Yet another story to torture poor Rei and Liei ... A friend and I had a
conversation that led me to write this evil story... Well, the summary is
pretty much this: Hiei, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Keiko, Yukina, Botan, Kurama and
Youko (I made them separate people in this) all get turned into 2 year
olds! Rei and Liei end up having to take care of the "lil devils" as Rei
puts it. And she worked so hard at sorting those cd's too...
The Attack of the Chibis
by lieiavalon2044
"Rei! Where'd the boys go?" Liei called from upstairs in their newly bought house. (Well, they actually bought it a year ago, but they moved in a last week... I guess there were demons to catch... Idiots to silence... Marriage proposals to turn down)
Rei, downstairs sorting CD's by title and release date, looked up towards the balcony where Liei was staring expectantly down at her.
"They went outside! Youko and Kurama wanted to see your roses and the trees they helped with last year. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei were about to get in a huge fight, and their cheerleaders had to go with them." Rei shouted up to Liei.
Liei sighed before jumping down the stairs three at a time and running out the open front door. Rei looked over the living room, happy with the carpet, walls and ceiling, saying they were all dark colored as she wanted.
The carpet was midnight blue, the walls were a slightly lighter shade of blue and Liei had won over the curtains, saying they were a sort of baby blue. The couch was black, and the wooden tables were stained various medium shades. The rest of the house seemed to get lighter, with the exception of Rei's room that had black walls with red flames near the bottom and top.
Rei stood up suddenly, angrily, and she marched to the door.
"Liei! What's taking so long?!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Ummm... Rei ... You may want to come and see this....."
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Rei stood in horror at the scene that lay before her. It would have been scary enough if just one of them had changed, but no. All of them had to change. Including Hiei, who was sitting quietly on the cobblestone pathway, gazing up at her with large, innocent, blood red eyes. (Ok, someone explain how 'blood red' eyes can be innocent...)
"He's.... he...."
"A chibi? Yes. So are the others..." Liei replied calmly as she picked up a chibi Kurama and Youko and cuddled them into her chest. "They're so cute, aren't they?"
"Liei, they still have their old minds you know. And you're hugging them into your CHEST when you know they have their minds? In case you don't remember, Youko could be quite the pervert when he wanted to, and didn't Kurama want you to marry him really badly?" Rei questioned as she picked up the Chibi Hiei who eagerly sat himself on her shoulder.
Liei glanced over at Rei with an amused expression. She then perched Chibi Kurama and Chibi Youko on her shoulders before replying, "Rei, they don't have their older minds anymore. If they did, Hiei would have chopped your hand off with his katana as you tried to pick him up."
Rei heard a rustling in the bushes and chibi Botan toddled out, holding her mini oar over her shoulder. Soon after, chibi Yukina emerged from a flower bush giggling happily at Kuwabara and Yusuke, who were trying to find a way to walk through the many rose bushes. Then Rei felt a light tug on her hair. She glanced to the side slightly and saw Hiei pulling on her ponytail. She reached back to untangle his fingers from her thick brown hair when he giggled childishly and yanked down hard.
Liei watched in amusement as Rei's eyes widened and she whirled, throwing Hiei off her shoulder. Liei turned to ignore the scene of Rei chasing a crying little Hiei down the path before she walked away, plugging Youko and Kurama's young ears to protect their minds from such horrible language.
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Youko teetered over the light blue carpet before Liei's hands steadied him and then he walked over to a large pile of white and silver pillows in the corner, where Kurama was curled up, sucking his thumb in his sleep. Youko crawled up onto another pillow before burrowing into the silk blankets that Liei had put over the cushy pillows. Liei came in three seconds later, carrying Yukina, Keiko, Kuwabara and Yusuke in her arms and deposited them on the floor.
"Now, all of you behave and take your afternoon nap now, ok? I'm going to get Hiei, and after you guys wake up I'll let you all play outside. If you're good!" Liei added before she turned and went out the door, coming back when she forgot to close it behind herself.
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"DIE! NOBODY PULLS MY HAIR THEN STEALS MY HOT CHOCOLATE AND LIVES TO BRAG ABOUT IT!" Rei shrieked at the retreating back of chibi Hiei, who was sobbing as he blindly ran around the corner into Liei's expectant arms. Rei slid on the section of tile and ended up slamming into a wall. She looked at Liei and cringed away from the look of death being shot in her direction.
"Rei! I don't believe you'd chase poor innocent Hiei like that! He's just a little kid for goodness sake!" Liei said angrily. She turned and walked away, holding Hiei over her shoulder.
"Now he's going to take an afternoon nap in my room with all the others. And just because you may think they're all little devils doesn't mean you can go in there and disturb them! So don't you dare wake any of them up!" Liei yelled over her shoulder. Hiei looked back at Rei with a smirk on his face and then stuck his tongue out. Liei climbed up the stairs, leaving Rei to herself as steam rose with small hisses from her head as Hiei taunted her from Liei's warm shoulder.
Liei opened her bedroom door and it gave a small squeak. She glanced in and smiled happily. Youko was curled into a tight ball on top of his pillow with his fuzzy tail brushing the tip of his nose. Kurama was laying on his stomach with the side of his face pressed into the soft pillow. He had a thumb in his mouth and he was snoring slightly. The only visible half of Yusuke was his legs, which were sticking out from under the bed. Liei could only guess that his pillow was probably a dust bunny.
Kuwabara was sprawled out in the middle of the room on his back with drool coming from a corner of his wide open mouth. Yukina was curled up on the bed next to a stuffed animal, and Keiko was curled up under a blanket which made her look like a strange blue blob. Liei set Hiei down on a black and red pillow she'd snatched from Rei's room and turned to leave.
Chibi Hiei let out a small sniffle. Liei turned to see him rubbing tears away from the corners of his eyes with his tiny hands. She turned and knelt next to him before brushing away a tear on his cheek.
"What's wrong Hiei?" she asked in a sweet voice.
"Rei took my katana!" he yelled in an adorable baby voice between sniffles.
Liei smiled and got up. She walked to her closet and opened a door before pulling out her sheathed katana. She closed the door and walked over to the sobbing Hiei before she knelt down and put her sword lightly in his lap. He looked down and his eyes widened with glee. He jumped up and latched onto Liei's neck in a hug. He dropped down on the pillow and hugged the sword in his arms.
"Thank you lady! You nice to give me you sword!" he said with a huge grin on his face.
Liei nodded and whispered, "Now if you're good, I'll let you keep my sword with you whenever you want, ok?"
"But what do I do to be-"
"All you have to do is be quiet and don't disturb the others. Now, night Hiei!" Liei called softly from the door before she softly closed it. Hiei yawned and hugging the sword (which was nearly two times bigger than him) like a teddy bear, he stuck a thumb in his mouth and drifted off to sleep.
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Rei stared into the lawn ahead of her, taking in the roses, trees and bushes that had been creatively positioned and planted in the enormous front lawn. She closed her eyes, not used to the silence that surrounded a house far away from the city.
One of the reasons they'd finally bought this house was because it was big enough to hold lots of guests when they came and because there wasn't another house around for miles. Instead it was surrounded by a thick forest where Liei and Kurama spent a great deal of their time together doing god knows what. (not meant to imply anything above the PG rating... A just in case notice)
Rei and Hiei spent some time there, but it was usually when they were practicing their Martial Arts to see who was stronger. Hence the reason many of the trees in a particular area were cracked, slashed, burned, or had fanged mouths waiting to devour the unlucky passerby, which showed Youko had been doing some experiments.
"Nice isn't it? Not loud like that apartment always was." Liei asked from behind Rei, breaking her peaceful moment.
Rei opened her eyes to see Liei had sat down next to her and was looking over the rose garden with a relaxed expression. Rei turned away to look at the nearby shrine and small waterfall by the rocky cliffs to the left of the house.
"I take it you got them all asleep. Every one of the lil devils because I can't hear a thing."
"Yeah. They're all in my room now. I told them to be quiet and good until all of them were awake. But I hope their change isn't permanent. This Mom business is gonna be the death of me..." Liei said with a slight moan.
Rei smiled and glanced into the open front door.
"I still hate foxes. You better keep Youko and Kurama away from me. Even if they both are cute now."
"Rei, did you just use the word 'cute'?" Liei said with a sly glance towards her.
"Of course not! I'd NEVER use that word!"
"Well, it seems you did."
"Nuh uh!"
"UH HUH!"
"I did NOT!"
"Did too."
"Why are we arguing over a word?!"
"Because you said you didn't say it and you did."
"I did NOT say the word 'cute'!!!"
"You just said it. So ha! I win." Liei said with a smirk as she got up and walked inside.
Rei sweat dropped, her eyes having become half dots.
"We argue over the stupidest things..." she sighed before she jumped up and sauntered in behind Liei.
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*RIIING! RIIING!*Youko glanced over at the phone with sleep blurred eyes. He got up and walked over to it. He stood on three pillows to reach it and picked it up.
"Hello. This is the FBI. We would like to talk with Liei Avalon please."
"Youko! Who is it on the phone?" Liei asked from the doorway. Youko glanced over at her, his golden eyes glazed with the obvious want for sleep.
"It somebody who say they the F.B. something." he mumbled sleepily.
"Oh." Liei said as she took the phone from Youko, who immediately flopped over against her leg and fell asleep.
"Hello? This is Liei speaking."
"Hello. We would like to tell you that we are holding you responsible for the strong energy signal emitted from your house."
"Koenma shut up. Don't you have anyone else to bother?"
"No, I don't. Well, since you caught on, good bye, and don't blow anything up... Or catch anybody or thing on fire." *CLICK*
Liei gazed down at the phone for two seconds before she hung up also. She was just turning when the phone rang again. She muttered curses under her breath before she turned and picked it up.
"Hello this is Buckingham Palace. I'm sorry but the queen is away right now and the king is dead, even after all these years. Please leave a message after the tone." Liei said with her best English accent. On the other end, Koenma stared down at the phone with a startled expression on his face. He coughed before he said anything.
"Yes, I would like to leave a message for the queen. Tell her that-"
"I'll tell you this. If you write it down on a piece of paper, drive it over here and pay me fifty dollars, I'll give it to her the next time I see her. How does that sound? Hm? HEY! IT'S NOT POLITE FOR YOU TO HANG UP ON PEOPLE KOENMA!" Liei yelled into the phone as loudly as she could without waking Youko or any of the others.
Youko looked up at Liei who had just hung up the phone. She glanced down at him, sighed and picked him up to cradle him gently in her arms.
"Liei, why do you say this Buckingham Palace?"
"To get Koenma to hang up. Now, I need a nap too, so come on. You can sleep in my lap."
Youko smiled at Liei as she carefully lay down on the opposite side of the pillow pile with Youko in her lap. She snuggled into the pillows and Youko waited for her to stop moving before he lay his head on her stomach and pulled some of her long white hair over his back. He fell asleep with an innocent smile on his face, that had he been awake and not chibi, it would have made him look predatory.
Rei peered into Liei's room, seeing several of the asleep Chibis, but no Youko or Liei. She cursed under her breath and stepped in towards Kurama. She had walked only half way across the room when she was attacked several Chibis demanding their afternoon snack of milk and cookies.
"LEMME GO! I'LL GIVE YOU CHOCOLATE CAKE IF YOU LEMME GO!" Rei screamed at the attacking Chibis.
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"Rei is great! Gave us the chocolate cake!" The words drifted through Liei's head slowly.
"Liei, wake up!" Youko's little voice said urgently.
Liei opened her eyes groggily, seeing two large golden eyes staring straight at her. She stared in shock at Youko for several minutes before she remembered that they had all become Chibis.
"What Youko?"
"Rei gave everybody chocolate cake for an afternoon snack."
"WHAT?!" Liei shrieked before bolting outside the door with Youko clinging to her shoulder.
Yusuke stuffed his face with a huge slice of chocolate cake smothered in frosting. Hiei was playing with the lit candles like the pyromaniac he was and the remains of a cake were resting on the well cleaned plate. Yukina's slice was thawing outside, Keiko was eating with a spoon, and Kuwabara was licking frosting off his fingers. Rei yawned and turned happily to be met with a 'slightly angered' (hmm... I wonder what the apostrophes are there for?) Liei.
"Hey! You can't say they're not getting their nutrition! There are eggs in chocolate cake! And milk! That's nutrition, isn't it?!" Rei shouted in her own defense.
"REI! Do you KNOW how much SUGAR is in that?!" Liei said angrily. "They'll be hyper for HOURS!"
"So? We can let them play out side. They're all done anyway. Oh, where's Kurama?(I need to torture something)"
"Dunno... Oh, there he is! He must've still been asleep. Kurama! Come on, we're going out side!" Liei called sweetly. Kurama came running over to her as fast as his short legs could carry him and Liei picked him up in her arms. Youko looked curiously at the still tired Kurama before he glanced up at Liei. Liei looked down at him and chuckled.
"I hope you two decide to become one person again... I don't think I could handle two chibi kitsunes running around here." Liei said kindly.
Yusuke dashed across the grass away from Kuwabara who was struggling to walk after him in grass that went up to his waist. Yukina, Botan and Keiko were giggling under a small bush and talking about something. Hiei was walking on the rocks next to the pool under the waterfall and Youko had vanished into the rose garden. Liei was cuddling the little Kurama against her chest affectionately while Rei watched.
"Liei, maybe you should be a mother. By the way you treat and protect these devils you'd be an incredible parent." Rei said, actually being serious for once. Liei looked down from the shady tree branch she was perched on.
"Rei, you weren't being sarcastic about that would you?"
"Nope. Just look at you with Kurama. You're acting like you're his mother. The same with Youko. You have been since 11:30 this morning!"
"Rei, I'm just being nice that's all. And I haven't been doing this for very long you know. God I hope nobody hears that all the Reikai Tantei have been turned into Chibis ..." Liei said softly.
"By gawd! The rumors are true!" a voice with a strong Irish accent called from the other end of the clearing. Rei and Liei turned to see Jin and Touya standing in the shade from the forest. Rei grinned and stood up.
"Jin! Long time since I last saw you!" she called joyfully. Jin smiled, his ears perking up slightly. Touya however, didn't seem quite as thrilled with Rei as he was with the Chibis. He walked over to Liei's tree and jumped onto her branch to look at Kurama.
"So this is the one who beat me... Not too much of a challenge now is he?" he said smugly, reaching toward Kurama.
"Um, Touya, you might not want to-"
*WHACK* Touya fell to the ground unconscious, a large lump on his head. Liei looked down at him angrily, still clenching her fist in midair. Kurama yawned and sat up, rubbing his eyes sleepily. Jin poked Touya several times before he agreed that he was out cold and would stay that way for a while. Liei smirked happily and stuck her tongue out at Touya.
"He may not be much of a threat, but you should make sure the person that's guarding him isn't either." Liei said, still smirking. She jumped out of the tree and went inside, humming a tune Rei could've sworn she'd heard in a Disney movie. Chibi Kurama followed carrying a tennis ball, which on the way in, got ceremoniously dropped into one of Rei's sneakers by the door.
"Rei, is she always like this?" Jin asked when Liei was out of earshot.
"Depends on if she doesn't like you or hates you. That makes a big difference."
"Aren't they the same thing?"
"Apparently, not to Liei." Rei replied. She sighed and turned around. "DEVILS! It's time to go inside!"
All the Chibis ran past Rei and Jin, up the stairs and in the front door. Rei turned back to Jin to see that now he was also one of the 'devils'. Jin looked up at her.
"Rei, have you always been so tall?" he asked in a little Irish kid voice. Rei smiled and picked him up. "Wha-? Hey! Where are you taking me!?"
"To the nap room. You need your afternoon nap."
"I wanna snack!"
"What kind of snack? Doritos and ice cream? That's the nutrition a growing youkai needs!"
"Rei, why is Hiei drinking all of your hot chocolate?"
"HIEI!!! DROP THE HOT CHOCOLATE! BACK AWAY FROM THE HOT CHOCOLATE!" Rei shouted as she charged towards Chibi Hiei, who was perched on a chair, gulping down his fourth mug of the sacred hot chocolate.
Hiei looked up and his blood red eyes bugged slightly. He sprang from the chair and darted off at top speed, becoming a little black blur that shot up the stairs to the security of Liei's room. Rei followed until she was out of sight. Liei and the rest of the Chibis waited downstairs.
"Liei-sama, what do you think-"
"Shhh! Yusuke-chan, listen!"
They all nearly stopped breathing, Youko holding his short fuzzy tail in his arms. *WHAM!* The sound reverberated through the entire household, shaking the ceiling fan in the kitchen which caused dust to spray from the base. Chibi Youko and Jin winced at the sound, thinking they might have just heard the popping of bones coming out of their correct places.
"Was that Rei hitting the bedroom door, Liei?" all the Chibis questioned at once.
"No, I think it might have been an antelope and an elephant, both hitting my door as they discovered it was locked. Let's go check on Rei and Hiei-chan, shall we?"
Rei groaned and sat up. She was laying on her bed and something was next to her on the pillow. She glanced over, the world still spinning, and saw Jin sleeping there with his thumb in his mouth and ears perked. She shook him and he opened his before launching his self onto her shoulder.
" I 'ot Rei's shoul'er! Ha! 'old ya so 'iei!"(1) he cried triumphantly. Hiei poked his head up over the side of the bed and frowned. He jumped up onto the bed and bounced across the covers, leaving small muddy footprints on the fabric. Rei winced.
'Liei will have not only his head, but mine on stakes because of that... She might even make me do the laundry! Oh, gods no! Anything but that!' she thought frantically.
"I get Rei's shoul'er!"
"No! I get Rei's shoulder!" Hiei shouted back, poking Jin's chest, pressing his nose against Jin's.
"I do!"
"I do!" Hiei yelled back into Jin's face. The two glared then backed away, before launching themselves at each other. Rei only saw the two waving their hands timidly at each other but Hiei ended it suddenly by sinking his fangs into Jin's hands. Jin's eyes popped and he started to bawl.
"WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he bawled at the top of his lungs, making Rei's sensitive ears throb in agony. She slapped a hand over his mouth, then punched Hiei upside the head to shut him up. She lifted them both up and set them on her shoulders and they settled themselves, still shooting daggers at each other.
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Youko toddled through the garden in a daze. All these roses, trees and shrubs... He thought he must have died and gone to Reikai-youkai- special-kitusne-area-heaven. He stopped and plucked a rose from a bush. He glanced up, an evil gleam in his large eyes.
Liei slipped out the door, none of the Chibis following, to her absolute astonishment. It was nearly dusk, and Rei had come downstairs an hour ago with Jin, his hands wrapped in bandages, and Hiei, massaging a large black spot on his cheek, on her shoulders, smiling despite the fact she was wearing pink fuzzy earmuffs. She needed to find Youko before the sun went down. It was dangerously close to setting now and she didn't want the little kitsune discovering what he could do if the full moon was up.
Liei ambled down the front steps, glancing occasionally toward the under brush in the forest for a splash of white. She sighed and continued down toward the garden when she froze. She'd found Youko all right, but he seemed to have tested his youki on her precious plants. There were roses winding about the garden, looking for an unfortunate mouse to stumble across their creeper's paths.
The previously peaceful sakura trees were now snapping like Venus fly traps at bugs, and the rest of the garden looked like a tornado had come through. There was Youko, sleeping peacefully in the middle of the destruction, clutching an unaltered rose to his chest. Liei felt her anger bubbling up. To heck if he was just a little kid! He was officially dead now!
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Rei looked up from the couch and the frolicking Chibis playing with the tennis ball they'd fished out of her sneaker, nearly losing two of their troops in the process because of the smell, even through clothes pins. Youko had just catapulted through the door and looked horrified. He leapt at Rei and hid his self behind her. He was shivering uncontrollably and Rei rubbed his ears, trying to hold her homicidal instinct back for later. He relaxed and quieted his sniffles. Then Liei burst through the door.
Even Rei was scared. Liei looked more homicidal than she had ever looked for as long as Rei could remember, which was a heck of a long time. She searched the room and saw Youko cowering behind Rei. Rei caught that glare and almost heard the words it shrieked. That fox is as good AS DEAD.
Youko eeped and ran out of the room, along with the entire pack of Chibis. Liei calmed down about 30 minutes later after she'd plopped into a squishy armchair and stared at the wall intensely. Rei was about to question why Liei was so angry when she heard a crash from the storage room next door. She leapt up, holding Liei back as she raced through the door. Now she understood Liei's anger toward Youko, but she felt it toward a short, black haired boy.
Liei gazed at the hole she'd noticed in the wall. There was a tennis ball stuck there, and she had a feeling she didn't want to know how it'd gotten stuck there in the first place. Hiei came out of the storage room door as a black blur and dove behind Liei. Rei crashed through the door and tore Hiei out from behind her silver haired friend. She held him up by his collar, giving him her worst death glare ever.
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Outside, the sun was sinking below the horizon and a strange brown haired youkai chuckled at the scene in the crystal ball before him. Rei had been chained down to a chair, and he could tell Liei was trying desperately not to set the little Youko on fire. He leant back, his handsome face illuminated by the dying sunlight.
He looked down again and saw the Chibis were standing well away from the two pissed off girls. They looked as if they would kill the first thing that came within 10 feet of them. He waved his hand over the crystal and it glowed purple in response, the opposite of the hot pink it had turned earlier. His fun was over... for now.
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The Chibis had huddled into a corner when a peculiar purple light enveloped them. Liei and Rei happened to set the chains binding them to their seats on fire, but remained there, only brushing off the ashes. The Chibis were now staggering away from each other, their heads feeling they were about to explode from the pressure filling their tiny bodies. Then as quickly as it started, it was over and they stood back to normal in the corner, not remembering a thing that had happened. Thankfully, Youko and Kurama had become one person again, so Liei didn't have to put up with two grown up kitsunes around the house.
The now fully grown Hiei and Youko glanced over at the two girls, who had steam rising off their heads in pent up anger and frustration. Jin was staring at the bandages in confusion, and Hiei had resumed rubbing his bruise from Rei's fist. Youko spied Liei's aura and saw that it was filled with loathing over something. Hiei happened to see Youko gazing at Liei in shock and decided to check out Rei's aura. He found hers was no better, but twenty times worse then Liei's.
The two curious youkai walked in front of the two girls, and found themselves faced with awful death glares. Soon the rest of the group were standing behind them, wincing if either Rei or Liei's eyes made contact with them. Youko and Hiei finally worked up enormous amounts of courage and reached toward their wife, Youko to Liei and Hiei to Rei. The two girls stood and the two boys noticed the flames dancing along their Kokoryuu- haa's. Youko, Hiei and the others backed away as the black flames grew brighter.
"If you take one step closer we fry ALL of you to freakin' crisps!" the two yelled, their hands clenching into fists almost at the same exact moment. Yusuke looked over at Youko and Hiei, who had backed away warily.
"DAAAAAAAAAANG! You guys must' ve really ticked them off!"
End.
I felt like doing something funny, so here it is. I wanted to do something to torture my friend and I's chara, but it ended up a tad too long. Jin Translations (for where ever I use his Irishness)
Ok, because I had somebody ask me to do this, I'll now post translations for whatever Jin says if it's absolutely incomprehensible. Numbers in the story next to Jin's talking tell you to find this at the end and use it.
1) I got Rei's shoulder! Ha! Told ya so Hiei!
The Attack of the Chibis
by lieiavalon2044
"Rei! Where'd the boys go?" Liei called from upstairs in their newly bought house. (Well, they actually bought it a year ago, but they moved in a last week... I guess there were demons to catch... Idiots to silence... Marriage proposals to turn down)
Rei, downstairs sorting CD's by title and release date, looked up towards the balcony where Liei was staring expectantly down at her.
"They went outside! Youko and Kurama wanted to see your roses and the trees they helped with last year. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei were about to get in a huge fight, and their cheerleaders had to go with them." Rei shouted up to Liei.
Liei sighed before jumping down the stairs three at a time and running out the open front door. Rei looked over the living room, happy with the carpet, walls and ceiling, saying they were all dark colored as she wanted.
The carpet was midnight blue, the walls were a slightly lighter shade of blue and Liei had won over the curtains, saying they were a sort of baby blue. The couch was black, and the wooden tables were stained various medium shades. The rest of the house seemed to get lighter, with the exception of Rei's room that had black walls with red flames near the bottom and top.
Rei stood up suddenly, angrily, and she marched to the door.
"Liei! What's taking so long?!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Ummm... Rei ... You may want to come and see this....."
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Rei stood in horror at the scene that lay before her. It would have been scary enough if just one of them had changed, but no. All of them had to change. Including Hiei, who was sitting quietly on the cobblestone pathway, gazing up at her with large, innocent, blood red eyes. (Ok, someone explain how 'blood red' eyes can be innocent...)
"He's.... he...."
"A chibi? Yes. So are the others..." Liei replied calmly as she picked up a chibi Kurama and Youko and cuddled them into her chest. "They're so cute, aren't they?"
"Liei, they still have their old minds you know. And you're hugging them into your CHEST when you know they have their minds? In case you don't remember, Youko could be quite the pervert when he wanted to, and didn't Kurama want you to marry him really badly?" Rei questioned as she picked up the Chibi Hiei who eagerly sat himself on her shoulder.
Liei glanced over at Rei with an amused expression. She then perched Chibi Kurama and Chibi Youko on her shoulders before replying, "Rei, they don't have their older minds anymore. If they did, Hiei would have chopped your hand off with his katana as you tried to pick him up."
Rei heard a rustling in the bushes and chibi Botan toddled out, holding her mini oar over her shoulder. Soon after, chibi Yukina emerged from a flower bush giggling happily at Kuwabara and Yusuke, who were trying to find a way to walk through the many rose bushes. Then Rei felt a light tug on her hair. She glanced to the side slightly and saw Hiei pulling on her ponytail. She reached back to untangle his fingers from her thick brown hair when he giggled childishly and yanked down hard.
Liei watched in amusement as Rei's eyes widened and she whirled, throwing Hiei off her shoulder. Liei turned to ignore the scene of Rei chasing a crying little Hiei down the path before she walked away, plugging Youko and Kurama's young ears to protect their minds from such horrible language.
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Youko teetered over the light blue carpet before Liei's hands steadied him and then he walked over to a large pile of white and silver pillows in the corner, where Kurama was curled up, sucking his thumb in his sleep. Youko crawled up onto another pillow before burrowing into the silk blankets that Liei had put over the cushy pillows. Liei came in three seconds later, carrying Yukina, Keiko, Kuwabara and Yusuke in her arms and deposited them on the floor.
"Now, all of you behave and take your afternoon nap now, ok? I'm going to get Hiei, and after you guys wake up I'll let you all play outside. If you're good!" Liei added before she turned and went out the door, coming back when she forgot to close it behind herself.
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"DIE! NOBODY PULLS MY HAIR THEN STEALS MY HOT CHOCOLATE AND LIVES TO BRAG ABOUT IT!" Rei shrieked at the retreating back of chibi Hiei, who was sobbing as he blindly ran around the corner into Liei's expectant arms. Rei slid on the section of tile and ended up slamming into a wall. She looked at Liei and cringed away from the look of death being shot in her direction.
"Rei! I don't believe you'd chase poor innocent Hiei like that! He's just a little kid for goodness sake!" Liei said angrily. She turned and walked away, holding Hiei over her shoulder.
"Now he's going to take an afternoon nap in my room with all the others. And just because you may think they're all little devils doesn't mean you can go in there and disturb them! So don't you dare wake any of them up!" Liei yelled over her shoulder. Hiei looked back at Rei with a smirk on his face and then stuck his tongue out. Liei climbed up the stairs, leaving Rei to herself as steam rose with small hisses from her head as Hiei taunted her from Liei's warm shoulder.
Liei opened her bedroom door and it gave a small squeak. She glanced in and smiled happily. Youko was curled into a tight ball on top of his pillow with his fuzzy tail brushing the tip of his nose. Kurama was laying on his stomach with the side of his face pressed into the soft pillow. He had a thumb in his mouth and he was snoring slightly. The only visible half of Yusuke was his legs, which were sticking out from under the bed. Liei could only guess that his pillow was probably a dust bunny.
Kuwabara was sprawled out in the middle of the room on his back with drool coming from a corner of his wide open mouth. Yukina was curled up on the bed next to a stuffed animal, and Keiko was curled up under a blanket which made her look like a strange blue blob. Liei set Hiei down on a black and red pillow she'd snatched from Rei's room and turned to leave.
Chibi Hiei let out a small sniffle. Liei turned to see him rubbing tears away from the corners of his eyes with his tiny hands. She turned and knelt next to him before brushing away a tear on his cheek.
"What's wrong Hiei?" she asked in a sweet voice.
"Rei took my katana!" he yelled in an adorable baby voice between sniffles.
Liei smiled and got up. She walked to her closet and opened a door before pulling out her sheathed katana. She closed the door and walked over to the sobbing Hiei before she knelt down and put her sword lightly in his lap. He looked down and his eyes widened with glee. He jumped up and latched onto Liei's neck in a hug. He dropped down on the pillow and hugged the sword in his arms.
"Thank you lady! You nice to give me you sword!" he said with a huge grin on his face.
Liei nodded and whispered, "Now if you're good, I'll let you keep my sword with you whenever you want, ok?"
"But what do I do to be-"
"All you have to do is be quiet and don't disturb the others. Now, night Hiei!" Liei called softly from the door before she softly closed it. Hiei yawned and hugging the sword (which was nearly two times bigger than him) like a teddy bear, he stuck a thumb in his mouth and drifted off to sleep.
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Rei stared into the lawn ahead of her, taking in the roses, trees and bushes that had been creatively positioned and planted in the enormous front lawn. She closed her eyes, not used to the silence that surrounded a house far away from the city.
One of the reasons they'd finally bought this house was because it was big enough to hold lots of guests when they came and because there wasn't another house around for miles. Instead it was surrounded by a thick forest where Liei and Kurama spent a great deal of their time together doing god knows what. (not meant to imply anything above the PG rating... A just in case notice)
Rei and Hiei spent some time there, but it was usually when they were practicing their Martial Arts to see who was stronger. Hence the reason many of the trees in a particular area were cracked, slashed, burned, or had fanged mouths waiting to devour the unlucky passerby, which showed Youko had been doing some experiments.
"Nice isn't it? Not loud like that apartment always was." Liei asked from behind Rei, breaking her peaceful moment.
Rei opened her eyes to see Liei had sat down next to her and was looking over the rose garden with a relaxed expression. Rei turned away to look at the nearby shrine and small waterfall by the rocky cliffs to the left of the house.
"I take it you got them all asleep. Every one of the lil devils because I can't hear a thing."
"Yeah. They're all in my room now. I told them to be quiet and good until all of them were awake. But I hope their change isn't permanent. This Mom business is gonna be the death of me..." Liei said with a slight moan.
Rei smiled and glanced into the open front door.
"I still hate foxes. You better keep Youko and Kurama away from me. Even if they both are cute now."
"Rei, did you just use the word 'cute'?" Liei said with a sly glance towards her.
"Of course not! I'd NEVER use that word!"
"Well, it seems you did."
"Nuh uh!"
"UH HUH!"
"I did NOT!"
"Did too."
"Why are we arguing over a word?!"
"Because you said you didn't say it and you did."
"I did NOT say the word 'cute'!!!"
"You just said it. So ha! I win." Liei said with a smirk as she got up and walked inside.
Rei sweat dropped, her eyes having become half dots.
"We argue over the stupidest things..." she sighed before she jumped up and sauntered in behind Liei.
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*RIIING! RIIING!*Youko glanced over at the phone with sleep blurred eyes. He got up and walked over to it. He stood on three pillows to reach it and picked it up.
"Hello. This is the FBI. We would like to talk with Liei Avalon please."
"Youko! Who is it on the phone?" Liei asked from the doorway. Youko glanced over at her, his golden eyes glazed with the obvious want for sleep.
"It somebody who say they the F.B. something." he mumbled sleepily.
"Oh." Liei said as she took the phone from Youko, who immediately flopped over against her leg and fell asleep.
"Hello? This is Liei speaking."
"Hello. We would like to tell you that we are holding you responsible for the strong energy signal emitted from your house."
"Koenma shut up. Don't you have anyone else to bother?"
"No, I don't. Well, since you caught on, good bye, and don't blow anything up... Or catch anybody or thing on fire." *CLICK*
Liei gazed down at the phone for two seconds before she hung up also. She was just turning when the phone rang again. She muttered curses under her breath before she turned and picked it up.
"Hello this is Buckingham Palace. I'm sorry but the queen is away right now and the king is dead, even after all these years. Please leave a message after the tone." Liei said with her best English accent. On the other end, Koenma stared down at the phone with a startled expression on his face. He coughed before he said anything.
"Yes, I would like to leave a message for the queen. Tell her that-"
"I'll tell you this. If you write it down on a piece of paper, drive it over here and pay me fifty dollars, I'll give it to her the next time I see her. How does that sound? Hm? HEY! IT'S NOT POLITE FOR YOU TO HANG UP ON PEOPLE KOENMA!" Liei yelled into the phone as loudly as she could without waking Youko or any of the others.
Youko looked up at Liei who had just hung up the phone. She glanced down at him, sighed and picked him up to cradle him gently in her arms.
"Liei, why do you say this Buckingham Palace?"
"To get Koenma to hang up. Now, I need a nap too, so come on. You can sleep in my lap."
Youko smiled at Liei as she carefully lay down on the opposite side of the pillow pile with Youko in her lap. She snuggled into the pillows and Youko waited for her to stop moving before he lay his head on her stomach and pulled some of her long white hair over his back. He fell asleep with an innocent smile on his face, that had he been awake and not chibi, it would have made him look predatory.
Rei peered into Liei's room, seeing several of the asleep Chibis, but no Youko or Liei. She cursed under her breath and stepped in towards Kurama. She had walked only half way across the room when she was attacked several Chibis demanding their afternoon snack of milk and cookies.
"LEMME GO! I'LL GIVE YOU CHOCOLATE CAKE IF YOU LEMME GO!" Rei screamed at the attacking Chibis.
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"Rei is great! Gave us the chocolate cake!" The words drifted through Liei's head slowly.
"Liei, wake up!" Youko's little voice said urgently.
Liei opened her eyes groggily, seeing two large golden eyes staring straight at her. She stared in shock at Youko for several minutes before she remembered that they had all become Chibis.
"What Youko?"
"Rei gave everybody chocolate cake for an afternoon snack."
"WHAT?!" Liei shrieked before bolting outside the door with Youko clinging to her shoulder.
Yusuke stuffed his face with a huge slice of chocolate cake smothered in frosting. Hiei was playing with the lit candles like the pyromaniac he was and the remains of a cake were resting on the well cleaned plate. Yukina's slice was thawing outside, Keiko was eating with a spoon, and Kuwabara was licking frosting off his fingers. Rei yawned and turned happily to be met with a 'slightly angered' (hmm... I wonder what the apostrophes are there for?) Liei.
"Hey! You can't say they're not getting their nutrition! There are eggs in chocolate cake! And milk! That's nutrition, isn't it?!" Rei shouted in her own defense.
"REI! Do you KNOW how much SUGAR is in that?!" Liei said angrily. "They'll be hyper for HOURS!"
"So? We can let them play out side. They're all done anyway. Oh, where's Kurama?(I need to torture something)"
"Dunno... Oh, there he is! He must've still been asleep. Kurama! Come on, we're going out side!" Liei called sweetly. Kurama came running over to her as fast as his short legs could carry him and Liei picked him up in her arms. Youko looked curiously at the still tired Kurama before he glanced up at Liei. Liei looked down at him and chuckled.
"I hope you two decide to become one person again... I don't think I could handle two chibi kitsunes running around here." Liei said kindly.
Yusuke dashed across the grass away from Kuwabara who was struggling to walk after him in grass that went up to his waist. Yukina, Botan and Keiko were giggling under a small bush and talking about something. Hiei was walking on the rocks next to the pool under the waterfall and Youko had vanished into the rose garden. Liei was cuddling the little Kurama against her chest affectionately while Rei watched.
"Liei, maybe you should be a mother. By the way you treat and protect these devils you'd be an incredible parent." Rei said, actually being serious for once. Liei looked down from the shady tree branch she was perched on.
"Rei, you weren't being sarcastic about that would you?"
"Nope. Just look at you with Kurama. You're acting like you're his mother. The same with Youko. You have been since 11:30 this morning!"
"Rei, I'm just being nice that's all. And I haven't been doing this for very long you know. God I hope nobody hears that all the Reikai Tantei have been turned into Chibis ..." Liei said softly.
"By gawd! The rumors are true!" a voice with a strong Irish accent called from the other end of the clearing. Rei and Liei turned to see Jin and Touya standing in the shade from the forest. Rei grinned and stood up.
"Jin! Long time since I last saw you!" she called joyfully. Jin smiled, his ears perking up slightly. Touya however, didn't seem quite as thrilled with Rei as he was with the Chibis. He walked over to Liei's tree and jumped onto her branch to look at Kurama.
"So this is the one who beat me... Not too much of a challenge now is he?" he said smugly, reaching toward Kurama.
"Um, Touya, you might not want to-"
*WHACK* Touya fell to the ground unconscious, a large lump on his head. Liei looked down at him angrily, still clenching her fist in midair. Kurama yawned and sat up, rubbing his eyes sleepily. Jin poked Touya several times before he agreed that he was out cold and would stay that way for a while. Liei smirked happily and stuck her tongue out at Touya.
"He may not be much of a threat, but you should make sure the person that's guarding him isn't either." Liei said, still smirking. She jumped out of the tree and went inside, humming a tune Rei could've sworn she'd heard in a Disney movie. Chibi Kurama followed carrying a tennis ball, which on the way in, got ceremoniously dropped into one of Rei's sneakers by the door.
"Rei, is she always like this?" Jin asked when Liei was out of earshot.
"Depends on if she doesn't like you or hates you. That makes a big difference."
"Aren't they the same thing?"
"Apparently, not to Liei." Rei replied. She sighed and turned around. "DEVILS! It's time to go inside!"
All the Chibis ran past Rei and Jin, up the stairs and in the front door. Rei turned back to Jin to see that now he was also one of the 'devils'. Jin looked up at her.
"Rei, have you always been so tall?" he asked in a little Irish kid voice. Rei smiled and picked him up. "Wha-? Hey! Where are you taking me!?"
"To the nap room. You need your afternoon nap."
"I wanna snack!"
"What kind of snack? Doritos and ice cream? That's the nutrition a growing youkai needs!"
"Rei, why is Hiei drinking all of your hot chocolate?"
"HIEI!!! DROP THE HOT CHOCOLATE! BACK AWAY FROM THE HOT CHOCOLATE!" Rei shouted as she charged towards Chibi Hiei, who was perched on a chair, gulping down his fourth mug of the sacred hot chocolate.
Hiei looked up and his blood red eyes bugged slightly. He sprang from the chair and darted off at top speed, becoming a little black blur that shot up the stairs to the security of Liei's room. Rei followed until she was out of sight. Liei and the rest of the Chibis waited downstairs.
"Liei-sama, what do you think-"
"Shhh! Yusuke-chan, listen!"
They all nearly stopped breathing, Youko holding his short fuzzy tail in his arms. *WHAM!* The sound reverberated through the entire household, shaking the ceiling fan in the kitchen which caused dust to spray from the base. Chibi Youko and Jin winced at the sound, thinking they might have just heard the popping of bones coming out of their correct places.
"Was that Rei hitting the bedroom door, Liei?" all the Chibis questioned at once.
"No, I think it might have been an antelope and an elephant, both hitting my door as they discovered it was locked. Let's go check on Rei and Hiei-chan, shall we?"
Rei groaned and sat up. She was laying on her bed and something was next to her on the pillow. She glanced over, the world still spinning, and saw Jin sleeping there with his thumb in his mouth and ears perked. She shook him and he opened his before launching his self onto her shoulder.
" I 'ot Rei's shoul'er! Ha! 'old ya so 'iei!"(1) he cried triumphantly. Hiei poked his head up over the side of the bed and frowned. He jumped up onto the bed and bounced across the covers, leaving small muddy footprints on the fabric. Rei winced.
'Liei will have not only his head, but mine on stakes because of that... She might even make me do the laundry! Oh, gods no! Anything but that!' she thought frantically.
"I get Rei's shoul'er!"
"No! I get Rei's shoulder!" Hiei shouted back, poking Jin's chest, pressing his nose against Jin's.
"I do!"
"I do!" Hiei yelled back into Jin's face. The two glared then backed away, before launching themselves at each other. Rei only saw the two waving their hands timidly at each other but Hiei ended it suddenly by sinking his fangs into Jin's hands. Jin's eyes popped and he started to bawl.
"WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he bawled at the top of his lungs, making Rei's sensitive ears throb in agony. She slapped a hand over his mouth, then punched Hiei upside the head to shut him up. She lifted them both up and set them on her shoulders and they settled themselves, still shooting daggers at each other.
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Youko toddled through the garden in a daze. All these roses, trees and shrubs... He thought he must have died and gone to Reikai-youkai- special-kitusne-area-heaven. He stopped and plucked a rose from a bush. He glanced up, an evil gleam in his large eyes.
Liei slipped out the door, none of the Chibis following, to her absolute astonishment. It was nearly dusk, and Rei had come downstairs an hour ago with Jin, his hands wrapped in bandages, and Hiei, massaging a large black spot on his cheek, on her shoulders, smiling despite the fact she was wearing pink fuzzy earmuffs. She needed to find Youko before the sun went down. It was dangerously close to setting now and she didn't want the little kitsune discovering what he could do if the full moon was up.
Liei ambled down the front steps, glancing occasionally toward the under brush in the forest for a splash of white. She sighed and continued down toward the garden when she froze. She'd found Youko all right, but he seemed to have tested his youki on her precious plants. There were roses winding about the garden, looking for an unfortunate mouse to stumble across their creeper's paths.
The previously peaceful sakura trees were now snapping like Venus fly traps at bugs, and the rest of the garden looked like a tornado had come through. There was Youko, sleeping peacefully in the middle of the destruction, clutching an unaltered rose to his chest. Liei felt her anger bubbling up. To heck if he was just a little kid! He was officially dead now!
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Rei looked up from the couch and the frolicking Chibis playing with the tennis ball they'd fished out of her sneaker, nearly losing two of their troops in the process because of the smell, even through clothes pins. Youko had just catapulted through the door and looked horrified. He leapt at Rei and hid his self behind her. He was shivering uncontrollably and Rei rubbed his ears, trying to hold her homicidal instinct back for later. He relaxed and quieted his sniffles. Then Liei burst through the door.
Even Rei was scared. Liei looked more homicidal than she had ever looked for as long as Rei could remember, which was a heck of a long time. She searched the room and saw Youko cowering behind Rei. Rei caught that glare and almost heard the words it shrieked. That fox is as good AS DEAD.
Youko eeped and ran out of the room, along with the entire pack of Chibis. Liei calmed down about 30 minutes later after she'd plopped into a squishy armchair and stared at the wall intensely. Rei was about to question why Liei was so angry when she heard a crash from the storage room next door. She leapt up, holding Liei back as she raced through the door. Now she understood Liei's anger toward Youko, but she felt it toward a short, black haired boy.
Liei gazed at the hole she'd noticed in the wall. There was a tennis ball stuck there, and she had a feeling she didn't want to know how it'd gotten stuck there in the first place. Hiei came out of the storage room door as a black blur and dove behind Liei. Rei crashed through the door and tore Hiei out from behind her silver haired friend. She held him up by his collar, giving him her worst death glare ever.
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Outside, the sun was sinking below the horizon and a strange brown haired youkai chuckled at the scene in the crystal ball before him. Rei had been chained down to a chair, and he could tell Liei was trying desperately not to set the little Youko on fire. He leant back, his handsome face illuminated by the dying sunlight.
He looked down again and saw the Chibis were standing well away from the two pissed off girls. They looked as if they would kill the first thing that came within 10 feet of them. He waved his hand over the crystal and it glowed purple in response, the opposite of the hot pink it had turned earlier. His fun was over... for now.
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The Chibis had huddled into a corner when a peculiar purple light enveloped them. Liei and Rei happened to set the chains binding them to their seats on fire, but remained there, only brushing off the ashes. The Chibis were now staggering away from each other, their heads feeling they were about to explode from the pressure filling their tiny bodies. Then as quickly as it started, it was over and they stood back to normal in the corner, not remembering a thing that had happened. Thankfully, Youko and Kurama had become one person again, so Liei didn't have to put up with two grown up kitsunes around the house.
The now fully grown Hiei and Youko glanced over at the two girls, who had steam rising off their heads in pent up anger and frustration. Jin was staring at the bandages in confusion, and Hiei had resumed rubbing his bruise from Rei's fist. Youko spied Liei's aura and saw that it was filled with loathing over something. Hiei happened to see Youko gazing at Liei in shock and decided to check out Rei's aura. He found hers was no better, but twenty times worse then Liei's.
The two curious youkai walked in front of the two girls, and found themselves faced with awful death glares. Soon the rest of the group were standing behind them, wincing if either Rei or Liei's eyes made contact with them. Youko and Hiei finally worked up enormous amounts of courage and reached toward their wife, Youko to Liei and Hiei to Rei. The two girls stood and the two boys noticed the flames dancing along their Kokoryuu- haa's. Youko, Hiei and the others backed away as the black flames grew brighter.
"If you take one step closer we fry ALL of you to freakin' crisps!" the two yelled, their hands clenching into fists almost at the same exact moment. Yusuke looked over at Youko and Hiei, who had backed away warily.
"DAAAAAAAAAANG! You guys must' ve really ticked them off!"
End.
I felt like doing something funny, so here it is. I wanted to do something to torture my friend and I's chara, but it ended up a tad too long. Jin Translations (for where ever I use his Irishness)
Ok, because I had somebody ask me to do this, I'll now post translations for whatever Jin says if it's absolutely incomprehensible. Numbers in the story next to Jin's talking tell you to find this at the end and use it.
1) I got Rei's shoulder! Ha! Told ya so Hiei!
