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Chapter one! I know what it looks like!

Ah, to be back in the country! Rolling green hills, endless cerulean skies without a cloud in the way of the pure sunlight…

Psshht, yeah right! Maybe in a storybook, or in some sappy romance story! Hell, this was anything BUT the country! This was Sin City, baby! Where every day's a party! And this is where this sorry excuse for a story begins. In a silver Lexus rental car, speeding down the freeway, are our heroes. Well, if 'heroes' is what you could call them. A drunken Aussie, otherwise known as Chuu, was passed out in the trunk. An Ice demon, commonly known as Touya, was staring out the window, while trying to ignore the pounding bass from the speakers. He glared at the demon in the front passenger seat, aka Suzuka, who was banging his head to the music, then cast an annoyed glance at the Wind Master next to him, who was singing at the top of his lungs. "Jin!" shouted Touya, hoping to quell the aforementioned wind youkai's voice. "Please! You're giving me a headache!"

Jin apparently didn't hear the poor ice demon, and thus continued singing. Touya groaned and covered his ears with his hands. It wasn't that Jin was a bad singer; dear spirits, no! It was just that this song… was pissing him off!

Kevin Lyttle and his perverted song 'Turn me on' had been blaring on the speakers for about an hour! And Touya despised that song. But, at least, not as much as some others. Like Brittany Spears, that slut of a human, so per say.

Shishi Wakamaru, who was in the driver's seat, had by some stroke of fortune heard the Ice master's anguished cry. He flipped stations, then finally found one with halfway decent music (COUGH Marilyn Manson COUGH). "Ey!" shouted Jin. "Turn it back!"

"No. We've heard it over a thousand times already!"

"Will you guys PLEASE shut up!" whined Rinku from the far back seat, looking up from his Pokèmon Silver game. (Poor Rinku. I almost ripped my frickin eyes out after playing that game for five damnable minutes!)

"Arrgghh…." Touya ground his teeth in annoyance. "Are we there yet?!"

"No!"

"How 'bout now?" continued Jin.

"Yes!"

"Really?"

"NO, you dolt!"

Yeah, like I said, if you can call them heroes, then well, whatever. But anyways, they are the main characters of our story, so just deal with it.

It had been a tough few months for Shishi and co., as is to be expected for six demons living in the Ningenkai. One day, however, not too long ago, Suzuka and Shishi had come home with six round-trip plane tickets to Sin City.

"Where'd you get those?" Chuu had exclaimed, shocked.

"Won 'em!" replied Suzuka. "Well, actually, Shishi did. Radio contest!"

"Where exactly is this 'Sin City?'" Touya interrupted cagily. Suzuka had, well known to Touya, a… well… predicament of getting everyone into sticky situations. Like the incident involving the meat cleaver when passing through Customs into the Living World… but we won't go into that. Basically, Touya was suspicious, and for a damn good reason.

"Somewhere someplace, who cares, really?" laughed Suzuka. "This should be fun!"

"Oh hell…"

Well, now, on to the real story. After about three hours of flying, yelling, sleeping, driving and fighting, they FINALLY arrived in Sin City! Now, at the hotel…

Jin was strangely amused by jumping up and down on the bed, while Shishi and Suzuka were busy dragging the still drunken Chuu up the stairs. Rinku was flipping through TV stations, and Touya was sound asleep on the other bed ('other' being the one Jin wasn't jumping on). Vaguely, the Wind Master wondered why the smaller demon was so dead-beat tired. It couldn't be because of the trip, seeing as he had slept the whole damn way, or lack of sleep the night before, since he'd also slept the whole night as well… 'Hmmm…' thought Jin. 'I wonder…' Jin floated silently over to the sleeping ice master and moved until he was not even an inch from his friend's nose and stared intently at his closed eyes. If Touya had any sixth sense, he would open his eyes and be scared spitless! Jin almost giggled. It was too perfect!

"Jin," said Touya clearly, eyes still closed. Jin started, then blinked.

"Wha'?"

"You know I hate it when you do that." he continued.

"Wha'? Do wha'?"

"Stare at me when I sleep."

Jin bit back a smirk. So he really wasn't asleep, then. Perfect. poke! Touya half-growled, half whimpered as he rolled over, his back to the irksome wind master. Poke! "Fuff off." the ice demon murmured, his face pressed against a pillow.

Jin smirked again, this time going for a full-blown assault! His began tickling the defenseless ice master, hands sneaking their way beneath his shirt and over his many ticklish spots.

Touya's eyes snapped open, and he tried to pull away. "Aah! Jin! Stop!" he shouted between giggles.

"Nevah!" Jin shouted, doubling his efforts as Touya tried to escape, eventually sending them both crashing to the ground in a pile of giggles.

Jin smiled gleefully, ears twitching like a mouse's nose. "'Ell, who'd've known ya were ticklish?" he chirped. Touya struggled from beneath Jin, who was too busy chattering to realize what an… interesting… position they had landed in.

"Umm, Jin?" Jin continued talking as if he hadn't heard his friend, which he probably hadn't. "JIN?" shouted Touya.

"—an' ya were actu'lly smilin'; nevah tought I'd see tat--- wha'd ya say?"

"You-"

"HOLYEEE HELL!!" Jin's head shot up and Touya stared wildly around the room. Who said that? ...Oh, just them. Shishi and Suzuka stood in the doorway, Chuu draped over the latter's shoulders while Shishi stood with his mouth slightly agape, lavender eyes bugging out of their sockets. "What the hell are you two DOING???"

"I-it's not what you think…" began Touya, scarlet blood filling his cheeks with a heated blush.

"An' how do ya know wha' we're thinkin'?" droned Chuu drunkenly, then hiccupping slightly.

"I know what it looks like!" shouted Jin suddenly, not angrily or embarrassed, however, but in the tone of a child who had just remembered his times tables. "It looks like we're havin' sex!"

"JIN, DAMNIT! GET THE HELL OFF ME!!!" shouted Touya in embarrassment, shoving the wind master off him. Jin blinked, indignant, as the smaller demon crawled back onto the bed and hugged his knees to his chest.

"Wha's your problem, Icy?" commented Jin in a huff, dusting himself off.

"Nothing, Jin. Nothing." came the rather frosty reply. Jin arched an eyebrow in confusion, then decided to forget it. Touya always was relatively unpredictable when it came to reading emotions.

"Well, then! Who's up for dinner?" he asked in a somewhat less annoyed tone.

"OH! OH! ME! MEEEEEE!!" cried Rinku, abandoning his self-appointed task of finding a good movie on TV. "Let's go out for… ummm… geez, I dunno. Food?"

"I saw a McDonalds on the way here." commented Suzuka.

"Aw, hell no!" interjected Shishi. "That place is 99 grease, 1 rat shit! There's a KFC down the road."

"OR!" interrupted Jin. "We could go to that bar down the street! 1 cent drinks all night!"

Chuu's eyes opened, and he seemed to snap out of his semi-drunk morale. "Drinks? I'll challenge any o' ya blokes to a drinkin game!"

"Or we could do some karaoke!" squealed Rinku, rocking on the balls of his feet in excitement. "Jin's not a bad singer, Shishi isn't either, and you're alright when you're sober, Chuu!"

"Hah. The only one better than me is Touya!" brayed Chuu, pointing at the small ice master, who still hadn't said a thing.

"What?" muttered Touya, confused.

"You're a better singer than all of us!"

"But I don't sing." He replied simply. "Never have, never will."

"Well, we'll just see 'bout tat, now won't we, mate?" Chuu grabbed Touya's arm and hauled him off the bed, which was a rather difficult task due to the fact that the ice master was trying to claw himself free of the Aussie's grip with ice blades. But, finally, Chuu managed to grab the struggling demon by the back of his shirt.

"Let me go!" growled Touya, clawing at Chuu's hand.

"We're all goin' to ta karaoke bar tonight!" cheered Chuu, impervious to the cat-like clawings of the demon who was doing quite a number on his fist.

"Alright!" replied Rinku. "Can I drink this time?"

"NO." came the chorused reply.

And so it was settled. A night of singing and drinking in the karaoke bar downtown was at hand! But, now, my time on the computer has ended, so I will cruelly leave you hanging here until the next chapter is done! Au revoir, mes amis! A tôut a l'huere! (which means 'goodbye, my friends! See ya!' in French. Heh, dropping that subject in school! Yay for me!)