Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Learning Christmas ❯ Chapter 4

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chap.2

Hiei ran to the temple and looked in on his sister. She was feeding the birds and humming a song that came to her head. Tinsel and lights were strung around the roof and the pine trees had lights strung on their branches. He tried to land on one of the sappy branches that only he can stay on but the string of lights wrapped around his foot and he got tied up. He cursed and tried to untangle himself.

Yukina looked up when she heard a crash and cursing in human and demonic. Looking through one of the trees she saw her brother tangled in the lights at the base of the tree. He was hanging upside down, trying to disentangle himself, and cursing the whole time. The string was wrapped around one arm and one of his legs was high in the air. She giggled at the sight of her brother.

"Onissan, when did you get back?"

"Today," growled Hiei and stopped his wrestling with the string, crossing his arms. If he was a teapot, steam would be coming out of his spout.

"Let me help you." And with a few pulls she freed her brother from the decoration. Hiei flipped and landed lightly on his feet. Yukina lead him inside and started making tea. Everywhere there were decorations. A huge tree stood at the corner at one end, a few presents under it. The fire place had tinsel and red socks around the mantel and red and green string was hung around the room.

"You like it," asked Yukina coming in with the tea. "It's for the Christmas party tomorrow. Genkai-san told me all about it. It's this great holiday where they celebrate the birth of a Savior, with friends and family. I'm still not done decorating. Will you help me?"

Hiei nodded. He could never refuse his sister. He put the lights back on the pine tree that he pulled off and hung some more ornaments on the one inside. They put garland on the walls and Hiei hung a plant Yukina called mistletoe over the door. While they were baking cookies Hiei asked her a question.

"Yukina, what would you give a person for this human holiday?" he asked.

"Whatever would make them happy," she said cutting an angel from the cookie dough. Hiei had a Santa face in his hands and was following his sister's moves.

"What would they like?"

Yukina dusted off her hands on the apron and walked to the living room, Hiei followed her. She motioned for him to sit on the coach while she got a pad of paper and a pencil.

"Let's make a list," she said sitting next to him. She wrote Yusuke's name on the paper. "What does Yusuke -san like?"

"Fighting?"

"Anything else?"

"Keiko, music, food, sleep, bashing Kuwabara's head."

"Well, we don't have to add Keiko-chan so we can add the others. Except bashing Kazuma's head." And she wrote it down. "What does Kazuma-san like?"

"How should I know?"

"I'll help you with that one. He likes kittens and music and his trench coat, and fighting with the rest of the team. You could pick from one of them."

"Whatever."

"Now, what Koenma-sama like?"

"To yell at his staff."

"Niisan!"

"What? It's true."

"You can think of one thing he would want."

Hiei thought for a minute. What would pacifier breath want for this silly holiday? All he did was sit at his office all day and stamp papers, maybe watching a children's movie while doing it but Koenma doesn't know that Hiei does.

"Movies."

"That's a good idea. Now what would Keiko-chan like?"

"Dolls, clothes, books, jewelry, for Yusuke to get a life."

"Niisan," giggled Yukina.

"That's true, too."

"I'll put the first four down, now we have Shizuru-san."

"Her smokes, a lighter, and an ashtray."

"Those are good, now Botan-chan."

"I could get her a coat for when she flies on her stick. Believe me, it's cold up there."

"Good, now we have Genkai-san."

"I don't know what to get her."

"Well, there is that romance novel she was looking at a month ago. I know that none of the others bought it for her."

Hiei shrugged and she wrote it down.

"Now, we have Kurama-san. What are you going to give him?"

Hiei froze. What was he going to get the fox? Kurama everything he wanted so what can he give someone who has everything? Hiei was silent for a few minutes before he spoke softly

"I don't know."

"Well there must be something he would want. Can't you think of anything?"

"Books, seeds, clothes, but he has those."

"Well, I'm sure you can think of something. If you asked him then you can have an idea. That just leaves me and I think you can think of a good present for me."

"Why won't you help me finish the list?"

"Genkai-san says that a person isn't supposed to know what their present is before they open it. It's a sort of surprise. I'll give you some money so you can buy the gifts and I'll join you. I'm out of ginger and I wanted to make some gingerbread cookies."

They walked to town and Yukina suggested they head to the mall so they wouldn't have to walk far. They visited a sporting goods store to buy a gift for Yusuke and Kuwabara. Hiei bought Yusuke leather gloves he thought the delinquent would like, Botan a black leather jacket, and Kuwabara blue hair dye.

`Might as well change his look,' he thought. While there they bought Shizuru a lighter with a picture of a white headed eagle on it.

They went a video store and bought Koenma a copy of `Spirited Away'. After that they went to a book store and bought a book Keiko would like and the novel Yukina suggested getting Genkai. After that Yukina left Hiei to pick her present while she bought the ginger. They planned to meet at the fountain in the middle of the mall. He went to a toy store and was looking around when he heard someone call him. Looking around he saw Yusuke and Kuwabara run to him.

"Hey, Hiei," said Yusuke, "whatcha doing? Christmas shopping, huh?"

"Yeah, I'm looking for a gift for Yukina."

"I thought you didn't know anything about our holidays?" asked Kuwabara.

"Kurama told me about this holiday of yours. Yukina wanted me to participate."

"Well, it's nice to know we'll see you at the party tomorrow. I'm still looking for a present for Keiko."

"Hn."

Ten minutes later they walked out the store, Hiei bought a stuffed bear he thought she would like and Kuwabara walked out with a big plushy he had to carry on his back, Yusuke still hasn't found anything for Keiko and Hiei for Kurama. They met Yukina a half hour later at the fountain. They walked out without Yukina asking who the plushy was for.

Hiei and Yukina wrapped his gifts and put them under the tree, and then he went to his tree outside Kurama's window while he waited for the fox to finish the evening with his family. When his love walked into the room he jumped on the sill and sat there.

"There you are," said Kurama. "And what have you been doing?"

"Visiting Yukina, like I said."

"All day?"

"We had a lot of catching up to do."

"And so do we!" and Kurama gathered Hiei in his arms, kissing him. Hiei opened his mouth to allow Kurama access and licked the roof of Kurama's mouth. Kurama led Hiei to the bed and they caught up on a lot of things they've missed.