Chapter Four

It is a bright and sunny day, with the sun shining and the birds singing. And in the mansion's kitchen, Hiei and Olivia are arguing.

"The last of the sweet snow is mine!" Hiei grabs the bowl and runs out of the room, desperately trying to get away from Olivia, who is right behind him.

"HIEI! Give me back my bowl, you prick! I bought that carton of ice-cream for me!"

"NO!"

"YES!"

"Too late, I ate it all."

Olivia stops running and sits on the stairs, beginning to cry. Hiei hears and comes down slowly holding the bowl of ice-cream, still full. He sits down next to her and she buries her head in her arms. Tentatively, he holds out the bowl. "I didn't really eat it."

"I KNOW THAT YOU INSENSITIVE IDIOT!" Olivia shouts, dropping her sad act and snatching the bowl from Hiei's hands. "I JUST DID THAT TO GET THE FREAKING ICE-CREAM!"

She takes the spoon and begins wolfing down the ice-cream, leaving a bit left for Hiei, "Here."

He grabs the bowl, "Thanks..."

"Hn."

"...Starting to talk like me?"

"SIT."

Kurama, Botan, and Yusuke sit with Nissi and Vanessa in their room. Between Meagan and Kuwabara, an epic battle is waging, and only Yusuke, Vanessa, Nissi, and Kurama, and Botan are there to witness it. As the seconds tick by, the battle comes to an end--closer, closer...

"You blinked, I win!" Meagan exclaims gleefully.

"Not fair!" whines Kuwabara.

"Life's not fair, Kookaburra Kuwabara. Ooh, I like that!" Nissi jumps around.

The seven sit quietly, watching small rays of light bounce around the room. Yusuke gives a big yawn, stretching. Botan stands, rocking back and forth on her heels until Kurama gets dizzy from watching her and motions for her to sit down. Vanessa suddenly gets up and leaves the room, something held behind her back and out of eyesight. She comes back in moments later, positively glowing with pride. Olivia enters after her, followed by a smirking Hiei.

"What's wrong with you two?" Kuwabara ventures to ask.

"Hiei tried to eat my ice-cream!"

"Well I gave it back!"

"I propose," Kurama interrupts a beginning argument, "that we rest a bit before we give the girls our present, then go on our assignment from Koenma."

"Yes, a bit of quiet does sound good right about now..." Botan stifles a yawn.

They all go off to their separate rooms. Once sure that everyone has closed their door firmly and are resting, Vanessa pulls the rest of the Destinies out of the room and over to Yusuke's door, where the four sit, waiting. Inside, Yusuke sits on top of the warm covers enjoying the peace. But then, suddenly out of nowhere, comes a noise. A noise that as the seconds tick by, becomes louder until you can clearly hear, "La cucaracha, la cucaracha, la cucaracha..."

"WHAT THE HE IS THAT!" Yusuke shouts, scared to death.

Outside the door, the Destinies suppress their extreme laughter as to not give themselves away. Back inside, Yusuke scours his room to find the source of the noise. He finds it under his bed, and it is a dancing cockroach doll. The noise gets louder and louder, and poor Yusuke cannot find the hidden off button.

"SHUT UP!" He screams at the doll, tossing out of the third story window.

The noise gets fainter and fainter as the doll goes further down towards the ground, and soon there is a large 'thump' and words "La cucaracha, la cucaracha, la cucaracha..." are not heard anymore. The Destinies are now turning purple under the pressure to keep quiet; knowing that if they laughed Yusuke would have their heads.

"Where are they?" Yusuke mutters, thinking of the Destinies.

They scatter just moments before Yusuke opens the door of his room. Meagan drags Vanessa and Botan, who had come out to investigate the interruption of her peace and quiet, into Botan's room, shutting the door on Nissi and Olivia. The two hear the lock click and Yusuke's furious footsteps coming closer. They whimper, knowing that they are not in any real danger, but still in enough to be hurt.

"My, my--that wasn't very civil, now was it?" Kurama pokes his head out of his bedroom door, laughing.

Nissi runs over to him, scraping her shoulder roughly against the wall as she does so. It stings, bad, but she ignores it--Yusuke can and will do much, much worse damage than any wall could do.

"You-must-hide-us-we-are-too-young-to-die," Nissi enunciates, pushing her way into the room with Olivia.

"We owe you a bunch, Kurama," Olivia opens the window. "But you know...I'm going to go see if the doll survived or not. Mind if I go through your window?"

"No, but be careful."

"Will do. Good luck hiding, Nissi!"

Slowly, she climbs out of the glass window and down the drainpipe to Kurama's miniature garden. The tall, uncut grass made it much harder for Olivia to locate the doll, but when she did, she was sad to say that it had snapped in half upon contact with the ground. Sighing, she picks it up.

"I shall give it a proper burial," she looks around. "But maybe somewhere Yusuke can't see me...over here."

With Nissi and Kurama

"Nissi, what did you do to your shoulder?"

"Wha--? Oh, I just scraped it coming in here. Nothing big."

"Well, let me take a look at it just in case."

Nissi blushes at his kindness, "Really, you don't have to..."

Ignoring her, he grabs her arm to inspect the scrape. It's bleeding badly--she hurt it much worse than she first presumed. Kurama watches the blood run down her arm until he catches it with his finger, and then laps it up. Nissi pulls a face, making Kurama laugh.

"Sorry. I'm a demon, and we have a natural thirst for blood."

"Disturbing."

Kurama pulls a bandage from one of his drawers and places it on her shoulder. Her blush deepens as he sits her onto the bed, while he stares out the window. His brow furrows as he sees Olivia with some sort of doll and a shovel, digging a hole right below the cherry tree Genkai had planted before she left back to her temple. He leans further out his window, trying to get a better view.

"Olivia is burying something..."

"A doll. Vanessa stuck it in Yusuke's room, and he threw it out the window."

"Ah. Is that why you were running?"

"Mm-hm!"

Turning, Kurama looks at the blushing Nissi with concern and asks her if she is feeling okay. Before she can answer, he puts his hand on her forehead, as if checking for a fever. "You stay here. I'm going to go grab some ice." He walks hurriedly out of the room.

Nissi buries her head in her arms. What just happened there? The door bangs open and Yusuke enters, looking positively livid.

"Uh-oh."

Cue the end of Chapter Four readers! T.T I am so happy that I am getting all these reviews, you have no idea how happy you guys have made me. I LOVE YOU ALL:P Next chapter should be up soon, cause I already have an idea for it. It shall be called…Jello! Oh, props to Vanessa who actually did have a cockroach doll that wouldn't shut up so she threw it out the window!

Oh, thanx much to Kagami for helping me clarify the koorime and kitsune thing. Ja ne!