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Chapter I--A New Case
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Kurama looked out his bedroom window morosely. Lightning seared the dark sky as the cold raindrops splattered on the glass like bullets. It had been stormy since that morning, and he had just gotten back from school. He sighed, looked away from the depressing scene in front of him, and sat down at his desk to do his homework.
_Oh, joy,_ he thought sarcastically, pulling out his math book. _Quadratic equations._ He didn't really understand how his fellow classmates couldn't grasp the simple concept of adding (b/2a) squared to both sides of the equation. It had always been so easy for him.
_Maybe it's the demon blood in me,_ he thought, and a smile flitted across his face before it turned serious again. His pencil scratched on the paper, filling in numbers.
Suddenly the window opened, and Hiei leapt through. He was soaked, and the carpet in Kurama's room was getting there. The small fire demon closed the window promptly, then turned to face his friend, smiling sardonically.
"Having fun?"
Kurama sighed and shook his head. "I'm in raptures. Do you want a towel or something to dry off with? That rain looks pretty cold." He moved slightly toward his closet.
Hiei snorted disdainfully. "No. I don't get cold."
"Whatever." Kurama went back to his increasingly dull quadratic equations. "Have you seen any of the others today? One of the teachers asked me to help one of the girls in my class with biology, so I didn't get out of school until later."
"Yeah, which brings me to my point. We've got a new case."
Kurama looked up, interested. Finally, something better than math homework. "What about?"
Hiei was about to answer when there was a knock on the door. "Come in," Kurama called, shutting his book, and standing up. The door opened and Yusuke and Kuwabara came in. They grinned at him.
"Hey, fox-boy," Yusuke said in way of greeting. "Whatcha doin'?" He looked at his friend's math book. "Quadra-what?" He turned to Hiei. "And my favorite three-eyed demon! Why are you all wet?"
"Stuff it, Detective," Hiei said dangerously.
"So we have a new case?" Kurama asked. "What about?"
Kuwabara held up a videotape. "It's all in here. Isn't there a TV in your living room?"
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They were just about to pop in the tape when the front door opened and Shiori came in. She smiled wearily at them.
"Hello everyone," she said. "I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap, so I'll be out of your way. There's soda in the fridge. Shuichi, did you finish your homework?"
"Hai, Kaasan." Kurama nodded.
"Good. Well, all of you have fun."
Everyone waited until Shiori's footsteps faded before playing the tape. Koenma's face appeared on the TV screen.
"Konnichi wa, minna-san," the toddler said around a blue pacifier stuck in his mouth. "Well, you've got a new case, and it's quite a doozy. You're going to have to hunt down and eliminate a very powerful, dangerous, verbally abusive demon. Her name is Nariko and she's a Lightning demon. You shouldn't really have any trouble finding her; she's HOT...did I just say that out loud? I did, didn't I? Anyway, I'm going to take a trip to Embarrassment City, so you guys have fun finding her. Yeah."
Yusuke groaned and was about to press the stop button on the VCR when Koenma spoke again.
"Don't touch that button, Yusuke, I'm not done yet. Anyway, as soon as you four decide to look for her, I'll initiate a time stop. Everything will be normal, people will be moving and all, but time won't be passing. Okay, I'm done."
Yusuke pressed the stop button. "This is going to be terrible, but at least she's hot...well, Koenma says so, anyway."
Hiei snickered. "Are you going to trust a toddler's judgement? We'll have to kill her anyway."
Yusuke chose to ignore that remark.
"At least Shizuru won't yell at me," Kuwabara said dully. Kurama sighed.
"I guess we should get going, then," he said, standing up. The others followed suit, and they walked out the door.
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::A.N::I'm sorry if this was a really sucky chapter, but I've been really depressed and I wanted to get this up. I'll make it up to you on the second chapter, I promise. ~D.M.
Chapter I--A New Case
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Kurama looked out his bedroom window morosely. Lightning seared the dark sky as the cold raindrops splattered on the glass like bullets. It had been stormy since that morning, and he had just gotten back from school. He sighed, looked away from the depressing scene in front of him, and sat down at his desk to do his homework.
_Oh, joy,_ he thought sarcastically, pulling out his math book. _Quadratic equations._ He didn't really understand how his fellow classmates couldn't grasp the simple concept of adding (b/2a) squared to both sides of the equation. It had always been so easy for him.
_Maybe it's the demon blood in me,_ he thought, and a smile flitted across his face before it turned serious again. His pencil scratched on the paper, filling in numbers.
Suddenly the window opened, and Hiei leapt through. He was soaked, and the carpet in Kurama's room was getting there. The small fire demon closed the window promptly, then turned to face his friend, smiling sardonically.
"Having fun?"
Kurama sighed and shook his head. "I'm in raptures. Do you want a towel or something to dry off with? That rain looks pretty cold." He moved slightly toward his closet.
Hiei snorted disdainfully. "No. I don't get cold."
"Whatever." Kurama went back to his increasingly dull quadratic equations. "Have you seen any of the others today? One of the teachers asked me to help one of the girls in my class with biology, so I didn't get out of school until later."
"Yeah, which brings me to my point. We've got a new case."
Kurama looked up, interested. Finally, something better than math homework. "What about?"
Hiei was about to answer when there was a knock on the door. "Come in," Kurama called, shutting his book, and standing up. The door opened and Yusuke and Kuwabara came in. They grinned at him.
"Hey, fox-boy," Yusuke said in way of greeting. "Whatcha doin'?" He looked at his friend's math book. "Quadra-what?" He turned to Hiei. "And my favorite three-eyed demon! Why are you all wet?"
"Stuff it, Detective," Hiei said dangerously.
"So we have a new case?" Kurama asked. "What about?"
Kuwabara held up a videotape. "It's all in here. Isn't there a TV in your living room?"
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They were just about to pop in the tape when the front door opened and Shiori came in. She smiled wearily at them.
"Hello everyone," she said. "I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap, so I'll be out of your way. There's soda in the fridge. Shuichi, did you finish your homework?"
"Hai, Kaasan." Kurama nodded.
"Good. Well, all of you have fun."
Everyone waited until Shiori's footsteps faded before playing the tape. Koenma's face appeared on the TV screen.
"Konnichi wa, minna-san," the toddler said around a blue pacifier stuck in his mouth. "Well, you've got a new case, and it's quite a doozy. You're going to have to hunt down and eliminate a very powerful, dangerous, verbally abusive demon. Her name is Nariko and she's a Lightning demon. You shouldn't really have any trouble finding her; she's HOT...did I just say that out loud? I did, didn't I? Anyway, I'm going to take a trip to Embarrassment City, so you guys have fun finding her. Yeah."
Yusuke groaned and was about to press the stop button on the VCR when Koenma spoke again.
"Don't touch that button, Yusuke, I'm not done yet. Anyway, as soon as you four decide to look for her, I'll initiate a time stop. Everything will be normal, people will be moving and all, but time won't be passing. Okay, I'm done."
Yusuke pressed the stop button. "This is going to be terrible, but at least she's hot...well, Koenma says so, anyway."
Hiei snickered. "Are you going to trust a toddler's judgement? We'll have to kill her anyway."
Yusuke chose to ignore that remark.
"At least Shizuru won't yell at me," Kuwabara said dully. Kurama sighed.
"I guess we should get going, then," he said, standing up. The others followed suit, and they walked out the door.
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::A.N::I'm sorry if this was a really sucky chapter, but I've been really depressed and I wanted to get this up. I'll make it up to you on the second chapter, I promise. ~D.M.