Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Thief Of My Blood ❯ Silver Moon Ball, Part II ( Chapter 20 )

Disclaimer: I am but a fan who likes to mess with the characters' lives.

 

Chapter 20: Silver Moon Ball, Part II

 

It was the day of the ball and everyone was excited; well, except Hiei, all he wanted was out of that suit.

 

“I love your dress, Keiko!” Botan said gleefully.

 

Keiko blushes slightly, “Thanks.”

 

She was wearing a light blue, spaghetti-strap dress that hugged her upper body then flowed out a bit at her waist. She had a pink carnation in her hair and light blue dress shoes to match.

 

Botan's dress was a light pink tank-style top with a slim fit around her whole body. She had light, slender shoes and wore a pearl-type necklace.

 

“Where's Scarlet and Yukina?” Yusuke complained; he just wanted this night over with, the suit part anyway.

 

“Scarlet's helping Yukina get ready,” Botan said with a smile.

 

Like on cue, Yukina came down the steps in a light violet dress. It was modest, yet form fitting. She had a circlet of small snow flowers carefully weaved into her hair along with some fire red lilies.

 

Kuwabara's jaw practically hit the floor when his `vision of beauty' approached.

 

Botan's eyes where wide with astonishment. “Scarlet made all that last night!” she exclaimed.

 

“What do you mean she made it?” Yusuke asked a bit confused.

 

“We couldn't find a dress for Yukina, so Scarlet offered to make one,” Keiko stated.

 

“Well, she did a great job. You look awesome Yukina!” Kuwabara said with his goofy, flirty smile.

 

“Thank you, Kazuma,” Yukina said, smiling up Kuwabara, blushing ever so slightly.

 

Hiei stood back by the window, resisting the ever growing urge to kill Kuwabara.

 

“Where's Scarlet?” Kurama asked. It was getting late.

 

“She said she'd be right down,” Yukina said, smiling at Kurama.

 

“Chill bro, I'm right here.”

 

Scarlet was on the landing of the stairs. Her dress… a black, sleek material, like silk but not. It looked like a strapless, but then the dress continued with black lace going around her shoulders and down her arms. The dress ended about mid thigh with black, sleek boots that reached up to her knees, flat soled.

 

Hiei felt his heart skip a beat; a few times actually.

 

Kurama, who was standing near Hiei, noticed his reaction. He pretended not to notice as Scarlet came their way; well, Hiei's way.

 

“Well, we ready or what?” she said, standing right next to Hiei.

 

“Just waiting on you,” Yusuke said and headed down the hall to Koenma's office.

 

They arrived at the ball; everyone was there, but no one the Spirit Detectives knew.

 

“Oh my, god…” Scarlet mumbled to herself; she had stolen from each of these people at least once.

 

“You all right?” Kurama asked.

 

“Yeah, I'm fine,” she replied, smiling at her brother.

 

“Scarlet,” Koenma said, “Come over here. I need to introduce you to some people.”

 

Scarlet sweat dropped but did was Koenma said, not wanting to create a fuss.

 

Hiei looked a bit downhearted as Scarlet went with Koenma, but he kept up his facade and walked over to the wall, leaning against it.

 

Kurama looked over to Hiei, but then felt someone pulling his arm.

 

“Come on, Kurama. Let's dance,” Botan said, her cat-like expression pasted on her face.

 

“In a minute, Botan. I have to do something,” he said with his polite smile.

 

Botan looked a little disappointed, but smiled anyway. “All right. I'll be waiting.” She walked off to refreshments table.

 

Kurama sighed slightly then walked over to Hiei who still looked bored with everything. He leaned against the wall next to him, looking around at his surrounds for a moment.

 

“Shouldn't you be dancing?” Hiei stated, just a bit of coldness in his voice; he had a feeling what Kurama was about to do.

 

“Hiei, please be honest with me. Do you like Scarlet?”

 

Hiei sighed; he knew it, it was about Scarlet. “What does it matter if I do?”

 

That was a yes. Kurama looked to Hiei, a sort of worried look on his face.

 

Hiei noticed this and scoffed slightly. He pushed himself off the wall and walked away from Kurama; he wasn't about to let Kurama get between him and Scarlet.

 

Kurama watched Hiei walk away and he felt worried. He knew Scarlet was a bit of a player and he knew what Hiei has gone through… he didn't want him hurt.

 

After awhile, Scarlet managed to slip away from Koenma; damn could that baby talk. She made her way over to the refreshments table and downed a glass of sake.

 

“Scarlet,” she heard from behind her.

 

Scarlet turned around and saw Yukina there. “What is it?”

 

“It seems Hiei and Kurama-san got into an argument. I think it was over you...” she said, looking back towards Kurama and then towards Hiei.

 

Scarlet sighed and shook her head slightly. “God, men will never stop fighting over me, will they?”

 

Yukina couldn't help but chuckle. Scarlet made it sound like it was a joke or something.

 

“Well, how about we each go talk to our bros, eh?”

 

Yukina nodded in agreement and went to talk to Hiei.

 

Scarlet sighed slightly and walked over to Kurama.

 

“Please tell me you're not pulling the over-protective brother shit,” she said, folding her arms across her chest.

 

Kurama was a bit startled by Scarlet's sudden appearance as well as the tone of her voice, but he kept calm. “I don't understand.”

 

“Oh, please. Yukina knows her brother and I know mine. Now what the hell did you say to Hiei?”

 

Kurama looked at Scarlet, his eyes still showing a bit of worry. “I just asked him if he liked you…”

 

Scarlet immediately knew what happened. “You holding my past against me? `Cause if memory serves, you where a bigger player than I ever could be,” she said, getting a bit defensive.

 

“I'm just worried… You don't know what he's been through, Scarlet.”

 

“You're right. I don't know. It's his business and if he wants to tell me, he will.”

 

She uncrossed her arms. “You really think I want to see Hiei hurt? I still remember what happened when we were trapped and tortured by Kyo. When Kyo erased my memory, I still remember the look Hiei had on his face when I said I loved Kyo. And I remember what happened that same night! You really think I want to see that again?! It broke my heart, Kurama!”

 

Kurama was slightly taken aback. He didn't think Scarlet felt so strongly about Hiei… and it looked like she was about to shed tears.

 

“Scarlet… I…”

 

Scarlet didn't give him time to finish. She turned her back to him and ran off.

 

Meanwhile, Yukina had just finished talking with Hiei, who seemed to be in a better mood than he was before.

 

“I'm happy for you, oniichan,” Yukina said with a smile.

 

Hiei smiled back at his sister slightly, but in the corner of his eye, he saw Scarlet running towards the balcony.

 

“She looked upset…” Yukina had seen her too.

 

Hiei immediately went to see Scarlet; he could tell by her movements she was about to cry.

 

When Hiei got there, Scarlet was leaning on the railing, holding back her tears.

 

“Scarlet?” he said, approaching her slowly.

 

“I love you, Hiei.”

 

Hiei was a bit surprised to hear her say that, not that he minded it, but he didn't really expect it at the moment.

 

Scarlet turned to face him. Her eyes where watery, but she refused to cry.

 

“I love you, and nothing will change that. You know that, right?”

 

Now Hiei was really confused, but he nodded.

 

“You know I'd never hurt you intentionally, right?”

 

Hiei sighed; he had a feeling of what happened. “What did Kurama say?”

 

“He was worried about me hurting you.”

 

Hiei shook his head. Normally it was the other way around; hell, he was protective of Yukina. Why was Kurama more worried about him than Scarlet?

 

“Scarlet, you knew me before. How much trust would I have to have to tell someone what I told you?”

 

Scarlet couldn't help but smile. “Thank you, Hiei.”

 

Hiei shrugged and turned to the side; he was trying to hide his small blush.

 

Scarlet couldn't help chuckling a bit. After all they've been through, Hiei still tried to keep up his cold-hearted facade.

 

The ball went smoothly after that. Scarlet even managed to get a couple of dances out of Hiei.

 

Kurama had seen how close the two were and mentally slapped himself for thinking Scarlet would hurt Hiei.

 

It was almost time to leave, only one more song and all the couples had to dance to it.

 

Just as everyone was started dancing, an explosion came from the north side of the room.

 

As the smoke cleared, there stood a male demon with golden hair and violet eyes. He dashed through the guests, most of them running away from him as he came by.

 

“Scarlet!” he shouted as he saw her.

 

The boys all looked towards her.

 

“You know him?” Yusuke asked.

 

Scarlet sighed and shook her head, “Didn't I kill you all ready?”

 

“You can't destroy love!” the demon shouted at her.

 

“I think I like Kuwabara's lines better…” Scarlet said as she readied to kill the demon, but stopped when she realized Hiei had all ready jumped in.

 

Hiei quickly disposed of the demon, but everyone could tell from his movements that he wasn't killing the demon because he annoyed him; they all knew it was because of Scarlet.

 

When they got back to the mansion, Yusuke and Kuwabara would not stop ragging on Hiei.

 

“Hiei and Scarlet sittin' a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” they sang teasingly.

 

They didn't stop there. Kuwabara got on his knees and looked up into the air, his fingers laced. “Scarlet, my beautiful Scarlet. My flower, my angel, my goddess. I know I'll never be worthy of you, but you will you please be mine?”

 

Yusuke joined in, giggling in a high pitch voice. “Of course my love. Let's go and elope. I don't care that you're half my size,” he giggled again.

 

Before Hiei and Scarlet could go about with their plan to slowly torture them into their graves, Keiko and Botan whacked the two numbskulls over the heads so hard, that it echoed throughout the room.

 

“Botan, do me a favor. Take `em up to your room and dress `em in drag,” Scarlet said, resisting the urge to murder the two boys.

 

Botan smirked and dragged the two unconscious boys up stairs with Keiko's help.

 

Kurama, who had been stifling a laugh, shook his head and went to his room before the new couple decided to turn on him too.

 

Koenma simply shook his head and went back to his office to catch up on his paperwork.

 

“Good night, oniichan. Good night, Scarlet,” Yukina said with her usual smile and headed up the stairs to her room.

 

“Idiots,” Hiei mumbled, still pissed at Yusuke and Kuwabara.

 

Scarlet smirked slightly and pecked a kiss on Hiei's cheek.

 

Hiei blushed slightly and looked to Scarlet; she had a seductive look in her eyes.

 

Hiei could help but smile slyly. He grabbed Scarlet's hand and led her to his room. They walked in and locked the door behind them, fading into dark solitude of his room.

 

-*- Props to Cat for Kuwabara and Yusuke's antics at the end. Also, the next chapter shall be the final chapter. Hope you be there. -*-