Hellooooooooooo readers! I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive. And if you hate me, I completely understand. It's been way too long since I last updated. –pout- But I needed a break, I hit some writer's block, and now I'm back. All part of the profession, yah? We start this chapter with training, and one last little funny outbreak before things get really serious. So without further ado, here's your chapter!

Disclaimer: I own not Yu Yu Hakusho.


Chapter Fourteen

The Destinies sit in a semi-circle around Yusuke, listening attentively as he explains to them their assignment. After Hiei and Kurama had decided that their vacation was over and they needed to train, they had sat around in the kitchen for quite a while thinking of different techniques that would allow the girls to learn to hit a target without physical contact. Thus they are sitting in the hot sun, burning their butts off, as Yusuke walks around them.

"So what you guys will do," Yusuke says to them, pacing the ground, "is try to hit me with these knives before I touch you. If I touch you, you're dead. Just fall to the ground or something, okay? To demonstrate, we're going to have Hiei try it on me. I wonder how many he can get to hit me?"

Three seconds later Yusuke is on the ground moaning in pain as all eight of Hiei's knives have been stuck into his body at random places.

"Hiei, that hurt!"

"Wow, Hiei, that was amazing!" Olivia and Vanessa take Yusuke's arms and drag him up. "We'll target practice you after we take him to Kurama."

While Olivia and Vanessa get Yusuke his medical attention, the others work on cleaning the knives, so covered in blood they are. Redistributing them as the two come back, the Destinies take up their positions as Hiei stands--in a somewhat bored manner--before them. All at once they attack, throwing knives in random places in the hopes of nailing him at least once. No dice--he dodges them all, leaving the girls to go retrieve them. Now it is their turn to dodge as Hiei shoots among them, trying to touch them. But alas, for all his speed he cannot touch them. For--as they have proven in many a dodge ball game--the Destinies are master dodgers.

"I can't find my other knife!" Nissi shrieks.

Woosh! Slicing the air is the missing knife, thrown expertly by Hiei. Instinctively Nissi brings her other knife in front of her face, blocking the oncoming attack and sending the knife flying through the air; she grabs it before Hiei can snatch it away from her again. From his spot in the tree, said demon smirks, happy that they didn't drop their guards any. Ducking swiftly as another knife comes whizzing by his head, he looks down to see Carinne and Meagan double teaming him. Olivia and Nissi quickly join them. With Olivia attacking his left, Nissi his right, and Carinne and Meagan working to keep his front covered, Hiei has nowhere to move but back. And back he goes. But as he does so, retreating so far back that the greenhouse comes into view, he runs straight towards Kurama, who dodges out of the way.

"Hiei! What are you doing?"

"Training the onnas. Did you heal Yusu--"

He is cut off as Kurama gives a wicked smile before pulling a knife from behind his back and stabbing it into Hiei's stomach. Shocked, Hiei can do nothing but watch as Kurama's pretty red hair changes to bright blond, and his entire figure changes to that of Vanessa's. She pulls out her other knife and stabs it into his arms. Then, eight other knives find eight different parts of his body to lodge themselves in. He collapses to the ground, his shock growing. The four Destinies who had been hiding in the bushes give a wild war cry and abandon their hiding places to dog pile on Vanessa.

"We did it! We did it!"

"Hn. Good job," Hiei praises them as he pulls the knives out. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to see Kurama."

"You know what?" Olivia muses. "We should train Dawe, too. He could fight with us."

"Yeah!"

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Dawe in a while. Whose turn is it to watch him?"

"Hers!"

Each of the Destinies point to someone different, and the five stay in that position for quite a while until the horrible truth dawns on them all. Scattering, they run as fast as they can to where they had set out Dawe's food and water dishes so long ago. The food bowl is beginning to gather dust and the water dish is dry, the last of the water long since evaporated by the hot sun. The girls can only stand in silence, and the silence drags on for quite a while. Then Nissi, pulling herself out of the trance, says the truth aloud, "WE KILLED THE DOG!"

Waving their hands about they slip into normal Destiny panic, running about the mansion wildly. Kuwabara--the first to hear the noise--exits the safety of his room to try to comfort the girls. They pounce on him, shaking him and yelling of their terrible crimes. Expecting some sort of reaction out of him, they wait to be scolded or comforted or anything. But when Kuwabara merely continues staring at them, they move on. In truth their words were so random and jumbled that Kuwabara could not make heads or tails of them, so he cannot be blamed. On go the Destinies, ravaging the house until they come across Kurama. Nissi flings herself onto him, near tears, and tells him of their deeds. He listens patiently, patting their heads on occasion, until Nissi finishes. Then he clears his throat and prepares to console them but before he can the door is thrown open and a loud bark echoes through the house. The Destinies--now in the living room--are completely unprepared as Dawe, very much alive, tackles each of them in turn, licking their faces and drooling all over them.

"D...Dawe?" Carinne gasps as he backs off of her.

"Found him digging holes around my temple." The girls avert their attention from Dawe and focus it instead to the door, where Genkai is leaning against the frame.

"What the hell--? What are you doing here, grandma?" Yusuke comes out of his room and leans over the stair balcony.

"Hello to you too, Yusuke. How is my favorite dimwit doing? Not good, by the looks of it."

Yusuke grins sheepishly, "Training accident."

"Hiei slaughtered him," Meagan whispers.

"And we slaughtered Hiei!" Vanessa boasts, proud of their accomplishment. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to celebrate with some Inuyasha."

She stalks off. Olivia yells, "Wait for me!" before following her. One by one the Destinies retreat to watch Inuyasha, leaving Genkai with Kurama, who promptly invites her to dinner.

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After dinner, which had been prepared entirely by Kurama and was delicious, more training ensues. While the boys take turns educating the girls on various tactics they had used in the past, the others catch up on what has been going on with Genkai. The evening is nicely topped as Botan comes flying down to see them on her oar. She brings with her Koenma's greeting and his concern: the Destinies have not come running and screaming to his office for protection in quite some time, and he has been wondering if the boys had finally snapped and killed them. The boys grin at this; they couldn't kill them if they tried.

"It's a wonderful night, isn't it?" Botan stretches in her catlike way, content.

"Lot's of stars," Kurama agrees. "Some of my plants will bloom nicely tonight."

"And we," the Destinies tramp in from training, Kuwabara following them, "are going to study."

"For what?"

"Finals," the Destinies say sourly. (1)

"Well bring your stuff out here!" Yusuke commands. The others second the decision.

So a few moments later the girls are all sprawled out on the sweet smelling grass with their school-books scattered around them. Finals are going to be brutal, even though they are freshman, and they intend to be prepared. Dawe curled up in the center of the five girls, falling asleep quickly. And while the Destinies study they know that in some time soon their life was going to be disrupted as they will be called out to fight some strange demon. And though the Destinies thrive on chaos, for now they are just happy for the peace.


If you hate me, I don't blame you. Hell I'd hate me too, waiting this long to update. Finals are coming up so I should hopefully get a lot of writing done between finishing whatever final I have for the day and moving to the next one. So expect some updates, yah? Well we finally get into the main story. With Nissi's ever wonderful guidance the two of us have concluded that all of our random crazy schemes will go into a completely different story from now on—though of course some will remain in the real stories—and that collection of pranks will probably be never ending, as we will probably continue coming up with things when we're bored.

1. EVIL FINALS!

AND LASTLY, PEOPLE—GIVE A BIG SHOUT-OUT TO MEAGAN. SHE'S LEAVING US IN TEN DAYS. TEN FRIGGIN' DAYS DO YOU HEAR ME PEOPLE? x.X WE'LL MISS YOU ME-CHAN!