Disclaimer: Ahem. Botan?

Botan: Yes?

Me: disclaimer please.

Botan: Oh right. Uhhh, yadiyadaya owns nothing...

Me: Did you even bother to read the script? Aren't you usually the cheerful and spunky one anyways?

Botan: Whatever! It's always the same thing anyways! WHY DO I EVEN HAVE TO BE HERE? NOBODY LOVES ME!

Hiei walks by reading a bookHiei: Don't worry she's just PMSing

Me: ohhhhhh...nn

Anyways, I know that it is taking an awfully long time to actually get to a plot but...I blame it on the longwindedness that is me. That and when I started this I never had a plan for it but still-Longwinded. I'm serious! I don't mean to write most of this stuff! It just pops on the page all on its own, but trust me. There WILL be a plot and it kinda starts in this chapter! Oh! Also this story is bascially dedicated to my bud lightmaidenaya08. She's helped me with this from the beginning and even now. So give her her props!

Chapter VII

Nothing had changed much in two days. Yumi and Aya didn't have anymore episodes after Yumi put protection circles beneath their beds with the help of Hiei and Kurama. Yumi had gotten Hiei to talk a little bit more and play the play station, but that was about it. Yumi spent her time going for walks in the park, drawing, watching movies, working in the garden with Aya and Kurama, or helping fix dinner.

Hiei spent his time alone doing something; nobody ever knew where he was. Sometimes though, Yumi could feel his presence when she walked in the parks or in the woods. They didn't really hang out that much together since they were both stubborn and didn't want anybody to discover that they liked each other. They didn't even want to admit to themselves about it, but they did train together everyday with their swords. It was intense training, but Yumi and Hiei always had fun testing each other's abilities. Sometimes Yuske, Kuwabara, Botan, Kurama, or Aya would come down and watch them.

Kurama and Aya, on the other hand, started to go out on dates and spend a lot of their time together. They had their first date the day after they kissed and had been on a lot more after that. They spent nearly all their time together working in the garden or even doing the dishes. Yuske and Kuwabara had fun with it as they always sang 'Aya and Kurama sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a liter of baby foxes in a baby carriage!' They usually stopped though, when Yumi would come around out of nowhere and hit them upside the head.

Everyone was getting stronger with the training that Yumi or Aya would give them. All in all, everything was going great, especially when Kurama and Aya came back that night to find Botan with a little surprise.

"There you are!" Botan excitedly cheered. She had already rounded everyone else on the couch. Kurama and Aya sat beside Yumi on the end of the couch. "Alright everyone! I thought that I'd get us all a house-warming present!" Everyone was intrigued. She led them all out to the back of the house. Beside the garden, there it was.

"A POOL WITH A HUMUNGOUS HOTTUB!" Yuske and Kuwabara laughed. It was a pretty big hot tub in a very large pool that was in a wooden shelter house-like thing. The hot tub part of the pool was even big enough for all of them to sit in and still have some room, if fact, it looked more like a minnie swimming pool. Hiei and Yumi froze.

There is no way... Hiei told Kurama.

Kurama looked at him. Think about it Hiei...Yumi will be in a bikini... So, Hiei followed everyone back into the house and changed like everyone else with out any further arguements.

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"Yumi!" Aya said as she slid into her sister's room. She hadn't changed into her bikini yet and neither had Yumi. "How are we going to do this!" she asked as she started to pace back and forth. "I don't want Kurama to see the scars on my back..." Since they were tortured by their exes they obviously had horrendous scars on their backs.

They were supposed to disappear like the dreams would when Jase and Adrian were dead, but well, they still had the scars and obviously the dreams. If Hiei and Kurama would figure that out...well they might be mad. Besides, Yumi hadn't figured out what was going on herself. The only possible explanation would be that they were still alive somewhere. She shook her head. That cannot be possible, she saw them die with her own eyes! But still...Yumi shook the thoughts away andtook her sister by the shoulders.

"I know! Calm down! I'm not too thrilled about Hiei seeing mine either," she said. She let go of her sister and began to pace herself. "Okay, I've got it. Our hair should cover the scars, mine especially."

"But what about mine! What it the wind blows or something!" Yumi stopped pacing and turned around to her sister.

"Okay, here," she said picking up a light blue prayer beads bracelet. She chanted softly and touched the bracelet on her forehead. The bracelet turned into a soft purple color. "Wear this and the scars should disappear, but don't let it fall off. I usually use this for me, but I think you would need it more." Aya took the bracelet gratefully and put it on her right hand. She turned around and allowed her sister to check her back. "All gone!" Yumi said cheerfully, pleased with herself. She would've used the same method, but that was her last bead bracelet that allowed such a spell to be put on it effectively. Everything else was broken. "What would you do with out me?" she laughed.

"Thanks!" Aya said as she hugged her sister.

"Okay, okay! Too much love, off." she peeled her sister off of her. "So, what will I wear?" Yumi said as she continued to search through her bathing suits. She picked up a dull, black one-piece suit.

"Oh no you don't." Aya warned. She picked the bathing suit up and threw it away from her sister. "Oh no, you're wearing this." She pulled out a black string bikini. It had a red dragon on the bottom and on the top.

"Don't you think it's a little… revealing?" Yumi asked.

"What are you talking about? You're the one who picked this out at the mall! Besides, it isn't! You just don't won't wear it in front of Hiei!" Aya teased. Yumi glared at her and took it from her hands.

"Fine, I'll wear it."

Aya exited her sister's room giggling. She entered her own room and changed into the bikini she picked out before going to her sister. It was blue with a silver rose pattern on the front of the top area and on the butt of the bottoms. She grabbed a towel and a few minutes later, joined her sister in the hallway so they could walk down together. Yumi had the towel wrapped all the way around her up to her breasts. Aya allowed this until they walked outside, then she yanked the towel off of her.

"Hey!" Yumi hissed. Aya smiled as she held their towels in her arm away from Yumi's reach. She grabbed Yumi's arm and led her to the hot tub.

Everyone but Yumi and Aya were already in the pool or hot tub. Yuske was at one end of the pool dunking Kuwabara beneath the water. Botan was at one end of the hot tub with cucumbers over her eyes and a strange mud like substance covering her face. That woman tended to scare Hiei a little.

Hiei and Kurama were at the other end of the hot tub talking. That's when Yumi and Aya made their entrance. Kurama and Hiei's jaws dropped as they blankly stared at them. Yumi was blushing furiously, but Aya was smiling and waving. She dragged Yumi over to the hot tub after setting their towels a safe distance from Yumi.

Aya sat beside Kurama on one side, making Yumi and Hiei sit together. Kurama pulled himself together and nudged Hiei making him do the same.

"You look nice." Kurama said to Aya. Aya smiled and giggled.

"Of course I do!" Hiei and Yumi just blushed and didn't really talk that much, instead they let Aya and Kurama do all the talking. Eventually Kuwabara and Yuske got tired from dunking each other in the water and went inside to go to bed. Botan fell asleep and started to snore, so Yumi and Hiei splashed her with a bucket of water.

"Oh I never!" she scolded. She stood up and got out of the hot tub. "Yumi, you know I don't like to get my hair wet!" she yelled as she ran back to the house before Hiei and Yumi could get her any wetter. Hiei and Yumi got back in laughing their heads off.

"It was Hiei's idea! I swear!" she yelled after Botan. Botan slammed the door shut in response.

"Nice," Kurama stated as he and Aya laughed as well. That's when they all started to have some fun.

First, it started when Yumi and Aya got out of the pool for a little while to go to the bathroom. When they had gotten back outside, Hiei and Kurama were nowhere to be seen. They looked everywhere until they finally gave up and started to walk back to the house. That's when Hiei and Kurama jumped out from behind a tree and pulled Yumi and Aya down into the deep end of the pool. Yumi and Aya came back up gasping for air. They swam to the edge of the pool and got out.

"You little brat!" Yumi said. Aya only laughed and shook herself dry, like a dog. Kurama and Hiei were laughing their heads off.

Aya, what do you think? Should we teach them whose boss... Yumi thought to her sister making her grin.

Of course. They changed into their demon forms making the two boys stop laughing. Yumi and Aya smiled.

"Now girls," Kurama began. Yumi and Aya smiled innocently at them. Aya took Yumi's hand following her as she stepped onto the water. As soon as her foot touched the water it turned to ice, but only that area of the water. It looked like she was making a bridge with every foot-step.

"Umm… Kurama, I think its time to get out of the pool," Hiei suggested as he pulled on Kurama's arm. Kurama nodded and, with Hiei, swam as fast as they could to the pool's edge and got out. They began to run until, suddenly, Aya and Yumi were in front of them. Yumi and Aya looked at each other and smiled. They ran up to Kurama and Hiei and started to punch and kick them, but not so harshly. Only so that they would have bruises head to toe. They dumped the boys head-first into the hot tub and got in across from them. They groaned as the bruises started to form over their bodies.

"Serves them right," Aya stated, crossing her arms in front of her. They had changed back into their human forms. "Oh, Yumi, you forgot to unfreeze the pool over there." Yumi looked over to where she had run across the pool.

"Oops." she snapped her fingers and the ice melted back into water. She turned back to her sister and smiled. Aya smiled back and they each turned around to watch the boys suffer a little more only to find them gone. "What in the..." she began but was interrupted by someone coming from behind and tightly holding their arms around her so that she couldn't move. Aya was under the same struggle except it was from Kurama. "Hiei! Kurama! You two fakers..." she laughed as Hiei tightened his grip around her.

"Gotcha" he laughed. They all continued to struggle until at the same time, Hiei and Kurama let them go and dunked them under the water. Yumi and Aya both pulled down on the boys' legs making them go under too.

Another hour was spent this way until they were all too tired to fight or barely lift a finger. Yumi and Aya got out first followed by Kurama and Hiei. Yumi and Aya took their towels and started to dry their hair tossing it to one side. Kurama and Hiei were drying off as well when Hiei noticed something. He thought he saw markings on Aya's back. He looked over to Yumi and concentrated on her. When she tossed her hair over her shoulder to dry it he quickly slipped behind her. That's when he saw it. A dragon shaped scar all the way down her back. It looked as if it was first chiseled and engraved, then burned on the skin.

Kurama, take a look at Aya's back. I've just found something on Yumi's and I thought I saw something on Aya's as well. Kurama's eyes widened and he questionably looked at Aya.

The chaos dragon of sealing and pain... Hiei thought to himself. It can't be... He thought as the horror sank in. He looked away unable to look at it anymore.

Taking Hiei's advice, Kurama used his speed, when Aya's back was turned, to slip behind her as Hiei had. He could barely make out a couple of thin lines on her back. What was Hiei so worked up about...? He thought. A water drop from her hair dripped into the thin line that was her scar. The thin line wasn't as thin as he had first suspected; the water branched out into many other lines down her back, each getting wider as if it were a stream branching out into rivers. What in the... Then, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a quick flash of blue on Aya's bracelet. Aha...You little trickster... He thought as he reached down and, without Aya even noticing, took the bracelet from her wrist.

He was horrified by what he saw. Sure, she had those thin little lines on her back, only about a thousand! Starting from the top of her back, the cuts ran deeper and deeper into the flesh. There were burn marks, cuts, and there were whip marks. He could tell that a nine-tail whip-- one of the most deadly and painful-- had been used to make the damage. He turned his head away in anguish as Hiei had. They couldn't bear to see the tortured backs any longer. That's when he and Hiei, slipped back in front of them.

This all took only a couple of seconds.

So, what are we going to do? Hiei asked Kurama.

They obviously didn't let us see everything. They were pretending to dry themselves off once again.

Nothing yet. We should wait until they go upstairs, then we can corner them and ask about the scars. Hiei nodded as he and Kurama turned to the girls, saying no more to each other about their plans.

"Whew, I'm beat," Aya yawned.

"Same here, you guys sure no how to put up a fight!" Yumi laughed. Hiei smirked as Kurama laughed.

"I think it's us who took the beating," Kurama said. "I think I'm going to be sore in the morning."

"No seriously, you guys. We had fun." she turned to her sister who smiled.

"Come on Yumi. I'll race you upstairs!" Aya grinned. Yumi cocked her eyebrow.

"What happened to being tired...?" Aya smiled innocently, but the look didn't last very long. It was soon replaced, with a much more suitable mischievous grin. Yumi turned her back on her sister. "I don't know...I'm pretty tired and I'll have to get up early..." Yumi stifled her laughter as she mouthed 'Don't say a word' to Kurama and Hiei. They too, tried to hide their smiles as Yumi continued to deceive her sister.

"Awe, what's wrong? Are you too scar----" Yumi had taken off. Wind smacked Aya's cheek from her sister's speed. "Hey, CHEATER!" she yelled as she ran after Yumi just as fast. Hiei and Kurama laughed as they walked to the house further discussing what to say to them.

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Yumi had just finished changing into her sleeping clothes when she thought she heard the door open. She spun around only to find it still closed, just the way she had left it. Geez, I'm getting jumpy in my old age... She laughed at herself. When she turned around she jumped; Hiei was standing right in front of her.

"So, exactly how old are you..." Hiei snickered.

Yumi glared at him. "That's not what you should ask a lady." Hiei smirked and shrugged his shoulders. Yumi walked past him to her dresser where she pulled out a thin, black jacket. She put the jacket on and looked in the mirror as she brushed her hair silently; Hiei walked up behind her.

"Yumi, we need to talk about something."

"And what might that be?" Yumi asked still brushing her hair. Hiei took her brush from her hand and leaned over her to sit it on the dresser.

"About this," he said. He brushed her hair aside and pulled down her jacket. He traced the part of the scar that was showing-the bottom half.

Yumi stiffened as she felt his finger touch the scar. Her eyes closed as memories flooded back into her mind, painful memories. She reached behind her and stopped his hand from tracing any more. "Please don't do that..." she stammered. She opened her eyes and stood up so she could face him. "Jase used to do that every night," her voice was sharp when she mentioned Jase. "So, where's Kurama?"

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Aya had just finished changing into her silky, pink pajamas and putting her rose in the vase by her bed, when she turned around to find Kurama leaning against the wall. Aya jumped.

"Geez, don't scare me like that!" she scolded as she tried to regain her breath. Kurama didn't smile like he usually did, though, giving Aya the signal that something was wrong, or he was mad. "W...what's bothering you..." she stuttered. Kurama looked up, his emerald gaze making her even more unsettled.

"Aya..." he began. He walked towards her and put his hands on her shoulders. "We need to talk about what had happened to you and Yumi. Somehow we didn't discover everything behind the mystery." Aya looked away.

"I...I don't know what you're talking about," she laughed, nervously, as she broke from his grasp and walked to the other side of the room. She petted Spike, which she had moved to her room after the garden incident, and sighed.

"Aya, I saw your scars..."

Aya turned around. "What! But that's…" she looked down to her right wrist. Eeep! Where did it go! Kurama walked back over to her.

"Looking for this?" he said as he held up her bracelet. All the magic was gone from it. She didn't even feel the slightest tingle of her sister's magic in it anymore. She laughed.

"Oh...well...umm...it's a nice bracelet, hugh?" She decided it was time to get her sister. "I'm not saying a word without Yumi here," she stubbornly stated, defiantly lifting her chin. Kurama sighed.

"Very well." Aya contacted Yumi immediately.

YUMI!

In her room Yumi suddenly heard her sister's voice in her head. She was yelling as usual.

"Ouch..." Yumi groaned as she rubbed her forehead. "You now, she doesn't have to yell..." Hiei snickered.

Yes, Aya what is it? Yumi asked.

Yumi! Kurama's questioning me about my scars! He found out...

What! So that's how Hiei knew.

Hugh?

Hiei's in my room. Says we need to talk about my scar, which means that he saw yours and knew I must have had one too!

How did you lose the bracelet?

Umm...Kurama must have taken it from me when we were at the pool...

AYA! What happened to staying alert?

Hehehe...

Oh well, what are we going to do now?

In answer to her question, a pink door suddenly appeared in the corner of her room. Roses embroidered the frame of the door, filling the room with their sweet odor.

Aya, that's quite an eye sore... WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO THAT FOR! I'M RIGHT ACCROSS YOUR FREAKING ROOM! Yumi yelled.

In her room, Aya jumped back from the force her sister's mind put against hers. Even though she, herself was powerful enough to enter someone's mind, her sister's mind was even more powerful. It took a lot for a normal person, or demon, to enter the mind.

Geez, Yumi watch how much power you put into your thoughts...

Never mind that! Get this dang door out of my room!

Okay, I will as long as you come over here now!

Hn.

Yumi walked to the new eye sore in her room. She opened the door and gestured for Hiei to follow. Hiei looked at the door with interest and annoyance.

"She didn't have to do that," he mumbled. Yumi nodded.

"Yes, I agree. But... it's her style." She walked through the door into the blue mist that shrouded the inside. Hiei hesitated before he went through the door. But before he was actually through he grabbed one of the roses, a pink and purple one; he saw Yumi admire it before going through the door herself.

Aya saw her sister appear in front of the door she had just made. Hiei followed, bumping into Yumi since she didn't bother to move. Aya ran to her sister and hugged her.

"Yumi!" It took Yumi a minute to peel her sister off of her.

"Aya, what did you do that for! We haven't even been apart for thirty minutes."

"I don't know...I think its funny!" she laughed. Yumi sighed. I'm way too tired for this... Kurama and Hiei spoke up, pulling her from her thoughts.

"Ahem. We didn't get you two here so you could hug...or whatever..." Hiei said as he pushed his way past Yumi. Yumi scowled at him.

"Then what do you guys want?" she asked.

"The scars," Hiei answered. Yumi sighed.

"Oh, yah...about that..."

Ohhhhhhh! Almost a cliffhanger! (Almost 'cuase I already have the next chapter ready)What's gonna happen? ooooooohh! Read and Review! I KNOW you all are out there...so please review!