"Okay, now you all stand at the top of the stairs…" Shizuru waved her hand at their ragtag group, her cigarette limp in her lips. "If the two morons could quit fighting?"
Kazuma held his hands up quick, trying to look innocent. The brat, Yuusuke, stuck his tongue out. Little shit. At least the others were being cooperative. Kurama and Yukina and Keiko were all in place with smiles on their faces and Genkai was in the center for the picture even if she had a long suffering expression on her face rather than a smile. Whatever. Smiles were overrated and it'd be more accurate in looking back anyway.
"Where the hell is Hiei?" she asked.
"Ah, he said something about foolish human traditions," Kurama said.
Which meant he was still around or Kurama would have clarified. "Well get his ass in the picture. What's the point if he's not in it?"
Kurama smirked, there and gone so fast the others probably missed it. He was probably enjoying this shit. Why was everyone she knew an asshole? Okay, no, she knew why. Like called to like. Shizuru tapped her camera impatiently as Kurama gestured to a tree and Hiei fell from it with a muffled fwump wrapped in vines.
"So nice you could join us," Kurama said with a sly grin. How the hell did her little brother think he was the nice one of his group? He didn't pick fights like Yuusuke or the shrimp, but he had a nasty sense of humor lurking behind his innocent façade.
Kurama pulled a glaring Hiei into the center of the group. He whispered something in his ear—Shizuru almost wanted to know what since it kept him from running when the vines were stripped off—but he only softened the death glares when Yukina smiled at him. Shit, no one could stay mad at Yukina. (She totally saw why her brother liked her, but she wasn't quite sure what Yukina saw in her brother…)
"Okay, so bunch up a bit—act like you can tolerate being around each other. There ya go." Now if Yuusuke could stop inching his hand toward Keiko's skirt and her idiot brother would stop elbowing Yuusuke in the ribs—ah, thank you Genkai. "Great. Now cheese or some shit."
Shizuru focused the camera as the morons grinned widely, Genkai and Hiei scowled harder, Kurama gave his stupid secretive smile, and the girls looked sincere. Good enough. Click. She took two more in quick succession. "Now you can go back to being stupid."
She clicked a few more pictures as Kazuma and Yuusuke immediately started poking at each other, Keiko turned to scowl at Yuusuke, and Hiei and Kurama said something to each other that had Kurama laughing. They'd like those a hell of a lot more than the nice, pretty, official bull crap.
She'd get the film developed and give Genkai the negatives.
"Oy, Shizuru, you need to be in a picture too!"
"Like hell." Brats.