StR: So when I said I wouldn't update as often I didn't mean I was discontinuing it. I meant that I'll be going back and forth between this one and my Sasuke story. Sorry for the confusion. I glad to know so many people care! Yusuke, guess what!?

Y: what?

StR: I got season one of Yu Yu Hakusho. My friend and I had a YYH marathon! 600 minutes of you complaining.

Y: great…

StR: know what my favorite line was?

Y: No.

StR: 'Here's my impression of Yusuke. Look at me I'm burning!'

Y: Shut up! I had to go in Kuwabara's body

StR: Oh here's my second favorite. 'Your death was a complete and total waste!'

Y: Just start the next chapter

"Do you think he knows it's a circle?" - Hiei

Chapter 28: Dreams are only dreams

"You know…" she started, "It rude to stare at people when they're trying to sleep." Hiei let out the breath he didn't know he was holding. Maybe she didn't know that he kissed her. Rei's eyes narrowed. "You know what's also rude to do while people are sleeping?" she said in a low voice. Hiei's eyes widened. She kicked him in the stomach and he went flying to another tree. "KISSING SOMEONE WHILE THEY'RE DEFENSELESS!" Hiei caught himself on a branch across from the one Rei was on. Tears weld up in Rei's eyes and quickly jumped away. Hiei sighed and rested against the trunk of the tree.

"Good job, Hiei," he said to himself.

Rei raced through the forest with tears threatening to come out. Up ahead at the clearing she saw Akihiko. She ran straight into his arms. He smiled and patted her on the head.

"There, there little Rei-chan. Everything will work out," he said sweetly.

"Hai," Rei said softly.

Kurama looked up from his book when he heard a knock at the door. "I wonder who that would be," he said as Hiei fluttered back into the room. "Welcome back." Hiei ignored him and began to look out the window.

"I'll get it," said Yusuke as he came out of the kitchen. He opened the door and saw Jiyuu, Shashu, and Yajuu.

"Hellooo," sang Jiyuu as Yusuke slammed the door in his face. Yusuke's eye started twitching in annoyance.

"W-why are they here?" he asked pointing to the door. Jiyuu slowly opened the door.

"Hey, that wasn't nice," he said. "We only had a question."

"Leave us a-"Yusuke yelled before he was interrupted.

"Just let him ask the question," said Kurama.

"Fine what's your question?"

"Well we were wondering if maybe, by chance, you've seen My lord or Rei-chan?" Yusuke and the others blinked.

"Well, you see…we've lost them and we really need to find them."

"Why would you come to us?" asked Kuwabara. Jiyuu looked taken back.

"Well, we thought, with Rei being you're friend and all." The gang just glared at him. Jiyuu gulped and turned towards his comrades. "I guess Rei's a sore subject."

"She's in the forest," came Hiei's voice. The others looked at him in shock. Jiyuu quickly recovered.

"I assumed nothing out of the ordinary happened," he said. Hiei remained silent and looked deep in thought. "Then again…maybe something did happen…"

"She's obviously not her," said Yajuu, "let's just go." Shashu nodded in agreement. They were about to turn and leave when Hiei's voice came yet again.

"Why her?" he asked, his voice cold and uncaring. Jiyuu turned to look at Hiei. "Why did you choose her as your fifth member?"

"That's an easy question. It's because My Lord loves her." Hiei's eyes widened in shock, as did the rest of the gang. "She loves him to just will never admit it."

"Now what's going on here? Causing trouble, Jiyuu," came a voice. Everyone turned to see Akihiko with Rei sleeping on his back.

"Causing trouble? Me? Sir, you should know me better than that." Akihiko snorted.

"I do know you. That's why I'm concerned," smiled Akihiko. "Come. It's time to go. Team Urameshi has a match tomorrow."



"You should get some sleep, Hiei. It's late," Kurama said to the fire demon. Hiei glanced at him from the corner of his eye for a second, and then went back to glaring out the window. Kurama sighed. "Hiei you're not jealous are you?" Hiei quickly turned his head towards Kurama and glared.

"Jealousy is a weak human emotion! I'm not jealous of anyone!" he growled as he turned back to the window. Kurama sighed again.

"It kind of sounds like you're trying to convince yourself that and not me."

"I'm not jealous!"

"Alright, alright, just go get some sleep."

"Hn." Hiei did want to sleep but he couldn't. Every time he tried to relax the conversation form earlier kept haunting his brain. This angered Hiei deeply. He shouldn't care who the onna loves or doesn't love. It's not like they were together any more. So he had no reason to be jealous. What did the fox know? He's not jealous. He's not. Hiei growled. This was going to be a long night. Hiei opened the window and jumped out. He might as well go for a walk.

"Welcome back everybody! The first match for today is Team Urameshi and Team Goro," yelled Koto in her mike. "Will the team leaders please step forward to decide the rules." Yusuke stood in front of a man with green skin. He had black hair, which was pulled into a ponytail and wore a sleeveless white shirt with jean shorts.

"I propose a one-on-one battle," Goto said. His voice was low and ruff.

"That's fine," agreed Yusuke. Yusuke walked back to his team. "So who wants to go fi-" He didn't even get to finish his sentence because Hiei was already up there. "O-kay…"

"Damn, what's Shorty's problem?" asked Kuwabara.

"Maybe he didn't sleep well," said Belle with a worried tone.

"He probably didn't sleep at all," said Kurama.

"Well, that's no good," pouted Belle. Everyone ignored her and looked at Hiei's opponent. She was a pink-haired girl with purple eyes and pointed ears. She was short, about a head below Hiei and didn't look that physically strong.

"I feel sorry for you. You caught me on a bad day," growled Hiei as he took out his sword. The girl merely smirked.

"You look tired," she said. "I bet you didn't sleep at all last night."

"Hn, that's none of your business."

"Hm…maybe you should." She sucked in air and then blew it out. Instead of air coming out, there was a dark sparkly gas that covered the platform. It was thick but hung low to the ground. Hiei covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve so he wouldn't breathe it in.

Up in the audience Rei looked down at the smoke with wonder. "What is it?" she asked no one.

"Hmm. It looks like she's a dream eater," said Akihiko.

"Dream eater?"

"Yes, that smoke relaxes the victim and puts them in a deep slumber. Then once they began to slumber she feeds off them. It's quite funny to watch. The victim talks in their sleep. We might find out some interesting things." Rei stared at him in awe and then looked back to the fight.

Hiei was struggling in and out of consciousness. His vision became blurry while his eyelids felt heavy. He could hear people calling his name, probably his teammates. His eyes finally closed.

"Hiei?" he heard a girl's voice call him. It was kind and familiar.

"Hiei!" the voice called again. This time he opened his eyes. The world was fuzzy at first but he quickly blinked it away. He found himself lying on a grassy hill looking up at the clear blue sky.

"Did you fall asleep? That's not very nice," a voice said to him on the left. When he looked over to see whose voice it was his eyes widened.

"Rei?"

"Hm? What?" Hiei looked around in confusion.

"Where are we? What happen to the tournament?"

Rei blinked. "Tourn…ament? What tournament?"

"What do you mean what tournament? The tournament that made you leave for three months after you broke up with me!" growled Hiei. Rei stared at him then began to laugh.

"Broke up? What kind of dream did you have?"

"What about Akihiko?"

"Who's Akihiko?" she asked in confusion.

"You don't know him?" Rei shook her head. "So no competition?" Rei shrugged.

"Guess not."

Back in the real world everyone could hear what Hiei was saying, they couldn't see him though. "So no competition?" he said. Rei frowned and looked over to her four teammates, who were on her left.

"Why would Hiei think Akihiko's competition?" Jiyuu laughed nervously.

"Well…I think I mentioned something to him about Akihiko loving you…" Rei glared darkly at Jiyuu, "and that you love him too…"

"What!?" Rei reached over Akihiko to try and strangle him. Akihiko held her back.

"It's not like I said he was in love with you…"

"Um…I might have said alone those lines too…last night…" said Akihiko. Rei turned her glare to him.

Flashback…

Akihiko was walking on a dirt path through the forest when he saw Hiei walking towards him. Hiei had his head down and hand stuffed in his pockets.

"As long as Rei's on my team stay away from her," Akihiko said as he passed Hiei. Hiei went a few steps then halted, keeping his back on the duke's son.

"What I do is none of your business," the short demon said.

"It is when you involve Rei."

"What is she to you?" growled Hiei.

"I love her." Hiei's energy dangerously rose. "Now, now Hiei, calm yourself. Tell you what, if your team wins the tournament then you get Rei back."

"And if you win?"

"I keep Rei, forever." With that Akihiko continued his walk down the dirt path.

"MY LORD!" yelled Yajuu as he witnessed Rei choking Akihiko with her bare hands. A wave of angry fire surrounded Rei. Shashu shook his head in disappointment then managed to hold Yajuu back. Knowing him he would end up hurting the lord by mistake.

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

"I was only kidding," Akihiko managed to choke out. Akihiko's eyes averted towards the fight. "Oh, look, that lady is kissing Hiei."

"WHAT?" yelled Rei as she pushed Akihiko away. Akihiko began coughing as he rubbed his throat. "Wait you can't see a thing! How can you tell?"



"That's how Dream eaters feed."

"And you did say that before because?" asked with a deadly tone.

"I thought you would get mad." Rei pressed a gun to Akihiko's temple.

"And now?"

"You're pissed"

"That's right."

"Can you two please be quite? I'm trying to watch the fight!" said Jiyuu.

Back in Hiei's dream world Rei was kissing Hiei. Hiei's eyes were wide in shock. Something didn't feel right. Hiei looked around again. There were flowers and bunnies and birds and rainbows and suns-okay this isn't right. Hiei pushed Rei off. Rei looked shocked.

"What's wrong Hiei?"

"You're not Rei," he said wiping his mouth off.

"What? How could you say that?"

"You must not know her very well. Rei's a sadist. Bunnies and rainbows aren't her thing. You should get to know the person before you imitate them." The world around Hiei started to warp and turn back to the real world. When he came to, he realized he was on the ground. Quickly he stood up and faced his angry opponent. He rushed towards her angrily. "Fist of the mortal flame!" Hiei hit her square in the chest. The smoke began to fade as the girl coughed up blood and fell to the ground. Hiei closed his eyes and walked towards his team.

"The winner of this math goes to Team Goto!" Koto yelled in her mike. The erupted in confusion.

"Are you blind? Do you not see the girl that's three feet away from you, dead?" yelled Yusuke.

"Well yeah but…Hiei was technically down ten seconds during the fight. I tried to tell everyone but the smoke was causing interference with my mike. Sorry, rules are rules."

"whatever," Hiei said under his breath as he slid down the wall. He rested his head on the stadium wall and closed his eyes. He needed sleep.

StR: I realize that I can't be serious for no more than a sentence. So for some reason I really feel like doing a question and answer thing. I don't know why….so if you have any questions about me or any of my stories but them in the review or email me them.

Y: I have a question.

StR: Yes?

Y: Can I 20 bucks?

StR: Okay remember to review. I love reviews!

Y: Hey!

StR: Bye-Bye!

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