Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The "Almighty" Chronicles of Hiei ❯ Wal-Mart Shopper Hiei ( Chapter 3 )

The Almighty Chronicles of Hiei

By: Zephyr Luana Minamino

Chapter 3: Wal-Mart Shopper Hiei

Disclaimer: I don't own YuYu Hakusho. From now on, this'll be my disclaimer for all other chapters of this story. Thank you all.

Hiei stared out the window boredly watching the snowflakes fall to the ground. The once luscious green grass was covered in a white blanket of snow. It just made Hiei sick. Turning his head away from the disturbing sight of snow, he studied the atmosphere inside Kurama's house. Zephyr was snuggled in the armchair reading a book titled The Summer Country. A cup of Capricho's mocha latte` rested on the side table nearby. Kurama was reading an article in the newspaper while he buried himself into the sofa under a mile of blankets. Needless to say, Hiei was bored as hell. He needed excited. He wanted a steaming cup of hot cocoa! That stuff was addictive!

"Kurama… I'm bored…" Hiei stated.

"Okay… and?" Kurama replied not even looking up from his newspaper.

"Fix it. Do we have any hot cocoa?" Hiei asked.

"No. Why do you think I went down to Capricho's earlier?" Zephyr replied from her book.

"Hn. I have a craving for cocoa…"

"You always have some sort of craving, Hiei," Kurama muttered, "Here, go down to Wal-Mart and get some hot cocoa and some groceries. The fox tossed him his wallet and waved him away. Hiei retrieved his black leather jacket from the closet and slipped it on. The wallet went straight into the pocket. He dug out a pair of black gloves from the multitude of items strewn across the closet floor and slipped them on as well. Zephyr poked her head out from her book tossed him the keys to her car. Hiei stared at her. Zephyr was actually `letting' him use her car! Her precious Subaru! Her `Baby'! She must be high or something.

"Hiei, beware of the sidewalk beggars. They're money thieves, they beg for money. Especially Girl Scouts…" Zephyr added her two cents worth of advice, "And if I see one scratch on my precious car it'll be your head! Have a nice time!"

"Hn."

Hiei walked out the front door towards the garage. Typing in the security code, he waited for the door to slowly creep open. The first thing he saw was Kurama's own jungle green Mustang GT and parked next to it was Zephyr's silver Subaru. `The fox and inbred have serious issues.' Hiei thought bitterly to himself and unlocked the door to the Subaru. Sitting down in the soft cushion interior he switched the vehicle in reverse and pulled out. Switching back into drive, he drove off. The garage door slowly closed behind him.

Hiei stared lazily at the road before him. Linkin Park Meteora was playing in the CD player. "Faint" was blaring out of the speakers. Heat was steadily flowing in through the vents. Houses flew by in a blur as the swift car drove past. Hiei couldn't see what was so great about driving that would hype Zephyr up so much. It was just as boring as staring out that window. Especially at winter time when the snow covered the area.

After thirty minutes of mindless driving, Hiei finally pulled into the parking lot of Wal-Mart. The place was fairly full, which wasn't too unusual at this time of the year. With Christmas just around the corner, parents would be shopping for presents to spoil their children with. An empty parking space near the front caught Hiei's crimson eyes. Pulling in carefully, he put the car in park and shut it off. Locking the doors he dug his hands into his pockets and headed towards the front doors. A table was set up by the front and little children in green uniforms were scampering around trying to get customers to buy or donate money to them. The hell he would. As soon as one person stepped up, the little heathens would gather around the poor victim and barage him or her with plees. He neared the doors of the building. Sure enough, the green clothed idiots surrounded him too.

"Hi mister! Would you like to buy some cookies?"

"Buy from me!"

"Would you like to donate!?"

"Donate!! That'd be awful nice of you!"

"We'll love you forever!!!!!!!!!"

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Hiei felt a headache approaching as the little heathens continued to yell out at him. He pushed his way through and started towards the sliding doors.

"MAYBE ON THE WAY OUT!!!!!" One last girl shouted.

"Not on my life brat," he muttered under his breath.

The building was a bit cool inside. Hiei tugged the corners of his jacket closer together to keep in his warmth. First on his list was to get some hot cocoa, then a headache reliever. Staring ahead, he searched the giant hanging signs for the word `hot cocoa'. He found just about everything else but not `hot cocoa'. But isle six listed various breakfast items. Maybe he would get lucky there. He passed each isle, briefly scanning the contents. He saw fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, breads, hotdog buns, canned vegetables, bottled juices, crackers, SPAM, vienna sausage, and pickled pigs feet before finally reaching the breakfast items. Millions of different cereals were shelved to his left while jello, oatmeal, slim fast, marshmallows and other items were to his right. He was in a sugary heaven. He snagged a box of one of his favorite cereals, 99% sugar 1% unimportant crap, otherwise known as Capt'n Crunch, and browsed for his cocoa. Coffee, cappuccino, cider, and cocoa were all shelved together.

"Who knew they had such a variety!" Hiei said to no one in peticular, "Original, French Vanilla, Mocha, damn… the fox's been holding out on me!" He grabbed a box of each and headed to the dairy section. He couldn't eat his Capt'n Crunch without milk. He trekked on over isle fifteen and parked himself in front of the refrigerators. His arms were full and he no way of carrying the milk. So… he stole a cart from some lady trying to decide on which kind of butter to get. Fat free or margarine. `Baka ningen' he laughed and stuffed her items in the fridge. Stacking his cereal and cocoa in the cart, he pulled out two gallons of 1% milk and set them gently in the cart. One for him and one for Zephyr. Bratty inbred was obsessed with milk. Kurama preferred orange and apple juice. He'd get that later. He passed by the cheese section, briefly picking up a bag of Colby-Jack cheese sticks and adding them to his stolen cart. Hey, cheese is good for the soul. As he passed by the meat, he checked out the wares. Half the meat looked disturbingly disgusting and didn't pass his quality test. A few were fairly decent so he picked out some steak slabs and a rather large turkey. Kurama was nagging on the edge of his mind telling him not to forget the turkey. Well, to hell with the turkey.

<Hiei, if you forget that turkey, I'm going to hang you buy your feet outside upside down in a tree and let you freeze to death.> Kurama threatened.

<I got your damn turkey, fox…>

<Good…>

Hiei closed his mental link and turned down the isle filled with bottled juices and soda. `How many flavors do they need to have of one damn juice!?' Hiei growled. `Apple Razzberry? Cranberry Apple? Kurama will have to live with plain original Apple juice…' He pulled two bottles of apple juice from the shelves and added them to the stolen cart and headed to the electronics just for the hell of it. He browsed through the new game releases checking for a halfway decent RPG game. Zephyr had sort of attached him to them. Halo 2 just came out but there was a mile long line to get it. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time also just released. As with Shadow Hearts. He walked around back to the Gameboy Advance Games. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories was now released. He snagged an attendant and had them get him one and they sent it up front for him. Hiei finally began to migrate up to the checkout lanes. A self checkout lane was open so he headed for it.

"To start… just scan your items across the scanning board and place the scanned items in a bag." A freaky lady's voice rang out.

Hiei promptly ignored her while he ran his items over the scanner and placed them into bags. When he scanned his cocoa, however, the lady kept screaming at him about incorrect weight.

"Damn you woman, let me have my cocoa!"

"May I help you?"

Hiei spun around to see a customer service guy behind him. Hiei stuck out a finger pointing at the damned machine. The attendant scanned an ID card and pressed a few buttons. The screen went back to normal. The guy left and Hiei continued his checkout. After finally paying the people, he steered his cart out of the doors. He had completely forgotten about the little pest problem. As he exited the doors, the little brats surrounded him once again.

"HI MISTER! YOU CAME BACK! BUY FROM US!!!"

"DONATE!"

"HELP US POOR DEFENSELESS CHILDREN!"

"Help support the Junior Girl Scouts! Buy some cookies today!"

"Go to hell. Baka ningens." Hiei spat coldly.

"But don't you want to buy stuff from us?"

"No… I'd rather burn your bodies into a black burnt crisp…"

"Oooooooooh… what's that?"

"Leave me alone!" Hiei glared his evilest glare at the heathens and scared them all off. He pushed the cart over to Zephyr's parked Subaru and popped the trunk. Piling in the bags, he shoved the empty stolen cart into the middle of the road and shut the trunk lid. A red oldsmobile rammed into the cart and none other than Kuwabara was flattened by an airbag. Hiei got back into the drivers seat and started up the car. He switched the CD's and popped in Switchfoot: The Beautiful Letdown and flipped through to track 5: Dare you to Move. He drove right through the empty parking space in front of him and straight back to their apartment. Thank God it was a Saturday. Another day off from school for Kurama and Zephyr. He could annoy them with his petty whining. He pulled up into the garage and unloaded the bags. Opening the front door, he edged in and laid the bags down on the counter. Zephyr looked up from her book and spied her gallon of milk. She bookmarked her page and sprinted over to the counter. Removing a glass from the cupboards she gulped down a glass of milk happily before helping Hiei with the groceries. Kurama got off his lazy butt when he saw the turkey. He placed the fat bird in the freezer for two weeks from now. Hiei pulled out a packet of cocoa and fixed him a mugfull. He grabbed Zephyr's Gameboy Advance and his newly bought Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and curled up in the armchair and drank cocoa for the rest of the day.

Chapter Fin.

Zephyr's Notes: Ah… another chapter done. Woohoo for me! I've been busy. And the first copy I had started for this chapter was deleted. I was a bit pissed about that for a while. Sorry I've been late with my updating… X3 Shame shame for me. But school is a hectic. I've got to raise my GPA past a 3.5 or a 3.6. X3 mine's a 3.3 right now. I'm trying to get into Mizzou for college. Missouri University in Columbia. The tuition will be enough to kill me if I don't get scholarships! About 7 thousand dollars! 2800 for dorms, 800 for books! X3 gotta save. But I gotta get a job. X3 I'm only fifteen right not, I can't work work till this summer. And plus I'm saving for a trip around the US after I graduate high school. We're taking a year off. Yay! Anyway, I'll try to get the next chapter out soon. Thanks for all who reviewed and for the people who will review to this chapter. Your support is great! And don't forget to read my other stories, they deserve attention too!!! =^.^=!