Hiya! Short chappie to let ya'll know I'm still livin'! My keyboard is screwed up and I'm still waiting for the new one I ordered. When I get it in I should be able to get back to writing. I know it's been a while, but I got a LOT of drama goin' on (yeah, what else is new?) so I've barely been near a computer these last few months. I think it's calming down again (until the next wave...) Anyway, here it is! Look over any typos. This was all done with an on-screen keyboard...

I own nothing. Enjoy!

"Stuffed animal: 39 dollars," Kairi said.

"Video camera: 399 dollars," Kane said.

"Blackmail on Kurama: priceless," Touya grinned.

The little kit was rolling around on the floor wrestling with the stuffed Pooh that Kairi usually had on her bed. Touya doubted he'd have any trouble getting his rematch out of Kurama when this was all over...

"Wonder if Suzuka's done with that potion yet...," Kane thought out loud. He started to nod off but the sound of Pooh saying something about a snuggly-huggly woke him back up.

Both Kane and Kairi were wore out. Neither one of them had got so much as a nap since the start of their little adventure. Yoko on the other hand...

"That phone call to Shiori slowed him down," Kairi said, stifling a yawn. Suzuka's talents had spared them quite a bit of trouble with Shiori. He'd used the home-videos of the tournaments to find a sample of Kurama's voice, recorded it into one of his computer programs, and warped it. They called when they knew she wouldn't be home and left the message on her machine. Far better than explaining that her son had turned into a demonic fur-ball with a short temper, high IQ, trust issues and a nose that could hone in on an Oreo from 3 rooms away...

The original plan had been to get an old message from Kaitou's answering machine but they had abandoned that idea when Kairi called him. He answered the phone out of breath and there were noises in the background. Moaning noises... Kairi heard a woman on the TV saying something about tentacles...

"Forget it. I'll talk to you later," she said, flinching as she tried to get the image out of her head.

"Why didn't you get him to play the message?" Kane asked.

"He was busy."

"So? And what's so funny?"

"I think dere's some freak in dat geek," she said, shaking her head. "You call him if you want to. As long as I spent roamin' the back roads of Makai, I've got a strict "No Tentacle" policy..."

Kane raised an eyebrow. "Hentai?" 'I'll have to borrow a few things from that dork later...'

"You. Are. Disgusting."

"I didn't say anything!" Kane growled.

"We both know what you were thinking."

"How the hell do you know what I was thinking? All I did was ask if that's what the nerd was busy with!"

"It was your tone of voice," she said.

"Now I get in trouble for sayin' things the wrong way?"

"Welcome to my life," Yusuke mumbled on his way to the door, which earned him a hard stare from Kayko. The Urameshi and Kuwabara families were headed home for the night and Yukina was going back to Genkai's. Botan had already been informed that she wasn't going anywhere till the miniature fox was back to normal...

Now, a few hours later, they were too busy fighting sleep to worry about fighting each other, and Botan had already dozed off.

'Lotta good she did...' Kane thought. Black clouded his vision...

"That was a cozy sort of hug."

His head jerked up at the sound of Pooh's voice again. "We can't take much more of this," he said to Kairi.

"Black coffee sound good?" she asked.

He made an uh-huh kind of sound through a yawn and the girl went to the kitchen. He rested his eyes for just a second... Zzzzzz

The little kit saw Touya still awake. The box of cookies that had caused so much trouble earlier was sitting on the end table beside him. The bat and the girl had decided that keeping it close was the only way to keep him out of it. He sat down at Touya's feet and looked at the box then back to Touya; look at the box; look at Touya...

"Forget it," the ice apparition said.

The kit pooched out his bottom lip and made a face pitiful enough to put a basset hound to shame.

Touya sighed. "Alright already. One can't hurt I guess. But just one," he said as he dug out a chocolate cookie and handed it to the fox. After scarfing down the first he whimpered until he got one more. Touya was just about to find a new place for the box when Kairi returned with mugs in-hand.

She kicked the snoring bat in the shin.

"ITHOUGHTSHEWAS18!" he said, jumping a little. He looked around and found himself on the receiving end of a couple stares and a set of rolled eyes. He was going to say that he was just joking but the girl thrust the coffee cup into his hand and went to her chair.

"Don't even think about sleep, dingbat. If I have to go without, you do, too!" she said.

Touya stretched and yawned. "But I think I'll turn in. Have fun." With that, the ninja left the trio and a snoring Botan alone for the night.

Kane downed his coffee and headed to the kitchen for seconds. Kairi put her half-empty cup of cappuccino down on the end table beside her. It was then she noticed the look she was getting.

Two big, amber eyes looked up at her. They went back and forth between her and the box on the table.

"Forget it, shawty. Ain't happenin'."

The fox tried the pouty lip again but the girl wasn't as easy as her brother had been. Finally he reached up, getting the girl to put him in her lap. He resumed the longing looks at the box in between the snuggles and hugs. He knew he could butter her up if he kept this up. He started throwing in a sad whimper here and there...

"All right. Ya got me. But just one." She dug out a cookie for the fox. He tried to get one more out of her the same way as before but it didn't work. Oh, well. There was always next time.

He yawned and curled up in the girl's lap and closed his eyes. The girl watched him for a few minutes before deciding that he was asleep, then she drifted off herself. She was so out of it that she didn't notice the fox climbing down from her lap.

After nearly draining the pot of coffee, the bat came back to find the girl asleep and the fox reaching up to the end table, trying to get a hold of the box.

"I don't think so," he said, picking up the box.

The kit looked up at him with a look that seemed to say "How could you?"

"Fine. You can have one. But no more!"

He sat down his coffee cup and fished a cookie out of the box for his tiny friend. Yoko climbed up on the other end of the couch and ate his cookie, then curled up, using his tail for a pillow, and appeared to doze off. Seeing this, the bat figured he could catch a nap. He laid his head down on the arm of the couch and within seconds he was snoring. He didn't notice the kit climbing down to investigate the rest of the house.

He managed to get "Just one" cookie out of nearly every other person in the house. The exception was Shishi, but that didn't matter to the kit. The gang had figured out that he was "house-broke", but no one had mentioned to Shishi that the kit had been crawling under his bed...

The fox followed his nose back to the living room. Something smelled good around here. Yoko didn't know what it was, but he aimed to find out. After a few minutes of sniffing he struck gold. A whole bag of candy. Rinku's secret stash. Most of it was gummi worms and Tootsie Rolls, but there was a big pink thing. It had something in it. After a few minutes of inspecting, the fox figured out how to open the bubble-tape dispenser...

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