/.:.Being Blind, is Plain Horrible.:./
I would love to thank and for their reviews and for their taking the time to review. Now I realized when I started this, and wrote the summary, I didn't give set pairings. I apologize. I'm a really big fan of Hiei, and that's who I'm leaning towards, however...plans might change.
There is going to be a new character in this chapter.
name. 19
race.:.. You'll find out. :)
Other.:. He attends your school for the gifted.
Chapter 3
The first thought through your mind when you first sensed their spirit energy was 'what were they doing here?'. Second thought was self-conscious. That you should put your glasses on, and put a long sleeve shirt on. Some people knew who you were that were humans. And two of those males were demons.
Well one was any ways. The other was at least part demon. Then of course Lance just had to run out of the bathroom without any clothes on. You had wanted to talk to Roma concerning the pictures she took. 'Plans always seem to change around here.' you thought.
Now you had unexpected guests, and the whole building would be up sooner or later. To see what was going on.
"Where are the plates?" One of them asked.
"Why?" you asked in return.
"I would be honored if you let me help you set the table." You raised your eyebrow. A habit, more a trademark of yours.
"Your our guest, and would be honored to set the table?" You said.
"Daddy, isn't that backwards?" Lance asked.
"Yes it is. You're the guests, go and sit down. We'll serve you, and set the table."
"But-" You smiled.
"You're the polite one, Kurama. Correct?"
Kurama blushed and nodded, then remembered you couldn't see. "Yes, I'm Kurama." Everyone stopped what they were doing, to watch Kurama and you. Usually Kurama had finesse and wouldn't blush around girls that much. That would give them too much of a hint to keep bugging him.
"You might be polite, however when you are a quest in my home, twouldn't be right to make you work for your food, mon." You put up a hand before he could speak again. A human trait you found out that they all abided, even some demons.
"Shut-up, sit down and wait for dinner to be served. Or you'll leave me no choice but to pick you up and sit you down myself. And I might miss the chair, where you won't."
Lance giggled. "Can I sit down too daddy?"
You smiled. "No you can't. And before you start to pout, they are our guests, its time for you to learn how to be a hostess. One day you'll be holding your own party and need to know how to conduct such an event. Now go and ask your mother for the silverware to set the table."
"Okay."
Yusuke was quiet for a minute. "How did you know he was going to pout if your blind?"he asked. You laughed while Kurama quickly apologized for him.
"I've lived with him since he was born. I know how the brat works." you smiled.
"But I'm a good brat, aren't I daddy?" Lance asked. His eyes looking cautious.
"Of course." you replied.
"Key, I moved the plates again. They're in the fourth cabinet now. On the left." Roma said. "Mon, you're the only woman on this planet that moves stuff so much. You just canna keep something where it is for six months can you? I hate to see your room Lance. Your ma was probably in there. You dinna touch mine, did you?" You asked, agitation could be heard in your voice. "Of course not. You have everything organized in there. I didn't want to mess anything up."
"Glad that's cleared," You said and let out the breath you were holding. Roma was one woman you didn't want to get on the bad side of. She would take out her revenge by cleaning your room. She had once, and you went to school with a pair of pink pants on, with an orange shirt. Something you never wanted to repeat again.
She cleaned far to much. Constantly moving stuff around so no one could find anything. And she was always re-labeling everything for you. Roma even labeled every food can in the house for you. All you had to do was trace your fingers over the label and you would know what you were holding.
She did that with the shampoo in your bathroom, the conditioner, soap, body wash, closets, dressers. Everything in the house was literally labeled. Roma even customized your paper, labeling the lines, and outlining them for you, so you could write like all the other kids in school could. With Roma's papers, you could write and not go everywhere over the paper.
She made it so you could continue to do what you loved so much, write. You seriously didn't know what you would do without her. Being blind held many things out of reach, and you continuously tried to reach for them.
At school, you were the only one there blind. All the other students were either to smart to go to a normal school, or weren't smart enough to go to a regular school. The government decided to combine the too of those classes into one school.
Something about saving money and being the only district that offered a school for the gifted. When you had first attended the school they put you in a class for those that would never learn anything, they wouldn't go anywhere in the world, being that they didn't have a brain, of weren't fully developed.
They soon found out that you were above average, and then above genius. Now you were in a class that held a tight curriculum and was above AP. Only seven were in the class total. You were the seventh addition since two years ago. No one new had come yet.
That was another thing. Your books were labeled. Even the words inside were. "For the Blind" Is what all the teachers had called them. The school special ordered all your book over vacations, and two weeks in advance before teachers gave away the assignment.
Which of course thinking 'bout school led to another thought. You needed Roma's help tonight with your homework. You were excellent in literature and science and history. Math however, was a totally different concept to you. It was like visiting a new planet every time you went to school. You weren't stupid in math, quite the opposite. You were fairly intelligent in the subject, just when it came to the tests your teacher gave you, you panicked.
A friend of your at school, Colin, was trying to break you of the habit in math. In all your other subjects you didn't have a problem, it was just math. Also, you never really liked the subject. You always found something you didn't like 'bout it.
"Och, Roma I just remembered something." You said as you headed towards the left side of the room. Towards the cabinet with the dishes. You placed your hands on the cabinets, and skimmed your fingers over the labels.
"What's that?" Roma asked looking up from the stove. "I need your help tonight with my homework." You simply stated. Like you needed help with anything else. Roma started to laugh.
"Math I presume?" You sighed. "Yeah, math. Ha!" You shouted. "I found them." You said and took out seven plates. Roma just smiled.
"Colin couldn't help tonight?" Roma asked with a smirk on her face. You of course just blushed.
"If your implying woman-"
Roma laughed. "I wish you could see your face Key. Its so red!" Your mouth dropped open. "I donna blush." You stated and turned in the wrong direction.
"Key, your going the wrong way." She said.
You turned towards her voice, mouth tight. You started to walk towards what you hoped was the table. "Where am I? Or who am I by?" Yo asked. Mouth still tight. You hated when you couldn't find your way in your own home.
"By me, Yusuke."
"Good, take these and pass them around. I have to go and get extra chairs."
"I'll help you with those, and don't tell me to shut-up this time." Kurama said. "You can't possible carry those and not bump in a wall on the way back. "
"Quite the contrary, I know exactly where they are. In my room." You said and walked away leaving Kurama standing there.
"You have o forgive her," Roma said. "Usually she's really sweet and doesn't care about comments made on her blindness."
"How did she become blind?" Yusuke asked. Roma opened her mouth to tell them it was none of there business, but you beat her to it.
"It donna concern you how I came to be blind. What does concern you, is the food on the counter. Dinner I suspect will be done in a few minutes. Correct Roma?" You asked coming into the kitchen carrying two chairs.
"In just a minute. Where's the other chair?" She asked.
"I have no idea. You moved it."
Roma laughed nervously. "I seriously don't remember moving it. Why would I move it, I didn't need to."
"Can it Roma. Your caught, brown handed. Twas in my room last time I checked. Where'd you put it?" You asked. "I honestly don't remember."
You turned around and headed back in the direction on your room. "Shall I go help her?" Kurama asked. "That would be a big help, or will be waiting for forever. Key's very stubborn by nature." Roma sighed.
"I'll help her." Kuwabara said. "Nice try idiot, but Kurama beat you to it." Yusuke winked at Kurama. "Go help her Kurama, since your so polite." Yusuke mocked. Hiei hit him upside the head.
"Thank you Hiei." Kurama said and headed in the direction you did.
On the way to your room, Kurama took the opportunity to look at your apartment. He saw pictures of Roma and Lance hanging up everywhere, and you and lance, then all three of you. You were always smiling in your pictures. As was Lance and Roma.
The three of you really looked like a family. There was still a couple of things even he didn't understand though. Like why Lance called Keyrin 'daddy'. He knew now that the girl was who Koenma suspected. Upon entering the apartment, kurama had spotted pictures of Key and saw the tattoos.
And when he saw Keyrin in person, wearing a muscle shirt, saw the tattoos for himself. Some were in Celtic, others were in Gaelic, and one was a mixture of both languages. Most were Gaelic. 'Just like her accent' Kurama thought.
Nothing to be suspicious of. However, some people were never what they seemed to be on the outside. The Apartment was very neat. Keyrin had said Roma moves everything around to much. An excessive cleaner.
It wasn't long before Kurama saw the opened door, and heard rummaging around from within. He opened the door and saw it was neat, labels everywhere, same as throughout the house. Keyrins room was in all kinds of blues and purples.
Kurama turned around taking it all in. The colors were beautiful. It was so calm in this room. Kurama could just feel the tranquility coming in beams at him. She had her bed facing the window. Up against the right wall.
Her dresser was on the wall by the door coming in, the closet was next to the dresser. Her bathroom was located by the corner next to her bed. Kurama could see the tile was also in blues and purples. Her desk with a computer was located next to the bathroom door.
Her entire wall by the closet was full of shelves with books, and on top of that was a stereo system. On the ceiling was a mural of the Earth, inclosed in the hand of a demon, with white eyes and a gun in the other hand. Sword was in its sheath at on her hip. There was a wolf standing next to her. Kurama could see Gaelic writing all over the Mural.
He stepped into the room a little bit further, to study the painting. He looked carefully at the hand of the demon. It was all words. He looked at the painting again and saw the entire figure, wolf, and earth was all painting in different colored ink, but in words.
"Wow." He breathed.
"Its completely painted in my language, Gaelic." Keyrin said coming out of the bathroom, leaning on the wall, arms crossed.
Keyrin had heard Kurama come in, and sensed him faster. He gave the same reaction everyone did when they saw the mural. It was such a pity no one would believe her if she told them the truth of who painted it.
Her.
Every year when she was granted the sight, she would paint more to it. It was still far from finished. She sighed at looked towards her ceiling, she might not be able to see it, but she knew exactly what it looked liked.
She had spent more than twenty years painting it, and still it wasn't finished. She smiled. A couple more years and it would be.
"And its not finished yet."
"Who painted it?" Kurama asked.
She couldn't believe she had even told him so much already. She would normally hurt anyone who dared to enter her room. Lance and Roma were different, even Colin was. She trusted them. Someone new however, was totally different and out of the question.
"You would never believe me even if I told you. Come on, I think I know where the chair is." You said and headed towards Romas room. Kurama in hot pursuit. "You might be surprised Keyrin. I believe a lot that no one thinks."
You laughed. "A reincarnated demon would." You said and walked into Romas room, leaving a very stunned Kurama in the hallway. You got the chair and walked out, bumping right into Kuramas chest. "Och. You moved."
"How did you know?" he asked.
"I'm not stupid you know." You said and pushed past him. "I never said you were stupid Keyrin. You're a very smart half demon yourself." You stopped dead. Clenching your fists together you spun around.
"If you ever mention my secret to Roma and Lance, I'll kill you." Hiei rounded the corner in time to hear you.
"Hn. It would appear we have the right girl fox."
"All Koenma had to say was that he needed me. He didn't have to send his pathetic spirit detective after me." "I meant what I said Kurama. Donna take my blindness as a weakness, I'm much stronger than what I appear to be. If you leak one word to Roma 'bout demons, I'll slice your throat. Yours to Hiei. She donna need to be exposed to that part of life. She has a son to raise."
"You needn't worry about that Keyrin. We all see how much you care for her and Lance. We just want to get to know you better." You lifted your eyebrow.
"How did you get your tattoos?" Hiei asked. "Wouldna you like to know fire twin." You smiled and pushed pass him as well.
Hiei just gaped as you went back into the kitchen. "She-she-she." he turned to Kurama. Kurama just chuckled. It was a sight to see Hiei stutter. "Don't worry Hiei. No one will find out." Kurama said and headed back to the kitchen as well.
Hiei however was upset now. 'How did the woman know I was a twin. It's not something I just broadcast everywhere I go' He thought as he came back into the kitchen.
"Dinner is served everyone. Hiei, Roma made you your plate, she thought you got lost finding Kurama and me." You said and smirked.
"Hn." Hiei said and sat in his seat.
