Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Love in the Rain ❯ The Mysterious Stranger ( Chapter 1 )

Love in the Rain

Kalika

Yeah. I know Hiei is a little OOC…Sorry… Well read and tell me what you think…

New A/N: I decided to redo this entire fanfic. I hope you like this version better than the older one!

Strange...I thought the documents that says I own Yu Yu Hakusho were around here somewhere. Hmm. Guess that means I don't own them.

On with the show!

I poise my hand over the journal, the faux-quill pen quivering slightly.

Let's see. Where to begin. My name is Thea. Thea Higa. My last name is pronounced ee-ga. The 'h' is silent. Enough about my name. I am 18 years old, out of school and working at this bar. My mother forces me to work there, "to find the man of my dreams." Greg Smith goes there every day, hoping to win my heart. No way, Jose. Something smells fishy about him, I can't quite place it, but I don't like it at all.

Ah, well. I'll figure it out soon enough. Darn. Wish I had gone to college just like my friends. Mom won't hear any of it. She says that's not what a woman is supposed to be doing.

My father passed away a couple years ago. So that leaves me with my mother. My father was someone very important, but the exact information was lost when he passed on. He was supposed to tell me when I turned eighteen.

I have dirty-blonde hair, emerald-green eyes, and I'm not very tall. I've got to go to work. Ja ne.

The dark billiard room glows eerily. It's a little distance from the bar. I sigh as I sit at the bar, speaking with Mz. Duff. I have the feeling that Greg is going to show up any minute. I am surprised to find a huge power coming into the building. I jerk, but relax when this power doesn't seem to dominate everything as if he owned the bar, unlike Greg.

"Thea. Go make your usual rounds, won't you, dear?"

"All right, Mz. Duff."

I get up and pick up the tray from the bar. I begin to pick up the various bottles that litter the area. I turn into the billard room, where there are small round tables scattered throughout the room but in no hinderance to those playing pool. I pick up bottles and plates that are left by careless customers. I gather another tray from an empty table.

The waitress must be doing some interesting things in order to leave this behind.

I walk through the billiard room, on my way to dump these dishes, with a tray in each hand. The empty bottles, and stacks of plates tip perilously on top of them.

"Woman!"

I jerk, almost losing the two trays. I turn annoyed with whomever shouted the degrading comment. I shoot a glare towards the spiky-haired fellow dressed in black. He is sitting at a table in the corner.

Sighing, about the fact that he is a customer, and how I am supposed to act, I make my way of to him, "Yes?"

"Hn. I'd like something to drink."

"What would you like?" Swallowing my agitation.

"Coke." He notices the agitation.

I look at him with slightly more interest, hardly anybody calls for a nonalcholic beverage. A hand grabs my behind and raucous laughter explodes directly behind me, "Oh ho! You know not to talk to others when I'm around, baby!"

Comically, my face puffs up like if an anime character gets mad. I move out of Greg's grasp, "Even if he's a customer? That's rude, Greg. And how many times have I told you not to grab my butt!"

I sigh with relief when Greg walks off, probably more pissed now. I shake my head in anger when I remember that I wasn't able to sense his presence or his arrival. In embarrassment, I turn back to the spiky-haired guy as Greg shrugs and walks away, "I'm sorry you had to see that."

"It is he that should be sorry. What is his name?"

"His name is Greg. He does this all the time, especially when I have my hands full."

He snorts. I roll my eyes, "My name is Thea, and what is your name, Prince Charming?"

He looks at me, a little shocked perhaps, probably with the fact that I was sarcastic. I smirk and look at him a tab bit closer, that's when I realize that he was the power that I had sensed a little earlier. The power that was not domineering.

"Hiei."

"Well, it's a pleasure to finally know the name of the one who rescued me. I'd shake your hand but..." I nod to the two trays in my hands, "Just give me a minute, and I'll bring your, oh what was it again? A coke?"

Hiei nods and I walk away, through the billiard room to the bar. I put the empty bottles into the recycling bin in the back. The stack of plates go into the kitchen sink, where some people are working. Some cooking, others getting stuff together, or cleaning up.

I put the trays up and grab a clean glass. I fill it with ice and coke. I walk back to Hiei and hand it to him along with a straw.

"Thanks"

I raise an eyebrow, usually people did not thank the waitress, "Anything else?"

He looks thoughtful for a moment, then replies, "Company."

I look at my watch, "My break will start in a few minutes if that's what you're asking."

He nods.

"All right. I'll be back in a sec."

I hurry back to the bar, and speak to the elderly lady, the owner who is behind it, "Mz. Duff, would you mind if I take my break now?"

"Go ahead. Greg left. I don't know what your mother sees in that boy."

"He obeys her, just like a servant."

"I see. I'll take your apron, Thea."

I brush a lock of dirty blonde hair out of my face, then I take off my apron, and hand it to Mz. Duff, "Thank you."

I smooth out my jet-black skirt, and short-sleeve shirt, the customary uniform of the bar, while Mz. Duff gets me a glass of water. I walk back to Hiei and sit in the seat across from him.

"Who's Greg?"

I look at him sharply, "He's someone that my mother is forcing me to. And the question was for?"

"Curiosity

We continue talking for a while but eventually I had to get back to work. As I walk around delivering drinks and food, and picking up empty plates and glasses, I feel Hiei's eyes watch me, protectively.

Well, I thought I'd end it here for right now. If you want to find out what happens though you guys probably have already got the gist of it, if you already read ahead. Gomen nasai, for the bad chapters and that's the reason behind the revisions. Tell me what you guys think!

Ja ne!

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