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Authoress Note: Hello, my possibly loyal readers! I know it's been a while. Well, a while is an understatement. It's been months. Today, I attempt the impossible! Today, I update TLTS! Please read and review!
Chapter Four
In Which the Story is Finally Updated
And then, just after the last chapter was ended, and this chapter was posted, and Botan was about to share with everyone the most juiciful secrets of ALL TIME…(drum roll please…)
Kurama walked in. "Hi everyone. What's with all the…" he trailed off when he saw Karasu. "…" he then took a deep breath, and, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Kurama! My darling!" Karasu squealed, running at Kurama with his arms outstretched. "How I've missed y-"
"Hold it," Hiei interjected, tripping Karasu mid-sentence.
"What was that for?" Karasu whimpered hugging his knee, which he bumped on the wall when he fell.
"Well, for one thing, Kurama hates you," Botan pointed out. "See how he's just standing there, spazzing out? See how he wants to run away but he's petrified? It's because you're
the last person he ever wants to see in his life." She spoke slowly, as if dealing with a child.
"But…" Karasu managed.
"Y-y-y…" Kurama sputtered. "Y-you're s'pose to be DEAD!"
"But…" Karasu managed to manage again, "but the only reason I'm alive again is because of my burning passion for my dear Kurama. How will I ever live without him!"
Kurama fell backwards to sit on the couch and stared up at Karasu, dumbstruck. "Karasu, did you ever consider that maybe the reason you came back to life is because…maybe…" Kurama's face lit up. "Maybe you have another soul mate. One who you haven't met yet. One who doesn't despise the very ground you walk on!"
Karasu seemed thoughtful. "Hmm…maybe you're right!"
"Yeah!" exclaimed Botan, helping Kurama out. "There's someone out there who's perfect for you, I bet. Someone who's dying to meet you just as much as you're dying to meet them!"
"Like anyone would want to go out with you." Junimara sniffed, still hurt about Karasu's remark about how she wasn't important.
"Well, Karasu." Botan said smartly. "I guess you'd better get looking, then!"
"Well, Botan." Karasu replied happily. "I guess you're right. And if your 'you-have-another-soul-mate-out-there' theory is right, there's only one person who can help me find that oh-so special someone!"
Kurama began to sweat and edge away from Karasu.
"THAT PERSON IS YOU, BOTAN!" Karasu announced.
"WHAT?" Botan, Hiei, and Kurama all exclaimed in unison.
"That's right!" Karasu continued. "Botan is the only one here who understands what love really means! Isn't that right?"
"What about me?" asked Juni.
"Shut up, girl. You're still not important," Karasu spat.
"Now, now," Botan said. "I am under legal obligation to care for that dear, unimportant child. Well, actually Hiei is, and I live with Hiei, so Hiei and Junimara come too!"
"WHAT?" Hiei and Juni shouted in shock and disgust.
"But…" Karasu said for the third time. "…Fine. But I'll only take them if Kurama comes
too."
"NO! I WAS THIS CLOSE!" Kurama shouted in defeat.
"I thought you were giving up on Kurama," Botan said pointedly.
"Yes, but even so, I want something pretty to look at. This could take a while, you know," Karasu said. He looked wearily at the rest of the group. "And Kurama is the only good looking one here, besides me, of course."
"Hey…" said the Hiei, Botan, and Juni. Kurama resorted to shuddering uncontrollably.
"So then it's settled!" Karasu said with joy. "The five of us are going of to search for my one true soul-mate!"
Three hours later, the fivesome was at a local diner, getting lunch. So far, they had had no luck in finding Karasu's one, true soul mate.
"I don't think we'll ever find them!" Karasu wailed dejectedly. "Even with all of Botan's magical matchmaking powers!"
Botan sweatdropped. Juni and Hiei busied themselves with the menus, and Kurama pressed himself up against the side of the booth that he had been pushed into with Karasu.
"Why did I have to sit next to him!" wailed Kurama.
"Because, I need something pretty to look at!" snapped Karasu.
"Then why couldn't I sit across from you?"
"Because. I need something pretty to pet if I feel like it, and it's bad manners to reach across a table."
"You plan on petting me!"
"If I get bored and lonely…"
The waitress, who had been taking care of the normal customers at a nearby table, wished that she had another employee to swap tables with, but all of the others were swamped as it was. She turned around and looked at the occupants of table four, thereby dubbed the Weirdo Table.
"Er, may I take your order?" The poor girl looked quite disturbed.
"I'll have a can of gay-repellant, please." Kurama murmured.
"…Er…I'm sorry, we're all out…" the waitress with the nametag which read Delores
said, slightly weirded out.
"Oh. Well, then, some coffee, please."
"I'll have some soup!" Botan piped up.
"I want ramen," said Junimara.
"I want someone sensitive and pretty," Karasu said dreamily.
"I want to go home," said Hiei.
"Uhm…" Dolores said, unsure of what to say. Suddenly, she put a hand up to her ear and said; "What's that? Do I hear the chef calling me? Yes, I believe I do! Coming chef!" She hurried out.
"I'd have to say that's the fifth person we've weirded out in the past half hour alone," Botan remarked.
"Well, we aren't exactly very normal, Botan…" Juni pointed out. "It's not everyday you see an optimist, a pessimist, a gay guy, a homophobe, and a poor, innocent girl all sitting together having lunch…"
"I'm at a loss…" Hiei said. "I see almost everyone, but who's the poor, innocent girl you mentioned? I just see a whiney brat who can't control her own murderous eyes."
Junimara sniffed in a hurt way. "The blinking thing isn't my fault…"
"Of course it isn't, Juni. Uncle Hiei over there is just a sour old bat, is all." comforted Botan gently, patting her 'legal obligation,' on the shoulder.
Now it was Hiei who had murderous eyes. "Sour old bat? I'll show you a sour old bat…" he grumbled.
"Oh, Hiei, you're so cute when you're angry."
"I must agree." commented Karasu. "Hiei, have you ever been interested in--"
"NO!" Botan and Hiei interjected in unison.
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