Author's Notes: I hope you like this episode. I started typing this episode during the school year and I don't get too many reviews during the school year. Again, hope you enjoy. * * * * * * * * * * * * *

King Yama sent them back to the human world. It was the next day and Hikari was sitting in Kurama's room with Hiei and Kurama. Hiei and Hikari were sitting on the edge of the bed while Kurama lay behind them both playing his game boy advance. Hikari had her legs against her chest while Hiei was slouching over as he leaned his elbows on his knees. Hikari said " You didn't have to get King Yama to give me less work. I could have taken it. Why did you get so angry?" Kurama then sat up and put his hands on her shoulders and rested his cheek against hers with his eyes half closed and said " He didn't want to see you less often then he was." Kurama was just flirting to make Hiei jealous, but Hiei didn't attempt to move any closer to Hikari to get Kurama off. Instead he gave him an annoyed face and crossed his arms while he blushed a pale pink. Hikari pulled away from Kurama and then hugged Hiei saying " I appreciate the fact that you got me a lot more free time though." Kurama smiled at Hiei as he realized why Hiei had created a crush on this particular girl. She has great swordsmanship skills, she has attitude, she changes from one thing to the other swiftly. Last of all she had beautiful features. It made Kurama wonder what her mother looked like.
Kurama then got up and walked out the door to get something to drink and closed the door behind him purposely. Hiei then returned Hikari's hug and held her head over his shoulder. They then released their hug and Kurama came back into the room. Kurama then said " Sorry guys, I'm going to be going somewhere soon. You're going to have to go." They both nodded their heads in understanding.
They had both been outside the house already and it looked like it was going to rain. Hiei and Hikari had planned to go to the school play ground to swing on the swings, play something, or just talk. When they got there they sat on the swings and talked about stuff. Hikari was talking to Hiei as he sat there listening to her admire him. Hikari said " Your ears are small, yet you can hear things that most humans can't hear. I envy you. You lived in the demon world which is a world that accepts their madness and anger. Humans won't realize what they are becoming. Humans rely on religion and other things to keep the world uncerupt when the whole system isn't helping the least bit. In one specific religion that I believe there is something called the ten commandments. One of the ten commandments was, thow shall not kill, but people continue to have wars over every little thing. I believe religion is fake and unable to keep peace at our expense. Religion is just something to believe in, something to make us believe there's a reason for living, someone to talk to when we feel alone or need to be forgiven. I do believe in God, but I just don't believe a simple religion can help the world become unsinful. I also believe in hope though. Even if I'm not the best person in the world, even if I'm not good enough for those who think of me as a reject, even if I don't feel like the greatest healer in the world, even if my heart desires to love someone special, even if I can not be loved in return, even if God forgot that my soul still resided on earth in a body full of sadness and regret, even if all my friends rejected me as a person, I would still have hope that I could live happily in a world that shut me out of a cerupt world that couldn't accept me at all. My life is surrounded around hope and God. The hero in my story is not me, the hero is the people who make me who I am. Everyone who enters my life effects my personality and who I become. I become shy and careful of my actions around people who do not like me as me. I'm just the bad guy in this story. Always getting in the way, always making the heroes yell and holler as I help them loose each battle. I'm just a bump in the road. One they have to crush because I'm too small to bring with them. I'm weak and unable to defend myself, always needing someone to cover for me. Seeing ghosts every day isn't the most pleasant thing either. I can see their sad faces, angry faces, happy faces. They all hurt even if some do look happy as they are. Little girl and boy ghosts playing on the play grounds together to keep each other's company. Teen age girls who got killed by their older brother or boyfriend, elders who play chess games with a ghost chess board. I've seen many ghosts up to now and they all had a story to tell to me. I'm sick of hearing their stories, I can't stand to hear anymore." Hikari burst into tears as she thought about the stories she had heard. Accidents, mistakes, suicide, car accidents ect. All part of a cycle called death. She hated it all, she couldn't see a better heaven than to remember her own friends and family in their time being alive. Hiei gripped her shoulders with his hands and knelt down in front of her. He then asked her with a blank face " Are you ok?" Hikari nodded her head no as tears rolled down her cheeks. Hiei sighed as he thought she would lie and say yes, but he then said pulling her up from the swing as he held her arm over his shoulder "Come on, you're sleeping over at my house tonight. I don't care what you say. You're in no condition to walk all the way to you house from here. You would see way too many more ghosts if you went to your house. My house is closer. I don't know about clothes though, you're going to have to borrow mine for a day."

AT HIEI'S HOUSE

Hiei was looking in his droor looking for an outfit that Hikari could wear for tomorrow. Hikari was sitting on the bed, looking outside the window as she rested her arm on the window sill and her hand on her chin. It started to rain. She liked the rain. It always made her feel relieved or calmed. All the water falling from the sky. It sometimes made her feel suddenly sad about everything sometimes though. When Hiei had picked out an outfit and threw it on the bed he then turned and looked at Hikari while walking toward her " What is it? Is there something wrong?" Hikari said, still staring out the window " No, I was just watching the rain, that's all. That's... all..." Hikari turned around and faced Hiei as she blushed, seeing how close he had been watching the rain with her. He had been right next to her. His shoulder almost up against hers'. Hikari then said " Uh... Hiei?" Hiei turned to her and said " What?" Hikari answered with a stutter before speaking " You're kind of close. It seems kind weird. You wouldn't..." She then paused and then just got away from the window sill. Hiei then said pushing his arms off of the window sill " What's wrong? Are you ok?" Hikari then said " Uh, yeah, you were just kind of close to me." Hiei hadn't realized till now, but he had been leaning next to Hikari kind of close. Hiei's phone rung and Hikari said " I'll get it!" Hikari picked it up and Kurama was on the phone. Hikari then said " Oh, hi Kurama, I'll give the phone to Hiei for you." She handed the phone to Hiei. Hiei then said " You had to call today?" Kurama then said " What's Hikari doing at your house?" Hiei said " She's sleeping over, she kind of broke down in tears at the park. and I thought she should sleep at my house cause it's closer." Kurama responded with " It must have taken a lot of courage if something like that came from you." Hiei blushed and said " I was occupied at the moment." Kurama chuckled and then said " I wish you luck. I think you chose a good one Hiei. Her features are angelic as far as I'm concerned." Kurama then hung up. Hiei hung his phone up as well, blushing a bright red. Hiei then said " I laid one of my sisters' night dresses on the bed, it should fit you. I'll turn around while you put it on." She was putting it on and then said " I'm done." Hiei turned around and saw an angel in a night gown. Every feature, still perfect and wonderful. He wanted to touch her delicate face and trace every detail, even the one detail he desired the most, her cold, cold lips. He wasn't about to embarrass himself though. He then got a sleeping bag out of his closet and laid it next to his bed. Hiei then said " You can sleep on the bed, I'll sleep down here." Hikari was going to ask him if he was sure, but figured there was no point in asking a straight forward person like him. She sat on the bed and then said as Hiei was about to get into the sleeping bag " May it be an eavning star
Shines down upon you May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road Oh! How are you are from home Believe and you will find your way. It is part of a song called 'May it be'. It is a song of hope. I learned it when my mother was still alive. I'm not sure how it could make me happier though. My mother always said I was clueless about most obvious things, but I still don't get why it relates to hope." Hiei then sat on the bed next to Hikari and said " May it be is everybody's desire cloaked in hope. That is why." Hikari then said " I suppose that was obvious." Hikari then smiled as she said " There was once a ghost that would visit our cherry blossom tree every day, but now he doesn't visit it at all. The father said that his little sister was buried under that tree. We don't know why he stopped seeing the tree. It's quite rare for young girls to be buried under a cherry blossom tree. I have a picture of him visiting the tree in my room, but we're not at my house. I think I could show you tomorrow." Hiei didn't say a word. He just stared at her face. Every detail still remembered from all the times he saw her before. Her long hair flowing down her shoulders and back. Yes, it was all quite memorable. She took a glance at him as she was about to ask him a question, but then she paused and thought of a different question as she saw Hiei staring at her. Hiei then blinked and paid his attention else where so that she could not ask the question. She then continued on asking her first question " Hiei, I was reading the teachers future reference book and tomorrow we need a partner for Gym. I was going to ask you to be my partner." Hiei then said looking down at the floor " Uh...sure." Hiei then thought to himself " Thank God we needed partners for my best class."

NEXT DAY IN GYM

Today they had to go through an obstacle coarse. They were sitting in line, waiting for their turns. Kurama was sitting right behind Hiei and said " I'm not so sure how your team will do. I've never seen Hikari run at her fastest before. Hiei then said leaning his head on the wall behind him " I know. If she's really slow because she's and artist I'm going ot be upset that she slowed this years time down." Hikari was gone, getting a drink, so she couldn't hear the conversation. Kurama then said "She's a girl too, so she might not be too athletic either. I'm not underestimating women, but the human girls in this school don't appear to surpass our abilities in Gym." Hiei nodded his head yes. He then shut up as he got ready for Hikari to come, so he didn't look like some idiot talking to his friends when it really made him look a little gothic with an attitude. Hikari and Hiei were now up. They ran threw the obstacle and finished in tree seconds. Kurama was looking at them with bulged out eyes. Kurama then asked Hikari " Where did you learn to run so fast?" Hikari then said " I suppose I practiced running against people when I was younger. I tried my best to keep on improving." Kurama then Walked up to the start of the obstacle.

AFTER SCHOOL AT KURAMA'S HOUSE

Kurama had invited Hikari over to his house. Kurama was typing away on his computer, finishing his last homework assignment. Hikari said " Hiei has a strange way of showing his emotion. He's a good friend, but it's hard to tell what he's feeling." Kurama went into the file box and clicked on print. Kurama then said turning toward Hikari in his spiny chair " I think he's very fond of you've seen the way he looks at you. It's possible he has a small crush on you." Hikari then blushed and said " I'm not about to make a comment on the subject. He's just my friend right now and that's all that matters right now." Kurama then said " Ok, ok, we can switch to a different subject. Did you get any homework?" Hikari then said just remembering " Oh man, I left my bag in the home room!" Kurama then pulled her bag from the side of his desk and said " I figured you might need this just in case." Hikari then grabbed it from out of his hand and said " Oh, thank you Kurama! You're a life saver!" Kurama then said " You're welcome." Hikari then said " You know Kurama, I'm surprised I don't hear the other girls talk about you that much. You seem so considerate and kind. I bet none of the girls would mind having you to themselves." Kurama smiled and said " Didn't I tell you to call me Suichi?" Hikari's face grew worried and said " Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. Just a minute." Kurama paused with a blank face as he watched her jumble through her things to find a sheet of paper to remind her what to call Kurama. Kurama then smiled and said " On second though, just cal my Kurama. I don't care." Hikari paused as she stopped jumbling through her stuff and then said zipping her back pack back up " Ok." Kurama thought to himself how cute she was when she looked worried. A little ballerina. She and Hiei would make quite the good couple even if their personalities were a little different, but they still had a lot in common. Kurama thought she was a little cute himself, but he didn't have any serious feelings for her. Even if it didn't last forever he thought it could work.

AT HIEI'S HOUSE

Hiei was reading a book, and as he read the words, without a contious thought of what they meant, he thought of Hikari. He thought about his deep desire to have her be his. As he thought about it, his heart beated faster and his breaths became deeper. The sweet feeling that made him feel sick, but not a bad sick even if it made him feel a little feverish. His face was burning up and his cheeks became red. After a few seconds of fanticising about Hikari he had felt a shortage in his breath as if his heart had skipped a beat. When he began to pay attention to the meaning of the words in the book again he had noticed he stopped at a part of the book that said "His fingers couldn't resist touching the details of her beautiful face. Once more, he gazed into her eyes and saw the fear that devoured her soul and the hope that made her smile. He to, could see the delicacy of her soul." Hiei wanted to be able to do that to Hikari, but he'd never build up the gut to look her straight in the eyes. At the same time he had thought of what Hikari and Kurama were doing. If anything, he was going to make his move when he was alone with her. It would have been nice if he made a move on her when she slept over, but she was depressed then. It was the first time he had ever thought of the meaning of respect. Hiei feared o enemy, but she was most difficult to defeat. He wanted her, but he was afraid that if he told her that their relationship would be ruined.

AT KURAMAS' HOUSE

Hikari had been talking to Kurama for quite some time. Kurama said, " The power to defeat a ghost is most rare among humans. I predict the ghosts have told you many sad stories of their death. It can't be too good for a person to hear of so much death, and sometimes see visions of the persons' death." Hikari said, " I could even predict the future and past if I wanted to, but all I would see is death again and again. One after the other. As if I had been there when it happened. War, fighting, anger. That is all I would see for the future. No matter how much man tries the prevent it there is always one who is unwilling to sacrifice the war and fighting that posses those of us that hate one another." Kurama then responded with " I have not yet witnessed the hopelessness that resides in some peoples' hearts, but I fear I will know it in a time of great crisis." Hikari said " I have already witnessed it, and yet I still believe there is still hope left." Hikari took a pad of paper and drew a person bleeding with tears rolling down the soldiers cheeks. She shaded a partial outline of the soldier to make a dark background and said, holding it up so Kurama could see it " In the presence of light, there can be no darkness." Kurama gave her a confused glare. Hikari said " It is a quote that means, as long as there is at least the smallest bit of hope and faith, we can still accomplish something, for when you give up all else is lost and your heart has already died." Kurama said " I suppose it does make sense. I haven't heard it before though." Hikari said " I doubt you have. Those were the last words my mother gave me before she died." Kurama had heard Hiei tell him stories about Hikari's' mother, but he had never heard what she looked like, or what she did. Was she human? Kurama then finally asked " What kind of a woman was your mother?" Hikari said with a soft smile " She was a beautiful blond, with magical blue eyes. She had delicate fingers and a soft touch. She looked like a beautiful elf queen from a fairy tail. She was quite human, but if you looked at her you might catch a glimpse of her magical glow that made you just think she could cast an enchanted spell on you." Kurama gave her a warm, welcoming smile and said " I can see where you got your inspiration to do art from." She then blushed a bright red. Kurama could see her blushing. He knew what this meant, but he was going to act as if he were clueless. Kurama said " Is there something wrong? Your cheeks are awfully red." Hikari them blushed twice as much and said " I'm just a little warm that's all." Kurama chuckled and then said revealing the truth " Oh, don't give me that old excuse. I've heard it quite a many times in my age. Come on, you can tell me the truth in your own words. I won't withdraw from our friendship anyway." Her cheeks had now been so red that they were the colors of a red rose. Hikari said " I...um...think I have a small crush on you." Kurama lifted his hand upon her cheek delicately and said with a soft, understanding voice " I also have a crush on you, your beauty, talent and delicate face, but there is one other that has a deeper crush on you." Hikari then said with a puzzled face "Who?" Kurama answered her " I don't think he would like me telling you this, but it can't stay a secret forever. Hiei is the one that has a deeper desire for your love. In my opinion, I am not surprised that he and I have a crush on the same girl" When Kurama looked at her worried face with a blank face he said " Why does your beautiful face sulk? I have told you the truth." Hikari then said with a warm look " I just didn't expect a person like Hiei to like a person like me. I had always loved his unique body structure and face for my art, but I never thought he'd like me that way. I don't think my crush on him is as strong as my crush on you, but it might still work." Kurama leaned closer to her and gave her a long hug. When he stopped hugging her he said " I'll call Hiei and have him bring you to his house, but please don't tell him I told you about his crush. By the way, if you're going let him know your feelings for him you need to give him a little push." Kurama then called Hiei and he picked Hikari up

AT HIEI'S HOUSE

Hiei was typing something on his computer and Hikari was sitting on his bed. She had been watching and reading the things he had been typing. He had been typing the ways of life and how it doesn't work. He then shut off his computer and said turning around to her on his spiny chair. He then said " So, what were you doing at Kurama's house?" Hikari answered the question with " We were just hanging out and talking about my art. He thought the picture of you under the cherry blossom tree was wonderful." Hiei then said looking down to his right with a bright blush "Yeah..." Hikari could see this and scooted to the edge of the bed leaning a bit closer to Hiei and saw him blush a rose red. Hikari asked " Is something wrong?" Hiei then said looking up and said strongly and straight forward " No." Hikari touched her small hand to Hiei's cheek and said " You're not sick are you? I don't need to check your temperature do I?" Hiei's face was full of red as he blushed even more. He then realized that he needed to respond and said " Uh...no, I think I'm fine." Hikari then said " Oh, what's this on your lip?" Hiei then said " It must be some chocolate. I had a chocolate dove bar today." Hikari then responded with "Oh, let me take it off for you." Hikari inched closer and closer until she was breathing on his lips and said " It's right here right?" Hiei said "Yeah..." Hiei then kissed her hard and his heart felt a certain warm feeling in his heart. It felt like a good sick feeling. He could finally touch her delicate face and body. He could feel every detail as he imagined and he didn't have to imagine it anymore. He could feel all she felt, see all she could see, love all of her. His fingers wandered her face and body as they continued kissing. When he pulled away, he saw Hikari blushing twice as much as he had been before. Hiei then said "I'm a demon, but at he same time I have fallen in love with you. I don't know how to explain it, but it has happened to the most unlikely demon in the world to fall in love." Hikari then said " ..." There was really nothing to say after he had said that. If she had been ashamed of what she had just did, she would have just said she had to leave, but she wasn't. Her mother had also fallen in love with a demon, but not at her age. Hikari had hoped to look out like her mother, but instead she got black hair. It made her look like the bad guy in every story. Hiei thought she looked beautiful. In conclusion Hikari had thought to herself about a quote she had heard of "My lady, come and dance upon the pure waters of my ancestors with me and sing your beautiful song of eternal happiness for as long as we dance upon the magic water."

__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Hello, how are ya all? I'm fine, in the next chapter there is a new case and a ghost demon has put a revenge spell on Hikari. She now has to face her long forgotten enemies from her early days as a spirit detective. She's facing some major migraines.

Anime Skittals: Hiei, you're such a pervert.

Hiei: You're the one who put in the script.

Kurama: I brought you some skittles, Anime Skittals!

Anime Skittals: Oh thank you Kurama." Gives Hiei a disappointed look and marches off angry.

Hiei: Way to impress the ladies.

Anime Skittals: I heard that!