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Akimi grunted with exertion as she propelled herself across the clearing at Hiei. With a shimmering air displacement, he was gone and Akimi began searching for his carefully masked ki. Something knocked her in the head and she looked up. Hiei was crouched on a tree branch, throwing pinecones. Scowling, she grabbed his cloak and offset his balance, pulling him down. A swift kick to the stomach allowed her to create a small flame burst and burn a hole through his cloak. In one fluid movement, he pulled it off and launched himself at her, swinging the bamboo cane he was using in place of his sword. Akimi ducked and rolled, coming up with her back to a tree, fists flaming as she began attacking Hiei fiercely, creating several small burns on his arms and chest. With a roar, she grabbed him around the neck and swung past him, slamming him to the ground. As she stood in a fighting stance, fists still wrapped in flames, he granted her a small smile.

"You're getting better." Returning the smile, she helped him stand and a moment later found herself on her back with Hiei's hand around her neck. "But you have a long way to go." Scowling at her error and his smug smirk, Akimi swung her leg across his knees, knocking him down so she could stand.

"Hiei, it's three in the afternoon. We haven't stopped since three this morning. Could I have a short break, please?" Despite her whining tone, she had barely broken a sweat. Hiei rolled his eyes.

"If you must." Kissing him on the cheek, she began her trek back to the house. She had almost reached it when a blast of light cut in front of her. On instinct she jumped, arching her back and landing three steps behind her previous posistion, watching as her father backed up as Kyoko slammed ki blast after ki blast into his chest until he fell.

"Truce!" he yelled. Tiny beads of sweat were forming on his brow and Kyoko was soaked to the skin. As Kurama stood, he looked at his youngest. "Where were you headed?"

"To the house for a break," Akimi said, looking at Kyoko. She had never seen a more focused, determined look in her sister's eyes before.

"I think I'll join you," Kyoko said. "I don't want to sleep for a week like Yuu-san did." Sharing a small smile, the sisters slipped in the back door and saw Yuusuke and Keiko on the kitchen counter in a liplock.

"Ack!" Akimi cried, raising her hands to shield her eyes. "Getta room!" They broke apart, looking incredibly embarrassed.

"If I weren't so damn tired, I'd be laughing," Kyoko said with a grin.

"We...had a fight," Keiko tried to explain.

"Wow. I wish Hiei and I fought like that." Yuusuke glared at Akimi.

"You're coming too," Kyoko spoke up. "Why aren't you training?"

"I was too busy trying to get her to let me go," he explained. Both Princesses raised an eyebrow.

"You didn't look like you were struggling to me," Akimi said.

"To let me go to the Dark Tournament," Yuusuke amended, glaring at the youngest Minamino again. "That's what we were fighting about."

"Decided to resolve things over a game of tonsil hockey?" Kyoko asked. Akimi repressed a laugh and Yuusuke tried to glare at both of them at once.

"Forget this," he mumbled. "I'm gonna go stretch my ki." As he headed to push the limits of his ki's expansion, Akimi flopped onto the couch.

"Why don't you sweat?" Kyoko asked, stepping away from the small puddle she was forming on the kitchen floor.

"Internal heat. Does me good."

"So...we should pair you against all the fire-breathing freaks." Akimi gave her a Look. "Sorry. Water?"

"No thanks." Hiromi came bouncing down the stairs.

"Kassan!" she yelled, plopping herself into Akimi's lap. "Let's play that game we played yesterday!" Akimi smiled gently. As long as she didn't have to get up.

"Alright, chibi. Hold your palms against mine." Hiromi obliged, her eyes already closing. "Good, you remember. Okay, now focus on the very center of yourself." Hiromi's face scrunched up as a faint ki came from her. Akimi's eyes shot open. This hadn't happened yesterday. Hiromi's ki was forming it's own signature. As Yuusuke's was blue and Kuwabara's was orange, each ki had a color when you formed it into a weapon. A faint purple glow was forming around Hiromi's body and what looked like a sword was forming in her hands. "Hiro!" The young girl's ruby eyes shot open. "That's enough. Kassan's tired. Go play with Kuwabara-oji now, okay?" Nodding, Hiromi climbed off of Akimi's knees and headed back up the stairs. Kyoko sat next to her sister.

"Did I just see what I think I just saw?"

"If you saw what I think I just saw, I think either we're both going insane or that is a very powerful little girl." Akimi was pale. "She's barely two years old and already has a ki signature?"

"And was that a Rei-ken in her hands?" Akimi nodded weakly.

"The last thing we need is her imitating Kuwabara. Her father'll burn the whole city down."

"That and the danger it poses to the ningen she'll be going to school with. Aki, you gotta get her to control that!"

"I know, I know. Oya's already planned to tutor her until she can." Kyoko stifled a yawn.

"Despite the major scare I just got from my favorite niece--"

"Better be your only niece."

"--I am gonna go pass out now."

"Happy passing."

"Don't talk, Akimi, just fight."

Yuusuke and Akimi crawled through another backyard, still dragging hoses. "You're sure you've got the right window this time?" Akimi asked. Yuusuke nodded.

"Yeah. I checked it out earlier."

"Was that before or after the mini-makeout session?" Yuusuke glared at her. "Which window?"

"That one there." Akimi picked up a rock and paused.

"You know we're only getting away with this because Oya's in Makai, right?"

"Your point is?"

"That he'd kick our asses for wasting time with this."

"Your point is?"

"I....don't know." She launched the rock and the window opened. "PAYBACK'S A BITCH!" Yuusuke roared again, and the water hoses sprayed. Again.

"What in the--" Again, not a ten-year-old boy's voice. More like the voice of a ten-year-old boy's muscleheaded father.

"Shit." Yuusuke and Akimi ran again.

"You're a dead man, Urameshi!" Akimi yelled at him as they jumped the fence. "I am SO gonna kick your ass!"

"They musta switched rooms!" Yuusuke huffed.

"YA THINK?"

Muwaha.

Preview:

Since I'm lazy, a year is skipped and the Dark Tournament begins. Team Minamino checks into Kurikiburi Hotel and Hiromi's powers go a little haywire around all the new ki.

Quote of the Chapter:

I laugh in the face of danger! And then I hide until it goes away.-Xander

O-kay. Until next time, I'm Aki and I AM 99X!I'm a moron.