The adults all exchanged glances of amusement. They had -well, have- the same problems in their relationships.

"Can we just get to my house?" Kiri complained. "I'm going to die."

"You can make it." Chetara rolled her eyes.

Kurama shook his head. "I'd doubt it. He eats 13 plates of food in a day. On average."

"Wow." Chetara blinked.

Kiri groaned, then sat up. "Hey, I know where we are! This is where that wicked Venus Fly Trap plant is! The one I..." He cleared his throat. "The one that popped up overnight. It's HUGE. Like, three of us together."

"It better not decide it likes demons." Chetara frowned.

"Well, see, I've seen it eat demons before..." Kiri laughed, nervously.

"Plants burn." Chetara grinned.

"You can't burn it!" Kiri cried.

"It attacks us and I will." Chetara frowned.

"..." Kiri bit his lip. He'd spent many a day growing that thing and many a day luring other demons into it! It couldn't be burnt. "I'll...try and work with it."

"I thought you were out of energy." Chetara frowned.

"I am, but I can still talk to them. It should listen to me." He smiled, slightly.

"Doesn't work, and it's going up in smoke." Chetara frowned.

Ari raised an eyebrow.

They walked into the heart of the forest, and sure enough there was a HUGE fly trap plant in the middle. That had to have been what it was. It was sitting open there in the middle. It had a crimson red center into a green edge. And spikes around the edge. It was as big as Kiri had said, 30 feet wide, and 20 feet tall, but it was bent over towards the ground. It looked ready to eat someone. Chetara got ready in case she needed to blast it. Kiri looked at her panicked, and stood in front of her, in an attempt to protect it.

/Hello, master./ The plant grinned. /Bring me more food/

"No." Kiri took a breath. "These are important people to be left alone."

Kurama raised an eyebrow. "Master?"

/I am weak./ The plant complained. /It is hard to find enough nutrients, or two legged creatures to fufill me. Or four./

"You're-you're dying?" Kiri cried.

A rustle of the leaves indicated a yes. Kiri sighed.

"I will return as soon as possible. Until then, hang on long as you can." Kiri announced.

"You created this thing?" Kurama asked, and Kiri nodded.

/I've evolved from flies to two legged creatures. Quite a movement./ The plant grinned. /Thanks to Master./

The plant closed and sat up, allowing them to pass.

Chetara relaxed and passed through. They all followed. Kiri paused at the plant. He could see it was in bad condition. The soil was bad here, from him draining it and there were little to no creatures left in the forest.

"I always wondered why we were having problems getting food." Chetara frowned.

"We had to compete with a plant!" Ari grinned.

"Oh, he usually feeds on animals, but the other half of the time I lure...uh-he preys on-demons stupid enough to come see him."

"Lure?" Chetara raised an eyebrow.

"Kiri..." Kurama said, ominously.

"Uh...I'll be back!" He said to the plant, running off and everyone chasing him.

Chetara switched to her wolf form, as she felt more comfortable running that way. They all arrived at Kiri's house. Kiri burst in the door.

"I am home. Break out the candles and the cake!" Kiri grinned, flinging his arms out.

Ari and Chetara, following him stopped.

"What's cake?" Chetara raised an eyebrow. Kiri's mom flung herself at him.

"YOU'RE HOME!" She cried, crying. Chetara turned back full and they watched them.

"Hey, Mom. Do you have dinner ready?" Kiri grinned.

Kiri's mother laughed. "Of course. For how many?"

"Fifteen." Kiri bit his lip.

Kiri's mother laughed again. "I think I might be able to cook that much."

The rest of them ran in and sat around. Kurama offered to go around and tell the women. The offer was readily accepted. Ari and Chetara were feeling uncomfortable in a real house.

"Wow, this place is big." Ari remarked, walking backwards. She tripped over a stair and landed on Artemis, who was on a chair.

"Yeah, it is." Chetara nodded.

Ari turned to Artemis with a laugh. "You ok?"

"Fine." Artemis replied.

Chetara was staring at the ceiling like Ari had been. She took a few steps forward and walked into Kiri.

"Woah...watch it." Kiri frowned.

"Sorry, I didn't think a place could be so big."

"Compared to where you live it is big." Kiri chuckled.

"You're lucky to live here."

"I guess, but it's kinda harsh." Kiri mumbled.

"Is it worse than being an orphan and having to fend for yourself since you were six?" Chetara snapped.

"No, but I have limited freedom."

"That's not SO bad."

"I guess not," Kiri shrugged. He glanced at Ari who was making herself comfortable in Artemis' lap. Hiei was glaring at them.

Chetara took a step closer to Kiri.

"You mentioned a date. Right now, you're acting like a bad boyfriend."

"...Well, uh...what would you like me to do?" Kiri asked, walking over to the couch and sitting.

"Are you that naive?" Chetara frowned, walking over to the couch, and sat next to him. She layed her head on his shoulder and he put his arm around her.

Hiei glared at them, then back at Artemis and Ari, then glanced at Ayla and Koenma, then back at the other four. He backed up so he could glare at all six of them at once. Kazuka sat there calmly, and closed his eyes.

Kurama walked in and immeadiately spotted Kiri and Chetara.

"Uh...hey, Dad." Kiri offered.

"Kiri..." Kurama started, then shook his head. Mukuro ran over to Artemis and then stopped, seeing a girl in his lap.

"Hello, ma'am." Ari said, politely.

"...What's going on here?"

"Well, I fell on him, and he's just so comfortable that I didn't want to get up." Ari grinned. Artemis blushed.

"Well, move so I can see my son." Mukuro ordered, with a growl. Ari stood up and walked over to the couch and sat pouting. Artemis and his mother hugged slightly.

"Oh, we brought some food." Mukuro announced to Kiri's mother. Chetara lifted her head to look around, then put it back down.

"Great." Kiri's mother replied, with a sigh.

They removed it to the kitchen. There were some frozen, some unidentifiable, and some with huge hot peppers.

"You guys weren't kidding when you talked about their food." Chetara remarked.

Kiri laughed, "Yup, no kidding."

Ari shrugged, sitting in Artemis' lap again. "I don't know. Some of it looked pretty good."

"Compared to some of the stuff you've eaten, yeah." Chetara remarked.

Ari shrugged. "Like that one green blob we found in the forest?"

"Yes."

"It tasted like mushrooms." Ari shrugged. "I still have no clue what that was."

Artemis blinked. "And you ate it?"

"Rank." Kiri blinked.

"We were out of food."

Ari laughed. "That's not the worst."

"Worse than a green blob?" Ayla blinked, next to Koenma.

"Worse than a green blob." Ari nodded.