A Glint in the Snow

By: Abby Ebon

Wufei had gotten up early to practice; Hiei had been watching him practice sense he'd made an appearance. Hiei admitted to himself that, for a human, he was good. Better then the idiot. But no one was going to get him to admit it aloud.

Hiei took a quick glance at Yuusuke, who wasn't to far away from Wufei. Yet neither had noticed the other or himself.

Kurama and he had spoken earlier; neither of them could feel anything demonic about the five boys Yuusuke had brought to the shrine. It was like with Yuusuke, they hadn't felt anything from him until after he had 'died'.

Hiei hoped they wouldn't have to kill the boys to find out which was the demon, Hiei knew Koenma wouldn't like having to fill out the paperwork to resurrect them. Not that Yuusuke would let them kill the humans.

"What are you thinking about Hiei?"

Hiei glanced at Yuusuke who hadn't even twitched, but he had spoken none the less.

"What are we going to do with them? Neither Kurama or I feel anything from them."

Yuusuke opened his eyes to glance in Wufei's direction. He hadn't paused in his training but Hiei knew his mind was else where.

"You might as well stop practicing and come join us Wufei, we know you can hear us."

Wufei finished his practice and walked the few feet to where Yuusuke and Hiei were.

"But what will you do with us? We don't belong here, and of the five of us we don't know which one you seek."

Yuusuke sat up cross-legged and ran a hand through his hair. Hiei jumped from where he stood in the tree to the ground. Wufei leaned against a tree without an expression his arms crossed.

"There are two ways I know of, one we kill you all and see which turns into a demon then resurrect the others. Or Hiei's sister tell us which one of you it is." Explained Yuusuke, he spoke in a bland tone as if it didn't matter to him.

Hiei knew that was far from the truth, but Wufei stiffened and touched the hilt of his sword as if one of them might kill him then and there.

"Relax human none of us plan to kill you or your friends." Hiei said, Wufei didn't seem very reassured.

"Needless to say we hope Hiei's sister Yukina comes forward to tell us which of you five it is." Murmured Yuusuke, watching Wufei warily. Wufei nodded.

"I think all of us would prefer being told rather then killed."

Hiei smirked.

"Undoubtedly."

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

Genkai, who had been spying on Hiei, Yuusuke, and Wufei from the window, shook her head and turned to find Kurama behind her.

"See anything interesting Genkai?" Asked an amused Kurama.

"Yes actually, that boy, Wufei he might be as strong as Kuwabara." Mused Genkai watching the boy from out the window.

"Perhaps."

"Your worried about something." Stated Genkai without looking at Kurama.

"Many things, but mostly what Yukina and Koenma will do." Kurama folded his arms staring blankly at the wall beside Genkai.

"There are many possibilities. All we can do sometimes is wait and prepare." Genkai advised then sighing she made for the door.

"Where are you going?"

"To ask Yuusuke to see if that boy wants to train his spirit power." With a nod to the window in Wufei's general direction Genkai left the room.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

Quatre stretched he was to put it mildly very bored. Duo had disappeared which didn't bode well with the blond he would have to keep his eyes peeled for possible pranks. Wufei was practicing, Trowa was muttering and stomping around for some reason which was probably connected with something Duo did. Heero was trying to get his computer to stop playing rap music and he was pretty sure Duo had something to do with this too.

"I wonder what they eat around here?" He muttered under his breath, they hadn't eaten anything sense they had gotten here, Heero had been worried about poisons and had gotten rid of the food before they could protest.

"Just about everything I suppose, why are you hungry?" Asked a soft voice, Quatre spun around to see the red head, Kurama, if he remembered right.

"Yea. Mostly bored though." Kurama gave him a small smile.

"Follow me please, have you enjoyed your stay so far?" Kurama inquired politely.

"It's peaceful, though I can't say much for the entertainment." Kurama chuckled at Quatre's answer.

"I believe Genkai has a video game player, stashed away somewhere." Quatre raised an eyebrow.

"Really? Duo will be thrilled. Though to be truthful I was hoping for perhaps some books or musical instruments." Said Quatre smiling at Kurama.

"The only books around here are in kanji I'm afraid, as for music I'll ask Genkai for you." Kurama offered softly. Quatre smiled up at him pleased that he would try to help him find something to do.

They entered the kitchen and Quatre went to investigate the fridge and cupboards while Kurama took a chair and watched on amused.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

Heero sat back after logging off and shutting down his laptop he was annoyed that when he had finally found a primitive computer hook up his laptop had a virus cutesy of Duo. That the virus was only repetitive annoying music didn't make a difference to Heero.

It seemed this world was decidedly behind in the type of technology he was used to. It was almost pathetically easy to bypass firewalls and passwords but the information they protected was hardly worth the effort.

"Any luck?"

Without turning around Heero knew it was Duo, he shrugged in response.

"I'll take that as a no. Hungry?"

Heero turned and grunted it didn't look very appealing but he was hungry, and he'd take the damn apple Duo was waving in his face. Duo grinned when Heero snatched the apple from him.

Looking up Heero saw Trowa enter the room and Duo turned to offer him some food, actually Duo threw an apple at Trowa, who caught it and bit into it throwing an amused glance at Heero.

"Q-man found the kitchen." Duo offered when Trowa sent him a questioning look.

"I wonder how things are going back home." Murmured Trowa.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

Treize Khushrenada sneezed then narrowed his eyes at his newest report, literally over night all attacks from the Gundam's had stopped.

The Gundam Pilots and their Gundams seemed to have had disappeared.

Zechs had suggested searching for them, but Treize couldn't waste resources, even so the problem intrigued him.

Are they planning something?

If they were Treize was at a loss, he knew their last position but that was his only clue.

Intelligence was baffled and had given explanations as far fetching as "they gave up" to "they died".

While death was a probability for maybe one or two of the pilots the others would surely have moved to 'take revenge' on Oz by now.

Yet they hadn't. So Treize had ruled the explanation out as soon as it had been given.

As far as the "giving up" explanation was considered Treize had told them that if the Pilots had given up Treize was too, it was too idiotic to consider for very long.

Treize frowned. If the Pilots were indeed in hiding, then he would have to lure them out, he would send bait too hard to resist. Treize smirked and began to plan.