Chapter 5: Rainy Days

Hiei and Yumi were running for a while now. Soon the sky grew dark and the wind began to blow.

"Yumi, I think you should be getting home now." Hiei slowed down and adventually stopped running.

Yumi stopped and turned to Hiei. "Lets keep going. It's so much more fun running in the rain."

Hiei looked at her amazement. More he got to know her the stranger she became, but at the same time he grew more and more interested in her. He nodded his head and kept running.

The rain began to fall. Yumi laughed and threw her arms to the sky and began spinning around and around. "Don't you just love the rain, Hiei?" Hiei watched her. "I do. It's the essence of life." Yumi then stooped and stared at Hiei.

"What?" He asked as she walked closer to him.

"Smile for me again."

"Why?"

"You look so sad. I just want to see you happy. Are you happy?"

Hiei looked at the soaked little girl that was now staring him in the eyes. He then turned and walked away.

"I'm sorry, Hiei."

"For what? You didn't do anything."

"I offended you, didn't I?"

"No. You're soaked lets go before you catch a cold."

Yumi sighed. I'm so stupid. He doesn't like me. Yumi thought. They walked over to picnic tables in the concession stand. Yumi sat next to Hiei and just stared down at her feet.

"What's wrong? You're quiet."

Yumi shook her head. "Nothing." She said in a depressed tone.

"I'm sure Kurama will forgive you." Yumi didn't say anything. Hiei looked at her and then realized. "Yumi."

"Yes?"

"Look up at me." Yumi did so. As she looked up at him, he smiled. Yumi giggled and smiled back.

"Do you think we should go home?"

Hiei wanted to stay sitting with her but he said. "We should."

They got up and began to walk home. They didn't reach the end of the park trail when they heard a crash of thunder and Yumi jumped.

"Yumi, are you ok?"

"Yes, I'm just very much afraid of thunder and lightning."

Hiei snickered. "There is nothing to be afraid of."

Just then another crash of lightning came and Yumi jumped again. "Ok we aren't walking home. A good thing I brought my handy-dandy cell phone. I'll just call my Aunt and she'll come pick us up."

That's if it still works. I bet it is soaked. Hiei thought.

As they walked back to the picnic tables, Hiei began to feel a demonic presence. Thunder began to roar even more loudly. Soon a huge hand with long nails came and knocked Yumi across the park and into a tree. Hiei turned around and saw a huge cave man demon with one eye, long fangs pouring out of it mouth, and long arms that touched the ground. Hiei pulled out his sword and quickly sliced the demon in half. He then looked around for Yumi. He found her leaning up against a tree with blood dripping from her head. He picked Yumi up and quickly took her to the hospital.

Two days later Yumi woke she looked around and saw her aunt, uncle, Kurama, Yuusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei sitting around her.

"How are you feeling?" Yumi's aunt asked her. Yumi's aunt was a kind woman. She looked to be twenty-six, but if you looked into her brown eyes you could see that she had great and old wisdom. She was a very beautiful woman tall and slender with long black hair.

Yumi moaned and began to sit up, but she grew dizzy and blacked out again. Four days later she woke up again. No one was in the room. She began to look around and saw all kinds of get well gifts. She was up for an hour or so before Hiei walked in with a dozen roses. He looked at her and said. "I'm glad you're awake, again. How are you feeling?"

This time Yumi didn't sit up. She laid shivering under the blankets. "My head is killing me and I'm so cold. What happen?"

"You had a concussion mixed in with pneumonia." Hiei put an extra blanket over her. "I think you still have pneumonia."

"How did I get a concussion?"

"Well we were walking back to the concession stand and you jumped again because of the thunder. As you landed you slipped and hit your head on the ground."

Yumi moaned and rolled over. "Oh my head hurts so bad."

Hiei walked out and told the nurse and the nurse gave Yumi some pain killers. Yumi's head was still throbbing but not as badly as it was. "Where is everyone else?"

"Well. Your aunt and uncle had to go to work. Kurama, Yuusuke, and Kuwabara went to school."

"Why aren't you out doing your own thing?"

"No one wanted to leave you alone. So we all have been taking turns staying with you."

"Oh." Yumi closed her eyes and cried.

"What's wrong?"

"My head hurts so bad and I feel so horrible." Yumi moaned. "It' hurts to even open or close my eyes."

Hiei looked at her then walked over to her and kissed her on the forehead.

"What was that for?" Yumi opened her eyes and looked at Hiei.

"No reason. I just thought that might help."

Yumi giggled. "So you do like me?" Yumi stared into Hiei's eyes. "I've never seen anyone with red eyes before."

"Really? I've never seen anyone with such pretty greenish-brown eyes before."

Yumi shivered. "Yea right. I bet there are a lot of girls with prettier eyes than I."

"You're right there are." Yumi glared at Hiei. "You're the only one that I've ever liked and the only one that can make me smile."

Yumi smiled and then fell back asleep.