(10-18-04) Nothing to babble about here... So, on with responses.
Pyschopathic Maniac Girl- I assume you liked it... That really stretched my page out... Long... drawn out... Laughter...
HanyouToni- Now that's something I'd like to see... Hiei in therapy.
Celebrindae- Really? Cool.
xkuroxshinobix- Yes, they made out... Scary... Glad you liked the chapter... I updated again, did you notice?
Draikitha- Then I accomplished my goal... Lol, just kidding. :D Glad you liked it.
C.C.C.- Yes, whatever happens happens... It is as the all-mighty authoress wishes it (that's me by the way).
Carri- Well, I don't want your legion of undead minions added to the millions of other things that are stalking me, spying on me, trying to kill me, talking to me in my head, etc etc etc... So, I updated just because of that.. :yeahright xD:
Dark-Shadow-Goddess89- Yes, God bless them for loving me... :strikes a pose: I've got quite an ego, haven't I? Teeheehee... At least I'm not some pansy with no self-esteem.
Saeble- WHAT SITE HAS WR SONGS? I WANT THEM! NOW! :coughcough: Um... Please?
Flame34- Beat you to it. I just didn't color it yet. :D
Zephyr Minamino- Aw, nuts, I was gonna send you a picture I found of Hiei wearing a suit/tux/whatever kinda thingy... Remind me in an email or something if you wanna see it.
Okami Youkai- I have absolutely no clue.
Kate Ryou- Well I dunno if it'd be considered a secret in the first place...
Spatial Monkey- What is it with monkies? Anyway... Yeah, I suppose I kinda can write mushy stuff, but it's not really fun... Unless you get some kind of odd thrill from writing about other people loving each other and whatnot... I don't. And romance is not something I practice in life either. Love is evil. My mom got pissed when I said that...
Shessha's Crazy- Yes, I agree too, unfortunately I have other things to do and cannot follow you in your dazed walk.
Water-Rose- Aliens?!? ALIENS IMPREGNATED SHADOW! :shrieks in horror and runs away:
kiinu- Yeah... Information... Stored... Somewhere... I'll never find it again, but it's there. If somebody ever asks me about your history class, I'll... Not remember and so in effect they will get a clueless stare as answer.
kaida13- Agree about what? I forget. Oh well. :wanders off and falls over a nearby cliff:
Hedi Dracona- Yes, that's true enough.
Mari Youma- Scaring people is lots of fun. It really scared people when they walk in the door and you go flying out of your seat and tackle them, screaming "SHINY!" and pulling at their many necklaces/earrings/chains...
hiei&kuramas gurl- Um... I'll... consider it... But it's not likely... Read what I said to Spatial Monkey...
UnicornGirl-DragonLady- Why would he do that? He only messes with Kuwabara's mind... And he does that often... And Shadow messes with anybody's mind who she feels inclined to.
purplepizzaeatnmonkey- Yeah... Scary.
CHAPTER THREE
Heir to the Throne of Cheese
"So, Shadow, I assume you studied hard last night for this test," Kurama said, grinning over at Shadow in the passenger's seat.
"Yep! I studied those books you gave me until I fell asleep five minutes after I walked into my room!"
"I figured," Kurama said. "I was being sarcastic."
"Oh."
"You had better pass this, you know," Hiei said from the back seat.
"I will! Norman used his weaselly skills to implant the information into my brain while I slept."
The guys sighed heavily.
"I'm serious!" she said. "I woke up this morning and knew everything I need to know!"
"Well that's what you said yesterday and you ended up listing off your laws of throwing McDonald's hamburgers at happy couples making out in the park and splashing mud on bicyclers..."
"Those are my laws. I meant that I know all your laws."
"Okay then, Shadow, here's a simple question: What does a yield sign mean?"
"It means ya yield for the people who were there first!"
"Something like that..." Kurama muttered. "Do pedestrians have the right of way?"
"Yes, I think so, but if there's some old lady hobblin' out into the street in front of me, I'm going around her! I'm not gonna sit around for ten minutes waiting for the old bat to end up needing somebody to carry her anyway! People like that shouldn't leave their houses!"
Kurama pulled into the driver's testing place, but before he got out of the car he made sure to lay down rules for Shadow.
"Do not mouth off to the tester. Do what they tell you, nothing more. When they let you drive my car in your test, wrecking it will not only fail you, it will infuriate me, and you don't want that."
"No sir."
"Just... Behave. Honestly, Shadow, if you fail this--"
"Okay, okay, I know what I'm doing," Shadow said, already getting out of the car. "Jeez. You underestimate me, fox."
"No I don't," Kurama said, getting out and falling in step with her and Hiei. "It's my car we're dealing with here. I'm protective of my possessions."
"Same thing."
"And I know you. You aren't one to abide by the laws."
"I know all the laws, fox! Stop worrying!" Shadow said, sounding confident. Kurama sighed.
"Okay then..."
Hiei held open the door for Shadow, then, just to be mean, didn't hold it for Kurama. Instead he stuck his tongue out at the boy when the door nearly closed on him. Kurama said nothing and just gave him a look.
"Okay, sit," Kurama said, pointing at the only vacant chair in the lobby. Shadow plopped down and Kurama went to check her in... (I've never been to a driver's testy placey thingy cuz I'm only fourteen and have seen no need as of yet... So if this isn't how it works, I care not.)
Shadow looked at the girl next to her. The first word that popped into her head was "prep." I assume you can picture that.
"'Ello!" she said anyway.
"Hi," the girl replied. "You here to take your test?"
"Yep! And I'm gonna pass it, too."
"Don't be so sure. I failed the first time."
"Well I'm not you."
The girl shrugged. "True enough. I'm Akiko."
"I'm Shadow."
"That's an English word, isn't it?"
"...It's...my name..." Shadow said, leaving off the, 'you idiot' that she wanted so much to add but, for Kurama's sake and because she was working on social manners (also for Kurama's sake), didn't.
"I'm taking English in high school."
"I already know it all..."
"Really? Where'd you learn? I think it's the hardest thing in the world, but that's probably just because I'm an idiot."
"Most likely," Shadow muttered under her breath.
"What?"
"Oh! I said, uh, no you aren't! An idiot, I mean. It took me ages to learn! Yeah..."
"Oh. So do you have your own car?"
"No, I'm using my friend's."
"Me too. My boyfriend's car, of course. I've been living with him for a while."
"How exciting," Shadow said dryly.
"That's my boyfriend over there," Akiko said, pointing. The boy she'd indicated was in line in front of Kurama, talking to him. Hiei was standing there with his arms crossed, looking dark and evil and unhappy.
"Really?"
"Who's that girl he's talking to?" the girl said, more to herself than Shadow. Of course, Shadow fell right out of her chair and landed with a loud thud. Akiko looked at her curiously.
"Are you okay?"
"That's not a girl."
"Excuse me?"
"That redhead he's talking to is the friend of mine who was so kind as to lend me his car to use in this test, and he's most definitely not a girl," Shadow said.
"... Oh."
"Yeah, oh."
"Is he your, um, boyfriend then?"
"No. He's not. He's my friend. I've never had a boyfriend, exactly, but if you want to get technical, the little guy beside him is the closest thing I have."
"You've never had a boyfriend?!" Akiko said, amazed. She didn't wait for a response before looking closely at Hiei. "Whoa, he's a little hottie..."
"Yes, I suppose so," Shadow said dryly.
"You suppose so?! He's your boyfriend, isn't he?"
"Not really..."
"I'll take him, then! I'd even break up with my boyfriend for him!"
"Yeah right! He wouldn't like you anyhow," Shadow said.
"I bet he would. I had six boys all wanting to go out with me at one time!"
"Couldn't guess why they hell they'd do that..." Shadow muttered to herself. "Prep."
"What?"
"Let's see you try to even get him to notice you then," Shadow challenged. "Your boyfriend is distracted filling out those paper thingies, let's see you try."
"Fine!" Akiko got up and walked over to Hiei. Kurama had gone to an empty desk to talk to one of the people who worked there, so Hiei was pretty much just standing there looking slightly out of place. The girl walked up to him.
"Hey there," she said. Hiei looked up at her without moving his head.
"What?"
"I dunno. I just wanted to say hi."
"Really. You don't even know me." Hiei shot a look at Shadow. He'd seen her talking to this girl.
"Well, I could get to know you," she said, smiling.
"No you couldn't," the little demon replied.
"What? Sure I could!"
"Uh, whatever." Hiei walked past her and over to Shadow. "What the hell are you doing, Shadow?"
"What? Nothing!"
"You were talking to that girl, then she came over and started talking to me. So what were you trying to do?"
"I said you wouldn't like her and she said she had six boys competing for her so of course you'd like her and I told her to try to get you to notice her and voila! She didn't!" Shadow said cheerfully.
"I see. Why would you have been discussing whether I'd like her or not?"
"Cuz... I said you aren't my boyfriend and she said that if I didn't want you, she'd take you. Because you're a 'little hottie' to quote her exactly."
Hiei paused. "I see." He sat down next to her. "Ready to go?"
"I'm gonna get my license, and then, we will all be happy. Shiny, happy. People."
"Will we really."
"Yes!"
Akiko had gone to stand next to her boyfriend, and they'd finished filling out the papers. She walked past Shadow and Hiei.
"Wish me luck," she said, smiling.
"Don't wreck," Shadow replied. Hiei said nothing and Akiko seemed disappointed by that. Then she went out the door.
"Buwahahaha..."
Hiei looked at Shadow sideways. "You okay?"
"NO!"
"Alrighty then." He got up and walked over to Kurama's side, leaving Shadow all by herself. She looked around, let out a little whimper, and lunged across the room, nearly knocking him over as she hugged him.
"YOU LEFT ME ALL ALONE!" she wailed. The employee Kurama was speaking to cast an odd look at her.
"Is that Shadow Jaganshi?"
"Erm... Yes," Kurama said. "She may seem a bit odd, but she's really quite competent and sane."
"Hm. She'll take the written test first, then the hands-on test. Got it?"
"Yes."
"This way, miss," the man said, leading Shadow to a door. He looked her over, at her arms and whatnot to make sure she hadn't written answers all up and down on her skin, then led her into the room, handing her some stapled papers and a sharpened pencil. "You have an hour to complete this test. Take a seat."
There were school student desks in several rows in the room. Shadow plopped down clear in the back.
"Begin," the instructor guy said.
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"We'll check this while you do your driving," a man told Shadow when the instructor handed in her paper to him. She grinned.
"Thankya!"
"How do you think you did?" Kurama asked in the two seconds he saw her before she was dragged out the door.
"Very well!" Shadow replied cheerfully, giving him a thumbs up.
"Okay... Don't wreck my car."
"Don't cause any massive explosions," Hiei advised.
"Okay... Can I cause a minute explosion?"
"No. No explosions," Kurama said firmly.
"Aw, man, you guys are no fun."
Well, Shadow scared the hell out of the instructor who was in the car with her. She seemed to think too long about things and at the last second before she'd have to do something drastic, she did the right thing. It made the poor guy very nervous, as she also muttered to herself quite a bit. Of course, the guy didn't realize Hiei was keeping them under constant surveillance from various high places along the road. Shadow knew this and that's why she muttered. At one point, somehow quite unnoticed, Hiei rode on the roof of the car for a bit as there were no buildings to his liking in that area.
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"You think you passed?" Kurama asked on their way home.
"OF COURSE, BAKA FOX! I am the almighty one! Of course I passed!"
"...Sure."
"Besides, if I pass, I can legally do something Hiei can't!"
"What, drive?" Hiei said.
"You know, I never thought of it before, but normally you have to get a physical before you can take your driver's test..." Kurama said. "Why didn't you?"
"I dunno. Koenma probably took care of it, cuz my demon blood would scare them off and I'd be in a government stasis tube until they decided they wanted to deal with my alien pyrokinetical powers."
"There's no such thing as stasis in the real world, Shadow."
"THEN THEY'D FREEZE ME UP IN A BIG OL' BLOCK OF ICE, AND I'D WAKE UP IN 10,000 YEARS AS SOME KIND OF ODD PRIMITIVE MONKEY WOMAN!"
"Actually... You'd melt the ice with your fire demon powers and escape, if you were anything like me," Hiei said.
"If I were anything like you I wouldn't have got caught in the first place! And besides, if I were anything like you I wouldn't be anything like me, and I'm more like me than you so OBVIOUSLY I'm nothing like you, or I'd be more like YOU!"
The boys blinked.
"Sure, Shadow. If you say so," Kurama muttered. "Now if only I'd understood anything you just said, I'd probably be a bit... less confused..."
Shadow suddenly plastered her face to the window. "Wasn't that Eclipse's car?"
Kurama looked in the rearview mirror at the car they'd just passed going the other way. It made a complete 180-degree turn and came after them.
"Yep. That'd be Eclipse."
"Can I jump out the door of this moving vehicle and magically catch onto her windshield and ride with her instead?" Shadow asked excitedly.
"No, Shadow," Kurama said. "We can't have you doing stupid stuff now, before you've even got your license. At least get the thing and have a few days of legal driving before you break every law written."
"OKAY!" Shadow said cheerfully. Eclipse honked her horn. Hiei flipped her off. Shadow just sat there peacefully smiling like an idiot.
When finally they reached Shadow's house, both cars pulled up outside and everyone got out of their vehicles. Eclipse danced up to Shadow.
"Did you shove a roll of duct tape up your nose?"
"Nope! I completed it completely lacking a roll of duct tape up my nose! Aren't you proud!"
"Yes! So proud, in fact, that you are invited to a sleepover at my house on Saturday!" Eclipse dug in her pocket and handed Shadow a folded up piece of paper, which the fire demon girl proceeded to unfold (which was a difficult and tedious process, as it had been folded into a little square about a half inch wide) and look at.
"You are invited." She opened the last fold. "You are invited to a birthday party. Where: Eclipse's house. If you don't know where it is, drive around until you find it, you unlucky child. When: Noon or whenever you wake up on Saturday until whenever you feel like leaving on Sunday. Warning: I have a young boy residing in my house, I think he's my brother or something, anyway, I think he might have a friend or two over Saturday. Other info: We'll have a campfire with which you will not mess without express permission, Hiei is also invited, and my parents will not be home, because they happen to be going to Kyoto for some business meeting or something. They will leave Friday and will not be back until Monday. How convenient."
"Sounds fun. Unfortunately, I will not attend," Hiei said.
"YES YOU WILL!" Shadow and Eclipse both screamed at him.
"No... I won't, actually..."
"Oh yeah, Kurama, you're invited too, and so is Kuwabara and Yusuke, I suppose, if they wanna go."
"... Do we have to buy you something?" Shadow asked. "I have no money. Hiei spent what was left lying around the house to buy my motorcycle."
"And you damned well better appreciate it, too," Hiei snapped.
"Yes, I appreciate it very much, Hiei," Shadow said, hugging him and kissing his cheek.
"Good."
"Did you pass your driver's test?" Eclipse asked.
"I dunno yet! But I think so! Cuz I AM THE ALL-KNOWING, ALL-SEEING, ALL-POWERFUL SHADOW JAGANSHI, HEIR TO THE THRONE OF CHEESE, WHICH IS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY A MOUSE! HOWEVER, I AM MUCH SUPERIOR TO THIS MOUSE, AND WHEN THE WEASELS FINALLY CATCH IT, I SHALL REIGN SUPREME OVER ALL CHEESE! AREN'T YOU EXCITED?!"
"Yes, Shadow. I'm so freaking excited I just can't contain it," Hiei said dryly.
"YAY!" Shadow hugged him tightly and he coughed.
"Please avoid constricting my lungs," Hiei said in a calm, slightly strangled voice.
"I am sorry, master," Shadow said, bowing.
"No you aren't."
"Yes I am!"
"No you aren't."
"WANT ME TO PROVE IT?"
"... What will that comprise?"
Shadow fell to her knees sobbing and hugged Hiei's leg. "I'M... SO... SORRY!" she wailed. "I'LL NEVER, EVER, EVER DO IT AGAIN! PLEASE, I BEG FORGIVENESS!" She sat there for a while, sobbing and crying into the fabric of Hiei's pants leg. He just stood there staring, as did Eclipse and Kurama.
"Do you forgive me, O Great and Holy Master?"
"Eh..."
"Must I start living in your garbage can?"
Hiei's eye twitched. "I don't even want a definition."
Eclipse leaned over and whispered something in his ear. He gagged.
"Shadow, I forgive you, and you need not do anything involving sexual acts with me to gain that forgiveness," Hiei said, sounding quite sure of himself and rather like he was either going to cry, laugh, or run away screaming.
"THANK YOU!" Shadow jumped up and hugged him again. His eye twitched yet again and he gingerly patted her back.
"Okay Shadow... You can... er... let go... now..."
"I'm so happy!" she squealed, skipping away.
"What was that garbage thing...?" Kurama asked.
"When Shadow says something about living in a garbage can, she means she's performing sexual favors for whatever person's garbage can she happens to be living in at the time," Eclipse explained matter-of-factly. "I often accuse her of living in yours, Hiei, but--"
She didn't get to finish that sentence, as she suddenly found herself flying into the middle of the road with a big ol' bump on her head. Hiei fumed.
"YOU'RE SICK!"
Shadow came skipping over. "Can I ride my motorcycle?"
"No."
"WHY NOT?"
"Because with your luck, you'd get caught. You almost did yesterday. You'll get your license soon, if you're intelligent," Hiei said. "You can ride your motorcycle to Eclipse's birthday party."
"But how'll you get there then?"
"I'm not going, re--"
"YES YOU ARE!!!"
"No..."
"You can ride on the back," Shadow said, all problems solved. Hiei sputtered some arguments, which Shadow disregarded, of course, and silenced him with a glare.
"You're going."
"Yes ma'am..."
Kurama chuckled. "Woman's scorn... The most powerful force in the galaxy." Hiei just glared at the fox's teasing grin.
"Who's hungry?" Shadow asked. "I'll make dinner."
"I'M HUNGRY!" Eclipse shouted, jumping up and waving her arms around above her head. A semi appaeared out of nowhere and flattened her into the asphalt road. She lay there twitching while everyone else hurried inside to avoid her stupidity and complaining.
"What do you want for dinner, then?" Shadow asked, locking the door to keep Eclipse out (if she ever would happen to get up off the road).
"Anything that isn't alive and or has not been in the fridge for more than two days," Hiei said. "In other words: Nothing you have in this house. Order pizza."
"YOU'RE SO MEAN!" Shadow wailed. She stood there bawling for five minutes until there was a loud slam against the door. She blinked and peered out the window.
"It's... it's... Oh my god... It's... W... W-w-w-we... eh... It's..."
"Spit it out!" Hiei snapped.
"It's a monster," Shadow said dramatically, her voice barely above a whisper.
"Oh. Well feed it some ramen and send it home," Kurama said.
"ARE YOU NUTS? You feed it and it'll just keep coming back! It'll expect me to feed it all the time! It'll grow and get horns and wings and feathery eyebrows, and a tattoo of a South American poisonous frog on its forehead! AND I'LL STILL BE FEEDING IT IN TEN YEARS!"
The 'monster' jumped up and pounded on the door. "SHADOW, LET ME IN! I WANT FOOD TOO! I JUST GOT RUN OVER! I NEED FOOD TO HELP ME REGAIN MY HEALTH! I HAVE TIRE MARKS UP MY BACK! OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW! I'LL STARVE!"
"GO HOME, STRANGE CREATURE!" Shadow screamed back at her.
"One of these days, Shadow will scream so loud it will effect the stability of your supports and foundation and your house will cave in on top of you," Kurama said, looking pained and rubbing his ear.
"Yes... I know."
"I'm going to fix dinner now!" Shadow said, skipping out of the room.
"I WANT FOOD! HEY! ARE YOU THERE? CAN YOU HEAR ME? SHADOW! HIEI! KURAMA! PLEASE? SOMEBODY? ANYBODY? MY MOMMY MAKES ME EAT OUT OF THE TRASH CAN! HEEEYYYY! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?"
Eclipse's screaming continued until Shadow cheerfully flung a bucket of boiling soapy water out the door onto her. Then Shadow got lunged on and strangled and Eclipse's wet clothes drenched the rest of the house and Hiei forced her to mop up the entire downstairs because she'd gotten a drip on his face.
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"Well, what are you waiting for? Get up! We have to go confirm that my all-knowing powers got me my license!" Shadow said, jumping on Kurama's bed at 9:30 in the morning. He groaned.
"Get off my bed, Shadow..."
"But I wanna see if I got my license!"
"They aren't even open..." Kurama grumbled, looking at the clock. "You're not supposed to go until two... Let me sleep..."
"I'M AWAKE THIS FREAKIN' EARLY, WHY AREN'T YOU?!"
"Because SOMEBODY had me up until three in the morning!"
"WELL THEN CREAM THEM AND TAKE ME TO GET MY LICENSE!"
"THAT WAS YOU, SHADOW!"
"Why don't you sleep with a shirt on?" the girl asked abruptly.
Kurama took a deep breath as if to yell back, then looked confused. "What?"
"Well you don't have a shirt on, and Hiei never wears a shirt when he sleeps unless he's outside... What is it with you people?"
"Normally I do, but I was so tired last night that I just kind of collapsed on my bed... You and your stupid video games and cards and movies and whatever the hell else I was supposed to be paying attention to..."
"Okay. I see nothing wrong with attractive shirtless older guys sleeping in my house, I was just curious," Shadow said cheerfully. "Well, you get your sleep, I'm gonna go... I dunno. Pester Hiei about sleeping without a shirt on. Ta!" She skipped out, closing the door behind her. Kurama blinked, slightly confused, but was asleep fifteen minutes later.
Well, when eventually they got to the driver's testy place, and Shadow went in instantly and danced up to the front desk thing. Kurama walked up behind her. The guy at the desk looked up.
"Ah, yes. You're the rambunctious girl from yesterday."
"Um... I think so," Shadow said.
"Shadow Jaganshi," Kurama said.
"Yes. I assume you want to know if you passed or not?"
"Yes," Shadow said, nodding vigorously.
"Well, congratulations. You passed."
"WOOHOO! I told you," Shadow said, looking at Kurama and grinning.
"Congratulations," he said.
"You'll need your picture taken and we'll have it completed soon," the employee said. (I have no idea how getting your license works, here or in Japan, so I have simplified it for my sake, not yours. Authoress authority, superiority, etc etc, complain and I kill you.)
"Picture... Cameras suck out your soul though..."
"No they don't. Come here," the man said, beckoning her to come around to a door to an empty room. He had her stand in front of a blank wall, smile or whatever, and he snapped the picture.
"There you go. Come back in an hour."
"WOOHOO!" Shadow went dancing out the door.
"Sorry about her, she's quite normal... She's not going to wreck," Kurama said.
"Shut up, fox," Hiei said, dragging him out the door by a fistful of his shirt.
Shadow was dancing circles around Kurama's car. "You locked the doors! I'm doing a magical 'the doors will unlock' dance!"
"Yes, right," Kurama said, hitting the button on his key chain. All locks simultaneously opened. Shadow froze, staring.
"IT WORKED! YEEHA!" She lunged at the door, opened it, and flung herself into the back seat, cracking her head off the window on the other side of the car. Kurama yelped.
"DON'T BREAK MY CAR!"
"If she didn't wreck it while driving it, she's not gonna wreck it by sitting in the back seat..." Hiei said.
"But..."
"MY LICENSE AWAITS ME! IN THE FUTURE!" Shadow said, opening the other back door and flinging herself out, doing a belly flop onto the pavement. "Oof!" Then she proceeded to do somersaults across the parking lot until she ran into a flagpole. It didn't stop her completely, she just kept rolling back, then rolling forward and hitting the pole, bouncing back, then rolling forward again, until finally Hiei grabbed her by the back of her shirt and dragged her over to the car, tossing her in.
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I have made some decisions over the past few days, kids!
After watching Hiei rip off his bandana like he does, I started to wonder how he keeps it on so he can just pull it off like that... And what popped into my mind but VELCRO? So... Me and Eclipse (who thought the same thing but I beat her to vocalizing it) have decided that Hiei uses velcro to keep his headband on.
Well that decision was made during the watching of Poltergiest Report in Japanese. I love Hiei's Japanese voice, something about it is just awesome. So I was saying to Eclipse that I want to steal his voice. I will steal Hiei's Japanese voice and put it in a jar. In my bedroom. Muwaha! And anytime I open the jar, I hear his voice. Muwaha again.
Decision number three was just made a short while ago while emailing Eclipse. I said something about a butterfly, and an image suddenly appeared in my head. Hiei with butterfly wings. Then Hiei suddenly, frighteningly, became the new MSN butterfly. You know, like the guy on the commercials... Picture that. Scary, no? Okay, well, I've stolen enough of your time. Ja mata!