kaida13- I was kinda going for that... Except whatever-the-hell-her-name-was didn't jump, did she? I saw part of the Titanic but I think I fell asleep. It's a boring stupid movie about some guy who loves some woman and he dies. Or something. Who cares.
C.C.C.- ::hugging stuffed animals:: Yay!
Forgotten-Heart- Yes, she's quite evil, and she has no shame... She's not shy, she doesn't care what people think of her or what they say about her. Or maybe she's just so stupid she doesn't realize what she does really pisses people off...
Natsumi-sama- Nah, didn't answer reviews on the last chapter. I forget why. Probably too lazy. Like usual. I'm just a really lazy person.
Abanasinia- Glad you think so. :)
Robin Autumn- Okee dokee, I updated a few days later... Or whatever... I guess. I think. No I don't. I don't think much at all.
Black Spell- Well I'm glad you love it. But I fear love. ::hides under a flower petal::
cat- Heh heh heh. Muwahahaha. I am The Ruler. Yes. The Ruler Of Many Things Including Minions Of Doom, Like Weasels and Flying Snails Named Jo. That's a long title, but it's what I am, I can't hide from that... Lol.
Hakudoshi-chan- "Weird" is one the names that I have between the first one and last one. I can't say it's my middle name cuz I have so many names between my first and last that there is no middle.
Okami Youkai- Your praise makes me feel happy. :D See?
Kitsune Klepto- Yes, Karasu will one day get what he deserves...
Bar-Ohki- Conga? Dunno what that is, but I the fires of Hell are really hot and they burn stuff.
Shessha's Crazy- I don't think so. But you do have issues, you know. You all do. You're all NUTS! But that's okay, because so are we. I mean, so am I. There's nobody but me here... Me and all my Minions of Doom, of which I have many.

CHAPTER EIGHT
Liberate the Frogs

Hundreds of happy couples were loading off the boat. Yes. Happy. After discovering Shadow's cruel tricks and supposedly throwing her off the boat, most of the couples had got back together and kissed (and did other stuff...) and made up. Among these happy people, Shadow went unnoticed as she slipped off the ship. The five people surrounding her made sure she was hidden, to avoid further murder attempts.

Finally, they were away from the crowd and headed back to the hotel in which they had reserved rooms a week ago, before the cruise. Shadow looked at them all happily.

"Why do you all look so miserable?"

"We're not miserable, Shadow," Kurama said. "We're relieved."

"Why?"

Everybody gave her a "if you don't know, we won't tell you, you retarded, stupid, fool" look. Everyone except Eclipse, that is.

"I had fun! Especially when you jumped off the boat! That was awesome!"

Shadow suddenly looked mad. "WHERE WERE YOU THROUGH ALL THAT, YOU CRUEL FRIEND? BEE-OH-TICH!"

"I was underwater."

"What, in the ocean?"

"No, I was in the pool."

"Bull pucky!" Shadow snapped. "You weren't in that pool! Karasu or Hiei would have spotted you when they got thrown in!"

"I was in there! Yes I was! I was looking for frogs!"

"WHAT IS YOUR OBSESSION WITH FROGS?"

"THEY TALK TO ME!"

"FROGS DON'T TALK, AND THEY DON'T LIVE IN SWIMMING POOLS!"

"I've found them in pools before..."

"So have I! They were dead!"

"YOU KILLED THE FROGGY?"

"No, baka!"

"FROG MURDERER!"

"I didn't kill a frog! God!"

"YOU ARE A FIRST CLASS FROG SLAUGHTERER! WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET A JOB AT THE FROG SLAUGHTER FACTORY? HUH? THAT'D BE PERFECT FOR YOU, YOU FROG MURDERER!"

"They don't make frog slaughter factories..."

"Oh yeah? Well what are those places that raise frogs for people to DISSECT?!"

"That would be a... froggery."

"A what?"

"Yeah. They raise frogs then sell them to schools and stuff, and they kill them in the schools."

"Curse those horrid creatures... I SHALL LIBERATE THE FROGS!" Eclipse turned and ran into a revolving door. It spun her around and around and around for five minutes while her friends watched. Then she came stumbling out and slammed into the side of the building.

"It seems every time she goes off on one of her frog rants, she runs into a wall..." Shadow said, watching her stumble around.

"Or a door," Hiei added.

"Or a tree..." Kurama said. Eclipse stumbled into the parking lot of the building she'd run into, and promptly slammed into the side of a truck, denting it. She fell over and twitched on the ground for a minute before lying there, still and drooling all over herself.

"Or... A truck..." Yusuke finished the list.

They stared.

"Well who's gonna carry her back to the hotel?" Hiei asked.

"So what're we gonna do for the remaining three days?" Kurama asked without any real interest, staring at Eclipse's drooling form on the bed.

"Sit here and stare at walls," Hiei said coldly.

"GO TO THE BEACH! COME ON!" Shadow said cheerfully, bursting into the room.

"BEACH? WATER? SWIM! YAY!" Eclipse was suddenly awake and, other than drowning in her own drool, she was fine.

Shadow and Eclipse ran out of the room. Hiei and Kurama exchanged glances, then...

"Let's go kill them."

"Okay."

The two demon boys followed the girls out. They found that by the time they'd gotten out the door, Shadow and Eclipse were already tearing down the beach towards a rather uncrowded area.

"God, what's their problem?" Hiei asked.

"They have many," Yusuke said from behind them.

"Really. How much time do you have?" Kurama asked.

"Never mind. I don't need an answer."

"Okay!" Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara all said in unison. Hiei groaned.

"You're all to bloody freaking cheerful," he said coldly. In fact, it was so cold that people walking by him shivered, despite the obvious sun and heat. AN EVIL AURA OF COLDNESS SURROUNDED HIM, TURNING EVERYTHING AROUND HIM TO ICE DESPITE HIS FIRE DEMON POWERS! MUWAHAHAHA!

No, that didn't really happen.

"You know what?" Hiei asked dryly, not reacting much at all as Shadow dug for sand fleas and flung the wet sand at him over her shoulder.

"What?" Kurama said, watching as the hole Shadow was digging caved in.

"We're cutting this vacation short," the fire demon growled as a blob of sand hit him in the face. Shadow spun and stared at him, a look of horror on her face for the moment she stood balanced on the edge of her quickly-widening hole before she promptly fell backwards into the hole. Then it suddenly stopped growing of its own accord. Kurama stood on the edge to look down at her.

"You okay, Sand Girl?"

"I just fell into a hole full of murky water, and I have wet sand in my--"

"Shadow, don't finish that sentence!" Hiei warned. There was a pause.

"Yes, Your Royal Stupid-and-Evilness..." Shadow pouted, glaring up at him.

"Hey guys, have you seen Shadow?" Eclipse asked, running up to them. The hole widened another foot and Hiei, Kurama, and Eclipse all fell in, making a large splash and sending the murky water all over Shadow again. She glared.

"Oh! Hi, Shadow!" Eclipse said cheerfully.

"If I'm not out of this hole by the time I count to the first number that pops into my head, somebody will pay for this. Ready? THREE!"

She paused, looking around. "I'm still here!"

"Well technically," Kurama started, "that didn't count because you didn't count to three, you just said it. You have to count to three in order for you to be allowed to get mad."

"Oh! Well screw that! I don't know how to count!" Shadow said. The other three occupants of the hole fell over, splashing water everywhere.

(A/N: Oh God, writing at 4:10 in the morning is bad for my health... Sob... I'm really freaking tired... I woke up at 8:10 this morning, and now it's 4:10... I'VE BEEN AWAKE FOR... ::thinks for a month until somebody hands her a calculator:: TWENTY HOURS!)

"Shadow, you're nearly sixteen, and you don't know how to count?" Kurama asked. "Even Hiei, the uneducated demon child, knew how to count by your age!"

"Thanks, Kurama, that makes me feel real good," Hiei muttered, crossing his arms. Kurama gave him an innocent smile.

Shadow, meanwhile, was trying to count to three using her fingers AND toes... Normally it doesn't take... uh... twenty... appendages... to count to three... I don't think. Maybe twenty is less than three and she's on the right track.

"It doesn't matter. We're getting out of this evil hole and we're going home," Hiei said firmly. Shadow stared at her toe for a minute.

"YOU MADE ME LOSE COUNT!"

"One, two, three," Kurama instructed. Shadow glared.

"Oh, shut the f--- up, you fool!"

Kurama looked kind of taken aback, but suddenly the hole they were in spurted them all out.

"OKAY, START PACKING!" Hiei announced. "I WANNA GO HOME, AND I'M GOING HOME NOW EVEN IF I HAVE TO WALK!"

"You could take a bus," Shadow suggested.

"WALK."

"Whatever. Your loss..."

"Why's it a loss?" Kurama asked.

"He'd lose weight, wouldn't he?"

"Is that a bad thing?"

"YES! IT'S A HORRIBLE CRIME! EXERCISE IS A HORRIBLE CRIME! YOU SHALL BE BLUDGEONED FOR EVEN CONSIDERING SUCH A HEINIOUS DEED! IF I SPELLED THAT RIGHT AND IT MEANS WHAT I THINK IT DOES, THAT SENTENCE SHOULD HAVE MADE SENSE! NOW LET'S GO FIND A MONK AND BEAR HIS CHILDREN!" Shadow pranced away like she was in a parade. ... Until she walked out into the road and got plastered to the grill of a semi and Hiei and Kurama had to go chasing after her to pry her off...

Three days later... At Shadow's house.

"God. I never want to see sand again in my life," Hiei groaned, collapsing onto the couch. Shadow was still smiling about having been able to keep him at the beach another three days, and she was also rather proud that she managed to get plastered to the front of a semi without dying.

"That vacation was a lot of fun!" she said. "I wanna do it again real soon!"

Four angry boys glared at her, then pounced on her and pummeled her into nothing but a small glob of slime on the floor.

"WE ARE NOT GOING ON ANOTHER VACATION LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN!" Hiei shouted, stomping on the slime. "IF YOU EVEN SUGGEST IT, I'LL PUT YOU IN THE MICROWAVE AND MAYBE YOUR EYEBALLS WILL SWELL UP AND POP OUT OF YOUR HEAD!"

Kurama had to drag Hiei away from the blob of slime that was Shadow.

"I think she'd plenty dead, Hiei. Why don't you go upstairs to your room and sleep for a week or two until she regenerates and wakes you up..."

"Good idea. But if she wakes me up before then, I'll pummel her into SLIME!"

"That's already been taken care of," Yusuke said, scraping the slime off the floor into a Ziploc bag. He handed it to Kuwabara. "Here, Kuwabara. Feed this to your cat."

"Yeah right! I wouldn't feed my cat anything I wouldn't eat! Shadow is not on the menu!"

"Pity. I bet your cat would love it."

"Well, being as it's a pulsating ball of slime, I doubt she would," Kuwabara said, poking the bag.

"That's sick," Yusuke muttered. Eclipse appeared out of nowhere with a baseball bat and hit the bag out of Yusuke's hand, then lunged on it and beat it until it was still. The slime twitched and she beat it for another five minutes.

"THE SLIMEY BLOBS FROM VENUS SHALL NOT STEAL MY VICTORY!"

"... Okay..."

Eclipse gasped suddenly. "I MUST LIBERATE THE FROGS!"

"They're on Venus," Yusuke said. Eclipse stared, wide-eyed, before snatching the pummeled bag up off the floor and hollering at it.

"TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!"

"How can I, you frog-licker? I'm freakin' dead," came Shadow's voice. Eclipse blinked.

"Oh yeah."

"So where do you want to take the next vacation?" the pulsating dead slimeball asked. Eclipse smiled.

"THE BEACH! In fact, we should leave tomorrow!"

Eclipse soon suffered the same fate as Shadow.

At 4:32, technically Sunday, July 18th, I'm done.

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Well… I edited it around 2:00 PM on the same day, but I finished writing it at 4:32 AM… I know, you all hate me cuz I'm done, well I kinda hit a brick wall on this story and I just wanted to finish it… And I couldn't think of a constructive way… But they may have another vacation sometime… DoOoOoOoOoM. Yes. They will have more vacations, I'm sure... But not until I'm done with all the stories I've got in progress here and all the ones I've already got plotted out on the map in my empty skull where there's a chibi Einstein teaching the Theory of Doomiful Relativity to the chibi Minions of Doom living in my head.