Chapter 5: Nose Injuries and Being Short

It was one of those days that you wish you never got out of bed for. One of those days that everything goes bad. One of those days that make you want to crawl up and die.

"Jo, I said I was sorry."

Keiko, Yukina, and Botan looked over at the door as Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, Koenma, and Jo came inside the apartment, but the girls attention was mainly on Jo.

They watched as she walked by.

"WHAT!"

Botan, trying to hold back a laughing fit, got up and patted Jo on the back.

"What did you do?"

Jo, poor thing, was holding a wad of bloody tissue to her nose and glaring at Yusuke enough to burn a hole through him.

"Why don't you ask Yusuke, I'm sure he could tell you what happened better than I could."

The girl's eyes went to Yusuke.

"I opened a door to hard."

Keiko, who was now standing by Jo, brought the tissue down, then turned back to Yusuke with a look that could kill, literally.

"Yusuke, that must have been some door in her face."

"The girls a klutz, she ran into it, so it's not all my fault."

"I don't believe you Yusuke, calling you sister a klutz."

A sudden crash in the kitchen caused everyone to stop. They all walked over to where Hiei was already standing and apparently staring at something.

In the kitchen, Jo was laying on the floor face first. she slowly brought her head up and looked at the others.

"I tripped."

Keiko suddenly got curious.

"Jo, what did you trip over?"

Jo groaned.

"If you should know, I tripped over...myself."

A chorus of "aaaaaawwwwww"s made Jo feel even worse. Indeed she was a klutz and a major one at that, thus she always get the "way to go Jo" in her face.

The others watched as Jo made no effort to get up and decided that she would get up on her time. (A/N: Heh, yep, the klutz thing, THAT'S ME, all me. Thus I got my nickname Jo, and that's the only name my X-friends will call me...geez do I hate them, DEATH TO THEM...I'll shut up now.)

Hiei and Kurama on the other hand, had changed their minds and decided to sit in the kitchen until Jo got up.

There was a silence that lasted for about ten minutes until Jo finally said anything.

"Hey, guys, I can't get up."

Kurama looked over at Hiei and nodded, Jo caught this. Hiei then got up and with his foot rolled Jo over onto her back, then sat back down.

"I still can't move."

Hiei and Kurama still just sat there.

'They're so mean.'

'Of course we are.'

Jo's eyes went wide and she turned her head towards Hiei.

The look on Jo's face made the two demons think that she was afraid.

"You-you're a telepath...?"

Hiei slowly nodded as if Jo was retarded or something, Kurama on the other hand was a bit worried about what Jo's reaction was gonna be, boy was he going to be suprised.

"It's just not fair, Hiei's a telepath, me on the other hand, I'm just a stupid telekintic freak."

Hiei had obvioiously not been fazed by this, but Kurama on the other hand was expecting at least a flip out from the girl.

Being the nice person that he is, Kurama, got up from his chair and helped Jo up, the girl was indeed light.

Flashback

"So Hiei, do you want to carry her or should I?"

"Hn."

That settled that question, Hiei crouched down and allowed Jo to climb on his back. The girl was very light even though she didn't look it.

"Onna, how much do you weigh?"

"Ninety-six pounds. That sure is an odd question for you to ask, if it was someone else, I wouldn't be as shocked, but you, you're scary at times and I like it."

Hiei rolled his eyes and Kurama held back a laugh, then they took off again.

End Flashback

"Thanks Kurama."

He just nodded.

"Hn."

Kurama and Jo looked over at Hiei. The poor guy was staring at them with a little tint of pink in his cheeks, which was very odd.

"Um, Jo, go into the livingroom with the others, I need to speak with Hiei for a second."

Jo nodded and did as told.

Kurama turned back to Hiei.

"You like her, don't you?"

Hiei turned his head.

"I do as well, does that bother you?"

"Hn."

"Well, this may be very interesting."

Then Kurama walked out of the room.

Hiei still had his head turned. This was going to be interesting. Interesting indeed.

When Hiei finally decided to join the others, they were laughing and Jo looked like she was going to kill Kuwabara.

"What did the baka do now?"

Yusuke, who caught his breath, answered Hiei.

"Well, if you mean Kuwabara, he was making fun of Jo's nose and her height."

"Yeah, now there's shrimp and shrimp-ette(sp?)." (A/N: I can't spell to save my life, so just shoot me now.)

The smell of smoke suddenly filled the room and all eyes went to Jo, who was currently, eer, on fire.

"Whoa, she is like the shrimp, fire and all."

Jo's flames grew. Apparently this was her way of expressing anger, that and...

"I'm going for a walk."

Everyone sweatdropped and yet no one noticed Hiei go after her.

As Jo was walking, it began to rain, no not rain, it poured, making her flamed go out.

'GAH, I'm gonna kill that bastard.'

"Not if I get to him first."

Jo looked up in the tree beside her and saw Hiei.

"I highly doubt that."

Hiei "Hn"ed and jumped down beside Jo. He brought a hand up and gingerly touched her face, there was already swelling around her nose.

"It's that bad?"

"I've seen worse."

"I bet. I really hate the rain, it makes it cold outside and I hate cold...you want some ice cream."

"Onna, you are an odd one."

"Yep, and that's why you like me."

That same pinkness came back to Hiei's face, except it was much darker and that made Jo laugh.

"See, all hard-asses have a soft spot and I found yours."

When Hiei didn't say anything or make his usual "hn", Jo knew she had gotten to him.

"Yep, I got ya good. Wittle Hiei gotses a wittle crush on klutzy Joie." (A/N: Joie is the same as Joey, I just like make up different ways to spell names, like Jenne for Jenny, yep, back to the fic.)

"You better run."

"Hmm?"

Jo stood there for a second, then it hit her and she took off running, but fell.

"OW, why me?"

'This is going to quite entertaining.'

Hiei walked over to Jo and picked her up bridal style.

"You gonna get yourself hurt worse if you keep this up."

"Yeah, yeah Pyro."

Hiei's blush came back as the walked back to the apartment due to the cold. This girl was going to change him, he knew it.

Now tell me, was this the cheesiest chapter in all the history of fics? GAH, I just had to write something and this came up 'cause I, um...walked into a door myself. There was no serious damage, just a mild headache, but I recovered.

To be completely honest, this was supposed to be a Jo/Kurama fic, but I changed my mind and made it a Jo/Hiei fic, so yeah...some of you are gonna kill me now, but Kurama will do, um, something. Now that was stupid.

Rowan-chan is now hungry 'cause it's 2:12 in the afternoon and she has only been up for less than two hours, so yeah, FOOD TIME, I'm gonna go raid the refridgerator andwatch Dirty Dancing and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.I'll update as soon as I can.

I'm outie.

Rowan-chan