I wasn't sure whether to post this or not. I'm afraid of dragging this story on and on… But hey, it's a party!Fear it.

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Hopefully there's no errors. I didn't proof read. I'm on a chapter-adding roll. I finally added to Work Sucks!

PARATAY!

Remember the intermission? Of course you do. It was in between... thinks I have no clue which chapters. scrolls up Chapters three and four. So anyway, we're back in that room. The room that had everything.

Shadow, Hiei, Aoshi, and Saitou were sleeping in the hot tub of all places. Nobody really seems to have noticed how Shadow always ends up sleeping with several guys at once... Well, this isn't sleeping with, like in a bed, it's sleeping in a hot tub a short distance from four guys... No, she's not some slut, either, though she may act like it at times... like earlier in the story when she kissed Koenma... and almost kissed Hiei... and... Ahem. Anywho...

Eclipse, Sano, Yusuke, Kenshin, and Youko (though he probably would rather have been sleeping in the hot tub with his arm around Shadow's waist, but that privelege was already taken by Hiei) were in the pool playing with a beach ball. Vash, Wolfwood, and Hiko were at the bar. Miroku and Inuyasha were playing cards while Sesshoumaru sulked in the corner.

AN: Other random people wandering around: Koenma, Kaoru, Yahiko, Kuwabara (yeah, it was going fine 'til I got to him...), Kagome, Sango (with Kilala, which I know is spelled Kirara becuz of the Japanese pronounciation of 'r' but for English pronounciation's sake, it's Kilala), um... Knives and Legato (coooool... evil, but cool... evilness makes them even cooler... snaps back to reality Ahem... as I was saying...), anyone else? Looking around. Nope. Shyew. This is gonna be hard to keep track of...

Eclipse caught the ball and held it, staring across the room at Shadow and the guys sleeping in the hot tub. An evil, Shadow-like smile appeared on her face.

"Who wants to torture Shadow?" she said evilly.

"Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!" Yusuke said, jumping up and down waving his arms.

"Well, I was thinking Youko would be more fit for the job," Eclipse said absentmindedly, snapping the fox's attention to her.

"Yes?" he prompted. Eclipse grinned and started planning with him in a low voice.

Random people around the room couldn't help but notice as a fox-man snuck across the room wearing nothing but swim trunks. And those random people started to suspect things. So those random people, some slightly drunk, watched very carefully as the swim suit-clad fox demon slid into the hot tub and carefully removed Hiei's arm from around Shadow's waist and pulled the said girl out of the hot tub.

Those same random people watched as Youko pulled Shadow onto one of those inflatable mattresses (King sized... for a reason) and went back to the hot tub for, wouldn't you know it: Aoshi. AN: Was Misao wandering around? scrolls up No. Okay, we're safe. Shadow won't be murdered by Itachi... Youko somehow managed to get Aoshi to the mattress and place him next to Shadow with his arm across her, resting on her hip.

"Why did you have to pick Aoshi?" Kenshin mumbled to Eclipse. "He's not going to be very pleased, de gozaru..."

"Maybe he'll talk," Eclipse said, shrugging. Kenshin stared at her.

"You're cruel, de gozaru..."

A few seconds later, Kenshin's got his famous 'oro' face as he watched Youko position Saitou on the mattress on the opposite side of Shadow so his hand was on her shoulder.

"Saitou-san isn't going to be happy, de gozaru... You really shouldn't do this... De gozaru..." he said in that odd higher-pitched voice he gets when he's got his oro face.

"Don't worry. Nobody's going to die... At most, Shadow is going to horribly maim those two," Eclipse said.

"What has gotten into you? You're not usually so evil," Sanosuke said. "Not that it's a bad thing... this is gonna be funny."

Shadow was now lying on her back with Aoshi on her left and Saitou on her right, and both had their hands on her. All three were asleep, and Youko was standing over them admiring his handiwork.

"Good job. Now get over here and let's wait," Eclipse said to Youko.

Just as Youko slipped back into the pool, the worst possible thing happened. No, neither Saitou nor Aoshi woke up.

Hiei did.

The entire room watched Hiei climb out of the hot tub, glance around the room, and spot... well... them.

"WHAT IN THE SEVEN HELLS!" he screamed. Shadow's eyes shot open. So did Saitou's and Aoshi's. All three were frozen with surprise. Aoshi and Saitou stared at each other across, then, simultaneously, their eyes slowly moved up to Shadow's face. Her eyes stayed wide and staring straight at the ceiling. It had startled her a bit to wake up to Hiei's yell and feel hands on her. And she continued being startled, staring up at the ceiling, until two shouts right beside her ears woke her up.

"AAAUUGH!"

The two men jumped up, stumbled on the air mattress, and fell backwards. Shadow bolt upright and looked to her sides, seeing two guys sprawled on the floor. Then she looked behind her and saw Hiei staring at her in horror. And straight in front of her, in the pool, Youko, Eclipse, Yusuke, and Sanosuke were laughing their heads off. The few guys at the bar were chuckling drunkenly, and one of the two card players was feeling envious (Miroku... Tsk.). Sesshoumaru, well, he was being Sesshoumaru-ish. The other people were having various reactions (Kuwabara was laughing loudest of all and he hadn't even been in the room to know what they were laughing about).

"WHO DID THAT!" Shadow yelled. The room quieted slightly, but Shadow figured that since several fingers were pointed at Eclipse and Youko, it had something to do with them. She lunged at them and tackled Youko so he fell backwards and both ended up underwater. Saitou and Aoshi looked at each other in horror. Hiei was slightly confused, slightly angry, and slightly... well... something else. He noticed Eclipse climb out of the pool and start to make her secret escape out in the open and bright light, and decided to have a 'chat' with her.

"Eclipse, I'm assuming you had something to do with... that..." he said, appearing in front of her.

"Ah... no."

"Sure you didn't."

"I didn't. I swear. It was all Youko."

"If it was all Youko, it would have been Shadow waking up in Youko's arms, not Saitou and Aoshi's. Why'd you pick those two?"

"I didn't. I had nothing to do with it."

Before Hiei could further argue, Shadow came flying out of... somewhere... and slammed into Eclipse, strangling her.

"YOU TOLD HIM TO, YOU BAKA NEZUMI BUSU OBAN!"

Hiei stared at Shadow, startled by her insults. So did everybody else in the room, except Youko, who was coughing up water and trying to restart proper function of his lungs.

Finally, Shadow stopped abruptly and walked away. She grabbed Aoshi and Saitou's wrists and dragged them off into the corner. A second later, she stopped, stared at them, then said, "Stay right there," and ran off to fetch Hiei. Once the little group was assembled, she told them her plan, as far as she had developed it.

"We're getting revenge."

There was a long pause after her dramatic, serious words, which was broken by Aoshi's simple one-word sentence: "How?"

Shadow looked at him, still serious. "I don't quite know. But we are."

"Ah."

The group sat and stared at each other for a minute.

"Can I kill them?" Saitou asked.

"Nooo!" Shadow and Hiei said in horror.

"Bad tall insect man! Such evil thoughts! No. It has to be something that takes a lot of thought... Something flawless..." Shadow said dramatically.

"Well, how about..." Hiei started, and their plotting began...

Incident number one... The next day.

Youko did a cannonball into the deep end of the pool, completely unsuspecting and unaware that the group who had plotted against him the previous day was watching very carefully from the shallow end or somewhere nearby.

This group of evil people sat there watching as Youko did some underwater swimming, then emerged. He floated there treading water for a second with a surprised look on his face before his swim trunks appeared on top of the water next to him. He quickly grabbed them and pulled them on underwater while Shadow and her accomplices laughed at him. He climbed out of the pool and quickly grabbed his starting-to-fall-down-again swim trunks, darting across the room quickly to his little room place to figure out what had happened.

"What did you do?"

It was Hiko. Shadow and Hiei, sitting on the floor with their feet on the steps down into the pool, looked up at him and smiled innocently.

"They sabotaged the string on his swim trunks," Saitou said, smirking. Hiko quirked an eyebrow and walked away shaking his head.

Incident two, a few hours later.

Eclipse pulled open the door to her little room thingy and a rain of marbles, water balloons, and rotten apples (to the point of mushiness) came pouring out on top of her. She screamed.

Across the room, sitting on the couch and leaning against the back of the couch, Shadow, Saitou, Aoshi, and Hiei laughed, then dove behind the couch as Eclipse started hurling marbles at them. They couldn't help but laugh even harder. The scent of the perfume they'd filled the balloons with was so strong, she'd never get rid of it.

Shadow pulled the bottle out of her back pocket and looked at it with a smirk on her face.

"I knew all this crap would come in handy some day..."

"Where'd you even get all that?" Hiei asked.

"I made it."

"WELL WE DIDN'T WANT TO KILL ECLIPSE!"

"Oh, she'll survive. It's not poisonous. It just has a really strong smell that hangs around for days, sometimes even weeks. Besides, it's not that bad of a smell..."

"No, it just smells like vinegar," Aoshi said sarcastically. "That's not bad."

During their conversation, they had failed to notice the onslaught of marbles had stopped. Somebody above them cleared her throat, and they all looked up at Eclipse, leaning over the back of the couch.

"Oops," Shadow said. She dove away and went headfirst into the pool, making a huge splash that drenched Youko, who was casually floating a few feet away. A second later, three more big splashes, along with little splashes of marbles, hit the water and drenched Youko again.

"That's not fair! The prank you pulled on her wasn't as humiliating!" Youko whined.

"Believe me, it'll be humiliating when she wants to go out in public next week and smells like vinegar," Shadow said from behind him, using him as a shield.

"What? I'm not going to be your shield! Eclipse, Shadow's over here!" Youko said, then submerged himself in the water. Hiei, Saitou, and Aoshi were spared from Eclipse's marble-throwing for a second while she hurled them at Shadow, who quickly dove underwater and curled up in a ball on the pool floor, six feet underwater.

When Sanosuke noticed Eclipse hurling marbles at a dark shape at the bottom of the pool, he couldn't help but saunter over and see what the deal was.

"What's up?" he asked.

"She's trying to kill Shadow," Hiei said when Eclipse didn't answer. Upon hearing his voice, Eclipse spun on him and pegged him in the chest with a marble.

"Ow!"

When Shadow came up for a breathe after a surprisingly long time, Eclipse pegged her in the side of the head.

"Oww!"

And then she ran out of marbles, and Saitou and Aoshi were spared from the wrath of the nezumi who smelled like vinegar.

"Stupid tall insect man and... other dude!" Eclipse snapped, out of lack of a nickname for Aoshi, as the two samurai stood at the edge of the pool.

"Stupid mouse girl!" Shadow taunted from the middle of the pool, jumping up and down to keep her head above the water. The entire room looked to Eclipse for her response.

"Shut up!"

Everybody looked at Shadow.

"Make me!"

Everybody looked at Eclipse.

"I will!"

You know how it goes from here...

"Wanna bet?"

"Twenty bucks!"

"Give it here!"

"No! I win! Gimme my money!"

"Not until you give me mine!"

"I don't owe you any!"

"Yeah you do! You have no idea how many bets I've won against you!"

"Yeah I do! None!"

"You just have a really crappy memory!"

"No, that's you!"

Seeing that this wouldn't end anytime soon, Hiei and Saitou exchanged glances. Hiei started towards Eclipse and Saitou walked into the pool towards Shadow. A second later, both girls had strong hands clamped over their mouths. However, they continued to screech at each other as best as they could in that condition. Saitou dragged Shadow out of the pool and they both stood there in their sopping wet clothes for a second, Shadow panting for breath as she and Eclipse glared at each other.

Finally, Saitou and Hiei gingerly lifted their hands from the girls' mouths. The two were silent.

"Busu," Eclipse hissed quietly. Shadow made a lunge, but Saitou caught her.

"Oban!" Shadow snapped. Then she glared up into Saitou's gold eyes. "Let me kill her... Oooooh, I'm gonna murder her..."

Saitou suddenly pulled Shadow to the side and Eclipse flew by with her leg out in a kick that would have hit Shadow straight between her eyes.

"BAKAYAROU OBAN BUSU... ah... BAKA... uh... KUSO-ATAMA... ahm..." Shadow was at a loss for original insults. So, she spouted off some English ones (remember, in one story I mentioned she had a list of swear words in various languages framed and hanging on a wall somewhere). "FAG! WHORE! SK--" Maybe Saitou spoke English, because he clamped his hand over Shadow's mouth before she could say anything else.

Shadow, angry, elbowed Saitou in the stomach repeatedly until he let her go, then she lunged at Eclipse and the two girls strangled the heck out of each other.

The next day...

Shadow and Eclipse were all made up, friends again, but Youko, insistent on a punishment, had ended up getting them stuck in a room with him and Miroku.

A few hours later, Shadow and Eclipse walked out, furious, dragging unconscious Youko and Miroku by their ankles.

"Some party, eh?" Hiei said, glancing at Sano.

"Be grateful it isn't you."

And the two continued their gambling.