Flame of Hiei
Shinobi and Princess
The fight was wrapped up quickly, much quicker than it should have been. Hiei simply punched Kuwabara and Kuwabara fell back into the ditch trap.
"Well, I wasn't expecting it to be so quick," Alicia murmured.
"What's next?" Hiei asked.
"Well… you go home, where Yusuke will be waiting. You both say hello to each other and then you kick Yusuke upside the head for smoking when working on fireworks."
"Fireworks?" Yusuke asked. "Smoking?"
"Oh didn't I tell you, Hanabishi-san? You make fireworks for a living and you chain smoke," Alicia said as she pulled a pack of Newports out of nowhere. "Here ya go."
"So how do I get to this house?"
"Walk to the next square, dumbass!" Alicia pointed to the next comic square which depicted the Hanabishi residence.
"Oh, right! On my way!" Yusuke ran around the other squares and entered the square Alicia had pointed out.
"Hey… Dad," Hiei forced himself to say as he entered the square.
"Hey Hi—Recca. What's up?" Yusuke lit up a Newport and smiled.
Shwak (A/N: I'm sticking with the sound effects from the book.) Hiei kicked Yusuke in the head.
Alicia held up cue cards which she had pulled from nowhere and Yusuke read the one he was designated to read, "You can't kick your own father like that, Boy!" Yusuke sucked in air through the cigarette and went into a coughing fit.
Hiei, prodded by Alicia to ignore the coughing, read his own line. "Dad! You never smoke when working with fireworks!"
"I—I kn--- know, I kn—ow," Yusuke said, still coughing, and flicked the cigarette aside.
"And don't flick your butts," Hiei scolded.
"Enter the next square, Recca!" Alicia whispered.
Hiei read his profile as Recca silently as he walked. So he was a shinobi, hm? Or, at least, he wanted to be one.
"Yusuke! Get in there!" Alicia ordered. Yusuke walked into the square and they argued over "Recca" using gunpowder in his fights again, as prescribed by the original manga, though Hiei hadn't used the gunpowder. It ended with Yusuke telling Hiei he would go without dinner that night. Both of them wanted to laugh at this.
Now it was Alicia's turn. She entered the following square hesitantly, knowing that she would be hit on and she couldn't K-O the one who would do it.
"That's her! Yanagi Sakoshita!" someone behind the bushes whispered. "She's the prettiest girl in the district! I can't wait to get my hands on her!"
Alicia, recognizing the voice, twitched in disgust. "Karasu…" she mumbled in utter repulsion.
"A babe like that won't be easy… Ten bucks says he crashes," Risho said to the third man, whom Alicia failed to recognize.
"Miss Sakoshita!" Karasu ran out toward Alicia. "How about a date, beautiful?"
By this point, Hiei was beyond pissed. Every last member of the group who was within the white between the squares had to help restrain him and they were still failing.
"A date? What's that?" Alicia asked as naively as possible. Karasu did a world-class face plant.
"Don't play dumb! Everybody knows what a date is! Now get your butt over here!" Karasu grabbed Alicia's hand and pulled her along. Now Alicia was ready to kill him too.
"Ow you're hurting me!" Alicia cried. "Ease up if you don't want me to kill you," she threatened him telepathically.
"Take it easy," the man Alicia hadn't recognized said to Karasu. She knew, now that she had seen him up close, why she didn't recognize him. He wasn't an adult in the real world; he was really a child. It was Rinku.
"Let go of me! That hurts!" Alicia snatched back her hand.
THWAK! Hiei, who had finally been released by the others, kicked Karasu in the face. Karasu went flying. Nobody ever figured out how far, however, because he was never seen again throughout the manga. The fight began and ended swiftly. Hiei soon awoke in Alicia's lap. Alicia thanked him for helping her and introduced herself as Yanagi Maxwell. She quickly corrected herself, changing her name to the proper Yanagi Sakoshita. They then got to talking about "Yanagi's" healing powers, which she had supposedly used on "Recca" though he had actually one the fight and stayed conscious and unscathed through it too.
Alicia healed the puppy, lying dead on the sidewalk, and it was then that Hiei declared he was her shinobi. They then continued onto the next square where Hiei showed Alicia how he could create fire from his hand. Alicia linked her pinky with Hiei's and officially declared that they were friends. It was then that "Kagehoshi" appeared…