Dream: Welcome to my short Friday the Thirteenth fanfic!
Zero: Is there a point to this?
Dream: Nope!
Tenka: She means yes...
Dream: No I don't.
Zero: Well, let's get on with it.
Dream: *nods happily* Oh, and just as a reminder: Arielle is now Flash and Mike is now Hinote (Hee-no-tay)
Zero: The baka kitsune does not own Yu Yu Hakusho, Flash, or Hinote.
Tenka: On with the story!
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Black Cats and Ladders and Mirrors, oh my!:
"Friday the thirteenth...is truly a day of bad luck...THEY SERVED BOUNCING CHICKEN NUGGETS IN THE CAFETERIA!!!!!!!" A girl with dark brown hair yelled as she turned her camera to zoom in on the chicken nuggets. "Observe."
The girl lifted a nugget and dropped it. It hit the ground and bounced a good two inches into the air. She then repeated the process. Nearby a boy with brown hair and a girl with black hair and silver bangs were watching. The three teens were hiding in an alley waiting for their prey to come by. The black haired girl looked down the street then hissed to the others.
"Here they come! Autumn get the camera ready! Hinote get the crates ready!" The girl ordered.
Both Autumn and Hinote stood up and saluted, "Yes sir! Err...ma'am!"
The black haired girl sighed. She then watched her friends take their positions. Autumn hid behind some boxes positioned the camera so she could see the street. Hinote hid behind two large crates. These crates were labeled 'Live Dangerous Animals. Handle with tender loving care.' He was holding two ropes. One rope was fastened to each crate in such a way that when he pulled the crates would slide open and the 'dangerous animals' would be released.
"Flash, get down!" Autumn hissed. The black-haired girl crouched behind the crates next to Autumn. The three waited in silence as they watched the street. They didn't have to wait long before a group of four boys came into view. There was a boy with slicked back black hair, a boy with antigravity black hair, a boy with long red hair, and an extremely ugly boy with a dead animal on his head...oops...I mean he had orange hair...^_^;;;
Flash made signaled Hinote. Hinote pulled the rope and before anyone could react about thirty black cats poured out of the crates and ran in front of the boys. The cats then ran to a milk and sugar café and sat everywhere they could meowing and begging for milk. The owner came out with a broom trying to shoo them away.
The four boys blinked and stared at the cats in shock. The one with slicked back black hair suddenly remembered something, "Anou...today is Friday the Thirteenth, isn't it?"
"Yes it is, Yusuke. Why do you ask?" The red haired boy asked.
Yusuke pointed at the cats, "Well, Kurama, Friday the Thirteenth is a day of bad luck. Also having a black cat cross your path is bad luck. We just had about thirty black cats cross our path AND today is Friday the Thirteenth! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!"
"Hn. Baka ningen superstitions." The antigravity haired boy crossed his arms.
Yusuke frowned, "This is serious, Hiei! We've all got bad luck!"
"There is no such thing as bad luck." Hiei said slowly to try and make Yusuke understand. Suddenly a bird flew by and crapped on Hiei's head.
Yusuke pointed, "Oh yeah?!? Well what do you call that, Hiei?!?"
"Its called bird shit, Urameshi." The big ugly one said.
Yusuke shook his head, "You know what, Kuwabara? No more talking for you."
"But..." Kuwabara started.
"SHH!" Yusuke interrupted.
Kurama handed Hiei a napkin. Hiei wiped the bird dropping out of his hair. "Detective, I refuse to believe that that was caused by a group of filthy flea-bitten beasts crossing my path."
"But, Hiei..."
"I've heard enough of your nonsense. I'm leaving." Hiei said before walking off down the street.
"Hiei's right, Yusuke, there's no such thing as bad luck." Kurama ran to catch up with Hiei.
Yusuke and Kuwabara started following their demon friends down the street. There was a moment of silence before Flash, Autumn, and Hinote burst out laughing.
"That was great! Did you see the way Yusuke was panicking? It was priceless!" Hinote laughed.
Autumn turned the camera to face her, "And so it begins. Already one member of the group has fallen into a panic. Only one question remains...Will any of them survive the Friday from hell???" She then started laughing insanely while the camera was still filming.
Flash and Hinote stared at her strangely for a moment before they too started to laugh insanely. A mother and her son passed by the alley that the three were in. The little boy pointed, "What are they laughing at, mommy?"
"Come along, sweetie. It isn't right to disturb the crazy people." The mother said as she ushered her child away from the alley.
Autumn stopped laughing suddenly, "Ok, now we have to go get the ladders and the mirrors. Oh and don't forget the umbrellas!"
Flash nodded, "Alright let's go!" The three teens then left the alley and headed off towards Flash's house.
~*~*~Time passes:
The Reikai Tantei were strolling casually through the streets looking for a place to eat. They had stopped at a street corner and were arguing.
"We're going to the fast food restaurant and that's final!" Yusuke said before turning around and crashing into somebody. The sound of glass shattering followed after. Yusuke blinked as what happened registered in his tiny mind.
In Yusuke's mind:
A little hamster was running on a wheel. The hamster started running faster and faster until the wheel started spinning out of control and the hamster went flying.
Back to reality:
Yusuke's eyes widened in fear and he pointed at the broken mirror on the ground. There had been two people carrying the mirror. Both were dressed in blue uniforms both had blue hats on. Both were wearing dark sunglasses and both had mustaches. One had a nametag that read 'Bob' and the other had a nametag that said 'Rich'.
'Bob' pointed at the mirror and said in a deep voice, "Well, looks like you broke a mirror, boy."
"And on Friday the Thirteenth too. Tsk, tsk, you'll be having seven years of bad luck for that one!" 'Rich' said in an equally deep voice. The two were about to walk away when Rich's mustache fell off and floated to the ground. Everyone blinked at the mustache and then looked at Rich.
Rich looked around at everybody before falling to his knees in front of the mustache. "NOOOOOO!!!!!!!! MY MUSTACHE!!!!!! Come on little buddy! Breath!!!!" He started to push down on the mustache as if he was performing CPR. "Don't die on me!!!!!" He put his ear to the mustache and after a moment he sat up and looked at the sky, "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY?!? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME??????"
Bob put a hand on Rich's shoulder, "Come on, Rich. We'll hold a proper burial for him."
"Yeah..." Rich picked up the mustache and followed Bob away. They stopped in a nearby alley and watched the four boys.
Yusuke started to whimper, "I'm cursed!!!!! I've got bad luck and I'm gonna die!!!!"
"Yusuke, you aren't cursed. There's no such thing as bad luck." Kurama pointed out.
Yusuke pointed accusingly at Kurama, "You aren't the one that broke the mirror, Kurama! I've got seven years bad luck plus whatever I got from the cats!"
Kurama sighed, "There's just no reasoning with you. Is there?"
"What's next??? Ladders???" Yusuke looked around fearfully. He started walking and fell into an open manhole. "I TOLD YOU I'M CURSED!!!!" he yelled up at his friends.
In the alley Bob and Rich have taken off their hats to reveal that Bob was actually Autumn and Rich was actually Flash. Autumn has removed her camera from her hat and has been recording the attempt to rescue Yusuke from the sewers. Flash then runs up ahead to check on Hinote while Autumn kept filming.
Yusuke was mumbling things about bad luck while following the others. Kurama looked over his shoulder at Yusuke, "Yusuke, how many times to I have to tell you that there is no such thing as bad lu..."
Kurama wasn't given a chance to finish because at that moment a sheet fell over his head. He stumbled around trying to get it off and wound up walking under a ladder. Kurama's arm had hit the ladder so once he was on the other side and had gotten the sheet off his head a bucket of blue paint fell onto his head.
Yusuke pointed, "I told you!"
"Now, Yusuke, I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for all this..." Kurama said while wiping the paint off of his face.
Kuwabara looked at his friends, "Wow! I must be really lucky! I haven't had any bad luck yet!" As if on cue a garbage can fell on Kuwabara covering him in banana peels, fish bones, and other unpleasant things.
Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama moved away from him. "Kuwabara you stink!" Yusuke yelled.
From his position on the roof of the nearest building Hinote laughed. "This is so much fun! And we haven't even gotten to the good part yet!"
Autumn met up with Flash and Hinote in a graveyard. Flash pointed at an old rundown house nearby, "Will that do?"
"Yeah, that's perfect! Now all that's left is to lead the boys here..." Autumn snapped her fingers, "I've got it!" The three huddled close as Autumn revealed her plan. Once that was decided they went their separate ways to put the plan into action.
The boys were sitting on a park bench. Or rather Yusuke and Hiei were sitting on a park bench. Kurama was in the bathroom trying to wash as much paint out of his hair and off his clothes as possible. Kuwabara was sitting away from the others because of his disgusting stench. Kurama came out of the bathroom carrying his now wet shirt. He was about to speak but somebody cut him off.
"Kurama! You're here!!!" Autumn ran up and gave him a big hug. She then looked up at him and pouted, "Why didn't you tell me you were in town?"
"I wasn't sure how long we'd be staying or if I'd have the time to see you." Kurama said while returning the hug.
Autumn then noticed that Kurama wasn't wearing a shirt. She took a step back with a blush staining her cheeks. She then frowned, "I know there was something I was supposed to say...Gah! Kurama, you're shirtless hotness made me forget what I came to say!!!"
Kurama blushed slightly and rubbed the back of his head. "Ah...well...anou..."
"Oh yeah!" Autumn snapped her fingers, "Flash's in trouble! Some evil demon guy person thing kidnapped her and took her to this house place in a graveyard!"
"Show me where." Hiei said quickly.
Autumn pointed the way she had come, "Yonder! Over that thar hill!"
"Baka kitsune..." Hiei mumbled before taking off in the direction she had pointed. After walking for a bit they arrived at the house. It was already dark.
Kuwabara looked around in fear, "Guys...can we leave?"
"Not until we find Flash." Hiei said as he kicked the door in.
"HIEI! WHAT DID THE POOR DOOR EVER DO TO YOU?!?" Autumn yelled as she threw some dirt on the door, "Farewell door...I knew thee well!!!"
The guys stared at her strangely for a moment before they turned and walked into the house. Kurama put his shirt back on despite some mumbled protest from Autumn. Soon they reached what appeared to be the main room. Autumn quickly sidestepped into another room. The guys looked around. The place was covered in cobwebs and there was ancient looking furniture in it. Lying on the ground nearby were four fairly new looking umbrellas.
Kurama turned back to ask Autumn a question and noticed she was gone. "Autumn? Autumn!" Kurama started looking around frantically for any sign of her.
Meanwhile Autumn had made her way to the 'control room' as she called it. This was the room that had many monitors so that they could observe the whole house. It also had a board with many buttons. Hinote and Flash were already there. The house had a protective aura to keep Hiei from finding them.
Hinote smirked, "I know what to do now! Lemme push the button! Please?"
"Sure, knock yourself out." Autumn shrugged as she sat down.
Hinote smiled and pushed a big blue button. Immediately the ceiling sprinkler things went on in the room where the boys were.
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!! IT'S RAINING!!!!!!!!" Kuwabara yelled as he tried to shield himself with his hands.
Yusuke was doing the same thing, "BAKA! It can't rain indoors!"
"Yusuke's right, the fire sprinklers went on somehow..." Kurama said as he picked up one of the closed umbrellas. He was about to open it when Yusuke stopped him.
"Are you crazy?!? You can't open an umbrella indoors!!! It's bad luck!!!"
Kurama opened the umbrella anyway, "Yusuke, I don't believe in bad luck."
"But..." Yusuke looked around. He was the only one that hadn't opened an umbrella. He sighed and opened the last umbrella. No sooner had he done so then the waterworks stopped. The four boys closed their umbrellas.
"Great so now we've got even more bad luck..." Yusuke mumbled. The four boys then heard the sound of chains dragging across the floor. The sound was drawing closer every second. Hiei put his hand on his katana and faced the sound. Kurama took out his rose and also faced the sound.
Soon a shadowy figure was seen walking down the hall towards them. The figure was dragging chains behind him. As the figure stepped into the light the boys' eyes widened in shock. There stood Hinote dressed in ragged clothing. He was deathly pale with dark circles around his eyes. There were some red marks almost like cuts all over his body and his clothes had red blood stains on them. His legs and arms were chained together. All in all he looked terrible.
"Hinote?!? What happened to you?!?" Yusuke asked as he and the others rushed over to the boy. Hinote remained silent and didn't even seem to notice their presence.
Kurama waved his hand in front of Hinote, "He isn't responding..."
"We can see that Kurama!" Yusuke rolled his eyes.
Hinote suddenly moved towards Yusuke. He still had the same dazed expression on his face as he walked slowly. He took a knife out of a pocket and held it at his side. Once he was right up to Yusuke he stabbed him with the knife, "DOINK!!!!!!"
Yusuke held his side. "Itai! What the hell is wrong with you?!?"
In response Hinote started to cackle insanely. Kurama walked over to Yusuke, "Are you hurt badly?"
Yusuke looked down and discovered that he wasn't bleeding much. "Naw, I'm fine."
"Hinote, where are Autumn and Flash?" Kurama asked the laughing boy.
Hinote stopped laughing and stared at Kurama, "They are trapped."
"Trapped where?" Hiei frowned.
"Trapped in the dungeon...Where my body is..." Smoke filled the area and when it cleared Hinote was gone.
Hiei growled, "Shimatta!"
"Did he mean that he's dead?!?" Kuwabara looked freaked out.
Kurama shrugged, "We should've been able to tell if he was dead or not but..."
"That was so great!" Autumn was laughing hysterically as Hinote sat down.
Hinote smiled, "I had to work so hard to keep a straight face before I stabbed Yusuke!"
"DOINK!!!" Autumn mimicked causing her and Hinote to start laughing hysterically.
Flash looked back and forth between them, "Right..."
Hiei was leading the group through the halls while holding a fireball in his hand. Kurama was next followed by Yusuke and then Kuwabara. Kuwabara and Yusuke were both looking around the hallway fearfully as if at any moment something would jump out and swallow them whole.
"Shall we liven things up a bit?" Autumn asked her partners in crime.
Flash and Hinote smiled. "Yes, I think its time we gave them a bit of a scare..." Flash said.
"Push the button!" Hinote yelled. Autumn nodded and pushed a big yellow button.
Suddenly the floor opened up underneath Kuwabara and he started to fall into a dark void. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" his muffled scream could still be heard after the floor closed up.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke yelled as he, Kurama, and Hiei crowded around the place where Kuwabara had been.
Hiei poked at the floor with his foot, "Oh well. One less baka ningen to deal with."
"Hiei! Surely you can't mean that?" Kurama looked up at Hiei from where he was examining the floor.
"I WANNA PUSH IT!!!" Flash yelled as she was trying to push the yellow button to make the floor open under Kurama.
Autumn was holding her back, "NO! NOT KURAMA!"
"Where's that trap door lead, anyways?" Hinote asked as he looked at the monitors to try and find Kuwabara.
Autumn and Flash also started looking at the monitors. "You know...I have no idea..." Autumn said after a moment.
"So...Kuwabara could be dead now?" Flash asked.
Autumn shrugged, "It's possible."
"YAY!" Flash yelled. "We must celebrate!"
Autumn and Hinote looked at each other then announced at the same time, "Let's do the chicken dance!!!"
"Yeah!" Flash agreed. The three teens then started to dance the chicken dance.
~*~Meanwhile:
Kuwabara was still falling. He looked around at the pitch darkness. After a moment he fell asleep. His sleep was cut short when he landed in a pile of dirt.
"What the...? Where am I?!?" Kuwabara asked.
Some strange rat like creatures crawled to him out of the darkness. "You are here." They answered all at once.
"Where's here?" Kuwabara asked nervously as he looked at them.
The creatures looked at each other before answering. "Here is where you are."
"But...WHERE ARE WE?!?"
"Here."
"Where?!?"
"Here."
"Where the hell is here?!?"
"Here is where you are."
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kuwabara yelled in frustration.
The creatures hissed and scurried back into the darkness. Kuwabara chased after them. "WAIT!!!! YOU NEVER ANSWERED MY QUESTION!!!!!!!"
~*~Meanwhile yet again:
"Yusuke, staring at the floor isn't going to help us..." Kurama pointed out.
Yusuke looked up at him, "Y'know what...you're right!" Yusuke then started to check the walls for a switch or something that might open the trap door.
"Baka kitsune's always right..." Hiei grumbled before a chandelier fell on top of him.
Yusuke laughed nervously, "Oops...Sorry Hiei...wrong switch..."
"BAKA NINGEN!!!!!!!" Hiei yelled as he pushed the chandelier off and stood up holding his sword threateningly.
Yusuke took a fighting pose as well, "Bring it on, midget!"
"He did not just call Hiei a midget..." Flash's eye twitched.
"He did." Hinote and Autumn answered.
"Yusuke, you're going down!!!" Flash yelled as she pushed an orange button.
Kurama was trying to keep the two from fighting when a rooster fell from the ceiling and started attacking Yusuke. Hiei and Kurama watched in shock as Yusuke ran from the angry bird.
"Well that was unexpected..." Kurama blinked.
Hiei raised an eyebrow, "Hn. Baka ningen..."
"HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yusuke yelled as he ran. He then crashed into a wall and fell down unconscious. The rooster pecked at him once more before leaving.
Hiei poked Yusuke with his foot. "We don't have time for this you idiot. Get up or I'll kill you."
"Hiei! You can't kill Yusuke!" Kurama yelled.
Hiei started walking away, "Hn."
"Oh well...Guess I'll have to drag Yusuke along..." Kurama sighed.
After a wall of dragging Yusuke down the hallway after Hiei and having to turn around after running into a few dead ends the baka finally woke up. He started following Kurama. They continued walking until Yusuke suddenly stopped.
"You've got to be kidding me...WE'VE BEEN WALKING IN A BIG CIRCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled.
Kurama and Hiei walked back to him, "How do you know that?"
"LOOK!" Yusuke pointed at the broken chandelier on the ground.
Hiei blinked, "Ok, kitsune, you're turn to lead."
"Ok..." Kurama sighed as he started walking.
Hinote flipped another switch causing the hallways to shift. "I wonder how long they'll keep walking?"
"I guess until they get pissed and Hiei figures out the walls are hollow." Flash shrugged.
Autumn looked over. "What makes you so sure Hiei will figure that out?"
"Hiei's the only one that'll punch the wall out of frustration." Flash shrugged and grabbed a milkshake from the tray that one of Autumn's squirrel minions was carrying around.
~*~Meanwhile in the middle of nowhere:
Kuwabara was wandering around in the dark trying to find the rat things. So far he had crashed into the wall thirteen times, had fallen in something squishy and smelly, fallen down a drop and into four feet of water, gotten chased by something that slightly resembled a giant tuna, and had wound up walking in two feet of mud...or at least he hoped it was mud...
He saw a light up ahead and ran to it. Unfortunately he failed to notice that the light was on the other side of a glass divider and crashed right into it. He fell backwards into the mud.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?" Kuwabara yelled as he stood up and poked the glass.
Kuwabara pushed on the glass. Nothing happened. He kicked the glass and bounced back into the mud. He punched the glass and his fingers got all swollen and red. He tried charging into the glass and flew back a few feet. He screamed and took out his spirit sword. He charged at the glass again. The energy from his sword was shot back at him. He fell onto the ground panting heavily. He then crawled over to the glass and started pounding his fists on it and crying hysterically.
"WHY WON'T YOU BREAK?!? WHY?!? WHY??????????"
Well, if Kuwabara had known anything about the house he was in he would have known that this house was once the house of an eccentric magician that had liked to perform illusions and tricks. He would have known that the glass wasn't actually glass it was a super strength Plexiglas. It was completely unbreakable. He would also have known that the Plexiglas was part of a trick and that there was an opening a few inches away from where he was. But since all records of the house's existence mysteriously vanished when the magician got eaten by the before mentioned giant tuna Kuwabara couldn't possibly have known any of that.
Kuwabara curled up into a ball and started sucking his thumb while rocking back and forth. He stayed that way for a looooooong time. That's why when the rat thingies passed by they decided to just keep going and leave him alone in his own little world. Kuwabara noticed them walking through the gap in the wall. Of course he didn't know there was a gap. He just thought that the rats were magical. He walked over and pushed expecting to feel glass. Instead he fell right through the gap and face first into the mud on the other side.
"Baka ningen..." the rats said at the same time.
~*~Meanwhile yet again:
"Kurama, I thought you were supposed to be the smart one but really you're just an idiot like the rest of us!" Yusuke whined as they continued to walk through the halls and once again wound up where they had started. An anvil promptly fell out of the ceiling and onto Yusuke's foot.
"NOBODY CALLS KURAMA AN IDIOT!!!!!" Autumn yelled at the monitor as removed her finger from the black button she had just pushed.
Hinote sighed, "Hiei and Kurama aren't getting scared at all!"
"We have to put Plan A into action!" Flash yelled.
Hinote blinked, "Don't you mean Plan B?"
"No, she means Plan A. The cats were Plan Q. The mirror was Plan M. The ladder was Plan 7. And now we're moving on to Plan A!" Autumn smiled.
"7 isn't a letter..." Hinote pointed out.
Autumn and Flash answered at the same time, "Yeah, and...?"
"Never mind..." Hinote sighed.
Autumn pushed a button. Immediately the wall that Yusuke had been leaning against opened and he fell through. "AAH!!!!!!!!"
"Yusuke!" Kurama yells as he runs over to the now closed wall.
Hiei growled angrily and punched the wall nearest to him. To his surprise his fist went right through the wall. "It's hollow?!?"
"No wonder we were going in circles! These halls are full of switches and trap doors!" Kurama says as he inspects the wall.
The sound of dragging chains once again interrupts the two remaining boys. They look around expecting Hinote to be back but instead the person they see makes Kurama's eyes widen in shock.
There stood Autumn. She was dressed in a simple white dress that was frayed at the bottom and the sleeves. There were some tears in it and red was staining it in those places. She was very pale with black rings around her eyes. Her hair looked tangled and matted. There was a little trail of blood coming out of her mouth. She had shackles and chains on her wrists and ankles.
"Au...Autumn...?" Kurama's voice was shaky with fear.
Autumn took a weak step forward. "Kur...a...ma...Why...?"
"Why what?"
"Why...didn't...you...come...? Why...didn't...you....help...me...?" Autumn said in a whispered voice.
Kurama was overcome with guilt, "I...I didn't know where to find you..."
"LIES!" Autumn's voice turned harsh. "You're a liar! You..." Autumn suddenly stopped and looked over her shoulder. She hissed and turned back to Kurama, "...It's too late for us. Save yourself, koibito..." There was a puff of smoke and then she was gone.
Kurama sank to his knees. "No...This can't be...this just can't be!"
"Get over it, kitsune." Hiei said in a cold voice.
Kurama glared at Hiei, "How can you tell me to get over it?!? I love...loved...her!"
"She's not dead, kitsune."
"How do you know?" Kurama narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
Hiei shrugged, "I read the script...I mean...If she were dead her other half would be free and she wouldn't have appeared to us like that." (Director: *bangs head on clipboard*)
"FROG DAMNIT! I knew I was forgetting something!!!" Autumn yelled.
Kurama stood up, "But if she isn't dead then...that means that either this is some horrible and twisted joke or that was just an illusion."
"Hn." Hiei agreed and they both started walking down the hall.
"Ok, so we scared Kurama. Now all that's left is to scare Hiei." Flash smirked, "And I know just how to do it..."
~*~Meanwhile in the mysterious world of sludge under the house:
Kuwabara was sitting up and looking around. He was sitting near a fire that had been made by the rat thingies. The rats were all dancing and talking. Kuwabara felt very out of place. It was bringing back painful memories...
It seems like only yesterday that I was being called ugly and getting things thrown at me...Wait...that was only yesterday...
Kuwabara's pity party was interrupted as Yusuke fell out of the ceiling and landed on top of the fire. Yusuke immediately stood up and started trying to put the flames out from his clothes.
"ITAI! HOT! HOT! IT BURNS!" Yusuke was yelling.
The rats yelled at the same time, "Stop, drop, and roll, baka ningen!!!!!"
Yusuke and Kuwabara both stared at the rats for a moment until the flames on Yusuke's arms reminded him he was in pain. He then threw himself into the mud and started to roll. This put out the flames rather quickly. Yusuke sat up and sighed in relief. He then looked around.
"Hey Kuwabara."
"Hey Urameshi."
The rats looked back and forth between them. They then started conversing among themselves while glancing over every once in a while at them. The rats seemed to come to some sort of decision. They stood facing Yusuke and Kuwabara. "We have decided that you humans should be punished for intruding in our domain. You shall make good sacrifices..."
"As nice as that sounds we really have to be going." Yusuke said.
The rats hissed. "No! You must be sacrificed!"
"Well, can we at least know what we're being sacrificed to?" Yusuke asked.
The rats nodded all at once. "You are being sacrificed to the Great and Powerful Tuna."
"TUNA?!?" Yusuke started laughing. His laughter quickly faded as the rats ganged up on him and Kuwabara. Soon they were both tied to sticks at the side of what appeared to be a large lake. The rats were dancing around the poles and chanting something in a strange language.
"What are they saying, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked.
Yusuke frowned, "How am I supposed to know??? I don't speak animal! That's Autumn's job!"
"But..."
"Kuwabara?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
~*~Meanwhile in the endless maze of hallways that really does have an end and isn't much of a maze:
"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!!!! I NEED TO KNOW IF AUTUMN'S ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kurama yelled at the ceiling.
Hiei stopped walking and turned to look at his friend. "You're...panicking?!? You never panic! THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kurama chuckled and the two started walking again. They finally came to a door. Behind the door were...STAIRS! Yes folks, stairs. The glorious things that help us get from one floor of a house to another. They are also the worst enemies of lazy people all over the world! So let's all take a moment to pay these beautiful creations their due respect...THANK YOU STAIRS!!!!
"What do you think is down there?" Kurama asked.
Hiei rolled his eyes, "Gee, Kurama. What do you think would be at the bottom of those stairs? Hmm...maybe a DUNGEON!"
"Must you mock me, Hiei?"
"Yes, Kurama, I must."
Kurama sighed and led the way down the stairs. When they reached the bottom there was a hall with different doors leading to dungeon cells. Kurama started looking in the barred windows at the cells. Hiei tried but found the windows were too high. Kurama chuckled at his friend's vertically challengedness. Hiei shot Kurama a death glare.
Kurama's smile quickly faded when he looked in a cell. "Hiei...I think you might want to see this..."
"See what?" Hiei asked coming over.
Kurama opened the door and Hiei gasped. Flash was chained to a wall there. She was dressed in her normal clothes but they were slightly torn. She looked very pale but not as pale as Hinote and Autumn had been. She was also definitely alive. Hiei ran over and touched her shoulder. Flash was startled and looked up at him weakly.
"Hi...Hiei?"
"Yes, it's me..." Hiei replied.
"Hiei...I have to tell you something...I..." that's as far as she got before she fell limp against him.
"Flash! Flash don't die! I...I..." Hiei was having trouble saying what he was trying to say.
There was some snickering heard from behind the door. Kurama opened it wider and Hinote and Autumn fell into the cell.
"ITAI!" Autumn yelled.
Hinote looked up at Kurama and smiled, "Hey, Kurama..."
"Hinote, Autumn, so nice of you two to join us..." Kurama said a little ticked off that they had pulled such a prank on them.
Hiei shook Flash, "You can wake up now, the jig is up."
"SHIMATTA!!!!!!!!! Autumn! Hinote! You two are so dead!" Flash yelled as she stood up and tried to run at them but was pulled back by the shackles. "Err...did either of you see what happened to the key?"
"NANI?!? You mean you lost the key?!?" Autumn yelled.
Flash thought, "No! I didn't lose it! I gave it to you!"
"Oh...anou...Hinote, did you happen to see what I did with the key?" Autumn turned to Hinote.
Hinote shrugged, "I dunno...maybe you gave it to somebody?"
"Yeah! I gave it to you!" Autumn pointed at him.
Hinote's eyes grew wide. "Err...well then...did anybody see what I did with it?"
"NANI?!? You've got to be kidding me!!!! How could you bakas have lost the key???" Flash yelled.
"Simple. They're BAKAS." Hiei responded.
"AM NOT!!!!!!" Hinote and Autumn yelled at the same time.
Flash sat down and pouted, "Whose bright idea was this, again?"
"Well the chaining yourself to a wall thing was your idea but this whole lets prank the guys and scare the hell outta them thing was Autumn's idea. So blame it all on her." Hinote pointed his thumb at Autumn.
Hiei arched an eyebrow, "How'd you manage to come up with this stupid plan, kitsune?"
"Well...It was after school...Flash was talking about...something..."
~*~Flashback (Autumn is telling the others what happened):
"Blah blah blah blah stuff blah blah blah...." Flash was saying.
Autumn was zoned out and not really noticing what was going on. That's when the idea came into her head.
Inside Autumn's mind:
Wouldn't it be great if lobsters could fly?
'Eh...no.'
But then they would be all 'look at me I'm flying!'
'No flying lobsters.'
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!! I've got the best idea ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Why am I suddenly afraid...?'
Let's pull of a bunch of Friday the Thirteenth pranks on the guys!!! We can scare the hell outta them!!!!!!
'Baka! That won't work! The only thing that could possibly scare Kurama is you dying...crap did I just give you an idea?'
Yes, yes you did...
Back outside:
"Guys, I've got an idea but we're going to need about thirty black cats, a large mirror, some umbrellas, a ladder, and a spooky house in the middle of a graveyard. Oh and some chains too."
~*~End flashback:
Flash was glaring at Autumn, "I can't believe you weren't listening to me!!!! I was trying to tell you about my Valentine's Day Surprise for Hi...oops." Flash laughed nervously and smiled at Hiei, "Never mind..."
Kurama and Autumn went over to inspect the locks on the shackles. Kurama broke one and Autumn broke the other. Flash smiled and spun in a circle. "I'm FREE!!!!!!!!!!"
"Yes, that's wonderful. Now let's go...I don't like this place..." Autumn said.
"You got the footage?" Flash asked in a whisper so Hiei and Kurama wouldn't hear.
Autumn smiled and pat her bag, "Right here..."
The five walked out of the house and to the town.
Hinote seemed to be thinking about something, "Y'know...I can't help but feel like we've forgotten something..."
"Knowing us, we probably have forgotten something." Autumn shrugged. "But it can't be too important..."
~*~Meanwhile in the lair of the Great and powerful tuna:
Yusuke and Kuwabara were watching the rats chanting. They had been there for what seemed like forever. They were getting tired of waiting and Yusuke had run out of curses to scream at the rats.
"I wonder when the others are going to come and save us." Kuwabara said.
"Kuwabara, the others are Hiei and Kurama. Hiei hates us. Kurama has no idea how to get around in this place. We have no idea where we are. THEY have no idea where we are." Yusuke said sadly.
"And...?"
"And...THEY AREN'T COMING TO SAVE US!!!!!!" Yusuke yelled.
Kuwabara had a look of pure horror on his face, "But that means I won't be able to help Yukina find her brother!!!"
"Baka! Yukina's brother is Hi..." Yusuke was cut off as the giant tuna rose out of the water. "Oh...shit..."
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Dream: ok here's a key of stuff:
What characters thinking. Also what Autumn says to her demon half.
'What Autumn's demon half says to her'
And here's a dictionary of words I used:
Ningen – human
Baka – stupid/idiot
Shimatta – damn it, shit
Ningenkai – human world
Itai – ouch
Nani – what
Anou... – umm...
Err tell me if there's anything I missed...
Zero: well there's one more chapter.
Dream: Next chapter is going to be full of Kurama/Autumn and Hiei/Flash fluff so if you don't want to read it...don't! There I posted the chapter...DON'T HURT ME ARIELLE!!!!!!!!!!
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