-Delicate Petals-
Yes, yes, I know. You want K/B. Give them a little time! n.n It'll happen.
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Okaasan woke me up in time to get dressed and go to school. I can't help but thank her for that. Right. I slept through most of my classes and passed a test and a quiz with flying colors. Hiei was so right. I was smart enough. I didn't need to know this stuff because I already knew it.
I was in Science class, having a nice nap when Ryu nudged me. I woke up and looked at him.
"We're having a quiz today." I nodded and waited until I got it. These teachers never notice me. They only notice all those kids that don't know anything. I slept after I finished. Of course, I was the first to hand mine in. I was so anxious to sleep. Nothing but sleep ran through my brain.
The bell rang and I was startled awake. My eyes snapped open and I blinked the blurriness away. I hadn't realized that I was sleeping so long. It felt like a minute.
"How do you think you did?" Ryu asked me on the way to our lockers. I shrugged.
"It was simple." I yawned and turned the combination to my lock and it snapped open. I took out my algebra book and a few other books. I would sleep through those classes, too.
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Hiei stared at me when I was walking toward him. People used to give him weird looks because he waited there for me at the end of the day. They still did. We walked together in silence for a while.
"Did anything remotely interesting happen today?" He asked and I shook my head.
"I slept through most of my classes, passed tests and quizes, and threw notes and love letters from girls away. Nope." I replied. He raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
"Sounds like you had an interesting day."
"Very."
"We're going shopping as soon as we get home." He said in a quiet tone. That woke me up and made my mood better.
"To get you clothes." I added. He glared at me.
"Shut up." He was in a bad mood and I could tell. I smiled.
"How was your interesting day?" He sighed and most of his anger vanished with it. He looked over at me.
"I slept until noon and when I woke up, you weren't there. Your mother told me that she told you to go to school today. I drew in my notebook and ate more sugar." He shrugged. So, those were Hiei's activities, hmm? I smiled.
"So the most you did was lay around my room?" I raised an eyebrow. He nodded.
"The shorter version of it." He said with a half-smile. "Your mother let me have ice-cream." I laughed.
"Sounds like she was on your good side today, then, ne?" He nodded but stayed silent. Kuwabara shouted to us. He had seen Hiei, I'd imagine. Hiei pretended he wasn't there. I nudged him. "Don't be rude." He snorted and gave me a look.
"Hey Kurama, hey shorty." He used Hiei's nickname. Well, it was his nickname for Hiei. The koorime just called him all sorts of insults.
"Kuwabara." I nodded my head once to him then focused my eyes back on the sidewalk. Who knows how long it'll go on like this? This peace couldn't last for long.
"Kurama? Are you okay?" Kuwabara asked, tapping me on the shoulder. I stiffened. He surprised me. I wasn't expecting anything. I turned around and my eyes flashed. I shook my head to clear it of thoughts then I sighed.
"I think I need to get home." I said quietly. I wasn't feeling well and I think Hiei knew that too. We left him and quickly walked to my house.
"What was that about?" He crossed his arms. I looked at him and blinked.
"I don't know." I shrugged then he smirked.
"It got us away from the moron." I smiled.
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We walked through the parking lot to the mall. Hiei had already tried to escape once. I grabbed his wrist and wound up dragging him. Once we got into the elevator, there was a little boy there. He kept smiling at Hiei. Hiei glared at him and growled slightly. When we got out of the elevator, I rubbed my ears.
"Did you have to make him cry!?" I asked. My ears were still ringing. Hiei snorted and stopped rubbing his ears.
"He wouldn't stop smiling at me."
"Atleast the smiling was quiet!" I exclaimed. He crossed his arms and stayed silent. My okaasan was leading us to a clothing store.
"His smile was annoying me." He said in an aggravated tone. I glared at him and dragged him by the arm into the store. As soon as he saw the clothes, he started to run out but I grabbed the back of his collar, jerking him back.
"They have black clothes here, too." I said in a whisper. I had to admit that it was funny already.
"I don't want to be in here. Let go of me!" He tried to bite me but I moved my hand. "This is against my will!"
"We know, Hiei." My okaasan came back with blue and green and yellow colored clothes. Hiei freaked out and his eyes went wide. He closed them and covered his eyes with his hands. I heard him mumble about bright colors making his eyes burn. I shook my head and told her what he liked.
"Get me out of here, Kurama." He said, his voice dripping with venom. I sighed and tried not to laugh.
"Hiei, this isn't so bad. You need clothes if we're going to train. This is necessary."
"But I need to get out of here." He said in that tone of voice where I knew he was bordering his anger and insanity.
"Listen, Hiei, I'll tell my okaasan that we're going to look for training clothes for you. Come with me." He put his hands down but refused to look at anything, not even the floor. He stared straight ahead in a daze. I told my okaasan and she nodded, letting us leave.
"I have never been happier to get out of there.. Can we leave this entire.. mall?" He asked. I glared at him.
"No."
"Damn." He walked beside me, knowing that I'd only catch him if he ran. He tried a few more times but we got to a small store that had some nice training clothes. Almost like his. We looked through them and he picked out some black ones that fit him. Okaasan joined us and paid for them.
"Are you sure you like those, Hiei?" She asked. He nodded.
"I'm not wearing anything else."
"Thats too bad." Her face fell. "Because I thought you'd look cute in that!" She dragged us over to the store we were in before. Hiei's eyes widened when he saw the outfit. He would've screamed if so many people weren't around. He was nervous and jittery until we left the mall.
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I narrowed my eyes. This was a very important card game.
"Do you have a 6?" I asked, looking up at Hiei. He looked through the small amount of cards in his hand.
"Go fish.." He still didn't like that phrase. I smiled and picked up a card. I didn't get my 6. "Have a 5?"
"No." I blinked. "Go fish." He picked up a card. We soon finished and Hiei had won. He said that he wouldn't use his jagan and he didn't. He sighed and fell back, looking at the ceiling. I did the same. We had played every game of cards that I knew how to play. I heard a pop and knew that he had opened another can of soda. We were wired but jumping around the house wasn't the greatest idea in the book.
"What can we do now?"
"I don't know." I rolled over onto my stomach and poked him in the side. He gave me an irritated look.
"Can we leave the house and do something?"
"Like what? Steal street signs?" I asked sarcastically. He sighed and fell back on his back. I looked over at the TV. I picked up the remote and clicked the power button.
"Use our product and never--" Commercial.
"We'll give you the money you need--" Commercial.
"Need boredom insurance?"
"Yes!" Both Hiei and I shouted. Commercial.
"Never look for--" Commercial.
"Now, we're going to paint a happy little fawn next to a happy little creek-" Some guy thats on something that isn't good for his health. I flipped through the channels until I got to the TV Guide channel.
"There isn't anything good on TV." I said boredly. I clicked the power button and the TV went blank. We were downstairs in the living room. I threw a pillow at Hiei and he ducked just in time.
"What do you suggest we do?" He asked. I looked over at him and blinked.
"I don't know." We sat there for about ten minutes. I laid down on my stomach and stared at the blank TV screen.
"I don't want to sit here all night." He said with a deep frown.
"Either do I." We stared at each other for a few minutes. I chewed my bottom lip in thought. He got up and yawned.
"I want ice-cream." I started laughing. He glared at me. "Will you shut up?" I continued to laugh and hold my sides. We were both wired. He raised an eyebrow then rolled his eyes and left the room. He came back in moments later with a bowl of ice-cream.
"Didn't you get me a bowl?" I asked. He glared.
"No, get it yourself." I grinned, not expecting much from him.
I was sitting in my spinning chair and Hiei had pulled one over, just to watch me play on the internet. I typed in some amusing stuff and it came up. It was hilarious. We spent hours laughing.. well it was mostly me laughing. The most Hiei gave was a slight chuckle. We were now in the midst of another very important card game.
"Hah!" I shouted, grinning. I had won that game of War that had raged on for atleast two hours, with the addition of bathroom breaks, soda runs, ice-cream fights, and the additional pillow throwing activity.
"No need to brag." He said in a slightly irritated voice. "I won all the rest."
"Hush, you're ruining my proud moment." I glared at him then grinned again. He rolled his eyes. "Okay.. It's 3:30 in the morning. What do you suggest we do?"
"I don't know." I probably would have to go to school, if my okaasan came home from work. Hiei wouldn't wake me up, preferring that I be home and not at the 'The Brain-Melting Institute' as he called it. I blinked. A sudden wave of tiredness hit me.
"Sleep sound good to you?" He shrugged and I walked over to my bed. Lovely bed. It looked so great just now. Tonight had been the best night. No sad thoughts had come to my head at all. Hiei and I had been growing closer together. We were like brothers. I put my head on my pillow and I felt so comfortable.
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"Kurama." I felt someone poke me in the side and knew who it was. I groaned and opened my eyes, turning over to face him.
"What do you want, Hiei?" I asked, stifling a yawn.
"Your mother wants you to get ready for the brain melting academics." I needed to ask him if he's been reading my dictionary for fun. Where in the hell did he learn that word?
"Okay." I sighed heavily and dragged myself out of bed.
I yawned and blinked a few times as I walked to school. I was slouched over and tired. I could've fallen asleep if not for my walking companion. I looked over at Hiei. He seemed strangely irritated.
"What's the matter with you?" I asked bluntly. He looked over at me and scowled.
"I need to stop this occurance before your brain is completely gone and you become like the idiot." He snapped. I blinked and shrugged.
"Nothing to worry about." He raised an eyebrow. "I sleep during the entire thing. If they catch me, then the most they can give me is a warning the first time. I hope I don't get detention."
"Detention?" He repeated the foreign word. I nodded.
"You have to stay the length of a class after school is done. There's nothing to do and it's completely boring."
"You mean an extra class?" He gave me an angry look when I nodded.
"Don't look at me like I invented it." I said sending him a blank stare. "What do you want me to do? Draw little green dots on my eyelids so they think I'm awake?" He cracked a smirk.
"You've been in school too long."
"Shut up."
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Needless to say, I didn't get a detention. I didn't even get in trouble, nor noticed. By the end of the day, I was feeling refreshed, as if I had slept for a full night. I met Hiei by the gates and we walked from there.
"How was your exciting day?" I asked, causing him to break from his thoughts.
"I was at the park all day."
"Sitting in that tree of yours?" He nodded. I smiled. He loved that tree and had been away from it for quite a while now.
"Hello, you two!" I heard a voice say behind us. I inwardly cringed. Just what I needed.
"Hello, Botan." I swallowed the lump in my throat when I said her name. She skipped ahead of us and we stopped walking. She gave me a smile.
"It's nice to see you, too, Kurama." She said in a sort of sarcastic voice. I blinked up at her and my gaze remained calm and serene, as it always had before the problem started. "I just had to find you two and tell you about a small party at Keiko's tomorrow evening." She was back to her bubbly self. I sighed.
"I'm afraid I must decline." I said in a neutral, even tone. She looked at me and frowned.
"I'm not going either." Hiei said, drawing her attention away from me. "I hate those social gatherings. They're always too noisy." I silently thanked him.
"Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing you both there." Her face fell. I smacked myself mentally. Hard. They all probably thought that Hiei and I had removed ourselves from the team.
"Sorry to disappoint you, Botan." I said. She smiled sadly then started to walk past us. I sensed something different about her. She seemed more sad than I had thought she could be. Hiei looked at me and sighed.
'She doesn't know why you have been avoiding her. She has confused feelings of you, as well.' He said through the link. I silently thanked his telepathy. I nodded and I felt the link close. I turned my head and watched over my shoulder as she walked away.
"You and I both, Botan." I whispered. My hollow, empty feeling was back. She was a part of me that I could never forget. I sighed.
"Come on, Kurama." I heard Hiei's stern tone and felt his disapproving glare. I was starting to wonder if my feelings were true. I couldn't investigate them further, knowing full well that I would have to bring them back in order to know. I remembered the pain it caused me to see her with him. I remembered the feeling and it made my heart ache. I honestly didn't know I was crying until Hiei tapped me on the shoulder and brought me back to reality. "Stop." I wiped the tears away and pushed the feelings back to where they originally were. In the back of my mind.
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Hn. Yes, yes. The K/B is yet to come. *wink* It most definately will soon enough.
Until then, I guess you'll have to make due with the Hiei and Kurama humor moments.
-Jess-
Yes, yes, I know. You want K/B. Give them a little time! n.n It'll happen.
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Okaasan woke me up in time to get dressed and go to school. I can't help but thank her for that. Right. I slept through most of my classes and passed a test and a quiz with flying colors. Hiei was so right. I was smart enough. I didn't need to know this stuff because I already knew it.
I was in Science class, having a nice nap when Ryu nudged me. I woke up and looked at him.
"We're having a quiz today." I nodded and waited until I got it. These teachers never notice me. They only notice all those kids that don't know anything. I slept after I finished. Of course, I was the first to hand mine in. I was so anxious to sleep. Nothing but sleep ran through my brain.
The bell rang and I was startled awake. My eyes snapped open and I blinked the blurriness away. I hadn't realized that I was sleeping so long. It felt like a minute.
"How do you think you did?" Ryu asked me on the way to our lockers. I shrugged.
"It was simple." I yawned and turned the combination to my lock and it snapped open. I took out my algebra book and a few other books. I would sleep through those classes, too.
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Hiei stared at me when I was walking toward him. People used to give him weird looks because he waited there for me at the end of the day. They still did. We walked together in silence for a while.
"Did anything remotely interesting happen today?" He asked and I shook my head.
"I slept through most of my classes, passed tests and quizes, and threw notes and love letters from girls away. Nope." I replied. He raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
"Sounds like you had an interesting day."
"Very."
"We're going shopping as soon as we get home." He said in a quiet tone. That woke me up and made my mood better.
"To get you clothes." I added. He glared at me.
"Shut up." He was in a bad mood and I could tell. I smiled.
"How was your interesting day?" He sighed and most of his anger vanished with it. He looked over at me.
"I slept until noon and when I woke up, you weren't there. Your mother told me that she told you to go to school today. I drew in my notebook and ate more sugar." He shrugged. So, those were Hiei's activities, hmm? I smiled.
"So the most you did was lay around my room?" I raised an eyebrow. He nodded.
"The shorter version of it." He said with a half-smile. "Your mother let me have ice-cream." I laughed.
"Sounds like she was on your good side today, then, ne?" He nodded but stayed silent. Kuwabara shouted to us. He had seen Hiei, I'd imagine. Hiei pretended he wasn't there. I nudged him. "Don't be rude." He snorted and gave me a look.
"Hey Kurama, hey shorty." He used Hiei's nickname. Well, it was his nickname for Hiei. The koorime just called him all sorts of insults.
"Kuwabara." I nodded my head once to him then focused my eyes back on the sidewalk. Who knows how long it'll go on like this? This peace couldn't last for long.
"Kurama? Are you okay?" Kuwabara asked, tapping me on the shoulder. I stiffened. He surprised me. I wasn't expecting anything. I turned around and my eyes flashed. I shook my head to clear it of thoughts then I sighed.
"I think I need to get home." I said quietly. I wasn't feeling well and I think Hiei knew that too. We left him and quickly walked to my house.
"What was that about?" He crossed his arms. I looked at him and blinked.
"I don't know." I shrugged then he smirked.
"It got us away from the moron." I smiled.
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We walked through the parking lot to the mall. Hiei had already tried to escape once. I grabbed his wrist and wound up dragging him. Once we got into the elevator, there was a little boy there. He kept smiling at Hiei. Hiei glared at him and growled slightly. When we got out of the elevator, I rubbed my ears.
"Did you have to make him cry!?" I asked. My ears were still ringing. Hiei snorted and stopped rubbing his ears.
"He wouldn't stop smiling at me."
"Atleast the smiling was quiet!" I exclaimed. He crossed his arms and stayed silent. My okaasan was leading us to a clothing store.
"His smile was annoying me." He said in an aggravated tone. I glared at him and dragged him by the arm into the store. As soon as he saw the clothes, he started to run out but I grabbed the back of his collar, jerking him back.
"They have black clothes here, too." I said in a whisper. I had to admit that it was funny already.
"I don't want to be in here. Let go of me!" He tried to bite me but I moved my hand. "This is against my will!"
"We know, Hiei." My okaasan came back with blue and green and yellow colored clothes. Hiei freaked out and his eyes went wide. He closed them and covered his eyes with his hands. I heard him mumble about bright colors making his eyes burn. I shook my head and told her what he liked.
"Get me out of here, Kurama." He said, his voice dripping with venom. I sighed and tried not to laugh.
"Hiei, this isn't so bad. You need clothes if we're going to train. This is necessary."
"But I need to get out of here." He said in that tone of voice where I knew he was bordering his anger and insanity.
"Listen, Hiei, I'll tell my okaasan that we're going to look for training clothes for you. Come with me." He put his hands down but refused to look at anything, not even the floor. He stared straight ahead in a daze. I told my okaasan and she nodded, letting us leave.
"I have never been happier to get out of there.. Can we leave this entire.. mall?" He asked. I glared at him.
"No."
"Damn." He walked beside me, knowing that I'd only catch him if he ran. He tried a few more times but we got to a small store that had some nice training clothes. Almost like his. We looked through them and he picked out some black ones that fit him. Okaasan joined us and paid for them.
"Are you sure you like those, Hiei?" She asked. He nodded.
"I'm not wearing anything else."
"Thats too bad." Her face fell. "Because I thought you'd look cute in that!" She dragged us over to the store we were in before. Hiei's eyes widened when he saw the outfit. He would've screamed if so many people weren't around. He was nervous and jittery until we left the mall.
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I narrowed my eyes. This was a very important card game.
"Do you have a 6?" I asked, looking up at Hiei. He looked through the small amount of cards in his hand.
"Go fish.." He still didn't like that phrase. I smiled and picked up a card. I didn't get my 6. "Have a 5?"
"No." I blinked. "Go fish." He picked up a card. We soon finished and Hiei had won. He said that he wouldn't use his jagan and he didn't. He sighed and fell back, looking at the ceiling. I did the same. We had played every game of cards that I knew how to play. I heard a pop and knew that he had opened another can of soda. We were wired but jumping around the house wasn't the greatest idea in the book.
"What can we do now?"
"I don't know." I rolled over onto my stomach and poked him in the side. He gave me an irritated look.
"Can we leave the house and do something?"
"Like what? Steal street signs?" I asked sarcastically. He sighed and fell back on his back. I looked over at the TV. I picked up the remote and clicked the power button.
"Use our product and never--" Commercial.
"We'll give you the money you need--" Commercial.
"Need boredom insurance?"
"Yes!" Both Hiei and I shouted. Commercial.
"Never look for--" Commercial.
"Now, we're going to paint a happy little fawn next to a happy little creek-" Some guy thats on something that isn't good for his health. I flipped through the channels until I got to the TV Guide channel.
"There isn't anything good on TV." I said boredly. I clicked the power button and the TV went blank. We were downstairs in the living room. I threw a pillow at Hiei and he ducked just in time.
"What do you suggest we do?" He asked. I looked over at him and blinked.
"I don't know." We sat there for about ten minutes. I laid down on my stomach and stared at the blank TV screen.
"I don't want to sit here all night." He said with a deep frown.
"Either do I." We stared at each other for a few minutes. I chewed my bottom lip in thought. He got up and yawned.
"I want ice-cream." I started laughing. He glared at me. "Will you shut up?" I continued to laugh and hold my sides. We were both wired. He raised an eyebrow then rolled his eyes and left the room. He came back in moments later with a bowl of ice-cream.
"Didn't you get me a bowl?" I asked. He glared.
"No, get it yourself." I grinned, not expecting much from him.
I was sitting in my spinning chair and Hiei had pulled one over, just to watch me play on the internet. I typed in some amusing stuff and it came up. It was hilarious. We spent hours laughing.. well it was mostly me laughing. The most Hiei gave was a slight chuckle. We were now in the midst of another very important card game.
"Hah!" I shouted, grinning. I had won that game of War that had raged on for atleast two hours, with the addition of bathroom breaks, soda runs, ice-cream fights, and the additional pillow throwing activity.
"No need to brag." He said in a slightly irritated voice. "I won all the rest."
"Hush, you're ruining my proud moment." I glared at him then grinned again. He rolled his eyes. "Okay.. It's 3:30 in the morning. What do you suggest we do?"
"I don't know." I probably would have to go to school, if my okaasan came home from work. Hiei wouldn't wake me up, preferring that I be home and not at the 'The Brain-Melting Institute' as he called it. I blinked. A sudden wave of tiredness hit me.
"Sleep sound good to you?" He shrugged and I walked over to my bed. Lovely bed. It looked so great just now. Tonight had been the best night. No sad thoughts had come to my head at all. Hiei and I had been growing closer together. We were like brothers. I put my head on my pillow and I felt so comfortable.
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"Kurama." I felt someone poke me in the side and knew who it was. I groaned and opened my eyes, turning over to face him.
"What do you want, Hiei?" I asked, stifling a yawn.
"Your mother wants you to get ready for the brain melting academics." I needed to ask him if he's been reading my dictionary for fun. Where in the hell did he learn that word?
"Okay." I sighed heavily and dragged myself out of bed.
I yawned and blinked a few times as I walked to school. I was slouched over and tired. I could've fallen asleep if not for my walking companion. I looked over at Hiei. He seemed strangely irritated.
"What's the matter with you?" I asked bluntly. He looked over at me and scowled.
"I need to stop this occurance before your brain is completely gone and you become like the idiot." He snapped. I blinked and shrugged.
"Nothing to worry about." He raised an eyebrow. "I sleep during the entire thing. If they catch me, then the most they can give me is a warning the first time. I hope I don't get detention."
"Detention?" He repeated the foreign word. I nodded.
"You have to stay the length of a class after school is done. There's nothing to do and it's completely boring."
"You mean an extra class?" He gave me an angry look when I nodded.
"Don't look at me like I invented it." I said sending him a blank stare. "What do you want me to do? Draw little green dots on my eyelids so they think I'm awake?" He cracked a smirk.
"You've been in school too long."
"Shut up."
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Needless to say, I didn't get a detention. I didn't even get in trouble, nor noticed. By the end of the day, I was feeling refreshed, as if I had slept for a full night. I met Hiei by the gates and we walked from there.
"How was your exciting day?" I asked, causing him to break from his thoughts.
"I was at the park all day."
"Sitting in that tree of yours?" He nodded. I smiled. He loved that tree and had been away from it for quite a while now.
"Hello, you two!" I heard a voice say behind us. I inwardly cringed. Just what I needed.
"Hello, Botan." I swallowed the lump in my throat when I said her name. She skipped ahead of us and we stopped walking. She gave me a smile.
"It's nice to see you, too, Kurama." She said in a sort of sarcastic voice. I blinked up at her and my gaze remained calm and serene, as it always had before the problem started. "I just had to find you two and tell you about a small party at Keiko's tomorrow evening." She was back to her bubbly self. I sighed.
"I'm afraid I must decline." I said in a neutral, even tone. She looked at me and frowned.
"I'm not going either." Hiei said, drawing her attention away from me. "I hate those social gatherings. They're always too noisy." I silently thanked him.
"Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing you both there." Her face fell. I smacked myself mentally. Hard. They all probably thought that Hiei and I had removed ourselves from the team.
"Sorry to disappoint you, Botan." I said. She smiled sadly then started to walk past us. I sensed something different about her. She seemed more sad than I had thought she could be. Hiei looked at me and sighed.
'She doesn't know why you have been avoiding her. She has confused feelings of you, as well.' He said through the link. I silently thanked his telepathy. I nodded and I felt the link close. I turned my head and watched over my shoulder as she walked away.
"You and I both, Botan." I whispered. My hollow, empty feeling was back. She was a part of me that I could never forget. I sighed.
"Come on, Kurama." I heard Hiei's stern tone and felt his disapproving glare. I was starting to wonder if my feelings were true. I couldn't investigate them further, knowing full well that I would have to bring them back in order to know. I remembered the pain it caused me to see her with him. I remembered the feeling and it made my heart ache. I honestly didn't know I was crying until Hiei tapped me on the shoulder and brought me back to reality. "Stop." I wiped the tears away and pushed the feelings back to where they originally were. In the back of my mind.
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Hn. Yes, yes. The K/B is yet to come. *wink* It most definately will soon enough.
Until then, I guess you'll have to make due with the Hiei and Kurama humor moments.
-Jess-