Ok, here's your long awaited chapter! Sorry for the wait! School sucks! Remember this and your life is complete.

Everyone: 0.0

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"Uh, I'm not really one too say..." Kurama stuttered.

"You've done nothing, is what you're trying to say, correct?" Touya said innocently while looking over at Kurama.

Toshandi kicked him, hard, under the table, which went unnoticed by everyone except for Touya, of course, who now had a throbbing pain on his shin.

"He's saved his own mother's life, almost killing himself in the process." said Hiei from the windowsill.

Evan immediately stood up and created spikes on his arm.

"Hey! You're the guy from the mall! He's with the Brotherhood, Professor!" Evan exclaimed.

"Leave, now." Toshandi said as she stood, sending a silent message through her eyes to the fire demon.

"Hn." was all he said before vanishing.

"Man, if all the Brotherhood could do that, we'd be in big trouble." Evan said as he sat down.

"How could he pass our security?" Scott asked.

Toshandi sat down, knowing most of the answers to the questions asked, but not saying them. She had questions of her own to find answers too. Why did Hiei come? Was there trouble in Spirit World? Demons lose in Japan? The crystal was traced to other sources? She could answer none of these questions.

Touya saw Toshandi deep in thought, but still absentmindedly eating her food. 'Human food. Digusting.' he thought. 'But at least it's better then Toshandi's cooking. You would think she would know how to cook rice, at least!' But soon his thoughts traveled from Toshandi's cooking to Hiei's appearance. Why would he come now? Would he turn him in? Should he leave? Go back to Japan?

Everyone seemed to have questions that had been connected toward Hiei's appearance, though some concerned the Brotherhood. It seemed only the black apparition would have the answers, and no one expected to meet him again, much less talk to him. Except three people, of course.

After dinner and tons of questions, Toshandi headed up toward her room, followed by Kurama. Touya had gotten caught by Jean, who wanted to learn more about Japan. Kitty had been trying to talk to Kurama, but the sly fox had somehow slipped away. Toshandi had left Touya on his own, too impatient to find the answers too these nagging questions in her head to notice Touya's pleading looks.

Just like expected, Hiei was on Toshandi's windowsill when she and Kurama entered.

"I see you still haven't turned in the ice apparition, fox." Hiei said.

"Just get to the point, Hiei. Why are you here?" Toshandi said, her impatience getting to her, in the mean time covering up for Kurama who could think of no excuse as to why he's following Toshandi's requests of keeping Touya out of Spirit Word's dungeons.

"Hn. Yusuke will be arriving in a few days. He wants you to have the crystal by then." he said, nodding his head at Toshandi.

"A few days? I can't track the crystal in a few days!" Toshandi cried.

"What crystal is this?" asked Touya as he came panting inside, seeming to have escaped from Jean at the moment.

"None of your concern, demon." Hiei snorted. He turned to Kurama. "I'll leave you to turn him in. Or I will. Dead." Hiei said. Suddenly the windowsill was empty.

"He's cockier then I remember." Touya snorted.

"He has reason." defended Kurama.

"Winning a few battles means nothing." Touya said.

"All right, all right, break it up, or I'll send both of you downstairs to fend for yourselves against Jean and Kitty." Toshandi threatened.

That made both of the demons close their mouths.

Toshandi smirked.

"Oh no, now she's going to torture us with them." Touya muttered.

Toshandi just stood there still smirking.

"Ok, Kurama, I think you should head back to Spirit World, and Touya you better just go." Toshandi finally said. "I have no where to go, you know." (Rhymes!) Touya said.

"Well you better go somewhere cause you can't stay here." Toshandi said.

"Why not?" Touya asked, very aware of Kurama's glare.

"Because I said so, and I know someone who may come in the night to slit your throat while your sleeping. Make that two." Toshandi said.

"Rogue and who?" Touya asked.

"That person will go un named, but now stop stalling and LEAVE!" Toshandi said.

"All right, all right." Touya said, and disappeared out the window.

"Who was the other person who would slit his throat?" Kurama asked as soon as he was sure Touya was gone.

"I know you're capable of it, or at least Youko is." Toshandi said, walking out onto the balcony.

"Me? Why would I do that?" Kurama asked following her.

"Because foxes are very possessive, are they not?" Toshandi turned around and asked him.

Kurama didn't answer out loud, which caused Toshandi to turn back and look out at the sunset.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" she asked him as she looked out across the land.

"Yes, you are." Kurama said and hugged her from behind.

"Where'd you pick that up, a book?" she asked sarcastically as he still held her.

Kurama didn't answer her, except to turn her around, and kiss her.

"I must leave now." he said, and leapt off the balcony and onto the ground.

*****

Later that night, Touya crept back onto the grounds of the Xavier Institute. It was the only place he could think of to return too, for he couldn't go back to Japan. But neither did he have money to stay anywhere else. Plus this is the only place Hiei probably wouldn't show up to decapitate him in his sleep.

Toshandi would discover him and turn him away if he showed up in her room. Normally, she would let him stay, but it seemed Kurama was over protective of her, for some small reason, so he would no longer be welcome. He would just stay in a room where a window was open.

Unfortunately, it was a chilly night, so only Toshandi's and the room below her's windows were open. (Do you remember who's room that is? ^^) He could not remember who's room that was, but he didn't really care, as long as it wasn't Wolverine's room, or Rogue's, for that matter. Rogue he couldn't stand, and Wolverine would shred him to pieces if he even stepped inside. He couldn't have that.

He jumped onto the windowsill, the second story not having a balcony like the third story rooms.

He looked inside to see that there was two beds in room, one empty. It looked like Kurama's fan, Kitty, was it? Was in one. The other was unoccupied. Maybe the roommate was gone to visit their parents or something, but he didn't much care as long as it was a free bed.

He got in the bed, and rolled to the farthest side that faced the wall. His plan was to get up early, so no one would notice him, wander the town, then come back here to talk to Toshandi. For he needed her help to get Jin out of jail, for two ice apparitions were stronger then one.

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Ok, for those of you who are wondering, Rogue WILL show up. Just be patient. Sorry for the long update, people. I was... er... busy.

Yusuke: That's just her excuse for saying she's too lazy to get off her but from reading, and write some of her own.

Ho: *glares* Let us proceed to the torture!

Yusuke: AHHHHH!

Torturing Yusuke

Ho: Ok, when we last left you, what happened, Arisa?

Arisa: Yusuke was taking Lisa-

Lisa: SHOPPING!

Yusuke: *groans*

Lisa: *jumping up and down*

Yusuke: But what if the guys see me in this?

Ho and Arisa: *burst out laughing*

Ho: Just to clear things up, Yusuke is wearing a knee length pink skirt, a purple tank top that has PRINCESS across it in pink letters, and pink sandals!

Arisa: *still laughing*

Yusuke: Let's get this over with. *heads out the door*

Arisa: Shouldn't we tell him...

Ho: Na.

*all three vanish and appear at the mall*

~~~15 minutes later~~~

Yusuke: Man! Almost all the guys I met I had to beat up for laughing at me! *looks around* hey, maybe I can ditch 'em here...

Ho: What took you so long?

Yusuke: HEY! How did you get here faster then me?

Lisa: YUSUKE! *glomps him*

Arisa: Ho transported us here with her authoress powers.

Yusuke: Why didn't you transport me?!

Ho: We thought you were having too much fun! *laughs*

Yusuke: Why you-

Ho: Time to shop, Lisa!

Lisa: YAY! *runs off pulling Yusuke behind her*

Yusuke: HELP ME!

Arisa and Ho: *laughing* Ho: Ok, next time, the REAL shopping. And Yusuke pays!

Yusuke: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Ho: Oh, and send me things Yusuke should wear or something!

The Hidden One