((Chapter 5))
Hey ya'll. Here's chapter 5. Thanks to my reviewers:
Suntiger: Thanks so much. I'd never copy your pranks exactly. Except that one for Yuskue. Laci seriously did that to me once with a belly dancer outfit and on the night of her bro's b-day party.
A victom of Time:Thanks for being with me bout the teacher. I'm changing schools cause of her. I won't delete my story cuz one: I like my story. And two: I don't want Hiei to kill me.
Samantha: I'd love you to be in my story!!! Um… It won't be this chapter because I'm still working on coming up with some other details. Thanks for the review.
Anna30151: Thanks sooooooooooooooooooo much!!! You're the second person to put me on your favorites list!!
Kamikaze-Watermellon: Hot pink and yellow? I'm signing my death warrant by doing this, but hey, that would look cool
The girls spent over six hours at the mall. Laci, Amanda, Marissa, and Maggie had clued Alena Keiko, Yukina, Botan and Shizuru in on their plans to prank the boys, and all needed supplies had been bought, plus a bunch of other stuff that was wanted.
Not only had the girls gone on a shopping trip, but it'd turned out to be a bit of a makeover also. Alena's hair now had white stripes in it. Laci's bangs had been dyed a sliver blue. Marissa had black and orange alternating tips. Maggie's hair had black highlights. Amanda had pinkish highlights. Kieko had bright purple tips in her hair. Yukina's hair now had dark blue streaks in it. Botan's bangs and tips had been dyed bright pink. Shizuru's tips were black.
"What the hell did you guys do to your hair???" Yuskue exclaimed.
"Calm down. It washes out." Kieko said calmly.
"Um.. actually, it's permanent." Amanda said quietly.
"You're kidding right?((LOL. That's the name of the story!!))" Kieko said getting slightly hysterical. "I'll get suspended for this and that will ruin my perfect record!!!"
"Kieko, it'll be fine. You're such a good student the school owes you." Yuskue said.
"Yuskue's probably right." Laci said.
"We'll see ya'll in the mornin'" Alena said. Alena, Laci, Amanda, Maggie, and Marissa headed back into Laci's room.
"Okay. We've got to plan our pranks carefully." Laci said. "Alena, did you decide on one for Kurama?"
Alena grinned with a look of pure evil. "I love ya'll's ideas for Hiei and Kuwabara, but I've got a plan that will get Yuskue and Kurama so good." She started to whisper her plans to the other girls.
"Brilliant, no?" She said when she finished her plans.
"I love this. We'll have to get a camera." Amanda said.
"Hell yeah." Maggie said. "You're and evil genius my dear cousin."
"I'm so in. The more embarrassment the better." Marissa said.
"It's settled then. We get Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara's pranks ready tonight and we'll get Yuskue tomorrow morning." Laci said.
"Settled." The five girls said in unison then went to their separate rooms.
:In the kitchen:
"Those girls are up to something." Yuskue said as they disappeared around the corner.
"Why do you say that?" Botan asked. She, Kieko, Yukina and Shizuru were in on the pranks but they didn't show it.
"They're acting to perfect." Yuskue said.
"I must agree. They seem to be hiding something." Kurama said.
"I say we go investigate!!" Kuwabara said. So the boys((Yes including Hiei)) started down the hall. They were just in time to see the girls enter their own rooms.
"They were defiantly up to something." Yuskue said.
"We'll just have to be on out guard." Kurama said. "We'd better get some sleep though. We have train tomorrow also." With that the guys went their separate ways and went to sleep. Around 2 am when everyone had gone to sleep, the girls crept into the hall way. They executed the job of dying the baka's cat and Hiei's hair in fluorescent colors. They also set up Kurama's prank.
"This kicks ass." Amanda hissed once they were done. The girls crept back into their respective rooms and went to sleep. All except Laci and Alena who stayed in the hall. Their enthusiasm seemed to have disappeared completely.
"You know what tomorrow will mark don't you?" Laci asked.
Alena nodded slightly. "Three years to the day."
"I can't believe that bastard would do such a thing." Laci muttered ((I'll explain later))
"You can't?" Alena asked as she turned back into her room. "Cause, I sure as hell can."
Laci stood in the same spot for a moment then slowly she turned and headed back into her own room.
.: Morning:.
Alena had been up since about 6:30 and was finishing helping Yukina cook breakfast. Laci had been up since about six forty-five. Both girls seemed quite distant. Amanda, Marissa and Maggie were down just after 7.
"Alena. We need you to pick a lock." Amanda proclaimed.
"It's time already?" Alena said. "I'll be back in a minute Yukina." With that the group of five headed towards the bathroom.
"Laci, you blocked his door from the inside right?" Maggie asked. Laci nodded. Alena set to work picking the lock to the bathroom Yuskue was in.
"Okay, get in get out and do it fast." She said. Marissa and Amanda nodded. The two snuck quickly into the bathroom carrying a short black skirt and a black mid-drift. ((What can I say, I like black.)) The two returned under a minute later with Yuskue's Sweats, his boxers, and his shirt.
"Now the deed is done. But where do you intend to put his cloths?" Alena stated calmly walking back into the kitchen.
"Right here." Marissa said shoving them under the sink.
"Well done." Laci commented.
"Your evil plotting for today is complete I assume?" Botan said walking in.
"Yep. Now we wait," Maggie said. Kuwabara was the first to notice the havoc in his life.
"What happened to my cat?!?!?!?!?" He screamed in hysterics. In truth, the cat was half orange, half bright pink.
"I didn't think human animals came in suck disgusting colors." Hiei said as he entered the room.
"Hey don't you—" Kuwabara started then he started to laugh.
"Hn. What's the matter you fool?"
"You haven't looked in a mirror this morning, have you Hiei?" Laci said behind barely contained laughter.
"No. Why?" Hiei asked fixing her with a death glare.
"You might want to." Before Hiei could retaliate, Yuskue and Kurama burst into the room. They both looked extremely irritated; being as Yuskue was dressed up like a French Maid, and Kurama's hair was sticking up in odd directions. The sight of the two sent everyone in the room, except Hiei into renewed laughter. ((Remember, everyone in the room was in on the fact that the guys had pranks coming.))
"What the hell is going on here?" Yuskue yelled. "And Hiei, what the hell did you do to you hair?"
"What are you talking about detective?" Hiei growled.
"It's Bright pink and yellow." Yuskue said. Hiei was gone in a flash assumingly to determine whether or not Yuskue was lying. He was back a moment later.
"Who is responsible for this?"
"Take a wild guess." Maggie said flatly. "Is there anyone here but us that would be this sadistic?"
"Yeah actually, hiei can be pretty mean when he wants to." Yuskue said. "And I wouldn't put it past Genkai."
"Oh shit." Laci murmured.
"What?" Alena and Maggie asked in unison.
"I've got to train with Hiei. I am so dead."
"Damn it!!" The two cousins exclaimed.
"I've got to train with Kurama." Alena said.
"I've got to train with Yuskue." Maggie said.
"I hope you guys survive." Marissa said. Before any more could be said a portal appeared and Koenma stepped through in his teenage form.
"Hello. Today you begin…" Koenma trailed off when he spotted Yuskue, Hiei and Kurama. "Whoa. What happened to you?"
"Them." Yuskue said indicating the five girls who were giving him weird looks.
"Who are you?" Laci asked. She'd never seen Koenma in his teenage form. Nor had Alena and Maggie, Rissy and Mandy had never met him at all.
"It's me. The all might Koenma!!" He exclaimed.
"Wasn't he a toddler just yesterday?" Alena asked.
"Yeah, but this is the form he takes when he's traveling." Yuskue stated. Alena nodded.
"Whatever. Marissa, Maggie, Amanda. This is our new boss Koenma. Koenma, these are you new recruits." Laci said.
"The world is doomed." Kuwabara muttered.
"Watch yourself. We can do worse than change the color of that cat." Maggie warned.
Koenma cleared his throat. "Well anyways. You'll have to settle your personal deputes later. Today you must begin training. Touya and Jin are here to help with that." The wind master and ice master stepped out of the still open portal.
"And also joining you will be two boys who cut through the dimensional gateway. One's a vampire and one's a werewolf, so they decided to stay." Koenma continued.
"More like we were forced to stay." A southern drawl came through the portal. Alena froze up when she heard the voice. A boy with sandy-blond hair, and green eyes stepped through the portal. A boy with back hair and dark blue-ish black eyes followed him.
"Unless of course you don't consider threatening to throw us in prison forcing us to stay." The dark haired boy said. Alena and Laci stood rooted to the spots where they'd been standing.
"This is—" Koenma started.
"Pheonix!!" Alena exclaimed.(Pheonix is the blond.)
"Nikolas!!!" Laci exclaimed.(Nikolas is not the blond.))
"I assume you've met?" Koenma asked.
"Met? Alena's my twin sister." Pheonix said giving Alena a half hug. "When did you get here?"
"Long story. Anyways, Nikolas is my older brother and Maggie's boyfriend." Laci said matter of factly.
"Well then." Koenma said. "You two just have to meet the spirit detectives. But they're a bit… disgruntled at the moment."
"Lemme guess. Laci came up with an ingenious plan to pull some dumb ass pranks and they turned out to work pretty well." Nikolas said.
"You know it!!" Maggie said. The five girls received some pretty mean looks from the pranked guys.
"Yikes. Ice daggers in a glare." Laci murmured under her breath.
Alena laughed slightly. "No need to go hostile, though I have no doubt revenge will be necessary. Kurama, Hiei, anything but in your hair will wash out with a shower. Yuskue, I'll go open your door. Um…. I don't know what they used on you cat Kuwabara. Might or might not wash out."
By the time Hiei and Kurama had recovered from their pranks, and everyone had eaten, it was almost nine o'clock.
Koenma stood up a cleared his throat. "Now, I must explain your upcoming mission. It's based more around you Alena so listen up." The black haired girl's head snapped up at the mention of her name."
"How so. I don't believe I've pissed any demons off lately unless you count those pranks but yeah…" She trailed off.
"It's not like that. A girl has gone missing and you have to play as an imposter for her until she is found. You have two weeks to train to be able to play the part so good luck."
"Y-y-y-y-your kiddin' right?" Alena stuttered slightly, he southern accent almost as noticeable as Pheonix's.
"She has two weeks to learn enough to take the place of someone she's never met in a place she's never been?" Laci said.
"I don't t-t-t-think this will w-w-w-work Koenma. I don't have the mental c-c-capabilities to learn enough about a new dimension in t-t-t-two weeks."
"Well you're going to have to." Koenma stated.
"I'm going to die." Alena murmured. "C'mon Laci. We'd better grab our stuff." The two girls disappeared in to their rooms and reappeared a moment later with their weapons.
"Alright slackers. Get out there and start training." Genkai said and waved the group out of the temple. Laci followed Hiei into the woods, Alena followed Kurama, and Maggie followed Yuskue. None of the three girls were all too happy about the situation at hand. Amanda and Marissa though weren't being trained by those pranked so they didn't have much to worry about. Nikolas and Pheonix were training with Genkai.
Alena and Laci were both in a slight daze as they prepared to begin their training. Their thoughts were completely elsewhere. Kurama and Hiei of course noticed.
"What's wrong? Something's bothering you." Kurama said to Alena. The girl snapped out of her thoughts instantly as she was spoken to.
"It's nothing. Just that this date has some significance in my past." Alena murmured.
"Well it obviously has your mind preoccupied. Would you like to share?"
Alena glared at Kurama slightly. The she sighed. "I have a feeling if I don't you wont let it go. Anyhow, it'll bother me all day anyway. When Laci and I were twelve, Laci's mom started dating this guy. Laci's real dad had died like two years before. This new guy her mom was dating was a jackass. Nothing else to it. He had no good qualities whatsoever. So one night, we thought he wouldn't be at the house so we had a sleepover at Laci's place. Turns out the bastard had decided to spend the night." Alena stopped slightly her face contorted in rage. "Assuming, whatever Laci's mom was giving him that night wasn't enough. So he decided that if her mom couldn't… put out, maybe me and Laci could." Alena stopped again her eyes, filled with complete loathing and brimming with tears. Finally she continued.
"So, he tied us up and had a fucking good time of himself. It's been exactly three years to the day since that incident. Laci's more messed up than me about it though. She lived with the jerk for the most part. Especially after they got married. Then Laci started pretty much living with me. We were extremely close as it was, but after that, she rarely ever went home. When she did… it never ended well. She either ended up in the ally behind her house completely drunk with me there to keep her out of trouble, or she stole money from her mom and we went on shopping sprees. We never told anyone else though. And you have to swear, on your life, to never tell."
"I won't." Kurama said slightly stunned from Alena's story.
"Swear it." Alena said flatly.
"Alright. I swear."
Alena smiled slightly. "Good. Now, shall we begin?"
Hiei stopped abruptly. Laci, not noticing his stop run into him.
"Ow. Why the hell did you stop?" She muttered under her breath.
Hiei merely glared at her. "If you're that distracted, you can't train."
"I'm fine." Laci muttered. "Getting the crap beaten out of me or getting to beat the crap out of something will be a good distraction. And hell, if I get to beat something, I'll get imagine my step-father's face and beat harder." Laci shut up quickly realizing what she'd said. Hiei gave her a questioning look.
Laci sighed slightly. "My step-father sexually abused me since I was twelve. Three years ago today, was the first time he raped me and Alena. I planned on killing him some day, but now since I'm here it looks like I can't. Can we begin?"
Hiei nodded slightly. He knew from the girl's eyes her story was much longer than told, but she seemed determined not to say more.
Hiei drew his sword. "Let's see your stance." Laci blinked slightly and unsheathed one of her swords holding it in front of her. "Not bad, but with that, you wont have the speed to make an offensive attack." Hiei said flatly. Laci gave him a half glare.
"Well than almighty one. How do can I improve my stance so I could attack some one?" Laci said through clenched teeth. She hated admitting her wrongs. She blinked when she realized Hiei no longer stood in front of her. "What—"
"Hold the sword like this." Hiei said from behind her. He took her arms and positioned them correctly. He kicked her left foot changing her stance slightly. "There." He said moving from behind her. Laci stood slightly stunned. She felt an involuntary shiver go up her spine.
"Now, let's see what you know." Hiei said and disappeared in a burst of speed. Laci's breath caught. She had no idea of how to defend herself. Good gods, she hadn't even seen Hiei move. Laci swore under her breath.
She got the sudden feeling of someone watching her. "Damn it." She muttered and swung her body around to see behind her, careful to regain her stance. She knew she wasn't fast enough to keep track of Hiei now with her eyes. Against all of her good will the blond haired girl closed her eyes and concentrated on with her hearing and other senses to try and find Hiei.
Hiei watched Laci with slight interest from his spot in a tree. The girl had some awareness, but not nearly enough. But what truly interested him was that she'd resorted to closing her eyes in an attempt to hone in on him with her other senses.
Hiei launched himself at Laci sword drawn. The girl's eyes snapped open and she whipped around just in time to block Hiei's attack, and just barely. Hiei jumped back.
"Not bad." Hiei murmured before disappearing from sight again. Laci closed her eyes and again took up her stance. 'This could be a VERY long day.
::With Maggie and Yuskue::
Maggie followed Yuskue slightly warily.
"You do know that stunt with your cloths was a practical joke, right?" She asked.
"A pretty sadistic joke." Yuskue muttered.
"You haven't seen sadistic until you've lived around Laci, and Alena, for a while." Maggie said with a slight laugh.
"Oh? How so?" Yuskue asked turning to look at her.
Maggie laughed slightly. "Those two can pull pranks like no others. One time I remember at Nikolas's 13 birthday, so It was just before I turned thirteen, and before Alena, Laci and Marissa turned 12. We were at the pool. Alena had assumingly taken to long in the shower, so Laci dragged her out of the shower—naked—and dumped her in the pool. And she said if anyone gave her a towel before Laci gave permission to do so, something bad would happen."
Yuskue laughed. "You're kidding me. How long did laci leave he there?"
"No more that forty-five minutes." Maggie said. "The thing that pissed Alena off the most was Nikolas had like six or seven of his friends over, other than Pheonix, none of which she knew well. Any ways, the point is, those two can do much much worse than leaving you with a French Maid outfit and locking your door."
Yuskue smiled slightly. "I'll be sure to keep that in mind."
::Alittle after nine pm.::
The group of five girls currently resided in Alena's room. Alena sat at an electric keyboard with a pair of earphones on a note pad beside her, writing lyrics for new songs. Laci was sprawled out on the bed on her stomach, randomly sketching in her sketch pad. Maggie was curled comfortably in a chair reading a book. Marissa was painting her nails on the floor and Amanda was just sitting quietly.
"So." Marissa said slowly. "How'd you guy's days go?"
"Painfully." Alena, Maggie and Laci replied in unison. In truth all three girls sported a sum of scrapes bruises, and other assorted injuries.
"That's a bit expected, considering, the three of you had to be carried back here." Amanda said.
Marissa snorted slightly. "How unlucky of you. I meant did you learn anything?"
The three girls grinned slightly. "Plenty." The three yet again spoke in unison.
"Care to share, oh annoyingly smart-ass ones?" Marissa said.
Maggie was the first to comply. She shrugged slightly. "Sure." She balled her left hand into a fist and a when she opened it again a small energy ball had formed. Closing her had around the energy ball again, Maggie changed it into a scythe. She whipped it across the room on a rope of her energy just above Marissa and Amanda's heads. She caught the scythe handle in her hand and it disappeared into the air. "Good?"
The two girls nodded slightly. Laci was the next performer. "Alena, if anything gets broken, don't blame me." Laci unsheathed her swords and held them in front of her. She was still for a moment, then seemingly disappeared.
"Where'd she go?" Marissa asked.
"Behind you." Alena and Maggie said calmly.
Marissa turned to find the blond girl standing idly behind her. "When the hell did you get that fast?" She exclaimed.
"Today." Laci said nonchalantly.
"Alena, now that Laci and Maggie have shown off, it's your turn." Amanda said.
"Okay. What do you want to see? Something cool, or something really cool." Alena asked.
"Show off, Alena. Let's see both." Amanda said. Alena nodded slightly. Closing her eyes half way, she went into a sort of trance. In a bright flash of light two black and white wolf's ears appeared on her head and a fluffy tail behind her.
"Gotha, ne?" She asked at her friends' astonished looks. "This is pretty cool too." She took her staff from its place beside her on the wall. She concentrated for a moment and the staff changed into a silver whip.
"You are a serious show off." Laci muttered.
"Just doing as I'm told." Alena said, her wolf ears twitching slightly.
"So what did the two of you learn today? You couldn't have gone through the pains we did considering the two of you could walk back on your own." Maggie stated.
"I learned how to do this." Amanda said. She flicked her hands and Alena was lifted out of her seat by a gust of wind.
"Great an' wonderful darlin' but put me down!!" Alena said her words barely audible through her southern drawl. Amanda laughed slightly and lowered Alena back into her seat.
"Rissy, your turn." Laci said. Marissa nodded slightly and held her hands out in front of her. A small ball of fire formed between them.
Marissa extinguished the fame. "I don't have to control to make it bigger." She said sheepishly.
The girls stayed together in the room for a while longer. Marissa and Amanda drifted off to their own rooms, while, Maggie and Laci stayed, not having the need or the energy to move. Alena, Laci, And Maggie were also the only three from their group who knew the significance of the particular date.
"I assume the two of you will be spending the night in here." Alena stated.
Laci nodded. "I always spend the night with you around this time."
"Yeah, except the tow of you are usually drunk." Maggie muttered. "I just don't have the energy to move at the moment."
"I thought as much." Alena murmured pulling her earphones down around her neck. "Speaking of this day in history, I kinda spilled what happened to Kurama."
Maggie looked on curiously as Laci didn't react. She spoke after a moment's time. "Yeah. Hiei made me tell what was bothering me too. We're even."
"You two are so pathetic. Why are you secretive?" Maggie asked. The two shrugged. Maggie had found the two that night, completely drunk and forced the answers out of them. Telling Kurama and Hiei what had happened wasn't something that was expected of the two.
Again the room fell into silence. Soon after the three girls drifted into sleep, awaiting the coming day.
I finally finished the chapter. It's like 12 pages on Microsoft word. Sorry it took me so long to update. I'm not a very responsible person. Anyways, just to clarify, yes I know I'm spelling Pheonix wrong, but he's Maggie character and that's how she spells it. And I also know that I only went into much detail of Hiei and Laci's training, but I was feeling really lazy and they didn't talk as much as the other two that I actually described. Flame me for it, I don't care. I will use flames to burn down the school I'm currently attending, but will be leaving. R&R. Later