Chapter Three is up, peoples! This one was written mostly by me, with lots of ideas from my friends, the Destinies:) But anyways, I really like the way this story is turning out, and I hope you are too! And if you find any words that are not written in present tense, could you please tell me? Thanx! And at the bottom are my thank-yous to my friends because I forgot them last chapter. Oh boy this is going to be a long chapter…
Disclaimer: Me no own anything from YuYu Hakusho or the necklace from Inuyasha
Chapter Three
The rain continues to pour down as the four friends and Botan finish their somewhat long list of things to command Hiei to do for the night. Olivia opens the window and stares out into the dark night, feeling content. With your three best friends and five new friends, who couldn't be? The soft patter of raindrops falling softly on the ground soothes everyone in the room--especially Vanessa. After two kisses with Kuwabara, she's feeling a bit ill.
"What are you guys doing around these parts anyways?" Botan asks, coming to stare out of the window with Olivia.
"It's the beginning of summer vacation and we were just wandering around, exploring. Then we got lost," Nissi replies, rolling up the list.
"Then..." Botan says happily, "you can stay with us for more than just one night!"
Meagan and Vanessa grin, "I guess we can."
"If you think you can keep up with us," Olivia warns, turning from the window.
"Oh, I don't think that'll be a problem."
Downstairs
"I'm hungry..." Yusuke complains, rubbing his stomach. "Dang bra...don't see how they stand it."
"Well Yusuke, they can actually fill the bra and you can't. That may be why it feels so uncomfortable to you," Kurama smiles gently, feeling sorry for his poor friend who had the misfortune of picking dare. "Next time, pick truth."
"Hn. Those onna's are annoying," Hiei growls, a particularly dark look on his face.
"Hahahahaha, shorty you're going to get it!" Kuwabara laughs, spitting bits of food all over Hiei.
Kurama leans against a wall with his eyes closed, apparently concentrating. Those girls have strange auras...just like the ones I picked up before. Could they...Struck with an idea Kurama makes his way up to Botan's room, pulling a red rose from his hair as he does so. It transforms silently to a whip as he opens the door to Botan's room. The girls are all at the window, staring out of the window and into the night before them. He slips in, ready to strike. But who to strike first? He makes a decision and strikes first at Meagan. She senses his presence and jumps quickly out of the way, using incredible acrobatic techniques she could not have used two minutes ago.
"What the?" Meagan gasps, turning a perfect back flip to avoid one particularly sharp looking thorn.
Kurama turns his whip to Vanessa, who uses about the same techniques as Meagan but accidentally trips, resulting in her foot knocking the whip from Kurama's hand. He scoops it up quickly, only to find Vanessa standing next to Meagan. Nissi is next, who makes an incredible leap over Kurama's head, landing on the other side of him. He stops, confused by her sudden disappearance.
"Over here!" She shouts, sending a punch at him.
He dodges and strikes at Olivia. She turns to stare at him and Kurama is picked off the ground and pulled into the air. He swings his whip, but it is met with an invisible force field that forces his whip back. "I see...your powers are more psychic than physical. Would you try jumping into the air for me?"
"What?" Olivia asks, looking at her hands strangely.
"Jump into the air."
She stares at him but does what he asks. She bends her knees and jumps into the air--but doesn't come down.
"Get me down," she whispers. "Get me down!"
Kurama drops to the ground and pulls her down with him. Then he turns and promptly walks out of the room. Botan stares after him, wondering why he had attacked her friends. She turns to Olivia, who is shaking from her episode in the air. Meagan and Vanessa stand silent at the end of the room, looking at the ground. Nissi simply stares back at Botan, not knowing what else to do.
"Why...were we able to do those things?" Olivia breaks the silence.
"Let's leave that alone for a while, and go torture Hiei," Botan suggests, putting her arms around the still shaking Olivia.
The girls all brighten, "Yes, that sounds good!"
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"I am not going to do that, you baka onna's!" Hiei shouts, pulling his katana from its sheath.
Before him stand the Destinies a/n: that's what my friends and I are called, and I'm using it because I'm getting tired of writing "the four friends" and Botan with arms full of makeup. Evil grins are plastered on their faces, and they begin to laugh joyfully.
"Oh yes you will, Hiei!" Olivia wipes tears from her eyes, moving forward.
Hiei grabs her, "Touch me and I'll break your wrist."
Olivia touches his forehead, "Touch."
Nissi follows suit, "Touch, touch."
"Now sit down!" Meagan and Vanessa push him into a chair that Botan just recently provided.
The Destinies crowd around the poor demon and begin to paint his face with their makeup. Hiei shakes with fury and fear, but he has his honor to retain—if he doesn't uphold his dare, everyone will think less of him. When the Destinies are done, this is what Hiei looks like:
His cheeks are covered with the lightest pink blush possible, because he is so pale and they didn't want to overdo it. His lips are now a silver/brown color and his nails are black with red hearts in the center. His eye shadow is milky white and in his hair are red ribbons with white circles all around.
"I gotta admit Hiei, the look suits you," Yusuke laughs, now getting used to his bra.
"Yeah shorty you should use it more often!" Kuwabara gasps.
Vanessa leans over to Meagan, who produces the metal bat they had borrowed from Botan, "Isn't it about time to resume his torture?"
"Why yes, I believe it is."
"Oh Kuwabara!" Vanessa calls sweetly.
"Yes my love?"
THWACK! Meagan sends him flying across the room, handing the bat then to Vanessa who chases after Kuwabara. Meagan follows. Olivia glares at them, surprised they can keep up their childish ways for so long. Nissi tugs her shirt.
"They will get bored of it after some time, you know."
"Yes…" Olivia smiles. "But how long?"
"Dunno. Shall we continue with our torture?"
"Well Hiei, you do know that this torture ends at exactly 12:01 because then it is considered morning and we dared you for the rest of the night. And since it is now…11:00, your salvation is at hand. And for our next trick—you may not say "Hn" for the rest of the night or you have to kiss Kuwabara!"
"What…did you…say?" Hiei grabs Olivia and Nissi by the collars of their shirts.
"Don't blame us! That is Meagan's idea!" Nissi explains.
"ONNA!" Hiei shouts, lunging at Meagan.
She swings the bat at him but he easily dodges. Olivia, using her author's privileges, pulls from her pocket the exact necklace that Kaede put around Inuyasha's neck to subdue him and tosses it around Hiei's neck.
"SIT!" she yells.
THUD! Hiei falls face-first to the ground, stunned at what had just happened to him. He sits up, desperately trying to remove the necklace from around his neck. The Destinies swarm around him and pat his head.
"No use trying, Hiei. Only I can remove it!" Olivia smirks.
"…You little…" Hiei scowls, jumping up to attack.
"SIT!" the Destinies yell, and Hiei lands back on the floor.
"Only forty-five minutes left to torture Hiei…" Vanessa sighs. "We spent too much time trying to plan out some things we could do, and now we won't have time to do them all."
"True. It was what, 8:30 when we started planning? We took…about three hours planning!" Nissi calculates in her head.
"How many things did you plan?" Kurama questions.
"About…five," Meagan responds.
"So now you only have four left. What's the next one?" Yusuke comes and pats Hiei on the head as well. "Your hair is so fluffy, Hiei!"
Kuwabara picks himself off the ground and staggers over to the Destinies, "Could you guys not hit so hard?"
Vanessa grins and swings the bat, but Kuwabara is ready this time. He materializes his spirit sword and staves off the bat. Olivia cheers.
"It took you long enough to figure out you could do that, baka," Hiei scoffs. "Had you figured it out earlier, you would've saved yourself a lot of beatings."
"Let's take a break torturing these two," Meagan suggests, sitting on the couch next to Kurama.
"Sure. Some silence would be good right about now," Yusuke nods his head in approval.
"I'm going to make dinner!" Botan beams, bounding off to the kitchen like the vivacious grim reaper that she is. "Hope everyone likes pasta!"
The Destinies huddle close together and begin talking in hushed voices. It is now fifteen minutes until midnight and they know they will not have any chance in doing all the things they would have loved to do to Hiei.
"All right Hiei," Vanessa sighs. "We know we won't be able to do everything we'd like to do in fifteen minutes."
"But," Nissi adds, "We'd like you to do one last thing for us."
"What?" He stares at the ground, just waiting until he can kill the four of them.
"Can we play with your katana until dinner?" Meagan and Olivia chorus.
"No."
"Well," Olivia pulls the katana out of its sheath, "you really don't have much choice."
A low growl escapes Hiei's lips, but he sits still and lets the friends try to do tricks with the sword. Kurama watches, amused. They show no signs of powers when they're not in trouble. They can't even wield the katana properly. Soon Meagan quits and challenges Yusuke to a game of arm-wrestling. Yusuke wins quickly.
"Best two out of three!" Meagan challenges again, and Yusuke accepts.
Nissi and Vanessa leave to help Botan in the kitchen, leaving Olivia with the sword. She tries to flip it and is very close, but fails to catch it properly, resulting in a deep cut. Yusuke is close to winning when he hears a small scream and loses his concentration. Meagan hastily takes advantage of the situation and pins his hand to the table.
"I win!"
"Don't get cocky! We still have one more!" Yusuke shouts.
Hiei gets up from his spot on the floor and moves to examine the cut. Olivia moans, turning her head away from the blood. It drips to the floor, making soft noises as it hits.
"You're hematophobic?" he asks in surprise.
"I'm what?"
"Afraid of blood."
"Oh. Uh-huh…"
Hiei wraps it in a bandage he pulls from his pocket, "Stop whining."
"You're so sympathetic."
"Dinner is served!" Botan cheers, coming out with plates of pasta.
"Pasta puttanesca," Nissi declares. "That's Italian for "very few ingredients."
"Let's eat!" Kuwabara shouts, sitting at the table.
"HA! I BEAT YOU!" Meagan shouts at a sulking Yusuke.
"Whatever…"
Olivia slaps Meagan a high-five then sits down. Hiei moves towards the staircase, preparing to go up to his room, no doubt to sit and stare out the window. Kurama clears his throat and points at him.
"HIEI! For our last last trick, we want you to come eat dinner with us!" the Destinies shout, pulling his chair out for him. "It's only one minute to midnight, which means we can still order you around."
Like I've said before, if looks could kill, the Destinies would have died one thousand times over with all the icy glares Hiei shot at them. Defeated, he sits down and the nine share a wonderful meal of pasta puttanesca like one big happy family…sort of.
Done with Chapter Three, hope you liked it. Ok, here are my thanks to my friends that I forgot to add last chapter.
To Nissi: Thanks for: Kuwabara kissing Vanessa, Kurama losing his mother, Vanessa kissing Kuwabara, and the controlling of Hiei until midnight.
To Vanessa: Thanks for: Meagan running around saying 'I'm a chicken…' you know the rest, for me sticking flaming chopsticks up my nose and saying 'Arf, arf, arf…' you know the rest, and for Yusuke wearing a bra.
To Meagan: Sorry Meagan if I forgot any of your truths or dares, but thanks for reading my chapters as I wrote them and laughing at all the funny things I wrote. :D
For this Chapter: Thanx to Nissi for the makeup thing, thanx to Vanessa and Meagan for never tiring of hitting Kuwabara, and thanx to you all for telling me what powers you want. Well…really that's for Nissi but yeah.
