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The next morning, Sha and Hiei awoke to the sounds of laughter and loud music. He sat up with a hand to his forehead. "What the hell is that infernal noise?"
Sha laughed behind her hand at the sight of the girls and the four children playing a game that they'd played for years now.
"It's called Dance Dance Revolution or the most popular term, to most Dance Dance Revolution freaks like us, is DDR," Hyouga said "Uncle Hiei."
Yuki and Misou squealed with laughter at the term the fire demon had never gotten used to.
"And why are you playing this ear torturing device in this room, right now?" Hiei asked as he glared at them.
"First of all it's her house, her room," Sha said tiredly. "Second, why couldn't you have done this in the living room?"
"Because Hyou forgot how to unhook it from in here," Sukuna said without taking her eyes off the screen.
Sha looked at her half dog friend. "… Hyouga, it's two freakin' wires, remember?"
"I know," Hyouga said, turning away from the screen, "but you know how I am with remembering things."
"Like remembering to play your game?"
"…Huh?"
YOU FAIL suddenly came up on Hyouga's side. "Boy do you suck!" the game said.
"I win!" Sukuna yelled.
"… I want a rematch!" Hyouga yelled back.
"Nope, it's my turn!" Kitsu said. "I said I get to play winner, remember? Or did you forget?"
"Shut up!"
"Oh look, the poor puppy is sulking," Kitsu said "Aww, do you miss your squeaky toy?"
"Shut up!" Hyouga ran towards Kitsu getting ready to punch her in the mouth but Sukuna tied her hands to the wall with her webbing, making the four children laugh with glee.
"Will you please shut up? We're trying to play."
Sha smacked herself in the forehead. "Imbecile friends of mine."
"Oh c'mon you know you're an imbecile too," Hyouga said as she coated the webbing with ice and broke it. "You just don't want to admit it in front of your hell spawn."
"Whatever, I'm going back to bed," Sha said throwing the covers back over her head. "Wake me up when it's nine."
Five minutes passed before Kitsu leaned over the dragon. "Sha it's nine."
She threw her pillow over her head. "I will kill you," she said, muffled by the cloth.
"But you said—"
"Well I meant ten, damn it!"
"Well if you're gonna be Miss Bitch about it, we'll leave you alone. Your fireman can wake you in an hour," Kitsu said, leaving the room.
"Don't make too much noise," Sukuna added in, grabbing the Playstation and leaving as well, ushering the four children out before any damages arose.
"Ok,Uncle Hiei?" Hyouga said, effectively pissing him off.
"Would you shut the hell up about the damn uncle crap?" Hiei grabbed the nearest thing next to him, which happened to be the alarm clock. Hyouga closed the door in time to make it smash against the door.
Hyouga opened the door wide enough to peek her head through. "You're so cruel to inanimate objects,Uncle Hiei." She closed the door and giggled all the way to the living room.
Sha sighed and pulled the pillow off her head. "I guess we do need to get up and go gather stuff. I'll see if Salem's up for watching our hellions along with his."
"What about your father?" he asked while she got up and straightened out the clothes she had slept in.
"He's busy all this week. Advisers are trying to set him up with another female to produce a legit heir." She rolled her eyes. "Suppose it was going to happen regardless."
He shrugged and got up as well. "Had to be done eventually."
"Yeah but I'm not up to being 'big sister' at my age." She sighed. "All right, let's get this over with."
As the sun began to set in Demon World, setting the sky into a much deeper red, they entered the air-conditioned lobby of the hotel in Noriaka. The five hour drive had set them on quite a bit of an adventure full of Hyouga taking wrong turns, narrowly avoiding hitting several pedestrians, and veering into the other lane with distractions of trying to find the right streets. They only had to walk about a half hour to find the hotel, located in basically the middle of nowhere.
Sukuna grinned with mischief. "About time we got here, eh Hyouga?"
"Shut…up!" Hyouga punched the nearest thing, which happened to be Kuwabara.
"Ahhh! What the heck was that for!" Kuwabara put his hand on his bruise.
"You were in the way," Hyouga replied simply. "Do you want to get hit again?"
"No, No! That's okay, I'm fine." Kuwabara said.
They examined their home away from home for the week; in between fighting demons that wanted them dead, of course. They carried in bags if they had one packed previous to coming there.
"Hey, it's almost as ritzy as the one from the Dark Tournament!" Yusuke said and put his arms behind his head.
"Welcome, young fighters," a bellhop said and bowed. "Your two rooms are already prepared for you, so if you would follow me…"
They picked up their things with Sukuna stumbling to pick hers up.
"That reminds me, Sukuna," Kuwabara said. "What the heck do you have in there anyway?"
"Umm... Playstation 2, games, a dance mat… and my clothes of course…"
"You idiot…" Yusuke said.
"What's so stupid about that?" Sukuna asked
"Because with a fancy place like this you might find a game room," Kurama said.
"… Goddamn it. I wasted all that packing for nothing."
"You really are an idiot, Sukuna," Sha said.
In the girls' room a situation presented itself.
"Well it looks like there's only two beds and a couch and four of us," Kitsu said with a sly smile.
"Well that just tells us two of us gets a bed and one can sleep on the sleeper sofa and one has to sleep on the floor," Hyouga said giving Kitsu sly smile in return
"I get the bed," Sha cried walking towards the bed by the window suitcase in hand.
"Then I get the other one," Hyouga said
"I'll get the couch."
"Hey wait a minute! That's not fair! Why do I have to sleep on the floor?" Sukuna whined.
"Because," Kitsu answered simply.
"Now if you excuse me I'm going to listen to my music," Hyouga said putting on her headphones and went to the balcony to just sit and stare off to space.
In the boys' room, the same problem was solved much faster.
"So, what now?" Kuwabara asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Hiei said.
"What is, half-pint?"
"You're stuck with the floor," the fire demon said and pulled the bed out of the couch.
"What?!"
"Well you lost your chance already to claim one of the beds, fool. Kurama and Yusuke already took them." He pointed towards where Kurama and Yusuke had their bags on the beds and were pulling things out of them.
Kuwabara grit his teeth. "Just my darn luck."
"Oh stuff it," Yusuke said. "If you call up the desk downstairs they'll probably send up a cot or something. We're not here for a luxury vacation, you know."
"I know that, Urameshi!" He tossed down his things and stomped over to the phone.
"What should we do now?" Yusuke asked as he kicked off his shoes and sprawled out over his bed.
"There was a place to eat downstairs, I believe," Kurama answered. "I'm sure everyone probably would like something in their stomachs."
"Thanks a lot," Kuwabara said into the phone and put it back onto the receiver. "Should have a cot up in a few."
"All right, sounds like a plan," Yusuke said, nearly ignoring Kuwabara's statement. "What do you think, Kuwabara? A nice steak for a final meal?" He laughed as Kuwabara lifted him up by his shirt collar and threatened to smash his face in. "Have a sense of humor."
"Hark, is that a pissed off Kuwabara I hear?" Kitsu asked as the girls entered the room through a connected door by the sofa.
"We're heading down to dinner, if that's fine with everyone," Kurama said.
Sha narrowed her eyes. "What, that fancy joint we passed by? We didn't even bring nice things to wear."
"We'll tell them to shove their attire rules up their asses if they give us problems then," Yusuke said.
Hyouga grinned. "I'd love to see them argue against that."
"All right then, time to put a nice big steak dinner on Koenma's bill!" Sukuna said, getting a cheer from most of the others. One just grunted in agreement.
