The Sea Prince
Chapter 7

My this took me a while to write didn't it? I'm sorry for the long wait, but...I guess I'll blame slight lazyness, and sports...school, oh and that other story I put out. For those who may be interested in it, It's called "The 14 Gifts Of Christmas".

Anyway, Thank u for the reviews, it was really nice of u, and I love hearing ur idea's and guesses. I hope u all enjoy this fanfic. (Bows to u all)

Finally Kurama would see land people up close, and he swore that no matter what, he would be happy with the results of what they were like.

There were mostly humans on the boat, and it looked like… they were partying. There was barrels of rum open every where, and there was lot's of happy music, Kurama was able to make out some Irish fiddle tunes. Many of the men who weren't just drinking or talking around the boat were also dancing. One man in particular was dancing all out, but clumsily.

Most of his hair was gelled back though some of it came out while he was dancing. He had a big bottle in his hand, most likely containing alcohol and was even singing to the music with a goofy smile on his face. There was no doubt in Kurama's mind that this was the. 'life of the party' as the human's called them.

A bird was flying around the ship squealing, "Pu!" Kurama saw it and smiled. 'What a strange but cute…bird/ penguin… thing, what is it?' The penguin looked at him and its eyes changed to the size of saucers. Kurama put his finger over his mouth as if saying 'shush' to the bird. Kurama then held out his hand, rubbing his finger and thumb together. The bird, curious of the merman, decided to come down to eye level with Kurama and the red head smiled.

"Hello little one," Kurama murmured softly and held out his arm. The bird cued again and instead of going out on the outstretched arm, plopped itself on Kurama's head. Kurama looked up cross eyed and then chuckled softly behind his hand. Gently, Kurama took the bird from his head and placed it on his lap and started playing with the overly large floppy ears.

"HEY PUUU!!! Where are yea's you little pest!" The bird cued in Kurama's lap and started flapping its ears so it could fly again. Kurama let go of the bird as it started to fly away. Kurama smiled as it flew away, towards the guy with gelled back hair. "Oi ya lil' bird, ya need to stop tha…uuuh…uh flyin' away.

"Pu!" was the bird's response and it went on the gelled back hair of the drunken man.

The party started to advance and all the sailors started to drink more and dance more. Kurama started to think the party was getting out of hand. Apparently he wasn't the only one.

Hiei awoke from his nap and the first thing he noticed was that the ship stopped. The second thing was that there was a party going on. His eyebrow started to twitch as he watched it all from atop the sails. Where did all that alcohol come from? After 1.23 seconds of thinking he glared down at his advisor. 'Yuusuke!' Hiei thought darkly and as he glared more at the idiot. Noticing that the party was getting worse quickly, he decided it was time for the crew to snap out of it.

He flickered down in front of Yusuke and grabbed his front collar and pulled him down to his eye level. "Yusuke, you have 10 seconds to explain to me, WHY THE HELL THERE'S A PARTY GOING ON!!!" Hiei yelled and started shaking the human. Who just smiled and giggled as the bird freaked and flew away almost screaming.

"Wow Hiei… luke at all si booze on da's sip (look at all the booze on the ship)." Yusuke said and started to giggle. Hiei looked weary at his advisor and covered his nose in disgust. "Detective, why is it every time there's a party going on, you wind up with breath that kills." Hiei said and walked away from him, getting the necessities for getting the advisor sober. Grabbing a random bottle a beer from one of the sailor's he poured out the contents and added a few things of his choice.

Yusuke went back to dancing like an idiot, until Hiei returned with an evil glint in his eyes. "Yusuke, where's that stupid bird of your's," Hiei asked calmly and Yusuke looked around wildly. Hiei then saw his chance and smacked the bottle on the back of Yusuke's head, and the contents splashed all over Yusuke's head and back. For a moment Yusuke seemed to black out, however one sniff of the contents running down his face made him cover his mouth and start gagging.

"OH MY GOD HIEI YOU LITTLE BUTT WIPE, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!!" Yusuke yelled and started to cough.

"I found the water in a barrow of dead fish, then I added some foul kind of beer." Hiei explained smirking at his advisor. Yusuke started to spit some of it that went into his mouth out and pinched his nose.

"Tha's disgustin Hiei," Yusuke said; his voice slightly changed because he pinched his nose. Hiei just shrugged smirking and got to the point.

"Yusuke, why is there a party going on, AND WHY DID YOU LET THINGS GET OUT OF CONTROL!" Yusuke smiled nervously and scratched the back of his head.

"Well, um you see Hiei…we umm…well, you when you can get the crew under control, and then I'll tell you what's up with the party, ok- deal!" Yusuke said the last part and patted Hiei's shoulder before running away. Hiei glared at the running human as it ran into the ship, locking the door behind him.

"Arrogant bastard," Hiei mumbled before thinking of a way to stop the crew.

Kurama watched the entire fight from his spot. Beside him was a nicely placed door in the area he was leaning on. It was open so that Kurama's back was resting against it, and he could look over through the hole at what was going on. As Kurama looked at Hiei, he couldn't help but smile. He showed that he knew how to control his men, not to mention, he was the hottest thing Kurama saw. He blushed to himself when he thought that. He watched the young man intently, forgetting that he was supposed to be studying the land peoples. The man seemed to disappear, but Kurama was able to barely see the smaller one flicker away. 'My god he's fast…' Kurama thought letting a smile onto his face.

'Pretty cute too!' Kurama jumped when he heard the intruder enter his mind. He quickly looked beside him to see a small white crab beside him.

'Kuwabara is right, that is annoying.' Kurama thought back while calming his racing heart. Youko seemed to just smirk and went up the side of the boat and looked at the humans and demons partying.

'Quite annoying things aren't they? Probably wouldn't ever go to a party unless there's some kind of alcoholic beverage.' Kurama looked at the partiers and giggled behind his hand.

'As much as I hate to say it, you're probably right Youko.' Kurama responded, smiling sadly at the dancing humans. He couldn't say fish and merpeople were much different. It was such a shame they had to have the same faults, such as drinking. Kurama himself had never had alcohol due to the fact he was under aged, and it always made his brothers do strange things. Like sing out of tune, and dance while tripping UNDERWATER! How the hell did they trip underwater? THEY EVEN HAD FINS SO IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TRIP!Plus, what was there to trip on? Well his brothers found a way, and they were the laughing stocks of the ocean when they had a 'few too many', as Yomi said it. "Stupid Yomi,' Kurama muttered under his breath, and Youko jumped down beside him and changed back into a merman, while carefully hiding himself.

"You got that right Shu-kun… however, as much as I despise with every part of my mind, body and soul"-

"You have a soul?" Kurama asked shocked. Youko merely punched his arm and continued.

"As I was saying, with every part of my soul as well, I must admit that he cares for you. Even if that doesn't excuse what he called you, remember this little one, he would do anything to keep you safe." When Youko finished Kurama's yes were wide with surprise.

'WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FRIEND!!!'

'Hey you're learning how to enter minds too-WAIT A MOMENT!!! I AM YOUR FRIEND YOU LITTLE PEST!!" Youko yelled back in his mind and grabbed Shuichi and started giving him a nuggie again.

'owowowowowowowow!'Kurama thought as Youko tormented his skull. 'I GIVE! I GIVE! Ow, you're Youko already."

Youko smirked and let go of Kurama's head. "After all, no one hurts my head that much then you, proud baby." Kurama said in a low voice and Youko's eyes twitched and Kurama laughed and covered his head to protect his abused head. Their play fighting was stopped when they heard a sound from the boat, Youko looked over his shoulder, not really seeing anything due to the wooden ledge, but Kurama, feeling slightly more attracted to it looked carefully through the hole and gasped in wonder.

Hiei had to figure out a way to stop the idiots from partying now that his advisor was gone. Thinking for a while he tried his usual tactics such as glaring at them to get attention, which wouldn't quite work due to the amount of alcohol running threw they're veins, so they couldn't pay attention. He figured he couldn't use all the water in the fish barrels since the fish would go bad, plus he hated the smell; so that wouldn't work. He hit a few of the people to get attention but they just fell over and went unconscious right on the spot. The last thing he tried was using the jagan eye he had gotten a few years ago to find his sister, but he stopped that after entering the first person's mind after seeing what he was thinking; then started to continuously beat his head against the wall to get rid of the images he saw. I mean, who in their right mind fantasizes about Barney episodes when they're 30. Hiei knew he would fire that person for mentally scarring his brain later. Anyway; after thinking of a way to gain their attention and ways to get them sober, he did the one thing (Apart from killing them all.) he could think of …he played a flute.

Mukuro and everyone else, who had ever heard him play, had said he had almost a power to bring them out of anythingkind of trance, to listen to him play. Besides, Hiei was desperate even if he didn't show it on his suppose to be emotionless face. For when ever he played, he had a habit to relax his face a little so he had a very calm appearance, as if the music soothed him a little. The melody he was playing now was very complex, yet it had a very sad tune to it.

Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and gathered around Hiei to hear better. Hiei stopped and opened his eyes and smirked. 'You're right where I wanted you!' Hiei thought and pulled a rope that was beside him. One of the sails that were still wet from the storm a while ago opened and spattered them all with water. Hiei dried himself instantly while the others complained and whined, some even screamed making his smirk widen. He liked doing evil deeds and knowing that he was right to do, sometimes.

"Okay, since I now know that you idiots are at least somewhat sober, TELL ME WHAT IN HELL'S UP WITH THIS DAMNED PARTY!" He yelled at the people. Hiei raised a brow when they all looked shock and started whispering to each other stuff like 'He didn't know?' or 'How could he forget?' caught his ear making him confused and even more frustrated.

"Cool down Hiei, it was for you." Someone yelled and Hiei glared at the person who just emerged from the ship again. "It's just a little party to celebrate you on your 18th birthday today; in other words HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIEI!" The gelled back haired person hollard. Hiei's brow twitched again and slowly one hand made its way down toward the hilt of his sword.

"Did I ever how much I hate alcohol detective…" Hiei said glaring at Yusuke.

Yusuke seemed to disappear for a moment and appeared right in front of Hiei who glared. "Hey relax, besides I got you a cool gift just wait for a moment." Yusuke said cheerfully with his hand over Hiei's drawing hand, which was on the hilt of sword. Yusuke quickly ran back into the ship leaving Hiei looked at his sword. 'Hn, since his skills are adequate, he can live,' Hiei thought and took his hand off the sword and into his pockets.

Yusuke returned quickly with a very large covered…thing with a red bow tie and a tag. "Tadaaaa, happy birthday Hiei-Chan," Yusuke sang and put the thing down. Hiei glared and hit him.

"I. Am .A. Boy!" Hiei seethed as Yusuke rubbed the bump on his head. Hiei looked at the clothed again and he tilted his head. Yusuke smiled at the curiosity in his boss's eyes.

'I wonder if his third looks curious too.' Yusuke thought looking at Hiei's bandana, which hid his Jagan eye. "Okay Hiei, open it." Yusuke said excitedly. Hiei grabbed the bow and gently tugged it and became came undone. There was a gust of wind and the cloth covering the gift blew off and landed on some unlucky crew member. Hiei didn't notice nor care as he looked at his gift.

Kurama gasped and blushed at what he saw. When the blanket flew off, it revealed another Hiei carved in stone! The small demon was in the most amazing position. He was crouched down on one leg and it almost appeared like he was glaring, and his eyes done perfectly. But more was the dragon that appeared to be going around Hiei from one that was on the ground arm and went behind his back to the other outstretched arm which was resting above his crouched leg. The head of the dragon was under Hiei's hand, which was appeared to be holding back the dragon, or stroking its head, which just stared ahead. He wasn't crouching on a smooth surface either, more like on a rocky surface that slightly surrounded the small demon. Everyone stared in awe at it until Hiei turned to look at Yusuke, staring blankly.

"This had better been under your budget Yusuke!" Yusuke started at Hiei wide eyed at that statement before laughing all out.

"Yeah yeah short stuff." Yusuke said and playfully glared. "Though, it would've been a mating gift if you hadn't scared away all of the damn suitors." Yusuke joked, poking Hiei's cheek. Hiei glared and almost bit the finger if Yusuke hadn't pulled away in time. Sulking Hiei went over to the ledge of the ship and sat leaned on it. Kurama pushed his back closer to the ship, since Hiei was now above him. Youko had turned back into a crab and was looked up at the prince. Yusuke walked over and leaned over the ledge beside Hiei.

"Penny for your thoughts," Yusuke said smiling. Hiei glanced at him briefly before his gaze went back to the sea again

"Never get me a mating gift detective; you'll only waste your money." Hiei said not looking at his advisor whose eyes widened.

"What the hell are you talking about Hiei? Of course you'll have a mate one day, just relax and be patient."

"I am the one who doesn't want one." Hiei said now glaring at his friend. "There's no one for me, because I don't want anyone."

Kurama didn't know why but his chest felt horrible at that moment and he looked up at the man above him sadly. Yusuke looked shocked before he glare at his friend.

"WHY THE HELL NOT!!! Listen Hiei, I know you're a"-

"Don't you dare finish that sentence Detective." Hiei hissed glaring. The 2 had complete eye contact now, and were glaring at each other.

"You mean that you're adopted?" Yusuke seethed silently so only Hiei could hear him, and the unknown Youko and Kurama. Hiei covered Yusuke's mouth with his hand and looked around the boat to see if anyone over heard them.

"Yusuke think of where you are before you spurt out my origin. If people on the ship know, then they won't respect me unless I kill someone. Then of course Mukuro will hear of it and I'll get in trouble for keeping order… This Yusuke is the reason there's nobody for me." Hiei said. Yusuke's eyes widened but he kept his mouth closed.

"It's my Origin Yusuke… everyone else; my suitors, my acquaintances, even you, Detective, have complete royal blood in their veins. I'm considered a low life, or underbred. And I don't want anyone to feel superior compared to me. That's why there is no one for me. I am the forbidden child, I'm not meant to love, or be loved. Remember that detective?" Hiei said it all emotionlessly until the last part, which made Yusuke smile.

"You also weren't meant to live when you were tossed off that frost biting, island, but you lived, you were meant to kill those bitches who told you that stuff, but didn't, you at least have one friend, me, despite the fact you don't want care. Hiei, screw that forbidden shit already, you've already stopped most of they're damn lies, why can't you shake off this one?"

"Fine, if you need another reason, detective, then I'll tell. All you stupid royal freaks I've met just talk!"

"…Huh?" was Yusuke's intelligent response to that. Hiei rolled his eyes.

"Do I have to explain everything to satisfy that empty brain of your's?"

"Yes please!" Hiei glared at his advisor for a few seconds.

'Why do I keep him alive? All right, because I'm not strong enough to kill him… damn, I'll never admit that out loud.'

"I really do despise you with every fiber of my being detective." Hiei said glaring.

"I love you too little guy, now common, tell me what you mean."

Hiei sighed and slumped against the side of the boat, Kurama pushed himself backwards even more so he was right up against the wall so he wouldn't be seen, but he was still listening intently to Hiei.

"When I say they just talk, that's precisely what I mean. Since they know I have not a drop of nobility in my veins, they don't believe I should talk. So they only talk, and when I use to try and talk to them, I was always ignored. To make it worse, they only talk about possessions. How rich they are, how the poor people aren't worth the effort to protect and of course the main topic, 'are you still awake Jaganshi?'" Hiei said rolling his eyes again and Yusuke laughed at that last one.

Kurama advert his eyes. He understood that feeling of being seen and not heard. The queen made sure he never spoke in her presence, and he had Hiei's problem when it came to suitors. However, he luckily found a way to scare them off, and used that method to get rid of them, plus keep them away.

Yusuke smiled and patted Hiei hard on the back. "Alright you make sense; we royal pricks suck ass!" Yusuke said smiling and Hiei started giving him side glares. "Listen though, for every one of us pricks, there's someone out there who will be good to you. He or she is out there somewhere, maybe closer then we think. So just keep an open eye out for them, because whoever they are will have a hard time getting threw that incredibly dense head of your's." Yusuke said smiling and he ruffled Hiei's hair a little.

Hiei glared even more and grabbed Yusuke's hand and did the only thing no one would ever think he would do. He bit him! There was a tense silence between the 2 and Kurama and Youko stared up in shock.

"YEEEEOW!!!!" Yusuke yelled and pulled his hand out of Hiei's fangs. Hiei smirked and Kurama was doing everything he could so he wouldn't laugh. There were slight tears in the corner of his eyes and he bit his thumb to resist laughing. Youko merely rolled his eyes at the childish attics.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU, A VAMPIRE!?" Yusuke yelled and rubbed his poor abused, thumb.

"Idiot, I'm a fire demon; and you've violated my personal space." Hiei said and turned his back on him. "...Detective, though I still have no doubt that all you royal decedents are all idiots, I'll keep your advice in mind." Hiei said turning and smirking. Yusuke smiled and gave him the thumbs up.

Kurama relaxed against the ship when the 2 walked away from the ship side and smiled.

"Sooo, you like him, don't you little Shu-chan?" Youko said smiling up at the prince in his crab for. Kurama looked from Hiei to Youko with wide eyes, and then he smirked, making him look slightly like Hiei.

"…Youko, you should never challenge someone who's over 10 times bigger then you." Kurama said with a light blush staining his cheeks. Youko's eyes widened when Kurama picked him up with one hand by the claw. "Now go cool your head down in the water you pervert!" Kurama almost yelled and he threw Youko away into the water.

Before Youko hit the water he turned back into a merman and hit the water in an elegant dive. Kurama watched his friend go below the waves and shook his head. 'Vain bastard.'

'I resent that comment!' Kurama jumped at the intruding voice of Youko. 'But since I molested your brain more then once today I'll let it slide. However you owe me big, little Shuichi-kun.' Youko finished and the mind link was disconnected. Kurama shook his head sighing and turned back to look at Hiei who was leaning on a chair glaring at the statue. Kurama looked at the statue and back at Hiei, 'I'd say…the real one is hotter…but, the stone him shows more emotion.' Kurama thought and laughed silently at his own joke. He then stopped and rested his head in his arms, smiling beautifully at the real Hiei.

Hiei had this odd feeling like he was being watched. The crew was taking a break but not drinking any more, which made Hiei a lot happier (of course he didn't show it). However looking around Hiei saw no one but the statue which was staring strait at him. Hiei glared back at it and leaned back on his chair. Hiei really wasn't interested in statues and the stone was creeping him out. Hiei got up and started to walk away, but he still felt as if someone was watching him, studying him… Then he felt malice.

Hiei stopped and looked around, feeling, no! Knowing someone was getting ready to attack him. He walked over to Yusuke and tapped him on the shoulder. "Yo, what's up…Hiei?" Yusuke looked at Hiei's face and noticed at once that Hiei was on edge.

"Someone's watching me." Hiei said and his Jagan eyes slightly glowed from under the bandana. Yusuke felt it too; someone was getting ready to strike.

Nodding, Yusuke and looked around. "Yep, I bet it's another annoying bounty hunter or assassin after our heads." Yusuke said smiling. Hiei rolled his eyes except his third which was searching for the person.

Kurama felt something as well, as if there was a predator around. 'I should leave if anything happens.' Kurama thought and he looked sadly back at Hiei. He didn't want to leave the demon's side… He never wanted to leave him again. Kurama was shocked at his own thought and shook his head, erasing all thoughts in his head.

Hiei was looking around when he heard something… it sounded like… some thing sizzling? He understood and looked around the ship. "SHIT!" He yelled and covered his head, Yusuke did the same.

BOOM

Part of the middle of the ship blew up and some of the crew members were blown off the sides of boat, others screamed and were throne across to walls. Fire works came from the inside out from the ship and was either exploding close to everyone, or out in the distance, the ship caught fire, terrifying all the crew, humans and demons alike. Kurama himself fell off the boat when a fire work exploded close to his head, almost causing a substantial amount of damage.

Hiei and Yusuke protected themselves by making shields at the last moment, Hiei's made of black flame, and Yusuke's made from spirit energy.

"Heh heh heh heh heh! Looks like the famous Jaganshi won't be as bad as we thought."

"Hmm," was the other's response. Hiei and Yusuke glared up at the 2 people who were on top of the sails, clouds of smoke surrounding them both. When the smoke cleared it reviled 2 people. 1 was wearing a strange outfit with little orb like objects around his waist, his hair went strait into the air and was blond, but wasn't nearly as cool as Hiei, and the other was in a full suit of armor so you couldn't see his face. The one in the strange outfit was chewing gum with an arrogant smirk on his face.

"Glad to meet you, forbidden child, I hope you wrote your will." He said grinning, and spat out the gum. Hiei smirked and put his hand on the sheath of his sword.

"Yusuke, this might be one of the most interesting birthdays I've ever have." Hiei said to Yusuke smirking.

Yusuke nodded and cracked his knuckles. "Your one crazy bastard Hiei," Was all he said, but smiling as well.

The 2 teams glared at each other, except the one in the armor, for no one could see his face. People were running off the ship getting onto row boats and getting away from the burning mass as fast as they could. However the assassins, Hiei and Yusuke were oblivious to them, all that mattered was that someone was going to die. And that the fight was going to be interesting.

" I hope you guys don't mind us crashing the party, but we're in need of something... like the Jaganshi's head." The one in the strange cloths said. "For we are the famous assassins"-

"Told you Hiei," Yusuke muttered smiling but Hiei just glared at the others more to make up for the fact he couldn't glare at Yusuke right now.

-"And me, Poison peach boy, get ready to die half punt."

Ok, that's all for now, in the next chapter there will be an epic battle...or as epic as I can make it, I never did a fight sceen personally.

Oh well, please review, for I love hearing what u people think. bye bye (bows again to the people)