Hello to all of you out there! It's Calismo, still trying to update as quickly as possible. I have a horrible project for language arts that I have to do though, so it might be days or weeks or months (okay, not that far) before the next update. Not to mention my poor laptop being struck with a virus. T.T

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the bad guys and myself.

Chapter Eight

"Eh?" Olivia wipes her eyes free of tears. "Where did the boys go?"

Jin enters from the living room, Malia in his arms. "Probably caring for their wounds. The whole lot of theme got hit with that yellow light."

Nissi gasps, "Oh my gosh I completely forgot! We need to go see if they're okay!"

The four scramble from their places and up the stairs until they run into Touya. They search his body (no dirty stuff people!) frantically, making him go beet-red.

"You're not hurt, thank God!" they pull him into a hug, causing him to redden further.

Soon they move on to Jin, carefully avoiding Malia as they hug him, "And you saved Malia. We owe you so much!"

"Don't worry about it. Go up and check on the others," Touya gives them a push.

"Right."

The four girls find their friends sitting in the attic, arguing their heads off. Kurama (who is in fact Kuwabara) is holding Hiei (who is really Yusuke) by the collar of his cloak. Yusuke/Hiei (a/n: please remember I'm putting who it really is and then who they are perceived to be!) fumbles for his katana, only to fall to the ground as the girls give a SIT command.

"Damn it!" Yusuke/Hiei (Ack! Don't make me cuss anymore! T.T) snarls, pulling himself up from the floor. "What the heck was that for?"

"Why are you two fighting? You've never fought before, so what is going on?" Nissi marches up to Kuwabara/Kurama and pokes his forehead.

"Yeah," Olivia agrees. "What's up?"

"Nothing!" the four boys say simultaneously, causing the girls to jump.

"Well whatever then…come on Hiei, we need to train," Olivia grabs Yusuke/Hiei's hand, noticing a frown appear on Hiei/Kuwabara's face. "Something wrong, Kuwabara?"

"No," Hiei/Kuwabara replies coldly, casting his glare down at the floor.

"I propose," Yusuke/Kurama interrupts, "that we all go and train for a while. Give Malia some time to rest in a quiet house."

The Destinies stare, "Did you just say "I propose"?"

Kurama/Yusuke's eyes widen, "Just trying out some new vocabulary, for cripes sake."

"That sounds more like you."

Yusuke/Hiei shoots Kurama/Yusuke a look before following Olivia out of the room, hands intertwined. Hiei/Kuwabara grabs Vanessa by the wrist and storms out after them, trying to keep them in sight, all the while trying to send horrible messages to Yusuke, but failing.

We must be limited to our host's powers. His frown deepens, as does his grip on Vanessa's wrist. She struggles against him, surprised that his grip is so strong. "Stop it, Kuwabara, you're hurting me!"

Stopping in his tracks, Hiei/Kuwabara releases Vanessa before moving on. Back up in the room, Nissi smiles at Kuwabara/Kurama, wraps her arms around him, and walks out. Kurama/Yusuke sighs deeply, hoping to God that Kuwabara would have enough decency to not do anything indecent. Kurama/Yusuke glances down at Meagan before nodding to the door.

"Hurry up Yusuke, you are going to teach me to dodge the Shotgun today!" Meagan sings, jumping out the window. "No time to take the stairs!"

Teach her to dodge the Shotgun? Kurama/Yusuke moans, jumping out after her. Yusuke you imbecile…of all the times! I don't even know how to use the Shotgun.

"Come on Yusuke," Meagan calls to him.

"Meagan…I think we'' have to put the Shotgun off. I just feel a bit weak from that attack."

"Oh that's right!" Meagan whacks her head. "I completely forgot. I'm so sorry!"

She grabs his hand and drags him off into the trees. Kurama/Yusuke sighs. That was a close one…

"Nissi you go on, okay? I just remembered something I have to ask Vanessa," Kuwabara/Kurama gives her a push.

She nods and runs on into the distance. Kuwabara/Kurama sprints off to find his beloved. He finds her to be sitting on the ground, her hands and feet tied with a gag stuffed in her mouth.

"Vanessa, what happened?" Kuwabara/Kurama unties and un-gags her, pulling her to her feet.

"HE TIED ME UP THE FUCKING BASTARD! (T.T Please note that this is entirely what Vanessa wanted me to write!) "WAIT UNTIL I FIND HIS BUTT!"

Kuwabara/Kurama shudders, then grabs her shoulders.

"Kurama what are you—"

Cut off in mid-sentence, Vanessa can only stand in shock as who she believed to be Kurama kissed her, wrapping his arms around her waist. He hears a gasp behind him and spins around, only to see Nissi staring back at him. Tears form in her eyes as she storms off. Insults in her mind catch the attention of Olivia who stops in mid-punch (much to Yusuke's happiness, as he was about to get creamed) and runs off to find her.

Vanessa runs after her too, and soon the boys all hear several doors slamming and several voices raising. Soon there is a loud scream of "leave me alone!" and all is quiet. Yusuke/Hiei grins.

"I know what he did and if he can get away with it than so can I!" he marches off to Meagan.

Currently Meagan is standing in the middle of a field, resting while Kurama/Yusuke investigates the source of the noise. He doesn't notice Nissi coming out of nowhere and coming up behind him. And if he were paying attention, he would have noticed Olivia sneaking up in the brushes behind him as well, but he doesn't.

"Hey Meagan!" Yusuke wraps his arms around her, licking her cheek.

"Aah! What is wrong with you guys today!" Nissi runs off again.

Simultaneously, Meagan and Olivia boil over. "SIT!"

The earth is shook with the greatest rumble ever as Yusuke/Hiei goes twenty feet into the rocky ground. Furious, he comes back out, ready to punch.

"Dang it I'm not Hiei so stop whacking me into the friggin' ground!"

"Y-Yusuke?"

"Yes Yusuke, you idiot! We switched bodies when the guy attacked us!"

"Then why didn't you tell us?"

"Kurama said you would worry…"

Olivia sighs in relief until she remembers the current problem at hand, "Who's in Kurama's body?"

"Kuwa—"

He stops as Olivia angrily materializes her cloud and flies off muttering something like "whack him into the ground with a bat!"

In the Mansion

"Go and apologize. NOW," Kurama shoves the current inhabitant of his body into Nissi's room.

"Uh…Nissi?" Kuwabara grabs her as she tries to escape out the window. "Look at me for a second. I—"

Nissi gives him one of her mournful stares before slapping him across the face. Kuwabara stands still, but outside the door, Kurama feels the full force of her hit.

"Ouch."

"Nissi!" Olivia comes flying back through Nissi's window with her arms around a struglling Nissi. "It wasn't Kurama that kissed Vanessa. Kuwabara is in his body. They got switched when that light hit them."

"Liar!"

"I'm not lying! Ask him anything at all—he won't be able to tell you it."

"All right then Kuwabara. What is my full name?"

"…Nissi?"

"Uh…oh my gosh I'm so sorry that I hit you!"

"I didn't feel anything. I think Kurama felt that hit. Good thing too, otherwise I would probably be hurting right about now. Like really hurting."

"Hey, I'm going to find Hiei," Olivia smiles, knowing her job is done, and flies back out the window. She loves her cloud. "Hiei! Hiei, you can come out—I know about the body switching and stuff!"

She hears a ruffling among the trees and instantly navigates herself towards the noise. What she sees causes her to laugh so hard she looses concentration and her cloud disappears. Had it not been for the fact that she grabs onto a branch, she would have fallen to the ground and most likely broken a bone or two.

Hiei, in Kuwabara's not-so-graceful-body, tries to situate himself in a tree and failing miserably. "Hn. Stupid oaf can't even sit in a tree properly. Get me out of this body soon onna, or I might really hurt it."

"Oh no, don't do that, Hiei."

"Can you change us back?"

"…Maybe…"

"Onna!"

"Come on, let's get back so we can figure out what to do."

"Hn."

Once Again…At the Mansion

"You should have called me over here sooner," Genkai grumbles as Hiei and Olivia return. "Who knows when the guy could come back to attack? And if you dimwits couldn't control your holder's powers…"

"I just can't believe they didn't tell us," Vanessa glares at who she thinks is Kuwabara, but he, Hiei, only points to Kurama's body, so she turns to glare at him instead. He gulps visibly.

"Hello girls, long time no see!" Botan appears out of nowhere, her oar over her shoulder.

"Kyaa! Botan!" the Destinies (Malia is still asleep) jump on her, hugging her to death. "Where have you been?"
"Very busy currently…I've led too many up too Spirit World to even guess at the number."

"Enough chatter," Genkai commands, handing each of the boys a cup of bubbling liquid. "This is a fairly simple spell, and had you thought to call me in earlier you could have avoided all this trouble I'm hearing about."

"Just exactly what is this, Grandma?" Yusuke eyes it suspiciously.

"DRINK IT!" the Destinies yell.

And so, the boys down it all at once, feeling the same sleepy sensation that they felt when they had switched bodies previously. They close their eyes lightly and upon opening them, they find themselves to be in their own bodies again.

"Alright, I'm back to normal height!" Yusuke hugs himself. "No offense, Hiei."

"Hn," he grabs Olivia and walks out of the room. "Come on onna."

"Eh? Where are we going?"

"You'll see."

"Kurama…" Nissi whispers, jabbing him softly. "Can I talk to you?"

"Sure."

The two exit, followed by Meagan and Yusuke, Meagan chiding him furiously for scaring Olivia like that. Genkai, Botan, Jin, and Touya leave the room quickly, too, fearful of Vanessa's wrath. In her hand, Vanessa holds Botan's bat. She slowly advances upon the shaking Kuwabara.

"Low…you…are…very…low…"

(This scene shall have to be skipped, due to severe graphic violence. Use your imaginations.)

With Olivia and Hiei

"I'm perfectly capable of carrying myself you know…Ah! Watch out for the trees, Hiei!"

Rushing through the trees, Hiei growls under his breath as Olivia continues shrieking and clutching his arm every time a tree approaches. "Will you shut up onna?"

"You run like a madman! It's a good thing you aren't allowed to drive."

"You run slowly, and we need to get there fast."

"Get where?"

Hiei chooses to ignore her question, quickly plucking a ripe pear from a tree. He hands it to her, "Indulge yourself."

"Gee thanks."

"We're here…"

Olivia looks around, gasping. She is sitting in a clearing, with trees covering all sides around and above her save the opening they came through. A brook runs through the middle of the clearing, and inside that brook are several different types of sea-life.

"Aah, it's so cool!"

"Hn."

Olivia runs over to the brook, then runs back over to Hiei, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. "I love it!"

"Hn."

"Come on, let's look at all the fish."

"Onna!"

With Nissi and Kurama

"I'm so sorry I hit you. Well, I really hit Kuwabara but…yeah, you know what I mean. Anyway, I am sooo sorry. I had no idea!"

Kurama backs slowly up against the wall as Nissi advances upon him, a thousand apologies running from her mouth. He raises his hands to indicate that he is beginning to freak, and she backs off a bit. Titling his head he smiles at her, his emerald eyes shining.

"Don't worry. If anything, it's my fault—I should have told you what happened."

"Ugh, I'm going to be up all night doing my homework…"

"Hm?"

"What with Malia coming, then the whole "she's a half-demon whose escaped from prison," then Jin and Touya coming, then the attack, and now this. I didn't have any time to do my homework. I need to get started now…"

She clomps to her room, aggravated at the thought of pulling an all-nighter. Gathering her books and binder, she moves down into the main room which is completely evacuated for the sole purpose that she can do her homework in peace and sits down at the big couch. She gasps when cold fingers touch her neck.

"What the—"

"Mind if I stay out here? I could help you if you'd like."

Kurama jumps over the back of the couch, landing directly next to Nissi who is still shuddering lightly at the memory of his touch. She turns to stare at him as he picks up her geometry homework.

"Starting geometry, huh?"

"Yeah…"

"Looks like they don't plan on going easy on you this year, do they?"

"Easy? This is as easy as it's going to get, Kurama!"

She reaches for the paper, but he holds it playfully out of her reach. "Kurama!"

Still holding the paper, Kurama jumps off the couch and runs around the room, Nissi on his heels. She tackles him, laughing, bringing him crashing down to the floor. Slyly, she lifts his shirt up and begins tickling him. Shocked, the oxygen shoots out of his lungs as he begins laughing.

"No…Nissi….please…"

"Give me my paper!"

"I…don't have it…"

"Bzzt! Wrong answer." She tickles harder until he holds out his hand and reveals a folded paper. "Eh…what the heck. I put it off for three days; I can put it off an hour longer."

She extends her hand to Kurama, who takes it readily. The two go back to the couch and sit together in silence. On the table, the homework lays forgotten…at least for the time being.

o.0 I'm finished (glances around)? Really! YAY! Ouch…my hand is killing me, but it was worth it. Hahaha, hope you liked it. I got in a moment for everyone in this one. Whew…chapter nine to be up soon!