Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunited ❯ Chapter 38

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-Telepathy-


(Thoughts)


Chapter 38


"Not accepted."


Hiei blinked, "Wh-what?" His heart felt frozen solid. "You don't..."


Shiroi smiled and waved her index finger at him. "You didn't let me finish."


Hiei breathed a sigh of relief.


"Your apology is not accepted," Shiroi said, "yet." She flicked his nose, "You have to prove to me that you really mean it."


"But-"


"Hey," Shiroi said sternly, "You messed with my head, actually make that emotions, now I get to mess with yours."


Hiei groaned, "And the point is?"


Shiroi glared at him and moved to the side of the pond where the carcass wasn't burning, Hiei followed her. She sat down by the water and stared into it. "You broke my heart yesterday Hiei, do you really expect something like a simple apology to put it back together?"


Hiei stood behind her, and looked out at the water, ignoring the flickering flames not far away. "I guess not." He looked down at her, "And you're going to make it a living hell to convince you, am I right?"


She looked up at him, "Maybe." She glared over at the carcass. "Lets go, that thing's starting to make me nauseous."


Hiei smirked as she got to her feet.


"What's that supposed to mean?" Shiroi asked.


"For someone that's so strong and resistant to pain," Hiei said. "It's funny to now you have a weak stomach."


"Your chances of getting me back are falling," Shiroi threatened as she walked away.


"Hey I didn't mean it!" Hiei exclaimed as he ran after her.


"Oh sure," Shiroi said, "And you didn't mean yesterday's incident."


"But I didn't," Hiei whined. Shiroi merely giggled at him as they entered the forest and head back to the temple.


***


"So where's Shiroi?" Kurama asked.


"She went into the forest a few hours ago," Genkai answered. "I sensed an unknown demon nearby not long ago, but the energy waves are no longer emitting, which means Shiroi or Hiei disposed of it."


"I wonder what it was," Anada said as Genkai sipped her tea.


"I wouldn't worry," Kurama said. "If those two were able to take it out so quickly, then it's nothing for us to be concerned with." He perked his head and looked to his right toward the forest. "Shiroi and Hiei are coming."


"They're together?" Anada asked. "No way."


"Are you sure," Genkai asked.


"I gave Hiei a fairly good beating yesterday," Kurama answered, "If that didn't get it into his head that he had work to do, I don't know what else would."


"Do a few slaps across of the face from me count?" Anada asked.


Kurama chuckled, "I guess they could, and they must've hurt even worse than normal since I had just punched him in the jaw."


"I would have loved to see that," Genkai said.


"Here they come," Kurama said.


Shiroi and Hiei emerged from the shadows of the forest, Hiei with and thoughtful look on his face.


"I never thought I would see you two together again," Kurama said, "What incident has occurred to allow this?"


Shiroi smile, "I've given Hiei a chance to prove that he didn't mean what he said." She glanced up at him, "But it's not going to be easy."


"So which one of you two took out that demon?" Genkai asked as she sipped her tea again.


"I did," Hiei answered. "Well, at least I finished it off, Shiroi put in an attack or two of her own."


"Already trying to prove yourself Hiei?" Kurama asked.


Hiei glared at the fox, but he didn't say anything.


"Hey wait a minute," Anada said. "When I found you yesterday I saw shards of your sword on the ground, how could you have beaten that demon without it?"


"You broke another sword Hiei?" Kurama asked.


Hiei looked at the fox demon, "I did, but I have a new one."


"And you got it over night?" Genkai asked. "Where'd you steal it from?"


"I didn't steal it!" Hiei yelled, trying to defend his shred of innocence.


"Then where did you get it?" Kurama asked.


Hiei blinked and looked at Shiroi. The young woman felt his gaze upon her and sighed, "From me," she answered.


"Why would have given him anything?" Anada asked.


"I made it," Shiroi said, "and I was planning on giving it to him at the ceremony but his big mouth ruined it."


"All right," Hiei said, "You've rubbed it in enough."


"Hiei she'll never rub it in enough," Genkai said. She looked at Shiroi, "Since when were you a weapons smith, your creations are normally jewelry."


"It's not a normal blade," Shiroi answered. She turned to Hiei, whom unhooked the sword and sheath from his belt and gave it to her. She pulled the blade out and let it gleam in the sunlight.


"It's clear!" Anada exclaimed.


"Shiroi how in the world did you make that?" Kurama asked.


"The same way I make my jewelry," Shiroi answered. "Same materials too."


"Could you explain it a bit more?" Anada asked. "I didn't know you knew how to make jewelry, so I definitely don't know how you make it."


"Well," Shiroi said, "You know I control elements, that includes the minerals too. I made the blade out of ice and diamond, and the hilt out of obsidian."


"Sounds like should be in a jewelry shop and not hanging from Hiei's belt," Anada muttered.


"It's won't ever dull or break," Shiroi said, "Which makes it a perfectly serviceable weapon."


"None of your creations can be destroyed can they?" Kurama asked.


"Most," Shiroi answered. "The first few things, like that necklace and earring set I made for Yuseke's mother and the first flute I made can be damaged, but the ones I made after those can't be damaged."


"Yes I certainly wouldn't want that swan you made for me to be broken," Genkai said.


"Nor that fox you made for me," Kurama said. "And I doubt Hiei would even want to see a scratch on that dragon."


"You still have those things?" Shiroi asked, embarrassed. "I would have thought you'd left them to collect dust or use them as paper weights or something after a few years."


"I'll have you know Shiroi that all of us have gone into that room numerous times to look at those things," Genkai said. "And there is not a speck of dust on any of them."


"What room?" Shiroi asked.


"You haven't shown her yet?" Kurama asked Genkai.


"It never really crossed my mind," Genkai answered. She turned to Shiroi. "Come here, let's show you what we did with them."


"Can I see too?" Anada asked.


"Of course," Kurama answered as they headed down the walkway to Shiroi's previous bedroom.


"I wondered why you didn't put me in my old bedroom," Shiroi whispered when Genkai had opened the door to her old room.


They all walked in, and Shiroi stooped down so her creations were eye level. "Good thing that lights still shining," Shiroi said as she gently tapped the glass sphere that held the tiny flame in Hiei's dragon model.


"We looked at it everyday to make sure that you were alive," Kurama said. "You feared Hiei so much back then, and yet you gave him the most important creation out of all of them."


"I didn't mean for it to turn out that way," Shiroi said as she looked over her old creations.


"You made these?" Anada asked in awe. "They all look they could just get up and walk away, they look almost alive."


"They're not as good as some of the other creations I've made," Shiroi said as she got her feet. "But knowing that you all like them so much makes it so it doesn't matter to me."


"Let's go back outside," Genkai said. "This room brings back more memories then I care to want to remember right now."


They all went back outside, just in time to find Yuseke, Kuwabara, Keiko, and Botan standing around the temple.


"There they are," Yuseke said. "Where've you guys been?"


"Taking a stroll down memory lane if you want to put it simply," Kurama answered.


"So what happened after we left yesterday?" Botan asked.


The four of them exchanged glances, not sure what to say.


"It didn't go very well," Kurama answered.


"Must they know?" Hiei asked.


"Yes Hiei I think they do deserve to hear that you made a complete moron of yourself and almost lost Shiroi!" Genkai yelled in his ear.


Hiei rubbed his ear, glaring at the woman, but couldn't stop the inevitable.


**


After all was said and done, Hiei was yelled at, again.


"You're lucky that she's give you another chance," Botan said. "If I were her I wouldn't have even considered it."


"Would you believe he also got a pretty new toy?" Kurama asked.


"No," they all said.


"Out with it," Shiroi said to Hiei, whom handed over the sword yet again.


"Wow it is pretty," Kuwabara said as he came close to drooling over the weapon.


"It would have been a wedding gift if he hadn't opened his big mouth earlier and nearly ruined everything," Shiroi said as she returned the blade to Hiei.


"Hiei's mouth has gotten him into more trouble than Kuwabara's," Yuseke laughed.


"Yes," Kurama said, "And I don't want to bring up a certain word game that nearly cost him his soul."


"Oh please don't," Botan said, "He wasn't the only one to get ensnared into that, but he did it on purpose where as Kuwabara and I did it on accident."


"What happened?" Shiroi said as she glared at Hiei.


Kurama explained what happened and Yuseke laughed his head off and Genkai repeated several phrases she had said to the pint-sized demon in the end.


"Why am I not surprised?" Shiroi asked as she continued to glare at Hiei.


"Because that's Hiei for you," Kuwabara said and started laughing.


"Though I must say Kurama," Yuseke said, "Imagining you hanging upside down from a light fixture is pretty funny."


"That was the point of it," Kurama muttered.


"And notice how he was the only one that didn't screw up?" Genkai asked her former student.


"Yeah, yeah," Yuseke grumbled. "Fox boy's a genius and we all know it."


Anada giggled and whispered to Shiroi, "It sounds like your friends had a very strange experience before they met you."


"They had a few," Shiroi said as she watched as Yuseke and Kuwabara started to get into another argument. Kurama tried to stop them and then Hiei, as expected, opened his mouth again and got himself involved in the argument and soon Kurama was yelling along with them.


"Boys," Keiko sighed as all the girls watched, "Can't live with them, but you can't live without them.


***


Author's Note: He-he, that's what Hiei gets for hurting Shiroi. As for the conversation they're having at the end of the chapter, that's from the newly released DVD "Terrible Truths" It's from the new series, and the DVD is so funny. I highly recommend it. Sorry for that grammar goof up in the last chapter, I found it too late, but I had a good laugh when I found it. I hope I got all of the errors this time, and if I didn't, I'm so sorry. Review me and tell me what you think.