"Lynniiiiiiiiii," whined a girl with black hair.
"Oh, give it a rest, Reneey," sighed a girl with dark brown hair as she turned pale green eyes on her friend. "I'll be in there in a minute, dagnabbit! I have to finish this..."
"But what's more important than Yu Yu Hakusho!? It's like the best anime ever! Well, next to Yu-Gi-Oh! And it's on in like one minute!"
"You forget," Lyn said, rolling her eyes, "I've never even seen the dadburned show. I don't care if I miss ten seconds of it! And I have to finish my tea first, unless you want to deal with me when I'm in caffeine-and-sugar withdrawal."
"And that's why we're watching from the first episode, so you can see it, damn it! Hurry up!" Reneey snapped this in a whiny way. All week long, she had been trying to get Lyn to watch Yu Yu Hakusho, and finally Lyn had agreed.
Lyn groaned and poured sugar in the tea she had been steeping until finally she judged it was enough. Then she poured herself a tall glass and put the rest in the refrigerator to cool. "All right, I'm coming," she said, and came to sit down on the floor next to Reneey.
Then the theme song came on. "This is.. quite cheesy," Lyn commented.
"Yeah, but it gets stuck in your head. Running in a crowd in a faceless town, I need to feel the touch of a friend in the countryside..."
"Reneey," Lyn warned, "sing it and I will disown you as a friend."
"But it gets stuck in ya heaaad..."
"What's the song called, anyway?"
"Smile Bomb."
Lyn just twitched and shook her head.
"Hey, Lynni.. what if..."
"No, don't you dare even say it!" Lyn objected. "If we were to get sucked into that blasted thing, I wouldn't have a clue what was going on!"
"That's why I'm here! But anyway, what if we were in there!? In the TV show!?"
"Reneey," Lyn growled, "I swear, if we get sucked in there, I will keel you so dead..."
Reneey sighed and pouted.
"Whoa, what are you doing with my body!?" Ghost Yusuke yelled at the paramedics on the TV.
"How long does it take him to realize he's dead?" Lyn asked boredly.
"Longer than the pasty-dead people..."
Suddenly, Lyn's home phone rang.
"That's strange," she said curiously. "Nobody's supposed to call."
"Hey, Lynni," Reneey said, grinning. "Ring, Scary Movie 3, or Scream. Pick!"
"Definitely not the Ring," Lyn said thoughtfully, one hand hovering over the phone. "I dunno, hard choice between Scary Movie 3 and Scream..."
"Pick it up and put it on speaker," Reneey said, going over to the phone.
Lyn shrugged and did as she was told.
"Hello," said a voice.
"We can cancel Scary Movie 3," Lyn muttered.
"Would you like to see something?"
"Well, Scream is out," Reneey said.
"Depends on what you wanna know if we wanna see," Lyn said suspiciously.
"What's a show you like?"
Lyn actually laughed. "Well, Rea, I think we have a new scary movie on our hands. The Curse of the Dude Who Asks About TV Shows. I'm kinda like Drew Barrymore in Scream, though, y'know? She couldn't pick a scary movie, so how're we s'posta pick a TV show?"
"YU YU HAKUSHO!" Reneey shouted.
"Yu Yu Hakusho.. ah, that show. I remember. Have fun with your quest."
The person hung up, and the girls blinked.
Lyn's green eyes switched to her friend and she said slowly, "Reneey..."
"What the hell?"
Lyn made a face and muttered, "Why do I feel like we're about to --"
She was cutt off when suddenly the world dissolved into green, blue, and black, and both girls blacked out.
"Owie... stupid effing horns," Reneey mumbled.
"What happened?" Lyn mumbled as her eyes slowly came open.
"Er, Lyn.. since when was ya room a street...?
"A -- a street?"
Just then there was a HONK HONK.
"DAGNABBIT, RENEEY, GET UP!"
Lyn pulled Reneey up and they ran to the sidewalk together.
"Hey! How come you never told me that ya room was a street!?" Reneey demanded, grinning, hands on her hips.
Lyn's right eye twitched, and then suddenly grabbed Reneey by the shoulders and shook her.
"MY ROOM ISN'T A STREET, YOU MORON! IT'S WHATEVER YOU SAID TO THAT DUDE ON THE PHONE! AND IF WE ACTUALLY ARE IN YU YU HAKUSHO, I AM SO GONNA KILL YOU!"
Reneey was shaking so that he head was bobbing back and forth, but she just yelled back, "BUT IT'S THAT PERSON IN THAT PHONE THING! AND LOOKIE, WE'RE IN JAPAN!"
Lyn just screamed wordlessly and released her friend, throwing her hands in the air.
"Lynni, it's not like we're dead or anything like that," Reneey said, shrugging. "Besides, this means we get to meet Kurama!"
"That redhead?" Lyn asked, remembering seeing him from an episode guide.
"Yeap, yeap!"
"Oh yeah..." Lyn muttered slowly. Then suddenly she exploded again, yelling: "BUT YOU HAD TO PICK YU YU HAKUSHO! YOU COULDN'T PICK YU-GI-OH!? THAT ONE'S SO MUCH MORE AWESOME, AND THEN WE COULD'VE MET KAIBA, HE'S TOTALLY HOTTER THAN KURAMA!"
"HEY!" Reneey exploded right back at Lyn. "YOU SHOULD SEE YOUKO AND KUROUNE! THEY ARE FREGGING HOTTER THAN KAIBA! AND ADD HIEI IN THIRD WITH KARASU! BUT KUROUNE IS DEAD BUT MAYBE HE'LL BE ALIVE HERE AS A HUMAN OR SOMETHING!"
Lyn stared for a second before yelling again: "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, YOU THINK SCOTTY VANITY IS HOT! ANYWAY, I'M A SETO KAIBA FANGIRL AND UNASHAMED! HE IS SOOO MUCH HOTTER THAN ANY OTHER ANIME GUY THAT IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY!"
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL OF THE ANIME GUYS! OKAY I DON'T KNOW ALL OF THEM, BUT I KNOW A FUCK OF A LOT MORE THAN YOU AND THERE'S MANY MORE THAT ARE HOTTER THAN SETO!"
"Um, excuse me," someone said. But the girls took no notice of the boy, and Lyn kept on yelling.
"NO WAY, THERE IS NO ANIME GUY HOTTER THAN SETO KAIBA, AND I'M A FANGIRL SO I KNOW! BECAUSE HE'S SO TOTALLY AWESOME AND SARCASTIC AND DRAMATIC AND PROTECTIVE AND --"
"WELL, YUOKO AND KUROUNE AND KARASUE ARE AWESOMELY AWESOME, YOUKO N KUROUNE ARE KING OF THIEVES, CRUEL, RUTHLESS, AND KARASUE CAN MAKE BOMBS OUT OF THE BLUE!"
"How do you know about Youko and Kuroune?"
"Can't ya see we're yelling, Kurama?" Reneey snapped.
Lyn, however, froze. "Er.. Reneey," she said slowly, staring at the boy with her right eyebrow raised. "Remember what I was saying about how I'm gonna kill you if we really are in Yu Yu Hakusho?"
"Yeah, so? You say that all the time!"
"YOU DON'T GET US SUCKED INTO ANIME TV SHOWS ALL THE TIME, YOU COTTON-PICKING IDGET! LOOK AT WHO YOU WERE JUST YELLING AT, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! LOOKIT HIM AND TELL ME WHO IT IS!"
There was fury in Lyn's green eyes, and the finger she was pointing toward Kurama was trembling with wrath.
Reneey looked from Lyn to the confused redhead, blinked for a moment until her brain started working, and then --
"OMG, YOU'RE KURAMA!"
"Shhh, don't call me that!" Kurama hissed. "Please, around humans, call me Shuiichi!"
Lyn blinked. "But aren't we humans? So therefore shouldn't you deny being Kurama?"
"Well, you did say that you know Youko and Kuroune. How do you know them?" Sparks of gold reached his green eyes.
Reneey grinned. "Well --"
Lyn kicked her and hissed, "Don't tell people, idget! What, do you want people to think we're insane or been smoking something really good or to actually believe us and try to kill us or something!?"
"This is Kurama, he won't kill us! Trust me, eh? You won't, right?"
Kurama sweatdropped and said, "I promise you no harm."
"See, Lynni!? But if we do tell.. can ya let out Youko?"
Kurama blinked. "Why?"
"Because she's an obsessed fangirl," Lyn said, shaking her head. "Okay, let's see. Yeah, okay. I have a plan."
And she turned and walked a few feet to lean against a building. "My awesome plan: I don't know you! And I can play it up really well because I have absolutely no clue what's going on! Ain't it awesome!?"
She flashed a grin and proceeded to cross her arms and look up at the sky with mild interest.
Reneey blinked. "Er, wha?"
Lyn, however, continued to stare at the sky as if she had been bidden to memorize the pattern of the molecules in a particular cloud.
Reneey shrugged and turned back to Kurama. "Yes or no, pickie!"
Let me out! Youko thought.
"Fine, but tell me first."
"Okay, ya see, where we come from, you all are a TV show! We know it all -- well, I know it all -- future crap -- like how to save ya mother and, yeah!"
Kurama blinked. "I already know that, though."
"But ya live!"
"Huh? How do I live?"
"Ya see."
"Y'all had better get on with it or I'm gonna go walk around randomly till I find something remotely interesting," Lyn said in a sing-song voice as she tapped her foot impatiently.
"Right, so you're from.. a different dimension?" Kurama asked slowly.
"Eh, guess so. Ya see, this dude called us and went all 'Tell me ya favorite show!' so I said Yu Yu Hakusho which is the show ya in and here we are!"
Interesting, Youko thought.
"Yes, you HAD to pick Yu Yu Hakusho and deprive me of my only chance to actually meet Seto Kaiba," Lyn growled, still staring resolutely at the sky. "You couldn't take into consideration that I've never even seen this retarded show and have no idea what's going on. And you can't keep your mouth shut when random people walk up and ask who we are. Oh, no! That would have been a stupid move."
"Oh, stop acting pissy, it's not like ya not used to it! Oh, Im' Reneey and this is Lyn," she added to Kurama.
"Pleasure to meet you."
"Now, about Youko..."
"Are you a complete idget?" Lyn hissed wearily, finally dropping her gaze from the sky to look at Reneey like she rather thought her friend was completely hopeless. "He can't do it in public! Honestly, you're as bad as the fourteen-year-old idget perv who took five minutes to figure out he was dead after getting hit by a cotton-picking car..."
"Right. Here, meet me at nighttime at the park. You do have a place to go, right?"
"Errr," Reneey muttered.
"Ummm," Lyn said slowly.
"Well, techinically," Reneey started.
"We don't really even know how we got here or even exactly where here is," Lyn finished. "And I don't suppose you have any Japanese money hidden in one of your ten thousand pockets, Rea, do you?"
"Err, hold on," Reneey muttered and went looking through the pockets of her NYC TRIPP pants.
"You know," Kurama offered, "You could stay at my place."
"Okay," Reneey announced, "I found ten dollars! How much is that in Japan?"
Lyn made a face and began beating her head against the wall she had previously been leaning up against, muttering something about "idget," "money changing," and "I have American money, moron" under her breath.
Finally she sighed, shook her head, and turned back to Kurama. "If it isn't too much trouble," she said resignedly, still hating to rely on other people even when she didn't actually have another choice.
"No, not at all," Kurama answered, and so they left.