StR: Sorry for the long wait. My friend bothering me about it didn't help. You know who you are…I got a haircut! It is sooooo cute! Too bad you guy can't see it.

Y: I'm sure they devastated.

StR: I'm sure they are. Read!

When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it.

Chapter 16: Anger, Dark, and More Anger

"I have no school! No school, no school, no school! I've got no school because I have a meeting!" sang Rei as she skipped down the hall to the kitchen. Inside the kitchen was Hiei drinking coffee and reading the makai newspaper. "Eh? Since when do you do drink coffee…since when do you read?" Hiei didn't answer or even acknowledge her presence. Rei blinked. "Are you still mad that a threw a shoe at you? It was your fault that you were in my mind!" Hiei moved his eyes to Rei.

"So you think I'm hot," he said. Rei turned a deep scarlet.

"Don't change the subject!" she yelled.

"I'm not. Changing the subject would be asking you when your meeting started." Rei blinked and looked at her watch. Rei threw her arms up to the air and screamed. She started running around the room flaring her arms around.

"I'M LATE! I'M LATE! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT HIEI!" A portal appeared in front of Rei. Zoe's head and arm popped out.

"You're late!" she yelled while grabbing Rei's collar and pulling her though the portal. Hiei shook his head and went back to the newspaper. He glared at the article he was reading.

Rei rubbed the back of her neck. "Ow Z. You didn't have to pull that hard," she wined.

"Yes I did," said Zoe. The two girls and about 23 other people were sitting on belchers that were in a stadium/coliseum type place. They were all wearing headbands the color of their element and in gold were the kanji for spirit and guardian. On one of the other sides of the stadium were about 50 teens with headbands with the same kanji only silver and across from Rei was about 75 teens/kids with headbands with the kanji in copper. Smoke appeared in the middle of the arena. When the smoke cleared Master Roshi was there. Show off.

"Welcome! Now let me tell you this is an optional meeting. You don't have to stay here…" Rei, Ayame, Yuu, and two other boys from the gold side got up. "Except for the gold leaders. They have to stay." The five teens sighed and sat right back down. "Especially Rei."

"What?" she yelled.

"You heard me! You've missed the last five meetings!" Rei blinked.

"What? What meetings?" From the corner of her eye she could see Ayame slowly trying to escape. She grabbed him and put him in a headlock. "Oh Ayame, did you forget to tell me something!"

"Not like you were going to go!" Ayame manage to get out.

"Yes but I would like to know what I'm getting in trouble for!"

"I'm sorry!" Rei growled and let him go. Ayame gasped for air.

"That's gold's best?" asked a random kid.

"Yeah. I heard she was a half-breed!"

"How did a half-breed get to the top?" Rei clutched her hand and growled.

"Yeah I'm half demon! If you got a problem say it to my face!" yelled Rei. Kyoto appeared behind her so they were facing back to back.

"He's coming. I can smell him," she said unemotionally.

"Hey can we hurry up, I've got company."

"Of course. The Reberuappu Exams are on Saturday. For those of you that don't know, this is you're chance to move to better position. For example if Ayame wanted to take Rei's place-"

"Not gonna happen," interrupted Rei.

"I can try," said Ayame.

"-All he had to do was sign up and beat her. Then we would take a look at his past fights and decides if he gets the spot. It would be a good idea to find out the persons weakness before the exam. One more thing you can challenge multiple people. Any questions, comments, or complaints?" Rei shot her hand up. Roshi sighed. "Of course. What is it Rei?"

"I have school all this week in the human world! They can not attack me or there will be hell!" The gold team all stared at her. "What?"

"You actually go to school?" asked a guy with a light blue bandana over his head.

"Of course!"

"You're kidding right?" asked another guy that had a red headband and scar across his nose.

"No!"

"Jackal's making you didn't he?" asked Zoe.

"Yup." The gold team sighed.

"Should of know," they all said.

"I'm leaving now!" Rei got up and stomped out of the stadium.

Rei and Fang stood outside the barrier that concealed Meltokyo. "I know you're here. Come on out." A tall guy with shaggy orange-red hair, gold eyes, two tiger ears on top of his head, and two black strips on each cheek came out. He smiled.

"I'm glad you came," he said. Rei's eyes narrowed.

"What do you want?" she asked coldly.

'Art class is about to start. Rei said she'd be back right now,' thought Kurama. Right after he thought that the bell rang and the teacher took role.

"Hikei?" asked the teacher.

"Here."

"Hino?" There was no answer. "Hino!"

"Mr. Potter, Rei had to go to a doctors appointment. She must not be back yet," said Kurama. Rei came stomping in the minute after he said that. She went to her desk and sat down harshly.

"Ms. Hino where is you're pass?"

"I don't have one," growled Rei. Someone's in a bad mood.

"Then I can't let you in class without one." Rei glared at him, the most scariest, deadliest, glare you've ever seen her give.

"Back off!" Mr. Potter gulped.

"I'm going to have to tell you to go to the principal's office."

"Whatever." Rei got up and left the classroom. "Like hell I'm going to the office. I'm going home."

After school Kurama and the gang went to the house to see if Rei was okay because she never came to the pizza parlor and Kurama told them what happened. They walked in the living room to see a big hole in the wall and Hiei sitting in front of it with a big bruise on his left cheek.

"Damn onna!" growled Hiei

"Hiei, what happened?" asked Kurama.

"That damn onna hit me!" he yelled. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at the bruise and started to crack up.

"What'd you do Hiei, look at her the wrong?" laughed Yusuke.

"Don't compare me with you! I didn't do anything!"

"Then what happened?" asked Kurama.

Hiei hears the door slam in the living room so he went to investigate. He saw Rei with a shadow covering her eyes and an angry aura around her. "Aren't you suppose to be at school?" Rei didn't answer. "What? Did you blackmail a stupid little human and get caught?" Rei snapper her eyes up and glared right into Hiei's soul…well that's what it looked like. She went over and slugged Hiei in the left cheek making him fly into the wall. She stomped away just as Hiei got up from the debris.

"She was really mad too at school. I wonder what's wrong," said Kurama. "Where is she now?" asked Yusuke. "Training room," said Hiei.

"How dare he USE MY OWN TACTICS AGAINST ME!" yelled Rei kicking a punching bag off its post. The gang sweat dropped and ducked when the punching bag came flying their way. Kurama was the first to say something. "Rei, is everything okay?" "Everything's fine!" she cried angrily.

'Yeah right!' thought the boys. Ayame came in looked at Rei, then to the punching bag, and back to Rei.

"Um…Rei are you okay?" he asked a little scared.

"FINE! WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP ASKING THAT!" she yelled kicking the wall making a very big hole.

"Right…anyway you never filled out your form to fight Pyro." Rei stared intently at him. "Please sigh it so I can go! You scare me when you're mad." He held out a piece of paper. Fire appeared where the signature line was and when it left Rei's signature was there. "Cool…Bye! Or just to warn you if her eyes start glowing then run because that means she's powering up and if she's mad enough she'll take out her rocket launcher and blow everything up!"

"We know," they all said.

"We'll I'm leaving now!"

"Yeah leave you pansy," said Rei. Ayame stopped in his tracks and slowly creped his head around.

"What did you call me?"

"Pansy," smirked Rei. Ayame out of know where head bunted her.

"You and your girlish voice makes me sick!" said Ayame. Something had changed, not for the greater good ether. The other sweat dropped. Rei and Ayame had their hands locked together and were pushing on one another.

"You know what I'm gonna do to you after I beat you? I gonna do a little of this and a little of that and I'm defiantly gonna do that," said Ayame.

Rei paused for a second and grew an anime vein. 'What the hell? This is the same little boy who use to follow me around when we were little! Who the hell turned him dark anyway? Okay maybe that was my fault. But what is he talking about doing this and that! Oh,' thought Rei "You're sick!"

"What happen?" asked Kuwabara.

"He turned dark," said a voice from behind him. They all jumped a little and turned around to see Zoe.

"He what?" asked Yusuke.

"He turned dark. That's what we call it when he snaps. He won't stop until he calms down," she said with no emotion. Ayame suddenly appeared in front of her face.

"Yeah and I'm coming for you next!"

"Is that right?" replied Zoe not sounding like she believed him.

"That's right! Get up Rei!"

"I am up! Where the hell have you been?" yelled Rei.

"I'm right here! C'mon! Fight!"

"This might take a while. You don't have to stay," said Zoe.

"Naw, this is fun," said Yusuke.

"'Go away!' 'Leave me alone!' When did you become such a little kitty-cat, huh?" yelled Ayame.

"You know when you turn dark you're a real bastard!" yelled Rei.

"So what's the longest they've ever fought like this?" asked Kurama.

"A day. We don't let them go that long anymore. To much of a hassle," said Zoe.

"How?" asked Kuwabara.

"You don't want to know."

"Come on, what's the matter! Hit me already!" yelled Ayame.

"What fight have you been? You haven't landed a single punch on me either! You hit me!" Rei yelled back dodging another one of Ayame's punches.

"You got it!"

"Do they do this all the time?" asked Yusuke.

"Only when they get mad," sighed Zoe.

"What kind of punch was that? I didn't even feel it! You hit like a girl!" yelled Ayame.

"I am a girl!" Ayame stuck his tongue out at her. Rei punched him in his face. "DON'T GET COCKY! Compared to Hiei you move slower than turtle stampeding through peanut butter!"

"What does that make you? From my understanding you have yet to beat him! You must be a snail, no worst, an amoeba!"

"Don't bring me into this," Hiei said calmly.

"I AM SERIOUSLY GONNA MURDER YOU!" yelled Rei. Zoe sighed and grabbed Rei by the collar.

"Feel better?" she asked.

"Yeah," Rei simply said. Ayame came charging at Zoe. She stuck her leg out and Ayame's face collided with her foot. Now know that Zoe is short and Ayame is tall.

"How 'bout you? Feel better?"

"Much," mumbled Ayame.

"Good. Lets go then." Zoe lowered her leg and walked through the door with Ayame skipping not far behind.

"Bye Rei! See you Saturday!" sang Ayame. Once they left the gang turned to Rei.

"What's Saturday?" asked Kuwabara.

"The Reberuappu Exams." The gang gawked at her. "Basically it's when other Spirit Guardians get a chance to level up and it's hell time for me!"

"Everyone wants to fight you to prove they can be better than a leader, right?" said Yusuke.

"Uh, right. How'd you know?"

"I feel the same thing. It's hard being a leader when your team thinks they can beat you." Hiei and Kuwabara glared at him.

"I don't think I can beat you, I know I can detective," growled Hiei.

"Yeah I can beat you any time any place!" argued Kuwabara.

"I doubt that. You're just a pathetic human. At least the other's have demon in them."

"What's that got to do with anything! I have a sword!" Kuwabara stuck a pose.

"I have a sword too and mine's better, so that makes me better than you."

"YOURS IS NOT BETTER! Mine's made out of energy so it can't break and even if it can I can grow it back!"

"I'd like to see it go up against my dragon." Kurama, Rei, and Yusuke sweat dropped as the other two continued with their pointless argument.

"See what you started, Yusuke," sighed Kurama.

"Sorry," he said not sounding too remorseful.

"Are they always like that?" asked Rei.

"No, usually Hiei shuts Kuwabara up by now." Rei smiled but it soon was replaced with a frown when she remembered what the mysterious guy for earlier said.

'Don't get to comfortable with them, you don't want them to know the real you.' That's what he said and I knew he was right. I wouldn't let it happen to me again just like it did ten years ago.

"At least I can confess my true feelings to the one I love!" yelled Kuwabara.

"What?" asked Hiei sounding like was on the brink of chopping his head off.

"That's right! Everyone knows you're in love with Rei!"

"You're stupider than I thought. Who would love a pyromaniac psycho who likes to blow up everything she sees!" Rei shot a lighting bolt at Hiei making his even wilder than it was.

"That had to hurt," said Yusuke.

"What's wrong with me being a pyromaniac?" Rei growled deadly. Of course Hiei wasn't scared.

"There's nothing wrong with being a pyromaniac, it's when you're a psycho along with it!"

"Well this psycho's going to blow you're head off!" she yelled taking her guns out.

"Come on Rei, he's not worth the ammo. Let's go get some ramen from Keiko's dad's restaurant," said Yusuke.

"Okay," she said happily.

Later that night Rei was looking through the paper, since the only person in the house was Hiei and you know how fun he is to talk to, but when she got to the second page she glared at it. There was an article cut out right in the middle of the page.

"HIEI!"

"What?" he yelled from his room.

"What happen to the paper!"

"What?"

"There's a hole in it!"

"…"

"Hiei?"

"…"

"Hiei Jaganshi what did you do!"

StR: Hey all done! If you want Hiei and Rei to go out on a date then tell em in you're review! I want lots of reviews! Bye!