Chapter 3:

Jade took a deep breath as she awoke from her slumber. She stretched her arms before hopping out of bed. She'd been living at Genkai's for about a week now. She pulled on the ratty clothes she'd arrived in, (a black T-shirt and faded black cargos) and pulled her hair into a bun. Walking into the kitchen, Jade grabbed a banana and hopped up on one of the stools sitting around the island.

"Morning Aunt Yukina!" she said happily. Yukina, who was currently washing the dishes, turned around and smiled at her niece.

"Good Afternoon Jade," Yukina corrected. Jade's jaw dropped.

"Afternoon?" Jade repeated. Yukina nodded. "I CAN'T BELIEVE I OVERSLEPT!" She smiled. "I've never done that before! This calls for a celebration!"

"Because you overslept?"

"EXACTLY!" Jade ran over to Yukina and gave her a huge hug. "THANK YOU FOR THIS JOYEOUS DAY!" Jade ran out of the temple and flipped off the porch. Hiei walked into the kitchen and stared at his daughter who was now doing back-hand-springs around the temple outside.

"What is going on here?" Hiei asked wide-eyed.

"She's celebrating because she overslept." He scoffed.

"That's nothing to be proud of. It's lazy."

"I guess she feels comfortable enough here to be lazy." Yukina resumed her washing of the dishes. Jade was now hopping every which way, doing one flip here, another there, some weird twist in the air… But her hair was constantly slipping out of its bindings because it was so thin and fine. It suddenly completely slipped out and fell over her eyes just as she was about to do yet another cart-wheel. Her vision was blocked and her landing was less-than-perfect. It really wouldn't have bothered her that much if it weren't for the many people now scrambling out of the temple to see if she was okay.

She flipped her hair out of her face and found herself surrounded by Kurama, Kayko, Yukina, and Kuwabara.

"Are you alright?" Everyone except Kuwabara asked her. Standing up, Jade brushed her self off and smiled.

"Yes." She spun around and made her grin much bigger. "I'm perfectly fine."

Later that day:

Jade sat on the floor infront of the couch, her back leaning against the large piece of furniture. Her hair spilled over her shoulders and swirled around on the hard wood floor. With her jaw open, she stared at the tv. Suddenly, a certain blue-haired, pink-eyed, pink kimono wearing girl popped her head into the temple, catching a glimpse of Jade. Jade, of course, was oblivious to what Botan was doing. Heck, she didn't even know anyone was there. Botan walked up beside the dazed girl and examined her.

"You do look like him," Botan said suddenly, making poor Jade jump and fall over. Botan stifled her small giggles. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"Wh-Who are you?" Jade asked, every second trying to scoot further and further into the couch.

"I'm…" Botan swung her hands around in a circle, trying to be dramatic. "BOTAN!" She stopped her spinning with a peace sign infront of her.

"Botan?"

"BINGO!" Jade lifted her hand slightly and gave the extremely perky girl a wave.

"So… you are… JADE!" She had to think a little.

"Yeah…"

"And your Hiei's daughter, right?"

"Bingo?" Yukina walked into the room and stopped from a moment, acknowledging Botan's sudden appearance.

"Botan," Yukina said. Botan spun around to look at Yukina.

"Hello Yukina. How are you?"

"Just fine. I didn't know you were coming."

"Sudden spur of the moment I guess."

"So you've met Jade?"

"JUST DID!" Botan walked over to Yukina so she could further their conversation. "She seems quite jumpy."

"You probably just startled her."

"Oh… I did do that… But she looks exactly like Hiei! It amazing the resemblance!"

"She's actually taller than him."

"Really!"

"Only by a few centimeters or so, but yes, she is."

"Huh!" Botan and Yukina both looked at the small girl.

"Jade!" Yusuke said as he and Kayko walked into the temple. He raced over to her, grabbed her by the waist, threw her over his shoulder, spun her around three times, and then placed her back down on the ground. "HEY!"

"Hi Yusuke. Kayko," Jade said as she wobbled around, trying to keep her balance. She finally stood straight and waved to them. Yusuke plopped down on the couch and grabbed the remote for the tv.

"Guess what, Jade," Kayko said with a smile.

"What?"

"We're going shopping!" Jade almost fell over.

"Shopping?"

"Yes! You can't wear those clothes and the dress I gave you every day, now can you?"

"Why not?" Kayko rolled her eyes and grabbed Jade's bony wrist.

"C'mon! It'll be fun!" Jade forced a smile.

"Yeah…" She muttered as Kayko dragged her out of the temple. "Fun…"

At a Near By Mall:

Kayko wandered around the outside of the stores until she found one she thought was suitable for Jade, then she ran back and grabbed Jade's wrist again.

"I found just the place!" Kayko told her.

"Yay," Jade said sarcastically. Once inside, Kayko started going through the clothes on the rack and holding them up to Jade, supposedly seeing if they would look good on her.

"So, what's your size?"

"Uh… small shirts and…" She twisted around to see her pant size. "24 waist, 28 length." Kayko raised an eyebrow.

"Are you wearing men's pants?" Jade stared at Kayko for a moment, then sweatdropped.

"Possibly…" Kayko hit her forehead and once again grabbed Jade's wrist. It was becoming red from all of Kayko's grabbing. Kayko finally let go once she got over to some jeans. She grabbed a size 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 and handed them to Jade.

"You'll discover that women don't judge their sizes by the size of their waist, but by the size of their hips. Usually… try these on and tell me which fit the best." Jade nodded as Kayko shoved her into a dressing room. A few moments later, Jade walked out of the dressing room wearing a size 2. "Those fit nicely…" Kayko smiled at Jade. "Are they comfortable?"

"Yes."

"Alright. Go put your pants back on and let's go find some more pants and some shirts. Now you said small for shirts?"

"Yes." Kayko looked at Jade's baggy T-shirt.

"Is that a small you're wearing right now?" Jade reached for the tag on the back of her shirt to see.

"Yes." Kayko sighed.

"You might need an extra-small…" Jade backed into the dressing room to put on her original pants.

After buying shirts and pants:

"Well! I think we made out well, don't you Jade?" Jade stared at Kayko with her eyebrows as high as her hairline.

"Uhhhh…" She stared down at her many bags of clothing. "I guess…"

"Yes, well, now you need…" Kayko grabbed Jade's wrist once more and dragged her along to yet another store. "Some of those." Kayko pointed at a store. Jade's eyes widened in fear as she realized wear they were. A very pink store with women going in and out and men drooling from the outside… Victoria's Secret.

"Oh, no…"

"It won't be that bad, you'll see." Kayko tried very hard to drag Jade in, but she just wouldn't budge.

"How bad will it be then?" Kayko stayed silent as she began pushing Jade into the store. Suddenly, Jade found herself infront of millions of torture devices.

"Now, what's your cup size?" Oh no, the dreaded question. Jade's eye began to twitch and it just wouldn't stop. Kayko sighed. "If you won't tell me, then I'm just gonna have to measure."

"B!" Jade spat out. Kayko patted Jade's shoulder.

"And there you go." She reached up on the wall and began taking down many bras and handing them to Jade. "This looks nice, oh, how about this?" And then she was once again in the dressing room. Jade tried them on and they all seemed to fit nicely.

"One condition Kayko," Jade said while in the dressing room.

"Yes?"

"They all must be black."

"Black?"

"Yes, black. If I must wear these frilly lace things, then they must at least be a depressing color."

"Why?"

"…"

"Y'know… I think I'll just go and get you some black ones then…"

After Shopping in the Horrible Store:

Kayko and Jade walked back to the temple with may bags of clothing and shoes and other unmentionables in hand. Once inside, they noticed Kurama was there. HE was sitting on the couch, sipping tea as usual. Hiei had come back from where ever he was and was sitting on the window sill. Yusuke and Kuwabara were fighting over the remote and Yukina was in the kitchen cooking dinner. Hiei was the first to notice they had arrived.

"And where have you two been?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at the bags in their hands.

"Shopping!" Kayko said while holding up a few bags.

"For what?" Suddenly a blush swept of Jade's features.

"Oh… shirts, pants, shoes, jackets, bras, underwear… the usual stuff… OH! We forgot to get you socks!" By this time, Jade was beet red. "You have small feet, I'll get you a size 1. Here." Kayko handed Jade the bags. "Go model!" Jade raised an eyebrow and blinked.

"I would like to see the clothes you picked out!" Botan said as she hopped in from seemingly nowhere.

"Yeah, let's see what you got, one piece at a time!" Yusuke said, being his usual perverted self. Hiei glared at him.

"Yes, go model for us Jade," Kurama added. Yukina walked over.

"Yes!" It didn't seem like Jade would be able to get out of this one…

CrashedmyHarley signing off! Who here is female and knows how torturing those… things are? Who's had to model their new clothes for the family? If you readers have… then Thank Gawd I'm not alone. And if you've done all of these and you are male, Gawd help you…