Hiei vs. Kurama - The Ketchup Battle
Kurama and Hiei sat across from each other at a dining table. In front of them were two meaty hamburgers. Hiei studied the hamburger, before picking it up and preparing to bite it. "Oh, Hiei, wait!" Kurama said before darting off to retrieve the ketchup. Hiei set the burger back onto the plate and waited Kurama, who was now coming back with small packets of ketchup.
"Here's the ketchup, it goes well with burgers." Kurama said, putting a handful in front of Hiei's plate. "Doesn't this stuff come in a plastic squeezable bottle?" Hiei asked, eyeing the packets. Kurama opened one of the packets and looked back at Hiei. "Well yes, it does, but we ran out of the bottled kind. All we have are the packets until mom comes back from shopping."
"Hn." Hiei murmured, and picked up the miniature ketchup holder. It said 'KETCHUP' in red bolded letters, and at the top in small black text it said 'open here'. Hiei held the package by the edges and tore it. But it didn't tear. The packet just looked rumpled. Kurama chuckled at Hiei's first attempt. "You have to shake the ketchup down first." he said, demonstrating with a second ketchup packet.
The ruby-eyed daemon said nothing, but imitated Kurama's shaking motion. He then again tried to open the ketchup packet, to no avail. Hiei grumbled as Kurama snickered at his dilemma. Hiei held his hand out. "If you think this is funny, why don't you open it?" he said, irritated with the small package. The fox shook his head. "Nope, you have to open it yourself, Hiei." It looked like Hiei wouldn't be able to open it by tearing it, so he did the second best thing.
Hiei bit the ketchup packet, splattering the red tomato-y sauce all over his face and teeth. Kurama then openly laughed, almost choking on his hamburger (which by the way, was loaded with ketchup). Hiei at first thought about leaving to clean up, but then he was hit by a genius idea. Picking up another packet and biting it, he aimed the ketchup at Kurama's smiling face, coating the redhead with ketchup. Now it was Hiei's turn to smirk at Kurama's indignation expression.
Kurama wasn't about to let Hiei get off the hook, so he picked up another packet and quickly opened it. He squirted the sauce at Hiei, who had turned away. The red sauce splashed onto Hiei's backside and neck. Reaching backward to wipe the ketchup away, Hiei dabbled his fingers in it and stuck each one in his mouth, tasting the foreign condiment. "Hn. Not bad," the fire daemon said. Hiei then used the speed he was famous for and reappeared behind Kurama, smearing ketchup all over Kurama's face.
Just as Kurama was squirting another opened packet at Hiei, Shiori peeked into the room. "Shuuichi? What are doing? Why are you and your friend covered in ketchup?" Kurama faultered briefly before showing his best smile. "Er, we just had trouble opening the packets, that's all." Shiori looked oddly at Kurama then nodded. "Oh, okay, Shuuichi. Make sure you clean up." Shiori walked past the dining table into the kitchen and started storing groceries. "Phew, that was close." Kurama said, a bead of sweat sliding down the side of his face. Hiei simply smirked.
Owari.