Disclaimer: J'aime bien un stylo. That means I like pens.
Lawyers: What kind of disclaimer is that?
Leiko: Disclaimer?
Kin: They want you to tell them that you don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Leiko: You mean this isn't my French homework!?!
Mizuna: No, that's on the table to your left.
Leiko: Ok, well, I'm actually supposed to be doing that right now... Gawd, I am gonna be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO off-target...
Kin: I know, don't you just HATE the 5th week?
Kashaku: The 5th week of what?
Yusuke: I dunno.
Hiei: Hn.
Mizuna: I know.
Kashaku: You know what?
Leiko: Time to start the fic!
Kashaku: NO, WAIT!!! MI-CHAN HAS TO TELL ME FIRST!!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!
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Mizuna frowned as she re-entered her room... Something just wasn't right about it... But, no time for that now, Koenma had entrusted her with the preparations. 'Lazy toddler... He Okays the tournament with the other demon lords, and I get to handle contestants, judges, and announcers... And seating...'
Smirking sardonically, Mizuna seated herself at the computer. Only to get up seconds later to change into more comfortable clothes. After a long relaxing shower, and changing into her pajamas, she sat back down.
After sending out the times, ect. of the tournament to all of the potential investors, she leaned back in the chair and thought about what else had to be done. Mizuna shifted uneasily in her chair, it felt like someone was watching her... At first she thought it was Hiei, but that thought was quickly put aside by two simple facts. 1) Why would he want to watch her? And 2) She wouldn't have detected him even if he had been spying on her.
She shifted again, though this time she managed to make it look like she was just stretching. She didn't want the stalker to know she knew until she had pinpointed their exact location.
5 minutes later she still wasn't any closer to locating the presence, so she casually stood up and left the room. After she left, she pulled out her cell phone and was about to call one of the spirit detectives to help her out. Kin might be able to find the presence, but knowing her she was snoring soundly on the bed still wearing her kimono...
Suddenly she felt the presence behind her. 'Kurama, you had better be as smart as I think you are...' "Hello, pizza delivery? This is Mizuna Arishima."
"Ms. Mizuna? Why are you calling me..." Came his confused voice from over the phone.
"Can you please deliver a pepperoni pizza as soon as possible." She said putting special emphasis on the last four words. She then hung up and tucked the phone back into her pajama pant's pocket.
She then sighed mentally... 'Where would be the best place to wait? Everywhere I go they can follow...' After a slight internal battle, she decided on the gym, plenty of heavy objects to throw at the people... Not to mention the fact that it also had a nice LARGE pool of water that could 'accidentally' find it's way on top of an assailant.
Many turns and doors later, she reached the gym area. Walking to the center of the room, she mentally prepared herself for the worst as she pretended to stretch.
Seconds later she felt the presence solidify directly behind her. 'And so it begins.' Picking up a weight that had been conveniently located next to her, she threw it as hard as she could while turning to face the intruder.
Her face completely drained of all color as her eyes widened in horror. His irritating smirk quickly brought her out of it though. Regaining her emotionless mask, she looked at him with calm eyes. "Shino." She said in a level tone, effectively covering her fear.
"Mizuna, the cold beauty as always I see." He said, his infuriating smirk still plastered on his face. "So, how have you been?" As he asked this question, Shino began walking around her in a slow circle, as if inspecting her.
"What do you want?" She said in a tone that rivaled Hiei's own.
"What? You're not even the least bit interested in how I escaped?" He had now finished his circle and was directly in front of her. He pretended to pout. "Well, I suppose it's only to be expected... But you really do want to know, don't you?" He asked, putting a hand under her chin and forcing her to look up.
Mizuna glared defiantly into his eyes, despite her fear. She had never backed down before, and she never would. Besides, showing emotions had never been her forte, and she sure as hell wasn't starting with showing fear.
"Well, no matter, I suppose that I won't tell you then... Oh, and while we're on the subject, did you know that the portal Kin leaves and enters through isn't very picky... Oh, no... Anyone with the same power level can get through... Isn't that just fascinating?" He said all this, the sardonic smile never faltering for an instant.
Her mask faltered slightly at this information... How many times had she told Kin to program it to only allow her specific DNA through that portal!?!
"What? Still not talking to me?" He asked, dark brown eyes flashing in anger. He began circling her again, although this time he had a more predatory look in his eyes.
"Fine. Then I'll just have to fill the silence. I've been monitoring you ever since I escaped..." He had now paused in his circle to watch her reaction.
Mizuna stiffened slightly. He smirked from behind her and continued circling her. "I have a little query for you... You are becoming attached to 'Hiei' are you not?"
He frowned irritated at her silence. "Answer me, and I will know if you're lying."
When she still refused to answer him, Shino turned his back on her. "The lighting system in here isn't very intricate is it... One well aimed blast, and this whole room will plunge into darkness." He then faced her again.
Shino smiled evilly as he saw Mizuna's sharp intake of breath. "Well, are you going to answer me?"
He growled dangerously as she still refused to speak. "Fine. I prefer the dark anyway." He turned once again, but this time he sent a sphere of electricity into the lighting system.
Mizuna let out an involuntary squeak when the room plunged into pitch black darkness. The only light in her line of vision was being emanated from Shino.
"This is just like the first time we met... Remember? Are you going to do the same thing now as you did then?" He asked walking towards her.
"N-n-no! No I won't!!!" She choked out, falling to the ground and clutching her head.
Shino growled again and began walking towards her at a faster pace. Reaching her, he grabbed the collar of her pajama top and brought her face up to his level, which left her feet dangling a few inches off the ground.
"MS. MIZUNA!?!?! WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!" Came Kurama's concerned voice from down the hall.
"We'll finish this discussion later." He said dropping her back to the ground.
"Ms. Mizuna? Are you in here?"
Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke only heard a whimper as an answer. "What do you think could have affected her that badly?" Kurama asked worriedly.
"I don't know, but I don't think we'll like it..." Yusuke said, shuddering as he thought of a vicious blood-sucking zombie.
"I don't think it would be wise for us to confront her about this. I'll go find Kin, and Yusuke, you go find Kashaku, Hiei, you go and watch her."
Yusuke sweatdropped as he saw the flecks of gold enter Kurama's eyes, but went along with the plan.
Mizuna looked up as she saw the door open. 'LIGHT!!!' The door shut just as suddenly as it had opened.
Hiei walked over to where she was currently curled into a tight ball. Hiei frowned as he noticed she was shivering. Sighing mentally at his own weakness, he began to glow slightly with a bit of illusionary fire to help warm her up. The fire glowed and warmed like a real fire, but it couldn't burn someone.
To say that Hiei was surprised when Mizuna launched herself at him would be the understatement of the era. Mizuna was clinging to him like a lifeline, and in his moment of weakness, Hiei didn't want to do anything about it.
So that was how the two ended up... Hiei was sitting on the floor of a dark gym, glowing and radiating warmth. With Mizuna curled up in his lap, clinging to his shirt. After a while, she finally calmed down enough to speak. "I suppose that now you know my secret weakness..." She murmured, more to herself than him even though the sentence was directed at him.
"Hn."
"The dark... What a weak thing to be so afraid of... But I am... As are all my planet's inhabitants..." She laughed slightly. "Kami... I don't sound like myself at all do I?" She giggled again before burying her head into his chest. "Turn the friggin lights back on before I giggle again!!!" She shuddered at the thought...
Hiei chuckled before he could stop himself. Smiling at the girl in his arms, he brightened his inner fire so that the entire room was lit up. Pushing her back slightly, he slid her off his lap. Going over to the light box, he saw that the circuits were all fried. Hiei rolled his eyes. 'figures...'
"They're fried aren't they?" Hiei turned, at sometime during his little inner lecture, Mizuna had snuck up behind him.
"Here, just focus a little more light by the wires and I'll fix them."
Hiei twitched slightly, although it wasn't really visible through his emotionless façade... Plus it was still pretty dark, but light enough to calm Mizuna. "What am I? A light bulb?" He muttered darkly to himself, but brought an intensely glowing hand up to the box so that she could see.
"Thanks." She murmured, not really paying attention as she began reconnecting the hundreds of little wires of the gym. When she finished, the entire gym turned on. "Whoops." She muttered under her breath. Regaining her ice queen mask, she strode over to the super computer located against the opposite wall. Typing a few quick codes into it, everything but the lights shut down again.
Just then Kashaku and Yusuke entered. "WOW!!! What a cool gym!!! I gotta hang out here more often!!!" Yusuke said in awe as he gazed adoringly around the huge room.
A few seconds later, a red-faced Kin stomped into the room, followed closely by Youko, who appeared to be apologizing for his latest act of perversity. And, he also appeared to be failing at it miserably because Kin was becoming redder with every word that came out of his mouth.
"Ms. Mizuna, are you quite alright now?" Youko asked, returning to being Suuichi.
Mizuna nodded coolly as she regarded him through slanted eyes. They seemed to say, "You tell ANYONE that I was whimpering in fear, and I rip out your bowels and feed them to my pet piranha." She then turned her gaze onto Yusuke, telling him basically the same thing, but a bit more threatening so that he would get the point.
"Hey, why are you only glairing at us!?! Why not Hiei too!?!" Yusuke cried, trying to get her to avert her gaze to someone less likely turn tail and run. She was down right creepy when she wanted to be... And now was one of those times, and it was making Yusuke uncomfortable.
Mizuna faced Hiei. But instead of glaring, she nodded to him as if in thanks. Which made Yusuke start whining all over again. Ignoring his ranting, she yawned and said that she was going to bed.
Hiei then disappeared off to who-the-hell-knows-where, Kashaku literally dragged Yusuke out, to show him her new dance routine. That then left Kin and Kurama alone... Big mistake.
"HENTAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kin yelled as she started chasing him around the room holding a huge barbell and swinging it at him every now and then. It was really a good thing that our thief friend had excellent dodging skills... Or else I'm afraid that we would have a very flat Kitsune on our hands.
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Leiko: Okay, that chappie was mainly to introduce Shino to you... Insane psycho isn't he?
Kin: I gotta work on my attack skills, I didn't hit that stupid baka once!!!
Youko: I'm sure we could go somewhere private and I could help you with them...
Mizuna: Kami, here we go again.
Kin: HENTAI!!!!!!!!!!!
*Kin picks up same barbell and starts chasing Youko again*
Hiei: Morons.
Kashaku: Hey!!! I didn't do anything this time...
Yusuke: I don't think he was talking about you...
Mizuna: Read and review.
Leiko: If you don't, then I'm going to send Youko to your house.
Readers: REALLY!?!?!
Leiko: Yup, and Kin too... along with her barbell.
Mizuna: And we're not paying for property damage.
Lawyers: What kind of disclaimer is that?
Leiko: Disclaimer?
Kin: They want you to tell them that you don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Leiko: You mean this isn't my French homework!?!
Mizuna: No, that's on the table to your left.
Leiko: Ok, well, I'm actually supposed to be doing that right now... Gawd, I am gonna be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO off-target...
Kin: I know, don't you just HATE the 5th week?
Kashaku: The 5th week of what?
Yusuke: I dunno.
Hiei: Hn.
Mizuna: I know.
Kashaku: You know what?
Leiko: Time to start the fic!
Kashaku: NO, WAIT!!! MI-CHAN HAS TO TELL ME FIRST!!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!
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Mizuna frowned as she re-entered her room... Something just wasn't right about it... But, no time for that now, Koenma had entrusted her with the preparations. 'Lazy toddler... He Okays the tournament with the other demon lords, and I get to handle contestants, judges, and announcers... And seating...'
Smirking sardonically, Mizuna seated herself at the computer. Only to get up seconds later to change into more comfortable clothes. After a long relaxing shower, and changing into her pajamas, she sat back down.
After sending out the times, ect. of the tournament to all of the potential investors, she leaned back in the chair and thought about what else had to be done. Mizuna shifted uneasily in her chair, it felt like someone was watching her... At first she thought it was Hiei, but that thought was quickly put aside by two simple facts. 1) Why would he want to watch her? And 2) She wouldn't have detected him even if he had been spying on her.
She shifted again, though this time she managed to make it look like she was just stretching. She didn't want the stalker to know she knew until she had pinpointed their exact location.
5 minutes later she still wasn't any closer to locating the presence, so she casually stood up and left the room. After she left, she pulled out her cell phone and was about to call one of the spirit detectives to help her out. Kin might be able to find the presence, but knowing her she was snoring soundly on the bed still wearing her kimono...
Suddenly she felt the presence behind her. 'Kurama, you had better be as smart as I think you are...' "Hello, pizza delivery? This is Mizuna Arishima."
"Ms. Mizuna? Why are you calling me..." Came his confused voice from over the phone.
"Can you please deliver a pepperoni pizza as soon as possible." She said putting special emphasis on the last four words. She then hung up and tucked the phone back into her pajama pant's pocket.
She then sighed mentally... 'Where would be the best place to wait? Everywhere I go they can follow...' After a slight internal battle, she decided on the gym, plenty of heavy objects to throw at the people... Not to mention the fact that it also had a nice LARGE pool of water that could 'accidentally' find it's way on top of an assailant.
Many turns and doors later, she reached the gym area. Walking to the center of the room, she mentally prepared herself for the worst as she pretended to stretch.
Seconds later she felt the presence solidify directly behind her. 'And so it begins.' Picking up a weight that had been conveniently located next to her, she threw it as hard as she could while turning to face the intruder.
Her face completely drained of all color as her eyes widened in horror. His irritating smirk quickly brought her out of it though. Regaining her emotionless mask, she looked at him with calm eyes. "Shino." She said in a level tone, effectively covering her fear.
"Mizuna, the cold beauty as always I see." He said, his infuriating smirk still plastered on his face. "So, how have you been?" As he asked this question, Shino began walking around her in a slow circle, as if inspecting her.
"What do you want?" She said in a tone that rivaled Hiei's own.
"What? You're not even the least bit interested in how I escaped?" He had now finished his circle and was directly in front of her. He pretended to pout. "Well, I suppose it's only to be expected... But you really do want to know, don't you?" He asked, putting a hand under her chin and forcing her to look up.
Mizuna glared defiantly into his eyes, despite her fear. She had never backed down before, and she never would. Besides, showing emotions had never been her forte, and she sure as hell wasn't starting with showing fear.
"Well, no matter, I suppose that I won't tell you then... Oh, and while we're on the subject, did you know that the portal Kin leaves and enters through isn't very picky... Oh, no... Anyone with the same power level can get through... Isn't that just fascinating?" He said all this, the sardonic smile never faltering for an instant.
Her mask faltered slightly at this information... How many times had she told Kin to program it to only allow her specific DNA through that portal!?!
"What? Still not talking to me?" He asked, dark brown eyes flashing in anger. He began circling her again, although this time he had a more predatory look in his eyes.
"Fine. Then I'll just have to fill the silence. I've been monitoring you ever since I escaped..." He had now paused in his circle to watch her reaction.
Mizuna stiffened slightly. He smirked from behind her and continued circling her. "I have a little query for you... You are becoming attached to 'Hiei' are you not?"
He frowned irritated at her silence. "Answer me, and I will know if you're lying."
When she still refused to answer him, Shino turned his back on her. "The lighting system in here isn't very intricate is it... One well aimed blast, and this whole room will plunge into darkness." He then faced her again.
Shino smiled evilly as he saw Mizuna's sharp intake of breath. "Well, are you going to answer me?"
He growled dangerously as she still refused to speak. "Fine. I prefer the dark anyway." He turned once again, but this time he sent a sphere of electricity into the lighting system.
Mizuna let out an involuntary squeak when the room plunged into pitch black darkness. The only light in her line of vision was being emanated from Shino.
"This is just like the first time we met... Remember? Are you going to do the same thing now as you did then?" He asked walking towards her.
"N-n-no! No I won't!!!" She choked out, falling to the ground and clutching her head.
Shino growled again and began walking towards her at a faster pace. Reaching her, he grabbed the collar of her pajama top and brought her face up to his level, which left her feet dangling a few inches off the ground.
"MS. MIZUNA!?!?! WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!" Came Kurama's concerned voice from down the hall.
"We'll finish this discussion later." He said dropping her back to the ground.
"Ms. Mizuna? Are you in here?"
Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke only heard a whimper as an answer. "What do you think could have affected her that badly?" Kurama asked worriedly.
"I don't know, but I don't think we'll like it..." Yusuke said, shuddering as he thought of a vicious blood-sucking zombie.
"I don't think it would be wise for us to confront her about this. I'll go find Kin, and Yusuke, you go find Kashaku, Hiei, you go and watch her."
Yusuke sweatdropped as he saw the flecks of gold enter Kurama's eyes, but went along with the plan.
Mizuna looked up as she saw the door open. 'LIGHT!!!' The door shut just as suddenly as it had opened.
Hiei walked over to where she was currently curled into a tight ball. Hiei frowned as he noticed she was shivering. Sighing mentally at his own weakness, he began to glow slightly with a bit of illusionary fire to help warm her up. The fire glowed and warmed like a real fire, but it couldn't burn someone.
To say that Hiei was surprised when Mizuna launched herself at him would be the understatement of the era. Mizuna was clinging to him like a lifeline, and in his moment of weakness, Hiei didn't want to do anything about it.
So that was how the two ended up... Hiei was sitting on the floor of a dark gym, glowing and radiating warmth. With Mizuna curled up in his lap, clinging to his shirt. After a while, she finally calmed down enough to speak. "I suppose that now you know my secret weakness..." She murmured, more to herself than him even though the sentence was directed at him.
"Hn."
"The dark... What a weak thing to be so afraid of... But I am... As are all my planet's inhabitants..." She laughed slightly. "Kami... I don't sound like myself at all do I?" She giggled again before burying her head into his chest. "Turn the friggin lights back on before I giggle again!!!" She shuddered at the thought...
Hiei chuckled before he could stop himself. Smiling at the girl in his arms, he brightened his inner fire so that the entire room was lit up. Pushing her back slightly, he slid her off his lap. Going over to the light box, he saw that the circuits were all fried. Hiei rolled his eyes. 'figures...'
"They're fried aren't they?" Hiei turned, at sometime during his little inner lecture, Mizuna had snuck up behind him.
"Here, just focus a little more light by the wires and I'll fix them."
Hiei twitched slightly, although it wasn't really visible through his emotionless façade... Plus it was still pretty dark, but light enough to calm Mizuna. "What am I? A light bulb?" He muttered darkly to himself, but brought an intensely glowing hand up to the box so that she could see.
"Thanks." She murmured, not really paying attention as she began reconnecting the hundreds of little wires of the gym. When she finished, the entire gym turned on. "Whoops." She muttered under her breath. Regaining her ice queen mask, she strode over to the super computer located against the opposite wall. Typing a few quick codes into it, everything but the lights shut down again.
Just then Kashaku and Yusuke entered. "WOW!!! What a cool gym!!! I gotta hang out here more often!!!" Yusuke said in awe as he gazed adoringly around the huge room.
A few seconds later, a red-faced Kin stomped into the room, followed closely by Youko, who appeared to be apologizing for his latest act of perversity. And, he also appeared to be failing at it miserably because Kin was becoming redder with every word that came out of his mouth.
"Ms. Mizuna, are you quite alright now?" Youko asked, returning to being Suuichi.
Mizuna nodded coolly as she regarded him through slanted eyes. They seemed to say, "You tell ANYONE that I was whimpering in fear, and I rip out your bowels and feed them to my pet piranha." She then turned her gaze onto Yusuke, telling him basically the same thing, but a bit more threatening so that he would get the point.
"Hey, why are you only glairing at us!?! Why not Hiei too!?!" Yusuke cried, trying to get her to avert her gaze to someone less likely turn tail and run. She was down right creepy when she wanted to be... And now was one of those times, and it was making Yusuke uncomfortable.
Mizuna faced Hiei. But instead of glaring, she nodded to him as if in thanks. Which made Yusuke start whining all over again. Ignoring his ranting, she yawned and said that she was going to bed.
Hiei then disappeared off to who-the-hell-knows-where, Kashaku literally dragged Yusuke out, to show him her new dance routine. That then left Kin and Kurama alone... Big mistake.
"HENTAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kin yelled as she started chasing him around the room holding a huge barbell and swinging it at him every now and then. It was really a good thing that our thief friend had excellent dodging skills... Or else I'm afraid that we would have a very flat Kitsune on our hands.
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Leiko: Okay, that chappie was mainly to introduce Shino to you... Insane psycho isn't he?
Kin: I gotta work on my attack skills, I didn't hit that stupid baka once!!!
Youko: I'm sure we could go somewhere private and I could help you with them...
Mizuna: Kami, here we go again.
Kin: HENTAI!!!!!!!!!!!
*Kin picks up same barbell and starts chasing Youko again*
Hiei: Morons.
Kashaku: Hey!!! I didn't do anything this time...
Yusuke: I don't think he was talking about you...
Mizuna: Read and review.
Leiko: If you don't, then I'm going to send Youko to your house.
Readers: REALLY!?!?!
Leiko: Yup, and Kin too... along with her barbell.
Mizuna: And we're not paying for property damage.