Two updates in one night! And I'm still writing! LOL

Warning: I'm hyped up on Mountain Dew AMP at the moment and I'm in a mood for drawing thngs out. I'm feeling extremely creative tonight, and since I don't like to waste moods like this, the story is going to get A LOT longer. I could prolly crank out a novel tonight if it wasn't hurting my eyes so much to stare at the screen. I may not be able to give you a novel, but I promise that as soon as I get through posting this one I'm heading straght back to OpenOffice to start the next chapter.

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The redhead ran up the steps. He could get there on time if he hurried. He glanced at his watch. It read 7:46.

"You're late," came a voice from behind him. He whirled around to see Touya, leaning against a tree, arms folded. The expression on his face hinted boredom.

"My mother asked me to ship a package for her on my-" The look of boredom had changed into a slight smile. Touya had only been teasing.

Touya's clothes caught Kurama's attention. He wasn't dressed in his usual attire, nor did he sport the training clothes he often wore. He was dressed in blue jeans, not tight like the ones Yusuke wore, but not quite that baggy either. Above the jeans there was a blue and white checkered shirt, what was becoming a trend among the human boys. It hung unbuttoned, revealing a plain white undershirt. On his feet, a pair of sneakers. If not for the hair and eyes, Kurama would have sworn that he looked like a human teenager.

Seeming to see the questions in Kurama's eyes, Touya said "Suzuka. He has a large trunk filled with various clothing he's used for his disguises. I found some that fit." He left out one part of this story. Though the waist of the jeans had fit perfect, the legs were a little long. Suzuka had vowed to kill him in his sleep if he ever told anyone who had hemmed them. They teased him enough without knowing that he had a sewing kit stashed in the bottom of the aforementioned trunk.

Kurama nodded. This answered most of his questions, save for the one about how Touya had ended up behind him completely undetected. His eyes had only left that tree for a second! The next tournament was going to be interesting...

He pushed this from his mind. "Any thoughts about where we should go?"

"I was hoping you had an idea. You've spent far more time down there than I have.," he said, referring to the city they were planning to go to.

"The activities here are not in high contrast to those of the more civilized cities in Demon World."

"All the same, I'm leaving you with the decision. I don't know what the women here like to do. All I have learned is that when they say they want to go the mall, they mean a grouping of stores located in one building, as opposed to the women back home, who want to go to a maul," he stopped, looking at Kurama who obviously knew where he was going with this.

"Well, we have few options that won't lead to our misery. The typical date would consist of dining, followed by another activity. Dancing?"

"No way."

"Miniature golf?"

"What is golf? And why would we need a miniature version?" The ninja eyed Kurama, waiting to see if that was some sort of comment about the height of the two ice apparitions.

"It's a sport. The point of-" He decided it better to not bother trying to explain a game such as golf to a man who had spent the majority of his life as a paid assassin in a world filled with demons. "Never mind. What about billiards? There's a pool hall in town. That's a game you're familiar with, is it not?" Kurama remembered that in demon world, there were pool halls in every town. Unknown to the humans, the demons had actually invented the game centuries ago. A human had only taken credit after being taught by one.

"I would enjoy that, but it isn't likely that those particular two girls would share our enthusiasm."

"Well...," Kurama was stumped.

"Surely you've gone on dates before. What did you do on the others?"

Kurama did not want to admit it, but he hadn't gone on dates before, not since he had become Shuichi Minamino. The closest thing he'd had to a girlfriend in this lifetime had been Maya Kitajima, and that had lasted all of 6 hours, if he was lucky, and four of that had been while he was sitting at his bedside waiting for a wounded Hiei to recover. They'd never gone on a date...

"Well?" the ninja pressed.

"Well, there is the classic dinner and a movie combination."

"Perfect. Unless the humans know something we don't, the theater will be dark. I may not stand out quite as much as usual, but I would still prefer to be seen by as few humans as possible."

"Then it's settled."

"Then we should be going. It's 7:58." Touya had no watch on his wrist so Kurama assumed he had been judging by the sun's position in the sky. He had to be skilled if he could tell the exact minute without even having to look up. An interesting tournament indeed...

The two made their way to the temple. On the way, Kurama noticed Touya fidgeting with something. Touya had pulled back his shirt and a baseball cap could be seen hanging from his belt loop. Touya was removing the hat. He then snapped the adjustable part of the band back and placed the cap on his head... backwards.

"If they do notice me, they'll think I'm just a delinquent with dyed hair," he said, once again answering the question before it was asked. Kurama also noted how Touya had pulled the bill of the cap down in the back, trying to hide as much of his hair as he could.

"I see you've thought this out."

"Of course." With this answer the ninja flashed another small grin. Kurama was once again reminded of why he enjoyed talking to Touya. Though he had acquired many friends in this world, he found Touya the closest to a kindred.

The boys reached the door at 8 PM on the nose. They braced themselves for anything, including a raving Kuwabara if anyone had let the cat out of the bag, and knocked on the door...

TBC...

Hope you liked this little preface to the real date. This should save me some explaining later on about how Touya is fitting into the humans' environment so easily. (Besides that, it was an excuse to write about my two favorite "wise" guys.

Next chapie: The Date! Finally!

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