Disclaimer: I don't own any Yu Yu Hakusho character! It would be really nice to, but I don't! I do own however, Kairos…she's my character! Along with the ghosts!

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Chapter 3 – Point the Finger

            "Do you have to live on the other end of town?!" Yusuke complained.

            "Do you have to complain?" Kairos asked in reply. "You're giving me a headache!"

            "Well, I wouldn't be complaining if we didn't have to walk to your house on the other end of town!" he shot back.

            "Yes, well," Kairos began. "If you girlfriend and her friend didn't beg me into it you wouldn't be." She glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw Yusuke turn beet red.

            "Kayko is NOT my girlfriend!" Yusuke shouted still blushing. "We've been friends ever since we were young and that's all we're ever going to be!"

            "Oh, is that so," Kairos said with a little bit of sarcasm in her voice. "Then did you start blushing when I said that she was your girlfriend? Not to mention, the fact that I didn't say Kayko's name, you did. I never brought her into this, all I did was refer to both Kayko and Botan. You were the one who choose Kayko's name out of the two."

            "Oh, she got you there, Urameshi!" Kuwabara said laughing. "Who would have thought that you'd get stumped by a girl!"

            "I didn't stump him Kuwabara," Kairos said speaking to him. "I only led him into saying who he liked."

            "I NEVER SAID I LIKED KAYKO!" Yusuke shouted still blushing.

            "You're still blushing," Kairos replied plainly. Kairos caught sight of Kayko turning her face away from her line of sight. Kairos picked up her pace away from Yusuke and walked in stride with Kayko. "Hey, so what do you think?"

            "What do you mean?" Kayko asked slightly pink.

            "You know what I mean, and I think you like it," Kairos replied. Before Kayko could protest in what Kairos had just said, Kairos added, "If not, then why are you blushing too?" Kayko didn't reply to Kairos' last question but stared at the ground, her face getting a deeper shade of red by the second. "That was easy," Kairos said stretching her arms out.

            "That was cruel," Botan said.

            "How?" Kairos asked.

            "You did that on purpose!" Botan shouted back.

            "You sure?" Kairos looked at Botan and practically saw Botan's mind working as quickly as it could to get an answer back. "For all you know Yusuke got me started."

            "No! You said girlfriend to him!" Botan said pointing at Kairos.

            "Yes, I did. But I never did say a name or point my finger at anyone," Kairos stated plainly. "Besides, here's my place." Kairos stopped and looked at the house that stood before them. It was a creamy white color, with two floors not including the visible basement and attic. She walked up the steps and unlocked the door. "I'll be right back," Kairos uttered as she walked through the door and slammed it shut. A few moments later, she came back out with a bag in hand. "Well?" she asked.

            "What?" Kayko responded.

            "Are we going back to your place?" Kairos said practically sighing out the question.

            "Oh, yes," Kayko said turning around. "I know a short-cut to get to my place from here." She motioned them to follow her as she began to walk briskly down the street. Slowly everyone began to follow Kayko as she faded into the distance.

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            "That was some short cut!" Yusuke shouted. "Drag us in a circle around town before we end up here!"

            "Do you always, complain?!" Kairos shouted at him. "Every time you open your mouth I swear I want to hit you!" she heard Kuwabara laugh aloud and Kurama try to hide his laughter.

            "Yeah, well get in line," Yusuke stated.

            "How bout not?" Kairos asked Yusuke standing right in front of him.

            "Wah? How?" Yusuke asked dumbfounded by the fact that she was a few feet behind him and was now suddenly walking in front of him. "How did you get in front of me so quickly?" he asked her.

            "How can you be so annoying?" Kairos shot back. Yusuke shrugged and Kairos looked at him almost as though she would withdraw a butcher's knife and slit his throat any minute. "You just enjoy getting on peoples' nerves, huh?"

            "Yep," Yusuke stated proudly. "That's how I practically make my living."

            "Advice to you," Kairos said. "Watch out who you annoy, there's some people that you just wouldn't want to annoy too much."

            "And what's that suppose to mean?" Yusuke asked as Kairos turned around.

            "Exactly what I said," Kairos stated.

            "Yeah, and what was that?" Yusuke shouted.

            "That some people would kill you where you stand if you annoyed them too much," Kairos stated plainly for him.

            "What? Are you the type of person to do that?" Yusuke asked.

            "Who knows?" Kairos stated lightly and stretched out her arms. "For all you know, I might be a homicidal manic that just broke out of a mental institute."

            "A what?" Yusuke asked.

            "You are a serious moron," Kairos stated.

            "AM NOT!" Yusuke countered.

            "Yes, well," Kairos mumbled. "I'm not going to get into a stupid 'Am not!' 'Am too!' argument with you Yusuke. You're just not with it."

            "Thtt was the first time that I've seen Urameshi get dissed so quickly," Kuwabara said.

            "Kuwabara," Kairos began. "Do you mind if I call you Kuwabaka from no on?" Everyone else except Kuwabara and Kairos began to laugh. Kuwabara was turning bright red and Kairos was smirking at him.

            "NO" Kuwabara shouted, holding a fist in the air.

            "Ok, then," Kairos said. "How about Kuwa?" she asked holding a finger in the air, hearing everyone else break into a fresh wave of laughter.

            "NO! Where do you get those nicknames anyway?" Kuwabara asked.

            "I've got my sources," Kairos stated.

            "Well," Yusuke said patting Kuwabara's back with excessive force. "That was faster than what she did to me!"

            "Neither of you two should be proud of that," Kairos said. "Though, then again…I doubt either of you two have anything to be proud of."

            "What? Do you make fun of the two for fun?" Kayko asked Kairos.

            Kairos sighed thinking about how to respond to her. "Well, I guess I do. It's such a soothing hobby, and I don't even have to think about what to say." Kairos smiled and felt a hand rest on her shoulder. She turned to see who it was and saw Kurama.

            "I don't think you should get the two mad or anything," he whispered.

            "And why not?" Kairos asked. "They gonna beat me up? I'd just like to see them try."

            "Who said we wouldn't?!" Yusuke shouted.

            "I'm two feet away, don't SHOUT!" Kairos yelled.

            "Well," Kuwabara said suddenly shy. "I wouldn't hurt her. You know me, I would never hit a girl." Kairos' ears perked up and she turned around smiling like a fox.

            "Really?" Kairos asked slyly. "You would never hit a girl?" Kuwabara smiled and nodded proudly. "Well then, let us test that then." Moments later Kairos punched Kuwabara's gut and heard Hiei make a sound of approval. "So," Kairos said. "You gonna punch me or something?" Kuwabara shook his head and Kairos kicked his side. "Now?" He didn't move and she jump kicked his face. "Now?" Then Kuwabara shot upwards and stared hard at Kairos.

            "I said I would never hit a girl, but I guess I have to change it to I will never hit a girl unless she hits me first. And," Kuwabara stated before Kairos got bored and punched his gut once more. Kuwabara groaned on the ground cradling his freshly punched stomach as Kairos continued to walk forward.

            "Learn to state your point quickly," Kairos said over her shoulder. "Cause I have a short attention span when it comes to your speech." Kairos walked past Hiei and saw a slight smirk on his face.

            "Was beating Kuwabara up necessary?" Botan asked. Kairos shrugged and continued to walk forward. "It's not like he did anything to you!" she shouted and Kairos completely ignored Botan as she walked.

            "You fight dirty," Yusuke commented. "Using Kuwabara's weakness like this, too bad I can't use that weakness."

            "That's nice," Kairos said sighing. "Think whatever you want, but I was teaching Kuwabara a lesson in life."

            "And what was that?" Yusuke asked suddenly intrigued.

            "Don't fight along the lines of chivalry and moral code. Guys aren't the only ones that fight," Kairos stated. "As I have demonstrated here with Kuwabara."

            "Here's my house," Kayko cried out joyously, hoping to end Kairos and Yusuke's conversation. It was a two-floor house with a visible attic and basement, painted white. Everyone followed Kayko into her home and threw their things away her room. "Hey, Kairos are you ok?" she asked referring to the fact that she was moving so much even after she almost died at Kuwabara's house.

            "Yeah," Kairos responded. "Why wouldn't I be?"

            "The near death incident at Kuwabara's house," Botan said sitting down on the couch.

            "Oh, that thing?" Kairos asked taking off the baseball cap. "I'm fine," she said as she began to unwrap the bandages around her scalp.

            "What are you doing?" Kayko asked shocked at Kairos taking off her own bandages. "You aren't supposed to be taking those off!"

            "I'm ok, sheesh," Kairos said. "You worry too much, not even my mother did that when she was alive," When she finished unwrapping the bandages there was no blood gushing out of her scalp, there was no scar where she was bleeding, and there was only tiny visible parts of her hair with dry blood. "I'll take the bandage around my stomach off later. But Kayko, you are really bad at putting on bandages, you know?"

            "Yeah, it was actually the first time I'd ever done that," Kayko admitted.

            "Well, it's a lot better than the first time I tried to bandage myself," Kairos commented laughing at the time when she tried. "I ended up calling for my mom to help me, I was a complete mess, not to mention the blood that was dripping all over. She screamed when she first saw and then eventually realized that I was telling her the truth when I was younger."

            "Truth?" Yusuke asked suddenly interested in the girls' conversation.

            "I never told you guys huh?" Kairos asked. They all shook their heads and Kairos sighed. "I'll tell you guys the entire story some other time but here's the basics. When I was young, my brother and I were playing in a forest. I had wandered off following a little girl with blonde hair in a white dress, and came back to my parents telling them about it. The only way they knew how to shut me up was the prove that I was dreaming and so they went to where the little girl and I had played. They both freaked out because they saw the little girl's dead body along the riverbed. Later they sent me to a mental institute because of things."

            "Man," Yusuke said. "We're hanging out with a mental patient."

            "Ex-mental patient," Kairos corrected. "I got released."

            "Still!" Yusuke exclaimed. "We sure do know how to pick friends," he said sighing. Kairos shook her head at Yusuke's latest comment.

            "Why don't we play a game or something?" Kayko asked. "How about a card game?" Botan immediately agreed and the boys hesitated. "I have more than one pack of cards you know." Then Yusuke and Kuwabara began calling out games that wanted to play with Kurama and Hiei. "Kairos you want to play?"

            "Nah," Kairos said. "I'll watch for a few moments, but do you have any paper I can use? A pencil would be nice too," she asked.

            "Yeah, sure," Kayko said. "I'll be right back." Moments later she came back with two packs of cards and a clipboard with paper and a pencil placed between the board and the clip. Kairos thanked Kayko and they went off playing a game. Kayko and Botan played Crazy Eights, and the boys played Poker. Kairos laughed slightly at the idea that popped into her head. On one sheet, she drew two light sketches of Kayko and Botan playing cards. She looked at it and then ripped the paper off. It fluttered down to the ground and then she began to sketch chibi-Botan and chibi-Kayko playing Crazy Eights. She smiled and added the final touches to the picture. She pulled that sheet off and allowed that to flutter to the ground as she drew the boys playing Poker as their chibi selves. She silently thanked whomever it was who gave her good artistic skills in the anime format when she was born. She pulled off that sheet and then sketched the boys normally playing Poker. However, she wasn't as pleased with the new image as she was with her version of chibi them. She tore that off and then decided to pick up the four pieces of paper she allowed to flutter to the ground before she continued to draw.

            "Cheater!" Yusuke suddenly shouted, catching Kairos completely off guard and she snapped her head up to see what he was talking about. "Hiei! YOU CHEATER!" he yelled.

            "You baka," Hiei said. "I didn't cheat." Kairos saw the expression on his face and decided that she would expand on it to make it a comic anger. She left the papers on the ground and then walked behind Hiei, who was directly across from Yusuke on the coffee table. She knelt and then quickly sketched out Yusuke's face. She drew steam emitting from his ears, a bunch of the little pressure condensed marks shaped like an x on its side with arrows on the four open spaces. She expanded the shape of his nostrils and opened his mouth to an unseemly size. Just for fun she gave him fangs and narrowed the size of his pupils. Laughing, Kairos stopped drawing before she ruined it and walked back to the couch she was on. Yusuke suddenly stopped blaming Hiei and then looked at Kairos. "And what did you just do?" Yusuke asked setting down his cards.

            "Nothing," Kairos said innocently picking up the four pictures from the ground. "Absolutely nothing."

            "Then what's with the papers?" Yusuke asked pointing to the papers.

            "Can't someone use a paper and pencil without getting questioned nowadays?" Kairos asked Yusuke.

            "You know what? Lemme see," Yusuke said getting up from the coffee table.

            "How about no," Kairos shot back. Yusuke then lunged to grab the papers from Kairos and ran straight into the couch. She tapped his shoulder twice and then laughed. "If you want the papers you have best catch me," she said folding the papers and stuffed them into the pocket of her jeans. "Punch me or at least tap my shoulder and I'll let you see the papers but you have to do that first."

            "What? You don't think that I can't?!" Yusuke shouted and lunged for her once more.

            "Actually that's exactly what I think, Yusuke," Kairos said jumping up into the air to avoid being touched. She landed a little way away from Yusuke and then vaulted over him when he lunged once more. "Try and catch me," Kairos dared him.