Another, another, another, Author's Note:
Yukina-kun: Thank you to all that reviewed! Oh yeah, Kuwabara never knew that Hiei acted out like a kid. All he knew was that Hiei broke the cellphone, got mentally deranged since Hiei was hiding under a table. Apart from that, all he knew he gave his allowance that he had long saved.
Chapter 5
"Kurama, what happened here?" Hiei said, "I've cleaned your brother's room before but it never was this messy."
"Yeah, I know." Kurama said, "It's just that you weren't here to fix this so I guess, well, now it's already messy."
Hiei looked at Kurama, "Are you expecting me to clean this room?" he snapped.
"What else are you here for?" Kurama asked innocently.
"I-"Hiei started to say but wasn't able to continue since Kurama started the puppy-dog-face-with-eyes-threatening-to-explode. "Fine..." Hiei said regrettably.
Soon Hiei was downstairs in Kurama's house wearing a duster and a dustpan in one hand and a broom in the other. The dustpan had flowers since it was Shiori's and Hiei had been cleaning for two hours straight.
"Hiei?" Kurama said from upstairs. "Can you help me bring this box down?"
Hiei looked up the stairs and saw Kurama carrying a box full of papers. Hiei sighed and placed the broom and the dustpan at the side. Then he dusted his hands in his hand in his duster. A duster by the way is something like an apron only, it is meant for cleaning. The other duster is the one that dusts dust.
Grudgingly, he went up the stairs and took the box from Kurama.
"Thanks Hiei!" Kurama said, "Phew! That was tough. I never knew that was how many test papers my brother had. Oh well, I better go to my parents room and fix their stuff. You ok, Hiei? I'll be going." then Kurama went to his parents room.
Yes, thanks, Kurama. You don't have to worry. Here I am, standing, carrying a large box and well, maybe my back is broken or my hands will be bloodied. Yeah, I guess you don't have to worry. Hiei thought. Oh man, he thought again, I'm catching ningen sarcasm. Great...
Hiei struggled to get down the stairs one at the time. So far, he only managed one step. Slowly, he struggled another step. It was heavy for the tiny fire youkai. Hiei felt the need to use his youkai energy but then thought the better of it.
Hiei struggled down the stairs slowly his feet neared the next step. He touched it and adjusted both his feet in the next step. Hiei sighed. He still had seven steps to go. Slowly, Hiei started to place his foot on the seventh step.
"Be careful Hiei!" Kurama shouted from his parent's bedroom. Hiei grumbled.
What did Kurama think by saying that I should be careful? Hiei thought, Is he implying that I can't do this fast? That I need to still be careful? Is he implying that I am weak? Grrr, I'll show him...
Hiei walked down the stairs a little faster. It was the sixth step when he started tumbling down.
"Hiei? Are you alright?" Kurama shouted again.
"Hn." Hiei answered, although Kurama couldn't hear him.
"Clean the mess, k?" Kurama shouted.
"Thanks Kurama." Hiei shouted back. "I've got a few broken bones, hand pinned underneath the box, and papers scattered around, head banging with pain. I guess there's nothing to worry about."
Hiei heard Kurama laugh.
"It wasn't a joke Kurama!" Hiei shouted.
"I know." Kurama said.
Grumbling, Hiei fixed the papers. There were thousands scattered around the floor that he worked for soo long. Now it was messy again.
"I'll kill the kitsune for this..." Hiei said to himself.
He gathered up the papers and fixed them. Half an hour later, Hiei finished in placing the papers back to the box.
"Where do I place this Kurama?" Hiei shouted.
"Place it there in the closet!" Kurama shouted.
Grumbling yet again, Hiei lifted the box and placed moved to the closet. Then he opened the door ready to place the box as he adjusted his feet.
BOOM!
Tumbles of papers and hard objects came crashing down on Hiei.
"Oh, yeah, Hiei, there are papers and some heavy stuff in there." Kurama called, "I advise you to be careful."
"Thanks for the early reminder, kistune." Hiei muttered. He rubbed his head.
Three hours later, Hiei looked at his finished product. Hiei sighed. There was still the floor to go...
Two hours later, the floor downstairs was shiny and sparkling clean. Hiei surveyed his handiwork. He sighed again.
At last, it was done. He looked at the clock as Kurama went downstairs carrying an assortment of dustpans, brooms, a pail of very murky water, dusters (the one that dusts dust), and his shirt was very dirty.
"Not one more step, kitsune." Hiei growled. "I've worked with this for more than five hours. Don't dare mess this with your feet if not, my sword will personally see that your feet and hands will never touch your body ever again."
Kurama gulped.
"Er, so... can you help me?" Kurama squeaked from under all the things.
Grumbling, yet again, Hiei helped Kurama and the two of them placed all the cleaning materials in their proper places.
"Hiei," Kurama said as the two of them were fixing the cleaning materials, "I'll be leaving in a minute. It's one pm already. I'll buy the groceries and then we'll eat."
"No need." Hiei said, "I'll be going now."
"No, Hiei," Kurama said, "I insist. While I'm gone, you could just stay here and well, play around or something like that."
"I'll just rest, thank you." Hiei said.
"Fine then." Kurama said as he headed to the door. Hiei followed Kurama to the door. Kurama opened the door, took his jacket to cover the dusts in his shirt. "Bye Hiei." Kurama said as he closed the door.
"Hn." Hiei responded as the door closed. Hiei sighed and sat down the nearest chair. As soon as he relaxed a bit, he looked at his side and there was a small circular table in it. On top of the table were some flowers, a small notebook, ballpens, and the phone.
Hiei stared at the phone. His adrenaline level increased a little but Hiei decided that he had to learn to face his fear for the telephone.
R-RRRRRRRIIIIIINNNGG!
Hiei nearly bolted from his seat. Then he looked at the phone that was ringing. His heart was pounding in his chest. He had an insane thought that the phone was going to eat him alive.
"H-hello?" Hiei said as he placed the handset in his ear.
"Hello?" came a guy's voice, "Can I be your friend?"
"What?" Hiei said.
(Do you know those people who just calls to say 'Can I be your friend' over the phone? And they really mean it? That was what was happening)
"Baka." Hiei said as he placed the handset down.
Hiei looked around. Soon, he became vaguely aware of tiny noises. Buzzing... Buzzing... Buzzing...
Yup, Hiei was bored. Before Hiei could reach total vegetation, which is the state where you act like a slumped vegetable and not respond to anything, he reached out for his sword and began cleaning it with the rag he had.
When he heard little noises like the buzzing... buzzing... buzzing... Hiei decided that it was high time to look at the clock. His face fell. Only five minutes passed. Hiei sighed.
Then, when hearing the buzzing...buzzing...buzzing... he decided that he better face the terrible and deadly beast called the telephone.
Hiei gulped.
With a shaking hand, he reached the telephone in his ear. It was cold and dark. He could hear the beep.. beep.. beep of the phone. His hand was shaking that the cold handset in his ear kept moving.
Stop moving you baka hand, Hiei said as he scolded his trembling hand. Now, to dial the numbers...
With a his other hand which was trembling worse than the other, he dialed one number...
Then another...
and another...
and another...
Soon, he dialed all necessary numbers.
RING! RING! RRING!
Hiei waited. And waited.
"Hello?" came a girl's voice.
"U-um, h-hello?" Hiei said. He wondered why his lips kept stammering over the phone. He was completely aware that both his hands plus the handset were shaking very badly. Somehow, he felt like he couldn't hear very well.
"Sorry, I can't hear you..." the girl said.
"I...um..." Hiei said. He wanted to place a practical joke but the words were not coming out right.
"Is this a prank call?" the girl said.
"I...um..." Hiei said. Then he said the next thing that entered his mind. "Um, can... I be your... f-f..friend...?" he said.
"Sorry. Can't" the girl said. "My older brother's gonna kill me for this."
"For what?" Hiei asked.
"For talking over the phone and just befriending people around." she said, "Sorry, I just can't"
"Oh." Hiei said.
"So, um..." the girl said.
"So..." Hiei said.
"Well, I guess I have to go." she said.
"Oh, yeah, right." Hiei said.
"Um, ok, bye." she said.
"Yeah, bye." Hiei said.
Then before Hiei could say another um, well, duh, cause, and the girl brought the phone down. (No, not slam)
Hiei brought the handset down. Then he slumped to the chair thinking of what just happened.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Time was passing by and Hiei was getting real bored. He decided to take a call in the phone. He played 'useless' and not really practical jokes but he thought they were true practical jokes. Then he placed the phone down and began thinking again. After a few more minutes, the door opened again and this time Kurama went in carrying bags of groceries. Hiei sighed and helped Kurama with the grocery bags. Then, he watched Kurama mindlessly as Kurama cooked some soup.
"Geez, Hiei, are you alright?" Kurama said as Hiei missed the spoonful of soup in his mouth for the tenth time, "Cause if your not alright, I might try to get the bib in case your shirt might stain."
"Mfgg..." Hiei said as he shoved all the food in his mouth. Now, pieces of vegetables were stuck out of his mouth and some soup was bubbling out.
Kurama shook his head from pity, took the bib, and placed it around Hiei's neck. Then he patted Hiei in the head and said, "You should get some sleep."
"Mfg..." Hiei said as the some pieces of vegetable came sputting out with little soup bubbling out. Good thing the bib was there if not, Hiei's shirt might be dirty.
Kurama shook his head again, sat back in his chair, and began eating his soup. Hiei stared at the soup. "Um, Kurama?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah?" Kurama said.
"C-can I use the telephrony?" Hiei asked.
"The what?" Kurama said.
"The telephrony." Hiei said.
"Oh," Kurama said grinning, "Yeah, of course, the telephrony."
"So... can I?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah, sure, no problem. I'll just go up and sleep. Just leave your bowl in the sink." Kurama said after he placed his bowl in the sink and headed in up the stairs.
Hiei nodded and headed towards the telephone. He looked at it and considerately, he remembered the first number he dialed that day.
RING! RING! RING!
Hiei tapped his feet to show impatience. What takes this stupid thing to work? Hiei thought, Telepathy calls and all the other person has to do is to answer them...
Hiei waited and waited but no one answered the telephone.
Suddenly, Kurama peeked from down the stairs, "Uh, Hiei, why did you want to use the telephone?" Kurama asked.
"Hn?" Hiei said looking at Kurama as emotionlessly as possible but deep inside his brain, little tiny Hiei's were searching in every drawer in his brain for the right answer to give to Kurama, "I was merely trying to master this curious object." Hiei said. Kurama looked at Hiei confused then he decided to buy it. Hiei looked at the phone again.
Ok...he said, Time to dial again...
After ten more tries...
"Hello?" came the girl's voice again.
"Oh, um, hi." Hiei said.
"Who is this?" she asked.
"Um, Hiei." he said.
"Do I know you?" she asked.
"No I don't think so, do you?" Hiei asked. He was running out of things to say.
"Oh." the girl said. There was a minute silence when Hiei heard someone at the back, a guy's voice.
"Hey! Theresa! Who's that? Who are you talking to?" he asked.
"Oh, um, I don't know." she said truthfully.
"What?" Hiei said.
"Oh, sorry, um, that was my brother." Theresa said.
"Theresa! Whose that?!" the guy shouted.
"Theresa?" Hiei said as he repeated the girl's name.
"What? What?" the girl said confused as she answered her brother then she answered Hiei.
"Theresa!" the guy said.
"Yeah! Wait!" Theresa said.
"Ok." Hiei said willing to wait.
"No! Not you!" Theresa said to Hiei, "I meant, oh great, how do I deal with this?"
"Theresa!" the guy said again. "Will you just fix your stuff here!"
"He's your boyfriend?" Hiei asked.
"Yes." Theresa said, "I mean, no! No!"
"What do you mean no?" the guy said, "You have to fix your stuff!"
"Oh, so he's your boyfriend." Hiei said.
"No! Wait!" Theresa said confused. "No! Oh great..."
"Theresa!" the guy shouted again.
"Can you wait?" Theresa said.
"Yeah, ok." Hiei said.
"No! Not you! Not you!" Theresa said and she was obviously confused.
"Ok." Hiei said.
"Theresa!" the guy shouted again.
"Big Bro! Just wait!" she said to her brother.
"Oh, so he's your brother?" Hiei said, "I thought he was your boyfriend?"
"Huh? What?" Theresa said. "No wait, he's my brother and he's telling me to fix my stuff."
"I thought he was your boyfriend?" Hiei said.
"Him? No, he's my brother." she explained.
"Theresa! Are you coming or not?" the guy shouted.
"Coming!" she said, "Um, it's Hiei isn't it?" she said to Hiei.
"Yes." Hiei said, "Your Theresa right?"
"Yeah. Or Therese or whatever." she said.
"Your name's Whatever?" Hiei asked confused at the fact someone had a name like Whatever.
"No! Wait!" she said
"Ok, Whatever." Hiei said sincerely, "Nice talking to you."
"Huh?" Therese said. "Wait! No! Hiei! Wait!"
"Sis! C'mon! Or are you talking to your boyfriend?" the guy shouted.
"Oh, arg! This is hard." Therese said. Then to Hiei, "Ok, fine, call me or I'll call you?" she asked.
"I'll call you." Hiei said.
"Um, ok." she said. "Uh, bye."
"Bye." Hiei said.
Silence.
"You bring the phone down first." Therese said.
"No, you do it." Hiei said.
"No, you bring it down." she said.
"No, it's custom to a friend of mine that ladies should be given complete respect." Hiei said referring to the 'friend' as Kuwabara, "I wouldn't want to be disgraced in front of him."
"I'm not a lady!" she said, "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman."
"Women must be first." Hiei said.
"I told you, I'm not a girl, not yet a woman!" she defended.
"Ok then, baby." Hiei said.
"Baby?" she said, "Me? Do I go 'goo goo ga ga?'"
"Fine, just go ahead, Whatever." Hiei said.
"Fine."
Silence.
"Go ahead!" Hiei said but not shouting.
"You first!" she said.
"No, please, you." Hiei said.
"This is getting nowhere..." she said.
"Together." Hiei said.
"Ok, fine." she said.
"On the count of one hundred." Hiei said.
"Ok!" she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"Three." Hiei said.
"Four." She said.
"Five." Hiei said.
"Six." she said.
"Seven." Hiei said.
"Eight." she said.
"Nine." Hiei said.
"Ten." she said.
"Theresa! Your things!" the guy shouted from the background.
"Just give me ninety seconds!" Theresa shouted to her brother.
"Eleven." Hiei said.
"Twelve." she said.
"Thirteen." Hiei said.
"Fourteen." she said.
"Fifteen." Hiei said.
"Seventeen." she said.
"Hey, you missed sixteen." Hiei said.
"Oh yeah." she said, "Um do we start again?"
"Yeah, I guess that would be better." Hiei said.
"Ok." she said, "One."
"Two." Hiei said.
"Three." she said.
"Four." Hiei said.
"Five." she said.
"Six." Hiei said.
"Seven." she said.
"Eight." Hiei said.
"Nine." she said.
Ten." Hiei said.
"Eleven." she said.
"Hey sis! It's ninety seconds already!" the guy said.
"Um big bro? What's 100 minus eleven?" she asked.
"Eighty-nine!" the guy said. There was a groan, "Are you telling me to count for eighty nine more seconds?" he shouted back.
"Yes bro."
"Great." the guy said.
"Twelve." Hiei said.
"Thirteen." She said.
"Fourteen." Hiei said.
"Fifteen." she said.
"Seventeen" Hiei said.
"Hey! We missed sixteen again!" she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"Three." Hiei said.
After ninety-two more seconds...
"Ninety-six." she said.
"Ninety-seven." Hiei said.
"Ninety-nine." she said.
"Hey, you missed ninety-eight." Hiei said.
(Authoress hears groans from readers.)
"One." she said.
"Two." Hiei said.
"Three." she said.
"Four." Hiei said.
"Five." she said.
"Six." Hiei said.
"Sis! It's eighty-nine seconds!" the guy said, "No, wait, I'm not asking how many seconds more to go..."
"Seven." she said.
"Eight." Hiei said.
"Nine." she said.
"Ten." Hiei said.
"Eleven." she said.
"Twelve." Hiei said.
"I have an idea." Hiei said.
"What?"
"Instead of counting one to one-hundred, why not count from just one to three?" Hiei suggested.
"Oh yeah!" she said, "Why didn't we think of that?"
"Ok, on three, we say it together and bring the this down." Hiei said.
"Ok." she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"THREE!" the two of them said and brought the phone down but not slamming it.
(Authoress hears murmurs of the words 'At last...')
"Hiei, who was that?" Kurama asked.
"It was Whatever." Hiei said as he sat down the table, took off the bib, and began placing mounds of rice and meat on his plate and began eating...
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Yukina-kun: Thank you to all that reviewed! Oh yeah, Kuwabara never knew that Hiei acted out like a kid. All he knew was that Hiei broke the cellphone, got mentally deranged since Hiei was hiding under a table. Apart from that, all he knew he gave his allowance that he had long saved.
Chapter 5
"Kurama, what happened here?" Hiei said, "I've cleaned your brother's room before but it never was this messy."
"Yeah, I know." Kurama said, "It's just that you weren't here to fix this so I guess, well, now it's already messy."
Hiei looked at Kurama, "Are you expecting me to clean this room?" he snapped.
"What else are you here for?" Kurama asked innocently.
"I-"Hiei started to say but wasn't able to continue since Kurama started the puppy-dog-face-with-eyes-threatening-to-explode. "Fine..." Hiei said regrettably.
Soon Hiei was downstairs in Kurama's house wearing a duster and a dustpan in one hand and a broom in the other. The dustpan had flowers since it was Shiori's and Hiei had been cleaning for two hours straight.
"Hiei?" Kurama said from upstairs. "Can you help me bring this box down?"
Hiei looked up the stairs and saw Kurama carrying a box full of papers. Hiei sighed and placed the broom and the dustpan at the side. Then he dusted his hands in his hand in his duster. A duster by the way is something like an apron only, it is meant for cleaning. The other duster is the one that dusts dust.
Grudgingly, he went up the stairs and took the box from Kurama.
"Thanks Hiei!" Kurama said, "Phew! That was tough. I never knew that was how many test papers my brother had. Oh well, I better go to my parents room and fix their stuff. You ok, Hiei? I'll be going." then Kurama went to his parents room.
Yes, thanks, Kurama. You don't have to worry. Here I am, standing, carrying a large box and well, maybe my back is broken or my hands will be bloodied. Yeah, I guess you don't have to worry. Hiei thought. Oh man, he thought again, I'm catching ningen sarcasm. Great...
Hiei struggled to get down the stairs one at the time. So far, he only managed one step. Slowly, he struggled another step. It was heavy for the tiny fire youkai. Hiei felt the need to use his youkai energy but then thought the better of it.
Hiei struggled down the stairs slowly his feet neared the next step. He touched it and adjusted both his feet in the next step. Hiei sighed. He still had seven steps to go. Slowly, Hiei started to place his foot on the seventh step.
"Be careful Hiei!" Kurama shouted from his parent's bedroom. Hiei grumbled.
What did Kurama think by saying that I should be careful? Hiei thought, Is he implying that I can't do this fast? That I need to still be careful? Is he implying that I am weak? Grrr, I'll show him...
Hiei walked down the stairs a little faster. It was the sixth step when he started tumbling down.
"Hiei? Are you alright?" Kurama shouted again.
"Hn." Hiei answered, although Kurama couldn't hear him.
"Clean the mess, k?" Kurama shouted.
"Thanks Kurama." Hiei shouted back. "I've got a few broken bones, hand pinned underneath the box, and papers scattered around, head banging with pain. I guess there's nothing to worry about."
Hiei heard Kurama laugh.
"It wasn't a joke Kurama!" Hiei shouted.
"I know." Kurama said.
Grumbling, Hiei fixed the papers. There were thousands scattered around the floor that he worked for soo long. Now it was messy again.
"I'll kill the kitsune for this..." Hiei said to himself.
He gathered up the papers and fixed them. Half an hour later, Hiei finished in placing the papers back to the box.
"Where do I place this Kurama?" Hiei shouted.
"Place it there in the closet!" Kurama shouted.
Grumbling yet again, Hiei lifted the box and placed moved to the closet. Then he opened the door ready to place the box as he adjusted his feet.
BOOM!
Tumbles of papers and hard objects came crashing down on Hiei.
"Oh, yeah, Hiei, there are papers and some heavy stuff in there." Kurama called, "I advise you to be careful."
"Thanks for the early reminder, kistune." Hiei muttered. He rubbed his head.
Three hours later, Hiei looked at his finished product. Hiei sighed. There was still the floor to go...
Two hours later, the floor downstairs was shiny and sparkling clean. Hiei surveyed his handiwork. He sighed again.
At last, it was done. He looked at the clock as Kurama went downstairs carrying an assortment of dustpans, brooms, a pail of very murky water, dusters (the one that dusts dust), and his shirt was very dirty.
"Not one more step, kitsune." Hiei growled. "I've worked with this for more than five hours. Don't dare mess this with your feet if not, my sword will personally see that your feet and hands will never touch your body ever again."
Kurama gulped.
"Er, so... can you help me?" Kurama squeaked from under all the things.
Grumbling, yet again, Hiei helped Kurama and the two of them placed all the cleaning materials in their proper places.
"Hiei," Kurama said as the two of them were fixing the cleaning materials, "I'll be leaving in a minute. It's one pm already. I'll buy the groceries and then we'll eat."
"No need." Hiei said, "I'll be going now."
"No, Hiei," Kurama said, "I insist. While I'm gone, you could just stay here and well, play around or something like that."
"I'll just rest, thank you." Hiei said.
"Fine then." Kurama said as he headed to the door. Hiei followed Kurama to the door. Kurama opened the door, took his jacket to cover the dusts in his shirt. "Bye Hiei." Kurama said as he closed the door.
"Hn." Hiei responded as the door closed. Hiei sighed and sat down the nearest chair. As soon as he relaxed a bit, he looked at his side and there was a small circular table in it. On top of the table were some flowers, a small notebook, ballpens, and the phone.
Hiei stared at the phone. His adrenaline level increased a little but Hiei decided that he had to learn to face his fear for the telephone.
R-RRRRRRRIIIIIINNNGG!
Hiei nearly bolted from his seat. Then he looked at the phone that was ringing. His heart was pounding in his chest. He had an insane thought that the phone was going to eat him alive.
"H-hello?" Hiei said as he placed the handset in his ear.
"Hello?" came a guy's voice, "Can I be your friend?"
"What?" Hiei said.
(Do you know those people who just calls to say 'Can I be your friend' over the phone? And they really mean it? That was what was happening)
"Baka." Hiei said as he placed the handset down.
Hiei looked around. Soon, he became vaguely aware of tiny noises. Buzzing... Buzzing... Buzzing...
Yup, Hiei was bored. Before Hiei could reach total vegetation, which is the state where you act like a slumped vegetable and not respond to anything, he reached out for his sword and began cleaning it with the rag he had.
When he heard little noises like the buzzing... buzzing... buzzing... Hiei decided that it was high time to look at the clock. His face fell. Only five minutes passed. Hiei sighed.
Then, when hearing the buzzing...buzzing...buzzing... he decided that he better face the terrible and deadly beast called the telephone.
Hiei gulped.
With a shaking hand, he reached the telephone in his ear. It was cold and dark. He could hear the beep.. beep.. beep of the phone. His hand was shaking that the cold handset in his ear kept moving.
Stop moving you baka hand, Hiei said as he scolded his trembling hand. Now, to dial the numbers...
With a his other hand which was trembling worse than the other, he dialed one number...
Then another...
and another...
and another...
Soon, he dialed all necessary numbers.
RING! RING! RRING!
Hiei waited. And waited.
"Hello?" came a girl's voice.
"U-um, h-hello?" Hiei said. He wondered why his lips kept stammering over the phone. He was completely aware that both his hands plus the handset were shaking very badly. Somehow, he felt like he couldn't hear very well.
"Sorry, I can't hear you..." the girl said.
"I...um..." Hiei said. He wanted to place a practical joke but the words were not coming out right.
"Is this a prank call?" the girl said.
"I...um..." Hiei said. Then he said the next thing that entered his mind. "Um, can... I be your... f-f..friend...?" he said.
"Sorry. Can't" the girl said. "My older brother's gonna kill me for this."
"For what?" Hiei asked.
"For talking over the phone and just befriending people around." she said, "Sorry, I just can't"
"Oh." Hiei said.
"So, um..." the girl said.
"So..." Hiei said.
"Well, I guess I have to go." she said.
"Oh, yeah, right." Hiei said.
"Um, ok, bye." she said.
"Yeah, bye." Hiei said.
Then before Hiei could say another um, well, duh, cause, and the girl brought the phone down. (No, not slam)
Hiei brought the handset down. Then he slumped to the chair thinking of what just happened.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Time was passing by and Hiei was getting real bored. He decided to take a call in the phone. He played 'useless' and not really practical jokes but he thought they were true practical jokes. Then he placed the phone down and began thinking again. After a few more minutes, the door opened again and this time Kurama went in carrying bags of groceries. Hiei sighed and helped Kurama with the grocery bags. Then, he watched Kurama mindlessly as Kurama cooked some soup.
"Geez, Hiei, are you alright?" Kurama said as Hiei missed the spoonful of soup in his mouth for the tenth time, "Cause if your not alright, I might try to get the bib in case your shirt might stain."
"Mfgg..." Hiei said as he shoved all the food in his mouth. Now, pieces of vegetables were stuck out of his mouth and some soup was bubbling out.
Kurama shook his head from pity, took the bib, and placed it around Hiei's neck. Then he patted Hiei in the head and said, "You should get some sleep."
"Mfg..." Hiei said as the some pieces of vegetable came sputting out with little soup bubbling out. Good thing the bib was there if not, Hiei's shirt might be dirty.
Kurama shook his head again, sat back in his chair, and began eating his soup. Hiei stared at the soup. "Um, Kurama?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah?" Kurama said.
"C-can I use the telephrony?" Hiei asked.
"The what?" Kurama said.
"The telephrony." Hiei said.
"Oh," Kurama said grinning, "Yeah, of course, the telephrony."
"So... can I?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah, sure, no problem. I'll just go up and sleep. Just leave your bowl in the sink." Kurama said after he placed his bowl in the sink and headed in up the stairs.
Hiei nodded and headed towards the telephone. He looked at it and considerately, he remembered the first number he dialed that day.
RING! RING! RING!
Hiei tapped his feet to show impatience. What takes this stupid thing to work? Hiei thought, Telepathy calls and all the other person has to do is to answer them...
Hiei waited and waited but no one answered the telephone.
Suddenly, Kurama peeked from down the stairs, "Uh, Hiei, why did you want to use the telephone?" Kurama asked.
"Hn?" Hiei said looking at Kurama as emotionlessly as possible but deep inside his brain, little tiny Hiei's were searching in every drawer in his brain for the right answer to give to Kurama, "I was merely trying to master this curious object." Hiei said. Kurama looked at Hiei confused then he decided to buy it. Hiei looked at the phone again.
Ok...he said, Time to dial again...
After ten more tries...
"Hello?" came the girl's voice again.
"Oh, um, hi." Hiei said.
"Who is this?" she asked.
"Um, Hiei." he said.
"Do I know you?" she asked.
"No I don't think so, do you?" Hiei asked. He was running out of things to say.
"Oh." the girl said. There was a minute silence when Hiei heard someone at the back, a guy's voice.
"Hey! Theresa! Who's that? Who are you talking to?" he asked.
"Oh, um, I don't know." she said truthfully.
"What?" Hiei said.
"Oh, sorry, um, that was my brother." Theresa said.
"Theresa! Whose that?!" the guy shouted.
"Theresa?" Hiei said as he repeated the girl's name.
"What? What?" the girl said confused as she answered her brother then she answered Hiei.
"Theresa!" the guy said.
"Yeah! Wait!" Theresa said.
"Ok." Hiei said willing to wait.
"No! Not you!" Theresa said to Hiei, "I meant, oh great, how do I deal with this?"
"Theresa!" the guy said again. "Will you just fix your stuff here!"
"He's your boyfriend?" Hiei asked.
"Yes." Theresa said, "I mean, no! No!"
"What do you mean no?" the guy said, "You have to fix your stuff!"
"Oh, so he's your boyfriend." Hiei said.
"No! Wait!" Theresa said confused. "No! Oh great..."
"Theresa!" the guy shouted again.
"Can you wait?" Theresa said.
"Yeah, ok." Hiei said.
"No! Not you! Not you!" Theresa said and she was obviously confused.
"Ok." Hiei said.
"Theresa!" the guy shouted again.
"Big Bro! Just wait!" she said to her brother.
"Oh, so he's your brother?" Hiei said, "I thought he was your boyfriend?"
"Huh? What?" Theresa said. "No wait, he's my brother and he's telling me to fix my stuff."
"I thought he was your boyfriend?" Hiei said.
"Him? No, he's my brother." she explained.
"Theresa! Are you coming or not?" the guy shouted.
"Coming!" she said, "Um, it's Hiei isn't it?" she said to Hiei.
"Yes." Hiei said, "Your Theresa right?"
"Yeah. Or Therese or whatever." she said.
"Your name's Whatever?" Hiei asked confused at the fact someone had a name like Whatever.
"No! Wait!" she said
"Ok, Whatever." Hiei said sincerely, "Nice talking to you."
"Huh?" Therese said. "Wait! No! Hiei! Wait!"
"Sis! C'mon! Or are you talking to your boyfriend?" the guy shouted.
"Oh, arg! This is hard." Therese said. Then to Hiei, "Ok, fine, call me or I'll call you?" she asked.
"I'll call you." Hiei said.
"Um, ok." she said. "Uh, bye."
"Bye." Hiei said.
Silence.
"You bring the phone down first." Therese said.
"No, you do it." Hiei said.
"No, you bring it down." she said.
"No, it's custom to a friend of mine that ladies should be given complete respect." Hiei said referring to the 'friend' as Kuwabara, "I wouldn't want to be disgraced in front of him."
"I'm not a lady!" she said, "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman."
"Women must be first." Hiei said.
"I told you, I'm not a girl, not yet a woman!" she defended.
"Ok then, baby." Hiei said.
"Baby?" she said, "Me? Do I go 'goo goo ga ga?'"
"Fine, just go ahead, Whatever." Hiei said.
"Fine."
Silence.
"Go ahead!" Hiei said but not shouting.
"You first!" she said.
"No, please, you." Hiei said.
"This is getting nowhere..." she said.
"Together." Hiei said.
"Ok, fine." she said.
"On the count of one hundred." Hiei said.
"Ok!" she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"Three." Hiei said.
"Four." She said.
"Five." Hiei said.
"Six." she said.
"Seven." Hiei said.
"Eight." she said.
"Nine." Hiei said.
"Ten." she said.
"Theresa! Your things!" the guy shouted from the background.
"Just give me ninety seconds!" Theresa shouted to her brother.
"Eleven." Hiei said.
"Twelve." she said.
"Thirteen." Hiei said.
"Fourteen." she said.
"Fifteen." Hiei said.
"Seventeen." she said.
"Hey, you missed sixteen." Hiei said.
"Oh yeah." she said, "Um do we start again?"
"Yeah, I guess that would be better." Hiei said.
"Ok." she said, "One."
"Two." Hiei said.
"Three." she said.
"Four." Hiei said.
"Five." she said.
"Six." Hiei said.
"Seven." she said.
"Eight." Hiei said.
"Nine." she said.
Ten." Hiei said.
"Eleven." she said.
"Hey sis! It's ninety seconds already!" the guy said.
"Um big bro? What's 100 minus eleven?" she asked.
"Eighty-nine!" the guy said. There was a groan, "Are you telling me to count for eighty nine more seconds?" he shouted back.
"Yes bro."
"Great." the guy said.
"Twelve." Hiei said.
"Thirteen." She said.
"Fourteen." Hiei said.
"Fifteen." she said.
"Seventeen" Hiei said.
"Hey! We missed sixteen again!" she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"Three." Hiei said.
After ninety-two more seconds...
"Ninety-six." she said.
"Ninety-seven." Hiei said.
"Ninety-nine." she said.
"Hey, you missed ninety-eight." Hiei said.
(Authoress hears groans from readers.)
"One." she said.
"Two." Hiei said.
"Three." she said.
"Four." Hiei said.
"Five." she said.
"Six." Hiei said.
"Sis! It's eighty-nine seconds!" the guy said, "No, wait, I'm not asking how many seconds more to go..."
"Seven." she said.
"Eight." Hiei said.
"Nine." she said.
"Ten." Hiei said.
"Eleven." she said.
"Twelve." Hiei said.
"I have an idea." Hiei said.
"What?"
"Instead of counting one to one-hundred, why not count from just one to three?" Hiei suggested.
"Oh yeah!" she said, "Why didn't we think of that?"
"Ok, on three, we say it together and bring the this down." Hiei said.
"Ok." she said.
"One." Hiei said.
"Two." she said.
"THREE!" the two of them said and brought the phone down but not slamming it.
(Authoress hears murmurs of the words 'At last...')
"Hiei, who was that?" Kurama asked.
"It was Whatever." Hiei said as he sat down the table, took off the bib, and began placing mounds of rice and meat on his plate and began eating...
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