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Authoress Note: This is the last chapter before Yusuke gets pranked! Aren't you all so excited? Anyway, I hope you enjoy! Read and review!
Chapter Four
D-Day
It was a normal morning for Koenma. Wake up, get dressed, boss ogre around, go to office, stamp papers for hours on end. Everything was simple and ordinary. Until….
"OH MY GOD KOENMA, THERE ARE DEMONS INVADING NINGENKAI! THEY'RE TAKING OVER!" An out-of-breath Yusuke yelled this as he stumbled into Koenma's office. "It's the end of the world thing you were talking about during the Sensui incident! The one you were supposed to be saving the Mafukan for!"
Koenma poofed into human form and got out of his desk chair, looking alarmed. "Are you sure!"
"Positive! There's no other explanation!"
"Ogre!" yelled Koenma. "Call on the armies! The Mafukan isn't strong enough yet to save Ningenkai, we need to stall! How could this be happening so ahead of schedule!"
The ogre nodded and hurried off, looking as though he felt important.
"What can the ogres do against A and S-class demons?" questioned Yusuke.
"WHAT!" screamed Koenma. "ARE YOU SERIOUS!"
"Yes! They're all almost as strong as me!"
"NO!" shouted Koenma in a distressed tone. "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO! NINGENKAI IS DOOMED!"
All of a sudden thunderous marching was heard and an army of blue men started to head for a portal being opened by several ferry girls. (You could see all this through the open office door.) They were outfitted in outfits resembling Koenma's, and looked absolutely ridiculous. Koenma was on the verge of crying. He ripped out his pacifier and started to yell at it in an act of temporary insanity.
"WORK DAMMIT! I'M GONNA GROUND YOU FOR FOREVER IF YOU DON'T YOU RETARDED MAFUKAN! WHY DID YOU LET ME BRING BACK AMANUMA! YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!"
Obviously, the pacifier did not reply.
It was at this opportune time that Yusuke decided to yell, "APRIL FOOL'S!" and run away before he could be thrown in Reikai prison. He was laughing the entire way.
Koenma stared blankly at the door Yusuke had slammed shut as he left. Then his face turned red. His hands shook. His eyes slowly turned bloodshot. And he ran after the detective at full speed, which was pretty fast but not fast enough.
It was a normal morning for Genkai. Wake up, get dressed, go to kitchen, plop down groggily in chair, eat breakfast Yukina made, and then go and play video games.
Video games were more than a favorite pastime for the old woman, they were her sole source of entertainment during the day when Yukina normally went out for walks and such. Before Yukina had arrived at the temple and Genkai had been all alone, the games had been all she'd had to do besides drink tea, walk around, and breathe. Before Yusuke had shown up, they had, literally, been her life. The man at the electronics store practically expected her every time a new fighting game came out, though he still thought it odd that a woman her age would be interested in Goblin City and Mortal Combat. The fact still remained, however, that she did.
All of her games were kept in a special room in the temple, appropriately named 'The Game Room.' There were multiple TV's, each with a different game console hooked up to them. In other parts of the room were pinball tables, arcade games, and everything else that the local arcade no longer needed. Once a game lost popularity, it was often sold off to Genkai for a few thousand yen, a steal.
When Genkai entered the Game Room on March 31, she closed the door behind her to block out the radio, which Yukina was listening to, and surveyed the masterpiece of a home arcade that had taken years to bring up to it's present splendor (If you wanted to call it that.) It was tradition that Genkai play the first game she'd ever purchased for the Game Room before anything else, and that game was on the far back wall. It was a rusty old pinball machine that hardly worked, but still lit up dimly and could record high scores.
Genkai plugged it in and started to play, racking up a score of 50000. Hardly her best ever, but definitely something on the old, rusty thing. Vainly trying to see her old high score, she squinted at the dim light display on the machine. What she saw, however, was not what was normally there (1:Genkai: 5,000,000 pts.) but something very, very different.
1: APRIL FOOL'S: 100 pts.
2: From Yusuke: 2 pts.
Shortly after this appeared and disappeared, the display read:
You have made a First Place Score! Please enter name by pulling on the trigger in the sequence of your name. (Sequencing is alphabetical by kanji, then numbers 1-9, then punctuation.Do not pull trigger for five seconds to create space.)
The game normally held ten high scores, but all had been cleared save for the two top ones.
Genkai's jaw dropped. She didn't even bother punching in her name, she immediately headed over to the arcade game next to her oldest one, an early version of "Mortal Combat." She played a quick game, but the high score table had been erased and replaced with the same message, just with a different point value.
Congratulations! You have beaten the record for this machine! Please enter name by using the joysticks to select--
Still unbelieving, she moved to a different machine and tried again.
Please enter name into High Score Table…
Congrats! You have beaten the Dragon Master…
You rule, man! You beat, like, Tony Hawk!
You have freed the citizens of Goblin City…
Please enter…
Please enter…
Please enter…..
At this point, Genkai had tested all of her games and found that her student had, indeed, taken the time to delete the high scores on all of her games and leave little "April Fool's" messages on them.
The old woman was absolutely furious. No, that's an understatement, actually. There is no word known to me in the English language that covers how mad Genkai was. All her years of building a vast empire of high scores in her own home, all those hours spent wasting away before the screens of her games trying to best her computer opponents, WASTED!
Genkai sank to her knees in the middle of the room and let out a furious, wounded wail. Yukina came running.
"Genkai, are you all right?" she asked earnestly, breathing heavily from running.
"No! Yukina, call the others! They were all pranked too, and it's time we got that Yusuke back." her voice was icy and sharp, and the apparition didn't need to be told twice when Genkai was in a mood like that. Hurrying off to the phone, she picked it up off of the cradle and hit Kurama's number on speed-dial. He picked up after two rings.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Kurama. It's Yukina."
"Oh…hi."
"Genkai wants you and the others to come over. Something about pranks and Yusuke and making noises like a wounded rhinoceros."
"I'll be right over."
"Will you call the others for me? I hear Genkai crying in the other room. I think she's dying or something."
On the other end of the line, Kurama sweat-dropped. "Sure, Yukina."
"Bye."
"Seeya."
Kinda short, I know, but the next one should be longer. By the way, to those underprivileged fans who missed some of the CN episodes, the Mafukan is Koenma's pacifier. It's supposedly Reikai's greatest weapon, though whether or not it does anything remains to be seen. Anyway, please review! More reviews, more updates! And I decided that this fic will be finished before anything else is updated, all right? Two or three more chapters to go!
