Oh, drat. The internet is down once more. Which really sucks, because now I cannot update my diary, talk to anyone, read stuff on ff.net...-.- Damn. I guess it DOES give me an opportunity to work some more on Densebyou, though...but still, this makes Kia VERY unhappy. *sigh* Damn it all. But...as I said, I can work on Densebyou, so...let's see now.
Last chapter, Kia and Kelsey learned a bit more about their pasts...or, at least, they learned about their fathers. And Binetsu just HAD to come along and ruin the moment! Pfft.
Ah, yes. Nekkyou Hiryuu (Kelsey) gets Tsubaki. -.- Trust me, she's better off with that ferrygirl. And since she's been trying so hard...well...*sigh* But, SolusLupaKouken got her first...^^;; so, to be fair, I can give her another shot at a different ferrygirl or make a custom one for her. It's really up to you, Shin-san.
And to whoever reviewed...well, two questions stand out. I can't remember who asked them, and since I can't get on the Internet, I can't check. But even if Yusuke is a hanyou, he's currently in human form. Kurama only changed because he turned Youko; otherwise, he would have remained healthy as well. ^^;; And yes, I know that Suzuki is called Suzuka...but that's only in the dub. His Japanese name is Suzuki, which is what I'm going to use.
Much thanks to Lexi-chan, who also helped me with the whole Binetsu thingy...^^;; I owe you a lot, don't I?
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Kia stared at the little girl. "What-" She started to cough, and couldn't seem to stop. Kelsey reached over and pounded her friend on the back. The older girl winced, but the fit subsided. "Thanks...I think." She looked at Binetsu once more. "Just what is with your grudge against Suzuki? You mentioned he was your rival, but that's STILL no reason to want to KILL him!"
"When he's ruined your life and broken your spirit, it's more than enough!" Binetsu suffered an abrupt change of mood. She glowered at the dark-haired Mirror Holder. "But YOU wouldn't understand."
To her surprise, Kia smiled. "Try me."
"Oh, come ON!" Chuu howled like a wounded dog. "We're not here to exchange life stories-"
"Shut up!" Rinku whispered loudly.
The child sighed. "Fine, then. Delay the inevitable end. I suppose I can honor your final request." With a frown, she began.
***Memory***
As children, Suzuki and Binetsu were the best of friend, and both were aspiring and promising inventors. Suzuki had befriended the little girl when others had taunted and scorned her, orphaned at an early age. It was Suzuki who had coaxed Binetsu from her shell of loneliness and despair. It was Suzuki who had her smile and laugh again after eight years of pain and sorrow. And it was Suzuki who taught Binetsu to value herself as a person.
From the moment they met, the children were inseparable. You rarely saw one without the other, and they complemented each other nicely. When Binetsu was struggling with an experiment, Suzuki would offer some advice that often benefited her greatly. If Suzuki was missing a crucial part needed to complete a machine or a potion, the girl usually had it in her generous stock of supplies. Even as rivals, it seemed that the two would always be together.
Relationships change, however. Gradually, as they grew older, Binetsu began to notice Suzuki in a new light--not as her enthusiastic childhood friend, but as a handsome young man, still engrossed in his inventions and starting to show interest in the martial arts...and mirrors.
Binetsu wasn't sure what these strange new feelings were, but she was always one to act upon her feelings. This should be no different...right? So she tried flirting with Suzuki. It was no use. In fact, it was like putting the moves on a brick wall-only the wall probably would have been more responsive. Suzuki was so buried in his work that he didn't even seem to know Binetsu was there...in the same room. It was if she were invisible.
Finally, things came to a breaking point. It started off innocently enough. At that point in time, Suzuki was nineteen, and Binetsu was eighteen and starting to attract attention from the other village lads. She paid them no mind-she only had eyes for Suzuki. If only he would NOTICE her!
Since both were inventors, they'd always engaged in friendly competition. While this whole love mess was going on, they were both working on very important projects. Binetsu's mind, however, was not on her work. She hadn't yet told Suzuki of her strong feelings for him, and it was disrupting her concentration. After much deliberation, she decided to tell him. Almost immediately, she felt an incredible sense of relief.
"I'm going to tell him...he'll have to notice me NOW!" She ran swiftly out of her workshop and raced through the small clump of trees all the way to Suzuki's workshop-basically, a cellar.
"Suzuki!!" Binetsu yelled cheerfully, flinging the door open and leaping down the wooden stairs like a drunken gazelle. If only she had remembered that Suzuki's temper was very short nowadays...it could have spared them both a lot of heartache. "I have something to tell y-whooooa!" Her foot skidded on the last step, and the hapless girl went flying, hitting the table that Suzuki's almost-completed project rested on, and sliding off slowly, taking the project with her.
The blonde man stood there and stared at the brunette, who was now wearing a metal funnel on her head, perched at a jaunty angle. The same funnel that used to belong to the project...which now lay in pieces on the floor.
"Heh...heh..." Binetsu smiled guiltily. "Oops."
"Get out." Suzuki's handsome face was suddenly twisted with rage. (A/N: Hit the deck! Hurricane Suzuki is about to...uh...blow! Or...is that a volcano...-.- never mind.)
She blinked again, hoping she had heard him incorrectly. "Nani?"
"Get out," he repeated, voice icy. And then he exploded. (A/N: Okay, maybe it IS like a volcano...o.o) "How DARE you ruin my invention?! My WORK! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT THING FOR THREE YEARS, AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE...the GALL to DESTROY IT?! YOU IRRESPONSIBLE WENCH! TRYING TO SPY ON MY PROJECT, WEREN'T YOU?! LEAVE. I never want to see your UGLY face again."
Well, anyone who was female, or knew ANYTHING about females also knew that it was disastrous to call a girl "ugly"...especially to her face.
"You...you can't mean that!" Binetsu whispered, stunned. "Suzuki-"
"GET OUT! I mean every word. Stop getting in my way." The inventor reached down and yanked Binetsu upright.
The girl stared at him, her eyes brimming with tears. "Onegai...Suzuki, I love-"
With a snort of impatience, Suzuki grasped her collar and practically hurled her out of his workshop. The door slammed shut behind her.
Sick at heart, Binetsu slowly returned to her own workshop, where she collapsed on the floor and cried until the tears had left her shaking body. It hurt. It hurt a lot, and she hated the pain; hated herself for being so weak as to be blinded by emotions...and she hated Suzuki most of all.
Standing up, the inventor approached her workstation, lifting up a bottle of purple liquid. "When you get older, bad things happen to you," she said aloud. "So I'm going back to childhood and STAYING that way!" With a shudder, she removed the cork and drank the contents of that fateful bottle.
At the physical age of eight, Kodoma Binetsu left home, left Suzuki, and left her only happiness behind. Finding a dark hideout in some remote area in Makai, she worked relentlessly on inventions, becoming hopelessly embittered. She remained unaware that Suzuki searched for her, calling her name plaintively, realizing that he had driven her away. At last, he gave up and went away...and they never saw each other again.
Binetsu lived alone, except for her assistant, and as the years dragged on and she remained physically unchanging, her anger and resentment grew until it had wholly consumed her. She only desired two things now: power, and revenge on Suzuki. And when she heard that the now-grown Suzuki had joined up with the young Mirror Holders, she saw the perfect opportunity to strike. She'd created a disease before, but Suzuki hadn't caught it. Binetsu rather thought it was marvelous--how fun to regress someone in years to the point where they became vulnerable enough to die, unable to fight the disease any longer. A woman named Ashita, however, had concocted a cure and given it to Mukuro, one of the three demon lords of Makai. Thus the disease was effectively abated.
Eventually, Binetsu found the original recipe and recreated the disease, with no time to spare: The girls were growing in power, and Suzuki was happy...he didn't deserve happiness. Not after what he had done to her. To her joy, Suzuki was not spared this time. The Mirror Holders gave her a bit of a challenge, but now they had fallen ill too. Destroying the cure would also destroy Suzuki and the girls, which would in turn grant her two wishes. And that was that.
***End Memory***
***At Suzuki's House***
"This sucks." Yusuke summed up the situation very neatly. "Everyone's sick, those little brats are running wild, Keiko's visiting her relatives, and I'm stuck here with YOU!"
Kuwabara scowled, casting about for a retort. "I don't want to be here any more than you do, Urameshi, so shut up."
"Make me!" The other challenged. "You know you can't, since your big sis isn't here to save your hide this time!"
Within moments, Yusuke and Kuwabara were wrestling on the floor, punching each other and howling insults. Kage sat quietly, watching them one ear upraised. -...Humans are so strange.-
"Repeat that, dog!" Kuwabara snarled.
The canine sighed. -This is not the time to be fighting. In case you haven't noticed, your friends are starting to enter the last stage of the disease.-
Yusuke halted his fist about two inches from Kuwabara's face, looking over at Kage. "...Last stage?"
-They will slowly lose all strength and energy and die once they reach the age of two. Like Shishiwakamaru, for instance. Or Suzuki.-
"No kidding?" Kuwabara frowned. "Y'know, I THOUGHT those two were kinda quiet..." He sweatdropped as little Rei raced by, chasing Touya with Axe and giggling somewhat insanely. "Now, if only the rest of them would shut up..."
-That, dear boy, is what we call wishful thinking.- Kage waved his tail slowly.
"Shimatta." Yusuke stood up and then looked at Hiei, who was slowly walking over to the Tantei with a strange expression lurking in those crimson eyes of his. "...What is it, short stuff? Need a diaper change?"
The miniature Jaganshi's eyes narrowed, and he began to glow.
Anyone in the neighborhood could hear Yusuke Urameshi's loud scream of horror.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
***Back to Makai***
"...Hey, did you hear something?" Kelsey poked Kia. "A scream?"
"Ummm...I don't know..." the other answered uncertainly. She was starting to feel uneasy...WHY had she left Yusuke and Kuwabara in charge of a bunch of little children?? And who would survive? But that wasn't important right now...if she didn't come up with something, and fast, Binetsu would destroy the cure.
Speaking of which, the child had finished her story and was now studying the Mirror Holders with narrowed blue and brown eyes. "So you see, I can't let you live," she concluded. "Or Suzuki. I don't really care about the others...they can live or die, for all I care." She shrugged carelessly. "It's the circle of life."
"So..." Kia was still trying to puzzle this out. "Let me get this straight. You and Suzuki used to be friends."
"Hai."
"And...you got a crush on him..."
"Hai."
"But he yelled at you, you ran away, and this whole thing is about getting revenge on him."
"Hai."
"Oh." The girl rolled her eyes. "Okay. Just wanted to make sure there was a VALID reason for doing this."
"You DO know you'd have to die eventually," Binetsu pointed out. "After all, when you're a Mirror Holder, your life is constantly in danger, isn't it?"
The girls looked at each other. That was true enough.
"So I'm letting you die young...younger." The girl giggled. "You should be THANKING me."
"No," Kelsey growled, "I should be blackening your eyes, bloodying your nose, breaking some bones-"
"We get the point," Chuu interrupted her, sweatdropping.
"As colorful as it was," Mukuro added, before she turned to Binetsu. "I hope you understand that if you try to harm these girls or destroy the cure, I will kill you."
"I understand you'll TRY, Mukuro-sama," the other replied politely. "But it should be a good fight all the same."
"Damn!" The blonde Mirror Holder muttered.
Kia nodded sympathetically. "I know, Kelsey. Once we're cured, you can beat her up..."
Rinku snorted. "If there's anything left of her once Mukuro's finished."
The girl grimaced. He had a point...Binetsu would probably be killed, as the demon lord had promised. But...she felt sorry for the inventor, and didn't quite know why.
"So that's it, then." Binetsu got into a fighting stance, eyes fixed on the vial of liquid. "I'm getting that cure...and none of you are going to stop me!"
*OOC*
There you go...chapter 12. I want to POST IT BUT THE BAKA INTERNET HATES ME!! Grrr... so I shall work on chapter 13, and probably do the author note for that one later. Only five more chapters left! ^^;; Please review! NEXT chapter!
* Binetsu launches an all-out attack! Eep...
* Chuu and Rinku get into it, windows blow up, MUKURO ends up fighting...Youko Kurama mourns the loss of the mirror. Tragic, really...
* The outcome of the battle...and...well...there's good news...and there's...bad news...
And, as I promised, here's the pug...doing the Time Warp!
Pug: snort? *tilts head*
Kia: *sweatdrops* Wait, don't you know the Time Warp? *Pug shakes head* Oh, goody...well, it's just a jump to the left...
Pug: Snort...*stares oddly at Kia*
Kia: Uh-HUH...okay, time for something different. I know! You can be Kirby!
Pug: snort snort snort *wheeze*??
Kia: Y'know, the little pink thing that eats his enemies or something...it's like Pac Man...only pink.
Pug: ...
Kia: Now, let's see...who do we hate...oh! Tarukane!
Tarukane: *appears* (I LOVE author-y powers! ^^) What the-?!
Kia: Can you do the Time Warp?
Tarukane: Can you pay me?
Kia: ...Sure, why not.
Tarukane: *does the Time Warp*
Pug: *inhales Tarukane*
Kia: Well...?
Pug: *does the Time Warp*
Kia: Victory! *starts doing the Time Warp with the Pug* ...And then a step to the riiiiiiight...
^^;;
And now, here's our fourth ferrygirl, Fuji!
Name: Fuji
Age: 42 (died at age 14)
Birthday: April 18
Clothing: Green kimono, white obi, yellow kimono underneath.
Hair Color/Style: Black; wears it in a neat bun.
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'2''
Weight: 108 lbs.
Personality: Quiet...unless you mess up her hair. O.o
^^ Good luck! And yes, Mizu, the ferrygirls are underweight...death tends to do that to you. ^^;; Fatten 'em up, people! Just a note, the clothes and looks sometimes have NOTHING to do with the plant name. x.x
Last chapter, Kia and Kelsey learned a bit more about their pasts...or, at least, they learned about their fathers. And Binetsu just HAD to come along and ruin the moment! Pfft.
Ah, yes. Nekkyou Hiryuu (Kelsey) gets Tsubaki. -.- Trust me, she's better off with that ferrygirl. And since she's been trying so hard...well...*sigh* But, SolusLupaKouken got her first...^^;; so, to be fair, I can give her another shot at a different ferrygirl or make a custom one for her. It's really up to you, Shin-san.
And to whoever reviewed...well, two questions stand out. I can't remember who asked them, and since I can't get on the Internet, I can't check. But even if Yusuke is a hanyou, he's currently in human form. Kurama only changed because he turned Youko; otherwise, he would have remained healthy as well. ^^;; And yes, I know that Suzuki is called Suzuka...but that's only in the dub. His Japanese name is Suzuki, which is what I'm going to use.
Much thanks to Lexi-chan, who also helped me with the whole Binetsu thingy...^^;; I owe you a lot, don't I?
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Kia stared at the little girl. "What-" She started to cough, and couldn't seem to stop. Kelsey reached over and pounded her friend on the back. The older girl winced, but the fit subsided. "Thanks...I think." She looked at Binetsu once more. "Just what is with your grudge against Suzuki? You mentioned he was your rival, but that's STILL no reason to want to KILL him!"
"When he's ruined your life and broken your spirit, it's more than enough!" Binetsu suffered an abrupt change of mood. She glowered at the dark-haired Mirror Holder. "But YOU wouldn't understand."
To her surprise, Kia smiled. "Try me."
"Oh, come ON!" Chuu howled like a wounded dog. "We're not here to exchange life stories-"
"Shut up!" Rinku whispered loudly.
The child sighed. "Fine, then. Delay the inevitable end. I suppose I can honor your final request." With a frown, she began.
***Memory***
As children, Suzuki and Binetsu were the best of friend, and both were aspiring and promising inventors. Suzuki had befriended the little girl when others had taunted and scorned her, orphaned at an early age. It was Suzuki who had coaxed Binetsu from her shell of loneliness and despair. It was Suzuki who had her smile and laugh again after eight years of pain and sorrow. And it was Suzuki who taught Binetsu to value herself as a person.
From the moment they met, the children were inseparable. You rarely saw one without the other, and they complemented each other nicely. When Binetsu was struggling with an experiment, Suzuki would offer some advice that often benefited her greatly. If Suzuki was missing a crucial part needed to complete a machine or a potion, the girl usually had it in her generous stock of supplies. Even as rivals, it seemed that the two would always be together.
Relationships change, however. Gradually, as they grew older, Binetsu began to notice Suzuki in a new light--not as her enthusiastic childhood friend, but as a handsome young man, still engrossed in his inventions and starting to show interest in the martial arts...and mirrors.
Binetsu wasn't sure what these strange new feelings were, but she was always one to act upon her feelings. This should be no different...right? So she tried flirting with Suzuki. It was no use. In fact, it was like putting the moves on a brick wall-only the wall probably would have been more responsive. Suzuki was so buried in his work that he didn't even seem to know Binetsu was there...in the same room. It was if she were invisible.
Finally, things came to a breaking point. It started off innocently enough. At that point in time, Suzuki was nineteen, and Binetsu was eighteen and starting to attract attention from the other village lads. She paid them no mind-she only had eyes for Suzuki. If only he would NOTICE her!
Since both were inventors, they'd always engaged in friendly competition. While this whole love mess was going on, they were both working on very important projects. Binetsu's mind, however, was not on her work. She hadn't yet told Suzuki of her strong feelings for him, and it was disrupting her concentration. After much deliberation, she decided to tell him. Almost immediately, she felt an incredible sense of relief.
"I'm going to tell him...he'll have to notice me NOW!" She ran swiftly out of her workshop and raced through the small clump of trees all the way to Suzuki's workshop-basically, a cellar.
"Suzuki!!" Binetsu yelled cheerfully, flinging the door open and leaping down the wooden stairs like a drunken gazelle. If only she had remembered that Suzuki's temper was very short nowadays...it could have spared them both a lot of heartache. "I have something to tell y-whooooa!" Her foot skidded on the last step, and the hapless girl went flying, hitting the table that Suzuki's almost-completed project rested on, and sliding off slowly, taking the project with her.
The blonde man stood there and stared at the brunette, who was now wearing a metal funnel on her head, perched at a jaunty angle. The same funnel that used to belong to the project...which now lay in pieces on the floor.
"Heh...heh..." Binetsu smiled guiltily. "Oops."
"Get out." Suzuki's handsome face was suddenly twisted with rage. (A/N: Hit the deck! Hurricane Suzuki is about to...uh...blow! Or...is that a volcano...-.- never mind.)
She blinked again, hoping she had heard him incorrectly. "Nani?"
"Get out," he repeated, voice icy. And then he exploded. (A/N: Okay, maybe it IS like a volcano...o.o) "How DARE you ruin my invention?! My WORK! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT THING FOR THREE YEARS, AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE...the GALL to DESTROY IT?! YOU IRRESPONSIBLE WENCH! TRYING TO SPY ON MY PROJECT, WEREN'T YOU?! LEAVE. I never want to see your UGLY face again."
Well, anyone who was female, or knew ANYTHING about females also knew that it was disastrous to call a girl "ugly"...especially to her face.
"You...you can't mean that!" Binetsu whispered, stunned. "Suzuki-"
"GET OUT! I mean every word. Stop getting in my way." The inventor reached down and yanked Binetsu upright.
The girl stared at him, her eyes brimming with tears. "Onegai...Suzuki, I love-"
With a snort of impatience, Suzuki grasped her collar and practically hurled her out of his workshop. The door slammed shut behind her.
Sick at heart, Binetsu slowly returned to her own workshop, where she collapsed on the floor and cried until the tears had left her shaking body. It hurt. It hurt a lot, and she hated the pain; hated herself for being so weak as to be blinded by emotions...and she hated Suzuki most of all.
Standing up, the inventor approached her workstation, lifting up a bottle of purple liquid. "When you get older, bad things happen to you," she said aloud. "So I'm going back to childhood and STAYING that way!" With a shudder, she removed the cork and drank the contents of that fateful bottle.
At the physical age of eight, Kodoma Binetsu left home, left Suzuki, and left her only happiness behind. Finding a dark hideout in some remote area in Makai, she worked relentlessly on inventions, becoming hopelessly embittered. She remained unaware that Suzuki searched for her, calling her name plaintively, realizing that he had driven her away. At last, he gave up and went away...and they never saw each other again.
Binetsu lived alone, except for her assistant, and as the years dragged on and she remained physically unchanging, her anger and resentment grew until it had wholly consumed her. She only desired two things now: power, and revenge on Suzuki. And when she heard that the now-grown Suzuki had joined up with the young Mirror Holders, she saw the perfect opportunity to strike. She'd created a disease before, but Suzuki hadn't caught it. Binetsu rather thought it was marvelous--how fun to regress someone in years to the point where they became vulnerable enough to die, unable to fight the disease any longer. A woman named Ashita, however, had concocted a cure and given it to Mukuro, one of the three demon lords of Makai. Thus the disease was effectively abated.
Eventually, Binetsu found the original recipe and recreated the disease, with no time to spare: The girls were growing in power, and Suzuki was happy...he didn't deserve happiness. Not after what he had done to her. To her joy, Suzuki was not spared this time. The Mirror Holders gave her a bit of a challenge, but now they had fallen ill too. Destroying the cure would also destroy Suzuki and the girls, which would in turn grant her two wishes. And that was that.
***End Memory***
***At Suzuki's House***
"This sucks." Yusuke summed up the situation very neatly. "Everyone's sick, those little brats are running wild, Keiko's visiting her relatives, and I'm stuck here with YOU!"
Kuwabara scowled, casting about for a retort. "I don't want to be here any more than you do, Urameshi, so shut up."
"Make me!" The other challenged. "You know you can't, since your big sis isn't here to save your hide this time!"
Within moments, Yusuke and Kuwabara were wrestling on the floor, punching each other and howling insults. Kage sat quietly, watching them one ear upraised. -...Humans are so strange.-
"Repeat that, dog!" Kuwabara snarled.
The canine sighed. -This is not the time to be fighting. In case you haven't noticed, your friends are starting to enter the last stage of the disease.-
Yusuke halted his fist about two inches from Kuwabara's face, looking over at Kage. "...Last stage?"
-They will slowly lose all strength and energy and die once they reach the age of two. Like Shishiwakamaru, for instance. Or Suzuki.-
"No kidding?" Kuwabara frowned. "Y'know, I THOUGHT those two were kinda quiet..." He sweatdropped as little Rei raced by, chasing Touya with Axe and giggling somewhat insanely. "Now, if only the rest of them would shut up..."
-That, dear boy, is what we call wishful thinking.- Kage waved his tail slowly.
"Shimatta." Yusuke stood up and then looked at Hiei, who was slowly walking over to the Tantei with a strange expression lurking in those crimson eyes of his. "...What is it, short stuff? Need a diaper change?"
The miniature Jaganshi's eyes narrowed, and he began to glow.
Anyone in the neighborhood could hear Yusuke Urameshi's loud scream of horror.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
***Back to Makai***
"...Hey, did you hear something?" Kelsey poked Kia. "A scream?"
"Ummm...I don't know..." the other answered uncertainly. She was starting to feel uneasy...WHY had she left Yusuke and Kuwabara in charge of a bunch of little children?? And who would survive? But that wasn't important right now...if she didn't come up with something, and fast, Binetsu would destroy the cure.
Speaking of which, the child had finished her story and was now studying the Mirror Holders with narrowed blue and brown eyes. "So you see, I can't let you live," she concluded. "Or Suzuki. I don't really care about the others...they can live or die, for all I care." She shrugged carelessly. "It's the circle of life."
"So..." Kia was still trying to puzzle this out. "Let me get this straight. You and Suzuki used to be friends."
"Hai."
"And...you got a crush on him..."
"Hai."
"But he yelled at you, you ran away, and this whole thing is about getting revenge on him."
"Hai."
"Oh." The girl rolled her eyes. "Okay. Just wanted to make sure there was a VALID reason for doing this."
"You DO know you'd have to die eventually," Binetsu pointed out. "After all, when you're a Mirror Holder, your life is constantly in danger, isn't it?"
The girls looked at each other. That was true enough.
"So I'm letting you die young...younger." The girl giggled. "You should be THANKING me."
"No," Kelsey growled, "I should be blackening your eyes, bloodying your nose, breaking some bones-"
"We get the point," Chuu interrupted her, sweatdropping.
"As colorful as it was," Mukuro added, before she turned to Binetsu. "I hope you understand that if you try to harm these girls or destroy the cure, I will kill you."
"I understand you'll TRY, Mukuro-sama," the other replied politely. "But it should be a good fight all the same."
"Damn!" The blonde Mirror Holder muttered.
Kia nodded sympathetically. "I know, Kelsey. Once we're cured, you can beat her up..."
Rinku snorted. "If there's anything left of her once Mukuro's finished."
The girl grimaced. He had a point...Binetsu would probably be killed, as the demon lord had promised. But...she felt sorry for the inventor, and didn't quite know why.
"So that's it, then." Binetsu got into a fighting stance, eyes fixed on the vial of liquid. "I'm getting that cure...and none of you are going to stop me!"
*OOC*
There you go...chapter 12. I want to POST IT BUT THE BAKA INTERNET HATES ME!! Grrr... so I shall work on chapter 13, and probably do the author note for that one later. Only five more chapters left! ^^;; Please review! NEXT chapter!
* Binetsu launches an all-out attack! Eep...
* Chuu and Rinku get into it, windows blow up, MUKURO ends up fighting...Youko Kurama mourns the loss of the mirror. Tragic, really...
* The outcome of the battle...and...well...there's good news...and there's...bad news...
And, as I promised, here's the pug...doing the Time Warp!
Pug: snort? *tilts head*
Kia: *sweatdrops* Wait, don't you know the Time Warp? *Pug shakes head* Oh, goody...well, it's just a jump to the left...
Pug: Snort...*stares oddly at Kia*
Kia: Uh-HUH...okay, time for something different. I know! You can be Kirby!
Pug: snort snort snort *wheeze*??
Kia: Y'know, the little pink thing that eats his enemies or something...it's like Pac Man...only pink.
Pug: ...
Kia: Now, let's see...who do we hate...oh! Tarukane!
Tarukane: *appears* (I LOVE author-y powers! ^^) What the-?!
Kia: Can you do the Time Warp?
Tarukane: Can you pay me?
Kia: ...Sure, why not.
Tarukane: *does the Time Warp*
Pug: *inhales Tarukane*
Kia: Well...?
Pug: *does the Time Warp*
Kia: Victory! *starts doing the Time Warp with the Pug* ...And then a step to the riiiiiiight...
^^;;
And now, here's our fourth ferrygirl, Fuji!
Name: Fuji
Age: 42 (died at age 14)
Birthday: April 18
Clothing: Green kimono, white obi, yellow kimono underneath.
Hair Color/Style: Black; wears it in a neat bun.
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'2''
Weight: 108 lbs.
Personality: Quiet...unless you mess up her hair. O.o
^^ Good luck! And yes, Mizu, the ferrygirls are underweight...death tends to do that to you. ^^;; Fatten 'em up, people! Just a note, the clothes and looks sometimes have NOTHING to do with the plant name. x.x