First, I'm sorry I'm taking so long to update all my stories… *sob* BLAME SCHOOL! This chapter isn't incredibly long, either, but at least it's something…
Robin Autumn- ^_^ Yes, Youko's been having lots of fun.
Manimoko- Thank you.
chocogurl- Writer's block is an author's worst enemy… Except, of course, for the hired assassin standing outside my window watching me… He's pretty bad too…Crimson Colored Cloaked Figure- Thanks for the suggestion. I'll think about it. ^_^
What2callmyself?- I honestly haven't got the slightest clue how they'll get him back. I'll have to talk to Eclipse about it… At some point… Or if you have any suggestions. If anyone has any suggestions…
firedragongirl- Youko is going back into Shuichi's body… I know I'm cruel, but I won't be that mean to Shadow as to have Youko around free. O_O
Huyana Jaganshi- Yay! I updated again after ages upon years!
Kaida13- Heh. In the bishie abduction story they kinda do…
Mari Youma- Horizontal sports, I believe, is just another way of saying sex. O_o
Koneko-chan- Karasu would probably go have a seizure or choke on his own drool or something… Maybe I'll put that in my story if I can find a place to fit it. ^_^;
Yayo- Yes, isn't he though?
Demon Ashika- That's gotta suck. Like I said to chocogurl about the writer's block… Author's worst enemy.
nutari- Good lord, I don't wanna kill anyone… Then I'd be forced to write my stories on prison walls! And nobody'd ever read them but me, and I'd read them so often I'd lose my mind, then I'd be writing them on white walls, which are a lot easier to write/read on than prison walls…
Draikitha- I'm glad. Because I usually don't know what I'm talking about. At least somebody does… O_o
Sillyningengirl- Okee dokee, then. Here it is.
If anyone has any ideas of how I could get Youko and Shuichi back to normal, suggest them PLEASE, because like I said, with my writer's block (also known as SCHOOL), I'm having a hard time with all my stories.
CHAPTER FOUR
Just another strange chapter
(as usual)
"What do you mean you can't do anything?!"
"I mean exactly that, Hiei. At this moment, I can't do anything. I have more pressing matters to deal with right now."
Hiei grabbed the Reikai prince by the front of his shirt.
"MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY SANITY?!"
"Hiei, let go of me," the teen said.
"I want this fox out! Every night since he got in my head, he has somehow managed to get me into Shadow's bedroom to sleep with her!"
"Is that bad?" Koenma asked. Hiei let go of his shirt.
"You sound exactly like him."
"Hiei! That's an insult!"
"Shut UP, fox!"
"Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara are working on an important case. The only reason I don't have you and Kurama working with them is because neither of you are quite right at the moment..."
"What have they got to do with me?!" Hiei asked. Shadow, Eclipse, and Kurama were hanging back, avoiding any possible injury that might result from Hiei's loss of sanity.
"Until they get back, I have to worry about them. I'm sorry, but I can't help you right now."
Hiei turned around and looked at his friends, making faces and acting like he was strangling someone. Shadow laughed nervously and walked forward.
"Koenma..."
The prince looked up.
"YOU SERIOUSLY NEED TO GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT! I THINK HIEI'S SANITY IS A LOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN YUSUKE OR KUWABARA! IF HIEI LOSES HIS MIND, HE'LL MOST LIKELY BE TAKEN OVER BY THAT DAMNED FOX AND WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF HAVOC WILL BE WREAKED ALL OVER THE PLACE IF THAT HAPPENS? AND BESIDES, IF YOU GET THAT FOX BACK WHERE HE BELONGS, HIEI AND KURAMA CAN GO HELP THOSE TWO BAKAYAROUS!"
Koenma looked up at her from the floor, where he had ended up when the pure force of her voice knocked his chair over backwards and sent paperwork flying all over his office. Everybody was silent, watching Shadow. She was panting and her eyes were glowing red; her hands were clenched into fists and her teeth were a jagged line of fangs. (Picture Misao from Rurouni Kenshin when she's mad.)
Hiei finally broke the silence, with one short, nervous word that said it all.
"Whoa."
That seemed to snap everybody back to their senses. Koenma went from stunned to mad.
"CLEAN UP THAT MESS!" he ordered. Shadow glared at him.
"NOT UNTIL YOU HELP HIEI."
"WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH IT? YOU MADE THE MESS, YOU CLEAN IT UP!"
"ONLY ONCE HIEI IS NORMAL. THE MESS GOT MADE BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING A TWIT ABOUT HELPING HIEI, NOW IF YOU'RE GONNA BE NICE AND HELP, I'LL BE NICE AND CLEAN UP YOUR OFFICE! BUT IT'S YOUR FAULT THE MESS IS THERE. YOU CLEAN IT UP, YOU MIDGET PRINCE!"
"SHADOW, I'VE GOT ABOUT ONE NERVE LEFT, AND YOU'RE GETTING ON IT! CLEAN IT UP."
"GEORGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The blue ogre ran into the room.
"Yes...? Whoa."
"CLEAN UP THAT MESS."
"SHADOW! THAT'S IT! YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW CLOSE I AM TO BANISHING YOU TO MAKAI!"
"You wouldn't do that. You'd lose two detective's assistants and a detective."
"Huh?"
Shadow pointed at Hiei and Eclipse. "You know Hiei would never listen to you again if you got rid of me. And Eclipse... well, if she didn't come along voluntarily then I guess she's not my best friend."
Eclipse's jaw dropped. "That's not nice! So you're saying if you went to Makai and I didn't want to, then I'm not your best friend? Makai is a really sucky place, you know. Not a lot of people would go there voluntarily, unless they were powerful demons."
"I know it's a sucky place. There's all kinds of demons there, and they kill, and steal, and take hostages and slaves and kill and steal and rape and... kill... did I mention kill already?" Shadow said. Eclipse nodded. "The point is... Koenma, CLEAN UP YOUR OFFICE AND HELP HIEI!"
"This could be a while," Youko muttered. Hiei sighed.
"Shadow, you know what? I don't have time for this," Koenma said. "I would help Hiei if I could, but at the moment, I can't. I have people working on ideas, but they really aren't doing too well with that. Now go home and... I don't know. Get molested or something..."
"KOENMA!!! Don't say that. Youko might take it literally," Hiei said.
"Aw, Hiei, I didn't know you cared," Shadow said sarcastically.
"I care about me, being trapped inside that freakazoid's head."
"Well how the hell do you think I feel?!"
"~Sigh~."
"Okay, look. I apologize for my rudeness, but I can't help Hiei personally. If you really want him back to normal, go talk to the science department or something..." Koenma said.
"You have a science department here?"
"No, but surely there's somebody here who has time they can spare."
"You are a truly worthless Prince of Reikai, Enma Junior," Shadow said coldly. She dragged her little group out of his office.
[[A/N: Blah! I just had an awful perverted thought of why Koenma could have been being so bitchy, but I'm not making my story a shounen ai. *sweatdrop*]]
...Anyway...
"I can't believe that stupid midget! He's such a loser," Shadow said. She continued rambling as she led the group down the hall. Kurama trailed behind her.
"Surely there's something we can do. I'm sure Youko has some ideas," he said, glancing back at Hiei. Hiei stopped and blinked.
"Well?" he prompted the fox.
"Well what?"
"You know full well 'well what,' baka fox!"
"Urk. I'm sure I could think of something if I tried hard enough."
"Well then TRY!"
"*incoherent grumbles*"
"He says he probably could think of something if he tried hard enough."
"Well then he'd better start TRYING!" Shadow screamed, right into Hiei's ear.
"Ow... You know, he hears everything I do, so it's not like you gotta be inside my head for him to hear you..."
"I don't CARE. I'm mad!"
"Well that's perfectly understandable," Kurama said. "I'm sure Hiei's mad too. Aren't you, Hiei?"
"What? Mad? Oh, no, not at all," he said sarcastically. "And Youko's just peachy too."
"Wat?"
"Huh?"
"You were being sarcastic, right?"
"No, of course not, Shadow."
"You weren't? I'm confused!"
"Yes. I was. Shut up."
"Oh. Okay!"
And with that, Shadow skipped down the hall.
"That girl has some serious mood swings..." Hiei muttered. Kurama and Eclipse both agreed and the three followed after the happy skippy girl. She stopped suddenly.
"Why am I so happy? I'm mad. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr... You know what I think we should do? I think we should whip Koenma. Yeah... Or maybe string him up by his eyelids with fishing line..."
"Oh, gross!" Eclipse gagged, covering her mouth. Kurama and Hiei were suddenly a very pale shade of green.
"...or cut open his back and--"
"NOT THAT! No, don't even say that one!" Eclipse said, lunging and covering Shadow's mouth.
"Hmmf?"
"Shut up."
"Hm hmfm falki!!!"
"Eh?"
"I wasn't talking, fool!"
Eclipse sighed, grabbed Shadow's ear, and dragged her down the hall kicking and screaming.
Back at home, the group dispersed and moped around the house for a while. Several hours, at least. Until dinner time. For some reason, they all seemed to know the second the thought popped into Shadow's head: "I don't wanna make dinner."
"What's for dinner, Shadow?" Eclipse asked.
"Fneh."
"Wussat?"
"A foreign dish consisting of bat's eyes and frog livers."
"Yeck!"
And Eclipse ran away. Kurama walked in.
"Hey, Shadow," he said. "You making dinner?"
"Bananas and apples."
"Knowing you..."
"Yes, I mean that in a bad way."
"Okay! Never mind. I just lost my appetite," Kurama said. He walked away. Shadow wandered into the kitchen and poured a glass of orange soda. She was chugging it when Hiei walked in.
"What's for--"
"THE CREATURE THAT DWELLS INSIDE THE EMPTY PIZZA BOX! MUWAHAHAHA!"
"Never mind," Hiei said in an oddly high-pitched voice. He turned and made a hasty retreat down the hall and around the corner.
"She didn't seem happy..."
"No, really?"
Hiei found Kurama and dragged him into the kitchen. "Fix dinner."
"What?"
Shadow stood there holding her bottle of orange soda and her glass with a confused look of innocence on her face.
"You heard me. And besides, anything you make has got to be better than Shadow's cooking. I don't know how I've lived through it for two years."
There was a reverberating clang as Shadow slammed Hiei in the head with a cast-iron skillet. The fire demon fell to the floor with a thud.
"AND YOU!" Shadow said, rounding on Kurama. "IF YOU DON'T FIX DINNER, YOU'LL GET THE SAME TREATMENT!"
Kurama's eyes widened slightly and he went about making some dinner. Odd how threats can get you anything (well, at least they can if you're name is Shadow Jaganshi and you're holding an iron skillet).
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Woohoo, well now it's official. I have writing talent. I took a test on the computer from a link my English teacher gave me, cuz I said I wanted to be an author, so she gave me this link to this Institute for Children's Literature or something like that, and I took the writing aptitude test, and I got a letter back finally saying that I have talent or whatever… I knew that a long time ago, thanks to all the people who praise me… and also the grades I get on my essays and crap in English. See, this test, you take it and if you pass, then you can enroll for this class that's done completely through mail and phone and emails and stuff, but the only problem with that is, my mother doesn't want to spend the $600 it costs… I might still get to take it, though.