Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or its characters, but everything
else is pretty much mine, including the plot, jokes, original characters
(duh), and stupid quotes.
Quote of the week: "Let's not clean, stuff everything in a closet, and say we did." -Kawaii Kitsune Cub
KKC: I'm baaack! Didn't I tell you I'd update twice this week?
Yusuke: Yeah, you did. By the way, nice quote.
KKC: Yep. Fits my lifestyle. Seriously, why does my mom care whether or not my room is cleaned exactly to her liking if she never spends any time in there?
Yusuke: Good point. Now start typing. I wanna get out of Suzuki's class as soon as possible.
KKC: Don't blame you there. Now, onto chapter seventeen!
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"You spent your entire sick day shopping?!" Yusuke screeched, gaping at the enormous pile of bags on the dining room floor. Lark moodily looked up at her roommate from her computer screen. "We didn't shop the entire day. We did get a map, however; and found a dragon's den nearby."
"If you didn't shop the entire day, then what's all this junk?" Jin asked, looking in one of the numerous plastic shopping bags. Lark tore it out of his grasp and hastily picked a few others off the rug. "The bags over there have maps and camping equipment, and Lyra checked out some books from the school library. Oh, and the rest is from Christmas shopping, so don't look or I'll sic Kyuro on you, once he wakes up from his nap." The three students let their gaze wander over to the happily snoring familiar, sprawled out on the dining room table.
Kuwabara plopped his bag on the table and started to dig into it, finally pulling out three envelopes. Flipping through them, he singled one out and tossed it to the raven-haired girl. "Here, your midterm scores."
"Ooh, yay! What'd I get?" Lark ripped open the envelope and pulled out the sheet of paper. "I passed English and Language Arts no problem, and my photography class. I got a ninety in Offensive tactics, an eighty-seven in Latin, a ninety-six in biology and environmental sciences," Lark read the last two grades and groaned. "And I barely got by Algebra and History by the skin of my teeth. Damn . . ." Yusuke peered over her shoulder and compared his grades to Lark's. "Hey, I actually got a higher score than you. Offensive tactics and Illusionary skills."
"Gee, that's nice. Hey, Lyra! Holly! Test results are in!" Lark impatiently tapped her foot, but neither of her friends replied. "What is taking them so long?" Kuwabara asked. Jin strained one ear, and replied, "I think Lyra put her stereo up full blast again."
"Full blast? How loud can that thing get?" Yusuke muttered. Suddenly, the house shook with the sound waves that erupted from Lyra's room as she quickly shut the door behind her. "What is it? Hey, my test scores! Thanks, Kuwabara." Lyra neatly opened hers and looked it over. "Well, everything's pretty much okay except for Botany, I totally flunked in that."
"But those traps you set two months ago . . !"
"Yeah, I know, Rogerik. You know that giant skull and cross-bones sign above the seed bins? It's the only way I can tell if they're lethal." Rogerik managed to get a quick look at Lyra's scores before she neatly folded the paper in half and tucked it into her pants pocket. Although most of her scores were in the nineties, her Botany grade was around a fifty- two. 'Well, I guess no one's perfect' he silently mused, before a knock from the door was heard.
Jin got to the door first, and opened it to reveal Suzuka, their new history/mechanics teacher. The blond inventor smiled and stepped inside, muttering a quick "Good evening" and hanging his jacket on the coat rack by the door. Lark saved her latest chapter and put her computer into sleep mode, then turned to the new teacher. "Oh, you're Suzuka, aren't you? New teacher, huh?"
"Er, yes, I am." Suzuka smiled, not expecting anything of the seemingly polite young student. Yusuke smirked; boy, was he in for a surprise.
"You know, I don't like it when others threaten my friends with thumbscrews, or dump them into a sixteen foot deep pit of water, jackass." The blond jerked back in surprise, but quickly covered it up. This, before him, was a strange child, obviously able to lie with a smile and not feel a bit of remorse about it. "Really? Well then, aren't you the little compatriot? Do you hack into the school system and change their grades, too?"
"Only when a fool decides to judge them unfairly." Lark muttered, her blue eyes dangerously glinting. "Er. . . I think we should leave those two alone." Kuwabara muttered, and Lyra nodded her head. "It would be a good idea. Lark is queen when it comes to verbal abuse." The roommates all quietly snuck out of the dining room, which was reverberating with the sheer amount of energy leaking out from the two actors.
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Yusuke put his ear to the living room wall, trying to hear Lark and Suzuka's argument from the dining room. Kurama, Lyra, and Hiei were bent over the map print-out, marking out the distance they would need to travel, Jin floating over them with his eyes half-closed in a stupor. Kuwabara was upstairs in his room, finishing up some homework with Rogerik and Holly. Kyuro walked up to Yusuke and hopped up onto the boy's shoulder. "Anything going on yet?" He inquired.
Yusuke shook his head and strained his ears to hear the shushed voices. Whatever was going on in there, it was way too quiet. "Nothing I can pick up. You're a cat, you go spy on them."
"That's right, I'm a cat. And as such, I'm excused from following orders or granting requests." Kyuro smugly smirked at Yusuke and ran over to check on Lyra and co. Deciding the map would make a better bed then the armchair or couch, he sprawled out on the photo copied three by three map and started to clean his silky black fur. Hiei scowled and picked up the familiar by the scruff of the neck, then tossed Kyuro over to Holly, who was coming down the stairs. The cat hissed and rushed right back at Hiei, latching his little claws onto the demon's leg.
"Um . . . Hiei, do you want some help?" Lyra warily asked, watching her shorter roommate do battle with the pissed off cat. "No! I don't need any goddamn help! Frickin' cat, get the hell off!"
"And what are you going to do, oh vertically challenged one?" Kyuro challenged.
Hiei's arm was enveloped in flames for about half a second before Kyuro let go and ran to Holly, back arched and fur bristling. Holly sighed and rolled her eyes, then said to Hiei, "Hiei, put your arm out. We don't need our dorm burnt to ashes." The fire demon incoherently grumbled something and did so, then turned back to the map that Lyra and Kurama were plotting out their course on.
Lyra marked the map in blue sharpie, pointing out the current and explaining it to Jin while she did so. "So, you see how this current follows this curve here, then goes in a straight line due East? It branches off and hooks around to the west after going north for about ten miles. The currents seem to follow some type of landmass, but there's nothing there on the map." She pointed to the blank space on the coordinate grid, waiting until Jin nodded as a signal to move on. "Right, well, there was in internet link about a dragon's den rumored to be on an island in this region. Lark, Holly, and I think-"
"That the den is on an island out by these coordinates, I get it. When are we leaving?"
"Er . . . leaving? Well, um . . . I don't know? Heh heh . . ." Lyra shrugged, innocently smiling. "Well, Christmas vacation starts this Wednesday, two days from now. I think that if we pack up and manage to rent a boat or something we can make it to the island by Saturday."
"I could always fly us there, ya know. No bother wasting any money." Jin muttered, once again levitating in the air to prove his point. "Uh, no offense, but are you sure it would be okay?" Lyra asked, remembering when Holly tried to fly without her broom way back when the witch was eight. It had been a bona-fide disaster. Kurama shuddered, probably thinking about the same freak accidents that could occur as Lyra was, and looked to Hiei for an opinion. Hiei merely "Hn"-ed and turned his back, then went upstairs for the night. Jin cheerily smiled. "It wouldn't be tha' hard. Just bring up a lil' breeze and you're gone!"
"Exactly what I was worried about." Lyra muttered, then cringed at Jin's glare.
"What, you don't trust me?"
"Oh, its not you, Jin. It's just that some of us-" She jerked her head to Kurama, who was snuggled up in her arms at the moment. "-get a little airsick. Poor Kurama almost lost it when Holly was flying us back here yesterday." Jin nodded, understanding the fox's predicament perfectly. "Yeah, it takes a while to get used to. Okay, so if we rent a boat from someone and manage to find this treasure, when do you suppose we'll make it back by?"
"I was hoping by Christmas, at least. I mean, if we leave on the seventeenth we have eight days to get there, find what we're looking for, and get out."
"I still think it's a bit, er . . . vague."
"You don't think we can do this, huh?"
"Nope. No way in hell." Jin said, shaking his head.
"Neither do I."
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KKC: Hah! I barely made it! With an hour and a half to spare!
Yusuke: Go on, celebrate while you still can. You still have to type chapter eighteen by next Sunday and work on your "Halloween Special" thingamajig.
KKC: Oh! The Halloween special! ^-^ I totally forgot about that thing!
Yusuke: -_-* Scatter-brained idiot that you are . . .
KKC: Oh, shut it! By the way, happy birthday to Sean, my brother. Sorry I didn't get to stay later for your party today, dude.
Yusuke: Birthday party? Hey, did you bring back any cake? Huh? Huh?!
KKC: *sighs* Please review! I'm trying to get twenty reviews by chapter 19, so just get it over with and press the little purple button below. Come on . . . I know you want to . . .
Quote of the week: "Let's not clean, stuff everything in a closet, and say we did." -Kawaii Kitsune Cub
KKC: I'm baaack! Didn't I tell you I'd update twice this week?
Yusuke: Yeah, you did. By the way, nice quote.
KKC: Yep. Fits my lifestyle. Seriously, why does my mom care whether or not my room is cleaned exactly to her liking if she never spends any time in there?
Yusuke: Good point. Now start typing. I wanna get out of Suzuki's class as soon as possible.
KKC: Don't blame you there. Now, onto chapter seventeen!
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"You spent your entire sick day shopping?!" Yusuke screeched, gaping at the enormous pile of bags on the dining room floor. Lark moodily looked up at her roommate from her computer screen. "We didn't shop the entire day. We did get a map, however; and found a dragon's den nearby."
"If you didn't shop the entire day, then what's all this junk?" Jin asked, looking in one of the numerous plastic shopping bags. Lark tore it out of his grasp and hastily picked a few others off the rug. "The bags over there have maps and camping equipment, and Lyra checked out some books from the school library. Oh, and the rest is from Christmas shopping, so don't look or I'll sic Kyuro on you, once he wakes up from his nap." The three students let their gaze wander over to the happily snoring familiar, sprawled out on the dining room table.
Kuwabara plopped his bag on the table and started to dig into it, finally pulling out three envelopes. Flipping through them, he singled one out and tossed it to the raven-haired girl. "Here, your midterm scores."
"Ooh, yay! What'd I get?" Lark ripped open the envelope and pulled out the sheet of paper. "I passed English and Language Arts no problem, and my photography class. I got a ninety in Offensive tactics, an eighty-seven in Latin, a ninety-six in biology and environmental sciences," Lark read the last two grades and groaned. "And I barely got by Algebra and History by the skin of my teeth. Damn . . ." Yusuke peered over her shoulder and compared his grades to Lark's. "Hey, I actually got a higher score than you. Offensive tactics and Illusionary skills."
"Gee, that's nice. Hey, Lyra! Holly! Test results are in!" Lark impatiently tapped her foot, but neither of her friends replied. "What is taking them so long?" Kuwabara asked. Jin strained one ear, and replied, "I think Lyra put her stereo up full blast again."
"Full blast? How loud can that thing get?" Yusuke muttered. Suddenly, the house shook with the sound waves that erupted from Lyra's room as she quickly shut the door behind her. "What is it? Hey, my test scores! Thanks, Kuwabara." Lyra neatly opened hers and looked it over. "Well, everything's pretty much okay except for Botany, I totally flunked in that."
"But those traps you set two months ago . . !"
"Yeah, I know, Rogerik. You know that giant skull and cross-bones sign above the seed bins? It's the only way I can tell if they're lethal." Rogerik managed to get a quick look at Lyra's scores before she neatly folded the paper in half and tucked it into her pants pocket. Although most of her scores were in the nineties, her Botany grade was around a fifty- two. 'Well, I guess no one's perfect' he silently mused, before a knock from the door was heard.
Jin got to the door first, and opened it to reveal Suzuka, their new history/mechanics teacher. The blond inventor smiled and stepped inside, muttering a quick "Good evening" and hanging his jacket on the coat rack by the door. Lark saved her latest chapter and put her computer into sleep mode, then turned to the new teacher. "Oh, you're Suzuka, aren't you? New teacher, huh?"
"Er, yes, I am." Suzuka smiled, not expecting anything of the seemingly polite young student. Yusuke smirked; boy, was he in for a surprise.
"You know, I don't like it when others threaten my friends with thumbscrews, or dump them into a sixteen foot deep pit of water, jackass." The blond jerked back in surprise, but quickly covered it up. This, before him, was a strange child, obviously able to lie with a smile and not feel a bit of remorse about it. "Really? Well then, aren't you the little compatriot? Do you hack into the school system and change their grades, too?"
"Only when a fool decides to judge them unfairly." Lark muttered, her blue eyes dangerously glinting. "Er. . . I think we should leave those two alone." Kuwabara muttered, and Lyra nodded her head. "It would be a good idea. Lark is queen when it comes to verbal abuse." The roommates all quietly snuck out of the dining room, which was reverberating with the sheer amount of energy leaking out from the two actors.
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Yusuke put his ear to the living room wall, trying to hear Lark and Suzuka's argument from the dining room. Kurama, Lyra, and Hiei were bent over the map print-out, marking out the distance they would need to travel, Jin floating over them with his eyes half-closed in a stupor. Kuwabara was upstairs in his room, finishing up some homework with Rogerik and Holly. Kyuro walked up to Yusuke and hopped up onto the boy's shoulder. "Anything going on yet?" He inquired.
Yusuke shook his head and strained his ears to hear the shushed voices. Whatever was going on in there, it was way too quiet. "Nothing I can pick up. You're a cat, you go spy on them."
"That's right, I'm a cat. And as such, I'm excused from following orders or granting requests." Kyuro smugly smirked at Yusuke and ran over to check on Lyra and co. Deciding the map would make a better bed then the armchair or couch, he sprawled out on the photo copied three by three map and started to clean his silky black fur. Hiei scowled and picked up the familiar by the scruff of the neck, then tossed Kyuro over to Holly, who was coming down the stairs. The cat hissed and rushed right back at Hiei, latching his little claws onto the demon's leg.
"Um . . . Hiei, do you want some help?" Lyra warily asked, watching her shorter roommate do battle with the pissed off cat. "No! I don't need any goddamn help! Frickin' cat, get the hell off!"
"And what are you going to do, oh vertically challenged one?" Kyuro challenged.
Hiei's arm was enveloped in flames for about half a second before Kyuro let go and ran to Holly, back arched and fur bristling. Holly sighed and rolled her eyes, then said to Hiei, "Hiei, put your arm out. We don't need our dorm burnt to ashes." The fire demon incoherently grumbled something and did so, then turned back to the map that Lyra and Kurama were plotting out their course on.
Lyra marked the map in blue sharpie, pointing out the current and explaining it to Jin while she did so. "So, you see how this current follows this curve here, then goes in a straight line due East? It branches off and hooks around to the west after going north for about ten miles. The currents seem to follow some type of landmass, but there's nothing there on the map." She pointed to the blank space on the coordinate grid, waiting until Jin nodded as a signal to move on. "Right, well, there was in internet link about a dragon's den rumored to be on an island in this region. Lark, Holly, and I think-"
"That the den is on an island out by these coordinates, I get it. When are we leaving?"
"Er . . . leaving? Well, um . . . I don't know? Heh heh . . ." Lyra shrugged, innocently smiling. "Well, Christmas vacation starts this Wednesday, two days from now. I think that if we pack up and manage to rent a boat or something we can make it to the island by Saturday."
"I could always fly us there, ya know. No bother wasting any money." Jin muttered, once again levitating in the air to prove his point. "Uh, no offense, but are you sure it would be okay?" Lyra asked, remembering when Holly tried to fly without her broom way back when the witch was eight. It had been a bona-fide disaster. Kurama shuddered, probably thinking about the same freak accidents that could occur as Lyra was, and looked to Hiei for an opinion. Hiei merely "Hn"-ed and turned his back, then went upstairs for the night. Jin cheerily smiled. "It wouldn't be tha' hard. Just bring up a lil' breeze and you're gone!"
"Exactly what I was worried about." Lyra muttered, then cringed at Jin's glare.
"What, you don't trust me?"
"Oh, its not you, Jin. It's just that some of us-" She jerked her head to Kurama, who was snuggled up in her arms at the moment. "-get a little airsick. Poor Kurama almost lost it when Holly was flying us back here yesterday." Jin nodded, understanding the fox's predicament perfectly. "Yeah, it takes a while to get used to. Okay, so if we rent a boat from someone and manage to find this treasure, when do you suppose we'll make it back by?"
"I was hoping by Christmas, at least. I mean, if we leave on the seventeenth we have eight days to get there, find what we're looking for, and get out."
"I still think it's a bit, er . . . vague."
"You don't think we can do this, huh?"
"Nope. No way in hell." Jin said, shaking his head.
"Neither do I."
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KKC: Hah! I barely made it! With an hour and a half to spare!
Yusuke: Go on, celebrate while you still can. You still have to type chapter eighteen by next Sunday and work on your "Halloween Special" thingamajig.
KKC: Oh! The Halloween special! ^-^ I totally forgot about that thing!
Yusuke: -_-* Scatter-brained idiot that you are . . .
KKC: Oh, shut it! By the way, happy birthday to Sean, my brother. Sorry I didn't get to stay later for your party today, dude.
Yusuke: Birthday party? Hey, did you bring back any cake? Huh? Huh?!
KKC: *sighs* Please review! I'm trying to get twenty reviews by chapter 19, so just get it over with and press the little purple button below. Come on . . . I know you want to . . .