I'M BACK! Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry I've been gone so long, but as you all know, schools started and my teachers have got a grudge against me because I like Yusuke, so I've been swamped! I lost myself in school until a faithful reviewer, okamiyuki, reminded me of my ever present duty to cause chaos and mischief with Siren! SO THANK HER, AS I DO! I HAVEN'T DIED! I LIVE!!!!!! If ever I'm gone for that long again, all any of you have to do is send me a little review, saying I've been gone for too long and I will return! Here's one chapter and I promise the next one will be up tomorrow or the next day. PROMISE! NOW, LET SIREN CONTIUNE ONWARD!
Chapter 35: A genius idea
I leaped away from my spot excitedly and leaped forward and grabbed Renku's hand, dragging him towards the stadium wall, grinning happily. I NOW COULD SAVE KURAMA!
"What, Siri? You got an idea to help Kurama?" Renku asked, looking just as brilliantly excited as I was. I nodded my head happily as the GENIUS plan began to form in my mind; it was simplistic but I knew it'd get the job done and we'd SAVE KURAMA! WHOOPEE! I had done this type of thing before and it hadn't failed me yet!
"Yep! I got THE most simply and brilliant idea ever!" I said, pausing for dramatic effect as I stared down at him. Yeah, I know Kurama's getting beat from one end of the arena to the other but this was DRAMATIC EFFECT we're talking 'bout here! Renku frowned impatiently.
"Well, what is it already?" He asked as he hoped up and down, up and down…up and down…up and down…has someone been eating sugar? I grinned and decided to tell him, since Kurama looked slightly droopy in the arena.
"We make Roto mad." I said quietly, lest someone hear my BRILLIANT plan. I'm telling ya: Wasn't simple JUST the BEST? It was! My evil ideas are normally quite simplistic and genius and they ALWAYS work. Wellll…not ALWAYS, I guess. Like when I tried to get Hiei to go ice skinning with me in Switzerland…it didn't work…in fact, we all nearly froze to death and then we nearly were set on fire by an insane, angry pyromaniac. (How was I suppose to know Hiei had never been on skies before and I happened to chose Death Mountain, expert course. Gee, and he nearly killed me! Good thing I used Kuwabara as a Human shield…Kuwabara was bald for months afterwards cause Hiei burnt his hair off. DON'T try and picture it.) Anyway! Renku stared up at me blinkingly for a moment before questioning my BRILLIANCE.
"Get him…angry? SIREN! What on earth are you talking about? He'll only kill Kurama, or his mom, or you…or all three!" Renku exclaimed in wonderment; I grinned and shook my head slightly. Poor, poor Renku! He didn't know me very well, did he?
"Renku, my darling, don't worry so much! I can handle this, kay? It's gonna work out just fine, you'll see." I said, and without another word, trotted off towards the outside of the ring with Renku following a distance behind. I ran up to Hiei and tapped him on his shoulder to get his attention…which I managed.
"Siren, would you stop running around like an idiot and pay attention to the fight?" Hiei snapped out all annoyedly (I made that up!) which I ignored since I knew he was just a LITTLE bit tense because his best friend was being beaten into a bloody and messy pulp. I grinned at my darling as I rocked back and forth on the ball of my heel.
"My beloved, I am just informing you that I will be saving Kurama now!" I said with a contented smile, which widened to a grin when Hiei raised an eyebrow, staring at me in some surprise. (Eek, does that man he DOUBTED me? O Hiei of little faith! Or should I say little Hiei of little faith? DON'T KILL ME, HIEI!)
"Oh? And how might you be accomplishing that?" Hiei asked with Kuwabara and Boton staring at me as well, while Renku just shook his head, looking doubtful. (Why is EVERYONE doubting me? Have they no faith that I can rescue Kurama from his dire fate? I'm like Yusuke: No brains but plenty of geniusness) I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms, an amused glint in my eyes.
"With WORDS, of course, my love!" I said, bowing low at the waist while Hiei sighed, that why-is-it-always-me-and-why-am-I-surrounded-by-idiots look coming across his face. Kuwabara sighed and stood up, wincing ever so slightly as he did so.
"Well, be careful Siren, cause words can hurt!" Kuwabara warned seriously, making me stare at him, all weirded out as Hiei looked nauseous. I rolled my eyes.
"I don't think Hiei's mother taught him that. Maybe we should enroll you in Sensitive School; I hear they bring in Culture Club as guest speakers." I said with an evil glance at Hiei, who glared at me intently; I sighed and shook my head. Too bad my boyfriend doesn't have a sense of humor…or any us normal folk can detect.
"Be careful." Hiei said softly as I made move towards the ring, ready to get my insane game on. I glanced back at Hiei and grinned, making him smile in return, apparently amused by my insanity.
"Watch me smoke, darling!" I said haughtily and Hiei snickered, probably because of my phrasing. It was so totally time to get me that button so Kurama can rip Roto's arms off and beat him to death with them. I cupped my hands to my mouth and screamed at the ref; it was now time to protest the SO UNFAIRNESS of the situation.
"Hey ref! Foul! Foul, foul, FOUL! Rotten Roto is using unfair methods!" I screeched as I glanced over at Kurama once as I shouted. Kurama's eyes slipped shut for half a second, probably praying I'd shut up, which he knew I wouldn't, before he turned to stare at me coldly. I knew he wanted me to shut up, but I was too busy being an activist. Koto glanced at me, looking weirded out.
"I'm very sorry, Siren, but whatever Roto is doing, he's allowed to do. The only rule in the Dark Tournament is there are no rules. That's why Demon's love this so much!" Koto cried with a small grin, but I glared at her and stomped my foot three times for emphasis.
"Well, I'm not a Demon! I am a human, activist, being! And so is Yusuke and Kuwabara! We're humans! This is completely unfair! I DEMAND that someone knock some sense into Roto…and Kurama can, after you take that button and flush it down the toilet!" I shouted annoyed, cutting my eyes at Roto to see him getting agitated, probably as much as our foxy friend was. Kurama shut his eyes for a moment more before he grounded out in annoyance.
"Siren…not helping!" He said calmly, but in that deadly way of his…the same way I ignored him as I glared at Koto. She didn't move or manage to say anything because Roto finally snapped and glared at me, finding his forked tongue.
"Human girl! Learn you're place and shut up!" He shouted out as he glared at me, his tiny eyes narrow with anger. I glared right back, not the least bit afraid of him…the fact that it wasn't me and my mom's life at stake kinda helped that fact.
"Oh yeah? Wanna know where my place is? Right up there with my foot at your throat, but unfortunately, it's gonna be Kurama's foot! I can live with that, though! You won't, though!" I screeched back at him like the monkey I was deep inside; Roto's little smirk turned into him sneering evilly at me. That's when it turned into a full on shouting match, which was what I was going for.
"I'll take great pleasure in smiling over your broken body!" Him, very cool threat, I might add, not that it worked.
"Yeah, snake boy? Then bring your boney, grey butt over here and let's see who's standing at the end!" Me, arms crossed and glaring, harsh.
"I will! After I break our mutual redheaded friend here!" Boy, are they friends now? I gotta look at the score card again!
"Ha! I'd love to see you try, freakazoid! He'll be the one standing in the end, staring down at your DEAD BODY!" Yep, I had faith in my best pally.
"Watch you're mouth, girl! I tortured people younger then you!" Oooh, scary. I think I almost trembled.
"Hmm, wanna be buried in that, or something halfway decent? Wanna be cremated or buried? Prefer lilies or roses? Kurama can provide the roses…after he rips his roses whip from where your intestines should be!" Am I scared of him? No! Am I stupid for this? Very possible!
"Ugh…you pathetic little embryonic human!" I can smell weakness!
"I know you are, but what am I?" Yes, I moonlight as a five year old.
"I'll tell you what you are, human! You're an inferior female! And a human!" Oh my God. I'm a female…and a human? NO!
"I know you are but what am I? You look good in that dress, but may I suggest something in pink chiffon? WEAKLING!" Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah! I'm so bad, I'm good.
"I'll push that button, human! I'll push it now!" I'm scared. Truly.
"Siren, shut up!" Okay, that was Kurama. He was glaring at me furiously, his hands behind his back but his green eyes shining spookily across at me. Aww, I was in the middle of something! I barely turned my head to glare right back at him.
"You 'shut up', Kurama! I'm saving your miserable life by verbally beating a five year old girl in her mother's old, grey dress who doesn't have a brain cell to stand on!" I growled at him and then taunted at Roto. Roto's eyes were bugging out and he was shaking so bad…but Kurama still spoke up again.
"I don't need your help, Siren!" That was Kurama again…ignore him. I did.
"I know it must be sad, Roto. Being verbally defeated by a poor, pathetic human girl who is fifty times more powerful then you. So, you never answered my question…roses or lilies…wimpy snaky boy?" I purred with a poisonous smile, which literally drove poor Roto out of his mind. Roto let lose a shriek and, looking around but seeing nothing big enough to hurl at me to kill me, he threw his precious button at me in rage. I caught in one hand, a contented smile on my face, as Roto's face paled.
"I forget: Who said he didn't need help?" I asked smugly and I noticed that Kurama's sigh wasn't exasperated like it normally wsa but grateful and there was a light in his eyes as he leaped at Roto, apparently wanting to pound him slowly into the ground before killing him. I grinned and then glanced down at my hand…oh my God! I was holding a device that could kill Kurama's mother in a single, simple, absentminded, which is what I was, flick of the finger.
"Well, only one thing to do…" I murmured as Renku and Kuwabara both rushed to my side. I let loose a shriek of fear and horror and then started running! That right: RUNNING! I ran all around the ring, circling round and round, passing by the evil team and watching as they glared at us, tossing the button from hand to hand like it was burning. (Like, totally O-O, anime style.) Renku and Kuwabara kept up with me splendidly and both of them shouted ridiculous things like…
"Okay, I know what to do! Cross the white wire with the blue one! Or maybe the red…yeah, the red one! You always cross the red one on TV!" That was Kuwabara, our resident Secret Agent man, as he tried to grab the button but I smacked his hand away.
"No, you'll kill us all!" I screeched, as if this wasn't a kill-the-poor-boy's-mother button but a oh-my-God-it's-a-bomb-and-we're-all-going-to-die button.
"Throw it on the ground and I'll pulverize it!" That one was Renku, but he couldn't touch the button cause I, and the rest of those out there who aren't midgets, towered over him. We ran around the ring like psychos for about two more minutes before, as I was passing by our side, a hand suddenly shot out and grabbed the button. I turned around in time to see Hiei's hand lit up in flames, incinerating the button like it was that rat that Hiei pulled out of Yusuke's toilet and killed cause I didn't want to touch it. Creepy story. I blinked as Hiei brushed ashes off his hand.
"God, you're so attractive when you're being insane." Hiei muttered under his breath as he crossed his arms. I grinned and leaned forward, kissing Hiei happily.
"And I love it when you're being all mean and cute like!" I said and Hiei 'hmphed' loudly and turned away, but not before I caught that attractive little half smile of his. I turned towards the ring in time to see Roto being knocked senseless by an insanely angry Kurama. He finally let loose one last punch, one last shout, and Roto went flying off into the upper stadium, a couple of teeth and droplets of blood fly everywhere. I'd say he was DOWN! HOME RUN! PUSHING UP DAIES! KICKING THE BUCKET! 3…2…1…YER OUTTA THERE! Koto started counting to ten and when she reached the coveted number, she grinned and turned to Kurama.
"And with the help of Sirena, Kurama claims victory!" And despite the fact I hate 'Sirena' and not 'Siren'…I was pretty gosh darn happy.