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Last time:

"I don't have fleas!"

Loki poured some of the flea shampoo over the head of the steaming fox. She turned slowly with a murderous expression on her face. Loki smiled and waved. Harmony turned around fully and reached for a weapon, "You have just sealed your fate, human. You will now feel the wrath of the fox!"

Harmony's hand closed upon the stick of something and she pointed it at the magician, revealing it to be...a plunger. Flash and Loki burst out laughing. Hiei chuckled slightly. Harmony growled in frustration and stuck the plunger on Loki's face. He started making muffled screaming sounds and pulling at the plunger. Flash laughed harder. Harmony smirked. Loki fell to the floor from lack of air.

"It looks like you guys could use some help." A calm voice said from the doorway.

Now:

Scandalous Demon Love Affair?:

Flash, Hiei, and Harmony looked over to the door to see who their intruder was. Standing there was a man around Loki's height with long crimson hair that covered half his face and piercing golden eyes. He was wearing all black with a cape draped loosely around his shoulders. The smirk he wore revealed a long fang. The man currently had Panyo sitting on his head.

"Vlad. It looks as if there's a puffin shaped growth on your head. You should probably see a doctor about that." Harmony smirked.

Vlad looked up at the puffin sitting on his head. He glared at the fox. He then walked over and knelt down so he was face to face with her. "Harmony. It looks as if you haven't finished your flea bath. Let me help you with that."

Before Harmony could protest, Vlad dumped a bucket of water over her head. Her hair was plastered to her face, covering her eyes yet everyone could feel the glare emanating from her. The fox let out a small growl and pushed some of the hair out of her face so she could look the vampire in the eye. "Flash, where's your bug spray? There's an overgrown cockroach in your bathroom."

"Is the fox angry? Does she need a dip in the tub to cool her down?" Vlad cooed, grabbing Harmony's waist and lifting her up.

The fox gave a loud yip of protest as she struggled. Vlad grinned evilly as he moved the fox toward the bathtub. Flash snickered, "So does Youko know he's in the middle of a love triangle or are you going to wait until there are kits involved to tell him?"

Harmony and Vlad froze where they were. Vlad was holding Harmony in the air and Harmony had her nails dug into his shoulders. They looked at each other before hopping to opposite sides of the bathroom and growling at Flash. They pointed at each other, "I do not love that thing!"

"Sure you don't. Next you're going to tell me the plunger covering Loki's face didn't magically disappear into thin air."

"The plunger didn't disappear into...thin..." Harmony's sentence trailed off as she stared at Loki. He was sitting up without the plunger covering his face. He smiled and waved at the fox. Harmony looked around, "What the heck? The plunger disappeared!"

"And therefore the love triangle exists." Flash nodded.

Harmony waved her arms. Her cheeks were red as she protested, "Those are two entirely different things! The plunger has nothing to do with the love triangle – which, I'll remind you, does not exist – at all! I want to speak with my lawyer!"

"You are."

"No. You're the ningens' lawyer."

"And, according to this waver you signed, yours." Flash held up a piece of paper.

"When did I sign that?" Harmony raised an eyebrow.

Flash dismissively waved her hand, "Oh it was a couple weeks ago while I was holding caramel above your head."

Harmony hissed and waved a fist at the sky, "A plague upon the soul of the one who cursed me with this sweet tooth! A plague I say!"

"Hey are we going to wash this thing or not?" Loki asked, poking at Youko.

Youko stood up quickly while hissing at his invisible enemies. Being in a bathtub, Youko lost his footing and fell onto Flash's cat. The cat yowled and started scratching poor Youko to death. Youko whimpered and started flopping around like a fish out of water. He finally managed to jump out of the tub and attach himself to Harmony's head. The fox jumped off of Harmony's head in time to avoid the newspaper which Vlad was using to try and hit him. The newspaper instead hit Harmony.

"You missed." Hiei pointed out.

"No, I'm pretty sure I hit the target." Vlad scratched his chin. He hit Harmony with the newspaper again to make sure.

Flash watched as Youko ran out of the bathroom door followed by the cat. Yusuke and Kuwabara happened to be walking up the stairs at the exact moment Youko jumped down, causing a collision which sent the three of them tumbling down all the flights of stairs. The cat stared down the stairs at them. Flash cringed.

"If that hasn't woken anyone in the house up then I'm changing my name to Charlie and joining the circus." Flash stated.

The group waited a long time with no hint of stirring from the house's occupants. Harmony held her hand out to Flash, "Hello, Charlie! Congratulations on your new job at the circus!"

"Vlad, hit her for me." Flash said to the vampire.

"My pleasure." Vlad nodded before going to whack Harmony on the head. Harmony hopped back and into a Kung fu position. She slipped on the wet tiles and fell forward into Vlad. Vlad caught her instinctively and they stood there blinking for a while. A camera flash brought their attention to Flash. She quickly hid her camera behind her back and whistled innocently.

Harmony glared at Flash but remembered a promise Flash made about giving her caramel whenever she made Flash's sides split with laughter. She noticed the advantages of her position in Vlad's arms and snuggled against him. Vlad's face reddened and he choked out, "H.. Harmony? What are you...?"

"You know, Flash is right, we ought to tell Youko about our little affair soon." Harmony said in a suggestive voice, playing with the clasp on Vlad's cape.

Vlad gaped and took a step backward, "Af... affair? Umm..."

"Of course we can talk about this after your swim." Harmony smirked, using her position to push Vlad into the bathtub. Flash started laughing at the vampire.

Vlad sat up and glared at the fox under his soaked hair, "You're going to wish you hadn't done that."

"People, please! Save the flirting until after we've bathed the filthy animals!" Loki yelled.

Harmony looked at Flash, "Harmony get caramel?"

"Hmm...I don't know..."

"Oh come on! Look at that! It just screams 'Give caramel to Harmony'!" Harmony pointed at Vlad as he was trying to ring the water out of his cape.

Flash shrugged, "I was thinking that it screams 'Harmony's terrible at making friends' but hey, whatever makes you feel better about yourself."

Hiei, who had slipped out of the room without anyone noticing, came back in with the cat under one arm and the fox under the other. He dropped the animals into the tub. They made a clang sound on the tub bottom since the water which had been there originally was now on the bathroom floor. Loki turned on the water. A yowl was heard a minute later as the cat jumped out of the water.

"That water's fucking hot! Are you trying to cook me!" The cat pointed at Loki while standing on two feet on the bathtub rim.

"Is...Is my cat talking?" Flash blinked rapidly.

Vlad held some of his hair aside to stare at the animal, "I always knew there was something strange about that cat..."

"I need to stop hanging around Autumn and Hinote..." Hiei stated.

Loki grinned, "I can use you for a magic trick!"

The cat scratched the hand Loki extended towards him, "There's no way in hell I'm letting you use me as some kind of circus freak!"

Harmony glared sideways at Flash, "This is clearly all your fault for not giving me caramel."

"Clearly." Vlad rolled his eyes.

"Hey. Yous gonna use me to clean your friends ors not? I'm a very busy shampoo bottles and I got places to bes, sos if yous not gonna use me, I'ms a gonna go." The bottle of shampoo stated.

Loki pointed at it in horror, "It's possessed! Oh, I knew we shouldn't have bought anything from that haunted 7-11! There must have been a gateway into hell in there!"

Flash's eye was twitching as she stood there staring blankly into space. The cat dropped his front paws to his side as he stood on the bathtub and looked at Flash, "Flash? Are you okay?"

"Yeahs, lady, yous feeling okay?" The shampoo asked, also concerned.

"IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!" Flash screamed, covering her ears and running out of the bathroom into her room. She rushed over to a red box labeled 'In case of speaking objects'. She opened the box quickly and pulled out a steaming cup of coffee which was quickly drunk.

Flash became a chibi and held out the coffee cup with her eyes shut, her other hand a fist, and a huge smile on her face. She had little red ovals on her cheeks. "Coffee, the universal medicine which is guaranteed to solve 99.9 of life's problems!"

"So are you ok now?" Terminator asked when Flash came back into the bathroom. He quickly became flustered and sat down on all fours, "I mean...! Meow! Meow!"

"Good kitty. Back into the water with you." Flash pushed the cat back into the water. There was a sizzling sound and a yowl of protest.

Harmony sniffed the air, "Does anyone else smell something cooking?"

"Oh, it's just Youko." Hiei answered.

Vlad stared at the steaming bathtub, "Say, what would happen if Youko really did get cooked?"

"You would be trapped in a pit of eternal misery and pain for your treachery." Harmony smiled at the vampire.

"Feh, there's nothing you can come up with that will cause me eternal misery and pain." Vlad crossed his arms.

"Not even a pit whose walls are big screen TVs that show nothing but Carebears videos and whose floor is covered in soft, happy Carebears plush toys?" Harmony's smile grew wider as the vampire's face paled.

"Hang on, Youko! I'm coming to save you!" Vlad yelled before reaching into the scalding water to find the fox.

Loki pointed at the cold water knob, "You know you could..."

"Shh! This is entertaining!" Harmony interrupted.

There was a beep as if from a microwave that was muffled by Hiei's cloak. Hiei reached under his cloak and pulled out a steaming bag of microwavable popcorn. He opened it and ate a handful. When he noticed his companions were staring at him he glared, "What?"

"You gonna share that popcorn?" Loki asked.

Hiei held the bag away from him, "Get your own unexplained fanfic anomaly!"

"HOT!" Vlad yelled, pulling his hand out of the water after having left it there for staring at Hiei purposes.

"Little slow there." Flash told him.

The cat's paws reached out of the water and turned the knob for cold water. A sigh of relief was heard as the refreshing water cascaded into the tub. Loki took the bottle of shampoo, which protested immediately, "Hey! Hey! Whaddya think you're doin!"

"Excuse me a moment." Flash said, taking the bottle of shampoo and bashing it against the wall repeatedly before returning it to Loki, "That's better."

Loki dumped the shampoo into the bathtub. Harmony frowned, "Haven't we done this already?"

"Yes. Your idiot half poured in all the shampoo before." Hiei responded.

"Then what's that?" asked Vlad, meaning the shampoo.

Loki looked at the shampoo bottle to discover that it was not shampoo at all but Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions!

DUM DUM DUUUM!

He then peeled off the wrapper to discover that it wasn't Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions at all but Mane N Tale!

DUM DUM DUUUUM!

Loki then pulled off that wrapper to discover that it wasn't Mane N Tale at all but Pink hair dye!

DUM DUM DIIIING!

"WHAAAAT!" Hiei yelled, "I've been using pink hair dye as shampoo! How did that happen!"

Harmony held a hand over her mouth to hide her snickering, "Kekeke! I couldn't resist!"

"HARMONY!" Hiei yelled at the fox.

"Well at least you pushed me into the water before the dye was in it." Vlad smiled. Harmony pushed him back into the tub.

Vlad climbed back out and glared down at her. Harmony smiled sweetly at him. Youko hopped out of the tub with Terminator clinging to his back. The fox shook the water droplets off of himself and nearly shaking the cat off as well.

"Well he certainly doesn't look pink." said Flash.

"Perhaps the dye didn't work?" Loki suggested.

Hiei sighed in relief, "Then my hair's not going to turn pink."

"Neither is mine!" Vlad also sighed in relief.

"Your hair is already pink." Harmony rolled her eyes.

"It's red!" Vlad glared.

Harmony held up a computer monitor which had a pie chart on it. The chart was titled 'Vlad's hair color as documented by the authoress'. A slice representing 15 was labeled fuchsia (for shading). Another slice, representing 35 was labeled red. The other half of the graph had two slices of equal percentage: Pink and dark pink. "See? It's pink."

Vlad stared. He then took the screen and let it smash on the bathroom floor. Another one appeared floating by his face. He tried to grab it. Three more appeared floating around his head followed by five more, all saying the same thing on their screens: 'PINK!' Vlad held his head and screamed, "ARGH! MY HAIR IS NOT PINK!"

"It is now." Loki stated.

Indeed, the Loki was correct. Vlad's hair had become a vivid shade of hot pink, along with his clothing. Hiei's hair had also turned pink. Terminator and Youko suffered the same fate. Loki, Flash, and Harmony had pink speckles on their clothes from where the water Youko had shaken from himself had touched them.

The cat, fox, fire demon, and vampire let out a howl of remorse at the same time. Loki, Flash, and Harmony clamped their hands over their ears to block out the sound. Local dogs started barking. A neighbor's car alarm went off while another neighbor's car spontaneously burst into flames and halfway across the world some British men had tea.

Amazingly, everyone in Flash's house remained asleep.

Dream: Alrighty then! It didn't take me a month to update this time! It's sort of a short chapter but I wanted to leave it at that for now.

Zero: Other than the standard disclaimer which can be found in the previous chapters, Dream does not own Carebears, Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions or Mane N Tale.

Dream: Yep! Now, before I leave you, I have a poll for you, faithful readers:

Does Harmony deserve caramel?

A. Yes.

B. No

C. Tie her to a dog sled and use a fishing pole to hold the caramel in front of her. My, what classy transportation you have!

D. Nooo comment.

E. Marry me!

Zero: Personally, I vote C.

Dream: Yeah, me too. Well, please vote!