Authoress' Notes: Hey guys...Guys? -looks around as a tumbleweed rolls by- Um... I'm sorry. Will you still read it? Eventually? In a million years? Really, I've been having the worst case of Writer's Block for this. I've never had Writer's Block this bad before. I've asked Ciu-koi for help, too, but nothing works very well...
If this seems a little disappointing, I'm sorry.
I think I might end up ending this soon... I don't know where it goes from here... It won't end now, though, of course.
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A Red Rose in the Darkness
Chapter Twenty-three
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The door opened.
"HIEEEEEEIIIIII!!!!"
Hiei was greeted by falling flat on his butt when Hime tackle-hugged him. "Hello Hime..."
"Hiei, Hiei!! Are we going to the park!?" She asked cheerfully.
He allowed himself to give a small smile and nodded.
"YAAAAY!!" She cheered and tumbled off of him.
He stood and offered her a hand, which she took with a huge grin and jumped to her feet. Hand in hand, they entered the mansion, with the extremely patient doorman closing it behind them. Hiei kicked off his shoes and they walked into the living room.
"HIEI!!" The mom shrieked and threw her arms around his neck, catching him by surprise. "Hime told us what a great babysitter you were!! MAN, I wish my old babysitter was like you!"
That's great lady, but can you let go of me now? Only my kitsune can hold me like this, Hiei thought to himself.
She didn't let go until the husband entered the room. He shot a glare Hiei's way. "So, you got away with the first one, but today you won't be so lucky!!"
Hiei sighed inwardly. This family was seriously freaky. An uptight half-insane husband, an over-cheerful mother who likes to, as she would put it "PAR-TAY!!", and a mature daughter who was quite like Hiei.
It was then Hiei noticed that Hime, once again, wore the necklace from her brother. He was aware of his own, dangling from his neck, tucked safely under his shirt. Hime tugged his hand. "Can we go now??"
Hiei blinked away his thoughts. "That is up to your--"
"OF COURSE!! Wouldn't wanna delay my daughter's Lovely, Royal Park Tour Fit For A Princess!" The mom said with this humungous laughing grin.
Hiei's eye twitched. Did she have to give a trip to the park a title? Well, if she was the kind of character Hiei had of her in his mind, then yeah, she did.
"YAY!! Let's go!!" Hime said happily.
"Now now, Hime. You have to listen to Hiei, okee?" The mom said, sternly but cheerfully. "And you can't run away from him or anything, because then you won't get any ice cream!!"
Everyone in the room, save for Hiei, gasped in utter terror.
Hime looked at her feet. "Yes mommy..."
Sadly enough, Hiei understood why terror would come from having a lack of sweet snow.
Hime took Hiei's hand and dragged him to the door. "Bye mommy, bye daddy!"
The father grunted and the mother waved enthusiastically.
The door closed behind them once again.
"Hiei, Hiei!! FLY!!" She said.
"I will," he said. "After we are out of sight of your home, all right?"
She huffed, but nodded in agreement.
They left the gates and began walking down the sidewalk.
"Now?" Hime asked.
"No..." Hiei said.
They turned the corner.
"Now." And they were gone.
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Hime licked the top off of her ice cream cone. Hiei did the same.
They were sitting on a bench under a tree that the fire demon liked to hang out in when he had nothing to do. Hime was silent while licking her ice cream ever-so-gracefully, like a rich child would.
"Hiei?" Hiei was just licking the ice cream residue off of his fingers when he heard his name.
He turned his head and his eyes grew wide.
Shiori smiled. "I would recognise that hair anywhere..."
"Shiori..."
She walked over and stood in front of Hime. "And who is this?"
Hiei recovered from his shock in an instant. "This is--"
"I'm Hime!!" She announced. "Hiei is babysitting me!"
"Really...?" Shiori looked him over. "I never imagined you as the type to babysit, Hiei."
"Yes, well, you have missed a lot..."
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Sniper and Touya lay on the human's bed, Touya on Sniper's lap. Hagiri's back was leaning against the headboard and his arms were wrapped around the ice prince on his lap. He rest his chin on Touya's head and they cuddled in silence.
It was that sort of peaceful silence where words are not needed and there can never be anything important enough to talk about.
A silence that would always be broken too soon.
"TOOOOOOOOOOOY!!!!!"
Both Sniper and Touya jumped, causing Touya to fall off the bed and Hagiri to tumble to the floor entangled in the blankets.
"Oh...heh...I'm thinkin' I disturbed somethin' here..." Jin said, rubbing the back of his head.
"No...you think?" Sniper said sarcastically, trying to disentangle himself.
Touya shot him a look and stood up, facing Jin. "Jin, you simply had poorly placed timing."
"I like how you changed 'you interrupted our personal moment, you idiotic moron' to something a little more polite."
Shishiwakamaru popped out from behind Jin, leaning against the doorframe, his look of "DAMN I am so much hotter than you" shining brilliantly through his eyes and his smile.
Touya gave him "the look". "Shishiwakamaru, as narcissistic as ever, ne?"
The narcissist in question winked. "You bet."
"Well, I would greatly appreciate it if you did not address Jin as 'idiotic moron'. He is after all, smarter than you could even hope to be."
Shishi glared for a moment, but then smirked. "So what does that make you, a --"
Jin floated in between them. "Heh, why don't we knock this off, 'kay? We came to visit!! Now, le's all gather 'round and tell each othe' what's been 'appenin', 'kay?"
Touya paused a moment and then nodded. Shishi faintly whispered under his breath a comment that sounded suspiciously like "Wuss" but also agreed.
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Jin rolled through the air laughing hysterically behind Shishi's chair. Shishi just shook his glass at Touya. "So it's true? That midget actually got a job? As a babysitter, nonetheless? Man, wait 'til everyone in the Makai hears about this..."
"I'll be waiting," Touya said. "Because everyone in Makai will hear nothing of this."
Shishiwakamaru arched a brow. Jin paused in his laughter. "I gotta agree wit' Toy on this one. Hiei's reputation will go BOOM! to the ground if they all foun' out, and more o' them slimy demons will be after him thinkin' he's weak...an' he doesn' need tha'..."
Touya simply nodded. Hagiri knew he had nothing to do with this conversation but still decided to stick around if Shishiwakamaru and Touya got into a fistfight, more than likely consisting of Touya getting Shishi so ticked off that Shishi attacks him.
"He pro'lly got that job to help Kurama, after all the hell that they 'ave been through."
Shishiwakamaru snorted. "He's getting soft. If I were him, I wouldn't let myself be tied down by another soft demon. Humans suck, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a world with them."
Touya stared at his hands. "Not all humans are bad..."
Sniper gave a tiny smile.
Shishi just waved his hand at Touya's "foolishness" and dismissed the subject with a yawn.
He looked at Sniper's clock. "Man, is it late!! I need to get my beauty sleep!!"
With that he stood, walked to Sniper's bedroom and called good night.
"Oh, wait a minute--!!" Sniper was about to finish but was cut off by the slamming of the door.
Touya and Sniper stared at the door for a moment.
Sniper blinked. "Oh, he did not just..."
Touya stared. "He did."
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Hieica: Wow. The ending to this chapter sucked. Who's with me!? ...yeah, thought so...anyway, SQUEEEEEEEEEE!! Cuddle scene cuddle scene!! I'm so mean sometimes. But really, I think this is going to end soon, in a few chapters. I just have to explain some more stuff and we're on our way. I have the ending line prepared and everything.
Here, I have something for your amusement. Y'see, I asked Ciu Sune for help on this, because my Writer's Block is getting ridiculous. And after several hours of frying our brains, this was our solution:
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Hieica: Uh...what would Snipey and Toy being doing or talking about or both?
Ciu Sune: Um...
Ciu Sune: Sniper could be....uh....painting!
Ciu Sune: Yes! He would be painting!
Hieica: O.o
Hieica: Sniper...paints?
Ciu Sune: --;; I'm not good at this!
Hieica: What, he paints a picture of Reisho and shoots dice at it?
Ciu Sune: Erm, no?
Hieica: I would.
Ciu Sune: XD What if he was painting Touya?
Hieica: Naked?
Ciu Sune: Then they could talk too.
Ciu Sune: What??
Hieica: KIDDING!!
Ciu Sune: ....O.o
Hieica: Sheesh.
Ciu Sune: ;; our convos are so--
Ciu Sune: so...
Ciu Sune: Hrm.
Hieica: Weird?
Hieica: Life-scarring?
Hieica: Earth-shattering?
Ciu Sune: Yeah, well, what do you think of the first part of the idea?
Hieica: The painting?
Ciu Sune: of Touya? (with clothes on!)
Hieica: Sniper doesn't seem like one that would paint.
Hieica: .;;
Ciu Sune: wails I'm bad at this!!
ciu Sune: Have them play parcheesi.
Hieica: Could they just be cuddling, sitting on Snipey's bed and talking?
Hieica: I don't even know what parcheesi is!
Ciu Sune: Sure! I like teh cuddle.
Ciu Sune: nevermind about the parcheesi.....
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I'm telling you, it was brilliant.
Swissy: ...I hate you...
If this seems a little disappointing, I'm sorry.
I think I might end up ending this soon... I don't know where it goes from here... It won't end now, though, of course.
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A Red Rose in the Darkness
Chapter Twenty-three
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The door opened.
"HIEEEEEEIIIIII!!!!"
Hiei was greeted by falling flat on his butt when Hime tackle-hugged him. "Hello Hime..."
"Hiei, Hiei!! Are we going to the park!?" She asked cheerfully.
He allowed himself to give a small smile and nodded.
"YAAAAY!!" She cheered and tumbled off of him.
He stood and offered her a hand, which she took with a huge grin and jumped to her feet. Hand in hand, they entered the mansion, with the extremely patient doorman closing it behind them. Hiei kicked off his shoes and they walked into the living room.
"HIEI!!" The mom shrieked and threw her arms around his neck, catching him by surprise. "Hime told us what a great babysitter you were!! MAN, I wish my old babysitter was like you!"
That's great lady, but can you let go of me now? Only my kitsune can hold me like this, Hiei thought to himself.
She didn't let go until the husband entered the room. He shot a glare Hiei's way. "So, you got away with the first one, but today you won't be so lucky!!"
Hiei sighed inwardly. This family was seriously freaky. An uptight half-insane husband, an over-cheerful mother who likes to, as she would put it "PAR-TAY!!", and a mature daughter who was quite like Hiei.
It was then Hiei noticed that Hime, once again, wore the necklace from her brother. He was aware of his own, dangling from his neck, tucked safely under his shirt. Hime tugged his hand. "Can we go now??"
Hiei blinked away his thoughts. "That is up to your--"
"OF COURSE!! Wouldn't wanna delay my daughter's Lovely, Royal Park Tour Fit For A Princess!" The mom said with this humungous laughing grin.
Hiei's eye twitched. Did she have to give a trip to the park a title? Well, if she was the kind of character Hiei had of her in his mind, then yeah, she did.
"YAY!! Let's go!!" Hime said happily.
"Now now, Hime. You have to listen to Hiei, okee?" The mom said, sternly but cheerfully. "And you can't run away from him or anything, because then you won't get any ice cream!!"
Everyone in the room, save for Hiei, gasped in utter terror.
Hime looked at her feet. "Yes mommy..."
Sadly enough, Hiei understood why terror would come from having a lack of sweet snow.
Hime took Hiei's hand and dragged him to the door. "Bye mommy, bye daddy!"
The father grunted and the mother waved enthusiastically.
The door closed behind them once again.
"Hiei, Hiei!! FLY!!" She said.
"I will," he said. "After we are out of sight of your home, all right?"
She huffed, but nodded in agreement.
They left the gates and began walking down the sidewalk.
"Now?" Hime asked.
"No..." Hiei said.
They turned the corner.
"Now." And they were gone.
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Hime licked the top off of her ice cream cone. Hiei did the same.
They were sitting on a bench under a tree that the fire demon liked to hang out in when he had nothing to do. Hime was silent while licking her ice cream ever-so-gracefully, like a rich child would.
"Hiei?" Hiei was just licking the ice cream residue off of his fingers when he heard his name.
He turned his head and his eyes grew wide.
Shiori smiled. "I would recognise that hair anywhere..."
"Shiori..."
She walked over and stood in front of Hime. "And who is this?"
Hiei recovered from his shock in an instant. "This is--"
"I'm Hime!!" She announced. "Hiei is babysitting me!"
"Really...?" Shiori looked him over. "I never imagined you as the type to babysit, Hiei."
"Yes, well, you have missed a lot..."
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Sniper and Touya lay on the human's bed, Touya on Sniper's lap. Hagiri's back was leaning against the headboard and his arms were wrapped around the ice prince on his lap. He rest his chin on Touya's head and they cuddled in silence.
It was that sort of peaceful silence where words are not needed and there can never be anything important enough to talk about.
A silence that would always be broken too soon.
"TOOOOOOOOOOOY!!!!!"
Both Sniper and Touya jumped, causing Touya to fall off the bed and Hagiri to tumble to the floor entangled in the blankets.
"Oh...heh...I'm thinkin' I disturbed somethin' here..." Jin said, rubbing the back of his head.
"No...you think?" Sniper said sarcastically, trying to disentangle himself.
Touya shot him a look and stood up, facing Jin. "Jin, you simply had poorly placed timing."
"I like how you changed 'you interrupted our personal moment, you idiotic moron' to something a little more polite."
Shishiwakamaru popped out from behind Jin, leaning against the doorframe, his look of "DAMN I am so much hotter than you" shining brilliantly through his eyes and his smile.
Touya gave him "the look". "Shishiwakamaru, as narcissistic as ever, ne?"
The narcissist in question winked. "You bet."
"Well, I would greatly appreciate it if you did not address Jin as 'idiotic moron'. He is after all, smarter than you could even hope to be."
Shishi glared for a moment, but then smirked. "So what does that make you, a --"
Jin floated in between them. "Heh, why don't we knock this off, 'kay? We came to visit!! Now, le's all gather 'round and tell each othe' what's been 'appenin', 'kay?"
Touya paused a moment and then nodded. Shishi faintly whispered under his breath a comment that sounded suspiciously like "Wuss" but also agreed.
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Jin rolled through the air laughing hysterically behind Shishi's chair. Shishi just shook his glass at Touya. "So it's true? That midget actually got a job? As a babysitter, nonetheless? Man, wait 'til everyone in the Makai hears about this..."
"I'll be waiting," Touya said. "Because everyone in Makai will hear nothing of this."
Shishiwakamaru arched a brow. Jin paused in his laughter. "I gotta agree wit' Toy on this one. Hiei's reputation will go BOOM! to the ground if they all foun' out, and more o' them slimy demons will be after him thinkin' he's weak...an' he doesn' need tha'..."
Touya simply nodded. Hagiri knew he had nothing to do with this conversation but still decided to stick around if Shishiwakamaru and Touya got into a fistfight, more than likely consisting of Touya getting Shishi so ticked off that Shishi attacks him.
"He pro'lly got that job to help Kurama, after all the hell that they 'ave been through."
Shishiwakamaru snorted. "He's getting soft. If I were him, I wouldn't let myself be tied down by another soft demon. Humans suck, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a world with them."
Touya stared at his hands. "Not all humans are bad..."
Sniper gave a tiny smile.
Shishi just waved his hand at Touya's "foolishness" and dismissed the subject with a yawn.
He looked at Sniper's clock. "Man, is it late!! I need to get my beauty sleep!!"
With that he stood, walked to Sniper's bedroom and called good night.
"Oh, wait a minute--!!" Sniper was about to finish but was cut off by the slamming of the door.
Touya and Sniper stared at the door for a moment.
Sniper blinked. "Oh, he did not just..."
Touya stared. "He did."
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Hieica: Wow. The ending to this chapter sucked. Who's with me!? ...yeah, thought so...anyway, SQUEEEEEEEEEE!! Cuddle scene cuddle scene!! I'm so mean sometimes. But really, I think this is going to end soon, in a few chapters. I just have to explain some more stuff and we're on our way. I have the ending line prepared and everything.
Here, I have something for your amusement. Y'see, I asked Ciu Sune for help on this, because my Writer's Block is getting ridiculous. And after several hours of frying our brains, this was our solution:
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Hieica: Uh...what would Snipey and Toy being doing or talking about or both?
Ciu Sune: Um...
Ciu Sune: Sniper could be....uh....painting!
Ciu Sune: Yes! He would be painting!
Hieica: O.o
Hieica: Sniper...paints?
Ciu Sune: --;; I'm not good at this!
Hieica: What, he paints a picture of Reisho and shoots dice at it?
Ciu Sune: Erm, no?
Hieica: I would.
Ciu Sune: XD What if he was painting Touya?
Hieica: Naked?
Ciu Sune: Then they could talk too.
Ciu Sune: What??
Hieica: KIDDING!!
Ciu Sune: ....O.o
Hieica: Sheesh.
Ciu Sune: ;; our convos are so--
Ciu Sune: so...
Ciu Sune: Hrm.
Hieica: Weird?
Hieica: Life-scarring?
Hieica: Earth-shattering?
Ciu Sune: Yeah, well, what do you think of the first part of the idea?
Hieica: The painting?
Ciu Sune: of Touya? (with clothes on!)
Hieica: Sniper doesn't seem like one that would paint.
Hieica: .;;
Ciu Sune: wails I'm bad at this!!
ciu Sune: Have them play parcheesi.
Hieica: Could they just be cuddling, sitting on Snipey's bed and talking?
Hieica: I don't even know what parcheesi is!
Ciu Sune: Sure! I like teh cuddle.
Ciu Sune: nevermind about the parcheesi.....
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I'm telling you, it was brilliant.
Swissy: ...I hate you...