Sorry for the late update, I've been alternating between working on my jewelry stuff. Losing Christmas presents, getting sick, and finally my 12yr wedding anniversary which took place yesterday.
I am working. I swear.
While waiting for everything that had been ordered to finally arrive the three Alpha's had done a little bit more thorough exploring of the house. Looking for anything interesting. Anything that the woman favored over everything else in her home.
And sadly, there were only two things that could be found. One was a simple photo album. And the other was a small box of home videos. One that all three of them had wasted no time whatsoever delving into out of curiosity.
The movies that they managed to watch right then were enlightening enough despite their divided attention since they were shifting their attention between the photo album and what was playing across the screen in front of them. Both showed them glimpses and sides of the omega that they likely wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Each photo and video carefully chronicled her life from infancy to young adult.
Some even covered school affairs, plays, festivals, music concerts- all three Alpha's were beyond shocked when they came across the video of the omega playing a keyboard and singing in front of a huge audience alongside a very tall foreign looking guy.
There were even some video footage of her dancing at some sort of celebration while wearing a kimono. Why there were even some videos that were labeled Spirit Hunter, special episode XXXX.
Needless to say, several pictures from the album and several of video tapes were pilfered by both Kurama and Hiei.
Both of whom quickly stuffed their stolen items into the deep pockets of their jackets and wallets before they finally decided that they had seen enough of the album and videos for the time being. Yusuke had no doubt that they would be watching and pouring over the stolen items later, in the privacy of their own home.
After that everything was carefully put back in its hiding place after that, and the two then wandered off to see what else they could find out about their third.
It didn't take long for them to discover the clothing and shoes in her closet. Nor the fact that she only seemed to like very specific things. Cotton, for starters. She had an overabundance of it.
If one could call nothing but a couple of T-shirts, sweaters, and jeans an overabundance of anything. She had three of each one. They varied in color and design, but otherwise was exactly the same.
Her shoes were kind of the same too. She had five pairs that ranged from flats, to sneakers, to boots and heels. Which was weird to them because Kurama kept telling them that it was unnatural for a female of any race to have so few pairs of shoes.
After all, women liked to accessorize their clothing. It was part of their charm.
Yusuke thought that the fox was nuts for even thinking that having a million outfits, and pairs of shoes was normal by any stretch of the imagination. And he wouldn't swear to it, but he was pretty sure that Hiei must have thought the same thing since he shot him a funny look.
After that they all moved to the bathroom where they decided to check out what kind of soap, shampoo and conditioner she used.
Yusuke was unable to stop himself from laughing when he noticed how disappointed Kurama was that she didn't use anything remotely floral to wash with and seemed to spiral into some mental black pit of despair for several minutes. Giving he and Hiei time to wander off and check out some other stuff.
Like the weirdly sharp, small arsenal of kitchen/butcher knives that Hiei wound up admiring far longer than he should have. Making Yusuke more than a tad bit nervous and jittery as he called for Kurama to please snap the hell out of it and come help him, now!
The last thing that he wanted was a few stab wounds to explain to Keiko later!
Kurama, did as he said, thank God. And wandered away from the bathroom to come and find the two of them just in time to save him since he'd seen Hiei start to get a crazy look in his eye before the red headed fox demon had appeared and snatched the knife out of his hand.
Causing the fire demon to pout like a little kid denied his favorite after dinner treat.
Not that Yusuke cared any, though he did begin to worry that Hiei would be a terrible influence on the already pretty vicious omega once he and Kurama managed to finally lock things down with her.
After that they all discovered the laundry room.
Hiei and Kurama both were pretty bummed that there were no dirty or clean unmentionables to get a peek at. Which was mostly Yusuke's fault since he'd been the one to find the room first and had done some very fast sorting.
The omega wasn't aware of the fact that he'd literally put all of her underwear and bras in the freezer, but- His train of thought abruptly ended when Hiei decided to look in the freezer and found the hidden clothing.
Yusuke visibly bristled for a moment as he then heard Hiei ask in an unnaturally perplexed tone. "Kurama, do omegas typically keep their underwear in the freezer?"
"No." The red head said automatically while examining a box of clothing detergent.
"Ah." Was all that Hiei could think to say before he quietly closed the lid on the freezer and then stuffed his hands in his pants pockets and then walked away, looking just a tad bit scandalized.
Yusuke waited until the fire demon was out of the laundry room to start peeling his lips back away from his teeth in a snarl when he was suddenly slapped in the back of the head by Kurama.
Yelping, because he hadn't been expecting the fox demon to give up reading the back of the detergent box so soon, Yusuke rubbed his head absently as his friend asked him. "Why are you baring your teeth at Hiei's back?"
"Oh, you know me, no reason." He said nervously.
"Really? Because I can tell your lying to me."
"Fine, the jerk stepped on my foot."
Kurama narrowed his eyes at him before then saying, "If that had been true, you would have thrown him across the room like the last time he stepped on your foot. It isn't as if he's very light."
It was true. Hiei was definitely not very light weight wise. The formerly five-foot shrimp of a demon had undergone some serious changes in the past five years or so. One of those changes had been a growth spurt where he had shot up to match Kurama's height at a whopping six foot three inches.
He'd packed on a bit more muscle too.
Hiei had always had an impressive amount of muscle on him even when he'd been short. But now, he almost looked like a body builder. Though his muscles weren't quite as big or scarily bulgy as a body builder's.
Yusuke wasn't sure how, but Hiei had seemed to reach a point in his growth where it literally seemed as if he were able to tell his body to stop growing. And because it was his body- and it was theorized that it even feared his awful temper- his body had listened.
But with those two things also came a difference in weight.
Yusuke hadn't been aware of it when he'd first met the fire demon, but at the time, Hiei had been in the human world for more than four years. And he'd also been slowly starving to death.
After all, Hiei had told them many times that he didn't eat human food. Which only left so many other foods for him to eat and none of them existed in the human world.
Yusuke supposed that Kurama had been helping to delay the inevitable decline in the fire demon's health, but since the fox demon had still been in hiding from Spirit World at that time, it was honestly difficult to say.
All Yusuke knew was that he was glad for the dramatic changes in his mean friend. And that Kurama had just caught him in another lie. Dammit.
"Are you going to tell me why-" Kurama started to ask him when Yusuke suddenly cut him off in an effort to save his skin and quickly blurted out.
"Check the freezer."
Kurama stared at him for a heartbeat or so longer and then huffed quietly and went to do as he said and after several seconds Yusuke heard the other man let out a baffled sounding, "This...is very unusual." Before he too, closed the freezer and then stuffed his hands in his pockets and then walked away.