BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty

Written on April 10, 2005

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sugar and Salt

'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."

Hiei and Youko looked at each other and the kitsune youkai smirked while the fire apparition glared at him. Before Rei could even blink once, Hiei and Youko disappeared from her sight. At first she had thought that they had just left her being rude guys but no, of course not. Now that she started looking for them, in front of her, she could see two blurs fighting each other. One was a black blur and the other was a silver blur. Rei reasoned that Youko must have taken control and was now fighting Hiei using his own body. The female kitsune hanyou sighed and shook her head while standing up. "I can't believe that I'm going to have to climb up all these stairs when I had specifically said that I wasn't going to."

With a frustrated sigh, Rei began to make her way up the hundreds of stairs that lead to Genkai's temple, not really noticing that the fighting forms were following her the whole time but managed to keep fighting. Man, that was one long sentence. Anyways, when she finally reached the top of the stairs, she found the rest of the group outside the temple, arguing about something. Rei let out a little squeal when she saw what Kuwabara was holding. She quickly tackled Kuwabara to the ground, grabbed a hold of the object, and stood on top of his back. "IT'S SO KAWAII!"

Everyone sweatdropped as they watched Rei pet an innocent looking cat while standing on top of Kuwabara's back. Kari sighed at her sister's antics and shook her head. "Damned cats." She muttered under her breath before looking around her. "Hey, Nerd! Where're Shorty and the other nerd?"

"Oh, them." Rei said as she calmed down. She continued to pet the cat in her hands as she stepped off Kuwabara and joined the group. Rei pointed towards the stairs and at the two fighting blurs. "They've been fighting since when arrived at the bottom of the stairs of the temple. I have no clue why or why Youko decided to show up but it's kinda annoying. Anyways, where'd you guys get the kitty?"

"Hmph, Kuwabara found it on the streets while we were on our way to the temple." Toga told her as he and Kuwabara exchanged glares as Yukina helped Kuwabara stand up. But Kuwabara quickly turned his attention on the koorime, which made Toga glare at him even more so. The rest of the group sweatdropped at how the two were acting then went back to the situation at hand.

"Well, since it's just a stray and Kuwabara's too caught up in the attention Yukina's giving him, I'm keeping it! I already got the perfect name! It's name is going to be Kuroneko!" Rei announced then began to swing the cat around in a little dance. Kari sweatdropped. "You mean, you're going to name it after that cat in Trigun? Sigh, anyways, if you're going to keep it, you got to take care of it."

"Hey, you're beginning to sound like a mom, Kari!" Yusuke pointed out then began to laugh his head off. Kari glared at him and slapped him upside his head then the two of them argued for a bit. Somehow, they ended up on getting on to the conversation of cheese. Don't ask how or why. It just happened. While Kari and Yusuke had their strange conversation with cheese, Rei ranted to herself about how much she liked cats. Cats were her favorite animal following foxes after all.

"Rei, look out!" Yukina said after she gasped. Rei quickly turned around to see what had gotten her so worked up only to have a katana stopped right in your face. The blade of the katana was held by a rose whip, which made only about an inch away from her face. Reina blinked a few times before taking in what had just happened. Youko was standing a few yards away with his hand on the other end of the rose whip. It was then that she realized that it was Hiei's katana that almost cut her head off. Hiei was standing a few feet from Youko so that it was plain to see that Youko had gotten his katana away from him and was going to throw it somewhere when it almost hit Rei.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU ALMOST KILLED ME! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!" Rei yelled as she glared at Youko. Everyone except the two youkai in front of her twitched slightly. They could tell that Rei was really pissed. I mean after all she just almost was killed. Wouldn't you be pissed as well? I sure would be! The rose whip turned back into a seed and Hiei's katana fell to the ground, which made a clashing noise in turn. Rei quickly picked up the katana and pointed it at Youko while holding on to the cat with one hand, the katana in the other.

"IF YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NEVER ABLE TO HAVE KIDS OR GET A WOMAN TO GO OUT WITH YOU! I SWEAR, I'LL CUT IT RIGHT OFF! I'M NOT AFRAID AND DON'T THINK I WON'T BECAUSE I WILL!" Rei yelled at the kitsune youkai in front of her. His tail twitched nervously in fear and Hiei smirked which rewarded him with a glare from the yoko. All the guys were slightly afraid of Rei at the moment. Fearing for their COUGH ability to have children, Yusuke, Toga, and Kuwabara all took a few steps away from her.

"What was the reason why the two of you were fighting in the first place?" Yukina asked in an innocent voice that she always used. Everyone turned and looked at her for a moment before turning and looking at Hiei and Youko waiting for their answer. At this, Youko sighed then smiled at the group. "Because we made a wager."

"A wager?"

"Yes, it was concerning you, koi." Youko said as he all of sudden appear beside Rei, taking her into his arms. Hiei's katana fell to the ground for Rei was in shock. Once she was able to comprehend what was happening, she quickly pushed her way out of Youko's grasp. She glared at the kitsune youkai as she continued to hold on to Kuroneko. "One: I'm not a prize to be won. If you ever include me into one of your bets again, you better except a lot of blood rushing from your body."

"And Two: Helwo, I just met you a couple of days ago and you really didn't make that good of an impression on me. Plus, I'm not Dusk so go get your kicks somewhere else, you perverted kitsune. I HATE YOU!" Rei angrily yelled at Youko before stomping into the temple still holding onto the cat in her arms. Everyone turned and looked at Youko who just blinked a few times before rushing to the garden while having a mental conversation with his human side. Kari and Toga quickly went after Rei with Hiei and Yusuke taking their time. Yukina and Kuwabara stayed out as they talked while Yukina swept the stairs.

Inside the temple, the group was waiting for Rei who was raiding the kitchen. When she walked into the living room, eating potato chips and chocolate, she found the others waiting for along with Koenma and Genkai. Kari raised an eyebrow when she saw her twin eating the food. Rei gave her a look. "What do you think, Kari? I had to get me some sugar and salt."

Kari snickered and everyone just looked at her with raised eyebrows except for Toga and Hiei. Rei sat down on the couch beside Kari and Kuroneko just jumped on the armrest and slept. Kari ate some of the potato chips then sighed and crossed her arms across her chest. "I want to know what you are planning on doing, Koenma. Dawn's okay and everything but I don't like the idea of sharing my body with someone else. She hasn't shut up since yesterday when she was awaken and took control of my body. MY body!"

"We're working on that, Kari. As you remember, I had Hiei and Youko stole something from a village in the Makai. Even though it didn't go how I thought it would, you still were able to get the package here so we can go on with removing the souls from both your bodies, Rei, Kari. This will be the first step." Koenma explained as he began to search through his pockets. Everyone sweatdropped when he began to frantically search while muttering curses to himself. Genkai cleared her throat getting Koenma's attention who saw that she was holding the package. He coughed nervously and took it from her. He then opened it up and brought out two viles. "You will have to drink this then we will watch the two of you over a period of time. So for now, you will have to stay here at Genkai's."

He finished explaining it with a cough. Kari and Rei just looked at him like he was crazy before taking the viles from him. Koenma soon disappeared while Genkai left the room to go meditate. Rei sighed and stood up after stuffing another piece of chocolate in her mouth. "Well, this is weird. Not to mention corny and cliché but eh."

"Yeah, well, I'm going to go get our crap then. Later, Rei and everyone else." Kari said before she left the temple and headed home with the vile and Kuroneko who had been forgotten by Rei. Meanwhile, Rei was in the kitchen of the temple putting away the rest of the potato chips while shoving the rest of the chocolate into her mouth. Yukina then walked over to her nervously. Rei turned and smiled at her. "Hey, Yukina, what's up?"

"Um, Rei, I know that you're not acting like yourself and for a good reason but do you think that you could go apologize to Kurama. I think he's beating himself up for what you had told him. Even if you don't like him the way that he likes you, I know that you don't hate him." Yukina told her, testing to see what Rei would have to say. The female kitsune hanyou just sighed and put a hand on her forehead. "I hate apologizing but I'll do it for you."

"Thanks, Rei." Yukina said happily before she started cooking. Rei walked out of the temple and began her search for Kurama. 'Hm...if I was Kurama where would I be? Well, he likes flowers, right? Then he must be in the garden!'

Rei mentally patted herself on the back for being so smart to come up with that conclusion. She quickly made her way to the garden to find that Kurama was busying himself with some of the rose bushes and pulling out a few weeds. Rei snuck up behind him then jumped onto his back, wrapping her arms around his neck loosely. "Hey, Kurama, what cha doing?"

"Pulling some weeds in order to get the roses the most nutrition that they can receive from the soil." Kurama told her in a voice that didn't quite seem his. It sounded like he was on autopilot or something of that sort. Rei sighed and rested her head on top of his head not really noticing Kurama tense up under her. "You do know that I really didn't mean what I said earlier, right? I was just a little off today and Youko was pulling on my last nerve. It's really my fault, well my body's."

"I understand. I could smell the blood." Kurama said, a small blush on his cheeks. Rei's head shot up and she looked at him like he was crazy. "Now that's just creepy plus embarrassing. Well, at least, I know that all demons will know when my 'time of the month' is."

"It can be useful at times." Kurama tried to defend his demonic sense of smell. Rei just sighed and shook her head. She then got off his back and stood up properly. "Yeah, yeah, Fox Boy. There's nothing wrong with demons, considering I'm half demon, but I like the way I am and it's going to stay that way. Well, I'm going to go back to the temple since me and Kari has to say there for a while. See you around, Kurama."

End of Chapter Twenty Eight

HieiKitty: Aw, a sappy moment but at the same time, hilarious. Still haven't decided if Kurama's going to be paired with Rei or if Rei is going to be with Hiei. I'm leaning towards Hiei just because I like him more. Anyways, did anyone catch the whole thing with sugar and salt? Well, most of the time when a girl's on her period, she'll have cravings for sugar or salt, and sometimes both. I would know cause I do eat a lot of candy and salty stuff with I'm on my period. Same thing with most people I know. Anyways, this chapter was a little bit longer just to make up for not updating in a while.