The Joys of Hotdogs and Lemonade: Revised Edition

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Bf- this is going quickly! I'm a whole chapter ahead of myself!

Hiei- your point?

Bf- wha?

Df- do you pay attention?

N- no, she never pays attention.

Yu- how surprising.

Bf- yea, I know. Now can I get a disclaimer?

--Silence—

Bf- Sheesh, don't you all go talking at once!

Disclaimer- I still don't own any kind of anime or manga.

Chapter three

The drunken fox demon

The scene is no different. Everyone is sitting at the plastic lawn table, and all is silent, save for the noises of Kuwabara stuffing himself. Lenni, Neha and Liz all wore looks of anticipation.

"So, when do you suppose it'll start to take effect?" Liz asked Neha, knowing Lenni wouldn't answer her.

"I don't know, soon?" she replied.

"That's helpful." Liz said.

Suddenly, there was a noise from the other side of the yard, and a random girl clambered over the fence.

"Wow!" she said, bursting with excitement. "I finally crashed a party!"

Neha gave her a look of complete and utter disbelief.

"What are you?" she asked her.

"Well, duh!" she said, "I'm a human—"Here Lenni cut her off, and said,

"Here, let me finish that sentence for you, you're a human, you think.'"

The others sniggered. The random party-crashing girl, put her hands on her hips, and looked around the yard. Her gaze fell on Hiei.

"Hey, who the heck is that?" she asked, then noticed that he had three eyes.

She shrieked and dashed out of the yard in horror.

"See, this was what I was telling you about, Lenni." Neha said, sighing. Then she turned her attention to Hiei.

"Hiei, you are so not glompable."

"Glompable?" he asked.

"Glompable. Adjective. Definition: An anime or manga character that one can glomp (def.: excessively hug)." Neha replied. Kuwabara whispered to Yusuke,

"She's more of a dictionary mouth than Kurama." Neha turned and smiled.

"Yes, I am the walking, talking, extra-annoying Every Word Dictionary: girl edition, male editions do not exist."

Here Hiei jumped back into the conversation,

"Why?" he asked her, angrily.

"Why what? Please specify."

Hiei glared at her, doing his best to fight the urge to kill her.

"Why do you think I should be more 'glompable'?"

Neha gave him a 'you're kidding' look and said,

"Did you see how that girl screamed? She was terrified!"

"So? Most ningens are."

Neha launched into psychiatrist mode and continued,

"Now, has this ever caused you to feel, how shall I put this... unloved?" she asked. Hiei was silent for a moment. Then replied flatly,

"No."

"Are you positive?" Neha probed, "Because I had a case similar to this...Neil... of course, his case ended the hard way. I'll never forget the sight of him crying...ugh." Neha shook her head.

"You have issues." Hiei said dryly.

"No, no, you have it all wrong my friend. See, you have the issues."

"Don't call me your friend." Hiei said, disgusted. Neha continued as if he had said nothing.

"Now, I suggest dressing better. That black? No way, try...how about... pink! Yes, pastel pink! That'll catch any fangirls eye!"

Hiei looked taken aback, and the others sniggered, but stopped as soon as the fire demon aimed a death glare in their direction.

"And a nice pastel blue bowtie!" Neha continued, "You'll be so... okay, maybe not cute, but better than before. And that attitude? No. Go for something more... innocent."

Hiei began to draw his katana, but was interrupted by Lenni as she stood up and proclaimed,

"The lemonade should be taking effect...NOW!"

With this comment, Kurama began to sway in circles, giggling madly.

"What's up with Kurama?" Kuwabara asked, pausing.

"Kurama has ingested a substance called 'Thisstuffmakesyoudrunk'. A powder that instantly dissolves in liquids or on top of solid food. When consumed, this substance will make the being that ate it drunk. Though in Kurama-san's case, the effects were delayed and possibly lessened because of the lemonade." Lenni said in a very scientific manner.

"I have no idea what you just said." Kuwabara told her, earning a glare from Lenni.

"To put it in terms that your tiny brain can compute, he's drunk." Lenni said, wishing she could strangle the life from him.

Neha smiled.

"Ah! The perfect opportunity!" she said, and began to speak to Kurama.

"Now, Kurama, I have a lovely dress here that would make you look... as they would say in Britain, smashing! Would you like it?"

Kurama nodded furiously.

"Neha, you're not!" Lenni yelled.

"Neha, you're a genius!" Liz said, amused.

"Does any one have a camera?" Kuwabara asked.

"No but I wish I did." Yusuke answered.

"Hn." That was Hiei's brilliant comment.

Kurama just kept on nodding. Neha smiled an evil grin as she produced a pink dress that didn't even look as if it would fit her.

Neha was about to hand Kurama the dress, when he leapt to his feet and proclaimed,

"And now, with the help of my assistant, Mr. Burger," Kurama snatched a hamburger from the platter, "I will make ALL of this lemonade disappear!" With this, the fox demon grabbed the pitcher and poured all of the lemonade down his throat.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Everyone shouted. But it was far to late for that.

--End chapter three—