Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Thinking Of You ❯ Cookies and Cakes ( Chapter 27 )

Thinking Of You

"Hiei?" you whispered in my ear. I grunted and turned to face you reluctantly. "Are you ready to go to my mother's to prepare for Christmas?"

My eyes sprung open. Your house? With your family? Uh oh.

"Uh…" I tried to speak but was at a loss for words.

"Don't worry love, it'll just be you, me, my mother, and Shuiichi," you said. I cringed.

"Shuiichi?" I asked timidly. I'm not afraid of him or anything… really. I don't need to worry about a thing. He doesn't know anything… anything at all. He just thinks I'm a good friend. How hard could it be to just act like a friend? …Except for the fact that I've forgotten how to be "just a friend".

"Hiei?" you asked. You placed a supportive hand on my shoulder.

"How hard could it be?..." I said. I smiled, sort of, for you.

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"Shuiichi! Hiei!" your mother greeted us. I smiled at the woman whom you loved so much, and that I had grown to like. Your little brother greeted you as you came in, and nodded to me. We had never really been formally introduced.

"Hello mother," you said. I came inside the house. I took your coat and hung it up as well as mine. "Hello Shuiichi."

"Hello Shuiichi," he returned. "Hiei."

"Shuiichi," I addressed him first. "Shiori."

"Come Hiei, we are family now. Don't be so formal. Call me mother," Shiori said. I shifted on my feet.

"Uh… you'll have to give me time for that. It will take me a long while to get used to the idea of having a mother," I said in return before you could. You smiled at me and I smiled back.

"Well then," Shiori said as she pulled the three of us to the kitchen. "Shall we get started with these cookies and cakes?"

Shuiichi helped pull out all the necessary pots and pans and such. You and I got together all the ingredients needed for all the different things we were going to make. Shiori smiled at us when we three were done.

"Alright then. Shuiichi and I will start on the cherry nut breads and the pound cakes. Shuiichi, you and Hiei take care of the cookies. You know which ones to make," Shiori charged us. Shuiichi grabbed the utensils we needed and I grabbed the food products before Shiori shoved us out of the kitchen. I looked at your brother. He looked at me. We both shrugged and moved to the dining table to set up shop.

"Have you ever made cookies?" he asked.

"No," I said. I began sorting through all the things.

"Seriously?" he asked a bit incredulously.

"Seriously," I said. He looked at the wonderfully neat row of utensils in order of size and the row of food in order of my personal preference.

"What do you say I show you how to do the basics first? Chocolate chip cookies," he said. He grabbed all the necessary things and then proceeded to `show me how it's done.' I watched and participated as necessary. We handed the three sheets of cookies to you as you came out of the kitchen to see how we were doing. You smiled, took them in and claimed you'd be back. I smiled at that. You had shown me `The Terminator' last night.

"What are you smiling about?" Shuiichi asked me. I turned and smirked at him.

"'The Terminator'," I replied. He laughed.

"My brother couldn't do anything like that, he's too nice," Shuiichi claimed. I chuckled a bit to myself at the fact that he could. "But it sure would be funny to see him try. He's more of a heartthrob than anything."

"yeah," I agreed. Shuiichi started on the snicker doodles and I began chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. You came out as I was mixing the dough with my hands. You snickered at me and then checked up on Shuiichi. He was about done with what he had to do. I must admit I do like him.

"Seems to me that you two are getting along quite swimmingly," you commented. We both smiled at you.

"Hiei," you said quietly. "We have to go now. Say goodbye to mother while I say goodbye to Shuiichi."

I nodded and headed into the kitchen. Shiori grabbed me up in a tight hug and told me that we were coming over for Christmas day dinner or she would drag the dinner to us. I smiled at her joke and promised her that we'd be there. I always keep my promises. I came out of the kitchen and said my goodbyes to Shuiichi.

"Hiei," you said as you put on my coat and opened the door. "Your hands are still covered in cookie dough."

"I know," I said and sucked on one of my fingers. You groaned and took my other hand, occasionally bringing it to your lips and licking it. "I think I like this Christmas idea."