Yes...it is true what they say... I have returned. I have learned much while I was gone. Did you know that Barney bled in melted crayon, for example? (Oh, READ NO FURTHER UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THE LATEST CHAPTER OF SOME GAME) ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter 29: Uh-oh (oooohhhh crap...)

"These yer friends, Yugi?"

"Yes, Yususke. The blonde boy is Joey, and the boy in blue is Seto Kaiba. The two girls are Sango and Kagome (pssst.... don't get either of them mad), the Buddhist monk is Miroku, and the guy with the dog ears is Inuyasha."

"So you are the half-breed this human has been going on about?" asked the diminutive fire demon.

"Uhh... you guys do know that it would be a lot easier to talk to you if you weren't half naked and rubbing each other down, right?" Joey inquired. The others were just as surprised at the sight before them: a red-headed man with a cross shaped scar on his cheek, what could only be Yugi's twin brother with dyed black hair, an otherwise normal Japanese youth, a slightly older young man with a white jacket and a bare chest, and a red headed young man that could have been mistaken for a girl. At least, he would have been, if it weren't for the fact that they were indeed all bare chested and rubbing each other down with ointment to help heal their wounds. It really was quite homoerotic.

"Who are these gorgeous friends of yours, Yugi!?" Kagome squealed. It was the first time she had seen so much hunky man flesh in one place. Sango was going through a similar ordeal, and couldn't take her eyes off of Sanosuke. For once, it was Miroku and Inuyasha who had to bring sanity back to the situation.

"SIT, GIRL!" they both screamed in poorly concealed jealousy, as they jumped in front of the two girls and between them and the other men.

sigh "Well, it was good while it lasted, right Sango?"

Sango was still crying with the little hearts in her eyes as Miroku blocked her view, and was unavailable for comment.

"Guys... maybe we should put our shirts back on... I think mister puppy-ears is getting angry..." noticed Yusuke.

"MY NAME IS NOT MISTER PUPPY-EARS! MY NAME IS INUYASHA, AND YOU WILL REFER TO ME AS SUCH!" he screamed indignantly.

"Damn, you are a loud creature, aren't you?"

"WHAT'S IT TO YA, SHORTY!? I WANNA KNOW WHY I JUST WALKED IN ON A BUNCH OF GUYS LUBING THEMSELVES UP WHILE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING FOR OUR FRIEND!"

"Inuyasha, we aren't 'lubing ourselves up,' we are just putting some of Kurama's medicine our wounds. Well... their wounds, really. The fighting pretty much stopped after I got here." answered the midget-like human, who was almost evenly matched with Hiei, height-wise, anyway.

To the chagrin of the girls, Sanosuke and the others finally put on their shirts, and got back up off of the floor.

"Oh well... I guess it just wasn't meant to be... sadly..." groaned a very disappointed Sango. Kagome could only moan in sympathy, still having trouble of getting Sanosuke's rippling muscles and glistening skin out of her mind.

"Kagome... since when did you become as bad as Miroku?"

"I heard that, Inuyasha."

"I know."

POOF!

Suddenly, no one knew where they were.

SMACK!

"Sorry, Sango."

Or where everyone else was at the moment, either.

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"Ahh... only a few more days till we get to fight again. I look forward to this battle, battosai. And you as well, spirit detective. I look forward to it indeed..."

OMFG!!!!!! It's Mister Voice in the Dark! We haven't heard from him in AGES! I wonder what he is up to...