DISCLAIMER: If I owned it, I'd flaunt it. Key word being 'if', 'cause I don't own n-e-thing 'cept 4 Thia. Well, and the plot. Most of it. And ½ a percent of my soul. Damn you, Satan! You knew full well I don't know how to play poker!

Chapter 09: Ghost

"Gah! Tickle feeling!" Kuwabara said, his voice tense and anxious. Harry looked from Kuwabara to the rest of the group and back.

"What?"

"Uh, well, you see, Kuwabara has this thing where he can feel the presence of ghosts," Yusuke explained, shrugging.

"Oh."

"Tickle feeling, tickle feeling, tickle feeling! Oh, there're so many of them!!"

"O-kee," was all that Thia said, and looked away. "What the-?!"

An entire company of ghosts came through the wall, chattering and arguing. Among them were Nearly Headless Nick, the Bloody Baron, and the Fat Friar.

"GAH!"

"There are your ghosts, Kuwabara," Hermione said, her voice quite nonchalant, as though this was an everyday occurrence. And technically, it was.

"GAH!"

"What the hell?! How come we can see them?!... THAT'S SO NOT FAIR!!!" Yusuke bellowed.

Sweat-drops for Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, and Thia. Harry, Hermione, and Ron were just plain confused.

"What do you mean? Of course you can see ghosts."

"A-heh. Things don't work the same way in Japan or America as they do here, I think. Probably. Unless I'm seriously mistaken."

"Oh," was all any of the three said to Thia's explanation.

"Stupid toddler... (mumblemumble)... couldn't see me when I (mumblemumble)... had to do it the hard way... (mumblemumble)... stupid toddler..."

"What in the world Yusuke mumbling about now?"

"Uh... His... The toddler that Yusuke used to babysit, back in Japan. The child is rather bossy and gives him some slightly impossible miss-"

"KURAMA, SHUT UP!" Yusuke began to mumble again: "(Mumblemumble) fox... (mumblemumble) rip his head off... (mumblemumble) big mouth..."

Author's Notes: Ha! Haha! Yusuke muttering to himself... kinda reminds me of... me. This just sort of came as a brainstorm in the middle of production. I just didn't see where I could actually put this in...

And this is the end! Woohoo! Thanks for reading, and-

Wait... aren't you forgetting one DS? This is only nine. There were supposed to be ten. WHERE IS THE TENTH, R.I.P?!

Oh. Um. Oops. I kinda... deleted it. I deleted the Deleted Scene. Um... ha?

IDIOT!!! ::Pulls out revolver and starts shooting at random places::

Thia: But anyway, as promised in DS #5, here's a little teaser/trailer sort of thing for Trick Questions. ::bullet grazes her cheek:: WOULD YOU STOP THAT?! Gawd, she's been channeling Genjo Sanzo's spirit lately, hasn't she!?

"Harry, you've been staring at the board for about fifteen minutes straight. Can't you see, Ron's got you in a stalemate," Hermione pointed out rather lazily.

"No-no-no. I think..." Harry blinked at the board. "Oh. You're right."

Hermione had a sort of 'duh?' look on her face.

"Face it, mate, you can't win. Against me, anyway."

Ron looked bored. Harry looked perplexed. And Hermione looked bored to tears. The thing called Silence bore down on them all, and no one could think of a good enough subject to bring up.

"WOOGA-WOOGA-WOOGA!" something yelled from the entrance of the dining room.

And I'll just leave it at that.

::Bobby whaps r.i.p. and Thia with a fan::

Both: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!

It was a cliffhanger. People don't necessarily like cliffhangers. People will chase you around with rather large guns. ARE YOU AN IDIOT?! DO YOU –LIKE- THE HOKEY POKEY STICK OF PAIN OR ANY OF THE OTHER AUTHOR TORTURE DEVICES THESE PEOPLE HAVE?!

Meep! ::meekly:: Please be patient, people! And REVIEW! I beg of thee!