(11-5-04) Ah, Friday... Hiei's back on YYH tomorrow! He was on last week for two seconds! Yay! Ahem... Anyway... I kinda was forgetting to update... Oops. This is the last chapter.
Mari Youma- Down with small children! Get your torches and pitchforks! (this is coming from a future aunt...)
moron- Thank you, moron, your name suits you well and now I am haunted by the word "lemon." Every time I see/hear "lemon" I get horrid images and it's all your FAULT! How does that make you feel? Probably not all that bad, because you don't care about me, you just want me to write a story about Hiei and Shadow fucking... ::shudder:: And this isn't supposed to be a hiei/shadow fic, exactly, it's just got more romance than my others do.
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kiinu- Evil siblings. I have an evil older sister. She doesn't bite or claw, she just yells and hovers over my shoulder... Grr... And she's obsessed with porpoises...
Carri- Dare I ask what sick idea you got? Cuz... It couldn't be all that bad... Well, it could... But... Yeah, whatever.
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Onward with the last chapter, thanks y'all for reviewing! (I don't remember what happens in this chapter.)
CHAPTER SEVEN
"I Have Magical Powers Like That..."
Few sixteen-year-old girls go from being fifteen and doing nothing all day to being sixteen with immense skills at motorcycle riding overnight, but Shadow did, as you know, and, as often happens, her skills turn out to be a gift and a curse.
A few days after Eclipse's party, Shadow was out joyriding her motorcycle at about 120 miles per hour when she passed a multitude of bikers going the opposite direction. She paid them no attention but she did not get the same treatment from them. They all turned around instantly and gave chase. At the next train crossing, they caught up.
"Hey!" one said. "I'll race you."
"I'll win," Shadow replied.
"Then I'll fight you, you cocky bastard!" The guy got off his bike and walked towards Shadow. She 'eeee!'-ed and acted stupid until he threw a punch. Next thing he knew he was lying on the ground holding his crippled nuts and bleeding out his nose.
"Don't call me a bastard, baka! Is it not obvious to you that I'm a girl?" Shadow said, pulling off her helmet.
"What the hell's a young, pretty girl like you doing riding a motorcycle through our territory? Are you ASKING to be punished?" another guy said.
"Punished? I hardly think you could harm me."
"I'd like to rape you, girl. Wait, what? Oh, damn you, authoress and your typos! Girl, I want to race you," the guy told Shadow.
"I'll win, no question."
"I have questions. Get on your bike, we start when the train is past. We'll go on back roads only, we can't risk it in the middle of the city. First one to the little pawn shop on the other side of Tokyo wins. Ready?"
"But... I'll win..."
"GET ON YOUR DAMNED BIKE!"
"YES, MA'AM!"
This only angered the guy further and he revved his engine. Shadow calmly ate a banana she'd somehow kept in her pocket unharmed. The train rolled past and the two racers shot off. About two seconds later they heard sirens. Apparently a cop car had been sitting on the other side of the train from them.
"Well this should make it more interesting!" the man yelled at Shadow.
"I'LL STILL WIN," Shadow replied. She shot ahead and veered off the paved road onto a nearly invisible dirt road. That left the cops to chase her opponent and therefore give her the advantage.
Sort of, she thought crossly, dodging a tree. Boy I'm dead if Koenma finds out about this.
"WOOOOOOOHOOOOO!" she screamed, hitting a bump and flying twenty feet in the air. Upon slamming into the ground again, she lost control and was sent flying over the front of the bike and ended up slammed up against a tree upside down.
"Ow..." She peeled off the tree like a window sticker and belched when she hit the ground. "Good thing Hiei doesn't know about this... Actually that could be bad. I might be about to die and he won't know where I am or what I'm doing, and... He could like, go insane and everything, and--"
"Talking to yourself isn't healthy, you know."
Shadow jumped at Koenma's voice. She instantly leaped to her feet. "I know what this might look like, but I did NOT just wreck my bike."
Koenma looked over the area. "Good thing, too, or I'd have to take away your license. See that it never happens again. Go home, because that guy you were racing was just arrested."
"He was not!"
"Yes he was, Shadow, I know all. Now go home before I drag you home."
"You wouldn't do that even if you could."
"Watch me." And Shadow was grabbed by her collar and nearly choked to death as Koenma dragged her across the ground kicking and screaming.
"I CAN WALK, YOU KNOW! I'M NOT A DAMN CRIPPLE, IDIOT!"
"Glad to hear it! Go home."
"You hate me and your entire life is dedicated to spoiling my fun, am I right?"
"I spoil everyone's fun. Like if I forbid you from ever kissing Hiei again, that spoils his fun, no?"
"In a way."
"I don't want to know..."
"No you don't."
"So go home and fix your motorcycle. I see a scratch."
"WHAT? WHERE? MY PRECIOUS HOLY BIKE GOT SCRATCHED? AHHHHHHHHH!!!" Shadow grabbed the bike and ran away carrying it over her head. Koenma snorted and vanished back to Reikai.
Only when Shadow reached her house did she realize she'd just carried several hundred pounds over her head for several miles running at normal human speeds. But she didn't realize it on her own. You see, she was running around in circles on her front lawn, screaming and still holding the bike, when Hiei walked out onto the porch.
"What the hell are you doing?" he'd said, and she had replied, "I'M CARRYING MY MOTORCYCLE HOME! I'm carrying my motorcycle home? HOLY HELL, I JUST CARRIED MY MOTORCYCLE ALL THE WAY HOME!"
And the muscles in her arms suddenly gave out and she was flattened under the bike.
Splat.
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"Hiiiiei?"
"Yeah?"
"What's..."
"...Hm?"
"What is a..."
"...A what?"
"What's a... Never mind."
Hiei quirked an eyebrow as Shadow walked away.
"Okay then..."
"What was that all about?" Kurama asked.
"I have no idea."
"Does she do that often?"
"Huh-uh."
"Interesting."
"I guess so."
"I'm tired. I'm going to bed."
"Oyasumi nasai."
Kurama got up and went upstairs, leaving Hiei sitting on the couch channel surfing while eating nachos and cheese... The second the fox's door closed upstairs, Shadow exploded out from under the couch.
"Has anyone ever really died from too much sex?!"
Hiei stared at her. "You scared the shit out of me to ask me that?"
"Yes!"
"Well I don't know. Want a nacho?"
"Yay! Nacho!" She plopped down on the couch and took the offered nacho. "Why don't you have a moustache?"
"... Because... Shadow... Imagine me with a moustache."
"Like one of those funny curly Italian ones or whatever? Teehee... Hiei the Italian chef with a funny moustache! Teeheehee... Oh well, it's a better thought than Kurama with a moustache."
Hiei stared. "That's something I never even thought of seeing... Kurama with a moustache... Eek. Scary."
"Yusuke would look okay with a moustache, wouldn't he?"
"... Why are we talking about moustaches?"
"Because you didn't want to talk about people dying from too much sex."
"I'm not really informed on the subject, how am I supposed to tell you anything about it?"
"Through the use of magical powers."
"I see. Which magical powers would those be?"
"Well if Yusuke is Harry Potter, that would make Kuwabara be Ron, Kurama be Hermione, and you would be Malfoy. Except you aren't blonde."
"Thank God for that."
"I think you'd look good as a blonde, Hiei!"
"Yeah right! I'd look like Go-fu or whatever the hell that dude's name is on that stupid show you were watching the other day."
"No you wouldn't! You'd look good as a blonde! I'll prove it, too!"
"You are NOT dying my hair!"
"Why not?"
"Because I have black hair and you'd get some kind of permanent stuff and I'd be blonde for the rest of my life!"
"Jeez, it's not THAT permanent..."
"Psh. You're not dying my hair."
"Fine then, buttmunch," Shadow muttered. She pulled a digital camera out of nowhere and snapped a picture of Hiei sitting on the couch eating nachos.
"What're you going to do with that?"
"Put it in the computer and make you a blonde."
"What is your obsession suddenly with making me blonde? I like my hair how it is! Next thing I know you'll be wanting me to cut it short like Yusuke's, or worse, grow it out like Kurama's and put butterfly hair clips in it!"
"That would be one helluva sight. I'd have to charge admission!" Shadow said cheerfully, walking in to the computer and sitting down. A few minutes later she had a photo editing program open and was ever-so-carefully 'dying' Hiei's hair. Hiei himself stood behind her watching the entire thing over her shoulder.
After experimenting for a bit, Shadow discovered that she liked Hiei as a blonde and with blue hair, but red, green, orange, and pink looked absolutely ghastly. She then experimented with the white zigzag, coloring it blue, yellow, silver, black, and a variety of other colors. Hiei just sighed.
"My hair is staying black, you know. Like me blonde all you want, I'm not about to put a bunch of chemicals in my hair just because I'll look different. If I cared so much about change, I'd start wearing yellow or pink, but that's the drastic, worst-case scenario. I might on occasion wear green or something. Isn't that change enough?"
"Green would look terrible with your eyes. What about white?"
"Shadow, you're not a fashion person, you know."
"I know, or else I'd be criticizing how you already dress and what your hair looks like and everything and I'd be saying, like, 'GO DYE YOUR HAIR YELLOW AND WEAR PINK AND WHITE, DAMMIT, OR YOU'LL REGRET IT!'"
"...Yeah, something like that... I'm going to bed."
"Can I have the rest of your nachos?"
"There aren't any left."
"Oh. Okay, then I'm going to bed too, then. My other experiments shall wait until tomorrow." Shadow yawned, got up, and went upstairs to her room with Hiei tagging behind. When she got up to her room, Hiei paused in the doorway.
"You're actually gonna sleep? You aren't planning on staying up until all hours of the morning playing video games or something?"
"Nope," Shadow said, dragging Hiei into her room and shutting the door.
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"Hey guys, guess what? I've decided that I am going to spend the two-week anniversary of my sixteenth birthday doing whatever I want! And by that I mean we're going to go outside the city, and unless you have a damn good excuse, you're coming with me," Shadow announced one day.
"I've just contracted a life-threatening sickness," Hiei said. He started coughing and wheezing for breath, leaning on the wall for support.
"Oh, good! Then you can spend your last days with your friends, having fun!" Shadow said cheerfully. Hiei stopped his choking and looked at Shadow for a second.
"I think it's more fatal than I had first diagnosed." He collapsed and lay perfectly still for a good five minutes.
"Well then, Kurama, you're my new best friend! You get to replace Hiei in everything!" Shadow said cheerfully.
"Erm... I think I caught whatever Hiei had. Cough! Cough!"
"Eclipse won't complain, then!" Shadow said cheerfully.
"Nope!" Eclipse agreed, equally cheerful. She threw her arm around Shadow's shoulders. "Let's go!"
"Tomorrow."
"Wahoo!"
The next day, Shadow got after the boys with a tazer until Kurama finally agreed that he and Hiei would go with her to... wherever it was she wanted to go.
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"So, Shadow, now that you've been sixteen for a whole two weeks, how do you feel?"
"I feel... Very HAPPY," Shadow replied. "Not in the least bit unusual for me, no?"
"No... But in this situation..."
"And look! I've been wearing that bracelet you guys got me! And I've ridden my motorcycle with my license! All your birthday deeds have gone to good use!" Shadow said proudly, giving her friends a peace sign.
"Yes... Except that you just caused a thirty car pile-up, Shadow..."
Shadow was sitting in front of her friends on a four-lane bridge over a large river. All four lanes were closed because of her, the cops were swarming all over, ambulance sirens were screaming, and there was a helicopter nearby for victims near death. She was presently sitting on one of the stretchers with blood running down her arm. The small stretch of skin between the sleeveless leather jacket and her long leather gloves had gotten torn up a good bit when she'd slammed into the road.
"With that wreck, any normal human would be dead right now," the paramedic who'd examined her said. "It's a miracle you're alive, but you're conscious and talking! I don't know... You must be very special to God."
"I sure am," Shadow said, grinning as Koenma appeared out of nowhere and walked towards them. He hung back until the paramedic walked away, then he stormed over to Shadow.
"What the HELL were you thinking?"
"Not much... I was kinda hungry, so maybe I was thinking of getting a nice ten-course dinner when we got back to Tokyo..."
"SHADOW, YOU JUST CAUSED A THIRTY CAR PILE-UP AND YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU JUST WANTED TO GO HOME AND EAT DINNER? YOU CAUSED ALL THESE CARS TO CRASH AND YOU WERE JUST THINKING OF FOOD?!"
"Well what else have I got to think about?"
"Maybe about DRIVING?! You WERE on a busy highway, after all!"
"Driving isn't something you think about, it's just something you do," Shadow said, scratching her nose. Koenma fumed for a minute before rounding on Kurama.
"WHAT HAVE YOU TAUGHT THIS GIRL?!"
"Don't yell at him, Koenma! He hasn't taught me anything!"
"Well then THAT'S THE PROBLEM!!"
"But I know how to drive, though, isn't that enough?"
"You know how to operate the motorcycle but apparently you don't know how to drive! There's a difference!"
Shadow stared blankly. "Not really..."
"Yes there is, shut up. If you could drive you wouldn't have caused this."
"At least my motorcycle survived!"
Eclipse sighed. "So you care more about the motorcycle than us?"
"Really, Shadow, I feel unloved," Kurama said.
"Aw, I love you guys, but you've survived worse than a thirty car pile-up! You could've survived if you'd been behind me!"
Suddenly people were running and screaming and the entire pile of cars exploded. Shadow and the others were blown several dozen yards away.
"... We wouldn't have survived that in addition..." Eclipse muttered.
"Maybe not you, but them, cuz they're weird like that," Shadow said, gesturing broadly in the general direction of the two demons, who were lying on the ground with swirly eyes, their tongues hanging out of their mouths. She blinked and walked over to them, poking Hiei in the ribs with her boot tip. "Maybe not."
Koenma came stomping over. "You just indirectly killed nineteen humans!"
"It wasn't really all that indirect, Koenma... I caused the wreck, therefo-- mmph!"
Kurama had his hand over her mouth suddenly. "You're digging yourself an inescapable grave, Shadow. Just shut up."
Koenma was fuming. "YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE, GIRL!!!"
"...I have a feeling I'm in big trouble, you know?" Shadow said to Hiei. He hit himself in the head.
"No shit, Sherlock."
"Excuse me, what's going on here?" A paramedic hurried up to them. "This girl needs to go to the hospital. She needs medical attention. Come on."
Shadow was steered away firmly by the man and shoved into the back of an ambulance.
"It can only get worse from here," Eclipse sighed.
"Pessimist," Hiei said.
"Well it can only get worse from here," Kurama agreed.
"Maybe they'll find out she's a demon and she'll be sent to the government, or worse, maybe she'll be executed," Hiei suggested.
"And you think I'M a pessimist?!"
"I never did trust doctors," Kurama said.
Koenma tapped the boys on their shoulders from behind. They turned curiously and looked at his passive face.
"I might be confused, but don't you think you should be DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT?"
"Good point..." Kurama replied meekly. He dragged Hiei to his car and shot after the ambulance with Eclipse and her convertible on his tail. Koenma fumed for a minute before vanishing.
They reached the hospital at the same time as the ambulance (yes, they did. They went the same speed and cut through traffic and everything), and watched as Shadow was pushed into the hospital on a stretcher, complaining the entire time.
"I can walk, you know! This stretcher stinks! It's making me dizzy to look at the clouds! Wahhh!"
Hiei jogged up to them. "Whatever you do, don't give her a sedative."
"Why?"
"She... er... has a bad reaction."
"That's odd. I've never heard of anyone having a bad reaction to a sedative."
"Shadow is an exception to all rules of normality," Hiei said. "Believe me. You already know she wrecked her motorcycle in such a way that'd kill anyone else, but she survived with a few cuts... Um... And a, uh, broken rib, yeah... And, er... well... Maybe a zillion other injuries that are fatal and... will cause a long, drawn-out... suffering... painful death?" he said nervously, realizing that if he pointed out that she'd survived next-to-unharmed they would get suspicious of her and do more tests than necessary.
"Hiei, you're mean! Do you want me to die?" Shadow asked, sitting up. The paramedic pushed her down on the stretcher.
"Please, miss, relax."
"But... What're you gonna do?"
"We'll just take a few x-rays... scans... That sort of thing."
"Oh. Then in that case, don't be alarmed if my brain doesn't show up on those," Shadow said casually. The man just shook his head.
Hiei trailed after the paramedics as they took her into the hospital and got a doctor to take her to a room for further examination. When the man tried to tell Hiei he had to stay in the hall, the little demon glared at him with such persuading evil that the guy let him hover in the corner of the room. Kurama and Eclipse were left to stand in the hallway.
"You'll have to take off your jacket and your gloves," the man told her.
"... I don't wanna," Shadow said, sitting cross-legged on the bed.
"You have to, miss. You might be injured."
"I'm not injured," she said. "If I were injured I wouldn't be so calm about all this. I'd be jumping up and down screaming."
"...If you were injured you couldn't jump up and down screaming..."
"I could. I have magical powers like that."
"Please, take off your jacket."
"Noooo!"
"Shadow," Hiei said.
"Yes sir?"
"Do what the guy says."
"But..."
"Koenma's gonna tear you apart anyway, you might as well not make it any worse. He might end up stomping all over your shredded body..."
"Eek."
The doctor looked curiously at Hiei, but didn't say anything as Shadow took off her jacket, revealing a red spaghetti-strap shirt underneath.
"Look! No injuries!"
The doctor sighed. "You need X-rays and I'd like to run a CAT scan..."
"A what scan? I hate cats!"
The doctor chuckled. Lucky for him he'd had more difficult patients than Shadow... "A CAT scan has nothing to do with the animals. It's a scan of your body to see if there's any damage to your brain or other organs."
"I haven't got a brain."
"What's your name?"
"Shadow."
"Well, Shadow, everyone has a brain. It's just whether we use it or not that counts."
"I'm an exception to all rules of normality. Anyway, I don't need any scans! I'm not hurt! The paramedical staff said so."
"They can only tell so much. You may have internal injuries that will have a fatal effect later."
"Sounds lovely. But I don't. 'Cause I'd know if I did."
"No you wouldn't... Now tell me, do you have any pains at all?"
"Well, unless we count you as a pain in the butt, no," Shadow said.
The doctor sighed. "Are you sure?"
"No! My eyes! They're about to pop out of my head! Blood will spurt out the empty sockets until my body is dried up and shriveled on the floor like a raisin! Oh my god! We're all going to die!" Shadow fell off the bed and lay on the ground, motionless with a look of horror on her face.
The doctor gasped and knelt next to her. He took her pulse and checked her breathing. "Shadow? Shadow! Are you okay?" He lifted her stiff body up and laid her on the bed. Then he turned to Hiei. "What's wrong with her?"
"Absolutely nothing," Hiei said, walking over. "Snap out of it!" He slapped her across the face.
"Ow!" Shadow yelped, sitting bolt upright and rubbing her cheek. "That hurt, kisama!" Hiei just shrugged.
"Excuse me, can I talk to you in the hall?" the doctor said to Hiei. The man didn't give him time to reply and he was practically dragged out of the room. Outside, the doctor cast a glance at Kurama and Eclipse and pulled Hiei down the hall a ways.
"How you treat your daughter is unacceptable."
"Shadow isn't my daughter. She's my friend."
"Hell of a friend you are! She's injured and you're threatening her and hitting her! I'm afraid I'll have to report you to the abuse office."
"Abuse office? And when did I threaten her?"
"Who is 'Koenma?'"
"Our boss, stupid!"
"You're an adult. You're clearly stronger than her, you're a man, and you should know how to treat a young girl like her."
"Don't tell me how to treat my friends. She'd treat me the same. We're friends, nothing can break that. And some stupid doctor can't tell me how to treat her. You have no idea how I treat her. You have no room to judge me." Hiei pushed past him and went back down the hall towards Shadow's room.
"Hey! Stop, you can't go back in there!"
"Don't tell me what to do."
But before Hiei reached the door, it opened just enough for Shadow, back in her full leather, to slip out. She looked both ways at her friends on either side and ran down the hall.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" the doctor shouted, giving chase. Hiei stood calmly while Kurama and Eclipse went after Shadow, and when the doctor ran by, he tripped him. The guy sailed down the hall and slid a few feet when he hit the polished, sanitized tile floor. Hiei then ran down the hall after his friends.
They escaped successfully from the hospital and found Koenma waiting for them at the end of the street where Kurama had parked.
"I see you managed to draw plenty of civilian attention, too," he said unhappily.
"Yes, but there wasn't much of a plan," Kurama said. "Shadow just left the room and ran when the doctor was lecturing Hiei."
"Why was the doctor lecturing Hiei?" Koenma asked, looking at Hiei.
"Because I 'treat my friends badly' I suppose," Hiei replied, shrugging. "I don't know what his deal is."
"Go home. Your bike, by the way Shadow, is impounded."
"It's what?" Shadow asked cluelessly.
"The cops have it. Because you'd left and they had pinpointed from witnesses that you had caused the entire wreck and you'd been riding it. I suppose I could get it out for you, but you'll have to do something in return..."
"... It doesn't involve life in a garbage can, does it?"
"...Er..."
"Is she gonna have to perform sexual favors for you," Hiei translated.
"NO! No! Gross, no, nothing like that!" Koenma said, sickened. "You'll just have to, for one, not ride the thing for a month, and for two, you're going to take George's place as my faithful-but-relatively-useless-right-hand, um... person."
"What? For how long?!"
"A month. You'll be in Reikai for a month and therefore you won't be riding your motorcycle for that stretch of time."
Shadow seemed to think. They waited for about two minutes before Koenma decided that something was wrong. She'd never thought that long before. He snapped his fingers in front of her face. Her head dropped down and she stared at the ground, snoring.
"She's asleep!"
"...With her eyes open," Hiei said, tipping back her head to look at her face. "How odd."
She continued snoring and eventually had to be tossed in the back seat of Kurama's car and driven back to Tokyo (mostly over many detour roads due to the backups and whatnot her wreck had caused).
. . . . . . . One Month Later . . . . . . . .
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I SPENT THE PAST MONTH OF MY LIFE RUNNING ERRANDS FOR KOENMA!" Shadow wailed, throwing herself onto Hiei and hugging him and sobbing on his shoulder. "THAT WAS THE BIGGEST WASTE OF A MONTH I'VE EVER ENDURED, AND THAT INCLUDES THAT TIME I DIDN'T LEAVE MY HOUSE FOR A MONTH!"
Hiei patted her back comfortingly, looking over her shoulder at Koenma, who'd just delivered her back home five minutes ago. "It's okay, Shadow, we all know working is a pain in the ass."
"AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET PAID, EITHER!"
"You got your motorcycle back, didn't you?"
"AND I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU FOR A MONTH!!!" Shadow shouted, grabbing Hiei's shoulders and staring at him. "I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!"
"Glad to hear it..."
Shadow hugged him. "I missed you!"
"Nice to hear you missed us, too, Shadow," Kurama said. He, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Eclipse were standing or sitting around the room as well, but Shadow had instantly latched onto Hiei when she walked in the door.
"Nice to see you, Kurama," Shadow said. "And Eclipse and I guess Yusuke, but I could go another month without seeing Kuwabara."
"Hey!"
"Well, it's true! I'd rather see Koenma than you... Actually... After seeing him for about 20 hours a day for thirty days, I'd almost rather see you, Kuwabara... But not if anyone more appealing is around."
"Like Hiei?"
"Like Hiei!" Shadow continued with her Hiei-hugging for a few more minutes before she just randomly decided to thank Koenma for giving her her motorcycle back.
"Thankee!" she said.
"Uh-huh... I'll be going now. It'll be a nice relief to get away from your complaining for a while." Koenma went out the door and vanished.
"Yippee!" Shadow cheered. "Now help me solve my dilemma everyone! Should I spend a little while longer with Hiei or go ride my motorcycle?"
"Thanks, Shadow," Hiei muttered, but only she heard him through Yusuke's shout of, "MAKE OUT!"
"This is the only time I'll actually listen to Yusuke," Shadow said, grinning at Hiei. He shrugged.
"Oh please," Eclipse said as they, for the millionth time in this story (GADDAMMIT!), kissed. Yusuke, however, watched happily through the small screen on Shadow's camcorder...
"Wow... You should go work for Koenma more often, Shadow, if you get that kind of kiss every time you get back..." Yusuke said. "And Hiei... I'm afraid of you."
"KISAMA! You taped that!?" Shadow yelped.
"What? Yeah. Not like it matters, it's your camera and we all watched anyway."
"Gimme that!" Shadow snapped, snatching her camera back.
"It's better to tape you making out with Hiei than, for example, a pillow," Yusuke said, looking meaningfully at Kuwabara.
"What?" the baka said, a blank, retarded look on his face.
"Never mind."
Shadow, however, had gotten distracted after he'd pointed that out because she'd rewinded it and was watching herself kiss Hiei on the little screen.
"Damn," Hiei muttered. "It makes me look all soft-hearted... No more kissing."
"No more kissing in public," Shadow corrected distractly. "I look... Kinda bleh."
"Kinda bleh? You look fine."
"...I still think I should dye your hair blonde."
"No, for the love of God, Shadow! No hair dye!"
"Fine, okay, okay... No permanent hair dye..."
"NO hair dye. NONE, permanent or not."
"Aw, damn! Man, you're mean to me."
"I'm mean to you?" Hiei said incredulously, pointing at the camcorder. "What were you just watching?"
"You being really nice to me."
"There you go."
"Can I dye your hair with the stuff that washes out after one shower?"
"No!"
"Why not?!"
"We went through this already, Shadow."
"Go through it again!"
Hiei just let out an exasperated groan and walked away.
"Hmph. Twit."
"...Blonde?" Kurama said finally.
"Yeah!" Shadow said cheerfully. "Wouldn't he look good blonde?"
"I don't know these things, Shadow."
"And I think Yusuke would look kinda okay with a moustache... I tried to convince Hiei to grow a moustache but he was hardly willing. So I fixed up a nice picture on the computer..."
Shadow skipped over to the computer, clicked a few things, and a picture of a blonde, moustached Hiei wearing a pink shirt appeared on the screen. Yusuke and Kuwabara went into fits of hysterical laughter, Kurama snorted and choked to cover up laughter, and Eclipse ended up on the ground crying and gasping for breath.
"And that's part of the reason I won't dye my hair, too," Hiei said, leaning in the doorway with his arms crossed.
"Fine, I won't nag you anymore..." Shadow said, stepping over Eclipse and walking over to him. "I'll just force you to."
"No you won't!"
Shadow pulled a bottle out of her pocket. "Yes I will."
"Shit." Hiei darted past her and out the door.
"GIT BACK HERE!"
"NO!"
A high speed chase occurred and it eventually ended with Shadow lying spread-eagle on her front lawn after running all the way around Tokyo, gasping for breath as Hiei stood above her grinning and holding the bottle of hair dye.
"Fine. You win. You're not gonna be a blonde," she panted.
"Glad to hear it," Hiei said, pocketing the dye and walking away.
"Thanks for helping me up, too!" Shadow shouted at him.
"You're welcome!" he replied over his shoulder.
"I hate you!"
"Arright!"
"GO AWAY!"
"I already am away!"
Shadow grumbled something and continued lying in the grass for several hours until it started raining and she found herself drenched and locked out of the house.
Well, that's it.
Up until the crash two weeks after her birthday, Shadow's sixteenth year in existence had been happy. But then it started downhill and I think it can only get worse... In fact, as authoress, I KNOW it can only get worse.
But it could get better, you never know.
Wait. I just said I know. Dammit. Oh well! Ha. Ha. Haaa... Well, ja mata!
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Weelll... Done with yet another story, thanks for reading... A new one will be on the way... Sometime. I'd really prefer to get at least halfway done with it before I start posting it but I think it's gonna be pretty long, so... I dunno.