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Bartender

Chapter 6

Hiei looked at his surroundings. He was trapped in a counter in a dark place filled with teens in the oddest-looking clothes he's ever seen in his life. He reached out for his sword and found that he was dressed in unusual fashion himself. It was not far from his black and white drapes but he was definitely uncomfortable. He felt as if he was being suffocated. And upon reaching for his sword, his surprise was even more evident when he took hold of a small knife instead.

"Well don't just stand there! Start slicing up those lemons for the cocktails!" A big-bellied man said upon coming up to him.

"Who are you to order me around?" Hiei said as he shot a glare at the man who was a foot taller than him.

"Little punk. I'm your boss! Now get started. These kids won't be dancing like crazy without a little booze." The man whispered before laughing. "Now get going before I fire you."

'I should like to slit this human's throat and this small knife is enough to shut that ugly laugh of his.' Hiei tried to track down the spiritual energy of Kurama who was playing puppeteer of the situation. 'But Kurama dies first.'

~o~

"That can't be good! Hiei's in there?!" Botan panicked as she and Kurama walk back into the hotel to search for Keiko.

"On the contrary, Botan, I think Hiei will be a lot of help." Kurama said calmly. "Hiei will be like an assurance. Supposing Yusuke does not move accordingly as planned, at least we have one of our allies inside the dimension to force a move out of him."

"But what makes you think he'll help Yusuke out in this kind of situation. I can hardly imagine Hiei to be a romantic!" Botan snapped, worried.

"And that's exactly what makes him so important." Kurama smiled.

"I still don't see the logic behind this one. But you're the smart one so we'll just have to trust you." Botan said regaining her composure.

"Oh there you are Botan! I've been looking everywhere for you!" A girl called a few steps away from the redhead and the grim reaper.

"Well, if it isn't the character we wanted to see." Kurama whispered.

~o~

Yusuke blinked. He was in front of the mirror in the bathroom. He judged his reflection and had question marks jumping jacking around his head.

"A suit?"

Yusuke tried to recall the last thing he did.

"Oh yeah… I was at the beach thinking about what I should do about…" A sigh escaped him.

"So this is a dream huh? Funny it feels real." He said as he loosened his neck tie. "The heat wearing this one feels real too. I guess that's what you get for being spiritually aware. You feel like you're in reality even in your dreams. Some crap bonus for being a spirit detective."

He slicked his hair back. "Well I can't stay here forever. Might as well get this dream over with and to catch up on some training too." He said as he cracked his knuckles, almost confident that he would be getting in a fight in a matter of minutes in his dream.

When he went out of the bathroom, he found himself in a huge room and throngs of teenagers who he was not familiar with. He shot a glare at the boys who felt like they want a fight.

"What the hell. Is this prom or something?" Yusuke muttered under his breath. "Those bozos don't even have a date because they've got those stupid looks on their faces. I swear it'll look different after I'm through with them."

He was about to give the throng a piece of his mind when something in the bar counter caught his eye. He walked towards it with utmost interest and confusion. He sat at the bar and was faced by the bartender.

"There's no Bloody Mary here but I'll gladly provide you a drink of your own blood if you disturb my solitude any further than you already have." The short bartender said.

Yusuke blinked. "Hiei?"

Yusuke looked at him closely. "Hey! So I see you're here! I barely recognized you without your hair up. If you hadn't talked I would've thought you were just an ordinary bartender!"

Yusuke continued laughing. "Man, you look weird with your hair down and in a ponytail! What's up with that? Hair wax shortage?!"

Hiei gritted his teeth and leapt out of the counter. "You talk too much detective. If you're going to talk to me, talk to me with your fists."

"Now that's the training I'm talking about!" Yusuke leapt backward to prepare for his fighting stance when he hit someone behind him.

Yusuke glanced back and knelt to help that person up. When his attention was drawn into the person's legs. 'Wow. I think I've just hit a jackpot!'

"Yusuke?" The person said as she stood up from her fall. Whatever reality was at that very moment.

Yusuke looked up to the face of the person he accidentally hit from his kneeling position. "Ke… Keiko?" Yusuke asked stupidly. Then went back staring at her legs and started to make his eyes crawl up.

DOUBLE SUPER SLAP!

"Yusuke! You jerk!" Keiko said after hitting him. The crowd turned their attention to them. Embarrassed, Keiko pulled an unconscious Yusuke out of the ballroom and settled him in a sofa just outside the ballroom and sat beside him.

Keiko heaved a sigh. "I should control my temper better in situations like that."

Suddenly Yusuke resurrected from his almost comatose state and stared at Keiko.

"What?" She asked.

Yusuke showed a huge grin. "You sure hit hard even in my dreams! Man, if this weren't a dream I'd be in hospital for days!" He said as he happily massaged his sore cheeks.

Keiko glared at him. 'Although… this doesn't feel like a dream at all…' Keiko thought as she massaged her hands. 'The sensation in my hand feels so real.'

"So what's with the dress?" Yusuke asked as he comically inspected her with a hand in his chin.

"Dress?" Keiko asked not realizing what she was wearing.

She was wearing a tamed yellow halter dress, flowing just below her knees. It exposed half of her back. Her hair was tied in a ponytail with a small white tropical flower tucked beneath it.

Keiko's cheeks colored. "I guess you can go all out in dreams."

Keiko looked back at Yusuke. Yusuke blinked in confusion.

"I never thought I'd see you wear a suit." Yusuke looked away to hide the shyness that suddenly overcome him. "You look good."

Yusuke turned to face her and caught her smile at him. After a few seconds, he found himself staring at her glossed lips. His heart skipped a bit.

'What the hell's happening?' Yusuke thought, gulping.

"Ah! A ghost!" Yusuke shouted to divert Keiko's attention.

Keiko didn't even budge. "I don't sense those types of things, remember?"

Yusuke gave a nervous laugh. 'Smarty pants. Man, that stupid ordeal for awakening my powers is taking its toll even in my dreams.' He glanced at Keiko and remembered what Chu had told him.

"Why don't you just get drunk and be forward about it to her? Once the deed is done, the girl can't do anything about it!"

"So what do we do now?" Keiko asked.

Chu's words played in Yusuke's head again. "Why don't you just get drunk and be forward about it to her? Once the deed is done, the girl can't do anything about it!"

'Well it really wouldn't help if I do it in a dream… but I guess I should train myself for it. This is more bothersome than one of Genkai's sick training sessions.' Yusuke thought as Keiko looked at him for his answer.

"We should go back in." Yusuke said, praying hard he'd live to tell about what he was planning to do.

~o~

"Isn't there a way to see what's happening?" Botan shrieked in envy.

"I'd pay to watch Urameshi get all warm and fuzzy!" Kuwabara said.

"Let me remind you, shall Yusuke find out about all this, there's a chance that we won't be fighting in the finals. We'd all be dead by then." Kurama joked.

"Well at least give us a lowdown on what's happening inside!" Kuwabara demanded.

"No, can do." Kurama was firm about it. Then he gave out a laugh. "Well, I suppose I can tell you this much. He hasn't realized that they are just trapped in my illusion-created dimension and he's not denying his severe attraction toward Keiko in the way he is acting now."

Kuwabara's nose had a blood waterfall as he imagined Keiko wearing a tight playboy girl outfit with a whip in hand with Yusuke following her like a dog.

Shizuru and Botan beat Kuwabara into a pulp.

"Of course, I didn't mean it in the way Kuwabara thought." Kurama explained, worried about his life.

"Serves you right! How can you think of something like that?!" Botan lunged at him angrily.

"Playing with kids' hormones…" Shizuru said as she lighted a cigarette after dropping Kuwabara in the floor. "This should be interesting."

"Hormones?" Yukina asked innocently.

"That will be hard to explain." Shizuru said; sweat dropping from behind her head.

~o~

Hiei watched as Keiko and Yusuke entered the hall again. In the world he was in, he was not a jagan master or a swordsman. He was what they call a bartender. He was surrounded by bottles of alcohol. Its smell was overwhelming and he has discovered through context clues that a bar tender was supposed to mix the bottle contents together.

"Vodka… Gin… Brandy… Feh…"

For a lack of better things to do, he took a glass water vase beside him that was meant for the tips he would get and poured all three bottles' contents together. The teens around him saw what he did and gulped and whispered among themselves that they would stay away from the bar if they don't want to experience the worst hangover ever.

"Hey Hiei! Give me a shot will yah?" He heard the spirit detective say. Yusuke was well aware that he was not yet of age to drink. 'Who cares? It's a damn dream anyway. What's the worst that can happen anyway?'

"You're just in time detective." Hiei handed him the vase.

"Is this normal?" Yusuke asked as he stared at the vase full of who-knows-what. 'I don't remember mom drinking anything close to this.'

"What's wrong, detective? Scared?" Hiei challenged.

"You're not talking to me, right Hiei?" Yusuke said as he held the vase in his hand. "Coz scared isn't in my vocabulary."

~o~

Kurama's face darkened.

"What's wrong now?" Kuwabara asked, dumbfounded that Kurama can look that way.

Kurama forced out a laugh. "I may have overestimated Hiei's role in this."

~o~

"I see the dimwit has smart ass friends." An old voice said.

"I gotta hand it to Kurama, he is very creative." Another voice answered.

"Let's see if that boy can get as lucky as he did when he defeated Rando."

"Either way… we win this round."

~o~

- TBC

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