Chapter 13: Adventures in Balkan City!
"Ow! Ow! Not so HHHHHAAAAARD!" Yoshimi wailed as Umi pulled back on her trainer's dull locks again.
"Well if you wouldn't squirm so much it would be sooo painful!" Umi replied as she hoisted the strand of hair she was holding up and into a bun on the right side of Yoshimi's head.
Vash laughed as he observed the two, Yoshimi kicking and wailing in pain, while Umi tried to fix Yoshimi's hair and old down the screaming trainer. Kurama was poking Tasuki with a stick to wake him up, but it only ended up that Tasuki rolled over saying something about getting Nuriko his own 'damn' room. And InuYasha was perched above Vash his right eyebrow twitching every time Yoshimi made a sound.
"There done!" Umi yelled triumphantly as she jumped away from Yoshimi. Her hair at been placed into double buns one on each side of her head with two strands of fat bangs along the sides of her face.
Vash clapped and grinned, Kurama had given up on the stick and had now brought out his beloved Rose Whip. But when Umi had yelled he turned his head and couldn't help but laugh.
While the hair-do seemed perfect the bun on the right side was a few inches below the other. "Ok ok it's not perfect, but she was moving the whole time!" Umi wailed faking tears.
Yoshimi blinked and jumped up yelling and running into the forest ahead. Sighing Kurama kicked Tasuki and picked up the bag that held Yoshimi things. Tasuki rolled over and sat up.
Umi sighed and hurried after her trainer, yelling for her to come back. InuYasha jumped out the tree and turned and started slowly in the direction of the running girls. Vash, Kurama, and half-wake Tasuki all stumbled and walked after the rest of the troop.
-----------In Balkan City
It was a sunny morning at the seaside town of Balkan. The air was mildly warm and the large city was bussing with trainers and their bishies. The streets were lined with white cobble stone that shown brightly under the morning sun. The city's building formed a circle around the city's square. Which had a large fountain in the center with a mermaid perched on a rock holding out a large conch shell.
Yoshimi hoisted her pack onto her right shoulder as they stepped through the city gates and entered the outer rim of the city. A small cobblestone path lead them directly to the square. Once there the group stopped at the fountain as Yoshimi stood along the edge of the fountain's pool.
"Ok here's the deal! You can do whatever you'd like, provided you are at the Balkan Rose Hotel at 6 pm! And Vash, Tasuki, please try and not drink too much, or you'll both sleep in the bathroom." Yoshimi said sighing at the redhead and red-coated bishonen started for a local bar.
"Uh, Yoshimi are we sharing a bathroom to a jointed rooms or something?" Umi asked eyeing the two for now sober bishonen.
Yoshimi shook her head and smiled at her remaining three bishies. "Well uhh you see, it was really expensive to get two separate rooms for the night so uh…we're sharing a room. But it does have five beds!" Yoshimi stated sweat dropping.
"I'm not sharing a bed!" InuYasha roared.
"Me neither!" Umi wailed clinging to Kurama's arm in comfort.
"I say the drunks share the bed," Kurama said as he shook free from Umi. "And to keep them from too much trouble, I'll go with them to the bar." Kurama said as he turned and headed after the others.
"Kurama be careful!" Yoshimi yelled wincing a bit.
"What's the big deal? He can protect himself." InuYasha snorted as he helped Yoshimi down from the fountain.
"True enough, but I fear what the drunks would think. Can't you see it he looks like a girl. Common mistake of course!" Yoshimi answer as she darted off in the opposite direction.
"Where the hell are you going!" InuYasha yelled as he ran after his trainer.
"Uhh I'll be fine on my own!" Umi said looking around. "I hope." She gulped as she slipped after Kurama.
--------Around 3 pm.
"Can't resist can you girly?" Burped a sleepy eyed Sanosuke. Kurama laughed nervously.
"Well yes I can because I AM GUY!!!" Kurama screamed as he shoved Sanosuke over the table he was attempting to climb.
Tasuki and Vash were across the filthy room whom's floor laid scattered drunk bishies and trainers. Vash had managed to remove his shirt and now had it tied around his head and was dancing around like some deranged monkey.
Tasuki however was down to his pants and boots and was whacking and burning innocent bystanders every chance he got. "Wooo!!! REKKA SHINEN! Woah, hey buddy didn't see ya there!"
Kurama's head dropped to his chest and with a heavy sigh stuck out his right leg and placed his foot on Sanosuke's head. "You're a persistent man aren't you?" Kumara asked starring at the ceiling.
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"GAH! Fuu!!!!!!!!!!!" Umi wailed as she continued to practice battle with a fellow captured Magic Knight, Fuu.
"Hehe, come on now Umi you can do better!" Fuu retorted laughing and jumping back as the water knight advanced.
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"Oooooh! I've been looking for this everywhere!!!" Yoshimi squeaked as she held a cd titled 'Moon'.
InuYasha grabbed the cd from her and starred at the cover. "Moon? Gackt? Sounds boring!" He snorted about ready to toss it. Yoshimi screamed and leap on her bishonen only to be grabbed by the back of her collar by a grinning InuYasha.
"Just kidding." He said in a sweet tone that made shivers run down Yoshimi's spine. She took the cd and cradled it into her arms. "So sorry." She muttered kissing the cover.
InuYasha shook his head and turned heading for the door. "Hurry up, if you stand there like that someone might thing your married to that thing!" He snapped as he pushed the shop door open and stepped out.
Giggling, Yoshimi 'bounced' to the cash register and nearly fell backwards as…well Gackt stood there while a whining Lina held out a cd. "Please! Please! You're the one with money!!!" She wailed hopping up and down.
Yoshimi laughed lightly, the two turned to her, Lina wailed louder and Gackt…stood there arms crossed leaning against the cash register. "Sorry Lina. You broke my picture frame when you and Yuffie had that fight.
"Can I help if that little brat doesn't know when to quit!" Lina wailed clinging to her trainer's waist.
Yoshimi glanced at the register to find it empty. "Uhmm, excuse me, but where's the cashier?" She asked slowly taking a step forward.
"I think Lina scared her off." Gackt replied starring up at the ceiling.
"I DID NOT!" Lina wailed.
"Its that kind of talk that gets you no cd." Gackt replied taking the cd from his bishoujo's hand. He pried her off his waist and taking her wrist headed for the door.
"Wait!" Yoshimi called reaching in her pocket and slamming some money on the counter top and walked after the J-rock star and his whining bishoujo.
Upon hearing the other trainer call out Gackt stopped and Lina stopped whining for a spilt second. "Yes?" He asked letting go of Lina's wrist.
Yoshimi stopped and starred down at the floor feeling her face turning a beet red. "Would, I mean would you please sign my cd?" She asked sheepishly holding out the Moon cd.
Gackt ^^'ed and pulled a pen from his right pant pocket and took the cd. He quickly jotted down his name and handed it back to Yoshmi. "Here you go." He said smiling; Yoshimi looked up and grinned ear to ear.
"Thanks so much!" She wailed and with out realizing her actions had thrown her arms around the J-rock star and held him a fierce hug. But all good thins must come to and end, and at that moment InuYasha opened the shop door and growled under his breathe as he pried his trainer from the other trainer.
"Damnit Yoshmi you take forever and here I find you clinging to some trainer!?" InuYasha yelled taking hold of Yoshimi's left wrist and dragging her out the door.
"That was weird." Lina said tilting her head and laughing lightly.
"Heh, felt kind nice on my end." Replied her trainer.
"Oye." Was the only reply Lina gave.
---Back at the Bar
"GAH!!" Vash wailed as he slammed another empty pint glass down onto the bar top. Tasuki was dancing around…in his undies while group of drunken bishoujo yelled at the top of the little lungs.
Kurama sat in a corner of the bar his face drained of color as Vash proceeded to join Tasuki. "Please Kami send relief!" Wailed the Kitsune, in that instant Umi stepped in through the threshold of the bar.
"VASH! TASUKI!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!!" She wailed face faulting then regaining her posture looked around the room her face scarlet. Her blue eyes landed on Kurama, and in a second she was huddling behind her fellow bishie.
"Please tell me this a nightmare!" She screeched into the kitsune demon's ear.
"WOOO!!!!!" Cried the bishoujo. Kurama groaned in disgust starring at the floor. Umi whimpered and buried her face against the back of Kurama's neck.
"Kami, please please let the pass out!" The two captured bishies murmured as the two drunks began to dance to 'Stayin Alive'.
---With Yoshimi and InuYasha
The two stood under a willow tree in the center of a shopping square. Yoshimi was holding her new cd tightly to her chest and starring into space leaning against the tree. On the other side of the tree InuYasha leaned arms crossed with his left foot touching the tree.
"What's the big deal! He's just some guy!" InuYasha barked turning his head slightly to stare at Yoshimi.
"He's…he's…perfect…" was Yoshimi's reply, InuYasha huffed dropping to his haunches. He hopped in front of Yoshimi sitting there looking at her in a chibi-ish sort of way.
"Perfect? How is he perfect?" InuYasha asked drawing Yoshimi's dull blue eyes down to meet his amber ones.
"Well for one he's smart! Charming! Hansome! Uhh…cute?" Yoshimi paused then giggled nervously and turned her gaze upward once again.
"You're a fangirl…can't even get a better description!" InuYasha roared turning his back to his trainer and standing upright.
"So! At least he has manners. Which is a lot more than I can say for you!" Yoshimi yelled as she pushed past the hanyou and headed for the clothing shop across the way. But as she moved past InuYasha he grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him.
"Listen. Don't get all crazy over him,"
"It's not like that…"
"Don't."
They stopped and simply starred at each other, after a second Yoshimi's eyes began to water and she turned once again. Instantly InuYasha let go of her arm as she raced off into a crowd.
"Who the hell was he anyway?" InuYasha asked himself as he slowly started after Yoshimi.
---The Bar Again
CRASH
A bottle of sake dropped at Kurama's feet as another was poured over his head. Vash had done the pouring, and Tasuki the throwing. Kurama was trying to drag the two from the bar, but after the performance they weren't too reluctant to leave.
Umi was busy trying to keep the group of bishoujo that had chanted at Vash and Tasuki back while Kurama tried to beat the drunks senseless with his Rose Whip.
"We have to be at the hotel by 6! Its already 5:30! Come you two!" Umi yelled as she kicked back at drunken Urd.
"HIC! ONE MER DANCE!" Tasuki wailed as he fell over and jumped right back up.
"My hair!! VASH!!! MY HAIR!!!!" Kurama screamed as he grabbed the Stampede's neck and began to shake it violently.
Vash kept ^^'ing as his head moved back and forth. "You smell nice Miss!"
Kurama @.@'ed as Umi grabbed a chair and whack Tasuki hard in the back of the head.
Vash merely passed out after a final shake from Kurama.
"That wasn't so hard." Umi said flopping to the ground.
"Now where are their clothes…and how do we get them out of here?" Kurama asked looking around the filthy bar.
---5pm the Mermaid Fountain at the Square.
Yoshimi sucked in another deep breath as InuYasha stopped pacing back and forth in front of her. She sat on the ledge of the fountain her face buried within her hands.
"Quit crying already!" InuYasha said in a sympathic voice.
"You trrry beeeing meee once in a while!" Yoshimi said looking up, her eyes were puffy and red. Her cheeks glistened with her tears and stained red from her hands being pressed against them.
"You try being me once in a while." InuYasha scowled giving her a death stare before turning his back.
"Oh how hard if must be being in love with a dead priestess!" Yoshimi yelled before covering her mouth. Her hands dropped to her lap and her gaze stared at the cobble street. "Sorry." She muttered
InuYasha growled and turned tightening his hands into fists. "Shut up." Was he only reply as he glared at her his chest heaving in an out.
"I didn't mean it like,"
" I said shut up."
"Don't be,"
"NOT ANOTHER WORD!" InuYasha yelled, what few trainers and bishies remained on the street turned and stared at the clearly ticked hanyou and the trainer ready to throw herself in a fit of tears once more.
"You've got no right to talk. You're no better than me. You feel in love with an idea of someone that was false and you know it! And every time some guy gets close you either push them away or you get hurt! How are you to talk to me about love if your never true in it!" InuYasha sighed and fixed his gaze on the slowly rising moon.
"But, you never really get the chance." He finished and turned heading down toward the hotel district.
"InuYasha," Yoshmi said her voice shaking, she stood but had to drop back down to her seat on the side of the fountain.
InuYasha stopped and turned looking at her his own eyes a bit watery. "What?" He demanded choking back his sadness; he refused to cry no matter what.
Yoshimi starred down at the ground pulling in small gasps of air. "Nothing." She replied standing weakly and turning her back to the bishonen and walking in the other direction.
"You always walk away. Just say it!" InuYasha yelled, Yoshimi turned her eyes narrowing in pity.
"You always walk away. Just say it." She replied and once again turned her back and walked off.
---6 pm
Yoshimi sat on her small cot, her legs pulled to her chest with her arms wrapped around them. She had a sullen look on her face; Umi sat on a bed to Yoshimi's left holding a small bag of ice to her right knee.
Tasuki and Vash were both crashed onto one bed across from Umi both halfway off the bed, but it didn't seem like they cared much. Kurama was cursing under his breath in the bathroom as he combed through his now wet locks.
InuYasha sat on the bed on Yoshimi's right sitting crossed legged and crossed arms. "Who was it?!" He snapped, Umi sighed and tossed the bag of ice in a trash can next to her bed.
"You got something to say to me?" InuYasha roared, Umi rolled her eyes and pulled up her covers laying down.
"Who ever it was it's none of your business." Umi replied pulling the covers over her head. Tasuki snorted, and Vash merely grunted as both turned and were now 'hugging' each other snoring.
Kurama emerge from the bathroom and took the bed to the right of Vash and Tasuki. "Feeling better Ku-chan?" Yoshimi asked her voice coming out like a tiny scared child. InuYasha growled but only met a pillow flying from Umi's bed.
"Yeah, I still can believe he dumped that whole bottle on my head." Kurama said yawning as he snuggled under his covers.
"Well goodnight." He said reaching up above his bed and turning off the lights.
"Night." Yoshimi said with a yawn as she too snuggled under her covers. Umi yawned what sounded like a 'goodnight' but it was hard to tell. InuYasha pulled his covered up to his upper chest and lay there starring up at the ceiling.
"Go to sleep." Yoshimi whispered as she yawned again rolling on her side fast asleep.
"Goodnight." InuYasha muttered closing his eyes hoping sleep would claim him soon.
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Yay Chapter 13 is done!! .-. It was super long!! But it was good right? I tried to make it funny but it kinda ended up blah to me. As for the whole Gackt being the bishie world that was just my random boredness. The chapter was originally going to be called 'That Old J-Rock Charm' and be centered around Yoshimi meeting Camui Gackt :3 meeer! But I figured 'Adventures in Balkan City' fit better. :P And please forgive me for writing Vash and Tasuki in their underwear, just seemed funny trying to picture it. XD! Well see you guys in the next chapter 'Evil Plushie Voodoo!" Ja!