Adrienne: (Walks in with a sledgehammer.) Hi everyone. I'm doing the disclaimer since Boom the Furby is now in pieces.

Boom: Adrienne Dark no own Yu Yu Hakusho!

Adrienne: (Turns around slowly and suddenly screams in terror)

Boom: Doo?

Light the Night

~Chapter Two~

Slowly, Hiei opened his eyes as the sun peaked through his black curtains. There was a loud crash coming from downstairs so he assumed that Yusuke was fighting the oaf for the video game controller again. After taking a little time to dress, he headed downstairs. As usual, only Kurama noticed Hiei's entrance, "Good morning, Hiei. What time did you get back?"

"That's none of your business, fox." Hiei responded as he sat down in his window seat.

He was quite enjoying Kuwabara getting beat up for something that trivial until Yusuke finally noticed his entrance. Letting Kuwabara go and ignoring his insults, Yusuke greeted, "Hey, Hiei. Where'd you go last night? You missed me embarrassing Kuwabara."

"As I've said before that is none of your business detective." Hiei retorted with a smirk. Before Yusuke could press further, Kuwabara interrupted, "We don't have time to be wastin' on the shrimp Uremeshi! We gotta get to town!"

"Shit! That's right!" Yusuke exclaimed, jumping from his seat, "We gotta get the girls Valentine's Day presents!"

At Hiei's inquisitive look, Kurama explained, "Valentine's Day is a holiday where two people in a romantic relationship give each other presents to show affection. It just happens to be tomorrow. Do you want to go shopping with us Hiei?"

"Why would I want to do that, Kurama?" Hiei snapped back, trying to think of a different reason to go. Yusuke clapped him on the back saying, "Come on, Hiei! I'll stop making jokes about you-know-what."

Perfect. "Hn," Hiei replied, rolling his eyes, "You'd better not be lying, detective."

They spent the better part of two hours trying to find something. This was the last store before they took a break for lunch. It was a small store with a sleek, modern look.

Yusuke pushed open the door, the rest of them following behind. They looked around to see it was full of American trends. As the others drifted off to look at things, Hiei was drawn to a small hair barrette the same purple-blue as Mitsu's eyes. It was a simple band of purple-blue painted metal with a white braid pattern on it.

Hiei quickly picked it up and paid with the piece of plastic Koenma called a "credit card" before the others took notice. Silently, he put the hair accessory in his pocket just as the others arrived at the register.

"Have you been waiting long, Hiei?" Kurama asked as they set their items at the register.

Hiei just answered, "Hn, just hurry up."

By the time they got back to Genkai's temple, Hiei was mentally exhausted. The boys set the gifts in their rooms before gathering in the living room.

Just as Hiei sat down in the window seat, Yukina came in with tea. After distributing the tea, Yukina brought an extra cup over to Hiei. "I figured, you'd be tired after your shopping trip with the others." Yukina explained sweetly.

Taking the tea from her gently he nodded in thanks. A few minutes later Hiei was surprised to find he had drunk all of the tea.

Yusuke noticed this and said with a smirk, "So Hiei, what do you consider us as?"

"You are family." Hiei blurted out.

In shock, he clasped a hand over his mouth. He was wondering why in hell he said that until Kurama spoke up, "I apologize, Hiei. We were concerned because while you were gone last night someone came asking for you."

Hiei's eyes narrowed, "Who?"

"She wouldn't say," Yusuke answered, and then asked, "Hiei, why do you always leave during a thunderstorm?" Clasping a hand over his mouth desperately, Hiei tried not to speak. In the end he lost.

"It's the only time I can train her," He sighed in defeat. They all shared confused looks.

Kuwabara finally asked, "Train who?" Hiei answered with a small smile, "Mitsu."

Jaws hit the floor, even Kurama's eyes widened. "Did hamster legs just smile?!" Kuwabara squawked.

Kurama quickly recovered and went to the next question, "Who is Mitsu?"

"That's a hard question to answer, Kurama," Hiei said as he finally turned to face them, "She is a human girl, and undoubtedly an essential part of my life."

In shock Yusuke whistled and commented, "We should give you truth serum more often. I've never seen you this open. It's a nice change."

"Give this to me again and I'll make your life a living hell." Hiei growled as he glared daggers at Yusuke.

He just waved it off saying, "Yeah, sure, try to not to stay in that shell and you got a deal, Mr. Hermit Crab."