By Hotaru Hope Maxwell
I do not own SM or YYH! However, some of the characters I use are creations of my imagination and effort. Also, reasons for my absence are being explained below.
Dark violet eyes mixed into the ruby red brown ones, searching Hiei's confused gaze before drifting to the emeralds of Kurama and then the chocolates of Yuusuke. Hotaru turned her attention away from Kuwabara before scoffing and stomping her way into her room, not bothering to try and magically open the door. Upon entering, the youthful princess was amazed. Her room, normally black had been painted a bright yellow with pink ribbons. The violet orbs got wide and without remembering the group she let out a scream.
Yuusuke's jaw, which had been dropped in the prospect of Hotaru's announcing her living in the mysterious palace like structure of Saturn as a home suddenly shot upward into a tight clench when he heard the alarmed scream from the locked doors. "Hotaru…" He muttered as Kuwabara and Kurama began to try and bang their way into the palace door. Their actions however, did not go unnoticed by the guards making the rounds. "Hey! What do you think your doing over there!" A silver headed guard shouts as he and his black haired partner come running towards the two others.
Hiei moves first, disappearing swiftly in order to reappear between the two. Quickly the fire demon knocks them out by simply hitting them above the heads. Just as the last of the two falls to the ground the heavy outer lock on the door begins to shift. "What is going on out there, you fools?!" Comes an irritated voice. A tall red headed woman appears. She has long red hair, reaching her bum and dark ruby colored eyes. Her skin is sickly pale but her long slim body makes up for it. Behind her is a fuming mad Hotaru who is glaring daggers at the woman. The woman herself is wearing simply to put it, a tiny pink robe.
"Pardon us, milady. These guards, we believe to be traitors to your great Kings life. We found them trying to sneak into your room, madam." Kurama jumped forward, bowing on his knees.
The woman blushed somewhat, gazing at the boy. "My….I haven't seen you boys around." She stated her tone quiet and calculating. "Because you've been too busy screwing with my life, you witch!" Hotaru shouted, going unnoticed by the woman. Yuusuke took a peek into the doors and noted a brightly and sickly colored room. He flinched, noting some oddly paired pinks and oranges which were most definitely not Hotaru colors. Hotaru was still fuming up a storm. If Kuwabara was in her path, she'd have toasted him 17 million times over by now, Yuusuke thought. Her eyes had faded into a pure black purple that lacked almost all emotion except for strong hate.
"My thanks, noble sirs." Kaori managed to give as she noted Hiei's cloth, eyes trailing over his much smaller figure. Smaller, true, but still with its good sections. She snickered in her mind, unaware that Hiei had probably heard her. Hiei nodded before sending a glare to Kuwabara. "Move it servant-boy." He hissed, pointing down the hall. This was an indication for the spirit-trapped girl, Hotaru to follow. She however, didn't follow his advice after Kaori disappeared into her room again.
"Who was that?" Kurama muttered, trying to wipe away the disgusting thoughts that the semi-pretty woman left in his mind. Kuwabara was dazed while Yuusuke was making gagging sounds behind the taller boy. Hotaru had yet to appear. "Kaori Night." Hiei stated, ignoring Kuwabara's gasp.
"How the heck did you figure that out, Hiei?" Yuusuke questioned, stating the oblivious. "Mind and the fact that Hotaru was referring to her as a "red headed bitch"." Hiei shrugged.
"That's only cause she is one." Hotaru stated, appearing half way through the wall. "Don't do that!" Kuwabara shrieked, jumping away from the ghost able spirit. "Do what, knuckle head?" Hotaru grunted, landing beside Kurama and glaring at the red head. "Jump out of walls! Its freaky!" Kuwabara shouted at her.
"Keep it down you baka. The Inner Guard patrols this area." Hotaru hissed at him, her eyes daring the boy to challenge her. "So what was the screaming about, Hotaru-chan?" Yuusuke questioned the spirit, leaning against the wall. Hotaru flinched, her eyes shooting to the window. "Kaori being in my room. And the appearance of my room." Hotaru sneered.
"You're room?" Kurama stated, pushing a stray lock of red hair behind his ear. He straightened up when he heard the sound of soldiers. Hiei nodded to the men who passed by them before the group turned to glare at the ghost.
"Look. I don't have time for this. My body's missing for Saturn's sake!" Hotaru snarled out, grumbling and crossing her arms. "But shouldn't we take care of that red gal first?" Kuwabara pried. At this, dark violet eyes sneered upon his vision. "You're a fool aren't you?" Hotaru blinked, hearing Hiei state such.
"Kuwabara. We have to destroy the portal first. Then we can take care of the woman who's been interfering with the space time continuum." Kurama said smoothly, a soft smile on his features. Hotaru huffed and turned away. "I'm not helping you find that doorway until you help me find my body." She turned about, staring at some flowers of Saturn hanging off a balcony window. She was float standing whilst Hiei rolled his eyes and Kurama tried to cool off an agitated Kuwabara and Yuusuke.
After about 10 minutes of calming down the irate tallest, Hotaru and Hiei were walking side by side with Kurama, discussing things about the past. Hotaru was actually following the moronic human about after he displayed an ability to track her aura to her body. Shaking her head at the thought of a Saturnian Princess obeying such a crude mortal human, she glanced sideways to the silent Hiei. Hotaru and spent most of the walk talking to Kurama, but Hiei was nearby so as to look like Kurama was speaking with him. He didn't have to stand there on her side, but he did. Why? She was instantly curious about all of his actions over the past few hours. He had saved her from that pervert and was semi-kind to her. Not as overly-sweet as Kurama or as polite, but in his own way, Hiei was nice to be around.
"How much farther, Kuwabara?" Yuusuke groaned to the orange-headed male. Hotaru sneered at the thought of him being like a little child complaining when the space-cycles made their rounds about her planet. She'd always disliked trips to Titan when she was four earthen years.
"Here." Kuwabara suddenly said, pointing to the door where Hotaru was sure lead to nothing but a guestroom. She sighed, knowing it probably had something to do with Kaori Night sleeping with her father again. The past time that Kaori had been in the royal king's company, she'd been given Hotaru's Grandmother's room. Hotaru's was the best for experiments because of that magical power the princess emitted. Moving her here must have taken some time. Hotaru shook her head, ganging herself a look from Hiei whilst she peeked over Kurama's shoulder. Sure enough, lying peacefully in the bed was the almost 13 year old body.
Yuusuke and Kuwabara circled Hotaru's sleeping form, eyeing her suspiciously whilst the floating princess glanced about at some strange gizmos. "What's with this dress, Hotaru? You look all girly!" Kuwabara explained to the girl. Hotaru sweatdropped, as did Kurama. "Maybe it's because I am a girl." She retorted with a snort.
Hiei huffed and found a perch in the upper area of the room. The bed was huge against Hotaru's body. She was small and tiny and even more so pale than that of her ghost form. She was dressed and cut the same way the ghostly form appeared, but the only differences visible was a glowing symbol on the living's forehead and a pretty strange green mask over her lips and noise. "What's this?" Kuwabara stated, poking the softly lit symbol. Hotaru immediately reddened.
"Hey! Is someone within the chambers of the Princess?!" A shout came from outside. Four sets of eyes drifted to the girl who was by then a brilliant pink.
TBC….
Okay…. There are solid good reasons behind my not writing in such a long time. The first, to begin with is that I caught pneumonia and was in a hospital bed for 1 week and for the following three weeks after that had to use an inhaler and have weekly check-ups. During this time, I got involved in a car accident that left me without a car and without a manner to get to my rehabilitation. As such, I sincerely apologize. Then came graduation and finals. Yes, I am now a college student. Hurray for me. Didn't have any time to celebrate cause five days after my wonderful graduation party my grandfather went into open heart surgery involving quadruple bypasses. All in all, these past 2 months stunk severly. Don't kill me for it! Okay? I did what I could and I'm so sorry about not updating. It's been killing me. Oh, and to end the point, my comp got that Trojan virus. So yeah, summers been great so far. Sorry again, hope you like my present of chapters for my famous stories; Fate's Cruel Joke; Life and Dark Chocolate.
Sincerely -Bambi
P.S.: Next time on Dark Chocolates: Princess? Hotaru's true secret is discovered. The entrapped and damaged psyche of a young hurt girl is seen and Hiei saves Hotaru's body from death. However, in doing so, she awakens to not know him or the others? What will Yuusuke and the gang do when he's got a princess with amnesia and a group of Saturn's guards after them?
