Nuema sat on the floor in her room. In her lap was a pair of black jeans and there were several black roses with red liquid like streaks on them. She was putting the plastic roses through the belt loops and tying them there with black string.
The window was open and there was a rather warm breeze coming in from outside. There was a slight sound from her window and Nuema looked up at Shiei.
"Good afternoon," Nuema looked back to what she had been doing earlier.
"What are you doing?"
"Making a belt out of black roses."
"Why?"
Nuema looked up at Shiei and smirked. "In a few days it will be the last day in October. You've known me long enough to know what that means."
"Halloween."
Nuema nodded and finished with the last rose. She put the jeans in her closet. "Feel like scaring some wimps this year, Shiei?"
"Hn. Scaring idiotic humans without getting in trouble. What do you think?"
Nuema spoke over her slight snickering. "That's a yes."
School that day was a partial day. Nuema grinned and ran as fast as she could in the school uniform t her house. There were a couple of decorations on the lawn. A realistic Styrofoam tombstone, a large spider's web with a large black and red spider. There was nothing that scary, yet at least.
As the sun set Nuema put up the rest of the decorations. There was a small wall mounted fountain, using colored water that looked like blood. On the spider's web was a pillow wrapped in cheesecloth with red dye on it, it looked like a small body wrapped in webbing with bloody puncture wounds.
Nuema went back inside and put her costume on.
After nightfall Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara stopped at the path to a rather spooky looking house. They had been to a few "scary" houses so far, but this one was without a doubt the scariest. Kuwabara looked kind of scared and he looked over the pillow on the web and the fountain.
"Is that real blood?"
"No, there isn't blood's pungent odor in the air."
Yusuke, dressed up as a ninja, laughed at Kuwabara, "Don't tell me you're scared."
Hiei smirked, he was dressed up as himself, minus his scarf, cloak and bandana so his sword and jagan could be seen easily. His jagan was glowing blue in the dark. Kurama had black pants and a black shirt on with a blood red belt, and he was holding a black rose. Kuwabara was dressed as a court jester.
"No I'm not."
"Hn. Let's get this over with already."
After a few seconds of urging Kuwabara to come with them the four walked down the path. Hiei vaguely heard an evil snicker in the dark.
"G...guys, what's that?"
Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke looked over to where Kuwabara was pointing. There was a purple eye glowing red high in the air. It was watching their every movement, it followed them as they walked. When they walked up to the door a flame flared up on the lawn.
Kuwabara was scared stiff, and Yusuke was busy laughing at Kuwabara. Hiei refused to knock on the door leaving Kurama to do so. Kurama knocked on the door. It was answered a few seconds later by Nuema. She had on her jeans with the black rose belt, a black long sleeved shirt and she had tied her hair back with a big black ribbon. She had put white makeup on her skin and white lipstick, there was red stuff on her face that looked like scars. Her face looked dead. Everyone blinked.
"Zaira?"
"The one and only."
"What was that eye thing?"
Nuema cocked an eyebrow. "What eye thing?"
Kuwabara looked to where he had seen the eye but it wasn't there. Everyone, except Nuema, looked confused. There had been an eye there before, hadn't there?
Nuema shivered slightly and there was a dull thud in the area where the boys were looking.
"I'll look at your 'eye' problem." Nuema forced them as far as she could from the tree. "Stay here."
She picked up a flashlight from where she had hidden it earlier and turned it on. The light shined on a tree, she walked over to it, then walked around the trunk.
'Get that light out of my eyes.'
Nuema lowered her flashlight and looked at the source of the voice, Shiei. Shiei's bandana was off, revealing a purple jagan eye.
'What happened Shiei?' Before Shiei could answer, Nuema felt something cold wrap around her and drain her energy a lot. Her flashlight dropped to the ground and was shut off. Even though her eyes were open, she couldn't see anything and she collapsed to her knees. Nuema was released and she could see again. She shivered, feeling extremely cold all of a sudden.
'That'. Shiei looked at Nuema, slightly concerned, 'They found you again.'
Nuema picked up her flashlight and stood up. 'I could tell. Wanna call it a night?'
Shiei pulled her bandana out of her pocket and put it on, nodding. Even if she was too stubborn to admit it, her spirit energy was low and she needed to rest badly. Shiei jumped into a tree and fell asleep.
Nuema sighed and turned off the light, walking back to her house. She opened the door after putting the flashlight back. She forced a convincing laugh before she spoke.
"Nothing was there, you boys must have been seeing things."
When they had gone down the path she went inside her house closing the door behind herself. She turned off the lights outside and went upstairs.