Chapter 1: Trying to get to the boat
Well now to get the, dun, dun, dun, dun, THE DARK TOURNAMENT, you gotta go to the Hanging Neck Island. That has such a nice ring to it, doesn't it? I think they call it that to make visitors feel warm and reassured that nothing bad will happen to them once they get there. Anywho! I was with Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara; otherwise know as Foxy Loxy, Goosey Losey and Chicken Big. We were hiking up a very, very, very steep hill to get to the field in front of the docks where our boat would launch. But well, it wasn't exactly an easy hike. I was tripping more then I was walking and Kuwabara was doing even worse then me; muttering cures and complaints under his breath every two second. Kurama and Hiei were a bit more graceful then us poorly designed Humans so they were completely silent. Course they were always silent; it makes them more mysterious, ya see. I guess I should give ya'll a little more detail on my teammates, right? Kay! Here goes. Kurama has long red, flaming hot locks and wonderful emerald green eyes. His the major hottie of the group. Honestly, the poor boy's miserable! All those screaming, supermodel girls trying to leap on top of him wherever he goes. Just a depressing existence, isn't it? He's really a Sprit Fox whose true name is Yoko Ono…oh wait, make that Yoko Kurama! I sometimes get them mixed up when I forget my medication. He nearly died and came back as a Human and all those other crazy, tiny details. He's very wise and sweet and smart and he has all the answers. Expect what Spam's made of. He says even HE doesn't know that. Next up in the duty roster is Hiei! My beautiful, baritone boyfriend! He's got gravity defying black hair with blue tips and a white sunburst in the front. Don't ask me how he gets it like that…I tired once and I swear I'm lucky I escaped with my life and my own hair. He's got ruby, blood red eyes. He's amazingly quite and when he does talk, it's dripping with sarcasm. Very up tight…which is why I always try to loosen him up. Anyway, we're a couple now and we're going strong! Next up is Kazuma Kuwabara, the main man! We're more alike then, say, Hiei and me but I'm a bit more graceful. I know this is because I trip on things; he trips on air. He's the largest of the group and it a tiny bit more clumsier then some of us. His has very, very short orange air. To me, it's always looked like a landing strip for a plain. Which is why, at school when we both happen to find ourselves there, I always make paper airplanes and toss them at his head. He's got beady black eyes that hold fire and a lust for life. And that's it for the immediate members of the Reiki Tenti that was with me; hiking. And now back to the hike! After about twenty minutes of hiking, we finally reached the little meadow by the sea. I sighed and looked up and saw the boat was sailing swiftly towards the dock. I knew we were on time! Yay! We're on time for our funeral.
"Oh great! Seems were on time. Good. I always like to be on time for my torture." I said with a grin as I sat down about three seconds after Kuwabara collapsed. I was wearing a mini skirt at the present moment so I couldn't collapse quite like that. Kurama smiled as he leaned against a tree and Hiei just stood there above me.
"You mean for the first time since we've know each other you're on time." Hiei muttered sarcastically. I grinned but switched that over to a disdainful smile as I twisted my head up to stare up at him.
"Hiei! You are a guy, I am a girl. Do you think I'm pretty?" I asked suddenly, switching tactics in mid-sentence like I always did. Hiei stared at me for a second before rolling his eyes and answering.
"Yes on the condition that you won't make me regret it." He muttered, since of course he had to be quite. See there were Demons all in this meadow and if Hiei said he thought me, el Human, was pretty, he could ruin his reputation as a ruthless, mean, cold, dark, etcetera, etcetera, guy. I smiled up at him.
"Good! I'm glad. But this is natural beauty and natural beauty takes 2 to 5 hours of work. Outfits, makeup, shower, hair, jewelry, shoes, teeth, nails, accessories, weapons, and tricks in case one of those aforementioned things fails. When Humans want to attract their mate, they have to look GOOD and that takes a long time. So, remember, darling Hiei, the next time you're admiring my overwhelming beauty that it takes me hours of work and years of practice to get me to look like that. Hmph!" I said indigently as I turned my head away from him, pouting. But see that only lasts for the next minute or so. Whenever I'm off my sedatives, I switch moods really quickly and really often. I looked around and noticed we had only ONE problem so far. So far because we were sure to have at least another forty problems during this tournament. But the main problem right now is that we were the Uramshi team. Which meant we needed Yusuke Uramshi. See I had voted for calling our team Hell's Angels but I was outvoted nearly everyone. I think Kuwabara would have gone for it but said no to gain face with Hiei. At this moment, we were missing our Team Leader. That's baaaad, ain't it? Now Yusuke said he'd meet us here. He also said he'd be on time, which I knew not to trust. Yusuke can be a teeny, tiny bit flighty sometimes. That was our current major problem; another problem that we had that wasn't so major was the fact that to participate in the Dark Tournament, you needed six members. So far you've got me, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama. Now, if I can still count, that's five. We need a sixth man, or woman. Yusuke promised he'd find us one. Now see, that's a dangerous thought! Asking Yusuke to find us a sixth man was not a smart idea, if ya asked me. Yusuke would probably show up in three seconds before we had to leave with a guy who looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with arms like tree trunks, tattoos of naked women, smoking a cigar, with a name like Brutes. But then again, if it were up to me: I'd show up one second before we had to leave with a guy with a chiseled chest, sandy blonde hair, blue eyes with a name like Brad Pitt. But then again, Hiei would kill me in a most unpleasant way. I pulled myself from my thoughts and looked around. The meadow was filled with Demons. Big ones, small ones, fat ones, slims ones, all kinda ones! But they were all angry looking and all directing those angry looks at us. I knew the Tenti were not well liked by Demon kind. And the fact that I, Yusuke and Kuwabara were Human did not endear us to them. I leaned over to Kuwabara who was sitting next to me as a sudden thought hit me.
"Oh, I get it! See Kuwabara, this must be the welcoming committee! How sweat! Isn't that sweat?" I said under my breath to Kuwabara as I glanced about at the glaring Demons. Kuwabara nodded and looked around with a perplexed expression.
"I wonder why they don't like us so much?" Kuwabara mumbled under his breath to me; that showed that our dearest, darling Kuwabara could be just a little bit naïve at times. Just a little, though! And see when he mumbled it; he didn't mumble it soft enough. Hiei heard him. And then gave him a dry stare…the kind of stare you'd give to mental patients. I sighed and glanced up at the sky for a minute. I knew what was coming. You could feel it in the air and smell it…a battle. I glanced over at Kurama and we shared a quick smile, as we waited for the battle to begin. It came faster then I thought.
"I think I've figured it out: You traded in all you're brains for brawns." Hiei said sarcastically at the sitting Kuwabara. I laughed since it WAS funny but when Kuwabara directed a glare in my direction, I change it to coughing violently.
"What? I'm allergic to the BO of oversized Demons!" I said raising my hands. I was neutral in these battles. I sometimes started them, mostly ended them but never participated in them. Often, at least. There was the time we were having a fancy sit down dinner at Koenma's grandparents house. That was when Kuwabara and Hiei started to go at each other. And well, Hiei said something very nasty about Kuwabara, I can't even repeat what he said. And Kuwabara, well, he picked up a pie and threw it at Hiei and it hit. Hiei was so shocked that he couldn't even respond for a minute so I knew I had to come to my boyfriend's rescue. I grabbed a spoonful of potatoes and tossed it at Kuwabara. But it missed and hit Kurama and the next thing I knew, Koenma was screaming at the lot of us and was threatening to have us all executed and his poor grandparents were ducking for cover as we fought it all out. Ah, sweet memories. Anyway. Back to the CURRENT fight. Kuwabara seemed to accept my answer of being allergic to BO and nodded. He then leaped up and grabbed Hiei by the front of his shirt, which earned him a fierce death glare. Uh-oh! Physical contact with Hiei! Penalty shot!
"Now that you're closer to my face, why don't you say that again?" Kuwabara growled out, holding Hiei up a little. I stood up quickly and smoothed out my mini skirt as I moved away. When it came to their hissy fights, I knew it was best to stay clear. You know, in case Sprit Swords and eyeballs started to fly around. I didn't want to get hit by one. I stood next to Kurama who was completely quite as he watched the very interesting battle.
"You gonna stop them?" I asked as I crossed my arms and leaned against a tree. Kurama glanced at me and shrugged and then shook his head. I frowned slightly.
"Yeah. Me neither. Think I should?" I asked as their docile shouting raised an octave. I glanced at Kurama again and saw him shrug and shake his head again. I think we were playing the part of Jake and Elwood Blues here. Only he was in purple, I was in a mini skirt and we both were built better. Finally I sighed as it looked like Hiei and Kuwabara were both about to come to blows.
"We're starting to look unprofessional. I think I should stop them now." I said calmly and dryly, being Jack. Elwood nodded as he crossed his arms. I sighed and looked up at him.
"Cover me, Elwood." I said just as dryly as Jack would. I then pushed off from the tree and stepped up to the plate. Hiei and Kuwabara were shouting at the top of their lungs and we were starting to attract stares from the other Demons in the area. I walked into the middle of the fray and stood in front of the two shouters and raised a hand.
"Um guys? I think maybe we should stop this." I said sweetly but did they listen to me? Nooooo. Was I gonna let them ignore me? Noooo. I sighed and dropped my hand into my pocket and withdrew a whistle. I put it to my lips and blew, letting loose a piercing shriek. Hiei and Kuwabara looked up but heck! I was enjoying this whistle thing so I didn't stop. I kept going and going and going until finally, Kuwabara grabbed the whistle and ripped it out of my mouth.
"Sheesh, Siren! We're listening already!" Kuwabara grumbled and returned to glaring heatedly at Hiei who returned the glare. Sometimes it was hard to be the mother of two eight year olds. I grinned at the two of them.
"And that's the round! The judging for the first pre-fight of the Dark Tournament is: TIE!" I said holding up a make believe microphone to my lips and shouting. Hiei and Kuwabara finally looked at me and both gave me blank stares. As if they couldn't believe I DARED stopped them from fighting.
"That was great guys! Really great!" I said with a grin as I clapped my hands in amusement. Kuwabara stared blinkingly down at me as he glanced over at Hiei.
"Whaddya mean, great?" He asked in confusion. I smiled and lowered my hands and walked causally back to the only sane member of my team: Kurama.
"Oh, I'm sorry! I was just assuming you were practicing how to fight with one lobe tied behind your back. Because fighting each other when you have a whole grove of Demons to mess with just doesn't make sense to me." I said causally with a grin as I glanced down at my perfectly pedicure nails. Kurama chuckled slightly as both boys glared over at me, then they turned to glare at each other.
"Fine, you're right. His not worth my time!" Kuwabara and Hiei sneered at the exact same time. After that, they glared at each other but before they could fight again, the boat pulled up to the docks. Well that was a fun way to pass the time. Someone exited the boat and came to stand in our midst. He was dressed, looked and talked like a pirate. Before he started to speak, I grinned wryly to myself. This was gonna be fun!
Chapter 2 - Coming soon!!!