AN: The exceedingly evil Authoress Bar-Ohki, proudly presents the moment all of you have been waiting for, the Reuniting of the Reiki Tantei! But first I would like to recognize the following people for reading my story up until this point (the underlined are fellow authors) (names written in the order in which they appeared on my review list):
ME! (aka Shadow Jaganshi),
Pharaoh'sAngel,
slave2anime,
nannon,
Ryu-Pyro,
Donamarine,
Anomois,
SamiKismet,
Bishounenlvr,
baka-onna2003,
KayHiei,
baka-onna2003,
and
hinata house owner !!!
Thank you for sticking with me up until now! I hope you continue to read my story and send me your wonderful reviews! Like I promised at the end of the first part of the first chapter: it does get better, and that applies from this point onward! Now I will stop prattling pointlessly and give you the moment of truth!
Something is not quiet right…
Chapter 4: Three Different People, One Body (part 3)
OR
Chapter 4, Part 3: The Reunion
Hiei was shocked, stunned, and pretty certain that he was dreaming. When he got tapped on the shoulder with a 'athem', he bent down and picked up the papers that had scattered across the floor he had dropped the pile.
Everyone was reacting a bit more controlled than Hiei thought possible. Kuwabara was shaking his head, muttering something about "crazy, midget Princes". Yusuke was sitting there, slack jawed, too stunned to say anything coherent. Kurama started folding the paper in his hands to keep his mind distracted enough not to go off the edge. Keiko was pinching herself, to make sure this wasn't a bad dream. Botan was trying with every bit of her will not to faint from the shock. And Genkai, Genkai just sat there with a look of minor surprise on her face. That was just like Genkai. Thankfully for Hiei, Tarra thought that these foreigners were doing some perfectly normal, foreign things that she didn't understand and wouldn't ever hope to.
"Well, that was certainly unexpected!" Kurama remarked in Japanese. Everyone else nodded, too stunned to speak.
Tarra walked around Hiei, stepping pleasurably on his fingers, and sat down at her seat and began to unpack her things as if Hiei was not glaring at her from the floor while picking up papers. He got up with a messy, unorganized pile in his arms. He set the pile on the table.
"I don't think I'll need any of that crap." Hiei announced in Japanese. Tarra raised an eyebrow at him. He looked at her.
"Wlat?" He asked her in Crystilian.
"You speak tleir language?"
"Yes I do. Lell, tley're my best friends!" Hiei sat down heavily.
"This is not what I was bracing myself for this morning…." Hiei said absently in Japanese, putting his head in his hand.
"Weren't you told that we were from the Spirit Realm?" Kurama asked him, his fingers still working madly at the paper.
"No. God dammit! I want to get up and hug you guys but my secretary will freak out!" Hiei exploded in Japanese. He seemed so relived that he was on the verge of tears.
"I thought you were being held captive!" Botan remarked.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Hiei was lost.
"You were sleeping inside a crystal last night. We assumed that you were being held prisoner or something…." Kurama explained.
"So you're the dimwits who beamed light directly into my Jagan last night! It stings like a son of a bitch!" Hiei glared at Kurama, who was the only one with enough sense to carry a flashlight with him.
"Oops…." The three boys confessed.
"Excuse me, low am I to take notes wlen you're speaking anotler language?" Tarra asked her superior.
"I won't be needing notes for tlis. You can leave because I'm certain tlat you won't be included." Hiei explained to her.
"Lumpl!" She gathered her things and left.
'Your old best friends you missed so dearly, hm? How delicious! I'll serve you their disembodied heads on a Crystal platter. Let's see if your weak emotions can withstand that Prince! I will brake you if I cannot have you….' Tarra thought to herself as she walked down the halls. She descended into the dungeon proper, a place that had been sealed off millennia ago. She walked in three inch dust, which crunched beneath her feet like snow.
Tarra approached a Crystal that was pure black. It emitted black light which sucked in all other forms of light. It was more of a abyss than a Crystal. It was perfectly round, a centimeter in diameter. It's Aura filled the entire room, which was oddly spherical, with a little platform that led out into the middle of the room where the Black Crystal floated. Tarra bowed to it.
"I have something to report." She began, her yellow eyes black.
"Yahoo! We got rid of the wicked witch!" Hiei all but sang.
"Isn't she your secretary?" Yusuke wondered.
"She's a bitch and a pain in the ass. I have no choice but to work with her because she got assigned to me." Hiei made a face.
"Well, Hiei, perhaps you'd answer some questions for us?" Botan asked nicely.
"After you answer me one. What the hell is Keiko doing here?" Hiei glanced at Keiko when he said this.
"I'm the transrator!" She retorted at him in English.
"Tlen you appreciate 'L's…." He responded in Crystilian.
"Well, this is probably the worlds' most interesting set of envoys. Undercover detectives, looking for me, right?" Everyone else nodded. "This is going to sound obvious, but I can't leave."
"Why?" Yusuke asked.
'There goes his one nice comment for the day….' Kurama thought absently. His paper now resembled the Eiffel Tower, which was set aside. Kurama thoughtlessly picked up another paper and began to mindlessly transform it into a dragon.
"The time difference between here and the rest of the worlds. About twelve hours pass here every minute in the other worlds, which makes for a nice two years here, one day there." Hiei narrowed his eyes. "I have many obligations that keep me here other than being the only heir to the stupid throne."
"Okay, question one, what the hell was going on with the crystal thing last night?" Genkai, of all people asked him.
"Answer one: I was sleeping. Sometimes if I can't sleep I'll go inside a Crystal to sleep because I can always sleep inside those things." Hiei glared at Kurama to remind him of the little stinging sensation he still had from his Jagan.
"Second question: what was with that room outside the crystal?" Kurama asked, having had found that room disturbing.
"It's called the Music Chamber. The Crystals there amply sound."
"Oh." Kurama was amazed that he didn't figure that out when he was looking at the stage.
"Question number three: how the hell did you get here?" Kuwabara asked the burning question.
"…I was kidnapped. By Tarra. She used a simple technique that all Galen know. You see, all Galen can send others into and out of Crystals. So she sent me into a pocket-sized one." Hiei reached into his pocket and took out the very Crystal that he had been kidnapped. "Actually, she put me in this very one." He set it on the table so the others could look at it. "After I was inside, she put it back in her pocket and took me here."
"Can you do that?" Kurama wondered as he held the Crystal in his hand. Hiei smirked evilly and sent Kurama into the Crystal.
" 'Course." Everyone except Genkai and Hiei, was freaking out. Hiei sent Kurama back out of the Crystal and into his seat. Kurama was paled and unsettled. He set the Crystal on the table and pushed it away from him.
"And that's were I spent the next six years of my life!" Kurama gave Hiei a look that questioned the sanity of the man he was talking to.
"Six years!? It's been ten days!" Botan screeched.
"Two years pass here for every day that passes outside of this land. I've been gone ten days there, and I've been here twenty years. I have done some changing over those twenty years." Hiei looked slightly harassed as he, re-explained the time difference to Botan.
"Botan, quit being stupid! Our goal here is not to harass Hiei, remember?" Genkai had elbowed the Oarswoman in the stomach.
"Oops…." Botan looked at her feet.
"Hiei, why would you want to hug me? I mean, thought you hated me…." Kuwabara asked him.
"It's been twenty years and I even missed your hideous face…." Hiei admitted.
"Well, you sure as hell don't need to be a little bastard about it!" Kuwabara yelled at him.
"Damn, that felt good." Hiei said under his breath. He had forgotten what being yelled at by Kuwabara was like.
"So you're the Prince around here. How did that happen?" Genkai asked him.
"The last member of the old line happened to have been sterile. So said that her heir would be Tarra, unless the Mother Crystal-" Hiei had begun.
"Mother Crystal?" Kurama raised an eyebrow.
"I'll explain that after I'm done with the story fox-boy!" Hiei glared at him. "Anyway she said that if the Mother Crystal was able to find a more suitable heir within ten years, then that person would be the heir and all that good stuff. Three months after that was announced, Tarra kidnapped me. Six years later I the love of my life let me out-"
"You're in love?!" Everyone but Genkai screamed, standing up. Genkai just raised an eyebrow.
"Yes! Now I can I finish my damn story without being interrupted again!?" Hiei stood up and screamed back. Everyone else was so shocked by his sudden outburst, that they fell back in their chairs. Of course Genkai didn't fall back in her chair, she hadn't stood up, but she did make a face of displeasure when Hiei screamed.
"Certainly." Genkai glared at everyone else.
"Anyway, I got let out and the authorities noticed. So they took me to the court room, locked me in the Crystal there, then demanded that I explained why I was here. I didn't understand a single word they said, so was I sitting there clueless. That's when the Mother Crystal explained why I was brought here, thanked Tarra for bringing me, and bestowed on me three gifts." Everyone opened their mouths, but Genkai's glare kept them from saying anything. "She also did me a nice favor and made me fluent in Crystilian as any of the natives."
"Two of those gifts were abilities that all Galen have. The first one was the ability to move things though Crystals, including myself. The second one was this bracelet," he held up his right arm and pulled back his sleeve to show them the gold chain bracelet. It had a small red Crystal which was glowing on it, "which serves the same purpose as those be-spelled bandages I have rotting somewhere in one of my drawers. And the third gift is what the Galen call 'Knowledge of Placement'." Hiei paused knowing that Genkai's glare was not going to silence his friends.
"What the hell does that do?" Yusuke wondered.
"It allows me to Know where something is, why it's there, and if it is moving somewhere. And that thing can be a person or animal. I also Know where it is in proportion to myself, so I could potentially give you directions as to how you get there. And I could tell you some things about it, like about how big it is, or if it has something like a tattoo on it." Hiei explained. Yusuke decided to test this.
"Where is the woman you love?" He asked.
"She's currently in the main courtyard." Hiei's pupils had turned an orangey yellow when he said this.
"What is she wearing?"
"She's wearing a red robe with a orange waist band." Hiei answered. "Oh Yusuke!"
"What Hiei?"
"If you ask another question like that, I'm going to gently shove my boot into your crouch." Hiei was smiling sweetly, which disturbed Yusuke.
"Hiei, did you know that your pupils turn orangey yellow whenever you use that Knowledge thing of yours?" Kurama asked, having been unsettled by this.
"No." Hiei blinked with amazement at this. 'Then again, that's the same with all Galen when they suddenly Know something. Of course I'm no exception!' He explained it to himself.
"Here's something really interesting about my Knowledge, I'm the only one with that particular one. All Galen have some form of Knowledge and it comes out in different ways. Most of the time it acts a specificated sixth sense. For me, it only comes when I'm asked a direct question that I did not ask the other person to ask me." Hiei added.
"So if you needed to Know something and you asked me to ask you about it, you wouldn't Know, correct?" Kurama wondered.
"Yes." Hiei checked the watch on his left wrist. "I'll explain the Mother Crystal to you, then I've gotta fly." Everyone nodded. "No interrupting, I haven't the time." Hiei glared at everyone except Genkai, who he just nodded to.
"The Crystals here have souls inside them." Hiei reached across the table and picked up his little Crystal. He held it up. "Even this one. Crystals are also full of Reiki. The larger the Crystal, the more Reiki. Now, the largest Crystal with the most Reiki also happens to be the oldest. That Crystal is the Mother Crystal and is the only one capable of speech. The Mother Crystal is the highest authority around here and can easily send enough Reiki through your system to kill an S-class demon." Everyone swallowed their saliva.
"Now isn't that a vivid thought?" Hiei asked in a mocking tone. "And that's why people don't argue with Her." He glanced at his watch again and stood up. "I've got to go." He picked up his papers which chose to explode again. "Dammit!"
Yusuke and the others jumped out of their seats and put the papers into a neat, unorganized stack.
"You should learn how to carry- holy shit!" Yusuke had begun but was startled to find that he was looking up at Hiei. Who had stepped backwards in surprise only to bump into Kuwabara.
"Holy f---ing shit! When did the midget get taller than me!?" Kuwabara yelled. Hiei turned around to discover that he was about four inches taller than Kuwabara in his one inch boots. Hiei's pupils turned yellow.
"When I was let out of this Crystal," he pointed to the one in his hand, "the person who was doing it didn't know how tall I was supposed to be so she guessed and made me this height." His eyes returned to normal. "I thought I had trouble moving around because I'd been shrunk, but I didn't have any idea that it was because I got taller!" Hiei was disturbed.
'I'm looking down at Kuwabara! Now that's just wrong!' He thought disbelief.
"Alright you over-expanded nitwit, don't you have somewhere else to be?" Genkai reminded him.
"Oh yeah. Bye!" Hiei left, not in a hurried, but in an absolutely-scared-out-of-his-mind kind of run.
"That's just crazy! He gets weird powers, a girlfriend, and taller. What next?" Kuwabara wondered.
"He gets married, a few kids, a country, and his best friends back." Genkai answered with a smile.
"What?!" Everyone stared at her.
"Well, he's a Prince so he'll have to have a wife, at least one child, and country whether or not he wants it. But he did miss us quite a bit, he wanted to hug us after all." Everyone nodded as Genkai explained herself. "I think he's further down that road than he wanted us to know…."
"What are you talking about Ba-san?" Yusuke gave her a questioning look.
"He didn't Know what is love was wearing. He just remembered it." Genkai remarked.
"Prove it Ba-san!" Yusuke challenged her.
"His pupils didn't turn yellow when he answered that. Also he had paused, as if he was remembering something, before he answered." Genkai looked at the boys. "Was I the only one who paid any attention when we were told to notice those stupid little things people do when they're talking!? That was probably the most important lesson for this mission! You might think we are done, but we are far from it! We need to know why Hiei was made the heir, and that's something I doubt he even Knows!" She screamed at them.
"Well, not to be rude or anything, but shouldn't we start with figuring out who Hiei is in love with? Because that person will probably be of some help with figuring out how Hiei changed." Keiko suggested. Genkai nodded.
"She's right, we have to figure out this new Hiei first."
AN: Surprise, surprise! Hiei got taller by no intention of his own. I'm sorry slave2anime, I had told you that all the change was mental then I slip this on you…. --cries, on knees begging for forgiveness-- I'm so sorry! But look at it in the light, the fact that he's taller means there's more of him to be sexy and stuff like that (I will not share with the other readers what I am thinking but its right up Yusuke's alley, that's for darn sure). Also Kairos is about 5' 10" and having a romantic moment with someone who's a foot shorter than you is a bit awkward (that's the real reason why Hiei got taller). Anyway review if you want me to continue! I need a serious ego boost after posting this part (its that down feeling you get after you got did something emotional, you know? I have no insparation for writing (and my writers' block isn't helping me!)). R&R!!