A/N: This is a joined penname. We are Son Christine and TheNautiDolphin. Some of you may have heard of us and some of you may not have. This is a new little diddy that we came up with randomly and it's all about the humor baby! Not to mention that it is a crossover with YYH and possibly IY. So this story is all about our favorite posse being STUCK in a train, much to Sanosuke's dismay. Our favorite characters encounter new faces and this is where the perils begin. Uh-oh. Will they ever get off this train? You have to read to find out! Enjoy!

Last Stop: Insanity

"There's no way that this thing can move this fast! Damn it, Kenshin! Can't we WALK home instead?" The tallest of the lot inquired. "I mean, it's bad enough that you had to drag me here but now you're making me ride on this train with a bunch of freaks!" The histrionics of Sanosuke and the sickeningly polite smile coming from Kenshin was enough to make Kaoru reach into her purse for a bottle of aspirin. And unbeknownst to her, Sanosuke suddenly snatched it out of her hands and instantaneously shoved a few down his throat. One would think that he was bracing himself for a long, hard drinking contest with Katsu. "Sorry Jou-chan but I'm gonna need this." Kaoru shrugged.

"Well at least it'll make you shut up," she replied wryly, rolling her blue eyes.

"I think that we should ask the driver what's going on, that we should," the redhead interjected the others' fighting. The other two quieted down and followed Kenshin towards the front of the train. Between two of the cars, they had to be very careful crossing.

"Kenshin," Kaoru inquired, "can you help me across?" Sanosuke snorted.

"Ah, don't be such a wuss, Jou-chan," Sanosuke teased. "Of course, I'll help you, Kaoru…" Kenshin was about to look lovingly at her when suddenly, they heard the deep chuckle of none other than Shishio Makoto.

"So I was late to the goody-two-shoes convention, sue me…" Shishio muttered in between intimidating and manic cackles.

"What are YOU doing here, you cold-blooded kleptomaniac?!" Kenshin muttered irately, running a hand through his crimson hair.

"Cough FREE COUNTRY cough," The bandaged man retorted to his rival, laughing heartily at random.

"Uhmm, are you on Prozac or something?" Kaoru asked as she massaged her temples.

"Don't be whacked out, Jou-chan. His hormones must have BURNED away…" Sanosuke muttered, looking out of the window. His hamster sized brain finally processed and remembered that he was still on a train… Once this rather obvious fact clicked, he shrieked like a schoolgirl, ran aimlessly around in circles, and was abruptly slapped by his best friend.

"Sorry, Sano but you were being girlier than Kamatari-san…" Kenshin muttered. Kaoru had known her friends for a while and knew that they were AHEMinteresting but that last comment really wasn't necessary. Shishio shuddered.

Kenshin spoke up again, Shishio covering his ears with randomly acquired earplugs. "Shishio, I'm sure you want to be here even less than I do. All we want to do is get to the driver and ask him how we can get off of this train, so if you'll just excuse us…" he trailed off, attempting to squeeze by.

"I don't think so, Battousai. I didn't follow you all day just to let you pass by…"

"Eww, you creepy stalker!" Kaoru shrieked, hiding behind Kenshin.

"Shishio, he ain't gonna fight you on a train of all places. Let us by so we can get off this train and maybe then you can get your ass whooped by Kenshin," Sanosuke said loyally as he puffed out his chest.

"Down dog boy," Shishio spat out, now ignoring Sanosuke. "Battousai, if you don't fight me…I'll uh…make sure that you never eat a home cooked meal again!" Kaoru raised an eyebrow.

"YES!" Kenshin shrieked, forgetting for a moment that Kaoru was the one who MADE his meals…well, even if they were pathetic excuses for food. Kaoru tapped her foot in annoyance and Kenshin begged for her forgiveness.

"You're sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad," Shishio said as he continued to say that one word in hopes of putting the redhead down. But then again, did he really have to keep his insult lasting for five full minutes…? "Sad, sad, sad, sad, OWWWWWW!" Kaoru smacked him with her purse with a handy reflex that made Shishio fall backwards. To everyone's surprise, he was rendered unconscious.

"Now's our chance, guys. We can get to the driver now that Shishio is passed out!" Kaoru added cheerfully, curling a few loose strands of hair rather innocently.

"Maybe we should let Kaoru lead…" Kenshin muttered as he put a hand behind his back.

"So let's get going!" Sanosuke said as he pulled out a week old fishbone and shoved it into his mouth.

Sanosuke took a step forward and suddenly the train stopped. "Finally…" Kaoru muttered, and moved toward the door, waiting for it to open. Instead, the lights inside the train flickered, then all went out except for one. Sanosuke fell to the floor, purple in the face.

"Choking…on…fishbone…" he managed to sputter.

"Sanosuke!" Kenshin cried, at loss of what to do. Suddenly, a sharp blade was shoved through the crack in the door and began to pry the door open. On the other side could be seen a youth with black, slicked back hair, a pissed off midget with two-toned hair, and another of whose gender Kenshin couldn't exactly determine. Kenshin flashed him one of his smiles, missing the shortest one rolling his eyes, and helped them force open open the door. Sanosuke turned a deeper shade of purple, if that was possible, when the door finally opened.

"Well whaddya know! We've suddenly climbed aboard the S.S. Escapee-from-the-manic-asylum!" The juvenile delinquent remarked excitedly. "Oh right. Name's Yusuke. Urameshi. And these are my 'friends.' Hiei," the teen boy pointed to the morose looking demon dressed in black from head to toe, "And Kurama." Again, he pointed but this time, to the young man with bright red hair and flashing emerald eyes. Much unlike Hiei, Kurama was smiling brightly, offering to shake hands with Kenshin, Kaoru, and Sanosuke (the purple hue in his face had subsided into a cool blue shade by that time).

The six people stood there for a few moments before Hiei spoke to Yusuke and Kurama's surprise. "Huh, well it's no wonder that we've come to stumble upon such fools. The Tantei just HAD to use my weapon to slice open this door. And if he hadn't, we wouldn't have to go through with such a foolish charade." Hiei suddenly pointed to Kenshin.

"Oro!" He squeaked in shock. The beady red eyes of Hiei had caused Kenshin to swallow hard. Yes, he was NOT a very friendly and inviting character, that he wasn't.

"You look like a weak and pathetic ningen while on the other hand, you…" He pointed to Sanosuke. Okay seriously, all the pointing was getting kind of old. "Do you posses superhuman abilities?"

Sanosuke finally hacked up the fishbone and stood up to answer Hiei's question.

"I could probably kick your ass," he said, towering over Hiei's five-foot frame, "but if you're lookin' for 'superhuman abilities', you'd have to talk to Kenshin over here." Kenshin just smiled broadly back at Hiei.

"You. Have. Got. To be. Kidding. Me." Hiei stared in disbelief at the redhead. "I'm outta here." Unfortunately for our youkai, the doors clanged shut once again, the power started back up, and before anyone knew it, the train was started back up. "Crap!" Hiei shouted. "I'm stuck with YOU people? We JUST got out of that FREAKING MALL!" Hiei sulked off into a corner, grabbing his katana from Yusuke and brandishing it at anyone who dared come near. Everyone decided to ignore him.

"So," Kaoru spoke to Kurama and Yusuke, "What brings you guys here?"

"We went to visit Kurama's mother, Minamino Shiori. And I felt like coming and tagging along only for the free food and stuff." Kurama eyed Yusuke. "Just kidding, man. Well anyways, since it was late and stuff, we decided to take this train but look at what happened now. Hiei's right though. We just got outta that mall and God knows where Youko went off to." Kurama smirked.

"Yes, a charming boy. I believe he was the reason as to why Hiei lost his temper. It was because he had cunningly recorded Hiei kissing someone." Kenshin and Kaoru looked at Hiei and it wasn't long before they were doubled over in hysterical laughter.

"HIM? SENTIMENTAL? You've GOT to be pulling my leg!" Kaoru said as she wiped the tears out of her eyes.

"Looks like ya already know him. Meet Hiei: the manic homicidal-half-pint with the patience resembling that of a komodo dragon!" Yusuke chirped while simultaneously dodging the earplugs that Hiei found and threw at him.

"You seem to be very strong yourself, that you do," Kenshin remarked.

"Sure am. I'm a hanyou."

"What ARE you people!?" Sanosuke screamed, smacking himself in the face to make sure that he was in fact sober. "I mean, seriously, people, you expect me to believe you are all a bunch of demons living in the human world?" Sanosuke shrieked.

"Well, uh…" Kurama began, but the badass just cut him off.

"Nevermind, I don't wanna know." Suddenly, a man in a striped suit appeared at the other end of the car.

"Hello, folks. I'm your conductor this evening," he said, handing out tickets to each person on the train. Then he stood there, waiting for payment. He attempted to ask Hiei, but was shut up immediately at Hiei's evil glare. Kurama and Yusuke paid up their shares. Kenshin dug his hand into his pocket, finding a large hole in its bottom. He turned a violent shade of pink, turning towards Kaoru.

"Um, I hate to ask, but…" Kaoru just rolled her eyes and paid for herself and Kenshin. The conductor turned to Sanosuke, who was sitting in one of the seats, relaxed.

"Put it on my tab," he said, lazily opening one of his eyes to survey the man and then shutting it again.

"Sir, we don't have 'tabs', as you call them."

"Fine then. Jou-chan? Can ya spot me the money?" Kaoru let out a frustrated sigh.

"You guys both owe me BIG!"

"Thank you," the conductor said as she placed the money in his hand. "I'll be up in the front of the train if you need me." He turned to leave, but then, remembering something, turned around. "Wasn't there a, uh, rather…unusual looking man lying on the floor here before?"

"True, that is rather strange," Kurama said, stroking his chin. "I wonder where he could have gotten to…"

Kaoru shoved her wallet back into her purse and shrugged. "I guess I should have hit him harder…" Kurama's eyes went wide in fear and shock. Not only was he trapped with his regular troupe of freaks, but he was now stuck with a violent PMSing girl. Kenshin scrutinized the area while the conductor shrugged lethargically and ran back to his seat in the front of the vehicle, the train was still moving after all.

"Wait… do you guys hear that?" Yusuke inquired looking up at the roof of the train. Faint taps could be heard and Sanosuke smacked himself in the head again. "Atsuko made me cut back on the vodka so I know I'M not drunk…" The delinquent said again, adding his two cents as he usually did.

"Well what is it then? I know I'm certainly not imagining anything, that I'm not." Kenshin muttered. "Shishio is unbelievably strong but there's no way that he could just vanish…"

Hiei actually found all of their cluelessness rather fun. In fact, he wanted to mock them. "Huh, you fools were too busy thinking about your insignificant 'money' that you failed to see that bandaged weakling climb atop this pathetic ningen device…" Hiei raised a hand, his forefinger outstretched and pointing to the roof. It was at that moment when everyone heard Shishio screaming.

"WHOOHOO! I AM THE KING! I AM THE…KING! BOW TO ME BOW TO…!" Wham! They all cringed once they heard some loud crash. And Kurama, being the most intelligent out of the bunch, decided to look out the window. He noticed Shishio lying on the floor, the train sailing father and farther away from him.

"It looks like he fell off…" Kurama said in a monotonous voice.

"Then that's one down…" Yusuke moaned.

Kenshin turned to Kurama and Yusuke, not even bothering to speak two words to Hiei, in fear of his head being sliced off, "Did you guys happen to know where this train was headed when you got on?"

"Actually," Yusuke said, "We were kind of trying to dodge one of our friends. Pretty much every time she comes back into town, we get called off on some mission or another, and we're all a little sick and tired of it. Basically, in our rush, we kinda just hopped on the first train we saw." Kenshin sighed.

"I guess the only thing we can do is just ask the driver."

"Okay, Kenshin," Sanosuke piped up, "You do that. I'll be sitting here." Just then Hiei gave a menacing growl. "On the other hand," Sanosuke changed his mind, "I could just go by myself!" He sped from the car in the direction the conductor had come from.

"So, since…Sano-suck-ee or whatever his name is…" Yusuke sounded out.

"It's Sanosuke," Kurama corrected, smiling at Kenshin and Kaoru.

"Oi, fox-boy! Aren't YOU full of kindness today!" Kurama shrugged and Hiei just growled again.

"I detest your enthusiastic approaches, Kurama," Hiei warned. Kurama simply rolled his eyes. They were best friends and if there was one thing that Kurama knew about Hiei it was that he was all talk…well…up until he took out his katana and hacked at something, that is.

"Well since SANOSUKE isn't gonna be back for a few minutes or whatever, let's play a game of cards! Whaddya say?" The romantic pair nodded quickly and Kurama surely had no objection. The Tantei glanced at Hiei. "C'mon, play with us. You KNOW you'd have the upper hand because no one's got a poker face like yours."

"True," Hiei said, feeding his already over-inflated ego.

"So let's play!" Yusuke shrieked.

"Hold on a second!" Sanosuke cried, bursting back into their car and falling over out of breath. "The…conductor…passed out…on the floor…for some reason…" Everyone's eyes suddenly went wide and they all felt a gradual decrease of speed… ---

A/N: This is Son Christine and TheNautiDolphin signing out! We really hoped you liked this first chapter! Please review because we love feedback, de gozaru yo!!