(Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005)213 reviews... Yay. And finally we come to the last chapter... 'Tis a sad, sad day.

Some notes: A certain something in this story is kind of an advirtisement for a story my dear friend hColleen wrote for me (Visit her site! Visit her homepage! Love her! She's great!)... You may be able to guess what. But I'll put it at the bottom in case you can't.

CHAPTER JUUNI
Chopped Liver is Kinda Squishy and Reddish...

After calling an ambulance, Shadow had hauled ass off "the scene of the crime" so she wouldn't get in trouble, but promised to come visit Yuki in the hospital. He bitched at her, as did Shuichi, but she just got on her motorcycle and zoomed away. Her laughter floated back to them.

So now, some number of hours later, she was home fixing dinner when Koenma appeared. Right in the kitchen beside her when she was chopping vegetables.

"Shadow--"

"HAIYAAAA!" she screamed, and swung the knife at him before realizing she could have just slit the Prince of Reikai's throat. Then she screamed in horror. "KOENMA OMIGOD I'M SO SORRY, I ALMOST KILLED YOU!"

His eyes were wide as saucers and he was frozen on the spot. Hiei and Kurama appeared in the doorway. "What's going on?"

Shadow flung herself on her boyfriend. "Hiei, I almost killed Koenma! I almost killed Yuki earlier! For your own safety, run, before I almost kill you, too!"

"Too late," he muttered. "You just ran that knife in your hand right across my arm."

She screamed and flung herself back, knife-hand waving. Kurama caught her wrist and yanked the potentially deadly weapon out of her grip.

"Calm down, Shadow," he said. Shadow grabbed Hiei's arm.

"Oh my God, my sweet lover, I hurt you!"

"It's just a flesh wound," he said. "Nothing serious." Blood was trickling down his arm from the cut.

"Oh, but it hurts, doesn't it?"

"Not really. Koenma, why are you here?"

The demi-god finally relaxed and glanced at them.

"I think I know how to get the others back home."

"Really?"

"Yes. We figured out the specifics for rigging up a time portal... You see, all we had to do was--"

"Oh, please, spare us the technobabble," Shadow pressed. "Just give us the bad news."

"Bad news?"

"When... when are you going to take away my beautiful Sesshoumaru...?"

"Oh. Well, tomorrow morning would work."

"Tomorrow morning!" She seemed devastated. "Oh, my God... That soon!" She brought her hands to her face and was lucky she wasn't holding the knife anymore, or she would have put out her own eye. "I'm devastated! What am I going to do without Sesshoumaru around to caress and harass?"

"What am I, chopped liver?" Hiei snapped crossly. Shadow's head popped up from her hands and she looked around, eyes settling on her boyfriend.

"Nah... Chopped liver is kind of more squishy and reddish... Why would you even want to know?"

"It's a figure of speech, Shadow," Kurama told her. "He wants to know if you've totally forgotten that he's your significant other and that caressing Sesshoumaru is basically classified as cheating on him."

"Ohh, THAT kind of chopped liver..." Shadow flung herself on Hiei again. "I'm sorry, Hiei! I'll never caress Sesshoumaru again!"

"Not like you can blame her for touching him," Kurama pointed out. Then he smacked his hand over his mouth as everyone else in the room turned to stare at him. "It was all Youko," he said, sounding appalled.

"I'll bet it was," Shadow said suspiciously.

"I believe you," Hiei muttered, having experienced a very small degree of how horny the kitsune had been lately. And it was true. He couldn't blame Shadow for wanting to touch Sesshoumaru. The guy was gorgeous.

"Hey..." Speak of the devil. Sesshoumaru appeared in the doorway and hesitated. Everybody looked at him. He looked at Koenma. "I remember you. You're that annoying little pest."

"I'd watch what I said if I were you," Koenma retorted.

"But you're not." He looked to Shadow. "Do something about Karasu." A plain and simple command, not a request or a favor.

Shadow's eyes widened. "What's Karasu doing!"

"Talking to my brother about me."

"Oh." Shadow bit her lower lip. "I don't think I can really do anything about that... What is he saying?"

"They're scheming."

"Scheming!"

"Yes. Karasu said something about Kurama not helping him with me..." The inuyoukai's gold eyes passed an accusatory glare towards the redhead before he returned his gaze to Shadow, "So, he's planning on getting my brother to help him get me."

"But he promised he wouldn't touch you anymore!"

Sesshoumaru shook his head. "I think his exact words were... he would 'not molest me for the rest of the time we were together here.' He phrased it that way on purpose and I didn't expect to see him after we left that damn prison, so I didn't force him to rephrase it. So I can't get him on that."

"Damn," Shadow said. She sighed. "I'll talk to them." She left the room without another word. Sesshoumaru glanced at them all again, then turned and headed off in a different direction. Kurama hesitated, then set down the knife he'd taken from Shadow and left the room. Hiei watched with a confused expression, then met Koenma's glance and shrugged.

Sesshoumaru turned when somebody grabbed his arm and came face to face with Youko Kurama.

"What do you want?" he asked. The fox tilted his head.

"Do you remember me, Sesshoumaru?" he asked curiously, almost suspiciously. The inuyoukai didn't respond, but looked the fox over with calculating eyes, as if debating whether to answer. Youko stepped back and crossed his arms. After a minute, the inu nodded.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you say anything last time we met, then?"

"Last time? You mean when I was chained between those two girls?"

"Never mind. I can forgive that minor discretion, purely because it was Shadow's fault."

"And what would you have had me say?"

The fox shrugged. "You made no indication whatsoever that you'd ever met me before in your life."

"It was a long time ago. I'm surprised you would remember me."

"And I'm a bit surprised I remember you, as well. So it's amazing that either of us remembers the other." The fox leaned one shoulder on the wall and reached out to slowly slide his hand up and down Sesshoumaru's arm. He abruptly stepped away. "Come with me."

"With you? Where the hell to?"

"Upstairs."

"Upstairs," the inu repeated dryly.

"I want to discuss something with you."

"Why should I?"

"C'mon. For old times sake?"

"What old times? We had sex once ages ago--" Youko pressed a finger over his lips.

"Don't let anyone else hear that. They'll all want me dead."

"Why?"

"Because they all want you. Or, in your brother's case, he'll be appalled and suspect we're secretly lovers or something and you'll never hear the end of it."

Sesshoumaru frowned. "What do you want to talk about?"

There was a pause. "You don't trust me." It wasn't a question.

"Why should I?"

"I'm not going to seduce you and screw you in the upstairs bedroom of my best friend's house. Nor am I going to chain you up and hold you hostage. Nor am I going to hurt you, bewitch you, sedate you, rape you, bite you, kiss you--Well, I may do that..."

"You--"

"Come on. If nothing else, just to get away from Karasu. He won't bother you if I'm around. I killed him once."

The inuyoukai didn't ask questions, even though several popped into his head (such as "What the fuck?"). "Fine."

Youko smirked and led the way upstairs. They walked right past Shadow as she pinned Inuyasha with her legs and managed to get Karasu in a strangle hold. All three were too distracted to pay a bit of mind to them as they vanished up the stairs.

Hiei came into the living room about ten minutes later to find Shadow had been ganged up on and was tied up by the cord of an old phone that was no longer attached to the wall. Karasu was straddling her and talking to her quietly while Inuyasha sat on the couch and watched. Koga and Miroku were rather deliberately looking the other way, quite literally. They'd become fascinated with a 'family photo' hanging on the wall.

"What the HELL are you doing to my girlfriend?" he snapped. Shadow, who had been looking a bit petrified with fear only moments ago, began wailing in terror.

"Oh, HIEI, HIEI! Help me, help me, please!"

Karasu was off her and away from Hiei in a second's time flat. The fire demon glanced at Shadow's bindings.

"Who the hell tied her up with a phone cord!"

Karasu pointed at Inuyasha instantly. Hiei glared at him, but knelt and got the cord off her wrists. She nursed her wrists for a moment, massaging them, then hugged Hiei and hid her face against his chest.

"Hiei, I tried to tell them not to bother Fluffy anymore and they beat me down!"

"How did Karasu beat you? You usually whip his ass, don't you?"

"It was all Inuyasha," she sniffled.

"Well then." Hiei stood up and pulled her to her feet. "I guess it's a good thing Inuyasha will be leaving soon."

"He will? Why?"

"Koenma already told you. He'll be taking them home. Tomorrow morning."

"Oh yeah." She sniffled. "I'll miss Fluffy."

"Yeah, so will I," Hiei said dryly, clearly not really meaning it. She hit his chest.

"You clearly don't really mean that."

"Clearly," he replied. "C'mon. You were making dinner, weren't you?"

"Was I? I thought I told Kurama to."

"You didn't tell him anything, and he left."

"Left? Where?"

Now Hiei looked puzzled. He glanced around. "I have no idea."

"He's probably off screwing Eclipse."

"Oh, he better not be."

"Let's go check." She grabbed his hand and started for the stairs. Being attached to her, he couldn't really protest, and followed.

They got upstairs and started down the hall. They were near their own bedroom when they heard a disturbing sound.

"Ahh! No--Uhhhn..." There was a gasp, then more little noises in Eclipse's voice. Shadow and Hiei exchanged glances and Shadow moved forward and flung open her bedroom door.

"That's my bed you fre--What the fuck?"

Eclipse was sitting on the bottom of Shadow's bed, video game controller clutched in her hands, a distressed look on her face. She looked at Shadow as a screen popped up on the TV saying "Race Over." It was the same game Hiei had been playing when he was ignoring Koenma a few days previous.

"I was in first the entire race... Then I wrecked..." she whimpered. "They caught up... It was close... then a van appeared out of nowhere in front of me and ker-SLAM! The car next to me wrecked me into it and I totally lost... I lost to a paddy-wagon... A yellow paddy-wagon... There is no justice in that... I must seek revenge..."

"Before you do... um... Tell me two things."

"Maybe."

"One: Why the hell are you in my room playing my games without my permission?"

"Because you never cared before, so why would you care now?"

"You have a point."

"Indeed."

"Okay, and two: Where the hell is your boyfriend?"

"I have a boyfriend?" Her head dropped to one side and landed on her shoulder. "Is he hot?"

"Yes, he's very gorgeous. Long red hair, green eyes, tall, kinda feminine...?"

"Oh, yeah! That boyfriend! Nope, I haven't seen him since I came up here."

Shadow sighed. "Okay, Hiei, let's go."

"One last thing!" Eclipse said quickly. Shadow paused. "Who set this crazy-mad record on here?"

Hiei waved. "That was me."

"You? But you don't play video games!"

"I recently took it up."

"Well. I guess you and Shadow will have something in common after all. That's all! Ta-ta!" She waved, smiling sweetly, then went back to her game. Shadow pulled Hiei from the room and shut the door. Next stop, Kurama's room. It was totally logical to expect to find him there.

Shadow opened the door, and her jaw dropped to her feet.

Kurama was in there alright. Only he was Youko, and he was laying on top of Sesshoumaru, kissing him.

Hiei's eyes widened and he almost laughed. The pair didn't seem to notice until Shadow flat out collapsed. Then Youko's head snapped up and Sesshoumaru turned wide eyes towards the door.

The fox kept his cool, but Sesshoumaru shoved him away and sat up, attempting to regain some of his dignity. Hiei chuckled.

"I won't tell a soul."

Youko smirked. "Want to join us, Hiei?"

"Yeah right." The fire demon knelt and jabbed his girlfriend in the stomach. She twitched and looked at him.

"A-are they still..."

"No, they stopped." He looked extremely amused. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah... Except that that was too hot for words..."

Hiei laughed. Why was he being so good natured about finding Youko Kurama making out with another man? Who knows. Maybe he was just grateful it wasn't him.

Youko got off the bed and approached them.

"So you finally chose a victim, Youko?"

The fox shrugged. "Not a victim... An old friend."

Hiei was still smiling. Maybe somebody injected him with drugs. "An old friend, huh?" He leaned back to look at Sesshoumaru, but still spoke to the fox. "How come you never mentioned it before?"

"Not important." He lowered his voice. "Between you and me, Hiei, I've probably fucked a lot of people you've met, but you don't know about it."

"I'm sure you have, fox. And let's make sure I never find out, okay? I don't want an exact count on the fuck-o-meter."

The fox threw his head back and laughed. Shadow just stared at her boyfriend and mouthed the words, "Fuck-o-meter?" He shrugged.

From down the hall, they heard, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LAUGHING ABOUT!"

To mock Hiei, Youko called, "Hey, Eclipse! Want to make my fuck-o-meter go up one number?"

There was a pause, then the girl's head popped out from Shadow's bedroom. "What!"

"He was propositioning you," Shadow said, "while at the same time making fun of Hiei."

"Wow! Two birds in one basket!" Eclipse cheered. "Go Youko!" Shadow frowned.

"Dude, do you know what propositioning is?"

"Yeah. He was offering something to me."

"Know what?"

"...His cock?"

"Pretty much so, Eclipse. Congratulations, you catch on quick," the fox taunted.

"Okay. Hey, Shadow, what's for dinner?"

Youko rolled his eyes and sat down in the doorway. "That girl has a one track mind..."

Eclipse left Shadow's room, walked down the hall, and straddled the fox's lap. He looked startled for a minute, and as she leaned against him, he looked even more confused. Everybody must have got some serious meds before this chapter, let me tell you.

"Oh, Youko... silly... I want to know what's for dinner so that maybe we'll have a fun food and I can tease you with it."

"Like breadsticks?" Shadow offered.

"Breadsticks!" Youko asked. Shadow grinned and leaned closer.

"You know. Not those stiff, crunchy ones you get at Pizza Hut. I mean, the soft, round, long ones... So she can suck on them and... fantasize..." She leaned close and ran her tongue up the side of his face. He shut one eye and looked at her with the other.

"Why don't you keep your tongue in your mouth, or I'll put it to use," the fox said, wiping the saliva off the side of his face.

"That's Hiei's job," she informed him, getting up. "Now if you'll pardon me, Monsieur, I shall be on my way to make long, round, scrumptious breadsticks for you all to suck on..." The girl walked down the hall without another word. Hiei watched her go, then turned back to see that Youko had also been watching her go, rather, had been watching a certain part of her anatomy as she went.

"You were just oggling her ass."

"What do you expect, little one? She has a nice ass."

"What about me?" Eclipse asked, sitting back and pouting, arms crossed.

"You have a nice ass too. Yours is nicer, because I can actually touch it instead of just catching a subtle look."

"Who says you can touch it!"

"I am right now, and who's protesting?"

And indeed he was, and she wasn't protesting.

"You have a point."

"You're perverted," Sesshoumaru muttered. "It seems to have worsened with your age." He stepped over the fox and headed down the hall the same way Shadow had. Just before he reached the top of the steps, Youko called after him.

"You have a nice ass too, Sesshoumaru!"

The inuyoukai shot a death glare over his shoulder before resolving to ignore him and go downstairs. Youko looked expectantly at Hiei.

"I am not getting up while you're sitting there," Hiei stated. "I don't want you looking at my ass too."

"Why not? I have before."

"Get up and leave."

"Why? So you can look at my ass?"

"Why don't you both get up and leave at the same time?" Eclipse suggested.

"A brilliant plan from a total moron," Youko said. He stood, dumping Eclipse onto the floor. "Come, Hiei."

The fire demon got up and they headed down the hall at the same time.

Eclipse looked at both their asses, rejoicing in her small victory.

There were no more embarrassing moments for Sesshoumaru that night (incidentally, he wasn't wearing the leather and silk anymore, but rather a pair of dark jeans and a white muscle tee), and no more oggling, bishounen intimacy, or licking of any part of any person's anatomy. A big let down for Youko. But he'd had his moment with Sesshoumaru, and it had been quite an enjoyable moment, so he was satiated for the next few hours. By nightfall, he was making more passes at Eclipse, but we won't go there now.

"Since it's our last night together," Shadow said, making a show of sniffling sadly, "I think we should have some fun."

"I'm all for that," Youko said. She glared.

"Not that kind of fun. You've already had your share of that for today." A furtive glance at Sesshoumaru told him what she meant, even though he already knew. The demon lord was pointedly ignoring them.

"So, what kind of fun, then?" the fox asked.

Shadow shrugged. "Let's get drunk and PARTY!" From no where, she pulled a few bottles of sake. Youko glanced at Hiei and chuckled.

"Hiei will be our 'designated driver' for the night," he said. "Which means, Hiei... No alcohol."

"I hadn't planned on any."

The fox chuckled again. Shadow looked confused.

"What did I miss?"

"Tell her, Hiei."

"No."

"Tell her..."

"No."

Youko, sitting on the couch next to Hiei, leaned over and wrapped his arms around the smaller demon, getting close to his ear and whispering, "Tell her."

"No," Hiei returned.

"Fine, I will." He moved away from the little demon and announced to the whole room, "Shadow, while you were gone, Hiei got totally trashed because he missed you."

"Trashed? Trashed! Hiei!"

The fire demon was glaring at Youko through the corners of narrow eyes.

"Where did you find enough alcohol to get trashed! I keep most of it on my person!" Shadow cried.

"Funny story. He says he found it in a room that never existed before," Youko told her. The girl's mouth formed a little 'o'.

"Hiei, you should know better than to drink things you find in rooms that never existed before! For all you know, Crazy Daisy drugged them so you would fall in love with the next person you saw!"

"The next person I saw was Kurama," Hiei informed her. She gasped.

"So now you love Kurama!"

"No. It wasn't drugged. I got wasted and passed out. I woke up with a hangover and now I'm fine."

"You mean you're not in love with Kurama?"

"No."

She sighed, hand over her heart. "Good. For a minute I thought you'd be gay with Kurama and force me to be gay with Eclipse."

Eclipse screamed in horror and fell off the couch. Everyone else just kind of gave her a funny look.

And they all proceeded to get trashed.

Koenma was not pleased the following morning, when he showed up to take Inuyasha and them all home. When no one answered the door, he poofed himself into the house.

The living room was a mess. Inuyasha and Koga were out cold and halfway on top of each other on the floor. They'd probably fallen asleep in the middle of a drunken wrestling match. Miroku was dozing on the couch. Yusuke was sitting on the floor leaning against the couch, also asleep. Sesshoumaru, Youko, Hiei, Eclipse, and Shadow were all lying on the floor in a tangled mess of limbs and clothes... and un-clothes, Koenma thought as he noted that Hiei was shirtless, Youko was shirtless, and Eclipse's shirt was unbuttoned and hanging open. The fox's hand was in her shirt, on her back as he held her, his head on Sesshoumaru's chest. Shadow, her head pillowed on Sesshoumaru's hip while Hiei's was on his thigh, had her hand down the top of her boyfriend's pants.

Over the past year, Koenma had learned a lot more about his spirit detectives' personal lives than he cared to know about anyone's.

Amidst the mess of limbs and clothes and people, at least a dozen bottles of sake were lying.

Koenma was enraged.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE!"

Shadow, Eclipse, Miroku, and Yusuke continued sleeping like rocks. The rest of them started to wake up.

"GET UP! WAKE UP! GET YOUR ASSES UP!"

People groaned, and Sesshoumaru let out a very undignified, "Shut the fuck up..." His eyes didn't open.

Youko's eyes fluttered open, then squinted shut. "Shit... I'm trashed."

"You think so!" Koenma screeched. "You think you might be a little bit drunk? Hmm? Whose idea was this!"

"Shadow's," someone said from behind the teenaged prince. He spun and found Karasu standing behind him.

"Karasu! What the hell are you doing here?"

The crow shrugged. "I didn't want to get drunk off my ass."

"Why is it the pervert is the only one with common sense!" Koenma cried.

Though, Koenma didn't know Karasu's reasons. The crow wasn't some wholesome saint. He hadn't got drunk because he wanted to be sober in case something happened, like Youko went Slut and started fucking someone in the middle of the living room. Or better yet, though he hadn't seriously expected this, perhaps Youko or Sesshoumaru would have got so drunk they'd be delusional and start hitting on him. Neither of these happened, but he had got to watch some serious shit between Hiei and Shadow and Youko and Eclipse. That had been fun. Some drunken attempts between Youko and Hiei, which had ended badly for the fox.

"Because he's a pervert," Youko muttered.

"So you're saying pervs have common sense?"

"No."

"Otherwise Youko would still be sober," Sesshoumaru pointed out.

"That is true." Koenma paused. "Get up. All of you. I cannot afford to destroy the timeline any more than it already has been."

Hiei, who hadn't moved since Koenma had shown up, finally opened his eyes. He cringed.

"Dammit, I said I wasn't going to drink..." His eyes turned downwards, wondering about the feeling along the waistband of his pants. It was Shadow's hand. "Uhn..." He rolled over and pulled her hand away from his body. Before he could get up, however, Shadow's arms went around him and pulled him close. She kissed him, and at first he resisted, startled and thinking she was still asleep, but when he realized she clearly wasn't, he returned it lovingly. Sesshoumaru groaned.

"Get off me," he muttered.

Some twenty minutes later, everybody had a mug of coffee, which Shadow refused to drink because she knew it was pointless. She drank Mello Yello instead. It didn't help either.

"Um..." Koenma said. "Not to be a pest, but you cannot expect Sesshoumaru to return to his rightful time in jeans and a t-shirt."

Shadow, sitting on Hiei's lap, looked up from the second two-liter of Mello Yello she'd chugged in ten minutes. "Uhn," she said intelligently.

"And what do you propose we do?" Youko asked. "Send him back naked?"

Sesshoumaru glared daggers.

"No," Koenma pressed, failing to suppress a blush, "I suggest Shadow finds something more appropriate for him to wear."

"More appropriate? Such as?"

"A kimono? I don't know! What does he usually wear?" the Prince asked, a bit flustered and fed up.

"White," Inuyasha said, and that was the extent of his observations.

"He wears a white haori with a red flower pattern on the left shoulder and on the bottoms of both sleeves," Shadow said, "and white sort of hakama... only they aren't all floofy baggy at the ends, they floof out and then come in tight around his ankles. I think it's all silk. And he wears boots, they're kinda grey and probably some sort of metal or animal hide..."

Koenma stared, as did everyone else. She didn't seem to notice, taking the Mello Yello bottle to her lips to chug a few more swallows down.

"Anything else?" the demi-god asked sarcastically, not really expecting an answer.

"Yeah," she gasped out after having expended all her air on drinking. She wiped the back of her hand across her mouth and set the lid back on the top of the bottle. "He wears armour."

"Anything in specific?"

"It's kind of greyish blackish green and covers his chest in one solid piece. There's a metal strip at the top that has two spikes on it and a big metal arc from the front to the back over his left shoulder that has some spikes on it and attaches to the metal strip on the back... The armor goes down to cover his ass, crotch, and the sides of his legs. It splits, see, to allow for mobility. It's flexible."

Koenma nodded, a dumb look on his face. "Anything else?"

"He has a really long yellow and blue sash around his waist, and a big fluffy fur over his shoulder."

"And swords."

"The swords are taken care of," Youko said. Everyone looked at him. He was holding his coffee mug in one hand and staring at the table, sitting in his chair with terrible posture. "Don't ask. It's a plot hole. The authoress forgot to mention that you all went and got your weapons back sometime between us getting you all out of the room and sending the other guys home."

Shadow stared. "Damn her!" Youko looked up.

"What?"

"Why does she tell you these things and not me?"

"Because I... talked to her last night."

Shadow glared. "Oh. So that's how it is? Sleeping with the author now, are you? No wonder you got to make out with Sesshoumaru and I didn't."

"What!" several voices cried in startled unison.

"Smooth move, Shadow," Youko muttered.

"You did what!" Inuyasha cried, looking at Youko.

"Nothing, Inuyasha. Shut up."

"I heard her. She said you made out with my brother!" He rounded on Sesshoumaru. "So he's the one you were in a relationship with before! I bet it was that first time we met these guys. You and the fox went off in the woods and did it under a tree!"

"And when, pray tell, would we have had time to 'do it' under a tree while Sesshoumaru was chained to those two girls?"

Inuyasha stopped. "You have a point."

"Yeah, so shut up, ya SPED! That was a slip of the tongue. You weren't supposed to hear it," Shadow said.

"And while we're on the subject," Youko said, "I don't sleep with the author."

Shadow snorted, but didn't say anything else. Smart kid.

"Now, where were we?" Koenma asked after a hesitation.

"We were at the point where I just described Sesshoumaru's outfit from head to toe entirely accurately, and you said you could reproduce it for him."

"I hadn't said that yet, but that's the next thing I was going to say, so let's just pick up from there."

"Okay."

There was a short pause, then Shadow said, "You can really reproduce it for him?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"By telling you to do it."

Her eyes narrowed. "Slave driving son of a bitch."

"Can you do it?" he asked. She looked at him blankly.

"Of course I can."

"Then do it. Sesshoumaru cannot return to his lands in jeans and a t-shirt."

"And boxers."

Eclipse's head perked up. "Sesshoumaru's wearing boxers?"

"Black and silky!" Shadow chirped. Eclipse's eyes wandered down Sesshoumaru's chest and focused on his pants, as if she could see through them.

"Stop it," he said dryly. She looked up.

"Sorry."

"SO ANYWAYS!" Koenma snapped, angry, "You guys are all going back home. Now. I'm sick of you and all you and this and I am already in a boatload of trouble with my father for allowing you to bring them here!"

They all stared.

"NOW! Get up! Come on! Hurry up!"

"What about Sesshoumaru's clothes?" Shadow asked. Koenma stopped and glared. How dare she remind him of something he'd forgotten about the moment he'd mentioned it!

"Fine! Make his clothes!"

Shadow got off Hiei's lap. "This way, my Lord," she said, sweeping into a deep and elegant bow. He stared for a minute, then sat down his mug and pushed himself to his feet. Everybody seemed sluggish right now. Nobody seemed to want to move. Hiei had been staring at the same piece of gravel in the fish tank across the room since he sat down.

She led him away. They came back a few minutes later, Sesshoumaru back in his usual outfit, Shadow nuzzling his shirt to her face.

"It's still warm," she cooed, getting a Funny Look from Hiei.

"Come on," Koenma said. Shadow made to follow and he glared. "Not you."

"Why the hell not me!"

"Because you're a pain in the ass. Stay here with your boyfriend."

Shadow sniffled, then turned and flung her arms around Sesshoumaru, coming up close and personal with the spikes on his armor. She nearly got her eye put out. Eclipse flung herself on him from the side and hugged him tightly.

"We'll miss you!" they sobbed.

"We love you!"

"We'll never forget you!"

"Will you ever forget us!"

"I won't be that fortunate," he muttered.

"He loves us!" Shadow cried.

"He loves us, he does!" Eclipse agreed happily, tears in her eyes. They continued hugging him until they were satisfied, then moved on to hug Miroku, and attempted to hug Inuyasha and Koga but got pushed away.

The two girls stood aside as the four guys milled over towards Koenma.

"See you 'round, Sesshoumaru," Youko said, grinning. He stuck out his tongue. The inu just looked at him.

"Sesshoumaru."

The demon lord turned emotionless eyes on Karasu. They stared at each other for a minute, the crow clearly trying to find the right words under the tired youkai's golden gaze. After a minute, Karasu shrugged.

"Sorry?"

Sesshoumaru snorted and turned away. Then, poof.

Shadow and Eclipse fell sobbing into their respective strong male's arms.

Yusuke looked at Youko. "So, did you really kiss that guy?"

The fox chuckled. "That, and more."

"Eww..."

"Oh, what 'eww'? You'd do it to."

"Heck no!"

Shadow stopped sobbing abruptly and stood up.

"Well that was fun. What now?"

The thing with Youko and Sesshoumaru was the ad/reference to hColleen's story... It's at adult fanfiction, I think... It certainly isn't on here, though. Heh heh. ...The breadstick thing was another reference to another of her stories... Funny thing, though... Shortly after writing that, shortly after reading it in her story, they had those kind of breadsticks at my school for lunch... I almost died. I couldn't look at my friends while they ate them. It would have been too much torture.

Anyways, story's over, so sorry... The next one might be on shortly... I'm trying to make it less perverted. From chapter six on. I got to six, then took a break to write this story... waited a month, then picked it up again. Jeesh. I'm so dedicated to my work.

So, see you all again... sometime.