Chapter Five
A/N: Gomen! Sorry it took so long to get out! Your authoresses are both perverts and couldn't stop thinking perverted thoughts long enough to write seriously! Gomen!! hands out cookies to people who care READ ON!!
"Thanks Aimee... first I nearly get my ass singed off for you, now I end up carrying you back up the stairs." Sakura muttered. Kurama chuckled and Sakura looked around before asking, "So how are you getting the rest of them up there?"
"No idea, but I think if I leave them alone long enough they'll wake up on their own... though Hiei may try to kill me..." Kurama said, causing Sakura to laugh. Apparently she didn't think he was serious.
"Well Aimee, let's get going." Sakura said to her unconscious friend as she set her on her back and started traipsing up the stairs...
'Thirty-seven bottles of Aimee on the wall, thirty-seven bottles of Aimee... take one down, pass it around, thirty-six bottles of Aimee on the wall..." Sakura as she sang the same song for the twelfth time. Aimee groggily lifted her hand and smacked Sakura in the back of the head.
"Sakura stop being mean." She said, barely conscious. She shifted her weight slightly, causing Sakura to almost topple backwards onto the unsuspecting Kurama, luckily he lifted a hand and helped steady her as Aimee went back to sleep.
"Thanks," Sakura said as she mounted the final step to Koenma's office. She unceremoniously dropped Aimee on the floor before banging her fist on the door to get Koenma's attention. George opened the door quickly.
"Okay Koenma, now that we've successfully kicked their arses, what do you want us to do now?" Sakura asks, walking in.
"Well since you're so much stronger how about you train them?" Koenma asks.
"Nope, sorry. We got a house to build." Sakura says, with every intention to walk out.
"Wait a moment... I'll make a deal with you." Koenma says suddenly. Sakura pauses.
"I'm listening."
"You train my Spirit Detectives, I'll have them build your house for free." Koenma said quickly. Sakura walked back over to Aimee and kicked her side.
"Hey Aimee, we're having the idiots build our house." Sakura says.
"Nooo!" Aimee moans, coming to.
"Well think of it this way, you get to see the short one run around carrying giant blocks. Probably shirtless." She said with a smirk.
"Oh well in that case..." Aimee trailed off and when Sakura saw her look she smacked her friend out of it.
"Aimee!!" Sakura shouted scandalously.
"What?" Aimee said, rubbing her head gingerly.
"I take it that means we have a deal?" Koenma interrupts. The girls both nodded mutely. "Snap out of it you two!"
"Yah Aimee, get your mind out of the gutter." Sakura scoffs. She then adds in a lower tone, "It's blocking my view." Kurama chuckled and Sakura gave him a look.
They all turned around though as they heard the doors slam open behind them. In the doorway stood a very pissed off looking Hiei. "Kurama..." Hiei growled as he found the red head. "Can you please tell me why I woke up in the dirt outside? And why you didn't think to bring me in?"
Kurama warded off Hiei's custom glare with a smile. "I was helping these two get to the top of the castle without falling down the stairs." He said calmly.
The two girls gulped as Hiei turned to glare at them. Hiei was surprised as his glare got, not a tremble, but a blush.
"Pervert." Sakura whispered under her breath to Aimee as she stared at Hiei.
"Am not." Aimee whispered back.
"Are too. I know what you're thinking." Sakura said as Aimee turned a brighter shade of red.
"That's only because you're thinking the same thing as me." She whispered back fiercely. Now it was Sakura's turn to blush. Hiei was now thoroughly confused and looked to Kurama for clarification. As soon as Hiei broke eye contact, Sakura turned and stuck her tongue out at Aimee.
"You're blushing worse than I am!" Sakura exclaimed gleefully.
"I'm not blushing, I'm sun burnt." Aimee said defiantly.
A flying shoe came out of nowhere as Yusuke appeared out of the breath at the top of the stairs. "What the hell did you do to me? One minute I feel saw a glowing symbol underneath you two the next thing I know I'm getting all my energy sucked out."
"Yes, how did you use fox magic?" Kurama said, pouncing on the subject, trying to corner Sakura.
"Ahem!" Koenma interrupted, earning a grateful grin from Sakura. "I suppose now is as good as any time to tell you that you four will be building their new house."
"What?! Why do we have to rebuild their house?" Yusuke groaned. "What happened to their old one?"
The girls eyes glazed over as they thought of what had happened to Shigekaze and Yasuo.
"It burned down." Sakura said. Kurama and Hiei were the only ones to notice the underlying tones of sadness and anger. Aimee stomped out of the room, slamming the door shut behind her.
Kurama decided to try and change the subject by saying, "So where are we supposed to build this new house?"
Sakura grinned manically, "Just on the edge of the Kinmotsu Cliff, overlooking the Kira-Mizugiwa."(Forbidden Cliff / Killer Beach) Kurama paled slightly at the thought of trying to build a house there.
"I suggest you get started." Sakura said, exiting to follow Aimee.
A pause ensued before...
"The short onna was wearing my clothes... wasn't she?"
Sakura and Aimee were watching the work being done on the edge of the unforgiving Tonda Yurushi (Unforgiven) Forest. Aimee was currently staring at the short fire demon, whom was shirtless and carrying a load of strong Makai logs.
"Aimee... as interesting as it is to watch hott guys walk around shirtless... I kind of would like to have a bed." Sakura said as the sky darkened. Aimee pointed to the tents.
"Alright people get back to Spirit World we're going to sleep!" Aimee said. "Being up during the day instead of at night really whips you." And she and Sakura retreated into their tents as the others left.
As the moon rose higher and higher in the sky a shriek was heard and a scrambling noise. The tent collapsed around Aimee as she wiggled out of it, eyes wide.
"Aimee, what's wrong?" Sakura asks.
"I had a dream! It involved Yusuke and Kuwabara and this bed!" She whimpered, covering her eyes. "I don't want to be raped!! I refuse to sleep out here a moment longer. I'm going to Koenma's castle to raid a room and sleep in an actual bed with a door and a lock."
"You are not leaving me here by myself!" Sakura said, jumping up and following Aimee.
The two entered portals into a dark hallway in Koenma's castle. Aimee shrugged open a door and Sakura took the one next to her.
"See you in the morning." Aimee yawned.
"Heh... unless you get Yusuke or Kuwabara's bedroom." Sakura grinned sleepily and the two shut the doors and wandered around the room, Sakura a bit more gracefully than Aimee, who tripped over just about everything possible.
Aimee flopped down onto the bed and snuggled into whatever warmth there was on the other side of the bed.
Sakura managed to avoid most of the furniture in the room and made her way to the bed, lying softly on it and turning on her side.
Both were almost instantly asleep...
Sakura yawned as her eyes opened slowly, letting light infiltrate her pupils. She felt a strange weight on her and opened her eyes further, revealing bright red hair and smooth, unmarked skin. Her eyes widened a bit before relaxing. She was too tired to worry about formalities now.
Her fingers brushed lightly through Kurama's hair and she vaguely thought Why is his hair so silky and smooth? She then proceeded to braid it. About halfway done she fell asleep.
On the other side of the wall a not-so-peaceful awakening occurred.
As Aimee snuggled unconsciously into Hiei, which caused the fire demon to wake up quite quickly.
He sat up and his eyes widened to the size of saucers as he saw Aimee in such close proximity. He yelped.
Kurama lifted his eyelids quickly, resulting in a flash of pain from the sunlight. As his eyes adjusted he recognized a firm human shape beneath him. Oh Kami-sama, please tell me I'm dreaming... He thought as he tried desperately to unlatch his hair from Sakura's grasp. Her hands were tangled deeply in his silky locks and he struggled to free himself.
Meanwhile Hiei had taken to desperately trying to remove Aimee from hugging him, however nothing he tried worked to wake the sleeping girl. Finally he began raising his body temperature to an unimaginable burning degree.
Aimee yelped as she finally regained consciousness.
"Are you trying to incapacitate me for life?!" She shouted as she leapt back from him, using some magic to cool her temperature down.
"What were you doing in my bed onna?" Hiei growled, unsheating a katana and pulling it to her throat. Just then the door banged open and Kurama appeared with a head full of braids.
It was quite the odd scene, Kurama standing bedraggled in the doorway of which Hiei and Aimee were on their knees on the bed, Hiei with a katana at Aimee's throat, and Aimee with a pillow clutched in her arms, looking wide-eyed and innocent.
"What is going on?" Kurama asked as he pushed some braids out of his face.
"He's trying to maim me!" Aimee shouted.
At the same time, Hiei shouted, "Having her in your bed first thing in the morning is not something anyone wants to wake up to!"
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, you narrow-minded fire demon?!" Aimee roared, sending her pillow, and a small burst of magic, at the opposing fire demon. "Just because waking up next to anything with two legs and a chest freaks you out doesn't mean it freaks everyone out!" Aimee then proceeded to pick herself up off the bed and storm out of Hiei's room and into Kurama's room, and slam the door.
Hiei blinked at Kurama, who was trying not to laugh at the look on Hiei's face.
"I will kill that onna."