Chapter Four

Celebrate, Celebrate!!

DISCLAIMER: I STILL DON'T OWN!!! DUH!

"Yeah, I guess they do." Kuwabara replied. Kurama and Kuwabara continued watching for about two more seconds then Kurama finally said, "This is not like Hiei." "You're right; it's scaring me." Kuwabara said still watching. "I'm out." Kurama replied to the giant who said in return, "Ditto." The quadruplets broke up and sat down on the floor. Hiei said something that made all the girls crack up, which made him smile.

Kurama heard his name mentioned as he was leaving so he went back and sat down next to Hiei and Rain. "Fine!! Don't include me!!" Kuwabara yelled. He left to go watch TV in his room. For about thirty more minutes, they continued talking. Shakira mentioned the game MONOPOLY sitting over on the TV shelf. Kurama got up and got the board game that could be played for days on end without stopping. "I call Money Bag!!" said Hiei. "Then I get the Race Car." Kurama replied. "I'll take the Yorkshire Terrier." Shakira added. "Iron." Said Rume. "That's what I wanted." Cried Rain. "Oh well. I'll take the……this thing." She picked up an unidentifiable playing piece.

"Oh, I remember how it got that way!" Kurama said nudging Hiei, who only smirked. "How'd it happen?" asked Rume. "Yusuke was in the sixth grade when he learned about cigarette lighters. He called us up and told us to meet him in his backyard. When we got there he pulled the lighter out and showed us the playing piece. I forget what it was before but then he set it on fire and burned his hand. Luckily, his mom never found the 'missing' lighter." Kurama laughed. "Let's just play." Said Rain impatiently. They played and, one-by-one, until only Kurama and Shakira were left, people went bankrupt.

"Hiei, I thought for sure you'd still be in." Kurama mused. "Hn. How was I supposed to know you weren't supposed to land on other people's property on purpose? Or give money away?" He shot a glance at Rain who was counting the money in the bank. She looked up at the mention of this incident and only smiled. "Kurama, you have one-hundred-and-twenty-five dollars left. Shakira, one-hundred-forty-two dollars. And Kurama, it's your turn." She stated simply. He rolled the dice and moved that number of places. He landed on Park Place. "Oh!!!" cried Shakira. "I own that!!" Kurama looked up. "How much do I owe you?" he asked. "Um…with two houses it would be one-twenty-five." She said smirking. "Darn it!!!!" Kurama cried throwing his money down. Shakira just laughed.

The door flung open again and in came Yusuke, carrying twelve shopping bags. "Let's get this party started!!" he yelled. Kuwabara came running in with a girls magazine in his hand. When he saw Yusuke jumping around, he threw it in the air and jumped hysterically. "Whee! We're having a party! A party! A party!" he said. The door was slammed open for one last time and in stepped Genkai, Botan, Shizuru, Yukina, and Keiko. "Uh…Yukina. Come here for a minute." Yukina stepped nervously over to her brother. "GASP!!" gasped all of the girls. "Yukina, meet your sisters." Yukina put her hand over her mouth. "And your brother." Hiei added. Yukina looked around frantically. "Where? Where is he?" she cried. "Right in front of you." Said Rain resting her head on Rume's shoulder. "H-Hiei?" she gasped. Hiei nodded and got slammed gently by her small body hitting his in a hug.

"All right!!! I'll break out the booze." Shizuru yelled. She started toward the door that led to the basement. "Shizuru," Genkai said. "No." "Awww!!" Kuwabara's sister whined. "All right." She folded her arms over her chest and huffed. "Uh, you four. Five. Go to your rooms until we've finished decking the halls." Genkai shuffled to one of the bags and found tinsel and glitter. She tossed it to Botan. She looked in the other. Booze. She tossed it to Yusuke. "Dispose of it." Seeing his disappointment, Genkai added, "In the cellar." She looked into the next two bags and found food and soda pop. She handed them to Keiko. She found party bags, twisty ties, candy and New Year poppers in the next bag and gave them to Kurama. She gave pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey to Kuwabara thinking it should be simple for him. She gave Shizuru the task of spraying the room with hair and body glitter and taking apart all the little decor papers and laying them on the refreshment table. When she opened the next bag, she found some beer and root beer. "Yusuke, you dimwit! You bought three bottles of booze!! Take it down!"

Thirty minutes later, the room was decorated and no one got hurt if you don't count Kuwabara hitting his thumb with the hammer. Botan called the quintuplets from their rooms and got the party started. The hours passed as the danced to music under a cheap disco ball. Suddenly, the lights went out. Everybody was screaming until Genkai yelled for everybody to shut-up. She walked around the apartment until she found the main switch. The lights came back on and everybody stood still while Kurama counted everybody. "6, 7, 8,9,10,11…Where's Shakira?" They looked high and low for the missing sister when at last, Kurama noticed that the door was open and footprints could be seen in the mist. A dragging line proved that Shakira had been kid-napped.

R&R!!!

Next time on Twisted Lives: Get your coats on because we're going for a wild ride at an amusement park that never closes, a swim at the local pool, and finally venturing into an abandoned old cave that turns out to be not so abandoned after all!! All this and more, next time on Twisted Lives!!!