[[chapter three- you just can't trust kitsunes...right?]]
Kurama walked briskly towards the docks, where the warehouses were. He arrived to find Hiei perched on a pile of crates, polishing his katana with a cloth.
"Hiei?" Kurama asked stepping forward, doing his best not to step in the banana cream pie that was all over the ground. "What happened?"
The fire demon didn't look up and continued to clean the blade,
"Last night," he said, coldly "A plushie came and bombed me with a grenade filled with pie." Kurama stared around, confused, looking at the banana cream pie all over the place.
"Sound familiar?" the fire demon asked. Kurama pondered this for a moment, then replied
"Nope, not at all." Kurama smiled, and turned to leave. "Coming?" he asked.
"Baka kitsune." Hiei muttered, and followed him out of the warehouses.
They met up with Yusuke and Kuwabara at the door of Kurama's apartment, and were about to go inside, when a young fox bounded up to them.
This fox was none other than Andrea-Kitsune. She looked up at them and said
"Kurama-san."
"She can talk?" Hiei asked, sarcastically. Andrea-Kitsune (hereafter Andrea) growled at the fire demon, and bit him. He winced and licked the blood off his hand.
Andrea smiled, evilly at him.
"Baka kitsune." Hiei muttered, and retreated to a nearby tree.
"Wats wif him and twees?" Andrea asked. The part of her that was kitsune was beginning to learn to speak English, and wasn't perfect yet.
"Nobody knows." Kurama answered.
Note from the author: during the time between fics, Kurama had come to like Andrea-Kitsune as a very good friend
Outside the city, all of Team Kitsune was staring at the gigantic plasma screen that Nikki "borrowed."
"What is Andrea doing?" Neha asked, stunned. "I told her not to leave. And she's the Grand Master of Pranks. What's she going to do?"
"Betcha been wondwin what's goin on, huh?" Andrea asked sweetly.
"Well...yeah," Kurama said. "But what's your point?"
"The poin'," Andrea scoffed, "Izzat your wors' emenies are prankin you!"
Outside of the city, everyone screamed, "NO, ANDREA!"
"How could she?" Nikki sobbed. "I thought she was our friend..."
Andrea was carefully outlining Team Kitsune's 'Master Plan.'
"So...den, they gonna make you walk frew the door and a biiiiiig bucket o' hot sauce is gonna pour on you heads! An' it's hot, 'cause I tried some wif my chips las nite; an'...yep."
"That can't be their 'Master Plan'." Yusuke said. "I always thought the one with the Bakura obsession was smarter than that!"
"Das what I heard," Andrea said solemnly. "So you best bet's to step backwards afore you go frew the door. One giant step back."
Outside the city, Liz whispered, "She's a genius. How does she come up with this stuff?"
"I don't know," Neha replied, "but I wish I had those kinds of skills. I lie through my teeth to those guys all the time, but I always get caught."
"All that's left now is to watch her plan unfold." Nikki said, watching closely.
The rest of the gang eyed each other and hesitantly stepped backwards. Andrea sat on one of the steps on Kurama's porch and said,
"You bes let me open da door." The kitsune told them. "Cuz I can doge faster den any ov you."
Yusuke and Kuwabara murmured their agreement, and watched as Andrea eased the door open gently. There was a short hesitation and then Andrea poked her head out the door, and said,
"Ders notin here." She announced. "Gess I heard the overs rong." As she spoke, she pressed a button on a remote control. It beeped ever so softly.
"Does that mean we can go inside now?" Kuwabara asked. Andrea nodded. Yusuke and Kuwabara stepped forward and under the rafters of the porch roof.
"C'mon Kurama." Yusuke said, gesturing to him.
Out of the blue, something crashed out of the rafters, and splashed over the two boys.
"Oh, no!" Andrea said in a sugary tone. "The hot sauce!"
"Aaugg!" Yusuke shouted, trying to get the spicy sauce out of his eyes and mouth. "WATER! I need water!" he yelled.
From the sky, Elli monitored the scene on her laptop. Her gerbils were keeping her aloft faithfully. She watched the hot sauce being poured on the two unfortunate humans.
"Water?" she asked no one in particular, "You need water?" Elli smirked and pressed a series of buttons on the laptop. "Water coming right up." She said.
Back on the ground, Hiei was still perched on the tree branch; watching the scene play out before him, bemused. Then a something caught his attention. On the sidewalk beside the tree, there was a little Youko plushie turning the crank on a fire hydrant. Another plushie, this one a Sesshomaru plushie, came and removed a package of 'Instant Glue' from its robes. Hiei began to wonder how the plushie had fit the whole package in its robes when the hydrant began to spew icy water into the street. Yusuke and Kuwabara ran towards the water, and began to rinse the sauce from themselves. The Sesshomaru plushie then opened the package of glue and flung the powder into the water. Almost instantly, Yusuke and Kuwabara were covered in glue.
"Yuck!" Kuwabara protested, trying to wash the glue off, but the water had been shut off.
Hiei continued to look on as a brown and white gerbil with tiny dragons wings flew overhead, ripping open a heavy-duty package of craft feathers. The colored feathers floated down and onto, the two glue-covered boys on the ground. In moments, the both of them resembled overgrown birds. Hiei smirked at them saying,
"You know, I didn't think it was possible but, Kuwabara looks even more ridiculous than usual."
Kuwabara glared at the fire demon, but said nothing. Yusuke swore under his breath, and Kurama snickered. Yusuke turned on him, and yelled infuriated,
"Ya know you're not much better!" he shouted. "You look like a girl!" he yelled.
Then, suddenly, a random anvil fell from the sky and landed on top of Yusuke. He fell over, dazed, and hit the ground with a thud.
Elli laughed at the ningen coldly.
"NOBODY CALLS KURAMA A GIRL AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!!!!" she shouted, almost knocking her laptop over into space. Then, regaining her composure, Elli opened a program on her computer called FacetoFace Web chat, allowing her to talk to the others through a high- tech web cam. Her computer beeped, and a window popped up on the screen showing Neha, Liz and Nikki.
"How goes it?" she asked her friends.
"Fine." Liz replied, waving at the web cam. "Did you see that?"
Elli nodded at the camera. "Andrea's better than any of us." She said. Then glanced at her monitor where Yusuke and Kuwabara were trying to get the feathers off of themselves, though they were failing miserably. Elli made a noise between a cough and a laugh, and turned back to her friends.
"Who's up next?" she asked. The others looked at each other, then turned back to Elli.
"It's time to activate the real Master Plan." Neha declared. "I'm going to get Andrea set up now." Neha walked out of the camera's range, over to her control system where she punched a button that allowed her to speak to Andrea through the kitsune-girl's earpiece.
"Excellent." Elli said, "Lets go to location B." The others nodded and disappeared from the window on her computer. Elli closed the program, and directed her gerbils to Location B.