Chapter 5:
The Grevious Reunion
A/N: This chapter is cowriten with my friend Miranda a.k.a Shadow enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. If I did it would be so cool.
From last time
I walked to a clearing in the forest and sat down for a few minuets. Hiei staid hidden in the shadows and heard me mutter "it feels good to be home after so long." and then he fell out of the tree he was in. I looked up and saw Hiei lying on his back in the clearing and laughed silently to myself. "So how long have you been away from home Kaija?" Hiei asked. "About 250 years, why do you ask?" I replied. "Well you said 'it feels good to be home after so long' so I was just wondering."
Now onto this chapter
"Hey! I think I see a building or something!" shouted Lorea. "Where?" I asked searching frantically. "Onna, look with your eyes, not your ears!" ordered Hiei. He grabbed my head and roughly turned it to the horizon. "Oh," I murmured. "What are we waiting for?" asked Kurama.
"Woah," I said simply. We stood at the entrance to the castle. Stained-glass windows illuminated the dust floating in the air. Torches were long unused, though Hiei grabbed one and lit it. "Talk about High gate cemetery gloom," said Lorea quietly. We walked a while before we came upon out first inhabitant. "Hey, guy, you all right?" Kurama asked. Shaking the shoulder of the guard gently. Then the head rolled off. Kurama jumped back in surprise. "Nice one, fox," laughed Hiei. Lorea and I giggled quietly. "Hot Potato!" yelled Kurama as he threw the skull at Hiei. Hiei fumbled with it then chucked it at my chest. I screamed and tossed the skull in the air. Law of Physics: What goes up, must come down. And it did. Right on Kurama's head! "Happy Birthday," I said rubbing it in. "Ha Ha," Kurama said dryly. "Thats the fakest laugh out of you I've ever heard," muttered Hiei.
After the little game of ''skull-ball'', we found more dead bodies, with limbs or heads missing. "Too bad this place don't got a map," said Lorea. "If it does then it'll be a shopping mall instead of Mitagura family castle," said Hiei. "Too true, too true Hiei." I replied. We began to walk around the castle looking for any site of an intruder. None was to be found. Lorea asked "do you think there waiting for us to go off on our own to attack or that there not even here?" We all nod and keep walking only having searched about half the castle.
Hiei looked over and saw me crying and heard me whisper "why would someone want to kill my family. We have nothing worth stealing, except lots of money, jewels, and things like that, unless they were looking for the key." Suddenly Hiei turned around and snatched the dagger out of the air that was whizzing towards my head. I opened my eyes wider and looked towards the direction the dagger came from. "There's nothing there guys." I said, still startled. Hiei dropped the dagger and kept walking. Do you really think someone would want to kill you Kaija. Hiei said through some sort of mind link. I'm not sure, but I think someone is trying to. They almost did to. I replied through the same mind link without even knowing. Don't worry I'll be fine though. I said. Ok, but just remember Koenma can't know that we were even in the Makai. Hiei said and then cut the link.
Kurama and Lorea were chatting about school work and other meaningless things. I decided to play a trick on the others and ran ahead of them to a room off to the side. Hiei looked around to see where I had gone and grinned to himself. I ran out of the room and tackled Hiei to the ground and kissed his forehead. Kurama and Lorea laughed at my sudden trick. Kurama said "that was funny Kaija. Last thing I ever expected from you." "Yes it is, but you must be proud of yourself." Lorea said. I nodded still on top of Hiei who was glaring at the other two. Lorea pulled me off Hiei and to my feet. Hiei got up and pushed Lorea away from me saying "I enjoyed her trick. First thing I enjoyed in a long time." I stood there a bit embarrassed about what I had done.
Kurama and Lorea began walking down the hall again leaving Hiei and I alone. Kurama took Lorea to see if there were any clues as to who killed everyone. Hiei asked "why did you decide to play that trick on all of us?" "Oh I just wanted to spice up the trip a bit." I replied looking around the hall. "Hn. Tell me the real reason or I'll make you." stated an aggravated Hiei. "But that is the real reason." I replied smiling sweetly.
Kurama and Lorea were searching the rest of the palace. Lorea said "I don't think that theres any one here besides the four of us." "Theres someone here Lorea. Kaija, Hiei, and I all know that there is someone or something here and that it wants to kill us all. Mainly Kaija but it wants to kill us all." Kurama stated plainly well continuing to drag Lorea through the halls of the castle.
Hiei griped my wrist with crushing force and pulled me close before pulling a dagger out of my belt and placed it at my neck. "Now tell me the real reason.
NOW ONNA NOW!" Hiei said before yelling the last three words. "I kinda like you Hiei. So I played the trick on you." I whispered a bit afraid of Hiei's response to the truth. Hiei lowered the dagger and finally put it back in my belt and said "I liked the trick but don't pull any more tricks like that when Kurama and Lorea are around. Got it." I nodded and he let go of my wrist, leaving a bruise in the shape of his hand.
Kurama laughed as Lorea made a sour face and said "ugh. To many rooms in this place." "Well yes there seems to be but that comes with living in a castle. There's only 120 rooms in here." Lorea looked shocked when Kurama said this. "How can a place this big have only 120 rooms?" asked a confused Lorea. "There quiet large, the smallest bedroom is about 45 x 50 feet." replied Kurama calmly.
Hiei looked at the bruise on my wrist and then grabbed the wrist and pulled me into the room I had come out of. I winced as he grabbed the bruise and then gasped at the sudden jerk forward. Hiei looked around and muttered "I hope this room has a first aid kit." I wondered what he was looking for and then followed his gaze to the first aid box over in the far corner. Hiei sat me down on the bed in the corner and grabbed the first aid box right above the bed. "What are you doing with-" I started but was cut off by Hiei ripping the make-shift bandages off my knees. I bit my bottom lip to keep from screaming as the cuts started bleeding again. After Hiei finished pulling the bandages off he began putting actual bandages on them. Hiei finished up with the bandages on my knees he pulled out an ace bandage and said "Onna bruised wrist now."
Lorea looked shocked at how big the smallest bedroom was and asked "who's bedroom was that?" "A guest room. But we never had many people over so it doesn't really matter." Lorea gapped at the answer she got and Kurama began to wave his hand before her eyes "you there, anyone home?" Lorea blinked a few times and replied "oh my and yes I'm here."
I handed him my bruised wrist and he began to wrap the ace bandage tightly around the bruise. Hiei finished up quickly and then returned the first aid box to its place above the bed. "What room is this any way?" Hiei asked. "Mine. This is my room." I replied. Hiei started walking around looking at everything when he came to the closet he saw all sorts of dresses and shoes. He asked "what's this Kaija" as he held up a red dress. "Ok ok you caught me. I use to wear dresses and that sort of thing. That was before I needed to carry weapons and such. So don't hold it over my head that my wardrobe from 250 years ago is filled with dresses and dancing shoes." "Relax already would you" he stated with a hint of laughter in his voice. "I want to see you in the dress. Now" Hiei stated calmly despite the death glare I gave him. "NEVER!"I yelled. "Well then I'll just tell Koenma that you forced me to take you to the Makai." Hiei threatened. "Fine, fine I'll wear the stupid dress."
"I wonder how Hiei and Kaija are doing don't you Lorea?" asked Kurama. "I think there doing just fine Kurama. Don't worry so much about your little sister. She's knocked people over who were twice her size. I think she'll be fine." replied Lorea. Kurama laughed "when did she do all of these things?" "When we were younger, and she was about 7 or 8." replied a very tired Lorea.
I grabbed the dress from Hiei and went into the bathroom to change into the dress. Hiei said "I'm giving you 10 minuets to get into that dress. Got it." "Yeah, yeah, yeah Hiei I got it." I hollered through the door. Hiei continued to walk around the room as I hurried to get the dress on. "Thank God my father got them to make the dresses so that they would fit me in about 300 years as well as back then." I muttered to myself and walked out of the bathroom to see Hiei searching through all my drawers. "Um.. Hiei. Hello anyone home in that big haired head of yours?" I asked. "Yes Onna I'm here. I see your in the dress." Hiei said as he pulled out a pearl and ruby necklace and placed it around my neck. "Now you look like the princess you are." Hiei whispered in my ear.
Lorea saw that they were in a room with a bed and lay down hoping to get some kind of sleep. Kurama sat down in a chair and mumbled "hope she figures out that this is my room." to himself. "Whose room is this Kurama?" asked a half asleep Lorea. "Mine. It's my bedroom." replied a very awake Kurama. "WHAT, I'm in your bed." said a shocked Lorea.
"I hate you" I growled at Hiei as he continued to search through all my drawers and shelves. "I know you do Onna, I know you do." Hiei replied as he looked at all the rusted looking daggers and arrow tips in a glass case. "Hn. Why do you have all sorts of rusted weapons in a case?" asked a confused Hiei. "There not rusted dumb-dumb. There bronze ya dumbbell." I replied. "Oh. Well why are they in a glass case where as the silver, steel, and iron weapons aren't?" Hiei asked. "Well the bronze weapons are poison tipped so we didn't want them touching any of my other weapons." I replied.
"Yes, you are. I don't mind." Kurama says looking at the shocked Lorea. "Ok then is there a spare room I can stay in well we're here?" asked a tired Lorea. "I'll find one close to here because I need to rest as well." replied Kurama. They began to search for a guest room that was fairly large and close to Kurama's room. "Here we are. This room should suit you fine. Well see you later." Kurama said. Lorea walked into the room and fell right onto the bed and fell asleep. Kurama walked back to his room and read for about 15 minuets before he lay down on his bed and fell into a light sleep.
"Oh. Well perhaps we should go find Kurama and Lorea but you might want to change back into your normal cloths." said Hiei. "Yes I think so too and ya think I should change back into my pants and shirt." I replied adding sarcasm to the last part. "Just go and get changed." said Hiei. "I'm going I'm going. No need to get all pushy." I said as I walked back into the bathroom. Hiei yelled "HURRY UP!!!" through the door. I opened the door and it hit Hiei in the face giving him a bloody lip and black and blue eye. "Oops. Sorry." I said with sarcasm dripping like venom through out my voice. I ran out the door with Hiei yelling "GET BACK HERE NOW!!!" I continued running well saying "no. It's not my fault that your head was in the way of the door." Hiei began to chase me and finally tackled me to the ground.
Kurama woke up and went into the room Lorea was in and woke her up. "Huh. Mom. Go away. Five more minuets mom. -snore-" said a half asleep Lorea. "She thinks I'm her mom." whispered a very much awake and happy Kurama. Kurama shook Lorea's shoulder gently well saying "time to get up sleepyhead. You have been asleep for a good 2 hours." Lorea woke up after a few more minuets and said "I'm up I'm up." "That's good. I was starting to get worried that you had fallen ill due to the sudden climate change." "WHAT!!!! YOU THOUGHT I HAD GOTTEN SICK JUST BY GOING INTO A DIFFERENT WORLD!!!!" yelled an angry Lorea. Kurama jumped back in surprise at Lorea's sudden outburst. "I may have never lived in the Makai but I WILL NOT let me repeat WILL NOT fall ill to a simple climate change." Lorea said yelling the 'will not' each time.
"Ouchy. That hurt Hiei." I said as I tried to push him off. He wasn't moving. "It's your own fault Onna. You shouldn't have run." replied Hiei. "Will you get off me already." I asked well still trying to push Hiei off. "No Onna I won't. I'm going to get you back for your little trick earlier." replied Hiei with a slight smirk playing on his lips. "Oh come on. Wasn't making me wear a dress pay back enough?" I asked. "No it wasn't. I'm going to make you pay and you'll wish you had never played that trick." He replied with a slight chuckle. "GET THE HECK OFF ME NOW!!!!!" I yelled. "Hn. No Onna." Hiei replied in a very commanding voice and started... tickling me. "HA HA HA HA HA" I laughed as he tickled. He stopped after he realized I could barely breath and then he kissed my forehead right were my jagan eye was.
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