YYH Road Trip
Chapter 4
Solaris: I don't own YYH, okay? We've been through this a billion times.
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Solaris drove cautiously, it was a curved road and she did not want her car damaged in any way. She had bought gas on the way out of the RV camp and they were down to about 25 dollars and 54 cents. Hiei sat back, staring out his window, bored.
"Trees, trees, bamboo out the ears, kudzu, more trees. Nothing I couldn't have seen at home in that... what's that word you use to describe that forest at home, Solaris?" Hiei sighed.
"Gimongus. And I dunno, I think this forest beats anything I saw here or in Reikai." Solaris said. As soon as the words were out of her mouth, she regretted them.
"Yeah, about the Reikai thing. I still don't get how a fox demon can live in Reikai and get away with it." Hiei asked. Her response was always good for a laugh.
"We've been through this a million times. I was with that acting company of thieves, and we happened to be touring that part of Reikai, remember?" Solaris sighed. Hiei could see her in the rearview mirror, and the long- suffering look on her face was so animated it was funny.
"Hold it, something I don't get. You were in that company how? You just mastered picking pockets, and originally, Kuwabara caught you stealing that gem." Kurama said. (A/N: I'm in the process of writing Solaris's origins at the moment, so bear with me and just read on. You won't hear much more about her past anymore, anyway.)
"Don't remind me. That wasn't the high point of my career. I'm thinking of glossing over it in my memoirs, if I even write a memoir. I was better at illusion. I could pull a gem out and all the surveillance would see would be a brief flash of nothing before it'd be there again. And I'd be long gone before the illusion faded." Solaris explained. This was a part of her history no one had heard before. Suddenly, Solaris's car began to shudder. She pulled off into a small clearing that was hidden from the rest of the road. She stopped the car, popped the hood open, propped it up and began her search for the problem.
"What's the deal, what's wrong?" Hiei asked, a bit irate. "You want those cops to catch us?"
"Okay, Hiei, two things. One, my car is shuddering and that's not good. Two, we're out of their jurisdiction." Solaris said from under the hood. "I think I found the problem. One of the spark plugs isn't firing right. Probably the first one on the left. I replaced the others the day before we left, but I didn't have the money to buy another one." Solaris shut the hood, a small smudge of something on her cheek. She gave Hiei a 10-dollar bill. "Okay, I need a spark plug for a '92 Toyota Corolla. It can't cost more than that, I mean, honestly. There's a town about five miles from here, and an auto parts store. Please try to be back before sundown, okay? It's 3:50 now." Solaris said. Hiei 'hn'-ed and left.
"Solaris, you have a smudge, I'll get it." Kurama said just as Solaris wiped it off herself.
"Thanks, I think I can handle it." she smiled. So they sat to wait for Hiei to return. He did, but only a few minutes before the sun set.
"Sorry, inventory problem. Had to go to the next town over. Lucky for me it wasn't too far." Hiei said as he handed her the box with the spark plug and sat down, just barely tolerating Foxglove's fussing over him.
"Keep the change. Thanks, Hiei." Solaris smiled as she opened the hood and grabbed the socket wrench from her small tool kit from the trunk. She silently thanked her lucky stars that her grandfather figure from the company had taught her how to do things like this. Pretty soon the car was fixed and purring like a kitten.
"Let's stay here for the night. It might be for the best." Kurama said. Solaris nodded in agreement as she got her keys and locked the car.
"You two aren't sleeping in the car tonight, either. There's enough room in the camper if we share beds." Solaris smiled. She was getting Hiei back for earlier, and he reacted in the exact way she had hoped.
"WHAT? No way am I sharing a bed with that muse!" Hiei said stubbornly.
"Now, I never said how we were going to do this, but since you insist..." Solaris grinned evilly.
Later, as he sat in the bed by the sleeping muse, Hiei mentally cursed himself for doing that. Solaris was asleep by Kurama, smiling peacefully in her slumber, and Hiei knew that Kurama was watching her sleep. She had been so tired that she had just climbed into the bed and fallen asleep instantly. Hiei was getting tired himself, so he laid down and turned his back to the muse. If this kept up, it would be one long trip.
Later that night, a lone figure crept up to the camper and tried the door. It yielded easily and, in the moonlight, the person could see to get around. They tiptoed to the bed Solaris was in and gasped as if in shock. Then the figure crept back to the door and motioned. Four more figures joined the original to pick up Solaris by her feet and arms. She came to as they moved her and began to ask something, but the original figure slapped a hand over her mouth. Solaris tried to scream but it was muffled and her captors had no problem removing her from her home on the road.
When they arrived at their destination, they released Solaris, who promptly stood her ground in a furious fighting stance that she had learned from watching many fights. One of the figures switched on a light and began to ream her out.
"Sister Guiniviere! It's not bad enough that you ran from the convent, but to be in the same bed as a man? For shame!"
"Oh God. I have been kidnapped by nuns." Solaris sighed. (A/N: I'm not nun-phobic or anything. I just thought this would be a cute situation.) "Ladies, I'm not this Sister What's-her-name. I'm a 16-year old girl. And that wasn't a man, that was a 16-year old... Wait, yeah, he's a man." Solaris said, recalling how old Kurama really was. "Now let me go, you Catholic Amazons!"
"Sister Guiniveire! Put on your habit and get to chapel this instant!" one of the nuns commanded as she threw Solaris a habit. Solaris held it up to see it was just her size.
"Now I see why they think that I'm her." Solaris grumbled as she looked at the drape of the habit on her 5'3" frame. (A/N: In all my stories, Solaris, Foxglove and Hiei are the same height. No like? Deal.) During chapel, Solaris imitated the other sisters and prayed that she could escape soon. After it was over, Solaris got 'lost' and pulled her cell phone out of its case. (She had fallen asleep so fast that she hadn't even removed the case from her belt loop.) Turning it on, she dialed Foxglove's number and hoped someone would answer. Foxglove did.
"Moshi Moshi?" the muse yawned.
"Foxglove, it's Solaris. The nuns have me."
"Solaris, I thought you were Church of Christ, not Catholic."
"YOU DIMWIT! I MEAN THE NUNS KIDNAPPED ME!" Solaris half yelled, half whispered.
"Oh."
"Now listen closely. There's an old stone convent a short walk away from where the camper is parked. Can't take more than five minutes if you walk fast. Get the guys and get over here NOW!" Solaris growled as she hung up. Within five minutes, a familiar voice rang throughout the convent.
"Solaris? Where are you?"
"Kurama!" Solaris yelled as she rushed toward him. As she hugged his neck, she whispered, "Get me the hell out of here, please! I want out of this damn outfit."
"Sister Guiniveire!" one of the nuns shouted in alarm. Solaris turned around and threw the habit back at the nuns, revealing her jeans and white T-shirt.
"I'm not her! I am Solaris Moon, and the furthest thing from a nun!"
"Prove it. Say your Hail Marys. If they're wrong, you can leave." a nun demanded. Solaris borrowed a rosary from a nun and began to speak. Unfortunately, in her acting company days, one of the spirits had been a former Catholic and Solaris, having the nearest tent to them, had subconsciously learned the Hail Marys. (A/N: I'm not Catholic, so I don't know them.) When told that they were correct, Solaris stole Foxglove's cell phone and handed it to Kurama.
"Okay, Kurama, what's my ring tone? Since these whack jobs don't think I'm me." Solaris said in fury.
"Koori no Naifu wo Daite. (Embracing the ice knife)." Kurama replied, deciding not to ask why her ring tone was one of his songs.
"Dial my cell phone. If that isn't my ring tone, I'm Sister whoever-she- is." Solaris said. Kurama dialed it and sure enough, Koori no Naifu wo Daite played. The nuns quickly apologized and released Solaris, and, upon arriving back at the camper, she locked the door once they were all inside.
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True confessions for this chapter: 1) You may never see Yusuke and Kuwabara in this fic, but you'll hear about them sometimes. 2) Deep down, Hiei likes Foxglove, but mostly as a friend. Read, review, vote, or send in an application. The list of things to vote on is below: Bring back the twins from chapter 2? Bring back the random guy who was hitting on Solaris from chapter 3? Bring back the nuns from this chapter?