Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Hiei's Love ❯ A Party To Remember ( Chapter 10 )

Hiei's Love: Chapter 10

"Hello Everyone!" Came the overly cheerful voice of Botan from the door.

Everyone turned to look at the door.

"BOTAN!" Yukari yelled.

"YUKARI!" Botan mirrored.

Yukari threw back her chair, tripping over it and ran to Botan.

Botan and Yukari collided in a big hug, both jumping up and down joyfully.

"OH MY GOSH!" They both screamed causing poor Hiei to cringe.

"I can't believe it; look how big my little sis has gotten." Botan said holding Yukari at arms length.

"And my big sister as annoying as ever I see." Yukari laughed.

"Sisters?" Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Yusuke all said in unison.

Zay and Yoru just looked on blandly; this was nothing new to them.

"Didn't you notice the resemblance? I mean it really is so very obvious." Yoru said testily.

Kurama looked at Yoru disapprovingly.

"What?" She quipped.

"Botan, where have you been?" Zay asked with little real interest.

"Well, Koenma sent me to find someone he thought you'd like to see." Botan went out the door and brought back a young looking blue haired girl in a blue kimono with startling familiar red eyes.

"Yukina?" Zay whispered with tears in her eyes.

"Zaylee!" Yukina gasped, tears marking her eyes as well.

Zaylana ran from her chair and hugged Yukina close.

"I thought I'd never see you again." Yukina said.

"I'm sorry, so sorry for what I did, I didn't mean to lose touch with you…I just couldn't…" Zaylana was crying too hard to finish.

"I know Zaylee, I know." Tears fell from her eyes and several jewels clattered to the floor, but gained notice from no one.

"Yukina." Hiei made himself noticed to his younger sister. Yukina looked past Zaylana to Hiei.

"Hiei!" Yukina cried allowed and whispered, "Big brother."

"Big brother?" Zay, Yoru and Yukari said. They'd never known Yukina to have a brother.

"Yes, Hiei is my older, half brother, I didn't know about him until recently." She said to the stunned trio of assassins.

"You mean Hiei is your brother, I sle…" Zaylana almost let something slip but caught herself before it fell.

Hiei noticed it too. "She's referring to the fact that she fought her dear friend's brother."

"You fought Hiei?" Yukina looked worried.

"Were you hurt Hiei?" She asked. He winced inwardly at the unintended insult.

"No, Hiei won, but that doesn't matter let's talk about something else." Zay said all in a rush.

"Zaylee, don't you know what day this is?" Yukina looked hopefully at her friend.

Zay thought hard for a moment, "Oh, wow, no way, today's your birthday that's right how horrible for me to have forgotten." Zay laughed.

"Then let's celebrate, SAKI PARTY TONIGHT!" Zay shouted.

"SAKI PARTY!" Yoru and Yukari yelled.

"SAKI PARTY!" Yelled Koenma with Botan.

"Saki Party?" Mumbled Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei.

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"Zay, don't you think that's a little much?" Yoru said watching Zay trying to carry several bottles of saki all at once.

"No way, if were gonna have a party were gonna have to do it right, and that means lots of liquor. And besides aren't you just dying to see Yusuke and Kuwa drunk?" And that mental image got them laughing so hard Zay almost dropped the saki and Yoru almost dropped the lanterns she was hanging in the party room for Yukina's party.

"Yeah, that'll be great." Yoru said while laughing.

Zay put the bottles on a table along with chips, dip, and a humongous cake with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUKINA" written on it with little birds flying across it.

The whole room was soon decorated with ribbons, streamers, lanterns, balloons, and all sorts of stuff. A fire was blazing to keep the chill from the oncoming night from the room.

"This will be great." Yoru laughed as Zaylana opened a bottle of saki.

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They started the party at eight that night and sang for Yukina at eight thirty. Kuwabara gave her a necklace he'd made by himself; Yoru gave her a dagger with a white hilt emblazoned with little blue birds carrying roses in their beaks. Yukari gave her a bracelet; Koenma and Botan together gave her permission to travel from the Makai to Ningenkai. Yusuke gave her a purse; Kurama gave her special seeds that would grow even in the cold and snow. Zaylana gave her two pet birds that could live in the artic. But Hiei's present alone made Yukina cry in joy, he gave her a single rose one that would never wilt and never die, an ever living rose.

Yukina had sworn she'd never known a happier day then this.

Soon all the saki was open and a few bottles were now empty.

Yoru and Zaylana had a plan to get Yusuke and Kuwa stone drunk. They continually kept their drinks full by adding to them when they were looking away.

Soon Zay came up with a twisted version of truth or dare.

They all sat in a circle with a bottle in the middle. Zaylana started the game spinning the bottle, it landed on Kurama.

"Now Kurama, the deal here is this. I give you a dare, you have to do it, and you have no choice." She was silent for a second as she thought of a dare.

"Ok, Kumara I dare you to… Tell Yoru what you `really' think of her." Zaylana slouched back arrogantly, wanting some idea as to why Kurama kept looking at Yoru as he did.

"What I think of Yoru eh? Well the truth is that I find her quite brash and rude. A little childish in her actions and arrogant. But aside from all that there are far more redeeming qualities she possesses. She can be sweet and kind. She seems loving and gentle at time. She's loyal to a fault, and smart. She's strong and sticks to her beliefs and values with all her might. She's a wonderful woman, who just needs someone to love her, to show her the brighter side to life instead of what she seems to have been shown thus far." Kurama finished with a quick glance to Yoru who had her eyes to the floor not looking at anyone.

Kurama grabbed the bottle and spun it. The bottle continued to spin till it landed on Yusuke.

"Yusuke I dare you to name one thing you haven't done and make it as strange as possible, and anyone who has done this take a drink of saki. Just for fun, though I doubt anyone will end up drinking." Kurama said.

"Lets see here, what haven't I done and is really strange…well uhhh…I haven't kissed a cow yet." Yusuke said with a drunken laugh.

Kuwabara reached for a bottle of saki and took a swig. Everyone looked at him in horror.

Kuwabara looked at all of them with a goofy grin. "What? It was a dare from *Hic* a long time ago." He giggled and reached for the bottle and spun it.

The bottle landed on Botan.

"Ok now Botan. The question I know everyone *hic* is jush dyin to ask. Why does you hate Zaylana sho mush, wat'd she ever do ta you?" Kuwbara said drunkenly.

Everyone sat silent, they knew Kuwabara was right, they did want to know and Botan looked away and Zaylana started giggling insanely.

"Come on Botan tell us, youse gots ta." Kuwabara prodded.

"OH ALL RIGHT! I'LL TELL YOU, LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY." Botan yelled at Kuwabara.

"I dislike Zaylana, not hate her. And the reason why is that a long time ago I had made lord Koenma angry with me and he had asked Zaylana there to play a prank on me. And well she did. And it was mean and dirty prank I might add" She said waving scolding finger at Zaylana.

"What was the prank?" Koenma asked, though he'd had the prank done Zaylana had not made him privy to what the prank had been, all he knew was that when Zay had finished he hadn't seen Botan for a week.

"The prank went like this…" Botan began but was interrupted.

"No wait let me tell this part I love this, and you won't tell it right." Zay said interjecting.

"Fine go ahead, I'd just as soon not speak of it again." Botan allowed.

"Ok so here's how it went. I called Botan to koenmas office while he wasn't there when she has appeared I'd told her to go to the filing cabinet and find a file on a demon I said I was hunting, while she was doing that I took a bottle of insta-bond glue that dries once two objects where placed in contact on her oar. When Botan gave me the file she hopped back on her oar and the part of her that landed in the glue was her butt." Zaylana was now laughing hysterically along with everyone else, but Botan was red as a beet.

After a few more moments of laughter Zaylana stopped them "Ok, ok that's not all listen, now when she got on her oar she was stuck and couldn't get off, now the problem was I had put a lot of glue on the oar and it had soaked through her kimono and now her actual butt was stuck not just to her clothes but to the oar and she couldn't get off. She swore she'd never forgive me and disappeared. No one saw her for a weak and for a month she wouldn't dare sit anywhere when I was in the same room." Zaylana finished laughing with everyone else.

"Alright, alright already enough let's continue the game." Botan said still red and spun the bottle.

It landed on Hiei.

"Ok Hiei, you seem so bent on demeaning everyone so now be nice, tell us something good about…Kuwabara." Botan suggested.

"You've got to be kidding, what's there that's good on the idiot?" Hiei quipped.

"Hiei please, don't spoil the game." Yukina pleaded with her brother.

"Hn…fine…he's…. dependable…I guess." Hiei pouted adorably.

"Well I guess that worked." Botan murmured as Hiei spun the bottle and it landed on Yukari.

An evil smirk marred Hiei's face as he thought of a stupid and funny dare. "Yukari, I dare you to go into the woods and seek out the pink unicorn of happiness and when you find it bring it back.

Yukari, who was smashed got up in a wobble. "OK!" she cried in what she though was a cheerful cry. She stumbled up against a wall and ran through the door and through a closed window.

*CRASH*

*THUD*

"I'm ok!" Came Yukari's distant cry.

They all laughed.

They party continued till all the saki was gone and they were entertaining themselves in little ways.

Yoru had been dared into an emerald ball gown and was dancing with Kurama; Zaylana was resting her head on Hiei's shoulder who was quoting commercials from the 70's. Yukina and Kuwabara had joined Kurama and Yoru and were dancing. Yusuke, Koenma and Botan were lounging on a couch.

After a few more hours just before dawn some of the alcohol had worn off and Zaylana noticed someone was missing.

"Hey, is Yukari back yet?" She asked.

"Don't yell," They all said.

"I'm not." She whispered.

"I don't know where she is but she's probably st *Hic* ill looking for the pink unicorn of happiness." Yoru whispered.

"Oh yeah." She laughed.

"Hey how about we go look for her." Kuwabara suggested

"Yeah, gives us something to do." Yukari agreed.

"Lets team up for safety." Yukina suggested.

"Me and Zay." Said Yoru.

"Me and Yukina." Kuwabara said proudly, jamming his thumb at his chest.

"Me and Koenma." Added in Botan.

"I guess that leaves me and Hiei." Kurama chimed in.

All the teams left the castle to look around the forests in spirit world.

Koenma and Botan went a little ways and then returned to the house for sleep. Yukina and Kuwabara doubled back and went to sleep, Yusuke never left to begin with, he'd been asleep all along, and soon it was just Kurama and Hiei, Yoru and Zay looking for Yukari.

Zay wandered off from Yoru while Yoru went the other way. Yoru was a little worried till she realized Zay was just being stupid and had wandered off. "So much for teams" She sulked.

Kurama and Hiei searched in silence for some time till Hiei suggested he search through the trees. As Hiei ran off, Kurama watched him go. "So much for teams" He murmured.

Hiei soon found Zay and went off with her to find Yukari, while Yoru went off in the direction in which she'd begun to smell water. And Kurama too had caught the sent of water and went on his way to find it. Who knew what he might find there.

Yoru walked into a small field filled with white roses growing all over the ground, they glowed an eerie milky essence that was made from the beams of moon from over head. The roses surrounded a small pond that glowed with the reflection of the moon in its center.

"Wow, so…beautiful." She whispered.

*Snap*

Yoru tensed up as she turned to look across the pond where the noise had come from.

Kurama emerged from the shadowy foliage into the pale light of the moon.

"Kurama…" She whispered walking toward him.

"Yoru…" He mirrored walking toward her and the pond, which separated them.

As they approached the pond the roses that lay directly in front of them began to disappear and create a path for them. When both Kurama and Yoru reached the waters edge they paused. Then both stepped onto the water as if it were not but a base of opalescent glass.

As they walked toward one another out from the reflection of the moon came a bud, out of the bud bloomed a large blood red rose. Both stepped up onto the petals that seemed of translucent porcelain and into the middle where puffs of pollen floated and swirled about them in a heady glowing snow."

"Do you still hate me?" Kurama whispered to Yoru.

"No, not right now." She whispered back, looking down with a blush.

Lifting her chin with a gentle finger his gaze called and held her torn, turquoise eyes. And he was overcome with a single need, one he would not deny himself.

He pulled her up close against him and lowered his head to captured her lips and steal a kiss.

Yoru's eyes widened and then lowered closed as she was stolen away on a moment of needed softness.

But then her mind returned to her, and she pulled back and away.

"Kurama I…" She started.

"Don't!" He finished.

He backed away from her and turned, even slightly tipsy he knew when he had been turned away.

"Will you hate me when the sun comes up?" He asked in a sad tone.

"Probably" He voice broken.

"I see... come to me when you no longer hate me or yourself, then we'll talk." And with that he walked into the woods and was gone.

"Wait!" She called in a tear-chocked whisper, as she was overcome with the need to cry.

"DAMN YOU! I HATE EVERYONE." She yelled and ran from the roses, from the water, from the kiss, from Kurama, from the world.

Hiei and Zay were still looking for Yukari and just before dawn they found Yukari asleep in the arms of a willow tree and in her arms she clutched a pink unicorn plushie to her chest.

Hiei gave a light chuckle, "I guess she found it."

Zay began to laugh as well.

And soon the forest was filled with their laughter. They caused Yukari to stir in her slumber and she awoke enough to see Hiei. "Look you, I found your bastard unicorn." She said hoarsely and threw it at him as she passed back out into a drunken slumber.

Hiei caught it and he and Zay laughed some more as the sun came up and flooded with forest with a golden light.

"Konryu, I hate you." Yukari mumbled in her sleep.

It had been a happy night, but hearing that name had dropped a leaden fear in Zays gut and that sobered her laughter.

Hiei too stopped laughing.

"What's wrong Zaylana." He asked looking at her stern expression.

"Nothing Hiei…nothing at all."

End Chapter 10

Please review; sorry it took so long, I've been busy with school and college plans and all that stuff. I'll get 11 up ASAP.