Kuwabara pulled back his arm, started to throw…

"Kazuma Kuwabara!"

…and completely missed.

His mother yanked him around to face her. "What do you think you're doing? We've been looking all over for you for almost an hour! I've been worried sick! I thought I told you to come right back!"

"I got lost," Kuwabara stammered.

"Yes, I can see that," she snapped in a tone of voice that said she didn't think Kuwabara had gotten lost at all. "We're going home right now, and you're grounded until school starts!"

"But," Kuwabara started to protest as his mother dragged him away.

"Hey, Kuwabara!" Urameshi called.

Kuwabara looked at him, and with a grin, Urameshi pointed at the bottles. Urameshi's last ring had made it.

Kuwabara hung his head as his mother continued to lecture him while they went to find his father and Shizuru and go home. This had to be the worst possible ending to summer ever.

It's all Urameshi's fault.


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