Note: single quotes(' ') or italics are thinking, usually telepathy. Double quotes( " ") are speech

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the YYH universe. Just my character Lorin.

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"No! I am not moving and you can't make me!" Lorin shouted through her blankets and her closed bedroom door. "I refuse. I need to sleep. Just leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you." There was silence from the other side and then the sound of retreating footsteps. She sighed and flung the comforter away from her face. It was so stupid. She didn't want to be here.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Lorin groaned and threw a pillow across the room at her alarm clock.

"Why does everything hate me?" she said to the air. Everything doesn't hate you, Hiei doesn't. a rebellious voice in her head reminded her.

"I don't know that. I can't figure out WHAT he wants. I don't think he knows what he wants." She argued back, climbing out of bed. She went over to her mirror and began to brush her hair. She wasn't dressed. She didn't care if she was late. Lorin only wanted to lounge around the house in her shorts and spaghetti-strap pajama top. She heard a knock on her door, groaned, and flopped back on her bed.

"Lorin, honey?" her mother's voice was muffled, "I don't want to alarm you, and your father and I will explain later, but there are such things as youkai in this world and there is one outside our house. We need to go to the basement."

As soon as the word 'youkai' left her mom's mouth, Lorin was up out of bed, grabbed her katana from under her pillow, and yanked the door open. She rushed past her mother and down the stairs. A youkai? Here? They must have followed me back from the Tourney. I can't let them hurt my family. Lorin jumped the last few stairs, landing lightly on her feet and skidded to a halt in front of her father.

"Lorin, its ok, just relax and… where did you get that katana?" he frowned.

"I've had it for a….wait, how do you and mom know about youkai?" she shot back.

"How do you?" her mother asked, stepping off the stairs.

Lorin shook her head. "Let me deal with the youkai, then we can figure this out."

She faced the front door, paused, and then started laughing. "Th-this is what you woke me up for? I….I thought there was a threat here." Her parents exchanged glances.

"Lorin," her mother said, slowly, "You know about youkai and you're laughing?" Lorin settled down to a few chuckles.

"It's just Hiei." She said and yanked the door open. The fire demon stood there, hands hidden in his cloak, just waiting.

"Hiei! What are you doing here?" Lorin demanded.

"You're going to be late for school." He stated, ignoring the question. She glared at him.

"Shut up! I'm not going to school. So drop it, ok? I don't want to go and that's it!" she snarled at him. He blinked.

"You're going to be late for school." He repeated calmly. She stared at him for a long moment, then broke out laughing again.

"Fine," she agreed. "Since you're being so mean about it. But I'm taking it out on Kurama later. I bet he put you up to it." She stepped outside. Hiei smirked and gave her a slow once over.

"You might want to get dressed." He observed, dryly. Lorin looked down at what she was wearing, then up to the smug expression on Hiei's face and turned a bright red.

"Teme hentai yarou" she shot at him, then blurred up the stairs, leaving her very confused parents with the ever-so-talkative fire youkai.

"So…" her father started, "How do you know our daughter?" Hiei arched an eyebrow, but said nothing.

A small figure ran at the youkai and started hitting him. "My Daddy asked you a question!!!" Hiei looked down at the little girl, then at Lorin's parents, who were frozen in fear, and grabbed the back of the little one's shirt and held her at eye level. Steph, Lorin's baby sister, glared at him.

"Didn't your mommy ever teach you to be polite?" she demanded.

"Steph!" Lorin exclaimed, coming back down stairs, "that isn't nice. What did you do to Hiei?"

"You're siding with a youkai over your sister?" her mother was shocked.

Lorin sighed and rolled her eyes. "Hiei, please put my sister down. Yes, mother I am. I know him and trust him. He would never have done anything to her unless she did something first. Relax, ok. Hiei is not a threat." Steph, now being safely back on the floor, hid behind her mother.

"I'll see you after school," Lorin called as she followed her friend out the door.

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Lorin found that her friends were overjoyed to see her alive and well. They had no idea where she had vanished to for a few weeks. Jyanne, Lorin's rival, wasn't so happy. Before Lorin had left for the Dark Tournament, she had been friends with Shuichi-Kurama, but since they came back she was constantly by his side. They were so close now, like the whole team was. One can't go through what they did and not be close.

Several days after her return, Lorin looked up from her lunch to see Jyanne and her group standing in front of her. Shuichi had been asked to stay behind for a few minutes, so she was sitting with her girlfriends.

"Can I help you?" she asked. Jyanne smirked.

"I just wanted to know when you and Shuichi had started dating." Lorin laughed as Shuichi sat down next to her.

"You….you think that Shuichi…..Shuichi and I ….. are, are dating? No offense, SK, but that's insane." Kurama chuckled in agreement. Jyanne narrowed her eyes.

"So, you don't have a boyfriend?" she asked.

"I didn't say that. I have a boyfriend. He just…..doesn't go to this school." Lorin cursed herself silently. Hiei was not her boyfriend... well, not exactly. He had said something about them still dating, but... she didn't know what they were, he was YOUKAI, but she wasn't about to be undone by Jyanne. Lorin was surprised to see Jyanne's face fall. One of her friends poked her. Jyanne glared at the poker and turned back to Lorin.

"Well, a bunch of us are going on this huge double date thing and they want to know if you wanted to come." Lorin stared in shock for a moment. Then she registered the question.

"I don't know, he doesn't like group dates." Lorin kinda wished he did. She would have liked to put Jyanne in her place. Jyanne thought that since she was dating a football player that she had 'power'. Hiei would show her she was wrong. Not that he's your boyfriend, BAKA!!! He's not even Ningen. He'd blow them up or kill them or something!! The rebellious part of her shouted.

"What, are you too good for us?" Jyanne taunted, pouncing on Lorin's apparent weakness.

"No!" Lorin was quick to reply. "I'll ask him tonight and let you know in the morning." Satisfied, the snobs left, leaving her with her friends and Kurama.

"Are you going to ask him?" Shuichi asked, casually eating his lunch.

"I don't know. It's not like he'd really go or anything." She sighed.

"He might. Hiei does more things for you than for anyone else." He pointed out.

"Yeah, whatever." She retorted. Kurama wisely dropped the subject.

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youkai- demon

Teme hentai yarou you perverted bastard

Baka- idiot