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Chapter Four
The sun was just beginning to set wisps of pale sunlight on Kuroko's face through her window. She rolled over and looked at the back of Hiei's head on the bed adjacent to hers. "Hiei?" she whispered, so as not to wake him if he was still asleep.
He rolled over and yawned. "What?"
"Can we talk?"
"What about?"
"Last night."
"Hn."
"When you said that you liked me, what exactly did you mean?"
"What d'you mean, 'What exactly did I mean?'?"
"Okay... What am I to you? A friend, an acquaintance? Like a sister? Just a student? What?"
"A friend, maybe more. Why?"
"Just wondering." No way in Makai... Hiei looked over to the clock that hung on the wall between the heads of the beds: 8:00. He glanced at Kuroko; she had rolled over to look out the window. He grinned, grabbed a pillow, and snuck up behind her. He brought back the pillow and swung it down.
She automatically swung her hand out, and it made contact with his face, leaving a handprint. "DON'T YOU DO THAT AGAIN!!!" She rummaged through her bag. "Where the hell is my bat?"
Hiei gulped, and put the bat that was in his hand behind his back. She stood and shrugged. "Oh we--What are you holding behind your back?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing, huh?" She tried to walk behind him and look, but he turned, and this continued for a good ten minutes until Kuroko pushed him. He fell forward, and Kuroko swung on the bedpost to look. She saw her bat, and her eyes narrowed. Kuroko snatched it from him, and began beating him repeatedly with it. "THIS IS NOTHING?! DON'T EVER TAKE MY THINGS AGAIN, UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR YOUKAI BUTT TO BE IN PIECES!!"
Hiei winced as she brought the bat down again. "Okay, okay! I won't take your things, so stop pounding me so I can get dressed!!" She looked down to see him in his boxers.
"Oh, alright..." She stopped pounding him, and took out a pair of shorts and a tank top. Then, Kuroko went out the door and into the bathroom, closing the doors behind her. She pulled off her pajamas and pulled on the red tank top, along with some black shorts. She put her dirty clothes in the hamper, and walked out of the bathroom and to the normally spotless kitchen. Kuroko stopped at the end of the hallway, and looked at the now brown kitchen.
There stood Yusuke, and Kuwabara, chocolate syrup bottles in hand. "What the hell did you two do?"
"We were...fixing ice cream!" Yusuke said, as he held up a box of vanilla ice cream.
"Uh huh... And during all this, the chocolate found its way to...every nook and cranny?" She noticed Kuwabara's face. It was covered in ice cream. "Lemme guess. Yusuke shoved Kuwabara's face into the ice cream container, and Kuwabara had a bottle of chocolate in his hand, and squirted Yusuke with it, who returned the favor. Resulting in this mess. Am I right?"
"Yup!" Kuwabara cheered. Yusuke elbowed him in the ribs.
"You weren't supposed to admit it!"
"Sorry, Urameshi."
"Enough talk. Both of you are not leaving this kitchen until it is spotless!! And I mean it!!" Kuroko ordered. The boys groaned and grumbled. Yusuke opened his mouth to protest, but Kuroko stopped him. "That's final!! End of discussion!"
Kurama and Hiei walked in to find the kitchen its demolished state. Botan, Shizuru, Keiko, and Yukina walked in the front door, and their eyes also met the kitchen.
Kurama was not happy, as he and Yukina were usually the ones to clean it. "How, pray tell, did this fiasco occur?"
"I'll explain, those two have a lot of work to do." She sat down in the living room, and everyone else followed suit. "Yusuke and Kuwabara's were making sundaes and Yusuke decided it would be funny to shove Kuwabara's face into the ice cream. Kuwabara had a bottle of chocolate syrup in his hand, and squirted its contents at Yusuke. Yusuke squirted some on Kuwabara, too. It turned into an all-out chocolate fight, and it caused that," she explained as she pointed behind her.
"He wasted the sweet snow??" Hiei asked, trying to contain his astonishment.
"Yes, they did."
"They messed up my kitchen??" Kurama and Yukina said in unison.
"Okay, they did everything I said!! And they are cleaning it up now! And Hiei, we can buy you more sweet snow!!" Kuroko bellowed in frustration. They all shut their faces.
Yukina couldn't stand anyone being angry with her. A single hiroseki (spelling?) stone clattered to the floor. Hiei's head jerked up, and then he shot Kuroko a death glare. She remained unmoved. But then rational thoughts went through her head. I'm not mad at her. I'm just frustrated. She didn't do anything wrong. And I have to train with Hiei.
She still didn't say anything for a few moments. "Yukina, I'm not mad at you. I could never be, you're too nice to stay mad at. I'm sorry if I made you think so. I'm just frustrated with the bombardment of comments from Yusuke and Kuwabara's screw up."
"Okay, then." Yukina wiped her tears, and Keiko gathered the stones together. She held them up in her hands.
"What do I do with these?"
"You can throw them away." Keiko did as she was told. The first tear gem was still under the coffee table, unnoticed.
"It was her fault we were up anyways!!" Yusuke called. "She was screaming about something."
"It woke me, too. What was it about?" Kurama asked. Kuroko shifted in her seat.
"I had just woken up, and I rolled over to look out the window, and Hiei stuck up on me, and hit me with a pillow. So, I instinctively went to hit him; I did. Then, I looked for my bat, and he had something behind his back. I asked him what is was, and he said nothing. So I tried to see what it was, and it was MY bat--"
"And then you beat the living hell out of me with it. All the while, lecturing me about it not being nothing, and not to take your things," Hiei finished. Kuroko glared at him, as everyone laughed.
"That was it??" Kurama said.
"I'm not a morning person, so what?" Kuroko responded.
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