Chapter 2: Aloha!
The plane ride itself proved to be extremely tedious. More than ten hours on the plane left both Yusuke and Kuwabara restless.
"Are we there yet?"
"Obviously not moron."
"Hey you punk! It was just a question, you don't have to be such a jerk!"
"It was just a question two hours ago when you first asked it! Now you're asking the same question every five minutes! It's freakin' annoying!"
"Geez, it's not my fault! I'm sooo bored and my butt is numb!"
"That's not the only thing that's numb..." Hiei remarked from behind Kuwabara's seat, sitting next to Kurama.
"Hey you shrimp I heard that!"
"You were supposed to."
Kuwabara felt like he would burst. So did Yusuke....
"Hey! Don't make me go over there! Now just sit down and shut the hell up!"
Kurama only sat further back into his seat, pretending not to know them. Everyone that sat around the four boys stared with annoyed expressions. Kurama could tell that this would not be a relaxing ride.
After many agonizing hours on a plane with Kuwabara and Hiei constantly bickering and Yusuke having to stop them, they finally arrived.
"Damn, never again..." Yusuke huffed, rising out of his seat.
Once the group made their way out of the plane and over to claim their bags, they waited for the tour guides that were supposed to pick them up.
"One of them is supposed to be a girl right, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked, anxiously.
"It's supposed to be a guy and a girl, Kuwabara..." Kurama corrected him.
"Well, are you sure they are going to find us? I mean where are they already?" He whined, looking around wildly and making a fool out of himself.
"They will be here soon enough, try to be patient." The kitsune told him firmly as they all stood by searching around with their eyes.
Finally, seemingly out of nowhere they heard a female voice calling their attention.
"Blaze-kun! How are we supposed to find them?! You didn't even ask what they look like?" the voice continued to yell.
Yusuke, putting his hands onto his hips, turned to the source and noticed two people looking quite stressed. At least, that's what he thought...the girl seemed to be extremely angered....
The tall young man to whom she was venting her anger on simply held his arms up in front of him in a submissive gesture. He seemed more relaxed about the whole matter. "Easy, easy Suki-chan. Don't bite my head off! We'll find them, I mean really how hard can it be?"
"I don't even want to go there...." she sighed, rolling her bright blue eyes at him.
She quickly turned, pointing to the large population of people walking around in the airport. But as she pointed, she gasped loud enough for him to hear.
Mocking her, he gasped loudly as well and then bent down to her level, being at least two to three heads taller than her. "Okay, now what?" He inquired, not seeing the source of her surprise.
She pointed wildly at a person standing not too far away from them. "I see the most gorgeous guy in the whole universe standing right before me!"
She quickly tugged on his arm, urging him to look at where she was pointing. In fact, she got so excited, she latched onto his arm for support.
"Oh geez, here we go again." He muttered while rolling his eyes knowing fully well that his friend would find these gorgeous men at least once a week.
Lightly smacking his arm, Suki began to grow even jittery and it looked like she was going to explode with energy. "No, you don't understand! He is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!"
She continued to point and glance back at a certain green-eyed redhead that stood among the group of boys across from them.
Her companion sighed and fought off the urge to roll his light grey eyes once more. "If ya like him so darn much, why don't you go over and say hi?"
Suddenly stopping in place, she turned her head and looked at him. She held her mouth wide open in shock before smacking his arm. "What are you saying?! Are you crazy?! I can't just walk up to him like that!"
"Fine then, if you won't I will." With that he turned from her and headed to the group of boys, raising his arm and shouting to grab their attention. "Hey there! Aloha and all that, welcome to the island of Kaui."
Slightly startled, Yusuke's eyes grew wide. "Uh...hi?"
Kuwabara snickered at Yusuke's reaction but immediately stopped when he noticed the young man's companion. "Ooh...."
Kurama and Hiei could only roll their eyes, not knowing what to expect from the fighter. The girl stared dreamily at the kitsune, unable to speak.
"Yeah, hi! The name's Blaze." He then turned to his companion and she was shoved forward seemingly without any of his limbs touching her. "Go on, don't be rude, introduce yourself!"
Blushing fiercely, the girl stuttered and looked at the group before her. She usually would have not been so shy but because of a certain member of the group...."Umm...yeah...I have a name....and nice to m....meet you...."
Looking at her strangely, Hiei raised an eyebrow at her. "What the hell is your name?"
"It's a pleasure to meet you both. Please don't mind him...it was a lengthy plane ride here...." Kurama gently interrupted, making up for his partner's rudeness.
Blaze shrugged and nodded. "Its one hell of a long ride. Makes your ass numb." He then started to turn pulling his unnamed companion with him. "Well she just thought you guys looked a little lost and we came to see if you needed help, do you? Otherwise we have to go and meet up with this certain party..." He explained waiting for them to answer before walking away.
Kuwabara just nodded dumbly, still too busy ogling his companion to have heard what he had said.
"Hn. Whatever." Hiei answered still slightly annoyed by the girl's antics and not really caring about much.
"Actually, we were waiting for two people to pick us up. But it's been well over an hour already and we still haven't seen them..." Kurama noted.
"But we would love to be accompanied by you! Ah, to be greeted in a new place by such a beautiful woman!" Kuwabara exclaimed, holding Suki's hands.
Not sure of what to do, Suki slowly tried to back away. She looked back at Blaze for help.
He walked over to her, closer to the others and his eyes suddenly widened slightly. If one paid attention it had seemed like he had suddenly sniffed the air, but disguised it behind a small sneeze and then turned back to his friend. "What's the matter Suki? The man's giving you a compliment." He stated with a smirk but stood by close enough should the other boy become a little too persistent.
"B....b....but....." Suki began.
She never did finish her sentence, because the more she struggled the more she became unbalanced. Her hands were quickly released from the boy's larger ones as she tried to walk away, only to trip over Blaze's foot. This sent her flying conveniently into the warm arms of a certain kitsune.
Stepping back with the sudden added weight, Kurama held her tightly until he felt her regain her balance and then helped her stand up once more. "Are you all right?" He asked his voice warm and comforting.
Yusuke turned at the question. He had been innocently eyeing some other woman's legs and had not seen what had happened. In his eyes he only saw Kurama holding the girl. "Whoa! Kurama! You hardly know the girl!"
Kurama felt his cheeks instantly color at the accusation. "Didn't you see what happened?" He retorted.
"Moron. Kurama isn't perverted. He's not like you." Hiei intervened annoyed by his childish remark.
"Oh... whatever....anyway, I'm still pissed!" the Spirit Detective shrugged.
Very reluctant to let go, Suki held on to Kurama's strong arms. He, however, turned his attention to Yusuke at hearing his comment.
"Yeah, where the hell are those two? Hey, you guys wouldn't happen to know about that would you?" Now Kuwabara was confused rather than disappointed.
Hiei then looked at Blaze, expecting an answer.
Rubbing the back of his head, suddenly realizing the situation, he laughed nervously. "Uh, just what are your names?"
"The name's Yusuke, there's Kuwabara, Hiei and that guy over there that's making out with your friend is Shuuichi..." the boy with the slick-backed hair replied.
"You know very well we're not so stop that Yusuke!" Kurama yelled, blushing a deep red.
Suki blushed as well, immediately stepping out of his embrace and backed up into Blaze. It was then that Suki realized something. She gasped and looked up at her friend.
"Something wrong?" Hiei glanced at them.
A half nervous grin suddenly graced Blaze's face as he shook his head. "Nothing's wrong. By the way as I was saying, welcome to the island of Kaui and we were supposed to pick you up an hour ago." He stated quickly watching them all, minus Hiei look at him in slight shock. "Eh heh, oops?"
Suki sweatdropped at her partner's actions. "I told you that we should have asked for more detail..."
"Right...uh....Blaze, right?" Yusuke smirked.
"And you are?" Kurama looked at the girl.
Looking into his bright green eyes, Suki again found herself to be very nervous and shy. She was still unable to answer the kitsune's question.
"Oh for Kami's sake just stop drooling and say your name already. Suki, Su-ki. It's not that hard." Blaze remarked, watching her give him one of her dirtiest looks. He knew that he would have to pay dearly for his outburst later.
"Ah, Suki. That's a pretty name." Kurama commented, hoping to ease the girl's shyness.
"I told you to get a room Ku- Shuuichi!" Yusuke shouted once more.
"I wouldn't mind sharing a room with her." Kuwabara added on immediately.
When everyone turned to him and his outward statement of perverted-ness, he blinked stupidly and then asked. "Did I just say that out loud?"
Hiei only replied his one comment that worked for any occasion. "Baka..."
Yusuke slapped himself mentally, not wanting to see Hiei and Kuwabara go at it again. Not after they had spent so long in a plane with the two of them bickering over something so stupid. How much could a person take of seeing his friends fight over who had the better fighting techniques? …Or anything else for that matter. The list could just go on and on...unluckily for Kurama and Yusuke.
However, another fight seemed to be brewing without Yusuke being aware...
"You are so dead!" Suki threatened Blaze.
His eyes flashed with mischief as he regarded her. "As if you can catch me to kill me." He stated calmly.
Kurama noticed this and smiled, sweatdropping as well. "Um, wouldn't it be best that we get out of here? It would make so much more sense."
"Finally, someone is smart enough to make a decision that makes sense..." Hiei commented.
"I totally agree with Shuuichi-san! Come on, Blaze! We should get going!" Suki agreed. She began, sounding all so sweet before ending her sentence on a most disturbing-sounding evil voice.
"Er, yeah, let's go. I'll just trail behind." He replied easily as the girl gave him a final warning look and then led the way out of the airport.
The air was clean and crisp. Warm breezes washed over them as the sun beamed down. The humidity was not stifling and the weather felt
"Hey this is really nice!" Kuwabara exclaimed looking around like a child brought to a candy store for the first time.
"Yeah, I could definitely get used to this." Yusuke agreed stretching lazily.
"Hey, let's go to the beach right now!"
"It would be a better idea to go to our hotel first, Kuwabara." Kurama intervened.
"Yeah I guess you're right."
Hearing Kuwabara suggest about the beach made Suki stop in place and gasping yet another time in one day. She held her hands to her face and looked absolutely nervous. Her cheeks soon became a red as bright as Kurama's hair.
Only a few of the boys actually cared and looked at her in concern.
"What's wrong, my darling?!" Kuwabara grabbed onto her shoulders.
Not expecting him at all to appear before her, she yelped and immediately jumped into the arms of Blaze. She then pouted and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Hmph..." she huffed.
"What did I do?" asked the confused Kuwabara.
Blaze dropped her from his arms and frowned at her also getting annoyed by her unexplained outbursts. "Just what is your problem?"
"Ow! I'm a damsel in distress here and you can't think of even to help me! How could you drop me on my butt like that?!" she cried, looking up at him from the floor.
Yusuke immediately burst out laughing. "She's probably pissed that she jumped into the wrong boy...."
That is also the same moment Yusuke chose to nudge Kurama's arm. The detective raised an eyebrow knowingly at him. Kurama simply closed his eyes and turned his head not even bothering to reply.
Yusuke only laughed harder at his reaction feeling quite satisfied with himself.
"Why am I always surrounded by idiots..." Hiei muttered.
Kuwabara immediately thought the insult was aimed for him. "What was that shorty?"
"You heard me!"
"Why you, I should go and throw you in the ocean, with any luck, you'll drown!"
"I'd like to see you try and do that."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
While the two argued, Blaze merely looked down at his longtime friend and grinned. "Well damsel. You're being annoying. Normal damsels aren't annoying."
"I am not annoying! Now just help me up and let's go already!" she huffed.
Yusuke continued to laugh uncontrollably, enjoying their argument. Hiei on the other hand, rolled his eyes, still quite annoyed.
Kuwabara puffed up his chest, trying to produce a tough look. "Let me help her! I will be her knight in shining armor!"
Blaze merely stared at him neither disturbed nor upset; he just shrugged and leaned back.
Yusuke rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Are we leaving yet or what?"
"Yeah sure, as soon as someone helps me up!" Suki exclaimed angrily.
Kuwabara made his way over to where she sat on the ground and gently helped her onto her feet. He held onto her arms, looking like a lovesick puppy. After a minute, she began to feel slightly uneasy.
"Don't make me have to use my ninja skills on you!" she threatened.
"Ninja skills?" Kurama asked, slightly confused.
"Oh please." Blaze drawled as he began to lead the group. "Follow me, the hotel is over there."
To be continued…
A/N: Well, that's another chapter done! So sorry it took so long! ;ButReikai Tantei has finally arrived in Hawaii and now time for them to get their hotel room. So far the vacation seems normal and they also made a couple of new friends. Maybe this trip wasn't as bad as they thought… Don't forget to R&R!