Okay. Either my bribery didn't work or you guys didn't care enough to read the last chapter. But I'm posting the next chapter anyway. Booya. So, on with the chappie.

Disclaimer- If I owned it, Kurama and Hiei would be the main characters and Kuwabara would be their pet monkey.

Chapter 5

Shootouts and Gothic Leprechauns

"Why are you guys so wet?" Lester asked when Kurama and Sakura got back to the house, soaked to the bone. Sakura was about to answer when she sneezed.

"We fell into the lake." Kurama answered for her.

"Aww… Saki-chan has a cold!" Mint whined, trapping Sakura in a bear hug.

"Uh Mint, I think she needs to breathe…" Yusuke pointed out. Sakura's face had turned blue and she was clawing at the air.

"Air!" She choked out. Mint quickly let go and allowed her air deprived friend to breathe again. Sakura took three deep breaths and pounced on Mint, strangling her.

"Are you trying to kill me, you crazy neko!" She screamed. Mint said nothing and looked up at her with swirly anime eyes.

"Answer me, dammit! Achoo!" Sakura demanded/ sneezed. Kuwabara mindlessly chased a cat around in the background. (Kuwabara? Doing something mindless? Never.)

(The next day)

The next day they skipped school to train, dragging Kurama kicking and screaming the whole way.

"You guys are ruining my perfect attendance record!" He complained loudly, which was out of character for him.

"Calm down, Kurama. Sheesh…" Kuwabara said, who had Kurama slung over his shoulder to prevent him from running away. Kurama pouted childishly. After a little more walking, the group came to a clearing. Yusuke looked around.

"Where's Hiei? He said he'd be here by the time we got here." He wondered out loud. Then they heard snoring from the tree nearby.

"That tree's snoring!" Mint squealed, pointing at said tree. Everyone looked up into the tree's branches to see Hiei sleeping.

"Aww, he looks so cute!" Mint whispered.

"Pssht! As if…" Kuwabara muttered. Mint ran to the tree and shook it back and forth violently.

"Rise and shine!" She screamed. Hiei awoke with a startled cry and fell. He rubbed his head and sat up quickly, glaring daggers at Mint, who was unaffected.

"Good morning!" She chirped happily. We all know what happens next…

"Gothic leprechaun's it!" She screamed. All the others could see was a black streak behind a green streak.

"Should we do something?" Kuwabara asked.

"No way! This is too entertaining!" Yusuke laughed. Mint ran in front of them, with Hiei close behind. Sakura stuck her foot out just as Hiei whizzed by, tripping him. Kuwabara and Yusuke burst into laughter, while Kurama helped the fuming fire demon to his feet. As soon as he was standing, Hiei kicked Yusuke and Kuwabara in the shins, causing them to fall. But that only made them laugh harder.

"Um…Why don't we start training before Hiei kills them?" Kurama suggested with a huge sweat drop.

"Hn. Fine. As long as I get to kick their asses." Hiei stated, pointing at Kuwabara, Yusuke, Mint, and Sakura.

"Psst. Someone's hostile today." Sakura muttered.

"He's hostile everyday." Kuwabara muttered back. Yusuke picked himself up off the ground.

"Well what're we waiting for?" He asked.

"For you idiots to stop-mph!" Kurama clapped his hand over Hiei's mouth to effectively shut him up.

"Kuwabara, you fight Mint." Kurama said, yanking his hand away when Hiei bit it.

"Are you crazy or somethin'! You know I can't fight girls!" Kuwabara shouted.

"I wanna fight the gothic leprechaun! I wanna fight the gothic leprechaun!" Mint chanted, jumping up and down. Hiei's face lit up.

"Alright. I'm going to enjoy this." He said, smirking.

"Don't hurt her, Hiei." Kurama whispered to his violent friend. Hiei just grunted a "Hn.", and walked out to the middle of the clearing, where Mint was already doing her stretches.

"You ready to get hurt, girl?" Hiei sneered.

"Hmm…I wasn't really planning on getting hurt." Mint mused out loud. Hiei unsheathed his katana.

"Let's start." He said. Mint suddenly pulled out a metal pipe from who-knows-where and Hiei faltered.

"What the heck is that?" He asked.

"It's my weapon, silly!" Mint giggled.

"Fight!" Yusuke called.

"Kick his puny butt, Mint!" Sakura and Kuwabara cheered. Hiei charged at Mint and slashed at her downwards. Mint brought her pipe in front of herself to block it. It felt as though Mint's weapon was starting to give way to Hiei's strength, and he started to smirk. That is, until her pipe was surrounded with green energy and pushed Hiei back, breaking his sword in the process. When he had jumped away, he stared at her wide- eyed.

"How…" He started.

"I win!" She squealed.

"Not yet." Hiei growled, running towards Mint. She wasn't paying attention, and couldn't block the punch to her stomach fast enough. She staggered back a bit, but recovered quickly and hit Hiei swiftly over the head with her pipe. Hiei stood there for a second, before falling backwards, unconscious.

"Yay!" Mint screamed. Kuwabara was holding his slides while laughing uncontrollably.

"The midget got beaten by a girl!" He choked out between laughs.

"Of course!" Mint said, tapping Kuwabara on the head with her assault weapon. She ran over to Hiei and dragged him to the tree he was sleeping in earlier. She took out some rope (where does she get these things!) and tied Hiei to a branch so he was hanging upside down by his ankles.

"It's a piñata! Ole!" She cried, raising her pipe above her head. Sakura rushed forward and grabbed the pipe. Mint swung her .…air?

"The pipe went poofies!" She gasped in disbelief, staring at her empty hands.

"Well, who's fighting next?" Yusuke asked, bringing everyone back to the plot of this chapter (Is there a plot? Hmm…).

"I'll fight you." Sakura stated, after she hid the crazy kitty's pipe. Yusuke shrugged.

"Your funeral." He said. As he and Sakura walked out to the center of the clearing, he asked,

"Do you have a weapon?"

"You'll see." She said mysteriously.

"Ready? Set. …Gopher! Ha ha! You guys fell for it!" Kuwabara laughed loudly. Yusuke glared and threw a rock at him.

"Shut up, moron." He snapped. Kuwabara stuck his tongue out at him. Sakura held her hand out and a light formed the shape of a sword. Then the light turned into a solid object. It looked like a normal sword, except for at the hilt. It had the barrel and handle of a gun. (For those of you who have played Final Fantasy 8, you know what I'm talking about.)

"That's cool…Can I hold it?" Kuwabara asked.

"So you've got a fancy sword." Yusuke shrugged. He jumped when something exploded at his feet. Sakura removed her finger from the trigger and rested the sword on her shoulder.

"This is my gunblade." She said with a smirk. (Gunblades kick ass!)

"I bet my gun could beat yours." Yusuke challenged. He and Sakura exchanged grins and dived behind separate trees, occasionally ducking around to shoot at each other. Kuwabara jumped around, trying to avoid bullets that ricocheted off trees.

"Watch it!" He screeched. Hiei got barely grazed by one and the momentum caused him to spin around and around. Two stray bullets hit branches above Yusuke and Sakura's heads and fell on them, knocking them out.

"Well that was lame." Kuwabara stated. Kurama sighed and nodded.

"…Wanna go get somethin' to eat?" Kuwabara asked.

"Sounds good to me. Are you coming, Mint?" Kurama asked the kitty girl, who was drawing on Yusuke and Sakura's faces with a black marker.

"Yup yup!" She chirped.

"I have the feeling we're forgetting something…" Kurama commented as they walked away from the clearing.

"It's probably nothing." Kuwabara said. Back with Hiei, who had just woken up…

"GET ME DOWN YOU DIRTY BASTARDS!"

And that's the end of Chapter 5. Now, I don't ask much from you guys, right? So is reviewing, or reading for that matter, really so unreasonable to ask? R&R please.