White Rose Fox: thanks, nice to know i'm not the only one who thinks shishi's hiding something.
DarkRoseDragon: no probs sweetie! it means so much that you took the time to tell me you enjoyed it. and gluing Kuwabara to a chair... i could so totally see that happening!
NOTE: i cannot write brogue. so imagine Jin's brogue when he speaks plzkthx.
"Wouldja look at the two lovebirds! How cute!" Yusuke's voice first thing in the morning was more annoying than an alarm clock.
"I'm sorry, I'm going to have to kill your friend." I grumbled.
"Ever heard of knocking, detective?" Hiei shifted behind me.
"You're still fully dressed? Damn, that means I have laundry duty for a month!" the zombie groaned.
There were sounds of a scuffle, so I just got up and rolled away the bedding. Then I moved to stand between the boys. "You've thrashed him enough, Hiei, thanks."
"Hn." Hiei crossed his arms and glared at the idiot.
"And you... didn't your girlfriend teach you that sex isn't the only reason a human female chooses to share her bed with a male she happens to like?" I turned my most evil glare on the zombie.
"She's not my girlfriend, she's my mate." Yusuke growled at me, then left.
"Idiot." Hiei mumbled.
I just grabbed my stuff and headed for the shower. The best thing about my new super senses was that I could tell where everyone was, and which of the three showers was free.
My clothes were missing again when I got out. It started as just a once a week thing, but it was starting to happen more and more. I thought it was just because I was new, and kinda sick. But this time seemed more like some kind of twisted matchmaking.
The walk back to the room I shared with Hiei seemed a lot longer when only wearing a towel, so I ran. My bad luck continued, Hiei was still in the room.
"Merde." I made sure the towel was secure before moving away from the sliding door.
"Why are you only in a towel?" He watched me move across the room. I swear he was trying to either will the towel to fall, or devour me with his eyes.
"Oh, just your twisted matchmaker friends trying to get us to do the wild monkey dance." I shrugged. "Um, they stole my clothes again. I think they're trying to get us to, y'know..." I blushed for the more detailed explanation.
"They want us to mate?" Hiei asked, shock colouring his tone. Then, just as shocked, "Are you really planning on changing in here?"
I held my towel up with my elbows as I hopped on one foot so that my towel blocked his view. "I believe so, and yes. There is no way I am walking down that hall again after the others have started moving around."
He made a strange noise that was not his usual sound of derision.
I finished pulling up my undies and looked him in the eye. "I trust you. Like you said last night, you've had plenty of opportunities to take advantage of me, and you haven't." I grinned and winked. "Besides, I know how to get dressed so that you won't see a thing."
He must have taken it as a challenge, because I felt his eyes on me the whole time. He didn't even make a move to follow me when I left the room.
In the kitchen, the blue haired boy was standing at the stove, cooking. He didn't even look up when I moved to peek over his shoulder at what he was cooking.
"Its almost ready. Chu sends his apologies for not saying goodbye." He said and tapped my head with a pair of chopsticks to make me back up.
"Can you tell him I said we're cool when you see him again?" I asked and backed up out of chopstick reach.
"I will."
"Thanks. Touya, right?"
"The one and only. Pyro is a very unusual name." He tipped the wok over to spill the contents into a waiting bowl.
"Its a use-name. Nobody knows my true name anymore. Even before I took up with the detective and company."
"Kurama tried that. He doesn't fair very well with it though." He held out a full bowl and motioned to the table while he spoke.
I took it and put it in the middle. "Yeah, I heard about that. I have it a little easier though. I mean, I'm well over legal, and don't contact my family very often."
He placed bowls and chopsticks on the table beside the big main bowl. "Do you have another name we can call you? Pyro is a little strange."
"My full use-name is Pyro Feochadan." I grinned.
"Now there's a language I've missed." Jin took a bowl and sat down. His ears twitched.
I grinned at him. "Fitting, yeah?"
"I think y'be more of a Fionn than a Feochadan, but it'll do." Jin laughed.
Touya looked so confused when he finally spoke. "What are you talking about?"
I patted the blue haired demon's shoulder. "Fionn means fair, Feochadan means thistle. Its Irish Gaelic, Jin's language." I shivered and gave Touya a questioning look.
"Ice master. If you're going to be around Hiei a lot, you'll need to know how to freeze things." He smiled knowingly.
"Oh you're sick! Just for that, I'm eating outside!" I grabbed a portion and ran out the door.
Somehow, Hiei managed to avoid me until I was starting to warm up on the training dummy. "The dummy is already dead, do you really need to pummel it further?"
I punched the dummy harder. "Nobody will spar me until you get out here." I round kicked the dummy for good measure.
"You did that wrong."
"I held back because its dead."
"Never assume your opponent is dead. Many demons can feign death for hours, so never hold back."
"What about when you and I spar? Can I hold back then?"
"No. I am a demon, you cannot hurt me unless you use a special power."
"Will you be holding back?"
"Of course. You're human, and already proved to be fragile."
I dropped into a guarding stance. "Not that fragile, try me."
"You're not ready." He tried to glare me into submission.
I met his eyes and refused to back down. "Come on, you won't hurt me."
He sighed and looked away. "Two months."
"What?"
"I will spar you in two months." He met my eyes again, this time to dare me to say otherwise.
"Alright. I won't ask until then, dragon." I grinned and headed off for my next match.
"I'll hold you to that." he said. 'I'd rather hold you to that tree...' Thankfully his thought trailed off before he could elaborate on exactly why he wanted to hold me to the tree.
Scene changes are always good places to stop. i may be going more than a day or two between updates for a while, i'm putting together some of my old poems and publishing them as an e-book on .
Up for a vote! When Hiei and Pyro finally decide to do more than just sleep when they share a bed, do you want a full lemon, or just a hint of citrus? You decide. {cast your vote in a review please}