Chapter 1
Hiei Jumped along from tree to tree being careful not to be seen. He was following Yusuke, who from what he could tell was in a hurry. He turned down the street into a neighborhood with large sycamore trees on either side of the wide street. All of the houses were large with well kept gardens and were easily worth millions, "so what is Yusuke doing here?" Hiei thought.
Yusuke stopped at the largest house on the street, checked a piece of paper, then walked up to the big door and knocked three times. He stepped back so as not to surprise who ever answered the door by being right in their face. A man wearing a grey suit answered the door. "You must be Mr. Urameshi. Yes, we've been expecting you." The man in the grey suit stepped aside and Yusuke walked in. the door slammed behind the two of them. Hiei was disgruntled; he wanted to know what Yusuke was up to. Not that he cared or anything, but he was bored so naturally poking his nose into other people's business was something he found enjoyable.
Hiei needed to find a way into that house. He was pondering this thought when he felt Kurama coming, "hello Hiei." The words were to be expected. Kurama (unlike norma people) never said "hey" or "what's up" it was always hello and then a name, and always a full name never a nick name.
"hn." Was all Hiei felt like saying at the moment.
"Hiei what are you doing here?"
"hn."
"oh, your following Yusuke. So what's he doing here?"
"hn. I wouldn't tell you if I did know."
Hiei still needed a way to get into that house while still being discrete.
"Hey Kurama, would you let Youko out for a sec?"
"Why?"
"I just need to talk to him, ok?"
"Why?"
"hn."
"Fine. I'll let him out."
Silver smoke filed the air around Kurama and when it was gone there stood youko.
-I need a way to get into that house.-
-Why?-
-I just need to.-
-thought a genius like you'd figure it out.-
-hn.-
-Well the best way would be through that high window right there see it?-
-yeah. Thanks.-
-welcome
Hiei dropped from his perch leaving Youko, or attempting to at least because just moments later Youko too dropped from the tree and fallowed Hiei across the street. Hiei jumped straight up to the window sill and looked in. there was a girl sitting at a desk, presumably typing a long essay. She was wearing a school uniform but it was a private school uniform. She had a strange look to her though. She had paper white skin, long white hair down to her knees except it was fashioned in two neat French braids down either side of her head, intertwining within the braids were night black streaks. Under her grey school cardigan she had on a white button-front collared shirt and her black skirt contrasted dangerously with her pure white legs. Her white socks were nearly invisible against her legs and her black boots looked like they were floating. But the most noticeably different thing about her was her eyes. They were black at the top but became white at the bottom with no pupils and were emphasized by her mascara and eyeliner.
Hiei felt dizzy once he looked around the room. He felt like he had been watching a black and white movie. The room did not seem to match its occupant who had printed out her paper and was now walking over to the bed. Hiei followed the girl with his eyes until she sat down at the foot of the bed and threw a pillow down on a lump in the corner. The lump started to move and suddenly threw a pillow back at the black and white girl, but with about twenty times the force knocking her off of the bed.
This "lump" turned out to be a girl with dark hair with gold and natural red highlights. Her eyes were curious too. But instead of black and white they were green, Kurama green but darker. She too was wearing the school uniform. She apologized for knocking the girl off the bed then asked, "You're done typing your paper?"
"Yes …" the girl replied. "I also did my 12th century Rome report."
"My God!" the "lump" said. "How'd you do that? How long have I been asleep? I mean I haven't started my English paper even."
"Yeah, but you can always pull off an A the night before." The black and white girl said.
"True." the girl on the bed said. She rubbed her nails on her white shirt and admired her perfectly manicured nails at arms length.
"are you sure you don't want to stay the night?" asked the girl sitting in bed, "Kyoki is coming over."
"um… actually yeah, I'll come over." The two girls leaned into each other and laughed.
Hiei looked away he hated laughing or giggling of any sort. Trying to find something else to looked at he looked to his left and saw Youko. Youko was just staring at the two girls. "Youko!" Hiei said a little too loud.
"Huh?" Youko was not feeling to awake. Hiei pushed Youko to the side just in time; the girls stopped giggling and looked at the window. The girl who had been sitting on the bed stood up and started walking over to the window. But just before she got there the phone rang. She ran back to the bed and rummaged around in the covers. She pulled up an extremely think phone, opened it and said,
"Hey Kyoki what's up?" a smile crept onto her face. "Yeah…what...at my window...ok one minute." Hiei whipped around to see a girl standing on the sidewalk looking up at them talking on an identical cell phone as the girl inside. Hiei and Youko looked at each other and then jumped up and over the roof. They disappeared over the top.
"Shit!" Hiei thought. He peaked over the roof to see the girl go and knock on the door. The same man in the grey suit opened the door and let her in.
-Youko-
-Yes-
-Why weren't you paying attention?-
-Why weren't you?-
-hn.-
-Yes.-
-I won't dignify that question with an answer.-
-Ok if you say so-
Hiei still needed a way to get inside. He jumped off the roof being careful not to pass any of the windows in the room with the girls in it. Next he went up to the door and knocked. The man in they grey suit answered the door, "hello, how may I help you sir?"
"I'm here to see Mr. Urameshi I have an urgent message for him and I must see him now."
"Yes, right this way." The man in the grey suit let him in and started walking towards the back of the vast house. They came to two large, heavy, wood doors. The man in the grey suit knocked and said, "Mr. Urameshi, a man is here to see you with an urgent message."
"OK.", Yusuke's voice was muffled through the door. There was some scuffling and one of the doors was pulled back to reveal a stunned Yusuke.
"Hiei, what are you doing here?"
"Mr. Urameshi I need to speak with you for a moment. I wonder, could we step into the next room?"
"Yeah. Hi..I mean Mr. Jaganashi." At least he's thinking today thought Hiei. They walked into a library and closed the doors. "Hiei, why are you here?" asked Yusuke.
"What are you doing here!" shot back Hiei.
"I'm …um…well I'm…actually well…I, hey wait. I asked you first!"
"Hn."
"What are you doing here?"
"Hn."
"Fine. I'm talking to a committee…" He stopped. Hiei looked baffled.
"Wait a committee or the committee?"
"Um…the."
"What! You're here about the dark tournament!"
"Yeah but you don't understand I'm here to …" Yusuke didn't get to finish his sentence for Hiei had punched him in the jaw. In less than a second Yusuke was punching back. He knew Hiei wouldn't stop punching without a good reason and he couldn't explain while being punched every quarter of a second. "Hiei you don't get it. I'm here to make sure we will never be bothered again."
"How?"
"I'm actually here for Genki. She told me to come to see who the guest team was this year." Hiei stopped punching. It sounded reasonable.
"Who is it?"
"I don't know. I didn't get to ask. You came to ask me something!"
"Hn." Hiei was not going to admit he had been the one to interrupt and therefore make Yukuke's story true. He was not! This conversation was over. Hiei pulled open the doors. He was almost to the doors when the girl who had seen him standing on the windowsill came down the stairs.
"She was dressed almost like the other two girls but with a black shirt, stiletto boots with metal tipped toes. She also had a studded belt around her waist at an angle that matched her wrist bands. She was holding a black ipod and was listening to rock so loud Hiei could hear it out of her ear-buds. She had long dark blue hair with silver streaks. She was about one inch shorter than Hiei and had the same dark green eyes as the girl who had been sleeping.
She stared at him for a second then ran back upstairs, her heels clicking on the hardwood floors. Hiei ran out of the house and up into a tree.
Hiei could not find Yusuke and did not want to know where he was. He jumped along from tree to tree until he was out on a crowded street. There were quite a few things on his mind at the moment. First was the matter of Yusuke. Second was those girls. And third, where was Yusuke or Kurama or whoever he happened to be at the moment.