Sorry its been so long since I've updated, I've had a lot on my hands,
homework, going to Europe, and other fics...but don't worry, be happy cuz
here's chapter 3!
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2:45am...
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"I can't believe we made such a mess," Yusuke stated as he and the rest of the gang were picking up dirty paper plates and half-eaten food from the floor, "I mean come on, my room isn't even this bad..."
"Yusuke, most of this is your mess!" Keiko snapped as she bent down to grab a soda can.
Yusuke snuck over while she was still bent over and flipped up her blue skirt. "Pink today huh? I would have thought black or light blue..."
"Yusuke you jerk!" She stood up and whacked her hand against Yusuke's cheek. Then, if that weren't enough, she stomped her high heeled shoe on top of his foot.
"OW!!! What was that for?!"
"I can't believe you..." She snapped.
Kurama stepped between the two and held out his arms, "Now you two, we have much more important things to deal with, like cleaning up, finding Hiei, and trying to hide Kuronue..."
"Yeah where is the shrimp?" Kuwabara asked, "He's been gone for about an hour now..."
After a moment, Yusuke looked at Keiko and said, "Keiko, why don't you take Yukina home, we have some things we have to sort out here and its getting late..."
Keiko, a bit hurt, sighed and nodded. "Come on Yukina, lets go..." They walked out of Kurama's house and into the darkness.
The three boys continued to clean up as Kuronue sat on the couch with his head in his hands. He just kept muttering to himself and twitching.
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Hiei sat in the basement with nothing to do but stare at the wall. What to do? He thought, after a bit, his eyes began to close, but he immediately opened them and smirked. He stood up and in the blink of an eye, sped up the stairs, past the others, and out into the backyard, up a tree. As he stared at the house, contemplating his next move when suddenly, the tree branch began to creak. There was more wait on the branch than there should have been and it fell to the ground, taking Hiei with it. Groaning, he looked up, only to see a girl who appeared to be 16, with kitsune ears and tail, and bat-like wings hovering over where the branch used to be, laughing.
"You think that's funny?!" Hiei snapped at the girl, standing up and brushing himself off.
The girl stopped laughing and stared at Hiei with her equally deep crimson eyes. "Hey, you're really cute!" She flew down and landed on the ground. She was surprisingly two inches shorter than him and she stood on tip-toes, shoving her face into his. Her large eyes looked deep into his and after a moment, her ears and tail began to twitch. "Ok, you're really bored, you plan on pranking the people inside this house, your name is Hiei, and you're single." She stated.
"Wha-what? How'd you know that? I demand to know!" He demanded.
"Hehehehe! I'm a mind reader! Oh and my name's Kurai." She stood up as tall as she could and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
Startled, he jumped back and stared at her in disbelief.
"Aw, did I frighten the kawaii fire youkai?" She grinned. She began to slowly walk towards him with a slight smirk on her face. She put her hand on his shoulder and stood up tall so her face was in his. "As you can see I love pranking people, I could help you get them really good..."
He looked at her as if he was trying to figure out an alternate motive for her actions, but could find none. All she seemed to want to do was join him in pranking the rest of the tantei. Still a bit uncomfortable, he reluctantly agreed to let her help.
"Ok, now send a telepathic message to Kuronue and tell him to play along with everything ok?" She ordered.
"Wait, how do you know I can--"
She placed her index finger to her head, "Mind reading remember..."
"Fine..." He then closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
"Kuronue? Its Hiei..."
"Hiei? Oh, the short quiet one..."
"Yes, now I'm not going to tell you much, but I'm about to come in with a friend and try to prank the others, we need you to play along ok?"
"Fine, but please don't let her get hurt, she's not as strong as she believes herself to be..."
"Wait, how do you--"
"All will be explained later..."
With that, Hiei opened his eyes and looked at Kurai. "Ok, he agreed." He decided not to mention what Kuronue had said about the hanyou.
"Ok, so here's what we do..." She whispered.
A bit surprised at how she was deeming herself as the boss, Hiei opened his mouth to object, but then thought otherwise and let it alone.
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almost an hour later...
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"Hey look at me!!!" Yusuke laughed. He had bendy straws up his nose and coming out his ears, a paper pirate hat on his head, ketchup smeared on his cheeks like war paint, and he was balancing almost 10 cans on top of each other. But his laughing caused his body to shake, making the cans fall on top of him. He fell to the ground, buried in cans and bendy straws still coming from his ears and nose.
"And here I thought Kuwabara was supposed to be the clown..." Kurama laughed.
"Hey what's that supposed to mean?!" Kuwabara snapped.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud that came from over by the door, it sounded as if someone had rammed their body into the door at full force.
"Uh guys, what was that?" Kuwabara stupidly asked. How were they supposed to know what had hit the door?
The door slowly opened and Hiei came crashing in, cuts all over his skin and blood everywhere. He lay there heavily breathing and at the brink of passing out.
"H-help m-me..." He huffed.
"Hiei, what happened?" Kurama asked, getting down on his knees and looking at the cuts.
Kuronue just sat on the couch with his stone-cold look pasted on his face, however, inside, he was laughing his head off.
As everyone was gathered around Hiei, giving them all the attention they had, Kurai snuck up behind them and stood in the door. She raised her arms up and the lights went out, causing the house to go pitch black. Hiei, with his jagan out, quickly replaced himself with a life-like dummy and sped out of the circle of concerned, confused guys, and stood, unharmed, next to Kuronue. Kurai snapped her fingers and a large spotlight from behind lit up, illuminating her. She stood, levitating about a foot off the ground and her face highlighted by shadows.
"You poor helpless souls! Ha ha ha ha! Look at you cower there over your beaten friend! It twas I who cut him, it twas I who left him inches from death, and now I've come for you! Prepare yourselves for now is the time for you to go to hell!" She yelled in a loud, evil voice.
Hiei sat in the corner covered in shadows by Kuronue snickering. This was going so much better than he had planned. Kuwabara fell over backwards and started to tremble.
"W-what do you want, who are you?!" He let out in a quivering voice.
"I want you, your souls, your minds! I am the angel of Death!" She bellowed.
"Where did you come from?" Kurama asked, not the slightest bit scared, he didn't know where she had come from, or who she was, but he could see that she wasn't a threat.
"I came from the deepest pits of Hell!" She spread her wings out in full and her fangs seemed to get bigger. A horn began to grow from her forehead, making her appear like she was part kitsune, part bat, and part unicorn...
"No, mommy!" Kuwabara shrieked and went to hide behind Kurama.
Kurai began to laugh and she glided over to Yusuke who was standing stiff trying to hold in his fear. Koenma had never mentioned this angel of Death, neither had Botan or Hinageshi, yet there wasn't something right about this. She ran her finger down Yusuke's cheek and sighed.
"Poor Yusuke, afraid he's going to die...You're afraid because you don't know what I am, that Koenma, never said anything to you...well he wouldn't have, he doesn't know about me at all, he's not as good of a boss as he should be is he Yusuke, now, lets finish this." She finished running her finger down his face and smiled.
Yusuke continued to shake, how did she know what he was thinking? Was she a mind-reader?
"Yusuke, stay calm, she's no threat." Kurama assured.
"What? But she said..."
"Yusuke, think about it, haven't you noticed that Hiei is gone?" Kurama pointed out.
Yusuke looked down in the direction where Hiei had been laying and sure enough, he was gone and had been replaced with a plastic dummy.
Getting a bit nervous of being found out so soon in the act, quickly came back with, "Don't listen to him, this is part of my power, I turn anyone I bite into plastic!"
"Seriously, how dumb do you think I am?" Yusuke snapped... "Wait, don't answer that..."
"Honestly Yusuke I don't know what to think..." Kurama sighed.
"What's that supposed to mean fox boy?" Yusuke snapped.
"I just think that if you stopped to think..."
"He means your stupid and will always be you baka!" Hiei snapped, stepping out of the shadows.
"Hiei?!" Kuwabara said, very confused.
"Hn. That was almost too good..." He smirked.
"Now Hiei, that wasn't very funny..." Kurama scolded.
"Hehehehe we fooled you!" Kurai laughed as she ran up to Kuronue.
"Erm, yes well, I guess now you've met my daughter..." Kuronue said with a large sweat drop.
"You have a kid?" Kuwabara asked, walking up to Kurai and staring at her as if she was some animal in a cage.
"Yes, she's my adopted daughter." He explained. As he did so, Kurai, very annoyed with Kuwabara jabbed him in the gut with her elbow.
"Umf!" He gasped and fell to the ground.
"Kurai, why don't you go outside and get the rest of your things ok?" Kuronue suggested.
"Ok daddy, I'll be back later." She glided out the door leaving the guys alone again.
"Yes, she was the one who saved me, you know, that day when we were separated. After telling you to run, I passed out. I didn't wake up for many hours, but I felt someone carefully freeing my body from the bamboo shoots. I opened my eyes and saw her standing there supporting my body on a rock. She healed my wounds and gave me food. When I got to know her better, I found that her parents had both been killed and that she was alone in the world, so I took her in." Kuronue explained.
"That must be awful, having no parents..." Kurama sympathized. "Well, the both of you are welcome to stay here for as long as you want."
"Thank you my old friend."
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2:45am...
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"I can't believe we made such a mess," Yusuke stated as he and the rest of the gang were picking up dirty paper plates and half-eaten food from the floor, "I mean come on, my room isn't even this bad..."
"Yusuke, most of this is your mess!" Keiko snapped as she bent down to grab a soda can.
Yusuke snuck over while she was still bent over and flipped up her blue skirt. "Pink today huh? I would have thought black or light blue..."
"Yusuke you jerk!" She stood up and whacked her hand against Yusuke's cheek. Then, if that weren't enough, she stomped her high heeled shoe on top of his foot.
"OW!!! What was that for?!"
"I can't believe you..." She snapped.
Kurama stepped between the two and held out his arms, "Now you two, we have much more important things to deal with, like cleaning up, finding Hiei, and trying to hide Kuronue..."
"Yeah where is the shrimp?" Kuwabara asked, "He's been gone for about an hour now..."
After a moment, Yusuke looked at Keiko and said, "Keiko, why don't you take Yukina home, we have some things we have to sort out here and its getting late..."
Keiko, a bit hurt, sighed and nodded. "Come on Yukina, lets go..." They walked out of Kurama's house and into the darkness.
The three boys continued to clean up as Kuronue sat on the couch with his head in his hands. He just kept muttering to himself and twitching.
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Hiei sat in the basement with nothing to do but stare at the wall. What to do? He thought, after a bit, his eyes began to close, but he immediately opened them and smirked. He stood up and in the blink of an eye, sped up the stairs, past the others, and out into the backyard, up a tree. As he stared at the house, contemplating his next move when suddenly, the tree branch began to creak. There was more wait on the branch than there should have been and it fell to the ground, taking Hiei with it. Groaning, he looked up, only to see a girl who appeared to be 16, with kitsune ears and tail, and bat-like wings hovering over where the branch used to be, laughing.
"You think that's funny?!" Hiei snapped at the girl, standing up and brushing himself off.
The girl stopped laughing and stared at Hiei with her equally deep crimson eyes. "Hey, you're really cute!" She flew down and landed on the ground. She was surprisingly two inches shorter than him and she stood on tip-toes, shoving her face into his. Her large eyes looked deep into his and after a moment, her ears and tail began to twitch. "Ok, you're really bored, you plan on pranking the people inside this house, your name is Hiei, and you're single." She stated.
"Wha-what? How'd you know that? I demand to know!" He demanded.
"Hehehehe! I'm a mind reader! Oh and my name's Kurai." She stood up as tall as she could and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
Startled, he jumped back and stared at her in disbelief.
"Aw, did I frighten the kawaii fire youkai?" She grinned. She began to slowly walk towards him with a slight smirk on her face. She put her hand on his shoulder and stood up tall so her face was in his. "As you can see I love pranking people, I could help you get them really good..."
He looked at her as if he was trying to figure out an alternate motive for her actions, but could find none. All she seemed to want to do was join him in pranking the rest of the tantei. Still a bit uncomfortable, he reluctantly agreed to let her help.
"Ok, now send a telepathic message to Kuronue and tell him to play along with everything ok?" She ordered.
"Wait, how do you know I can--"
She placed her index finger to her head, "Mind reading remember..."
"Fine..." He then closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
"Kuronue? Its Hiei..."
"Hiei? Oh, the short quiet one..."
"Yes, now I'm not going to tell you much, but I'm about to come in with a friend and try to prank the others, we need you to play along ok?"
"Fine, but please don't let her get hurt, she's not as strong as she believes herself to be..."
"Wait, how do you--"
"All will be explained later..."
With that, Hiei opened his eyes and looked at Kurai. "Ok, he agreed." He decided not to mention what Kuronue had said about the hanyou.
"Ok, so here's what we do..." She whispered.
A bit surprised at how she was deeming herself as the boss, Hiei opened his mouth to object, but then thought otherwise and let it alone.
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almost an hour later...
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"Hey look at me!!!" Yusuke laughed. He had bendy straws up his nose and coming out his ears, a paper pirate hat on his head, ketchup smeared on his cheeks like war paint, and he was balancing almost 10 cans on top of each other. But his laughing caused his body to shake, making the cans fall on top of him. He fell to the ground, buried in cans and bendy straws still coming from his ears and nose.
"And here I thought Kuwabara was supposed to be the clown..." Kurama laughed.
"Hey what's that supposed to mean?!" Kuwabara snapped.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud that came from over by the door, it sounded as if someone had rammed their body into the door at full force.
"Uh guys, what was that?" Kuwabara stupidly asked. How were they supposed to know what had hit the door?
The door slowly opened and Hiei came crashing in, cuts all over his skin and blood everywhere. He lay there heavily breathing and at the brink of passing out.
"H-help m-me..." He huffed.
"Hiei, what happened?" Kurama asked, getting down on his knees and looking at the cuts.
Kuronue just sat on the couch with his stone-cold look pasted on his face, however, inside, he was laughing his head off.
As everyone was gathered around Hiei, giving them all the attention they had, Kurai snuck up behind them and stood in the door. She raised her arms up and the lights went out, causing the house to go pitch black. Hiei, with his jagan out, quickly replaced himself with a life-like dummy and sped out of the circle of concerned, confused guys, and stood, unharmed, next to Kuronue. Kurai snapped her fingers and a large spotlight from behind lit up, illuminating her. She stood, levitating about a foot off the ground and her face highlighted by shadows.
"You poor helpless souls! Ha ha ha ha! Look at you cower there over your beaten friend! It twas I who cut him, it twas I who left him inches from death, and now I've come for you! Prepare yourselves for now is the time for you to go to hell!" She yelled in a loud, evil voice.
Hiei sat in the corner covered in shadows by Kuronue snickering. This was going so much better than he had planned. Kuwabara fell over backwards and started to tremble.
"W-what do you want, who are you?!" He let out in a quivering voice.
"I want you, your souls, your minds! I am the angel of Death!" She bellowed.
"Where did you come from?" Kurama asked, not the slightest bit scared, he didn't know where she had come from, or who she was, but he could see that she wasn't a threat.
"I came from the deepest pits of Hell!" She spread her wings out in full and her fangs seemed to get bigger. A horn began to grow from her forehead, making her appear like she was part kitsune, part bat, and part unicorn...
"No, mommy!" Kuwabara shrieked and went to hide behind Kurama.
Kurai began to laugh and she glided over to Yusuke who was standing stiff trying to hold in his fear. Koenma had never mentioned this angel of Death, neither had Botan or Hinageshi, yet there wasn't something right about this. She ran her finger down Yusuke's cheek and sighed.
"Poor Yusuke, afraid he's going to die...You're afraid because you don't know what I am, that Koenma, never said anything to you...well he wouldn't have, he doesn't know about me at all, he's not as good of a boss as he should be is he Yusuke, now, lets finish this." She finished running her finger down his face and smiled.
Yusuke continued to shake, how did she know what he was thinking? Was she a mind-reader?
"Yusuke, stay calm, she's no threat." Kurama assured.
"What? But she said..."
"Yusuke, think about it, haven't you noticed that Hiei is gone?" Kurama pointed out.
Yusuke looked down in the direction where Hiei had been laying and sure enough, he was gone and had been replaced with a plastic dummy.
Getting a bit nervous of being found out so soon in the act, quickly came back with, "Don't listen to him, this is part of my power, I turn anyone I bite into plastic!"
"Seriously, how dumb do you think I am?" Yusuke snapped... "Wait, don't answer that..."
"Honestly Yusuke I don't know what to think..." Kurama sighed.
"What's that supposed to mean fox boy?" Yusuke snapped.
"I just think that if you stopped to think..."
"He means your stupid and will always be you baka!" Hiei snapped, stepping out of the shadows.
"Hiei?!" Kuwabara said, very confused.
"Hn. That was almost too good..." He smirked.
"Now Hiei, that wasn't very funny..." Kurama scolded.
"Hehehehe we fooled you!" Kurai laughed as she ran up to Kuronue.
"Erm, yes well, I guess now you've met my daughter..." Kuronue said with a large sweat drop.
"You have a kid?" Kuwabara asked, walking up to Kurai and staring at her as if she was some animal in a cage.
"Yes, she's my adopted daughter." He explained. As he did so, Kurai, very annoyed with Kuwabara jabbed him in the gut with her elbow.
"Umf!" He gasped and fell to the ground.
"Kurai, why don't you go outside and get the rest of your things ok?" Kuronue suggested.
"Ok daddy, I'll be back later." She glided out the door leaving the guys alone again.
"Yes, she was the one who saved me, you know, that day when we were separated. After telling you to run, I passed out. I didn't wake up for many hours, but I felt someone carefully freeing my body from the bamboo shoots. I opened my eyes and saw her standing there supporting my body on a rock. She healed my wounds and gave me food. When I got to know her better, I found that her parents had both been killed and that she was alone in the world, so I took her in." Kuronue explained.
"That must be awful, having no parents..." Kurama sympathized. "Well, the both of you are welcome to stay here for as long as you want."
"Thank you my old friend."
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SO, what did you think??? Review!!!