Hey everyone! I apologize once again for taking forever to update. I promise I will have the 2nd chapter of "Hogwarts Meets Anime" on the 2nd week of August.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: I start my 1st year of college on August 17th. So, after the next update, I have no idea how often I will get the chance to write fanfics. I'll do my best, but this is a huge change in my life, so updates will probably be even rarer than they are now. I'm sorry! And now, on to review responses!
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Disclaimer: Of course, I don't own YYH. The part with the Reikai Tantei playing Hangman is demonfo6's idea.
"Another Insane YYH Sleepover": Chapter 2
Fortunately for Kurama, they had managed to make it through dinner without destroying anything else. Unfortunately, it didn't seem as if that would last for very long.
"C'mon, you stupid bastard, die already!" Yuusuke hollered as he and Kuwabara battled viciously in Soul Calibur II. He was playing as Kilik and the baka was using Maxi. A half-empty bag of Doritos sat in front of them.
"You need to use more defense, Yuusuke," Hiei said calmly from his vantage point on the windowsill.
"Shut up, Hiei! I know!" snapped Yuusuke as he just barely dodged a blow.
"Ha ha! For being so good at real fighting, you sure suck at fighting games, Urameshi," Kuwabara chortled.
Of course, that was the last straw for Yuusuke. With a blood-curdling yell he pummeled Maxi into the ground and finally achieved a KO. Unsurprisingly he then turned towards Kuwabara and proceeded to try and get a stranglehold on his neck.
"Guys! Please stop!" Kurama said firmly, separating the two bickering humans.
"And just when it was getting good, too," murmured Hiei.
Kurama spared a withering glance in the fire yokai's direction and then addressed Yuusuke and Kuwabara. "Why don't we try something other than video games?" he suggested.
"Like what?" Yuusuke grumbled.
"Card games," Kurama said immediately.
"No way! Urameshi cheats!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"I do not!" the black-haired detective protested vehemently.
Poor, poor Kurama groaned and put his head in his hands. Hiei finally took pity on his best friend and intervened.
"If you both don't start behaving I will be quite happy to introduce you to a world of pain," he threatened. His unsheathed katana lent its' weight to the threat.
Yuusuke and Kuwabara subsided into angry mutters and eventually (and mercifully!) fell silent. All of a sudden, Yuusuke's eyes lit up (which is never a good sign).
"Say, Hiei," he said. "Have you ever tried a soda?"
The other three stared at Yuusuke, astonished by how quickly the scatterbrained detective could change the subject.
"What? It was just a question," he said in a defensive tone.
He grabbed a can of root beer and handed it to Hiei. Needless to say, Hiei stared at the can as if it were poison.
"Is this some sort of drink?" he asked dubiously.
"Yeah!" Yuusuke said enthusiastically. "Go ahead and try it!"
5 minutes later
"WOO! This stuff is great!" exclaimed Hiei as he darted around the room on a sugar and caffeine high.
Kurama was standing completely still in the middle of the room. His eyes were wide with horror, disbelief, and just a touch of fear. "I didn't know Hiei could get sugar-high," he murmured. The fear came from the fact that he had no idea what Hiei would do on said high.
All of a sudden, Hiei screeched to a halt and pointed his third can of root beer at Yuusuke. "Hey, Yuusuke! I bet you can't beat me on Soul Calibur II!" he yelled.
Kurama just about fainted. Hiei wanted to play a video game? If this was not the end of the world, the kitsune did not know what was. He gave himself a mental shake, then calmly walked up behind Hiei and pressed the appropriate pressure point to knock him out. The fire yokai silently slumped to the floor. Then Kurama turned around and glared at Yuusuke.
"If you ever let him near soda again…" he said, not bothering to finish the threat.
But Yuusuke was too busy laughing for the words to even register. "Aha ha ha! Man, that was amazing!" he chortled.
Deciding to let it go, Kurama just sighed. He placed Hiei on the couch and patiently waited for the fire yokai to regain consciousness.
About a minute later, Hiei groggily opened his eyes. "What happened?" he asked blearily.
Kurama sighed and replied, "Trust me, you don't want to know."
Hiei's eyes narrowed. "Kitsune, tell me what happened," he growled.
Not surprisingly, Yuusuke could not keep his big mouth shut. "Man, only three sodas and you were bouncing off the walls like a five-year-old," he chortled.
Hiei just stared at Yuusuke for several long seconds, then silently drew his katana and began slicing at the detective with deadly accuracy.
"Whoa, hey, it was a joke! Jeez, Hiei, calm down!" Yuusuke yelped as he frantically dodged.
"Hiei!" Kurama exclaimed with exasperation. The fire yokai was rapidly ensnared by numerous thick vines.
With his sword arm temporarily incapacitated, Hiei tried to burn the vines. "Damn, they're fireproof," he muttered. "How is that even possible?" He then decided that Youko most definitely had something to do with it. Finally, he stopped struggling and said "You can let me down now, kitsune. I won't kill the detective today."
With a sigh, Kurama released Hiei from the Makai vines. "Why don't we play a nice, simple game like Hangman?" he asked wearily.
Yuusuke and Kuwabara snorted. "Where's the fun in that, Kurama?" Kuwabara complained.
Hiei, however, looked intrigued. "Hangman? As in, hanging a male human?" he asked curiously.
The other three stared at him for a long while. Then Yuusuke and Kuwabara burst into laughter. Even Kurama was having trouble hiding his amusement. The corners of his mouth were twitching.
"No, Hiei," Kurama managed to say. "It's not like that. It's a human game where you guess the letters in a word or sentence. For every letter that you guess wrong, you draw a part of a person hanging from a noose," he explained.
Hiei looked slightly disappointed. "Well, I suppose it's better than card or video games," he grumbled.
So, the Reikai Tantei played Hangman for about half an hour. To no one's surprise, Hiei insisted on being the artist.
Well, I will wrap up this fic with one more short chapter. I will try my best to get it done by the 2nd week of August. Hope you guys are still enjoying this!
