'He just can't get away with it, he can't,' Kuwabara thought as Eichi pawed at a few strands of his hair in an attempt to engage him in play. Kuwabara absently stroked the kittens fur as he tried to think up a way to get back at that shrimpy brat, Hiei.
This day's insults had begun as usual, with Kuwabara insulting Hiei's height and Hiei insulting his intelligence while everyone else looked on with exasperated expressions, until Yukina had appeared to offer them something to drink.
Then the little demon stood up and stated, "You're stupid, Kuwabara, stop trying to act otherwise and maybe we'll get along better, and maybe you won't look like such a fool in front of others." He'd left before Kuwabara could figure out the implied insult.
"Saying I act like an idiot in front of Yukina!" Kuwabara cried out in frustration and Eichi hopped into the air with a sudden shocked expression on her kitten face. "Sorry Eichi," Kuwabara said, scratching the kitten behind its ears. Slightly mollified, the kitten curled up and began to purr as he scratched its ears.
'There's gotta be something,' Kuwabara thought as he continued scratching Eichi's ears. 'Anything! Maybe dressing him up like a preschooler while he's asleep and then sending him to school? No. Lacing his ice cream with wasabi sauce? No. Ooo! Push him off a bridge! ...but there are none close by...' He laid there for a long time, staring at the ceiling and idly scratching Eichi's ears. Just when he thought no idea would come, he glanced over at his homework (which he probably wasn't going to do) and say his biology book. On the front, among the pictures of eyes and animals, was a picture of a flower.
Slowly, an idea formed, and then one half of a plan. Kuwabara grinned mischieviously and sat up, feeling better already. It was only half of a plan, but half was better then nothing.
The plan was simple: Find something sweet and then stick something else in it that was liable to give the demon a screaming case of the backdoor trots. The only problem was finding that little thing that would give that runt a screaming case of the backdoor trots. The flower had given him the idea for how to take care of that.
Kuwabara trotted down the street, winded and with a horrible stitch in his side. Still, when he turned the corner and spotted Kurama's house he couldn't have been happier. If he remembered right, Kurama had said he had after school stuff to do which meant he wasn't home right now. Kuwabara stopped and grabbed his side and huffed and puffed a bit. Maybe running all the way there was not as good an idea as he had first thought.
When he finally got his second wind, he straightened and rang the doorbell. Kurama's human mother, Shiori, answered the door with a small puzzled smile, "Yes, can I help you?"
"Oh, hi! I'm Kuwabara, and Ku- Shuichi was helping me study and I think that he might have a notebook of mine or something, do you mind if I check?" Kuwabara asked, trying to make his face look as honest as his words sounded. Shiori studied him for a long moment, so long Kuwabara was sure she was going to call his bluff and slam the door in his face, before nodding and opening the door wider.
"His room is upstairs and to the right," she offered as Kuwabara walked in.
"Thanks!" Kuwabara said as he hurriedly removed his shoes and headed upstairs. As he entered Kurama's room, several things struck him; how unbelievably tidy and orderly the room was and how many plants were there. It was a small, controlled jungle in there. Kuwabara edged in carefully and shut the door behind him. After making sure it was closed all the way, Kuwabara began his search.
Surely someone like Kurama, who carried and knew the uses for more plants than he could name, would have something in here that would give someone a stomach ache at least. As he searched though, he only found things like aloe or grassy looking plants, and something that looked like it could be useful but smelled strongly of mint.
He was about to give up when he found small jars of things that looked like seeds and herbs in a drawer. Searching through them he found a shriveled up pit, like the pit of an avocado or peach. He shooke it around a little bit in the jar, and after figuring it probably wouldn't kill, stuck the jar in his pocket and then searched through Kurama's notebooks until he found an empty one, and then he headed back downstairs.
"Oh, did you find everything Kuwabara?" Shiori asked as he came down the stairs.
"Yup!" Kuwabara held up the notebook and made a bee-line for the door and his shoes. "Thanks for letting me go up and get it."
"No problem, it's nice to know Shuichi has friends. He can be such a loner sometimes," Shiori opened the door for Kuwabara as he pulled his shoes back on.
"Uh, yeah, well thanks!" Kuwabara said, heading out the door. Once he was around the corner he broke into a run, the stitch in his side quickly returning as he ran. It was worth it though, just the idea of getting back at that runt was worth it.
Now he just had to put the plan into action...