Note: I make a lot of references to "Human World" things in this chappie (and probably future stories as well). Keep in mind that the Dark Tournament was organized by human billionaires. These humans looked at the demons there as trash, nothing but entertainment. Chances are, since these humans were considered the important ones, they called the shots and the hotel, and everything else for that matter, was probably slanted more toward their tastes than the demons'. This means that magazines in the lobby, cable in the rooms, ect. were probably human oriented, and the demons just got to deal with it. Also, they were in Human World at the time, there's no mention about how much time they spent there before or after the tournament. In short: They know enough about Human World to know what these things are...

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Touya couldn't sleep.

There were ungodly sounds coming from his 5 roommates. More than once, he'd found himself thinking that it was a good thing that they were in a cave. These walls, made of stone, were strong, durable. If the 6 of them had been crammed together in a room made of wood, the snoring would surely rattle the nails out of the studs by midnight, tops. There were other sounds in the darkness. Rinku was kicking in his sleep, hitting the wooden sideboard on the top bunk of the bunk bed he and Chu shared. Chu, who had a habit of drooling in his sleep, kept flipping the pillow to the dry side. Shishi was apparently surrounded by groupies in his distant corner of La-La Land. He kept asking "Who do I make this out to?" and the words "room" and "key" had been used in conjunction at least 7 times. Suzuka kept calling for "Charlotte", seeming to take a more modest approach to dream-girls than Shishi.

'Suzuka? Modest? Same sentence? That's it! I have got to get some sleep!'

With that, he rolled over, pulling the pillow over his head. He tried to convince himself that it was just the racket created by his friends that had kept him up this long, yet he knew that wasn't the case. Every time he started to doze off, that conversation came back to him. Finally, after nearly suffocating himself with the pillow and Rinku's 4th victory over the sideboard in a game of Mortal Kombat, he drifted off into a peaceful state of rest at about 4 AM. At 5 AM...

"Get up! What're you lumps waitin' for! We got us a big day o' trainin' ahead! GET UP!"

Amongst the various moans and groans a loud BANG sounded as Shishi darted up in the unfamiliar bunk bed and his head connected with the bottom of Suzuka's.

"GOD!" he half-yelled, grabbing his forehead and rubbing it. Through gritted teeth he asked "Who gave that Miracle-Gro chugging leprechaun Frosted Flakes again!"

"He's going to be a frosted, flake if that clock doesn't say at least 7...," Touya responded, in the same teeth-gritted fashion as the question had been asked. He still hadn't opened his eyes and he had no intention on doing so for any reason other than his sheets catching fire.

"Top o' the morn'n to ye boys! Now get some bounce in yer step! We gotta get started trainin'!" He was grinning and giggling already. This was going to be a loooong day...

"Jin," Rinku started, pulling the covers from over his face, "your nose better be a snooze button..."

"Why ye say that?"

"Because I'm about to punch it!"

"Aw, c'mon! It's not that bad! What's wrong with an early start once and again?"

"Should I start at the top of the list, or do you prefer I finish sometime today?" grumbled the blond in the bed above Shishi.

"Why do you wanna start training at 5 o'clock anyway?" whined a tired little boy.

"5! Jin when I get out of this bed, take my advice, run...," Touya growled.

"What? You're always tellin' me I should roll outta bed earlier! Well here I stand, ready to go and you're still lazin' around."

"You kept us all up past 1 in the morning! No one's lazing around, we're still trying to enjoy our dreams of choking the life out of an annoying, overgrown lepre-"

"Doooon't you go sayin' it Shishi!"

"CHAUN!"

"That's IT!"

Touya rolled over to his right side, facing away from Shishi and Suzuka's bunk bed, where Jin and Shishi were now having a small wrestling match. He heard Shishi let out a small "Oof" noise as Jin had dived in yelling "I'll KNOCK YOU FLAT!" He slid his arm under his pillow and nestled his head back into it's soft embrace. He was happy Shishi had taken that cheap shot. It had taken Jin's focus off of him and now, he could catch a few more minutes sleep. As conciousness slipped away from him he heard a few various shouts from Jin, something about not liking to be called that, and then there were comments from Shishi, something about banshees, rainbows and pots'o'gold. The fight raged on, no one noticing him, thank Yama. Right before he went entirely oblivious to his surroundings, "YEAH? Well I'm not the one who was assaulted by a small, furry woodland creature!" Shishi semi-shouted. "WHY YOU!" CRASH BANG. This put a smile on Touya's face, remembering the incident with the tree a couple months ago. Read Rinku's Day if you don't know what this is about A few seconds later, he was sound asleep, grin still plastered on his face, arm loosely hugging his pillow as his aqua bangs fell over his face. Touya fangirls, say it with me: Awwwwww...

Sometime later...

"Touya...," the bikini clad ice maiden said. She and 4 of her friends had been hand feeding him grapes while he relaxed in nice, fluffy chaise lounge beside the lake. The snowflakes swirled around them and made the frozen lake seem to shimmer, as if God himself had poured glitter down from the Heavens to better the scenery just for him. Not that the scenery needed any work. These ice maidens, aside from being particularly good looking as it was, were all dressed in blue and silver thong bikinis. He could live with that. He leaned back and closed his eyes, as one of them sat down on the edge of the chair and began to give his tired muscles a rub. "Touya...?" she said. "Touya?" "What?" "Touya?" "What is it?" "Touya!" That's when it happened... A familiar voice had trickled into his brain. Touya opened his eyes to see... "NOOOOOO!" 5 bikini clad Jins, one of them sitting uncomfortably close to his leg, fixed to give him a rub...

The master of ice shot up in bed like a bolt of lightning, nearly knocking Jin to the floor. He was breathing rapidly, still half asleep, and had quite possibly developed a complex.

"'Bout time ye got up! I've been tryin' to get ye back in reality for Yama knows how long."

"Man, that must've been some kinda dream, I've never seen an ice apparition shiver before."

"Right ye are, Rinku. Don't think I've ever seen it neither..." Jin had a rather confused look on his face as Touya gave him a death glare. "What'd I do?"

"Alright! We'll train!" Touya exclaimed, seeming to have given in to Jin's pestering. In truth, he wouldn't go back to sleep right now if someone paid him. He was afriad of what would happen if one of those thong backs had gotten lost and Mrs. Jin had to look for it...

"Touya, you don't look so good." Suzuka stated, expressing concern over the excessive shivering his friend was doing. "Maybe you shouldn't train today. Why don't you stay here and get some rest?"

"NO! I mean, um, I'm fine... Jin," changing the subject, "you still haven't told us why you want to get such an early start."

"Wantin' to ask Master Genkai if we can try somethin' sorta different this day."

"As in?"

"Well, she's got the same kinda energy blockin' thingys strung all over around her temple, too, right?"

"Yeeeesss?" Touya knew this, he'd seen them when they first arrived to ask Genkai to train them once more.

"Well, if we keep it down, we could train out there. Nothin' flashy, mind ye, but it's better than hangin' around in this dungeon all the day."

'Temple?'

Neurons began to fire in Touya's still sleep-clouded brain.

'Temple? Jin? Jin+Temple--? What's he up t-' The conversation returned.

'Temple... Botan at temple, Jin+Temple--Botan, Jin+Botan - Focus-- ... TROUBLE!

But wait, Jin - Focus --chance for payback... That works... Wait, Temple--Genkai. Genkai + injured pupil --More trouble... Angry Genkai - use of legs --OW...no, we're not going... WAIT! Botan--Yukina...'

"Fine, we'll go."

"Really?"

"Yes, as long as you promise never to wake me up before 7 again."

"Deal!... But, just for the sake of wantin' to know, what happens if I do?"

An ice dagger formed around Touya's right hand.

"In 5 words or less, what do the words 'pin' and 'cushion' mean to you?"

"Let. Touya. Get. His. Sleep."

"Thought so."

The next chappie is going to be focused on Botan and Yukina, and that sugar rush is going to come back in. And, we're about to drag Kurama into this. Please be patient with me folks, I know I'm dragging this out, just straightening out the details of where I want this first meeting to go. Till then, tell me what you think of the torture, I mean, uh, story so far!

BTW: As always, you guys who reviewed, Thankyou so much! If it weren't for you guys, I probably wouldn't have wrote chappie 2. The more reviews, the faster I write hehe hint hint...