Author's Notes: I've heard your call for chapter two people and here it is. * * * * * * * * * * * * *

School was ending and everyone except Hiei and Kurama went home. Hikari was talking to Kurama when she felt a touch on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Shishi. Shishi then said " It's time to go home for kendo practice." She then smiled at Shishi and turned to say goodbye to Kurama and Hiei. Before a word came out of her mouth, Kurama said " Could we possibly stay over at your house for a while?" Hikari's face paused and then smiled again as she said " Sore you can. You can watch my kendo practice as well. The orphanage owns a training hall." As they walked to the orphanage Hikari ran ahead and saw a young boy from kindergarten standing by the corner with a kendo sword. She was suppose to pick him up from school today. She then yelled " Mihara, you didn't have to walk to the kirb. I would have picked you up at the main entrance to your school." Mihara then said " I didn't come to the corner to give you less labor. I came because I sensed an aminous presence at the corner." Hikari then said bending down to his height and saying "Really? Did it speak to you?" Mihara then turned to her in question and said " What do you mean?" Hikari then said looking off in to the distance and said " It spoke to me. She said she didn't mean to frighten you. She's a ghost. She was cursed with bad spirits during her life. That is the only ominous sign she carries out.
Kurama then says " Does she have a sixth sense or something, or can you all do this?" Shishi then said " Nope, she has her own special sixth sense. She can talk and see ghosts. They keep her company while she feels alone."

AT THE ORPHANAGE TRAINING HALL

Shishi and Hikari were in the middle of a match. Shishi charged at her as Hikari blocked. She then pushed away with her sword. Shishi then charged at her again and then his wooden sword hit the wall as Hikari jumped to his left. Shishi swung his sword around and blocked a hit that he had seen coming from behind him when Hikari dodged. Hikari then flicked her sword up to take his sword out of stance so that he couldn't attack her as soon as she got ready for another attack or defense depending on who's sword touched whose' first. She made three flips backward and then saw Shishi charging at her with his wooden sword. She then made a decoy move and pretended she was going to block, but instead she slipped behind his sword and they were stuck as a X shape. Both of their hands on both ends of their swords holding ones sword against the others back. Shishi then said " You know we can't move like this. It has to be a draw." Hikari smirked. Hiei didn't get what she was smirking about. She couldn't move with the position she was in. Hikari then said gripping the ends of her sword with extreme force and yelled " Oh really?!" She then quickly flipped Shishi over her back and he was thrown across the room. Shishi quickly got up and blocked her next attack. They both fiercely pushed each other away. They were both in an attack stance when Shishi lowered his sword. Hikari understood his stances and lowered her sword as well. Silence filled the room. They both charged at each other and hit each others' swords three times. The third time Shishi flung Hikari's sword in the air. Shishi then prepared for his final attack and said " It's over!" Hikari then said " It's not over yet!" She then lifted her leg as high as she could and nailed his sword to the ground with her foot. Her sword flung back into her hand from the air and then she ran up his sword hit him in the neck jumping off the sword into the air and landing behind him. She then pointed her sword at his back as he crouched down. She then said " I win." Shishi put his sword down and said turning around to her " I guess you have." Hikari lowered her sword and sighed in exhaustion. Hikari then said " I suppose I can show you our room now."
They then walked to Hikari and Shishi's room. When they got there, there were at least nine posters of Hikari's art on the walls. Hikari then yelled at Shishi, grabbing his arm "Shishi! So that's why you wouldn't let me in the room again this morning!" Shishi tried pulling away with a smirk and said " Did I mention I found your poster art stash?" She then started hitting him. Hiei and Kurama walked into the room. Kurama walked up to a poster that looked like his demon form. The silver hair grazed all over the bed he was sleeping on. It made him look so graceful. His hand was bent near his face. His other arm was bent downward. His face was facing his bent hand. Kurama then said "Where did you get the idea to do this painting?" Hikari paused as stopped hitting Shishi and said " Oh, that one. Usually I paint ghosts that I see, but that one I saw in a dream. He was laying on a bed like that. He was inspiring, so I did a sketch of him and then painted the final copy." Kurama then said " You could make copies of these and then sell them. I think they would sell wonderfully." Hiei was looking at a poster that had half of his face and a sword gushing with blood acting as a mirror to the one half of his face that was showing. The background was black. Hiei then asked " When did you make this?" Hikari then said " I made that when I saw you yesterday. I thought you would make a great model for some of my art. Oh, I forgot to ask you. Could you model for me after school. I could only do half the face because I couldn't remember the other half of your face. I wasn't sure if some of the features on the other half of your were exactly the same or not." Hiei then paused, then crossed his arms and made a face with an attitude and said " Sure." Hikari then say with a smile " Great, you start tomorrow."

AFTER SCHOOL AT HIKARI'S HOUSE NEXT DAY

Hiei and Hikari were in the kendo room with the wall made of windows on the right side of the room. The sun shined into the room with most magnificence. Hikari told Hiei to sit on the chair. She also told him he could do whatever he he wanted to feel comfortable with his clothes. He just couldn't take off his pants. Hiei then took off his shirt and turned the chair backward as he leans his arms on top of the chair and rests his chin on his arms. Hikari then started drawing Hiei. Hiei asked " So, why did you want me to model for you rather than one of the other guys?" Hikari then said, still sketching on her canvas " You were what I was looking for I guess. You're face makes me want to paint. It's like when I see ghosts. They make me want to paint them so I have a memory of what they looked like when they were once alive."
Hikari then said after half an hour " Ok, you can move now. I've finished the sketching and details. You can get water or something to drink if you like." Hiei then got up from the chair and walked to where Hikari showed him the kitchen was before they went to the kendo room. He came back with two glasses of water and put the second glass near her face and said as he looked at the drawing as she painted the colors into the picture " Do you want some water? You've been painting for a long time and I haven't seen you drink anything since you got home." She nodded her head yes and took the water from his hand. She drank some of her water and then paused, looking outside at the dimming sun on the flowers in the garden right outside the windows. She then said " I suppose we could take a break." She then got up from her chair and lifted her head to see Hiei and said " I really appreciate you modeling for me. I don't get too many models that aren't ghosts. I'm glad you're my friend, Hiei." She smiled at him and then turned to the windows then drinking a little bit more from her glass. She then said " It's getting dark. You might want to go home." Hiei then responded with "Fine." Hikari then said " I'll be seeing you after school then." Hiei then said putting his empty glass on his chair " Yeah, tomorrow."

NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL

Hiei was sitting in his desk staring at nothingness. He was thinking about Hikari. Her every feature. Her delicate looking fingers, her blue eyes, her long black hair, her graceful movements in battle, her soft looking lips, her fully expressioned face, her unique voice. He loved it all, but he didn't know why he was thinking of her in the first place. Why did he get this feeling when he thought about her? The sweet feeling you get when you take a special liking to a person. His heart bounding every second he thought of Hikari. He didn't get what this feeling was. He was a demon after all and most demons only knew anger and emotionless expressions.

AFTER SCHOOL

They were at Hikari's house. Hikari had already finished the sketch and details. She was now painting the picture. The picture was done outside, under a cherry blossom tree. Hiei went to look on her progress and saw that she was almost done painting it. Hiei notices that Hikari put blood dripping from his hand as a cherry blossom petal was about to fall in his hand. He then said " Why is blood coming from my hand?" Hikari then said as she kept painting " There is a story about a cherry blossoms' pale pink color. The story goes like this. You see, long ago the color of a cherry blossom was not pink. It was white, as white as the snow, but there was an emperor that did not like the color of the blossom, so he ordered that the corpse of a soldier shall be buried under every cherry blossom tree. I suppose you can guess why?" Hiei's silence answered the question. She continued the story and said "Because of the warriors blood. They put them under the trees so that it absorbs the warriors blood and turns the petals of the cherry blossoms pink. Now the cherry blossoms are always this shade of pale pink." When Hikari was finished telling the story, Hiei noticed a blush color on his cheeks in the picture. He then asked " Why did you paint me blushing in the picture?" Hikari then said " You were blushing when you were in the position. I figured it was just because of the weather." The picture was of Hiei sitting against the cherry blossom tree with his left had out. Cherry blossom petals were falling into his hand and blood was dripping from it. She then finished off her painting an said " It's finished, just don't touch it. I don't want it to get smudged." Hiei then said "It's beautiful." Hikari then said " I wouldn't say it's beautiful. I don't think that's the word for it. Hiei then touched his hand to her delicate face and said "We wouldn't want to smudge this beautiful picture would we?" Hiei's pupils suddenly grew smaller as he finally realized his uncontiousness. He then, quickly took his hand off of her face and said " I was just kidding around to let you know." Hikari said as she picked up her canvas " You seem sleepy Hiei. You should go home and go to bed early tonight. You can take tomorrow off and do what you want in your free time after school." He then nodded his head yes and started to walk home. Before he could get any farther than two steps Hikari stopped him in his tracks as she said " Oh, Hiei wait, I want you to give Kurama this picture." She handed him a copy of the first picture that Kurama saw when he met her. Hiei then went home.
When Hiei got home, Kuwabara was at his house as well as Yusuke. None of them looked in the mood to be laughing their heads off or making rude comments. Their faces were dead serious. Yusuke then said " Hiei, could we see you in your room?" Hiei grunted in annoyance. Yusuke responded with " Let me rephrase that. I'm not giving you a choice." He then rolled his eyes as he lead them to his room.
When they got into his room they closed the door behind them and locked it so that Yukina couldn't barge in in the middle of their conversation. Yusuke then said " You know that girl Kurama introduced us to?" Hiei said in annoyance " Yeah! what about her?" Yusuke then said " Koenma found some info on her in the ghost files. She used to be a spirit detective when something went wrong." Hiei then said "Something? What is this 'something' that went wrong?" Yusuke then said " Koenma says the file didn't say. Now this is the strange thing. She was a spirit detective when King Yama was filing the reports. He usually put s most detail into his reports. He says specific reasons for happenings. This something must have been pretty huge if he didn't say." Hiei then looked at Kuwabara with annoyance and said " Why the hell did Kuwabara come then?" Kuwabara then ran for his life and out the door.

__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Hope you liked this episode. In the next episode Hiei is told to be cautious while he poses for Hikari's pictures by King Yama. Hiei follows his advice for the first time in never, but he doesn't know how long he can stay cautious as long as he has this crush on Hikari.

Anime Skittals: Hi Hiei...

Hiei: Get away from me sugar high idiot.

Anime Skittals: What was that?! *bam*

Hiei: twitching on the ground.

Anime Skittals: Anyone else want a piece of this?!