Wow...that didn't take long at all for me to update, did it!? ^__^ YAY!
Anyway, to answer a quick question...Shiori was just a tiny bit happy because
she really did want Hiei and Kurama to get back together. Although...little
does she know this is just the beginning of insanity!
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~*Who I Am, Chapter 4*~
~*Hiei's POV*~
"HEY! FOX! PUT ME DOWN!" I cried as Kurama's demon form lifted me up into his arms and carried me into his room. I started to hit and kick him but it only seemed to make him happier. Then I thought about it a little more. Even if I did get him to put me down it wouldn't do any good. I was handcuffed to him! Where did he even get the handcuffs!? Why did he even HAVE them!? ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Stup id fox!
"Stop being so difficult!" he said, throwing me down on the bed and jumping onto me.
"Well, maybe I would be a little more lenient if you took these handcuffs off!" I yelled, holding up my hand that was attached to his right in front of his face.
"I'll take them off when I'm done."
"Now!"
"WHEN I'M DONE!"
"NOW!"
"NEVER!" I then did the only thing I could think of doing: I slapped him with my free hand. He didn't seem very pleased with that... "Alright Hiei, if that's the way we're going to do things," he mumbled as he took the key to the handcuffs out from...somewhere. I didn't really look to see where it came from....It just sort of appeared from behind his back, as though it came from some kind of object holding abyss ((^.^)). I would have to discover the secret to it later. But in any matter, Kurama then stood up, taking me with him. "I should just destroy this key now, then I'll have you forever."
"Not if I melt the handcuffs off!"
"Well, I'm afraid that won't work. Nothing can break through these babies! NOTHING!" he proclaimed, reaching his hand up high to dangle the key above my head. Of course, since we were handcuffed together, he accomplished nothing but lifting me off the ground.
"Let...me...down." Luckily, he did. "Now give me that key!" I ordered. Unfortunately, he didn't. Instead, he dropped the key into his pants.
"Fine, take it."
"I will not!"
"Then you don't get the key!"
"Okay then. You wanna be stuck together with me? Fine! Just see how much you like it!"
"I don't want to be stuck together with you when you're deliberately making it hell," Kurama said, taking to key back out.
"You're...going to take them off!?" I asked in shock. He wasn't really going to do such a nice thing was he...? He would really give up his fun to do what I wanted him to? Oh yes...that was my Love Cookie. My big, strong, hansom Love Cookie...wait...NO! This is why I couldn't be around Kurama! NO! I wasn't going to let the love take over again!
"Yes...if you want me to, Hiei," he said in a very sexy voice as he pulled me closer so that he could put the key in the lock. He looked at me with such a soft, passionate, loving expression as he did....I blushed. No one should have been able to look so beautiful. I couldn't resist! I reached both my arms around him and planted a big, heartfelt kiss right on his lips. Of course, that was a very stupid thing to do, seeing as how it knocked the key from Kurama's hand....
~*Shiori's POV*~
"It'll just be so perfect!" I cried, taking another look around the apartment I had purchased.
"Alright then! You can move in any time after Wednesday!" he told me, handing me the key as I started for the door.
"I assure you...I'll have my son moved in as soon as possible!"
I had decided that I didn't want my son and Hiei living in the house after all. I mean, I was fine with it a while ago...but after thinking it over a bit I realized how traumatizing it would be for me. I didn't want that sort of thing going on inside the room I used to read my poor little Shuichi bedtime stories in! It was just not a happy thought. So, I was going to get them an apartment of there very own as a surprise! And then I would tell them that they had to be out by Wednesday or else! Of course...they would still come over for dinner three times a week. I still liked them, after all. It wasn't as though I was throwing them out of the house. I was just...throwing them out of the house. But I was paying for it! So they had to know that I cared! (^____^) I was such a good mother....
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And now, for your reading pleasure, a 'Who I Am' mini side story....
~*Pet Heaven*~
By Magno-Elf
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~*Kurama's POV*~
Looking back on it now, I laugh at it all; and when I say laugh I mean cry. The story I tell you now is one of pure morals and integrity. Well, not really. It is actually just utterly sad and stupid, on my part. It all started this one Sunday morning...
I remember rolling over in bed, seeing that Hiei had already gone. Where he was I didn't know, but it wasn't rare. He'd up and leave on a whim in the middle of the night if that was his fancy. But on this particular morn, I felt something inside that was a brewin'. Or maybe it was just the coffee in the kitchen that was brewin'. Whatever it was, it made me feel uncertain and that something extraordinary was about to happen. I remember getting out of bed on the left side and slipping on my slippers. I then sluggishly walked out into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of Joe Brand Coffee. I sat on the hard, brown wooden stool which stood in the middle of the kitchen within inches of a table. Carefully reading the paper, I casually sipped on my cup of Joe and didn't even notice when Hiei came in.
"Kurama, you will never guess what happened today when I was coming back from the Library this morning," Hiei said, coming over to me, a happy feeling coming from him.
"Oh?" I said, not looking up from my ever so interesting paper.
"This little yellow bird followed me home. He just swooped down and landed on my shoulder. Isn't he just the most yellow thing with feathers you've ever seen?" he asked me as a stifled smile came onto his face.
I quickly looked up and saw this so called 'yellow bird' on Hiei's shoulder, and I nearly dropped my coffee.
"Hiei!" I cried out in alarm. "Do you know what that is?" I asked, looking at the sweet little bird happily chirping away atop Hiei's soft, black shoulder.
"Yes I do. It's a yellow bird, I just told you," he said looking at me with concern. I didn't realize it at first, but he was right. It was nothing more than a sweet, innocent, small, sweet, little yellow bird.
"Yellow birds are a big responsibility, Hiei. Are you sure you can take care of him?" I asked, knowing that I would be the one who would eventually be feeding and walking him.
"Yes I do, Kurama, and I'm not a little boy. I can take care of Robert. Just you watch."
And watch I did. I watched as Hiei went into the attic and found an old rot iron bird cage. I watched as Hiei filled a little dish with water and another with bird seed.
'Wow,' I remember thinking to myself. 'Hiei sure has a way with little yellow birds.'
"Well, Kurama, I need to go back to the library to look up the art of scrambling eggs. I'll be back soon. Please watch over little Robert until I return." And with no more of a goodbye, he was gone.
I decided to sit on the sofa and read a book called 'Waiting for the Grass to Grow' by J.R.R. Tolken. As I sat and read my mind seemed to be elsewhere. I looked over at the counter and saw the little yellow bird happily perched on his perch looking back at me. I looked back at my book, but only for a moment. My eyes wondered back to the yellow bird, which was still looking at me; it's beady little eyes penetrating into mine in the most innocent way a bird can penetrate. I looked back at my book, not wanting to see the bright yellow that came from the bird's feathers any longer. About five minutes later I felt a light breeze come in through the terrace. I looked back up and the bird and suddenly stood up.
"You must be cold, my little yellow bird! I'll bring you warmth." I quickly went into the linen closet and found a sheet which I then draped over the bird cage and scrunched the ends underneath it, so Robert wouldn't feel a draft. "There you go! All better. Silly Hiei wouldn't have thought of that." I went back to my book which I soon finished and then fell asleep.
I woke up a mere ten minutes later and decided that the little yellow bird of Hiei's wasn't cold anymore. I got up and took the sheet off to see Robert laying at the bottom of his cage, his head submerged in his water dish.
"Are you thirsty, little yellow bird?" I asked, putting my face up close to the cage to look at him more closely. It was then that I noticed the bird's eyes were closed, and that his body was very limp. I may have not known much about birds, but I knew even less about dead ones. What I did know, however, was that this bird, Hiei's bird, was dead.
I began to panic. Had I just killed Hiei's pet bird named Robert? Hiei would be crushed! But how? How had I killed him? Maybe this bird was just old and sickly. Or maybe...just maybe the sheet I had used to warm the bird was one of the rubber sheets I kept in the house. I looked down and saw that it was in fact a rubber sheet. I didn't know what to do now. Hiei would be home in a matter of minutes and I had here a dead bird. I acted fast, and just fast enough because right after I had put the dead yellow bird into a little box with a bow on it, Hiei came it.
"Oh Robert, I'm home!" Hiei called, coming inside, a stack of books in is hands. It took him less than a second to realize Robert wasn't in his cage. "Kurama, where's Robert?" Hiei asked, his smile disappearing, and a look of clueless ness coming over his face, his eyes wide with curiosity.
"Well Hiei..." I began, when Hiei saw the box with the bow I held.
"Is that a present for me?" Hiei asked, taking the box from me and opening it excitedly.
I will never forget the look on Hiei's face when he opened the box and saw the dead carcass of what used to be Hiei's little yellow bird...Robert. His eyes grew wide. His mouth dropped open. His eyebrows leaped up. His hands gave out. And I started crying.
"I'm sorry Hiei!" I cried, falling to my knees. "You see I was reading my book and I looked at the bird and the bird looked at me and then I looked back at my book and then I looked back at the bird and then I felt a breeze and then I thought he was cold so I went into the closet and got a sheet to make him warm and then I fell asleep and then I got up and I decided that he wasn't cold anymore so I took the sheet off and he was *dead* because it was a rubber sheet and I didn't know it and his head was in the water and I put him in this box with a bow on it because it was all I could find and then you came in and thought it was a present and then I started to cry and got down on my knees and started explaining this all to you, and I'M SO SORRY, HIEI!!!!!"
Hiei looked down at me, still holding Robert's dead body. He closed his eyes very slowly and took in a very long, deep breath.
"It's okay, Kurama. I know you didn't mean to kill my little yellow bird," he said, looking back at his bird's carcass. "I only wish I could have seen your bright yellow feathers and your beady little eyes, and your pointy little beak one, final time." And with that, Hiei solemnly walked into the kitchen, kissed his yellow birds foot, closed his eyes, and dropped the bird down the garbage disposal.
"RGRGRGGGGGGRRRRGRGRGRGRRRRRPPRGGRGRGRGRGR!!!!!" The garbage disposal said as I walked up to Hiei and put my arm around him.
"Don't worry, Hiei. Robert is in a better place now," I said as many yellow feathers started to fill the kitchen and fall around us. "A much better place..."
~*Pet Heaven PART 1, END*~
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Okay, I'm so sorry that the actual chapter was really short. But I hoped you liked the mini story! PR!
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~*Who I Am, Chapter 4*~
~*Hiei's POV*~
"HEY! FOX! PUT ME DOWN!" I cried as Kurama's demon form lifted me up into his arms and carried me into his room. I started to hit and kick him but it only seemed to make him happier. Then I thought about it a little more. Even if I did get him to put me down it wouldn't do any good. I was handcuffed to him! Where did he even get the handcuffs!? Why did he even HAVE them!? ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Stup id fox!
"Stop being so difficult!" he said, throwing me down on the bed and jumping onto me.
"Well, maybe I would be a little more lenient if you took these handcuffs off!" I yelled, holding up my hand that was attached to his right in front of his face.
"I'll take them off when I'm done."
"Now!"
"WHEN I'M DONE!"
"NOW!"
"NEVER!" I then did the only thing I could think of doing: I slapped him with my free hand. He didn't seem very pleased with that... "Alright Hiei, if that's the way we're going to do things," he mumbled as he took the key to the handcuffs out from...somewhere. I didn't really look to see where it came from....It just sort of appeared from behind his back, as though it came from some kind of object holding abyss ((^.^)). I would have to discover the secret to it later. But in any matter, Kurama then stood up, taking me with him. "I should just destroy this key now, then I'll have you forever."
"Not if I melt the handcuffs off!"
"Well, I'm afraid that won't work. Nothing can break through these babies! NOTHING!" he proclaimed, reaching his hand up high to dangle the key above my head. Of course, since we were handcuffed together, he accomplished nothing but lifting me off the ground.
"Let...me...down." Luckily, he did. "Now give me that key!" I ordered. Unfortunately, he didn't. Instead, he dropped the key into his pants.
"Fine, take it."
"I will not!"
"Then you don't get the key!"
"Okay then. You wanna be stuck together with me? Fine! Just see how much you like it!"
"I don't want to be stuck together with you when you're deliberately making it hell," Kurama said, taking to key back out.
"You're...going to take them off!?" I asked in shock. He wasn't really going to do such a nice thing was he...? He would really give up his fun to do what I wanted him to? Oh yes...that was my Love Cookie. My big, strong, hansom Love Cookie...wait...NO! This is why I couldn't be around Kurama! NO! I wasn't going to let the love take over again!
"Yes...if you want me to, Hiei," he said in a very sexy voice as he pulled me closer so that he could put the key in the lock. He looked at me with such a soft, passionate, loving expression as he did....I blushed. No one should have been able to look so beautiful. I couldn't resist! I reached both my arms around him and planted a big, heartfelt kiss right on his lips. Of course, that was a very stupid thing to do, seeing as how it knocked the key from Kurama's hand....
~*Shiori's POV*~
"It'll just be so perfect!" I cried, taking another look around the apartment I had purchased.
"Alright then! You can move in any time after Wednesday!" he told me, handing me the key as I started for the door.
"I assure you...I'll have my son moved in as soon as possible!"
I had decided that I didn't want my son and Hiei living in the house after all. I mean, I was fine with it a while ago...but after thinking it over a bit I realized how traumatizing it would be for me. I didn't want that sort of thing going on inside the room I used to read my poor little Shuichi bedtime stories in! It was just not a happy thought. So, I was going to get them an apartment of there very own as a surprise! And then I would tell them that they had to be out by Wednesday or else! Of course...they would still come over for dinner three times a week. I still liked them, after all. It wasn't as though I was throwing them out of the house. I was just...throwing them out of the house. But I was paying for it! So they had to know that I cared! (^____^) I was such a good mother....
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And now, for your reading pleasure, a 'Who I Am' mini side story....
~*Pet Heaven*~
By Magno-Elf
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~*Kurama's POV*~
Looking back on it now, I laugh at it all; and when I say laugh I mean cry. The story I tell you now is one of pure morals and integrity. Well, not really. It is actually just utterly sad and stupid, on my part. It all started this one Sunday morning...
I remember rolling over in bed, seeing that Hiei had already gone. Where he was I didn't know, but it wasn't rare. He'd up and leave on a whim in the middle of the night if that was his fancy. But on this particular morn, I felt something inside that was a brewin'. Or maybe it was just the coffee in the kitchen that was brewin'. Whatever it was, it made me feel uncertain and that something extraordinary was about to happen. I remember getting out of bed on the left side and slipping on my slippers. I then sluggishly walked out into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of Joe Brand Coffee. I sat on the hard, brown wooden stool which stood in the middle of the kitchen within inches of a table. Carefully reading the paper, I casually sipped on my cup of Joe and didn't even notice when Hiei came in.
"Kurama, you will never guess what happened today when I was coming back from the Library this morning," Hiei said, coming over to me, a happy feeling coming from him.
"Oh?" I said, not looking up from my ever so interesting paper.
"This little yellow bird followed me home. He just swooped down and landed on my shoulder. Isn't he just the most yellow thing with feathers you've ever seen?" he asked me as a stifled smile came onto his face.
I quickly looked up and saw this so called 'yellow bird' on Hiei's shoulder, and I nearly dropped my coffee.
"Hiei!" I cried out in alarm. "Do you know what that is?" I asked, looking at the sweet little bird happily chirping away atop Hiei's soft, black shoulder.
"Yes I do. It's a yellow bird, I just told you," he said looking at me with concern. I didn't realize it at first, but he was right. It was nothing more than a sweet, innocent, small, sweet, little yellow bird.
"Yellow birds are a big responsibility, Hiei. Are you sure you can take care of him?" I asked, knowing that I would be the one who would eventually be feeding and walking him.
"Yes I do, Kurama, and I'm not a little boy. I can take care of Robert. Just you watch."
And watch I did. I watched as Hiei went into the attic and found an old rot iron bird cage. I watched as Hiei filled a little dish with water and another with bird seed.
'Wow,' I remember thinking to myself. 'Hiei sure has a way with little yellow birds.'
"Well, Kurama, I need to go back to the library to look up the art of scrambling eggs. I'll be back soon. Please watch over little Robert until I return." And with no more of a goodbye, he was gone.
I decided to sit on the sofa and read a book called 'Waiting for the Grass to Grow' by J.R.R. Tolken. As I sat and read my mind seemed to be elsewhere. I looked over at the counter and saw the little yellow bird happily perched on his perch looking back at me. I looked back at my book, but only for a moment. My eyes wondered back to the yellow bird, which was still looking at me; it's beady little eyes penetrating into mine in the most innocent way a bird can penetrate. I looked back at my book, not wanting to see the bright yellow that came from the bird's feathers any longer. About five minutes later I felt a light breeze come in through the terrace. I looked back up and the bird and suddenly stood up.
"You must be cold, my little yellow bird! I'll bring you warmth." I quickly went into the linen closet and found a sheet which I then draped over the bird cage and scrunched the ends underneath it, so Robert wouldn't feel a draft. "There you go! All better. Silly Hiei wouldn't have thought of that." I went back to my book which I soon finished and then fell asleep.
I woke up a mere ten minutes later and decided that the little yellow bird of Hiei's wasn't cold anymore. I got up and took the sheet off to see Robert laying at the bottom of his cage, his head submerged in his water dish.
"Are you thirsty, little yellow bird?" I asked, putting my face up close to the cage to look at him more closely. It was then that I noticed the bird's eyes were closed, and that his body was very limp. I may have not known much about birds, but I knew even less about dead ones. What I did know, however, was that this bird, Hiei's bird, was dead.
I began to panic. Had I just killed Hiei's pet bird named Robert? Hiei would be crushed! But how? How had I killed him? Maybe this bird was just old and sickly. Or maybe...just maybe the sheet I had used to warm the bird was one of the rubber sheets I kept in the house. I looked down and saw that it was in fact a rubber sheet. I didn't know what to do now. Hiei would be home in a matter of minutes and I had here a dead bird. I acted fast, and just fast enough because right after I had put the dead yellow bird into a little box with a bow on it, Hiei came it.
"Oh Robert, I'm home!" Hiei called, coming inside, a stack of books in is hands. It took him less than a second to realize Robert wasn't in his cage. "Kurama, where's Robert?" Hiei asked, his smile disappearing, and a look of clueless ness coming over his face, his eyes wide with curiosity.
"Well Hiei..." I began, when Hiei saw the box with the bow I held.
"Is that a present for me?" Hiei asked, taking the box from me and opening it excitedly.
I will never forget the look on Hiei's face when he opened the box and saw the dead carcass of what used to be Hiei's little yellow bird...Robert. His eyes grew wide. His mouth dropped open. His eyebrows leaped up. His hands gave out. And I started crying.
"I'm sorry Hiei!" I cried, falling to my knees. "You see I was reading my book and I looked at the bird and the bird looked at me and then I looked back at my book and then I looked back at the bird and then I felt a breeze and then I thought he was cold so I went into the closet and got a sheet to make him warm and then I fell asleep and then I got up and I decided that he wasn't cold anymore so I took the sheet off and he was *dead* because it was a rubber sheet and I didn't know it and his head was in the water and I put him in this box with a bow on it because it was all I could find and then you came in and thought it was a present and then I started to cry and got down on my knees and started explaining this all to you, and I'M SO SORRY, HIEI!!!!!"
Hiei looked down at me, still holding Robert's dead body. He closed his eyes very slowly and took in a very long, deep breath.
"It's okay, Kurama. I know you didn't mean to kill my little yellow bird," he said, looking back at his bird's carcass. "I only wish I could have seen your bright yellow feathers and your beady little eyes, and your pointy little beak one, final time." And with that, Hiei solemnly walked into the kitchen, kissed his yellow birds foot, closed his eyes, and dropped the bird down the garbage disposal.
"RGRGRGGGGGGRRRRGRGRGRGRRRRRPPRGGRGRGRGRGR!!!!!" The garbage disposal said as I walked up to Hiei and put my arm around him.
"Don't worry, Hiei. Robert is in a better place now," I said as many yellow feathers started to fill the kitchen and fall around us. "A much better place..."
~*Pet Heaven PART 1, END*~
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Okay, I'm so sorry that the actual chapter was really short. But I hoped you liked the mini story! PR!