Who Said Life Was Simple? Chapter 10, a yu yu hakusho fanfic

Who Said Life Was Simple

Daphne dug anxiously through her closet, while Kit and Kai just hung out in her room, waiting. Kai toyed with a yoyo, practicing her tricks as she leaned against a wall near the door, making sure nobody came in. Kit sat on Daphne's bed, getting smacked in the face with a skirt, pair of jeans, or a top, only to throw the articles of clothing into the pile beside the bed.

"Don't you have any dresses, Kit?" Daphne paused to ask, tired of raiding her closet in quest of what seemed to be a "needle in a haystack" kind of item.

Kit replied in the negative, and before they could inquire of Kai, she said, "Nope," proceeding to "walk the dog."

Daphne sighed and resumed her search. Finally, she found what she was looking for ("Aha!") and showed it to the others with a "Tada!" of triumph. Receiving weird looks, she told them, "Don't ask why I have it. It's a long story. My family's really weird."

It was a frilly pink dress that made Kit and Kai's jaws drop in disgust. It had powder-puff sleeves and a ribbon waist with a pouffed out knee-length skirt.

"Hmm…" the girls contemplated in unison. They held it to the unconscious Hiei on the floor to test the look.

"Not really a flattering color on him, is it?" Kit observed.

"Mm-mm," Daphne agreed, then returned to her closet as the other girls exchanged confused glances. "Maybe purple's a better color for him," she explained, relieving the closet of a violet dress almost exactly like the last, but with a longer length to it (reaching the ground), and the ribbon waist had been replaced with lace trim, mostly around the bust area. "Told you they were weird," she added, referring to her family.

"Perfect!" They all agreed, and commenced to costume the apparition, all of them knowing that it would be a bad idea to undress him first (though Daphne wanted to). After his clothes were completely hidden by the ridiculous outfit, each girl retrieved her make-up kit (Kai didn't have much to get), applying different types. Giggling, they dragged their victim back to the clearing and ran like the Dickens, just in case he woke up any second.

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"Again!" Genkai ordered. They had yet to receive any information from Koenma on the pendants. To pass the time, and prepare for any ambushes from anyone who was a step ahead of them, Genkai was putting Yusuke through some grueling training exercises, mainly working on powering up his Spirit Gun.

"Aw, come on!" Yusuke complained. He was exhausted. He had been doing the same thing all day.

It was at that moment that screams of terror echoed through the forest, attracting the attention of pupil and master. They automatically turned towards the sound, and, momentarily, their charges emerged, running as fast as they could in the temple's direction.

Before either Yusuke or his sensei could ask why they were so scared, or even why they were doing the 100-yard dash quicker than he could, they sprinted past them into the temple and slammed the doors.

"What's their problem?" the teen inquired of his master. He didn't have long to find out.

Hiei, red in the face with anger, bolted from amongst the trees, in hot pursuit of the mischievous girls. He halted in front of Yusuke. "Where are they?" he growled.

Yusuke snickered, trying as hard as he could to hold back a laugh. He didn't succeed. Genkai just stared in amazement.

"What?" the furious demon demanded.

Yusuke couldn't stop laughing long enough to explain, so he pointed at Hiei's outfit. He glanced down to see the frilly, lacey dress. He had failed to notice it, too distracted by the fact that Daphne had tricked him into taking some sort of drug.

Hiei ripped off the ridiculous garment and tore it to shreds, as though it would relieve him of his humiliation. He then took off after the girls, even madder than before, if that was possible, with his katana drawn.

Genkai and Kurama had, of course, saved the girls, who were assembled, along with Hiei, in a line in front of Genkai in the temple's training hall.

"I would have expected better of all of you," a disappointed Genkai lectured them. "Therefore, I think it's best that you, girls, begin training. Obviously, you have too much time on your hands as it stands. And Hiei, you should know better than to try to kill those under your protection, no matter what the circumstances."

"Hn."

"For punishment, you will all do twenty laps around the temple," Genkai continued.

"I'd like to see you make me," Hiei defied her.

"Hiei, you still have make-up on your face," Daphne pointed out timidly, referring to the white foundation (from Kai's Goth stage), pink clown-circle cheeks, sexy red lipstick, and purple eye shadow that reached his eyebrows. He snatched the compact mirror that Kit held out to him and examined the damage. Upon seeing the results of their "skills," he wiped it off as best he could and began to chase them once again, this time outside and around the perimeter of the temple.

"You're not going to stop him?" Kurama checked with Genkai.

"No," Genkai informed him. "They're doing what I told them to do, and as long as they're all busy, I really don't care what occupies their time." As an afterthought, she added, "Make sure he doesn't kill them. I'm going inside. Yusuke needs to keep training."

Kurama nodded as she took her exit, ready to step in should Hiei show signs of true bloodlust.

Kohari: So we finally got to some of the things mentioned in "What I Learned At Genkai's Temple."

Jacqie: About time, huh? Oh, and we're sorry y'all had to wait so long. We had five reviews by Saturday, but we decided to wait 'til Monday to update because of the server thingy.

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