"Because any parent who lets their kid go to school in the Human World is an idiot," Hiei answered rather calmly despite the fact that his daughter was pretty much yelling at him, "And you can stop raising your voice to me any time now."
Hiei rarely ever had to give Caley a reason why she should listen to him. She usually listened without a reason to. Youko sometimes couldn't believe Hiei was raising her on his own. But Hiei was, and Caley was glad he was her father.
"Caley your father wants you to eat with us tonight," Mukuro knocked on Caley's door, not entering. Caley was treated like a princess, and respected like one, in Demon World even though she really wasn't one. Mukuro had announced, when Caley was six years old, that since Caley was the only child in the castle that was to be the heir to her (Mukuro's) throne.
"Go away Mukuro! I'm not hungry!" Caley yelled. She was almost never when everyone else was eating. Mukuro always knew about Caley's dislike towards her, but never bothered to ask.
"Hiei demans you come to the diner right now," Hiei had instructed Mukuro to start being more persistant with Caley.
' I don't know what I did to make you dislike me so much, Caley, but I wish you'd just talk to me about it...' Mukuro kept her hand pressed flat against Caley's bedroom door and looked down. Mukuro then heard footsteps approaching the door from inside the room.
"Have you seen Youko around the castle? He's not there either," Mukuro asked, removing her hand from the door and lifted her head. The door opened and Youko stood looking at the woman coldly.
"And what might you be doing in there, Youko?" Mukuro asked, looking up at the fox.
"Caley and I were just talking about a certain spy that's been roaming around the castle lately," Youko answered, noticing Mukuro had jumped ever so slightly when he said it, as though she knew itor she was the supposed "spy".
"How'd you know about that?" Mukuro asked immediatly, not realizing she'd blown it. It WAS her.
"Caley!" Hiei yelled, looking at his daughter with an angered expression.
Caley ran up to Youko and peeped out her doorway, "Do you think he knows?"
"Wouldn't doubt it," Youko whispered back. Both knew that Mukuro was their spy at that point. By now, Mukuro had to have told Hiei everything she'd seen happen between Youko and Caley. Caley noticed a small grin grow on Mukuro's face. It was a new reason for Caley to add to her list of reasons why she hated that woman.
"Mukuro go..." Hiei's eyes were glowing, or so they seemed to be, as he got closer and closer to the fox and Caley.
"Caley gulped and tightened her grip on Youko's hand which he had hidden behind his back. Caley felt guilty about getting Youko into so much trouble with her father, "Sorry Youko..."
"Don't appologize. I could have said no, but I chose not to say that," Youko told her, and it was true; he could have pushed her away, but he didn't.
"KURAMA YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Hiei yelled and unshiethed his sword, knowing Youko and Caley were holding hands, that was until, as soon as his sword had been unshiethed, he heard it collide with another. Caley had blocked her father's sword from stabbing Youko with her own.
"Don't you dare call him that!" she yelled, pulling her sword away from Hiei's.
"I don't want you two near each other anymore!" Hiei yelled viciously. It was all too clear to Caley and Youko that he was truely angered.
"You amaze me dad! You just don't want me to fall in love because you don't want my life to go to hell like yours! Let me make my own god damn mistakes! NOT YOURS!" Caley was also growing angrier and angrier with each passing second. Hiei dropped his sword to the floor after hearing his daughter's words. Youko grew silent the moment Hiei stopped in front of Caley and himself. Youko was amazed with how Caley had burst like she had.
"Don't you"
"Don't YOU try to stop me from falling in love with Youko! It's too late and you know it! Now leave me be! Please, dad. PLEASE!" Caley begged, "I don't care about the age gap! You 'n mom didn't! Why should you care now?"
"Beca"
"Because you don't want me to make the same mistakes as you and ma. TOO BAD! How can kids learn from mistakes they don't make? TELL ME THAT!"
That was all. Caley had beat her father, and she was right; Hiei was wrong. He wouldn't argue any further. There was nothing to argue about. He'd made the mistakes, and Caley hadn't. She knew what had happened to her father and mother because of their not caring about the age gap between themselves, but was daring enough to repeat that, also knowing what it had done to her father. Hiei could see the past repeating itself. Caley was almost exactly the same way as her mother, as he remembered that woman who was still a mystery to his daughter. But Hiei knew Caley was right about one thing. How can a kid learn from mistakes they don't make.
