hey everybody this is kairi bringing you the next part of my yu yu hakusho fic, which I don't own(sigh), well, anyway this is part 2 of chapter 5, even though it's classified as chapter 6, so read away!

"We'll have two vanilla sundae's please!" Yuu KaiTou told the cashier.

"That'll be 10,000 yen please." she replied. Yuu KaiTou handed her the money, the woman noticed that Nozomi wasn't going to pay for any of them. "Say, this really isn't any of my business, but are you two an item?" she asked.

Yuu KaiTou laughed out loud and began to turn red, "Well I guess you could say that!" he replied continuing to laughing, but Nozomi just took her sundae and left the counter to set at a table by the window and began to eat her sundae. Yuu KaiTou turned even redder, "That's my girl, she really doesn't like to discus our relationship in public." he said and with that he ran over to join Nozomi. "You know you really made me look like a fool, that Hiei character must really be rubbing off on you." he started.

"Well there's no since in telling that lady lies about us, we're just friends Yuu." she replied without looking up from her ice cream.

Yuu KaiTou stared down at her angrily and decided to sit across from Nozomi, "You should really be more grateful to me ya know, I mean now that Hiei's dumped you there's really no place for you in his clique." Yuu KaiTou began.

"We never went out, and I'm here because I basically didn't have a choice in the matter, Hiei and his friends are busy, so I just came with you." she replied.

"So then why aren't your other friends here, the brunette and the girl with blue hair?" he asked, but Nozomi didn't answer, she just kept eating her ice cream. Now Yuu KaiTou was so mad that he was shacking and clutching his metal spoon so hard that his knuckles began to turn white, then he waited for the woman at the register to be out of ear-shot. The cashier finally went into the back and since they were the only two people there(Yuu KaiTou's goons scared everyone else away), he reached up and grabbed Nozomi by the wrist.

"Ouch! Let me go you're hurting me!" she exclaimed in agony trying to remove his grip, but he only held on tighter.

"Listen to me you ungrateful wench, you will behave and you will not treat like I'm just some stranger off the street, you are MINE now, do you understand me?! That's how it is and that's how it always will be!" he whispered and with that he forced her back into her seat with her wrist and let go.

With tears streaming from he eyes Nozomi tried to misuse her reddened wrist, "Now the cashier is coming back, eat your damn ice cream with a smile on your rude little face and after ward we're going shopping, now straighten up your act!" he whispered angrily and began to eat his ice cream.

With tears still streaming from her face Nozomi picked up the spoon put on a crumpled smile and began to eat her ice cream.

Botan looked around Keiko's room at all the pretty animals and pictures she had nicely put in picture frames. Keiko still had the pillow over her head so Botan decided to get up and look at the one on Keiko's desk. Botan picked up the picture and gasped, "(It's us,)" she began, "(At the Dark Tournament, our champion picture.)" she thought. "(So Keiko really is friends with all of us, she isn't just here for Yusuke.)" Botan put down the picture and sat down again by Keiko. "Hey sweetie, how about we go and get some ice cream, on me?" Botan asked.

"OK," Keiko began, her voice muffled by the pillow.

Botan pulled the pillow off of Keiko's head and helped her up from the bed, "Come on, let's get going before they close, I have a feeling we'll be there for a while." Botan said as Keiko got up.

Keiko smiled at Botan, "Thanks for always looking out for me Botan, I really appreciate it." she said.

"Oooh don't get all mushy on me now, what happened to the hard-core Keiko that I used to know?" Botan teased.

Keiko giggled, and then the two left her room.

Yusuke and the boys walked downstairs into the living room which was covered in blue furniture and wallpaper, "Geez her parents sure are neat-freaks." Kuwabara said.

"Sure are, hey, can you sense anything in here?" Yusuke asked.

"No, not in here, there's some ghosts in here but they're really passive-aggressive, they're just sitting around." Kuwabara said.

"Are you serious?" Yusuke asked in shock.

"Yeah, it's like they're waiting for something to come, or like they're guarding something." he said.

"Guarding something? Do you think that they could be protecting Nozomi, maybe that's why those monsters don't come near the house." Kurama said.

"Nah, I'd say that Hiei's got the whole protecting Nozomi thing down already." Kuwabara chuckled.

"Do you WANT to die?!!" Hiei asked grabbing Kuwabara by the caller and pushing him up against the wall.

"You guys cool it alright, we're here on business, not to pick fights with each other." Yusuke scolded.

Hiei let go of Kuwabara and went back to his original spot. "Hey, I think I'm startin' to get the hang of this team-leader thing." Yusuke said to Kurama, who replied with a smile, "OK Kuwabara, start leadin' us around the house, maybe you'll feel something in another room." Yusuke said, and so the boys began their search.