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Someone tell me if the last chapter was confusing. Before you send me angry reviews, I want to tell you guys something so that your reading pleasure won't be disrupted. Don't think too much of what Genkai told in chapters 14-15. Life will be normal now so don't waste your time waiting for something too exciting to happen. Oh yeah, did anyone watch "Behind the Enemy Lines"? It was so cool. C'mon you guys, buy the CD and don't dare sleep until you finish it.

Chapter 16: Mitohino

"Oh come on father, just tell me what it is that you plan about." a young child that looks like she was only seven years old. In fact she was seven years old if she were not a demon from the Makai.

"You are too persistent little daughter, Teng-yu." Mitohino said as he was reading a scroll that contained vital information about certain powerful demons excluding the YYH gang. "You're brother here is getting too lovesick."

"I'm not father." Teryo said sulkingly, "What is it with ningen women...?" he muttered to himself. Mitohino smiled amusingly at his son. "What father?" Teryo said a little bit irritated, a little bit angry, "I'm not lovesick!"

"Oh, big brother has fallen in love!" Teng-yu said as she danced playfully around her father's quarters.

"Am not!" Teryo shouted back.

"Oh yes you are!" Teng-yu said, "You work with her everyday in that ningen shop that sells bread. She seems so pretty. I do believe that any man will fall for her."

"Oh do keep quiet." Teryu said.

"Teng-yu, leave your brother be," Mitohino said, "He is in a level of constant haze of stupidity." he said with an amused laugh to tell his son that he was just joking.

"Father!" Teryu said nearly blushing red but managed to hide it from his irritating sister, Teng-yu.

Back in Ningenkai.......

"Hiei," Kurama said.

"Hn?" Hiei said his eyes seemed to be in heaven, dreaming.

"Stop it." Kurama said.

"Hn..." Hiei said, his eyes not taken off on Shara (the real Shara).

Shamel (the real Shamel) glared angrily at the bushes. Ok, so she knew that Hiei and Shara were already engaged but she couldn't help it but wish and wish that there might be a small, small chance that she could gather Hiei's attention.

The letter that Mitohino threw flew about in the Makai but when the wind stopped, it fluttered down the Makai. There seemed to be a small opening in the ground that seemed to have been recently dug. It fluttered down the opening and into the hands of the one that stayed there.

"Shamel?" he growled in a deathly voice as he read the letter, his clawed hands holding it tight, "Isn't she the woman that Master Mitohino wanted to kill?"

Shamel walked wearily to the shop where she was working along with Hiei. Hiei did not want to go with Shamel but Kurama wanted Hiei to buy some milk and vegetables and the supermarket was just three stores away from the bread store. All the while Hiei kept wondering how it happened that a very respected demon like him was reduced to buying supermarket foods like milk and vegetables.

Ohohoh! Shamel's mind was racing like it was for all the minutes that she and Hiei were together, I'm with Hiei! I'm with Hiei! I wanna jump up and... Oh Shamel, that is very bad of you. What? Me? I didn't do anything wrong... Hello Hiei's engagement ring to Shamel, wake up! He's engaged! I know he's engaged but I can't help it! Oh great, I have to go. We're outside the bread store.

"Well, bye Hiei." Shamel said as she entered the bread store.

"Hn." Hiei said. Then he stopped. He couldn't help it but there was something weird about the bread store. He looked at the window and saw Shamel (whom he thought was Shara) was talking to the guy that she had bumped to days ago.

Hiei could not help it but there was a strange feeling he felt when he saw Shamel talk to this guy. Then he shook his head and went inside the bread store.

"Hiei?" Shamel said when she saw Hiei enter, "What are you doing here?"

"Hn." Hiei said, "Kurama told me to buy bread."

Shamel stared at Hiei confused. "Kurama did?"

Hiei sighed, "Yes he did." Then he went out of his way to search for bread. Since never in his life he had seen so many bread, he decided to be careful in taking his pick in case he picked really bad bread and Kurama would scold him for wasting money.

Just then he heard another man coming in. Hiei looked at whoever entered and saw that it was a fat and jolly man (not Santa Claus you idiots!). He was wearing a brown shirt and his cheeks were red from merriment (no, he hadn't been drinking wine in years). Hiei sudden had this inclination of not buying bread. He suddenly had a vision of a very thin man eating bread and because of the bread, he grew very fat and wore a brown t-shirt that says 'I love bread.' Hiei retreated his hand from the bread he was going to take because he had no intention to grow up very fat. Why, he worked hard for his muscles only to be ruined by bread? Too late, the fat man, who turned out to be the manager said,

"Oh, a costumer!" he said joyfully, "Teryo, go attend to this man! We can't keep a costumer waiting can we? Shara (referring to Shamel), go on fixing the counter. Can't keep a costumer waiting can we?" he said with a wink to Hiei. Hiei didn't know what to do so he winked back, not really knowing how to. That burst Shamel to giggling behind the counter. Furious at himself, he turned to pretend to pick another bread. The jolly man went inside a door and closed it and said all the while, "Can't keep a costumer waiting can we? No, no, never such a thing!" then he would burst into a jolly laugh. Soon it was silent with Shamel just fixing the counter.

Teryo walked up to Hiei. Great, Hiei thought soberly, Now I really have to buy bread...

"Is there a particular bread that you wish to buy?" Teryo said. Suddenly, Hiei felt it, an aura. A strong aura and he did not feel the least bit comfortable with it. Teryo felt Hiei's aura and both had a feeling that they would never be comfortable with each other.

"Stay away from Shara (meaning Shamel)" Hiei muttered angrily at Teryo, his hand pretending to search the bread.

"You stay away from Shara." Teryo said, "I don't know who you are but stay away from her."

"No, you stay away from her." Hiei muttered angrily.

"No, you will." Teryo said. Both of them stared angrily at each other, the world seemed nothing and all they cared was staring at each other to death, hoping to scare one off.

"Hey you guys, is there anything wrong?" Shamel said from behind the counter. The two of them broke off their glare and Hiei set to picking a plastic of bread, shoved Teryo away and banged the bread in the counter. Shamel looked at the bread, looked surprised then Hiei paid for it then left.

As Hiei was paying for the supermarket goods, he realized that the bread he bought was so expensive that he only managed to buy a can of milk and five potatoes. Hiei sighed, wondering what angry things Kurama might say to him for wasting money on bread.