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Chapter IX

"Tell me exactly why I'm wearing this…this contraption!" Yumi snarled angrily while tugging on the dress she was wearing. She looked in the mirror again seriously considering the attractive idea of ripping the horrible thing to shreds. Her sister had adorned her in a short, pink dress that had short, lacey sleeves. Sure, she probably could've stood it if it was a regular pink, but no. It was a bright, extremely bright pink. She hated it, no…

She loathed it.

"Come on Yumi," Aya pleaded. "You look adorable in it! Besides, you've got to wear something to the dance. A dress," she added when she saw Yumi's face momentarily light up. Needless to say she adopted the more suitable scowl once again.

"She's right dear," Botan chirped while curling her own hair. Did she just call me 'dear'? Yumi questioned herself, turning away from the mirror to let Aya occupy it.

"Then why do you get to wear a different dress, one that you picked out?" Aya had on a very elegant, sleeveless white dress with roses entwined along the top. The bottom looked as though rose petals were falling. Yumi sighed. "Why can't I pick something out for myself? Just go out the door and leave me alone for…let's say an hour. I should be ready by then." she innocently suggested.

"Hm, let me think about that…no."

"Fine," she grumbled sitting in a nearby chair. She couldn't believe she even said yes about going to a stupid school dance, especially with Hiei!

For two days after they kissed, and gave her those beautiful roses, he hadn't even talked to her! She felt like ripping his throat out right about now, but…he didn't even train with her and since he didn't train with her then their was no opportunity to hurt him. Then again, nobody had seen Hiei until last night… Oh well. Maybe he was just shy or, the thought that she currently kept coming back to, didn't even care for her; maybe it was all a ploy, a game. Even though deep down she knew it wasn't anything like that, she couldn't shrug off those stupid thoughts.

So, she agreed to go to the dance when Keiko came more or less demanding that Yuske go, after chastising him for not going to school of course –that was funny. Anyways, perhaps he could redeem himself. If not, however, she'd kill him. Either way she had to look good which meant not wearing a frilly pink dress.

I wonder how Hiei's faring…she thought as Botan and Aya trapped her in a corner wielding a curling iron and various hair products.

"No." Hiei stated, backing into a corner. "I'm not going to go to that stupid meaningless dance."

"Hiei you can't go back on your word," Kurama told Hiei making sure that the others were following as he pulled Hiei from the shadows. He was assigned the 'important' job, along with Kuwabara, of making sure that Hiei and Yuske got nice clothes to wear to the dance later on that day which led them to where they currently were: the mall.

Why did they get this job you ask? It's simple: they were the only ones who cared about going. Kuwabara longed to see his beloved Yukina and Aya wanted to go so much that Kurama just had to go. Oh well, at least he actually liked dances.

The only person he was worried about was Hiei. Aya had paired him and Yumi together to go even though neither he nor Yumi showed the slightest interest in going. But then again he did recall the way they had said that they would go with each other…

Flashback

"What about you guys?" Kuwabara asked Yumi and Hiei. They looked at each other red tingeing their cheeks slightly.

"Umm...I don't know..." Yumi mumbled. Hiei didn't answer at all; he only kept on gazing out the window expressionless as usual.

"Oh, of course they're going!" Aya said getting up and patting her sister on the shoulder. Yumi and Hiei glared at her making Aya smile somewhat oblivious to the death glares. "Oh, come on you guys. It'll be fun!"

"Not if I have to wear a dress." Yumi stated. This made Hiei smirk slightly.

"I'd love to go," he said. Yumi glared back at him then smirked as well.

"You have to dress up too ya know." He continued to smirk.

"But I won't have to wear a dress."

"Oh I'm sure we can suit you up in a nice, stiff, penguin suit or something."

"But I won't be wearing a dress."

Yumi glared at him once more then sighed. "You're right," she said making Hiei smile in triumph before turning back to the window. "So, when exactly is this dance?" Yumi asked.

"Tomorrow," Keiko answered. Aya jumped in excitement. "Yuske you'll pick me up at five." Keiko said as she turned around and left not giving Yuske the chance to argue.

"Oh, I can't wait!" Aya cheered spinning her sister around. "It's been so long since we've danced!" she laughed. Yumi grunted and pulled her sister off. "Oh, don't be that way! Okay, first we've got to find dresses, figure out where we'll eat, and…and…" she went on and on.

End Flashback

…Teasing.

That was the way they showed affection for one another. He wondered if they even knew this themselves, but later on that night Aya told him some surprising news. She said that Hiei and Yumi had kissed.

He didn't ask where or how she had gotten this information – he wasn't sure if he even wanted to know – but it didn't matter. He was truly glad that Hiei had found someone. Well, until he heard from Aya that he was screwing it up. Evidently Hiei wasn't talking to Yumi, so Kurama was supposed to have one of his little 'talks' with Hiei. Kurama wasn't worried though. Hiei was probably only thinking and pondering about what was going on. But still, he promised Aya he'd talk. She had…very good methods of persuasion.

"Come on Hiei," Yuske said turning around and helping Kurama. "If I can survive the stupid meaningless dances you can certainly get through one too." He looked sideways at him determining whether or not it would be wise to tease him about his 'date'. He did. "Besides, think about how hot Yumi would look all dolled up. I heard from Botan that she looks astonishing in a dress."

BAAAAAAAAM!

"OW! What the hell was that for!" Yuske half laughed and yelled at the same time; he rubbed his sore head a moment before continuing. He didn't know Hie could reach that high. "Geez! I was only trying to help by giving you some helpful tips! How do you think I get through these dances? Keiko always looks soooooo…" –he drooled a little out of the corner of his mouth for emphasis.

Meanwhile Kurama was busy inside the store he had lead them to looking for clothes. Satisfied, he thrust the clothes into Hiei's arms before shoving him into a nearby dressing room. He didn't need Hiei to argue with him at this point and he planned on not giving him enough time to even consider it.

"You are a baka if you think that I'll wear this Kurama," Hiei said as he threw the clothes back over the door onto Kurama's head. Kurama sighed. This was going to be a long day.

Yumi was in the bathroom thinking of what to do about the dress when suddenly the door opened.

"Oh my god AYA, what the hell do you think you're doing!"

"Well, first of all there's the dance in a couple of minutes and second of all…" Aya grinned cheekily.

"And second of all what?" Yumi asked sharply. She glared at her sister who started to laugh nervously. Then she grinned and held up one of Yumi's drawing notebooks –she had four in which she constantly drew in. Yumi turned pale as Aya flipped through the pages.

"You know, Kurama and I were wondering why you had been so, well disappointed-looking and why Hiei wasn't around at all..." she smiled as she found what she was looking for. "Then I noticed you drawing quite furiously. And I know that you draw what's on your mind, so I found your notebook and had a look see." she showed Yumi the page she was looking at though Yumi already had a pretty good idea what it was. It was a charcoal pencil drawing of Yumi and Hiei kissing. Yumi dove after her sister and stole the notebook back. It was her turn to laugh nervously.

"Umm...That never happened...Heh heh..." she laughed bashfully.

"Oh but it did," she heard Shiva say from behind her. Traitor Yumi thought to Shiva as she glided to Yumi's shoulder.

"It was a rather sweet kiss too," Kyo said from the door. Yumi cursed her sister for leaving it open. With a flick of her wrist she sent the door flying shut slamming a mere couple of inches from Kyo's tail. He ran and climbed on top of Aya's shoulder before placing a glare at Yumi.

"You were spying on me!" Yumi accused the weasel and dragon. Kyo and Shiva smirked. "That's it! Shiva, you're grounded from having any of your nice little deserts until I say so and as for you" –she pointed angrily at Kyo—"take this!" With that she started to throw ice daggers at him and Aya.

Yumi laughed mercilessly as she watched Shiva join in the attack with a few blasts of ice and fire. Kyo hid behind Aya's hair while she tried desperately to dodge the onslaught.

"Wait Yumi, we promise not to tell anybody!" Aya shrieked. Yumi pondered the proposition just made and slowly nodded her head.

"Okay. Shiva stop." At her command the pet dragon quit spitting fire and ice and glided to Yumi's shoulder. Kyo was busy patting the fire from his ACDC shirt. He glared at Shiva who spit some ice at him making him run back into Aya's hair. "Shiva please get Kyo and leave me and my sister to talk, ALONE this time." Kyo grumbled as he jumped from his usual perch. This should be amusing... Shiva thought to Yumi. Yumi smiled as Shiva growled, swooped down, and picked Kyo up with her claws.

"What the...Ahhhh! What are you doing?"

"Come on Kyo, let's have lunch..." she said as she flew out into the hall with him screaming and trying to break free. Yumi and Aya laughed at the scene.

"Ya think she'll actually do it?" Aya asked a little frightened.

"No, he'll get away somehow."

"Only if he runs into the right person that'll help him.Speaking of people what aboutHiei..." she smiled. Yumi glared at her. "Come on! What are you guys so freaked out about? It's not like he's a bad kisser...is he?" she asked. "Oh no! Are you?"

"What? No! I mean, no. He's a really good kisser –I'm a really good kisser!—it's just…"

"Just what?" Aya was beginning to become impatient. If she was gong to fix this problem she had to know ALL the facts.

"I don't know." She answered truthfully. "I wish that I could tell what's going on, but I can't." She sighed as she sat down on the edge of the bathtub. "What should I do? I can't kill him…"

"Y-you're asking me?" she asked putting her hand to Yumi's forehead. "Are you sick?"

"Shut up! Fine, forget I said anything." Yumi pushed her sister's hand from her forehead and got up, but Aya pulled her back down.

"Sorry. It's just, you never ask me these sorts of things!"

"Hn."

"Don't worry. Things will work out with you guys, in fact I'm sure of it" she proclaimed proudly.

Yumi cocked her eyebrow. "And how, pre tell, do you know that?" Aya gulped as she received a glare that could've made hell freeze over.

"You. Told. Kurama. Didn't you?" Aya forced herself to laugh.

"Umm, yes, but look; now you can have Kurama talk to Hiei or something!"

"No."

"But!"

"No." Aya sighed. It was no use. Besides, she knew that Kurama would talk to Hiei anyways; in fact, Kurama was having the same talk with him right now.

Aya held her hands up in an attempt to calm her sister—Yumi had her backed into a corner of the room. "Fine, fine, you win. I won't tell Kurama to talk to Hiei, but..."

"But what?"

"But now we have to finish getting ready for the dance silly!" Aya shouted. Yumi jumped a mile high from the sudden shouting. Aya grabbed Yumi and sped off to Botan's room once again.

Hiei sat at his usual spot on the windowsill forcing himself to wait while the girls finished getting ready. He clutched the velvet box he held in a tight grip, remembering what Kurama had coached him about and showed him earlier.

Kurama had specifically pulled him aside to talk; he knew that much by the serious look in his friend's eyes. In short, Kurama showed him the drawings that Yumi had done and he had to say that he was impressed and relieved at the same time. He was glad that Yumi actually seemed to care about him the way he did for her. Of course he should know such things already considering the very pleasurable kiss they had shared recently.

In fact that same kiss was the exact reason as to why he had gone away for awhile. He knew that she wasn't ready for anything any more intimate, considering what she had just relived would've resurfaced some rather unpleasant memories about Jase, and he didn't want to pressure her. If he had stayed he certainly would've let his body take over instead of reasonable judgment and he didn't want to inflict such decisions upon her right now. But Kurama had said that she was getting mad like all women would, so now he definitely had to make up for the past couple of days. Women could be scary when mad. That was why he held a nice little velvet box. Kurama had led him to a jewelry store where he bought something for her. Hopefully she'd forgive him and hopefully listen to him and answer his question.

That wasn't asking too much, right? A sound from up the stairs announced the girls' presence.

Oh well. For better or for worse, I suppose I'll find out…

When Yumi met her sister in her room, Aya looked at her from head to toe. She snapped her fingers and made Yumi's dress turn back to pink. Yumi had come not in the dress her sister gave her, but a completely different one. This one was sleeveless, long and silky that slit all the way up one side to her hip. Beneath that part of the dress was a short black one; she also had on long black gloves.

"What the! I don't think so!" Yumi yelled snapping her fingers and changing it back to purple.

"Come on Yumi!" Aya whined. "You have got to wear something besides purple! How about a bright color for once, like pink!" she snapped her fingers again making the dress turn brighter pink. Yumi snapped her fingers changing it to black. Aya changed it to orange then Yumi changed it to dark blue. Then, at the same time, Yumi tried to turn her dress to green while Aya tried to turn it to yellow. The outcome was a soft, light blue color that made the dress look like waves when it moved. Yumi was about to turn it again when she decided not to.

"Fine, it looks good this way. At least it's not pink." Aya nodded her head in agreement and smiled.

"You look great!" she said as she took her sister's hand. "Come on! Let's go!"

Kurama was satisfied that he had talked to Hiei and had gotten him into a nice crimson-red, button up shirt and some nice black pants; however, he couldn't manage to get him to not spike his hair. He, himself, was wearing a loose silky white shirt with a black suit jacket over it and black pants. He was playing around with a seed when the girls finally came down the stairs.

Kurama smiled as he saw Aya come down first. He thought she looked like the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Next was Yumi. Hiei's jaw dropped when she came down. She should dress up more often...he thought to himself.

"You look beautiful," Kurama said as he kissed Aya's hand. Hiei and Yumi rolled their eyes, but Aya loved it. She giggled.

"Thank you, handsome."

"I've got a gift for you," he said as he stood behind her. He touched her rose and hair-brette holding up her mass of curls for only a minute beforesomethingstarted to grow. A vine of tiny roses entwined in her hair and fell down like her hair did.

He held up a mirror so she could see. Aya gasped as soon as she saw it. "Wow, thanks Kurama!" she exclaimed as she turned around and kissed him.

"You look...really beautiful." Hiei said to Yumi, turning her attention to him.

"You look good too Sunshine," shesaid making sure that hecould hear thatshe was mad with him. Then, he did something that she never suspected. He kissed her. It was sweet and tender and unfortunately short. For that moment she forgot about the past couple of days and forgave him, but that didn't last long. Still, she followed him when he tugged her arm leading her into the kitchen before anyone besides Aya and Kurama came down the stairs.

"I'm sorry." He stated staring into her eyes. His gaze was sincere and his mind clear of any lies, but soon her anger of the past few days engulfed her yet again.

"Oh you're sorry now?" she asked. "Where were you these last couple of days? I was worried and possibly driven mad! I considered killing you, Hiei."

Hiei lowered his gaze, ashamed. "I'm sorry Yumi, but I just needed to think some things through. I thought that you wouldn't need some romantic interest after remembering what had happened and –"he was cut off by Yumi passionately kissing him. After getting over the initial shock of her yelling at him just moments before he quickly and eagerly returned the kiss with as much vigor as she.

Reluctantly breaking away he asked with slight amusement in his vioce, "What happened? I thought you were mad at me."

"I was and still am…a little, but you don't have to decide whether or not I can handle this. I can do that and I thought that was already clear." She smirked a little. "Besides after having that one kiss and then seeing you here looking so…good I couldn't resist." This made Hiei break a small smile of his own. The look in his eyes was all she needed in response: he felt the exact same way. Yumi's eyes traveled to the small box he was still holding. "What's that?"

Hiei looked down to his hand. He had completely forgotten about it. "…oh um…it's a, well, a gift…" she excitedly took from his hands and opened it. Inside was the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen. It was a silver moon pendant that hung from a simply beautiful silver chain.

"Oh Hiei," she said grinning as she hugged him. "Can you?"

Hiei nodded taking the necklace and standing behind her to put it on. She lifted her curtain of curled hair for Hiei; he then put the necklace on and with a mischievous smirk started to kiss her neck. "Can I ask you something?" he whispered in her ear, nibbling it.

"Yes." She replied while biting down the urge to purr.

"Will you be my mate?"

Yumi smirked as she turned around. Smoothly she pulled back his shirt revealing his shoulder, then she bit down on his flesh drawing blood making him grimace somewhat. Just as quickly as she bit him she kissed the wound licking off the blood and healing it until a slight scar remained. "Yes." She said gesturing to the mark she had just created. "Now that I've marked you, you are mine, so there." He smirked as his lips met hers once more.

"I can live with that." Un-willfully she grabbed his arm and led him back into the room where everyone now stood (with the exception of Yukina. She was meeting them at the dance.), furry creatures and dragons as well.

"It's time to go to the dance." She sighed making Hiei accidentally smile in front of everyone.

"Wow, what has gotten in to you?" Kyo snickered. "From what I understand, you show no emotions. This, my friend, is a complete let down." Hiei glared at Kyo and wouldn't look away. Soon everyone saw Kyo's pants start to sizzle a little. Kyo sniffed the air.

"Hey, does anyone else smell smoke?" he asked as his pants actually became on fire by now. Kyo turned to look behind him when he finally noticed it. "AH! ARE YOU F-censored-ING KIDDING ME!" he screamed as he started to roll on the ground. Yumi forced herself to stop laughing with Hiei and nudged him in the side making him quit. Kyo ran and jumped onto Aya.

"Aya! Make them quit!"

"It's alright Kyo..." she laughed, but then she realized that it was K-Y-O. She looked down to catch him looking down the front of her dress with a stupid grin. "KYO!" she yelled as she picked him up and threw him across the room. "Shiva, get him!" she screamed.

Immediately, Shiva flew from where she sat, perched on top of a shelf, and grabbed Kyo by the tail. She then flew out the window with Kyo screaming bloody murder. "Shall we go?" she asked everyone as she, calmly, walked out the door holding Kurama's hand.

"Dammit!" Adrian shouted as he looked into the mirror his brother was holding. It was an enchanted mirror allowing them to see whatever they wished which happened to be what Aya and Yumi were currently up to. At that moment they had just witnessed Aya and Kurama making out as well as what had happened between Yumi and Hiei. "Why does she have to kiss him like THAT!"

"Shut up Adrian," Jase said shifting his position to get more comfortable. Unlike his brohter he'd never show he was jealous. They were outside the YYH gang's current house, sitting among the trees. They had on certain pendants and charms that allowed them to be invisible to their eyes as well as unable to sense. This had allowed them to walk freely upon their house, but not inside since the ever crafty Yumi had put up charms by all the doors prohibiting them from entering.

"I will not rest until I see them dead," he said referring to Hiei and Kurama. "Those girls are ours and they should know it."

"Idiot. They think we are dead."

"Yeah, I thought for sure that they would know about us when you just had to see Yumi writhing in pain because of your spell. She saw you almost blowing our cover and Hiei even sensed you for awhile."

Jase grimaced. "I'm warning you brother. Do not go too far. I have little patience with these issues and besides, they won't be enjoying themselves for long; remember what the plan is or would I have to repeat it slower to you this time?" he mocked.

"No. I know what to do and trust me. I will not fail especially since the spells haven't worn off yet." He grinned as he made a small hand gesture teleporting the mirror back totheir home.

"Good." Jase said as he and his brother watched the happy couples walk out of the house and into someone's car. Adrian laughed.

"Operation 'get the girls back before the boss kills us' is under way."

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