~Chapter 5~
~Info on Corana~

A/N: Things surrounded by these things ~~ are thoughts. Enjoy!

Hiei dropped into Kurama's apartment, ice cream and spoon in hand.

"I see you've been to Yusuke's." Kurama commented drily.

"No. His female's cut me off. Corana said she'd give me ice cream." Hiei munched happily on the frozen treat, perched precariously on the end of Kurama's bed and thinking rather contentedly of his get away.

"And why did you take her spoon?" Kurama smirked.

"She's incredibly insolent and secretive." Hiei shrugged.

"Great revenge Hiei. Stealing the flatware." Kurama chuckled.

"She wouldn't tell me why she was here." Hiei sniffed defensively.

"Chances are she was just joking around. If you'd waited five minutes she would have told you." Kurama returned his attention to the paper he was working on.

"That makes no sense." Hiei shook his head and took a comforting bite of ice cream.

Kurama sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "That's just the way she operates. You'll get used to it."

"Do YOU know what she's doing here?" Hiei asked.

"Looking for someone. Her half-brother. She hasn't seen him in about fifty eyars and lost track of his whereabouts." Kurama replied absently.

"Do we know her brother?" Hiei knew Kurama was leaking out information in tantalizing tidbits on purpose. ~That fox just loves knowing things other don't.~

"Yeah. Sure. It's Jin."

Hiei dropped his spoon. "Hyper, red haired, Wind master Jin?" he asked, hoping Kurama's answer would be no.

"That's the one."

~Damn.~ "He's really annoying." Hiei said outloud.

Kurama shrugged. "I like him well enough. But she's not supposed to know that he's her brother or something. She figured it out awhile back, but he still won't admit it to her for some reason." Kurama shrugged. "I really don't understand brothers and sisters." Kurama smirked at Hiei.

"Hn." Hiei had finished his ice cream and rose.

"You coming to Genkai's tomorrow for the picnic?" Kurama asked before Hiei leapt out the window.

"I may make an appearance." Hiei replied cryptically before fading into the night.

The next day Kurama walked to Corana's apartment to return her spoon.

"Here. Hiei left this at my place."

"Thanks Kurama. He's quite impatient isn't he?" she grinned.

"So you were going to tell him?" Kurama smirked.

"Tell him? I was going to enlist the aid of his Jagan eye." Corana grinned. "I take it you filled him in."

"Just the basics. I'm on my way to Genkai's Temple for a picnic. Would you like to come?" Kurama offered.

"Are you sure it's ok?" Corana asked uncertainly.

"It'll just be Botan, Yusuke, Keiko, Kuwabara, Yukina, myself, and possibly Hiei. I'm sure you'd be welcome." Kurama assured her.

"Ok. Just let me make something to bring." Corana nodded and rushed to her cabinets. She made a quick batch of brownies and the two of them were off to Genkai's.

Hiei had in fact decided to make an appearance, but spent most of the picnic in a tree glaring at Kuwabara. His glare became directed at Corana as she threw chunks of brownie up at him.

"Hey gloomy. What's with the hostility? He's stupid, but he's leaving you alone." Corana grinned impishly, indicating Kuwabara.

"Hn."

"Oh THAT was descriptive sweetheart. How's about you come on down here? I wanna ask you a favor." She put on her best puppy dog pout and started whining, "please" until Hiei gave in with an exasperated sigh and roll of his eyes. As he got up to leap down, Yusuke spotted something.

"Hey what's that?!" he shouted pointing at....

A/N: MUAHAHAHAHA I'm evil. Sorry for the cliffie (not really) I've had a lot of people leaving tacky cliffies for me so I'm going to leave one for you. I'll have the next chapter up shortly. The more reviews I get, the quicker I get the next installment up. ;) So review if you want to find out what happens.