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Chapter 7: Run while you're still alive
The street was filled with people who were either watching the building lit up in flames or trying to put out the flames. Sprays of water from water hoes were turned on to full blasts in hopes of trying to end the fire quickly. Firefighters called out to each other about the fire running out of their control and worried that a person may be trapped inside. Mothers held onto their children in worry and husbands muttered how much of their insurance was going to pay for all of the damages. Other bystanders too, watched the fire consume the building and pitied the families whose homes that would no longer be suitable for living in for a long time.
"Hiei, do you have insurance on your apartment?" Kurama asked watching the flames.
"What's that?" Hiei asked. He too was watching the flames dance.
"How can you not know what insurance is?" Carson asked shocked and in disbelief.
"Didn't the person who sold you the apartment tell what the insurance was for it?" Kyan asked.
Hiei looked at Yusuke. Yusuke shrugged. "I wasn't the one who bought the apartment."
"Neither was I."
The Fab Five looked at them stunned. "Then how do you pay medical insurance?"
"If I don't know what insurance is, how do you expect me to pay medical insurance?" Hiei said irritated. "I don't even have ningen money."
"Then how did you get an apartment in the first place?" Ted asked shock. You can't get an apartment without any money. Unless, you killed someone. Ted eyed Hiei suspiciously. Hiei was the type of person to go around killing people if he didn't get what he wanted.
"I got the apartment for him and I am the one paying for it as well," Koenma informed them.
"Why?" all of the Fab Five asked.
Koenma snorted. "Do you think that he would be able to buy an apartment of his own without killing anyone?"
"Oh true."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Too true."
"Very true."
"See Hiei, your reputation as a killing machine is catching up with you," Yusuke teased.
Hiei growled. Kurama glared at Yusuke as well. They still haven't forgiven Yusuke from earlier. Yusuke laughed sheepishly.
"Come on, let's go inside. It's starting to get a little cold out here," Carson said and he went inside the apartment.
"Yeah, let's go. Nice balcony Hiei. Didn't notice it before," Yusuke said, trying to suck up to Hiei, and followed suit.
The rest of them went in inside as well, but Hiei and Kurama stayed behind. The two of them continued to watch the flames swallow the building in its rage five blocks away.
"It's a beautiful night, ne?" Kurama commented.
"Hn."
Kurama sighed. "Did you really have to burn my newly grown plants in your rage?" He looked sorrowfully at his plant's ashes in his hands.
"Did you have to attempt to steal my rocking chair?" Hiei raised an eye brow. "Don't think that I didn't know what you were planning when I realized that there was some over grown plants outside my window."
"Well, I guess we're even then."
"Hn." Hiei causally walked back inside. At the door, he paused. "You agree with the terms of Yusuke's death?"
Kurama smiled a bit too innocently. "Of course. After all, if we were to kill him ourselves, we would be the ones put in prison. With this plan, no one can say that we were the ones that killed him."
"After all, why should we kill Yusuke?" Hiei agreed.
Poor Yusuke. He is so going to die. Kurama wondered if Yusuke made out a will. If he did, Kurama wanted Yusuke's snow globe. Maybe, he should just kill Yusuke himself tonight and take the snow globe. But then Hiei would kill him for not being able to kill Yusuke as well. Kurama sighed again, at this time tomorrow, someone was surly going to die and he was going to make sure that it wasn't going to be him. But he still couldn't believe that Hiei had formed this plan since he first met up with the Fab Five.
"When that fire alarm went off, I was sure that it the fire was coming from this apartment," Carson said.
"I agree. I smelled something burning coming from here before," Thom said.
The YYH gang laughed nervously. The fire alarm from the building they were in and the one five blocks away, simultaneously went on at the same time. While Hiei had thankfully managed to direct his anger on Kurama's plants, they wondered if he was the culprit for the fire five blocks down as well. Well, it was better Kurama's plants than all of them.
Kurama, frantic for his plants, grab the nearest person and threw him out the balcony, extinguishing the flames on the plants. But he wasn't fast enough to save them. The poor soul who acted as the means to stop the fire was cameraman #6. Man, everyone seemed to pick on the cameraman. But, as always, they didn't go camera-less for very long! Carson called in for another cameraman, who will now be known as cameraman #7.
"You must have smelled the smoke from the building that's burning or from Genkai's cigarette," Yusuke said. He nervously looked at Hiei.
"Dimwit, I only had one before the alarm went off. And besides, it didn't make enough smoke to trip off the alarm," Genkai informed Yusuke.
"Well, then they must be going crazy," Yusuke said, angering Carson and Thom.
Hiei wasn't paying attention to what they were talking bout because he was too busy glaring at Kyan. Kyan was making puppy-love eyes at Botan. Botan was happily chatting with Keiko and was oblivious to Kyan's heart shape eyes. Hiei was also glaring at Kuwabara, who was flirting with Yukina again. He didn't know who he should kill outright first, Kyan or Kuwabara.
Yusuke was talking with Shizuru while casting nervous looks at Kurama. Kurama watched Yusuke intently. He knew that Yusuke was only trying to find some protection from Shizuru so he wouldn't kill him. Yusuke wasn't worried about Hiei that much because the fire demon was still busy trying to decide whom to kill first. Jai, Ted, and Thom started longingly at Kurama and Carson at Hiei.
"Look at these kids," Koenma said to Genkai while watching them all. "They're all so young and blindly in love."
"And so much deep in stupidity," Genkai replied.
"Want to bet which one would die first?" the King of Renkai asked.
"2000 Yen says that my baka deshi will be the first one to die. He seems to have a talent for pissing people off."
"You're on. But I think that Kyan is going down first," Koenma said.
"I'll take in on that bet," a voice said from behind them. Mukuro came in from the balcony. "But I'm siding with the old woman." She nodded to Genkai who nodded in return.
"Alright," Koenma shrugged. "Looks like I'll be gaining 4000 Yen by this time tomorrow."
"Don't be so sure," Mukuro said as if she knew everything.
"Hey, who's the guy in all of the bandages?" Kyan asked, noticing that there was someone else there that he didn't know.
"You look like a mummy," Carson commented. "You need a whole new wardrobe. Maybe some red would brighten up your eyes because bandages are so ancient Egyptian. Blue would also give you a natural look. I know this great shop that I could show you to-"
Mukuro punched him hard on the face. Carson flew several feet away form where he stood and grew a black eye.
"I'll take my leave now," Mukuro said after several seconds later. "I'm afraid that if I stay any longer, I'll end up killing someone. And that's not going to look good on TV."
"Not even going to stay for the food?" Hiei asked, as if he really didn't care if she was staying or not.
"Pack up some for me," Mukuro turned to leave and then paused at the door as Hiei had done before. "You got a nice house here. Very much like a human. Just don't forget about your true home."
And the she was gone. The rest of the Fab Five stared on at where Mukuro had been in awe and shock.
"Was that a guy or a girl?"
"I'm pretty sure that he was a guy."
"How could you tell?"
"Call it a man's intuition."
"Like the time when you said that the small red head guy that we saw at the airport saw a girl?"
"He was cute though."
"Hiei, the okonomiyaki is ready!" Ted called from the kitchen.
"Okonomiyaki?" Yusuke asked. "I love okonomiyaki! I can't believe that Hiei made us okonomiyaki!"
A minute later, Ted came out with a dish of okonomiyaki for everyone at the table who waited anxiously for the food.
"That smells good," Kuwabara commented Hiei, only because did smell good.
Hiei didn't acknowledge the praise because he was still sore about him flirting with Yukina. Then again, he was always pissed about Kuwabara about anything and everything.
"It smells too good. Are you sure that Hiei made this?" Yusuke asked Ted as he put down a plate in front of Yusuke.
"It does smell good and I'm sure that it must taste good as well," Kurama said. "But you can tell that Hiei made them." He held up his okonomiyaki to show everyone his point. On the okonomiyaki, the characters for kitsune were written in sauce.
Everyone looked down at their okonomiyaki and saw their own little names in sauce.
"Hey! Why does mine say 'big oaf'!?" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Hahaha. Maybe because you are," Yusuke laughed at his friend. Then he looked down at his own okonomiyaki. "Hey. Why does mine say 'dimwit'!?"
"And why do I have 'baby'?!" Koenma said angrily. He was the ruler of Renkai! He should be treated with more respect and he was the one who was paying for Hiei's apartment.
"I have 'moron 1'," Carson said.
"I've got 'moron 2'," Thom said.
"'Moron 3'," Jai said.
"'Moron 4'," Kyan said.
They all looked at Ted, expecting him to say that he got moron 5. "I've got 'head chief.'"
"What?! How come he didn't insult you like he did with the rest of us?!"
"Hiei didn't insult me," Yukina said. "Mine says 'ice princess.'"
The Fab Five looked over to Shizuru. "I've got 'kitsune's onna.'"
"See, I told you that Hiei likes her," Carson stated happily while pointing to Yukina.
"But if Hiei likes her, then why did he give her," Thom pointed at Shizuru, "the bear?"
"Yes, but she is the one that Hiei wrote something nice about," Carson said defending his statement.
"Maybe Hiei wrote something nice to all of the girls' okonomiyaki," Jai said.
They all looked to Keiko, Botan, and Genkai.
"Mine says 'dimwit's onna,'" Keiko said with a smile that said that she wasn't sure if she should be insulted or not.
"I've got 'old hag,'" Genkai said and took a bite of her okonomiyaki. She really didn't care what her okonomiyaki said, as long as she could eat it.
"Mine isn't that much of a shock," Botan said. "It says 'baka onna.'"
"See, I told you that Hiei loves her," Carson smiled with triumphant.
"But he still gave this girl the bear!" Thom said obsessed with the thought that Hiei likes someone who is about two feet taller than him.
"But she is dating him!" Ted said point to Kurama.
"Don't remind me," Jai wailed.
"You know, it just occurred to me, we don't even know their names," Kyan said thoughtfully.
The rest of the Fab Five had a thoughtful look on their face as well.
"You know," Jai said slowly. "It never occurred to me that we didn't even know their names. We only know Botan's, Keiko's and the others that we met before."
"But you do know our names, right?" Thom asked Yukina, Kurama, Genkai, Koenma, Shizuru, and Genkai. They all nodded.
"I'm Shizuru."
"My name is Yukina."
"Genkai."
"You may call me Koenma."
They all looked to Kurama. Kurama fidget in his chair. He really didn't want to give his name to them. But, poor Kurama, his girlfriend shoved him with her elbow after he kept silent for a while. "Shuichi."
"Shuichi," the Fab Five sighed dreamily.
Kurama edged his chair closer to Shizuru.
"Hiei loves Yukina!" Carson exclaimed again.
"No, he loves Shizuru!" Thom yelled back at Carson.
"But Shizuru and Shuichi are dating," Ted informed them again.
"Didn't I say not to remind me?" Jai wailed again.
"Are you trying to say that there is some square thing going on between Hiei and Shizuru, Yukina, and Shuichi?" Kyan asked confused.
"Would you all stop talking about Hiei loving my Yukina?!" Kuwabara yelled angrily. "She's too good for him!"
"Oh my, now it's some five sided shape love triangle," Kyan said.
"Hiei loves Shizuru!"
"No, he loves Yukina!"
"Shizuru!"
"Yukina!"
"HAHAHA! Wow Hiei, you're really popular," Yusuke laughed.
"But Shizuru is dating Shuichi!"
"And Yukina is dating Kuwabara!"
"Yukina is dating me!" Kuwabara said happily.
"Shut up you moron. You two weren't actually dating," Yusuke said.
"What did you say Urameshi!?"
"WOULD YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP AND EAT THE DAMN OKONOMIYAKI!" Hiei yelled angrily and slammed his fist on the table, shaking it. They were using a metal table, so it didn't break right away.
"FINE!" the Fab Five (except for Ted), Kuwabara, and Yusuke all said as one and took a bite of their okonomiyaki. A moment later, all of their eyes widen in shock and their stomach rumbled loudly. They were all sure that it could have been heard for miles. It wasn't the type of rumble from hunger either.
"BATHROOM!" they all exclaimed and ran for the bathroom.
Carson shoved Kyan, who then tripped on Jai's leg while Jai was getting up. Thom pushed his chair so that Yusuke was hit by it and had to take a step back, Kuwabara pulled at Thom's shoulder to gain the advantage, but Jai was thrown at them by Yusuke so they all went down in a heap. Ten feet from the prized bathroom, Carson was grabbed at the feet by the Yusuke, hanging him in mid-air, letting Kyan take the led. But Kuwabara quickly got up and pushed aside Kyan and got to the bathroom first, slamming the door on all of them.
They all looked at the closed door in shock and horror.
"No!" Kyan pounded at the door while clutching his stomach on bended knees.
"Kuwabara! Get out of there! I need to use the bathroom!" Yusuke yelled while pounding on the door as well and holding his stomach.
"Well too bad Urameshi, I got here first!" Kuwabara called from the bathroom.
"I got to go. I got to go. I got to go," Carson half sang while going around in circles.
"Please stop doing that, it makes me got to go right now," Kyan pleaded with him.
Carson stopped going in circles. Then he sang again, "Got to go, got to go. Got to go, got to go. Got to go right now."
"Right now," Thom sang with him.
"I really got to go!" Yusuke yelled in frustration. He started to punch the door, hoping to open it.
"Yusuke!" Keiko yelled. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Trying," Yusuke punched. "To get." Punch. "This." Punch, punch. "Door." Punch. Punch. Punch. "Open!"
Yusuke stopped punching the door so he could clutch his stomach again. "I need to go now!"
Surprisingly, the door managed to stay intact and without a scratch despite all of its beatings.
Thom's eyes lit up. "The bathroom in the apartment that we're staying in!"
Then, the process of all of them running to get to the bathroom began all over again. Kyan shoved Carson, Thom tripped on Yusuke's foot, Carson threw a magazine at the bottom of Yusuke's feet so he slipped on it a fell flat on his back. In the hall, Kyan took the led, but Thom threw himself at him, and Yusuke grabbed Carson by the shirt and threw him further ahead to the apartment door where the beloved bathroom was located. Carson yelped in joy and quickly searched for the key as Yusuke muttered a string of curses that is not appropriate for the rating of this story.
All the neighbors stayed inside their apartments and warned their children to stay inside as well because of the crazy men outside. The children listened to their parents because they feared the crazy men and their potty mouths. One person even called the security.
Back at Hiei's apartment, the rest of the people (except Hiei) still there stared at their food warily.
"Hehe…" Botan nervously laughed. "So… What's the main course?"
Koenma looked at his okonomiyaki as if it was going to attack him any second. Kurama picked at his food. Then he tilted his head to look at Genkai's empty plate and raised an eye brow at Hiei.
"I didn't poison all the food. Only theirs," Hiei said and began to eat his okonomiyaki.
"Only theirs?" Kurama inquired further.
Hiei paused. "Yes."
Kurama didn't really trust Hiei's response because he took a moment to answer.
Yukina began to eat her okonomiyaki. "This is good Hiei-san. I didn't know that you were such a good cook."
"Hn." Hiei was pleased that his sister liked his cooking. At the comer of his eye, he watched Botan take a small piece of her okonomiyaki and sniffed it before plopping it into her. He watched carefully at her facial expressions. First thoughtful, then consideration, and lastly her eyes lit up. She took a bigger bite of her okonomiyaki and he saw how she enjoyed the taste of his cooking.
"This really is good Hiei," Botan praised him. Inside Hiei congratulated and patted himself on the back.
About an hour later, Kuwabara, having coming out of the bathroom about 30 minutes ago, glared at Hiei. Hiei glared back. Botan stretched on her chair. "That was some good food."
"I agree," Genkai said.
"Who would have thought that Hiei here was such a good chief?" Kurama teased, but was shut up when Hiei turned his glare at him.
"Well I did show him some of the finer points in cooking," Ted said proudly, even though most of the food was brought in by Keiko, Yukina, Shizuru, and Genkai.
Koenma came back to the table with a very pale face. Botan looked at her boss worried. "What's wrong Koenma?"
Koenam turned his head slowly towards her like a robot. He started to say something but it was too low for Botan to hear. Wanting to know what her boss was saying, Botan inclined her head near Koenma's mouth to her him.
"The bathroom," he said. "It smells."
"Smells?" Botan asked confused.
Koenma nodded. "Kuwabara. Over use."
Botan's eyes grew big in realization. She looked up to see Yukina heading towards the bathroom. She hastily got up from her seat and grabbed Yukina by the elbow.
"What is it Botan?" Yukina asked in her innocent manner.
"Uh…" Botan didn't know what to say. She didn't want to openly embarrass Kuwabara in front of Yukina, but how was she going to explain to her that can't go to the bathroom?
Fortunately for Botan, there was a knock at the door. Keiko went to get it. At the other side of the door was a security officer. "May I help you?"
"Excuse me Miss, but is this yours?" the security guard said and brought from behind his back Yusuke.
Yusuke was in a fetal position with wide, watery eyes, and the guard was holding onto him by the back of his shirt.
Keiko slapped her forehead. "What have you done now, Yusuke?"
"I had to go," Yusuke said weakly.
"Are the others with you?" Keiko asked the guard exasperated.
"You mean them?" the guard took a step to the side revealing four other men hand who were cuffed. Three of them were holding their stomachs in pain.
"Oh my," Kurama said from behind Keiko.
As the rest of them went to the door to sort out the complications with Yusuke and the Fab Five or Four, Hiei grabbed Botan by her elbow as she had done with Yukina before. Botan looked at him confused.
"I need to talk to you," Hiei told her quietly so that no one would hear, not even cameraman #7, who was busy filming the situation at the door. Botan nodded slowly and followed Hiei to the balcony.
"So what do you want to tell me?" Botan asked once they arrived at the balcony and after Hiei made sure that no one was watching.
Hiei turned his head to the side and blush a little. Botan saw the blush and was confused. "Hiei, are you sick? You look a little red." She moved to place a hand on his forehead, but he backed away from it as if her hand was fire.
"Baka onna! I'm not sick!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure!" Hiei glared at her. Botan let out a nervous giggle. Now she was getting a little scared of him.
Hiei continued to glare at her. For a long while, he glared at her. Botan felt like a deer caught under the headlights under his glare. She started to fidget and began have paranoid thoughts. 'What if Hiei brought me out here to kill me? What if he wants to chop me to pieces with his katana? Is he mad at me for something that I did? What if he wants to throw me off the balcony? Sure, I could summon my oar and I'll be saved, but he still tired to kill me! Or worst, what if he wants to rape me! There's no one here! And he checked!' Botan thought. She grew even more nervous. Thoughts of a lusty, drooling fire demon running around in circles filled her head.
Hiei glared. He didn't know what else to do. He slightly opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. He closed his mouth and glared. He thought of what he was going to say. Nothing came to his mind of what he could tell the deity about his feelings towards her without sounding like a loser.
So he continued to glare. He wasn't glaring at her. His glare was just in the direction where she was. He glared only because he didn't know what to say. And as each moment passed, his glare intensified because he couldn't find the right words to say to her. Too bad for poor Botan, who thought that Hiei must be really, really mad at her.
All he did was glare at her. She couldn't stand it! Not knowing what to do, and not knowing what she was doing, tears began to form at the corner of her eyes. Hiei's sensitive nose picked up traces of salt and his eyes immediately saw the tears at the corners of Botan's eyes. He began to panic.
"Onna, what's wrong?" he asked, trying not to sound too concerned and not too cold.
Botan jumped at being acknowledged after being glared at for so long. "You were glaring at me. And… and I thought that you were mad at me," she said in a weak voice.
Hiei stared at her while she continued to talk. "And you wouldn't stop. You kept glaring and glaring and glaring and glaring. I didn't think that you would ever stop. Because you kept glaring. So I thought that you were mad at me or something. Then I started to think that you would rape me."
"Botan would you just shut up so I could- that I'd what?!" Hiei looked at her as if she'd grown four heads.
"That you'd… hehe… that you'd rape me?" Botan sheepishly laughed.
Hiei was flabbergasted. He continued to stare at her. "I wouldn't do that!"
"Then why wouldn't you stop glaring at me!?" Botan bawled. More tears formed at her eyes.
Hiei didn't like her crying. He wanted her to stop. It hurt to see her like this. "Because!"
"Because?" Botan asked. Tears were coming down to her cheeks.
"Because! I- I…" Hiei stammered.
"You?" Botan sniffed.
"Just because!" Tears poured down from Botan's eyes rapidly. Now Hiei was really hurt. He was such an insensitive jerk! He couldn't get the words out of his mouth. He opened his mouth again to say the three words, but nothing came out. Botan continued to cry. His mouth betrayed him. Stupid mouth.
Then Hiei remembered the bear. He had grabbed it back from Shizuru after Botan arrived. He quickly grabbed it from his pocket and shoved it to Botan's chest, who fumbled while trying to hold on to it. "Here. That's what I wanted to say to you."
He turned to look at the human city while Botan examined at the bear. She stared long and hard at it. Hiei began to sweat. She was taking too long in inspecting it. What if she didn't return his feelings? What if she was trying to think of a nice polite way of turning him down? What if she thought that it was a joke? What if she loved someone else? Now who was the one with the paranoid thoughts?
"Hiei?" he heard he ask quietly. "Is this for real?"
"Hn," he couldn't think of anything else to say.
"Do you love me?"
She wanted a response. But what if she didn't love him? What if she was trying to fool him? He couldn't have that. But once again, his mouth betrayed him. "Yes."
He smelled more tears from Botan. "What is it now onna?" He turned to see a crying Botan. But what he didn't expect was Botan flying at him to give him a hug.
"I love you too."
Hiei became stiff from shock after hearing that. But soon, he wrapped his arms around her and held her tight. They stayed like that for a while and Hiei buried his head in her hair. He took a big whiff. It smelled nice. Both of them wanted to stay like that forever, in each other's arms.
"When are they going to kiss?" they both heard someone say.
"Shh, they'll hear you," another person scolded.
"You did hear that, right Hiei?" Botan asked quietly.
"Yes," he replied just as quiet.
"This is boring. All they do is hug. I want to see some action!" a voice that sounded just like Yusuke said.
"Shh!" this came from multiple people.
"How many do you think are watching?" Botan asked.
"My guess is everyone."
"Come on. Kiss already!" a Carson's voice was heard.
"Shh! You'll give us away," this one came from Jai.
"No! First hot Asian guy! Now hot Asian girl!" a muffled cry was then heard.
"I thought I told you to keep him quiet!" Yusuke semi yelled.
"Well if you don't be quiet, we're all done for!" Kuwabara yelled back at Yusuke.
"Has anyone thought that this might be wrong?" Kurama's voice has heard next.
"No," all the males coursed.
"Hey, move! I can't see a thing!" this time it was from Koenma.
"Hiei, we need to do something," Botan hissed.
"I know," Hiei thought for a moment. Then screams could be heard from the same people that had to use the bathroom. Hiei brought up his head to smirk at his work. The fire alarm went off once again.
"I told Yusuke not to stick his nose in other people's busy," Keiko muttered while taking a sip on her tea. All the girls and Ted were sitting on the table drinking their tea while the guys were on fire, Koenma, Kurama, Hiei and Botan watching them burn, and the fire alarm screaming like there is no tomorrow.
"We should have left them with the policy," Genkai said.
"We should have," Shizuru agreed.
"Don't you think we should help?" Ted asked worriedly. He didn't think that people on fire was a good thing. Especially if it was people that he knew.
"They'll be alright," Keiko took another sip of her tea.
Ted looked to Yukina, hoping that there would be at least one sane person in the apartment. "Don't worry," she said. "My brother wouldn't kill them."
While Hiei was watching them burn, he allowed himself a small smile. This night turned out better than he thought. He got the woman that he loved and he got to execute half of the revenge that he planned. This was going all too well. Then he felt Botan tug at his sleeve. He looked at her in confusion. She pointed to someone with a camera.
It was camera #7. Next to him was camera #6. They were surrounded by all of the cameramen! Hiei could tell that they all caught Hiei's confession to Botan by the smirk on cameraman #1's face. Hiei got mad.
That night, screams of pain, agony, and fire alarms could be heard in the starry night sky.
---------- at Hiei's home/castle in Makai ----------
Yusuke glared at Hiei's small form in the dark corridor. Kuwabara muttered curses, not appropriate for the rating of this story, behind Hiei's back. The Fab Five (expect Ted) stayed close to each other. They didn't like the dark hall that seemed to go on endlessly. The halls were so big, that they couldn't even see the ceiling. There was some torches lit that hung on the walls, but it wasn't enough to provided a sufficient amount of light.
Hiei had taken them to his "real" home the following day as a sort of apology. He blinded the Fab Five while going to Makai so they wouldn't see how they got there and he covered their ears with wax so they wouldn't hear the demons beg to eat their flesh or torture them. The first part of the tour of the castle was impressing. Big rooms, nice furniture, had the dark eerie feeling, and other things that one would find in a castle. Now they were walking in a very long hallway with Hiei leading the way and Kurama with him.
"Are we there yet?" Thom got the courage to ask. The place was freaking him out. He liked it, but it gave him the chills.
"Almost," Hiei replied, never once turning back to look at them.
"Hey, what are you going to show us anyway?" Yusuke asked annoyed. The hallway was too long!
"Patience Yusuke," Kurama answered for Hiei. "After all, patience is a virtue." His eyes gleamed.
"Yeah, well. You still haven't answered my question," Yusuke said. Neither Hiei nor Kurama answered for they had finally arrived at really huge door at the end of the hall.
Kuwabara snickered. A huge door that was about 25 feet tall, for a little guy like Hiei who was barely 5 feet. In awe, the Fab Five watched as Hiei opened the huge door, all 25 feet of it. It opened to an outdoor garden.
"It's really pretty here," Jai said. There were beautiful flowers planted on the ground in a ungarden-like fashion, in a more natural way, and rather large trees too that gathered in a forest-like way.
"So what are you really going to show us?" Yusuke asked again.
Kurama stayed by the door. Hiei answered. "Do you like dogs?"
"I love dogs!" Carson said happily. The garden and the mention of dogs made him feel much better after the long, dark hallway.
"Well," Hiei said. "I'd like you to feed my dog. His name is JuJuBean."
Yusuke snickered at the dog's name. "Alright, we'll feed your dog. What a funny name for a dog, JuJuBean." He laughed again. The others laughed at the dog's name as well. Hiei and Kurama only smiled in anticipation.
"You can come out now," Hiei said in the direction of the forest. A rumble was felt on the ground. Like a miniature earthquake. Trees being moved echoed. Dogs' barks could be heard from the forest.
"I thought you said dog," Kyan said fearfully. He and the others took several steps back. "Dog. As in singular."
From the forest came a three headed, 14 foot, black dog. All of the heads were barking, razor sharp teeth showing, and eyes blazedred in hunger. Hiei smirked. "This is my dog, JuJuBean. The right is Ju, the middle is Ju, and the left is Bean."
"JuJuBean. I get it. Hehe. How clever," Kuwabara said, his voice showing how scared he was.
"JuJuBean is short for his kind," Hiei informed them.
"Short?! That thing is huge!" Yusuke exclaimed. One of JuJuBean's heads tried to bit Yusuke's head off, but Hiei held on to the dog. The Fab Five was rooted to the spot. The dare not move else they'll attract its attention. They have never seen anything like it before, and they were torn between disbelief and shear terror.
"His kind is usually about 20 feet or so. His mate is 19 feet. She is resting at the moment so you won't be able to see her," Hiei said.
"T-That's good t-to hear," Yusuke was really afraid now. The first Ju stared at him like he was dinner.
"Now, about feeding him," Hiei nodded to Kurama, who shut the 25 feet door close. Kurama was inside the castle now. The Fab Five, Yusuke, and Kuwabara all looked to the closed door in horror and back to Hiei. Or to where Hiei had been. JuJuBean took a step towards them. They all screamed and ran for the door. They banged and scream for the door to be let open. But it didn't move. They tried opening the door themselves, but it still wouldn't move.
"AAHHHH!" they screamed as JuJuBean drew closer.
"Run for it!" Thom screamed. They all ran as one with JuJuBean close behind.
"Split up! He can't follow all of us at the same time!" Yusuke yelled. Carson ran with Jai to the left, Kyan with Thom to the right, and Yusuke with Kuwabara ran straight. To their horror, JuJuBean split in three. Each head now had its own body, and each hungry for red meat.
"AAAHHHHH! RUN WHILE YOU'RE STILL ALIVE!"
The forest was filled of screams of terror and dogs barking in hungry.
"This is way I'm a cat person!" Kuwabara yelled.
At a high window, Kurama and Hiei watched it all. Smiles ofvictory on their faces.Then they went back inside deeper into the castle, after they had set up the stolen cameras to continue filming the chase.
"Aww. You are so cute!" Botan said to the little black puppy in her arms.
"Isn't he the cutest?" Keiko said while petting the puppy.
"He is so adorable," Yukina said while she too patted the puppy. The puppy barked happily at all the attention she was getting.
"Asahoshi is a glutton for attention," Kurama said as he came into the room with another puppy in his arms. But this one had two heads.
All the girls went over to the puppy and, "Aww. He's so cute!"
"He has two heads," Ted looked at the two headed puppy, now in Shizuru's arms, in freight.
"He's mutated," Kurama explained. In the back of his head, he also said how Asahoshi was mutated as well. They should have had three heads like their parents.
"Which one is which?" Yukina asked, patting the two headed puppy affectionately.
"The one on the right is Midnight and the other is Blue."
"They really are cute," Shizuru smiled at the puppy in her arms.
At that moment, Hiei came into the room with seven big sacks that he dragged behind him.
"What are you doing, Hiei?" Botan asked as she handed Keiko Asahoshi.
"Taking out the trashed," he answered.
"One of it is moving," Ted pointed to the sack that was moving. Hiei looked down at the bag and quickly hit it with the hilt of his sword. They all heard something coming from the sack before it stopped moving.
Then Hiei went to the balcony of the room (they are all in Hiei's castle) and threw out the sacks one by one. When he was done, he turned around to find Baton there. He wrapped his arms around her as she did the same. They leaned in closed to one another, their foreheads touching.
"So what was in the sacks?" Botan asked.
Hiei smirked. "The cameramen."
Botan laughed. Then they kissed. Their first kiss. Sweet and innocent at first, then grew into a passionate kiss. They barely heard the screams and barking echoing throughout the night. All they knew was that they had each other.