Kurama held his breath as Keinami, an almost twenty year old sorceress, walked into the room. She was very pretty with long brunette hair and deep dark eyes. She stood only about five foot tall with her shoes on, which held her about an inch and a half taller then she really was. She looked around nervously and tried to smile. The poor girl's eyes jerking from side to side, trying to find the one familiar face in the crowd of people who had come to meet her. It was no surprise that she was nervous; when she met Hiei she was trying to kill him. Yusuke who didn't seem to notice the tenseness gave a comforting smile to the "new girl" as he called her. But. Hiei was half hiding behind every one. They had all gathered by the door like a herd of sheep before a rain storm, when they heard Keinami knock. 'Idiots.' Hiei thought to himself. It was not surprising that every one had reacted the way they did though even Hiei himself was shocked that there was a woman who was, and actually wanted to be with him. She may have wanted to kill him when they met, but something about him changed her. The same way something about her changed him. and despite the fact that he liked it, what ever this was scared the hell out of him. He hated not being in control. "So you are a real person?" Yusuke asked jokingly. Keinami gave him a strange look but smiled back; then had to force back a laugh as Botan punched Yusuke in the back of the head. "You idiot of course she's a real person! You're such a moron! You must forgive his stupidity." Botan said in one very short very quick breath. Hiei looked up barely enough to catch Keinami's glance. Her eyes glistened in the dark mysterious way they had when he'd first met her. Was it really possible that she was a normal human? He watched as Keinami pushed her way through the small group and came to a stop in front of him. "Are you the only one here who isn't happy to see me?" She laughed. Hiei couldn't look her in the eye, let alone speak to her. She was only human, how did she have so much control on him? "Not even a grunt." she said giving him a strange look "Are you feeling all right?" "I'm fine." he said still staring at the floor. Why was she still standing there, wasn't she embarrassed too have all these people staring at her?! "Come on Hiei; introduce us to your FRIEND." Kuwabara said in a stupid teasing voice. Kurama threw a nervous glance in Hiei's direction, a well earned nervous glance seeing as there was a defined hate behind the look in Hiei's eyes. Ever since they found out about Keinami, Kuwabara had made it his business to poke, tease and make jokes about finding somebody who could deal with him and his "quarks". And Hiei had obviously had his fill of it! Much to Kurama's surprise Keinami also picked up on this, and had a come back ready. "Oh. this must be the idiot!" she said with a very familiar smirk. Hiei continued to stair at the ground despite the smile that had started to cross his face. It was then that Kurama figured out what had drawn these two together, they where exact opposites of one another. It was kind of cute. The group sat and talked for hours, with the exception of Kuwabara who had taken to sulking in the corner. It was Keiko who finally pointed out to Yusuke that it was getting late, and that her mother would be worried if she did not get home soon. So the group began to disperse back to their homes, but Kurama's human mother finally had to chase out the last of them around midnight. "Suichi" she said "You know I don't like it when your friends are here all night." "Yes mother, I know." he replied. An exhausted grin spread across her face. She had the expression of an overworked mother with little money, and the thought of another day at work weighing heavily on her mind. A guilty twinge ran through Kurama as he watched her smile at him. "I'll clean up, you go to bed. You look exhausted." He said more to make himself feel better then to be helpful. It was a good thing there wasn't school the next day, because Kurama spent half the night cleaning up the mess Yusuke had made with the rice balls. He couldn't run the vacuum, for fear it would wake his mother. So he picked up the grains of rice by hand. Moving silently through the house he fixed the living room, which had foot prints on everything.

Around two thirty he finally finished. Half falling asleep on his feet Kurama worked his way up to his room. He flopped on to the bed, and was starting to doze out when a silver flash streamed above his head. The dagger missed Kurama by centimeters.