10 Years of Waiting
by Kurohi Tatsaki
Day 12 - Humorous Stroll
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, & never will. Kurohi & Yamiryuinu, Shirokoori, and all the other original characters *I* and Kohaku Frost come up with are property of Beware of Mage & Tsuki Ryu Productions.
Beverly -Yup. Stasis. Koenma can't hear a thing.
Keaira - Kurama is clueless, and Hiei only knows that he's the sole male Tsuki Ryu, but Hiei (suspicious of the boy's powers) never told Kurama. Kurohi never told them anything, as he likes to keep things like this to himself for a while.
anime haiku - Yes, let's hope not. He can become very, very, VERY nasty when crazy... Especially when the third thing he ever clinged to in his life is gone... but for this fic, only temporarily.
~~~~~~POV switch *** passing of time 'thoughts' //telepathy//
Sorry, no quotes and no song lyrics this time... but there's a LOT of humor!
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"Kurohi, you need to eat."
He glared at the Tsuki Ryu female. He wasn't hungry.
But his stomach gurgled otherwise.
His glare faltered at the noise but he maintained some of it at the noodles offered to his face.
Growling, he snatched the chopsticks and bowl from his friend and scarfed down the meal. He nearly choked once or twice, but managed to save himself. His friend eyed him with amusement.
"Slow down. It's not like we have any leads," she said softly.
"A minute wasted," Kurohi began between swallows. "is a minute closer to death. I know you know what I mean."
"Ah... but you shouldn't talk with your mouth full," the blonde chided.
"Fuck you, but then again, you and I wouldn't, anyway," he clipped.
There was some hesitation between the two.
Kurohi set the bowl on the grass and looked around. He blinked widely and swiveled his head around to see his multi-color-eyed friend. "Hey, where are Hiei-sama, Kurama-san, Yusuke, Kuwabara and Botan-san?
Angel shrugged fished around the inside of her bag for some more food.
~~~~~~
"Mmm... Kurama, you know we're on a mission."
"Yeah. With no leads. Your point?" The fox spirit kissed his way up the Jaganshi's neck. They were both up and out of sight on a high, sturdy branch.
"Kura---ma--..." he whined. "You're gonna make me fall off..."
"I won't let you fall," the redhead replied.
"Kh... Horny fox..." scoffed Hiei.
"Yeah. Your point?"
"Baka," the black-haired male clipped.
Kurama licked Hiei's cheek cutely. Hiei shuddered but frowned slightly. "Kitsune, we're supposed to be looking... for... mmph!" His sentence was cut off as he found himself under one of the redhead's enrapturing kisses.
"Hiei-samaaa! Kurama-saaaaan!"
Said males jumped and peered down the branch of which they sat on, Kurama blushing faintly and Hiei looking quite annoyed. Kurohi, neck craned so far back it was nearly hyper-extended, looked up at them with his large blue eyes. They were full of determination and a "don't you dare mess with me!" look. "Are ya two gonna sit up there all day and make out or are we gonna get to move through here some more before dark?" he complained loudly.
They looked at each other, then back down at the boy. Reluctantly, they slipped down the tree to see the boy eye to eye.
As they descended, however, Kurohi had already gone back to camp.
Kurama embraced his fire demon from behind. He whispered in his ear, "Tonight, Hiei, I'll make up for this."
Hiei nodded slightly and grinned, flashing fang. He chuckled in his low voice. "You'd better."
***
"KUROHI! We've been walking for hours!! How much longer?!" complained the to-be father.
"Don't know; don't ask," clipped the boy. He was unbelievably edgy right now. For reasons unknown, even to himself. Perhaps it was because of all the time they wasted this morning.
"God damn it! Remind me to pummel you into the ground once this is over with!"
"If you can manage to catch me," clipped the crossbreed.
"Hmph!"
"Just shut up and keep walking," sighed Hiei. "Your senseless whining is giving me a headache!!" He clutched his temples for a moment or two.
The redhead, Kurama, walking next to the Jaganshi, tugged playfully on his ponytail. He grinned slightly. 'Ding-dong!'
//Kurama, could you PLEASE stop that?// asked Hiei. His telepathic voice was highly annoyed.
"Why, itoshii?" the emerald-eyed beauty whispered teasingly. (A/N: "itoshii" seems to mean "love", "koi" or of that kinda thing. I'm not sure cuz the word isn't in my dictionary...)
The black-haired male eyed the fox with irritable ruby lenses. "Because I said so."
"Because you said so w-ideii, ideii!!!" wailed Kuwabara, clutching his arm. "Stupid kid!" he snapped at Kurohi, who looked mockingly at his own fist. He looked up at the oaf with that same expression he had so casually given to his right fist.
"Stay out of their business or else you'll pay MY consequences," he replied icily. With a few strides, he made his way back to the front of the group. 'Moron.'
Kurama continued to annoy Hiei for a few minutes longer before stopping when Hiei threatened that he wouldn't let the fox near him for a week. Yusuke folded his arms behind his head while walking. He yawned and then complained again, "Kurohi, how much longer until we set up camp?! I'm gettin' tired!"
No reply. Kurohi continued to march onward for a bit longer. He seemed to fully ignore the man.
"Kurohi--!" he whined. "How. Much. LONGER?!!" 'I can't believe I'm asking a KID for how long we'll be walking around with no leads like this!'
"Not much," he finally said flatly. "I just want to cover as much ground as we possibly can before we stop."
"Then, can't we JUST TAKE A BREAK?!!"
He paused. "I supposed a break is acceptable. Go ahead and stop for a while. I won't proceed much farther without you all."
"Oh, thank GOD! I was almost about to keel over!" exclaimed Botan, who took a water bottle out of his backpack and started guzzling. He soon started hacking, coughing and spluttering the liquid.
Angel eyed him with evident amusement. "Animal," she uttered softly.
"I heard that."
She didn't so much as flinch, as she had intended for her comment to be heard.
Yusuke flopped on his back and was promptly showered by water. His eyes widened the size of saucers. He promptly sat up and glared daggers at the antagonist standing above him. "Kuwabara!!" he screeched.
"Hehehe!" He dashed off and was chased by the delinquent, who clutched his own water bottle.
Taking his lips off the water bottle in his right hand, the reincarnated Youko Kurama eyed the duo with evident amusement. "Still behaving like children even after so long..."
"Yeah. Rather hilarious," Hiei replied with a chuckle. "...then again, rather scary. Imagine Koenma like that!"
"Um, he, always... is like that," uttered the redhead bishonen.
There was a pause of two heartbeats before they started cackling at the image of teen-form Koenma behaving like his toddler self.
"What's so funny, you two?" asked Botan.
"Oh," replied Kurama between chuckles. "I just commented how Yusuke and Kuwabara were behaving even after so long, and Hiei agreed with me, but then said that it would be rather scary, and just imagine if the teen form of Koenma acted like that. Then, I said, that he always was like that." He chuckled again.
"Oh," echoed Botan. He didn't understand the joke.
"You guys done rest..." hollered Kurohi, but he slowly shut up. Yusuke and Kuwabara were still having their water fight. Kurohi frowned. 'Chocolate syrup would be a bit more entertaining, and... what the fuck?! No hentai mind required right now!' "...ing? Yusuke! Kuwabara! We should SAVE that water!! I don't smell water anywhere NEAR here! Let's GO!"
They paused their fight. "Hey! Since when were you OUR boss, kid?!" yelled the oaf.
"I became YOUR boss ever since *I* became Koenma's LOVER! Now let's GO already!!" he retorted. He spun around and started stomping onward.
The duo growled. "We'll finish this at the next lake, Urameshi!"
"Yeah, and *I'll* be the victor!" Yusuke said with a smirk.
"No you won't!"
"Yes, I will!" retorted the delinquent.
"Naw-aw!"
"Uh-uh!"
"Yes-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yes-... wha?!!"
"Hahaha!" cackled Yusuke. "Y'fell for it! Again!" He grinned and started walking again.
Kuwabara sighed in defeat. "Fuck you..." He, too, followed.
Yusuke chuckled, looking over his shoulder and fixed his large brown eyes on his orange-haired rival. "No thanks. I'm straight."
"WHAAA?!!! That's not what I..." Yusuke started cackling like a maniac and dashed forward, water bottle in hand. "URAMESHI---!!!"
***
The six shirtless guys (yes, even Botan-kun) stood in the shallow end of the lake, lit by the stars and half-moon above. Hiei, Kurama, and Kurohi were on one temporary team, and Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan were on the other. They carried their water bottles from before, which were filled to the top.
They would just keep on fighting until they got tired.
Angel took the count from a safer place, away from the water. She leaned on a large, willow-look-alike tree. "...THREE! ...TWO! ...ONE! ...FIGHT!!"
Hiei and the stripy-tailed Kurohi flitted in opposite directions, leaving Kurama to fend for himself for a short period of time. A spray of water came his way, and he flipped gracefully to one side. Kurohi fell from above the oaf and sprayed him from the head down. He shivered and lumbered after his opponent, falling with a big splash into the lake as his foot caught a root. He sat up and sputtered out water. Kurohi laughed loudly with his eyes closed, but that was cut off by a spurt of water to his face.
Yusuke laughed. "Got ya-aaaaah!" He was cut short as a stream of water hit him in the back. He turned around sharply. "Hiei!!" He dashed quickly after the fire demon, but was hit in the head by another splash by the now retreating, laughing redhead.
"HEY! Get BACK here, Kurama!!"
"Nope!" He dashed away. A spurt of water hit the chaser in the back of the neck. He clutched at it in shock and turned around.
"Kurohi, you fuckin' BASTARD!! Get back here!!" He chased the tailed one again, without much luck of seeing him. It was just back when he fought Hiei for the first time, only, they both were about as fast now, but Hiei was, by far, still the quickest of the bunch.
Yeah, it seemed a lot like how quickly he would react during the Dark Tournament when Hiei experimented his sword against the delinquent's abilities... only, now, it was more like he was much slower than he really was.
The dolt, Kuwabara, wasn't having much luck, either, as being the absolute slowest. He kept on aiming at the master thief, but whenever he managed a close, factual shot, Shuuichi always dodged. He never seemed to have a pattern, either. Then again, like all strategists, one should never leave a trail.
And that's precisely what the fox did. Graceful actions were always uncharted in duplication, as none of his angles in dodging repeated in precise points. The only thing that remained the same was the timing of his dodges.
While he was caught off guard, he heard, "Kuwabara! Dodge!!"
Rolling to the side, he saw a stream of water hiss past his ear and glimpsed Botan shoot Kurohi with at least two shots. He sputtered out the water and fled for a moment before coming up above the female-turned-male and emptying his whole stock of water onto his head.
"BAKA! Take th... huh?"
He wasn't there anymore. Botan blinked his slanted purple eyes at the vacated air that the hybrid demon had occupied a half-second before.
'Where'd he go?' he thought with concern for his own hide. He turned to Kazuma, who was just now picking himself up off the tall grass. "You okay, Kuwabara?"
"Yeah. Thanks for the warning."
He gave the baffoon the thumbs-up. "No prob! Now, let's get those three, shall we?"
"Yeah! Just let me replenish my weapon! Hehehe!" He lumbered off.
Botan sweat-dropped and chuckled nervously to himself. He blinked twice at the odd sight, but said nothing at all.
"Getting tired, Botan?" asked Angel from somewhere in the shadows.
"Maybe a little," he replied. "That walk took a lot out of me."
"I can agree. You want to call it quits?"
The drenched ferryman to the River Styx nodded once. "Yeah. I have a sleeping bag and some dry clothes callin' my name."
~~~~~~
Hiei flitted up into a tree and eyed Kurama as he, too, jumped up.
They were both perfectly dry.
"I forgot how fun it was to beat those three."
The fire demon used his Jagan Eye to see who was still playing. "Botan stopped playing," he told his koibito. "Damn. I was really looking forward to soaking him more."
"Already gotten used to Botan being a male, now?"
"Yup."
"So, you want to stop?"
"Nah. We still need to finish off Kuwabara and Yusuke."
"Then what after that? You want to go for a free-for-all against me and Kurohi, assuming we're still playing after we beat those other two?"
"You forget, that I joined up with you to not have to fight you myself?"
"No, I haven't. However, it's not like we're going to start killing each other."
"Point taken, but even I need my rest. We'll just beat those two and end the game."
Kurama nodded.
***
It wasn't long until Yusuke and Kuwabara gave up. They couldn't hit anyone, anyway.
Kurohi had curled up against the trunk of a tree a bit far from the rest of the group.
Hiei and Kurama had occupied a secluded place elsewhere.
Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Botan were crashed by the fire.
Angel was keeping watch.
Nothing disturbed their slumber tonight.
End Day 12
Sorry it took me so long, guys! I had schoolwork I had to do all week! Oh well, at least I get out of school on the 23rd of this month! I'll have PLENTY of time to update often at that time!
I figured we needed some humor to spice up this otherwise boring travel through the Makai forest. As far as I've seen, the votes go as follow:
Botan with Angel as a girl: 2 votes
Botan with Angel as a guy: 1 vote
There's still time to vote, but this is just for fun! I plan on having two separate paths, anyway:
Botan being a guy with Angel = there's no more cure to the spell, they're lovers, and they have a kid
Botan being a girl with Angel = the cure is there and they're lovers, but no kid
The first one I will be developing will be the first option. I will be aided by Kohaku Frost.
I still need questions for the second part of the interview!
R&R!!
Started 4/18/03, 9:02PM; Finished 5/5/03, 5:29PM
by Kurohi Tatsaki
Day 12 - Humorous Stroll
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, & never will. Kurohi & Yamiryuinu, Shirokoori, and all the other original characters *I* and Kohaku Frost come up with are property of Beware of Mage & Tsuki Ryu Productions.
Beverly -Yup. Stasis. Koenma can't hear a thing.
Keaira - Kurama is clueless, and Hiei only knows that he's the sole male Tsuki Ryu, but Hiei (suspicious of the boy's powers) never told Kurama. Kurohi never told them anything, as he likes to keep things like this to himself for a while.
anime haiku - Yes, let's hope not. He can become very, very, VERY nasty when crazy... Especially when the third thing he ever clinged to in his life is gone... but for this fic, only temporarily.
~~~~~~POV switch *** passing of time 'thoughts' //telepathy//
Sorry, no quotes and no song lyrics this time... but there's a LOT of humor!
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"Kurohi, you need to eat."
He glared at the Tsuki Ryu female. He wasn't hungry.
But his stomach gurgled otherwise.
His glare faltered at the noise but he maintained some of it at the noodles offered to his face.
Growling, he snatched the chopsticks and bowl from his friend and scarfed down the meal. He nearly choked once or twice, but managed to save himself. His friend eyed him with amusement.
"Slow down. It's not like we have any leads," she said softly.
"A minute wasted," Kurohi began between swallows. "is a minute closer to death. I know you know what I mean."
"Ah... but you shouldn't talk with your mouth full," the blonde chided.
"Fuck you, but then again, you and I wouldn't, anyway," he clipped.
There was some hesitation between the two.
Kurohi set the bowl on the grass and looked around. He blinked widely and swiveled his head around to see his multi-color-eyed friend. "Hey, where are Hiei-sama, Kurama-san, Yusuke, Kuwabara and Botan-san?
Angel shrugged fished around the inside of her bag for some more food.
~~~~~~
"Mmm... Kurama, you know we're on a mission."
"Yeah. With no leads. Your point?" The fox spirit kissed his way up the Jaganshi's neck. They were both up and out of sight on a high, sturdy branch.
"Kura---ma--..." he whined. "You're gonna make me fall off..."
"I won't let you fall," the redhead replied.
"Kh... Horny fox..." scoffed Hiei.
"Yeah. Your point?"
"Baka," the black-haired male clipped.
Kurama licked Hiei's cheek cutely. Hiei shuddered but frowned slightly. "Kitsune, we're supposed to be looking... for... mmph!" His sentence was cut off as he found himself under one of the redhead's enrapturing kisses.
"Hiei-samaaa! Kurama-saaaaan!"
Said males jumped and peered down the branch of which they sat on, Kurama blushing faintly and Hiei looking quite annoyed. Kurohi, neck craned so far back it was nearly hyper-extended, looked up at them with his large blue eyes. They were full of determination and a "don't you dare mess with me!" look. "Are ya two gonna sit up there all day and make out or are we gonna get to move through here some more before dark?" he complained loudly.
They looked at each other, then back down at the boy. Reluctantly, they slipped down the tree to see the boy eye to eye.
As they descended, however, Kurohi had already gone back to camp.
Kurama embraced his fire demon from behind. He whispered in his ear, "Tonight, Hiei, I'll make up for this."
Hiei nodded slightly and grinned, flashing fang. He chuckled in his low voice. "You'd better."
***
"KUROHI! We've been walking for hours!! How much longer?!" complained the to-be father.
"Don't know; don't ask," clipped the boy. He was unbelievably edgy right now. For reasons unknown, even to himself. Perhaps it was because of all the time they wasted this morning.
"God damn it! Remind me to pummel you into the ground once this is over with!"
"If you can manage to catch me," clipped the crossbreed.
"Hmph!"
"Just shut up and keep walking," sighed Hiei. "Your senseless whining is giving me a headache!!" He clutched his temples for a moment or two.
The redhead, Kurama, walking next to the Jaganshi, tugged playfully on his ponytail. He grinned slightly. 'Ding-dong!'
//Kurama, could you PLEASE stop that?// asked Hiei. His telepathic voice was highly annoyed.
"Why, itoshii?" the emerald-eyed beauty whispered teasingly. (A/N: "itoshii" seems to mean "love", "koi" or of that kinda thing. I'm not sure cuz the word isn't in my dictionary...)
The black-haired male eyed the fox with irritable ruby lenses. "Because I said so."
"Because you said so w-ideii, ideii!!!" wailed Kuwabara, clutching his arm. "Stupid kid!" he snapped at Kurohi, who looked mockingly at his own fist. He looked up at the oaf with that same expression he had so casually given to his right fist.
"Stay out of their business or else you'll pay MY consequences," he replied icily. With a few strides, he made his way back to the front of the group. 'Moron.'
Kurama continued to annoy Hiei for a few minutes longer before stopping when Hiei threatened that he wouldn't let the fox near him for a week. Yusuke folded his arms behind his head while walking. He yawned and then complained again, "Kurohi, how much longer until we set up camp?! I'm gettin' tired!"
No reply. Kurohi continued to march onward for a bit longer. He seemed to fully ignore the man.
"Kurohi--!" he whined. "How. Much. LONGER?!!" 'I can't believe I'm asking a KID for how long we'll be walking around with no leads like this!'
"Not much," he finally said flatly. "I just want to cover as much ground as we possibly can before we stop."
"Then, can't we JUST TAKE A BREAK?!!"
He paused. "I supposed a break is acceptable. Go ahead and stop for a while. I won't proceed much farther without you all."
"Oh, thank GOD! I was almost about to keel over!" exclaimed Botan, who took a water bottle out of his backpack and started guzzling. He soon started hacking, coughing and spluttering the liquid.
Angel eyed him with evident amusement. "Animal," she uttered softly.
"I heard that."
She didn't so much as flinch, as she had intended for her comment to be heard.
Yusuke flopped on his back and was promptly showered by water. His eyes widened the size of saucers. He promptly sat up and glared daggers at the antagonist standing above him. "Kuwabara!!" he screeched.
"Hehehe!" He dashed off and was chased by the delinquent, who clutched his own water bottle.
Taking his lips off the water bottle in his right hand, the reincarnated Youko Kurama eyed the duo with evident amusement. "Still behaving like children even after so long..."
"Yeah. Rather hilarious," Hiei replied with a chuckle. "...then again, rather scary. Imagine Koenma like that!"
"Um, he, always... is like that," uttered the redhead bishonen.
There was a pause of two heartbeats before they started cackling at the image of teen-form Koenma behaving like his toddler self.
"What's so funny, you two?" asked Botan.
"Oh," replied Kurama between chuckles. "I just commented how Yusuke and Kuwabara were behaving even after so long, and Hiei agreed with me, but then said that it would be rather scary, and just imagine if the teen form of Koenma acted like that. Then, I said, that he always was like that." He chuckled again.
"Oh," echoed Botan. He didn't understand the joke.
"You guys done rest..." hollered Kurohi, but he slowly shut up. Yusuke and Kuwabara were still having their water fight. Kurohi frowned. 'Chocolate syrup would be a bit more entertaining, and... what the fuck?! No hentai mind required right now!' "...ing? Yusuke! Kuwabara! We should SAVE that water!! I don't smell water anywhere NEAR here! Let's GO!"
They paused their fight. "Hey! Since when were you OUR boss, kid?!" yelled the oaf.
"I became YOUR boss ever since *I* became Koenma's LOVER! Now let's GO already!!" he retorted. He spun around and started stomping onward.
The duo growled. "We'll finish this at the next lake, Urameshi!"
"Yeah, and *I'll* be the victor!" Yusuke said with a smirk.
"No you won't!"
"Yes, I will!" retorted the delinquent.
"Naw-aw!"
"Uh-uh!"
"Yes-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yes-... wha?!!"
"Hahaha!" cackled Yusuke. "Y'fell for it! Again!" He grinned and started walking again.
Kuwabara sighed in defeat. "Fuck you..." He, too, followed.
Yusuke chuckled, looking over his shoulder and fixed his large brown eyes on his orange-haired rival. "No thanks. I'm straight."
"WHAAA?!!! That's not what I..." Yusuke started cackling like a maniac and dashed forward, water bottle in hand. "URAMESHI---!!!"
***
The six shirtless guys (yes, even Botan-kun) stood in the shallow end of the lake, lit by the stars and half-moon above. Hiei, Kurama, and Kurohi were on one temporary team, and Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan were on the other. They carried their water bottles from before, which were filled to the top.
They would just keep on fighting until they got tired.
Angel took the count from a safer place, away from the water. She leaned on a large, willow-look-alike tree. "...THREE! ...TWO! ...ONE! ...FIGHT!!"
Hiei and the stripy-tailed Kurohi flitted in opposite directions, leaving Kurama to fend for himself for a short period of time. A spray of water came his way, and he flipped gracefully to one side. Kurohi fell from above the oaf and sprayed him from the head down. He shivered and lumbered after his opponent, falling with a big splash into the lake as his foot caught a root. He sat up and sputtered out water. Kurohi laughed loudly with his eyes closed, but that was cut off by a spurt of water to his face.
Yusuke laughed. "Got ya-aaaaah!" He was cut short as a stream of water hit him in the back. He turned around sharply. "Hiei!!" He dashed quickly after the fire demon, but was hit in the head by another splash by the now retreating, laughing redhead.
"HEY! Get BACK here, Kurama!!"
"Nope!" He dashed away. A spurt of water hit the chaser in the back of the neck. He clutched at it in shock and turned around.
"Kurohi, you fuckin' BASTARD!! Get back here!!" He chased the tailed one again, without much luck of seeing him. It was just back when he fought Hiei for the first time, only, they both were about as fast now, but Hiei was, by far, still the quickest of the bunch.
Yeah, it seemed a lot like how quickly he would react during the Dark Tournament when Hiei experimented his sword against the delinquent's abilities... only, now, it was more like he was much slower than he really was.
The dolt, Kuwabara, wasn't having much luck, either, as being the absolute slowest. He kept on aiming at the master thief, but whenever he managed a close, factual shot, Shuuichi always dodged. He never seemed to have a pattern, either. Then again, like all strategists, one should never leave a trail.
And that's precisely what the fox did. Graceful actions were always uncharted in duplication, as none of his angles in dodging repeated in precise points. The only thing that remained the same was the timing of his dodges.
While he was caught off guard, he heard, "Kuwabara! Dodge!!"
Rolling to the side, he saw a stream of water hiss past his ear and glimpsed Botan shoot Kurohi with at least two shots. He sputtered out the water and fled for a moment before coming up above the female-turned-male and emptying his whole stock of water onto his head.
"BAKA! Take th... huh?"
He wasn't there anymore. Botan blinked his slanted purple eyes at the vacated air that the hybrid demon had occupied a half-second before.
'Where'd he go?' he thought with concern for his own hide. He turned to Kazuma, who was just now picking himself up off the tall grass. "You okay, Kuwabara?"
"Yeah. Thanks for the warning."
He gave the baffoon the thumbs-up. "No prob! Now, let's get those three, shall we?"
"Yeah! Just let me replenish my weapon! Hehehe!" He lumbered off.
Botan sweat-dropped and chuckled nervously to himself. He blinked twice at the odd sight, but said nothing at all.
"Getting tired, Botan?" asked Angel from somewhere in the shadows.
"Maybe a little," he replied. "That walk took a lot out of me."
"I can agree. You want to call it quits?"
The drenched ferryman to the River Styx nodded once. "Yeah. I have a sleeping bag and some dry clothes callin' my name."
~~~~~~
Hiei flitted up into a tree and eyed Kurama as he, too, jumped up.
They were both perfectly dry.
"I forgot how fun it was to beat those three."
The fire demon used his Jagan Eye to see who was still playing. "Botan stopped playing," he told his koibito. "Damn. I was really looking forward to soaking him more."
"Already gotten used to Botan being a male, now?"
"Yup."
"So, you want to stop?"
"Nah. We still need to finish off Kuwabara and Yusuke."
"Then what after that? You want to go for a free-for-all against me and Kurohi, assuming we're still playing after we beat those other two?"
"You forget, that I joined up with you to not have to fight you myself?"
"No, I haven't. However, it's not like we're going to start killing each other."
"Point taken, but even I need my rest. We'll just beat those two and end the game."
Kurama nodded.
***
It wasn't long until Yusuke and Kuwabara gave up. They couldn't hit anyone, anyway.
Kurohi had curled up against the trunk of a tree a bit far from the rest of the group.
Hiei and Kurama had occupied a secluded place elsewhere.
Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Botan were crashed by the fire.
Angel was keeping watch.
Nothing disturbed their slumber tonight.
End Day 12
Sorry it took me so long, guys! I had schoolwork I had to do all week! Oh well, at least I get out of school on the 23rd of this month! I'll have PLENTY of time to update often at that time!
I figured we needed some humor to spice up this otherwise boring travel through the Makai forest. As far as I've seen, the votes go as follow:
Botan with Angel as a girl: 2 votes
Botan with Angel as a guy: 1 vote
There's still time to vote, but this is just for fun! I plan on having two separate paths, anyway:
Botan being a guy with Angel = there's no more cure to the spell, they're lovers, and they have a kid
Botan being a girl with Angel = the cure is there and they're lovers, but no kid
The first one I will be developing will be the first option. I will be aided by Kohaku Frost.
I still need questions for the second part of the interview!
R&R!!
Started 4/18/03, 9:02PM; Finished 5/5/03, 5:29PM