Attention, people! This is the VERY last chapter of Hiruiseki!! Don't worry, there WILL be a sequel, but just thought you should know...Last chapter, Kuronue went all sentimental and sappy on Kaeru, who, true to form, froze him. And now...well...something very chaotic is about to take place. Umm...for dedications, I'd like to thank Kelsey, Mizu, and Lexi-chan for all their help and support. Also all of my reviewers, who totally make my day. ^^ Especially when I talk to them on AIM (AKA Lexi-chan, Kimpfn, Celebrindae...) So, thanks everyone for helping me so much! ^^ The pug salutes you. I'd just like to say that it takes me a long time to come up with some of these ideas, so I'd appreciate it if some people wouldn't take them and adapt them for your own stories. I'm flattered, but they're MY ideas, and I'm sure you people can come up with other interesting stuff of your own. So if you do it, I will hunt you down. ^^ Thank you for your time.
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"How do I look?" Yukina asked nervously, turning in a slow circle for Kaeru's inspection, her blue pleated skirt swishing around her legs.
"You look fine," her friend assured her, smiling. Like Yukina, Kaeru was wearing the Sarayashiki school uniform. She now adjusted the yellow scarf, smoothing her own skirt down. "Where's Hiei-san?"
Yukina giggled. "Kia-san, Kelsey-san, and Chitsuko-san are still trying to drag him out from under the bed."
"Nani??" The Ice Maiden stared wide-eyed at her friend. Then they both heard it.
"Hiei, come ON!" That was Kia, sounding extremely frustrated.
"There's three of us and one of you," Chitsuko added reasonably, although her tone matched the Mirror Holder's.
"So come out!" Kelsey called.
"Go away!" Hiei was definitely peeved.
Kia sighed. "Kaeru and Yukina aren't hiding under the bed! So stop being a wimp and hiding under there!"
"I'm NOT a wimp! I'm just not going."
"Heave-HO!" Kelsey yelled suddenly.
Both Koorime blinked as there was a particularly-loud crash, followed by a rapid succession of curses and yells, mostly courtesy of Hiei.
"It's only temporary!!" Chitsuko insisted as she marched a protesting Hiei outside. Kaeru and Yukina followed, along with Kelsey and Kia.
"To see if you can blend in at a ningen school," Kia explained. "It'll be harder for Zenkai to spot you there."
"ONE day," Hiei growled finally, shrugging Chitsuko's hand off of his shoulder. "That's it."
Like the Koorime, he too wore a school uniform-only, it had been Kuwabara's, so Kia had had to do a LOT of adjustments to alter it to fit Hiei.
"Don't you look spiffy!" Kelsey swiftly patted Hiei under the chin, ignoring the dangerous glare of the Jaganshi. "A regular little schoolboy."
"Be nice," Kia warned, trying not to smile, and failing miserably. "Now, have fun, you three!"
"Ja ne!" Kaeru called, waving, as she and Yukina ran off, Hiei lagging behind with a sour look on his face.
The three girls looked at each other, and burst out laughing.
***
"Class, we have...THREE new students today..." The teacher looked puzzled, looking at the three Koorime. "...Are you related?"
"No," Hiei said, just as Yukina said "Yes." They stared at each other, horrified.
"We're triplets," Kaeru said quickly.
"Hmmm..." He didn't look convinced, glancing down at the slip of paper you held. "So...we have...Yukina, Kaoru, and Hiei." He smiled at Hiei. "Can we call you Hi?"
"Call me that, and I'll rip out your-" Hiei's sharp retort was nullified as Kaeru nudged him warningly.
"Hi, then. Now, which one of you is Kaoru?"
"KAERU," the Ice Maiden corrected patiently. "That's me."
The teacher shrugged. "Yukina, Hi, and Kaoru. Have a seat, you three."
They obeyed, Hiei trying to restrain himself from whipping out his katana and murdering this man, and Kaeru wondering if their teacher was deaf.
A ridiculously-tall boy with ridiculously-tall hair leaned over to examine Kaeru, who blinked at him. "...Your eyes are red. Smoked some stuff lately, huh?"
"...Nani?" Kaeru regarded him with obvious puzzlement. "Smoking is bad for you..."
He smirked. "I like your attitude, sweetie. What say you and I-"
"She's not interested," Hiei said calmly. He ignored the boy's baleful glare and opened his book, pretending he cared about seeing Spot run.
***
The day went by rather quickly. Kaeru, Yukina, and Hiei ate lunch together, and both Yukina and Kaeru kept away from certain boys, who seemed TOO interested in them. Yukina had already gotten a comment about her hair, and had been asked where she bought the dye for it. And Hiei had been tempted to kill his classmates at least seven times already. It was a miracle that no one had lost an arm, a leg, a nose, or an ear already. Of course, he HAD hypnotized the lunch lady in the cafeteria to give him extra chocolate ice cream, but hey...that was minor.
"This...school isn't so bad," Yukina decided.
Kaeru nodded in agreement. "Most of the ningens seem nice."
"It's an act," Hiei muttered. "Don't trust them."
The bell rang, and the three looked up, rising to their feet simultaneously. "You'll need your math book today, Hiei-san," Kaeru told him, as she and Yukina headed inside. The Jaganshi sighed, but obediently went to his locker...he didn't see the need for such trivial and annoying ningen items, but...when in Rome...
It came as a complete surprise. For once, Hiei let his guard down as he rummaged in the tall locker for his math book. And then...he found himself being lifted up and stuffed quite roughly into the locker. The door slammed shut, and the fire youkai found himself trapped in this odd, cramped prison.
"Little snot," a familiar voice snarled...that boy who'd been talking to Kaeru earlier. "THAT'LL teach you."
Hiei let out a raged snarl, trying to force the door open. The only thing he accomplished was getting his math book and his reading book piled on top of his head.
The boy laughed snidely. "It's useless, shrimp. Hope you enjoy spending the weekend-"
"What are you doing?"
Kaeru! Hiei froze, peering out through the little slats in the locker. Sure enough, the Koorime was standing there, looking at the boy curiously.
"Kaoru!" Hiei's attacker said nervously, wringing his hands. "I was...I was uh..."
Stuffing Hiei in a locker, because I am an idiotic ningen who needs to have his throat ripped out through his nose and I have no idea who I'm messing with, Hiei said silently.
"Talking to Hiei-san's locker," Kaeru finished for him. "And it's Kaeru, not Kaoru."
"...Whatever." The boy leaned closer to the Ice Maiden. "So...wanna walk to class together?"
Kaeru, about to reply, blinked when there came an audible thud...originating from Hiei's locker. "What was that?"
"What? What was what?" Hiei was pleased to hear a panicked note creep into the boy's voice.
"That...sound..." Kaeru walked over to Hiei's locker, jumping back when it banged again. Then, she started to suspect... "...HIEI-SAN??"
"Took you long enough," the Jaganshi answered, somewhat nastily.
The Koorime whirled, fixing the boy with a glare, which was rather out of odds on her sweet face. "Why is he in a locker? You...you...you DIDN'T!"
He smirked, running a hand through his tousled black hair. "Of course I did. Now, how about a kiss, sweetheart?" He grabbed the scarf on Kaeru's uniform, dragging her closer to him and lowering his head to smooch her.
Obviously, he'd never dealt with an ornery Ice Maiden before. Kaeru froze him before his lips came even REMOTELY close to touching hers.
"I don't like you," she informed the solid ice block, tapping it with her index finger, before turning back to the locker. "Hiei-san, what's your combination?"
"How the hell should I know??" He demanded.
The girl sighed. "Otherwise, you're stuck here."
Hiei frowned in the darkness. Now...what was the order... "Try thirteen-twenty-three-zero," he said at last.
Kaeru tried, spinning the lock deftly. Then she tugged on the handle. It didn't budge. "...Are you sure?"
"No."
Both Koorime sighed, and Kaeru tried several different combinations, such as twenty-three-zero-thirteen and zero-thirteen-twenty-three. None were successful.
Forty minutes later, Kaeru rested her head on the cool metal, panting slightly and starting to get a headache. "I think your locker hates you..."
"..." Hiei was on the verge of losing it completely. Fine. If the damned ningen locker wasn't going to release him, he'd have to break out of here on his own. "Stand back."
Kaeru didn't reply, not having heard him over the chatter of a group of schoolgirls rushing down the hall. So Hiei assumed she had gotten out of the way. The Jaganshi closed his eyes briefly, the Jagan glowing underneath its white cover, as he called on his energy.
Three seconds later, the entire row of lockers exploded, doors and locks flying outward, followed by books, papers, and someone's pet squirrel. Unfortunately for Kaeru, she HADN'T moved out of the way, and hit the wall, along with everything else.
Someone screamed, and hysterical students raced to safety, almost trampling each other in their own panic. At least, this had one advantage. Hiei was free. He leapt lightly to the ground, looking around for Kaeru-and discovered the poor Ice Maiden buried under a pile of battered locker doors, having lost consciousness.
With a sigh, the Jaganshi settled his "sister" on his back, stepping carefully over the rubble and the ice statue of Kaeru's unfortunate suitor and heading off to class. Screw his algebra book-he was getting Yukina and going home. Dodging a few screaming girls, he slid the door open to the classroom. "Yukina, let's go."
His actual sister looked at him, the terror in her ruby eyes quickly converting to relief. "Hiei-san!"
Hiei frowned, assessing the situation. Yukina was surrounded by three of his more burly (and stupid) classmates. One of them had his hand on the Koorime's shirt. Hiei saw this, and rage started to bubble from his insides. How DARE they? Black fire started to form on the palm of his right hand. "Scum," he stated, his voice a soft and deadly whisper.
***
"...Hey, do you hear sirens?" Kia paused, abandoning her lunchbox as she looked up.
"Heading for..." Chitsuko did a quick mental calculation. "Sarayashiki High School."
For a moment, the girls stared at each other in total horror.
"No..." Kelsey whispered.
Kia groaned. "Hiei!" And, just like that, the Mirror Holders and the hanyou took off for the school at a dead run, ignoring the questions from their classmates and the approving whistles from the male student body as the skirts flared around their bare legs.
"Perverts," Kelsey grumbled.
"We'll get 'em later," Chitsuko promised her. "For now, let's get to that school before Hiei blows it up."
***
"He's gonna blow up the school!"
"We're gonna die!"
"Children, PLEASE calm down!"
"That midget blew up all those lockers AND a classroom already! We're next!"
Hiei stood on the school roof, the wind rustling the black spikes of his hair, crimson eyes irritated. Yukina was peering over the edge at the ground, feeling slightly sick. And Kaeru was still pretty much out of it, draped limply on Hiei's strong back.
"Just...stop the flame...and come down!" Mr. Takenaka shouted through a megaphone. "VERY SLOWLY!"
The Jaganshi smirked. He wasn't going to listen to these ningen idiots anymore.
"What's going on??" The girls had finally reached the school. Kia stopped, staring at the flames spilling through the second story window. And then Chitsuko spotted Hiei and the Ice Maidens on the roof.
"Hoo..." the golden-haired girl sighed.
"You...you KNOW him?" Baffled, the Principal lowered his megaphone slightly to stare at them.
Kelsey made a face. "Sadly, yes."
"He's...our...umm...little brother..." Kia suddenly regretted having said that.
"All of yours?" Takenaka raised both eyebrows. "I had no idea you three were related."
"Ah...yes..." Kia was REALLY regretting this now. "Umm...Chitsuko is my step-sister...and Kelsey was...ah...born...when...our parents...you know." She was starting to turn red. "And...we adopted Hiei...and Yukina...and Kaeru...and stuff."
"I see...then will you kindly take your brother home? He's terrifying my students."
Unbeknownst to them, all three girls were thinking the exact same thing: I can't BELIEVE he BOUGHT that!
"Yes, sir, right away!" Kelsey said hurriedly, snatching the megaphone from the startled man. "HIEI, YOU BAKA, GET YOUR FIRE PUNK ASS DOWN HERE SO WE CAN GO HOME!"
"He's a pyromaniac," Chitsuko explained to Takenaka sweetly. "We've tried to break him out of the habit, but I guess he's grown addicted to it."
"I need an aspirin..." the Principal tottered off.
"Catch Yukina," Hiei said shortly, tossing his sister down. Kelsey caught her, setting the Koorime down, and stepping back as the Jaganshi landed a split second later.
Kia blinked. "Hiei, why is Kaeru unconscious?"
"Locker," was his terse reply, as he pushed ahead of the girls, heading home.
"Whose bright idea was this?" Kelsey asked tiredly, as they trudged along.
Kia shrugged. "Hopefully not mine."
"DEFINITELY not mine," Chitsuko said definitively.
"What say we just blame Yusuke?" the brunette suggested. "It's almost always his fault, anyway."
Kelsey grinned. "Good idea."
***
"I LET HER GO WITH YOU FOR ONE DAMN DAY, and you let THIS happen?!"
Kaeru opened her eyes, blinking, and sliding off Hiei's back. "...Is school over already?"
"Yes, Kaeru," Kurama said with a sigh. "School is definitely over."
Suzaku was still livid. "I can't believe I agreed to this!"
"You didn't," Kia reminded him. "You kept complaining until Kelsey smacked you with Suzuki's piggy-bank."
"So THAT'S how it broke!" Suzuki glowered at Kelsey. The blonde glared at Kia.
"You weren't supposed to tell, remember??"
The girl sweatdropped. "...Oops."
"Never again," Hiei growled. "I'm never going to that place again."
"I thought it was fun!" Yukina said brightly.
"Me too." Then Kaeru frowned. "Except for Hiei-san getting stuck in the locker..."
Suddenly, she was the center of attention, as everyone leaned towards the Koorime.
"The midget got stuck in a locker?" Kuronue asked, eyes agleam. Perfect blackmail.
"Do tell," Rei said interestedly.
"Tell and I kill you," Hiei whispered in the Ice Maiden's ear.
"Kill her and I kill you," the chimera warned the Jaganshi.
"Unless I kill him first." Suzaku scowled.
"No one kills anyone, no one gets killed." Mizu sighed. "Males."
"Can't live with them, can't live..." Rei paused. "With them."
Kaeru smiled. To think she'd actually once been terrified of coming to Ningenkai...but, if she hadn't, not only would she be dead, she never would have met all these wonderful people...even Hiei. And especially Kuronue. Yes, she thought, it was definitely worth it.
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I'm doooone! *dances around hysterically* I'm done, I'm done, and...I'm DONE! I don't know when the sequel will be up...but probably after Densebyou's first chapter, I'm guessing. ^^ Thanks to all and please review for the last time...
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"How do I look?" Yukina asked nervously, turning in a slow circle for Kaeru's inspection, her blue pleated skirt swishing around her legs.
"You look fine," her friend assured her, smiling. Like Yukina, Kaeru was wearing the Sarayashiki school uniform. She now adjusted the yellow scarf, smoothing her own skirt down. "Where's Hiei-san?"
Yukina giggled. "Kia-san, Kelsey-san, and Chitsuko-san are still trying to drag him out from under the bed."
"Nani??" The Ice Maiden stared wide-eyed at her friend. Then they both heard it.
"Hiei, come ON!" That was Kia, sounding extremely frustrated.
"There's three of us and one of you," Chitsuko added reasonably, although her tone matched the Mirror Holder's.
"So come out!" Kelsey called.
"Go away!" Hiei was definitely peeved.
Kia sighed. "Kaeru and Yukina aren't hiding under the bed! So stop being a wimp and hiding under there!"
"I'm NOT a wimp! I'm just not going."
"Heave-HO!" Kelsey yelled suddenly.
Both Koorime blinked as there was a particularly-loud crash, followed by a rapid succession of curses and yells, mostly courtesy of Hiei.
"It's only temporary!!" Chitsuko insisted as she marched a protesting Hiei outside. Kaeru and Yukina followed, along with Kelsey and Kia.
"To see if you can blend in at a ningen school," Kia explained. "It'll be harder for Zenkai to spot you there."
"ONE day," Hiei growled finally, shrugging Chitsuko's hand off of his shoulder. "That's it."
Like the Koorime, he too wore a school uniform-only, it had been Kuwabara's, so Kia had had to do a LOT of adjustments to alter it to fit Hiei.
"Don't you look spiffy!" Kelsey swiftly patted Hiei under the chin, ignoring the dangerous glare of the Jaganshi. "A regular little schoolboy."
"Be nice," Kia warned, trying not to smile, and failing miserably. "Now, have fun, you three!"
"Ja ne!" Kaeru called, waving, as she and Yukina ran off, Hiei lagging behind with a sour look on his face.
The three girls looked at each other, and burst out laughing.
***
"Class, we have...THREE new students today..." The teacher looked puzzled, looking at the three Koorime. "...Are you related?"
"No," Hiei said, just as Yukina said "Yes." They stared at each other, horrified.
"We're triplets," Kaeru said quickly.
"Hmmm..." He didn't look convinced, glancing down at the slip of paper you held. "So...we have...Yukina, Kaoru, and Hiei." He smiled at Hiei. "Can we call you Hi?"
"Call me that, and I'll rip out your-" Hiei's sharp retort was nullified as Kaeru nudged him warningly.
"Hi, then. Now, which one of you is Kaoru?"
"KAERU," the Ice Maiden corrected patiently. "That's me."
The teacher shrugged. "Yukina, Hi, and Kaoru. Have a seat, you three."
They obeyed, Hiei trying to restrain himself from whipping out his katana and murdering this man, and Kaeru wondering if their teacher was deaf.
A ridiculously-tall boy with ridiculously-tall hair leaned over to examine Kaeru, who blinked at him. "...Your eyes are red. Smoked some stuff lately, huh?"
"...Nani?" Kaeru regarded him with obvious puzzlement. "Smoking is bad for you..."
He smirked. "I like your attitude, sweetie. What say you and I-"
"She's not interested," Hiei said calmly. He ignored the boy's baleful glare and opened his book, pretending he cared about seeing Spot run.
***
The day went by rather quickly. Kaeru, Yukina, and Hiei ate lunch together, and both Yukina and Kaeru kept away from certain boys, who seemed TOO interested in them. Yukina had already gotten a comment about her hair, and had been asked where she bought the dye for it. And Hiei had been tempted to kill his classmates at least seven times already. It was a miracle that no one had lost an arm, a leg, a nose, or an ear already. Of course, he HAD hypnotized the lunch lady in the cafeteria to give him extra chocolate ice cream, but hey...that was minor.
"This...school isn't so bad," Yukina decided.
Kaeru nodded in agreement. "Most of the ningens seem nice."
"It's an act," Hiei muttered. "Don't trust them."
The bell rang, and the three looked up, rising to their feet simultaneously. "You'll need your math book today, Hiei-san," Kaeru told him, as she and Yukina headed inside. The Jaganshi sighed, but obediently went to his locker...he didn't see the need for such trivial and annoying ningen items, but...when in Rome...
It came as a complete surprise. For once, Hiei let his guard down as he rummaged in the tall locker for his math book. And then...he found himself being lifted up and stuffed quite roughly into the locker. The door slammed shut, and the fire youkai found himself trapped in this odd, cramped prison.
"Little snot," a familiar voice snarled...that boy who'd been talking to Kaeru earlier. "THAT'LL teach you."
Hiei let out a raged snarl, trying to force the door open. The only thing he accomplished was getting his math book and his reading book piled on top of his head.
The boy laughed snidely. "It's useless, shrimp. Hope you enjoy spending the weekend-"
"What are you doing?"
Kaeru! Hiei froze, peering out through the little slats in the locker. Sure enough, the Koorime was standing there, looking at the boy curiously.
"Kaoru!" Hiei's attacker said nervously, wringing his hands. "I was...I was uh..."
Stuffing Hiei in a locker, because I am an idiotic ningen who needs to have his throat ripped out through his nose and I have no idea who I'm messing with, Hiei said silently.
"Talking to Hiei-san's locker," Kaeru finished for him. "And it's Kaeru, not Kaoru."
"...Whatever." The boy leaned closer to the Ice Maiden. "So...wanna walk to class together?"
Kaeru, about to reply, blinked when there came an audible thud...originating from Hiei's locker. "What was that?"
"What? What was what?" Hiei was pleased to hear a panicked note creep into the boy's voice.
"That...sound..." Kaeru walked over to Hiei's locker, jumping back when it banged again. Then, she started to suspect... "...HIEI-SAN??"
"Took you long enough," the Jaganshi answered, somewhat nastily.
The Koorime whirled, fixing the boy with a glare, which was rather out of odds on her sweet face. "Why is he in a locker? You...you...you DIDN'T!"
He smirked, running a hand through his tousled black hair. "Of course I did. Now, how about a kiss, sweetheart?" He grabbed the scarf on Kaeru's uniform, dragging her closer to him and lowering his head to smooch her.
Obviously, he'd never dealt with an ornery Ice Maiden before. Kaeru froze him before his lips came even REMOTELY close to touching hers.
"I don't like you," she informed the solid ice block, tapping it with her index finger, before turning back to the locker. "Hiei-san, what's your combination?"
"How the hell should I know??" He demanded.
The girl sighed. "Otherwise, you're stuck here."
Hiei frowned in the darkness. Now...what was the order... "Try thirteen-twenty-three-zero," he said at last.
Kaeru tried, spinning the lock deftly. Then she tugged on the handle. It didn't budge. "...Are you sure?"
"No."
Both Koorime sighed, and Kaeru tried several different combinations, such as twenty-three-zero-thirteen and zero-thirteen-twenty-three. None were successful.
Forty minutes later, Kaeru rested her head on the cool metal, panting slightly and starting to get a headache. "I think your locker hates you..."
"..." Hiei was on the verge of losing it completely. Fine. If the damned ningen locker wasn't going to release him, he'd have to break out of here on his own. "Stand back."
Kaeru didn't reply, not having heard him over the chatter of a group of schoolgirls rushing down the hall. So Hiei assumed she had gotten out of the way. The Jaganshi closed his eyes briefly, the Jagan glowing underneath its white cover, as he called on his energy.
Three seconds later, the entire row of lockers exploded, doors and locks flying outward, followed by books, papers, and someone's pet squirrel. Unfortunately for Kaeru, she HADN'T moved out of the way, and hit the wall, along with everything else.
Someone screamed, and hysterical students raced to safety, almost trampling each other in their own panic. At least, this had one advantage. Hiei was free. He leapt lightly to the ground, looking around for Kaeru-and discovered the poor Ice Maiden buried under a pile of battered locker doors, having lost consciousness.
With a sigh, the Jaganshi settled his "sister" on his back, stepping carefully over the rubble and the ice statue of Kaeru's unfortunate suitor and heading off to class. Screw his algebra book-he was getting Yukina and going home. Dodging a few screaming girls, he slid the door open to the classroom. "Yukina, let's go."
His actual sister looked at him, the terror in her ruby eyes quickly converting to relief. "Hiei-san!"
Hiei frowned, assessing the situation. Yukina was surrounded by three of his more burly (and stupid) classmates. One of them had his hand on the Koorime's shirt. Hiei saw this, and rage started to bubble from his insides. How DARE they? Black fire started to form on the palm of his right hand. "Scum," he stated, his voice a soft and deadly whisper.
***
"...Hey, do you hear sirens?" Kia paused, abandoning her lunchbox as she looked up.
"Heading for..." Chitsuko did a quick mental calculation. "Sarayashiki High School."
For a moment, the girls stared at each other in total horror.
"No..." Kelsey whispered.
Kia groaned. "Hiei!" And, just like that, the Mirror Holders and the hanyou took off for the school at a dead run, ignoring the questions from their classmates and the approving whistles from the male student body as the skirts flared around their bare legs.
"Perverts," Kelsey grumbled.
"We'll get 'em later," Chitsuko promised her. "For now, let's get to that school before Hiei blows it up."
***
"He's gonna blow up the school!"
"We're gonna die!"
"Children, PLEASE calm down!"
"That midget blew up all those lockers AND a classroom already! We're next!"
Hiei stood on the school roof, the wind rustling the black spikes of his hair, crimson eyes irritated. Yukina was peering over the edge at the ground, feeling slightly sick. And Kaeru was still pretty much out of it, draped limply on Hiei's strong back.
"Just...stop the flame...and come down!" Mr. Takenaka shouted through a megaphone. "VERY SLOWLY!"
The Jaganshi smirked. He wasn't going to listen to these ningen idiots anymore.
"What's going on??" The girls had finally reached the school. Kia stopped, staring at the flames spilling through the second story window. And then Chitsuko spotted Hiei and the Ice Maidens on the roof.
"Hoo..." the golden-haired girl sighed.
"You...you KNOW him?" Baffled, the Principal lowered his megaphone slightly to stare at them.
Kelsey made a face. "Sadly, yes."
"He's...our...umm...little brother..." Kia suddenly regretted having said that.
"All of yours?" Takenaka raised both eyebrows. "I had no idea you three were related."
"Ah...yes..." Kia was REALLY regretting this now. "Umm...Chitsuko is my step-sister...and Kelsey was...ah...born...when...our parents...you know." She was starting to turn red. "And...we adopted Hiei...and Yukina...and Kaeru...and stuff."
"I see...then will you kindly take your brother home? He's terrifying my students."
Unbeknownst to them, all three girls were thinking the exact same thing: I can't BELIEVE he BOUGHT that!
"Yes, sir, right away!" Kelsey said hurriedly, snatching the megaphone from the startled man. "HIEI, YOU BAKA, GET YOUR FIRE PUNK ASS DOWN HERE SO WE CAN GO HOME!"
"He's a pyromaniac," Chitsuko explained to Takenaka sweetly. "We've tried to break him out of the habit, but I guess he's grown addicted to it."
"I need an aspirin..." the Principal tottered off.
"Catch Yukina," Hiei said shortly, tossing his sister down. Kelsey caught her, setting the Koorime down, and stepping back as the Jaganshi landed a split second later.
Kia blinked. "Hiei, why is Kaeru unconscious?"
"Locker," was his terse reply, as he pushed ahead of the girls, heading home.
"Whose bright idea was this?" Kelsey asked tiredly, as they trudged along.
Kia shrugged. "Hopefully not mine."
"DEFINITELY not mine," Chitsuko said definitively.
"What say we just blame Yusuke?" the brunette suggested. "It's almost always his fault, anyway."
Kelsey grinned. "Good idea."
***
"I LET HER GO WITH YOU FOR ONE DAMN DAY, and you let THIS happen?!"
Kaeru opened her eyes, blinking, and sliding off Hiei's back. "...Is school over already?"
"Yes, Kaeru," Kurama said with a sigh. "School is definitely over."
Suzaku was still livid. "I can't believe I agreed to this!"
"You didn't," Kia reminded him. "You kept complaining until Kelsey smacked you with Suzuki's piggy-bank."
"So THAT'S how it broke!" Suzuki glowered at Kelsey. The blonde glared at Kia.
"You weren't supposed to tell, remember??"
The girl sweatdropped. "...Oops."
"Never again," Hiei growled. "I'm never going to that place again."
"I thought it was fun!" Yukina said brightly.
"Me too." Then Kaeru frowned. "Except for Hiei-san getting stuck in the locker..."
Suddenly, she was the center of attention, as everyone leaned towards the Koorime.
"The midget got stuck in a locker?" Kuronue asked, eyes agleam. Perfect blackmail.
"Do tell," Rei said interestedly.
"Tell and I kill you," Hiei whispered in the Ice Maiden's ear.
"Kill her and I kill you," the chimera warned the Jaganshi.
"Unless I kill him first." Suzaku scowled.
"No one kills anyone, no one gets killed." Mizu sighed. "Males."
"Can't live with them, can't live..." Rei paused. "With them."
Kaeru smiled. To think she'd actually once been terrified of coming to Ningenkai...but, if she hadn't, not only would she be dead, she never would have met all these wonderful people...even Hiei. And especially Kuronue. Yes, she thought, it was definitely worth it.
***OOC***
I'm doooone! *dances around hysterically* I'm done, I'm done, and...I'm DONE! I don't know when the sequel will be up...but probably after Densebyou's first chapter, I'm guessing. ^^ Thanks to all and please review for the last time...