(Authoress Note: I came up this idea from watching the Simpsons. If you watch them, then you should know which one I am talking about. If not then, at the end of this chapter I will explain briefly what it was about. Okay? Kay. Also, a day in the real world is about a week in the nut house. Guess what, Guess what. I'm not going to tell you. You will have to read this chapter, and it will be hidden inside. Heheheh ^_^)
Chapter 8: A Shocking Experience ^_^
The next few days, was the same as all of the other days.
The boys would wake up, meet the girls at the cafeteria for breakfast, then they would be separate, taken to the same room, and had to take tests over and over again, then they would have lunch, and do the same thing over, and then there was dinner, and then they went to their rooms and slept, and then they would wake up again and do the same thing over.
But today was different the group wasn't separated. Instead, they were all lead to another room. As they walked in, they saw ten chairs in a circle. Over each, was some weird hat thing with a wire leading each one together then to a machine in the corner of the room. The longest armrest, on each chair, had nine buttons in a semi circle. There was also a harness type thing connected to the back of the chairs.
"Today, we are going to do some 'group' therapy. I would like you all to sit down," said Dr. Umi. The group looked at each other with dumbfounded expressions. The doctor began to walk over the machine before realizing that they weren't listening. "Well, are you guys going to stand there all day, or are you going to sit down?" he asked. His voice had a hint of the girls' attitude.
"And why do we need group therapy?" asked Koenma.
"Because each one of you have a secret that you don't want to tell each other, and plus you all don't seem to be getting along. So, this little therapy is here to help you out. So, will you please take a seat?"
The gang cautiously walked over to the chairs and each one took a seat.
The seating arrangement starting at the seat in front of the door the going clockwise: yusuke, keiko, katsumi, hiei, yukina, kuwabara, shizuru, kurama, koenma, and last, but not lease, botan. After the doctor turned on the machine, the hat thingys lowered on to their heads, the longer armrest swung inward (Think of an automatic door shutting.), two metal straps wrap themselves around everyone's ankles, and lastly a harness, like the ones on a rollercoaster, descended onto their shoulders. My birthday is this sunday, october twentysixth. Everyone jolted as the harnesses and everything on the chair snapped as they locked.
"What the heck is going on here?" growled hiei trying to break free. The doctor let out a quiet chuckle.
This is my favorite kind of therapy, he thought to himself before turning his attention to the confused onlookers. "The buttons that are in front of you are all connected to the helmets that you are wearing." Everyone was looking confused. "yusuke would you please push one of those buttons?"
"Okay," he said looking at everyone. He pushed the button to the far right.
"Hey, oww," a voice jumped. yusuke looked to his right and saw botan giving a slight whimper.
"What happened?" asked botan confused. I'll be seventeen. Yes, a seventeen year old writing a fanfic, well, it's true.
"You see every time you push one of those buttons will give a slight shock to the person that the button is hooked up to. So, if someone is making you mad or upset, you just have to push the button corresponding to that person. Then there is no blood shed or anything like that, and you won't get hurt. It will feel like a static shock only 5 times worse. Cool huh?" He looked at the group but no one was paying that much attention to him. He just saw some giant grins on some of their faces, mostly on the girls.
"I think that I am going to have fun with this. Now, let see who does this go to?" asked kat pushing the button in the middle. Then across from her she heard someone yelp. She then noticed that it was kurama. "Hehehe sorry kurama. I didn't mean to hurt you I was hoping that it would have be baka over there or someone else," she said nudging her head toward kuwabara.
"Oh, it's okay. You just caught me off guard," explained kurama excepting her apology.
"Let me say something before you all shock each other with out meaning too. If you notice the buttons in front of you are all in a circle with one missing that is the closes one to you, well each one is in the order that you are sitting in. The one that is to your left is the button that goes to the person to your left. And so on. Okay well start your fighting," said Dr. Umi sounding enthusiastic for them to fight. (I wonder why? I would be too. Shocking them. Heheh!!! : P! I'm just plain mean I know, but hey at lease it's just a small shock.).
"What is so funny, Botan and Kurama?" asked Yukina. Botan had started to laugh after yusuke pushed the button and so did Kurama.
"That tickled," she replied.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, you five will be feeling like someone had tickled you, while the others and your copies will get shocked," explained Leila.
"Cool," said Keiko watching eagerly at the screen wanting to see the boys get shocked.
"No, this is not cool. It's cruel," snarled kuwabara.
"Oh, shut it kuwabaka. You are just afraid that you are going to get fried," snapped hiei.
"What did you say sh…" Too late, kuwabara wasn't able to finish his sentence. hiei had pushed the button that corresponded to him. The sudden shock caused kuwabara to jump slightly, but he couldn't with the harness on. So, instead he let out a small whimper that was very hard to hear over the laughter that came from hiei.
"Now, that is what I call fun," he chuckled pushing the button again.
Without warring hiei was shocked. He looked around at who did it. "Who did that?" he snarled.
"I did. You shouldn't pick on kazuma like that. You guys are supposed to be friends. Now, say you're sorry," a quiet voice replied.
"Why shou…" but before he finished he looked over to where the response came from and noticed that it was from yukina. He couldn't say 'no' to his sister, and he knew that he couldn't say that he was sorry. So, he said the only sorry in his vocabulary, which wasn't even a sorry, it was mostly him huffin'. "Hn."
"No, yukina. What hiei did is exactly what they are supposed to do. Friends are supposed to fight, and this is just an easy way for them to do it with out hurting each other in the process," explained the doctor.
This sounds familiar to me. Now, why do I seem like I know who is doing this to us? thought koenma as he watched the group shocking the heck of each other.
Good, he is starting to realize who is doing this, thought Leila hearing what Koenma thought.
"So, now that everyone know which button goes to who, you can get started," the doctor said grabbing a pad of paper and faced the group.
"What do we talk about?" asked keiko.
"Well, let me see." Dr. Umi skimmed through his papers before nodding. "I see hear that everyone here makes fun of kuwabara. Why is that?" he questioned glancing over the group.
"Can't you see?" asked yusuke in an 'isn't it obvious' tone.
"No, I can't say that I do."
"Well, let me put it this way," he was about to say when hiei jumped in.
"kuwabaka is a stupid, annoying, has no clue what is going on, weak little jerk, that is not all that he says he is," smirked the fire demon.
By this time kuwabara's faced turned from puzzled to t angry after he understood what was going on. "TAKE THAT BACK, SHORTY," he yelled holding the button for hiei's chair. He held it down before being shocked back by hiei.
"No, I will no, baka, and will you stop calling be shorty?" questioned hiei. His voice was drenched in rage, and he too replied kuwabara's shock with is own.
"Boys, cut it OUT," screamed keiko holding down two buttons after the boys let up on theirs. She didn't let go until the boys stopped arguing.
"keiko, like I said before just leave them alone," Umi said. (I don't feel like writing doctor or Dr. anymore so I'm just going to say Umi.).
"Fine," she murmured.
"And I am not a stupid as very one thinks I am," kuwabara added under his breath.
"Yeah, we know, you much more stupid than we thought," kat cleverly said.
"Thank you, kat. At lease someone here thinks I am smart," he blurted out before he replayed what she said back in his head. "HEY wait. I'm not stupid." By this, time everyone was bursting out laughing, even hiei and the doctor, and tears came to some. (I am sorry I had to add that.)
"Okay, kuwabara, okay. What ever you say," yusuke said sarcastically. "Oh, yeah, kat. Nice one."
"Thanks. You know I try," she said smiling at yusuke. After the little argument was over Umi broke the silence.
"Since that is all cleared. Would anybody like to say something that had bothered you?" asked Umi looking around.
"Yes, I do," said a soft voice breaking the silence.
"Okay, yukina, what is it?" Umi asked getting ready to write what she was about to say.
She closed her eyes and took a deep sigh. "For some reason no one can finish their sentences, when ever the topic of my missing brother comes up. I just want to know why," she said finally opening her eyes. They were filled with sadness. "I feel like they know something that they don't want to tell me."
hiei sensed that his sister was sad and upset, but he couldn't tell her that she is his sister.
"Well, yukina. You see…" started botan. She had stopped when she took one look at hiei and became scared. ~Hey, Kat. Do you think that it is necessary for hiei to wake up?~ said botan to kat in a worried tone.
~Why?~ she replied perplexed. She gave a quick glance to her right.
~Because if I have to finish what I was about to say then I'm going to be dead,~ botan said shaken about what hiei was going to do to her. (No, this is not going to be a fic where Yukina finds out. It would be easier, but I just don't want to deal with it all.).
~Then why did you start to say it in the first place?~ said kat with wit and a smirk. She looked over again and saw she was getting showered with daggers from her fiery friend. ~What?~ she asked crouching back a little.
"Do you see what I mean, Doctor? They start to say something and then they stop," yukina explained.
"I do. I think that they are hind the fact that they know something about your brother," replied Umi.
"Maybe but like I said they never finish what they started to say." She stared at the ground, and there was an acquired silence.
"The reason why we stop is, because we know that this is a sensitive topic for you. So, we figure that you don't want to talk about it that much," explained botan grinning and trying sound believable. (I know that this isn't true, but like I said earlier I don't want this to be a fic where yukina finds out. So this is botan's lie, and you know this is my story. So, I say it is.)
yukina looked up from the ground sniffling back a few tears. "Is that try, botan," she said with a trace of happiness. botan gave her a cheesy smile and nodded with everyone else. "Of course it has to be. You wouldn't lie to me. Would you, botan?" she said reassuring herself.
botan couldn't help but lie to her. She couldn't see her friend cry anymore. So, she nodded in agreement.
The acquired silence came back again but was quickly broken by three small yelps.
"Hey, who did that and why?" asked a shaky voice from the shock.
"That was for sending the boys into deadly missions," replied keiko.
"And the other are from us," botan and shizuru replied together.
"But if they didn't go, then who was I suppose to send to save the worlds? These four are my strongest team," whined koenma. He was going to say something else but for the fourth time, he was shocked again. "Ow, that really hurts. Now, what did I do?" he asked the girls. They just shrugged their shoulders.
"Okay, now watch this. This is I am going to make that pacifier baby feel bad. You guys just play along," said Katsumi rubbing her hands together like someone who has an evil plans and gave a simper expression, before turning back to the screen again.
"Just don't go too overboard, hunny. Make sure you don't hurt his feeling too bad," Leila told her daughter giving her a 'watch out' glance.
"Don't worry. I won't," she replied.
"Don't forget that the boys might wake up soon. So, we should finish teaching the boys soon," Botan jumped in. The girls and Kurama nodding in understanding.
"koenma, you, of all people, should know why I did that," explained kat blowing a piece of hair out of her eye. koenma gave a mystify look. "Don't give me that look. After all of the nights, I sat home, wondering if my mom or dad would come home unharmed. If they didn't, I would cry myself to sleep thinking that they are in danger, harmed or dead because they went on one of YOUR STUPID MISSIONS. Of course I never really knew what they did, I just knew that sometimes they came home late and sometimes they would be out of energy or banged up. And you just sit there and give me that look?" she cringed trying hard to hold back all of the anger and sadness that she had bottled up inside. "Do you even know what it feels like to think that you parent might be dead some were, and you can't do anything to help them, because you weren't strong enough?" She could hold it any longer. The water that blurred her vision began to fall down her face.
"Exactly, my mother feel the same thing when I don't come home," announced kurama.
"Yeah," said kuwabara. The rest of the group shook their heads but hiei, yukina, keiko and botan.
"But you guys do come home, right?" asked koenma.
"You really don't get it do you?" asked kat pushing koenma's button again this time holding a bit longer.
"Okay, kat. I think that koenma gets the point," said kurama seeing koenma become scared with a mix of sadness.
"They knew about the risks. If they didn't want to join they didn't have too," explained koenma trying to reason with kat. That was a bad idea.
"Yeah, they knew the risks, but the only way for my mom's, hiei's and kurama's records cleared. Well for yusuke and kuwabara, I don't know why they joined, but you basically framed my mom into joining," cried kat.
"Hey, yeah, I just fell into it," said yusuke.
"Why is everyone gaining up on me?" asked koenma looking at everyone's hands worried that he might become shocked again.
"Could you just do us a small favor?" asked kat. koenma willingly nodded. "We'll forget all of this if you promise to not send the boys or my parents on any more death missions. Is that a deal?"
"Okay. I will promise not to send them on any more death missions," koenma said slowly.
"Thank you. Okay, does any one else have a problem?" asked kat cheerfully. Everyone, even the doctor, was dumbfounded. She carefully gave the girls a sign to begin.
So, keiko and botan both shocked yusuke for replacing their shampoo with neon orange hair dye. yukina had shocked kuwabara for just freaken her out (Who wouldn't?). Then it was hiei's turn to get shocked by botan for just being a grump, hiding her oars and bats, and always being quiet. Lastly, it was kuwabara's turn to be shocked again this time by his sister just because he's her bother.
Just for hitting him all of the time both keiko and botan was shocked by yusuke. This of course was a bad idea, because both girls shocked him back.
All of the shocking was done together, not one after the other. This had caused a sudden spark where all of the wires were connected together at the ceiling in the middle of the circle. The spark trailed down all of the wires shocking everyone for a split second and blowing the machine that Umi was sitting at.
The ankle bars, the harnesses and the armrests flew back to where they had started. The group and the doctor ran out of the room, before everything caught on fire.
"Wow, that was close," said botan looking at the fire.
"That has never happened before. Now, what am I going to do have fun… I mean help people with their problems?" Umi asked giving a slight chuckle when he caught his slip.
"Well, it's dinner time," yelled kuwabara running toward the cafeteria followed by yusuke.
The gang had eaten their dinner and went to their rooms to sleep.
(Authoress Note: Okay, the Simpson's episode that I was talking about, is when the family went to family therapy and one of their therapy things was shocking each other and I don't quite remember what happened but they blew the machine up. I thought that that would be funny to use. So, I did. I hoped that you thought that it was funny. R&R please. Oh yeah, Chocolate cake for everyone who reviews and only one or two more chapters left. I haven't figured out how many I am going to do yet, but I'll update as soon as I figure it out.)