OKEY-DOKEY!!! THE RESULTS ARE IN, AND THE WINNER FOR HYPERCHICA'S NEW ONE- AND-ONLY-LOVE-OF-HER-LIFE-FOREVER-AND-EVER-AT-LEAST-FOR-A-WEEK IS. . . VEGETA!!!!

Unfortunately, we can't find him right now (hears muffled yells coming from the closet, but pays no attention to them), so. . . I shall stage a daring commando/superspy raid on a huge corporation, one headed by a tall, brunet, some-what misguided, shady, and cute-in-an-evil-sort-of-way CEO-type-ish guy.

Yes, I am talking about- SETO KAIBA FROM YUGIOH!! He shall be my new one- and-only-love-of-my-life-for-ever-and-ever-at-least-for-a-week!

**Puts on "the boots" (aka knee-high, skintight, black leather boots that have 5 inch heels and zip up the side) and "the dress" (aka the denim dress that ends almost 8 inches above her knees and that zips up the front although the zipper is slightly off-center and that is also skin tight.) and puts hair up in a super-spy hairdo**

OK! Here I go!

**scales the building with a sack after parking her hot pink PT cruiser in the front. Breaks the window to Seto Kaiba's office and bashes him over the head with the ungodly-sized boomerang she "borrowed" from Sango. He becomes unconscious and she stuffs him (gently) into the sack and scales back down the building, throws him in the back of her car and drives away**

OK! He should be conscious by the time the fic has ended, so. . .

ON WITH THE FIC!!!

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Chapter 8

Ataque de Cosquilla (TICKLE ATTACK!!!)

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"Ok. A walk it is then," said Rin, using Shippo's outstretched hand to help herself up. "But first, I'm curious about one thing, Shippo."

"What?" he inquired.

"Why were you waiting here?" she asked.

Shippo blushed.

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"Um. . ." Shippo turned and even deeper shade of red.

"What?" Rin asked again, intrigued by his response.

"Nothing," said Shippo quickly. "So, why were you at the springs?"

Now it was Rin's turn to blush. Shippo quickly realized the error in what he had just said.

"I mean, you know, I didn't mean that, I mean, of course you were at the springs because you were going to, but never mind, what brought you to this area?"

"I was traveling," said Rin, recovering from the initial shock of being asked what she thought was a very personal question.

"Sesshomaru gave me permission to go out by myself to explore. I've been traveling alone for about a month now," Rin elaborated.

"Alone?" Shippo asked.

"Yes. I asked to travel for one and a half months, without escort, for my 16th birthday. Sesshomaru granted my request."

Rin slung her bag over her shoulder and started walking. Shippo hurried to catch up with her.

"So, you mean you have been alone? How did you manage to stay safe? I mean, demons are everywhere around here," questioned Shippo.

"Well, most demons know me as the Demon Lord's daughter, and plus, I'm not exactly defenseless," Rin said smugly.

"What do you mean by, 'Not defenseless'? I would like to see you try and outsmart me," Shippo said with a smirk, thinking that she was bluffing. 'What could a human do against a demon?' he thought arrogantly.

Rin did not reply to Shippo verbally, but rather set her face in a very determined look. She grabbed her weapon out of her belt, causing the belt to sag a little lower on her hips.

It was the first time Shippo had actually seen her weapon, and he studied it intently. It was basically two black wooden rods, rounded at the ends, which were connected by a strong chain-ish type thing. The rods themselves had one edge that was sharpened to the point where she could use it as a knife.

Almost faster than Shippo's eyes could perceive, she did a double front- flip towards him. When she was no farther than three inches away from his face she bent her knees and sprang up, kicking his chin as she jumped over him. Before she landed, she twisted so that she would be facing the back of Shippo's head when she landed. While she landed, she threw one side of her weapon around his neck, and held the other firmly in her hand. She caught the other side with her other hand. She braced herself with her feet against Shippo's back, and pulled on both of the sticks at the same time, causing the chain to dig into Shippo's throat.

Shippo had gotten the point. "Ok, ok," he wheezed. "I get it. Let go!"

Rin hesitantly let Shippo out of her death-hold. As she let go, Shippo fell to his knees on the ground, clasping his hands to his neck, and gapping for breath.

"I would call that 'not defenseless', wouldn't you?"

Shippo had to agree, and nodded his head.

Rin was having way too much fun rubbing her superiority in Shippo's face.

"I went easy on you, you know. If I were really trying to protect myself, I would have used the sharp ends of my Rikusun. That's what I call my weapon. Rikusun," Rin said.

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Meanwhile, back with Inuyasha and Miroku, Kagome and Sango had come back. Sango was not in her normal attire. She instead was wearing an outfit much like Kagome's normal one. Miroku liked the change.

"Sango," he started, "my dear, you look very lovely, if I may say so--"

"Don't be getting any ideas, lecher," stated Sango firmly.

Miroku, looking like a hurt puppy dog, went and sat back down. Kagome looked around.

"Inuyasha and Miroku, where is Shippo?" she asked accusingly.

Inuyasha and Miroku gulped.

"Um. . ."

"You see. . ."

"We were teaching him--"

"--stuff and he wanted to try it for himself--"

"--and so we let him go off--"

"--and now we--"

"--don't know exactly--"

"--where--"

"--he--"

"--is. . ."

Inuyasha and Miroku mumbled throught the entire above dialogue. Once the girls got the gist of what they were saying they were furious.

"YOU LOST SHIPPO!!!?!?!?!?!"

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Shippo was tired of Rin bragging about her talents, and the fact that she had caught him by surprise didn't help his calmness at all. Shippo wanted revenge.

". . . It's ok that you were beaten by me, you know. Many other demons--"

Rin never got a chance to finish her sentence. Shippo jumped up and tackled her, knocking her weapon out of the way in the process. Shippo had a mischievous look on his face, and it scared Rin. She was pinned by Shippo, and she couldn't move. It was just like when she had "attacked" him, except the roles were reversed, but Shippo's fighting technique was not quite as graceful, fluid, and gymnastically inclined as Rin's was.

Rin looked up at Shippo. "Can I get up now?" she pleaded.

"Nope," said Shippo. He waited a few seconds before speaking again. When he did, he was grinning impishly, staring at her.

"Are you ticklish?" he asked.

"NO!" she squealed, trying to cover up her sides, but finding that her arms were pinned to the ground by little spinning tops, a trademark of Shippo's.

"I'll take that as a yes," said Shippo, as he started to tickle her bare stomach.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Rim gasped, laughing so hard she could barely breathe.

"Why?" said Shippo. "I'm not hurting you. I'm not choking you, am I?"

"No! No! PLEASE, Shippo! I'm going to die from laughter here!" said Rin, still giggling incessantly.

"Alright, I guess. . ." said Shippo, looking downcast as he removed the spinning tops from her hands. He got off of her, and then helped her up as well. He turned around and continues walking.

"GOTCHA!" screamed Rin, as she tackled him from behind. She latched herself onto his back, piggy-back style, and immediately began tickling him right under his chin.

This was too much, even for Shippo, who began laughing as well.

"Hey! No fair!" he said as he reached behind him to tickle her sides back.

The two laughed and laughed until they collapsed, tangled up in one another's grasps, still tickling like crazy.

They finally called a tickling-truce, and then realized how intertwined they were. Both immediately blushed. They looked away from one another, but neither was willing to break the embrace they had unwittingly gotten themselves into.

They both kept sneaking glances at each other, wondering what the other was thinking. Eventually, they both looked at each other at the same time, and their eyes made contact. Both had a somewhat scared look in their eyes.

It was not a scared look as far as a horrified or terrified look. It was more of a scared look that said that they didn't know what was going to happen, and we afraid that they might show some feeling that they did not want to show, or did not want to feel. Or, it may have been the look of two young people, frightened at what might come next.

They both stared deep into each other's eyes. Shippo saw Rin's eyes close and her lips slightly part as she leaned forward towards him. He did likewise, thinking she was inviting him in for a kiss. He did not notice the dart on the back of her neck, for if he had, he wouldn't have been as surprised when a sharp pain started at the back of his neck. He felt the numbness first overtake his neck and slowly spread throughout his body.

Shippo spasmed, them fell silent. A feminine voice laughed with a tinny sound behind him.

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OH! Cliffy! Yeah! You must think I'm evil, lol! That's two kisses I've broken up now. :) You all must hate me! My off-line reviewer, who has asked me to nickname her "fairy-tail," hates me for it. And I quote: "Why do you always stop kisses, what are you trying to drive me nuts?!" Heehee. Anyways. . .

Hyperchica- got any sevens?

Tall Dark haired guy tied by the waist to a chair- no

Hyperchica- Kaiba! You're supposed to say "Go Fish!"

Seto Kaiba- Fine. Go fish. Bnut when I said I was good at cards, this is not what I meant.

Hyperchica- Seto, I know that! But I don't know how to play. . . um. . . the Yugioh card game.

Seto Kaiba- DON'T CALL IT THAT! I AM THE CHAMPION!!

Hyperchica- correction- you WERE the champion. Now you're not. For I have just beat you! HA! I WIN! I have more matches than you!

Seto Kaiba- **sweatdrop** **thinking** I hope my bodyguards get here soon. . .

Hyperchica- Wanna play again?

Seto Kaiba- no. Go away.

Hyperchica- **lip quivers, then bursts out in sobs** YOU MEANIE!! YOU DON"T LIKE ME!!! NOW MY FEELINGS ARE HURT!! WAAAAA!!

Seto Kaiba- Um. . . don't cry?

Hyperchica- **still wailing**

Seto Kaiba- STOP IT! You're making me feel guilty! **mumbles** God, I'm feeling guilty for hurting the feelings or a crazed fan-girl kidnapper. . .

Hyperchica- **sniffles** You do like me, then?

Seto Kaiba- NO!

Hyperchica- **continues crying again**

Seto Kaiba- FINE! FINE!! JUST STOP YOUR WAILING ALREADY, YOU POLICE SIREN!

Hyperchica- **not hearing the entire sentence, just the last two words** POLICE SIREN!?!?! QUICK!!! I HAVE TO HIDE YOU!!

Seto Kaiba- What? Whatever happened to crying! Wait, don't take me anywhere! I didn't say--

Hyperchica- **dragging Seto Kaiba** OK, let's go! And you readers, please read and review and tell me how mad you are at me for the cliffy and for breaking up the kisses! HEE HEE!

BTW, make sure to read my friend eimi otaku 's story. Here's the url:

http:// www.fictionpress.net/ read.php?storyid=1245079

just take out the spaces. Also, I will not be updating my story until her story gets a few more reviews. Lets say. . . when the number at the top of hers says 6? Ok? I know this is evil of me, and makes absolutely no sense, but her story is SOOOO great and barely anyone is reviewing it! So hurry and read it!

Read and Review (eimi otaku's story)!!!