Holy crap it's been a long time since I updated. I guess someone should have sent me some death threats to get it done, or something. Though it seems kind of pointless now that summer's just about over. I'll stop stalling and get right into the story, then. Oh, and the random stuff with the fangirls is by my friend Kaze Tsukai.

Disclaimer: All I own are Mint and Sakura.

Chapter 10

Mexican Cruises Are Fun

" 'There's nothing to worry about.' 'Everything's going to be fine.'" Sakura mocked sarcastically, hanging onto Kurama's back. Kurama sighed.

"Okay, so I was wrong. Do you have to keep pestering me about it?" He asked.

"Yes. Yes I do." Sakura answered. A few feet away, Keiko was trying to dunk Yusuke.

"You jerk! Why did you do that?" She screamed.

"It was just a lizard!" The confused Yusuke screamed back, thinking this was all about the lizard. Hey, it couldn't have been very pleasant for the lizard either. Mint and Kuwabara laughed at Yusuke's situation. Hiei and Mint were hanging onto Kuwabara's back because neither of them could swim. Sakura looked around at their little group of misfits, then at the Mexicans.

"Now what?" She wondered out loud.

"Float around until we either drown or find land." Hiei huffed.

"Why are you so grumpy?" Kuwabara asked.

"Because I'm latched to the back of an idiot, in the middle of the ocean, with a bunch of people that don't speak our language!" Hiei shouted. The Mexicans around them started freaking out and swimming away.

"What's with them?" Yusuke asked. The waves around them got higher and they heard a loud noise. They turned around to see a huge cruise ship sailing toward them.

Dun dun duuun!

Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama screamed and swam away from the boat with Keiko, Mint, Hiei, and Sakura on their backs. The boat came to a stop slowly. When they realized it wasn't going to run them over, they stopped also. The boat was big and fancy looking. A man, probably the captain, leaned over the bow and talked through a mega phone. The Mexicans in the water around them started cheering.

"What are they so excited about?" Kuwabara asked.

"Either he's going to let us see his goat, or he's letting us stay on the boat." Kurama said. Everyone stared stupidly at him.

"…What?"

(On the ship)

The captain gave everyone rooms and stuff and they had the free run of the ship. Mint bounced up and down on the bed.

"Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy!" She squealed.

"It seems fortune has smiled upon us." Kurama said.

"Huh?" Kuwabara asked stupidly.

"He means we got lucky." Sakura sighed.

"I need a translator or somethin' whenever I'm around you." Kuwabara said to Kurama.

"No, you just need to get smarter." Hiei, Yusuke, and Sakura said. Kuwabara glared at them. Then Keiko pumped her fist into the air and Yusuke flinched.

"I have an idea! I saw a pool when we first got on. We should go swimming!" She suggested excitedly.

"We don't have any bathing suits." Sakura pointed out. Keiko grinned and pulled a drawer out. In it were several different bathing suits.

"What? It's only been 10 minutes and you already know the layout of the drawers?" Sakura asked. Keiko continued to grin. She picked out bathing suits and threw them at everyone.

"Go change!" She commanded.

"I can't swim." Hiei and Mint said simultaneously.

"Learn." Keiko replied, shoving the boys out the door so they could change.

(Outside the room)

The door slammed and the guys stood there in a daze for a while.

"Why am I listening to her? She's your woman, detective, not mine." Hiei said after they got back to their room. Yusuke blushed.

"She is not!" He shouted. Kurama chuckled.

"That only confirms it." He said.

"What about you and Sakura?" Yusuke teased.

"What about us?" Kurama asked.

"You know what I mean…" Yusuke said with a perverted grin. Kurama narrowed his eyes.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." He said, ending the conversation. Kuwabara was looking depressed.

"What's wrong with you?" Yusuke asked, not sounding concerned at all.

"I miss Yukina!" Kuwabara wailed. Hiei twitched but didn't say anything (he twitches a lot. Maybe he should get that checked out.).

(Five minutes later)

"Hurry up!" Yusuke shouted, banging his fist on the door. The door swung open and Sakura hit him over the head.

"Keep your shorts on!" She said.

"Aww! But I wanted to go skinny dipping!" Yusuke whined, which earned him another punch.

"Are you girls ready?" Kurama asked.

"Yup!" Mint chirped, jumping onto Hiei's back.

"What do you think you're doing?" Hiei growled, twitching a lot.

"I want a piggy back ride!" Mint shouted.

"No." Hiei said flatly. Mint's eyes started to fill up with tears.

"But… But…" She pouted.

"No!" He said stubbornly. Mint gave him the kitty cat eyes (since she can't do puppy dog eyes for obvious reasons) and pouted more. Hiei thought for a minute before walking away while grumbling, with Mint still on his back.

"Don't get used to this!" He snapped. Mint smiled.

"Okay." She said.

"You don't see that everyday." Yusuke commented.

(At the pool)

"I don't wanna get in!" Mint screamed.

"You're going to have to learn sometime!" Sakura said, trying to drag Mint to the pool's edge.

"Teach Hiei!" Mint screamed, pointing at Hiei, who was lying on a lounge chair.

"Touch me and die." He said, not opening his eyes (which were hidden behind a nifty pair of black sunglasses).

"See? He's threatening me. I might end up drowning before he does." Sakura said.

"Indeed." Hiei stated. Mint, who had let her guard down, stood close to the pool's edge. Sakura grinned mischievously and shoved her into the water.

"Aaahhh! I'm melting!" She shrieked. She grabbed onto Kurama, who was close by.

"You're not going to melt." Kurama assured her.

"Oh my God! Mint, where's your hand?" Yusuke yelled. Mint screamed and tried to swim to the side of the pool. But all she succeeded in doing was splashing around aimlessly, nearly drowning herself in the process. Yusuke laughed his butt off, until Kuwabara dunked him.

"I don't wanna melt!" Mint cried, once again clinging to Kurama. Sakura tiptoed over to Hiei and flipped his chair, dumping him into the pool. He woke up with a startled cry and sunk like a lead weight. A few seconds passed, but he didn't come up. Yusuke dived under and brought him back up. When he surfaced, Hiei glared harshly at Kuwabara and tried to swim over to him so he could strangle him. Yusuke held onto the back of Hiei's swimming trunks, preventing him from going anywhere.

"I didn't do anything!" Kuwabara shouted angrily.

"Like hell you didn't! You tried to drown me!" Hiei shouted back, wagging an accusing finger at him. Sakura was laughing hysterically by the edge of the pool. Kurama smirked and grabbed her ankle, dragging her in.

(Behind the random fence that popped up suddenly)

The crazed fangirls who stowed away in the cargo hold of the airplane peeped through the fence.

"She's trying to kill Shuichi!" Adriana fervently whispered.

"I'll save you, Shuichi-sama!" Ashley cried, standing up.

"Sleep!" Cried the lone Jin fangirl (Bri) as she shot Ashley in the butt with a tranquilizer dart.

"Right after my nap." Adriana caught Ashley as she fell, then dropped her.

"You killed her!" She stated in disbelief.

"Uh huh." Bri said as she tranquilized the second fangirl.

"Apples taste appely."

"Bwahahaha!"

(The pool)

All the drowning people on the other side of the fence turned to find the source of the maniacal laughter.

(Back on the other side of the fence)

"Eep!" Bri squeaked and scurried up a tree (it's a BIG ship).

(The pool)

Yusuke scaled the fence to look over in the bushes and spotted the two stow away fangirls.

"Kurama, they're friends of yours!" He called out.

"Don't let them find me!" Kurama cried as he hid behind Hiei, which of course was not a good place to hide considering the height difference.

"No, it's okay. They're knocked out." Yusuke said, jumping back down.

"Should we really leave them there?" Sakura asked.

"Pinata! Ole!" Mint shrieked. Sakura turned to Kurama.

"If they annoy you that much we could let Mint take care of them." She said.

"I saw a large metal tree to string them up on." Mint confided in them.

"Maybe we'll just leave them there." Kurama decided much to Mint's dismay

(In the tree)

"Heheheheh. I have exposed the horrors of the Kurama cult…" Bri whispered to herself. Then there was an ominous crack.

"What the…AHHH!"

(At the pool)

:SPLASH:

"What was that?" They turned to see a half-drowned fangirl floating on a tree branch. She looked at them, climbed out of the pool, and ran away.

"Well that was random." Sakura commented.

"Indeed." (Didn't I tell you it would be random?) Mint and Hiei finally managed to swim to the side and collapsed on the edge of the pool.

"We're safe…" They sighed.

"This is boring! …Hey, let's play chicken fight!" Yusuke shouted enthusiastically.

"Play what?" Hiei asked from the side, clinging to it for dear life.

"Well, someone sits on someone else's shoulders and tries to push someone else off someone else's shoulders. Get it?" Yusuke explained.

"What?" Hiei asked, not understanding a word he said. He tried in vain to climb out, but he was too short.

"Like this." Yusuke said. He swam under Keiko and came up with her on his shoulders.

"No." Hiei said flatly.

"Ooh ooh fun! I wanna play!" Mint said, jumping on Hiei's shoulders.

"…"

"Where's Hiei?"

"He can't touch the bottom." (authoress: whoops :snaps fingers:) Hiei's head suddenly appeared above the water.

"Wow I grew."

"Yay chicken!" Mint leaped off of Hiei's shoulders and onto Sakura's, who was on Kurama's shoulders. Kurama, unable to hold them both, toppled over. Mint leaped back onto Hiei's shoulders.

"Yay I win!"

"You have to stay on his shoulders when you knock everyone else off." Sakura fumed.

"But that's no fuuuun!" Mint whined.

"I don't care!" Sakura said, climbing back onto Kurama's shoulders. Mint stuck her tongue out at her.

"I wanna play!" Kuwabara wailed. He spotted a little old lady nearby.

"Do you wanna be my partner?" He asked her.

"Oh, yes. The water looks very nice!" She said.

"Cool!" He exclaimed. He picked her up and put her on his shoulders.

"Let's kick those whippersnappers' butts!" The old lady shouted, swinging her cane around.

"You're all goin' down!" Kuwabara laughed along with the old lady. But their ego trip was cut short when Sakura and Kurama knocked them down. The old lady started beating Kuwabara over the head with her cane and cussing at him in Spanish. Mint once again had her handy dandy translator.

"You're out!" Sakura grinned.

"Ow! No fair!" Kuwabara shrieked. He set the old lady back down on the side of the pool. She then threw her empty Tequila glass at his head and fumed off.

"Grouch…" He muttered.

"So, who's gonna be our next victim?" Sakura mused. She was cut off, however, when Keiko shoved her.

"Booya!" Yusuke cheered. Then Keiko and Mint got in a hand lock thing, and tried to push each other off their partners' shoulders.

"Give up Hiei. You're gonna lose." Yusuke taunted. Hiei only smirked and kicked Yusuke's legs from underneath him. Yusuke and Keiko lost their balance and flailed their arms around, trying to stay upright. Mint created a light breeze, which caused them to fall over.

"Oh yeah! We're cool!" Mint shouted victoriously.

"Indeed."

"Careful Mint. Your ego is showing." Kurama said. Mint covered herself with her arms.

"Aaah! Where!" She screamed.

"Let's get out now. I'm all pruney." Keiko suggested, climbing out of the pool.

"That sounds like a good idea." Sakura agreed, climbing out also. Everyone else got out, with the exception of Mint, who was doing laps around the pool.

"Come on, Mint. We're all going back inside." Yusuke said.

"But I don't wanna! Swimming is fun!" She whined. When she was in the process of swimming past them, Sakura plucked her out of the water.

"There's nothing worse than a wet cat." She said, plopping Mint on the ground.

"I thought there was nothing worse than a wet dog?" Kuwabara asked.

"You obviously haven't seen Mint when she's wet." Sakura commented. On her cue, Mint got down on all fours and shook, sending water on everyone. When she was finished, her hair and the fur on her tail frizzed out.

"I feel better."

(Meanwhile)

Both tranquilized fan girls slowly came to and saw the gang leaving the pool. Ashley peeked through a crack in the fence. She spotted Kurama, who had wrapped a towel around his waist.

"Shuichi's in a towel!" Ashley whispered.

"Where?" Adriana cried. Ashley clamped a hand over her mouth.

"Ssh!"

"Sorry."

"Okay. Here's the plan." Ashley whispered in Adriana's ear.

"Oh dear."

(Back with the gang)

"So what does he eat?" Yusuke asked Kurama.

"Well, man eating plants really have a sweet tooth for mice. They're better than a cat for rodent control." Kurama was cut off as two fan girls came running through the pool deck crying 'Freedom.'. One ran up to Kurama and ripped off the towel that was tied around his waist to reveal his swimming trunks. The one who ripped off his towel snapped her fingers.

"Darn." The second fan girl, who had her eyes closed the whole time, drug the other one away. The first one yelled back at Kurama.

"I'll be back!"

"Like I was saying, Fred really likes to munch on mice, but if I weren't so nice, I'd feed my fan club to him." Off in the distance they heard a cry from where the fan girls had run off to.

"Die!"

"What was that?" Yusuke asked in alarm.

"Crowd control." Kurama replied straight-faced.

"Death to the Kurama cult. Ooh a buffet."

"Your crowd control is really loud." Sakura commented.

"I wanna meet her!" Mint screamed.

"That's all we need is another head ache."

Did she say something about a buffet?" Hiei inquired. He ran off to search for said buffet.

(At the buffet)

"I want that! And that! And that! Ooooh! What's that? Aaaaah! It's looking at me!" Mint screamed, pointing at almost everything on the table.

"That's a crab, Mint." Sakura stated, piling everything Mint pointed to on plates.

"Fish!" Mint cried, pouncing on a plate of fish.

"Mint! Get off the table!" Sakura shouted. Mint turned to Sakura with a fish hanging out of her mouth. The she slowly got down, but not before about 5 more fish. Sakura herded her over to the table where everyone else was sitting, while attempting to balance all 10 plates of food.

"Jeez! You hungry?" Kuwabara asked.

"No. This is for Mint. Woah!" Sakura tripped over a snag in the carpet, but was able to keep everything balanced.

"If I die, Mint, I'm gonna haunt you!" She said.

"Sakura, watch out!" Kurama warned.

"What? …Oh God!" Sakura ran into their table and everything fell over …right on Hiei.

"It's like I'm cursed!" He groaned.

"Waaaahhh! My food!" Mint cried. She then got a thoughtful look on her face and then grinned at Hiei.

"No! Go away!" He shouted, running out of the room.

"Wait, Hiei!" Mint shrieked, running after him on all fours. Yusuke, who was laughing his butt off, felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked up to find an extremely pissed off chef.

"Uh… yo." He greeted. The chef started yelling in three different languages, waving his ladle around. Needless to say, the gang (minus Mint and Hiei) spent the rest of the day cleaning the buffet room.