AH! Gomen nasai, minna! I got caught up in working on Perfect Balance that I had no time or inspiration to work on BBE.
Dis: I own nothing that looks remotely familiar to you, except for my character.
Staring after her, I wondered to myself how I made it here if I'm not even half as crazy as she was.
Unlocking the door to my room, I went inside. The wall inside were painted to look like the big city, and I could just make out the shapes of buildings I remembered from home. There were two beds inside, along with a computer, TV, and mini refrigerator.
"Feels just like home." I sighed, flopping on the bed. My Bishonen went to various spots in the room, making them selves comfortable. Yusuke even turned on the TV and was channel surfing.
Staring at the walls, old memories of school with Alex and Haley came to mind. Fighting back some tears, I turned on my Dex.
"Play 'Welcome to My Life' by Simple Plan." I commanded. Closing my eyes, I let the music blast into my ears.
On the other side of the room
"Heh, that song sounds like someone I know." Yusuke said, glancing at the windowsill where Hiei was sitting.
"Hn," was all the response that Yusuke got. Hiei looked around for his youngest brother. He smirked a bit upon seeing the Chibi hanging off of Sesshomaru's fluffy-tail-thing. The taiyoukai had apparently given up on getting the Chibi to get off of him and was just sitting on the floor waiting for the child to lose interest in his tail.
Briar was looking at the potted plants in the window, seeing if they were healthy or something.
The music from the girl's Dex suddenly stopped, and she got up.
Back with Meg
I turned off the music and got up. After a second's thought, I headed to the computer to check any emails I might have gotten. That's when the phone rang. Flopping on the bed again, I reached out to answer it.
"Hello?" I said into the phone.
"Hi, sorry to bother you, but I have some customers here who have no room, since we're all filled up for the night. I'm requesting permission that they stay with you for the night?" The voice of the Halfling from the front desk answered politely.
"Um, sure, I guess." I said, wondering how the hotel ran out of rooms in the first place.
"Thank you, and sorry again for bothering you." The Half-Bishi hung up. Putting the phone back in the cradle, I told my Bishonen what I was told.
"How does a hotel run out of rooms that fast?" Yusuke asked after a second.
"Did they not have extra rooms when we checked in?" Sesshomaru pointed out.
"Well, whatever happened, we have another person rooming with us, and since there's only two beds…" I trailed off, letting my Bishonen figure it out.
"I will stay out here, and my outoto will too. We don't need a bed." Hiei said, turning away from us. Hi-kun, hearing the conversation, spoke up.
"But… But… I wanna sleepout here withOnee-san…" he said, giving his best 'Chibi Eyes'. "Aniki, onegai?" I almost melted.
Hiei can handle everything from raging demons to Kuwabara flirting with Yukina, but there's one thing that he can't defend against. His brother's 'Chibi Eyes'. But it was at that time that someone decided to knock on the door.
"Hey, anybody in there? We were told that we had permission to room with you for the night!" a female's voice said from the other side of the door, slightly muffled by the wood. Sending a 'could their timing be ANY worse!' look at my Bishonen, I went and opened the door.
"Hi, my name's Demoonica, and I was told that we could room here tonight." The person said. She was older than I was by a while, probably four or five years. She had dark brown hair and brown eyes, and she was wearing a red and white sweatshirt and jeans. There was a person behind her, who looked a hell of a lot like a Duo.
I stood there for a couple seconds before nodding and letting them in. Demoonica walked in, the Duo-look-alike behind her, and I noticed that the man had a baby in his arms, the child being no more than a year old at the very most. It was Demoonica, Zander and Damia from LDD's story.
"I swear the Goddess is trying to mess with my head…" I muttered, flopping on the bed I claimed as mine. I sat up Indian-style and looked from Demoonica to Zander and back again. First Jess, now D-sama, who's next, Anya? …Ok, better not think that, it could actually happen…
"Um… you have a Chibi with you…" Demoonica's voice broke through my thoughts. Blinking, I looked at her.
"Hm?"
"He's my outoto; I gave permission for her to capture him." Hiei said before I could process what Demoonica had said. The room was silent again. Sighing in frustration, I unclipped Yusuke's Bishi Ball from my belt and tossed it into the air.
"Yusuke, where'd you leave the remote?" I asked the Bishonen who was now standing in the room.
"It's over on top of the TV and who are they?" he asked, pointing to Demoonica and Zander. I quickly introduced Demoonica who, in turn, introduced Zander. Yusuke looked tense as Zander looked at him.
"I think we'll go down to the café and get some food." Demoonica said, getting up and motioning for Zander to follow her, obviously not liking the tension in the room. The two walked out the door, Damia still in Zander's arms. Yusuke turned to me.
"Why did you let some Halfling into the room?" he hissed, clearly ticked off. "He's not even half human!"
"Calm down, Urameshi." I said, holding up my hands. "They are the ones spending the night with us. If you're so against it, stay in you Bishi Ball all night. Why ARE you so against it anyway?"
"Why should I tell you?" he asked hotly, the demon in him showing through. Faint markings were showing on his arms and face. Toushin markings.
"Be-CAUSE," I said, stressing the last syllable, "I won't stop asking if you don't tell me, and I'll keep bothering you about it, and trust me, I'm worse than Keiko when it comes to being stubborn."
The markings on his arms and face faded; a definite good sign. He sighed and appeared to calm down.
"Ok, I had a younger sister, a Keiko. One day, a Kuwabara Halfling came into the city. He looked just like a full Bishonen, the guards couldn't tell the difference. He came in and started to take all the Chibis he could find. The guards came and tried to get him out, but my sister was killed in the process. Ok? Happy now?" he asked, looking at me. I sat there quietly, fiddling with the remote.
'Most of my Bishonen so far have some sort of strange or sad past, I wonder why… I mean, a Sess without a Rin, a Chibi without his parents, Yusuke's sister… Wait; wouldn't the Rin have been a Chibi herself?' I thought, trying to see if any of this would fit together. Growling in frustration, I gently threw the remote so it would land on a chair and got up. Looking around, I saw that most of my Bishonen had all sorts of road grime on them.
"Come on, I want to go and pick up some supplies, and I dunno about YOU all, but I definitely need new clothes." I said, looking down at my dirt-smeared shoes and clothes. Yes, a shopping trip was definitely in order. I got up and started walking towards the door. Hi-kun ran up in front of me and held his arms out, silently asking to be picked up. Giving him a small grin, I knelt down and scooped him into my arms, noting that all of my Bishonen but Hiei were in their Bishi Balls now.
He said something in Japanese to Hi-kun, which instantly brought the Chibi's protest. Hi-kun jumped from my arms and said something back. Hiei spoke a few more sentences with finality and the Chibi pouted and went into his Bishi Ball too. Hiei followed with a satisfied "Hn."
Shrugging, I walked down the hallway and out of the building. Squinting in the sunlight, I looked around for any sort of store that I could buy clothes from. Not seeing one, I wandered around for a few minutes, slowly migrating from shop to shop. I finally stumbled upon a clothing store two streets over from where I started from. It didn't look like much from the outside, but inside it was like a department store. I could see other trainers with their Bishonen in different isles, comparing sizes or prices or colors.
"Wow… It's almost like Old Navy or JC Penny's or something…" I said in awe. Grabbing a shopping basket, I headed to the females' section.
Fifteen minutes later, I was heading towards the Bishonen section, the basket in my hands being half-full of new clothes, half being my choices and half being Tris's.
I let out my Bishonen, giving them instructions to pick one outfit as an extra.
After an hour of trying to find the right outfits, we were back in the hotel room.
"Okay, I'm going to take a long shower. If Demoonica comes back, let her in." I said. With that, I walked into the bathroom.
The hot water felt good to my tired muscles. Picking up the shampoo that came in the newbie pack, I started to wash the road-grime out of my hair.
Half an hour later, I stepped out of the steam-filled bathroom with a towel wrapped around my head. I looked around and noticed that there was a bag that didn't belong to me on one of the beds. That meant that Demoonica had come and gone. I also noticed that none of my Bishies were in the room. At first I thought they were just in their Balls, but something told me that they weren't. At least four of them weren't. Hiei and Hi-kun were.
Eyes widening, I threw the towel into the bathroom and slipped on my belt and shoes.
"That can't be good…" I said as I sped out of the room.
As I entered the hallway, I heard the faint sounds of an argument.
"…why she let a Halfling into the room! Especially when we have a Chibi with us! I can't believe she was that careless!" Yusuke's voice floated up the stairs.
"Yusuke, don't doubt our Trainer. I think she knows what she's doing." That was Briar.
"I don't think she would knowingly endanger your brother. She seems to smart for that." Tris's voice joined the conversation.
"I must agree with Yusuke on this. She was taking agreat risk by letting a Half-Bishonen into the room." Sesshomaru joined in as well.
"Yeah, but-" Briar started, but I had had enough. I walked down the stairs. The four looked at me, all going silent. I glared at them with the glare I learned from years of watching YYH. Even Yusuke shrank back a bit.
"I can't believe you don't trust me." I said simply. With that, I called Yusuke and Sesshomaru back to their Bishi Balls and headed back up the stairs to the room. Tris and Briar followed silently.
There. I tired to make it longer, but it wouldn't co-operate. Onegai, R&R?