Demons in Strawberry Land

I don't own YYH or Strawberry Shortcake. On that note, let's continue this trek into madness, shall we?


Hiei growled at the laughter in Kurama's voice and he knew the fox had heard him, but not the detectives, who still looked confused. "We're in a forest surrounding Strawberry Land."

Five minutes later Hiei had both Kuwabara and Yusuke knocked out and Kurama was rubbing his head, wondering how it was possible to get a headache in a dream. "Hn, that will teach them to not stop laughing when I tell them too."

Kurama nodded, keeping his laughter and amusement under control. "I agree, four and a half minutes of laughing at you seemed quite excessive. I'm very impressed with your control Hiei, I would have thought you would have laid them out much sooner then that."

"Hn"

The fox smiled and stretched. "It really is beautiful here. What do you do here, Hiei?"

Once again the fox sensed that the fire demon was uncomfortable and the smaller demon shifted. "Just hang out with the local ningen children."

One red eyebrow rose. "Local ningen children?"

"Hai. I was helping them devise a plan to get rid of a man that has been pestering them when you showed up."

Kurama raised an eyebrow. "You would willingly associate with ningen children and not only that, help them?"

Hiei gave a nod and looked away again. "Why, Hiei?"

The fire demon sighed and shuffled his feet, gaining an incredulous look from Kurama. "Fine, I'll tell you. Their innocence amuses me. They take me into their homes, feed me sweets (groan from Kurama) and accept me, even though they know I'm a demon and I tried to kill them the first time I met them. Their ring leader, a girl known as Strawberry Shortcake has to be the most thickheaded child I've ever met. She believes there is good in everyone, including me and accepted me after all I tried to do to them."

Kurama raised an eyebrow. "What did you try to do to them?" Hiei turned and caught the gold in Kurama's eyes. "Not that, you sick Youko. You know me better then that. I tried to fry them, kill them. But not that."

He sighed. "Come on, we should go back. Maybe you can help us device a plan to get rid of their enemy without killing him, cause I'm at a loss." He kicked at Kuwabara and Yusuke, the two detectives waking under the assault. "Owww, don't kick me shrimp."

"Hn, baka."

With that Hiei turned on his heel and marched out of the clearing, Kurama gave his friends one quick glance and hurried after the short demon. Kuwabara and Yusuke quickly scrambled to their feet and ran after the two. "Hey wait for us."

The walk through the forest was short and they were almost to the edge when Kuwabara let out a girlish shriek, causing the others to turn and chuckle at him (except Yusuke, who was giving a fully bellied laugh). "What is the problem now, moron." Hiei's voice was cold and Kurama knew it was because the fire demon was slightly embarrassed by this situation.

Kuwabara was pointing at the ground in shock. There was a strange foot print in the path and he yelped "What is that?"

Hiei glanced at the print and sighed. "Figboot's print, can we go?"

Yusuke ran up to him. "Who is Figboot."

"Baby needs a name's pet."

Kurama blinked. "Whose pet?"

"Baby needs a name." The three stared at him in shocked silence and then bolted after him, thinking that Hiei was much more frightening in this situation then he usually was. The team exitted the forest and the three froze, completely in awe of the large berry shaped houses that consisted of the village Hiei was striding towards.

They quickly overcame their shock and hurried after Hiei, walking down the empty streets of the village as if he belonged there. Kuwabara was staring in awe around him, as was Yusuke. Kurama was equally shocked by the strange village, but was paying more attention to Hiei.

Hiei strode up to a house shaped like a strawberry and opened the door. "I'm back."

Kurama and Yusuke followed him in, both ducking slightly so as to not hit themselves in the head on the top of the door frame. Hiei turned and smirked as Kuwabara runs full smack into the low door jamb. "Itai" Hiei growled at his teammate. "I said no cussing."

"Oh Hiei, it's ok if it was an accident. That must have hurt berry much." All three newcomers turned and saw a small girl standing there. She wore a red dress covered by a white apron with green diamond shaped squares of fabric running along the bottom of the apron hem. She had green and white striped tights and a pair of brown leather shoes buckled at her feet. On her head was a poofy pink hat with strawberries on it. Hiei turned as well to the small girl. "Don't worry about that oaf, Strawberry. He should have been paying attention and I warned him about his language."

A yellow haired girl, wearing a cream colored hat over yellow bouncy curls and a yellow dress with while polkadots skipped into the room. She also wore green and white stripped tights, but had on yellow shoes. "Oh, Hiei, do you know these people?" She glanced curiously at them and her eyes fell on Kurama. "Oh, he's berry pretty, just like me." With that the girl fluffed her curls and bounded over towards Strawberry. More children came out of hiding and the tentei (minus Hiei) seemed to pull back into a defensive formation, as if to protect themselves from the multicolored, bright children that hyperactively welcomed Hiei's friends.