Vash the stampede from Trigun makes a short appearance in this chapter!
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About a week after starting school, Shadow and Hiei have gotten used to it, they know their way around, they know most of the kids, and most of the kids (especially Kurama's fan girls) know them. Most of the kids don't like Hiei much because he is rude and evil and everything, so it's no surprise they don't like him. He purposely makes himself seem even more evil to keep people away from him. Shadow just hangs out with Kurama or Hiei all the time and avoids talking to people because she thinks they're stupid.
Hiei and Shadow were in phys. ed. class (one of the few classes that those two didn't have with Kurama. When Shadow asked why Hiei hadn't messed with the principal's mind to get them into his gym class, Hiei said, "I don't need to see Kurama in the whole gym uniform thing." That was a good enough excuse for Shadow and she left him alone.). When they walked in, the teacher started talking.
"Okay, class, today we are going to be swimming. You should all go to your locker rooms and change into your swim suits," she said. Shadow and Hiei exchanged glances.
"No, I am not going to swim," Shadow said. Hiei nodded, and as the rest of the class went to the changing rooms, Hiei and Shadow just leaned against the wall and watched. When the teacher noticed them a couple minutes later when she led the class back into the gymnasium, she instantly walked over and stood in front of them, looking furious.
"Minamino! Both of you!" she yelled, calling them by their adopted last name. "Why aren't you changed?!" Both of them closed their eyes and ignored her. "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!" she screamed. The students all gathered to watch her scream her lungs out.
"We're listening," Shadow said airily.
"YOU BETTER BE! NOW GO CHANGE OR YOU GET A ZERO FOR THIS PERIOD!!!"
When neither of them moved, the woman pulled out her gradebook and scribbled down two zeroes, then walked back to the class, hoping that the two of them would come back and beg her to erase the zeroes, but neither of them did, which made the lady have an even worse day than she already was having.
Hiei and Shadow were very pleased with themselves and neither of them cared the least bit about having a big zero beside their name in Miss Witch- lady's grades.
Miss Witch-lady was the nickname Shadow had given the teacher after Hiei had been yelled at for doing less than 200 push-ups. The old bat had seen Hiei's muscles (he was wearing sleevless) and decided that he should have been able to do at least 200 in five minutes, but he purposely held himself back and only did 190. The old lady yelled at him and gave him a B for that class. He showed her up really good because when they had to run laps around a quarter mile track, he did 25 in twenty minutes (without even being out of breath at the end), Shadow did 14, and everybody else came in someplace around 6. Miss Witch-lady wasn't very happy about that...
After gym class, Shadow and Hiei were walking in to their next class when a huge mob of people blocked the hall. After getting over the initial annoyance of having the hall blocked, Hiei realized that it was most of his gym class, and they all looked very angry.
"Why didn't you two swim?" one girl asked.
"Move your sorry carcasses out of my way," Hiei snapped, glaring at the girl with his blood red eyes. She looked at him in a preppy mad/disgusted/stuck-up way.
"Why do you have red eyes?" she asked.
"Contacts," Hiei lied.
"Take them out," the girl said.
"No."
"She has red eyes too!" a boy said, pointing at Shadow.
"What's with you two? You're a couple of freaks if you ask me," the girl said.
"We are freaks. We have intelligence way above your comprehension, obviously, since you can't seem to realize that your mindless insults aren't insulting. When you think of something more clever, come back. But until then..."
"GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY!!!" Shadow finished for him. Hiei flinched at how loud she screamed, hoping that some teacher would notice and come out to clear the hall. Unfortunately, nobody came and the preps continued standing, still trying to figure out what Hiei had said.
"You obviously don't comprehend English very well," Shadow said. "Maybe you'd understand pain a little better, lousy---"
"Don't," Hiei said.
"Huh?!" Shadow said, looking at Hiei like he was nuts. The preps stared at Hiei too, wanting to know why he had stopped her from punching them out.
"If you hurt any humans, first you'll be suspended from school, which doesn't hurt you any, but if you hurt these stupid humans, you'll get in trouble with Koenma. Remember? That's why I was---" Hiei glared at the preps suddenly, who were straining to hear what he was whispering to Shadow. "Do you MIND?"
The girl who seemed to be their leader got a really snotty look on her face like Hiei and Shadow were a couple slimey creatures that were only suited to live under a rock, then she walked into the nearest classroom. Her mob split up and went into the closest rooms just as the late bell rang. Hiei and Shadow had their next class three floors up.
"Crap!!!" Shadow and Hiei said at the same time, starting a mad rush up the stairs. They took the stairs two at a time and ran down the hall, making incredible amounts of noise on the hard floor. A few teachers who had their doors open slammed them shut and walked back to their desk, muttering about "insane hoodlum children who can't tell time and have no consideration for any other human beings."
Kurama watched his friends/adopted siblings (although he still couldn't make himself think of Hiei as his brother) run by the door. He smiled to himself, for some reason finding it amusing to see them freaked out over being late. He stopped smiling a moment later when he realized how much complaining they would be doing, since their next teacher was a hag who gave detention for being .00000000000000000000000001 seconds late for class. Instead, Kurama crossed his arms on his desk and rested his head on his arms, preparing his mind to be overloaded with "Goddamn old hag gave us detention. I should just drop out of this stupid school."
Hiei hit his 'brakes' and slid for almost ten feet, stopping perfectly outside his next class and catching Shadow's wrist as she skidded past him in a not-so-perfect slide. They weren't lucky, because the teacher was in the room. They walked in and were promptly accused of being lousy students and they got detention for the next day, because their teacher was an evil old hag who carried around a ruler to slap on kids' desks when they looked in any direction except the direction the teacher was in.
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"That slimey old hag gave us detention!" Hiei said.
"It's not the first time," Kurama said.
"Yes it is."
"Oh. Well in that case it's probably not the last time," Kurama said, sounding confused.
"School sucks. I don't see why I told Shadow not to kill all those preps who were blocking the hall... Then maybe we wouldn't have detention," Hiei said absently. Shadow punched him in the head.
"Idiot! If I had knocked all those preps out then I would be in jail which is a heck of a lot worse than stupid detention," Shadow said.
"Whatever," Hiei muttered, rubbing his head. He narrowly dodged Shadow's next hit and quickly walked around so that Kurama was between himself and Shadow.
"Children! Stop arguing!" Kurama ordered as they walked into his yard. When they went through the door, Kurama's mother was sitting at the kitchen table and she greeted them cheerfully. She was still getting used to having three teenagers living in her house instead of her one son, who half the time seemed like he wasn't even there since he was so quiet and peaceful all the time. Now she had Shadow and Hiei, who were constantly nagging at each other about everything under the sun, living in her house.
"Hello, mother," Kurama said, sitting down beside her. Hiei and Shadow went into the living room and started doing their homework while Kurama sat and talked to his mother. Shadow and Hiei couldn't hear what they were saying, although Shadow was trying (and getting abused by Hiei for being nosy...). A few minutes later Kurama stood up and went to his room. Shadow decided that they must not have been talking about anything too important or worth listening in on and she went back to doing her homework.
"Hey Shadow, whatever happened to your extra sensory hearing? Hmm?" Hiei asked sneakily. "How come you couldn't hear that, which was only a little ways away, but you say you could hear Yusuke and us talking when we were across the street before. Were you lying?"
"Yes."
"I knew it! Then how did... Never mind, that was stupid. My mind isn't with me right now. I was going to ask how you knew about the demon girl... But I forgot that you are her..." Hiei said, more to himself than Shadow.
"Idiot," Shadow said under her breath. Hiei punched her in the head.
"Don't call me names, missy!"
"Ouch... I already did," she said, ducking to avoid Hiei's fist. He went off-balance and flipped right over Shadow.
Shiori heard a thud when Hiei hit the ground and walked into the living room. "Are you two okay?" she asked, looking between Hiei, who was lying on the ground on his back with swirly eyes, to Shadow, who was staring at Hiei with a little halo over her head.
"We're fine!" Shadow said cheerfully, ignoring Hiei's moan as he sat up, rubbing his head. Shiori looked at them uncertainly for a minute before walking back into the kitchen to make dinner. The second she was gone, Hiei glared at Shadow.
"We're fine?!"
"I am," Shadow said, going back to her homework. She started punching in some numbers on her calculater and didn't notice Hiei, who was staring at her with an evil glint in his eye. She glanced at him and stuck out her tongue, then when back to ignoring him. A second later, Hiei pounced on her and started strangling her.
They were still rolling around killing each other (not literally killing. Just... strangling) a few minutes later when Kurama walked down the stairs and into the living room.
"Agh!!! You people!!!" Kurama yelped, running over and pulling Hiei off Shadow by his collar. Hiei was struggling insanely, so Kurama didn't let him go. Instead, he held him up to his eye level, still holding him by the collar of his shirt, and glared at him. Hiei stopped struggling and hung there like a little innocent puppy dog, giving Kurama cute innocent puppy dog eyes.
"Hi?" Hiei asked cautiously.
"No fighting," Kurama said. He carried Hiei into the kitchen and dropped him into one of the chairs, then he went and got his books and put them in front of him. "You do your homework here. Shadow will do her homework in there, and neither of you will have any problems. Okay?"
Hiei muttered under his breath about Kurama being an idiot, but after he glanced into the living room and saw that Shadow was still lying on the ground, he happily went back to doing his homework.
"Thank you, Shuuichi," Shiori said as Kurama walked by, of course referring to breaking up the whole Hiei/Shadow fight. Kurama nodded and walked back towards the stairs, noticing on the way that Shadow was still on the floor. He went over and poked her in the ribs. Shadow sat up so quickly that she hit her head off of Kurama's, knocking him backwards.
Kurama and Shadow sat for a second, rubbing where their heads hit off each other, until they head laughter and looked up to see Hiei, laughing evilly to himself and watching them.
"Go to your room!" Kurama snapped, pointing at the stairs. All three of them blinked, realizing how stupid and motherly that sounded, before they all started laughing (even Kurama).
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Eventually, they all stopped fighting and managed to get their homework done. Kurama got his homework done before all the fighting even started...
The next day, Shadow and Hiei reported to detention like good little boys and girls... They sat there for hours doing their work or whatever the teacher told them to do. When Hiei talked back to the teacher, he got after school detention as well. Shadow was lucky because the teacher only punished Hiei for it, so when she was dismissed, Shadow met Kurama outside the school.
"Where's Hiei?" Kurama asked, looking around. Then he looked annoyed. "Did he do something to get after school too?"
"Yeah. He shot off his stupid mouth to the teacher when she told him that he did something or other wrong..." Shadow said.
"Great. Well let's go," Kurama said, walking away. Shadow caught up with him and they walked home.
When they walked in the door, Shiori looked at them curiously.
"Where's Hiei?" she asked.
"Detention," Kurama said miserably.
"Oh..." Shiori looked a little surprised.
Since Hiei wasn't there to distract her, Shadow got her homework done in less than two hours! Yay! Kurama walked back to school about half an hour before Hiei was due to get out of his detention, so, since she was done with her homework, Shadow went with him.
When Hiei walked out of the front doors of the school, he stopped dead and stared at Kurama and Shadow. Kurama was leaning on the wall the surrounded the school with his eyes closed, and Shadow was sitting on top of it. Hiei vanished and reappeared beside Shadow a split second later, surprising her so badly that she fell over backwards, right off the wall. Hiei looked down and saw her lying flat on her face on the ground. He shrugged and ignored her.
"You came to get me, huh?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah. Dunno why. How did detention go?" Kurama said, falling into step beside Hiei. They left Shadow lying on the ground. How evil.
"Don't even ask about that. That evil old bat had me doing college work about human history. Like I care about human history!!!" Hiei said. He suddenly spun around and put his finger right on Shadow's forehead as she snuck up behind him. "Ha ha, I caught you."
"Shut up!" Shadow said. "Of course you caught me! I, er... let you!"
"Pah! Yeah right," Hiei muttered, walking away.
Shadow walked beside him, poking him and doing various other annoying things until suddenly out of nowhere, some dude in a red coat with spikey blonde hair and freaky round, yellow sunglasses pulled out a gun and pointed it at Hiei, screaming, "YOU KILLED ALL THE PEOPLE!!! THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!! YOU KILLED THEM!!!"
Hiei, of course, had no idea what this fruit cake was talking about, and he was pretty freaked out to have some guy twice his height who he had never met before, pull a gun on him in the middle of the street and accuse him of killing all the people.
The blonde guy sighed and put his gun but in it's holster, smiling. "I feel better now! You know, you just have to let out your anger sometimes. Sorry about that," the guy said, and he walked past them down the street, whistling happily. Hiei, Kurama, and Shadow were all very, very confused about that whole thing and they just stared at the guy's back until he turned a corner. Luckily, the streets were almost completely deserted since it was starting to get dark already, so nobody saw that little show...
Hiei and his two friends were just getting over that and starting to walk towards Kurama's house again when the dude in the red coat came running back towards them, screaming like a lunatic.
"WHYYYYYYYYY MEEEEEEEEEE??? I NEVER DO ANYTHING, I'M INNOCENT!!!" he screamed. He ran straight by them, and two seconds later a gang of angry people with various guns and crobars and other weapons came by.
"And I thought I had problems..." Shadow muttered. After getting over the shock of having a lunatic with spiked blonde hair pull a gun on them, then walk away whistling happily only to come back screaming being chased by an angry mob, Shadow, Hiei, and Kurama all continued back home, none of them saying anything because they were still in shock.
"Hello, Hiei," Shiori said when the three of them got back to Kurama's house.
"Hello," Hiei said. Luckily, since he had been in detention, he didn't have any homework, since he had gotten incredibly bored with history and he had snuck in his homework while the old bat who had been watching him fell asleep. So he went straight to his room, which, since he had moved into it, nobody except Hiei had been in.
Shadow followed him up to his room, but when he got to the door, he walking in and slammed it in her face (well, not really slammed it, because then Kurama would kill him for slamming doors. Ever since Hiei and Shadow moved in, Kurama had been eight thousand times more worried about his mother than usual. He probably thought that Hiei would mouth off to her or be a little twit and give her a heart attack or something...). Shadow stood there, staring at the door for a few minutes until Kurama came up.
"What are you doing?" Kurama asked.
"I dunno. What does it look like I'm doing?" Shadow said, finally taking her eyes off Hiei's door to look at Kurama.
"It looks like you're staring at Hiei's door. Why are you staring at Hiei's door?" Kurama asked. Just then, Hiei opened the door a bit and peeked out.
"Really. Why are you staring at my door?"
"Why can't anybody come in your room, Hiei?" Shadow asked.
"Don't answer a question with a question. Why were you staring at my door?"
"Cuz I wanna see inside your room. Nobody has gone in there since it became yours. Did you trash it?"
"No."
"Is it a total mess like a tornado went through it?"
"No."
"Did you catch something on fire and burn the inside to nothingness?"
"No."
"Are your dirty clothes strewn all over the floor?"
"Nope."
"Did you decorate the walls with strange symbols that mean bad things?"
"Huh-uh."
"Have you got pictures of things that you shouldn't pasted up all over the walls?"
"No."
"Is there something else wrong with it? Is it unsafe in any way?"
"No."
"Are you ever going to say yes?"
"No."
"May I go away?"
"..."
"Well?"
"Shoot..."
"You can't answer that, can you?! Cuz you said you can't say yes, so now you can't say yes that I may leave, so I can just stand here all day and ask you questions until you let me in!"
"Hn..." Hiei closed the door in her face.
"Hey!?"
"Okay, you've annoyed Hiei enough for today. Come on," Kurama said, grabbing Shadow by her wrist and dragging her down the hall to her own room, which she hadn't decorated much at all. Kurama dragged her inside, let go of her wrist, then he left, closing the door behind him, and he went to his own room.
Shadow sat down on her bed and started thinking about how she could get herself into Hiei's room and what he might have in there. The first place her mind went was that Hiei had something gross in his room. She pictured herself kicking down Hiei's bedroom door and seeing him putting up Playboy posters on his walls. She instantly punched herself in the head because that was way to disgusting and she didn't want to think about Hiei like that. So she wiped that image from her mind instantly and began thinking of how and when she would sneak into Hiei's room, hoping that he wasn't reading her mind at the moment.
That night, Shadow got up and walked down the hall to Hiei's room. It was almost 2:00 in the morning, so she figured he had to be asleep. She turned the handle as quietly as she could, but it was locked. She had figured it was, and she knelt down to pick the lock with the piece of wire that used to be a paper clip that she had had in her pocket. After a minute, she heard the lock click and she pushed the door open. The curtain, and the window, in Hiei's room were open, so there was enough light for Shadow to see by. She looked at the bed and saw that Hiei wasn't in it. She froze and looked around. He wasn't in his room. She walked around to the other side of the bed and found him lying on the floor asleep, wearing nothing but a pair of jeans. She stared at him for a second to see if he was going to wake up, and when he didn't, Shadow started exploring his room. She found nothing perverted like she had first thought. All she found lying on the floor was the bandana that was usually over his Jagan eye and his shirt. Everything else was orderly and neat. His katana was lying on his bed.
'What? He'll give up his bed for the sword? God, he's got problems...' Shadow thought. 'Gah! What was that?' She turned around to look at the door, which she had left open, but there was nobody in the hallway. She turned back around and almost screamed, because Hiei was standing in front of the window. All she could see was his silhouette and all three of his eyes glowing either red or purple.
"Shadow?" Hiei said politely. The polite hint in his voice was just a way to hide his anger and evil thoughts and threats and murder plans and everything else that was flying around in his head.
Shadow stood still, unaware that her silhouette against the door was very obvious, just like Hiei's was against the window. She was being very stupid, thinking that she could hide from him by standing still, because even without her obvious silhouette, demons have way better eyesight in the dark than humans do, and being half demon herself she sould have known that.
"Shadow? What the hell are you doing in my room?" Hiei asked.
"Oh, is this your room? Heh... Um... I was just walking around and I guess I mistook this room for my own! I'll just be going, then," Shadow said nervously, and she turned around to run. Hiei shot over and grabbed her ponytail, almost knocking her over.
"Liar. You better never come in my room when I'm sleeping again, because if you do, you'll lose your head. Understand?" Hiei threatened.
"Why do you sleep on the floor?" Shadow asked, completely unaffected by Hiei's threat.
Hiei growled and pushed Shadow out into the hallway, closing and locking the door behind her.
'That went well...' Shadow thought sarcastically as she went back to her room. 'At least he didn't kill me.'
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About a week after starting school, Shadow and Hiei have gotten used to it, they know their way around, they know most of the kids, and most of the kids (especially Kurama's fan girls) know them. Most of the kids don't like Hiei much because he is rude and evil and everything, so it's no surprise they don't like him. He purposely makes himself seem even more evil to keep people away from him. Shadow just hangs out with Kurama or Hiei all the time and avoids talking to people because she thinks they're stupid.
Hiei and Shadow were in phys. ed. class (one of the few classes that those two didn't have with Kurama. When Shadow asked why Hiei hadn't messed with the principal's mind to get them into his gym class, Hiei said, "I don't need to see Kurama in the whole gym uniform thing." That was a good enough excuse for Shadow and she left him alone.). When they walked in, the teacher started talking.
"Okay, class, today we are going to be swimming. You should all go to your locker rooms and change into your swim suits," she said. Shadow and Hiei exchanged glances.
"No, I am not going to swim," Shadow said. Hiei nodded, and as the rest of the class went to the changing rooms, Hiei and Shadow just leaned against the wall and watched. When the teacher noticed them a couple minutes later when she led the class back into the gymnasium, she instantly walked over and stood in front of them, looking furious.
"Minamino! Both of you!" she yelled, calling them by their adopted last name. "Why aren't you changed?!" Both of them closed their eyes and ignored her. "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!" she screamed. The students all gathered to watch her scream her lungs out.
"We're listening," Shadow said airily.
"YOU BETTER BE! NOW GO CHANGE OR YOU GET A ZERO FOR THIS PERIOD!!!"
When neither of them moved, the woman pulled out her gradebook and scribbled down two zeroes, then walked back to the class, hoping that the two of them would come back and beg her to erase the zeroes, but neither of them did, which made the lady have an even worse day than she already was having.
Hiei and Shadow were very pleased with themselves and neither of them cared the least bit about having a big zero beside their name in Miss Witch- lady's grades.
Miss Witch-lady was the nickname Shadow had given the teacher after Hiei had been yelled at for doing less than 200 push-ups. The old bat had seen Hiei's muscles (he was wearing sleevless) and decided that he should have been able to do at least 200 in five minutes, but he purposely held himself back and only did 190. The old lady yelled at him and gave him a B for that class. He showed her up really good because when they had to run laps around a quarter mile track, he did 25 in twenty minutes (without even being out of breath at the end), Shadow did 14, and everybody else came in someplace around 6. Miss Witch-lady wasn't very happy about that...
After gym class, Shadow and Hiei were walking in to their next class when a huge mob of people blocked the hall. After getting over the initial annoyance of having the hall blocked, Hiei realized that it was most of his gym class, and they all looked very angry.
"Why didn't you two swim?" one girl asked.
"Move your sorry carcasses out of my way," Hiei snapped, glaring at the girl with his blood red eyes. She looked at him in a preppy mad/disgusted/stuck-up way.
"Why do you have red eyes?" she asked.
"Contacts," Hiei lied.
"Take them out," the girl said.
"No."
"She has red eyes too!" a boy said, pointing at Shadow.
"What's with you two? You're a couple of freaks if you ask me," the girl said.
"We are freaks. We have intelligence way above your comprehension, obviously, since you can't seem to realize that your mindless insults aren't insulting. When you think of something more clever, come back. But until then..."
"GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY!!!" Shadow finished for him. Hiei flinched at how loud she screamed, hoping that some teacher would notice and come out to clear the hall. Unfortunately, nobody came and the preps continued standing, still trying to figure out what Hiei had said.
"You obviously don't comprehend English very well," Shadow said. "Maybe you'd understand pain a little better, lousy---"
"Don't," Hiei said.
"Huh?!" Shadow said, looking at Hiei like he was nuts. The preps stared at Hiei too, wanting to know why he had stopped her from punching them out.
"If you hurt any humans, first you'll be suspended from school, which doesn't hurt you any, but if you hurt these stupid humans, you'll get in trouble with Koenma. Remember? That's why I was---" Hiei glared at the preps suddenly, who were straining to hear what he was whispering to Shadow. "Do you MIND?"
The girl who seemed to be their leader got a really snotty look on her face like Hiei and Shadow were a couple slimey creatures that were only suited to live under a rock, then she walked into the nearest classroom. Her mob split up and went into the closest rooms just as the late bell rang. Hiei and Shadow had their next class three floors up.
"Crap!!!" Shadow and Hiei said at the same time, starting a mad rush up the stairs. They took the stairs two at a time and ran down the hall, making incredible amounts of noise on the hard floor. A few teachers who had their doors open slammed them shut and walked back to their desk, muttering about "insane hoodlum children who can't tell time and have no consideration for any other human beings."
Kurama watched his friends/adopted siblings (although he still couldn't make himself think of Hiei as his brother) run by the door. He smiled to himself, for some reason finding it amusing to see them freaked out over being late. He stopped smiling a moment later when he realized how much complaining they would be doing, since their next teacher was a hag who gave detention for being .00000000000000000000000001 seconds late for class. Instead, Kurama crossed his arms on his desk and rested his head on his arms, preparing his mind to be overloaded with "Goddamn old hag gave us detention. I should just drop out of this stupid school."
Hiei hit his 'brakes' and slid for almost ten feet, stopping perfectly outside his next class and catching Shadow's wrist as she skidded past him in a not-so-perfect slide. They weren't lucky, because the teacher was in the room. They walked in and were promptly accused of being lousy students and they got detention for the next day, because their teacher was an evil old hag who carried around a ruler to slap on kids' desks when they looked in any direction except the direction the teacher was in.
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"That slimey old hag gave us detention!" Hiei said.
"It's not the first time," Kurama said.
"Yes it is."
"Oh. Well in that case it's probably not the last time," Kurama said, sounding confused.
"School sucks. I don't see why I told Shadow not to kill all those preps who were blocking the hall... Then maybe we wouldn't have detention," Hiei said absently. Shadow punched him in the head.
"Idiot! If I had knocked all those preps out then I would be in jail which is a heck of a lot worse than stupid detention," Shadow said.
"Whatever," Hiei muttered, rubbing his head. He narrowly dodged Shadow's next hit and quickly walked around so that Kurama was between himself and Shadow.
"Children! Stop arguing!" Kurama ordered as they walked into his yard. When they went through the door, Kurama's mother was sitting at the kitchen table and she greeted them cheerfully. She was still getting used to having three teenagers living in her house instead of her one son, who half the time seemed like he wasn't even there since he was so quiet and peaceful all the time. Now she had Shadow and Hiei, who were constantly nagging at each other about everything under the sun, living in her house.
"Hello, mother," Kurama said, sitting down beside her. Hiei and Shadow went into the living room and started doing their homework while Kurama sat and talked to his mother. Shadow and Hiei couldn't hear what they were saying, although Shadow was trying (and getting abused by Hiei for being nosy...). A few minutes later Kurama stood up and went to his room. Shadow decided that they must not have been talking about anything too important or worth listening in on and she went back to doing her homework.
"Hey Shadow, whatever happened to your extra sensory hearing? Hmm?" Hiei asked sneakily. "How come you couldn't hear that, which was only a little ways away, but you say you could hear Yusuke and us talking when we were across the street before. Were you lying?"
"Yes."
"I knew it! Then how did... Never mind, that was stupid. My mind isn't with me right now. I was going to ask how you knew about the demon girl... But I forgot that you are her..." Hiei said, more to himself than Shadow.
"Idiot," Shadow said under her breath. Hiei punched her in the head.
"Don't call me names, missy!"
"Ouch... I already did," she said, ducking to avoid Hiei's fist. He went off-balance and flipped right over Shadow.
Shiori heard a thud when Hiei hit the ground and walked into the living room. "Are you two okay?" she asked, looking between Hiei, who was lying on the ground on his back with swirly eyes, to Shadow, who was staring at Hiei with a little halo over her head.
"We're fine!" Shadow said cheerfully, ignoring Hiei's moan as he sat up, rubbing his head. Shiori looked at them uncertainly for a minute before walking back into the kitchen to make dinner. The second she was gone, Hiei glared at Shadow.
"We're fine?!"
"I am," Shadow said, going back to her homework. She started punching in some numbers on her calculater and didn't notice Hiei, who was staring at her with an evil glint in his eye. She glanced at him and stuck out her tongue, then when back to ignoring him. A second later, Hiei pounced on her and started strangling her.
They were still rolling around killing each other (not literally killing. Just... strangling) a few minutes later when Kurama walked down the stairs and into the living room.
"Agh!!! You people!!!" Kurama yelped, running over and pulling Hiei off Shadow by his collar. Hiei was struggling insanely, so Kurama didn't let him go. Instead, he held him up to his eye level, still holding him by the collar of his shirt, and glared at him. Hiei stopped struggling and hung there like a little innocent puppy dog, giving Kurama cute innocent puppy dog eyes.
"Hi?" Hiei asked cautiously.
"No fighting," Kurama said. He carried Hiei into the kitchen and dropped him into one of the chairs, then he went and got his books and put them in front of him. "You do your homework here. Shadow will do her homework in there, and neither of you will have any problems. Okay?"
Hiei muttered under his breath about Kurama being an idiot, but after he glanced into the living room and saw that Shadow was still lying on the ground, he happily went back to doing his homework.
"Thank you, Shuuichi," Shiori said as Kurama walked by, of course referring to breaking up the whole Hiei/Shadow fight. Kurama nodded and walked back towards the stairs, noticing on the way that Shadow was still on the floor. He went over and poked her in the ribs. Shadow sat up so quickly that she hit her head off of Kurama's, knocking him backwards.
Kurama and Shadow sat for a second, rubbing where their heads hit off each other, until they head laughter and looked up to see Hiei, laughing evilly to himself and watching them.
"Go to your room!" Kurama snapped, pointing at the stairs. All three of them blinked, realizing how stupid and motherly that sounded, before they all started laughing (even Kurama).
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Eventually, they all stopped fighting and managed to get their homework done. Kurama got his homework done before all the fighting even started...
The next day, Shadow and Hiei reported to detention like good little boys and girls... They sat there for hours doing their work or whatever the teacher told them to do. When Hiei talked back to the teacher, he got after school detention as well. Shadow was lucky because the teacher only punished Hiei for it, so when she was dismissed, Shadow met Kurama outside the school.
"Where's Hiei?" Kurama asked, looking around. Then he looked annoyed. "Did he do something to get after school too?"
"Yeah. He shot off his stupid mouth to the teacher when she told him that he did something or other wrong..." Shadow said.
"Great. Well let's go," Kurama said, walking away. Shadow caught up with him and they walked home.
When they walked in the door, Shiori looked at them curiously.
"Where's Hiei?" she asked.
"Detention," Kurama said miserably.
"Oh..." Shiori looked a little surprised.
Since Hiei wasn't there to distract her, Shadow got her homework done in less than two hours! Yay! Kurama walked back to school about half an hour before Hiei was due to get out of his detention, so, since she was done with her homework, Shadow went with him.
When Hiei walked out of the front doors of the school, he stopped dead and stared at Kurama and Shadow. Kurama was leaning on the wall the surrounded the school with his eyes closed, and Shadow was sitting on top of it. Hiei vanished and reappeared beside Shadow a split second later, surprising her so badly that she fell over backwards, right off the wall. Hiei looked down and saw her lying flat on her face on the ground. He shrugged and ignored her.
"You came to get me, huh?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah. Dunno why. How did detention go?" Kurama said, falling into step beside Hiei. They left Shadow lying on the ground. How evil.
"Don't even ask about that. That evil old bat had me doing college work about human history. Like I care about human history!!!" Hiei said. He suddenly spun around and put his finger right on Shadow's forehead as she snuck up behind him. "Ha ha, I caught you."
"Shut up!" Shadow said. "Of course you caught me! I, er... let you!"
"Pah! Yeah right," Hiei muttered, walking away.
Shadow walked beside him, poking him and doing various other annoying things until suddenly out of nowhere, some dude in a red coat with spikey blonde hair and freaky round, yellow sunglasses pulled out a gun and pointed it at Hiei, screaming, "YOU KILLED ALL THE PEOPLE!!! THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!! YOU KILLED THEM!!!"
Hiei, of course, had no idea what this fruit cake was talking about, and he was pretty freaked out to have some guy twice his height who he had never met before, pull a gun on him in the middle of the street and accuse him of killing all the people.
The blonde guy sighed and put his gun but in it's holster, smiling. "I feel better now! You know, you just have to let out your anger sometimes. Sorry about that," the guy said, and he walked past them down the street, whistling happily. Hiei, Kurama, and Shadow were all very, very confused about that whole thing and they just stared at the guy's back until he turned a corner. Luckily, the streets were almost completely deserted since it was starting to get dark already, so nobody saw that little show...
Hiei and his two friends were just getting over that and starting to walk towards Kurama's house again when the dude in the red coat came running back towards them, screaming like a lunatic.
"WHYYYYYYYYY MEEEEEEEEEE??? I NEVER DO ANYTHING, I'M INNOCENT!!!" he screamed. He ran straight by them, and two seconds later a gang of angry people with various guns and crobars and other weapons came by.
"And I thought I had problems..." Shadow muttered. After getting over the shock of having a lunatic with spiked blonde hair pull a gun on them, then walk away whistling happily only to come back screaming being chased by an angry mob, Shadow, Hiei, and Kurama all continued back home, none of them saying anything because they were still in shock.
"Hello, Hiei," Shiori said when the three of them got back to Kurama's house.
"Hello," Hiei said. Luckily, since he had been in detention, he didn't have any homework, since he had gotten incredibly bored with history and he had snuck in his homework while the old bat who had been watching him fell asleep. So he went straight to his room, which, since he had moved into it, nobody except Hiei had been in.
Shadow followed him up to his room, but when he got to the door, he walking in and slammed it in her face (well, not really slammed it, because then Kurama would kill him for slamming doors. Ever since Hiei and Shadow moved in, Kurama had been eight thousand times more worried about his mother than usual. He probably thought that Hiei would mouth off to her or be a little twit and give her a heart attack or something...). Shadow stood there, staring at the door for a few minutes until Kurama came up.
"What are you doing?" Kurama asked.
"I dunno. What does it look like I'm doing?" Shadow said, finally taking her eyes off Hiei's door to look at Kurama.
"It looks like you're staring at Hiei's door. Why are you staring at Hiei's door?" Kurama asked. Just then, Hiei opened the door a bit and peeked out.
"Really. Why are you staring at my door?"
"Why can't anybody come in your room, Hiei?" Shadow asked.
"Don't answer a question with a question. Why were you staring at my door?"
"Cuz I wanna see inside your room. Nobody has gone in there since it became yours. Did you trash it?"
"No."
"Is it a total mess like a tornado went through it?"
"No."
"Did you catch something on fire and burn the inside to nothingness?"
"No."
"Are your dirty clothes strewn all over the floor?"
"Nope."
"Did you decorate the walls with strange symbols that mean bad things?"
"Huh-uh."
"Have you got pictures of things that you shouldn't pasted up all over the walls?"
"No."
"Is there something else wrong with it? Is it unsafe in any way?"
"No."
"Are you ever going to say yes?"
"No."
"May I go away?"
"..."
"Well?"
"Shoot..."
"You can't answer that, can you?! Cuz you said you can't say yes, so now you can't say yes that I may leave, so I can just stand here all day and ask you questions until you let me in!"
"Hn..." Hiei closed the door in her face.
"Hey!?"
"Okay, you've annoyed Hiei enough for today. Come on," Kurama said, grabbing Shadow by her wrist and dragging her down the hall to her own room, which she hadn't decorated much at all. Kurama dragged her inside, let go of her wrist, then he left, closing the door behind him, and he went to his own room.
Shadow sat down on her bed and started thinking about how she could get herself into Hiei's room and what he might have in there. The first place her mind went was that Hiei had something gross in his room. She pictured herself kicking down Hiei's bedroom door and seeing him putting up Playboy posters on his walls. She instantly punched herself in the head because that was way to disgusting and she didn't want to think about Hiei like that. So she wiped that image from her mind instantly and began thinking of how and when she would sneak into Hiei's room, hoping that he wasn't reading her mind at the moment.
That night, Shadow got up and walked down the hall to Hiei's room. It was almost 2:00 in the morning, so she figured he had to be asleep. She turned the handle as quietly as she could, but it was locked. She had figured it was, and she knelt down to pick the lock with the piece of wire that used to be a paper clip that she had had in her pocket. After a minute, she heard the lock click and she pushed the door open. The curtain, and the window, in Hiei's room were open, so there was enough light for Shadow to see by. She looked at the bed and saw that Hiei wasn't in it. She froze and looked around. He wasn't in his room. She walked around to the other side of the bed and found him lying on the floor asleep, wearing nothing but a pair of jeans. She stared at him for a second to see if he was going to wake up, and when he didn't, Shadow started exploring his room. She found nothing perverted like she had first thought. All she found lying on the floor was the bandana that was usually over his Jagan eye and his shirt. Everything else was orderly and neat. His katana was lying on his bed.
'What? He'll give up his bed for the sword? God, he's got problems...' Shadow thought. 'Gah! What was that?' She turned around to look at the door, which she had left open, but there was nobody in the hallway. She turned back around and almost screamed, because Hiei was standing in front of the window. All she could see was his silhouette and all three of his eyes glowing either red or purple.
"Shadow?" Hiei said politely. The polite hint in his voice was just a way to hide his anger and evil thoughts and threats and murder plans and everything else that was flying around in his head.
Shadow stood still, unaware that her silhouette against the door was very obvious, just like Hiei's was against the window. She was being very stupid, thinking that she could hide from him by standing still, because even without her obvious silhouette, demons have way better eyesight in the dark than humans do, and being half demon herself she sould have known that.
"Shadow? What the hell are you doing in my room?" Hiei asked.
"Oh, is this your room? Heh... Um... I was just walking around and I guess I mistook this room for my own! I'll just be going, then," Shadow said nervously, and she turned around to run. Hiei shot over and grabbed her ponytail, almost knocking her over.
"Liar. You better never come in my room when I'm sleeping again, because if you do, you'll lose your head. Understand?" Hiei threatened.
"Why do you sleep on the floor?" Shadow asked, completely unaffected by Hiei's threat.
Hiei growled and pushed Shadow out into the hallway, closing and locking the door behind her.
'That went well...' Shadow thought sarcastically as she went back to her room. 'At least he didn't kill me.'
