I'm sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
Then all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knocking at my brain
Before I go insane
I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread ...
"I think I love you!" (I think I love you)

This morning, I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And did not go and shout it
When you walked into the room ...
"I think I love you!" (I think I love you)

I think I love you
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I love you
Isn't that what life is made of?
So it worries me to say
I've never felt this way

Believe me
You really don't have to worry
I only want to make you happy
And if you say
Hey, go away, I will
But I think better still
I'd better stay around and love you
Do you think I have a case?
Let me ask you to your face
Do you think you love me?

I think I love you
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I love you
Isn't that what life is made of?
So it worries me to say
I've never felt this way

I don't know what I'm up against (no)
I don't know what it's all about
(oh no)
I've go so much to think about
(think about)
Hey!I think I love you!
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I love you
Isn't that what life is made of?
So it worries me to say
I've never felt this way

Kaci- I think I love you ( I thought this suit Mina's character's perfectly)


A/N:- It's a proper rom-com finally! So I apologuise in advance if Youko is slightly OOC


I had spent most of the day walking around the town with my pet Tiny in tow. Jeeze hasn't this place changed. There's more wannabe thugs than fake I.Ds -trust me that's a lot!

I couldn't be bothered to go to University really, most of them there were just disdainful for my brain to cope - besides I had bigger problems to deal with. Grandpa sho was one of them; if he hadn't poked his nose in and brought dear father to drag me to Yokohama...I might of done something decent with myself - like own a motorbike shop.

/sighs/ "Nothing but clear blue skies, birds singing and - oh dear god no...what's SHE doing here?"

If you're not sure by now I guarantee you it's my mother! With another man! Carrying her shopping!

"Oh hi honey! Why are you hanging around uptown... you should be studying at Uni..."

"Well I wasn't up for it ok? Narumi's at school so you don't have to worry about her skipping...who's he anyways."

"Mina don't be so rude! This is Ryouta Hirashi...I've been seeing him for a while now..."

I just stood there gawking at this...colossal mountain of a man shall we say over 6ft? He just slightly bowed and ushered my mother to be on her way...what the hell? He can't be normal! No way on earth could this 'thing' be so tall! I decided to kick few cans around the park to brew on my ever 'expanding' dilemma.

I sat on the swing and let the gentle breeze calm me down. It's just weird what's happened over the years, growing up a delinquent, meeting your best friend's friends and then partnering up ( without choice mind) with a guy who's really a demon who seems to be besotted with you...

"Is that all you do?...y'know - think."

Ack! I fell flat on my ass, smacking my head on one of the swing's frame. I'm sure I'm down to my last 100 brain cells...

"Hiei...you've really got to stop sneaking up on me...people will start to wonder if you're my stalker..."

"Don't be a fool human...I was asked by Kurama to seek you out..."

"That's a first Hiei - playing cupid instead of assassin..." Lifting one of my curious eyebrows at him as I dusted myself off further. "So what does he want me for?"

"He wants you to go over his house for dinner, something called 'meeting the parents'..."

"What? His mother I know but having a meal with the REST of them? A-and I've gotta bring some form of food and I can't cook! I poisoned my Food Tech teacher with burnt fish and expired soy sauce last year...heh heh..."

"..."

"Um, Hiei?"

"..."

"Oh great - he's in dumb shock..."

As you know when you piss off someone by calling them dumb, you tend to get into contact with sharp-pointy objects. In my case it was in a form of a Katana - sword.

After trying to pry my way out of this situation by smooth-talking (he has a worse ego than napoleon did!) I was left to walk home with four new problems.

1) Should I go to University or just get a job?

2) Mother's new boyfriend

3) Shuichi controlment of Youko

4) Cooking

Luckily I had instant noodles left for me to boil (though I ended up scalding the scars of my arm...)

/grits her teeth and hurls the kettle of the window/ Ruddy thing! Jeeze! If it wasn't for the nagging messages from my mother to clean the fish tank (which was thrown away 10 minutes ago because it was just gross - the fish was past dead).

The peaceful and serenity were soon to be parted as the loud bangs on the door followed by my half-sister and mother stormed in.

Why must they argue over the fact that Narumi's grades were shit? Again? It was no different to mine at her age - mother should be grateful that she's getting A's in P.E and Maths.

Heh heh...I didn't even get a D.

"Mina? Hi Honey I didn't see you - what's the matter you look...you look..."

"Like you haven't been laid for years..."

"Narumi!"

"What? It's obvious she's thinking about Shuichi!"

"Just...get the hell away from me ok? I just want some alone time. Jeeze I haven't seen him since I got here which is what...ages? And now I've been invited to meet the rest of his family! What the hell am I going to do?"

My mother sat me down on the cream leather sofa whilst Narumi made some Ramen noodles (Yay!).

She looked at me as if any moment, she was going to tell me the answer that every person has asked - the meaning of life, the winning lottery numbers, Her account number to her silver credit card...

"Shori thinks you're a lovely girl and wouldn't mind helping you spruce up your cooking skills"

/face faults/ "You told her my cooking stinks?"

"ha ha, well, I couldn't hide your court letters for trying to poison your teacher now could I?"

"You could've of shredded them with the shredder..."

"You blew up the dam thing when you set the T.V alight remember?"

"Heh...heh.../Sweatdrops/ "

"Anyways, she wants you go round there this weekend to help her with the cooking"

"Um ok...thanks mum...I guess..."

She patted me on the shoulder like sign that everything was gonna be a-ok ( a-ok my ass - I'm gonna have to remind myself to wear a chastity belt too when I get over there!) And then left me to get dressed.

I was going to hop into my bed when my phone rang - it was Keiko.

"Mina I need your help tomorrow - I need to pick my wedding dress!"

"Wha? Sure, sure Keiko but please tell me - why are you ringing me at 11pm to tell me this?"

" I would've rung you earlier but you were all out. Even worse is that you haven't been to uni! Dammit Mina what the hell is going on in that brain of yours?"

I looked at my phone in shock - she's worse than my mother!

"Maybe I'm better off with a job Keiko - mum's been out a lot with that new fella of hers and trust me - he should've been a demon 'cause he's HUUUUUGE! We're talking about using step-ladders to speak to him face-to face!"

"Your mum's going out?"

"Yeah an he's- whaddya mean 'going out'?"

"No-no-no not in a bad way; I mean you are glad for her right?"

"Uh-huh...I just hope that my deranged father doesn't come after her..."

There's that awkward, heavy silence again! I wonder where Tiny went...?

"I'll see you tomorrow Keiko - I need my sleep badly. Bye."

Flipped the phone down and then I just laid there. Heck even my thoughts were empty.

Since when have I missed Kurama? It's nice to have some quiet time to-

'Think about familly planning?'

'What? ACK! You again! Jeeze Kurama I thought I had the day to myself!'

'Not quite my thorny rose. I overheard your conversation - and I'll be making sure you finish University too'

'but-'

'No buts Mina - or else I'll make you pay dearly'

'That sounded perverted...besides - err Kurama? You wouldn't believe what I'm about to tell you...'

I was staring at tiny who was at the time, chewing on my shoes - or the rug..kinda hard to tell sometimes. Ayways, the strange glow was near enough blinding me ( I desperately need to buy some glasses!)

Well, the next thing I saw was...a 6 year old humanoid/fox demon with the most CUTEST grey eyes and long ( dead straight too) sooty hair - the only thing was that he was naked as a jail bird - and still had the bloody shoe in his mouth.

"Mimi pwetty - strange fox man's keeps your panties under his bed..."

/ blinks / "Oh shit...Youko's not gonna like this..."

...I thought I heard Youko thinking the same thing...


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