Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Violinist and the Prince ❯ Introductions and Chocolate Ice Cream ( Chapter 3 )

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Summary: woohoo another chapter up! Ok in this chapter hiei meets the whole yu yu hakusho gang. That's all im saying. O and so far this whole story has been from hiei's perspective, so this will be from shuichi's! its always nice to have a change. ^_^

::thoughts::

Shuichi stole a glance at Hiei as they approached the mall. ::he's so odd:: he thought to himself. ::he acted so strange at breakfast, always looking at everything as if it was completely new. I wonder if they have cereal where he's from. Which is where exactly? He never did say. Now he's looking at the mall as if it's the most fascinating thing he has ever seen. How very odd. But I can't help but like him, even though he has to be the strangest person I've ever met.::

Entering the mall through the 7-foot-tall glass doors, Hiei's blood red eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as his darted from side to side taking in the hundreds of humans walking around him, dozens of stores, and too many smells to count. Shuichi chuckled.

"This is your first time to a mall isn't it?"

Hiei's face went from a shocked look to a completely blank one. "And what if it is? Is it a common thing here?"

"Yes it is. I'm surprised they don't have malls where you're from. Everywhere I've studied I always assumed had malls."

Hiei became very fascinated with his black shoes at that moment. "I doubt you have ever studied my home. It is a very far away place that very few know exist."

"What is your home like?"

Hiei looked up, his eyes sad. "My home is a dark gloomy place that is constantly plagued by wars. Few stay long, and fewer call it home."

"Do you call it home?"

"Yes. It may not be the ideal location to live, but it's home to me."

"Then why did you leave?"

"Family business" he said abruptly before changing the subject. "Where are your friends usually located?"

Noting that Hiei did not want talk about his reasons for leaving, he accepted the conversation's sudden change and replied "The ice cream parlor."

With Shuichi leading the way, Hiei looked up at him. "What's ice cream?"

Shuichi smiled. "You'll see."

They finally reached the ice cream parlor, and as soon as they were within ten feet of the pink and white painted building a loud voice hollered "Oi Shuichi! Over here man!"

Grinning, Shuichi led the baffled Hiei over to group of four very odd teenagers. One of the two boys had black hair with green highlights that was gelled up so that it didn't move at all, the other one had a pushed in face and orange hair that was styled in an Elvis Presley fashion, one of the girls had long blue hair and pink eyes, and the other one looked to be the only normal one, with short brown hair. The black haired one who had shouted at them earlier spoke first.

"Hey Shuichi. Who's your friend? Your cousin or something?"

"No Yusuke, this is a friend of mine from out of town. Hiei, meet Yusuke, Kuwabara, Botan, and Kieko," he said pointing at each of the teenagers as he said their names.

"Jeez Shuichi you have weird friends. Is he even our age? He's so short!" exclaimed Kuwabara.

"Shut up baka! He's Shuichi's friend and your going to be kind and polite to him!" scolded Botan.

"We saved you a seat Shuichi. Here Hiei, you can have my seat" said Kieko.

"But where will you sit? I do not want you to sacrifice your seat for me" replied Hiei, slightly embarrassed at the kind treatment.

"Oh don't worry Hiei. I have a backup seat." With that Kieko got up from her seat and sat down onto Yusuke's lap. Hiei looked puzzled at this, and Shuichi chuckled and said "Oh Hiei, I forgot to give you a background on Yusuke and Kieko. They've been boyfriend and girlfriend for a year now."

"Oof…I'm not sure I can say I've loved every minute of it though," said Yusuke, who was given a hard smack across his left cheek by his girlfriend, causing everyone to laugh, including Hiei.

Sitting down next to Shuichi, he leaned over and whispered in his ear "When you say boyfriend and girlfriend, does that mean that they are in love?"

Shuichi smiled. "Yes. They will never admit it, but those two are more in love than an old married couple. Why do you ask? What do they call it where you come from?"

Hiei thought about it. "Where I'm from it's very rare to find two beings in love with each other. Mostly if two beings have feelings for one another they will spend a night of love making, and after that night never see one another again."

Shuichi looked shocked. "You mean there are no marriages?"

"There are a few, but they are rare."

"How are children born?"

"Through that single night. Once a child is born, most are raised for a few years then abandoned by their parent, either because of their death or the parent is simply sick of the child. After that the child must fend for itself. The strong live, the weak die. There is rarely any love where I come from."

Shuichi just looked shocked. When his friends questioned him about his expression he lied, saying he had just remembered a test that he hadn't studied for. Believing him, they continued their conversation about Yusuke and Kuwabara's last fight while Shuichi absorbed what Hiei had told him. `there is rarely any love where I come from'. `mostly if two beings have feelings for one another they will spend a night of love making, and after that night never see one another again. ::Hiei, where on Earth are you from? How can you call a place where there is no such thing as love home?:: He began to look at his new friend with pity, and couldn't help but wonder what `family business' would cause him to come here. ::Hiei, why are you really here? Why won't you tell me?::

He looked up suddenly. "Yusuke, could you buy Hiei a chocolate ice cream? He's not allowed to eat sweets at home, so he's never had ice cream before."

Yusuke's chocolate brown eyes widened. "You've NEVER HAD ICE CREAM?! You poor deprived child. Come with me. You'll love ice cream."

With that a confused Hiei was pulled by the arm into the parlor by Yusuke. Once inside he was faced with many glass windows, behind which were placed over twenty metal containers, each with different colors of a strange cold substance inside them. Walking up to the teenage girl behind the glass, who was wearing a very peculiar pink and white hat over light, brown hair with curls on the ends and apron over a black T-shirt and light jeans he said bluntly "A double scoop of double fudge ice cream for him and for me a double scoop of French vanilla. "

The strange woman then walked over to one of the containers, this one containing a dark brown substance, took a large spoon-like device, and scooped out two large scoops of the brown treat, and put them in a strange, light brown cone. She then went to a different container, this one containing a cream colored substance, and repeated the process. "That will be six hundred yen please," the girl asked in a sweet voice.

Yusuke fished out the money and gave it to the girl. With that he gave the smaller boy the darker cone, who watched as the taller boy began to lick his cold treat. Yusuke grinned. "C'mon Hiei. It's not poisoned you know."

Not wanting to appear rude, Hiei slowly licked the brown substance. His eyes lit up. "This is really good!" he exclaimed, and began to devour the rest of the ice cream as he and Yusuke returned to the table. By the time they had reached the others one scoop was gone and the other was halfway eaten. A minute after he sat down Hiei had successfully devoured his first ice cream cone.

After two hours of chatting with his friends Shuichi stood up. "I'm sorry but I must be getting home now."

"Awwww Shuichi but it's only 3! Why do you have go so early?" whined Botan.

"I have to be home early so I can cook dinner for Kaa-san. You know that Botan."

"Yes, but Koenma-san never comes to the mall before 5! I was hoping that maybe we'd see him today!"

Shuichi sighed. ::oh yes, now I know why Botan is always at the mall. She hopes to see her crush Koenma again.:: "Gomen nasai Botan, but I'm afraid I must be going. Just because I'm leaving doesn't mean that you have to leave after all."

"Yes it does. You know that once you decide to leave the boys all go to the arcade and us girls go window shopping."

"Oh yeah! C'mon Kuwabara we gotta go to the arcade to keep our reputations up. Those kids from that other school sure are getting close to beating our high score at ddr. And we can't let that happen. We'll walk with you and Hiei until the arcade Shuichi, and the girls can go do whatever they do until 6, and then we'll go home. Ok?"

"Sure that would be fine."

With that decided the group got up from their seats and departed, the girls going to the left, the boys to the right. Yusuke and Kuwabara were just starting off another conversation about fighting when a deep voice stopped them in their tracks.

"Well well well look who we have here. The Sarasaki Junior High punks. What an unpleasant surprise," said a tall boy with black hair much like Yusuke's, only with purple highlights instead of green. He was accompanied with a teenage girl with brown hair wearing a dark red shirt and black pants.

"Ugh. Akira. You have a knack at showing up right on time to ruin the moment."

The girl piped up. "What moment? All you posers ever do is sit around outside the ice cream parlor like your so cool! Akira can kick your asses any day he wants to!"

Akira chuckled. "Now now Liana, that's enough, even if it is the truth."

Kuwabara began shaking with anger. "I've had enough of your crap! Lets step outside!"

"Fine by me. Liana, wait for me in Hot Topic."

A few minutes later they were in the parking lot, with Akira and Kuwabara facing each other with the others standing off to one side. Kuwabara charged Akira, who side stepped to the right, hoping to kick Kuwabara's feet out from under him, but Kuwabara was much faster than he had anticipated, and had turned around and punched Akira so hard that he went flying into a car before he had a chance to aim his kick. Kuwabara grinned.

"Looks like you're all talk Akira. You fight like a girl."

Still grinning he turned to the others. Yusuke gave him a high five and Shuichi complimented him on his performance, but Hiei just looked bored. Kuwabara lost his grin quickly. "Hey what's up with you shrimp? Jealous that you can't do that?"

"Actually I'm bored. That was not entertaining in the least."

"Oh so you wanna fight me then? I bet you're just like Akira. All talk and no action."

"Fighting you would be a waste of my time and hazardous to your health. May we go Shuichi?"

Not wanting his two friends to fight Shuichi quickly replied, "Yes I think that would be a good idea," and quickly walked away with Hiei.

After a few minutes he asked "Why did you say that? Kuwabara is a very good fighter, and the only person that can beat him is Yusuke. You shouldn't provoke him like that, you could get hurt."

Hiei snorted. "Don't make me laugh. That idiot wouldn't last two seconds against me."

Shuichi shook his head. "I still don't think it would be wise for you two to fight each other. I'd rather not have two of my friends be enemies."

Hiei looked down at his shoes. They walked in silence the rest of the way back to Shuichi's home.

Kaa-san: mother

Darkdemonchild: ok that was the longest chapter yet! And I STILL didn't get to put in all the stuff I had planned to put in! argh argh argh! Ok next chapter Shuichi and Hiei have dinner, and Hiei tells Shuichi of a legendary fox demon. As always, please review! ^_^