(Thursday, 2-24-05) Look! An update only two days after the last! I realized I kinda cut off my author's note at the end of the last chapter cuz I had a brilliant idea... It's not like it was important. Just more of my complaining.
Anyway, thank you reviewers... I find it interesting how one person said "Poor Yamashita" and another said "Please tell me Yamashita dies"... Well, no, SilverStar-AquarianAngel, up to this point (I just started writing chapter sixteen...), Yamashita is still alive. If a character has a name, I usually don't kill him. I could hurt him, if you want. Trip him? Trip him down the stairs? Throw him off the roof? Impale him on jagged rocks at the bottom of a cliff, and force him to live through it? And also, no, up to chapter sixteen, Etsuko has not shown any videos, and if she does, they will merely be mentioned. It's not like I'm going to give details. Jeez. What's wrong with you? What's your problem? Lol.
I would like to recommend a book: It's called Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It's funny. I'm only on page 97 out of 400-something and it's really funny. It's about World War 2, in which Ihave no interest, but it's still funny(after reading two Stephen King books in a row, I needed a break). So! Check it out if you have the opportunity!
Now, onwards! Enjoy the chapter!
CHAPTER SEVEN
It's Hard to Play Soccer When You're Drunk
When the three teens and Hiei showed up at the soccer field in Eclipse's convertible, the majority of the team was already there. Hiei got out of the car, using the door because he didn't even trust himself not to, and when going over the door of a convertible is enough to make Hiei sick, you have to start worrying.
"I'm never riding in a car with you again," he snarled. "Ever. Not even if my life depends on it. Not if both my legs are broken and..." The rest of that sentence was lost as he put his hand over his mouth, looking green, then vanished. Kurama had a suspicion he'd gone to the bathroom to puke up the contents of his stomach, which perhaps would get rid of some of the previous night's sake, but would also rid him of the medicine Youko had administered for his headache and hangover. Not good.
However, the girls soccer team hardly noticed this. No. Their eyes were glued to only one person as he climbed gracefully out of the car. A certain smirking redhead: the one and only Shuuichi Minamino.
"Shuuichi..." they cooed as one.
"He came to our practice..."
"Shuuichi Minamino's actually here..."
"Wow... He's so hot..."
"He's so beautiful..."
"Look at his hair... It's so perfect..."
"Wow..." they all cooed in unison.
Kurama was either oblivious or choosing to ignore this as he spoke to Eclipse and Shadow, then leaned on the car as the former ran down onto the field. Hiei came back a few minutes later and Kurama put an arm companionably around his shoulders.
"Feeling better?"
"I just went and threw up my guts, fox. Do you think I'm better?" He reached in his pocket and pulled out a bottle of Tylenol. Tipping his head back, he dumped about six into his mouth and swallowed them, making a face. "Yuck."
"Great. Our coach is popping pills," one girl sniffed. "Couldn't we be disqualified for that?"
"Yeah, I think so, if they test him," another girl said. Both still had their eyes glued on Kurama but were managing to have conversation despite this.
"You could also be disqualified for having an underage drunk MVP but I won't tell if you don't," Eclipse said, tossing a ball at their faces to break the eye contact with Kurama. She paused, swaying slightly, and squinted. "Ow."
"You're drunk?" one girl said, horrified. "We have a game in half an hour and you're drunk!"
"I can still play," she said, bouncing the ball from knee to knee just to show them how right she was. "I drove all the way here without wrecking, too, didn't I?"
Hiei came walking down to the field and glared around at them all. "I feel like shit, so don't expect any leniency from me and don't expect a single smile, smirk, derisive laugh, nothing. If you do anything stupid, I'll punish Eclipse for it, because she's drunk and shouldn't be."
"Wait, how did you know she was drunk!"
"For one, I heard her say it just now, and for two, I was there. Now start practicing or doing whatever the hell you do before a game while I go over here and attempt to recover from a drunk girl's driving..." And my own hangover, he added bitterly to himself. He went over fell face-first on the ground. The team stared.
"Well, get to work, ladies. You heard the man," Kurama said, walking past them to get to Hiei. He didn't look at any of the girls, but they worshipped his presence all the same and once he was out of their way, they started their warm-ups obediently, trying their best to impress him (of course, he wasn't paying attention). To think, the Great Shuuichi Minamino would show up at their game! It's amazing!
"Hiei?" Kurama said, kneeling next to him and rolling him over. Hiei's bandaged right arm flew up and he grabbed a fistful of Kurama's shirt, pulling him closer.
"I. Hate. Ningen. I hate your ningen sports, I hate your ningen women, I hate your goddamn ningen cars and sake and the stupid medicines that are supposed to help your stupid hangovers from the stupid sake and I hate everything right now!"
"It's okay, Hiei. I can understand that. I hate my own inner self right now."
"Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me! I hate Youko and Yusuke and Kuwabara, too, and hell, I hate Koenma and Botan and the driver of the car that killed Yusuke and the stupid little child and his ball and mostly I just hate Yusuke for caring that the dumb kid was gonna get flattened! Hate, hate, hate! I might as well hate you for GRINNING AT ME LIKE THAT! If I didn't feel like my head would explode if I sat up, I would strangle you right now. But I'm too damn sick." And his arm dropped back to the ground, releasing Kurama, and he rolled over and curled up. "Can I go home?"
"No, Hiei, you have to at least stand there and look like you're coaching."
"Stand! Oh my God... I like Makai better... At least there, when you have a problem, killing something usually helps solve it. Here, it's not acceptable to even have a sword in public! No, you can't have that here, you might hurt someone! Well I have the sword, don't you think that might be why I have it? I intend to hurt someone? I don't have it on accident, you ningen dolt!"
Kurama sat through Hiei's rant, and he had to admit the little fire demon said some interesting things... But finally the other team arrived and the game started. They were losing from the start.
At half time, the score was five-one and Eclipse came stumbling over panting and sweating.
"You know," she panted, "I heard somewhere... that heavy exercise... while drunk... is bad for your heart... Of course, it wouldn't bother you, Hiei... son of a bitch... All you're doing is standing there..." And she chugged her entire bottle of water.
"And he's not drunk," one of the other girls pointed out.
"The hell I'm not," Hiei muttered under his breath. "Now when you go out there I expect you to win this game..."
"They have a four point lead!" one girl protested.
"I don't care! Eclipse! You're the MVP, you're supposed to save the team's ass when they're losing!"
"IT'S HARD TO PLAY SOCCER WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK!"
"Well it's hard to COACH soccer when you're drunk."
"And it's hard to WATCH soccer when you're drunk!" Shadow added. Everybody looked at her.
"What are you doing over here, Shadow?" Hiei asked, annoyed.
"Watching soccer."
"There's stands over there for a reason, you know."
"Yes, well I was up there but then the pink winged elephant wouldn't stop accusing me of disrupting the space-time continuum, so I came over here. It's over there talking to that blue toothless crocodile now." She pointed. There were no elephants or crocodiles in the stands. Hiei sighed.
"If you say so."
"They were disrupting me," the girl said plainly. "But when I came down here, I realized that there were two soccer balls and it's hard to watch them both..." She sighed sadly, shaking her head. "I just can't win."
"I think you need to go to the doctor," Eclipse said.
"I did. He gave me something stinky and told me if I poured it on the pink elephant it would go away... It didn't work. The elephant tried to kill me."
Kurama, standing nearby, had a fair idea that the pink elephant she had been seeing had been an overweight lady with a pink rain slicker. He'd seen her running out of the stands towards the bathroom. That explains it.
"You poured something on some bystander?" he asked. Shadow shook her head violently, then swayed and nearly fell into Hiei's arms (of course, with her added weight, he would've fallen too).
"No, no, no, fox, were you not listening? I said it was an elephant!"
"I saw a heavy woman in a pink raincoat leave the stands right after you came running over here. It wasn't an elephant. What did you pour on her?"
Shadow shrugged and held up an empty bottle. "It was in this."
Kurama took it and read the label, then examined the bottle. "You poured sour milk on some old fat lady sitting the the bleachers at a soccer game. Boy, I bet Koenma would like to hear about that."
"Hey coach, you're supposed to be giving us pep talk during all this!" one girl said abruptly. Shadow and Kurama continued arguing.
"Pep talk? Here's this: Win the game or Eclipse gets all the blame. If you're fine with that, go on and lose. But guilt is hard on a person's self-esteem and her status as MVP could possibly be in danger. She'll start thinking she is as bad as I accuse her of being, then she will start declining in skill, and shortly you will have a not-very-valuable most valuable player. Okay?"
"As coach, it is your duty to improve the team, not-"
"Do. Not. Lecture me."
Halftime was shortly over and the team went out and lost horribly. Hiei had Eclipse play the entire game, and he knew it wasn't her fault they'd lost (well, maybe it partially was, but it was the rest of the team's fault more because they'd grown to rely on her too much). However, keeping good to his promise, he pummeled Eclipse and dragged her to her car, tossed her in the trunk, and ordered Kurama to get in and drive. The fox obeyed, smiling. It was quite amusing to see Hiei so pissed off over something as simple as a hangover and a lost soccer game. He told the little demon this and recieved a death glare in response.
"Shut up, Kurama."
"Sorry. It's just... funny."
"Shut up."
Meanwhile, Eclipse was pounding on the inside of the trunk.
"LET ME OUT! I CAN'T BREATHE!"
"I HOPE YOU DIE!" Hiei shouted back.
-
Arriving home, Hiei went straight to his bedroom, trailed closely by a silent Shadow. He acted like he didn't notice her until he reached his bedroom door, then he spun around and grabbed her shoulders.
"Why are you following me?"
"Why are you so upset?"
"Don't answer a question with a question!"
"Fine! Hiei, I am following you to ask you why you're so upset."
"I'm upset because I feel like shit."
"Well we've got school tomorrow and according to Yusuke's fine print, I can't miss a day, and if you stay home I have to stay with you to be your nurse and give you tender loving care. So even though I feel like shit too, I'm willing to give you tender loving care right now so you'll feel better tomorrow. Sound like a plan?"
"No."
"But you'll feel better! Seriously! You can't take any ningen medicines to feel better because you're a demon. But my home remedies will fix you right up!"
"You mean the ones you borrow off Kurama?"
"Those too, but I've got some relaxation techniques that will make you forget all about your headache."
"...Such as...?"
"Ah! So you're interested! Come along, then!" She linked his arm with hers and practically dragged him into his own bedroom and shut the door.
Downstairs, Yusuke and Kuwabara had stayed at the house through Eclipse's game and were lounging in the living room when Kurama came strolling in.
"Hiei and Shadow went upstairs. I think one or the other is pissed about something and they're gonna go have sex to forget about it," Yusuke told him dryly, staring at the TV.
"Hiei's pissed about his hangover and they're not going to have sex," the redhead told him. "Shadow just doesn't want to be around us because she's feeling vulnerable with her hangover."
"Really?"
"No, I just made up some crap to sound smart," Kurama said, shrugging and plopping down on the couch next to Yusuke. The boy stared at his friend.
"And how often do you do that?"
"What, make up stuff? Not very often, really. Just at times like this when somebody pissed off Youko and he refuses to talk to me. I guess that's for the better, since it was Shadow who pissed him off and so now he's not whispering his normal lewd comments every time he sees her. More like threats."
"Threats?"
"You know. He's pissed because she ignored him for Hiei, so now he's threatening to do naughty things next time he gets loose. He won't, though. He has enough brains and enough respect for Hiei not to."
"What do you know, Shuuichi? Only what I tell you, so shut up."
"Right, the whole 'under-appreciated' thing. I think you've got some kind of inferiority/superiority complex... Not to mention your inhuman sexual lust."
"I'm NOT human, kid. What do you expect?"
"Whatever."
"WHY ARE YOU JUST BRUSHING ME OFF?"
"You've been hissing rape plots in the back of my head every time I looked at Shadow for the past two hours. What do you expect?"
"I wonder what they are doing, then," Kuwabara said randomly. "I mean, if they aren't having sex."
"We don't know that they aren't having sex!" Yusuke snapped. "The stupid fox was just making crap up! Kurama! I demand that you go upstairs and check on those two to make sure that in nine months there won't be a baby Hiei or Shadow running around! Go! Now! I command it as leader of the Reikai Tantei and Raizen's heir!"
"We're in Ningenkai, Yusuke... None of that stuff effects us," Kurama said, getting up anyway. "But since you're my friend, I'll go make sure that Hiei is not impregnating a 16-year-old halfbreed girl. I'll risk my own sanity to make sure that in a year, Hiei doesn't have some little child to pass on his traits to... Of course, if it's a girl..."
He walked away muttering. Up the stairs he went-all the way up to the third floor when he found nobody in Shadow's bedroom. He knocked on Hiei's door. Then he waited. When nobody answered, but he heard no questionable noises, he turned the knob and found the door was open. Odd. He pushed in on the door and slipped inside.
"What's going on in here?" he asked quietly.
"Massage therapy," replied Shadow. There was a bit of a grin on her face as she looked at the redhead's slightly surprised face.
"Oh." He paused. "Yusuke sent me up to make sure Hiei wasn't making you the bearer of his children."
"Hiei's not doing anything of the sort. He's just sitting here being a good little boy while I massage every little pain out of his mind," Shadow said. And that was exactly what was going on. Nothing too questionable, except that Hiei had no shirt on and Shadow was touching him a lot. But that wasn't all that far out of the ordinary.
"Well... He'll still think that in nine months we'll have another member of our big happy family, but I'll go tell him you're behaving yourselves. And please make sure that there won't be another member of our big happy family in nine months... You're a little young to be having a demon's child, Shadow..."
"Go away, Kurama," Hiei murmured.
"Right. Sorry." Kurama left, shutting the door behind him. He paused in the hall for a minute, thinking, then shrugged and headed down the stairs.
"Well?" Yusuke prompted eagerly.
"Wouldn't it be odd if Hiei was the first one out of us to get a girl laid? Sorry for the lack of tact in my wording, but wouldn't it be?"
"He's not, is he!" Yusuke and Kuwabara asked in horrified unison.
"No, no, nothing like that... But the way they act..."
"Kurama! You're worrying me. If Hiei has children before me, or even you-"
"I'm not planning on having any children."
"Well I'm sure Hiei isn't either, but that's not the point! If he did, and he's like mister cold-and-heartless, or at least used to be, that's just so wrong! I mean, with our current relationships... I'm the only one here with an official girlfriend..."
"That's beside the point... Crap, now I got you thinking. They're not doing anything questionable together. No sex, no kissing, nothing like that."
"What are they doing, then?"
"Nothing wrong."
"What, then?"
"Erm... massage... therapy... As Shadow called it..."
Yusuke opened his mouth to shout, then sighed. "I want a massage..."
Kurama fell over, just as the front door burst open and in came stomping a furious Eclipse.
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU JUST LEAVE ME IN THAT CAR! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
"It wasn't me!" Kurama yelped. "I completely forgot you were there once you shut up! I was preoccupied! It wasn't my fault! Um... Help!"
"Fine! Where's Shadow and Hiei, then?"
"No!" all three boys cried at once, leaping into her path. "Don't go bother them!"
"Why NOT!"
"They're... having... quality time," Yusuke said, his eyes shifting around.
Eclipse paled slightly. "Are there gonna be baby Hieis running around in nine months?"
"No," Kurama said. "Nothing like that. Well, nothing exactly like that. But you don't wanna go disturb them. Hiei's feeling a bit better and you bursting in there shouting and waving your arms wouldn't fix a thing. And you would die."
"...Are there naked people up there?"
"No! You always jump to the worst conclusions! You're like Yusuke!"
"I'm nothing like him!" Eclipse retorted angrily.
"Whatever."
"So if I can't go disturb those fire demon lovebirds and their half-naked make-out sessions, who can I blame for leaving me in the trunk? Oh, look, there's Kurama, the only other one who was in the car!"
"No! I wasn't! You were, and so was, um, one of Shadow's weasel minions! That's it! Go up to Shadow's Weasel Room and confront him. He's blue."
"Really?"
"Honestly."
Eclipse squared her shoulders and walked up the stairs. The boys stood still, lounging around waiting for...
"OH MY GOD IT HURTS SO BAD, GET THEM OFF, GET THEM OFF, WEASELS, OH, GOD, WEASELS! GO, CHICKEN SOLDIERS! GO! OH MY GOD, THEY'RE EATING THE CHICKENS! AHHHHHH! THAT'S OKAY CUZ I DIDN'T LIKE THEM ANYWAY! AAHHHHHH! AND THEY NEVER REALLY EXISTED! AHHHHH! WEASELS, OH, GOD, THE PAIN, THE UNBELIEVABLE, UNBEARABLE PAIN! IT'S UNSUBSTANTIATED! HOW AM I THINKING OF BIG WORDS WHEN I'M HAVING MY FLESH TORN OFF? YYYYYEEEEEE-OOOOOOWWWWWWWWW! MOMMMMMMMYYYYY!"
Up in Hiei's room, the screams were just as loud as they were downstairs. Hiei rolled over and pulled a pillow over his head.
"Couldn't you train them to kill faster?" he mumbled.
"No. Killing is in their nature, and they do it at their own pace. I think they're sadistic creatures. They like torturing people," Shadow replied. "Don't worry about it. If you worry you'll start getting tense again. You'll need another massage."
"Really?"
"Yes, really. But worry and stress also cause the body to age faster and you'll get wrinkles on your pretty face."
"Pretty?"
"Oh, right, gomen, pretty is used to describe Kurama. You're more... cute."
"Cute?"
"Hot? Sexy? Handsome? Pick a word, I have a thesaurus memorized."
"Be quiet."
"Sorry. I'm gonna go speed up Eclipse's demise. Either that or save her ass... Probably the latter, sadly..." She got up and left the room.
A few hours later, Eclipse was sitting in front of the group (even Hiei managed to drag himself out of his bed to see this) in a full-body mummy suit of bandages. She glared out through the slit at Kurama.
"This is all your fault, fox," the said, muffled through the cloth.
"No, it's yours for being so stupid as to go invading hungry weasels' territory," Shadow said flatly. "I wonder what the people at school will say tomorrow."
"SCHOOL? I'M NOT GOING TO SCHOOL, CHILD!"
"What? You're gonna miss all those days of health class just because of a few measly weasel bites?"
"And heavy blood loss and infection in the wounds," Kurama muttered. "I think the least of her concerns is learning about sex."
"But she wants to be able to please you, Kurama!"
"What!" Kurama and Eclipse exclaimed simultaneously. Kurama's was more of a surprised yelp, Eclipse's was a 'YOU SICKO, SHUT UP!' kind of exclaimation.
"Oh, yes, she never told you? Eclipse wants to bear your children."
"I'm sure Youko wouldn't object, but..."
"SHE'S LYING!" Eclipse screamed. "I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BEARING ANYONE'S CHILDREN! WHY ARE YOU SAYING SUCH THINGS?"
"Because you and Yusuke think I'm gonna start popping out miniature Hiei replicas any day now and it pisses me off!" Shadow snapped. "So you love Kurama and Yusuke loves Kuwabara and that leaves me and Hiei so maybe we will just go off and multiply profusely! Before you know it you'll be up to your eyeballs in black haired fire children! OKAY? OKAY? HUH? AND THEN THOSE EYEBALLS WILL BE GOUGED OUT AND YOU WILL DIE!"
Everyone stared in silence. Shadow stood there with her shoulders heaving as she panted for breath.
"Well that was unprovoked," Kuwabara muttered.
"NO IT WASN'T! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE ASIDE FROM HIEI WHO HASN'T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT ME HAVING CHILDREN! Oh dear, that's frightening. Kuwabara has more sense then all of you? Than you, Kurama!"
"I never-"
"You came up to check that we weren't! That's as good as!"
"Yusuke told me to!" he whined. "Besides, Kuwabara's probably still stuck on Hiei's previous attitude of 'pissy little fire demon.' He still thinks Hiei would never consider impregnating you but I KNOW BETTER!"
"What!" Hiei cried. "I feel betrayed, Fox!"
"Why?"
"That you, my good friend, would accuse me of wanting to steal a young girl's virginity and force her to carry a child! She's only sixteen, Kurama!"
"So?"
"So I'm a lot older than that!"
"You know very well age differences are nothing to demons when it comes to mating. You're just using ningen excuses to try to fool people who are unaccustomed to demon ways."
"I'm using ningen excuses because we're in Ningenkai and demon ways aren't commonly accepted here!"
"The only ningen among us is Kuwabara and he'd have no problems accepting the age difference thing. The only thing he'd have problems with was the shock of you being a father! And he could get over that. You don't look all that much older than her. People wouldn't be able to tell the difference. They already assume you're either related or married."
"Are you trying to destroy any reasons there are not to mate with her?"
"I'm just trying to get it through to all of you that there's no reason you couldn't."
"What if I really am related to him!" Shadow cried, grabbing Kurama's shoulders. "What if he's my father and I didn't know? He's old enough! He was in Makai when I was born!"
"Yeah, but didn't you say you lived with your parents until they died?"
"Or faked their own death. I wasn't even ten. It was very traumatic for me," Shadow said in a cheerful matter-of-fact tone. "But I don't really care anymore cuz I'm over my traumatic past. And it was very traumatic, let me tell you."
"Was it? Care to tell us about it?" Yusuke asked curiously.
"No. Because then, I'll be very upset and Hiei will have to cuddle me in his arms and whisper sweet nothings in my ear to console me until I stop crying."
"... What if he refused?"
"Then I'd probably kill myself."
"Koenma would send you back. There's no way Reikai is ready for you, whether your death is in their books or not."
"Then if he refused, I would turn to Kurama and end up getting screwed by Youko because I'd be in such an emotional state of weakeness that I wouldn't be able to refuse his soft, sexy voice and sensual touch. And I would beg for him to-"
"Shadow! For God's sake, don't go into detail there!" Hiei choked, putting his hand over her mouth. She blinked, then Hiei cried out in disgust and pulled his hand away, wiping it on his pants. "She licked me!"
She grinned at him over her shoulder, then stuck out her tongue and wiggled it at him. "Yummy."
Yusuke gagged. Kurama put a hand over his face and turned away a bit. Eclipse, mummy bandages and all, fell right out of the chair she was propped up in and she started thrashing and wailing on the floor in pain. Nobody noticed. Kuwabara was just staring in disgust. Hiei continued distractedly wiping his hand on his pants, though it was more than likely clean by now, and stared at Shadow with slightly wide eyes and a bit of a slack jaw. Taking in all their reactions, the girl burst out laughing.
"Oh, God, you people are so funny. I love you guys... So easily freaked out." She drew Kurama and Hiei, the two nearest, into a sudden hug and they gagged as she constricted their lungs.
"Shadow! Can't breathe!" they wheezed. She blinked and dropped them suddenly.
"Sorry 'bout that, then. As I said a while ago, Hiei couldn't be my father because I lived with the guy for enough of my life that I remember that he wasn't Hiei. Unless it really WAS Hiei and... Well, no, sixteen years ago Hiei was still a crab and would want nothing to do with a ningen... He wouldn't now. So that rules that out. Why would you people be that stupid? How could Hiei be my father? What's wrong with you?"
"We never said he was... We said he was your lover. You said he could be your father," Yusuke said. "But he's not, and you've got my curiosity peaked about your past. I'm gonna nag at you about it until you tell me."
"You're gonna be nagging for a long time Yusuke because I learned the art of selective hearing many years ago."
"Selective hearing my shoe! That's just an excuse you use when you were zoning out!"
"What? I wasn't listening," Shadow said cluelessly. Yusuke groaned.
"Fine, I won't nag at you."
"Thank you, Yusuke," she said sweetly, smiling and batting her eyelashes.
"Now... what were we talking about before we got sidetracked?" Kurama asked.
"I have no idea," the rest replied.
"Eclipse doesn't look like she's having fun, you know that?" Shadow said dryly, pointing. Eclipse was still thrashing around on the floor. Kurama let out and yelp and he and Kuwabara dragged her back into the chair and propped her up again.
"YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" the girl threatened. "THE SECOND I HEAL, I'LL KILL YOU!" She went into fits of maniacal laughter. "Except I might spare Kuwabara, cuz he's actually a nice guy if you get over the fact that he's ugly and dumb as a rock... BUT THE REST OF YOU WILL DIE!" She continued laughing.
"You won't kill Kurama," Shadow said. "He's going to make your hurty places go away."
"Hurty places! How's he gonna get rid of my entire body!"
"Cannibalism," Shadow replied simply. Kurama's jaw dropped.
"That's sick," Hiei muttered. Shadow grinned.
"I know! Why do you think I said it?"
Hiei sighed, trying again to remember why he lived with this girl and associated with these people.
Miss Shadow will warn you: Romance starts next chapter. -groan- Cursed freakin' romance... Damn them and their love. I hate love. I even drew a nice picture titled "Love Sucks" that's pretty gory and has lots of blood. Got the idea on Valentine's Day. -evil grins- Anyways... Next chapter. Romance. Love. Romance. If I had a flashy sign, I'd wave it around. Romance. Love. Romance. Love. Love. Romance. Romance. Love. Love.
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