A/N: (has no excuse to why we haven't updated... but that's in the past so enjoy it now...)
GENERAL POV (FINALLY!)
"Holy FRICK!" Yusuke screamed ecstatically. "I can't believe it's waterproof!"
Youko beamed and held up the video camera. "Oddly enough, that was the brand name!"
Hiei and Botan both moaned simultaneously and clutched their heads. "No…ANYTHING but this…ANYTHING!"
"Torture…" muttered Hiei.
"Bad hair days!" wailed Botan.
"JUST NOT THIS!"
Kurama curled up in a fetal position and rocked back and forth. "The pain…oh, the pain….make it stop…I swear I'll never drink again…" He paused. "Wait. I haven't been drinking. What the hell happened?"
Yusuke leaned over. "Freaky-ass plant, really big pole, Hiei's sword, and a hell of a shipwreck. Any other questions?"
The fox glowered at him. "Get. Us. Out of here."
Yusuke stared at him. "HOW! The communicator's busted. Geez, I can't believe it's NOT waterproof! And I hope you don't really think I can afford a cell phone…"
Youko held up an equally waterlogged cell phone, and Hiei just sulked. Yusuke snapped his fingers. "Yo, Botan! Oar me, baby!"
The ferry girl turned to him with big, wobbly eyes. Tears began to spill down her face. "It…it…" A muffled sob. It was then that the boys noticed the shattered shards of wood she cradled in her arms. Finally, Botan burst into tears. "NOOOOOOOOOO! It was my favorite OOOOOAAAARRRR! WHYYYYY! I'm trapped on a deserted island with a psychotic midget, a partially deranged kitsune, a half-demon idiot, and a teenage moron! Could this GET ANY WORSE!"
Youko thought for a moment. "Well, it could be rai--"
Yusuke lunged at the brunette and covered his mouth. "DON'T SAY IT! Whenever someone says that in a movie, it always, ALWAYS starts raining! Geez! Don't you know that by now?"
Any answer Youko could have given was interrupted by Kurama's sudden, slightly demented scream. It wasn't even a scream...it was a shriek. And quite a loud one, at that.
"FLARE GUN!"
The other four stared at the youko as though he had gone completely insane. Which, like all the others, he had. Kurama chose that moment to continue his explanation, grabbing Yusuke's shoulders and shaking him back and forth with zeal.
"Yusuke! You have your Spirit Gun, remember? USE IT TO GET SOMEONE'S ATTENTION!"
Hiei and Botan's eyes widened in understanding. Youko gave a low whistle. "Genius as always, my dear namesake."
Yusuke grinned. "Yeah, man! FINALLY a time when we won't be trapped in some godforsaken place so much longer than we have to be!" He pointed his index finger in the sky and called his patented battle cry.
"SPIRIT GUN!"
POW!
All five of them winced at the sound of the reiki powered blast hitting...something. Something big. And metal. And, currently, whistling, spiraling downwards, and heading in the direction of their humble island.
It crashed with a loud boom approximately thirty seconds later. A lone figure stumbled out, choking on the smoke that flowed freely from the craft.
Yusuke coughed. "Uh...oops?"
"I can hardly stand this anymore…first it was this stupid idea of Mokuba! 'Go take a vacation' he says! 'Go get rid of that stress' he says! Well, fat chance any stress is relieved at this point… I mean look at me! What a joke!" The 'lone figure' hissed violently to himself, as he really was SURE he was all alone. "I mean, sure… going on my private jet to this seemingly private island did sound like a good idea, but someTHING managed to screw me ov--"
"Yoooo! Sorry about that, mac!" Yusuke shrieked apologetically, waving his arms frantically in the air as to catch the attention of the unknown muttering to himself. Yusuke was sure it couldn't be anything good.
"Oh no, hear that? It's BLACK MAGIC chantation!" Youko wailed theatrically, referring to the man's long-winded speech.
Kurama rolled his eyes. He obviously had enough IQ points to go around, as he realized the person among them was merely cursing their luck. Hardly chanting a thing, to say the least. "Excuse me, sir? Can we help you somehow?"
The man stopped in mid rant. "There are people on this private island?"
"Err…we'd really rather not be here right now if it means the same to you," Yusuke noted dully.
"Never mind what I just said. How did you get here? And more importantly, did any of you see what happened to my priceless, expensive, beautiful, shiny, more-valuable-than-any-of-your-lives, and treasured jet of mine?"
Yusuke found that as a good cue to smother his smoking index finger and hide it from sight. "Heh, wellll that's not important now is it?"
"The idiot crashed it," Hiei said bluntly, pointing to the now sheepish looking Yusuke.
"I hope you have a decent enough lawyer. You're going down, screwball!" the man cried.
Botan blinked. He surely looked familiar. He had brown hair similar to Youko's but its shade was much darker and was accompanied by cold blue eyes. "No need to get upset! We're all here and safe now! And that's what matters!" Botan announced cheerfully, completely disregarding that the mystery man's sleeve had caught on fire.
The man in question, whom YuGiOh fans have by now long recognized to be none other than an obsessive, revenge driven CEO by the name of Seto Kaiba (and if you haven't, SHAME ON YOU!), only continued to scowl at them, before noticing the growing flame on his jacket and abruptly tearing it off and stamping it out, screaming bloody murder.
Our more familiar sociopaths simply stared, nonplussed, at the scene. WHY they weren't used to such antics by now is far beyond my merely mortal comprehension.
A beeping noise coming from the general direction of the demolished ship caught the attention of all, and Kaiba swore under his breath. "And they said it was able to withstand extreme impact...ha!" The vaguely psychotic gamer cast a quick look around at his surroundings, before his eyes landed on Youko's abandoned (and long, LONG forgotten) surfboard. He whipped something out of his pocket, ran passed the still blankly staring five-some, and grabbed the surfboard. He then proceeded to wade into the water, attach the mystery device to the board, and speed off into the ocean blue, laughing madly. "SEE YOU LATER, SUCKERS!" Upon his return, Mokuba promptly sent him to counseling in lieu of what would have been his vacation time.
Then again, that's another story. Let's return to OURS, shall we?
Kurama stared out into the ocean, watching the rapidly vanishing (and continuously cackling) dot that was Seto Kaiba. "Well, that was...interesting..."
Youko gave a small sob. "I still had some payments to make on that thing, man!"
The kitsune gave him an odd look. "But...it's a SURFBOARD...it's not as though it costs all that much..."
Youko sniffled. "It was a TV order."
Meanwhile, Yusuke, Hiei, and Botan had gone on to investigate the mysterious beeping noise coming from the wreckage. Yusuke, being Yusuke, was already among the still-smoking machine, and promptly found the problem.
"Heeeeey, this thing is glowing all funny!" he shouted from somewhere unknown.
"What thing!" squealed Botan in excitement. This was by far the most interesting thing to happen on the trip so far, and so she wanted to pay close attention. As for Hiei...well, he was just kind of there. Avoiding Youko.
"I dunno, this...thing. It looks like a giant mirror almost, but it's glowing. Freaky, man."
"Is there anything else there?" the bubbly ferry girl called anxiously.
A pause.
"Dude, I found this button on the side of the mirror-thing!"
"Does the button say anything!" Botan inquired, hopping from foot to foot.
"Yeah, Do Not Push!"
There was another pause.
"...You pushed it, didn't you, Tantei?" Hiei asked in monotone.
"Erm, yeah, I kind of did..." Yusuke admitted guiltily from inside the wrecked ship.
Thirty seconds after the hanyou dared utter that statement, an explosion erupted inside the ship, and a lone and somewhat charred body was tossed up into the air before landing a few feet away. That body was then followed by another. And another. And another. By the time the commotion had died down, there was a disgruntled pileup of nine people. Hiei stared. Botan stared. Kurama and Youko stopped their conversation and stared as well.
Finally, a single boy managed to extract himself from the mess. His obsidian eyes flashed briefly crimson as he glared at a blond near the bottom of the pile.
"Damn it Naruto, that's the last time we give you the compass!"
"Well, it's not MY fault that you guys were stupid enough to give it to me in the first place. I mean it's bad enough I don't know my whole way around Konoha but nooooo..."
The ebony haired boy rolled his eyes in distaste
Naruto pointed to said team genius in frustration. "Sasuke was like 'Here usuratonkachi, hold this compass.' It's not my fault you guys just went up and--"
"Yo! What the hell is goin' on?" Yusuke interjected passionately.
"Yeah! Only one random character is allowed to come here! And that's ME!" Youko jabbed himself in the chest as if to prove some sort of point. But we all know no one would even listen anyway.
The hot-headed Uchiha glared at Youko and his fingers twiched, ever ready to reach for a kunai and slit his--
"Sooo... it looks like we have yet another meeting of the minds," quipped Botan as she looked around absently for her long lost bottle of aspirin. Both groups stared at each other for about three seconds before Kurama raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Pardon me for even bringing this up...but how the HELL did you manage to get here...?"
There was a moment of profound silence as theerstwhile eight stared blankly at one another.
"...Never give Naruto a compass," Sasuke repeated finally.
Hiei shot Yusuke a piercing stare. "Tantei...wasn't this all YOUR fault?"
Youko and Kurama both looked over at him suspiciously. Yusuke laughed nervously. "Eh heh... Well, how was I supposed to know it would do something like that?"
Botan exploded. "Oh, gee, Yusuke, I don't know. If a button clearly says, 'Do Not Push,' guess what? YOU DON'T PUSH IT! Now we're stuck on a tiny island with pretty much no food and eight extra mouths to feed!"
"..." said a trenchcoat-wearing boy with sunglasses and a redhead with what looked suspiciously like heavy eyeshadow.
A pink-haired girl pointed accusingly at Yusuke. "YOU! What did you do to us! How did we get here?" She grabbed him violently by the front of his shirt. "TELL ME NOW!"
The tantei coughed. "Uh...well..."
"It doesn't really matter," interrupted a moody-looking boy with long hair. He narrowed his pure white eyes in the hanyou's direction. "That is...as long as you can fix it."
"He can't," Hiei stated flatly. "He lacks the brain capacity."
Both Sasuke and the white-eyed boy started toward Yusuke threateningly. He held up his hands. "Hey, hold on a minute! You must have been doing something to trigger that thing! Who are you people, anyway!"
"Ninja. Duh." Naruto rolled his eyes as though the answer was obvious.
"Ninja? SWEET!" screamed Yusuke and Youko in unison.
"I'm the part-demon heir to one third of Makai!" Yusuke added enthusiastically.
"And I'm a completely normal high school student who keeps ending up stuck with freaks!" shouted Youko.
"I'm KONOHA'S AZURE BEAST, a GENIUS OF HARD WORK!"a boy with large eyebrows chimed in, breaking his confused silence for the first time as he got caught up in the enthusiasm.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and I'M GONNA BECOME HOKAGE!" screeched Naruto.
Youko and Yusuke both looked at him blankly. "What's a Hokage?"
All eight ninja stood their with their jaws about ready to drop open.Naruto waved his arms passionately."What's a HOKAGE? What are you, a dumbass?"
"Actually," Yusuke mused.
"It seems to be that each of our different groups are from different worlds somehow..." Kurama explained thoughtfully, "though I don't know how to fully make sense of it all, really. This meeting doesn't add up. Well, what I mean to say is that even quantum physics may not even be enough to explain--"
"Shut up, kitsune," hissed Hiei.
"Yeah! You're supposed to only be the whiz at ONE science only.." Youko screamed.
"That's...not what I meant," the fire demon said monotonously.
"...stick to biology...I got dibs on physics--"
"What the hell is physics?" Asked the blond genin curiously.
"What are you, a dumbass?" Youko retorted.
Sasuke balled up a fist in frustration. Obviously he was used to hanging around only ONE idiot a day. And so he was painfully aware of the fact that being around more than just a handful of freaks would surely lead to his own demise... or possibly an unleashing of his Katon Gokakyu no Jutsu... heheh.. "Okay we're getting nowhere..."
"And you really needed a genius to figure that out, didn't you?" The tantei shrieked.
"Shut up, usuratonkachi..."
"What did I do?" Naruto yelled.
"Not you, HIM..." Sasuke pointed at Yusuke who looked to have a vacant expression on his face. As usual, he thought nothing of empty threats and so he merely shrugged it off.
"Anyway, what I was saying is that we're not going to get anywhere with pointless bickering... We should all split up and cover all the ground on this island before nightfall. That way, we'll have a better understanding of what we might be up against and what resources are here for the taking." Sasuke concluded his 'brilliant' statement with a resounding 'hm' and as if on cue, Sakura fainted.
"Sasuke-temee! Look what you did to Sakura-chan!"
"...not my fault," he muttered as he put his hand on his hip.
Yusuke blinked.
"Dude... whaaa?" Youko gasped.
"I know!" Yusuke hollered.
"Can it be!"
"No doubt!"
Both boys (who had finished their conversation of idiocy) spun around to glare at Sasuke. There was a disturbing moment of silence in which they all stared back at each other. They looked down at the way Sasuke's arm was resting on his hip.
"...You're gay, aren't you!" Yusuke said suddenly, as if the long lost lightbulb inside his mind finally began to function.
Sasuke's eyes widened."WHAT?"
A/N: We are not purposely bashing Sasuke... okay maybe we are... (glomps Sasuke) Well, we ARE insane you know, which is why you are probably reading this...if you're insane as well... okay well, thanks a lot, g'bye and review!