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Chapter 3: The Bet and the Headache
Yumi entered Tatsumi's office and shuddered violently. "Yuck! It's just like in college!" Tatsumi, shocked to find someone else in the office, quickly turn his computer screen out of the doors view.
"Can I help you Yumi-san?"
Yumi took a deep breath and averted her eyes from the walls. "The chief asked me to pick up Miyu. Another death was just reported sir."
"Gushoshin took her to Watari's office. She said something about a man named Dr. Howell and ran off to take pictures."
Yumi sighed deeply. "What a pest." As she turned to leave Tatsumi heard her mutter, "I should also warn poor Tsuzuki he's famous."
Miyu was draped over Watari's desk, camera in hand. "So what do you think? A magazine featuring you and all your clever inventions! We can even put in a fan poster! You'll have the scientific world drooling at your feet!"
"Wow? Do you think so? Maybe I'll get a bit more funding out of Tatsumi huh?" Watari wondered.
"Totally!" Miyu agreed. "But first! This is no environment for someone super smart like you! No one as cute as you are should be surrounded by such a creepy environment! Here! I'll help!" She jumped off his desk and began tossing Yumi's things back into boxes.
"Eww! I remember most of this junk from when we were dorm mates! Must she be so morbid? Just you wait. Pretty soon you'll be finding dead body parts in your drawers and cursed artifacts under your pillows!"
"Those curses were specified for annoying roommates like you!" Yumi yelled from the doorway. "Now come on and leave my partner alone! He is not Dr. Howell... NOT SEKI!"
Yumi grabbed Miyu by one of her green ponytails and dragged her out the door. Miyu took one last photo of Watari waving goodbye.
The two headed for Tsuzuki and Hisoka's office, arguing the entire time over anything they could think of. Knock Knock! The Gushoshin opened the door.
"Ah! Yumi-san and Miyu-san! Tsuzuki told us you were stopping by. However, he's not here right now, he took Hisoka back to his house. Hisoka wasn't feeling well; muttering something about massive negative energy and arguments." Gushoshin said.
"What's wrong with negative energy?" Miyu asked, finally freeing herself from Yumi's grip.
"Well, Hisoka is quite empathic, so he feels other people's emotions very strongly..." Gushoshin said.
Yumi and Miyu both scratched their heads guiltily and giggled nervously, but Yumi just said, "Oh...that must be hard...uh, Miyu, come on!" She grabbed her by the arm and headed for Hisoka's house (He has his own house in the manga, instead of the corporate enmacho apartments).
On the way there, Yumi said, "You idiotic tabloid tramp! You're gonna kill Hisoka with your negative energy!"
"Excuse me you cadaverous creep, but you were arguing as well!" Miyu spouted back.
"Perhaps, but you started it, you always start it!"
"No, you always start it!"
This continued on like that until they reached Hisoka's place. "Now shut up! Stop arguing with me!" Yumi said.
"No! You're the one arguing!"
"No! You are!"
"Both of us stop it! We're going to go meet up with those two, and not to kill Hisoka in the process!"
They shut up and headed up the steps, just glaring at each other. When they reached the correct place, Miyu proceeded to knock and say, "Tsuzuki-sempai, Hisoka-chan!"
No one answered the door and Yumi noticed an open window next to it. She peeked in, and saw Hisoka asleep on the sofa with his head on Tsuzuki's lap. "Aww...that's so cute!"
When she said that Miyu peeked in as well and saw Tsuzuki reach out and brush Hisoka's hair out of his face. Hisoka stirred at the contact and slowly opened his eyes. "They are so adorable together!"
After that, at the same time, the two women said, "They would be the perfect couple! I'm gonna get them together!"
Just then, Yumi and Miyu realized their consensus and glared daggers at each other. Electricity passed between them.
"Don't you dare try to steal my idea!" Yumi said in a loud whisper, not wanting the two shinigami to hear her.
"It's my idea!" Miyu said in a loud whisper.
"It's mine you little copy cat!"
"No, mine!"
Tsuzuki was just sitting back when Hisoka grabbed his head and hyperventilated. "Hisoka! What's wrong!?"
"They're here...I can...feel their anger...they're arguing again..." Hisoka choked out and lay back down weakly.
Tsuzuki got up and gently laid Hisoka's head on a pillow and came to the door. "Will you two please stop it? Your arguing is affecting Hisoka."
They stopped immediately and looked guilty as Tsuzuki opened the door.
"Sorry Tsuzuki-sempai!" Miyu said.
"Sorry Tsuzuki-san." Yumi said as well, but then turned to Miyu. "I'll make you a deal. If I manage to do it first, you have to be my slave for a month and clean every single one of my artifacts carefully without harming them!"
"Huh?" Tsuzuki looked confused. "Manage to do what?"
"Fine then, if I win, you have to worship at my shrine to Tomokazu Seki and be my slave for a month!"
They shook hands, "Deal!"
Tsuzuki just looked confused as the two women proceeded into the House. Yumi spoke up and said, "Sorry Hisoka-san, I didn't mean to cause you grief. Miyu! Apologize!"
"Stop yelling at me! I was going to apologize first, you just talk faster than me!" Miyu said as Yumi glared.
Miyu glared back and Hisoka rubbed his head some more. "Oh! Gomenesai!" She pulled out her locket. "Think happy thoughts! Think happy thoughts!" Miyu said, and then proceeded to sit far away from Yumi in hopes that the anger would be dissipated a bit between them.
"It's about time!" Tsuzuki said after they sat down on opposite sides of the room and stopped glaring at each other. He sat down by Hisoka again and looked at them. "Okay, here's the deal. You two are to accompany us on our next assignment, just to get the hang of what a typical job is like. The chief said we're supposed to provide you with the field experience that you won't get with Tatsumi and Watari."
"So, what's our first mission?" Miyu excitedly asked.
"Just a simple serial murder case that has lots of evidence. The reason you were brought in was to help with our most current supernatural serial killing case, but the chief felt it too extreme to just throw you in with no experience beyond basic training." Tsuzuki told them.
Hisoka finally stopped doubling over in pain, despite still looking drained, and sat up saying, "Basically, you're getting the chance to practice your fuda skills. We have also been informed that each one of you has a special ability that you had while you were alive. The abilities were why you two were offered shinigami positions. Hopefully, this case will allow you to tap into them"
"Interesting... very interesting. I feel as if I have good control over my fuda after the training, but what else is there? A special ability... nothing manifested while I was alive... perhaps something from a culture I have studied?" Yumi calmly said as she methodically began running through all of her research trips and thinking what powers may have resulted. "I knew my constant quest for knowledge would serve me well someday." She paused and then continued, "Even if I had to die first..."
On the other side of the room, Miyu was bouncing up and down, "Yes! A chance to use my fuda skills! But what else do I have? Can't somebody just tell me?"
"Geez, can't you ever think for yourself?" Yumi commented dryly, throwing a pillow at her head.
"Shut up Yumi! I bet I'll find mine out first and become the best!" Miyu snapped back, tossing the pillow aside.
Yumi was going to comment, but then remembered that Hisoka was still there. "We'll finish this later...I think we've caused enough trouble for him today." She commented waving her hand towards Hisoka.
"Fine, I'll wait." Miyu said and sat back down to contemplate quietly.
Hisoka looked very relieved and Tsuzuki spoke up, "We leave early tomorrow. Tatsumi has arranged a place for us to stay at.
With that, Yumi and Miyu got up to leave. As soon as they were down the steps they started arguing. Tsuzuki just shook his head, "What is it with them?"
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Yumi & Miyu simultaneously blurt out: Please give me your reviews!
Yumi glares at Miyu: Why should you get anything after what you did to Hisoka?
Miyu: I can see the headlines now, cute boy killed (again) by annoying anthropologist!
Yumi: If anything kills Hisoka it will be your high-pitched anime voice giving him a headache so bad he kills himself.
Miyu: "Ha! He's already dead you dope!"
Hisoka is passed out and Tsuzuki and Watari jump the girls and gag them both.
Chief: "Please... this is the second time we have to listen to them... at least they shut up when they're reading reviews... Please..."
(Tatsumi pulls out a calculator and multiplies the price of another industrial size bottle of aspirin, muttering to himself, "This has been on hiatus so long that we're going bankrupt from the cost of aspirin")