Chapter 3
Switching
Four years later...
Hiei raced the Makai in his clothing that looked like a dress. The very same 'dress' that he placed the gift and letter. Strange how fate plays around as Hiei had not yet discovered of the gift. There it lay in his pocket, forgotten.
He had been thinking of Shamel lately. He had grown to love her as the years passed. He began to hate the fact that she had just left and here he was, wandering across the Makai, thinking of her.
He had truly forgotten about the gift. It was something that he did not mean to forget however, the excitement of the days that followed covered up most of the memory that he had left about it.
He also felt very bad. In one of the letters Tiho gave him, it read that Shamel was gone missing, probably kidnapped and has not yet been heard ever since three years ago.
"Hiei, wait up!" Kurama called from behind. Hiei did not stop but merely slowed down a little. A little. Kurama was still in his ningen form as Hiei noticed. Kurama had told him that he, Kurama, wanted to keep the best part of him, his human form. Hiei could not blame him. He also kept staying in his ningen form and seldom uses the demon form he has (green creature with too many eyes, notice? I mean, he was really so powerful in that green creature but he does not use it. If he did, he must have won every fight. I wonder how he has to be green, I mean, I could take it if he turned brown or a dragon or something... but green?)
"Found it?" Kurama asked.
"Hn." was Hiei's reply. They ran in silence looking for a particular thing.
"I wonder how Yusuke and Kuwabara are doing." Kurama wondered. "I mean, they are searching for a big abandoned castle right?"
"Hn."
"I take that solemnly as a yes and that you don't want to be disturbed." he said.
"Hn."
Kurama shrugged his shoulders. Then he started thinking again as they ran, "Shamel?"
Hiei quickly looked around. "Shamel? Where?" Suddenly he looked at Kurama who was grinning. Hiei realized the trick his partner played on him and started running again.
"Hiei wait! Again!" Kurama called to him as he tried catching up with Hiei. This time Hiei did not slow down.
***
"I found it!" Yusuke shouted in triumph as all four of them were staring at the big rusty castle. He opened his communicator and Botan appeared on the screen.
"WE FOUND IT!" Kuwabara shouted at the back and was dancing a victory 'dance'. Hiei looked at Kuwabara and felt like he wanted to cut off Kuwabara's legs. Just the legs.
"At last." Botan said in a very relieved tone, "You must all be very happy! You've been searching for that castle for weeks!" she said.
Hiei snorted. Four years and she was still all bubbly. "Hn" he replied. Quickly looking around to see if no one was looking, he quickly took out something that looked like was carefully hidden in his scarf. It was a picture. Well, not just any ordinary picture but a picture of Shamel and it that makes it not ordinary.
Hiei silently jumps up the tree and stares at the picture. It was Shamel four years ago. It made Hiei sigh to think that it has been four years ago since he talked to her and four years ago when he last heard of her. He took out another letter (not the love letter) and read it. Shamel wrote about things, school, friends, how she misses everyone in Japan, happenings... Mostly, Hiei liked it when he reads the paper, he could feel as if Shamel really likes him. He shook his head. Shamel only likes him. Hiei sighed again. He was a forbidden child and let us leave it at that.
So while Hiei was at his fantasies (get your mind out of the pit!) Kurama and the others were conversing about the thing they had to do.
"No what?" Yusuke said as he managed to ram the door. Kuwabara and Kurama were just sitting there watching him.
"Now you enter the castle." Botan said.
"No, I mean, what do we do in this castle?" he asked.
"You just have a simple mission here. All you have to do is get some very, very important documents and shoo the demons that keeps making a campfire in there." she said.
"So... you made us search this castle for weeks and then all we have to do is get some documents and shoo the demons and leave?" Kurama said.
"Yup!" Botan answered.
"I might as have applied for a janitor." Kurama muttered.
"Hn." Hiei said from behind. His hands were crossed. "Is that all we have to do?" he said. Kurama nodded.
***
In a few minutes, everyone was in the castle searching around for some documents and shooing the monsters away. If anyone wondered why YKKH (Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei) were not fighting anyone well it was because all Hiei had to do was stare oh-so-evilly at the demons and they just scurry away and out of the castle, never to return again.
"Do Koenma and Botan know how big this castle is?" Yusuke said as he fought another demon. Hiei was already weak from staring so the demons attacked them. "I mean, there are thousands of drawers and places you could hide very, very, important documents and that was the only clue Botan gave us in finding those papers!" Yusuke wailed as they decided to run around the castle.
"I have an idea." Kurama suggested, "Why don't we all split up?" he suggested.
"No need, kitsune." Hiei said, "Here, look at this."
Everyone looked up and saw a door labeled in bold black letters "Important Documents." YKKH (can we just call them YYKH when I'm referring to all of them?) just stared at it.
"So, they managed to place a document room in BIG, BOLD letters and no one is trying to steal from it." Kurama said as he watched Hiei try to open the door. It was locked.
"So they are all preventing all intruders to enter this room by locking it?" Hiei said disgustedly. He reached for his sword and slashed the door away.
"That was easy." Kuwabara said as he followed Hiei inside. The others followed too.
Inside the room were mountains and mountains of very, very important documents, all stacked up neatly. They noticed a sign in front: BEWARE REIKAI FACILITY, was said. Kuwabara jumped in joy in having nearly found the papers and he ran to it.
BUMP!
There was an invisible wall and Kuwabara had hit it. Now he had a broken tooth and his eyes had little swirlies in them.
"Enter Password. You only have three tries. After the third try, wherever you are, your place will self-destruct." a woman's voice said. YKKH all looked at each other.
"YUKINA!" Kuwabara tried.
"Wrong password. Please enter another one."
Yusuke hit Kuwabara in the head for wasting a try. He tried calling Botan but the communicator was down.
They thought hard. *chirp* *chirp*
"Pacifier Breath." Yusuke shouted.
"Wrong password. Please enter another one. You have only one try left."
"Lord Yama." Hiei said. There was silence as Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama prepared to run.
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"Correct password. You can now enter."
Suddenly, a small door opened. "What are you waiting for?" Hiei said as he started scurrying in finding the papers that had anything to do with Shadow Demons. Kuwabara, Kurama, and Yusuke shrugged and followed Hiei.
A small door opened beside one of the stacks of papers. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" a girl shouted as she dropped a pile of papers. Instantly, Hiei ran up to her and placed his sword near her throat.
"Who are you and what are you doing here..." Hiei's voice trailed off. The others were also staring at the girl as if their eyes were popping in their heads, "Sh-Shamel?" Kurama said as he looked at the girl. She was not exactly like Shamel four years ago. This looked like an older looking Shamel.
Her eyes were still black and her hair was until her waist, all tied up in a ponytail. She wore a dark blue kimono and had a pile of papers in her hand.
"What are you talking about?" she said as she pushed Hiei away from her. She studied him and blushed lightly.
"What's going on there?" came a voice and a figure entered out. YKKH could all do but stare. She was a twin of Shamel! The only difference was that her hair was only until her back and was tied in half pony-tail. Both of them were the same height however, she had the real Shamel's tough attitude.
"Sh-Shamel?" Hiei said as he stared at her. The woman looked at him and the thing that immediately entered her mind was that he was cool, handsome, and hot. Still...
"How did you know that name?" she shouted as she placed a sword in his neck. Hiei looked surprise but after a few movements, he managed to take her away.
"Hn." he said. The girl who carried a stack of papers giggled.
"Shamel, don't you even remember us?" Kurama asked the girl with a sword. She looked at Kurama.
"I do not remember seeing any of you." she said. The first girl nodded. Hiei looked at the two of them.
"I'm Sam." the first girl said as she held out her free hand, "But my real name is Shamel though."
The girl with the sword noticed Hiei twitch when the name Shamel was heard. The truth was, she was Shamel's older sister, and the younger girl was the real Shamel. They were kidnapped by one of the people who wanted them dead. They were able to escape but lost their memory. The older sister of Shamel was the first person to regain her memory however, Shamel has not yet regained hers. Until now.
The older sister's name was Shara and liked having things her own way. That was why when her younger sister could not yet get her memory back except for some important facts that Shara was her sister, Shara would always use her for some of wants. Shara wanted things her way and she wanted Hiei. Long ago, before their memory was gone, Shamel would tell stories about Hiei. At first, Shara hated hearing about him but now seeing the body structure of Hiei, she thought otherwise.
She also managed to figure out that Hiei must have liked her younger sister due to the way Hiei was looking at her sister. She did not like that. She WANTS Hiei and will get him no matter what. Even if her sister told her long ago how much she had loved him.
"Baka!" Shara said. "Why do you keep telling that you are Shamel? I'm Shamel! Shamel! Shamel! You're Shara!" she said copying the ways of her younger sister.
From this day on, you are Shara. the real Shara said telepathically to the real Shamel. Luckily, for Shara, her younger sister always followed everything she said.
Ok Shamel telepathically called back said innocently.
"Oh sorry Shamel." the real Shamel said, her blue necklace still hung around her neck.
"It's ok Shara." the real Shara said to the real Shamel, "Just don't do that again."
The real Shamel nodded. Hiei cleared his throat and said, "Uh, Shamel, do you know where to find these papers?"
Kurama and Yusuke held their hands over their mouths to hide a grin. Both of them knew how much Hiei missed Shamel even if Hiei would not admit it.
As always, Kuwabara broke the wonderful scene. "SHAMEL! I MISSED YOU!" he cried and hugged Shamel. Hiei hit him in the head and sent him flying thirty feet in the air. Hiei looked at Shamel.
So she lost her memory... he thought, I'll help her remember it. I'll make her remember everything. About Kurama, Yusuke, Koenma, Botan, Kuwabara, and most especially, I will make her remember me.
Hiei mentally slapped himself. What was I thinking about? he scolded himself.
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Chapter 3 done and I want you all to remember the fact that Shara told Shamel to switch names. Now Shara is Shamel and Shamel is Shara. I know it's confusing but the first few chapters are about Hiei liking Shamel who is really Shara and the real Shamel getting jealous but since she still hasn't go her memory back, all she could do is stare longingly at Hiei as her sister whom she admires takes all the glory from her.
Oh well...
Switching
Four years later...
Hiei raced the Makai in his clothing that looked like a dress. The very same 'dress' that he placed the gift and letter. Strange how fate plays around as Hiei had not yet discovered of the gift. There it lay in his pocket, forgotten.
He had been thinking of Shamel lately. He had grown to love her as the years passed. He began to hate the fact that she had just left and here he was, wandering across the Makai, thinking of her.
He had truly forgotten about the gift. It was something that he did not mean to forget however, the excitement of the days that followed covered up most of the memory that he had left about it.
He also felt very bad. In one of the letters Tiho gave him, it read that Shamel was gone missing, probably kidnapped and has not yet been heard ever since three years ago.
"Hiei, wait up!" Kurama called from behind. Hiei did not stop but merely slowed down a little. A little. Kurama was still in his ningen form as Hiei noticed. Kurama had told him that he, Kurama, wanted to keep the best part of him, his human form. Hiei could not blame him. He also kept staying in his ningen form and seldom uses the demon form he has (green creature with too many eyes, notice? I mean, he was really so powerful in that green creature but he does not use it. If he did, he must have won every fight. I wonder how he has to be green, I mean, I could take it if he turned brown or a dragon or something... but green?)
"Found it?" Kurama asked.
"Hn." was Hiei's reply. They ran in silence looking for a particular thing.
"I wonder how Yusuke and Kuwabara are doing." Kurama wondered. "I mean, they are searching for a big abandoned castle right?"
"Hn."
"I take that solemnly as a yes and that you don't want to be disturbed." he said.
"Hn."
Kurama shrugged his shoulders. Then he started thinking again as they ran, "Shamel?"
Hiei quickly looked around. "Shamel? Where?" Suddenly he looked at Kurama who was grinning. Hiei realized the trick his partner played on him and started running again.
"Hiei wait! Again!" Kurama called to him as he tried catching up with Hiei. This time Hiei did not slow down.
***
"I found it!" Yusuke shouted in triumph as all four of them were staring at the big rusty castle. He opened his communicator and Botan appeared on the screen.
"WE FOUND IT!" Kuwabara shouted at the back and was dancing a victory 'dance'. Hiei looked at Kuwabara and felt like he wanted to cut off Kuwabara's legs. Just the legs.
"At last." Botan said in a very relieved tone, "You must all be very happy! You've been searching for that castle for weeks!" she said.
Hiei snorted. Four years and she was still all bubbly. "Hn" he replied. Quickly looking around to see if no one was looking, he quickly took out something that looked like was carefully hidden in his scarf. It was a picture. Well, not just any ordinary picture but a picture of Shamel and it that makes it not ordinary.
Hiei silently jumps up the tree and stares at the picture. It was Shamel four years ago. It made Hiei sigh to think that it has been four years ago since he talked to her and four years ago when he last heard of her. He took out another letter (not the love letter) and read it. Shamel wrote about things, school, friends, how she misses everyone in Japan, happenings... Mostly, Hiei liked it when he reads the paper, he could feel as if Shamel really likes him. He shook his head. Shamel only likes him. Hiei sighed again. He was a forbidden child and let us leave it at that.
So while Hiei was at his fantasies (get your mind out of the pit!) Kurama and the others were conversing about the thing they had to do.
"No what?" Yusuke said as he managed to ram the door. Kuwabara and Kurama were just sitting there watching him.
"Now you enter the castle." Botan said.
"No, I mean, what do we do in this castle?" he asked.
"You just have a simple mission here. All you have to do is get some very, very important documents and shoo the demons that keeps making a campfire in there." she said.
"So... you made us search this castle for weeks and then all we have to do is get some documents and shoo the demons and leave?" Kurama said.
"Yup!" Botan answered.
"I might as have applied for a janitor." Kurama muttered.
"Hn." Hiei said from behind. His hands were crossed. "Is that all we have to do?" he said. Kurama nodded.
***
In a few minutes, everyone was in the castle searching around for some documents and shooing the monsters away. If anyone wondered why YKKH (Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei) were not fighting anyone well it was because all Hiei had to do was stare oh-so-evilly at the demons and they just scurry away and out of the castle, never to return again.
"Do Koenma and Botan know how big this castle is?" Yusuke said as he fought another demon. Hiei was already weak from staring so the demons attacked them. "I mean, there are thousands of drawers and places you could hide very, very, important documents and that was the only clue Botan gave us in finding those papers!" Yusuke wailed as they decided to run around the castle.
"I have an idea." Kurama suggested, "Why don't we all split up?" he suggested.
"No need, kitsune." Hiei said, "Here, look at this."
Everyone looked up and saw a door labeled in bold black letters "Important Documents." YKKH (can we just call them YYKH when I'm referring to all of them?) just stared at it.
"So, they managed to place a document room in BIG, BOLD letters and no one is trying to steal from it." Kurama said as he watched Hiei try to open the door. It was locked.
"So they are all preventing all intruders to enter this room by locking it?" Hiei said disgustedly. He reached for his sword and slashed the door away.
"That was easy." Kuwabara said as he followed Hiei inside. The others followed too.
Inside the room were mountains and mountains of very, very important documents, all stacked up neatly. They noticed a sign in front: BEWARE REIKAI FACILITY, was said. Kuwabara jumped in joy in having nearly found the papers and he ran to it.
BUMP!
There was an invisible wall and Kuwabara had hit it. Now he had a broken tooth and his eyes had little swirlies in them.
"Enter Password. You only have three tries. After the third try, wherever you are, your place will self-destruct." a woman's voice said. YKKH all looked at each other.
"YUKINA!" Kuwabara tried.
"Wrong password. Please enter another one."
Yusuke hit Kuwabara in the head for wasting a try. He tried calling Botan but the communicator was down.
They thought hard. *chirp* *chirp*
"Pacifier Breath." Yusuke shouted.
"Wrong password. Please enter another one. You have only one try left."
"Lord Yama." Hiei said. There was silence as Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama prepared to run.
...........................
"Correct password. You can now enter."
Suddenly, a small door opened. "What are you waiting for?" Hiei said as he started scurrying in finding the papers that had anything to do with Shadow Demons. Kuwabara, Kurama, and Yusuke shrugged and followed Hiei.
A small door opened beside one of the stacks of papers. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" a girl shouted as she dropped a pile of papers. Instantly, Hiei ran up to her and placed his sword near her throat.
"Who are you and what are you doing here..." Hiei's voice trailed off. The others were also staring at the girl as if their eyes were popping in their heads, "Sh-Shamel?" Kurama said as he looked at the girl. She was not exactly like Shamel four years ago. This looked like an older looking Shamel.
Her eyes were still black and her hair was until her waist, all tied up in a ponytail. She wore a dark blue kimono and had a pile of papers in her hand.
"What are you talking about?" she said as she pushed Hiei away from her. She studied him and blushed lightly.
"What's going on there?" came a voice and a figure entered out. YKKH could all do but stare. She was a twin of Shamel! The only difference was that her hair was only until her back and was tied in half pony-tail. Both of them were the same height however, she had the real Shamel's tough attitude.
"Sh-Shamel?" Hiei said as he stared at her. The woman looked at him and the thing that immediately entered her mind was that he was cool, handsome, and hot. Still...
"How did you know that name?" she shouted as she placed a sword in his neck. Hiei looked surprise but after a few movements, he managed to take her away.
"Hn." he said. The girl who carried a stack of papers giggled.
"Shamel, don't you even remember us?" Kurama asked the girl with a sword. She looked at Kurama.
"I do not remember seeing any of you." she said. The first girl nodded. Hiei looked at the two of them.
"I'm Sam." the first girl said as she held out her free hand, "But my real name is Shamel though."
The girl with the sword noticed Hiei twitch when the name Shamel was heard. The truth was, she was Shamel's older sister, and the younger girl was the real Shamel. They were kidnapped by one of the people who wanted them dead. They were able to escape but lost their memory. The older sister of Shamel was the first person to regain her memory however, Shamel has not yet regained hers. Until now.
The older sister's name was Shara and liked having things her own way. That was why when her younger sister could not yet get her memory back except for some important facts that Shara was her sister, Shara would always use her for some of wants. Shara wanted things her way and she wanted Hiei. Long ago, before their memory was gone, Shamel would tell stories about Hiei. At first, Shara hated hearing about him but now seeing the body structure of Hiei, she thought otherwise.
She also managed to figure out that Hiei must have liked her younger sister due to the way Hiei was looking at her sister. She did not like that. She WANTS Hiei and will get him no matter what. Even if her sister told her long ago how much she had loved him.
"Baka!" Shara said. "Why do you keep telling that you are Shamel? I'm Shamel! Shamel! Shamel! You're Shara!" she said copying the ways of her younger sister.
From this day on, you are Shara. the real Shara said telepathically to the real Shamel. Luckily, for Shara, her younger sister always followed everything she said.
Ok Shamel telepathically called back said innocently.
"Oh sorry Shamel." the real Shamel said, her blue necklace still hung around her neck.
"It's ok Shara." the real Shara said to the real Shamel, "Just don't do that again."
The real Shamel nodded. Hiei cleared his throat and said, "Uh, Shamel, do you know where to find these papers?"
Kurama and Yusuke held their hands over their mouths to hide a grin. Both of them knew how much Hiei missed Shamel even if Hiei would not admit it.
As always, Kuwabara broke the wonderful scene. "SHAMEL! I MISSED YOU!" he cried and hugged Shamel. Hiei hit him in the head and sent him flying thirty feet in the air. Hiei looked at Shamel.
So she lost her memory... he thought, I'll help her remember it. I'll make her remember everything. About Kurama, Yusuke, Koenma, Botan, Kuwabara, and most especially, I will make her remember me.
Hiei mentally slapped himself. What was I thinking about? he scolded himself.
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Chapter 3 done and I want you all to remember the fact that Shara told Shamel to switch names. Now Shara is Shamel and Shamel is Shara. I know it's confusing but the first few chapters are about Hiei liking Shamel who is really Shara and the real Shamel getting jealous but since she still hasn't go her memory back, all she could do is stare longingly at Hiei as her sister whom she admires takes all the glory from her.
Oh well...