HI!!! I'm not high. Are you high? You better not be high. HI!!! Yah... Right... I'm on a sugar high again. *eats chocolate* Mmmmm....

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LOONY BIN DOCTOR: *walks into Shadow and Hiei's room* Time for your medicine!!!

HIEI: BACK OFF, FREAK!!!

SHADOW: BACK, YE E-VILE CREATURE!!! *making a little cross with her fingers and hiding behind Hiei*

HIEI: Don't hide behind me, girl! Geesh! *moves*

SHADOW: MEDICINE IS THE SPAWN OF SATAN!!!

HIEI: *slaps his hand over her mouth* You're gonna make them think you're nuts!

SHADOW: *pries his hand off* Who says I'm not?

LOONY BIN DOCTOR: O_O???

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ CON-TEEN-YEOO!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

CHAPITER ATE
Arguments
(You make me angry. Start begging, or you will experience the pain of
having your heart scooped out with a rusty spoon and fed to you through
your nose.)

SHADOW: *staring at some pictures with buggy eyes and her mouth hanging open* I can't believe he DID that!

KURAMA: *walks into the room* Believe who did what?

SHADOW: Nnnnnothing. *hides the pictures in her jacket*

KURAMA: *narrows his eyes* You're hiding something...

SHADOW: Why do you say that?!

KURAMA: *smiles and looks quite proud of himself* I saw you put it in your jacket!

SHADOW: Pfft. You're nuts.

KURAMA: *glares* I think YOU are.

SHADOW: Pfft. No I'm not!

HIEI: *walks into the room* Yes you are.

SHADOW: No I'm not!

HIEI: Not what?

SHADOW: Insane!

HIEI: Did I say you were?

SHADOW: Yes, actually, you did.

HIEI: When!?

SHADOW: You just walked into the room and agreed with Kurama that I'm insane!

HIEI: Oh, so THAT'S what you were arguing about. Hm. *walks away, dragging a rather suspicious-looking bag*

SHADOW: Hiei. What's in that bag?

HIEI: *looks nervous* A... uh... An assortment of things...

KURAMA: Like?

HIEI: Junk.

SHADOW: Dead bodies?

HIEI: Sort of.

KURAMA: Alive bodies?

HIEI: Somewhat.

SHADOW: Unconscious bloody heaps that look somewhat like a body but aren't really anymore?

HIEI: One of them.

KURAMA: Yusuke and Kuwabara?

HIEI: Uh... Heh...

SHADOW: OH MY GOD, YOU HAVE YUSUKE AND KUWABARA IN THAT SACK!?

HIEI: Yeah... *cowers* Don't hurt me!!!

SHADOW: Hurt you?! I LOVE YOU!!! *tackles Hiei and hugs him while Kurama grabs the sack and dumps out the two unconscious boys*

HIEI: Shadow?

SHADOW: *still smothering him with a hug* You killed the annoying blackmailing stupid idiot boys!!!

HIEI: Um... Shadow... I...

SHADOW: YAY!!! I won't have to put up with them anymore!!!

HIEI: *turning blue* Shadow...

SHADOW: You are the bestestest friend a person could have!!!

HIEI: AACKK!!!

KURAMA: SHADOW, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL YOUR BESTESTEST FRIEND IF YOU DON'T GET OFF OF HIM!!!

SHADOW: Huh? *realizes she's practically strangling him* OH MY GOD, I'M SO SORRY!!! *jumps up, accidentally stepping on Kuwabara but paying no attention to it when she realizes she did*

HIEI: *laying on the floor cross-eyed* GASP!!! Agh. Ack. Hack. Choke. Gasp. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. GASP! HACK! GASP GASP.

KURAMA: Hiei, what did you do to these two?

HIEI: *breathing normally-ish. Finally.* Well...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK EXPLAINATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HIEI: *in his room, playing extremely loud heavy-metal music on his guitar*

*~* On the roof... *~*

YUSUKE: Okay, I'll lower you down, and you take the pictures.

KUWABARA: What!? Of Hiei? What if he catches me? I'll be dead meat!

YUSUKE: Not my problem... *hands Kuwabara a camera, grabs his leg, and pushes him off the roof, keeping a hold of his leg to make sure he doesn't fall to his death four floors below on the rose bushes that had been planted there as anti-burglary devices several months earlier*

KUWABARA: Aaahhh--Oof! *hanging upside down outside Hiei's window by his leg* Here goes... *starts snapping pictures of Hiei playing his guitar like a lunatic*

HIEI: *notices the camera flashing behind him* WHAT THE HECK?! *spins around, throwing his guitar at the window and slamming Kuwabara in the nose with it*

KUWABARA: OH MY GOD, MY NOSE!!! *drops the camera*

HIEI: *shoots out the window, catching the guitar and the camera before they are eternally lost in the thorns and bloodthirsty plants below the window, then somehow manuvers himself back up into his room* Phew!

KUWABARA: MY NOSE! MY NOSE! MY POOR, POOR, BEE-YOO-TEE-FOOL NOSE!!!

HIEI: Oh god... WHY THE HECK WERE YOU PHOTOGRAPHING ME? THAT'S AS BAD AS SHADOW AND HER VIDEO TAPES, YOU RETARDED, LOW DOWN, WORTHLESS, PANSY HUMAN!!! *launches himself off the windowsill, kicking Kuwabara in the head and knocking him unconscious, then darting up and landing beside Yusuke on the roof*

YUSUKE: *sweatdrop* Eh heh... *drops Kuwabara* Hi... Hiei...

HIEI: I'm sick of you.

YUSUKE: Me?

HIEI: You and your blackmail.

YUSUKE: Oh! Uh. Well, the roof isn't an ideal place for revenge, and besides, you don't even have your sword! I'll just be going now, since I guess you can't do anything to me.

HIEI: *glances at his hands, in which he is still holding the guitar and the camera* The heck I can't, kid. *crushes the camera and tosses it aside, then charges at Yusuke with the guitar*

YUSUKE: Isn't there some show that some girl uses a guitar as a weapon-- OW!!!

*Yusuke is sent flying backwards by the 'deadly' guitar*

HIEI: So what if there is? I'm gonna whip your sorry butt with a guitar, being as I haven't got the time to go back for my katana.

YUSUKE: Heh heh...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ END FLASHBACK EXPLAINATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SHADOW: So Yusuke dropped Kuwabara in the man-eating roses, and you mangled Yusuke with a... guitar?

HIEI: Yes, exactly.

SHADOW: Okee Dokee then! *looks freaked out*

KURAMA: In the meantime... You better hope Yusuke isn't dead.

HIEI: Pft! I hope he is.

KURAMA: Uh... Hello?! Reikai prison is not a fun place to be, genius!

HIEI: Yeah, like Koenma would be fool enough to send the strongest living spirit detective to prison... Leaving only you, the calm, red-haired human boy who can turn into a bloodthirsty, sex-crazed, murderous spirit fox. I DON'T THINK SO.

KURAMA: Excuse me?! I take that as a personal insult, and I suggest you take that back before the bloodthirsty, sex-crazed, murderous spirit fox comes out and whoops yer ass, pansy!

HIEI: Pansy? PANSY? ME?! Kurama, honestly, I thought you were much more intelligent than that. ~I~ am not a pansy. If anyone is, I believe it is you.

KURAMA: Hiei, I may SEEM like a pansy, what with the long hair and "girly" roses and flowers, but you know I am not, as you have seen Youko kicking some demon butt, and he is not somebody you want to come near, especially if you are insulting him. Pansy and Youko should not be used in the same sentence, my friend.

HIEI: I never accused YOUKO of being a pansy. I said it was you. You and Youko, are two different people, as I see it, and I was referring to you. You. As in, long red hair, green eyes, accused of being a girl, accused of being gay, stole the forlorn mirror thing and BETRAYED me, *under his breath* damn fox...

KURAMA: Accused of being gay, huh? Well, I have seen so many sick and perverted stories on the internet calling YOU gay, too.

SHADOW: I've heard of ones pairing Kuwabara and Hiei.

HIEI: WHAT?!

SHADOW: It wasn't me! I don't believe in that lousy yaoi crap! I want to kill anyone who does!

HIEI: Good. I, personally, do not see how people can think I am gay. Kurama, I can see. But me?! Pfft! Yeah right!

KURAMA: I AM NOT GAY, YOU LOUSY--- *Shadow holds a sign over his mouth that says 'censored!' and suddenly all his words are silent, although it is obvious he's still ranting about something*

SHADOW: HEY GUYS! STOP ARGUING!

HIEI: Stay out of this Shadow!

KURAMA: Shadow, Hiei won't stop calling me gay. Make him stop.

SHADOW: Me? Why me? Why would I be able to?

KURAMA: You're his girlfriend, aren't you?

HIEI & SHADOW: NO!!!

KURAMA: HOLY MOLEY!!! *runs away screaming, being closely chased by a couple lunatic pyromaniacs waving katanas and meat cleavers*

YUSUKE: *stands up* NO WORRIES! The detective... LIVES!!!

*Shadow, Hiei, and Kurama all mutter curses under their breath as they look at Yusuke, momentarily stopping their violent chase, giving Kurama time to vanish off into no-where-ville*

YUSUKE: I'll be going. *grabs Kuwabara and runs out the door*

*Hiei and Shadow watch Yusuke leave. They turn back and realize Kurama has vanished too (little do they know that he's in the basement). Hiei turns to face Shadow*

HIEI: ON GUARD! *jumps at Shadow with his sword, and they start some insane katana vs. meat cleaver battle in Shadow's living room*

~*~ Three hours later ~*~

SHADOW: *collapses onto the couch* I'm tired...

HIEI: DIE! *jumps at Shadow like he's gonna stab her, but instead he ends up slamming into the back of the couch. It tips over and Shadow falls on top of Hiei*

YUSUKE: *appearing out of nowhere* PERFECT! *snaps a whole roll of film before they can get up, then runs back out of the house*

HIEI: THAT'S IT!!! *jumps up, trips over Shadow, drops his sword, falls on his face, gets up again, grabs his katana off the ground, and chases after Yusuke, closely followed by Shadow, waving a meat cleaver like a lunatic*

YUSUKE: *out in the yard* OH CRAP!!! *takes off running, leaping over Kuwabara's unconscious body lying on the ground*

HIEI: GET HIM!!! *runs right over Kuwabara. Splat*

SHADOW: DEATH TO YUSUKE URAMESHI!!! *runs over Kuwabara too. Crunch*

KURAMA: HEY YOU THREE!!! STOP!!! STOP STOP STOP!!! *steps on Kuwabara and pushes off, leaping on top of Hiei and slamming his face into the pavement*

HIEI: OH MY GOD! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! I HAVE GRAVEL IN MY FACE! GET IT OUT! GET IT--- SHADOW, GO KILL YUSUKE!!! OOOWWWWW!!! IT BURNS!!! *pushes Kurama off him and sits down in the middle of the road to pick the tiny stones out from under his skin*

CAR HORN: HONK!!!

CAR BRAKES: SCREECH!!!

ANGRY CAR DRIVER: GET OUT OF THE ROAD, MOTHER--- *censored sign pops over his face for a second, blanking out the word* ING IDIOT!!! WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? ARE YOU DEAF? CAN YOU HEAR ME? WHAT THE (&^% IS YOUR PROBLEM?!

HIEI: *gets up right in the driver's face with an insane look on his face* It burrrrnnnnsssss!!!

FREAKED OUT (used to be angry) CAR DRIVER: You scare me. *swerves around Hiei and shoots down the road at 100 mph, passing up Yusuke who is being chased by Shadow who is being chased by Kurama*

KURAMA: I AM SICK OF YOUR STUPID BLACKMAILING AND CONSTANT PETTY FIGHTS!!! *catches up to Shadow and Yusuke, grabs them by the backs of their shirts, and throws them on the ground. They land on their butts near Hiei, who was just catching up with them from picking gravel out of his face*

SHADOW: *under her breath* We're dead.

KURAMA: I AM SICK OF YOUR BLACKMAILING AND CONSTANT FIGHTING, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO SOLVE IT!!! *he reaches inside his coat and pulls out a huge gun, getting an insane/happy look on his face*

SHADOW: OH MY GOD! KURAMA'S LOST HIS MIND!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Oh my god! Kurama's lost his mind! Will he ever find it again? Where could it possibley be? Maybe it's under this rock... Hmmm... No... Gee. Well I don't know where it could be then. You'll just have to wait and find out if he shoots all his friends or not.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

SHADOW: *staggering around the room, talking in a really spaced-out, high pitched voice* Medicine is the spawn of Satan... We must take our medicine... It's good for us... I like guns... They're fun to play with... You always point the little hole TOWARDS your head... The same with explosives. Always stay CLOSE BY once the fuse is lit... Weehee...

HIEI: That's it. I'm getting out of here... I have had enough of some loony bin, and now that they've injected my only companion full of drugs, I'LL GO INSANE. Just because she's all pumped up on drugs to make her insane and I don't like insane people. I gotta get OUT!!! *starts picking at the wall with his fingernail* This could take a while...