Chapter 5: Can I Return You?

Daydream Sequence

The little pots, soil, and seeds that Genkai had convinced Vice-Principal Koenma to give her funding for were neatly set up in a row in the schoolyard.

"All right, now pick a place and sit down. Then wat- Yoko, Suichi, what are you doing?"

"We're planting, stupid," Yoko answered, his voice as sweet as ever. So sweet, in fact, that Genkai completely missed the 'bad word' at the end of his statement.

"I didn't say for you to start yet."

"We don't care. We're already finished, right Suichi?" His twin nodded vigorously and whispered something in Yoko's ear. The silver-haired boy grinned and gave a low little snicker.

"Fine! Let's see if you did it-" Dammit, the boys were better gardeners than she was! Not a single speck of soil out of place! "Right. Well then, everybody can follow your example, okay?"

Not okay. Kuwabara and Yusuke got into a soil slinging fight, half of the kids devoured the seeds given to them, and when it began to rain, they scattered everywhere and ran around.

End Daydream Sequence

Suichi was watering his plants. Most of them were roses. They were intricate, vivid, beautiful. And yet, beneath the beauty, they held a sort of danger. Anastasia had told him once that in the original telling of Sleeping Beauty, the evil fairy had hidden the spindle in a rose. Fascinating.

Sometimes Suichi wished that he were more like a rose, more dangerous, and not all eye candy.

"Suichi! Red! Pick up the phone!" Yoko yelled from his room.

The twin put the receiver to his ear and said, "Hello?"

"Suichi. It's Ana."

"And me." Hiei.

"And me." Yoko.

"'Kay. Plan?"

"We're going to steal Karasu's gradebook."

Suichi choked.

"Come again?"

"Karasu. Gradebook," Hiei repeated.

Suichi's end was silent.

"Yoko, what's he doing?" The silver haired one looked in on his brother.

"He's banging his head on the desk."

"Oh. So, Suichi." Anastasia, on her end, was grinning like the devil.

"Mm?"

"Would now be a good time to tell you we were just messin' with you?"

"YOKO!!"

"Cripes, man, I'm in your damn room! Don't yell in my ear!"

"No, but seriously. Suichi. We want to know if you can get your hands on a mini video camera."

"Why?"

"We want to get proof that Genkai and Principal Yama are sleeping together."

"Jesus! Who gave you people the sugar?!"

"Well, Yoko took-"

"Shut up, Hiei!"

"Can you just be serious for a minute and tell me what we're supposed to be planning?"

"Naw. Being serious is boring, right guys?"

"Yup," Hiei and Yoko responded in unison.

"I suppose you're right," Suichi sighed. "Turn around, Yoko," he called, and pulled out his stash of Pixie Stix from his drawer.

Yukina heard her brother on the phone. He never laughed like that when he was with her. And Yukina had to wonder, was it because she wasn't quite as important to him as his friends were?

She was so paranoid! First she told Hiei that she doesn't need his protection, and now she missed how close they were? How selfish of her!

"Yukina, dinner. Tell Hiei to come, too, all right?" Ms. Koorime told her daughter, sweeping her blue strands away from her face. Yukina nodded, and her mother went back into the kitchen.

"Hiei?" Yukina knocked on her twin's door. "Hiei?" She opened the door and stepped inside. "Mom said dinner's ready."

Hiei nodded and gave her the signal for 'one minute'. Meanwhile, Yukina studied Hiei's room. It'd been ages since she'd actually stepped foot in here, and a lot had changed. For instance, the walls had been painted black, and there were posters of bands she'd never heard of covering an entire wall. Not only that, but he'd hung a few cool looking swords up, all very samurai-ish. Yukina touched the tip of one with a finger, expecting it to be blunt.

It wasn't.

"Christ, Yukina!" Hiei burst out, slamming down the phone when he saw what she'd done.

Now he's going to yell at me for bloodying his sword! Why can't I just stop being so-

"Clumsy! I leave you alone for one second and you hurt yourself! Telling me that you don't need my protection- hmh! Now go get the box of Band-Aids and I'll fix you up."

Yukina, unwilling to make Hiei any angrier than he already was, followed his instructions.

"I'm sorry for bloodying your sword, Hiei," Yukina apologized softly.

"Idiot. What's worth more, a sword or a sister? I lost your receipt, so could you fill me in?" Hiei sighed, and put an arm around his shorter sister, leading her to the dining room. "You need another brain, Yukina, because the one you have obviously doesn't work right."

Hiei, joking around?! ::faints::

iluvkuramaseyes: Sorry! I just had to. Hey, Bobby, back me up here! (I, by the way, am the alter-ego that no one ever wants around. ::sniff:: )

::whistles:: I'm not getting involved. She's threatened to take away my Hiei plushie. ::whistles again:: But damn, this is just a complete mush of nothing. Just... STUFF.

Ouchie. But anyway, plz review!

Oh, and Bobby, r.i.p., Thia, me, and any/all alter egos inside my brain must thank everyone (meaning poltergeist report 101 and slave2anime) for reviewing! You're all so kind!