Shinigami Side Stories: Wired
by Icka! M. Chif
Kaito glared at the computer before him that stubbornly refused to work.
It looked back at him innocently. Or as innocently as a computer spawned from the foulest deepest darkest reaches of the nine hells could look.
All their other classmates in the computer lab didn't seem to be having any difficulty with their machines. It was just this one that appeared to hate his guts. He could get anyone of the other computers to work, -except- this one.
And it was really starting to irritate him.
He glanced over at his lab partner, who was sitting beside him, his arms crossed, looking much like he was wishing he had a box of theatre popcorn to watch the show with.
"Hakuba, you're the Onmyouji!" He jabbed a finger at the machine. "Can't you do something to get it to work?"
Hakuba raised an eyebrow. "Somehow, Kuroba, I doubt performing an exorcism on the device is going to cause much of an effect."
"It's the only theory I can come up with." He growled sullenly. "Right about now, I'm tempted just to blow it up. BOOM! No more problem!"
"You're not allowed to use your Kitsune-bi in public." The youkai-hunter reminded him.
The half-Kitsune grinned back, his eyes narrowed in a very wolfish expression. "I wasn't thinking about using magic."
Hakuba did a quick mental review of how many fire works and incendiary devices the magician thief probably had on him and hastily re-evaluated his opinion. "Have you tried everything?"
Kaito levelled him a flat eyed glare. "You've been sitting here watching me work on it for HOW long? I've done everything from playing with it in the bios to doing a hard boot. Both the 'push the button' and the 'swift kick with the shoe' kind. About the only thing I HAVEN"T done is drop kick it from the roof to see if the flight would improve performance!"
"Right." Hakuba glanced around, making sure that no one else was paying attention, then pulled out an ofuda from his vest pocket and held it up in front of his face. "On" He began, murmuring a small chant under his breath. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed the spelled paper, and watched dispassionately as it stuck to the side of the computer case.
"There." He glanced at the dark haired hanyou with a measure of impatience. "Happy n-"
He was cut off by an in-human high pitched shriek. They both turned in amazement towards the computer as something that was small, green and looked like a cross between a miniature tengu and a fried motherboard scrambling out of it, holding it's head and screaming. With a miniature *poof!* and a small cloud of smoke, not too dissimilar from Kuroba's, it vanished.
With a small 'clik' and a whirrrrrr, the program that they had been trying in vain to get up and running for over half the class period smoothly started up.
Both boys blinked.
"Oh." One of the tech aids, who had futility tried to help them at the beginning of the class period walked passed them. "I see you finally got it up and running. You're really lucky, no one ever seems to be able get that one to work."
They watched the aid walk away.
"Low level spirit." Hakuba dead panned, his face neutral.
Kaito nodded, his face blank except for his eyes, which were sparkling with wild humour. "Computer gremlin."
"No one would believe us if we told them." Hakuba continued, almost thoughtfully.
"Not a soul." Kaito agreed, matching his tone. "I won't say a word if you won't."
"Sounds good to me." Hakuba agreed, sliding forward to get to work on their assignment.
-fin-
Kitsune-Bi: Also known as Foxfire. It's usually shown as being blue. Many thanks to Becky for the idea.
by Icka! M. Chif
Kaito glared at the computer before him that stubbornly refused to work.
It looked back at him innocently. Or as innocently as a computer spawned from the foulest deepest darkest reaches of the nine hells could look.
All their other classmates in the computer lab didn't seem to be having any difficulty with their machines. It was just this one that appeared to hate his guts. He could get anyone of the other computers to work, -except- this one.
And it was really starting to irritate him.
He glanced over at his lab partner, who was sitting beside him, his arms crossed, looking much like he was wishing he had a box of theatre popcorn to watch the show with.
"Hakuba, you're the Onmyouji!" He jabbed a finger at the machine. "Can't you do something to get it to work?"
Hakuba raised an eyebrow. "Somehow, Kuroba, I doubt performing an exorcism on the device is going to cause much of an effect."
"It's the only theory I can come up with." He growled sullenly. "Right about now, I'm tempted just to blow it up. BOOM! No more problem!"
"You're not allowed to use your Kitsune-bi in public." The youkai-hunter reminded him.
The half-Kitsune grinned back, his eyes narrowed in a very wolfish expression. "I wasn't thinking about using magic."
Hakuba did a quick mental review of how many fire works and incendiary devices the magician thief probably had on him and hastily re-evaluated his opinion. "Have you tried everything?"
Kaito levelled him a flat eyed glare. "You've been sitting here watching me work on it for HOW long? I've done everything from playing with it in the bios to doing a hard boot. Both the 'push the button' and the 'swift kick with the shoe' kind. About the only thing I HAVEN"T done is drop kick it from the roof to see if the flight would improve performance!"
"Right." Hakuba glanced around, making sure that no one else was paying attention, then pulled out an ofuda from his vest pocket and held it up in front of his face. "On" He began, murmuring a small chant under his breath. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed the spelled paper, and watched dispassionately as it stuck to the side of the computer case.
"There." He glanced at the dark haired hanyou with a measure of impatience. "Happy n-"
He was cut off by an in-human high pitched shriek. They both turned in amazement towards the computer as something that was small, green and looked like a cross between a miniature tengu and a fried motherboard scrambling out of it, holding it's head and screaming. With a miniature *poof!* and a small cloud of smoke, not too dissimilar from Kuroba's, it vanished.
With a small 'clik' and a whirrrrrr, the program that they had been trying in vain to get up and running for over half the class period smoothly started up.
Both boys blinked.
"Oh." One of the tech aids, who had futility tried to help them at the beginning of the class period walked passed them. "I see you finally got it up and running. You're really lucky, no one ever seems to be able get that one to work."
They watched the aid walk away.
"Low level spirit." Hakuba dead panned, his face neutral.
Kaito nodded, his face blank except for his eyes, which were sparkling with wild humour. "Computer gremlin."
"No one would believe us if we told them." Hakuba continued, almost thoughtfully.
"Not a soul." Kaito agreed, matching his tone. "I won't say a word if you won't."
"Sounds good to me." Hakuba agreed, sliding forward to get to work on their assignment.
-fin-
Kitsune-Bi: Also known as Foxfire. It's usually shown as being blue. Many thanks to Becky for the idea.