Imouto
Amai: For authenticity (and because I'm finally learning more), I've thrown a few Japanese words into this story. -Chan and -kun are hard to translate, so just remember that they are for friends, -chan for females (and occasionally males, but only if you're being cutesy) and -kun for males. All others will be translated at the end of the chapter. Also, the names are in traditional Japanese format, last name first.
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Sillyningengirl: Well, Koenma finds her annoying because she usually causes chaos in his office. Remember, she "re-filed" all of his important paperwork on at least one occasion. In Mizu-chan speak, that means she threw them all over the room.
Kawaii Kitsune Cub: You really think Mizuki is loveable? Wow, I feel special now. I created a loveable character. Yay!
Yavie Aelinel: At least Mizuki didn't get hurt. Just scared out of her wits. I don't blame her, though. I get scared when there's a cockroach in my house, much less a demon assassin.
CHAPTER FOUR: Fun and games
After dinner, Mizuki seemed to be back to her old self. She was smiling and laughing again. Suddenly she stopped, slapped both hands on the table, and shouted, "How could I be so stupid?!" The other four blinked, but only Botan was brave enough to ask what the girl meant. "I brought you here and didn't even give you time to pack anything. I'm so sorry," Mizuki apologized. "We've got to go back now!"
After a short discussion, it was decided that the only feasible way to go back was for Mizuki to teleport to Koenma's office, from where they could return to Japan via portal. Hiei and Yusuke were not so eager to teleport again, seeing as they had fallen flat on their butts the last time. Their pride was the only thing hurt, but to Hiei and Yusuke that was a major injury. It was only when Botan threatened to make them pay for their own plane tickets back that they agreed on teleportation.
Koenma was startled and jumped under his desk when the group popped in, but it was only a moment before he was back in his chair and screaming at them for coming back before the assassin was captured. "What if he returns while you're away?! You could lose a chance to catch him!" the toddler scolded. "The only way I will allow this is if you all go to your own houses and then meet up back at the portal as soon as you're done. You've got to return to Mizuki's home as soon as possible! We can't waste a single moment!"
"And I can stay here and visit with you, Koenma-anchan [1]!" Mizuki added cheerily. Koenma blanched at the thought.
"Iie [2], you can't be separated from your bodyguards. You'll go with Yusuke," he ordered, pounding his tiny fist on the desk a few times for emphasis.
"Bad idea," Yusuke objected. "If Okaasan [3] finds me bringing a girl home she'll think something's up. If she's drunk she might even do something weird like chase Mizu-chan out of the apartment. The only way I could fix it would be to blab about my Spirit Detective job."
Koenma nodded in understanding and looked to Hiei next, but Kurama intervened before the toddler could say a word. NO ONE had ever been allowed to see where Hiei actually lived, although it was well known that the fire demon spent many nights sleeping in random trees. "Mizu-chan, you can come with me," the kitsune offered quickly. "I think Kaasan [4] will enjoy talking to you for a while. She loves to meet new people, but since she can't get out of the house often." Mizuki nodded eagerly to the proposal.
Soon Mizuki was skipping down the street with Kurama walking either behind or beside her, depending on how often she stopped to look at something. "It's been so long since I was in Japan! I always forget how different it is from America!" she said breathlessly. Kurama merely chuckled.
When they got to Kurama's house, he stopped Mizuki at the door. "There are a couple of things you need to know," he explained. "Kurama is my demon name, but here I am called Shuuichi. Also, Kaasan is ill and rather weak. She'll be very glad to speak with you, but please don't tire her." When Mizuki looked confused, the kitsune decided to keep it simple. "Stay calm and quiet and I'll buy you Pocky [5]." Mizuki cheered and hugged Kurama around the neck, thanking him profusely and promising to be on her very best behavior.
"Kaasan, I'm home," Kurama called out when he opened the door.
"Shuuichi!" A rather pale, thin woman was sitting in the front room, but she slowly got to her feet to come and embrace Kurama. "I'm so glad to see you back. What's kept you away this time? You're so busy for being so young!"
"I have a very important job, Kaasan, but you know I'm not allowed to talk about it. I'm going to be out of town to work for a while, so I have to pack up and then be on my way again." Kurama then reached around and pushed Mizuki forward. "Kaasan, this is Mizuki. I work with her, and I thought you might like to visit with her while I get ready." Mizuki politely bowed and smiled.
"Are you Shuuichi's girlfriend?" Kurama's mother asked with complete innocence. Both Mizuki and Kurama hurriedly assured her that this was not the case.
Kurama left Mizuki chatting with his mother in the front room while he rushed to pack everything that he would need for a stay in Mizuki's home. The kitsune was rather surprised to hear no hyper outbursts, but then again, he HAD promised the girl Pocky. After stuffing a suitcase he went back to the front room where Mizuki and his mother were pleasantly conversing.
"I'm sorry Kaasan, but Mizuki and I have to hurry back," Kurama apologized.
"I hate to hear that Shuuichi," his mother said sadly. "Thank you for bringing your friend to talk to me. She may not be your girlfriend, but perhaps you could reconsider that." Kurama blushed, even when his mother assured him she was only joking.
"Don't worry, Shuuichi-kun, I'm taken," Mizuki giggled. The two said goodbye to Kurama's mother and headed back towards the portal to Spirit World.
"I didn't know you had a boyfriend, Mizu-chan," Kurama said after a while.
"Iie, not really, I just didn't want your mother to have the wrong idea," Mizuki laughed.
They stopped in at a little store on the way. There, Kurama bought the promised Pocky. Indulgence in the sugary treat kept her quiet- at least relatively so- all the way back to the portal. Yusuke and Hiei were already waiting, but Botan had yet to arrive. There were also three girls there that Mizuki didn't recognize. They had come along with Yusuke, so he introduced them. A rather tall girl with brown hair was Kuwabara's neechan [6], Shizuru. Mizuki went blank on the name Kuwabara for a moment, until she suddenly blurted out "Oh! The hentai!" Shiziru merely laughed. A shorter girl, also with brown hair but in a different style was Yusuke's childhood friend Keiko. The shortest of all, a girl with sea-green hair named Yukina, was Hiei's twin sister.
"I'm sorry to see Yusuke leaving again, but it IS his job," Keiko sighed. "At least America is easier to get to than the Demon World."
"Well, why don't you come too? I've got plenty of room," Mizuki offered. "You're all welcome to come, in fact! I wouldn't want to keep friends apart just because I had a demon sneak into my kitchen." Kurama and Yusuke exchanged skeptical glances at her downplay of the event. They had seen her reaction earlier, after all.
Keiko thought it would be fun. It was summer break, so she'd have to come back when school started, but until then she could stay. Yukina also wanted to come. She'd seen so little of the Human World, and seeing America would be wonderful. Only Shiziru had to decline, claiming that her otouto [7] couldn't get along without her. "When this whole thing is over you'll have to come hang out with us again," she added.
So Keiko and Yukina ran home, returning soon with packed bags. Botan got back at about the same time with about twice as many bags as anyone else, which is why she took so long. Since everyone was there, they headed back through the portal and into Spirit World.
Koenma was not pleased that Mizuki had invited more guests. "They could be in danger!" the toddler protested. The boys all jumped on that immediately, insisting that they would never allow such a thing. Finally Koenma relented, but only after Mizuki bribed him with a piece of her Pocky.
A quick teleport home (this time Hiei, Yusuke, AND Kurama all fell down) and Mizuki showed Keiko and Yukina to the two remaining guest rooms. It was now nighttime in America, but only afternoon back in Japan, so no one was tired. Mizuki should have been, but she was wired on Pocky. She was bouncing around the house singing some weird song. No one understood the lyrics because they were in English. Actually, Botan understood, but she wasn't translating. So they simply had to wonder what it meant when Mizuki danced around the living room singing "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT (WHO, WHO, WHO?)"
After a while Mizuki tired of the song, even though she was still hyper. She dragged the other three girls up to her room, saying that she wanted to show them something.
"I'm growing tired of this job already," Hiei complained, plopping down on the bright yellow sofa in the living room. "That girl is annoying."
"She's kind of weird, but she seems nice enough. She's letting us stay in her mansion, after all," Yusuke pointed out.
"She's got a lot of energy, but I'll have to take the blame for her current condition. I was the one who bought her Pocky, after all," Kurama admitted. Hiei apparently agreed, because he was glaring hatefully at the kitsune.
"And she let us bring the girls along," Yusuke added, still on the same track as before. "And I don't have to go to school until this is over with."
"She does have many unique plants for me to study," Kurama said thoughtfully.
"So you two think you're going to enjoy staying here, don't you?" Hiei spat. "We're just here for our job. Once it's over with, we're gone."
"Lighten up, shrimp," Yusuke casually replied. He kicked back in an orange overstuffed armchair. "If we have to be here, why not have fun?"
Suddenly, music blared from the very walls, practically shaking the house. Unlike the song Mizuki was singing earlier, the boys actually recognized this. "Kami [8]! I HATE this song!" Yusuke shouted. It was "Butterfly" by Smile DK [another one my fellow DDR players might recognize!]. Hiei was holding his hands over his ears, as was Yusuke, while Kurama searched for the source of the music. As it turned out, there were speaker panels set into the walls and painted to blend in. They were set high up, near the ceiling, so you didn't see them unless you were looking for them.
"How do you shut the damn thing off?!" Yusuke screamed.
"I would guess the controls are in Mizuki's room, since that's where everyone else is," Kurama replied.
"Then I suggest we go up there and make them turn it off!" Hiei stormed up the two flights of spiral stairs, still bombarded by the annoying music, to Mizuki's rainbow-striped door, which was unsurprisingly shut and locked. The fire demon pounded on the door, and when he got only laughter in reply, he began to shout. "Don't make me break down this door!" he raged.
Yusuke had followed him and was also pounding on the door now. Kurama was back at the stairs, leaning on the railing and looking rather amused. Truth be told, the kitsune didn't have anything against the song, but he wasn't about to say so.
Mizuki poked her head out the door just as the song switched from "Butterfly" to "Domo Domo Domo". "What do you want, Hiei-kun?" she asked sweetly.
"Turn off the music in the living room!" Yusuke shouted angrily.
"Spoilsport." Mizuki ducked back inside and a moment later shouted, "Okay, the living room speakers are off!" Hiei and Yusuke happily returned to the now-silent first floor, but Kurama was curious as to what the girls could possibly be doing. His sensitive hearing was picking up loud bouts of girlish laughter from inside Mizuki's room. The curious kitsune walked over and knocked on the rainbow-striped door. Mizuki answered again.
"Mizu-chan, what in the world are you doing in there?" Kurama asked while trying to see past her into the room. His view was quickly blocked by the other three girls who came to stand behind Mizuki.
"Don't tell him, Mizu-chan," Botan said.
"Iie, Kurama-kun's okay, he gave me Pocky," Mizuki replied. "We should let him join!" The other three girls' eyes lit up at the prospect, which made Kurama hesitant. "You can only find out what we're doing if you join us," Mizuki taunted. Kurama cursed his fox curiosity, but reluctantly agreed. He was immediately pounced upon and dragged into the brightly colored room. The girls were sitting in a circle on the floor, and placed Kurama between Mizuki and Botan.
"We found out that Yukina-chan has never played Truth or Dare before, so of course we just had to play," Botan explained. "And Mizu-chan has taught us a few new things too."
"Like the double dare!" Keiko said. Kurama asked for an explanation.
"Every person gets one double dare during the game that they can use during any turn," Mizuki said. "A double dare involves as many people as they want, and the victims can't argue. They have to do it. Otherwise you can refuse any truth or any dare."
"But," Botan interrupted, "if you refuse the truth or the dare given to you, the other person can choose anything. So if you want truth but refuse to answer, they can give you another truth OR a dare!"
"It sounds interesting. It should be fun to try playing Truth or Dare," Kurama mused. All the girls except Yukina paused to stare. "What?"
"You mean you've never played either?" Keiko asked incredulously. "I should get Yusuke to play, then! We need a guy to play that has some experience." Mizuki and Botan exchanged glances and then nodded in agreement. Kurama had the distinct feeling that he was missing something.
Keiko only managed to get Yusuke into the room after Mizuki turned off Smile DK. But once the J-pop [9] was off, the Spirit Detective seemed eager to join in. He sat down between Keiko and Botan with a wicked grin on his face. Mizuki covered the rules quickly; Yusuke seemed especially delighted at the double dare. "So let's get this thing going!" he exclaimed.
Translations 1: Older brother
2: No
3: Mother
4: Mom
(It is important to note the difference between "Okaasan" and "Kaasan"; Okaasan is more formal, while Kaasan is more familiar. I thought that, since Yusuke doesn't have a very good relationship with his mother while Kurama does, they would use different versions.)
5: A Japanese candy
6: Older sister
7: Younger brother
8: God
9: Nickname for Japanese Pop
Amai: For authenticity (and because I'm finally learning more), I've thrown a few Japanese words into this story. -Chan and -kun are hard to translate, so just remember that they are for friends, -chan for females (and occasionally males, but only if you're being cutesy) and -kun for males. All others will be translated at the end of the chapter. Also, the names are in traditional Japanese format, last name first.
Yay, review responses now!
Sillyningengirl: Well, Koenma finds her annoying because she usually causes chaos in his office. Remember, she "re-filed" all of his important paperwork on at least one occasion. In Mizu-chan speak, that means she threw them all over the room.
Kawaii Kitsune Cub: You really think Mizuki is loveable? Wow, I feel special now. I created a loveable character. Yay!
Yavie Aelinel: At least Mizuki didn't get hurt. Just scared out of her wits. I don't blame her, though. I get scared when there's a cockroach in my house, much less a demon assassin.
CHAPTER FOUR: Fun and games
After dinner, Mizuki seemed to be back to her old self. She was smiling and laughing again. Suddenly she stopped, slapped both hands on the table, and shouted, "How could I be so stupid?!" The other four blinked, but only Botan was brave enough to ask what the girl meant. "I brought you here and didn't even give you time to pack anything. I'm so sorry," Mizuki apologized. "We've got to go back now!"
After a short discussion, it was decided that the only feasible way to go back was for Mizuki to teleport to Koenma's office, from where they could return to Japan via portal. Hiei and Yusuke were not so eager to teleport again, seeing as they had fallen flat on their butts the last time. Their pride was the only thing hurt, but to Hiei and Yusuke that was a major injury. It was only when Botan threatened to make them pay for their own plane tickets back that they agreed on teleportation.
Koenma was startled and jumped under his desk when the group popped in, but it was only a moment before he was back in his chair and screaming at them for coming back before the assassin was captured. "What if he returns while you're away?! You could lose a chance to catch him!" the toddler scolded. "The only way I will allow this is if you all go to your own houses and then meet up back at the portal as soon as you're done. You've got to return to Mizuki's home as soon as possible! We can't waste a single moment!"
"And I can stay here and visit with you, Koenma-anchan [1]!" Mizuki added cheerily. Koenma blanched at the thought.
"Iie [2], you can't be separated from your bodyguards. You'll go with Yusuke," he ordered, pounding his tiny fist on the desk a few times for emphasis.
"Bad idea," Yusuke objected. "If Okaasan [3] finds me bringing a girl home she'll think something's up. If she's drunk she might even do something weird like chase Mizu-chan out of the apartment. The only way I could fix it would be to blab about my Spirit Detective job."
Koenma nodded in understanding and looked to Hiei next, but Kurama intervened before the toddler could say a word. NO ONE had ever been allowed to see where Hiei actually lived, although it was well known that the fire demon spent many nights sleeping in random trees. "Mizu-chan, you can come with me," the kitsune offered quickly. "I think Kaasan [4] will enjoy talking to you for a while. She loves to meet new people, but since she can't get out of the house often." Mizuki nodded eagerly to the proposal.
Soon Mizuki was skipping down the street with Kurama walking either behind or beside her, depending on how often she stopped to look at something. "It's been so long since I was in Japan! I always forget how different it is from America!" she said breathlessly. Kurama merely chuckled.
When they got to Kurama's house, he stopped Mizuki at the door. "There are a couple of things you need to know," he explained. "Kurama is my demon name, but here I am called Shuuichi. Also, Kaasan is ill and rather weak. She'll be very glad to speak with you, but please don't tire her." When Mizuki looked confused, the kitsune decided to keep it simple. "Stay calm and quiet and I'll buy you Pocky [5]." Mizuki cheered and hugged Kurama around the neck, thanking him profusely and promising to be on her very best behavior.
"Kaasan, I'm home," Kurama called out when he opened the door.
"Shuuichi!" A rather pale, thin woman was sitting in the front room, but she slowly got to her feet to come and embrace Kurama. "I'm so glad to see you back. What's kept you away this time? You're so busy for being so young!"
"I have a very important job, Kaasan, but you know I'm not allowed to talk about it. I'm going to be out of town to work for a while, so I have to pack up and then be on my way again." Kurama then reached around and pushed Mizuki forward. "Kaasan, this is Mizuki. I work with her, and I thought you might like to visit with her while I get ready." Mizuki politely bowed and smiled.
"Are you Shuuichi's girlfriend?" Kurama's mother asked with complete innocence. Both Mizuki and Kurama hurriedly assured her that this was not the case.
Kurama left Mizuki chatting with his mother in the front room while he rushed to pack everything that he would need for a stay in Mizuki's home. The kitsune was rather surprised to hear no hyper outbursts, but then again, he HAD promised the girl Pocky. After stuffing a suitcase he went back to the front room where Mizuki and his mother were pleasantly conversing.
"I'm sorry Kaasan, but Mizuki and I have to hurry back," Kurama apologized.
"I hate to hear that Shuuichi," his mother said sadly. "Thank you for bringing your friend to talk to me. She may not be your girlfriend, but perhaps you could reconsider that." Kurama blushed, even when his mother assured him she was only joking.
"Don't worry, Shuuichi-kun, I'm taken," Mizuki giggled. The two said goodbye to Kurama's mother and headed back towards the portal to Spirit World.
"I didn't know you had a boyfriend, Mizu-chan," Kurama said after a while.
"Iie, not really, I just didn't want your mother to have the wrong idea," Mizuki laughed.
They stopped in at a little store on the way. There, Kurama bought the promised Pocky. Indulgence in the sugary treat kept her quiet- at least relatively so- all the way back to the portal. Yusuke and Hiei were already waiting, but Botan had yet to arrive. There were also three girls there that Mizuki didn't recognize. They had come along with Yusuke, so he introduced them. A rather tall girl with brown hair was Kuwabara's neechan [6], Shizuru. Mizuki went blank on the name Kuwabara for a moment, until she suddenly blurted out "Oh! The hentai!" Shiziru merely laughed. A shorter girl, also with brown hair but in a different style was Yusuke's childhood friend Keiko. The shortest of all, a girl with sea-green hair named Yukina, was Hiei's twin sister.
"I'm sorry to see Yusuke leaving again, but it IS his job," Keiko sighed. "At least America is easier to get to than the Demon World."
"Well, why don't you come too? I've got plenty of room," Mizuki offered. "You're all welcome to come, in fact! I wouldn't want to keep friends apart just because I had a demon sneak into my kitchen." Kurama and Yusuke exchanged skeptical glances at her downplay of the event. They had seen her reaction earlier, after all.
Keiko thought it would be fun. It was summer break, so she'd have to come back when school started, but until then she could stay. Yukina also wanted to come. She'd seen so little of the Human World, and seeing America would be wonderful. Only Shiziru had to decline, claiming that her otouto [7] couldn't get along without her. "When this whole thing is over you'll have to come hang out with us again," she added.
So Keiko and Yukina ran home, returning soon with packed bags. Botan got back at about the same time with about twice as many bags as anyone else, which is why she took so long. Since everyone was there, they headed back through the portal and into Spirit World.
Koenma was not pleased that Mizuki had invited more guests. "They could be in danger!" the toddler protested. The boys all jumped on that immediately, insisting that they would never allow such a thing. Finally Koenma relented, but only after Mizuki bribed him with a piece of her Pocky.
A quick teleport home (this time Hiei, Yusuke, AND Kurama all fell down) and Mizuki showed Keiko and Yukina to the two remaining guest rooms. It was now nighttime in America, but only afternoon back in Japan, so no one was tired. Mizuki should have been, but she was wired on Pocky. She was bouncing around the house singing some weird song. No one understood the lyrics because they were in English. Actually, Botan understood, but she wasn't translating. So they simply had to wonder what it meant when Mizuki danced around the living room singing "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT (WHO, WHO, WHO?)"
After a while Mizuki tired of the song, even though she was still hyper. She dragged the other three girls up to her room, saying that she wanted to show them something.
"I'm growing tired of this job already," Hiei complained, plopping down on the bright yellow sofa in the living room. "That girl is annoying."
"She's kind of weird, but she seems nice enough. She's letting us stay in her mansion, after all," Yusuke pointed out.
"She's got a lot of energy, but I'll have to take the blame for her current condition. I was the one who bought her Pocky, after all," Kurama admitted. Hiei apparently agreed, because he was glaring hatefully at the kitsune.
"And she let us bring the girls along," Yusuke added, still on the same track as before. "And I don't have to go to school until this is over with."
"She does have many unique plants for me to study," Kurama said thoughtfully.
"So you two think you're going to enjoy staying here, don't you?" Hiei spat. "We're just here for our job. Once it's over with, we're gone."
"Lighten up, shrimp," Yusuke casually replied. He kicked back in an orange overstuffed armchair. "If we have to be here, why not have fun?"
Suddenly, music blared from the very walls, practically shaking the house. Unlike the song Mizuki was singing earlier, the boys actually recognized this. "Kami [8]! I HATE this song!" Yusuke shouted. It was "Butterfly" by Smile DK [another one my fellow DDR players might recognize!]. Hiei was holding his hands over his ears, as was Yusuke, while Kurama searched for the source of the music. As it turned out, there were speaker panels set into the walls and painted to blend in. They were set high up, near the ceiling, so you didn't see them unless you were looking for them.
"How do you shut the damn thing off?!" Yusuke screamed.
"I would guess the controls are in Mizuki's room, since that's where everyone else is," Kurama replied.
"Then I suggest we go up there and make them turn it off!" Hiei stormed up the two flights of spiral stairs, still bombarded by the annoying music, to Mizuki's rainbow-striped door, which was unsurprisingly shut and locked. The fire demon pounded on the door, and when he got only laughter in reply, he began to shout. "Don't make me break down this door!" he raged.
Yusuke had followed him and was also pounding on the door now. Kurama was back at the stairs, leaning on the railing and looking rather amused. Truth be told, the kitsune didn't have anything against the song, but he wasn't about to say so.
Mizuki poked her head out the door just as the song switched from "Butterfly" to "Domo Domo Domo". "What do you want, Hiei-kun?" she asked sweetly.
"Turn off the music in the living room!" Yusuke shouted angrily.
"Spoilsport." Mizuki ducked back inside and a moment later shouted, "Okay, the living room speakers are off!" Hiei and Yusuke happily returned to the now-silent first floor, but Kurama was curious as to what the girls could possibly be doing. His sensitive hearing was picking up loud bouts of girlish laughter from inside Mizuki's room. The curious kitsune walked over and knocked on the rainbow-striped door. Mizuki answered again.
"Mizu-chan, what in the world are you doing in there?" Kurama asked while trying to see past her into the room. His view was quickly blocked by the other three girls who came to stand behind Mizuki.
"Don't tell him, Mizu-chan," Botan said.
"Iie, Kurama-kun's okay, he gave me Pocky," Mizuki replied. "We should let him join!" The other three girls' eyes lit up at the prospect, which made Kurama hesitant. "You can only find out what we're doing if you join us," Mizuki taunted. Kurama cursed his fox curiosity, but reluctantly agreed. He was immediately pounced upon and dragged into the brightly colored room. The girls were sitting in a circle on the floor, and placed Kurama between Mizuki and Botan.
"We found out that Yukina-chan has never played Truth or Dare before, so of course we just had to play," Botan explained. "And Mizu-chan has taught us a few new things too."
"Like the double dare!" Keiko said. Kurama asked for an explanation.
"Every person gets one double dare during the game that they can use during any turn," Mizuki said. "A double dare involves as many people as they want, and the victims can't argue. They have to do it. Otherwise you can refuse any truth or any dare."
"But," Botan interrupted, "if you refuse the truth or the dare given to you, the other person can choose anything. So if you want truth but refuse to answer, they can give you another truth OR a dare!"
"It sounds interesting. It should be fun to try playing Truth or Dare," Kurama mused. All the girls except Yukina paused to stare. "What?"
"You mean you've never played either?" Keiko asked incredulously. "I should get Yusuke to play, then! We need a guy to play that has some experience." Mizuki and Botan exchanged glances and then nodded in agreement. Kurama had the distinct feeling that he was missing something.
Keiko only managed to get Yusuke into the room after Mizuki turned off Smile DK. But once the J-pop [9] was off, the Spirit Detective seemed eager to join in. He sat down between Keiko and Botan with a wicked grin on his face. Mizuki covered the rules quickly; Yusuke seemed especially delighted at the double dare. "So let's get this thing going!" he exclaimed.
Translations 1: Older brother
2: No
3: Mother
4: Mom
(It is important to note the difference between "Okaasan" and "Kaasan"; Okaasan is more formal, while Kaasan is more familiar. I thought that, since Yusuke doesn't have a very good relationship with his mother while Kurama does, they would use different versions.)
5: A Japanese candy
6: Older sister
7: Younger brother
8: God
9: Nickname for Japanese Pop
