A/N: Here it is folks! The last chapter of Halloween Is Always Fun. It was nice working on this story and now I'm also happy to be able to complete it. Sorry for the semi long wait but now here it is. I wanted to finish this before Halloween starts in about...2 or 3 days. Happy early Halloween folks and please read, enjoy and review, thanks.
Disclaimer: No I cannot say I own this anime but I can say how much I wish I own it.
Warning(s): Last chapter of the story and goodness it's rushed. Sorry for any grammar problems and it's going to have some cursing.
Halloween Is Always Fun
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Last Time:
Hiei and Kurama: Last time on chapter 4, Hiei's first try of trick-or-treating turned out miserably. HN! Right…Carrying on now…What will Hiei and everybody do now? Who cares, the readers just want to read! –Grumbles- Fine Hiei; read on dear readers.
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Chapter 5: Candy Contest (Part 1 and 2)
"Hey Urameshi…"
Yusuke looked at his dorky clownish friend and frowned, kicking at pebbles for a source of entertainment. Thinking he was being ignored, Kuwabara fumed and yelled again for attention, gaining an evil look from both Hiei because he was next to him and therefore had to cover his ears from the noise and from Yusuke because Kuwabara was just plain annoying.
The fox sighed and being the extremely polite and nice red-head he was, didn't even bother to listen to their argument. The night was going to be long, he could tell. Perhaps letting Hiei trick-or-treat with them wasn't such a fine idea? He shook his head to clear up his thoughts.
"Urameshi; guys! I got an idea," Kuwabara said.
Everyone stopped and the spiky haired teen dressed up as Koenma snorted. He folded his arms across his chest and huffed, "I'm not going to be seen with you buffoons and degrading myself lower by listening and going with the oaf's idea. Count me out," he sneered and meant to flit off somewhere but he was not prepared by a slender hand wrapping itself tightly onto his shoulder.
He tried shrugging it off but met with musical laughter as a reply, "Sorry Hiei but you aren't going anywhere so you can forget about it," a soft voice echoed out into the night sky.
"Good grief, Hiei's already misbehaving and it's only Halloween. 'Hate to see his reaction to Christmas," the detective muttered and ran his hand through his slick black hair. The comment was meant as a joke but none laughed.
Kuwabara frowned impatiently at them, "Can I talk now?" he mumbled, clearly annoyed.
When he received a nod, he lightened up again, "Alright…How's this sound? Since the shrimp knows how to collect the candy, we can split up.
"It can be like a contest. Collect the most candy and you win. We can start now and meet back here in two hours. Oh and no one can leave this city, got it or they're disqualified. Whoever wins can um…I dunno," he scratched his head.
"Whoever wins doesn't have to go on the next mission. They can have a 2 month break off," answered a voice.
The others turned around to find a frowning teenage Koenma in his boxers, "Now who stole my clothes?"
"This is going to turn into hell," Hiei and Yusuke both said at the same time. Yusuke stared at the half-naked Koenma and threw him Hiei's cloak, "Put this on for now," he snickered as the ruler dressed up.
He chewed on his real pacifier and looked at Hiei, "Don't even ask," the fire demon grumbled.
Kurama sighed and glanced at the others before Botan popped out of nowhere next to the small spirit ruler. This was going to be a long, no, a very long night as Botan handed Koenma a trick-or-treating bag. "You two are joining as well?" he asked tiredly.
Ignoring the tone of voice used to ask that question Koenma stood proudly on the street in front of the gang, "Of course. Even I and Botan need a break once in a while."
"Hn. I'm not going."
"Yes you are," Kurama glared at Hiei.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"N-,"
"Don't make me tell Yukina."
There was a groan.
"Fine."
"Let's split up into partners," Koenma suggested, "Whoever's team has the most, gets a 2 month vacation."
"What about you Koenma? What if you win, not saying you will though," Yusuke smirked.
That in turn received him a glare.
"Okay, okay, whatever…So what if you win?"
An evil smirk, "I get to bug you all for a whole 2 months."
Many groans could be heard and a grunt. "Meet back on this street in 2 hours, okay?" There were a couple of nods before everyone except Hiei and Kurama left. Yusuke and Kuwabara took off in one direction and Botan and Koenma disappeared at the same time. Kurama sighed and looked at Hiei, "I guess it's just you and me, huh?"
He shrugged, "I guess."
Kurama frowned, "Well let's go then."
"Hn."
Hiei just dragged his feet as he followed Kurama, still in his puffy dress, and watched many of the trick-or-treaters racing around as quickly as they possibly could. What was so important, so fun, about this human tradition? It was obviously something the Great Hiei could not possibly understand. He'd seen scarier of the lower leveled demons than these human dressed up ones.
He groaned as he stared at the fox's costume in utter disgust. Why was the fox wearing that when it didn't look scary at all and why did he have to be doing this and in the stupid baby's clothes no less. He could be having fun killing and laughing at demons he'd be killing but nooo…Stupid human tradition, stupid baby, stupid fox!
He was so lost in his own thoughts, the ever careful Hiei crashed into his ally's back and pummeled to the ground. He rubbed his head and looked up in frustration. Why the hell did they stop; why the hell did he stop? He looked up to him themselves in front of a door to a building. Oh…they were at a house…of course.
Getting back up, he grumbled a little and sucked on the replica pacifier lodged in his mouth. Kurama turned around in pure concern to see dark red eyes staring at him in frustration, "Are you okay?"
"Fine…Just fine."
He shrugged before he turned back around to ring the doorbell. The door stayed still for a minute before an old lady with a bowl of candy in her slightly shaking arms opened it, "Yes?" she asked before her blue eyes seemed to light up with recognition, "Ohh…It's you Shuichi. Here you go…Nice costume," the lady smiled and gave him a pile of candy.
She peered over his shoulder to find a dark haired boy looking away with sheer boredom before gesturing to him to his friend, "Would your friend like some as well?"
Kurama, busy putting the candy into his bag, waved at him to come over, which he did reluctantly, "Yes, yes, he'd love some. He'd never had any sweets so tonight's best for him to try some."
The woman made a gasp and ushered Hiei over before dumping the whole bowl into his bag, which he looked down in it with confusion. She smiled gently at the teen, "Oh dear me, never had sweets have you?"
Hiei snorted before shaking his head. The woman patted him on the shoulder before turning to her nice neighbor Shuichi, "Would you like to come in for a cup of tea Shuichi?" she asked.
Kurama looked up and shook his head before motioning to Hiei to wait for him down the stairs, "No I'm sorry but we have a contest we are in. Not tonight anyway," he politely turned down the old lady, "Sorry ma'am."
"Oh don't worry. You two have fun with that contest you're in," she smiled and closed the door lightly after Kurama made his good-bye to her.
It continued like that for many more houses down until it was two hours. Hiei glared down at a puddle that mirrored his glaring image. Kurama grinned down at him, "Oh come on Hiei, it wasn't that bad."
They were on the street the others told them to wait at when the two hours were up. Hiei grumbled and folded his arms over his chest with a small pout on his face, "Easy for you to say. Half of them were either saying how cute I am or pinching my fuckin' cheek," he growled and shuddered at the memories.
Kurama laughed, "Don't be such a drama queen."
"I am not a girl," he said stiffly.
That only made the other laugh at him some more. Biting at the pacifier he'd forgotten he had, he turned his glare on the grinning fox next to him, "What the hell's so funny now?"
"It's just that you always take things so literal Hiei! Drama Queen is actually a figure of speech," he burst out before laughing uncontrollably again which only seemed to frustrate the fire demon even more, "It means you're just over-reacting or exaggerating."
"I was not exaggerating," the fire demon huffed.
"Whatever," Kurama smirked.
Finally after what seemed forever in Hiei's opinion, the others came strolling over to them with many buckets of candy. They glanced at Hiei and Kurama before Koenma stepped forward, almost spilling his bags, "How'd you guys do?"
Kurama looked down into his bags, "Not as well as you seem to have Koenma."
He raised an eyebrow when Koenma laughed nervously, "Y-Yeah…"
"You didn't cheat did you?"
"O-Of course n-not!"
Botan sighed, "Looks like we're out," she said.
"Why do you say that?" Kurama asked, looking wearily at the nervous Koenma.
"We went back to the Spirit World and Koenma stole some of his dad's candy from a vault," Botan shrugged at the questioning looks from the group, "His dad likes candy…Everyone likes candy."
"Except me," Hiei said.
Kurama just shook his head, "So we all know Koenma and Botan are out so that makes the-,"
"-That makes the winner us," Yusuke pointed to him and Kuwabara and puffed out his chest proudly. He grabbed his large sack and opened it to see there was…
There was a large silence before Yusuke screamed out, "What the hell!? Where did all my candy go??"
Hiei smirked and stared at Koenma, "Looks like we win Koenma. 2 months of vacation," he said and glanced down at his suddenly very full bag of candy. He smirked at the angry detective.
"You stole my candy!"
"There was never a rule that said you cannot steal candy detective. Now Koenma what about that 2 month vacation?"
The End
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A/N: Thanks for sticking this long with me and please review. My apologies for the rushed ending but hope you enjoyed it anyway. Happy early Halloween folks, and later.