Begin the experiments! Mwahahahaha! This chapter was going to kill me, since I hit a small case of writer's block but Neriede pulled me out of it. YAY NERIEDE! Speaking of Neriede, she's going to do the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: I own Yu Yu Hakusho. I own it. I own it. They just mispelled my name wrong in the credits. So HAH! I bet you weren't expecting that one, HUH? (me: Uhm...what she means to say is that we don't own it.)
Chapter Ten
"Let the experiments begin..."
Genkai watches, amused, as the Destinies circle Kurama and Yokou like hawks bearing down on their prey. The girls are in their element here, no one can beat them at their own game. Even Yokou looks a bit afraid. While he himself has not experienced firsthand their devastation, Kurama has. And he's felt some of that undying fear from Kurama. These girls are demons. He just knows it. What sort of havoc will they begin wreaking upon he and his poor Kurama? Kami only knows...
"I'd say Kurama try to eat Yokou but that would be disturbing," Olivia smirks evilly.
"VERY," Kurama states.
"Well we have to do something," Vanessa states.
"How about we cut part of their sides open and sew them together with a needle and a thread?" Neriede says suddenly, eyes shining.
oO "NO!"
Everyone in the vicinity immediately replies to that one, shivering at the thought of cutting the two open, even if it was for a good cause. Neriede pouts a bit, sad to see such a perfect idea go to waste. No matter: there will be other times; other victims. Her plots never go undone for long... She shrugs and continues her pacing, glancing over to Kurama. He regards her with fear evident in his eyes. How could he not be afraid? Nissi is bad enough! The four pace...
and pace...
and pace...until...
"Genkai," Neriede whispers. "Do you have any--"
The rest of the sentence is cut off as she runs up to Genkai and whispers it in her ear.
"Of course. You never know when you might have to close Yusuke's mouth."
"What was that, Grandma?"
She slips Neriede a tube of something, and everyone becomes curious. Laughing maniacally she turns around and reveals the tube to everyone: SUPERGLUE. oO Kurama gasps, clutching at Yokou in fear. Yokou--who has only seen the little tube a few times when Kurama needed to use it when he 'accidently' broke something--does not know why he is so afraid. Advancing on the said, Neriede twists the top of the tube open, points it at one side of Kurama's shirt, and squeezes. Splurt. While Kurama cannot feel it through the material of his shirt he knows that this sick twisted plot of hers will not work, but she obviously doesn't know that. Or doesn't care. Maybe she's doing this for torture?
But no, if Kurama wants to be cured he has to trust Neriede who is brilliant despite her evil plots. The left side of his shirt now completely covered with superglue, Olivia holds him in place so he won't tumble with her powers, and Neriede pushes Yokou into him. Squish. The Destinies smirk as they hear that they have connected. Now, has it worked...?
"Kurama, I can't move away!" Yokou exclaims.
"The power of superglue!" Olivia falls to her knees and raises her hands high. "It has saved us many times!"
The other Destinies follow her lead, fighting back the urge to laugh. Kurama glares at them, trying to get Yokou to stand still. But the fox is too much surprised. What substance had the power to do this?
"There. You are connected," Vanessa claps her hands.
"This is not what I meant!" Kurama shouts as he tumbles backwards with Yokou. "Oomph."
"You never specified what you meant by connected?" Olivia explains to them. "That's what you should have learned by now, Kurama. You live with Nissi!"
"Grr..."
"Fine, it hasn't worked," Neriede sighs, thinking. "Just give me a moment then. Vanessa, take a claw and seperate them."
Shink. Vanessa takes one of her extendable claws and slides it down Kurama's and Yokou's sides, trying hard not to cut them. They escape with only a few scratches, but nothing permanent. They thank Vanessa profusely, happy to be freed from that prison.
"I have it!" Neriede proclaims, snapping her fingers.
From the sidelines Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Genkai lean forward in their seats, interested. Shooting off Neriede disappears--they are back in the main room of Genkai's temple--and everyone hears some rummaging noises. It looks likes she's in the kitchen. Kurama begins shaking, fearful of what is going to become of him and his fox. When she reappears she is holding one of those barbecue brushes that you use to smear barbecue sauce on ribs and...a bottle of honey. And not a small bottle. A big bottle. Big enough to smother two people with it's contents. The two gulp.
"Hold them steady!" Neriede commands, pointing to Olivia.
She activates her body-control power and Yokou and Kurama squish together, back to back. Begin experiment two...Splush. Neriede dips the brush into the honey jar, loving the way Kurama's eyes are widening in fear. Yokou's too, for that matter. After loading a big blob of honey onto the brush she turns and flicks it on Kurama's face. He closes his eyes, tempted to just lick it all away. Swish. The brush moves against his face, trailing down his neck towards his chest. Blob after blob of honey is smeared onto the red-head until he is just a walking blob of it. His clothes--no matter how many times he washes them--will never return to normal and his skin will forever smell of honey. If he could move, he'd bury his head in his hands.
Finished, Neriede moves onto Yokou. The fox does not like this power of Olivia's. He does not like being controlled. But he can do nothing about it and immediately stops when the first blob of honey hits his body. It's sticky and slimy and is going to ruin his precious hair if she puts too much goop on it. He'll have to wash it thirty times before he can return it to normal. The jar of honey--when Neriede is finished sliming it all around Yokou (including his tail)--is still 1/4 full. Thus she, with a wicked smile, turns the container upside down and dumps the remains on their heads, not bothering to smear it down. (a/n: She did this to me once. Got a little bowl of water and tipped it over my head. Luckily it had been raining and I was already wet...)
"Olivia can you hold them together even if you're in another room?"
"Sure. Just don't talk to me so I can concentrate."
"Alright," Neriede confirms, "we've done all we can with this experiment. We shall come back in five minutes and see what's happened. Who's up for a game of poker?"
"YEAH!"
Everyone exits the room, waving to Yokou and Kurama, telling Yokou that if he know's what's good for him he'll get back into Kurama's body. Yokou's anger flares, and he tries to raise his arms but Olivia's power is still on them, even though she's exited to the other room. She has good control of her powers, he notices. Kurama rolls his eyes and would have sighed if he could. Sadly his mouth is clamped shut, thus preventing any speech. What do those girls really think will happen in five minutes? That some weird mystic aura will come and force Yokou back? What kind of experiment is this! They just slathered HONEY on them!
Five minutes later Neriede is twenty dollars richer with Genkai with twenty, Olivia with twenty, and Yusuke with ten. While he gained no money in the game, at least he didn't lose any like Hiei, Kuwabara, Meagan, and Vanessa. They demand rematches but it has been five minutes and they need to check on Kurama and fox. Nope, they are still the same as usual. Except now covered with honey. The Destinies laugh behind their hands.
"Wash them off, someone?"
"That would be you and Vanessa," Meagan says. "She'll have to melt your ice with her fire to get water."
"Ooh, interesting."
Concentrating, both Vanessa and Neriede summon their balls into their palms, Vanessa working slowly to make sure that Neriede is not burned. When the two are finished Neriede sends a ball of water flying at Kurama. It hits his stomach dead on and all the honey vanishes. The two repeat this cycle for about three minutes before all the honey is laying on a gooey mess on the floor. Olivia sucks it up with a ball of her own. Since that makes two failed experiments, Neriede is absolutely sure that the third one will be the charm. Glancing around the room for materials, Neriede's eyes fall on the small futon that Kurama had been laying on before.
"Genkai, do you have some of those really big matresses?"
"In the back."
"Olivia would you drag them out here please? Two of them?"
"Sure."
She disappears into the back and reappears minutes later with a queen-sized matress following her with ease. She plops it down and disappears for the other one. Meanwhile, Kurama and Yokou are being positioned on the 'x' that Neriede has drawn, sure that them standing there will give the matresses enough time to speed up. When Olivia returns she bids her to pick both matresses up with her mind and toss them at Kurama and Yokou, one coming at each of them on each side.
"Soo...one will be coming this way," she points, "and the other this way?"
"Exactly."
"No can do."
"What? Why?"
"I haven't practiced doing two things at once, I'm not that good at it," she ponders. "But I could get Malia to do one."
"She's in Makai!"
"Doesn't matter."
Malia!
Who said that?
...Who do you think, Malia?
Olivia?
Yup. I need a favor. Picture a queen-sized matress in your mind, pick it up, and hurtle it in one direction.
Everyone stares as one of the matresses is picked up...and goes hurtling towards Yusuke and Kuwabara with such speed that if it hits them they will be splattered into the wall.
NOT THAT WAY!
The matress stops two inches from their faces, and starts heading in the other direction.
Perfect. Now on the count of three hurtle it really hard.
What is this for?
I'll explain later, I promise.
All right then...
One...two...three!
Cutting the connection with Malia, Olivia is happy to see that the matress opposite of hers is going precisely where it is needed. She picks up the speed of her own matress, which is heading towards Yokou. Moments later the two matresses collide, squishing Yokou and Kurama in the middle. Malia, somehow picking up on what's going on, stops pushing the matress forward.
"Did it work, Kurama?" Neriede asks sweetly.
Yokou replies for him, "NO."
"Heh. Darn."
Olivia releases her matress and it falls to the floor with a large 'thump.' Kurama and Yokou collapse onto it, breathing heavily.
You can let it drop now, Malia. The other way, if you don't mind.
Glad to be of assistance!
We'll see you later, right?
Of course!
Olivia smiles, missing her friend. Malia has been in Makai spending time with Touya and Jin. Hopefully they have been training her and not goofing off. That way when she returns the two can have a friendly battle.
The Destinies try many more experiments. This and that, that and this. Nothing works. It's almost like no one wants Yokou to go back to his original spot. Like all the forces of the universe are working against them on this one. After the twenty-something experiment, Genkai moves off to the kitchen and offers everyone a soda. They all take one--save the experiments--and gulp it down fast. Neriede takes a second one, determined to get it right. On the fortieth experiment, Neriede explodes.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
Sploosh. Her soda is tossed at the two, hitting them dead on and dousing them with orange, sticky liquid. Kurama, tired and hungry, begins yelling, waiting for Yokou to back him up. But he hears nothing.
"Y-yokou?"
The Destinies stare at the spot which Yokou should be standing at the moment. But it is empty. Thus, a dog-pile on Neriede ensues.
"YOU DID IT!"
"Ack, you're crushing my lungs!"
"YAY NERIEDE!"
"Can't...breathe!"
"Why didn't we think of it earlier?"
"GUYS I'M EUNICE AND YOUR CRUSHING ME!"
oO "Nissi?"
They scramble off of her, allowing her to breath. She rubs her ribs, sending a glare towards her friends who grin sheepishly.
"Neriede got tired of not being able to breathe."
"Oh. Sorry."
"It's okay. Let's just go home now?"
"YUP!"
They grab their coats, Kurama handing his to Nissi as to not get it dirty, and they all place a hand on Meagan's shoulder. Waving goodbye to Genkai and promising to visit again soon, Meagan teleports them home. Kurama instantly heads off for a shower, happy to have Yokou back where he belongs. It has been a long day and it is now nearing 6 o'clock. Had the experiments really taken that long? Apparently. They just can't believe the answer to putting Yokou back was to throw soda at the two... The Destinies retreat to their rooms, bidding each other good night. They'll fall alseep when they fall asleep, and until then they'll entertain themselves in their rooms.
Unbeknownst to them, it is going to be an interesting night...
Whew, I finished. Yay, it's a long chapter too! The next chapter takes place the same night, just to let you know. And it is completely written by Nissi. But for this chapter, thanks to Neriede for all those ideas of how to get Kurama and Yokou together. She also did the soda one, which was the one that worked...she just wanted me to update the next chapter. Which is pretty hilarious, I have to tell you. See you next chapter everyone! Ja ne!
