The Problem
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Warning: umm, more icky things I guess. Hiei thinking about ways to vent his annoyance. One including doing things to his red headed boy toy, teehee
A/N: I had no idea how to spell Uncle's chant, so I guessed. If anyone actually knows tell me.Chapter 3 – The Experiments
Hiei's stomach grumbled. They had skipped breakfast in their hurry to Genkai's temple. His fox smiled at him and tilted his head to the side, towards a table laden with donuts and drinks. The fire demon helped himself to an entire box of donuts and a cup of coffee that was more sugar and cream than anything. "Hey! Quit hogging the donuts, you chibi!" Kuwabara made an attempt to snag a few donuts from the box and ended up flat on his face as Hiei flitted away. The group was now six; Genkai had stayed at her temple while Botan had convinced Yukina to come along.
They eventually entered the pacifier breathed godling's room. It looked the same as always. Dangerously high stacks of documents waiting to be stamped, or to fall to the ground in disarray. Whichever happened first. Jorge took notice of the Reikai Tantei first, his eyes growing to the size of saucers as his gaze settled on Kurama. His laughter caused Koenma to finally look up from his stamping. A few seconds later he was rolling on the floor laughing and gasping for breath.
Eyebrow once again twitching something awful, Hiei finally spoke. "We didn't come here to provide amusement. What is this thing growing on Kurama's face?" It took nearly ten minutes for the laughter to stop. Once he'd wiped away the tears streaming down his face, Koenma became the newest person to get up close and personal with the redhead's little protrusion. After a moment's contemplation, binky sucker let out one of his trademark sighs and returned to his desk.
"Well, what is it?" Kurama looked hopefully at the godling. Everyone waited with baited breath for the answer. "I have no idea." They all facefaulted. 'Some help he is,' thought Yuusuke. "But is there anything to do about it? I can't walk around with this...this thing!" The black haired delinquent smirked, "Yeah, then your fan club at school will run screaming from you. You won't be able to get a date for the school dances." The kitsune refrained from stating that he would love it if his multitude of stalkers would leave him alone, although he didn't want to spend the rest of his life with a twitching bug thing growing out of him, and that he didn't need a date for any of the dances since Hiei didn't go in for that sort of thing anyway.
Koenma shot an irritated glare at Yuusuke. "I may not know what it is, but I'm sure there's a way to get rid of it. Jorge!" The loincloth wearing oni snapped to attention, "Hai, Koenma-sama?" Toddler Pants dug around in his desk for a moment before pulling out a scrap of parchment, a few vials, and a big dried blowfish out of a drawer. Within moments even Hiei was having a hard time keeping a straight face. Jorge was hopping up and down on one foot with the dried blowfish in one hand. "Yu mwo guwei gwai fai dii tsuao, yu mwo guwei gwai fai dii tsuao...Koenma-sama! I feel like an idiot!"
"You look like one, too. Now quit whining and keep hopping!" A bright green light shot out of the fish, hitting Kurama's offending growth smack between its antennae. The protrubence shrank, disappearing under thick red bangs. Letting out a sigh of relief, the redhead reached up and felt to be sure it was gone. "Arigato Jorge, Koenma-sama." The relief he felt was very short lived. With an indescribably sickening noise, the growth reappeared. And it wasn't the same. A pair of green eyes, almost like miniature versions of the ones that its host had, were now blinking at the stunned faces that stared blankly at it. "Crap! Somebody squash that thing!" This eloquent exclamation came from the ever-tactful Kuwabara. Koenma pulled a vanity mirror from the depths of his desk so that Kurama would be able to see the latest addition to his face.
Large green eyes mirrored the blinking of the little beady ones perched just below the antennae. He felt sick and put the mirror on the desk. Everything they tried made it worse! "That thing gets worse and worse. Maybe we should just quit while we're ahead?" This earned Yuusuke a glare that he returned with a shrug, "Maybe it will just go away on its own?" This earned him a second glare from the minute fire demon. Hiei was getting more and more annoyed with everything in general. What had stuck him as humorous was now making him upset and he didn't know how to deal with it. Usually he was able to take out his annoyance by hacking the object of his irritation into bits with his sword. But he couldn't very well try to remove the staring, twitching bump in this manner. Nor could he take out his frustration by hacking Kuwabara to pieces. He couldn't even take out the frustration in an alternate way, such as screwing his boyfriend into the ground. The sooner this was taken care of, the better.
Kuwabara was using the current silence to try and flirt with Yukina, but as always his advances went right over her head. Koenma was busy flipping through a large tome that was threatening to crush Jorge with its weight. More heavy silence passed in which the redhead at the center of all of this was feeling much in need of a hug. He almost gave in to the need to cling to Hiei when a loud 'Aha!' broke the quiet. Jorge was sent out of the room with a ridiculously long list of items to gather while everyone looked on curiously.
"Did you find something that will work?" Botan tried to look over the edge of the large tome, only to have it fall and land on her foot. As the ferry girl hopped around squeaking in pain, Yukina finally spoke up. "Yes, every thing we do seem to make it worse. What will happen to Kurama-san if this fails?" Kuwabara was instantly there to try and comfort her, "If anything happens I, Kuwabara Kazuma, will protect you from that...umm...evil pimple!" The comment was largely ignored by the others for its sheer stupidity.
It wasn't long before Jorge returned, his arms leaden with a multitude of strange objects and containers. The set up for this spell took much longer than the failed 'blowfish' incident that only gave Kurama's pimple the gift of sight. Because nothing beats a pimple with antennas that can stare at you. By the time everything was ready Koenma's desk was shoved into the corner, Kurama was seated in the middle of a large chalk pentagram full of odd little symbols, and the others were placed in strategic (or so the spell said) places around the room with candles of varying colors in each of their hands.
Koenma had changed into his teen for. Mostly likely because he cut a more impressive figure in the robes he'd put on than he ever would as a toddler. He began muttering strange sounding words, made stranger by the fact that he still had his pacifier in his mouth. A new light sprang to life in the room. A dark, soothing blue in hue this time. A gentle wind blew outwards from the center of the pentagram yet didn't cause a single candle to go out. Botan felt the need to twitch nervously, giggle, something! This standing still like this was murder! Nothing else seemed to be happening outside of the light and wind. Hiei was beginning to have even more serious doubt about this whole undertaking when the kitsune began to float. He was still seated, his eyes shut as he began to drift steadily upwards.
The blue glow concentrated about the boy's head. Tense seconds passed. Then Kurama fell backwards to land with a harsh thud against the ground. At the same moment, the blinking protrusion was flung across the room propelled by the blue light. It landed with a slightly sickening thunk next to Koenma's desk. It was forgotten as everyone rushed to crowd around the fallen redhead. He seemed fine, his breathing was steady and there wasn't even a mark to indicate that something had taken up residence on his forehead. Kuwabara, smart boy he is, decided to be the first to see what was left of the thing. "Hey guys...this thing's twitching!"
A/N: Okay people! Wasn't that dramatic and all? The moment you have been waiting for...will arrive next chapter! ::insert evil cackling here:: We will finally see exactly what this thing is and perhaps who is behind it! Next chapter – The Chase! Complete with pictures!