Well, I'm back again...I just wanted to let my readers know that I appreciate everything...you've made me feel loved. *sniffles* I love you all! And so, I bequeath to each of you, a Pug!
Hmm...to answer you, mai-ly, I chose the name Kia...well, just read my profile, you'll understand. Plus, her full name is Satsukiasame, and how many characters do you know with THAT name? OK, I have two characters...Mikage, who will be playing the role of friend to the Tantei, and Zyoshi (I hope I got that right, gomen! ^^()), who knows about the mirrors and where Ashita lives. Which leaves Ashita's assistant. I'd prefer it to be a male, thank you! The characters will be probably show up in later chapters. If you've been reading, you know where I left off. But, let's continue, neh?
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"Your mom...kicked you out...of your own house?!" Kuwabara was dumbfounded.
"Looks like it," Yusuke said casually. "She said that there were too many people hanging around and that she needed the house for HER friends. And also that if I complained so much, that I should be evacuated too."
"But what about the others?" Yukina said worriedly. Kia and Kelsey had just met the soft-spoken Ice Maiden and already liked her. "Weren't they staying with you?"
Kelsey recited names, ticking them off on her fingers. "Suzuki, Shishi, Touya, Jin, Kia, and me." She grinned. "Everyone else has a house and Hiei..." she shrugged.
"Not to worry!" Suzuki said cheerfully. "I have a place nearby."
Nine pairs of jaws dropped. Yukina looked confused and Shishiwakamaru smirked, knowing what his friend was talking about.
"Well, that's good news!" Botan had dropped by to see how they were faring (and to secretly check that Kia and Kelsey hadn't been killed yet).
"Room enough for everyone?" Jin asked anxiously.
Suzuki smiled. "I'll let you be the judge of that."
He led the others past the park that Kia often visited, deeper into the forest. He stopped in the middle of a clearing. There was nothing there.
"Uh...Suzuki?" Yusuke blinked. "Where...is it?"
Kuwabara strode forward, then suddenly fell on his back. The sight of the red-haired boy awkwardly waving his arms and legs around reminded Kia of a turtle on its back. She covered her mouth with her hands to keep from giggling.
"Kazuma-san!" Yukina cried, helping him up. "Daijobu?"
"Y-yeah...but I hit some sort of wall..."
"Right!" Suzuki agreed happily. He took out a small glass bottle containing some orange liquid from his pocket, uncorked it, and sprinkled a few drops on the ground. A house appeared.
Kia leapt back in startlement. "Nani??"
"He made it invisible," Kurama realized. "Almost impossible to locate."
The blonde youkai bowed grandly. "Shall we go in?" He opened the door, beckoning to Kia, Kelsey, Botan, and Yukina with a flourish of his arm. "Ladies first!"
"You heard him," Hiei muttered to Kuwabara. "Go right ahead."
"Say WHAT? You wanna fight, shrimp?!"
"Save it for later," Touya interrupted them, following the girls. "Preferably when we're not around."
Kia blinked as they stepped inside. The interior was spacious, with five bedrooms, a kitchen and dining room, a living room, and two bathrooms, side by side.
"Left is for ladies," Suzuki informed his audience, pointing. "Right is for men."
"Men? Where?" Kelsey looked around. "I don't see any men."
"Be nice, Kelsey," Kia muttered to her friend.
Suzuki, choosing to ignore the comment, beamed. "First come, first served for rooms!"
In the end, Kia and Kelsey shared a room, Suzuki and Shishiwakamaru roomed together, Jin and Touya claimed one, and Hiei and Yusuke reluctantly took another room.
"There's still one room left," Kia pointed out.
"That's reserved for our guests," Suzuki said mysteriously, enjoying the puzzlement on the girl's face.
"Guests? What guests?" Kelsey blinked.
"That's RIGHT!" Botan grinned, pink eyes sparkling. "I'd better go check on their progress." With a parting wave, the ferrygirl departed.
"I hate it when they don't tell us things," Kia muttered, and Yukina patted her arm sympathetically.
* * * * * * * * * *
Three days passed by uneventfully. Surprisingly, it was Keiko this time who started off the next round of chaos.
It was a cool day with overcast skies of dark gray. School had been out for a day, and those who attended it responded in different ways. Yusuke and Kuwabara argued over who had gotten the lowest test score. Keiko and Kurama mourned the ending of school. Kelsey thought they were insane. Kia and Kelsey did a "school-is-out-we're-free" dance, and then sat down to think up revenge on Iwamoto-sensei, for trying to fail Kelsey just because she'd defended Yusuke when he was accused of stealing someone's wallet (when Iwamoto was the actual culprit) and he'd gotten off...and also for Akashi-sensei, who had pinned Kia against the back of the building after school and would've done some unmentionable things to her if Yusuke and Kuwabara hadn't shown up and beaten him soundly. When the principal, after hearing Kia's furious litany, asked Akashi if it was true, the buck-toothed teacher claimed that SHE had thrown herself at HIM. It took the combined forces of Kuwabara, Yusuke, Keiko, and Kelsey to stop Kia from using one of her arrows on him.
But, back to the day after...
Keiko sat on Suzuki's porch, along with Yusuke, Botan, Suzuki, Kuwabara, Yukina, and Hiei. Shishiwakamaru had disappeared somewhere, Jin and Touya were asleep in their room, and Kurama was in the living room, settled in a cozy plush armchair and reading a thick book avidly.
Kia and Kelsey were lying on the grass, compiling a list of revenge plans. Every now and then, their voices would float over to the group seated on the porch.
"I say we lock Iwamoto in the broom closet."
"Knock him out and gag him first, or he'll make too much noise..."
"Oh, yeah..."
"I still want to use my arrows on Akashi..."
"Yeah, no one'll miss him..."
"I think we should fix them up with some others," Keiko announced suddenly.
"Fix WHO up?" Yukina asked, puzzled.
"Kelsey and Kia."
Suzuki snorted. "Shishi's already lost it over Kelsey."
"But she hates him," Yusuke reminded the tall youkai.
"There's a very thin line between love and hate," Botan said. "Her feelings could change..." She grinned mischievously. "With a little help from Matchmakers, Inc., of course."
Keiko grinned back, catching on. "But what about Kia?"
"She's a lost cause." Kuwabara sighed. "After that whole gang thing and that bastard Akashi, she flinches every time you touch her."
"She's doing it less, though..." Suzuki said thoughtfully. "If she's ever going to recover from this, she'll need someone thoughtful, who will respect and understand what she's been through."
"Yusuke and the buffoon are most definitely out, then." Hiei spoke up.
"Yeah, Urameshi, you're about as sensitive as one of those Cultivated Humans!" Kuwabara chortled. "But who's the buffoon?"
Hiei rolled his eyes skyward, choosing not to reply.
"I think he meant YOU, Kuwabara," Botan told him gently.
"ME?! That little shrimp, I'll pound him into-!"
"Please, Kazuma-san, no violence!" Yukina said pleadingly.
Kuwabara got a sort of dopey look on his face and clasped Yukina's tiny hands in his own large, awkward ones. "Anything for you, Yukina-san."
Hiei tensed and one hand rested on his katana. How DARE that idiotic oaf touch his sweet pristine sister?!
"So, then, who can we pick?" Botan said desperately, trying to divert Hiei's attention away from the unsuspecting Kuwabara, who was now gazing into Yukina's eyes.
"All in all, we only have three candidates," Suzuki said, trying not to smile.
"Oh?" Yusuke looked at him. "Who?"
"Touya, Kurama, and Jin."
Kuwabara almost choked as he heard the last name. "Jin?!"
"Ssh, not so loud!" Botan hissed, as Kia and Kelsey looked up from their plotting to see what the outburst was about. She waved at them, sweatdropping, then sighed as they returned to their discussion.
"Gomen," Kuwabara said, lowering his voice. "I can see Kurama and Touya...but JIN?"
"Much as I hate to say it, the baka has a point." Hiei smirked. "He's practically Yusuke's twin. No WAY would he be considered thoughtful."
"Yeah!" Kuwabara agreed, sniggering. "No girl with a brain would be with Urameshi, so Jin has no chance at all!"
Keiko shot a very murderous glare at him, who sweatdropped. "Uh, gomen, Keiko! I...uh...I meant..." He began to mumble incoherently to himself.
"But he DID manage to calm her down after she ran off," Suzuki recalled. "Of course, Touya was there too..."
Botan laughed. "And he was pretty good-natured about getting hit with a greased cookie sheet."
"Why not see how things turn out?" Yukina suggested. "I think you may be surprised by the way things turn out."
Kuwabara turned adoring eyes back to the Koorime. "You're so smart, Yukina-san. No wonder I love you."
Kuwabara was saved from death (courtesy of Hiei) by the arrival of Kia, who was approaching the porch.
"Hey, guys," she greeted them. "What's going on?"
"Um," said Yusuke.
"The weather!" Botan said quickly. "We...were talking about the weather!"
"Isn't it beautiful?" Keiko added, just as Suzuki said, "Looks like rain." They stared at each other for a moment.
"Yes...rain..." Kuwabara agreed. "Rain is beautiful. Just like my Yukina-san."
They all laughed nervously, with the exception of Hiei (who was still glaring at Kuwabara and trying to decide whether to cut off an arm or a leg first) and Yukina (who didn't understand why everyone was acting so strangely).
"So...what're you up to?" Keiko asked Kia, who was staring at them oddly.
"I'm off to take a shower...my hair needs washing."
"DON'T HOG ALL THE HOT WATER!" Kelsey yelled from across the grass. "I'M NEXT!"
Kia grinned and went inside.
"Hmm...this could work out very nicely..." Yusuke began to formulate a plan. Actually, he'd already put a different plan in action.
***Flashback to that Morning...***
"Hey, Shishi!" Yusuke called to the youkai. "See if there's any towels in the girls' bathroom, will ya? We're all out!"
"Do it yourself," Shishiwakamaru snapped, polishing his sword.
"I'm a little...BARE here!" Yusuke replied from his room. "Unless you want to see me in all my wondrous glory-"
The blue-haired youkai quickly put down his sword and ran into the bathroom that Kia and Kelsey shared, in order to avoid hearing (or seeing) Yusuke. He rummaged in the cupboards under the sink, and then through the towel cabinet. Finding one (he'd chosen a pale pink one just to get back at Yusuke), he started to straighten up-than found himself being shoved roughly into the cabinet. The doors slammed shut and, peering through a crack in the wood, Shishiwakamaru saw Yusuke (fully clothed) draw the bolt through the latch, locking the cabinet.
"Urameshi, I'm going to-"
"Thank me for this later." Yusuke grinned. "Don't make too much noise, my fine blue-haired fellow. The girls won't take it too well if they find you in their bathroom." He turned off the light and left, whistling cheerfully.
***End Flashback***
*OOC*
I wonder why Yusuke did that...could it have something to do with Kelsey? And what other plan has he come up with for Jin and Kia? ^.^ I was going to write it in this chapter, but it'd be too long, so next chapter, which I may have up in the same day anyway. So...review!
Next Chapter...
* When Yusuke tricks Jin into being in the wrong place at the wrong time, how will Kia react? All I can say is "Poor Jin"...which is what you may be saying too by the next chapter. And when Shishiwakamaru is finally freed from his prison...who wants to guess KELSEY'S reaction?
* The arrival of a new evil person and a few new allies as well!
Hmm...to answer you, mai-ly, I chose the name Kia...well, just read my profile, you'll understand. Plus, her full name is Satsukiasame, and how many characters do you know with THAT name? OK, I have two characters...Mikage, who will be playing the role of friend to the Tantei, and Zyoshi (I hope I got that right, gomen! ^^()), who knows about the mirrors and where Ashita lives. Which leaves Ashita's assistant. I'd prefer it to be a male, thank you! The characters will be probably show up in later chapters. If you've been reading, you know where I left off. But, let's continue, neh?
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"Your mom...kicked you out...of your own house?!" Kuwabara was dumbfounded.
"Looks like it," Yusuke said casually. "She said that there were too many people hanging around and that she needed the house for HER friends. And also that if I complained so much, that I should be evacuated too."
"But what about the others?" Yukina said worriedly. Kia and Kelsey had just met the soft-spoken Ice Maiden and already liked her. "Weren't they staying with you?"
Kelsey recited names, ticking them off on her fingers. "Suzuki, Shishi, Touya, Jin, Kia, and me." She grinned. "Everyone else has a house and Hiei..." she shrugged.
"Not to worry!" Suzuki said cheerfully. "I have a place nearby."
Nine pairs of jaws dropped. Yukina looked confused and Shishiwakamaru smirked, knowing what his friend was talking about.
"Well, that's good news!" Botan had dropped by to see how they were faring (and to secretly check that Kia and Kelsey hadn't been killed yet).
"Room enough for everyone?" Jin asked anxiously.
Suzuki smiled. "I'll let you be the judge of that."
He led the others past the park that Kia often visited, deeper into the forest. He stopped in the middle of a clearing. There was nothing there.
"Uh...Suzuki?" Yusuke blinked. "Where...is it?"
Kuwabara strode forward, then suddenly fell on his back. The sight of the red-haired boy awkwardly waving his arms and legs around reminded Kia of a turtle on its back. She covered her mouth with her hands to keep from giggling.
"Kazuma-san!" Yukina cried, helping him up. "Daijobu?"
"Y-yeah...but I hit some sort of wall..."
"Right!" Suzuki agreed happily. He took out a small glass bottle containing some orange liquid from his pocket, uncorked it, and sprinkled a few drops on the ground. A house appeared.
Kia leapt back in startlement. "Nani??"
"He made it invisible," Kurama realized. "Almost impossible to locate."
The blonde youkai bowed grandly. "Shall we go in?" He opened the door, beckoning to Kia, Kelsey, Botan, and Yukina with a flourish of his arm. "Ladies first!"
"You heard him," Hiei muttered to Kuwabara. "Go right ahead."
"Say WHAT? You wanna fight, shrimp?!"
"Save it for later," Touya interrupted them, following the girls. "Preferably when we're not around."
Kia blinked as they stepped inside. The interior was spacious, with five bedrooms, a kitchen and dining room, a living room, and two bathrooms, side by side.
"Left is for ladies," Suzuki informed his audience, pointing. "Right is for men."
"Men? Where?" Kelsey looked around. "I don't see any men."
"Be nice, Kelsey," Kia muttered to her friend.
Suzuki, choosing to ignore the comment, beamed. "First come, first served for rooms!"
In the end, Kia and Kelsey shared a room, Suzuki and Shishiwakamaru roomed together, Jin and Touya claimed one, and Hiei and Yusuke reluctantly took another room.
"There's still one room left," Kia pointed out.
"That's reserved for our guests," Suzuki said mysteriously, enjoying the puzzlement on the girl's face.
"Guests? What guests?" Kelsey blinked.
"That's RIGHT!" Botan grinned, pink eyes sparkling. "I'd better go check on their progress." With a parting wave, the ferrygirl departed.
"I hate it when they don't tell us things," Kia muttered, and Yukina patted her arm sympathetically.
* * * * * * * * * *
Three days passed by uneventfully. Surprisingly, it was Keiko this time who started off the next round of chaos.
It was a cool day with overcast skies of dark gray. School had been out for a day, and those who attended it responded in different ways. Yusuke and Kuwabara argued over who had gotten the lowest test score. Keiko and Kurama mourned the ending of school. Kelsey thought they were insane. Kia and Kelsey did a "school-is-out-we're-free" dance, and then sat down to think up revenge on Iwamoto-sensei, for trying to fail Kelsey just because she'd defended Yusuke when he was accused of stealing someone's wallet (when Iwamoto was the actual culprit) and he'd gotten off...and also for Akashi-sensei, who had pinned Kia against the back of the building after school and would've done some unmentionable things to her if Yusuke and Kuwabara hadn't shown up and beaten him soundly. When the principal, after hearing Kia's furious litany, asked Akashi if it was true, the buck-toothed teacher claimed that SHE had thrown herself at HIM. It took the combined forces of Kuwabara, Yusuke, Keiko, and Kelsey to stop Kia from using one of her arrows on him.
But, back to the day after...
Keiko sat on Suzuki's porch, along with Yusuke, Botan, Suzuki, Kuwabara, Yukina, and Hiei. Shishiwakamaru had disappeared somewhere, Jin and Touya were asleep in their room, and Kurama was in the living room, settled in a cozy plush armchair and reading a thick book avidly.
Kia and Kelsey were lying on the grass, compiling a list of revenge plans. Every now and then, their voices would float over to the group seated on the porch.
"I say we lock Iwamoto in the broom closet."
"Knock him out and gag him first, or he'll make too much noise..."
"Oh, yeah..."
"I still want to use my arrows on Akashi..."
"Yeah, no one'll miss him..."
"I think we should fix them up with some others," Keiko announced suddenly.
"Fix WHO up?" Yukina asked, puzzled.
"Kelsey and Kia."
Suzuki snorted. "Shishi's already lost it over Kelsey."
"But she hates him," Yusuke reminded the tall youkai.
"There's a very thin line between love and hate," Botan said. "Her feelings could change..." She grinned mischievously. "With a little help from Matchmakers, Inc., of course."
Keiko grinned back, catching on. "But what about Kia?"
"She's a lost cause." Kuwabara sighed. "After that whole gang thing and that bastard Akashi, she flinches every time you touch her."
"She's doing it less, though..." Suzuki said thoughtfully. "If she's ever going to recover from this, she'll need someone thoughtful, who will respect and understand what she's been through."
"Yusuke and the buffoon are most definitely out, then." Hiei spoke up.
"Yeah, Urameshi, you're about as sensitive as one of those Cultivated Humans!" Kuwabara chortled. "But who's the buffoon?"
Hiei rolled his eyes skyward, choosing not to reply.
"I think he meant YOU, Kuwabara," Botan told him gently.
"ME?! That little shrimp, I'll pound him into-!"
"Please, Kazuma-san, no violence!" Yukina said pleadingly.
Kuwabara got a sort of dopey look on his face and clasped Yukina's tiny hands in his own large, awkward ones. "Anything for you, Yukina-san."
Hiei tensed and one hand rested on his katana. How DARE that idiotic oaf touch his sweet pristine sister?!
"So, then, who can we pick?" Botan said desperately, trying to divert Hiei's attention away from the unsuspecting Kuwabara, who was now gazing into Yukina's eyes.
"All in all, we only have three candidates," Suzuki said, trying not to smile.
"Oh?" Yusuke looked at him. "Who?"
"Touya, Kurama, and Jin."
Kuwabara almost choked as he heard the last name. "Jin?!"
"Ssh, not so loud!" Botan hissed, as Kia and Kelsey looked up from their plotting to see what the outburst was about. She waved at them, sweatdropping, then sighed as they returned to their discussion.
"Gomen," Kuwabara said, lowering his voice. "I can see Kurama and Touya...but JIN?"
"Much as I hate to say it, the baka has a point." Hiei smirked. "He's practically Yusuke's twin. No WAY would he be considered thoughtful."
"Yeah!" Kuwabara agreed, sniggering. "No girl with a brain would be with Urameshi, so Jin has no chance at all!"
Keiko shot a very murderous glare at him, who sweatdropped. "Uh, gomen, Keiko! I...uh...I meant..." He began to mumble incoherently to himself.
"But he DID manage to calm her down after she ran off," Suzuki recalled. "Of course, Touya was there too..."
Botan laughed. "And he was pretty good-natured about getting hit with a greased cookie sheet."
"Why not see how things turn out?" Yukina suggested. "I think you may be surprised by the way things turn out."
Kuwabara turned adoring eyes back to the Koorime. "You're so smart, Yukina-san. No wonder I love you."
Kuwabara was saved from death (courtesy of Hiei) by the arrival of Kia, who was approaching the porch.
"Hey, guys," she greeted them. "What's going on?"
"Um," said Yusuke.
"The weather!" Botan said quickly. "We...were talking about the weather!"
"Isn't it beautiful?" Keiko added, just as Suzuki said, "Looks like rain." They stared at each other for a moment.
"Yes...rain..." Kuwabara agreed. "Rain is beautiful. Just like my Yukina-san."
They all laughed nervously, with the exception of Hiei (who was still glaring at Kuwabara and trying to decide whether to cut off an arm or a leg first) and Yukina (who didn't understand why everyone was acting so strangely).
"So...what're you up to?" Keiko asked Kia, who was staring at them oddly.
"I'm off to take a shower...my hair needs washing."
"DON'T HOG ALL THE HOT WATER!" Kelsey yelled from across the grass. "I'M NEXT!"
Kia grinned and went inside.
"Hmm...this could work out very nicely..." Yusuke began to formulate a plan. Actually, he'd already put a different plan in action.
***Flashback to that Morning...***
"Hey, Shishi!" Yusuke called to the youkai. "See if there's any towels in the girls' bathroom, will ya? We're all out!"
"Do it yourself," Shishiwakamaru snapped, polishing his sword.
"I'm a little...BARE here!" Yusuke replied from his room. "Unless you want to see me in all my wondrous glory-"
The blue-haired youkai quickly put down his sword and ran into the bathroom that Kia and Kelsey shared, in order to avoid hearing (or seeing) Yusuke. He rummaged in the cupboards under the sink, and then through the towel cabinet. Finding one (he'd chosen a pale pink one just to get back at Yusuke), he started to straighten up-than found himself being shoved roughly into the cabinet. The doors slammed shut and, peering through a crack in the wood, Shishiwakamaru saw Yusuke (fully clothed) draw the bolt through the latch, locking the cabinet.
"Urameshi, I'm going to-"
"Thank me for this later." Yusuke grinned. "Don't make too much noise, my fine blue-haired fellow. The girls won't take it too well if they find you in their bathroom." He turned off the light and left, whistling cheerfully.
***End Flashback***
*OOC*
I wonder why Yusuke did that...could it have something to do with Kelsey? And what other plan has he come up with for Jin and Kia? ^.^ I was going to write it in this chapter, but it'd be too long, so next chapter, which I may have up in the same day anyway. So...review!
Next Chapter...
* When Yusuke tricks Jin into being in the wrong place at the wrong time, how will Kia react? All I can say is "Poor Jin"...which is what you may be saying too by the next chapter. And when Shishiwakamaru is finally freed from his prison...who wants to guess KELSEY'S reaction?
* The arrival of a new evil person and a few new allies as well!
