BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty

Written on November 5th, 2004

Chapter Sixteen: Wounds, Couches, and Hints of the Past

"OW! OW! OWIE!!!!!" Reina howled in pain as she sat on the couch as Kurama took off the bandages on her wound. In the time it took them to walk back to Genkai's Temple, some of the blood had dried and it was sticking to the bandages. There was a reason why Reina was cursing like she normally did and that was because Yukina was in the room waiting to heal you. She seemed really too innocent but she was sure that she had probably heard some curse words considering Yusuke always hung out at Genkai's temple. Yukina's crimson red eyes reminded her of someone but she couldn't pin point it. (Yeah, she's that dense.)

"Hold on, Rei. There's only a little left to take off. Once these are off and your wound is cleaned, Yukina will heal it so your arm will be good as new." Kurama said trying to soothe her with his words but it didn't work. When she heard that they were going to clean her wound, she started freaking out because that meant one thing. ALCOHOL. There was no doubt that they would use alcohol to clean her wound.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Reina yelled as she tried to get away but Kurama got the rest of the bandages off and Kuwabara grabbed a hold of her to keep her in place. Now she was freaking out because she was being held in place by Kuwabara and Kurama had just brought out the alcohol. Her eyes widen as he opened it and she began to struggle even more. She was soon howling in pain when Kurama applied the alcohol to her wound to clean it. Yukina and Kuwabara were trying to get her to calm down but it wasn't working. The pain was too intense. She closed her eyes and she tried to keep in the tears of pain away. Suddenly she felt Yukina let go of her and place her hands on top of her arm. Reina opened her eyes in time to see a light blue emit from Yukina's hands and her wound begin to slowly disappear. When it was completely gone, Yukina removed her hands and Kuwabara let go of her.

"There you go, Rei-chan. It should be all better now." Yukina said happily with a great big smile. Reina stared at her arm for a moment then looked at Yukina who kept smiling at her. She took a deep breath and stretched her left arm out. Yukina was right after all. It felt like nothing had happened to it. It was like she had never been wounded by Hiei's katana. Reina sighed contently and smiled at Yukina.

"Thanks, Yukina. You're right. It feels just like it used to. No pain at all." Reina told her. Yukina nodded and then left to go cook dinner. No matter what, it always seemed that Yukina was either cooking or cleaning. The poor girl. Anyways, where are Kari and Yusuke you ask? Well, Kari's still chasing Yusuke and now Yusuke came up with a 'brilliant' plan. He decided to use Genkai's temple as a hiding place which didn't go so well for him in a sense. Yusuke, after deciding on his plan, ran into the temple with Kari right behind him, ready to kill him once he slowed down enough for her to catch up with him. This is how the rest seemed to go once the two were inside of the temple. First, Yusuke ran into Kurama knocking him down to the floor while Kari knocked down Kuwabara also. Reina saw what was coming and got out of the way before the two of them reached her. Yusuke jumped over the couch and hid behind it while Kari, who didn't see Kuwabara on the floor, tripped on him and was sent flying onto the couch which in turn tipped over and fell on top of Yusuke.

"OW! GOD DAMN IT! GET THIS FUCKING COUCH OFF OF ME!" Yusuke demanded angrily as he tried to get the couch off of him not even waiting for assistance from the others. Kari just laughed at him and shook her head as she made herself comfortable on the couch which was moving as Yusuke pushed on it..

"I don't think so, Urameshi. This will be your punishment for earlier. Plus, I'm too comfortable to move so you're going to have to deal with it." Kari told him with a smile. She sighed contently and stretched out. Yusuke continued to try to get the couch off of him while muttering curses at Kari. Kari just seemed to ignore him as she started humming to herself. Kurama got up off the floor and he and Reina just watched the two, sweat dropping.

"Uh, Kari, if you don't get off of him soon, you might actually succeed in killing him." Reina told her twin sister. Kari stopped humming to herself and turned her head to look at her.

"And that would be a bad thing, why?" Kari asked in return. Reina sighed and shook her head as she thought of something that would get her sister off of the spirit detective.

"Well, don't you want him to suffer a more horrible death than being squished to death by a couch?" Reina asked a question to respond to her own question. Kari thought about it for a minute then shook her head.

"Nope, not really. This is actually quite fun. Plus, if I was to get off and let Yusuke free, he would try to kill me for doing this in the first place." Kari told her. Everyone just looked at her. Wow, she actually said something that sounded a little bit smart. What was the world coming to?! AHH!!! Run for your lives! Eh, just kidding.

"Kari, I really do think that you should get off of Yusuke before he does die. Genkai won't be very happy to know that you killed her student with a couch." Kurama said while sweat dropping. Kari thought about this and actually got off of the couch but didn't help Yusuke get it off of him. Reina glared at her sister.

"Hey, how come you listen to Kurama and not me? I'm your sister!" Reina said as she demanded the answer to her question. Kari just smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't want to deal with Genkai if she's pissed. She's already pushed me down those damned steps for training. I don't even want to think of want would happen if she wanted to kill me." Kari told her. She proved her point. Everyone really didn't want to deal with Genkai if she wanted to kill them. Just thinking about it made Reina's left eye twitch. By this time, Yusuke had been able to get the couch off of him. He was about to start attacking Kari for what she did but that's when Hiei decided to come in which made everyone turn and look at him. Reina glared at him and pointed at him.

"YOU!" Reina simply said continuing to glare at Hiei. The fire apparition just ignored her and walked into the kitchen. Kari and Yusuke began to laugh at Reina for being ignored while Kurama had to hold Reina back from going after Hiei to kill him for injuring her arm. "THAT BASTARD! I'LL KILL HIM! LET ME GO! ARGH! HIEI, YOU SHALL PAY DEARLY! KUKUKUKUKU!"

"Dinner's ready. Oh, would someone please wake Kazuma up?" Yukina asked as she stuck her head into the room and saw that Kuwabara was still on the ground. Reina nodded and got away from Kurama. Yukina smiled and went back into the kitchen. Reina grabbed one of the fire pokers and began to poke Kuwabara with it. And who else should walk into the temple at that time? No other than Kaito, himself. (Kaito Takashi, not that dude that goes to Meiou with Kurama.) Reina abandoned poking Kuwabara and Kari abandoned arguing with Yusuke. The two twins tackled their brother to the floor. Yusuke and Kurama sweat dropped.

"And where have you been, dear little brother?" Kari with a murderous tone as the two got off of him and Kari held him by the back of his shirt as he tried to get away. "We have been training all day and now is the time that you decide to show up? You're so very lucky that we're about to eat."

With that Kari let go of her younger brother and she and Reina walked into the kitchen leaving behind the four boys, one them still on the ground. That's when Yusuke noticed that he was standing on Kuwabara the whole time. No wonder he felt a little taller than usual. Yusuke got off of Kuwabara and went into the kitchen following the two twins. Kaito just look over at Kurama who sweat dropped as he helped Kuwabara up. The three guys went into the kitchen to join everyone for dinner. This is how everyone sat at the table.

Left side: Yusuke - Kari - Reina - Kurama

Right side: Kuwabara - Yukina - Hiei - Kaito

And Genkai sat at the head of the table by Kurama and Kaito since it's her temple. The whole time during dinner, Reina glared at Hiei from across the table while she actually ate her food in silence. Hiei kept glaring at Kuwabara who was being his normal self around Yukina. Kari and Yusuke kept looking over at Hiei and Kaito and laughing their heads off. (You'll find out what's so funny later. But if you think about it for a while you'll find out especially if the two are standing beside each other.) Genkai, Kaito and Kurama had their own little conversation.

After dinner, the Takashis went home. (Yes, I'm too lazy to write how the dinner went, what conversation were had, and their departure.) Kari went to her room, Reina went to her room, and Kaito began rummaging through some of things they had brought to Japan that had belonged to their parents. Reina came out of her room to go to the kitchen to get something to drink when she saw Kaito in the front room looking through one of the phone albums that their mother had kept. Kaito didn't know that Reina was out of her room so he kept looking through it as Reina walked into the room and stood behind him, looking at the pictures with him. Her eyes widen when she saw one of the pictures. She instantly grabbed the phone album away from Kaito to look at the picture better. "Reina, give that back to me! You're not supposed to see that yet!!!"

"KARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!!!!!!!!!!"

End of Chapter Sixteen

Ooh! ::waves hands in the air in a suspenseful way:: What was the picture? You're going to have to wait to find out. KUKUKUKUKUKU!!! Ah, cliffies are so much fun to write but they are so evil to read. Anyways, if you want the next chapter you're going to have to review so START REVIEWING!