"Yo! Kurama, we gotta message for ya!" Rinku called out, leading the group into the camp whilst Jin and Chuu, lagging behind the other two, had a walking wrestling match and glared at each other a lot. Kurama and Hinata both turned to see the group marching cheerily (for the most part) into camp despite the awkward atmosphere lingering over it. Hinata burst out laughing and Kurama couldn't help but smile.
"You have some real timing issues." He said standing up to greet them. Hinata was introduced and they all, bar Jin and Chuu, sat down.
"What's the message about?" He asked Rinku who was about to respond but was interrupted by Jin and Chuu who were arguing loudly.
"Come down!" Chuu yelled up at Jin who was floating just out of his reach. Jin grinned mischeviously.
"No!" He said still grinning widely.
"I'll throw stones at you!"Chuu threatened and Hinata giggled. She remembered these guys; they were impossible to forget! She didn't let on though. She couldn't do that.
"That'd be breaking the rules! You'd be disqualified!" Jin said pointing an accusing finger at Chuu who grimaced in response. Kurama sighed.
"You were saying?" He said to Rinku ingoring Jin and Chuu's arguments.
"Yes! The message! It's-" Rinku was once again interrupted by Chuu and Jin, who seemed to be getting louder with each new subject in their arguement.
"Get OFF!" Chuu yelled at Jin who, having landed, had him in a headlock.
"Not unless you say that your going to come!" Jin replied with a grumpy frown, ignoring Chuu clawing at his arm furiously.
"Okay! Okay! I'll go! I'll go!" He was obviously just desperate to break free of the headlock.
"I don't believe you! You have to promise and sound more enthusiastic!"
"I promise to go to the tournament so get the hell off!"
"Nope! More enthusiasm and I still don't believe you."
"I guess the message was about the tournament then?" Kurama asked looking at Rinku who nodded, ignoring Jin and Chuu.
"They sorted out the teams and-"
"YOU'RE ON OUR TEAM!" Jin yelled, suddenly becoming involved in the conversation and turning to grin at Kurama, dragging Chuu (who seemed to have given up struggling) behind him.
"Can you let me finish my sentences?" Rinku frowned at Jin who just grinned in response.
"Like Jin said, you're with us, Touya, Hiei, Shishiwakamaru, Yuusuke and Mukuro." Rinku finally delivered the message to Kurama who nodded thoughtfully with a small smile. Having to fight his friends, that would be interesting. Hinata sat there remembering their faces at the mention of their name, she realised that she missed them but couldn't quite figure out how and why she knew them, apart from Mukuro of course.
"I think it's perfectly rational for me to not want to come if I have to face Mukuro in the first round! I wouldn't mind if it was later on... Anyway! Last year everyone in Mukuro and Yomi's teams dropped out! You can't say I'm being unreasonable!" Chuu glared up at Jin who frowned.
"You're just being a wimp! It'll be fun! Tell him he's coming Kurama!" Jin said half strangling Chuu because of how tight he was holding him.
"Well, I think he should come but that's only because I want to fight everyone." He replied with a faint smile.
"Well? What do you say to that?" Jin said grinning at Chuu.
"I suppose it would be quite cool to fight all of you guys seriously..." Chuu sighed.
"YAY!" Jin said releasing Chuu and zooming upwards in a superman-like pose. "I'm gonna beat you ALL in the tournament! Mukuro too! I'm gonna become the ruler of the demon world!" Jin yelled grinning down at everyone. An easy conversation about who would be the next ruler of the demon world started and the evening ended with a conversation about what they would do if they ran the demon world. When it started to get dark Jin, Suzuki, Rinku and Chuu left and Hinata and Kurama sat in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the peace after all of the earlier chatter.
"Shall I cook tea or shall we just get sandwiches?" Hinata asked after a while.
"Sandwiches will do me fine." Kurama replied, both of them getting up to prepare their food. When they sat down again there was a brief silence as both of them tried to figure out what to say.
"Hey, Kurama, I can call you that can't I?" Hinata thought she better check so as to avoid any awkward situations like the one earlier that day.
"Go ahead, just not when we're in school." Kurama said also wanting to avoid any awkward situations but he also didn't want to be asked too many questions just in case. Hinata nodded.
"Kurama, have I met those guys before? The others they mentioned as well, bar Mukuro." Hinata asked looking directly at Kurama with a serious expression. She couldn't let this go now, no matter what he said she knew she couldn't.
"You remember them?" Kurama asked answering her question with another.
"I remember their names and faces but no details. I can just vaguely remember them." She replied. Kurama nodded.
"Is that all of your questions? I think all of your others have been answered really, especially with those four coming." Kurama rolled his eyes and Hinata laughed.
"Yeah, that did kind of answer everything that I wanted to know." She replied with a smile which Kurama returned. They then sat in an easy silence for the rest of the night.