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Hiei then said as if he didn't care " Should I leave the room?" Kurama looked up and said with a calm face, getting off of Hikage " No, we were just wrapping up." Hiei then went to the bath room to change out of his swimming shorts and into black boxers. It was one in the morning and Hikage had to visit Shishi at four o'clock. She sat on her bed looking out the window. She wondered what he wanted to talk about. She didn't even know the guys name ( His name is just mentioned because I'm narrating ). He seemed nice enough, but looks can be deceiving. She learned that a long time ago when she was a child. Hikage looked at the stars in the sky. She liked to think that each star in the night sky was one persons life energy and nova's were the persons life ending. Falling stars were the peoples souls that fell to hell. Her fathers name meant moon so she liked to believe that he was the moon. Her mothers name meant sky, so she like to believe that her mother was the sky. Hikage's name was the least heavenly name that she could think of. It meant fire shadow. Not stars, or light. She wondered why her parents gave her that name. She didn't feel like staying in the same room as everybody else.
Kurama left the room. Hikage was happy he left. She was getting quite uncomfortable. Then Hiei walked out of the bath room and then darted her a blank look that didn't look too friendly. She then said with irritation " Don't give me that look. Don't treat me like an idiot. I may have my secrets, but I'm nothing for you to worry about. What can I say, I refuse to be treated like a child. If I'm not mistaken you have a secret about your age even though it's not as old as some people would be concerned about. If I'm not mistaken, you're around Yusuke's age. It's not too hard to find out you have a Jagan smack dab in the middle of your forehead. So don't hassle me about my secrets." Hiei grunted as he paid his attention elsewhere.
Hikage wanted to ask him something though, and she blew her chance by blowing off Hiei. Then again she didn't care when the right time was, because anytime would be a bad time to ask him seeing as Hiei didn't seem to like her from the start. So she then spoke up as she turned around and looked at Hiei polishing his sword " Hiei, what I meant to say is. . . Can I look at your Jagan? I know it's quite random at the previous subject, but that's what I meant to say." Hiei grunted, not making any movements or specific sounds to her question. She bounced off her bed and walked over to Hiei's bed. She positioned her hands so that she could unwrap the bandanna that he wore all the time. When she was done she saw the Jagan. She inched closer to his forehead as she showed interest in the Jagan. She then backed away from it just enough so she could ask Hiei another question. She was just about ready to touch the forehead over his Jagan and then started with " Could I. . . uhh?" Hiei said with his arms crossed and an irritated face on " Oh, I suppose so, since you touched just about everything on my partner." Hiei was just joking in his own way, but Hikage wasn't laughing. In fact she punched him. Hiei didn't hold his cheek in pane. Instead he gave her a disgusted face. Hikage responded with an angry face and said " Just joking, right Hiei. Is that what it was supposed to be? A joke. I'm not laughing." She then touched above his forehead and a flash came to her. A flash of Hiei's Past. Her eyes were blank white. She took her fingers off of his forehead and said "You're Yukina's brother." ( She learned the names after an introduction by Botan) Hiei didn't get what just happened and said " That is none of your business." She then said to him " I think I owe you now." Hiei then said " What are you talking about?" She then said " I think I accidentally read your mind. To make it even you, you have to read one of my memories." She then turned her head and down and said " Of course I won't force you, but it'll only be even." Hiei then smirked and said " Oh, I wouldn't want to pass up this opportunity." She sighed and then knelt down and said " Go wherever you like and look at only one memory. Even if you do look at a memory you probably won't see anything that will tell you about my life."
He then touched his fingers to her forehead and started looking through, seeing if one looked like something he was looking for. It looked like it was going back in fast forward. He came upon an image where there was an eye that had a vision of flame in it's sight. Then there was a little girl with blond hair. The little girl was staring at a burning house. Not crying or doing anything about it. Her face looked blank and unaffected by the burning house. Then all the memories got jumbled in some kind of fast forward flash and then Hiei stopped. Hiei said " I found out there was a burning house in your past, but it didn't look too important." Hikage then said with a pause and then a face that didn't want to remember it " You should have looked harder." She turned to the door to the mini hall way and walked to it. Before Hikage left the room Hiei smirked and giggled slightly thinking how fun it would be to dig in her head again and see if she thought about Kurama twenty four seven, but then again he didn't want to see him and her doing any weird stuff so he decided not to ask. She was out of the room before he finished the thought.
When Hikage got to the living room she saw Kurama on the couch. She tried to ignore him, but he got to her first and said " You're embarrassed aren't you." Hikage then said with a straight face " Why do you say that?" Kurama then said " Because you're trying to ignore me, every chance you get." I left the room and you stayed in the bed room for an extreme amount of time. You didn't even say hi when you came in the room." Hikage then said " I'm sorry, it's just Hiei. . ." Kurama responded with " Don't worry about Hiei. He's not one to spread the word. He's quite quiet and makes it seem like he doesn't like people, but he won't tell. Could you come and sit with me for a minute?" Hikage didn't say anything. She walked over to the couch and flopped down on it carelessly. Hikage looked over at Kurama and focused on his hair. She then reached her hand out to his hair and let it seep between her fingers. She then said with a concerned face on " Kurama, when did you last wash your hair?" Kurama looked upward and a sweat drop dropped from the side of his face. Hikage responded " Don't tell me you don't remember." Next she looked he was sweating like crazy. Hikage then said " That's it, I'm washing your hair tonight." Kurama then said " Fine."
Hikage and Kurama walked back to the bed room and into the bath room. They closed the door behind them. Kurama changed into his swimming shorts behind the shower certain and Hikage changed into jean shorts and black T- shirt. When they were done dressing for the first Kurama hair wash in a long time Hikage walked into the shower with shampoo and conditioner as well as a brush. She also brought Kurama's brush. She then turned the cold water on and then the hot. She adjusted them a little so that the water wasn't too cold or too hot. Kurama's hair started to sulk. Hikage then put in some shampoo and spread it around. From the top of his head to the ends of his hair, making sure she rubbed it in very well. When she was done she washed it out with water. She then put the conditioner in. She made sure she put a lot of that in. She brushed his hair while the conditioner was still in so it made it easy to get any snarls out. When she was done brushing his hair she washed the conditioner out with water. She seeped her hands through his wet hair and said " There, it doesn't feel as damp anymore. You should wash your hair more often." He then held the hand of Hikage's that was seeping through his hair and said " Could you do it? I tend to get lazy." Hikage blushed and said " Well, sure, but eventually you're going to have ot learn to wash it yourself." Kurama then said " Could I practice on your hair?" Hikage sighed and said " Sure." Her T-shirt was down to her knees so she could just switch while in the shower. She took the swimming shorts off the towel rack and switched it with the shorts that were on under her T-shirt. She then undid the braid and said " You know what to do right?" Kurama then said " Yep, shampoo first conditioner second, leave it in until I'm done brushing snarls out. You just washed your hair tonight, so I shouldn't be seeing too many snarls." Hikage nodded her head yes and switched places with Kurama. Kurama repeated the process and earned his freakin' washing hair degree. Hikage then said almost opening the shower certain " Well, I guess we're done." Kurama pulled her arm back and slammed her against the back of the shower where there wasn't any knobs or shelves and kissed her. He was holding the arm she was going to use to open the shower certain against the back of the shower a little bit higher than her head and said " Thank you." He then let go of her arm and they walked out of the shower.
They changed the same way they did when they got in the bath room and walked out of it. Hikage looked at the clock and then started to panic. She the said to Kurama " I'm sorry, I have to go out and do something right now." Kurama then gave her a confused look and said " What would a person of your age have to do at four in the morning?" Hikage then said " I have to meet someone." Kurama then grunted and nodded his head, yes. Hikage then ran out the door way as fast as possible as a gust followed her. Kurama walked over to the window and looked out of it. He could see that Hikage was already at the bottom of the hotel. He wondered who she was visiting at this time a night. Kurama turned to Hiei who was on his bed relaxing his hands behind his head and said " Hiei, could you . . .?" Hiei then interrupted an said " Fine, but I'm only doing this because you're my partner. Hiei got up and grabbed a shirt, shoved it over his head and put some pants on. He grabbed his sword and out the door he went.
Hikage was running with extreme speed. She finally made it to the old arena. Shishi was standing at the entrance and spotted Hikage. He then said " You made it. I didn't expect you to come in your P.J's, but I guess it doesn't make a difference." Hikage then said " Yeah, sorry, I lost track of time." He then said " I want to show you the inside of the stadium." She then nodded her head.
INSIDE THE STADIUM
Hikage then said " It doesn't look as impressive, but either way it wouldn't matter to me." Shishi then said " Would you like to show me some of your moves on the platform?" Hikage then said " Ok, but I'm not telling you how to use any of my magic tricks. A magician never tells how a trick is done." She jumped onto the platform and then started punching with her left, right then she kicked with her right leg and then her left. She then twirled around and did an under kick and then turned it into a back flip. Flipping three times backward and swirled around jabbing her elbow into nothing and then extended her arm to so that her fist bashed into the nothing that Hikage was fighting against. She then faced the way her arm was going and punched with the opposite fist. She then stopped fighting against air and said " By the way, I didn't catch your name." Shishi then said " My name is Shishi Wakamaru." Hikage then said with a smirk " Well Mr. Wakamaru, would you mind if I asked you to practice with me?" He smirked back at her and said " Not at all." and jumped to the platform, yielding his sword.
Hikage stood there with a serious face on as Shishi charged at her. She would have moved, but it didn't seem necessary. His charging was sloppy and something was quite different. It was so sloppy that she thought that he might be planning something for close range. There was no other way to attack her, so she stood there until he struck in front of her. She didn't move at all until it was quite impossible for him to try and do what she thought he was going to do, but in fact when she moved he swiftly went in back of her and slashed her back. He licked the blood that was Hikage's off of his sword and said " It's too sweet tasting to be a humans. Maybe your were adopted, or raised in the human world." Hikage said leaning slightly to make less pain out of the slash " Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. I'm not so concerned as to what people think I am. I'm still just as weak as a regular human. Even if I were something else, no one in the world knows what I am. Not even my brother. One thing I have learned living in the human world is that I'm willing to take a chance if it cost me my life. Even though they didn't accept me into their world. Even when everything seemed hopeless, I wanted to become better on my own standards. I fell in live with a human. The one human I sucked the energy out of and he left me for another girl. I caught an emotion called sadness from living in the human world too long. I didn't get why I felt that way, because I thought I should have been feeling angry. I found out why I felt sad. It was because my whole life I had been alone and the one human I loved so much for three wonderful years left me for another girl. That was why I felt sadness instead of anger.
Shishi then charged again and said " Well wasn't that a pleasant story. I hope you're happier here." Hikage then smiled warmly as she dodged his swipes and said in-between swipes " Yes, it was quite pleasant wasn't it. I'm not quite sure how to end it. I'll tell you when I think of an ending." Hikage then dodged a slice to the cheek, but it was so close that it made a small slit from the pressure. Shishi then said " The way you fight makes you seem like a graceful beast. Did you do anything else in your past life other than fighting?" Hikage then responded trying to get in a few punches " I took dance until I was nine, but never again. I could show you what it taught me though." She then jumped high in the air and flipped onto his back and said " We learned to jump to extreme heights." She then pushed him down with her feet. She saw that Shishi let loosened his grip on the sword. Hikage then snatched it from his hand and held the blade across his neck and said " My father taught me that you shouldn't loose your grip on any weapon you hold." Shishi then smiled and said " Fine, fine, I lost. Very impressive, but I would have liked to see one of your spells." Hikage smiled releasing the sword from his neck and said " I thought you said you watched my fights." Shishi said " I guess I did. Forget about the spell then. Lets just rest now." He said as he sat down. Hikage then went and sat beside him. He then said " Sorry about your back." Hikage then responded with " I'm used to it." Shishi then said " Did you think it was sick when I tasted your blood?" Hikage gave a slight smile looking at nothing and then giggled saying " Lets just say I don't want you to slice may back off next time. Shishi, if you were to win the tournament, what would you have wanted for a prize?" Shishi didn't think twice and turned to her with a smile and said " Your love. Out of all the girls I've met you were the most calm a normal acting. You're easy to talk to, you're beautiful."
He touched her cheek as she looked at him with a blank face and rosy cheeks. Shishi then said with a warm smile " I also think you look cute when you blush."
Hiei was watching the whole time. He could see Shishi flirting with Hikage, but not in a way where it looked like he didn't mean it. He looked like he had real feelings for her. He looked so close to her face that he might even kiss her that night.
Shishi's breathes rolled off her face as his face hovered in front of hers. He inched his lips a little bit closer to hers. When he was a centimeter from her lips Hikage pulled her head away and looked the opposite way staring down. Shishi then said trying to look around to her face " Is there something wrong?" Hikage then said " I'm spoken for." Shishi then grunted and said " I understand." He jumped off the edge of the platform and said " You can go back to your hotel room now. I'll meet you at the pool tomorrow after the tournaments. Don't wear your swimming suit though." He then walked off.
Hiei didn't need to stay, he did his job.
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Hikage snuck into the room. Kurama was asleep, but Hiei was only laying down with his eyes closed. Hikage didn't know that. She walked to her bed and opened the window. She then rested her elbows on the window sill and rested her chin in her hands and said " Once upon a time there was a peaceful world that we destroyed. The story of a hero only repeats itself. In the end more people died than got saved. Did she take the path she did in life because she didn't think they deserved to be saved or because she thought they needed to find out how to save themselves?" Hikage sighed and started singing the song of hiru no tsuki " I don't know. . . what words I can say, the wind has a way. . . to talk to me. Flowers sleep a silent lullaby. I pray for reply. I'm ready. Quiet day. . .calms me. . . Oh serenity. Someone please. . . tell. . .me. . .ahmmmm. What is it they say? Maybe I'll know one day. I don't know. . . what words I can say. The wind has a way. . . to talk. . . to me. Flowers sleep. . . a silent lullaby. I pray for reply. I'm ready. . ." She sighed once more and then said for her last words of the night " Maybe it's not as hopeless as it seems." She then got out of the window and shut it. She laid down in her bed closing her eyes. Letting the blood on her back bleed onto the bed. Not caring whether she dies the next day.
NEXT DAY
Kurama woke up and then looked over to Hikage's bed and smiled as he watched her peacefully sleep in her bed. Hiei's bed was empty. Kurama then walked over to Hikage's bed and shook her shoulder saying " Hikage, It's time to wake up." Hikage then opened her eyes slowly as the vision of Kurama grew clearer and she said " Come on, I'm still sleepy." He then said " Out of bed you go." He threw the covers off of her and then saw the huge stain of blood that she lay on. He then said " Well no wonder you're still tired. You got injured again." He lifted her out of the bed and put her on the ground. He took the top and thickest sheet from the bed and wrapped it around Hikage. He then lifted her up again.
He carried her to the living room. Hiei was sitting on one of the couches. Kurama set her down on the opposite couch and said " Hiei, get some bandages. She's bleeding very heavily. I haven't seen her bleed like this before." Hiei did what Kurama asked. He gave the roll of bandages to Kurama. Kurama put the back of his hand on Hikage's forehead and said " She's burning up." He then unwrapped the sheet from her body and asked her with a soft voice " Hikage, do you think you could sit up for me?" Hikage nodded yes and started to sit up. Kurama put his hand softly behind her back to support her. When she was all the way up he then wrapped bandages around her stomach to cover the cut on Hikage's back. Kurama then said " Honestly, one injury after the other. What am I going to do with you?" Hikage giggled and said " I guess you'll have to keep me out of trouble then." Kurama then smiled warmly and said " I guess I will." Kurama then lifted her up again without the blanket and brought her to the bed room again.
When Kurama got to the bed room he laid her on his bed and went to the shelf of clothes she was given. He didn't feel like picking from her shelf of ten million choices of clothes. Instead he turned around and said " You don't mind if you wear some of my clothes today do you?" Hikage faintly shook her head no. Kurama then went to the closet the was on the right end of the room by his bed. He opened it and searched through it. He thought to himself " Her size is much smaller than mine. I might even have to resort to Hiei's wardrobe"
He looked at Hiei's clothes and picked out a black long sleeved shirt and pants with a red shall with a blue outline. There was also a white scarf and cloth for wrapping around her waist. He also grabbed the black pear of shoes that sat under it. They were small and simple and had no heels. They looked like something you would wear in a fight. He took it out of the closet and then set it on the bed beside Hikage and said " You're only going to the tournament today because I know you'll refuse if I force you to stay here." Kurama scrunched the shirt up and then put it on over her head, unscrunching it onto her body. He then put his hands under her shirt and unbuttoned the buttons to her night clothes. When he was done he brought his hands back up to her shoulders so that he could take it off under Hiei's shirt. He pulled it off of her arms and pulled it out from under Hiei's shirt. Hiei's shirt went down to seven inches above the knee. Kurama then started tugging on her night pants from the bottom and threw them by Hikage's bed. Kurama scrunched Hiei's pants up and started to put then on Hikage's legs. He then slid them all the way up to her waist. Kurama noticed he hadn't put her hands through the sleeves of the shirt. He put his arm through the sleeve and pulled out an arm. He did the same with the other arm. Kurama then put the shall on over her head and put put her arms through the holes on each end of the shall. Obviously meant for the arms to go through. He then tied the white cloth around her waist. He then tied the white scarf around Hikage's neck. He took Hiei's shoes and put them slowly on Hikage's feet to make sure they fit. Kurama then asked " Do they fit ok?" Hikage responded by nodding yes. It was a good coincidence that they fit her so well. For a finishing touch Kurama got the bandages and wrapped it around the bottom of pants and onto her bare ankle so that it would be easier to fight in.
Kurama then carried her to the living room again and sat her on the couch. He then said " Do you think you can stand up?" She didn't nod her head or make any reaction. She just pushed herself up off the couch and wobbled trying to get up. She looked so week it was unreal. She finally stood straight up. Kurama then asked her " Can you walk for me?" Hikage turned slightly to the side and took one step forward. She took faint half step and then sighed as she was about to fall on the floor fainted when Hiei caught her. Hiei then said " She is clearly not in any condition to fight." Kurama then said with a smile " I know, but she won't allow for me to stop her even if I tried. We'll just let her watch us." Kurama then walked over to Hiei and picked Hikage up from his hands. He then walked a little bit further ahead and said turning around " Plus, she might surprise us with another astounding attack." Hiei then noticed and said " Is she wearing my clothes?" Kurama then giggled and said " My clothes were much too big for her. You should be surprised to know that she has the exact same shoe size as you too." Hiei grunted and they were off to the stadium.
AT THE STADIUM
Kurama and Hiei arrived inside the stadium with their team mates. Yusuke was finishing off a fight. Kurama set Hikage down on the bare ground against the wall the audience was sitting in. Kurama decided to fight the next fighter, but Hiei refused him and said that he wanted to fight him. Kurama allowed it. Hiei walked onto the platform. The announcer gave the signal and they started ot fight.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER
Hikage woke up and heard the announcer counting down until she reached ten and team Urameshi lost one round that day. Hiei was on the ground a little ways from Hikage. Like thirty feet. Hikage tried getting up as she wobbled. She then ran over to Hiei. She kneeled down to Hiei who was inbeded into the wall. She pulled him out and held him up with one hand on his back and one hand on his shoulder. She then said " Hiei, are you ok?" Hiei didn't respond. His eyes were closed and he wasn't moving. Hikage then said again " Hiei, come on, you're just joking with me right? You can't be dead, you're too strong to get killed right." There was no response. Tears fell from Hikage's eyes. She then said with her tears rolling down her face " Hiei. . ." Then she hugged him as tight as possible and said " I never really hated you. I envied your power. I envied that you could have that power and I couldn't. You truly were a wonderful person to me. In every way." Hiei then said " Dim whit, why in the world would you talk to a dead person? It makes you look like an idiot." Hikage stopped crying and paused. She pulled Hiei back and said with a blush " Um, all those things I just said. Could I take them back?" Hiei smirked weakly and said "Fine. " Hikage then turned around only to see Shishi on the platform. He then said " You want to fight me for real this time?" Hikage then gave him a disgusted face and turned her body around. She then said to him " This isn't funny if that's what you're thinking."
She jumped onto the platform and then said " I'll fight you." The announcer gave the signal to start fighting. Hikage raised her hand in the air and light came from it. The light cleared as a sword and said " You have your Branchy Shriek and I have my Grim Reaper's Scythe." She then pulled on the handle of her sword and extended into a handle with a clear sphere shaped object the size of your palm. Swirling around it was bright blue energy. Shishi charged at her as she stood there knowing he was going to do the same thing again, but this time she had a plan to counter it. He got ready to strike and she moved as he snuck behind her. She swiftly turned and sliced at Shishi's sword. Sparks flew from their swords as Shishi withdrew from the sparks. Shishi then blocked her attack and pushed his sword against hers. They flew back a ways. Their faces became serious. When they saw each others face they then smirked. Shishi then said " You want to bring out the big guns?" Hikage then said "Oh yeah!" Shishi was flipping his sword around like some show off. Hikage didn't have to watch this stupid show. She then got ready for her attack. She raised her sword and sliced down swirled it around back to the left a and she swirled her body around as she made another slice to the right. She then yelled " Grim Reaper's Shadow of Death" Shishi stopped showing off and dodged the blows that looked like black wind. When it hit the wall behind him, the wall got little scratches and the wind disappeared. Then the wall turned black where the blows hit it and crumbled into nothing. Shishi then charged at her and she started to charge at him. They were both ready to make their blows. Both of their swords teaming with spirit energy. When they got close enough to each other they made their blows. Hikage then yelled " Divine Soul Be Mine!" She made a huge slice that appeared as a ray of light. She the went right through him as if she were a ghost. After three seconds Shishi finally fell down. The sword in Hikage's hand disappeared and the only thing left in her hand was a little sphere of light. The announcer then started counting down. Hikage then walked over to her team and said " I'll be judging his soul to see if he should have it back or if he deserved to die by my hand.
AT THE INJURY ROOM
Hikage then walked in and saw Shishi laying in a hospital bed. She walked up to him and then put the sphere of light into his chest. Shishi started to open his eyes. He then said " Why did you give my soul back? I'm on the opposite team as you." Hikage sat down on the chair that was next to the bed. She sighed and then said " Let me tell you something. People are confused by epochal view point. It confuses them into thinking that one person is evil and one person is good when it is really about what people believe. People believe that a person in born to be on two separate sides, evil and good. The reality of this doesn't exist. All people are born with two sides, but not evil or good. They are born with the rights to do right and wrong. Some people prefer to do more wrong than right or more right than wrong. It's in every person to choose which to do more of. People came up with the terms evil and good from fighting against each other and choosing which sided they were on. Your soul didn't deserve to leave your body yet, even of you did hurt my friend."
She then got up and walked to the next bed behind the certain where she knew Hiei was. She sat in the chair that was to the left of the bed and by the window. She then said " Hiei, are you awake?" There was no response. She continued and said " Well, I guess I don't want you to actually be hearing this. I wish you would stop punishing your arm for not doing what you wanted. I hate to see them all scratched to a pulp. I think they're quite gifted ot have an owner like you." A young mans voice spoke up from the foot of the bed " You shouldn't talk to demons who are sleeping. hear they're really cranky when you wake them up." Hikage then said " Oh, hi Susuma. I decided to keep him company." Susuma then said with a smirk " After the riot you had today over him, you'd think you were a little more than friends." Hikage then said " No, we're not more than that. I just didn't want ot loose another important person in my life. My parents died, my only friends died. These guys and you are the only ones left. It's one person, but one more person makes all the difference to me." Her elder brother nodded his head. He then said " I should be going."
He then walked out of the room as Kurama passed and walked into the room. He walked over to the window and asked " Is he ok?" Hikage nodded her head yes and said " He's just sleeping." Kurama then rubbed her head and said with a warm smile " Thanks for watching him." She then smiled back and said " I was a little scared when he didn't answer me the first few times out there. I was worried, but if he could make rude comments like that I was sure he'd be fine." Kurama gave her another warm smile. He then said delicately touching Hikage's cheek " You really were worried about him." Hikage then responded with " Yeah. . ." She then got up from the seat and said " You can sit down. You just got here and it's a long way from the bottom of the stadium to the injury room." He then sat down and pulled her down onto his lap before she walked to the other side of the bed. He inched his lips close to her neck and said " Thanks." Hikage then said " You know. . . I get worried about you to." Kurama then said " I know you do." He then kissed her neck and folded his arms around Hikage. Hikage said softly clenching her hands to Kurama's arms "You're truly a kind person Kurama. I love you for that and many of your other qualities." Kurama then said sliding his cheek up to hers " You are a truly wonderful person to. You're very quiet. It shows that you're a shy person inside. You're most beautiful in every way I can think of." Hikage then blushed. Kurama pulled Hikage closer to his chest as his lips touched her cheek. He brought his hands up to her scarf and slowly undid the knot. He then pulled it off and let it fall on the floor. Kurama kissed the bottom of her neck. His fingers wondered up to the top of the shirt where her bare skin show. His fingers pulled the collar to the shirt down and his lips wandered below her collar bone. Hikage started to blush even more. Hikage then pulled herself away, stood up, turning around and said " We shouldn't be doing this in the room. Hiei could wake up at any moment." Kurama smiled warmly as he let his hand fall upon her face and seep into her hair and said "You could be right." His hand fell from her cheek.
Hikage then sat on the floor next to the chair. Hiei started waking up. Hikage was happy, but not excited. She then calmly got up and walked to the edge of the bed, looking down at Hiei with a blank smile and said " You shouldn't scare me like that." He then smirked saying nothing in return. He got up from the bed and said " Let's got back to the hotel."
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: This whole thing was getting so long that I decided to end it here. Next episode there's going to be a show down with Hikage and Hiei. It'll be fierce, but it might be bringing some people closer. I do admit I'm having some trouble with Hiei's personality, so I've been sticking with the one personality I know he does have. The smart alick act.
Hiei then said as if he didn't care " Should I leave the room?" Kurama looked up and said with a calm face, getting off of Hikage " No, we were just wrapping up." Hiei then went to the bath room to change out of his swimming shorts and into black boxers. It was one in the morning and Hikage had to visit Shishi at four o'clock. She sat on her bed looking out the window. She wondered what he wanted to talk about. She didn't even know the guys name ( His name is just mentioned because I'm narrating ). He seemed nice enough, but looks can be deceiving. She learned that a long time ago when she was a child. Hikage looked at the stars in the sky. She liked to think that each star in the night sky was one persons life energy and nova's were the persons life ending. Falling stars were the peoples souls that fell to hell. Her fathers name meant moon so she liked to believe that he was the moon. Her mothers name meant sky, so she like to believe that her mother was the sky. Hikage's name was the least heavenly name that she could think of. It meant fire shadow. Not stars, or light. She wondered why her parents gave her that name. She didn't feel like staying in the same room as everybody else.
Kurama left the room. Hikage was happy he left. She was getting quite uncomfortable. Then Hiei walked out of the bath room and then darted her a blank look that didn't look too friendly. She then said with irritation " Don't give me that look. Don't treat me like an idiot. I may have my secrets, but I'm nothing for you to worry about. What can I say, I refuse to be treated like a child. If I'm not mistaken you have a secret about your age even though it's not as old as some people would be concerned about. If I'm not mistaken, you're around Yusuke's age. It's not too hard to find out you have a Jagan smack dab in the middle of your forehead. So don't hassle me about my secrets." Hiei grunted as he paid his attention elsewhere.
Hikage wanted to ask him something though, and she blew her chance by blowing off Hiei. Then again she didn't care when the right time was, because anytime would be a bad time to ask him seeing as Hiei didn't seem to like her from the start. So she then spoke up as she turned around and looked at Hiei polishing his sword " Hiei, what I meant to say is. . . Can I look at your Jagan? I know it's quite random at the previous subject, but that's what I meant to say." Hiei grunted, not making any movements or specific sounds to her question. She bounced off her bed and walked over to Hiei's bed. She positioned her hands so that she could unwrap the bandanna that he wore all the time. When she was done she saw the Jagan. She inched closer to his forehead as she showed interest in the Jagan. She then backed away from it just enough so she could ask Hiei another question. She was just about ready to touch the forehead over his Jagan and then started with " Could I. . . uhh?" Hiei said with his arms crossed and an irritated face on " Oh, I suppose so, since you touched just about everything on my partner." Hiei was just joking in his own way, but Hikage wasn't laughing. In fact she punched him. Hiei didn't hold his cheek in pane. Instead he gave her a disgusted face. Hikage responded with an angry face and said " Just joking, right Hiei. Is that what it was supposed to be? A joke. I'm not laughing." She then touched above his forehead and a flash came to her. A flash of Hiei's Past. Her eyes were blank white. She took her fingers off of his forehead and said "You're Yukina's brother." ( She learned the names after an introduction by Botan) Hiei didn't get what just happened and said " That is none of your business." She then said to him " I think I owe you now." Hiei then said " What are you talking about?" She then said " I think I accidentally read your mind. To make it even you, you have to read one of my memories." She then turned her head and down and said " Of course I won't force you, but it'll only be even." Hiei then smirked and said " Oh, I wouldn't want to pass up this opportunity." She sighed and then knelt down and said " Go wherever you like and look at only one memory. Even if you do look at a memory you probably won't see anything that will tell you about my life."
He then touched his fingers to her forehead and started looking through, seeing if one looked like something he was looking for. It looked like it was going back in fast forward. He came upon an image where there was an eye that had a vision of flame in it's sight. Then there was a little girl with blond hair. The little girl was staring at a burning house. Not crying or doing anything about it. Her face looked blank and unaffected by the burning house. Then all the memories got jumbled in some kind of fast forward flash and then Hiei stopped. Hiei said " I found out there was a burning house in your past, but it didn't look too important." Hikage then said with a pause and then a face that didn't want to remember it " You should have looked harder." She turned to the door to the mini hall way and walked to it. Before Hikage left the room Hiei smirked and giggled slightly thinking how fun it would be to dig in her head again and see if she thought about Kurama twenty four seven, but then again he didn't want to see him and her doing any weird stuff so he decided not to ask. She was out of the room before he finished the thought.
When Hikage got to the living room she saw Kurama on the couch. She tried to ignore him, but he got to her first and said " You're embarrassed aren't you." Hikage then said with a straight face " Why do you say that?" Kurama then said " Because you're trying to ignore me, every chance you get." I left the room and you stayed in the bed room for an extreme amount of time. You didn't even say hi when you came in the room." Hikage then said " I'm sorry, it's just Hiei. . ." Kurama responded with " Don't worry about Hiei. He's not one to spread the word. He's quite quiet and makes it seem like he doesn't like people, but he won't tell. Could you come and sit with me for a minute?" Hikage didn't say anything. She walked over to the couch and flopped down on it carelessly. Hikage looked over at Kurama and focused on his hair. She then reached her hand out to his hair and let it seep between her fingers. She then said with a concerned face on " Kurama, when did you last wash your hair?" Kurama looked upward and a sweat drop dropped from the side of his face. Hikage responded " Don't tell me you don't remember." Next she looked he was sweating like crazy. Hikage then said " That's it, I'm washing your hair tonight." Kurama then said " Fine."
Hikage and Kurama walked back to the bed room and into the bath room. They closed the door behind them. Kurama changed into his swimming shorts behind the shower certain and Hikage changed into jean shorts and black T- shirt. When they were done dressing for the first Kurama hair wash in a long time Hikage walked into the shower with shampoo and conditioner as well as a brush. She also brought Kurama's brush. She then turned the cold water on and then the hot. She adjusted them a little so that the water wasn't too cold or too hot. Kurama's hair started to sulk. Hikage then put in some shampoo and spread it around. From the top of his head to the ends of his hair, making sure she rubbed it in very well. When she was done she washed it out with water. She then put the conditioner in. She made sure she put a lot of that in. She brushed his hair while the conditioner was still in so it made it easy to get any snarls out. When she was done brushing his hair she washed the conditioner out with water. She seeped her hands through his wet hair and said " There, it doesn't feel as damp anymore. You should wash your hair more often." He then held the hand of Hikage's that was seeping through his hair and said " Could you do it? I tend to get lazy." Hikage blushed and said " Well, sure, but eventually you're going to have ot learn to wash it yourself." Kurama then said " Could I practice on your hair?" Hikage sighed and said " Sure." Her T-shirt was down to her knees so she could just switch while in the shower. She took the swimming shorts off the towel rack and switched it with the shorts that were on under her T-shirt. She then undid the braid and said " You know what to do right?" Kurama then said " Yep, shampoo first conditioner second, leave it in until I'm done brushing snarls out. You just washed your hair tonight, so I shouldn't be seeing too many snarls." Hikage nodded her head yes and switched places with Kurama. Kurama repeated the process and earned his freakin' washing hair degree. Hikage then said almost opening the shower certain " Well, I guess we're done." Kurama pulled her arm back and slammed her against the back of the shower where there wasn't any knobs or shelves and kissed her. He was holding the arm she was going to use to open the shower certain against the back of the shower a little bit higher than her head and said " Thank you." He then let go of her arm and they walked out of the shower.
They changed the same way they did when they got in the bath room and walked out of it. Hikage looked at the clock and then started to panic. She the said to Kurama " I'm sorry, I have to go out and do something right now." Kurama then gave her a confused look and said " What would a person of your age have to do at four in the morning?" Hikage then said " I have to meet someone." Kurama then grunted and nodded his head, yes. Hikage then ran out the door way as fast as possible as a gust followed her. Kurama walked over to the window and looked out of it. He could see that Hikage was already at the bottom of the hotel. He wondered who she was visiting at this time a night. Kurama turned to Hiei who was on his bed relaxing his hands behind his head and said " Hiei, could you . . .?" Hiei then interrupted an said " Fine, but I'm only doing this because you're my partner. Hiei got up and grabbed a shirt, shoved it over his head and put some pants on. He grabbed his sword and out the door he went.
Hikage was running with extreme speed. She finally made it to the old arena. Shishi was standing at the entrance and spotted Hikage. He then said " You made it. I didn't expect you to come in your P.J's, but I guess it doesn't make a difference." Hikage then said " Yeah, sorry, I lost track of time." He then said " I want to show you the inside of the stadium." She then nodded her head.
INSIDE THE STADIUM
Hikage then said " It doesn't look as impressive, but either way it wouldn't matter to me." Shishi then said " Would you like to show me some of your moves on the platform?" Hikage then said " Ok, but I'm not telling you how to use any of my magic tricks. A magician never tells how a trick is done." She jumped onto the platform and then started punching with her left, right then she kicked with her right leg and then her left. She then twirled around and did an under kick and then turned it into a back flip. Flipping three times backward and swirled around jabbing her elbow into nothing and then extended her arm to so that her fist bashed into the nothing that Hikage was fighting against. She then faced the way her arm was going and punched with the opposite fist. She then stopped fighting against air and said " By the way, I didn't catch your name." Shishi then said " My name is Shishi Wakamaru." Hikage then said with a smirk " Well Mr. Wakamaru, would you mind if I asked you to practice with me?" He smirked back at her and said " Not at all." and jumped to the platform, yielding his sword.
Hikage stood there with a serious face on as Shishi charged at her. She would have moved, but it didn't seem necessary. His charging was sloppy and something was quite different. It was so sloppy that she thought that he might be planning something for close range. There was no other way to attack her, so she stood there until he struck in front of her. She didn't move at all until it was quite impossible for him to try and do what she thought he was going to do, but in fact when she moved he swiftly went in back of her and slashed her back. He licked the blood that was Hikage's off of his sword and said " It's too sweet tasting to be a humans. Maybe your were adopted, or raised in the human world." Hikage said leaning slightly to make less pain out of the slash " Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. I'm not so concerned as to what people think I am. I'm still just as weak as a regular human. Even if I were something else, no one in the world knows what I am. Not even my brother. One thing I have learned living in the human world is that I'm willing to take a chance if it cost me my life. Even though they didn't accept me into their world. Even when everything seemed hopeless, I wanted to become better on my own standards. I fell in live with a human. The one human I sucked the energy out of and he left me for another girl. I caught an emotion called sadness from living in the human world too long. I didn't get why I felt that way, because I thought I should have been feeling angry. I found out why I felt sad. It was because my whole life I had been alone and the one human I loved so much for three wonderful years left me for another girl. That was why I felt sadness instead of anger.
Shishi then charged again and said " Well wasn't that a pleasant story. I hope you're happier here." Hikage then smiled warmly as she dodged his swipes and said in-between swipes " Yes, it was quite pleasant wasn't it. I'm not quite sure how to end it. I'll tell you when I think of an ending." Hikage then dodged a slice to the cheek, but it was so close that it made a small slit from the pressure. Shishi then said " The way you fight makes you seem like a graceful beast. Did you do anything else in your past life other than fighting?" Hikage then responded trying to get in a few punches " I took dance until I was nine, but never again. I could show you what it taught me though." She then jumped high in the air and flipped onto his back and said " We learned to jump to extreme heights." She then pushed him down with her feet. She saw that Shishi let loosened his grip on the sword. Hikage then snatched it from his hand and held the blade across his neck and said " My father taught me that you shouldn't loose your grip on any weapon you hold." Shishi then smiled and said " Fine, fine, I lost. Very impressive, but I would have liked to see one of your spells." Hikage smiled releasing the sword from his neck and said " I thought you said you watched my fights." Shishi said " I guess I did. Forget about the spell then. Lets just rest now." He said as he sat down. Hikage then went and sat beside him. He then said " Sorry about your back." Hikage then responded with " I'm used to it." Shishi then said " Did you think it was sick when I tasted your blood?" Hikage gave a slight smile looking at nothing and then giggled saying " Lets just say I don't want you to slice may back off next time. Shishi, if you were to win the tournament, what would you have wanted for a prize?" Shishi didn't think twice and turned to her with a smile and said " Your love. Out of all the girls I've met you were the most calm a normal acting. You're easy to talk to, you're beautiful."
He touched her cheek as she looked at him with a blank face and rosy cheeks. Shishi then said with a warm smile " I also think you look cute when you blush."
Hiei was watching the whole time. He could see Shishi flirting with Hikage, but not in a way where it looked like he didn't mean it. He looked like he had real feelings for her. He looked so close to her face that he might even kiss her that night.
Shishi's breathes rolled off her face as his face hovered in front of hers. He inched his lips a little bit closer to hers. When he was a centimeter from her lips Hikage pulled her head away and looked the opposite way staring down. Shishi then said trying to look around to her face " Is there something wrong?" Hikage then said " I'm spoken for." Shishi then grunted and said " I understand." He jumped off the edge of the platform and said " You can go back to your hotel room now. I'll meet you at the pool tomorrow after the tournaments. Don't wear your swimming suit though." He then walked off.
Hiei didn't need to stay, he did his job.
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Hikage snuck into the room. Kurama was asleep, but Hiei was only laying down with his eyes closed. Hikage didn't know that. She walked to her bed and opened the window. She then rested her elbows on the window sill and rested her chin in her hands and said " Once upon a time there was a peaceful world that we destroyed. The story of a hero only repeats itself. In the end more people died than got saved. Did she take the path she did in life because she didn't think they deserved to be saved or because she thought they needed to find out how to save themselves?" Hikage sighed and started singing the song of hiru no tsuki " I don't know. . . what words I can say, the wind has a way. . . to talk to me. Flowers sleep a silent lullaby. I pray for reply. I'm ready. Quiet day. . .calms me. . . Oh serenity. Someone please. . . tell. . .me. . .ahmmmm. What is it they say? Maybe I'll know one day. I don't know. . . what words I can say. The wind has a way. . . to talk. . . to me. Flowers sleep. . . a silent lullaby. I pray for reply. I'm ready. . ." She sighed once more and then said for her last words of the night " Maybe it's not as hopeless as it seems." She then got out of the window and shut it. She laid down in her bed closing her eyes. Letting the blood on her back bleed onto the bed. Not caring whether she dies the next day.
NEXT DAY
Kurama woke up and then looked over to Hikage's bed and smiled as he watched her peacefully sleep in her bed. Hiei's bed was empty. Kurama then walked over to Hikage's bed and shook her shoulder saying " Hikage, It's time to wake up." Hikage then opened her eyes slowly as the vision of Kurama grew clearer and she said " Come on, I'm still sleepy." He then said " Out of bed you go." He threw the covers off of her and then saw the huge stain of blood that she lay on. He then said " Well no wonder you're still tired. You got injured again." He lifted her out of the bed and put her on the ground. He took the top and thickest sheet from the bed and wrapped it around Hikage. He then lifted her up again.
He carried her to the living room. Hiei was sitting on one of the couches. Kurama set her down on the opposite couch and said " Hiei, get some bandages. She's bleeding very heavily. I haven't seen her bleed like this before." Hiei did what Kurama asked. He gave the roll of bandages to Kurama. Kurama put the back of his hand on Hikage's forehead and said " She's burning up." He then unwrapped the sheet from her body and asked her with a soft voice " Hikage, do you think you could sit up for me?" Hikage nodded yes and started to sit up. Kurama put his hand softly behind her back to support her. When she was all the way up he then wrapped bandages around her stomach to cover the cut on Hikage's back. Kurama then said " Honestly, one injury after the other. What am I going to do with you?" Hikage giggled and said " I guess you'll have to keep me out of trouble then." Kurama then smiled warmly and said " I guess I will." Kurama then lifted her up again without the blanket and brought her to the bed room again.
When Kurama got to the bed room he laid her on his bed and went to the shelf of clothes she was given. He didn't feel like picking from her shelf of ten million choices of clothes. Instead he turned around and said " You don't mind if you wear some of my clothes today do you?" Hikage faintly shook her head no. Kurama then went to the closet the was on the right end of the room by his bed. He opened it and searched through it. He thought to himself " Her size is much smaller than mine. I might even have to resort to Hiei's wardrobe"
He looked at Hiei's clothes and picked out a black long sleeved shirt and pants with a red shall with a blue outline. There was also a white scarf and cloth for wrapping around her waist. He also grabbed the black pear of shoes that sat under it. They were small and simple and had no heels. They looked like something you would wear in a fight. He took it out of the closet and then set it on the bed beside Hikage and said " You're only going to the tournament today because I know you'll refuse if I force you to stay here." Kurama scrunched the shirt up and then put it on over her head, unscrunching it onto her body. He then put his hands under her shirt and unbuttoned the buttons to her night clothes. When he was done he brought his hands back up to her shoulders so that he could take it off under Hiei's shirt. He pulled it off of her arms and pulled it out from under Hiei's shirt. Hiei's shirt went down to seven inches above the knee. Kurama then started tugging on her night pants from the bottom and threw them by Hikage's bed. Kurama scrunched Hiei's pants up and started to put then on Hikage's legs. He then slid them all the way up to her waist. Kurama noticed he hadn't put her hands through the sleeves of the shirt. He put his arm through the sleeve and pulled out an arm. He did the same with the other arm. Kurama then put the shall on over her head and put put her arms through the holes on each end of the shall. Obviously meant for the arms to go through. He then tied the white cloth around her waist. He then tied the white scarf around Hikage's neck. He took Hiei's shoes and put them slowly on Hikage's feet to make sure they fit. Kurama then asked " Do they fit ok?" Hikage responded by nodding yes. It was a good coincidence that they fit her so well. For a finishing touch Kurama got the bandages and wrapped it around the bottom of pants and onto her bare ankle so that it would be easier to fight in.
Kurama then carried her to the living room again and sat her on the couch. He then said " Do you think you can stand up?" She didn't nod her head or make any reaction. She just pushed herself up off the couch and wobbled trying to get up. She looked so week it was unreal. She finally stood straight up. Kurama then asked her " Can you walk for me?" Hikage turned slightly to the side and took one step forward. She took faint half step and then sighed as she was about to fall on the floor fainted when Hiei caught her. Hiei then said " She is clearly not in any condition to fight." Kurama then said with a smile " I know, but she won't allow for me to stop her even if I tried. We'll just let her watch us." Kurama then walked over to Hiei and picked Hikage up from his hands. He then walked a little bit further ahead and said turning around " Plus, she might surprise us with another astounding attack." Hiei then noticed and said " Is she wearing my clothes?" Kurama then giggled and said " My clothes were much too big for her. You should be surprised to know that she has the exact same shoe size as you too." Hiei grunted and they were off to the stadium.
AT THE STADIUM
Kurama and Hiei arrived inside the stadium with their team mates. Yusuke was finishing off a fight. Kurama set Hikage down on the bare ground against the wall the audience was sitting in. Kurama decided to fight the next fighter, but Hiei refused him and said that he wanted to fight him. Kurama allowed it. Hiei walked onto the platform. The announcer gave the signal and they started ot fight.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER
Hikage woke up and heard the announcer counting down until she reached ten and team Urameshi lost one round that day. Hiei was on the ground a little ways from Hikage. Like thirty feet. Hikage tried getting up as she wobbled. She then ran over to Hiei. She kneeled down to Hiei who was inbeded into the wall. She pulled him out and held him up with one hand on his back and one hand on his shoulder. She then said " Hiei, are you ok?" Hiei didn't respond. His eyes were closed and he wasn't moving. Hikage then said again " Hiei, come on, you're just joking with me right? You can't be dead, you're too strong to get killed right." There was no response. Tears fell from Hikage's eyes. She then said with her tears rolling down her face " Hiei. . ." Then she hugged him as tight as possible and said " I never really hated you. I envied your power. I envied that you could have that power and I couldn't. You truly were a wonderful person to me. In every way." Hiei then said " Dim whit, why in the world would you talk to a dead person? It makes you look like an idiot." Hikage stopped crying and paused. She pulled Hiei back and said with a blush " Um, all those things I just said. Could I take them back?" Hiei smirked weakly and said "Fine. " Hikage then turned around only to see Shishi on the platform. He then said " You want to fight me for real this time?" Hikage then gave him a disgusted face and turned her body around. She then said to him " This isn't funny if that's what you're thinking."
She jumped onto the platform and then said " I'll fight you." The announcer gave the signal to start fighting. Hikage raised her hand in the air and light came from it. The light cleared as a sword and said " You have your Branchy Shriek and I have my Grim Reaper's Scythe." She then pulled on the handle of her sword and extended into a handle with a clear sphere shaped object the size of your palm. Swirling around it was bright blue energy. Shishi charged at her as she stood there knowing he was going to do the same thing again, but this time she had a plan to counter it. He got ready to strike and she moved as he snuck behind her. She swiftly turned and sliced at Shishi's sword. Sparks flew from their swords as Shishi withdrew from the sparks. Shishi then blocked her attack and pushed his sword against hers. They flew back a ways. Their faces became serious. When they saw each others face they then smirked. Shishi then said " You want to bring out the big guns?" Hikage then said "Oh yeah!" Shishi was flipping his sword around like some show off. Hikage didn't have to watch this stupid show. She then got ready for her attack. She raised her sword and sliced down swirled it around back to the left a and she swirled her body around as she made another slice to the right. She then yelled " Grim Reaper's Shadow of Death" Shishi stopped showing off and dodged the blows that looked like black wind. When it hit the wall behind him, the wall got little scratches and the wind disappeared. Then the wall turned black where the blows hit it and crumbled into nothing. Shishi then charged at her and she started to charge at him. They were both ready to make their blows. Both of their swords teaming with spirit energy. When they got close enough to each other they made their blows. Hikage then yelled " Divine Soul Be Mine!" She made a huge slice that appeared as a ray of light. She the went right through him as if she were a ghost. After three seconds Shishi finally fell down. The sword in Hikage's hand disappeared and the only thing left in her hand was a little sphere of light. The announcer then started counting down. Hikage then walked over to her team and said " I'll be judging his soul to see if he should have it back or if he deserved to die by my hand.
AT THE INJURY ROOM
Hikage then walked in and saw Shishi laying in a hospital bed. She walked up to him and then put the sphere of light into his chest. Shishi started to open his eyes. He then said " Why did you give my soul back? I'm on the opposite team as you." Hikage sat down on the chair that was next to the bed. She sighed and then said " Let me tell you something. People are confused by epochal view point. It confuses them into thinking that one person is evil and one person is good when it is really about what people believe. People believe that a person in born to be on two separate sides, evil and good. The reality of this doesn't exist. All people are born with two sides, but not evil or good. They are born with the rights to do right and wrong. Some people prefer to do more wrong than right or more right than wrong. It's in every person to choose which to do more of. People came up with the terms evil and good from fighting against each other and choosing which sided they were on. Your soul didn't deserve to leave your body yet, even of you did hurt my friend."
She then got up and walked to the next bed behind the certain where she knew Hiei was. She sat in the chair that was to the left of the bed and by the window. She then said " Hiei, are you awake?" There was no response. She continued and said " Well, I guess I don't want you to actually be hearing this. I wish you would stop punishing your arm for not doing what you wanted. I hate to see them all scratched to a pulp. I think they're quite gifted ot have an owner like you." A young mans voice spoke up from the foot of the bed " You shouldn't talk to demons who are sleeping. hear they're really cranky when you wake them up." Hikage then said " Oh, hi Susuma. I decided to keep him company." Susuma then said with a smirk " After the riot you had today over him, you'd think you were a little more than friends." Hikage then said " No, we're not more than that. I just didn't want ot loose another important person in my life. My parents died, my only friends died. These guys and you are the only ones left. It's one person, but one more person makes all the difference to me." Her elder brother nodded his head. He then said " I should be going."
He then walked out of the room as Kurama passed and walked into the room. He walked over to the window and asked " Is he ok?" Hikage nodded her head yes and said " He's just sleeping." Kurama then rubbed her head and said with a warm smile " Thanks for watching him." She then smiled back and said " I was a little scared when he didn't answer me the first few times out there. I was worried, but if he could make rude comments like that I was sure he'd be fine." Kurama gave her another warm smile. He then said delicately touching Hikage's cheek " You really were worried about him." Hikage then responded with " Yeah. . ." She then got up from the seat and said " You can sit down. You just got here and it's a long way from the bottom of the stadium to the injury room." He then sat down and pulled her down onto his lap before she walked to the other side of the bed. He inched his lips close to her neck and said " Thanks." Hikage then said " You know. . . I get worried about you to." Kurama then said " I know you do." He then kissed her neck and folded his arms around Hikage. Hikage said softly clenching her hands to Kurama's arms "You're truly a kind person Kurama. I love you for that and many of your other qualities." Kurama then said sliding his cheek up to hers " You are a truly wonderful person to. You're very quiet. It shows that you're a shy person inside. You're most beautiful in every way I can think of." Hikage then blushed. Kurama pulled Hikage closer to his chest as his lips touched her cheek. He brought his hands up to her scarf and slowly undid the knot. He then pulled it off and let it fall on the floor. Kurama kissed the bottom of her neck. His fingers wondered up to the top of the shirt where her bare skin show. His fingers pulled the collar to the shirt down and his lips wandered below her collar bone. Hikage started to blush even more. Hikage then pulled herself away, stood up, turning around and said " We shouldn't be doing this in the room. Hiei could wake up at any moment." Kurama smiled warmly as he let his hand fall upon her face and seep into her hair and said "You could be right." His hand fell from her cheek.
Hikage then sat on the floor next to the chair. Hiei started waking up. Hikage was happy, but not excited. She then calmly got up and walked to the edge of the bed, looking down at Hiei with a blank smile and said " You shouldn't scare me like that." He then smirked saying nothing in return. He got up from the bed and said " Let's got back to the hotel."
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: This whole thing was getting so long that I decided to end it here. Next episode there's going to be a show down with Hikage and Hiei. It'll be fierce, but it might be bringing some people closer. I do admit I'm having some trouble with Hiei's personality, so I've been sticking with the one personality I know he does have. The smart alick act.