I have to say thank you to JESS and Espiroth for being sympathetic in that weird, sick, demented sort of way; which put a smile on my face, and a song in my heart. You two will be of high rank of my some sort of military field… Let's see… the Air Force are those tiny little birdies that I can't remember the name of. The Navy Seals are the Elementary kids, for they love me and I have major connections with them (I visit them during their art classes at school because my main goal is my art teacher). The Army are the squirrels (::SNIFF:: SQUIRREL)yeah you know that Pringles commercial? Hmmm… HEY! The MARINES! And the NATIONAL GUARD! Make your choice! I can get you really high up on the VIP chart, you know! Well, anyway… If anyone else wants to be involved in any of my military forces, let me know, I can scoot you in! That includes Shadow In Darkness, Kristen, DayDreamer9, and Uta-Arashi. ::sigh:: I have no life.
Oh! And one of the holidays we Pagans celebrate around the recently passed time is Yule, or the Winter Solstice.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho… I don't really see the point of putting this on here… I mean, it IS a Yu Yu Hakusho FANFIC!
The light pink t-shirt still occupied my pinched fingers as I stormed down the twisting halls of the palace. I assure there will be massive bloodshed if the rest of these mortals are like him!
It was only after fifteen minutes of aimless paths when I acknowledged that I had absolutely no clue where I was going. "Damn it," I groaned in my native tongue, smacking my forehead with the palm of my hand. I continued walking anyway, searching for whatever caught my eye.
The Eye Catcher was a swinging door, which I pushed through to find myself in the kitchen… at least it looked like a kitchen. Remembering all the mortal kitchens I've seen before, there had been no food. I went to open the refrigerator.
Just as I thought, a sullen look in the fridge, Nothing. Inside that cold box was just about any kind of fruit or vegetable imaginable. Milk, juice, sodas, rice, sauces, and condiments shared their places in there as well. Nevertheless, I dug through the fridge anyway. In the back I found a single pound of bacon. What the hell? I took out the bacon and shut the fridge behind me.
I sat on the counter as I ate the bacon raw, strip-by-strip. It was terrible stuff, but Mum always said if bad goes to worse, normal meat could sustain ourselves. It didn't possess certain things we needed in blood, but it did supply "protein"; what blood wasn't that high in.
"Hungry?" I twisted around to see the Urameshi boy leaning against the doorframe. He wore what looked like the same boxers and white t-shirt from when I first met him, a smirk played across his lips.
"Change of heart?" I queried sarcastically, referring back to his attitude earlier.
He pulled up a seat next to me, "Does it actually taste good?" He ignored my previous words.
"You haven't eaten bacon?" I questioned with a cocked eyebrow.
"Not raw… Can't you get worms eating it like that?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Urameshi stared at me with disbelief, "Didn't you know you're supposed to cook it?"
I dropped the strip of bacon I had in my hand on the table without a word. Yusuke tried to stifle a laugh, managing to suppress it into a chuckle. I tossed the remaining bacon back in the fridge and sat back down.
"I can't believe you didn't know that!" he exclaimed between chuckles. I merely narrowed my eyes at him. So what if I didn't know that you were supposed to cook bacon? It wasn't like I ate it often. Hell, I had only eaten pre-slaughtered animals maybe twice in my life, and it certainly wasn't ever bacon.
The two of us continued to sit on the counter in silence for several minutes. "So why are you up this late?" he sprung up the start of a conversation. I gave him the 'There Is No Way You Could Be This Stupid' look. Urameshi's face reddened with a touch of embarrassment, "Forget I asked," he mumbled.
A few more minutes passed. "What keeps you awake?" not even retreating from my staring contest with the tiled floor.
The mortal breathed a heavy sigh, "Insomnia," he spoke bluntly, "So," his tone brightened a bit, "Besides your obvious hunger issues, what brings you to the kitchen?"
My fists clenched together, and the staring contest became a glaring contest, "Hiei," my voice rasped.
"What'd he do now?" the Urameshi boy asked with a smirk.
"Pervert," my tone remained unchanged and somewhat creepy.
"…Okay?" his face carried a bewildered expression, "I'm not gonna ask about him anymore."
"You seem awfully comfortable here," I brought up out of the blue a while later after admitting defeat with the floor, for it was too damn good.
"What?"
"Your evening garments… What happened to the apartment?"
"Oh," he rolled his eyes, seemingly to himself, "Koenma. He decided about a week ago to make us camp out here during weekends and stuff. I guess you know, even Hiei has a room, but he hardly ever stays in it. He usually sleeps in trees, but I caught him the other night on Kurama's windowsill."
"Is that supposed to mean something?"
"I'm only saying sometimes I think Hiei's gay—"
"Trust me," I interrupted, "He's not gay."
"Hell, maybe he's bi. I don't know. I know that Kurama and him are best friends and all, but sometimes I think they hang out together too much, you know?"
"How did this even come up?" I asked exasperated.
"You started it."
"No I didn't."
"Yeah you did. You got me to tell you about how we came to stay here—"
"And you said how you caught Hiei sleeping on Kurama's windowsill. You brought it up. And how do you even make the connection between gay and sleeping on a windowsill?"
"Hey, it's not like I'm a homo-phobe," Well neither am I, but I still don't see how you can make that connection, or how you made that 'homo-phobe' leap.
I eyed him, bemused, and spoke a bit of my thoughts, "How'd the Hell did you make that leap?"
"Let's just drop this!"
"Hn!"
"So," I carried a new conversation minutes later, "I'm on probation? Community service with the Reikai Tantei… And five years, I heard."
His face grew sullen, "Yeah… Well, see, Koenma didn't want you released, and Kurama, Kuwabara, and I said you shouldn't face a death penalty… for the prophecy thing. And Hiei…" he hesitated, "Well… he was really the only one who wanted you dead."
"How sweet," I added sarcastically.
"Anyway, Kurama suggested the probation thing to Koenma… of course, Koenma now thinks it was all his idea. But, that's where we're at."
I gave a smart-ass nod in response. "What will happen to my mum?"
He shrugged, "I dunno. Maybe she's also on probation, or going to prison, or Ningenkai…"
"There will be no prison or Ningenkai," I rose to my feet, my voice suddenly menacing, "If she goes to prison, I go to prison. If she goes to Ningenkai, I go to Ningenkai. NO in-between!"
Yusuke rose to his feet as well and nervously gripped my shoulders, "Calm down. We can talk to Koenma about it?" trying not to push my buttons.
"When?"
"N-n-now!" he squeaked, obviously threatened, "We can go now! Come on!" The mortal grabbed my hand and lead me out the kitchen.
It was only after a number of minutes of seemingly pointless walking down the halls, did I realize he still had a gentle yet firm grip of my hand. I gave a soft tug, as to catch his attention. It did, and he hastily released it and focused ahead of him.
"We're here," he said a moment later at the base of two large golden doors. He opened the doors for me and I strolled in, Urameshi followed suit.
It was a large and mostly empty room. Neutral colored walls and tiled floor, a desk piled with papers stood in the center of the room, and a few chairs sat in front of it. A series of file cabinets rested against the wall behind the desk and a large screen hung above it. In the chair behind the desk sat everyone's least-favorite toddler, stamping papers without a glance to what they were scripted.
It was for a while till he noticed he was no longer the only one in the room, "Yusuke? Life? What are you two doing up?"
My right eye twitched, "Insomnia," I jabbed a finger toward the detective, "Vampire," I 'La'd' myself, or presented myself in a way as saying that I'm so perfect, I need to wave my hand in the 'La' fashion. "Goddess, why is everyone forgetting that?" I was a bit frustrated.
Koenma visibly noticed, but didn't seem to care, "Ah. Why are you here?"
"We were wondering," he spoke quickly as to keep me from having my patience tested, "What will happen to Life's mother?"
"Her mother… What is her name?"
"Alexandria," I hissed.
"Alexandria," he muttered something that even I couldn't hear, "Well, I guess she—"
"Wherever she goes, I go," I warned.
"She can stay here. No punishment," my jaw mentally dropped, No fucking fair! "But! If there are any incidents that include either of you two, it will be seen that you'll both be separated, or see daylight… or the end of a wooden stake for you. That means you can't feed from ningens… or Team Urameshi. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal," I turned to the door to leave, cussing on the inside. As my hand touched the doorknob, I stopped. I still faced the door, "Where will I be staying?"
"You and your mother will each have your own rooms here," Koenma said with a pink pony stamp in his hand.
"Next to each other?"
"Yes, yes. If you wish," he waved me off, and I obliged.
I began an aimless trip down the hall, to hear echoing steps near me from behind.
"Forgetting something?" a male voice played.
"Such as?" I didn't turn my head from what laid ahead of me.
"Directions to your room," Urameshi suggested in a smart-ass tone.
"I didn't forget."
"Oh really?"
"Yes. I knew my map would chase after me," I sneered at him, "You're so predictable."
"Predictable?" Yusuke remarked, "You barely know me."
"You're a powerful fighter… If you're not being cocky."
"What makes you think you're right?"
"Your attitude."
"And you know my attitude?"
"Are you taking me to my room or not?"
The detective quit being a know-it-all and guided me to my new room. It was at the door when he asked a bit of an awkward question.
"Why are you so clingy with your mom?" he blurted.
I gave him a skeptical look.
"I didn't mean it in a mean way! And you don't have to answer if you don't want to!" he added quickly. I was silent for a few minutes and he took it like I refused to answer…, which was true. "Well, my room is across from yours. Your mom's on your left, Kurama to your right. Kuwabara's across from your mom, and Hiei is across from Kurama's."
Urameshi still stood by me when I opened the dark alder door to my room. I wasn't at all disappointed. The walls were charcoal and the floors were dark plank wood. Dark, heavy curtains covered the large window and the glass doors that lead to a balcony. The bad was very much like Hiei's, only in blue tones rather than red. A five star looking lavatory laid beyond the open door on the opposite wall from the bed.
"Probation? Damn, I've got it rough," I mourned sarcastically.
"I know," the detective played along, "And the people in prison… terrible. They actually made it worse than this."
"How will they ever manage?"
"Consider yourself lucky…" he joked.
I sat on the side of the bed and glanced around. "Of you need anything," Urameshi said, "Come to me or Kurama. And we'll be going to pick up your stuff tomorrow around noon."
"Can't we do that around 9 or 10 tomorrow night?"
"Not when you're living with a bunch of diurnals. You're gonna hafta change your sleeping habits."
"Absolutely not. I'll just sleep every chance I get in the day." I looked at the grandfather clock that sat near the bed. 4 o'clock in the morning… and in a waxing moon. I have come to like that clock.
"I guess we're both gonna need some sleep," Yusuke said with a sigh, "G'night, Life." He surprised me with a soft brush on the cheek with his lips and swiftly left the room, closing the door behind him.
My hand went to my cheek. I'd say he had a change of heart. I crawled beneath the covers, That was different…
ooo
Hands clenched my shoulder, shaking me awake. By reflex, I lunged out at the being and pinned them to the floor. My bared fangs were prepared for the kill… "Kurama?"
Kurama lay pinned on his back at the floor beneath me, his hands pressed against my chest as if he tried to shove me off him. "Life," he spoke nervously to some extent, "I'm sorry to wake you…um… Breakfast is downstairs," I simply watched him stutter. I actually found it pretty amusing. "Life?" he winced.
"Hn?"
"C-could you please get up? Y-your knee…" I stared at him questionably until his words sunk in, and I obeyed immediately. I helped him to his feet and followed him to the dining room, where everyone else was already sat and feeding.
Kurama took the seat to the left of Kuwabara, which left only one empty seat across from the oaf, between Hiei and Yusuke. With no second thought, I positioned myself in the wooden chair, and rested my head on the table, already at the point of half-asleep, half-awake.
"Good morning, Life!" the caffeine-ated blue haired woman cheered. A pure growl rumbled past my lazy lips; no one should be that happy at 10:30 in the morning. "I made a lovely breakfast for you," the Grim Reaper grabbed the back of my hair and lifted my head, and set the plate in my faces' old pillow. The plate was piled with crispy burnt bacon, sunny side up eggs, and toast. She followed it all up with a large glass of orange juice near my right hand, which was lazily rested on the table.
I sniffed the 'food' before I pushed the plate away. Botan carried a hurt expression, "What's wrong?"
I stared at a blank spot on the table, "My apologies, I can't eat that."
"Come on, Life," Kuwabara's voice should be forbidden in the morning hours, "Her cooking isn't that bad. I love it!"
"You'll eat anything that isn't tied down," I heard Hiei mutter.
"What'd you say, shrimp?!"
"Then you can eat it," I ignored Hiei's comment and Kuwabara's outburst, "Because I can't."
Kuwabara snatched my plate greedily and began to chow down, "Ou' know-ph," egg particles flew from between his teeth, "Ou' are beefing ferrvy rube!" he finally took the time to swallow, "Botan goes through all this trouble to make a nice meal for you, and you just—"
"Baka, she said she can't eat it, not won't," Hiei cut off the oaf.
I nodded, "It doesn't have the nutrition I need to live on," my voice was distant as I continued to stare off into space.
"Oh!" Botan exclaimed, "I'm so sorry, I forgot! What can you eat? I'll make you something…"
"I think you know what I eat," everyone is silent. I rose from my seat, "I'll just find some food in the Makai or wherever. I will be back…"
"No, Life. You can't," Koenma walked in, "Not by yourself, anyway," he took a glimpse at the rest of the group, "Hiei, you take her to the forest in the Ningenkai."
"What?!" his sudden outburst sent ringing to my ears, "Why should I baby-sit?! Make the detective do it! He likes her!"
Urameshi looked as if he was about to kill Hiei, but Koenma gave him a stern look, keeping him seated and quiet for once.
Koenma turn back to Hiei, "I want you to take her out, Hiei, because you are the best 'babysitter' out of the four of you… and you are also the only one who's done eating."
Hiei glared at the toddler, redden faced, "Hn!" his chair was knocked to the floor when he abruptly stood. He was already stomping out the door when I finally followed.
ooo
A half an hour had passed, and the two of us were walking through the forests of the mortal world.
"Will you hurry and get this over with? The less time we have to spend together, the better," I wanted to strangle the Makai demon.
"You know," I said in an annoyed tone, "You could have fooled me. By that entire racket you've been making and scaring away my breakfast, I'd say you wanted to spend more time with me," my voice remained low, as not to scare off any potential meals.
"Hn," my right eye twitched. Stealing my hn like that. I was near the point of not caring if I was staked, just so long as I got to drain him.
With my hunters' ears, I heard a soft crunch. A foot… no… a hoof… maybe twenty feet away. I gave Hiei a quick look telling him to shut up. He glowered, but complied. I gracefully shot up into the trees, and weaved through several branches till I spotted my prey.
A buck. A big, fat, juicy fourteen point buck. He minded his own business, chewing on the plentiful grass lain around him. It wasn't as good as a human, but it sure as Hell beat rodents. I crept along the branches till I was in perfect range. I watched the buck, and Hiei watched me from a distance. Perfect… I pounced.
The force of my body colliding into the back of the deer set him off balance, knocking him over. I plunged my fangs into his long neck before he was able to kick himself out of my grasp. I sensed Hiei edging closer as I fed from the frantically kicking buck, and I withdrew myself from the half dead animal. Blood dripped from the corner of my mouth as I smirked at Hiei's look of sheer disgust.
"You shouldn't judge," I sneered, "The only you've fed off of was a small wound of your own, I bet."
He turned away, "And it's not about to change."
I stepped toward the boy until I was only a few feet away, "Try it."
"No."
"I dare you."
He didn't respond and I guided him to the shuddering deer, forcing him to kneel aside it.
"It's still alive, the blood is still warm," I egged. I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth and licked it off my fingers. I grabbed Hiei's hand and dabbed in against the bucks wound, letting it get covered in its blood. "Just this much, that's all I'm asking. Do it and I'll get off you case. Taste it. Tell me it's disgusting."
He stared at his hand, to me, and to his hand again. With so much reluctance, he licked his hand. I sat there, watching him finish off the liquid. He knelt there, soundless, until finally, "Disgusting," and rose to his feet. "Finish up and lets go." He leapt into the trees.
Five minutes later, we passed through the portal to Spirit World and continued our trip toward the palace. "Did you really think it was gross? Or are you afraid to admit you're wrong?"
"You said you'd get off my case… This is the opposite of getting off my case."
"Hn."
Right before the two of us stepped inside, Hiei gripped the collar of the pink shirt and pressed his katana to my throat, "One word of what happened out there, and I will kill you," his tone kept low, but it didn't lessen the venomousness.
"Whatever," he released me and stormed inside. I eventually followed. My Goddess, this is rich!
ooo
"Ready to go?" Kurama asked.
I nodded and checked out my attire. Maybe I wasn't ready. I was still wearing Botans' jeans and shirt, and I remembered my lack of underwear. I turned the nod into a shake.
"That reminds me," Kuwabara took out a bag, "Botan asked me to give these to you. They've been washed."
I snatched the bag and peered inside. They were the clothes I was wearing several days ago. Black jeans, black long-sleeved shirt, and…
"By the way," Kuwabara grinned, "Nice panties."
"Do you have a death wish?" I threatened.
"…No?"
"Too bad," I extended a palm, "Vis vires." BAM! A new dent was put into the wall, thanks to the oafs' prying. I went into the nearest lavatory and changed into my clothes. I stepped out while sliding on my belt and slipped on my shoes. Kurama handed me my trench coat and I pulled out my shades. "Let's get it over with." Kurama opened a portal and everyone stepped through, leading to the street of Green Peace.
We all made it to the door of my apartment… yes, the door. "Apparently, someone fixed the door…" Yusuke suggested.
I twisted the handle to no prevail. "Shit."
"What?" the detective asked.
"The key's inside," I balled my left hand into a fist, focusing my energy. The energy turned red. I focused my energy with fire, power, and any buried anger. "Stand back." The obeyed and spread out behind me. My energy was ready, "Talentum," I threw a punch at the door, stopping about a foot away. The red energy formed into a giant fist and slammed through the door.
Maybe they didn't fix the door right, or maybe I put in too much energy… because the door was slammed into the wall on the other side of the room… and it stuck there, with a scorch mark the size of the giant fist. "Be thankful I don't slam you against the wall with that, Kuwabara." I walked inside leaving the majority of the boys bug-eyed.
"I'll pack up my room and the lavatory… you four do your own work," without another word, I shut the door to my room behind me. I unfolded the cardboard boxes that were left in the corner and started packing. All the incense, candles, herbs, oils, stones, and talismans just fit in one box, and my little number of clothes was able to fit in my old duffle bag with the Book of Shadows. I stood and scanned the room; the ratty blankets were to be left behind… no need for the blinds… well, that was all that was needed in my bedroom-wait!
I rushed to the corner of the room and grabbed three black leather cases of three different sizes: a short and somewhat case about 2'x6" in size; a slightly thicker and nearly 3 feet longer case; and a tall and thin one, a little more than 5 feet tall, and less than 4 inches in width. All were fairly light, no more than 15 pounds together.
I got an empty box and began to pack things up in the lavatory. After a minute or so, the lavatory door creaked opened.
"You finished?" I didn't bother to look up from underneath the sink where there were free cleaning products for the taking.
"Hn."
"Shall I take that as a no?" I narrowed my eyes at Hiei.
"I'm not packing her clothes."
"Why not?"
"Apparently I'm a pervert. Would you really trust me with your mothers garments?" he made a snide remark.
"Well, you do act like a pervert quite often."
"If you were a male, wouldn't you take a peek? Straight males can't just not look when it's right in front of them!" he roared… maybe a little louder than he intended. Maybe he didn't even intend on saying that at all.
My eyes were still narrowed, but a smirk played across my face at that, "Fine." Hiei turned to leave, "I have a question."
"He stopped in his steps, "What?"
"There's something I've wanted to know for a long time…"
"Spit it out, onna."
"Do I have a nice body?"
Hiei's head turned to me. His eyes almost looked as though they would pop out of his head in incredulity. His cheeks turned red, "Hn."
I was seriously curious, "Well?"
He was silent for the longest time, it seemed. He regained his composure. "I'll pack up the bathroom. You pack your mothers clothes," we wretched the box from my hands and shoved me out of the lavatory.
Seriously, I was asking an honest question! It wasn't like I had ever seen my body in the mirror or anything before. Hell, I didn't even know what exactly I look like at all! Basically, just my hair color and what I've heard from people saying about my pearly light gray eyes with yellow-green speckles.
Ten minutes later, everything was packed and piled in the center of the floor in the living room. Lynn perched on my shoulder in annoyance, as if saying "That carrot oaf makes me want to stab his eyes until he bleeds from the bellybutton". I love my raven…
With the boxes and bags, we all managed to walk through the portal without raising suspicion. I set Mum's things outside her room, since I was smart enough not to awaken her in the light hours. I unpacked my things and laid out a black pair of baggy jeans with black jeans straps dangling everywhere, and a slightly loose deep red long-sleeved shirt to change into before changing into them and plopping onto the bed to fall asleep.
ooo
That incessant knocking awoke me, "What do you want?!"
The door opened and Mum walked in. "Mum," I jumped into her open arms.
"Life, how have you been? What have you been eating?"
"Fine. I ate a bit of raw bacon and a buck since I got here."
Mum stared at me incredulously, "What about those mortals? You are surrounded by mortals and you feed off of a deer?"
I motioned to her to sit on the bed and I sat beside her. "Koenma said I have to perform community services for our punishment and join the Reikai Tantei. And he said that if there are any mishaps, we will be put to death."
"Why are we being punished?"
"For the deaths of mortals," I waved absentmindedly.
"Who was special?"
"No one special. Just feeding in general."
"WHAT?! For doing what's in our very nature we are being punished?!"
"Correction: I'm being punished. You get to sit back and enjoy the view."
"We are both forbidden from feeding, so I'm being punished as well. Take me to this Koenma! I must speak with him immediately!"
"Follow your instincts, Mum. But he's in a room with big golden doors. I don't know my way." I watched as she stormed out of the room and down the hall, sniffing the air as she turns a corner, out of sight.
I checked the clock. It was 10:36pm. My stomach rumbled as I left the room. I turned around back into my room and grabbed my trench coat and opened the glass doors to the balcony. The stars were glistening brilliantly and same as the moon. I looked over the ledge, Four stories, I thought, Can do.
I dropped the four stories and landed on the dragon back-like path and snuck through the mortal world portal to the forest. I leapt into a tree and began my hunt. I spotted a rabbit by a bush, Food is food, and I hooked my legs around the branch and snatched it. I took a bite as I walked gracefully on the branches of the trees. Tossing it after it was drained, I began another search. Twenty minutes later, I had landed a total of two rabbits and a boar. Settling on that, I landed on the ground and walked back toward the portal.
"Now what have you been doing in these hours of the night?" asked a smart-ass voice from the trees.
"If you had been following me this entire time, you would know I was just getting a bite to eat," I retorted, still walking.
"Or three," the voice added.
"I wouldn't have to come out here by myself to eat if you all would just let me eat there, Hiei."
Hiei jumped down from the tree and began walking beside me, "You can eat in the palace. You just refuse to eat anything we have in the kitchen."
"I don't just refuse! There is nothing in there edible, or least that I'm allowed to eat."
"Who said that? You can have the baka ningen. We'd do just as fine without him."
I snorted. I wasn't sure if what he said was a joke, or if he was really serious. "Koenma said that I'm not allowed," was all I said to that. "But... I wouldn't have to come out here and waste all the trouble in hunting if I could feed off you? Not serious amounts, just a snack?" I was asking a favor. I was missing that taste greatly. Pretty pathetic, really.
Hiei came to a halt. I stopped to stare at him. "I will never do anything like that for you, or for anyone," he hissed, "Don't you ever ask for something like that from me again."
I stared at the ground and continued to walk. I wasn't ashamed, but I was the slightest bit embarrassed. I was acting like the common street vampire. A homemade street vampire.
Hiei began to follow me once again. "So, what were you doing up in these hours of the night? It couldn't have been to solely spy on me and interrogate my actions."
"Hn. What if I was?"
"Then you have no life."
The both of us entered the palace once again and found ourselves in the living room. "Are you going to watch the tele' with me then?" I sat on the couch and turn on the tele', flipping through the channels, "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour just started. Laugh with me."
He didn't answer, but left the living room. "Fine," I scoffed. I watched Ron White do his act, and I had my share in small chuckles throughout the movie, until it got to Jeff Foxworthy, when I drifted off.
ooo
The sun was setting when I awoke, still on the couch with a blanket draped over me. Yusuke and Kuwabara were seated on the couch playing a fighting game on an Xbox.
"What game is that?" I startled them; they hadn't noticed I was awake.
"You're awake," Yusuke said.
"Dead or Alive 3," Kuwabara answered, "I am the Master at this game! Yusuke hasn't beaten me yet, and neither has anyone else!"
"It's the only thing you can beat anyone at," Urameshi muttered.
"What's that, Urameshi?!"
"Really... No one has beaten you at this game?" I was intrigued.
"Not just this game, any game!"
"I take that as a challenge," I smirked.
"You think you can beat me?" he puffed out his chest, as to seem more masculine than he was.
I shrugged, "Let's have a go." The detective handed me the controller. "What say you we make things interesting," I suggested.
"1000¥ says I win."
"Absolutely."
"Now, what is this about 1000¥?" asked Kurama as he, Hiei, and Botan entered the room.
"Hn. Who's making a bet on what?"
"Kuwabara and Life are making bets on a video game. The stakes are at 1000 yen. Actually, I think I'll bet a thousand on Kuwabara, too."
"How does Life play?" Botan questioned.
"Don't know," Kuwabara answered, "I never saw her play before."
"I've never played before…"
"I think I'll put a thousand on Kuwabara, too." Nice to know Botan's supportive…
"Are you two gonna bet?" Urameshi asked Kurama and Hiei.
"I don't make bets with money when it isn't necessary."
"You're no fun, Kurama," Yusuke looked hopefully at Hiei, "How about you, Shorty?"
He glared, "Thousand on Life."
Everyone was shocked, "Why that much on me?"
"Hn."
"Okay, so winning betters keep their own money and splits the amount of the losers evenly. Five rounds, you two," Urameshi said.
"But tell me what these buttons do…" Everyone pulled an anime fall. Urameshi regained his composure and showed me the purpose of each button. There are too many… I thought after he finished, How the Hell am I going to remember them all?
I chose a character base on her looks, Christie, because I liked her white hair. Kuwabara must have had a special character, or something, because he chose a man named Brad Wong, who drank from a gourd.
The match began, and I pressed every button from A to START, which pissed Kuwabara off whenever I did that, because an odd screen would pop up and the fight would be frozen. After I was lectured about the START button, the fight continued, and I pushed every button from A to the three toggles only to lose the first round with the oaf getting a perfect.
"Ha HA! Easy money!" Kuwabara cheered.
I mumbled incoherent words as the second round began. Both of our healths were low somehow, when I somehow threw his character, giving him a KO.
"What did I do?" I asked.
Kuwabara didn't look as happy anymore, "That's a combo. You pushed a series of buttons in a certain order quick enough to throw him," Kurama explained.
"Oh."
The third round began and I beat him easily, and the same with the fourth round.
"Kuwabara! There's no point in doing the fifth round! She already beat you! We lost!" Urameshi shook the oafs' shoulder.
"NO!" Kuwabara yelled, "We said five rounds and that's what we're gonna do!"
"Alright," and I defeated him with a perfect. Kuwabara was in tears as Hiei and I split the 3000¥; 1500 each.
"Where're you going?" Kurama asked as I started to walk out of the living room.
"My room," I replied, not glancing back, "If I can find it," I uttered to myself.
"Hiei! Life! Quit being sore winners!" Kuwabara choked between sobs, "Both of you, just go!" I stared at him, bewildered, before I left like I was planning on doing.
I had been walking for a few minutes, "Why'd you bet on me?"
"I knew you'd win." I knew Hiei had been behind me the entire time.
"Oh?" without any emotion, "and how's that?"
"…I made sure you won…"
I cocked an eyebrow, "Now how did you do that?"
He smirked, "I messed with the baka's mind."
I stopped outside my door and stared at him, "That's cheating."
He remained silent.
"That was so low, so wrong, so… brilliant of you. Good job." I went into my room and tossed my trench on the bed. "Are you planning on staying in my room or something?"
"Hn."
Taking that as a yes, I grabbed some clothes out of my bureau and went into the lavatory; the door locked behind me. I jumped in the shower, washed my hair, shaved, and brushed my teeth before I hopped back out a half hour later. I put on the clean garments and tossed the dirty ones on the hamper. I was brushing my long wet hair as I left the lavatory.
There, Hiei sat, on the corner of my bed… flipping through the pages of the Book of Shadows…
"DON'T TOUCH THAT!" I leapt… and tackled him off the bed and onto the floor. The Book of Shadows landed on the bed.
"Damn it, Life! What the HELL are you doing?!"
"NEVER touch that book," I hissed, "The Book of Shadows has been passed down through my family for hundreds of years. NO ONE other than family is allowed to look through that book without the owners' consent!"
Hiei's eyes narrowed at me, but I was suddenly distracted. His neck… so close, so warm. I could feel the blood pulsing in his veins. Slowly, I lowered my head to his neck and bit into him.
Hiei had an intake of breath, and began to struggle. "Stop it, Life!" he shouted telepathically in my head.
Quit resisting, Hiei. It's enjoyable if you just go with it. I knew he would be reading my mind.
He only thrashed about for a minute before he heeded my words. I felt his muscles beneath relax, and his struggling ceased. I felt a hand reach the back of my head and push me closer. Suddenly, I sensed both of our minds and emotions merge. I felt his thoughts, felt his emotions, everything… and I knew that he could do the same with me. What I was doing... he didn't like it… he loved it. He knew it shouldn't be happening, but it felt so good to him. It felt good to me, too. With ourselves melded together like this, somehow it gave us pleasure.
A soft moan escaped from the corner of my mouth. He pressed my fangs deeper into his throat, and his vocal cords sent a tingling vibration through my mouth as he moaned. But I sensed that even within our feelings of ecstasy, he was growing weak.
I withdrew from him, gasping heavily. I stared at his wound, which kept bleeding profusely.
I pressed my hand against his neck and spoke an incantation:
"Rivers shall flow
Be Pure and crystalline
But red rivers must not
They must be trapped inside my being.
This river so red
Must be stopped with a Golden Net
Stop now, stop what has bled."
I repeated the incantation twice more. A lovely spell from the Book of Shadows, and it ceased his bleeding. I moved away my hand to reveal to scabs forming.
I pulled Hiei onto the bed and watched him. He was breathing heavily as he glared. He gripped my wrist and pulled me toward him. His face wasn't far from mine when he licked my cheek. I was taken aback. What did he just do? He licked my cheek again and moved closer to my mouth each moment. Whatever it was, he lapped a little past my lips. Blood. He was licking the blood off my face.
"You said it was disgusting," I smart talked.
"Hn," and he pulled me closer toward him and our lips met. Light and passionate at first, when lust overtook him and flipped me over onto my back.
He rolled on top of me, making the kiss deeper and rougher. I wrapped my arms around his neck, intensifying the lustful kiss even more. My tongue plunged into his mouth and they danced… or more like grinded. Without warning, a sharp pain shot through my tongue.
"Eh!" I broke the kiss, feeling the red liquid pulsing through my tongue. His eyes were glazed; instincts had taken over. He growled and ignored it, roughly kissing me again, sucking my tongue, drawing the blood out for a few seconds, then went back to kissing me. His hands sliding around my sides like crazy.
What the two of us were doing finally hit me like a sack of potat'ers and I shoved him off of me.
"What?" Hiei growled in irritation.
"What am I doing?" shocked with myself, I can't do this. I shouldn't be doing this. I already said I wouldn't do this. I started shaking uncontrollably. Hiei was about to press my shoulder down towards the bed when I stopped him, "You should leave."
Hiei's eyes were finally losing its glazed look. He sat there and stared at me.
"Get out, Hiei," I said sternly. He got off the bed, but remained hesitant, like he still had something to say.
I didn't give him the chance, "Aduro," I aimed my red glowing left hand at him. A few small balls of flames shot out of my fingers at Hiei. Hiei swiftly dodged them all and left the room, slamming the door behind him.
The carpet started to catch fire, "Infusio," my hand glowed blue. A tiny rain cloud formed in my hand and doused the flames.
Boy, wasn't that fun to type. Haha. You know this is twenty pages on Word? Yeah, it was originally nine! Wow… Hey, thanks again to you all who commented about that steam let-er out-er. We're now doing much better. My mom was even laughing about how things don't seem too different without him around (He worked constantly). My little sister now gets to see him once a week right now. We still think we might eventually lose the house, but I'm looking for a job and so is my older sister. But my mom promised that we'll NEVER lose the computer, WOO-HOO! I love you computer! ::glomps Dell:: Well, yeah….
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-The Hidden Pagan (a.k.a. Seira Relur)