Uninvited Guest
Couch Potato
by ARaZhi
A cold blast of wind entered Kurama's bedroom. With a curse that could make Youko Kurama proud, "Shuuichi" turned to the only youkai who would have the nerve to enter his room through the window at such an unholy hour.
The said youkai could have been Hiei, fire demon, over protective brother, Hn-speaking hier of Mukuro. But this Hiei doesn't have the usually spiky dark hair because it was matted down his head, frozen. He shivered uncontrollably then sneezed.
Kurama jumped up the bed, grabbed Hiei, dumped him on the bathtub, and turned on the hot water. "What happened?"
"Yu--ki-- achoo! --na!"
"Yukina?"
"Baked ca---cake ACHHOO! col-- brr ---cold."
"She baked a cold cake?"
"Ha-- achii!"
Poor Hiei. Yukina meant well, of course. But everytime she reads "chill" on the recipies, she "chills" it not by putting it in the freezer but by freezing it with her ki. Thus, faster and very much colder. About a hundred below zero. And yes, the kitchen ended up frozen several times before. The Kuwabara's and anyone who passed by the house had to wear winter clothes even though it's the middle of the summer for five days while waiting for the snow to melt.
The hot, steaming water, have successfully unfrozen Hiei and his frozen hair. Kurama can only stare in shock. He'd never thought that Hiei's hair is nearly as long as his when down! What a great way to fake one's height, ne?
Hiei noticed his open mouthed stare at his not-spiky-at-the-moment hair and glared at him. "Say one word to anyone and I'll---"
"You'll what?" he asked biting back a smirk.
"I'll make you eat Yukina's cake!"
"Your secret's safe with me, Hiei." Kurama smiled but inwardly he sighed. What a bad time to run out of film! Oh, well, he can always try to looking for his digital camera. If only he can remember where he placed it...
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"Medicine's on the kitchen table. Don't drink too much of it or you might throw up. Start thinking that you're getting better, it'll help..."
Kurama continued rattling off "things that can help you recover faster". He must have learned it from that ningen mother of his. Why would he wanna get better soon? Staying at Kurama's place is just fine. Free food. Free place to sleep, even though it's just a couch, which happpens to be better than that hard rock Mukuro calls a bed. One would've thought Mukuro's heir would have one of the best rooms. Wrong! The best thing about Kurama's place is the TV. Yup, TV! And for the next week he plans to be what ningens call as "couch potato" or "bum".
Kurama stopped talking, probably figured he's not really listening. "Neither of us wants to treat you like a kid, Hiei. But everytime you're sick, you behave like one."
"I do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do---" Kurama sighed. "Fine. I'll be at the office. And for the nth time... Do. Not. Drink. All. The. Cough. Syrup. In. One. Gulp."
He smirked, "I'll take little sips this time."
Kurama rolled his eyes, "I'll see you, later." With that he left.
Smilling happily. He grabbed a chair and stood up on it to look for the popcorn. He's a youkai with a mission: watch TV with popcorn. Perfect!
There!
He grabbed the bag and jumped off the chair. He doesn't know how to make the things but he figured it'll be easy...
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About two hours later and after nearly burning down Kurama's kitchen due to... One, he couldn't figure out how to make the popcorn. Don't ningens have a thing labeled "popcorn maker"? Mukuro have one. And two, he thought the popping things were some sort of attack from invisble youkai.
He sat comfortably in the couch and grabbed the remote. He stared at it for a few moments. Darn! Kurama changed his TV and didn't inform him!
Hn!
So he "accidentally" burned Kurama's TV before. He didn't totally burn it. Besides, it seems fixable. It's not his fault really. If the creator of DBZ didn't kill off Vegeta-sama during his fight with Freeza then he wouldn't have been frustrated and upset. He wouldn't have "accidentally" burned down the TV.
Because of that he never found out what happened to Vegeta. Sometimes Kurama can be so cruel. Didn't even record the episodes for him so he can watch it after his training. Wouldn't even let him near the TV till now.
He glared daggers at the new flat TV and began randomly punching buttons at the remote.
He growled at the remote menacingly. Finally, the dark screen came to life.
Flame of Recca!
Grinning, he sat back on his seat and watched while automatically eating popcorn.
"Domon, you blind idiot! Can't you see she doesn't love you?" he shook his head as Domon drool over Fuuko.
He'd grown to like this show, even though at first it seems like all the characters are mirrors of the Reikai Tantei and the other youkais they've met. The creator proabably watched their fights. His favorites are Kurei and Tokiya. He'd grown to like Raiha but only after reading the FoR manga, one of Kurama's endless collection of mangas. He gotta remember to raid Kurama's collection later. Recca is like Yusuke, except that Yanagi is somewhat a whiner while Keiko is a slapper. Domon is like that oaf Kuwabara, except that no one can top the said oaf's idiocy.
Flame of Recca was soon followed by...
"Tamahome..."
"Miaka..."
"Tamahome..."
"Miaka..."
He started at the ningens wondering if there is some kind of secret meaning behind the words...
"Tamahome..."
"Miaka..."
Grumbling something that sounded like "ningen no baka", he pushed another random button. Suddenly, the TV began switching from one channel to another after a 10-second interval.
Something caught his eye. "STOP!" he commanded the TV set. Of course it didn't stop it's automatic channel surfing. Three eyes glared with death at the TV set while his right hand furiously punch buttons at the remote.
"SHIMATTA! I hate Kurama's TV!" he glared hatefully at the TV set as the screen turned black. "Hn!"
Several minutes and a lot of curses later, Hiei finally got the TV under control. He should have told Kurama not to get another TV set. The new things ningens think up of these days are complicating his life instead of making it easier.
He started eating his nearly forgotten popcorn while manually channel surfing.
Finally finding the show that caught his eye, he frowned and looked at the characters critically. They look the very familiar. He could have sworn the guy in the ningen pants and shirt is Vegeta. But, what in Meikai is Vegeta doing in ningen clothes?
"Vegeta!" a blue-haired girl who look suspiciously like Bulma called. When the guy in the Hawaiian shirt turned towards Bulma with the patented sullen look, Hiei's mouth dropped.
"Bloody hell! They domesticated Vegeta-sama!"
He just stopped watching the show for a month and already they turned Vegeta into a Saiyan-in-a-Hawaiian-shirt guy?
He sat in silence, watching carefully and looking for signs that Vegeta-sama have not been domesticated and there's a bloody logical reason why he's not in his spandex. He actually liked that spandex. He wondered briefly what he'd look like in one of the things. Nah. Mukuro might disinherit him if showed up in one of the things.
To be continued...
How will Hiei react when he learns of what the future holds for Vegeta-sama?
What will happen when Hiei raids Kurama's manga collection but ends up
surfing the 'Net instead?
Next part coming hopefully soon...