AKN: We're home!

Youko: You lost all of our yen gambling and we now live in a bus and you just used my wondeful ability to steal food instead of diamonds and other things that we could sell for more money! How the Hell in all of Inari's dreams can you call this piece of crap a 'Home'?

Mihi-chan: Youko-san, please calm down. It's not AKN's fault that she's a horrible drunk.

AKN: I am not!

Kurama: -smacks forehead-

Alicia: Well, really quickly while those fools are bickering, I should tell you all the responses to the few review(s) we had. Mystikl Sushi, I want to say sorry for the fact that the authors are idiots. This story is at chapter 17 on their computer and the pairings are me and Hiei...-blush- and Kurama and Kagome from Inuyasha. I understand if you hate us and will want to stop reading. Sometimes I wish I could stop reading, but I'm only a character.

Hiei: -snorts- Don't we all?

Youko: When I get my hands on that baka onna... -growl-

Mihi-chan: Ma ma, she will go to sleep soon and we can go find a place to live with the more expensive things you got you're hands on.

Youko: -whine- It's not the same!

Kurama: Where are Yusuke and Kuwabaka?

Mihi-chan: AKN and DDL are using them as brakes since the ones on the bus are broken.

CAST: O.o;

"Alicia; Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara wanted to say 'Thank You' for making the pancakes, but you scared Kuwabara away and made him cry. You're so cruel." Mihiro said with a grin.

Alicia turned and blinked slowly.

"He's a coward. I was just getting something to drink." She said and blinked again as she turned and put away the milk and strawberry topping.

Kurama and Hiei looked at each other.

Should we tell them that she blinked? Kurama asked Hiei through their mental link.

/Those idiots will either find out on their own or they will never know/ Hiei replied smirking.

"I'm going food shopping. Don't leave the shrine; you're not done healing." Alicia said about to walk out of the kitchen with her strawberry milk.

"Hey...ummm...what are you going to do with the strawberry milk?" asked Mihiro confused.

"Take it with me."

"Can you do that?" Mihiro asked amazed

"Yeah." Answered Alicia; walking out of the kitchen.

"Hey; I've been wondering. You have a five-inch deep hole in your side, right? How can you eat so much?" asked Kurama with his eyebrow twitching as he watched Mihiro shove down more pancakes.

"Well... it's sorta almost... kinda gone." Mihiro asked eating more pancakes and washing it down with milk.

"Demons don't heal that fast, especially with that big of a wound. Plus, Yusuke was bleeding from the head a lot. You'd think he'd have brain damage. Why can he still walk?" Hiei asked staring at Mihiro funny.

"Well, last night I felt funny...I heard singing..." Mihiro stopped talking and spaced out.

"That girl?" asked Hiei almost to himself.

"What girl?" asked Kurama wondering what Hiei had seen while out on his walk.

"None of your damn business..." Hiei growled getting out of his seat and walking outside.

Mihiro was walking down the path of the shrine getting some fresh air. After awhile he started to see two figures standing besides each other talking. As he got closer he saw that it was Alicia covered in a red substance holding a cup and talking to a girl. She had sea foam green hair with familiar crimson eyes and was wearing a blue kimono.

"Alicia? what happened to you?" Mihiro asked as he got closer.

Alicia looked down and it seemed for the first time that she noticed what was on her. She avoided the question. "Yukina is looking for her brother. I said he was here. That guy with black hair that is short."

"Hiei has a sister?" Mihiro shouted. Not far from where they were standing there was a large thump sound as if someone fell from a tree.

Alicia pointed her finger to the ground near one of the trees "There he is."

Mihiro ran over to where Alicia had pointed to get Hiei. When he found him Hiei was face first in the ground twitching.

"Hiei! Are you alright? It looks like you fell pretty far..." Mihiro said as he tried to help Hiei up. Hiei swatted his hand away as he stood and dusted himself off. Mihiro waited for a response.

"I don't have a sister. She must be delusional." Hiei turned and disappeared in a blur, leaving a confused Mihiro behind. Mihiro walked back to Alicia and Yukina, shaking his head in confusion.

"Hiei says that he doesn't have a sister and that you must be delusional. I apologize to you Yukina-san, but you must have mistaken Hiei for someone else." Mihiro said sympathetically, for a while he had done the same thing right before he had met the Reikai Tantei... or was it to them that he had done this? He couldn't remember a lot of things ever since Manatchi-dono had disappeared. Mihiro blinked back into reality as Yukina replied.

"He knows who I am; he's just trying to keep me safe. I won't leave him alone until we talk face to face." Yukina sighed, a depressing sound that was so unlike her cheery demeanor. Alicia watched closely as Mihiro mumbled something about having to see someone. He excused himself to wander the grounds of the shrine towards the building where they stayed, hidden from view. Yukina asked politely if she could stay with them since she had told someone named Genkai that she would not return until she had found her brother and confirmed his knowledge of her existence. Alicia nodded and offered to show her around, but Yukina politely waved off the offer and walked on to the living quarters. Alicia looked up to the sky and sighed; then looked down at herself.

"Guess I need to take a shower..." Alicia breathed. She fisted her hand and raised it to her mouth. She licked slowly across the back of her fist. She paused, and then shook her head as she too walked into the living quarters.

Mihiro wandered past the living quarters and continued down an old worn path between bushes in the gardens behind the building, marked only by the aged stones that posed as steps. Mihiro climbed down and walked through a grove of cherry blossom trees, taking care not to step on the ancient roots of the large trees. Mihiro looked up and smiled. In the center of a larger grove of these cherry blossoms was a fairly large lake. The stones of the path where Mihiro stood continued into the water, but instead of disappearing continued on the surface of the water and led to a boulder that was smooth topside, like a table. Mihiro stepped carefully on the stones, making sure that the ancient magic that had made this place hadn't worn away. Mihiro reached the center of the lake and took a seat on the great stone. Mihiro sighed deeply, knowing that he had a long day ahead of him.

"You can come out now, Hiei." Mihiro said as he closed his eyes.

The branches of one of the cherry trees rustled and parted, revealing a brooding apparition. Mihiro sighed again as he rubbed his temples. This was going to be a really long day...

Hiei leapt down onto the stone and took a seat across from Mihiro. Mihiro opened his eyes and watched Hiei. Sighing again, he drew himself up a little.

"Why did you lie to Yukina, Hiei?" Mihiro asked; concern eminent on his face. Hiei looked away from Mihiro's eyes, then back. He held what he thought was an impassive face.

"I did not lie. I'm not her brother, she must be confused or something." Hiei mumbled.

"Hiei...do you really think I can't tell that you're lying to me? How do you think she feels, knowing that the only brother she has doesn't acknowledge his own existence as to what he truly is?" Mihiro growled out, his voice gaining unfamiliar venom. Hiei looked away once again, tensing as if he were ready to bolt. Hiei sighed and looked back to Mihiro.

"My darkness would only hurt her. She could be used against me; I don't want her to be in danger just because of me. She's too pure and innocent to be near someone like me." Hiei said finally. Mihiro shook his head.

"That doesn't matter to her and you know that. Look at Naomi and I; she's being used against me, half the time she's trying to kill me, but I still acknowledge that she is my sister. I still would whether she had been forced to turn against me or if she had done it by choice. You know why that is Hiei? It's because she is my sister, and no matter what happens, I will still love her with all of my heart." Mihiro said as the apparition watched the kitsune with interest. Hiei turned away from Mihiro for awhile.

"You know as well as I do that he's right Hiei." A soft voice said from behind one of the cherry trees. The two turned surprised faces towards the voice. Kurama stepped out from behind the tree. Hiei stood, anger flooding his aura.

"I do know that! ... I-- I can't do that to her, she doesn't deserve me as a brother. I know that I messed up some where, but I can't fix that now." Hiei said as the anger left and was replaced by regret.

"Yes you can!" Mihiro and Kurama said simultaneously. Hiei sighed and turned, then disappeared once again in a blur. Mihiro sighed again and rubbed his temples again. (A/N: ...-sighs- I think it's contagious.)

Mihi-chan: Wow! This two story house is so nice! Great job Youko!

Youko: Theiving is what I do.

Kurama: But you don't usually give to the poor unless it involves yourself.

Youko: Be quiet. I'm impressing readers with my abilities.

Alicia: But I'm the more sadistic and willing to kill.

Youko: Stay back you Damn fish. Back I say!

DDL: Why do the pirahnahs keep jumping out of the frying pan?

AKN: Probably because they don't want to die.

CAST: -.-;

Mihi-chan: The translations are...Baka- stupid, idiot, etc. Onna- woman, Ma ma- Now now, Inari- Mountain God with a fox messanger or kitsune god, and...that's about it.

Review button: Don't you just want to click on me and write something about the story? I may not be red, but I'm still shiny and oh-so clickable!