alright a new chapter...I went back and reposted all the other ones, after they were grammerfied by my beta: the awsome tyco662 and now I've finally got to a new one so yeah...

disclaimer: still don't own anything really awsome...oh wait I just got a seshomaru plushie that's awsome...but that's all so since yu yu hakusho isn't a seshomaru plushie and yet is awsome it is not in my possesion...

chapter three: singing in the rain

Snapping and crackling, the fire roared, aided by Hiei. The storm had sprung up suddenly while the groups were still out searching, so Kurama's plants formed a small to shield them. Kurama's group had found Yuuske and Kuwabara, but they were now all separated from Genkai, Keiko, and Shizuru.

"I can't believe that we're stuck out here in the rain with no food, and we don't know where the others are."

"Oh, shut up and stop complaining, Kuwabara, it's not becoming," a rather irritated Yuuske snapped.

"Becoming, a rather big word for you isn't it?" 39 snapped at him in return.

"I guess someone's on my side," Kuwabara muttered under his breath.

"Of course! I don't approve of mocking those that aren't smart enough to even realize that they are being mocked," 39 casually replied to his comment.

"Hah! In your face urameshhhhh!" The realization that she was making fun of him hit Kuwabara head on. "Hey, wait a second! Are you talking about me? You short little..."

"I rest my case."

Kuwabara continued fuming as the rest of the tents occupants burst out in laughing; even Hiei smirked.

"Hah! I'm not the only one that sees the stupidity in that dumb ningen," he growled in the beginnings of a silence.

"Pretty hard to miss when he makes it that obvious," the girl replied nonchalantly before getting up and exiting the covering, walking out in to the distant growing rain. After a few minutes, when she did not return, the worried group sent out their fastest member to look for her. After all, they did still need her to find their way around Koorime. He, Hiei, couldn't help them and Yukina could not be contacted, which was starting to worry him.

'If that girl grew up on Makai, then perhaps she knew Yukina. She must have at one point, even if only for a few years. Maybe she knew where she was now?'

Coming to rest on a tree branch, he stopped to observe the girl, whose arms were outstretched spinning in a circle, her face turned to the sky with her eyes closed. She, for the first time since they had started their journey, was smiling a real smile of joy, not just a smirk.

'She looks pretty when she smiles...it's a pity she doesn't do it more.'

Jumping down from the tree branch onto the dry ground below, Hiei began to approach the girl, hesitating only a moment because of the water pouring from the wounded sky. When she began to emit a rather musical laugh, he finally walked over to her.

"Having fun?" the demon asked in his coldest voice.

The girl spun around with a slightly shocked expression before regarding him with a smirk and a slightly raised eyebrow.

"Lots," she replied with as much sarcasm she could manage.

"Oh that's just..." his last words lost in a shriek that sliced through the air.

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ok chapter three...I feel specail...3 is a fun number it looks like something no matter which way you turn it...and guess what else has a three in it...yup -those of you that have been paying attention the last couple of chapters will know...DramaAnne's 365 way's to kill a weasley , and you know what doesn't have a three but contains peppermint? right again -I should start bringing cookies to these pop quizes- Mustang'sMistress' Christmas Madness which has not only peppermint but inu-yasha, and lesalanna's stories contain no 3 or peppermints but are still awsome...