BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty
Written on March 3rd, 2005
Chapter Twenty Seven: Light Poles
Rei instantly began to blush as she laughed nervously. Shiori smiled knowingly and was about to speak when the doorbell rang. The older woman excused herself and went to answer the door. On her way to the front door of the house, she passed by Kurama who was leaning against the wall in the hallway with his eyes closed. His mother looked at him with sympathy and placed her hand on his shoulder and squeezed it slightly to comfort him. She left her son when the doorbell rang again. The woman walked to the front door and answered it. "Yes, may I help you?"
"I'm here for Reina and Shuichi." Hiei simply stated as he stood in front of Shiori. Shiori stared at him for a moment before she registered who was standing in front of her. She smiled at him and opened the door for him to come inside. The fire apparition let a small 'hn' before walking into the house. Shiori lead him into the kitchen whre Rei was thinking to herself while staring at the food in front of her. Kurama was also sitting at the table, in the chair beside Rei. Shiori cleared her throat, getting the two's attention. Rei smiled at Hiei and gave him a slight wave. "Helwo, Hiei. Where's the others?"
"Hn, let's go. The others are waiting for us at Genkai's temple." Hiei told her ignoring the slight glare that he was recieving from Kurama. Rei gave him a look. "Hey, we were about to eat the food that Mrs. Minamino prepared for us to eat. Can't it wait? I haven't ate since this morning and I'm really hungry."
"Yes, Hiei, why don't you join us? I'm sure that whatever the three of you neeed to do can wait a little while you eat a quick meal. Besides, Reina needs to eat to regain her energy since she had just woken from her faint spell." Shiori told him. Rei, Kurama, and Hiei all sweat dropped then Hiei shook his head. "We have to go now, it can't wait. Rei has to be at Genkai's temple for the rest of the day so we can keep an eye on her."
With that being said, Hiei walked over to the female kitsune hanyou and grabbed a hold of Rei by the back of her shirt then proceeded in dragging her away. Or at least that is what he tried to do. Rei had fake tears coming ut her eyes as she tried to stay inside the kitchen. She held onto the frame of the door with all her strength. "But Hiei! I'm hungry! Why must you be so cruel?"
"You can eat at Genkai's, Onna." Hiei growled in a dangerously tone at her. Finally, after minutes of struggling with Rei, Hiei was able to get the female kitsune hanyou out of the kitchen and outside of the house, leaving Shiori and Kurama in the kitchen by themselves. Both of them sighed while shaking their heads at how childish both Rei and Hiei had been acting. Kurama stood up from his seat and walked over to his human mother. They exchanged hugs before Kurama spoke. "I'm sorry that we couldn't stay and enjoy the food that you prepared for us but I think this may be important. I believe that I will be staying at Genkai's tonight though."
"It's okay, dear. Just make sure that you don't do anything dangerous or get yourself into any trouble. Oh, and don't worry about what Reina and I were talking about. I'm sure that she holds feelings for you as well. Just give her some time, Shuichi. She'll come around." Shiori said while giving her son an encouraging smile. Kurama smiled back at her but shook his head. "No, I want her to be happy and she's in love with my best friend so I'll leave her be."
"KURAMA! HELP! HIEI'S GOING TO RIP MY LEGS OFF!" Kurama heard Rei scream his name and he sweat dropped. Shiori just gave him a questioning look before she pushed her son outside the house to join his two friends. What he saw next was one of the most amusing sites he had ever seen. Rei was latched onto a nearby lightpole and Hiei was pulling on her legs trying to get her to let go of it. "Onna, let go of that, right now!"
"No! You let go of my legs first! Plus, I'm not going anywhere until I get something to eat!" Rei yelled back at the fire apparition, tightening her grip on the lightpole she was holding on to. The two of them continued to yell back and forth at each other until Kurama walked over to them and cleared his throat, gaining their attention. Hiei just scoffed and gave him a dirty look. "I don't need your help with the onna, Fox."
"Kurama, tell Hiei to go get me something to eat since he took me away from the food! I'm so hungry!" Rei said and managed to get those anime tears to come forth. Kurama sweatdropped at how Rei's mind was like a one-track mind and right now it was focused on getting her some food. "Kurama! Don't just stand there! Tell Hiei to let go of my legs! It feels like he's going to rip them off!"
Rei's voice brought the red head out of his thoughts. "Hiei, you should let go of Rei. This really isn't going to do anything but aggravate her and then she won't let go of the pole. I'm sure there's another way to get her to Genkai's and to let go of the pole."
"Fox, stay out of this." Hiei sneered at Kurama and the two of them exchanged glares; Hiei's threatening and cold, Kurama's slightly less threatening and opposing. Rei quickly covered her ears to proetect her from the high pitch scream she knew that was about to come once she saw someone walking towards them. To cover her ears though, she had to let go of the pole which made her fall staight on her face with Hiei still holding on to her legs.
"SHUUUUUUUIIIIIIIICHIIIIIIIIIII!" Both Hiei and Kurama flinched in slight pain at the high pitch scream. They turned around to see that Maya was walking quickly towards them, happily smiling at Kurama and ignoring both Hiei and Rei. She walked straight up to Kuramaa and started talking to him in that annoying preppy and fast talking voice that most preps have. "So, Shuichi, where'd you go to today? I missed you so much, you know, plus you missed the student meeting for our class. They announced that there's going to be a Halloween dance next week. Who are you going to take? You aren't going to take that Takashi girl, are you? I just think that you should break up with her and go out with me."
(Yes, right now the story's in the fall so it's close to Halloween. Just wait til you read what costumes they're going to be wearing. XD)
Maya was talking so fast that Kurama wasn't able to get a word in to the conversation. Kurama sweatdropped and just stood there, giving up and listen to Maya rant on about the stupid dance. Hiei smirked with amusement at Kurama's situation, watching Kurama shift uncomfortably. Ha, Hiei just loved to see the fox squirm. While everyone else was caught up with the whole Maya problem, Rei snaked her legs out of Hiei's grasp and quickly stood up. Before she ran off, she got the attention of the other three by laughing manically. "KUKUKUKUKU! You will never catch me for I am the Queen of Tacos!"
Rei then ran off, disappearing from Kurama's and Hiei's sight before either one of them could do anything to stop her or do anything in response to her outburst. Both youkai sweat dropped while Hiei slightly shook his head. The expression on his face was emotionless but his eyes showed differently. They were filled with annoyance accompanied by slight amusement. "The onna has completely lost it."
"Well, we better go get Rei before we lose her scent and get her back to Genkai's." Kurama said with a sigh. He bidded Maya farewell, that was after he pryed the annoying prep off of his leg while she was still ranting about how he should be going out with her. Hiei and Kurama followed Rei's scent and soon found her inside of a taco shop about to order some food. Hiei quickly stomped over to the female kitsune hanyou and grabbed her by the back of her shirt. "Come on, onna. We have to go ."
"Hiei, why do you to be so cruel to me! I'm so hungry! Can't you so me some compassion!" Rei asked/yelled at him, gaining the attention of the other people inside the restaurant. Hiei just scoffed at her questions since he obviously thought that compassion was for the weak along with all those other human emotions. But he did acknowledge her questions by turning his head and giving her a slight glare. "Compassion is for the weak. If you want compassion, you must be weak."
"Hey, I am not weak...I'm just really hungry." Rei told him sheepishly with pleading eyes. Hiei glared right back at her, probably seeing if he could light her on fire by just glaring at him. Rei looked around the room with shifty eyes then began to struggle against Hiei as he began to dragged her out of the restaurant once again. "COME ON, HIEI! IT WON'T TAKE THAT LONG FOR ME TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT!"
"No! We have to get you to Genkai's now!" Hiei once again sneered at Rei. The femal kitsune hanyou stopped struggling and the two of them stopped where they were at. Rei looked at him with a questioning gaze. Kurama was also looking at the fire apparition with a questioning gaze. "Please, Hiei, tell us what is so important that we have to get to Genkai's so quickly? You never did tell us the reasoning for it."
"Hn." Came Hiei's infamous and yet simple response. Rei scoffed then got Hiei to let go of the back of her shirt. She stood up straight and brushed out the wrinkles in her school uniform. If you don't remember they had been at school when they left to go on the case. Oh, crap. Sorry. On to the story! Rei then gave the fire apparition a look. "Fine, if you're going to be like that, let's just go. We don't want you to get a heart attack or something. But I'm just going to tell you now, 1) There's no way in hell that I'm actually going to go through another portal, ever! and 2) There's also no way in hell that you're going to get me to walk up all those stairs just to get to Genkai's. If it wasn't for you, I could be eating then heading home to watch my shows. So, I'm not going to waste my time in walking up all those stairs."
"And how do you propose that we get you to Genkai's then, Rei?" Kurama asked her with slight amusement in his voice. Rei shrugged her shoulders and began to walk outside of the restaurant. "Eh, that's your problem. If you want me to go to Genkai's you're going to figure that out."
'She's teasing you, Kurama. I think there's something that she wants you to do.' Youko told Kurama through the mind link that he now created between the two souls. Kurama slightly shook his head as he and Hiei made their way after the female kitsune hanyou. 'No, she just doesn't want to go to Genkai's. I'm sure that she wants to just go home.'
'I know a woman's mind and she's just trying to get your attention.' Youko told him but before taking control of Kurama's body, keeping Kurama's appearance. As soon as he took control, Hiei looked over at him and gave him a look. Before he was able to say anything to Youko, the three of them arrived at the bottom of the stairs to Genkai's. Rei sighed and sat down on the last step. She smirked at both Hiei and Youko. "Well, have fun at Genkai's without me. I'm going to go home now. Talk to you guys later."
End of Chapter Twenty Seven