particular demanding in her voice, he did so and nervously turned to see her.
She glared at him, her emerald green eyes piercing even through his armor to seemingly peer into his soul. "Hiei, I don't know what's gotten into you, but if you keep shunning away all of your friends like this, especially when you just patched it up with your boss and two of your best friends, not to mention your sister, you will lose all of them including me."
He flinched. Never before had she really been mad at him, had she taken that ordering tone of voice.
"And furthermore, you're going to your own wedding, not your funeral." She began to smile. "Lighten up, your former majesty. And if you don't then the wedding is off."
"Wh-what?" He managed to croak. At this time Botan began to giggle through her tightly closed lips and hands. Kurama chuckled, barely audible, and looked with gentle eyes upon his laughing ferrygirl girlfriend.
"Now come on, I want to get married. Plus, if we keep the priest waiting much longer, he'll expect more pay." She took off past him, briskly walking along.
"Yeah, Hiei, come on!" Yusuke followed Kuro, again leading the others past a flabbergasted Hiei.
He swallowed half-heartedly and went walking after them, as they took their places in the seats of the room designated for the wedding. Taking his place in front of the priest, and beside Kuro, he swallowed again, his adam's-apple bobbing up and down nervously.
"Okay. Is everyone here?" The priest looked around. He had an accent that suggested Chinese heritage.
"Uh, yes, I think so." Kurama closed the door, and nodded, taking his seat.
"Good. Okay.....Do you, Hiei of the Makai, take this woman, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, eternally to be faithful, `till death do you part?" He pointed to him.
"I-I do," He said, his voice cracking. It felt as if his mouth were made of wool or cotton, no saliva would reach his tongue. but somehow, he got the words out.
"Good, good. Now do you, Kuro Kaze of the Ningenkai...That is your full title, isn't it?" He mubled the last part to her under his breath.
"Uh, yes yes, close enough." She smiled and nodded, also whispering.
"Do you, Kuro Kaze of the Ningenkai, take this man, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, eternally to be faithful, `till death do you part?" He smiled feebly, pronouncing the words clear and strong. They rang through the room, even vibrating their armor.
"I do." Unlike Hiei, the words came easily to her, smoothly and crisply escaping her mouth.
"Good. I now pronounce you demon, and wife!" He clapped his hands as Hiei took her in for a long, deep kiss that brought what little audience to their feet, clapping.
"Wow, I think that's the longest I've ever seen..." The priest looked at them, still kissing, and rolled back the sleeve of his robe to look at this watch. "Kami, come up for air!"
She pulled her lips away from his and smiled. They looked at each other, Hiei grinnig broadly and then falling backwards among the flowers that had been brought in for the event.
"Hiei!" Kuro gasped and looked at him.
"That's a first," The priest said, bending down to shake the fire demon's arm. "Wake up son, come on. I think you took his breath away.."
"That can't be good," Keiko said, laughing. Hiei's friends had now gathered around him.
All at once his eyes popped open. "It's finally over..."
"You really weren't kidding about saying you were nervous, were you?" Yukina giggled.
"No, I wasn't," He replied, blushing.
"I'm not really informed of what happens after this at demon weddings. So tell me, what does it feel like to be hitched?" Yusuke said, helping him up and laughing.
"It is....GREAT!" The small demon shouted, his voice ricocheting off of the walls and his armor alike.
"Oh, Hiei...You're so good like that..." Kuro whispered to him, smiling.
A wide smile crossed his face, as he joined hands with his new wife and began his new life.
COMING NEXT: EPILOGUE!!! But that, alas, is the End of the story! Maybe I'll write another containing Kuro and Hiei.... ^_^ . YOU NEVER KNOW!!! . ^_^
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu yu hakusho, Yoshihiro Togashi does. So I can't be sued! ^_^ Nyah-nyah!!! ALL ORIGINAL CHARACTERS ARE MINE, PLEASE DO NOT STEAL THEM!! I WILL HAPPILY LET YOU USE ANY OF MY CHARACTERS OR CONCEPTS IF YOU EMAIL ME AT RADICAL1EDWARD3@AOL.COM!!! Arigato!
Hiei peeked out into the crowd. On the balcony above them, he and Kuro were about to anounce their resignation from the throne. Even Kuro wanted to raise their children in the ningen world.
It had been a few weeks since they had last seen the Reikai, and Koenma. Hiei had pretty much patched his relations with Yusuke and Kurama, so they were now on good terms. Kuwabara had begun courting Yukina, under Hiei's watchful eye to see that he followed all 152 rules he had set for the ningen. Hiei had also finally told Yukina that he was her brother, and they were now good friends, catching up on everything they had missed.
"Hiei, don't be so nervous. You were there for the rehearsal, you know how it will all go," Kuro said, from behind him. Her armor, made of a steely gray metal only found in the makai, shone in the morning sun.
"Yes, I know. I just don't want anything to go wrong." He blinked, and shifted his black armor. It also shone, but with a more malicious gleam. Hiei had picked it out himself.
"You're such a worrywart! Nothing will go wrong," She reassured him.
"Well, Hiei, look at you. You look almost...Noble!" Botan's bubbly voice came from behind them. She had been allowed in, along with Kurama.
"Thank you, Botan. Hello, Kurama," Hiei greeted them.
"Are you really going to resign for all of this? Any demon would kill for even the chance to be King of the West Makai for even a day. I know I would," The youko said.
"You haven't put up with the rabid courtjesters for as long as I have. Hey," He said and smiled at Kuro, who had just play wacked his armor.
"Thank you for coming. After the speech, we'll have the wedding, all nice and proper. I just truly hope that my mother-" Kuro started, when a human woman burst through the door. "Oh, h-hello, mother..."
"Kuro! There you are, you know, it took me so long to even find this place, then they wouldn't let me through the gate, and-Who are you?" Kuro's mother looked at Hiei, blinking. He was taking off his bandana, to reveal the Jagan eye.
"Uh," He cleared his throat,"Hiei."
"You remember Hiei? I wrote you about him, to tell you we were getting married? Come on, don't tell me you don't remember!" Kuro linked arms with Hiei, who was still bewildered at the woman.
"Oh, yes, yes! What have you been feeding him, dirt? He's so skinny!" The woman looked him over.
"Uh, sir, do you want this woman, uh, removed? She somehow slipped in through the front gate..." One of the guards, a tall black-skinned demon with huge fangs, muttered to Hiei.
"No, thank you. Just find her a nice seat for the wedding, Daisuke. Erp!" Hiei nearly fell over when the woman poked him in the chest.
"Now you better treat my daughter right! You three-eyed hooligan, don't you know how to ask for someone's hand in marriage," She started to ramble once again.
Kuro shot her mother a glare. "Mother, please....Daisuke, find her a seat where we're having the wedding now, please," She said. Soon the nigen woman was being led away by a reluctant demon guard, ignoring her rambling.
"Well, she's even worse than I am!" Botan blinked slowly.
"Dear Kami, what was I thinking when I sent her that invitation....Good thing Daddy isn't alive still." Kuro leaned on Hiei, laughing half-heartedly.
Soon Yusuke, Keiko, and Koenma had joined their number. Hiei and Kuro greeted them each, when another gueard came from the gate.
"Your Highness, we're all set for the speech. Anytime you're ready," He said, sliding his sword back into the sheath.
"Has a ningen man and a Koorime arrived yet? Then I'm not starting," Hiei told him, while adjusting the cape at his shoulders.
"Uh, yes sir." The demon blinked, and started to say something else.
"No. Now send someone to tell me as soon as the ningen and the koorime get here." He sent him off to his post again, without another thought.
"Hiei, I still don't see why you're backin' out of this. This is a sweet deal, man," Yusuke whistled and looked around the room.
"I don't like everyone everywhere knowing what I wore out to lunch. You wouldn't believe some of the tabloids they put out about me. I woke up one morning to see three cameras out my window," He explained. "Let someone else take that job. Not me."
"Oh, Hiei. You loved all the attention, and you know it," Kuro said, gently.
"Hn," He said and blushed.
The door opened once again. Yukina and Kuwabara came in, Yukina smiling cheerfully.
"Sorry we're late, O'Niisan!" Yukina blushed and smiled more.
"So, you finally spilled, Hiei?" Koenma chuckled and chewed his pacifier, calmly.
"Konnichiwa, O'Neesan...." He blushed more and looked at her.
"Now, are we ready?" The guard form the front gate loomed out of the shadows, smiling.
"Yes, I think we are, Tokage." Kuro smiled and bowed, then threw back the curtains.
Billions of demons were gathered, and they all let out a deafening roar at the appearance of Hiei and Kuro. Soon they were all chanting, "KING HIEI! KING HIEI!"
Hiei raised a hand to silence them. If there was one thing that he had learned, it was how to get people to listen to you. "My people, thank you for gathering here today!
A decision has been come to. As you all may or may not know, I asked you all here today for one reason! My queen and I have made the decision to resign!"
The crowd was shocked into silence. All of a sudden, one voice called out from the far back, "You can't go, Your Highness!!!"
"Yeah!" The crowd burst into the saying of things like, "You can't go! Stay here! Why?!"
"The King and I have our reasons! We do not wish to burden the people of our kingdom with our worries! We want you to be a happy people! Therefore, we must go!" Kuro's normally quiet voice rang out stern and loud among the crowd, who were shunned into silence by her words. "Who are you to question the commands of your King and Queen?!"
"Our replacement is being chosen at this moment. He is being chosen out of the most valuable prospect in the kingdom as we speak. I am sorry, but I wasn't made to be king! Please forgive me," Hiei told them, looking at the floor of the balcony. They remained silent. At last, he sighed and walked back into the room where his friends waited.
"KING HIEI KING HIEI KING HIEI!!!" The crowd continued to chant, even after their king had left for the other room. Kuro followed him, hanging her head.
He looked like a terrific weight had been lifted off of his shoulders. Not even bothering to look at his friends, he bustled past them to where they were holding the wedding. He wanted to get back to his quiet life in the ningenkai where Kuro and he had purchased a house in the deep mountains, where they would rarely be bothered.
"Hiei, wait up!" Yusuke led the others after him, jogging to keep up.
He turned around. 'Good,' He thought, 'they're smart enough to follow.'
"Hiei, you stop right there." Kuro's freezing voice called after him. Noticing a particular demanding in her voice, he did so and nervously turned to see her.
She glared at him, her emerald green eyes piercing even through his armor to seemingly peer into his soul. "Hiei, I don't know what's gotten into you, but if you keep shunning away all of your friends like this, especially when you just patched it up with your boss and two of your best friends, not to mention your sister, you will lose all of them including me."
He flinched. Never before had she really been mad at him, had she taken that ordering tone of voice.
"And furthermore, you're going to your own wedding, not your funeral." She began to smile. "Lighten up, your former majesty. And if you don't then the wedding is off."
"Wh-what?" He managed to croak. At this time Botan began to giggle through her tightly closed lips and hands. Kurama chuckled, barely audible, and looked with gentle eyes upon his laughing ferrygirl girlfriend.
"Now come on, I want to get married. Plus, if we keep the priest waiting much longer, he'll expect more pay." She took off past him, briskly walking along.
"Yeah, Hiei, come on!" Yusuke followed Kuro, again leading the others past a flabbergasted Hiei.
He swallowed half-heartedly and went walking after them, as they took their places in the seats of the room designated for the wedding. Taking his place in front of the priest, and beside Kuro, he swallowed again, his adam's-apple bobbing up and down nervously.
"Okay. Is everyone here?" The priest looked around. He had an accent that suggested Chinese heritage.
"Uh, yes, I think so." Kurama closed the door, and nodded, taking his seat.
"Good. Okay.....Do you, Hiei of the Makai, take this woman, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, eternally to be faithful, `till death do you part?" He pointed to him.
"I-I do," He said, his voice cracking. It felt as if his mouth were made of wool or cotton, no saliva would reach his tongue. but somehow, he got the words out.
"Good, good. Now do you, Kuro Kaze of the Ningenkai...That is your full title, isn't it?" He mubled the last part to her under his breath.
"Uh, yes yes, close enough." She smiled and nodded, also whispering.
"Do you, Kuro Kaze of the Ningenkai, take this man, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, eternally to be faithful, `till death do you part?" He smiled feebly, pronouncing the words clear and strong. They rang through the room, even vibrating their armor.
"I do." Unlike Hiei, the words came easily to her, smoothly and crisply escaping her mouth.
"Good. I now pronounce you demon, and wife!" He clapped his hands as Hiei took her in for a long, deep kiss that brought what little audience to their feet, clapping.
"Wow, I think that's the longest I've ever seen..." The priest looked at them, still kissing, and rolled back the sleeve of his robe to look at this watch. "Kami, come up for air!"
She pulled her lips away from his and smiled. They looked at each other, Hiei grinnig broadly and then falling backwards among the flowers that had been brought in for the event.
"Hiei!" Kuro gasped and looked at him.
"That's a first," The priest said, bending down to shake the fire demon's arm. "Wake up son, come on. I think you took his breath away.."
"That can't be good," Keiko said, laughing. Hiei's friends had now gathered around him.
All at once his eyes popped open. "It's finally over..."
"You really weren't kidding about saying you were nervous, were you?" Yukina giggled.
"No, I wasn't," He replied, blushing.
"I'm not really informed of what happens after this at demon weddings. So tell me, what does it feel like to be hitched?" Yusuke said, helping him up and laughing.
"It is....GREAT!" The small demon shouted, his voice ricocheting off of the walls and his armor alike.
"Oh, Hiei...You're so good like that..." Kuro whispered to him, smiling.
A wide smile crossed his face, as he joined hands with his new wife and began his new life.
COMING NEXT: EPILOGUE!!! But that, alas, is the End of the story! Maybe I'll write another containing Kuro and Hiei.... ^_^ . YOU NEVER KNOW!!! . ^_^
