PROLOGUE:
Hiei and I have been going out for almost a year and I have to go out of town for a week. Hiei is staying behind and is going to watch my black Labrador, my rabbit, and my fish.
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Day 1
"Ok, so you know what to do right?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah, you want me to watch your dog, rabbit, and fish. You'll be gone for a week; emergency numbers are by the phone, I know what to do, stop worrying! Yusuke and the others can help if there is any trouble." Hiei answered.
"Thanks so much Hiei, I'll miss you! It just wouldn't be as fun without you." I sadly said as I gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Don't worry about me; you'll have lots of fun at the anime convention." He said as he started to help her get the luggage into the taxi.
Just as I was about to get into the taxi, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara walked up to the front of the car.
"Hey Kikami, just wanted to wish you well on your trip." Kurama said, "Don't worry, we'll help Hiei with your animals and keep the house clean."
"Thanks Kurama. Well, I guess this is everything, see you all next week! Bye Lamura, I'll miss you too! Don't worry, I'll be back soon!"
I got into the car and left for the airport, I looked back at the four boys standing in front of my house holding on to Lamura.
********* Back at the house *********
"Well, good-luck with the animals Hiei." Yusuke laughed, "Hope you don't kill any of them! Stop by later today and the four of us can hang out."
The three teens left Hiei alone with Lamura and the rest of the animals. Hiei tied her up outside and went in to watch TV. He turned the TV on and changed the channel to his favorite show, Friends. I love the way the characters always get into strange situations. Like the time when Joey was depressed so he borrowed someone's dog to make him feel better and all he ended up doing was depressing the dog, He thought. He continued to watch and right in the middle of an interesting flash-back, he heard barking from outside. He went outside and unhooked the dog and brought her inside. He got back to the TV and it had gone to a commercial. "Why couldn't you have barked now, instead of later?" He groaned as he sat down. He continued to watch his show once the commercials were done and just as it was beginning to get into the plot, Lamura started to whimper. She kept nudging his hand. She went to the front door and nudged the handle with her nose.
"Just wait, its just getting interesting."
But she kept whimpering and started to pace around the room. Suddenly, she walked up to Kikami's couch and lifted her leg.
"Ok, ok, stop, I'll take you out! He grabbed the dog and put her leash on. He started to walk down the street and without notice, Lamura's ears perked up and she let out a series of loud barking noises. He looked to see what she was barking at, but before he knew what was happening, the strong Labrador pulled him across the busy street towards another dog. Cars screeched to a stop and the cars behind them collided as the fire demon was dragged across the street. The dog, completely unaware of how much trouble she was causing, ran up to the other dog and they started to sniff each other. The sounds of horns and cursing could be heard from each of the cars that had been abruptly stopped by the boy with the black spiky hair and the equally black dog.
"Hey! What were you thinking?!?" One man yelled from his yellow sports car.
"You could have killed someone!" Another lady yelled from her blue mini van.
Hiei glared at them and once the two dogs where done sniffing each other, muttered an "hn," and walked on. The man walking the other dog was appalled by what he had just seen, and quickly moved on to avoid any trouble.
"Woof!" Lamura Barked as she looked at Hiei with her large hazelnut eyes.
"Hn."
They kept walking and it seemed as if every ten feet they went, Lamura had to stop and go to the bathroom. She took the liberty of sniffing every pole and fire hydrant as they walked towards Yusuke's house. Once again, without warning Lamura gave a quick tug and Hiei was so startled that the leash came out of his hands. The large dog was running after a squirrel and chased it up a tree.
Getting very annoyed, Hiei ran over to the dog and picked up the leash. "Come on, let's go."
They finally reached Yusuke's house and Hiei knocked on the door. Lamura kept jumping up and down wagging her tail as Yusuke unlocked the door.
"Hey what's up Hiei?"
"This dog is more annoying than Kuwabara." He groaned. "Come on in, everybody is already here."
Hiei walked in and noticed right away that Kuwabara sitting right next to Yukina. He had his arm around her and she was laughing at how stupid he was acting. Keiko was sitting next to Yukina also laughing.
He walked up to them and said, "Kuwabara, could you get some water for Lamura? I think that even you could do a job that simple."
"Why don't you ask Urameshi, it's his house? Besides, dogs eat kittens, so I don't like them."
"He's busy, and dogs don't eat kittens, they eat dog food." He snapped as he shoved Lamura's leash into Kuwabara's hands.
Kuwabara grumbled as he reluctantly got up and walked towards the kitchen. Hiei sat down in Kuwabara's place and began to think to himself. That blockhead, I finally came between him and my sister. There's nothing he can do to make me move from this spot.
But the stubborn fire demon couldn't be more wrong.
Kuwabara walked back into the room and noticed Hiei sitting in his seat. "Hey, get outta my spot shrimp!"
"You got up, so I sat down. The seat is mine now."
"Why you little,"
"Kuwabara, you left the back door open when you went outside to get a bowl, Lamura's gone!" Yusuke yelled from the kitchen.
"Oh, yeah, woops." He started to sweat and looked at Hiei hoping that he wasn't about to get killed. Hiei had steam coming out of his ears and he jumped up. Quickly, Kuwabara stole back his seat next to Yukina and hoped even more that Hiei would just go to find the dog. "W, well, aren't you going to go find her?" He stuttered, to nervous to get a clear sentence out.
"You think that I'm going to look for her myself?" Hiei laughed and grabbed the terrified human by the collar and whispered, "You're coming with me and you're going to help me find that dog because it means everything to Kikami and if she returns and Lamura is missing, you'll be the one she's mad at."
"Uh, yeah, I'll help you; just give m me a second t to get ready." He stuttered as he stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Kurama walked into the room holding four cans of soda. "Yusuke, I was just in the basement and, oh hi Hiei, what's with the steam coming from your ears?" He started to laugh at the sight of the overly angry demon.
"That's it!" He snapped, Kurama, you're coming too."
"Where is it I'm going?"
"You're going to help Kuwabara and I find Lamura, the fool left the backdoor open and she got out."
"Well, we better hurry and catch up with her." Kurama sighed.
They walked into the kitchen and Yusuke asked, "Don't I get to come too?"
"You stay here with Yukina and Keiko and watch to see if Lamura comes back." Hiei ordered.
They went out into Yusuke's back yard and looked around. Where are we supposed to begin to look for her, she could be anywhere by now. He thought, maybe we should split up and look.
"Hey Kurama, why don't we split up? You take Kuwabara with you and go that way, and I'll go this way.
"That sounds reasonable, ok. Come on Kuwabara."
They walked off in the opposite direction in search of the lost dog. They got about three blocks away from Yusuke's house when they spotted her. She was laying in the shade underneath a large oak tree. "Ok Kuwabara, you go around back, and I'll distract her. You grab her collar and then we'll take her back to Yusuke's."
"Ok." He said as he snuck around to the back of the enormous tree and waited for Kurama to start distracting her.
Kurama took a dog treat out of his pocket and held it out. The dog walked up to his hand and sniffed it. Realizing that it was food, she started to eat the treat. "Now Kuwabara!"
Kuwabara jumped out from behind the tree and grabbed the dog's collar. "Got yeah! Now, let's hurry back to Urameshi's."
"Wait Kuwabara, shouldn't we check its collar, just to be safe?"
"No, its ok, how many black Labradors can there be within three blocks of Urameshi's house, let's just get going."
Hiei took off the white bandana that covered his forehead and opened his jagan eye. This'll help me find her, he said to himself. He looked through the violet colored eye and saw her running after another squirrel about a mile away. Crap that dog can run fast, but I'm faster. He sped off and just as she came into view, a large train roared along the tracks just in front of the dog. It seemed to go on for ages, car after car, and just as he could see the end of the train, it stopped and started to go backwards. "Stupid train." He finally grew so impatient that he jumped over the top of the train car and landed on the other side. He looked around but yet again, Lamura was gone. Using his jagan eye, he saw her prance off into the park. "I swear this dog is just trying to annoy me." He ran after Lamura and once he finally caught up with her, he grabbed her collar and brought her back to Yusuke's.
Hiei walked through Yusuke's back door and was greeted by Keiko who had a happy grin on her face. "Look Hiei, we found her!" She said pointing to a large black Labrador sitting next to Kurama. She looked down and for the first time noticed a different black Labrador next to Hiei. "Wait, which one is Lamura?"
Hiei walked into the living room with his dog and sat it down next to the other dog. They looked completely identical. "Well, someone could check to see whether one of the dogs is male or not, if one is, we'll know which one is Lamura."
"Well who's going to do that?" Kuwabara asked.
"How about you? You're the one who lost her in the first place." Hiei stated.
"Yes I agree with three eyes." Yusuke laughed.
Kuwabara stuck out his tongue at his friends as they taunted him. He got down on all fours and looked under each dog. "Well, this one is definitely a male." He said pointing to the dog that he and Kurama had brought home.
"Ok, then this one is Lamura. See, that wasn't too bad, was it?" Kurama laughed.
"But who does this dog belong to?" Yukina asked.
"Uh, oh," Kuwabara groaned, "We took him from that yard thinking he was Lamura, now someone will think we stole him."
"Its ok, we'll just go and return the dog, and if any questions are asked, we'll just explain the situation." Kurama assured.
"Yeah, well you two have fun, I'm taking this one home. I'll see you tomorrow." Hiei said as he walked towards the door.
He left Yusuke's and headed home. He made sure that the dog did her business outside before entering the house. He unhooked her and she ran straight for her water bowl. Hiei slumped down into the comfy, cushioned chair and looked at the clock. It read: 7:30p.m. "This early and I'm already tired." He got up and fed the rabbit and the fish before he forgot. He lay on the couch, just about to drift off to sleep and he suddenly felt Lamura's cold, wet, nose rub against his cheek. She started to whimper again. "Go to sleep, that's what I'm trying to do." She Tugged at his pant leg and started to bark. "I just took you outside, you shouldn't have drank all that water." He continued to lie there when suddenly she let out a loud howl. "Alright already, you just can't let anyone have any time to themselves can you." He got up and put her back on her leash and took her outside. He walked her up and down the dead-end street and again, she sniffed every tree, but she seemed as though she was looking for just the right tree to pee on. She paced back and forth searching for the best spot and finally after six minutes of doing nothing but sniff around, she did her business. "It took you long enough." He brought her back inside and locked the door. He laid back down on the couch and drifted off to sleep.
Hiei and I have been going out for almost a year and I have to go out of town for a week. Hiei is staying behind and is going to watch my black Labrador, my rabbit, and my fish.
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Day 1
"Ok, so you know what to do right?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah, you want me to watch your dog, rabbit, and fish. You'll be gone for a week; emergency numbers are by the phone, I know what to do, stop worrying! Yusuke and the others can help if there is any trouble." Hiei answered.
"Thanks so much Hiei, I'll miss you! It just wouldn't be as fun without you." I sadly said as I gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Don't worry about me; you'll have lots of fun at the anime convention." He said as he started to help her get the luggage into the taxi.
Just as I was about to get into the taxi, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara walked up to the front of the car.
"Hey Kikami, just wanted to wish you well on your trip." Kurama said, "Don't worry, we'll help Hiei with your animals and keep the house clean."
"Thanks Kurama. Well, I guess this is everything, see you all next week! Bye Lamura, I'll miss you too! Don't worry, I'll be back soon!"
I got into the car and left for the airport, I looked back at the four boys standing in front of my house holding on to Lamura.
********* Back at the house *********
"Well, good-luck with the animals Hiei." Yusuke laughed, "Hope you don't kill any of them! Stop by later today and the four of us can hang out."
The three teens left Hiei alone with Lamura and the rest of the animals. Hiei tied her up outside and went in to watch TV. He turned the TV on and changed the channel to his favorite show, Friends. I love the way the characters always get into strange situations. Like the time when Joey was depressed so he borrowed someone's dog to make him feel better and all he ended up doing was depressing the dog, He thought. He continued to watch and right in the middle of an interesting flash-back, he heard barking from outside. He went outside and unhooked the dog and brought her inside. He got back to the TV and it had gone to a commercial. "Why couldn't you have barked now, instead of later?" He groaned as he sat down. He continued to watch his show once the commercials were done and just as it was beginning to get into the plot, Lamura started to whimper. She kept nudging his hand. She went to the front door and nudged the handle with her nose.
"Just wait, its just getting interesting."
But she kept whimpering and started to pace around the room. Suddenly, she walked up to Kikami's couch and lifted her leg.
"Ok, ok, stop, I'll take you out! He grabbed the dog and put her leash on. He started to walk down the street and without notice, Lamura's ears perked up and she let out a series of loud barking noises. He looked to see what she was barking at, but before he knew what was happening, the strong Labrador pulled him across the busy street towards another dog. Cars screeched to a stop and the cars behind them collided as the fire demon was dragged across the street. The dog, completely unaware of how much trouble she was causing, ran up to the other dog and they started to sniff each other. The sounds of horns and cursing could be heard from each of the cars that had been abruptly stopped by the boy with the black spiky hair and the equally black dog.
"Hey! What were you thinking?!?" One man yelled from his yellow sports car.
"You could have killed someone!" Another lady yelled from her blue mini van.
Hiei glared at them and once the two dogs where done sniffing each other, muttered an "hn," and walked on. The man walking the other dog was appalled by what he had just seen, and quickly moved on to avoid any trouble.
"Woof!" Lamura Barked as she looked at Hiei with her large hazelnut eyes.
"Hn."
They kept walking and it seemed as if every ten feet they went, Lamura had to stop and go to the bathroom. She took the liberty of sniffing every pole and fire hydrant as they walked towards Yusuke's house. Once again, without warning Lamura gave a quick tug and Hiei was so startled that the leash came out of his hands. The large dog was running after a squirrel and chased it up a tree.
Getting very annoyed, Hiei ran over to the dog and picked up the leash. "Come on, let's go."
They finally reached Yusuke's house and Hiei knocked on the door. Lamura kept jumping up and down wagging her tail as Yusuke unlocked the door.
"Hey what's up Hiei?"
"This dog is more annoying than Kuwabara." He groaned. "Come on in, everybody is already here."
Hiei walked in and noticed right away that Kuwabara sitting right next to Yukina. He had his arm around her and she was laughing at how stupid he was acting. Keiko was sitting next to Yukina also laughing.
He walked up to them and said, "Kuwabara, could you get some water for Lamura? I think that even you could do a job that simple."
"Why don't you ask Urameshi, it's his house? Besides, dogs eat kittens, so I don't like them."
"He's busy, and dogs don't eat kittens, they eat dog food." He snapped as he shoved Lamura's leash into Kuwabara's hands.
Kuwabara grumbled as he reluctantly got up and walked towards the kitchen. Hiei sat down in Kuwabara's place and began to think to himself. That blockhead, I finally came between him and my sister. There's nothing he can do to make me move from this spot.
But the stubborn fire demon couldn't be more wrong.
Kuwabara walked back into the room and noticed Hiei sitting in his seat. "Hey, get outta my spot shrimp!"
"You got up, so I sat down. The seat is mine now."
"Why you little,"
"Kuwabara, you left the back door open when you went outside to get a bowl, Lamura's gone!" Yusuke yelled from the kitchen.
"Oh, yeah, woops." He started to sweat and looked at Hiei hoping that he wasn't about to get killed. Hiei had steam coming out of his ears and he jumped up. Quickly, Kuwabara stole back his seat next to Yukina and hoped even more that Hiei would just go to find the dog. "W, well, aren't you going to go find her?" He stuttered, to nervous to get a clear sentence out.
"You think that I'm going to look for her myself?" Hiei laughed and grabbed the terrified human by the collar and whispered, "You're coming with me and you're going to help me find that dog because it means everything to Kikami and if she returns and Lamura is missing, you'll be the one she's mad at."
"Uh, yeah, I'll help you; just give m me a second t to get ready." He stuttered as he stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Kurama walked into the room holding four cans of soda. "Yusuke, I was just in the basement and, oh hi Hiei, what's with the steam coming from your ears?" He started to laugh at the sight of the overly angry demon.
"That's it!" He snapped, Kurama, you're coming too."
"Where is it I'm going?"
"You're going to help Kuwabara and I find Lamura, the fool left the backdoor open and she got out."
"Well, we better hurry and catch up with her." Kurama sighed.
They walked into the kitchen and Yusuke asked, "Don't I get to come too?"
"You stay here with Yukina and Keiko and watch to see if Lamura comes back." Hiei ordered.
They went out into Yusuke's back yard and looked around. Where are we supposed to begin to look for her, she could be anywhere by now. He thought, maybe we should split up and look.
"Hey Kurama, why don't we split up? You take Kuwabara with you and go that way, and I'll go this way.
"That sounds reasonable, ok. Come on Kuwabara."
They walked off in the opposite direction in search of the lost dog. They got about three blocks away from Yusuke's house when they spotted her. She was laying in the shade underneath a large oak tree. "Ok Kuwabara, you go around back, and I'll distract her. You grab her collar and then we'll take her back to Yusuke's."
"Ok." He said as he snuck around to the back of the enormous tree and waited for Kurama to start distracting her.
Kurama took a dog treat out of his pocket and held it out. The dog walked up to his hand and sniffed it. Realizing that it was food, she started to eat the treat. "Now Kuwabara!"
Kuwabara jumped out from behind the tree and grabbed the dog's collar. "Got yeah! Now, let's hurry back to Urameshi's."
"Wait Kuwabara, shouldn't we check its collar, just to be safe?"
"No, its ok, how many black Labradors can there be within three blocks of Urameshi's house, let's just get going."
Hiei took off the white bandana that covered his forehead and opened his jagan eye. This'll help me find her, he said to himself. He looked through the violet colored eye and saw her running after another squirrel about a mile away. Crap that dog can run fast, but I'm faster. He sped off and just as she came into view, a large train roared along the tracks just in front of the dog. It seemed to go on for ages, car after car, and just as he could see the end of the train, it stopped and started to go backwards. "Stupid train." He finally grew so impatient that he jumped over the top of the train car and landed on the other side. He looked around but yet again, Lamura was gone. Using his jagan eye, he saw her prance off into the park. "I swear this dog is just trying to annoy me." He ran after Lamura and once he finally caught up with her, he grabbed her collar and brought her back to Yusuke's.
Hiei walked through Yusuke's back door and was greeted by Keiko who had a happy grin on her face. "Look Hiei, we found her!" She said pointing to a large black Labrador sitting next to Kurama. She looked down and for the first time noticed a different black Labrador next to Hiei. "Wait, which one is Lamura?"
Hiei walked into the living room with his dog and sat it down next to the other dog. They looked completely identical. "Well, someone could check to see whether one of the dogs is male or not, if one is, we'll know which one is Lamura."
"Well who's going to do that?" Kuwabara asked.
"How about you? You're the one who lost her in the first place." Hiei stated.
"Yes I agree with three eyes." Yusuke laughed.
Kuwabara stuck out his tongue at his friends as they taunted him. He got down on all fours and looked under each dog. "Well, this one is definitely a male." He said pointing to the dog that he and Kurama had brought home.
"Ok, then this one is Lamura. See, that wasn't too bad, was it?" Kurama laughed.
"But who does this dog belong to?" Yukina asked.
"Uh, oh," Kuwabara groaned, "We took him from that yard thinking he was Lamura, now someone will think we stole him."
"Its ok, we'll just go and return the dog, and if any questions are asked, we'll just explain the situation." Kurama assured.
"Yeah, well you two have fun, I'm taking this one home. I'll see you tomorrow." Hiei said as he walked towards the door.
He left Yusuke's and headed home. He made sure that the dog did her business outside before entering the house. He unhooked her and she ran straight for her water bowl. Hiei slumped down into the comfy, cushioned chair and looked at the clock. It read: 7:30p.m. "This early and I'm already tired." He got up and fed the rabbit and the fish before he forgot. He lay on the couch, just about to drift off to sleep and he suddenly felt Lamura's cold, wet, nose rub against his cheek. She started to whimper again. "Go to sleep, that's what I'm trying to do." She Tugged at his pant leg and started to bark. "I just took you outside, you shouldn't have drank all that water." He continued to lie there when suddenly she let out a loud howl. "Alright already, you just can't let anyone have any time to themselves can you." He got up and put her back on her leash and took her outside. He walked her up and down the dead-end street and again, she sniffed every tree, but she seemed as though she was looking for just the right tree to pee on. She paced back and forth searching for the best spot and finally after six minutes of doing nothing but sniff around, she did her business. "It took you long enough." He brought her back inside and locked the door. He laid back down on the couch and drifted off to sleep.
