Disclaimer: My nose hurts. *lawyers lean in* Whoa! Personal space please!
Anyway, like I was saying, my nose hurts. *lawyers look expectant* Nope,
that's it. That's all I have to say. *lawyers begin to advance* Ha! I'm way
ahead of you! *pulls out what looks like a huge bazooka* Eat this!!
MWAHAHAHA!! *lawyers stand looking bored as nothing happens* Ano, it's not
working..... Oh well, I guess I'll just have to save my anti-lawyer device
for next time. I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho........ YET.
Kin: Welcome to the fourth chapter of Falling Into Fiction. Let me just say, I AM SO SORRY. But, I won't grovel, for I have many legitimate reasons for my extreme lateness in updating. First of all, my computer refuses to contact FF.net so I have been sneaking on the computers at school and updating there. Unfortunately, the teachers made a rule that now we have to tell them exactly when we get online and what we're doing, and updating on FF.net isn't high on their list of acceptable student work. I also sprained my own damn ankle doing something stupid, so I'm pretty agitated about having to use crutches. First it was SukiYumi who broke both her wrists, then me who sprained my ankle, and next it'll be Kashaku. Anyways, the biggest problem is that I have, oh the horror, dare I say it? Writers block. Yep, I have writers block.
Kashaku: So you admit it!
Kin: Shut up! Anyway, I know exactly what the plot of the story is and where it's going, but I'm having problems getting there. So, just to keep you guys interested, I'm giving you this filler chapter about the gang going on a trip to a theme park. It's kind of a pointless chapter, and it's full of mostly humor and fluff, so you can skip it if you want to. Hopefully this chapter will let you get to know the characters better, and bridge the gap to the action, adventure and drama that is going to happen on the cruise. So, sorry about the holdup; this chapter isn't very good, but I hope it'll tide you over until I can get over my despicable writers block. Thanks for your patience.
Mizuna: Aren't you going to say something else? Come up with some kind of witty banter between you and myself? Some kind of spat between you and Kashaku?
Kin: Nope. The readers probably just want the story, so that's what I'm giving them. They don't want me to waste time on other stuff. Oh, and one more thing. Kashaku changed her pen name again; it's now Sho-Tosa-Kitto. So anyway, here is the fourth chapter of Falling Into Fiction (finally!). Enjoy.
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Falling Into Fiction
Chapter 4: Developments
Mizuna turned to the next page of "Theories on Human Evolution: The Chronicles" and furrowed her eyebrows. She didn't agree with this professor at all, human evolution was far more complicated than the simple change from primate to Homo Sapien. What a fool. It was, however, interesting to pull apart the reasoning behind his theories and prove to herself that they were in fact, wrong.
The three girls had finished their shopping a few days ago, and now she was wearing a pair of loose carpenter jeans, and a pale blue t-shirt that said "mess with me" in pink cursive at the top and "see what happens" on the bottom in black block type. She completed the outfit with a black bottle cap belt, a pair of Nike's and a blue ribbon tying her hair in a high ponytail. Her casual look was accented by her sprawled out position on a lounging chair that was close to the door of a nearby closet.
While she continued to destroy all reasoning behind the books logic, Kashaku was perusing a TV guide. Kashaku was wearing a leopard print mini skirt with black tights and black calf high boots. Her top consisted of a dark brown, sleeveless top with a square neck and tight lacing down the front. She had her hair in two braids on either side of her head both tied with bronze-colored ribbons, and she had painted her nails a shimmering bronze to match.
"Hey, what's wrong with this guide? I can't understand it at all!" Kashaku said angrily and threw the TV guide into the air. A few seconds later, it came back down and landed on her head.
The blue-haired demoness glanced up from her book with annoyance. "Maybe it is due to the fact that you were reading it upside down," she said and returned to her book.
"Oh."
There was complete silence for about ten seconds before Kin suddenly came barging through the door with an enraged look on her face. "Let's go to the arcade he says! I won't try anything he says! Yeah, like that lasted long!!"
Kin was wearing long, loose black cargo pants held low by a gold-studded belt, and she had already written all over her new black converses with white out and drawn skulls on them. She was wearing a tight, sheer army print t-shirt over a darker black long sleeved shirt, and she still had her multitude of golden bangles on her wrists and most likely her ankles although you couldn't see them. Her hair was down and loose as usual and a plain black baseball cap covered her ears.
"If you were fool enough to believe him, then you brought it on yourself," Mizuna said disinterestedly. Kin gave her a murderous glare.
Kashaku looked up from the still upside down TV guide and watched as Jin came through the door with a couple of red handprints on his face. Kin nearly exploded when she saw him and ripped of her cap and threw it somewhere over her shoulder in anger, making her noticeably twitching ears visible. She began yelling her head off about how he needed to learn self- control and stay away from her or she would get a restraining order or something. A vein was starting to pop out on Mizuna's head as she kept trying to read her book; it wouldn't be long before she decided to intervene and probably spoil all the fun.
Kashaku coughed for attention. No one spared her a glance and she sat simmering for a second before standing up and pitching the TV guide directly at Kin, who in turn dodged. The magazine smacked Jin in the face and he fell over with swirls for eyes. Kashaku ignored him and struck a pose. "We should all get along!! We're leaving for a cruise tomorrow afternoon, we should all be overjoyed!"
Actually, the red-haired sorceress was making sense and if it weren't for the ridiculous pose she had struck, the other two girls would assume that she was actually acting normal for once. Mizuna, however, continued to read her book without glancing up and Kin just gave her a weird look before walking purposefully over Jin's back on her way to sit on the couch. Ignoring the strangled noise he made, she sat down and pulled out a Gameboy SP.
It was getting rather dull. Packing had already been finished, and the gang was just waiting for tomorrow to come so they could officially begin their quest. But, as we all know, time moves slower when you anticipate. No one was really sure where Hiei was, but Yusuke was sulking in his room (the girls had used all his money to buy their new clothes), and Touya hadn't come out of the guys' room since this morning so was probably meditating or something strange like that. All in all, the house was very quiet.
That was, until Kashaku screamed. It seemed like almost immediately everyone else was in the room with weapons ready to fight, looking around for the source of the yellow-eyed girl's terror. However, there seemed to be no cause for alarm and Hiei turned towards her with annoyance flashing in his eyes. "Well, what is it wench?"
The others now turned to her in annoyance as well. Whereas Hiei had jumped in the open window, Yusuke and Touya had come dashing out of the boys' room expecting danger and were quite irritated and almost disappointed to find that it was only some kind of joke or something else, most likely pointless, Kashaku had thought of.
"Let's go to the new theme park I read about in the paper!" Kashaku said enthusiastically.
"Let's not," Mizuna said still reading.
Yusuke crossed his arms over his chest with a characteristic smirk. "I for one am bored just sitting around and sulking. Maybe there'll be some guys to fight; I'm going."
Kin jumped up and stuffed her Gameboy somewhere in a pocket on her baggy, black pants. "Yeah! Let's go! We can ride on all the biggest roller coasters five times apiece and then we can go on all the water rides!" At the mention of said roller coasters Kashaku went a little green, but she quickly regained her enthusiasm, at least enough for an attempt to get Touya to come as well.
"Come on Touya; it'll be fun! We can eat cotton candy, and buy souvenirs, and go on rides, and laugh at the clowns, and........." After a while the rest of the group tuned her out and turned towards Touya to see his reaction.
"Hm. I suppose it would be an ample opportunity for me to study the ningen culture further. I will go," he said emotionlessly.
Kin nodded her head in approval. That left only two others to convince. She could probably get Mizuna to go, but persuading Hiei might very well prove to be impossible. However, if she just...........Her line of thought was abruptly interrupted by a hand sliding down her back and into dangerous territory. "YOU HENTAI!"she screamed as soon as she realized what was going on. A certain wind master had apparently snuck up behind her while she was thinking and taken advantage of her preoccupied state. She slammed her elbow backwards, aiming for his stomach but missed. So, he thought he could anticipate her moves did he?
The previously reading Mizuna suddenly closed her book and stood up. She carefully placed it back on the chair before speaking. "Since it seems as if I will never be able to finish my book in peace and quiet, I too will go," she said while watching Kin throw various punches at the agile Jin. He was most likely having fun dodging her careless and angry attacks, and was talking so fast in his thick Irish accent that it was hard to make out what he was saying. However, Kin obviously could because her face was getting noticeably redder with every word.
"Well, since I think that Jin is coming, that only leaves Hiei to convince," Kashaku said with a bright smile after finally finishing, or at least pausing, in listing all the fun things to do at a theme park. She turned to the before mentioned fire demon and gave him puppy-dog eyes. "It wouldn't be the same without you! Please come with us Hiei."
However, she was to be disappointed for he just narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "What makes you think that I would want to?" he asked haughtily.
This time it was Mizuna's turn to interrupt. "You wouldn't want to neglect your duty now would you Hiei? You promised Koenma to complete any cases given in order to make up for all of your previous crimes, and what if something were to happen while we were having fun? Perhaps a youkai will attack or we will find a pendant. You never know," she said with an almost evil grin of satisfaction. If she was going down, he was going down with her. At least the torture would be spread around.
A loud crash interrupted her satisfied grin and she turned with the others to see Kin pulling her fist out of a hole in the wall. The fox demon glared at Jin like it was his fault, which it was, at least to her. "That's it, You're going down!" she yelled.
Jin sweatdropped and scratched the back of his head. "Now wait a second. I didn't-" He was cut off by a punch aimed directly for his face and dodged just in time to save his face from manual reconstruction.
"You can have your little lover's spat later," Mizuna interrupted rolling her eyes as if she were speaking to unruly children. "If I am to be forced on this foolish escapade I wish to do it now and get it over with." She left Kin sputtering in anger and Jin grinning cheerfully as she walked outside towards the car. Kashaku soon followed, skipping happily and dragging a Touya who was only now regretting his decision to join them on their venture. Yusuke followed after raising his eyebrow at the hole in the wall, and Hiei, who was looking rather furious about being forced on a trip to a theme park with such a group of fools, narrowed his eyes and was suddenly gone in the blink of an eye.
Kin crossed her arms over her chest and her left eyebrow twitched. 'I'm going to get you for that Mi-chan, just you wait.'
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It was rather chilly outside, the weather only just now making the transition into winter, but that didn't stop the multitude of tourists from flocking to the theme park like moths to a flame. The entire place was packed. Young children in puffy jackets laughed and ran off only to be caught by their scolding mothers just before they went out of sight. However, although there were tons of people cluttering the walkways, the lines for the biggest rides were surprisingly short. Perhaps it was because there were so many children rather than teenagers there.
"Let's go on this one!" Kin exclaimed happily eyes wide with excitement as she gazed at the extremely huge roller coaster in front of her. It had loops and sharp turns, tunnels and hills, but the most impressive part of it was the extremely vertical drop that happened almost right after you got started. It looked like it almost brushed the clouds.
Kashaku stared at the same ride with wide eyes. However her eyes were wide with terror rather than excitement. She gripped the sleeve of Touya's jacket like a lifeline and shook her head so fast it looked like it was going to fly off her neck. "I-I think I'll sit this one out Kin-chan," she said rather shakily as she slowly backed away, dragging Touya with her. She had already been forced on a roller coaster a bit less frightening than this one and that was enough for her.
Her enthusiastic friend merely shrugged before rushing off to get in line. "Your loss," she replied still focused on the task of getting to the first car so she could be in front.
Of course Jin was already in line, always close behind Kin in the hopes of catching her off guard. Mizuna calmly stood in line behind them with Yusuke, a bored expression seemed permanently etched on her features, and Hiei was of course refusing to get on any of the rides. Or perhaps he was just refusing to be seen with the rest of the group considering the fact that he was standing a little apart from everyone.
A car came in just then and as the gate opened to let in the waiting people, Kin shoved her way to the front car and pushed out the people already there while simultaneously strapping her seat belt on. When the people got angry and tried to get her out of the seat she just growled at them and they promptly left, muttering about animalistic teenagers today. Jin sat next to her and Mizuna took a seat in the car behind them along with Yusuke.
Kashaku watched her friends as they began to slowly make their way up to the top of the vertical drop and she turned and buried her face in Touya's chest, not wanting to watch as they plummeted down towards the ground at such a fast speed. The before mentioned ice demon cleared his throat and inched slightly away from Kashaku in an attempt to free himself, but she just walked with him, still clutching the front of his shirt. He sighed in annoyance and prodded the still clingy red-haired girl.
She looked up at him. "What?" she asked with her head cocked to the side.
"Do you think you could let go of my shirt please?" Touya asked with irritation clear in his eyes. People were stopping to openly point and say "aw", and it was starting to get on his nerves. Not to mention the aggravating smirk that Hiei had on his face and was directing towards him. He had been forced to endure this already many times before and it was starting to really bug him. The kitsune had insisted on going on only the big rides, and Kashaku was apparently afraid of heights, thereby forcing him to stay with her while she waited for the others to get off. She had gone on one ride, but that had ended quite badly with much screaming involved.
The girl from his thoughts abruptly interrupted his musings as she let go of his shirt. He let out a breath, but his relief was short-lived as Kashaku only latched on to his arm instead. Would he ever escape this girl? She just wouldn't leave him alone............ His eyebrow twitched.
Fortunately, the others got off the ride just then. Kin was once again off in a flurry about how great the ride had been and how much Kashaku had missed, but the fire sorceress just gripped Touya's jacket harder and smiled cheerfully while shaking her head.
"Hey, I know Ka-chan! Let's go on a ride that we can all enjoy!" Kin said giving Mizuna a sideways glance that looked a little too sly.
The said water demon gave her a suspicious look, but before she could inquire as to what she was planning, Kashaku interrupted. "Yeah! Let's go!"
So Kin led the way, weaving between small groups of tourists with the rest of the Spirit Detective group following. People were staring at the motley group and it was no surprise due to the fact that Kin had her ears and tail out in the open, Mizuna and Jin's ears were quite pointy, Kashaku had yellow cat eyes, Jin had a horn in the middle of his forehead, Touya had no pupils, and Hiei had a katana by his side. However, most just dismissed them as some kind of actor troupe or something. Kin stopped right in front of a ride that looked awfully like...........
"The Tunnel of Love?" Mizuna asked with one raised eyebrow.
The golden-haired girl just smirked.
Jin put an arm around her shoulders and grinned, but before he could even say a word Kin gave him a warning glare and stomped on his foot.
"Ow, what was that-" He was interrupted when Kin grabbed his sleeve and pulled his head down enough so that she could whisper in his ear. He listened attentively as she said something, occasionally glancing at Mizuna with a slight smile. No one could hear what she was saying, and the only one who really cared was Mizuna herself. Everyone else was to busy gaping at the fox demon actually getting close to Jin without trying to kill him. They were even more surprised when he whispered back to her and she blushed before nodding.
"So, let's go," Kin said finally still with a slight blush on her face. She let go of Jin's sleeve and sent another sly glance Mizuna's way. "I think that everyone should go on this ride."
Yusuke backed off. "No way," he said with a tone of finality. Kin glared at him but could do nothing when he backed away and suddenly disappeared into the crowd, quickly becoming lost to even her demon sight.
Kashaku dragged a protesting Touya over to the entrance and gave the girl at the booth a few tickets before hopping into one of the swan-shaped boats with the extremely annoyed ice demon in tow. The boat began to slowly move off into the tunnel and everyone could hear Kashaku start to say things like "Ooh look at all the pink!" and "If I jump up and down will the boat capsize?"
"Yeah, well anyway, go on Mizuna! You wouldn't want to miss all the fun would you?" Kin asked with an extremely fake innocent look on her face. Before Mizuna could protest she was being shoved towards the entrance and onto another swan-shaped boat. Just as the boat was leaving, Hiei was also shoved onto the same boat. Kin gave them one last wave before they disappeared into the dimly lit tunnel.
It was extremely phony-looking with tons of pink and red hearts all over the walls, and lights that spelled "I love you" and other such things. There was some music playing that was most likely supposed to be romantic but only came off as cheesy and annoying. The unstable swan boat rocked a little and a few more chips of stained white paint fell into the water. It went without saying that Mizuna and Hiei were more than annoyed, they were quite angry.
Hiei narrowed his eyes. "I'm getting out of here." That was when he noticed the handcuffs. Yes, the handcuffs. They were chaining him to the back bar of the boat and he wondered when the kitsune had done that. Well, it didn't matter; they were just metal and easily broken. Well, that was what he thought until they continued to hold even against his demon strength. He looked over and saw the girl pulling at her own set of handcuffs, also just having realized the situation.
"What are these made of?" she asked with exasperation as the handcuffs refused to yield to her sharp yanking.
Her companion wasn't better off even when he unsheathed his katana in an attempt to cut through the links. They sent a shock down his arm and he realized what they were. "Demon warded handcuffs."
Mizuna glared at the chains as if that would cause them to break. "When we get out of here I'm going to kill Kin."
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The same golden-eyed kitsune watched as Jin flirted shamelessly with the girl at the booth of the Tunnel of Love just as she had told him too. He said something most likely funny and the girl at the booth laughed and blushed slightly while he scratched the back of his head in feigned embarrassment. Anger began to rise in Kin's veins for no reason that she could fathom and she clenched her fists. He was hers to do whatever she wanted with and no one else's. Wait a second, hers? Was that possessiveness that was beginning to steal into her thoughts? No, couldn't be. She was just jealous. No, wait a second; that wasn't right. She was just feeling sorry for the girl. Yeah, that was it.........
Jin turned with one last charming smile and made his way over to where Kin stood stewing in her thoughts and, not that she would admit it, denial. She looked up as he came over and spoke without thinking. "You look better in your training clothes you know. They suite you better."
He grinned. "So you like me better when I don't have a shirt on?"
The now flustered Kin held up her hands. "N-no that's not what I meant. You look cute all the time- No, I mean that you look good wearing anything- Wait a second-" she continued sputtering as Jin's smile grew larger. He watched with interest as a dark red blush spread up the column of her throat and intensified as it reached her face.
Just then a boat came out the other end of the tunnel carrying two people, one ecstatically enthusiastic the other annoyed as hell and sopping wet. Touya narrowed his eyes threateningly at Kin but she was too busy stuttering and blushing to notice. She wasn't really the best when it came to emotions.
"Hey Kin-chan, why is your face so red? And why did you blush earlier when Jin whispered something to you? What's going on? Why did you make us go on this ride?" Kashaku continued asking questions as she hopped out of the boat leaving Touya to his own devices.
The kitsune girl turned towards the distraction with relief. She suddenly remembered the plan as she heard the last question and grabbed Kashaku before walking quickly off into the crowd. Jin followed with a grin still on his face, and Touya squeezed out his jacket with a glare before getting out of the boat. The group minus three wound their way back among the tourists until they were as far away from the Tunnel of Love as Kin deemed necessary.
Kashaku latched on to Touya's still wet sleeve without seeming to care and cocked her head. "Where're Mi-chan and Hiei?" she asked.
"Revenge is so sweet. Why don't we go on another ride?" was the only reply she received from the gloating kitsune now walking towards the center of the park. The Ferris wheel loomed ahead and she made a beeline for it. She didn't really like the Ferris wheel herself, but maybe Ka-chan would be able to enjoy it. It was pretty high, but it was really slow.
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Mizuna resigned herself to death handcuffed to a cheep swan boat surrounded by cheesy music and neon pink hearts. It was the seventh time she and Hiei had been around the tunnel and she was starting to wonder if they would ever escape. When they had come out the first time they were surprised to see that the rest of the group had gone, leaving them to themselves. Of course she had immediately asked the girl in the booth to let them free, but it seemed as if someone had convinced her that she and Hiei had previously paid to be left alone in the Tunnel of Love for an unlimited amount of time. Any attempt to point out the handcuffs and explain the situation sent the girl off in a tizzy about a cute red-haired guy that had told her they were just joking. What an idiot.
The horrible grating music was certainly going to make her deaf by the time that she got out, if she ever did. Hiei was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and was apparently blocking out the situation with meditation. However, his annoyance betrayed him when he unconsciously fingered his katana and his eyebrow twitched. Yep, Kin was dead.
Suddenly Mizuna brightened. She had an idea! This had to work............
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Well, as luck would have it, the Ferris wheel had broken down. Kashaku and Touya were somewhere at the top. Kin had been watching them as they ascended and then suddenly the whole ride just shuddered and stopped. A woman at a nearby kissing booth ran over to the controls and began trying to fix it, as was most likely her job. The twenty-five cent kissing booth stood deserted as Kin slowly looked around to see if anyone was watching. She slid in behind the counter and waited.
It wasn't long before a little kid who looked about six walked up holding a quarter. "Hey lady; you're pretty."
Kin smirked. "Do you want a kiss little boy?"
The boy waved his quarter around. "Yes please. I have a whole quarter!"
"Well, you're gonna need forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents more. My kisses don't come cheap you know," she replied. The little boy glared at her and sniffed before walking off most likely to tell his mommy about the mean, pretty lady at the kissing booth. As the boy disappeared once again into the crowd, a good-looking young man approached and stopped in front of the booth, he looked to be about a year older than Kin herself.
"Hey, I've got a quarter. How 'bout a kiss?" The guy was handsome enough with messy chocolate brown hair and cobalt blue eyes, a rather cute crooked smile, and a flirty manner. He flipped a quarter in his right hand and grinned.
The golden-haired girl held out her hand. "That'll be fifty bucks please."
To her surprise the guy's grin just widened and he pulled out his wallet. She watched in amazement as he pulled out a fifty-dollar bill and handed it to her. Somehow she hadn't anticipated someone actually willing to pay that much to kiss her and she wasn't really sure what to do.
"Ano, I was just joking," she said.
The handsome boy just shrugged. "Well, that's okay, you can keep the fifty. I'd like my kiss now though if you don't mind," he said.
Kin just furrowed her eyebrows. Should she kiss him or not?
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Touya sat at the top of the Ferris wheel holding the terrified Kashaku in his lap. The Ferris wheel just had to break down when they were at the top, and of course the red-haired sorceress was completely horrified. When it had shuddered she jumped immediately into his lap and wouldn't budge. She had her arms around his waist and refused to open her eyes. Fate really hated him didn't it?
A slight breeze blew and made the tips of Kashaku's crimson hair flutter. She shivered and Touya reluctantly put his arms around her to keep her from catching cold even though he probably wasn't much help due to the fact that he was still a little wet from the adventure in the Tunnel of Love. He didn't mind the cold; he was an ice demon after all, but Kashaku was a ningen fire sorceress. She didn't mix well with the cold, and for some reason that thought bothered him.
The Ferris wheel jerked and Kashaku whimpered. It began to move slowly around, stopping to let people out of their compartments as it went. They were gradually getting closer to the ground and Touya couldn't be more relieved. Finally, they were next. As the wheel stopped to let off the people right before them, Kashaku suddenly looked up.
"Thanks Touya," she said sincerely before burying her face once again in his chest for the millionth time that day. And it didn't really bother him any more.
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Was it worth it? Should she kiss a total stranger for fifty bucks? Hell yeah! She leaned in to kiss the boy, but just before her lips met his, he was shoved out of the way. Kin blinked and pulled back to find that she was looking at a very furious yet wet Mizuna. The water demon had a pair of handcuffs dangling off one of her wrists and it swung slightly as she twitched in anger.
"Hey! How did you get out?" Kin asked while trying to look around her friend and locate the boy that had been about to kiss her. Perhaps she could con another fifty out of him.
The blue-haired girl in front of her narrowed her eyes. "Hiei cut the bar that we were chained to in half, but I unfortunately did not know that the bar was the only thing supporting the boat. It capsized and we were forced to swim."
Kin nodded absently and crossed her arms in annoyance. The boy was gone and so was another easy fifty. She could see the Ferris wheel begin to start again and wondered how Kashaku had dealt with her ordeal. Her attention was abruptly yanked back to the wet demoness in front of her as Mizuna shoved the handcuffs in front of her face. "What were you thinking?! You put me through hell not to mention Hiei too!"
Her golden-haired friend just glared at her. "You deserve it for that comment you said this morning!"
"Is that what this was about?" Mizuna asked incredulously.
Kin gave her a "duh" expression and the water demoness was almost too annoyed to speak. She was put through all hell because of a stupid comment she had made earlier that morning? Her friend was in need of some serious therapy. She decided to just drop the matter and hope that Hiei would too; if she got even with Kin, the fox demoness would in turn try to get even again and so on. Whatever. Who cared anyway; it was something that she should have expected from her easily angered friend.
Kashaku suddenly popped up between the two girls and did a little dance. "I'm free! Yes! Let's get out of here!"
The other two demons gave her a strange look when she began to sing the national anthem and Kin stepped out of the kissing booth so that they could leave. As if called, the rest of the group began to gather as well. Touya walked calmly over from the direction of the Ferris wheel, Yusuke appeared out of the crowd with a few new bruises, and Jin suddenly popped up out of nowhere. Kin blushed a little when she saw him and he grinned. Gradually the group began to gravitate towards the exit, each thinking about the interesting day they had had. Just as they reached the exit a certain fire demon appeared.
Hiei gave Kin a frosty glare but said nothing. His handcuffs were gone and she could only assume he had gotten a human to touch them and remove the spell. Well, it didn't matter. The day was over, and it had certainly been an interesting one. Tomorrow was the first day of their quest, and everyone was ready for a little adventure.
To be continued.............
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Kin: Finally!! I just want everyone to know that this is just a filler chapter and it wasn't that good, I'm sorry about it. The real journey will start next chapter as I now have a good idea as of how to proceed. My writer's block is gone! Yay!
Kashaku: Gosh, I thought it would take you forever!
Kin: Well it didn't! So there!
Mizuna: It might as well have.
Kin: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!
Mizuna: Fine, I'll be quiet.
Kashaku: I liked all the parts with me in them! They were the best!
Kin: Hmpf.
Mizuna: You should end the chapter so that you can begin on the next one and post it as soon as possible.
Kin: Stop rushing me! I'm going!!
Kashaku: Hurry!
Kin: I'M GOING!! Thanks for reading. I'm truly sorry for how long it took to update and I'll try to do better. Anyway, see you next chapter. Read and Review!
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Kin: Welcome to the fourth chapter of Falling Into Fiction. Let me just say, I AM SO SORRY. But, I won't grovel, for I have many legitimate reasons for my extreme lateness in updating. First of all, my computer refuses to contact FF.net so I have been sneaking on the computers at school and updating there. Unfortunately, the teachers made a rule that now we have to tell them exactly when we get online and what we're doing, and updating on FF.net isn't high on their list of acceptable student work. I also sprained my own damn ankle doing something stupid, so I'm pretty agitated about having to use crutches. First it was SukiYumi who broke both her wrists, then me who sprained my ankle, and next it'll be Kashaku. Anyways, the biggest problem is that I have, oh the horror, dare I say it? Writers block. Yep, I have writers block.
Kashaku: So you admit it!
Kin: Shut up! Anyway, I know exactly what the plot of the story is and where it's going, but I'm having problems getting there. So, just to keep you guys interested, I'm giving you this filler chapter about the gang going on a trip to a theme park. It's kind of a pointless chapter, and it's full of mostly humor and fluff, so you can skip it if you want to. Hopefully this chapter will let you get to know the characters better, and bridge the gap to the action, adventure and drama that is going to happen on the cruise. So, sorry about the holdup; this chapter isn't very good, but I hope it'll tide you over until I can get over my despicable writers block. Thanks for your patience.
Mizuna: Aren't you going to say something else? Come up with some kind of witty banter between you and myself? Some kind of spat between you and Kashaku?
Kin: Nope. The readers probably just want the story, so that's what I'm giving them. They don't want me to waste time on other stuff. Oh, and one more thing. Kashaku changed her pen name again; it's now Sho-Tosa-Kitto. So anyway, here is the fourth chapter of Falling Into Fiction (finally!). Enjoy.
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Falling Into Fiction
Chapter 4: Developments
Mizuna turned to the next page of "Theories on Human Evolution: The Chronicles" and furrowed her eyebrows. She didn't agree with this professor at all, human evolution was far more complicated than the simple change from primate to Homo Sapien. What a fool. It was, however, interesting to pull apart the reasoning behind his theories and prove to herself that they were in fact, wrong.
The three girls had finished their shopping a few days ago, and now she was wearing a pair of loose carpenter jeans, and a pale blue t-shirt that said "mess with me" in pink cursive at the top and "see what happens" on the bottom in black block type. She completed the outfit with a black bottle cap belt, a pair of Nike's and a blue ribbon tying her hair in a high ponytail. Her casual look was accented by her sprawled out position on a lounging chair that was close to the door of a nearby closet.
While she continued to destroy all reasoning behind the books logic, Kashaku was perusing a TV guide. Kashaku was wearing a leopard print mini skirt with black tights and black calf high boots. Her top consisted of a dark brown, sleeveless top with a square neck and tight lacing down the front. She had her hair in two braids on either side of her head both tied with bronze-colored ribbons, and she had painted her nails a shimmering bronze to match.
"Hey, what's wrong with this guide? I can't understand it at all!" Kashaku said angrily and threw the TV guide into the air. A few seconds later, it came back down and landed on her head.
The blue-haired demoness glanced up from her book with annoyance. "Maybe it is due to the fact that you were reading it upside down," she said and returned to her book.
"Oh."
There was complete silence for about ten seconds before Kin suddenly came barging through the door with an enraged look on her face. "Let's go to the arcade he says! I won't try anything he says! Yeah, like that lasted long!!"
Kin was wearing long, loose black cargo pants held low by a gold-studded belt, and she had already written all over her new black converses with white out and drawn skulls on them. She was wearing a tight, sheer army print t-shirt over a darker black long sleeved shirt, and she still had her multitude of golden bangles on her wrists and most likely her ankles although you couldn't see them. Her hair was down and loose as usual and a plain black baseball cap covered her ears.
"If you were fool enough to believe him, then you brought it on yourself," Mizuna said disinterestedly. Kin gave her a murderous glare.
Kashaku looked up from the still upside down TV guide and watched as Jin came through the door with a couple of red handprints on his face. Kin nearly exploded when she saw him and ripped of her cap and threw it somewhere over her shoulder in anger, making her noticeably twitching ears visible. She began yelling her head off about how he needed to learn self- control and stay away from her or she would get a restraining order or something. A vein was starting to pop out on Mizuna's head as she kept trying to read her book; it wouldn't be long before she decided to intervene and probably spoil all the fun.
Kashaku coughed for attention. No one spared her a glance and she sat simmering for a second before standing up and pitching the TV guide directly at Kin, who in turn dodged. The magazine smacked Jin in the face and he fell over with swirls for eyes. Kashaku ignored him and struck a pose. "We should all get along!! We're leaving for a cruise tomorrow afternoon, we should all be overjoyed!"
Actually, the red-haired sorceress was making sense and if it weren't for the ridiculous pose she had struck, the other two girls would assume that she was actually acting normal for once. Mizuna, however, continued to read her book without glancing up and Kin just gave her a weird look before walking purposefully over Jin's back on her way to sit on the couch. Ignoring the strangled noise he made, she sat down and pulled out a Gameboy SP.
It was getting rather dull. Packing had already been finished, and the gang was just waiting for tomorrow to come so they could officially begin their quest. But, as we all know, time moves slower when you anticipate. No one was really sure where Hiei was, but Yusuke was sulking in his room (the girls had used all his money to buy their new clothes), and Touya hadn't come out of the guys' room since this morning so was probably meditating or something strange like that. All in all, the house was very quiet.
That was, until Kashaku screamed. It seemed like almost immediately everyone else was in the room with weapons ready to fight, looking around for the source of the yellow-eyed girl's terror. However, there seemed to be no cause for alarm and Hiei turned towards her with annoyance flashing in his eyes. "Well, what is it wench?"
The others now turned to her in annoyance as well. Whereas Hiei had jumped in the open window, Yusuke and Touya had come dashing out of the boys' room expecting danger and were quite irritated and almost disappointed to find that it was only some kind of joke or something else, most likely pointless, Kashaku had thought of.
"Let's go to the new theme park I read about in the paper!" Kashaku said enthusiastically.
"Let's not," Mizuna said still reading.
Yusuke crossed his arms over his chest with a characteristic smirk. "I for one am bored just sitting around and sulking. Maybe there'll be some guys to fight; I'm going."
Kin jumped up and stuffed her Gameboy somewhere in a pocket on her baggy, black pants. "Yeah! Let's go! We can ride on all the biggest roller coasters five times apiece and then we can go on all the water rides!" At the mention of said roller coasters Kashaku went a little green, but she quickly regained her enthusiasm, at least enough for an attempt to get Touya to come as well.
"Come on Touya; it'll be fun! We can eat cotton candy, and buy souvenirs, and go on rides, and laugh at the clowns, and........." After a while the rest of the group tuned her out and turned towards Touya to see his reaction.
"Hm. I suppose it would be an ample opportunity for me to study the ningen culture further. I will go," he said emotionlessly.
Kin nodded her head in approval. That left only two others to convince. She could probably get Mizuna to go, but persuading Hiei might very well prove to be impossible. However, if she just...........Her line of thought was abruptly interrupted by a hand sliding down her back and into dangerous territory. "YOU HENTAI!"she screamed as soon as she realized what was going on. A certain wind master had apparently snuck up behind her while she was thinking and taken advantage of her preoccupied state. She slammed her elbow backwards, aiming for his stomach but missed. So, he thought he could anticipate her moves did he?
The previously reading Mizuna suddenly closed her book and stood up. She carefully placed it back on the chair before speaking. "Since it seems as if I will never be able to finish my book in peace and quiet, I too will go," she said while watching Kin throw various punches at the agile Jin. He was most likely having fun dodging her careless and angry attacks, and was talking so fast in his thick Irish accent that it was hard to make out what he was saying. However, Kin obviously could because her face was getting noticeably redder with every word.
"Well, since I think that Jin is coming, that only leaves Hiei to convince," Kashaku said with a bright smile after finally finishing, or at least pausing, in listing all the fun things to do at a theme park. She turned to the before mentioned fire demon and gave him puppy-dog eyes. "It wouldn't be the same without you! Please come with us Hiei."
However, she was to be disappointed for he just narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "What makes you think that I would want to?" he asked haughtily.
This time it was Mizuna's turn to interrupt. "You wouldn't want to neglect your duty now would you Hiei? You promised Koenma to complete any cases given in order to make up for all of your previous crimes, and what if something were to happen while we were having fun? Perhaps a youkai will attack or we will find a pendant. You never know," she said with an almost evil grin of satisfaction. If she was going down, he was going down with her. At least the torture would be spread around.
A loud crash interrupted her satisfied grin and she turned with the others to see Kin pulling her fist out of a hole in the wall. The fox demon glared at Jin like it was his fault, which it was, at least to her. "That's it, You're going down!" she yelled.
Jin sweatdropped and scratched the back of his head. "Now wait a second. I didn't-" He was cut off by a punch aimed directly for his face and dodged just in time to save his face from manual reconstruction.
"You can have your little lover's spat later," Mizuna interrupted rolling her eyes as if she were speaking to unruly children. "If I am to be forced on this foolish escapade I wish to do it now and get it over with." She left Kin sputtering in anger and Jin grinning cheerfully as she walked outside towards the car. Kashaku soon followed, skipping happily and dragging a Touya who was only now regretting his decision to join them on their venture. Yusuke followed after raising his eyebrow at the hole in the wall, and Hiei, who was looking rather furious about being forced on a trip to a theme park with such a group of fools, narrowed his eyes and was suddenly gone in the blink of an eye.
Kin crossed her arms over her chest and her left eyebrow twitched. 'I'm going to get you for that Mi-chan, just you wait.'
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It was rather chilly outside, the weather only just now making the transition into winter, but that didn't stop the multitude of tourists from flocking to the theme park like moths to a flame. The entire place was packed. Young children in puffy jackets laughed and ran off only to be caught by their scolding mothers just before they went out of sight. However, although there were tons of people cluttering the walkways, the lines for the biggest rides were surprisingly short. Perhaps it was because there were so many children rather than teenagers there.
"Let's go on this one!" Kin exclaimed happily eyes wide with excitement as she gazed at the extremely huge roller coaster in front of her. It had loops and sharp turns, tunnels and hills, but the most impressive part of it was the extremely vertical drop that happened almost right after you got started. It looked like it almost brushed the clouds.
Kashaku stared at the same ride with wide eyes. However her eyes were wide with terror rather than excitement. She gripped the sleeve of Touya's jacket like a lifeline and shook her head so fast it looked like it was going to fly off her neck. "I-I think I'll sit this one out Kin-chan," she said rather shakily as she slowly backed away, dragging Touya with her. She had already been forced on a roller coaster a bit less frightening than this one and that was enough for her.
Her enthusiastic friend merely shrugged before rushing off to get in line. "Your loss," she replied still focused on the task of getting to the first car so she could be in front.
Of course Jin was already in line, always close behind Kin in the hopes of catching her off guard. Mizuna calmly stood in line behind them with Yusuke, a bored expression seemed permanently etched on her features, and Hiei was of course refusing to get on any of the rides. Or perhaps he was just refusing to be seen with the rest of the group considering the fact that he was standing a little apart from everyone.
A car came in just then and as the gate opened to let in the waiting people, Kin shoved her way to the front car and pushed out the people already there while simultaneously strapping her seat belt on. When the people got angry and tried to get her out of the seat she just growled at them and they promptly left, muttering about animalistic teenagers today. Jin sat next to her and Mizuna took a seat in the car behind them along with Yusuke.
Kashaku watched her friends as they began to slowly make their way up to the top of the vertical drop and she turned and buried her face in Touya's chest, not wanting to watch as they plummeted down towards the ground at such a fast speed. The before mentioned ice demon cleared his throat and inched slightly away from Kashaku in an attempt to free himself, but she just walked with him, still clutching the front of his shirt. He sighed in annoyance and prodded the still clingy red-haired girl.
She looked up at him. "What?" she asked with her head cocked to the side.
"Do you think you could let go of my shirt please?" Touya asked with irritation clear in his eyes. People were stopping to openly point and say "aw", and it was starting to get on his nerves. Not to mention the aggravating smirk that Hiei had on his face and was directing towards him. He had been forced to endure this already many times before and it was starting to really bug him. The kitsune had insisted on going on only the big rides, and Kashaku was apparently afraid of heights, thereby forcing him to stay with her while she waited for the others to get off. She had gone on one ride, but that had ended quite badly with much screaming involved.
The girl from his thoughts abruptly interrupted his musings as she let go of his shirt. He let out a breath, but his relief was short-lived as Kashaku only latched on to his arm instead. Would he ever escape this girl? She just wouldn't leave him alone............ His eyebrow twitched.
Fortunately, the others got off the ride just then. Kin was once again off in a flurry about how great the ride had been and how much Kashaku had missed, but the fire sorceress just gripped Touya's jacket harder and smiled cheerfully while shaking her head.
"Hey, I know Ka-chan! Let's go on a ride that we can all enjoy!" Kin said giving Mizuna a sideways glance that looked a little too sly.
The said water demon gave her a suspicious look, but before she could inquire as to what she was planning, Kashaku interrupted. "Yeah! Let's go!"
So Kin led the way, weaving between small groups of tourists with the rest of the Spirit Detective group following. People were staring at the motley group and it was no surprise due to the fact that Kin had her ears and tail out in the open, Mizuna and Jin's ears were quite pointy, Kashaku had yellow cat eyes, Jin had a horn in the middle of his forehead, Touya had no pupils, and Hiei had a katana by his side. However, most just dismissed them as some kind of actor troupe or something. Kin stopped right in front of a ride that looked awfully like...........
"The Tunnel of Love?" Mizuna asked with one raised eyebrow.
The golden-haired girl just smirked.
Jin put an arm around her shoulders and grinned, but before he could even say a word Kin gave him a warning glare and stomped on his foot.
"Ow, what was that-" He was interrupted when Kin grabbed his sleeve and pulled his head down enough so that she could whisper in his ear. He listened attentively as she said something, occasionally glancing at Mizuna with a slight smile. No one could hear what she was saying, and the only one who really cared was Mizuna herself. Everyone else was to busy gaping at the fox demon actually getting close to Jin without trying to kill him. They were even more surprised when he whispered back to her and she blushed before nodding.
"So, let's go," Kin said finally still with a slight blush on her face. She let go of Jin's sleeve and sent another sly glance Mizuna's way. "I think that everyone should go on this ride."
Yusuke backed off. "No way," he said with a tone of finality. Kin glared at him but could do nothing when he backed away and suddenly disappeared into the crowd, quickly becoming lost to even her demon sight.
Kashaku dragged a protesting Touya over to the entrance and gave the girl at the booth a few tickets before hopping into one of the swan-shaped boats with the extremely annoyed ice demon in tow. The boat began to slowly move off into the tunnel and everyone could hear Kashaku start to say things like "Ooh look at all the pink!" and "If I jump up and down will the boat capsize?"
"Yeah, well anyway, go on Mizuna! You wouldn't want to miss all the fun would you?" Kin asked with an extremely fake innocent look on her face. Before Mizuna could protest she was being shoved towards the entrance and onto another swan-shaped boat. Just as the boat was leaving, Hiei was also shoved onto the same boat. Kin gave them one last wave before they disappeared into the dimly lit tunnel.
It was extremely phony-looking with tons of pink and red hearts all over the walls, and lights that spelled "I love you" and other such things. There was some music playing that was most likely supposed to be romantic but only came off as cheesy and annoying. The unstable swan boat rocked a little and a few more chips of stained white paint fell into the water. It went without saying that Mizuna and Hiei were more than annoyed, they were quite angry.
Hiei narrowed his eyes. "I'm getting out of here." That was when he noticed the handcuffs. Yes, the handcuffs. They were chaining him to the back bar of the boat and he wondered when the kitsune had done that. Well, it didn't matter; they were just metal and easily broken. Well, that was what he thought until they continued to hold even against his demon strength. He looked over and saw the girl pulling at her own set of handcuffs, also just having realized the situation.
"What are these made of?" she asked with exasperation as the handcuffs refused to yield to her sharp yanking.
Her companion wasn't better off even when he unsheathed his katana in an attempt to cut through the links. They sent a shock down his arm and he realized what they were. "Demon warded handcuffs."
Mizuna glared at the chains as if that would cause them to break. "When we get out of here I'm going to kill Kin."
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The same golden-eyed kitsune watched as Jin flirted shamelessly with the girl at the booth of the Tunnel of Love just as she had told him too. He said something most likely funny and the girl at the booth laughed and blushed slightly while he scratched the back of his head in feigned embarrassment. Anger began to rise in Kin's veins for no reason that she could fathom and she clenched her fists. He was hers to do whatever she wanted with and no one else's. Wait a second, hers? Was that possessiveness that was beginning to steal into her thoughts? No, couldn't be. She was just jealous. No, wait a second; that wasn't right. She was just feeling sorry for the girl. Yeah, that was it.........
Jin turned with one last charming smile and made his way over to where Kin stood stewing in her thoughts and, not that she would admit it, denial. She looked up as he came over and spoke without thinking. "You look better in your training clothes you know. They suite you better."
He grinned. "So you like me better when I don't have a shirt on?"
The now flustered Kin held up her hands. "N-no that's not what I meant. You look cute all the time- No, I mean that you look good wearing anything- Wait a second-" she continued sputtering as Jin's smile grew larger. He watched with interest as a dark red blush spread up the column of her throat and intensified as it reached her face.
Just then a boat came out the other end of the tunnel carrying two people, one ecstatically enthusiastic the other annoyed as hell and sopping wet. Touya narrowed his eyes threateningly at Kin but she was too busy stuttering and blushing to notice. She wasn't really the best when it came to emotions.
"Hey Kin-chan, why is your face so red? And why did you blush earlier when Jin whispered something to you? What's going on? Why did you make us go on this ride?" Kashaku continued asking questions as she hopped out of the boat leaving Touya to his own devices.
The kitsune girl turned towards the distraction with relief. She suddenly remembered the plan as she heard the last question and grabbed Kashaku before walking quickly off into the crowd. Jin followed with a grin still on his face, and Touya squeezed out his jacket with a glare before getting out of the boat. The group minus three wound their way back among the tourists until they were as far away from the Tunnel of Love as Kin deemed necessary.
Kashaku latched on to Touya's still wet sleeve without seeming to care and cocked her head. "Where're Mi-chan and Hiei?" she asked.
"Revenge is so sweet. Why don't we go on another ride?" was the only reply she received from the gloating kitsune now walking towards the center of the park. The Ferris wheel loomed ahead and she made a beeline for it. She didn't really like the Ferris wheel herself, but maybe Ka-chan would be able to enjoy it. It was pretty high, but it was really slow.
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Mizuna resigned herself to death handcuffed to a cheep swan boat surrounded by cheesy music and neon pink hearts. It was the seventh time she and Hiei had been around the tunnel and she was starting to wonder if they would ever escape. When they had come out the first time they were surprised to see that the rest of the group had gone, leaving them to themselves. Of course she had immediately asked the girl in the booth to let them free, but it seemed as if someone had convinced her that she and Hiei had previously paid to be left alone in the Tunnel of Love for an unlimited amount of time. Any attempt to point out the handcuffs and explain the situation sent the girl off in a tizzy about a cute red-haired guy that had told her they were just joking. What an idiot.
The horrible grating music was certainly going to make her deaf by the time that she got out, if she ever did. Hiei was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and was apparently blocking out the situation with meditation. However, his annoyance betrayed him when he unconsciously fingered his katana and his eyebrow twitched. Yep, Kin was dead.
Suddenly Mizuna brightened. She had an idea! This had to work............
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Well, as luck would have it, the Ferris wheel had broken down. Kashaku and Touya were somewhere at the top. Kin had been watching them as they ascended and then suddenly the whole ride just shuddered and stopped. A woman at a nearby kissing booth ran over to the controls and began trying to fix it, as was most likely her job. The twenty-five cent kissing booth stood deserted as Kin slowly looked around to see if anyone was watching. She slid in behind the counter and waited.
It wasn't long before a little kid who looked about six walked up holding a quarter. "Hey lady; you're pretty."
Kin smirked. "Do you want a kiss little boy?"
The boy waved his quarter around. "Yes please. I have a whole quarter!"
"Well, you're gonna need forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents more. My kisses don't come cheap you know," she replied. The little boy glared at her and sniffed before walking off most likely to tell his mommy about the mean, pretty lady at the kissing booth. As the boy disappeared once again into the crowd, a good-looking young man approached and stopped in front of the booth, he looked to be about a year older than Kin herself.
"Hey, I've got a quarter. How 'bout a kiss?" The guy was handsome enough with messy chocolate brown hair and cobalt blue eyes, a rather cute crooked smile, and a flirty manner. He flipped a quarter in his right hand and grinned.
The golden-haired girl held out her hand. "That'll be fifty bucks please."
To her surprise the guy's grin just widened and he pulled out his wallet. She watched in amazement as he pulled out a fifty-dollar bill and handed it to her. Somehow she hadn't anticipated someone actually willing to pay that much to kiss her and she wasn't really sure what to do.
"Ano, I was just joking," she said.
The handsome boy just shrugged. "Well, that's okay, you can keep the fifty. I'd like my kiss now though if you don't mind," he said.
Kin just furrowed her eyebrows. Should she kiss him or not?
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Touya sat at the top of the Ferris wheel holding the terrified Kashaku in his lap. The Ferris wheel just had to break down when they were at the top, and of course the red-haired sorceress was completely horrified. When it had shuddered she jumped immediately into his lap and wouldn't budge. She had her arms around his waist and refused to open her eyes. Fate really hated him didn't it?
A slight breeze blew and made the tips of Kashaku's crimson hair flutter. She shivered and Touya reluctantly put his arms around her to keep her from catching cold even though he probably wasn't much help due to the fact that he was still a little wet from the adventure in the Tunnel of Love. He didn't mind the cold; he was an ice demon after all, but Kashaku was a ningen fire sorceress. She didn't mix well with the cold, and for some reason that thought bothered him.
The Ferris wheel jerked and Kashaku whimpered. It began to move slowly around, stopping to let people out of their compartments as it went. They were gradually getting closer to the ground and Touya couldn't be more relieved. Finally, they were next. As the wheel stopped to let off the people right before them, Kashaku suddenly looked up.
"Thanks Touya," she said sincerely before burying her face once again in his chest for the millionth time that day. And it didn't really bother him any more.
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Was it worth it? Should she kiss a total stranger for fifty bucks? Hell yeah! She leaned in to kiss the boy, but just before her lips met his, he was shoved out of the way. Kin blinked and pulled back to find that she was looking at a very furious yet wet Mizuna. The water demon had a pair of handcuffs dangling off one of her wrists and it swung slightly as she twitched in anger.
"Hey! How did you get out?" Kin asked while trying to look around her friend and locate the boy that had been about to kiss her. Perhaps she could con another fifty out of him.
The blue-haired girl in front of her narrowed her eyes. "Hiei cut the bar that we were chained to in half, but I unfortunately did not know that the bar was the only thing supporting the boat. It capsized and we were forced to swim."
Kin nodded absently and crossed her arms in annoyance. The boy was gone and so was another easy fifty. She could see the Ferris wheel begin to start again and wondered how Kashaku had dealt with her ordeal. Her attention was abruptly yanked back to the wet demoness in front of her as Mizuna shoved the handcuffs in front of her face. "What were you thinking?! You put me through hell not to mention Hiei too!"
Her golden-haired friend just glared at her. "You deserve it for that comment you said this morning!"
"Is that what this was about?" Mizuna asked incredulously.
Kin gave her a "duh" expression and the water demoness was almost too annoyed to speak. She was put through all hell because of a stupid comment she had made earlier that morning? Her friend was in need of some serious therapy. She decided to just drop the matter and hope that Hiei would too; if she got even with Kin, the fox demoness would in turn try to get even again and so on. Whatever. Who cared anyway; it was something that she should have expected from her easily angered friend.
Kashaku suddenly popped up between the two girls and did a little dance. "I'm free! Yes! Let's get out of here!"
The other two demons gave her a strange look when she began to sing the national anthem and Kin stepped out of the kissing booth so that they could leave. As if called, the rest of the group began to gather as well. Touya walked calmly over from the direction of the Ferris wheel, Yusuke appeared out of the crowd with a few new bruises, and Jin suddenly popped up out of nowhere. Kin blushed a little when she saw him and he grinned. Gradually the group began to gravitate towards the exit, each thinking about the interesting day they had had. Just as they reached the exit a certain fire demon appeared.
Hiei gave Kin a frosty glare but said nothing. His handcuffs were gone and she could only assume he had gotten a human to touch them and remove the spell. Well, it didn't matter. The day was over, and it had certainly been an interesting one. Tomorrow was the first day of their quest, and everyone was ready for a little adventure.
To be continued.............
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Kin: Finally!! I just want everyone to know that this is just a filler chapter and it wasn't that good, I'm sorry about it. The real journey will start next chapter as I now have a good idea as of how to proceed. My writer's block is gone! Yay!
Kashaku: Gosh, I thought it would take you forever!
Kin: Well it didn't! So there!
Mizuna: It might as well have.
Kin: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!
Mizuna: Fine, I'll be quiet.
Kashaku: I liked all the parts with me in them! They were the best!
Kin: Hmpf.
Mizuna: You should end the chapter so that you can begin on the next one and post it as soon as possible.
Kin: Stop rushing me! I'm going!!
Kashaku: Hurry!
Kin: I'M GOING!! Thanks for reading. I'm truly sorry for how long it took to update and I'll try to do better. Anyway, see you next chapter. Read and Review!
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