Curse of the YinYang
By:: Kiyoshi-neko
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Kiyoshi:: ^-^ KONNICHI WA MINA-SAN!!!!!!
Snow:: 9.9 okay...we've been taking too much time with these sooo..ON WITH IT!!!
Kiyoshi:: ...right..
Die:: so you don't get confused //stuffs// is Jair talking to Brin through their mental link and \\ stuffs\\ is Brin talking to Jair through their link.kay?? ^-^
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Disclaimer::: Kiyoshi-san does not own anyone from YYH or InuYasha.. or even Brin and Jair's attacks.. (Kiyoshi:: (sulks)) but she DOES own the chibi kitsune Shuuday, Brin, Jair, Cale, ViVi, and the moor cat.
Kiyoshi:: ^_^ SEE?! I'm not TOTALLY reliant on other creations!!!
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Random Quote:: You don't know me and I don't know you, so we're even GO AWAY!! Author:: ^-^ Something I thought Yusuke could've said when he first met Boton..evil right??
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Chapter 7
Fortunes Galore!!
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"Who. Are you."
Shuuday slowly looked up at this youkai. "Why should I tell you my name mister??" he practically squeaked out. The youkai's left eye twitched.
"What. Did you just say?" his voice almost seemed to crack. Shuuday bit his tounge to try and stop from making a bad choice and point that out. This guy seemed to have an insane glint in his eye. "I.uh.asked why I should tell you my name?" He sat back on his heels eyes closed muttering and twitching a bit. Shuuday decided to try and use this to his advantage but he didn't get any more than one step away. "What did you call me after that Kit?"
Shuuday whirled around to see the youkai with silver eyes and slightly pointed ears glaring at him. "H-How did you?" He received a dull look as the youkai's eyes dashed from his ears then his tail "Must I say?"
Shuuday plopped down and pouted at him. Hey 80 years was still young for HIM. "Answer me kit." Shuuday looked up with slightly narrowed eyes. "I.uh.I called you.mister." He suddenly found himself eye to eye with the youkai dangling painfully by the tail. "You have a nose KIT, how about using it?" ((AN:: I think youkai should be able to smell gender differences right?))
Shuuday looked at him suspiciously then took a sniff. His eyes widened slightly "erm.oops..you're not a mister." He winced as she suddenly yelled at him "damn straight I'm not a MISTER!!" he winced even harder when he was suddenly dropped on his bottom. His frustration of not being able to find his brother and sister and all of this finally snapped his sanity "IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU LOOK LIKE A GUY!!"
Her eyes narrowed dangerously and she suddenly dropped down to just above his eye level. In a scarily calm and venomous voice reached his ears. "Please repeat what you just said to me, word. for, word," Shuuday starred up at her terribly frightened and shook his head violently.
"You are afraid of me." more of a statement then a question. Shuuday brought up his courage slightly "no I'm not!" She smirked "tell me your name KIT." She demanded stressing his age rudely. "I-I don't have to tell you ANYthing!" he watched as she quirked an eyebrow. "Oh really? And just why is that? I am older, stronger, and completely capable of killing you right now."
Shuuday slowly got up gathering what was left of his courage as quickly as possible. "I, am the eldest of three siblings from the Salem clan of Kitsune, rightful heir to leadership! I do not have to answer to you if I do no wish to!"
This perked her curiosity slightly "eh? Salem huh? I stayed with them a long time ago for just a while. Bunch of idiots, the whole lot of 'em. You have made three mistakes in that one phrase KIT." Shuuday blinked Why wasn't this girl gonna kill him? Not that he wanted her to or anything. She smirked "One, you told me you have two siblings this would give me good blackmail if I ever got a hold of them. Two you just told me that you are pretty much the prince of your clan, that in itself is never good. And three, you just insulted me and by now many others would have killed you."
Shuuday blinked, she WAS right, "why haven't you killed me yet?" She raised an eyebrow, "well that's new, I wont answer that until you answer my first question." Shuuday frowned "what question?" She sighed in annoyance "what. Is your name?" He grinned I already told you I'm not saying!" she glared at him hardly.
"You are different" she said smirking now. Rather quick at changing the mood. "I AM NOT DIFFERENT!" Whether you lived in the Makai or the Ningenkai it was dangerous to be different. Her smirked has now grown into a full- blown grin "oh. But you ARE! You are not afraid to kill are you kit?" He didn't answer. ".I can see it in you, you have taken a life, that is forbidden in your clan you won't be able to go back now. That's why you came here isn't it?"
Shuuday had tuned her out close to the end. It WAS his fault; he had taken a life and would not be accepted back, heir or no heir. His brother and sister were with them, it was his fault too that they couldn't go back, everything that happened was his fault and now he didn't have any idea where they were or how to find them. All because he broke the rule they were named after, Salem meant peace, and to keep that you could not kill. This was awful and the fact that he was probably going to be killed made it worse. Rin and Shippou would never know what happened, they'd probably be hunted down by this girl and killed as well. That would be his fault too, he had told her about them.
Jair watched quietly as the kits expression continually turned towards self- hatred and depression. Finally deciding to end this game she spoke up. "Are you going to tell me your name now kit?" Shuuday almost jumped at her voice. He had forgotten she was there. He looked up slightly tears glistening in his eyes but not falling. "...Shuuday. My name, is Shuuday."
((AN:: ^-^ I should end his part right here! (blinks at all the glares) .eh? .but I won't.keep reading there's more!))
She smiled softly surprising Shuuday. She must have noticed as she laughed "well, Shuuday you cannot wander around here on your own. You'll never survive it!" He glared at her and she laughed harder "you have nothing to worry about chibi.my name is Jair."
//Jair?! As in THE Jair?! The one from that story about the Yin and Yang sisters?? ....cool.// He grinned up at her but only a second after that did they hear a scream. ((AN:: yes.I know this is in a bit late..I think. but OH WELL)) His eyes widened he KNEW that voice! "RIN!!!"
Jair watched his reaction "your sister I suppose?" Shuuday nodded not even trying to figure out how she knew he had a sister. " We have to save her she's in trouble!!" Jair started laughing and Shuuday glared at her. "She probably just ran into Orion." Shuuday tilted his head "who is Orion?" Jair smiled thoughtfully "Orion is our Moor cat." She frowned at his confused face. "Do you know what a moor cat is?" Shuuday shook his head "nope!" Jair sighed "well..they're about so high-" she had her hand to about to her chin "and they usually have golden to orange eyes, small appetites, live in the mountains, um.Oh yes! They are known for being able to disappear!"
Shuuday blinked up at her "okay.AND IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL ONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE AFTER MY SISTER?!" Jair shook her head "if you're that worried I'll take you to her." He blinked again ((AN:: he seems to do that a lot)) "y- you can do that?" she looked down at him like he was stupid again "of course I can he's our cat."
Shuuday frowned "...why do you keep saying OUR?" Jair's expression darkened a bit but for only a second. "You'll find out sooner or later. Now come on." He shrugged it off as this new kind of friend of his put him on her shoulder and took off into the trees.
After about five minuets she took out a black whistle and took a deep breath after telling him to cover his ears as best as he could. She blew into the whistle, hard. Shuuday winced at the screech of the high-pitched sound; he could have sworn his ears would pop any second. Then it stopped.
He carefully uncovered his ears attentively checking for blood. There was none. "What was that?" Jair grinned at him "a whistle." "Well why didn't it hurt your ears?" she shrugged "probably because I made it that way. Ah there he is!" Shuuday looked down to see a large brownish grey cat with black markings, and it had his sister limp on it's back.
"RIN!!!" he jumped off of Jair's shoulder and out of the tree "you leave her alone Moor cat!!!!" The cat looked down at him probably a bit more than twice his height and growled. Shuuday glared up at him and growled back his long tail bristling.
Jair sighed as the cat purposely ignored the kit and walked around him to the base of the tree she was in. "Orion, drop the girl and go back to Brin." Yep, she was bored already, finding these kits would mean that Brin might have actually told a true fortune. After 16 years it was getting rather annoying.
The cat complied and Rin dropped to the ground. Shuuday ran up to her and picked her up. "Is she gonna be okay?" Jair shrugged "you're asking the wrong person Chibi" He stared up at her "I'm not a child don't use that name." She smirked "you look like a child and act like one so you shall be known as one, Chibi." Shuuday glared up at her "who is Brin?"
She blinked "Brin? ..erm..she..is...my sister." //it's best that we go with that a little white lie never hurt...//
Jair concentrated as she unlocked her link with Brin. //OI BRIN! Any the kits ask, we're sisters got it?//
It took a few seconds before she got a reply. \\ It's wrong to lie to them Jair.\\
She snorted //it will take more time than we have to explain it so just stick to that//
Another few seconds. \\ If you really think that will work.sister.\\
She raised a brow. //don't go sarcastic on me! That's MY job.//
Brin laughed \\ if you say so.\\ and cut off the link.
Shuuday watched as Jair's eyes turned vacant "uh...are you okay?" no answer from her. "Hello?" still nothing, "HELLO??" he sighed and put Rin down then jumped up to the branch. "JAIR?! ARE YOU OKAY?!"
Her eyes snapped back to normal as she jerked away form the loud voice "what the HEL-AHHH" she fell off the branch onto her face. "....damnit all.. I hate you..." Shuuday watched her mutter something he couldn't understand "...oops..."
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"So now what?"
They were all at the base of the steps except for Hiei who was hiding somewhere in the trees.
"Well...we have plenty of time to spare.how about we go to that haunted house?" Kurama suggested. Yusuke grinned at him "yeah I forgot about that! How about you Kuwabara?" Said person shrugged "okay." Kurama pulled the paper with the advertisement out of his ((AN:: ^-^ HAIR!!)) pocket and looked at it. ((AN:: T_T))
"Well we have about two hours before it opens.ah..we could do some of the games they have out front." Yusuke got up "sounds good to me lets go!" He and Kuwabara took off then about three seconds later came back.
"Uh.where was it again?" Kurama sweatdropped at the question and gave him the clipping.
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It took about an hour of wrong turns and arguments until they finally found the gate that led up to the house. Yusuke stared "not AGAIN!" Kuwabara groaned "isn't one time enough for one day?" The steps that led up past the gate looked steeper and longer than Genkai's.
Kurama smiled grimly and started up "come on. It should be worth it." He called behind his back. The two slooooowly got up and followed complaining the whole way up those stairs. When they finally DID get there, the two stopped on their tracks and stared. In front of where Kurama was staring there were booths in long rows all the way up a small gravel street and A LOT of people.
"Man, it'd be easy to get lost in there." Yusuke put his arms behind his head and walked up to Kurama "hey, anything interesting here?" Kurama smiled "we'll just have to look around and see." Yusuke sighed and turned back to Kuwabara "hey Kuwa.bara? Where'd he go?" Yes sadly the giant boy had already lost himself in the crowd..
"Damn...now what?" Kurama frowned at Yusuke "I'm sure Kuwabara knows how to take car of himself.lets just go look around for a while." Yusuke sighed "fine, fine." They wandered around for a while Yusuke stopping at ((AN:: 9.9 BIG surprise!)) all the challenge games and beating almost all of the champions. Kurama, stopping at some of the stores and buying some books. ((AN:: 6.6 another BIG surprise.))
They were walking around some more the booths spread further apart up in this area with fewer people. A familiar voice reached their ears.
"YOU FAKE I WANT MY MONEY BACK DAMNIT!!"
The two looked at each other, yep definitely Kuwabara. Yusuke grinned "should we go see?" Kurama nodded "it would be best." They took off to the goldfish tent?? Yes there stood Kuwabara with a fish net that had a hole in it. "I HAD IT! I HAD THE STUPID FISH!! AND THIS THING BROKE!! I DEMAND A REFUND!!"
They got there in time to hear what the other person was saying.
"I'm sorry sir but some of the nets are like that, they are old, and I'm not permitted to-" Yusuke interrupted right there "so, what's the problem here?" Kuwabara jerked towards him "Urameshi!! You stay outa this!!" Yusuke grinned "why should I?" Kurama grabbed Kuwabara from behind when he lunged for Yusuke "Kuwabara, calm down! This is no place to start a street fight!" Yusuke snorted "Like he could ever beat Me." But he didn't say anything more under Kurama's soft glare.
The poor booth keeper sighed in relief "thank you so much..now I must ask you three to leave." Kuwabara started yelling harder as Kurama and Yusuke nodded and drug him out. ((AN:: ^_^ If you haven't already got the idea I'm gonna be picking on Kuwabara a lot.))
By the time Kuwabara had calmed down they only had to wait about twenty minuets before they could go to the haunted house. ((AN:: 9.9 I know it's rather late for haunted houses but..eh..oh well))
"So now what?" Yusuke asked. They had been walking for a few minuets and he was bored again. Kurama shrugged "there are not many booths left to see." Kuwabara was following the two a bit behind still rather ticked. It was true though. There were exactly three booths left. Two of them were trinket stores and the third one didn't have a sign.
Assuming the third one wasn't open, "I guess we should just go wait at the entrance for a while." Yusuke had pulled ahead a bit and was about to pass the last booth. "You there!" "eh? Who?" the flap to the booth lifted "I did sirs." The voice was a bit raspy as if it wasn't used a lot but it was definitely young and female.
Kuwabara blinked and stepped up near the flap. Yusuke walked up to the opening "yeah? What do you want?" light laughter comes from inside. "One of you confuse me, I have not had a challenge in a while, the one with red hair....let me give you a free fortune."
Kurama blinked "me?" "Yes you.now come in come in!" Yusuke looked at Kuwabara and he nodded "we're coming with you." Kurama shook his head "I'll be fine you too wait here. With that he walked up to the flap and peered in "now now don't just stand there sit down!" he paused before putting the flap back down "where? I can't see in here." A bit of shuffling was in front of him "silly me so sorry.there" a large candle burned on a table (( it has a dark green cover on it)) with a chair in front of it. Behind that table stood someone in a heavy green cloak. Green eyes peered out at him with a smile seen though the shadows of the hood. "Now you can see."
Kurama nodded and the smile disappeared "now..I will do one fortune.would you rather it be past or future?" Kurama smiled to himself it would be interesting to test the fortune teller and see if she was real "past."
"Ah yes..the past...give me your hand then and I shall tell you." He tilted his head "you know normally fortune tellers have crystal balls and incense.." She laughed softly "fakers are they..not needed, those kinds of things. Now give me your hand." Kurama resisted the erg to sigh and did as she asked.
She carefully took his hand and traced the veins on the top of it. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Tensing then relaxing with every new image from his past. Then jerked it over suddenly tracing the lines on his palm with a careful pace. She frowned then started chanting under her breath. Words Kurama assumed to be completely made up. Her fingers traced up to his wrist where they lay rested.
"You..have a complicated past.some of it you can't even remember." He blinked what was she talking about? Normally a ningen wasn't supposed to know about their past life. "In a world where survival means everything you grew to an age where we humans would have been dead long before..no, NO don't talk until I have finished dear..Kurama.."
His eyes widened but he said nothing //guesses, she might just have some information to try on random people just to see.\\ "you were a YOUKO a fox spirit..and you were rather famous but...you had to go to great lengths to achieve that..you had to go further. it wasn't enough..you had a partner..he died..before you did.. Then.. You were killed.by a hunter I believe....and I cannot see past that dear..so many puzzles and dead ends in your past dear, so many I am afraid I cannot go very far."
Kurama let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding. "How did y-" "ah ahhh I am a fortune teller dear boy.it is what I do..you proved to be quite the challenge.. Never had to use..never mind.." he frowned "use what? Exactly?" she laughed slightly "it makes no difference boy..leave now the house opens in mere seconds..."
As if on cue the flap drew back to reveal a rather worried Yusuke "Oi Kurama you done in there yet?" Kurama smiled to himself "yes Yusuke, lets go." He got up and bowed to the fortune teller. She smiled "twas a nice visit Kurama!..but one thing dear.." Kurama turned around holding the flap up behind him "yes?"
She closed her eyes "mazes are solved by following life." She gently took the flap form his hand and let it fall in front of her before he could answer.
Yusuke turned a questioning eye on his friend "What was that about?" "I don't know...but it isn't really much to worry about Yusuke." "Well then lets Go already Kuwabara went to get in line and save us a spot!"
It took the two about five minuets of searching to find Kuwabara around the middle of the line. "About time guys!! What took yah?" Yusuke shrugged "stupid girl took a while to read his fortune I guess" Kuwabara looked at Kurama who nodded "Yusuke's right besides we still have some time to wait."
After another wait of fifteen minuets they were finally in the house. The room was plain and had three doors. Candles lit up on either side of each one. The walls were a grey color but one couldn't be sure in the dim light. A movement in the corner made Kuwabara jump. "Who's there?!"
"hn" was the only reply. Yusuke looked over in shock "Hiei?!" Kuwabara glared "Damnit Shrimp how'd YOU get in here?!" Hiei came out of the shadows looking at Kuwabara like he was an idiot ((AN:: what else is new?)) "I snuck in, baka."
Yusuke had to hold Kuwabara back by himself this time. He really needed to work on his temper. ((AN:: ^_^ I'm not about to let Kuwabara get his hands on the kawaii shorty!!)) Kurama smiled at Hiei "what exactly ARE you doing here Hiei?" he sounded completely interested. The half korime hardly ever came along on things like this.
Hiei smirked "I wanted to see the oaf run off." Strait and simple as usual. Yusuke had an even harder time holding Kuwabara back now. before anything else could happen though the door to the far left slid open with a rather loud bang.
"WHAT. Is all this noise." The voice which was loud and more of a statement than a sentence -deeper than normal but definitely female- managed to stop all movement. The voice of course referring to Kuwabara's ranting. ((AN:: ^_^ I like picking on the oaf!!)) Out of the door came two figures. The taller one was in a black full-length cloak with the hood shadowing her face. Braided red lining on the edges of the bottom, sleeves, and hood it showed off just a bit of her figure.
Following behind her was a much shorter girl. Her figure showed through the thick white cloth a bit more. Her cloak identical to the first one had braided silver lining. Her shadowed face showed off an amused smile while the former's a deep frown. "Well?"
No one answered, Yusuke and Kuwabara were busy staring Kurama was in deep thought about something and Hiei refused to acknowledge them. The shorter one gently closed the door and walked over to another one to stand on the right side. The remaining girl they could tell was glaring at them. "Are you going to just stand there like idiots or are you going to answer me?" Kurama blinked out of his daze and stared for a moment.
"Oh! Sorry but, there was just a bit of an.argument." He answered rather late while glancing at Kuwabara. The hooded face turned towards him and a flash of silver shown through the shadows for only a second "see that it doesn't happen..too often. We don't want anyone to actually be killed in there." A soft snort came form the direction of the door but she ignored it.
Kurama raised a brow but nodded. She smirked slightly "and if you four are ready to go?" Yusuke and Kuwabara finally snapped out it and nodded. She walked over to stand to the left of the same door as the one in white and slid it open with one pale hand. "Then just step in. You'll eventually find your way, correct?" the other nodded a thin smile just barely showing.
Yusuke grinned at them both and walked right past them into the next room. Kurama walked a bit slower still in thought. The two tilted their heads at the frown that appeared on his face. Kuwabara followed jumped once when the girl on the left jerked her head towards him. His walk turned into a jog as he tried not to look scared. Hiei snorted and walked past not looking at either. A soft voice sounded behind them "good luck" and the door gently shut.
The two took down their hoods. The first with silver eyes and spiky black hair the latter had long white hair that was hidden by the rest of her cloak and dark dark brown eyes. ((AN:: ^_^ I bet you know who they are!!)) Jair spoke up first. "That was them wasn't it?" Brin nodded "yes..from Rekai..but only one of them was completely human." Jair raised a brow "oh really?? Well...we shall see what they are capable of soon enough." She cackled evilly until "OUCH! What the hell was THAT for?!" Brin glared at her "Now, it's for swearing."
Jair sweatdropped "right..well...just hurry up then." Brin watched her a second then turned around to face the closed door and set her hands on it. Her chanting had a singsong sound to it but it was scratchy like crinkling paper at the same time. A few seconds later the door looked like a plain wall again. Brin didn't turn around "You should go warn the kits to get ready now, I'll redirect the visitors." Jair nodded and walked off silently pulling her hood up. Brin did the same and walked out to let in other people.
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Kiyoshi:: ^_____^ an oath to a meep:: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! YAYNESS I gots 23 RVEIEWS!!!
Snow:: -_- for six official chapters that's not very impressive..
Kiyoshi:: ....SO?!
Snow:: 9.9 just get to the answering of reviews!
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To Shihoshi-Ryu:::: Kiyoshi:: ^_^ Tankies for reviewing again! I don't hold it against you! It took me seven tries and retyping to get this up...
Snow:: ^-^ not to mention a LOT of swearing and computer bashing...
Kiyoshi:: ^___^''''' hehehe yeah that too..
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To FracturedCrystalRose::::: Kiyoshi:: ^_^ I like your vilian idea!! ...He.just needs to be changed around a WEE bit..no kidnapping.I already got someone nabbing Koenma and. O.O ..crap... SPOILER!! T_T be happy....
Snow:: @_@ no yaoi no yaoi ...too hard..might be able to do SOME fluff like that..but no Yaoi..
Kiyoshi:: ..(blinks) but...if you really want me to give it to her.. (tosses Snow a pink pixi stick)
Snow:: ^____________^ YAYNESS!! (tries to rip it open)
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To Meskup:::: Kiyoshi:: ^_____^ TANK YOU FOR REVIEWING!!!!!
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To Thorn:::: Thank yooouuuuuuuuuuu and your idea?? ^-^ I KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING!! I'm gonna have it in VERY soon... (cackles evily)
Snow:: (shrugs and joins in)
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To Rei-Hime:::: Kiyoshi:: ^____________^ My Fwiends!!!!! (hugles)
Snow:: ^_^ noooooo we aint trying to make you look bad...
Kiyoshi:: don't start Snow...
Snow:: (whistles innocently)
Kiyoshi:: well..I called you a princess cause dat is what the -Hime part of your name means... last time I checked anyway.... I call my friend that a lot too.. her real name means powerful ruler reborn in other languages.. weird ne??
Snow:: (has started the search for pixi sticks) move move move we can't let them escape!!! ....They're here somewhere....
Kiyoshi:: ^_^'''''''''
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To AoiHyou:: Kiyoshi:: T_T ...when my reviewers are not happy I'M not happy...
Snow:: ..but we CAN'T do yaoi.....
Kiyoshi:: okay...no matter how the story goes... Remember.. ^-^ the YYH crew are just acting!!! See (holds up a bunch of contracts) and this. (holds up a rather thick stack of papers) is the SCRIPT!!!
Snow:: yeah...and the other characters are acting too. (casts Rei a shifty glance)
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Kiyoshi:: ^_______________^ Guess what?? I'M LISTENING TO YYH THEME MUSIC!!!!! ...it's Kurama's song.then Hiei's song...then Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara's song... But there ish no words to it... T_T
Snow:: Thank KAMI!
Kiyoshi:: ..well guess what else???
Snow:: 9.9 not THIS again...
Kiyoshi:: oh SHUT it! .. ^-^ I ....Will be getting the YYH movie # 1 in about a week... ^________________________^
Snow:: what? No emotional outburst??
Kiyoshi:: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!
Snow:: ..I had to say it.....well then...you know what to do now right?? NO!!! DON'T WALK AWAY!!! ..I MENT that you know that you have to click the wittle button down dere dat says review....
Kiyoshi:: ^________________^ (happy sigh)
By:: Kiyoshi-neko
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Kiyoshi:: ^-^ KONNICHI WA MINA-SAN!!!!!!
Snow:: 9.9 okay...we've been taking too much time with these sooo..ON WITH IT!!!
Kiyoshi:: ...right..
Die:: so you don't get confused //stuffs// is Jair talking to Brin through their mental link and \\ stuffs\\ is Brin talking to Jair through their link.kay?? ^-^
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Disclaimer::: Kiyoshi-san does not own anyone from YYH or InuYasha.. or even Brin and Jair's attacks.. (Kiyoshi:: (sulks)) but she DOES own the chibi kitsune Shuuday, Brin, Jair, Cale, ViVi, and the moor cat.
Kiyoshi:: ^_^ SEE?! I'm not TOTALLY reliant on other creations!!!
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Random Quote:: You don't know me and I don't know you, so we're even GO AWAY!! Author:: ^-^ Something I thought Yusuke could've said when he first met Boton..evil right??
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Chapter 7
Fortunes Galore!!
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"Who. Are you."
Shuuday slowly looked up at this youkai. "Why should I tell you my name mister??" he practically squeaked out. The youkai's left eye twitched.
"What. Did you just say?" his voice almost seemed to crack. Shuuday bit his tounge to try and stop from making a bad choice and point that out. This guy seemed to have an insane glint in his eye. "I.uh.asked why I should tell you my name?" He sat back on his heels eyes closed muttering and twitching a bit. Shuuday decided to try and use this to his advantage but he didn't get any more than one step away. "What did you call me after that Kit?"
Shuuday whirled around to see the youkai with silver eyes and slightly pointed ears glaring at him. "H-How did you?" He received a dull look as the youkai's eyes dashed from his ears then his tail "Must I say?"
Shuuday plopped down and pouted at him. Hey 80 years was still young for HIM. "Answer me kit." Shuuday looked up with slightly narrowed eyes. "I.uh.I called you.mister." He suddenly found himself eye to eye with the youkai dangling painfully by the tail. "You have a nose KIT, how about using it?" ((AN:: I think youkai should be able to smell gender differences right?))
Shuuday looked at him suspiciously then took a sniff. His eyes widened slightly "erm.oops..you're not a mister." He winced as she suddenly yelled at him "damn straight I'm not a MISTER!!" he winced even harder when he was suddenly dropped on his bottom. His frustration of not being able to find his brother and sister and all of this finally snapped his sanity "IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU LOOK LIKE A GUY!!"
Her eyes narrowed dangerously and she suddenly dropped down to just above his eye level. In a scarily calm and venomous voice reached his ears. "Please repeat what you just said to me, word. for, word," Shuuday starred up at her terribly frightened and shook his head violently.
"You are afraid of me." more of a statement then a question. Shuuday brought up his courage slightly "no I'm not!" She smirked "tell me your name KIT." She demanded stressing his age rudely. "I-I don't have to tell you ANYthing!" he watched as she quirked an eyebrow. "Oh really? And just why is that? I am older, stronger, and completely capable of killing you right now."
Shuuday slowly got up gathering what was left of his courage as quickly as possible. "I, am the eldest of three siblings from the Salem clan of Kitsune, rightful heir to leadership! I do not have to answer to you if I do no wish to!"
This perked her curiosity slightly "eh? Salem huh? I stayed with them a long time ago for just a while. Bunch of idiots, the whole lot of 'em. You have made three mistakes in that one phrase KIT." Shuuday blinked Why wasn't this girl gonna kill him? Not that he wanted her to or anything. She smirked "One, you told me you have two siblings this would give me good blackmail if I ever got a hold of them. Two you just told me that you are pretty much the prince of your clan, that in itself is never good. And three, you just insulted me and by now many others would have killed you."
Shuuday blinked, she WAS right, "why haven't you killed me yet?" She raised an eyebrow, "well that's new, I wont answer that until you answer my first question." Shuuday frowned "what question?" She sighed in annoyance "what. Is your name?" He grinned I already told you I'm not saying!" she glared at him hardly.
"You are different" she said smirking now. Rather quick at changing the mood. "I AM NOT DIFFERENT!" Whether you lived in the Makai or the Ningenkai it was dangerous to be different. Her smirked has now grown into a full- blown grin "oh. But you ARE! You are not afraid to kill are you kit?" He didn't answer. ".I can see it in you, you have taken a life, that is forbidden in your clan you won't be able to go back now. That's why you came here isn't it?"
Shuuday had tuned her out close to the end. It WAS his fault; he had taken a life and would not be accepted back, heir or no heir. His brother and sister were with them, it was his fault too that they couldn't go back, everything that happened was his fault and now he didn't have any idea where they were or how to find them. All because he broke the rule they were named after, Salem meant peace, and to keep that you could not kill. This was awful and the fact that he was probably going to be killed made it worse. Rin and Shippou would never know what happened, they'd probably be hunted down by this girl and killed as well. That would be his fault too, he had told her about them.
Jair watched quietly as the kits expression continually turned towards self- hatred and depression. Finally deciding to end this game she spoke up. "Are you going to tell me your name now kit?" Shuuday almost jumped at her voice. He had forgotten she was there. He looked up slightly tears glistening in his eyes but not falling. "...Shuuday. My name, is Shuuday."
((AN:: ^-^ I should end his part right here! (blinks at all the glares) .eh? .but I won't.keep reading there's more!))
She smiled softly surprising Shuuday. She must have noticed as she laughed "well, Shuuday you cannot wander around here on your own. You'll never survive it!" He glared at her and she laughed harder "you have nothing to worry about chibi.my name is Jair."
//Jair?! As in THE Jair?! The one from that story about the Yin and Yang sisters?? ....cool.// He grinned up at her but only a second after that did they hear a scream. ((AN:: yes.I know this is in a bit late..I think. but OH WELL)) His eyes widened he KNEW that voice! "RIN!!!"
Jair watched his reaction "your sister I suppose?" Shuuday nodded not even trying to figure out how she knew he had a sister. " We have to save her she's in trouble!!" Jair started laughing and Shuuday glared at her. "She probably just ran into Orion." Shuuday tilted his head "who is Orion?" Jair smiled thoughtfully "Orion is our Moor cat." She frowned at his confused face. "Do you know what a moor cat is?" Shuuday shook his head "nope!" Jair sighed "well..they're about so high-" she had her hand to about to her chin "and they usually have golden to orange eyes, small appetites, live in the mountains, um.Oh yes! They are known for being able to disappear!"
Shuuday blinked up at her "okay.AND IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL ONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE AFTER MY SISTER?!" Jair shook her head "if you're that worried I'll take you to her." He blinked again ((AN:: he seems to do that a lot)) "y- you can do that?" she looked down at him like he was stupid again "of course I can he's our cat."
Shuuday frowned "...why do you keep saying OUR?" Jair's expression darkened a bit but for only a second. "You'll find out sooner or later. Now come on." He shrugged it off as this new kind of friend of his put him on her shoulder and took off into the trees.
After about five minuets she took out a black whistle and took a deep breath after telling him to cover his ears as best as he could. She blew into the whistle, hard. Shuuday winced at the screech of the high-pitched sound; he could have sworn his ears would pop any second. Then it stopped.
He carefully uncovered his ears attentively checking for blood. There was none. "What was that?" Jair grinned at him "a whistle." "Well why didn't it hurt your ears?" she shrugged "probably because I made it that way. Ah there he is!" Shuuday looked down to see a large brownish grey cat with black markings, and it had his sister limp on it's back.
"RIN!!!" he jumped off of Jair's shoulder and out of the tree "you leave her alone Moor cat!!!!" The cat looked down at him probably a bit more than twice his height and growled. Shuuday glared up at him and growled back his long tail bristling.
Jair sighed as the cat purposely ignored the kit and walked around him to the base of the tree she was in. "Orion, drop the girl and go back to Brin." Yep, she was bored already, finding these kits would mean that Brin might have actually told a true fortune. After 16 years it was getting rather annoying.
The cat complied and Rin dropped to the ground. Shuuday ran up to her and picked her up. "Is she gonna be okay?" Jair shrugged "you're asking the wrong person Chibi" He stared up at her "I'm not a child don't use that name." She smirked "you look like a child and act like one so you shall be known as one, Chibi." Shuuday glared up at her "who is Brin?"
She blinked "Brin? ..erm..she..is...my sister." //it's best that we go with that a little white lie never hurt...//
Jair concentrated as she unlocked her link with Brin. //OI BRIN! Any the kits ask, we're sisters got it?//
It took a few seconds before she got a reply. \\ It's wrong to lie to them Jair.\\
She snorted //it will take more time than we have to explain it so just stick to that//
Another few seconds. \\ If you really think that will work.sister.\\
She raised a brow. //don't go sarcastic on me! That's MY job.//
Brin laughed \\ if you say so.\\ and cut off the link.
Shuuday watched as Jair's eyes turned vacant "uh...are you okay?" no answer from her. "Hello?" still nothing, "HELLO??" he sighed and put Rin down then jumped up to the branch. "JAIR?! ARE YOU OKAY?!"
Her eyes snapped back to normal as she jerked away form the loud voice "what the HEL-AHHH" she fell off the branch onto her face. "....damnit all.. I hate you..." Shuuday watched her mutter something he couldn't understand "...oops..."
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"So now what?"
They were all at the base of the steps except for Hiei who was hiding somewhere in the trees.
"Well...we have plenty of time to spare.how about we go to that haunted house?" Kurama suggested. Yusuke grinned at him "yeah I forgot about that! How about you Kuwabara?" Said person shrugged "okay." Kurama pulled the paper with the advertisement out of his ((AN:: ^-^ HAIR!!)) pocket and looked at it. ((AN:: T_T))
"Well we have about two hours before it opens.ah..we could do some of the games they have out front." Yusuke got up "sounds good to me lets go!" He and Kuwabara took off then about three seconds later came back.
"Uh.where was it again?" Kurama sweatdropped at the question and gave him the clipping.
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It took about an hour of wrong turns and arguments until they finally found the gate that led up to the house. Yusuke stared "not AGAIN!" Kuwabara groaned "isn't one time enough for one day?" The steps that led up past the gate looked steeper and longer than Genkai's.
Kurama smiled grimly and started up "come on. It should be worth it." He called behind his back. The two slooooowly got up and followed complaining the whole way up those stairs. When they finally DID get there, the two stopped on their tracks and stared. In front of where Kurama was staring there were booths in long rows all the way up a small gravel street and A LOT of people.
"Man, it'd be easy to get lost in there." Yusuke put his arms behind his head and walked up to Kurama "hey, anything interesting here?" Kurama smiled "we'll just have to look around and see." Yusuke sighed and turned back to Kuwabara "hey Kuwa.bara? Where'd he go?" Yes sadly the giant boy had already lost himself in the crowd..
"Damn...now what?" Kurama frowned at Yusuke "I'm sure Kuwabara knows how to take car of himself.lets just go look around for a while." Yusuke sighed "fine, fine." They wandered around for a while Yusuke stopping at ((AN:: 9.9 BIG surprise!)) all the challenge games and beating almost all of the champions. Kurama, stopping at some of the stores and buying some books. ((AN:: 6.6 another BIG surprise.))
They were walking around some more the booths spread further apart up in this area with fewer people. A familiar voice reached their ears.
"YOU FAKE I WANT MY MONEY BACK DAMNIT!!"
The two looked at each other, yep definitely Kuwabara. Yusuke grinned "should we go see?" Kurama nodded "it would be best." They took off to the goldfish tent?? Yes there stood Kuwabara with a fish net that had a hole in it. "I HAD IT! I HAD THE STUPID FISH!! AND THIS THING BROKE!! I DEMAND A REFUND!!"
They got there in time to hear what the other person was saying.
"I'm sorry sir but some of the nets are like that, they are old, and I'm not permitted to-" Yusuke interrupted right there "so, what's the problem here?" Kuwabara jerked towards him "Urameshi!! You stay outa this!!" Yusuke grinned "why should I?" Kurama grabbed Kuwabara from behind when he lunged for Yusuke "Kuwabara, calm down! This is no place to start a street fight!" Yusuke snorted "Like he could ever beat Me." But he didn't say anything more under Kurama's soft glare.
The poor booth keeper sighed in relief "thank you so much..now I must ask you three to leave." Kuwabara started yelling harder as Kurama and Yusuke nodded and drug him out. ((AN:: ^_^ If you haven't already got the idea I'm gonna be picking on Kuwabara a lot.))
By the time Kuwabara had calmed down they only had to wait about twenty minuets before they could go to the haunted house. ((AN:: 9.9 I know it's rather late for haunted houses but..eh..oh well))
"So now what?" Yusuke asked. They had been walking for a few minuets and he was bored again. Kurama shrugged "there are not many booths left to see." Kuwabara was following the two a bit behind still rather ticked. It was true though. There were exactly three booths left. Two of them were trinket stores and the third one didn't have a sign.
Assuming the third one wasn't open, "I guess we should just go wait at the entrance for a while." Yusuke had pulled ahead a bit and was about to pass the last booth. "You there!" "eh? Who?" the flap to the booth lifted "I did sirs." The voice was a bit raspy as if it wasn't used a lot but it was definitely young and female.
Kuwabara blinked and stepped up near the flap. Yusuke walked up to the opening "yeah? What do you want?" light laughter comes from inside. "One of you confuse me, I have not had a challenge in a while, the one with red hair....let me give you a free fortune."
Kurama blinked "me?" "Yes you.now come in come in!" Yusuke looked at Kuwabara and he nodded "we're coming with you." Kurama shook his head "I'll be fine you too wait here. With that he walked up to the flap and peered in "now now don't just stand there sit down!" he paused before putting the flap back down "where? I can't see in here." A bit of shuffling was in front of him "silly me so sorry.there" a large candle burned on a table (( it has a dark green cover on it)) with a chair in front of it. Behind that table stood someone in a heavy green cloak. Green eyes peered out at him with a smile seen though the shadows of the hood. "Now you can see."
Kurama nodded and the smile disappeared "now..I will do one fortune.would you rather it be past or future?" Kurama smiled to himself it would be interesting to test the fortune teller and see if she was real "past."
"Ah yes..the past...give me your hand then and I shall tell you." He tilted his head "you know normally fortune tellers have crystal balls and incense.." She laughed softly "fakers are they..not needed, those kinds of things. Now give me your hand." Kurama resisted the erg to sigh and did as she asked.
She carefully took his hand and traced the veins on the top of it. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Tensing then relaxing with every new image from his past. Then jerked it over suddenly tracing the lines on his palm with a careful pace. She frowned then started chanting under her breath. Words Kurama assumed to be completely made up. Her fingers traced up to his wrist where they lay rested.
"You..have a complicated past.some of it you can't even remember." He blinked what was she talking about? Normally a ningen wasn't supposed to know about their past life. "In a world where survival means everything you grew to an age where we humans would have been dead long before..no, NO don't talk until I have finished dear..Kurama.."
His eyes widened but he said nothing //guesses, she might just have some information to try on random people just to see.\\ "you were a YOUKO a fox spirit..and you were rather famous but...you had to go to great lengths to achieve that..you had to go further. it wasn't enough..you had a partner..he died..before you did.. Then.. You were killed.by a hunter I believe....and I cannot see past that dear..so many puzzles and dead ends in your past dear, so many I am afraid I cannot go very far."
Kurama let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding. "How did y-" "ah ahhh I am a fortune teller dear boy.it is what I do..you proved to be quite the challenge.. Never had to use..never mind.." he frowned "use what? Exactly?" she laughed slightly "it makes no difference boy..leave now the house opens in mere seconds..."
As if on cue the flap drew back to reveal a rather worried Yusuke "Oi Kurama you done in there yet?" Kurama smiled to himself "yes Yusuke, lets go." He got up and bowed to the fortune teller. She smiled "twas a nice visit Kurama!..but one thing dear.." Kurama turned around holding the flap up behind him "yes?"
She closed her eyes "mazes are solved by following life." She gently took the flap form his hand and let it fall in front of her before he could answer.
Yusuke turned a questioning eye on his friend "What was that about?" "I don't know...but it isn't really much to worry about Yusuke." "Well then lets Go already Kuwabara went to get in line and save us a spot!"
It took the two about five minuets of searching to find Kuwabara around the middle of the line. "About time guys!! What took yah?" Yusuke shrugged "stupid girl took a while to read his fortune I guess" Kuwabara looked at Kurama who nodded "Yusuke's right besides we still have some time to wait."
After another wait of fifteen minuets they were finally in the house. The room was plain and had three doors. Candles lit up on either side of each one. The walls were a grey color but one couldn't be sure in the dim light. A movement in the corner made Kuwabara jump. "Who's there?!"
"hn" was the only reply. Yusuke looked over in shock "Hiei?!" Kuwabara glared "Damnit Shrimp how'd YOU get in here?!" Hiei came out of the shadows looking at Kuwabara like he was an idiot ((AN:: what else is new?)) "I snuck in, baka."
Yusuke had to hold Kuwabara back by himself this time. He really needed to work on his temper. ((AN:: ^_^ I'm not about to let Kuwabara get his hands on the kawaii shorty!!)) Kurama smiled at Hiei "what exactly ARE you doing here Hiei?" he sounded completely interested. The half korime hardly ever came along on things like this.
Hiei smirked "I wanted to see the oaf run off." Strait and simple as usual. Yusuke had an even harder time holding Kuwabara back now. before anything else could happen though the door to the far left slid open with a rather loud bang.
"WHAT. Is all this noise." The voice which was loud and more of a statement than a sentence -deeper than normal but definitely female- managed to stop all movement. The voice of course referring to Kuwabara's ranting. ((AN:: ^_^ I like picking on the oaf!!)) Out of the door came two figures. The taller one was in a black full-length cloak with the hood shadowing her face. Braided red lining on the edges of the bottom, sleeves, and hood it showed off just a bit of her figure.
Following behind her was a much shorter girl. Her figure showed through the thick white cloth a bit more. Her cloak identical to the first one had braided silver lining. Her shadowed face showed off an amused smile while the former's a deep frown. "Well?"
No one answered, Yusuke and Kuwabara were busy staring Kurama was in deep thought about something and Hiei refused to acknowledge them. The shorter one gently closed the door and walked over to another one to stand on the right side. The remaining girl they could tell was glaring at them. "Are you going to just stand there like idiots or are you going to answer me?" Kurama blinked out of his daze and stared for a moment.
"Oh! Sorry but, there was just a bit of an.argument." He answered rather late while glancing at Kuwabara. The hooded face turned towards him and a flash of silver shown through the shadows for only a second "see that it doesn't happen..too often. We don't want anyone to actually be killed in there." A soft snort came form the direction of the door but she ignored it.
Kurama raised a brow but nodded. She smirked slightly "and if you four are ready to go?" Yusuke and Kuwabara finally snapped out it and nodded. She walked over to stand to the left of the same door as the one in white and slid it open with one pale hand. "Then just step in. You'll eventually find your way, correct?" the other nodded a thin smile just barely showing.
Yusuke grinned at them both and walked right past them into the next room. Kurama walked a bit slower still in thought. The two tilted their heads at the frown that appeared on his face. Kuwabara followed jumped once when the girl on the left jerked her head towards him. His walk turned into a jog as he tried not to look scared. Hiei snorted and walked past not looking at either. A soft voice sounded behind them "good luck" and the door gently shut.
The two took down their hoods. The first with silver eyes and spiky black hair the latter had long white hair that was hidden by the rest of her cloak and dark dark brown eyes. ((AN:: ^_^ I bet you know who they are!!)) Jair spoke up first. "That was them wasn't it?" Brin nodded "yes..from Rekai..but only one of them was completely human." Jair raised a brow "oh really?? Well...we shall see what they are capable of soon enough." She cackled evilly until "OUCH! What the hell was THAT for?!" Brin glared at her "Now, it's for swearing."
Jair sweatdropped "right..well...just hurry up then." Brin watched her a second then turned around to face the closed door and set her hands on it. Her chanting had a singsong sound to it but it was scratchy like crinkling paper at the same time. A few seconds later the door looked like a plain wall again. Brin didn't turn around "You should go warn the kits to get ready now, I'll redirect the visitors." Jair nodded and walked off silently pulling her hood up. Brin did the same and walked out to let in other people.
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Kiyoshi:: ^_____^ an oath to a meep:: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! YAYNESS I gots 23 RVEIEWS!!!
Snow:: -_- for six official chapters that's not very impressive..
Kiyoshi:: ....SO?!
Snow:: 9.9 just get to the answering of reviews!
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To Shihoshi-Ryu:::: Kiyoshi:: ^_^ Tankies for reviewing again! I don't hold it against you! It took me seven tries and retyping to get this up...
Snow:: ^-^ not to mention a LOT of swearing and computer bashing...
Kiyoshi:: ^___^''''' hehehe yeah that too..
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To FracturedCrystalRose::::: Kiyoshi:: ^_^ I like your vilian idea!! ...He.just needs to be changed around a WEE bit..no kidnapping.I already got someone nabbing Koenma and. O.O ..crap... SPOILER!! T_T be happy....
Snow:: @_@ no yaoi no yaoi ...too hard..might be able to do SOME fluff like that..but no Yaoi..
Kiyoshi:: ..(blinks) but...if you really want me to give it to her.. (tosses Snow a pink pixi stick)
Snow:: ^____________^ YAYNESS!! (tries to rip it open)
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To Meskup:::: Kiyoshi:: ^_____^ TANK YOU FOR REVIEWING!!!!!
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To Thorn:::: Thank yooouuuuuuuuuuu and your idea?? ^-^ I KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING!! I'm gonna have it in VERY soon... (cackles evily)
Snow:: (shrugs and joins in)
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To Rei-Hime:::: Kiyoshi:: ^____________^ My Fwiends!!!!! (hugles)
Snow:: ^_^ noooooo we aint trying to make you look bad...
Kiyoshi:: don't start Snow...
Snow:: (whistles innocently)
Kiyoshi:: well..I called you a princess cause dat is what the -Hime part of your name means... last time I checked anyway.... I call my friend that a lot too.. her real name means powerful ruler reborn in other languages.. weird ne??
Snow:: (has started the search for pixi sticks) move move move we can't let them escape!!! ....They're here somewhere....
Kiyoshi:: ^_^'''''''''
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To AoiHyou:: Kiyoshi:: T_T ...when my reviewers are not happy I'M not happy...
Snow:: ..but we CAN'T do yaoi.....
Kiyoshi:: okay...no matter how the story goes... Remember.. ^-^ the YYH crew are just acting!!! See (holds up a bunch of contracts) and this. (holds up a rather thick stack of papers) is the SCRIPT!!!
Snow:: yeah...and the other characters are acting too. (casts Rei a shifty glance)
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Kiyoshi:: ^_______________^ Guess what?? I'M LISTENING TO YYH THEME MUSIC!!!!! ...it's Kurama's song.then Hiei's song...then Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara's song... But there ish no words to it... T_T
Snow:: Thank KAMI!
Kiyoshi:: ..well guess what else???
Snow:: 9.9 not THIS again...
Kiyoshi:: oh SHUT it! .. ^-^ I ....Will be getting the YYH movie # 1 in about a week... ^________________________^
Snow:: what? No emotional outburst??
Kiyoshi:: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!
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