Spell: This is my latest fanfiction. It's kinda stupid, but Crystal and I
wanted to write about it. You see, one day we were kinda bored and hyper,
and feeling very rabid fangirl-ish. So we were yelling "yay" and the names
of our favorite male characters from animes and mangas. We had fun, and
kept doing it. Crystal represents my friend, and Twilight is me. As a note,
we are not ditzes. We just like writing that we are. Also, I would to point
out that this is not going to be a thing where we go and do blablabla and
then all the guys fall in love with us and fight over us and...yeah. Okay?
DISCLAIMER: I am afraid I have to say I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. However, if I did, I would be most happy that I could draw good anime. I am cursed with the ability to draw decent faces but stink at drawing folds in clothing and the human figure. Really, if I think about it, my faces and hair aren't really all that either.
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"YAY!" Crystal and Twilight yelled happily, standing in the middle of the field. Not too far away, a few people were looking at them strangely. Omar, a boy in Twilight's class, looked as if he was about to come up and ask both of them what they were yelling about. He was soon answered.
"BISHIES! YAY!" The two girls screamed again, jumping in the air and throwing their hands up. Now it was more likely that the boy would ask what a bishie was.
"What does bishie mean?"
Twilight and Crystal looked at each other uneasily. They knew what it meant, of course, but they weren't quite sure they should tell Omar that they were yelling about "cute boys." Of course, they were talking about anime characters. It was their third meeting of their bishie lover's club. Crystal took the liberty of answering. "A bishie is a bishie," the blonde girl said. She and Twilight jumped up and down screaming again. Omar shook his head and walked off to find someone sane.
"Hmmmmm..." Twilight's brow was creased in concentration. As an avid fangirl of many, she didn't stay without an answer long. Her eyes lit up. "Kurama is a bishie!"
"YAY!" The girls yelled. Twilight was the hyper one; Crystal was hyper too sometimes, but she was slightly more sarcastic, and much more short- tempered. Twilight also sometimes had a slightly macabre and/or disgusting sense of humor, and at other times seemed extremely pure and naive. The girl had long dark brown hair, and almost black eyes, not quite slim, and five foot two inches. Crystal was a blonde, with shoulder length hair and blue eyes. She was a little shorter than her brunette friend, at four foot ten.
"Inu-Yasha is a bishie," Crystal said, naming one of her personal favorites. Twilight frowned. Though she was a fangirl of the dog demon, she was a little put out.
"He's not Yu Yu Hakusho, though," Twilight said unhappily. She wanted to review the rest of Yu Yu Hakusho's many bishies. "We have to finish it. Then we can go on to Alice 19th, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Inu-Yasha. Oh yeah, and Rurouni Kenshin."
"Okay!" Crystal said, not in the least that they weren't going to continue with Inu-Yasha characters. "Hiei's a bishie too."
"Hey!" Twilight said, insulted. "We agreed on this subject. Hiei is mostly my bishie!"
"The key word is mostly," Crystal answered smugly. "Anyway, does it matter who says it?"
"No..."
"Okay then," Crystal said as if the answer had been obvious. "One, two three..."
"YAY!"
This time many people stared at them, GT kids as well as non-GT. Of course, most of the GT kids knew Twilight and Crystal and knew they were crazy. Of course, you can't say that about the others.
The girls promptly went on to name pretty much all of the bishies they could think of, including Kenshin, from Rurouni Kenshin, Sanosuke, also from Rurouni Kenshin, Inu-Yasha, from Inu-Yasha, Sesshomaru, from Inu- Yasha, Miroku, from Inu-Yasha (the two didn't really mind that he was a pervert, after all, he's not bad-looking), Lantis, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Eagle Vision, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Geo, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Hiei, from Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama, from Yu Yu Hakusho, and last but not least, Jin, from Yu Yu Hakusho, who had been the girls' first object of affection. By the time they were done, there was at least a three yard space around them, and their voices were hoarse from all the yelling.
The girls prepared themselves for one last scream when the whistle blew. Crystal looked disappointed, and so did Twilight. However, the brunette went into a fit of over-dramatic unhappiness.
"NOOOOOOOOOO! HOW COULD THEY?" This was accompanied by many loud, as well as fake, sniffs and sobs. Crystal face-faulted.
---After school---
"I'm so booored," Twilight complained, lounging fully stretched on her family room couch. Cradled in her arms was a black and white kitten, tussling with Twilight's hand. Twilight absentmindedly patted her cat's head, ignoring the animal's lunge toward her hand.
Crystal, sitting on a large chair with a lot of pillows, nodded her agreement. Tearing her attention from Twilight's copy of the first volume of the Inu-Yasha manga, she focused her blue eyes on Twilight's cat.
"Should you really let Bandit bite you like that?" she asked, naming her friend's pet, her tone slightly worried. Twilight looked at the cat vacantly.
"She was biting me? I hadn't noticed..."
Crystal sweat dropped, and went back to her book, muttering something that sounded like, "Stupid Omar, it is too possible to fall in love with a piece of paper," as Twilight picked up her copy of Yu Yu Hakusho's first book, a birthday present from Crystal, and began to read, juggling with difficulty her hands between Bandit and the manga. Suddenly the cat jumped out of her arms. Dropping her book and grabbing at the cat, she promptly fell off her seat face first onto the floor.
"Itai. Kuso. Shimatta. Other fun words in Japanese that mean curse words or 'ow'." Twilight hoisted herself off the carpet, rubbing her nose. Crystal didn't even notice her brunette friend had fallen on the floor, despite the loud thump that accompanied the fall.
"Damare. I'm trying to read."
"Shut up? You shut up!"
"I'm not the one cursing." Suddenly Crystal realized something, and stared at Twilight. Twilight stared back, a little daunted. "YOU cussed!"
Twilight sat back on her couch and leaned back. "So?" she asked, calmly flipping through her book to find her page. Crystal continued to stare at her with wide eyes.
"YOU CUSSED! YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU CUSSED!"
"DAMARE, CRYSTAL! I'M TRYING TO READ!" Twilight screamed, her voice drowning out Crystal's. Crystal rolled her eyes, but started devouring the book with her eyes again. Twilight pulled out a pair of earphones, and started listening to music as she read, tapping her fingers in time to the music. Unbeknownst to her, a certain mammal was crouching down in the shadows, ready to pounce...but that doesn't really matter, because Twilight's cat is a vicious hunter who would rather attack someone than sit on their lap any day.
Suddenly Twilight looked up, stopped her music, and pulled off the headphones. "I want to go to the anime world. I wonder what it's like to be two dimensional."
Crystal pondered this for a moment. "So would I. That would be really cool, especially since there would be Inu-Yasha and Sesshomaru-"
"SeSSHOmarUU," Twilight butted in, with her own little parody on the name.
"Whatever. And Kurama and Hiei and...and...uuuuuuhh...I can't think of anyone else."
"Well, we're not going to go anyway, so what's the point?" They both sighed gustily, and went back to the meager pleasure of looking at bishies on pieces of paper. Of course, Twilight benefited less, because Kurama and Hiei, her favorite bishies in Yu Yu Hakusho, weren't in the first book.
Eventually the two girls got bored, and/or finished their book. Looking at each other, they spontaneously decided to go to the woods near Twilight's house. Walking up the hill, Twilight trying to do handsprings and failing, Crystal sweatdropping whenever she did, they went on their merry way talking about their favorite bishies.
Finally they got to the woods. Tugging Crystal off the path, Twilight made her way to the creek. Rolling up her pant cuffs and taking off her shoes and socks, she waded into the water. Turning around to tell Crystal to come on, she was greeted by silence and an empty deer path.
"Crystal? Crystal?? Come on, this isn't funny! Crystal?!?"
---Meanwhile---
"Where am I?" Crystal asked an empty forest. Looking around for her friend, she didn't catch even a glimpse of Twilight's long brown hair. "Uh oh. Twilight? Can you hear me? " When she wasn't answered, she bit her lip nervously. Taking a deep breath, she yelled. "TWILIGHT! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, YELL!" Again no answer. Crystal looked around nervously and approached the edge of the clearing she was in. A sudden movement surprised her, and she fell backwards, scrambling back to the middle of the clearing. Grabbing a large stick, she held it in front of her, wishing she had taken karate or something. Or maybe fencing, like Twilight had for two years.
"Stay back," she whispered nervously. A boy who looked to be about 14 walked in. Dressed in a yellow shirt with blue jeans and slicked back hair, he was oddly familiar. Crystal's eyes widened considerably. "Y-Yusuke?"
---On the other side---
Twilight pulled her shoes back on and examined the ground. "Maybe she fell down an invisible well," she grumbled to herself. Stepping onto a loose bit of soil, she tripped over a tree root and almost fell into the water. But instead of getting soaked as she expected, she instead kept falling. Opening her eyes, she saw a dark black surrounding her. Her cat, pulled by the leash, fell with her, holding onto her head. Twilight pondered what to do for a moment, surprisingly calm. Then she had an idea. She started to scream as loudly as she could.
The darkness ended, and she fell on her butt onto hard ground. Groaning loudly, and a little more than she really needed to, she sat up slowly, looking around carefully. Never at a loss for words, she grinned cheerfully. "Well, it seems I've fallen into another dimension."
Two boys approached her. One with long red hair, and a shorter boy, with gravity defying black hair and a white sunburst. The redhead looked curiously at her, while the black haired boy watched her with narrow eyes.
Twilight cursed herself. In a large contrast to her personality with friends, who brightly introduced herself, when around strangers, she froze up and became very shy. Especially since she knew who these people were from a devotion to making it to the TV every Saturday night at 9:30.
"Um...are you Hiei and Kurama?"
---With Crystal---
"So I tripped over a tree root and ended up here," Crystal finished. When she noticed Yusuke was staring at her as if she was crazy, she stared back. "What?"
Yusuke looked at her almost sympathetically. "You just told me you were walking in the woods with a friend, you fell over a tree root, and ended up here?"
Crystal nodded slowly, as if he couldn't get it. "Yeah. I did. You CAN understand English, can't you?"
"You expect me to believe that? And what do you mean, English? You're speaking in fluent Japanese. With a decent accent," Yusuke said, all in the same breath. Then he noticed Crystal lying on the ground face up, staring at the sky with wide open eyes. "What is it now?"
Crystal's eyes didn't move. "I can't speak fluent Japanese."
"Yeah right! You're speaking it right now!"
---With Twilight---
"Interesting," the redhead who had introduced himself as Kurama said thoughtfully after Twilight's explanation, which had involved a physical reenactment of the story (including the fall. It didn't turn out so well, because Twilight had hit her head hard.) . His companion didn't say anything. Just stood there and – well, to be honest – stood. Twilight had gotten somewhat over her initial shyness, and hopped up.
"Well, gotta go find Crystal!" The girl said, smiling, and began to hop off toward the forest, singing a strange song about "fried ham." Kurama watched after her with a nonplussed look on his face. Hiei, again, just stood. Kurama shook his head. "We better go follow her. She might get killed."
"So?" Hiei asked. Apparently Twilight had surprisingly good ears for a human, because she turned around, fell down, and gasped loudly. Hiei and Kurama raised their eyebrows.
"YOU TALKED! YOU TALKED!" Twilight looked like she was having a seizure. Kurama wondered whether he should administer a potion to her or something. "YOU SAID YOUR FIRST WORD! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"
"Don't you mean the apocalypse?" Kurama asked, backing away from the girl.
The girl looked like she was having ten seizures at once. "NO! YOU GOT SOMETHING WRONG! YOU'RE THE SMART ONE! YOU CAN'T GET SOMETHING WRONG!"
Kurama sweat dropped. "Um...thanks?"
The girl kept on screaming. "THIS CAN'T BE THIS CAN'T BE! ETC., ETC.! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD! NOT THE APOCALYPSE." Suddenly she calmed down and looked quite scholarly. "The apocalypse is technically the chaos and destruction that ACCOMPANIES the end of the world." Then she fell back into hysterics. Finally Hiei, obviously annoyed at her incessant screaming, walked over and slapped the girl. Hard.
"ITAI! ITAI, ITAI, ITAI! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" the girl screamed, rubbing her cheek.
"For being like Kuwabaka."
"AAAAAH! DIIIIIIIE!"
The girl charged at Hiei, who used his super speed to dodge. But not before...
Twilight blinked, stared at the content of her hands, and blinked again. "I got...his katana?"
Hiei stared angrily at the girl, who was looking completely confused. Kurama looked a little more than confused. His eyes were completely round, and he was thinking of various possible ways how this was possible, and came up with the same answer. It wasn't possible.
Hiei stalked over to Twilight. When he reached her, he grabbed his katana, considered slapping her, and decided it was a waste of his time. Having come to this decision, he walked off. Twilight shrugged, and started walking into the forest.
"Watch out for demons!" Kurama called out, not knowing what else to say. The girl didn't turn around. He looked at her retreating back, then pivoted and watched Hiei head in a different direction. Well, Hiei didn't really need to be protected, and the weird girl probably did. He shrugged as well, and set off after Twilight.
---With Crystal---
"I tell you, this isn't English you're speaking!" Yusuke argued as he and Crystal walked along, looking for Twilight. "I can't speak English, and I can understand you. It's logic."
"I can't speak Japanese!" Crystal yelled back. Yusuke rolled his eyes, and the two walked in a disgruntled silence. Yusuke was bored out of his wits. He had thought it might be interesting to help this girl. After all, how many times do you meet someone who claims to come from a different dimension? But all they were doing was walking along looking for her friend. Yusuke was mentally kicking himself, when he tripped over a stick, and had someone do it for him.
"Why are you on the ground?" Crystal asked curiously, tapping Yusuke's side with the tip of her foot. The boy grimaced and got up.
"I fell down, baka," he replied, dusting himself off and making sure his slicked back hair was still plastic-y. This fact confirmed, he took a step when he was almost surprised out of his wits.
"No, I bet you went flying on a green penguin from Australia." Twilight emerged from the trees, shortly followed by Kurama. Crystal waved happily, and Yusuke realized this must be the friend she was talking about.
"Hi, I'm Twilight Oracle. A.k.a. Ishkibibble. A.k.a. Queen of the Dust Particles. A.k.a. Hippie Girl with Flute. A.k.a. Cat. A.k.a. Dawn. A.k.a. Clair. You don't need to know my real last name. Call me Clair, Clair-y, or spell it with an 'e' at the end and you die." Suddenly Twilight looked curiously at Yusuke.
"You're hair is shiiiny," she said, her eyes glowing. Everyone, except Crystal (she was used to this kind of thing), stepped back. Kurama was confused. How come she was so shy around him and Hiei, and not Yusuke? Suddenly the girl screamed. Yusuke jumped about two feet in the air.
"IT BURNS MY EYES!" Twilight yelled, and ran off in some random direction. Which was kind of stupid, because Twilight didn't have good memory for direction, and she didn't have any idea where she was going.
"Well," Kurama said, breaking the silence, "that girl is...odd."
Crystal looked at him as if he was crazy. "Are you kidding? She's completely sane right now! Well, she can be more sarcastic and kind of mean, but that's a lot saner than she usually acts." The blonde shuddered. "You should see her when she's on a sugar high. Like that time right before our play. She was–"
"I think I'll pass," Yusuke said as Kurama nodded his agreement. Crystal shrugged. It wasn't a very exciting story anyway. All Twilight had done was run around the cafeterthirteen times and told everyone to beware her. And juggled fake apples.
---With Twilight---
Twilight leaned over, huffing and puffing and holding her stomach. Unlike one of her friends, Emily, she definitely was not a runner. Looking up, she noticed something she hadn't seen before.
"A shrine?" The brunette approached the temple slowly. It looked familiar...
"Bye mom! Bye Grandpa! Oh, and bye Sota!" A teenage girl ran out of the shrine, running to another shrine, almost right next to an enormous tree. 'That's Kagome,' Twilight realized.
"WHY DID YOU RUN OFF LIKE THAT?!" Crystal exploded, crashing through branches with absolutely no regard for nature. Yusuke and Kurama followed them, accompanied by Hiei. Apparently they had gone and fetched him. Twilight screamed and fell over backwards. Crystal, Yusuke, and Kurama looked at each other. Hiei climbed a tree, and didn't bother with looking at any of them; he considered it pretty much beneath him. (Ha! Beneath him! Get it? Beneath him...yeah...it's a pun.)
"Did she...faint?" Yusuke asked slowly. Crystal shook her head. Bending over, she lifted Twilight's wrist and pressed her fingers against it.
"No. Twilight doesn't faint. She has a steady pulse, so I think she's alive. It's more likely that she just went to sleep."
"Sleep?"
"Yes. It's her method of showing shock. Sometimes. Other times she tells you that you're a psycho and you deserved to be hanged, beaten to death, then burnt alive," Crystal said matter-of-factly as Twilight began to groan and sit up.
"Just a question," Kurama said, "but why were you more shy around Hiei and me, and not shy around Yusuke?"
Twilight blinked, then assumed a lofty expression as spectacles appeared on the bridge of her nose. "Due to the fact when I fell from the sky I landed first on my posterior and then leaned forward and fell on my face, I experienced a light concussion, which did not permanently affect my intellect. However, it did cause me to have a minor mood change, and a slight personality change. These effects had not begun to sink in when you and Hiei arrived, so I was subject to my normal shyness with strangers. There was also the fact that I am a semi-rabid fangirl. Unlike some fangirls, I would more likely blush and hide then glomp. For the moment, you may call me Ishkibibble."
"Um...alright," said Kurama, who hadn't quite followed that. The girl's glasses disappeared, but the lofty expression remained. She looked quite intelligent and haughty. That look didn't really fit her. "Why Ishkibibble?"
Twilight sighed. "I was nicknamed Ishkibibble by" – she flipped through a small notebook that appeared in her hands conveniently – "Anna Daikoff, at a camping trip with my girl scout troop. We were talking in ridiculously high voices, pretending to be mice. I said ishkibibble, and was thus named."
"That doesn't change the fact that you said your name was different."
"True. However, I, meaning Twilight Oracle, have recently (meaning three seconds ago) have formed a habit of naming myself in different moods. Clair is for when I'm really hyper, Queen of the Dust Particles is when I'm haughty and/or sarcastic, Ishkibibble is my scholarly, intelligent mood, and Twilight domains over all other moods." With that, "Ishkibibble" spun around and ran off to the shrine.
They all looked at each other, then followed. Finally catching up to her in the shrine, they saw her staring down a deep well with round eyes. It was a rather odd picture. She had stuck her head inside the well, so her long brown hair was cascading gracefully in front of her face, while...her face looked like a toddler in shock.
"TWILIGHT, YOU MORON!" Crystal screamed, running up to her friend, grabbing her by the shoulders, and shaking her like mad. "WHY DO YOU KEEP RUNNING OF LIKE THAT? IT IS SO–" However, she didn't get to say anymore, because Twilight had straightened and pushed her down the well.
"Check to see if there are any spiders," she called after her blonde friend as the girl toppled down the well, glaring at her so-called friend. Twilight turned to look at Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke. "What?" She asked, her face the picture of innocence.
"YOU JUST PUSHED SOMEONE YOU SAID WAS YOUR FRIEND DOWN A WELL!"
The girl blinked. "Yeah, so?"
---With Crystal---
"Grr..." Crystal growled, brushing herself off and standing up. "If I broke anything, I swear I'll sue!" Then, after some thought, she added, "Even if not, I'll still sue!" Looking up at the walls towering above her at least 20 feet high, only one thought came to mind. Certain death. "I CAN'T CLIMB ALL THAT!!!" Suddenly she realized something. "I can yell! After all, I'm almost as loud as Twilight, and that's something."
"You really shouldn't talk to yourself. It's such an unhealthy habit." Twilight materialized in the well, dodging Crystal as the blonde tried to strangle, punch, kick, and karate chop the girl all at the same time, ignoring her lack of training in all of these subjects.
Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei materialized. Hiei jumped out of the well instantly. Twilight tried to jump after him, but only reached about 2% of the height of his jump. To be honest, probably less. "Hey, where are you going?" Twilight cried after him desperately. "Come back!"
"COME BACK HERE AND HELP ME!" the blonde yelled at the top of her lungs. Twilight glared at her. "What?" Crystal asked.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh..." Twilight blinked. "I forgot." Everyone in the well fell over, sweat dropped, or did all of the above.
---A teensy bit later...---
"Do you carry bricks in your pockets?" Yusuke demanded of Twilight as he helped boost her up to the top of the well. The girl blinked at him; she seemed to do that a lot.
"No. I carry bars of titanium from construction sites in my pockets." The girl's voice came from outside the well. Suddenly Yusuke heard an evil chuckle. It wasn't evil if you thought about it, just kind of like this: "hee heh hee." But then, if you thought about even more, it was evil. More like a concealed evil chuckle. After all, when laughing normally, people don't usually have a "heh" in the middle.
"I'm sorry Crystal, I know you would have liked to do it, but too bad!" A large stream of water came crashing upon Yusuke's head. Yusuke shrieked, which was kind of odd. But let's not get into that. Anyway, the water came crashing down, bla, bla, bla, and fell on Yusuke, who instantly became sopping wet. Crystal was a little disgruntled too, because her sneakers were now slightly soggy.
Crystal blinked at the now un-gelled Yusuke, and opened her mouth with an expression that seemed to say she was going to say something important. "You scream like a girl."
"WHAT?!"
"You know," Twilight said thoughtfully, "you do. You scream like me."
By now Yusuke was fuming. The two girls could almost see smoke coming out of his ears when suddenly a bunch of dirt came flying down on him.
"There. Are you dry now?"
Yusuke opened his mouth to let loose a string of curses, but was cut off by the appearance of Kurama from the top of the well. "Hello Yusuke, Crystal. Why aren't you up here yet?"
Yusuke pointed to Crystal, while Twilight gasped at the rudeness of pointing. "The onna no baka wouldn't get up, and I couldn't leave her here. She insists on being carried! I'm okay with pushing that other girl to the top, but not carrying!"
At this, Crystal stuck out her tongue at the offending bishie, protesting, "I'm afraid of heights!"
Kurama blinked. "Ah..." Yusuke gaped at him. "What? Do you expect me to do it?" Yusuke smiled. "No. Noo."
---Two seconds later---
Yusuke smiled both patronizingly and triumphantly at the disgruntled Kurama. "Now that wasn't so hard, was it?"
Kurama's only answer was to roll his eyes and look away.
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Spell: Well, what do you think? This is probably my best work yet on I worked so long and hard on it, with Crystal nagging at me every time we were both on AIM to work on it, and send it, bla, bla, bla.
Crystal: (Hits her on the head with Spell's wok.)
Spell: Hey! Give that back!
Crystal: (Runs off.)
Spell: Well, I've still got my giant paper fan and my giant scissors...wait! How am I going to make omelet without my wok?!? I don't care if they're normally for stir-fry! COME BACK HERE THOU RECREANT...PERSON! (Chases after her.)
Crystal: (Bashing random people on the head.)
Spell: (Stops for breath.) Well, bye y'all. Review and tell me your thoughts on my story.
DISCLAIMER: I am afraid I have to say I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. However, if I did, I would be most happy that I could draw good anime. I am cursed with the ability to draw decent faces but stink at drawing folds in clothing and the human figure. Really, if I think about it, my faces and hair aren't really all that either.
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"YAY!" Crystal and Twilight yelled happily, standing in the middle of the field. Not too far away, a few people were looking at them strangely. Omar, a boy in Twilight's class, looked as if he was about to come up and ask both of them what they were yelling about. He was soon answered.
"BISHIES! YAY!" The two girls screamed again, jumping in the air and throwing their hands up. Now it was more likely that the boy would ask what a bishie was.
"What does bishie mean?"
Twilight and Crystal looked at each other uneasily. They knew what it meant, of course, but they weren't quite sure they should tell Omar that they were yelling about "cute boys." Of course, they were talking about anime characters. It was their third meeting of their bishie lover's club. Crystal took the liberty of answering. "A bishie is a bishie," the blonde girl said. She and Twilight jumped up and down screaming again. Omar shook his head and walked off to find someone sane.
"Hmmmmm..." Twilight's brow was creased in concentration. As an avid fangirl of many, she didn't stay without an answer long. Her eyes lit up. "Kurama is a bishie!"
"YAY!" The girls yelled. Twilight was the hyper one; Crystal was hyper too sometimes, but she was slightly more sarcastic, and much more short- tempered. Twilight also sometimes had a slightly macabre and/or disgusting sense of humor, and at other times seemed extremely pure and naive. The girl had long dark brown hair, and almost black eyes, not quite slim, and five foot two inches. Crystal was a blonde, with shoulder length hair and blue eyes. She was a little shorter than her brunette friend, at four foot ten.
"Inu-Yasha is a bishie," Crystal said, naming one of her personal favorites. Twilight frowned. Though she was a fangirl of the dog demon, she was a little put out.
"He's not Yu Yu Hakusho, though," Twilight said unhappily. She wanted to review the rest of Yu Yu Hakusho's many bishies. "We have to finish it. Then we can go on to Alice 19th, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Inu-Yasha. Oh yeah, and Rurouni Kenshin."
"Okay!" Crystal said, not in the least that they weren't going to continue with Inu-Yasha characters. "Hiei's a bishie too."
"Hey!" Twilight said, insulted. "We agreed on this subject. Hiei is mostly my bishie!"
"The key word is mostly," Crystal answered smugly. "Anyway, does it matter who says it?"
"No..."
"Okay then," Crystal said as if the answer had been obvious. "One, two three..."
"YAY!"
This time many people stared at them, GT kids as well as non-GT. Of course, most of the GT kids knew Twilight and Crystal and knew they were crazy. Of course, you can't say that about the others.
The girls promptly went on to name pretty much all of the bishies they could think of, including Kenshin, from Rurouni Kenshin, Sanosuke, also from Rurouni Kenshin, Inu-Yasha, from Inu-Yasha, Sesshomaru, from Inu- Yasha, Miroku, from Inu-Yasha (the two didn't really mind that he was a pervert, after all, he's not bad-looking), Lantis, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Eagle Vision, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Geo, from Magic Knight Rayearth, Hiei, from Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama, from Yu Yu Hakusho, and last but not least, Jin, from Yu Yu Hakusho, who had been the girls' first object of affection. By the time they were done, there was at least a three yard space around them, and their voices were hoarse from all the yelling.
The girls prepared themselves for one last scream when the whistle blew. Crystal looked disappointed, and so did Twilight. However, the brunette went into a fit of over-dramatic unhappiness.
"NOOOOOOOOOO! HOW COULD THEY?" This was accompanied by many loud, as well as fake, sniffs and sobs. Crystal face-faulted.
---After school---
"I'm so booored," Twilight complained, lounging fully stretched on her family room couch. Cradled in her arms was a black and white kitten, tussling with Twilight's hand. Twilight absentmindedly patted her cat's head, ignoring the animal's lunge toward her hand.
Crystal, sitting on a large chair with a lot of pillows, nodded her agreement. Tearing her attention from Twilight's copy of the first volume of the Inu-Yasha manga, she focused her blue eyes on Twilight's cat.
"Should you really let Bandit bite you like that?" she asked, naming her friend's pet, her tone slightly worried. Twilight looked at the cat vacantly.
"She was biting me? I hadn't noticed..."
Crystal sweat dropped, and went back to her book, muttering something that sounded like, "Stupid Omar, it is too possible to fall in love with a piece of paper," as Twilight picked up her copy of Yu Yu Hakusho's first book, a birthday present from Crystal, and began to read, juggling with difficulty her hands between Bandit and the manga. Suddenly the cat jumped out of her arms. Dropping her book and grabbing at the cat, she promptly fell off her seat face first onto the floor.
"Itai. Kuso. Shimatta. Other fun words in Japanese that mean curse words or 'ow'." Twilight hoisted herself off the carpet, rubbing her nose. Crystal didn't even notice her brunette friend had fallen on the floor, despite the loud thump that accompanied the fall.
"Damare. I'm trying to read."
"Shut up? You shut up!"
"I'm not the one cursing." Suddenly Crystal realized something, and stared at Twilight. Twilight stared back, a little daunted. "YOU cussed!"
Twilight sat back on her couch and leaned back. "So?" she asked, calmly flipping through her book to find her page. Crystal continued to stare at her with wide eyes.
"YOU CUSSED! YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU CUSSED!"
"DAMARE, CRYSTAL! I'M TRYING TO READ!" Twilight screamed, her voice drowning out Crystal's. Crystal rolled her eyes, but started devouring the book with her eyes again. Twilight pulled out a pair of earphones, and started listening to music as she read, tapping her fingers in time to the music. Unbeknownst to her, a certain mammal was crouching down in the shadows, ready to pounce...but that doesn't really matter, because Twilight's cat is a vicious hunter who would rather attack someone than sit on their lap any day.
Suddenly Twilight looked up, stopped her music, and pulled off the headphones. "I want to go to the anime world. I wonder what it's like to be two dimensional."
Crystal pondered this for a moment. "So would I. That would be really cool, especially since there would be Inu-Yasha and Sesshomaru-"
"SeSSHOmarUU," Twilight butted in, with her own little parody on the name.
"Whatever. And Kurama and Hiei and...and...uuuuuuhh...I can't think of anyone else."
"Well, we're not going to go anyway, so what's the point?" They both sighed gustily, and went back to the meager pleasure of looking at bishies on pieces of paper. Of course, Twilight benefited less, because Kurama and Hiei, her favorite bishies in Yu Yu Hakusho, weren't in the first book.
Eventually the two girls got bored, and/or finished their book. Looking at each other, they spontaneously decided to go to the woods near Twilight's house. Walking up the hill, Twilight trying to do handsprings and failing, Crystal sweatdropping whenever she did, they went on their merry way talking about their favorite bishies.
Finally they got to the woods. Tugging Crystal off the path, Twilight made her way to the creek. Rolling up her pant cuffs and taking off her shoes and socks, she waded into the water. Turning around to tell Crystal to come on, she was greeted by silence and an empty deer path.
"Crystal? Crystal?? Come on, this isn't funny! Crystal?!?"
---Meanwhile---
"Where am I?" Crystal asked an empty forest. Looking around for her friend, she didn't catch even a glimpse of Twilight's long brown hair. "Uh oh. Twilight? Can you hear me? " When she wasn't answered, she bit her lip nervously. Taking a deep breath, she yelled. "TWILIGHT! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, YELL!" Again no answer. Crystal looked around nervously and approached the edge of the clearing she was in. A sudden movement surprised her, and she fell backwards, scrambling back to the middle of the clearing. Grabbing a large stick, she held it in front of her, wishing she had taken karate or something. Or maybe fencing, like Twilight had for two years.
"Stay back," she whispered nervously. A boy who looked to be about 14 walked in. Dressed in a yellow shirt with blue jeans and slicked back hair, he was oddly familiar. Crystal's eyes widened considerably. "Y-Yusuke?"
---On the other side---
Twilight pulled her shoes back on and examined the ground. "Maybe she fell down an invisible well," she grumbled to herself. Stepping onto a loose bit of soil, she tripped over a tree root and almost fell into the water. But instead of getting soaked as she expected, she instead kept falling. Opening her eyes, she saw a dark black surrounding her. Her cat, pulled by the leash, fell with her, holding onto her head. Twilight pondered what to do for a moment, surprisingly calm. Then she had an idea. She started to scream as loudly as she could.
The darkness ended, and she fell on her butt onto hard ground. Groaning loudly, and a little more than she really needed to, she sat up slowly, looking around carefully. Never at a loss for words, she grinned cheerfully. "Well, it seems I've fallen into another dimension."
Two boys approached her. One with long red hair, and a shorter boy, with gravity defying black hair and a white sunburst. The redhead looked curiously at her, while the black haired boy watched her with narrow eyes.
Twilight cursed herself. In a large contrast to her personality with friends, who brightly introduced herself, when around strangers, she froze up and became very shy. Especially since she knew who these people were from a devotion to making it to the TV every Saturday night at 9:30.
"Um...are you Hiei and Kurama?"
---With Crystal---
"So I tripped over a tree root and ended up here," Crystal finished. When she noticed Yusuke was staring at her as if she was crazy, she stared back. "What?"
Yusuke looked at her almost sympathetically. "You just told me you were walking in the woods with a friend, you fell over a tree root, and ended up here?"
Crystal nodded slowly, as if he couldn't get it. "Yeah. I did. You CAN understand English, can't you?"
"You expect me to believe that? And what do you mean, English? You're speaking in fluent Japanese. With a decent accent," Yusuke said, all in the same breath. Then he noticed Crystal lying on the ground face up, staring at the sky with wide open eyes. "What is it now?"
Crystal's eyes didn't move. "I can't speak fluent Japanese."
"Yeah right! You're speaking it right now!"
---With Twilight---
"Interesting," the redhead who had introduced himself as Kurama said thoughtfully after Twilight's explanation, which had involved a physical reenactment of the story (including the fall. It didn't turn out so well, because Twilight had hit her head hard.) . His companion didn't say anything. Just stood there and – well, to be honest – stood. Twilight had gotten somewhat over her initial shyness, and hopped up.
"Well, gotta go find Crystal!" The girl said, smiling, and began to hop off toward the forest, singing a strange song about "fried ham." Kurama watched after her with a nonplussed look on his face. Hiei, again, just stood. Kurama shook his head. "We better go follow her. She might get killed."
"So?" Hiei asked. Apparently Twilight had surprisingly good ears for a human, because she turned around, fell down, and gasped loudly. Hiei and Kurama raised their eyebrows.
"YOU TALKED! YOU TALKED!" Twilight looked like she was having a seizure. Kurama wondered whether he should administer a potion to her or something. "YOU SAID YOUR FIRST WORD! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"
"Don't you mean the apocalypse?" Kurama asked, backing away from the girl.
The girl looked like she was having ten seizures at once. "NO! YOU GOT SOMETHING WRONG! YOU'RE THE SMART ONE! YOU CAN'T GET SOMETHING WRONG!"
Kurama sweat dropped. "Um...thanks?"
The girl kept on screaming. "THIS CAN'T BE THIS CAN'T BE! ETC., ETC.! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD! NOT THE APOCALYPSE." Suddenly she calmed down and looked quite scholarly. "The apocalypse is technically the chaos and destruction that ACCOMPANIES the end of the world." Then she fell back into hysterics. Finally Hiei, obviously annoyed at her incessant screaming, walked over and slapped the girl. Hard.
"ITAI! ITAI, ITAI, ITAI! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" the girl screamed, rubbing her cheek.
"For being like Kuwabaka."
"AAAAAH! DIIIIIIIE!"
The girl charged at Hiei, who used his super speed to dodge. But not before...
Twilight blinked, stared at the content of her hands, and blinked again. "I got...his katana?"
Hiei stared angrily at the girl, who was looking completely confused. Kurama looked a little more than confused. His eyes were completely round, and he was thinking of various possible ways how this was possible, and came up with the same answer. It wasn't possible.
Hiei stalked over to Twilight. When he reached her, he grabbed his katana, considered slapping her, and decided it was a waste of his time. Having come to this decision, he walked off. Twilight shrugged, and started walking into the forest.
"Watch out for demons!" Kurama called out, not knowing what else to say. The girl didn't turn around. He looked at her retreating back, then pivoted and watched Hiei head in a different direction. Well, Hiei didn't really need to be protected, and the weird girl probably did. He shrugged as well, and set off after Twilight.
---With Crystal---
"I tell you, this isn't English you're speaking!" Yusuke argued as he and Crystal walked along, looking for Twilight. "I can't speak English, and I can understand you. It's logic."
"I can't speak Japanese!" Crystal yelled back. Yusuke rolled his eyes, and the two walked in a disgruntled silence. Yusuke was bored out of his wits. He had thought it might be interesting to help this girl. After all, how many times do you meet someone who claims to come from a different dimension? But all they were doing was walking along looking for her friend. Yusuke was mentally kicking himself, when he tripped over a stick, and had someone do it for him.
"Why are you on the ground?" Crystal asked curiously, tapping Yusuke's side with the tip of her foot. The boy grimaced and got up.
"I fell down, baka," he replied, dusting himself off and making sure his slicked back hair was still plastic-y. This fact confirmed, he took a step when he was almost surprised out of his wits.
"No, I bet you went flying on a green penguin from Australia." Twilight emerged from the trees, shortly followed by Kurama. Crystal waved happily, and Yusuke realized this must be the friend she was talking about.
"Hi, I'm Twilight Oracle. A.k.a. Ishkibibble. A.k.a. Queen of the Dust Particles. A.k.a. Hippie Girl with Flute. A.k.a. Cat. A.k.a. Dawn. A.k.a. Clair. You don't need to know my real last name. Call me Clair, Clair-y, or spell it with an 'e' at the end and you die." Suddenly Twilight looked curiously at Yusuke.
"You're hair is shiiiny," she said, her eyes glowing. Everyone, except Crystal (she was used to this kind of thing), stepped back. Kurama was confused. How come she was so shy around him and Hiei, and not Yusuke? Suddenly the girl screamed. Yusuke jumped about two feet in the air.
"IT BURNS MY EYES!" Twilight yelled, and ran off in some random direction. Which was kind of stupid, because Twilight didn't have good memory for direction, and she didn't have any idea where she was going.
"Well," Kurama said, breaking the silence, "that girl is...odd."
Crystal looked at him as if he was crazy. "Are you kidding? She's completely sane right now! Well, she can be more sarcastic and kind of mean, but that's a lot saner than she usually acts." The blonde shuddered. "You should see her when she's on a sugar high. Like that time right before our play. She was–"
"I think I'll pass," Yusuke said as Kurama nodded his agreement. Crystal shrugged. It wasn't a very exciting story anyway. All Twilight had done was run around the cafeterthirteen times and told everyone to beware her. And juggled fake apples.
---With Twilight---
Twilight leaned over, huffing and puffing and holding her stomach. Unlike one of her friends, Emily, she definitely was not a runner. Looking up, she noticed something she hadn't seen before.
"A shrine?" The brunette approached the temple slowly. It looked familiar...
"Bye mom! Bye Grandpa! Oh, and bye Sota!" A teenage girl ran out of the shrine, running to another shrine, almost right next to an enormous tree. 'That's Kagome,' Twilight realized.
"WHY DID YOU RUN OFF LIKE THAT?!" Crystal exploded, crashing through branches with absolutely no regard for nature. Yusuke and Kurama followed them, accompanied by Hiei. Apparently they had gone and fetched him. Twilight screamed and fell over backwards. Crystal, Yusuke, and Kurama looked at each other. Hiei climbed a tree, and didn't bother with looking at any of them; he considered it pretty much beneath him. (Ha! Beneath him! Get it? Beneath him...yeah...it's a pun.)
"Did she...faint?" Yusuke asked slowly. Crystal shook her head. Bending over, she lifted Twilight's wrist and pressed her fingers against it.
"No. Twilight doesn't faint. She has a steady pulse, so I think she's alive. It's more likely that she just went to sleep."
"Sleep?"
"Yes. It's her method of showing shock. Sometimes. Other times she tells you that you're a psycho and you deserved to be hanged, beaten to death, then burnt alive," Crystal said matter-of-factly as Twilight began to groan and sit up.
"Just a question," Kurama said, "but why were you more shy around Hiei and me, and not shy around Yusuke?"
Twilight blinked, then assumed a lofty expression as spectacles appeared on the bridge of her nose. "Due to the fact when I fell from the sky I landed first on my posterior and then leaned forward and fell on my face, I experienced a light concussion, which did not permanently affect my intellect. However, it did cause me to have a minor mood change, and a slight personality change. These effects had not begun to sink in when you and Hiei arrived, so I was subject to my normal shyness with strangers. There was also the fact that I am a semi-rabid fangirl. Unlike some fangirls, I would more likely blush and hide then glomp. For the moment, you may call me Ishkibibble."
"Um...alright," said Kurama, who hadn't quite followed that. The girl's glasses disappeared, but the lofty expression remained. She looked quite intelligent and haughty. That look didn't really fit her. "Why Ishkibibble?"
Twilight sighed. "I was nicknamed Ishkibibble by" – she flipped through a small notebook that appeared in her hands conveniently – "Anna Daikoff, at a camping trip with my girl scout troop. We were talking in ridiculously high voices, pretending to be mice. I said ishkibibble, and was thus named."
"That doesn't change the fact that you said your name was different."
"True. However, I, meaning Twilight Oracle, have recently (meaning three seconds ago) have formed a habit of naming myself in different moods. Clair is for when I'm really hyper, Queen of the Dust Particles is when I'm haughty and/or sarcastic, Ishkibibble is my scholarly, intelligent mood, and Twilight domains over all other moods." With that, "Ishkibibble" spun around and ran off to the shrine.
They all looked at each other, then followed. Finally catching up to her in the shrine, they saw her staring down a deep well with round eyes. It was a rather odd picture. She had stuck her head inside the well, so her long brown hair was cascading gracefully in front of her face, while...her face looked like a toddler in shock.
"TWILIGHT, YOU MORON!" Crystal screamed, running up to her friend, grabbing her by the shoulders, and shaking her like mad. "WHY DO YOU KEEP RUNNING OF LIKE THAT? IT IS SO–" However, she didn't get to say anymore, because Twilight had straightened and pushed her down the well.
"Check to see if there are any spiders," she called after her blonde friend as the girl toppled down the well, glaring at her so-called friend. Twilight turned to look at Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke. "What?" She asked, her face the picture of innocence.
"YOU JUST PUSHED SOMEONE YOU SAID WAS YOUR FRIEND DOWN A WELL!"
The girl blinked. "Yeah, so?"
---With Crystal---
"Grr..." Crystal growled, brushing herself off and standing up. "If I broke anything, I swear I'll sue!" Then, after some thought, she added, "Even if not, I'll still sue!" Looking up at the walls towering above her at least 20 feet high, only one thought came to mind. Certain death. "I CAN'T CLIMB ALL THAT!!!" Suddenly she realized something. "I can yell! After all, I'm almost as loud as Twilight, and that's something."
"You really shouldn't talk to yourself. It's such an unhealthy habit." Twilight materialized in the well, dodging Crystal as the blonde tried to strangle, punch, kick, and karate chop the girl all at the same time, ignoring her lack of training in all of these subjects.
Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei materialized. Hiei jumped out of the well instantly. Twilight tried to jump after him, but only reached about 2% of the height of his jump. To be honest, probably less. "Hey, where are you going?" Twilight cried after him desperately. "Come back!"
"COME BACK HERE AND HELP ME!" the blonde yelled at the top of her lungs. Twilight glared at her. "What?" Crystal asked.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh..." Twilight blinked. "I forgot." Everyone in the well fell over, sweat dropped, or did all of the above.
---A teensy bit later...---
"Do you carry bricks in your pockets?" Yusuke demanded of Twilight as he helped boost her up to the top of the well. The girl blinked at him; she seemed to do that a lot.
"No. I carry bars of titanium from construction sites in my pockets." The girl's voice came from outside the well. Suddenly Yusuke heard an evil chuckle. It wasn't evil if you thought about it, just kind of like this: "hee heh hee." But then, if you thought about even more, it was evil. More like a concealed evil chuckle. After all, when laughing normally, people don't usually have a "heh" in the middle.
"I'm sorry Crystal, I know you would have liked to do it, but too bad!" A large stream of water came crashing upon Yusuke's head. Yusuke shrieked, which was kind of odd. But let's not get into that. Anyway, the water came crashing down, bla, bla, bla, and fell on Yusuke, who instantly became sopping wet. Crystal was a little disgruntled too, because her sneakers were now slightly soggy.
Crystal blinked at the now un-gelled Yusuke, and opened her mouth with an expression that seemed to say she was going to say something important. "You scream like a girl."
"WHAT?!"
"You know," Twilight said thoughtfully, "you do. You scream like me."
By now Yusuke was fuming. The two girls could almost see smoke coming out of his ears when suddenly a bunch of dirt came flying down on him.
"There. Are you dry now?"
Yusuke opened his mouth to let loose a string of curses, but was cut off by the appearance of Kurama from the top of the well. "Hello Yusuke, Crystal. Why aren't you up here yet?"
Yusuke pointed to Crystal, while Twilight gasped at the rudeness of pointing. "The onna no baka wouldn't get up, and I couldn't leave her here. She insists on being carried! I'm okay with pushing that other girl to the top, but not carrying!"
At this, Crystal stuck out her tongue at the offending bishie, protesting, "I'm afraid of heights!"
Kurama blinked. "Ah..." Yusuke gaped at him. "What? Do you expect me to do it?" Yusuke smiled. "No. Noo."
---Two seconds later---
Yusuke smiled both patronizingly and triumphantly at the disgruntled Kurama. "Now that wasn't so hard, was it?"
Kurama's only answer was to roll his eyes and look away.
---
Spell: Well, what do you think? This is probably my best work yet on I worked so long and hard on it, with Crystal nagging at me every time we were both on AIM to work on it, and send it, bla, bla, bla.
Crystal: (Hits her on the head with Spell's wok.)
Spell: Hey! Give that back!
Crystal: (Runs off.)
Spell: Well, I've still got my giant paper fan and my giant scissors...wait! How am I going to make omelet without my wok?!? I don't care if they're normally for stir-fry! COME BACK HERE THOU RECREANT...PERSON! (Chases after her.)
Crystal: (Bashing random people on the head.)
Spell: (Stops for breath.) Well, bye y'all. Review and tell me your thoughts on my story.