(1-29-05) Gasp! It's Saturday! I'm posting a day late! Yeah, well, I have excuses (I ranted them to a friend of mine in an email and it was a really long paragraph, so just know that I have an excuse). This chapter, in my opinion, isn't that great... It isn't very long, either... And I wrote it AGES ago, it seems... ::groan:: Like... November or something. I dunno. A long time.
Thank you for reviewing. I feel kinda BLEH all of a sudden...

CHAPTER THREE
A Magical Envelope

The first day of summer vacation came, finally, after what seemed like an eternity of final exams... Kurama could have slept through Biology classes every day for the past three years and still gotten a 100 on his final... Of course. He found the other exams only slightly challenging, but only because: 1) He'd missed a lot of school recently due to a mission Koenma had sent them on that had landed Kuwabara in the hospital (then again, kick him in the shin and that's where he'll end up, so that's not really saying much), and 2) Eclipse was sitting nearby through most of them, humming 'I Wish I Were An Oscar Meyer Wiener' or tapping her eraser or fidgeting with her hair or doing some other little annoying thing. Several times, Kurama sent her mental images of him beating the shit out of her. She just looked at him and grinned. That irked him worse.

Yusuke didn't have half as much fun or entertainment during his exams. He managed to pass math, though, with a C! Woohoo! Kuwabara... As I said.. Was in the hospital. Lucky him gets to make them up when he gets out... SUMMER SCHOOL!

In case you were wondering, Hiei's job interview had gone fairly well in the sense that he'd kept his temper in check, lied to the principal as an answer to nearly every question except "What is your name," and left with a strong feeling that he'd done well... If you look at the big picture, however, Hiei pissed off Yamashita so severely with his calm, easy responses to every question, that if he gets the job, it'll be pure luck. Purely because nobody else was as qualified as Hiei said he was.

Recall that in my very first story that Hiei had gone to school. As a student. Yamashita remembered that, of course, and grilled Hiei on "WHAT THE HELL WAS THE DEAL WITH THAT?" and such. Having developed well to ningen ways in his two years living in their world, Hiei was a smooth liar and easily thought of excuses that were actually feasible... The strong feeling he'd had when he'd left, the feeling of having done well, was a feeling of pride at being able to answer all questions with believable ningen excuses, stay calm, and piss off his interrogator all at once. What joy that can bring a person...

The first week of summer was uneventful...

So was the second week.

However, the first day of the third week, a magical envelope arrived in the mail. Yes. It was magical. It was from Mieou High. And it was to tell Hiei that he got the job.

"Aw, shit," he muttered, reading the letter, clearly disappointed he'd actually gotten it.

Later that day, Hiei was lying on the couch sleeping when the phone rang. Shadow came flying into the room and tackled it, wrestling it off the receiver and putting it to her ear.

"Moshi moshi?"

"This is Utemaro Yamashita, the principal of Mieou High. Is Hiei Jaganshi available?"

"Ah, Yamashita-sensei!"

Hiei, who had been in a half-sleep up to this point, nearly fell off the couch as he lunged for the phone, sure Shadow would say something she shouldn't. She managed to dodge his snatch, despite her being tangled up in the wires and lying on her side...

"Hai, Hiei is here. Are you calling to speak to him about the job at your school?"

"Give me the phone, Shadow!" Hiei snapped, grabbing it and sitting beside her to talk, since the cord wouldn't reach any further, being wrapped around her the way it was. "Hai?"

"Jaganshi, I was just calling to make sure you received the letter I sent you..."

"Hai, I just got that this morning."

"Congratulations."

"Yes, I can tell you're very happy for me. Was it because I was the only person who applied?"

"What? No, several people applied... I regret to admit that you seemed the most qualified individual for the job... Even though I'm still trying to figure out how the hell you were a student there two years ago."

"Thank you for your call, Mr. Yamashita, I look forward to teaching at your school," Hiei said sarcastically, ignoring the last thing the man had said. Then he hung up. "Shadow... Why the hell did you tackle the phone?"

"It was being loud and waking you up. I had to hurry to get to it."

"You were upstairs, weren't you?"

"Hai."

"There's a phone upstairs, isn't there?"

"Hai."

"Why didn't you answer that one?"

"Because that one wasn't the one that was gonna wake you up!"

"If you had answered the one upstairs, the one down here would have stopped too."

Shadow's brow furrowed, and she looked around, trying to think. Finally, she said thoughtfully, "But... It turned out for the better that I came down here... 'Cause... It was for you anyways... Right?"

"Yes, I suppose so. Though if the phone hadn't woken me up, you sure would have."

"I'm sorry!" she wailed, throwing her arms wide to hug him.

"DON'T HUG ME!" he yelped quickly, scurrying away and climbing back up onto the couch. She narrowed her eyes.

"Fine. Be that way." She wildly flung her arms around trying to get the wires off her and, in her annoyance, ended up just tying herself up like a cocoon. Hiei chuckled.

"Help?" she asked pathetically, giving him the wide-eyed innocent child stare.

"Why should I?" he asked, grinning. She looked horrified. "I think I'm gonna go fix myself a sandwich... You can just wait a bit."

"BUT WHY?" she wailed as he walked away.

"Because--"

"I WORRY ABOUT YOUR WELL-BEING AND YOU WON'T EVEN HELP ME GET UNTANGLED FROM THIS?"

"You got yourself into it, you--"

"CAN'T GET MYSELF OUT!"

"I'll be back in about half an hour," he said over his shoulder, grinning to himself.

"HALF AN HOUR? IT TAKES LIKE, FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE A SANDWICH!"

"Well yeah, then I'm gonna eat it, and after that I think I'll call Kurama..."

"BUT I'M TANGLED UP IN THE PHONE CORD!"

"There's more than one phone in the house..."

"HI-EI!!!" she whined. The phone rang suddenly in her ear and she screamed bloody murder. "I CAN'T ANSWER IT!"

With a sigh, the little fire demon walked back into the room and answered the phone. "Moshi moshi."

"Hiei, I-- What's wrong with Shadow now?"

It was Kurama, and Shadow was wailing like a wounded animal, which was what prompted him to ask.

"She's tangled up in the phone cord and I won't help her. Why'd you call?"

"Well, I was actually wanting to talk to Shadow about her schedule."

"Well... She's kind of... Occupied. But anyway, just a short while ago, Yamashita called."

"Really? Did you get the job?"

"Yes."

It was hard to tell what Kurama's reaction was, because Shadow suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs, causing both demons to wince.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Hiei shouted, covering up the receiver.

"IT'S...IT'S... FROM HELL!"

She was looking in a horrified sort of way at a tiny little beetle sitting on the floor next to her head.

"What's wrong with her now?!" Kurama asked angrily.

"A beetle." Hiei flicked the bug away and she sighed with relief.

"Doumo arigatou go-za-i-MASU!"

"Shut up, Shadow," Hiei said. "If you make another noise before I hang up this phone, I'll pull your vocal chords out."

The girl instantly shut her mouth and got a rusty halo above her head. It glowed faintly with a pulsing light.

"Yeah... Right. What were you saying, Kurama?"

"Congratulations on getting the job."

"Right, I suppose saying 'thanks' would be appropriate, but I don't feel like playing polite right now."

"Of course. I was going to come over in a bit to talk to Shadow, but it seems she's having some issues today, so I'll be staying home."

"Okay. I have to deal with this girl, so..."

"Yes, of course. Ja mata ne." Kurama hung up. Hiei did the same and sat on the floor looking at Shadow for a few minutes.

"You can talk now."

"I'M SO SORRY!!!" she wailed. "I DIDN'T MEAN TO ANGER YOUR ROYALTYNESS! I WOULD BOW AND KISS YOUR SHOES BUT I CAN'T MOVE! I'll settle for crying until you forgive me."

And she did just that, wailing and bawling and crying until Hiei finally pitied her and untied the cords. Then she continued wailing and bawling and crying until he got pissed and wished he hadn't.

"SHUT THE HELL UP! You're sorry, I get it, I forgive you, and if you keep crying I'll gouge out your eyes!"

"Sorry sir."

"You better be."

"I am. Honestly."

"Right."

"Yes. Right."

"I don't believe you."

"You should."

"Why?"

"Because I'm honestly sorry for once."

"No you aren't. Such an emotion isn't quite capable of registering with you."

"But I'm sorry!"

"No you aren't."

Shadow paused. "Do you need a hug?"

"No!"

"Yes you do." She hugged him and he struggled to get out of her lung-constricting hold.

"Shadow! Oxygen is essential!"

"What?"

"I CAN'T BREATHE!"

Shadow yelped and let go of him. "I'm doing everything wrong today, aren't I?"

"Yes. You are."

"If I go seal myself in my room, my wrongness can't effect you, can it?"

"That'd probably turn out of be wrong in the end because I'd end up being in serious need of your help and you couldn't leave your room, and I'd die." Hiei said the last part sarcastically, but Shadow didn't pick up on that. She looked horrified.

"I can't leave your side, then!"

"Yes, you can..."

"No I can't!"

"Yeah you can."

"No! Cuz you'll die!"

"No I won't!"

"But you said..."

"I lied!"

"YOU LIED? The mighty and holy God Hiei Jaganshi LIED? IT'S UNTHINKABLE!"

"SHADOW! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"Yes ma'am."

"Rephrase that or I'll hurt you."

"Yes, Your Royal Highness Sir!" Shadow said, bowing.

"That's better." Hiei got up and walked away.

The rest of the day passed as this much had... Stupidly.

However, later that week, Hiei received something in the mail from the school. He cursed when Shadow came running into his room.

"You've got mail!"

"Okay, Miss AOL..." he said, rolling over onto his side and pulling a pillow over his head. It was two in the afternoon, but he had nothing better to do, so he was lying on his bed doing... nothing.

"Miss AOL...? Anyway, it's from Yamashita or Mieou High or something. Aren't you just so happy you really exist now? You get mail and people send you stuff!"

"People sending me stuff and me getting mail are one in the same, fool," Hiei muttered, giving up on sleep and walking over to her to snatch the envelope. "And no, I'm not 'just so happy' I really exist in your stupid ningen files, because people send me stuff. I don't want their stupid letters..."

"Well aren't you in a good mood today?"

Hiei ignored her and read the paper in the envelope. "Dammit. If I'm gonna be bombarded by mail from this stupid school and that stupid Yamashita guy now, I'm gonna burn all your stupid ningen files... Stupid ningens..."

"What's it say?"

"It 'strongly suggests' I attend this stupid nightly meeting for a whole stupid month for teachers... To get taught... Stupid ningens. You're weird." He flung the paper up in the air and went back to his bed.

"I'm not a ningen! And it's not my fault stupid teachers don't know what they're doing and have to go to classes because they're stupid and they don't know what they're doing!" Shadow retorted angrily. She snatched up the paper and read it. "It's supposed to teach you new techniques for teaching... Maybe you should go, being as you've never taught so all techniques are new to you."

"Shut up."

"I'll call Kurama."

"Why?"

"If you don't go!"

"Oh, so now you're forcing me to go to some class just so I can teach?"

"It'd be for the best!"

Hiei growled and grabbed the paper again. "It's some college class!"

"For teachers! Old teachers, new teachers, gold teachers, blue teachers!"

"I highly doubt there's any gold or blue teachers."

"...You sure?"

"Yes, Shadow. Now leave. I'll consider this stupid ningen class... Stupid ningens... Stupid class. Stupid Shadow."

"Hey!"

"Git!"

"You're mean to me!"

"I try."

"I bet you don't even have to try!"

"Go away!"

"No! You called me stupid!"

"Like I've never done that before. Get out of my room!"

"Fine!" Shadow stomped over to the doorway and stood just outside his room. "HAPPY?"

"Yes!" He slammed the door in her face. "I'm going to bed!"

"But it's two in the afternoon!"

"I don't care!"

Shadow heard the lock on his door click, then several more clicks as he locked the other five he'd added on his own.

"Fine... Bitchy little fire demon."

"I HEARD THAT!"

"Eek!" She ran away, fell down the stairs, and went to the nearest phone to call Kurama. Yes, she is determined to make Hiei suffer through this class...

The beginning of the next month...

"You'll be late, Hiei."

"Shut up, Shadow."

"What? It starts at six thirty."

"It's only six o'clock!"

"Yeah. And you're going by car. Get dressed."

"I am dressed."

"You're wearing that?!"

"What do you expect me to wear?"

"I don't know, but not a raggedy old t-shirt!"

"It's not raggedy!"

"Whatever... People will think you're odd and disrespectful."

"I am odd and disrespectful!"

"Okay... Well then, let's go."

"Must I?"

"Yes! We called that number and said you're going! You need to learn about teaching!"

Hiei sighed and got up, following Shadow down the stairs where they met up with Kurama. The redhead just smiled at Hiei's glare.

"Come on, Hiei."

"Stupid children."

"Yes, you'll be teaching stupid children in two months."

"Two months?! Oh, god, it seems like such a short time all of a sudden..."

Kurama grinned, leading Hiei out to the car. "It won't be as bad as you seem to think, Hiei..."

"Yes it will..."

"Well with that attitude, yes, it will. Lighten up, Hiei."

"Don't tell me to lighten up, fox!"

"LIGHTEN UP!"

"Start driving before I beat your face in so bad--"

"Yeah, yeah, I get the picture." Kurama hit the gas and shot down the street a bit faster than speed limit.

They arrived at the school early. Hiei sat there for a second before glaring at Kurama. "This stupid thing is over at eight. If you are not here I am walking. Okay?"

"How has Shadow been treating you lately?" the fox asked abruptly.

"What?"

"You've been acting rather moody the past couple weeks, Hiei. Is Shadow being a bitch?"

"Shadow's being Shadow..."

"Well then what the hell's wrong with you?!"

Hiei rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, "We're having children."

"What?"

"No, stupid fox!" Hiei got out of the car. "I'm going to my stupid class, okay? Want me to be a cheerful, cooperative, social butterfly type? Fine! I'll walk around smiling all the time and I'll be nice to everyone!"

"No, that's--"

But Hiei had already walked up to some complete stranger that was also headed into the building and cheerfully engaged him in small talk. Kurama stared in horror for a second before letting his head drop and hit off the steering wheel.

"Ow! Shit..."

He watched Hiei vanish into the school, and though the little demon seemed innocent and peaceful enough at the moment, Kurama didn't miss the evil glare he shot back at him before the door closed.

Hiei walked down the unoccupied halls of the school, re-acquainting himself with it while still managing to keep some kind of conversation going with the man he was trailing behind.

"Are you new?" the man said.

"Hai."

"What subject?"

"Phys. ed."

"Ah. I'm the new social studies teacher. I used to teach here a couple years ago."

"How extremely interesting! Here we are," Hiei said, turning into a classroom. He instantly seated himself in the back corner by the window, away from everyone, and put his head down on his arms on the desk. When the teacher came in a few minutes later, she greeted everyone cheerfully and Hiei knew he'd been forced into Hell.

"Konban wa! Minna-san wa o-genki desu ka."

Hiei hadn't looked up and had no idea what this lady looked like, but somehow her image was in his head and he was killing her brutally.

There was a good-natured echo through the room in reply to her, much louder and more comprehensible, of course, than teenagers' typical replies of, "Uhn..."

"Okay! You are all here, I assume, because you hope to make the learning experience more fun and effective for your students! Well I'm here to teach you how in a fun, effective way!"

Hiei raised his hand. She looked at him.

"Yes?"

"Have you considered teaching kindergarten?"

"Well actually, I used to. Why?"

"I thought so. Never mind, do continue. I'm here to be enlightened to your fun and effective teaching techniques..." Though I really can't see when the hell I'll ever use them.

"Of course. Now..."

And Hiei proceeded to zone out and eventually ended up accidentally snapping his pencil in half with a loud crack. Everybody looked at him and he held up the broken halves of the pencil, shrugging innocently. Then he looked at the clock. And discovered he was going to be suffering for another forty-five minutes.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

He absentmindedly hit the eraser of his broken pencil against the desk for the next fifteen minutes, until he realized he was and dropped it. For the last half hour, he made an effort to listen... Something about book work boring kids, kids like colors, don't use a monotone, stuff and whatever and finally the class was dismissed.

"Sayounara!"

Despite being farthest from the door, Hiei was the first one to leave the room. He went down the hall and out the front doors, his eyes scanning for Kurama's car. Instead, he recognized Yusuke's car, the one the boy had managed to get ahold of somehow after somehow passing his driver's test.

Hiei started walking home.

"Hiei!" came Yusuke's voice. "Oh Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!" His car pulled up near Hiei and slowed down to his walking pace. "Hey! I'm here! Hello?"

"I'm not riding with you. Not the way you drive."

Yusuke sighed and parked a few feet ahead of Hiei, and just as the little demon passed the car, he flung open the door, lunged out, and tackled him.

"Holy shit!" Hiei shouted, rolling across the ground. Several of the teachers who'd been in his 'class' were drawn to the shout and came running to help, only to find the little demon pinned to the ground by a boy not a whole lot bigger than him, both of them arguing.

"I didn't come all the way here to not pick you up!"

"Well that's not my problem! I didn't ask you to! Where's the fox?"

"He had to go home! So he told me I could come if I wanted to instead!"

"Well I'll walk, thank you! I've nearly died countless times in more interesting ways than a car wreck!"

"I'M NOT GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"Yes you are! You'll wreck and I'll die! But you'll live, because that's the way the world works!"

"What?"

"Your windshield will shatter and I'll get a big dagger of glass driven into my chest! All the glass will go towards me, and you'll come out no worse for the wear or whatever the hell your stupid expression is!"

By now, at least ten teachers were gathered around, staring in a baffled sort of way as Hiei, who was, as far as they knew, an experienced school teacher, struggled against and was repeatedly subdued by a sixteen-year-old boy. He eventually stopped and glared at Yusuke.

"Let go of me right now."

"Get in the car, then."

"I CAN'T if you're SITTING ON ME!" He blinked suddenly, a startled expression on his face, and looked to his left, where all the teachers were gathered. Yusuke looked too, and for a second, both he and Hiei had the same startled, horrified expression on their faces before Yusuke gave an innocent smile and Hiei got angry again.

"Let me up, you fool! You have no idea how wrong this looks!" he snapped. Yusuke got up, giving an innocent smile to the teachers.

"Sorry about that, he's a friend of mine," he said, scratching the back of his head. Hiei started walking back down the street, but he'd only gotten one step when Yusuke caught his arm and hissed, "Get in the car!"

"No!"

"Don't make a scene, Hiei. Get in the car!"

Hiei stood there for a second before angrily walking around to the passenger's side of Yusuke's car and nearly pulling off the door in his annoyance. The boy waited until the door had closed before he got in the car on his own and started it up.

"I feel like I'm being kidnapped," Hiei muttered.

"By me? I would never. What use would I have for you, anyway?"

"I dunno, you could charge Shadow ransom."

"Good idea." Yusuke leaned out the window as he pulled away and said, "Have a nice night, everyone!" to the small crowd of spectators.

"She wouldn't pay you, though," Hiei said, continuing their conversation.

"Sure she would. Fasten your seatbelt."

"No, she'd just find you and beat the living shit out of you. That is, if I didn't first."

"You wouldn't be able to. You'd be all chained up and warded and hanging upside down over a tank of hungry killer whales."

"Killer whales don't eat people."

"Yes they do! They're killer whales, aren't they?"

"Never mind," Hiei said, a slight green tinting his skin as Yusuke got onto a more busy road.

"So how was your class?"

"Dunno. Didn't pay attention," Hiei answered shortly.

"That's the way to do it!" Yusuke commended, smiling at Hiei.

"WATCH THE ROAD, FOOL!"

"What?!" Yusuke said, looking back just in time to notice a cat streak across in front of him. He swerved and hit the brakes at the same time and Hiei shouted at him and he shouted back at Hiei and somehow the car managed to continue going in the same direction it had been, safely running a red light which a cop was stopped at. Sirens screamed.

"LOOK WHAT YOU DID!"

"I DIDN'T DO IT!"

"SPEED UP!"

"I CAN'T OUTRUN THEM IN THIS!"

Hiei groaned. "If I open the door and fling myself out in front of this semi, d'you figure I'll survive?"

"No."

"Okay."

"You aren't gonna do it, are you?!"

"Can I ride on the roof?"

"I HAVE COPS CHASING ME! NO YOU CAN'T RIDE ON THE ROOF!"

"I wouldn't want to anyway, I'd end up sprawled in a bloody mess on some sidewalk and get rushed to your stupid ningen hospital... Only Shadow's stupid enough to ride on the roof of a car when you're driving it."

"I would. But I can't drive and ride on the roof at the same time."

"I wouldn't think you could."

Eventually, Yusuke got a ticket, cussed a lot because of it, and drove very slowly the rest of the way to Shadow's house (which wasn't very far).

Hiei's days passed like this for the rest of that month. Of course, after about the third time of trying to wrestle off Yusuke, another teacher intervened and there had been a huge argument and Hiei ended up having to be restrained yet again, this time to keep from killing the teacher... That guy will never intervene in Hiei's business again...

The class, as it turned out, eventually got bad enough to poor Hiei that he gratefully got in the car with Yusuke and told him that if he didn't drive fast, he'd kill him... On occasion, Kurama or even Shadow or Eclipse came to pick him up, but for some odd reason, it was usually Yusuke. The teacher should have continued teaching kindergarten, but Hiei seemed to be the only one of some twenty or thirty people in the class that realized this.

Finally, the month came to an end, and Hiei was so happy, he wasn't even mad when Shadow showed him a picture she'd doctored on the computer, which she'd titled "Hiei the MSN Butterfly" (go on, imagine it, kids).

There was one more 'adventure' in store before school started, and the topic was somehow brought up one day during another marvelous losing streak of Shadow Jaganshi during a game of poker. It went something like this:

"You lose any more and you're gonna have to start giving up your clothes."

I assume you now realize her opponent was Youko.

"These? You can have these rags, I need new clothes anyway. Though I can't see that you'd have any use for female clothes about ten sizes too small for you..." She looked at her clothes. "Look at this! There's a hole... and a stain... and a rip, and the string and elastic and thread and whatnot and it's all starting to come apart!"

"So buy new clothes..." Hiei suggested dryly. Shadow looked at him, an awed smile on her face.

"You are a GENIUS, Hiei!"

"..... I am?"

"We're going clothes shopping!"

"We?" he repeated nervously.

"You need some new clothes for school, too!"

"What?! No I don't, Shadow, and I'm not going shopping! You have a uniform. I don't."

"I don't care about their stupid uniforms! I'll wear what I want to wear, and they can't stop me! They can just stuff their uniforms up their asses!"

"Detention every day after school for that, Shuuichi says," Youko told her. She shrugged.

"They can shove that up their asses too. We're going shopping tomorrow, Hiei! Call Eclipse and tell her."

"Me? Why me?"

"BECAUSE I TOLD YOU TO, DAMMIT! I'M BUSY LOSING A LOT OF MONEY I'LL NEED FOR CLOTHES SHOPPING HERE!"

Hiei picked himself up off the floor, where he'd ended up, of course, after her outburst, and went sulking upstairs.

"I could give you a reprieve," Youko said, grinning. "Or make a trade, you know? You need the money, so instead of paying me in cash and shiny things, you could... You know... Pay me in another way."

Shadow narrowed her eyes. "I'm not fucking you."

He sighed, looking dejected. "You don't know what you're missing."

"I have some idea, fox, and I'm not going into detail."

"You'll regret it one day."

"What, not having sex with you?"

"Yes."

"Youko, you're sick."

"No, I'm actually quite healthy, thank you."

"That's not what I meant. I meant that you're a pervert."

"I know what you meant."

"What've you got?" she asked. He smirked and put his cards on the table.

"Royal flush."

"You cheated."

"No I didn't!"

"Nobody gets that without cheating!"

"What do you have?"

Shadow pouted and flung her cards down on the table. "Two pair."

Youko chuckled.

"Don't laugh at me, cheater!"

"I didn't cheat!" he laughed. Shadow narrowed her eyes and he just kept laughing.

"You get so mad over nothing," he said.

"Shutup! I don't get mad at anyone but you! What does that say?"

"That you compare yourself to me, and when I show you up, it makes you mad."

"COMPARE MYSELF TO YOU? Yeah right! I'm a thousand times better! There IS no comparison!"

"If you say so."

"Why would you constantly try to seduce me if I'm not as good as or better than you?"

"Because you're pretty and it's been over seventeen years since I even had a chance to get a pretty girl in bed with me. Thank you very much to Shuuichi."

"You're sick! Just because I'm pretty? You know what you are? You're a pig! A typical male... Don't care about personality or anything, it's just, 'Oh, she's pretty, I wanna fuck her!' Well that's just sexist. You are a sexist pig."

"Okay, enough lectures," Youko sighed. "You've got other qualities that are attractive. Happy now?"

"Not quite."

"Fine. You're nice, you're smart, you're strong... And... Do I have to continue?"

"No, I guess that's enough to placate me for the moment, even if you didn't mean it all. You are forgiven at the moment for being a sexist pig, Youko."

"Thank you... I suppose you want me to take a rain check on all this poker debt, too, so you can do your clothes shopping?"

"If you would be so kind."

Youko sighed. "Fine."

"Thank you!" She hugged him. "Oh wait, I hate you. Sorry." She grinned to show she was joking, then headed towards the stairs. "I have a feeling Hiei didn't call Eclipse like I asked, so I'm gonna go make sure."

"Whatever."

Did it suck? I think it sucks.
-Shadow Jaganshi-