Shin'en no Ano Youkai Kokoro
by lieiavalon2044
(Summary: Hiei's running a bookstore, Kurama's a billionaire, Yusuke's a psycho taxi driver and Kuwabara's a pizza delivery guy. They all live lives with anything they could ever possibly want! Except for Hiei and Kurama, who want wives of their own. Yusuke and Kuwabara have wives, so why can't they?! Then, one day, two girls show up, wanting jobs from Hiei and Kurama. The two youkai quickly become attached to their new employees, while the girls can't help but be attracted to the youkai. Both boys carefully hide their true identities, but when the girls discover who they really are, what will happen to their growing relationships?)
The lake was silent, despite the four men sitting next to it, eating and talking, like they hadn't spoken in a very long time. Occasionally one would laugh, drawing the others into the laughter also. Laughing is sometimes very contagious, even to youkai, even if one is a dead serious kitsune while the other was once an assassin, both known widely through out the Makai. Not that the others weren't well known either, but the black haired one wearing a green outfit was definitely better known than the rest.
Hiei gave one of his rare smiles, even in these days when youkai rarely invaded and he was given an immense amount of time to relax. Of course, that may have been the reason that he smiled so rarely, because he simply had nothing to do but manage his shop and write horror stories. He was very good at writing horror stories, and all he had to do was remember a traumatic five minute excerpt of his life, write it, lengthen it, edit it (which was done free of charge by a close red-haired friend) and publish it. Right now, Kuwabara was telling a story of a particularly rude customer that had called for pizza, made him take it back three times, and then only paid for half the price of one pizza, saying he needed to get change and never came back out of the house. He certainly couldn't put that in a horror story, except if he made it especially for pizza delivery guys, or girls, if there were any pizza delivery girls...
Yusuke looked at Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara, his old friends and so called gang, but they weren't really old now, only about 21 or so... Except the true Kurama, the silver haired thief that killed for fun... He had to be over 1,200 years old... But he didn't look it... He still looked only in his early 30's or so... Damn kitsune ... Aging so well wasn't allowed... Yusuke gradually shifted his attention back to the others. They'd changed a lot, except for Kuwabara ... still the IQ of a cabbage there... Hiei's people skills had definitely improved, well... maybe not... And Youko still willed Kurama to steal the occasional object... Maybe none of them had changed at all.
Kurama sat back, listening to Hiei talking. He was telling about his bookstore, which sounded rather, um, interesting if it could be called that. Apparently there was a book on the desk that if opened past page 8, it started to scream at you over and over until you closed it. Fortunately, before it got to that page, it had various warnings and instructions on 'How to Properly Close a Book'. He'd have to read it one day.
"Hey, Kurama, you're married aren't you?" Yusuke asked, looking at the redhead. "Keiko and I got married 2 years ago and Kuwabara and Yukina got married about a month later." He added quickly, avoiding Hiei's gaze.
"Well Yusuke, saying that every night I turn into Youko there's no way I could really have a wife, or a date of any kind unless they were a youkai kitsune themselves. But even then they'd have to be powerful because Youko doesn't really tolerate people... And they'd need to defend their self until he accepted them." Kurama replied, smiling in that really freaky sad way he usually does.
"Well... Um... Hiei?" Yusuke asked, looking at the little koorime. Hiei glanced up from cleaning his glasses, which had finger prints and scratches all over them, to answer the question with a question.
"What do you think?"
"I guess that's a no too..." Yusuke said, looking upwards.
"Don't think we don't want wives Yusuke. It's just hard for youkai with reputations like us to find anyone suitable for ourselves. We'd love it if we could find someone, we just haven't been able to and even if we did there would be 'various complications'." Kurama said, voicing both his and Hiei's thoughts. Yusuke looked ever so slightly lost.
"You lost me... And you still haven't answered my question as to if you have wives or not..." Yusuke said, making all the others either sweat drop or face fault, Kuwabara managing to do both at the same time.
(The Next Morning!!! After the joyous drinking of coffee and brushing of hair and teeth!!! Oh goodie!!!)don't ask. Caffeine high.
*JINGLE! JINGLE!* (this is like one of the bells at the top of a door and if you don't know what I'm talking about, next time you walk into a business or something, listen for a bell)
Hiei looked up from his desk, his glasses slipping to the end of his nose. He didn't need to pull them up to see who had opened the ringing door, because the girl was walking over to his desk already. She had short brown hair, deep purple eyes, entirely black clothes and wore a backwards baseball cap on the top of her head. Hiei didn't question her clothes, in fact he didn't have the time to because she had arrived at his desk.
"Hi, I saw that you wanted someone to help you with the store..."
"You want to apply for a job?" Hiei questioned, looking over her tom boyish outfit. "At a bookstore?" He added, taking off his glasses and setting them next to the computer, which rarely saw use.
"It's the only job I could find, and I heard that this was an entirely horror story bookstore, along with some mangas, so I decided to see if the job was taken or not." she said, placing the 'Help Wanted' sign on the counter.
"Well, saying that the sign was still outside on the door and the fact that I just happen to be the only one here, do you think the job has been taken,--" Hiei broke off and looked at her, silently asking what her name was.
"Rei. Well, my full name is Rei Yoruryu, if you're going to let me have the job. Oh, do any idiots come here?"
Hiei smiled. He might just skip the interview and interrogation over any previous experience, age and all the other stuff required for a job and give it to her, and maybe get him self a date in the process.
'BAD HIEI!' he inwardly yelled at himself. 'SHE'S JUST A HUMAN! YOU CAN'T GET INVOLVED WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH A HUMAN! This relationship must be strictly professional...'
"Only one idiot comes here... His name is Kuwabara, but he doesn't come here a lot. The usual customers are just a red head named Ku-, er, I mean, Shuuichi, a guy named Yusuke Urameshii and the strange customers you'll just have to meet for yourself." Hiei was of course referring to the many youkai that came to the store in search of information, which was on the Makai only, except for that one that wanted to learn about blowing up toilets...
Rei nodded. She looked around the bookstore which was dimly lit and rather eerie, saying that one couldn't see more than a few feet into the rows of bookshelves. But there was one thing that stood out. A book on a podium with a sign above it that said in large, bold, red letters;
**~DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK UPON ANY CIRCUMSTANCES UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AMUSEMENT BY SCARING THE CRAP OUT OF YOUR PREVIOUS BEST FRIEND. IF YOU WISH TO DO SO, PLEASE OPEN TO PAGE ONE AND LET THEM TURN TO PAGE EIGHT. THANK YOU.~** The Manager.
Hiei watched as Rei walked over to the podium and opened the book to page one. He sighed and opened a drawer, where much to his dismay, only one pair of earmuffs remained and they were pink and fuzzy. He groaned again and heard a small gasp come from across the room, which made him rethink the humiliation of wearing the earmuffs and actually put them on. He knew what the book would say when she turned to page five... It would start to yell about then.
"Hmm ..." Rei sighed, winding her fingertips over the edge of the book cover, Maybe she shouldn't... Wait for a customer to open it... Then your employer can't laugh his guts out over your idiocy.
Hiei let out a sigh of relief as Rei's fingers slid off the book and she turned back to him, her baseball cap now crooked, though Hiei had no clue why. He removed the earmuffs and stuffed them unceremoniously into the drawer they'd come from.
"Well? Do I get the job?" she asked, leaning against his desk. Hiei smiled, careful not to let his fangs to show too much.
"Would you mind working part time night shift?" he asked cockily, then mentally punched himself.
'HIEI! YOU'RE BEING A NAUGHTY YOUKAI!!! AS I SAID EARLIER, THIS RELATIONSHIP MUST BE STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL! With a couple bonuses...'
Yet another mental punch followed his previous mental punch.
"Ah, sorry... I think you can work anytime you want to... Whatever hours... As long as you work at least three... So as soon as you choose your hours you get the job." Hiei quickly said, trying to keep all sickening thoughts from his head. He didn't even have an idea why they were there, they just... Poofed there. And it scared him more than... Well, the idea of Yukina getting married to Kuwabara.
Rei looked up, thinking about free time she had that didn't interfere with 'snack time'. Lots of free time but noon was snack time. She wasn't a morning person, her afternoon somehow always ended up totally full. However... Night time... Empty.
"I only have night time as my free time. I guess I have to work night shift. Oh, by the way, will there be other employees here?"
" I'm the only person that works here. No one else has wanted to ever since some of my friends came here and scared them away. And besides that, the previous employees said they saw demons here."
"Really?! SWEET DUDE!" Rei yelled happily, jumping up and down, making her hat come off.
Hiei smiled. He HAD to hire her. It'd certainly improve his mood.
"You can work here. You don't even have to sign any papers. Oh, yes, I nearly forgot to ask you how long you wanted to work. The night shift starts at 7:30 pm and ends at seven in the morning.
"This... This is a twenty four hour bookstore?!"
"Well, not really. It closes from ten to twelve for my lunch break."
"A two hour break!?" (SWEET! Do I get one too!?)
"I take a nap, eat lunch, check for e-mail, and greet the customers that can't seem to read the 'Closed' sign."
"Oh, well... I suppose around seven thirty to twelve thirty or more. I'm a night owl Not a morning person, so I'll have to leave at least thirty minutes before the sun rises so I can take a nap before school."
"You go to school? How old are you?"
"I'm about 19... I'm going to be 20 soon though! So what am I going to need to do here?"
" First you need to sign a paper and learn how to use the register."
"I thought you said I didn't have to sign papers!"
"This is one paper. It doesn't count as 'papers'. And you are to NEVER open the book!"
"Sure. What does that book do anyway?"
"Wait until Kuwabara comes in. You'll learn as soon as he opens it."
"Who's Kuwabara?"
"I'll tell you. Don't worry at all." Hiei said, stepping out from behind his desk.
"But I don't know anything about the store."
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Hn." (Rei)
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Hn." (Rei)
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Is that your favorite word?"
"Yes. Well, I think I'll show you around. Come on." he said, walking back between the bookshelves.
"Why?"
"So you can know more about my store so you can run it and I'm not poor."
Rei looked at him as they walked between the bookshelves.
"Do you always mean to rhyme Mr. Employer Dude?" she asked curiously.
to be continued
This one is going to be continued whether nobody reviews it or not! ^^ I like this storyline! Ok, I've only gotten through to the introduction of Rei, who is actually in another one of my stories. The story is 'Youkai Jaganshi', which is actually the best story I've written. And since nobody has reviewed my Yu-Gi-Oh! Fic... I guess I won't have to worry about updating it for a while... Well, um yes, if you read this lemme know in a REVIEW! That's the worst thing for people to do! Read something and not review it! I accept anonymous reviews so at least do that! Well, um, yes, check out my other stories which are further along with this one if you liked this! ^^ Thank you!
by lieiavalon2044
(Summary: Hiei's running a bookstore, Kurama's a billionaire, Yusuke's a psycho taxi driver and Kuwabara's a pizza delivery guy. They all live lives with anything they could ever possibly want! Except for Hiei and Kurama, who want wives of their own. Yusuke and Kuwabara have wives, so why can't they?! Then, one day, two girls show up, wanting jobs from Hiei and Kurama. The two youkai quickly become attached to their new employees, while the girls can't help but be attracted to the youkai. Both boys carefully hide their true identities, but when the girls discover who they really are, what will happen to their growing relationships?)
The lake was silent, despite the four men sitting next to it, eating and talking, like they hadn't spoken in a very long time. Occasionally one would laugh, drawing the others into the laughter also. Laughing is sometimes very contagious, even to youkai, even if one is a dead serious kitsune while the other was once an assassin, both known widely through out the Makai. Not that the others weren't well known either, but the black haired one wearing a green outfit was definitely better known than the rest.
Hiei gave one of his rare smiles, even in these days when youkai rarely invaded and he was given an immense amount of time to relax. Of course, that may have been the reason that he smiled so rarely, because he simply had nothing to do but manage his shop and write horror stories. He was very good at writing horror stories, and all he had to do was remember a traumatic five minute excerpt of his life, write it, lengthen it, edit it (which was done free of charge by a close red-haired friend) and publish it. Right now, Kuwabara was telling a story of a particularly rude customer that had called for pizza, made him take it back three times, and then only paid for half the price of one pizza, saying he needed to get change and never came back out of the house. He certainly couldn't put that in a horror story, except if he made it especially for pizza delivery guys, or girls, if there were any pizza delivery girls...
Yusuke looked at Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara, his old friends and so called gang, but they weren't really old now, only about 21 or so... Except the true Kurama, the silver haired thief that killed for fun... He had to be over 1,200 years old... But he didn't look it... He still looked only in his early 30's or so... Damn kitsune ... Aging so well wasn't allowed... Yusuke gradually shifted his attention back to the others. They'd changed a lot, except for Kuwabara ... still the IQ of a cabbage there... Hiei's people skills had definitely improved, well... maybe not... And Youko still willed Kurama to steal the occasional object... Maybe none of them had changed at all.
Kurama sat back, listening to Hiei talking. He was telling about his bookstore, which sounded rather, um, interesting if it could be called that. Apparently there was a book on the desk that if opened past page 8, it started to scream at you over and over until you closed it. Fortunately, before it got to that page, it had various warnings and instructions on 'How to Properly Close a Book'. He'd have to read it one day.
"Hey, Kurama, you're married aren't you?" Yusuke asked, looking at the redhead. "Keiko and I got married 2 years ago and Kuwabara and Yukina got married about a month later." He added quickly, avoiding Hiei's gaze.
"Well Yusuke, saying that every night I turn into Youko there's no way I could really have a wife, or a date of any kind unless they were a youkai kitsune themselves. But even then they'd have to be powerful because Youko doesn't really tolerate people... And they'd need to defend their self until he accepted them." Kurama replied, smiling in that really freaky sad way he usually does.
"Well... Um... Hiei?" Yusuke asked, looking at the little koorime. Hiei glanced up from cleaning his glasses, which had finger prints and scratches all over them, to answer the question with a question.
"What do you think?"
"I guess that's a no too..." Yusuke said, looking upwards.
"Don't think we don't want wives Yusuke. It's just hard for youkai with reputations like us to find anyone suitable for ourselves. We'd love it if we could find someone, we just haven't been able to and even if we did there would be 'various complications'." Kurama said, voicing both his and Hiei's thoughts. Yusuke looked ever so slightly lost.
"You lost me... And you still haven't answered my question as to if you have wives or not..." Yusuke said, making all the others either sweat drop or face fault, Kuwabara managing to do both at the same time.
(The Next Morning!!! After the joyous drinking of coffee and brushing of hair and teeth!!! Oh goodie!!!)don't ask. Caffeine high.
*JINGLE! JINGLE!* (this is like one of the bells at the top of a door and if you don't know what I'm talking about, next time you walk into a business or something, listen for a bell)
Hiei looked up from his desk, his glasses slipping to the end of his nose. He didn't need to pull them up to see who had opened the ringing door, because the girl was walking over to his desk already. She had short brown hair, deep purple eyes, entirely black clothes and wore a backwards baseball cap on the top of her head. Hiei didn't question her clothes, in fact he didn't have the time to because she had arrived at his desk.
"Hi, I saw that you wanted someone to help you with the store..."
"You want to apply for a job?" Hiei questioned, looking over her tom boyish outfit. "At a bookstore?" He added, taking off his glasses and setting them next to the computer, which rarely saw use.
"It's the only job I could find, and I heard that this was an entirely horror story bookstore, along with some mangas, so I decided to see if the job was taken or not." she said, placing the 'Help Wanted' sign on the counter.
"Well, saying that the sign was still outside on the door and the fact that I just happen to be the only one here, do you think the job has been taken,--" Hiei broke off and looked at her, silently asking what her name was.
"Rei. Well, my full name is Rei Yoruryu, if you're going to let me have the job. Oh, do any idiots come here?"
Hiei smiled. He might just skip the interview and interrogation over any previous experience, age and all the other stuff required for a job and give it to her, and maybe get him self a date in the process.
'BAD HIEI!' he inwardly yelled at himself. 'SHE'S JUST A HUMAN! YOU CAN'T GET INVOLVED WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH A HUMAN! This relationship must be strictly professional...'
"Only one idiot comes here... His name is Kuwabara, but he doesn't come here a lot. The usual customers are just a red head named Ku-, er, I mean, Shuuichi, a guy named Yusuke Urameshii and the strange customers you'll just have to meet for yourself." Hiei was of course referring to the many youkai that came to the store in search of information, which was on the Makai only, except for that one that wanted to learn about blowing up toilets...
Rei nodded. She looked around the bookstore which was dimly lit and rather eerie, saying that one couldn't see more than a few feet into the rows of bookshelves. But there was one thing that stood out. A book on a podium with a sign above it that said in large, bold, red letters;
**~DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK UPON ANY CIRCUMSTANCES UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AMUSEMENT BY SCARING THE CRAP OUT OF YOUR PREVIOUS BEST FRIEND. IF YOU WISH TO DO SO, PLEASE OPEN TO PAGE ONE AND LET THEM TURN TO PAGE EIGHT. THANK YOU.~** The Manager.
Hiei watched as Rei walked over to the podium and opened the book to page one. He sighed and opened a drawer, where much to his dismay, only one pair of earmuffs remained and they were pink and fuzzy. He groaned again and heard a small gasp come from across the room, which made him rethink the humiliation of wearing the earmuffs and actually put them on. He knew what the book would say when she turned to page five... It would start to yell about then.
"Hmm ..." Rei sighed, winding her fingertips over the edge of the book cover, Maybe she shouldn't... Wait for a customer to open it... Then your employer can't laugh his guts out over your idiocy.
Hiei let out a sigh of relief as Rei's fingers slid off the book and she turned back to him, her baseball cap now crooked, though Hiei had no clue why. He removed the earmuffs and stuffed them unceremoniously into the drawer they'd come from.
"Well? Do I get the job?" she asked, leaning against his desk. Hiei smiled, careful not to let his fangs to show too much.
"Would you mind working part time night shift?" he asked cockily, then mentally punched himself.
'HIEI! YOU'RE BEING A NAUGHTY YOUKAI!!! AS I SAID EARLIER, THIS RELATIONSHIP MUST BE STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL! With a couple bonuses...'
Yet another mental punch followed his previous mental punch.
"Ah, sorry... I think you can work anytime you want to... Whatever hours... As long as you work at least three... So as soon as you choose your hours you get the job." Hiei quickly said, trying to keep all sickening thoughts from his head. He didn't even have an idea why they were there, they just... Poofed there. And it scared him more than... Well, the idea of Yukina getting married to Kuwabara.
Rei looked up, thinking about free time she had that didn't interfere with 'snack time'. Lots of free time but noon was snack time. She wasn't a morning person, her afternoon somehow always ended up totally full. However... Night time... Empty.
"I only have night time as my free time. I guess I have to work night shift. Oh, by the way, will there be other employees here?"
" I'm the only person that works here. No one else has wanted to ever since some of my friends came here and scared them away. And besides that, the previous employees said they saw demons here."
"Really?! SWEET DUDE!" Rei yelled happily, jumping up and down, making her hat come off.
Hiei smiled. He HAD to hire her. It'd certainly improve his mood.
"You can work here. You don't even have to sign any papers. Oh, yes, I nearly forgot to ask you how long you wanted to work. The night shift starts at 7:30 pm and ends at seven in the morning.
"This... This is a twenty four hour bookstore?!"
"Well, not really. It closes from ten to twelve for my lunch break."
"A two hour break!?" (SWEET! Do I get one too!?)
"I take a nap, eat lunch, check for e-mail, and greet the customers that can't seem to read the 'Closed' sign."
"Oh, well... I suppose around seven thirty to twelve thirty or more. I'm a night owl Not a morning person, so I'll have to leave at least thirty minutes before the sun rises so I can take a nap before school."
"You go to school? How old are you?"
"I'm about 19... I'm going to be 20 soon though! So what am I going to need to do here?"
" First you need to sign a paper and learn how to use the register."
"I thought you said I didn't have to sign papers!"
"This is one paper. It doesn't count as 'papers'. And you are to NEVER open the book!"
"Sure. What does that book do anyway?"
"Wait until Kuwabara comes in. You'll learn as soon as he opens it."
"Who's Kuwabara?"
"I'll tell you. Don't worry at all." Hiei said, stepping out from behind his desk.
"But I don't know anything about the store."
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Hn." (Rei)
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Hn." (Rei)
"Hn." (Hiei)
"Is that your favorite word?"
"Yes. Well, I think I'll show you around. Come on." he said, walking back between the bookshelves.
"Why?"
"So you can know more about my store so you can run it and I'm not poor."
Rei looked at him as they walked between the bookshelves.
"Do you always mean to rhyme Mr. Employer Dude?" she asked curiously.
to be continued
This one is going to be continued whether nobody reviews it or not! ^^ I like this storyline! Ok, I've only gotten through to the introduction of Rei, who is actually in another one of my stories. The story is 'Youkai Jaganshi', which is actually the best story I've written. And since nobody has reviewed my Yu-Gi-Oh! Fic... I guess I won't have to worry about updating it for a while... Well, um yes, if you read this lemme know in a REVIEW! That's the worst thing for people to do! Read something and not review it! I accept anonymous reviews so at least do that! Well, um, yes, check out my other stories which are further along with this one if you liked this! ^^ Thank you!