Chapter 4: Breaking Tension "Field Trip Anyone?"

Back at Konma's Office

"Bingo! I just got a brilliant idea!" Boton snapped her fingers perking up in the unbearably tense room.

"And what might that be?" Konma asked not looking up from his papers. The whole crew was in his office waiting for some one to finally break the silence.

"We all-" She pointed around the spacious room. "Should go on a trip….ummm…to the mountains!"

Hiei looked up surprised. "Why to the mountains?"

"Yah! There's nothing to do there! Well except through snow balls." Yusuke spat pausing for a moment looking at Hiei, thinking then trying not to laugh out loud. "Hey maybe we should go!"

At that, Hiei almost slit his throat, but thinking twice remembering Yukina was in the room. Forgetting about Yusuke…for the moment, Hiei thought, as he saw Kuwabara so close to his sister. Why does he stand sooo close to her like they were dating or in love! Grrrr…STOP thinking about THAT! Even though she's smiling…-GAHHH! this is soo not cool!

Kura saw the looks on Hiei's face as she knew that he was having an inner conflict with himself, she knew when some one was doing that because Sakura had one about every waking moment, even in her sleep she looked funny.

"Nah I don't think I wanna go." Sakura said backing off simultaneously tugging at Kura's shirt sleeve winking. Slyly smiling, "Yah, we're going to go off and train!" Briar saw the two winking at each other and remembered. "Oh yah I just remembered." Catching the two off guard. "I couldn't find my Whistle that I keep in my room and I distinctly remember who slept in my room!" Eyeing the two trouble makers that froze when she said 'Whistle', as Hiei twitched. Kura and Sakura slightly laughed turning towards each other.

"RUN FOR IT!" Shouted Kura.

"Every man for himself!" The two didn't get very far before the other Kitsune stopped the two in their tracks as, Sakura handed over hers and Konma's. S

ighing in defeat Sakura's head shot up "OK! Who's ready to go?" Every one in the room sweat dropped.

In the Van

"Are we there yet?" Came an annoying whine from Rinku.

"For the 116th time, NOOOOOO!" Rinku was taken aback by this and was about to cry.

Why me?

Sakura rolled her eyes trying to comfort the whining child.

"Rinku we'll be there when we get there. 'k?" Rinku knew what she meant, with a quite sniff he nodded his head in reply.

"Why am I doing this?" Kouroune said to himself. Unfortunately Sakura herd him.

Flashback

Sakura quietly snuck into the room, already knowing that her older brother was there, listing to his music on his CD player.

"HIYAS JOJO!" Kuronue froze as Sakura jumped on his back.

He knew his little sister TO well; he knew she wanted him to do something. Great, NOW what? "Yah? What do you want?" He pushed her off of him turning to see her blue/gray orbs dancing with mischief. Shocked he thought Oh Lord save me!

"You're in trouble bro its time to face the light!" Briar walked behind him holding him in the chair by putting her arms around his shoulders. As he was forced to look straight Sakura grabbed two fist full locks of his black hair.

With a puppy-dog eyes "Can you drive us some where?" He knew he couldn't say no he…he…he O.o' What have I gotten myself into now?

"Don't try to resist its futile!" Briar said with the corners of her mouth turning up.

"YAH! I'll go call Jin, Touya, Chu, and Rinku!" Sakura bounced to the nearest phone dialing Jin's number first! (referring to the beginning of the story a.k.a the party.)

Briar thought randomly what have I gotten Myself into? "Hey I bet I know who's number your calling first…" Briar elbowed Sakura winking dragging the end of first out.

"Shut up!" Sakura blushed furiously trying to hide it from her older sister. Briar walked away to give her some privacy and also going back to pester Kourone about driving. "Just to let you know…your not just driving." He gulped at this.

"Yah. Your paying for gas, snacks, drinks, etc... the whole kit-and-caboodle.

End Flashback

"Oh yah!" Kuronue inwardly sighed Great I'm stuck with a bunch of crazy people…mainly Sakura… "HEY! That's not very nice!" Sakura stated smacking her brother on the back of the head.

"Crap I forgot about that.." Rubbing he's head forgetting about the road… "…Oh, fiddlesticks"

"Now wha-…crap!" Sakura said looking out the front. The car did quite a few flips then landed right side up on a small cliff.

"Ok I think we're safe…maybe not" A large rumbling noise was heard.

"Please tell me that was your stomach, Chu" Yusuke questioned.

"Naw, that was just thunder…from under ground…perfect"

"Bro…I hate you." Sakura growled from the back seat.

The ledge broke off and the car was at it again.

In the Other Car (the safe one)

Thank god that Kura and Kurama were arriving to the place of vacation in their own vehicle.

"You know… I bet Sakura's going through hell in that hell-mouth of a vehicle." Kura said, looking out of the window from the back, passenger seat. She was slouched in her seat. Kurama chuckled a little.

"Funny.She's probably not yielding to show hectic actions in the van."

"Yeah yeah yeah. She's probably having more fun than I am." Kura mumbled.

"Shut up." Hiei said, feeling agitated, from the back seat; sitting beside of Kura with his eyes closed.

"Very funny, grouch-o." Kura stuck her tongue out at him.

Hiei opened one eye, and rolled it into a shut.

From the front passenger seat, Botan was humming to herself.

"Botan.. Please… stop!" Kura said, after a few minutes.

"My my my, what a bunch of grouch-o's we have in the car today!"

"And if you say Bingo once, I will kill you." Hiei threatened, more like promised. Botan started pouting.

"You three, cut it out." Kurama said, while driving.

"Well.. At least we have the great Kurama to keep us under control!" Kura said, sarcastically.

"Don't make me come back there." Kurama warned.

"You wont have to! I'll just jump out and walk the rest of the way."

"I'll join you on that one. There is nothing worse than being in a stupid human contraption with a bubble brain, a smart ass Kitsune, and an annoying Kitsune." Hiei said. Kura shot him a glare.

"Very funny, Hiei."

"Hn." He kept his eyes closed.

Suddenly, Kurama slammed on brakes.

The car stopped, Kura and Hiei growled, "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!"

They "growled" in unison.

Then, Kura looked out of the front window and saw Sakura waving through the back side window of the Hell Van, that was parked right in the middle of the road, like a small child who was dumfounded.

"Thank god there aren't anymore cars that use this road." Botan sighed.

"WHAT! You mean we're going an old, BAD way!" Kura asked.

"Ehehe… maybe." Botan said, smiling girlishly.

Kura mumbled, "This can't get any worse." Kura, then, got out of the car, and went to the window of the van.

Sakura opened the window. "HELP ME!" She screamed.

Kuronue was sitting in the driver's seat, seeming as though nothing at all had happened.

"I would, but I don't know if you'd like Kurama driving a vehicle, and Botan sitting in the passenger's seat, humming. All of her humming is driving me CRAZY!" Kura said, making faces as she talked. Hiei got out.

"As if I want to be in the car either. It's like there's a wave of happiness no matter what people are saying in there! I just can't take all the FREAKIN' HAPPINESS!" He wanted to say, but didn't.

Kura laughed at the thought.

"What! What was he thinking! 0.o.0! Tell me!" Sakura whined.

"I'll tell you later." Kura and Sakura smirked at each other.

"Can we just get on the road?" Briar yelled from the passenger seat of the Hell Van.

"HOLD ON!" Sakura yelled from her seat, just about a foot away from Briar. Briar glared, then turned around. "I'll tell you what… put Chu in the car with Kurama and Botan, then.. Hiei can have some fun! Hehe!" Kura said, smirking at Hiei.

He just rolled his eyes. "I'll just walk, or run." He said, then he took off.

"Great… we lost our most happiest soldier!" Botan said, very heavy on the sarcasm. Kurama laughed, but not out loud.

"Hehe.. Okay then… Chu can ride with those two." "Oh no, you get to ride with us. Sakura can ride with us, taking Hiei's place." Kurama said. "You want to torture me, don't you?" Kura asked her bro.

He just smiled.

"Fine! SAKURA! YOU GET TO RIDE WITH ME!"

"YAY!Wait.. Should I be celebrating?"

"I dunno! Just come on!" Kura said. The two got in the car, in the backseat, then the Hell Van drove off, Kurama and the rest of the gang right behind them.

After 5 minutes of silence, Kura and Sakura couldn't stand it anymore.

"ARE WE THERE YET!" They whined. They had already, previously, planned to do this to Kurama and Botan.

"NO! Now don't start that!" Kurama commanded. It wasn't going to work.

"That's what you get for telling Sakura that she can ride with me! I love you bro'! You know that! And I love torturing you!" Kura smiled, widely.

Sakura smirked. She pulled a small string of hair from Botan's head.

"OWW!" Botan "screamed". Sakura and Kura giggled.

"Kura! Sakura!" Kurama said. The two quietly giggled.

"Don't worry Kurama, next time Briar can ride with us!" Kura said.

Sakura giggled, "yeah! Then we can torture BOTH of you!"

Kurama thought in his head: I don't like this anymore…

After about two hours of driving, the groups arrived at the cabin.

"SNOW!" Kura and Sakura, said in unison, as they jumped out of the vehicle and right into the snow together. They immediately started a snowball fight between each other. "Hehehehehehehehehe!" Is all you could hear as the snowballs were being launched.

"They're on something really strong." Hiei suddenly showed up beside of Kurama.

"Yeah." He agreed.

Sakura saw Hiei and smirked at Kura. Kura knew what she was thinking. They each had one snowball in their hands. "FIRE!" They said, as the two launched snowballs at Hiei. They hit Hiei. He wasn't exactly happy. He growled and went inside, slamming the door. The girls giggled.

"You two are just full of evil, torture-filled plans, aren't you?" Briar asked.

"Hehe! Maybe! And maybe you're next on our list!" Sakura, still giggling, threatened.

"Sure, you would attack me. WHEN I'M SLEEPING!" Briar yelled, as she walked up the steps and onto a 1/2 covered porch of snow. "And don't even think about throwing snowballs at me! OR ELSE!" She added.

"I shudder in fear." Kura sarcastically spoke from her spot. Briar, being as adult as she could be ((OOC: I say that with trillions of tons of sarcasm)) stuck out her tonuge. Before Kura could react, an unidentified snowball hit her in the butt.

"HEY!" Kura yelled, looking at Sakura.

"IT WAS NOT ME!" Sakura answered, solidly. Suddenly, Sakura spotted Jin and Touya behind Kura and covered her mouth.

"WHAT! What is it!" Kura asked, getting annoyed.

Before Sakura could give her an answer, Touya came up behind Kura and put some snow on the top of her head.

"COLD!" She screamed, as she turned around. "Why, you little"

"What? I couldn't resist." Touya smiled.

"Who did you two come with?" Sakura asked Jin and Touya.

"Oy! We came with Urameshi, Kuwabara, Urameshi's girl, and Kuwabara's sister." Jin answered, really fast.

"oh. I see!Welcome to our fun winterized vacation!" Sakura yelled, sounding very excited. Sakura then saw Touya and Kura smiling unusally at each other, then after whispering with Jin, those two started singing.

"KURA AND TOUYA SITTIN' IN A TREE. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MARRIAGE. THEN COMES KURA IN A BABY CARRIAGE!" Kurama and Briar went inside, along with Chu, Rinku, Kurone, and Botan.

"Shut up! We're just friends!" The two, Touya and Kura, said in unison. They looked at eachother, then started singing the same song but about Sakura and Jin. "We deserve that." Sakura and Jin said, looking at eachother. Then, the four of them went inside to find everyone there. "UNLE YU' YU'!" Kura said, as she passed Yusuke, because she knew that little nick name got on his nerves.

"Shut up!" Yusuke said, annoyed.

"HI UNC' YU'YU'!" Sakura said, also knowing how much it annoyed Yusuke.

Yusuke clenched his fists.

"Girls, maybe you should go decided which room you want." Briar suggested.

Without words, kura and sakura raced upstairs to the biggest room, which was the whole very top floor.

"YAY! Rinku can share with us too!" Sakura added, as both jumped on seprated beds.

"YEAH! And one more person can share too!" They both sat down on their beds.

"You know what would be funny?If Rinku was a rabbit. A really cute, furry wittle wabbit!" The two girls luaghed. Kura said, "We're acting like we're about 2 or 5 years old!" "What's the difference?" Laughing started again.

About 2 hours later, Kurama yelled up the stairs for the girls to come down.

"KURA! SAKURA! DINNER!" The girls heard him loud and clear.

They both jumped for joy, literally, upon the beds of which they were sitting on.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! FOOD!" They screamed, as they ran down the hallway then started down the steps. ((OOC: wow... they seem like Goku from Saiyuki! hehe! O, wait.. that twas the purpose! )) They didn't get far before

Sakura started tumbling down the stairs. Kura waited at the top of the stairs for Sakura to get to the bottom. BOOM. CRASH. "Oops." You heard those sounds, in that order, then laughing from the top of the stairs. Kurama and Briar, along with Botan and Jin, rushed into the hallway where the staircase ended in.

"SAKURA! Are you okay?" Briar said, rushing to her sister's side. Sakura say up, rubbing her head, and smiling.

"I'M FINE! I'M FINE!-HellI feel even better than before I fell down the stairs." Briar, Botan, Kurama, and Jin heaved a sigh.

"Of course she'd say that, she's Sakura, the one with the hardest head here besides Yusuke." Jin said, as he walked back into the living room to sit on the couch with Touya as they watched whatever was on the television. Kurama and Briar headed into the kitchen and sat down at the table, on opposite ends of the table from each other. Sakura and Kura walked in and sat across from each other, in the two middle seats of the table. Botan sat down beside of Sakura.

Kura giggled to herself.

"WHAT?" Sakura asked her, blankly.

"Nuuuuuuuuuuthin'!" Kura was quick to answer her.

Botan rolled her eyes. "You two are just soooooooo immature!"

"And what? You're the perfect example of maturity, Botan? I mean, really, you're bubbly all day, you have the attention span of a two year old, and the brain of on ostrich. And... you wear a pink kimono almost everyday!" Kura pointed out. Kurama held in laughs,

"Kura.. come on. Be nice. Botan knows a lot more than you think that she does. And.. she probably does a lot more than you do in a week!"

"NOT TRUE!" "I live with you, I think I would know!" The brother and sister argued between each other.

"ENOUGH YOU TWO!" Briar silenced them. Kura sunk down in her seat as Kurama put his elbow on the table and proped his head up on his hand, closing his eyes. Sakura giggled, along with Botan.

"Shut it" Kura said, her eyes looking very... threatening to Sakura and Botan. Soon, Jin came in and sat down on the other, vacant, side of Sakura. Sakura blushed as Kura giggled silently. As soon as Sakura had almost completed giving Kura a most hateful glare, Touya had sat down in front of Jin, also known as the vacant seating place to the right of Kura. Sakura couldn't help herself but to giggle at her friend as Kura, now, was slightly blushing. Then, Hiei decided to grace the table with his "presence". He walked in and everyone hushed as they looked at him.

"Hn. What?" He asked them, allready seeming a little annoyed by their looks and silence.

It was true, everyone seemed to annoy Hiei no matter what they did, even if they were quiet, they annoyed him majorly. Hiei sat down on the left side of Kura, which had the female kitsune blush as she looked straight in front of her to Sakura. She told Sakura, using telepathy, Help me! What am I going to do? What if Hiei hates me? What if Touya tries to flirt with me? WHAT DO I DO?

Then Sakura said to her, Relax! AND DON'T SCREAM IN MY HEAD! Kura laughed, feeling the mood change slightly after that moment.

"So... can we eat?" They heard Sakura say, all of a sudden.

"YEAH! Can we eat!" Rinku asked, sitting at the other table with Chu, Uncle Yu Yu, Karoune, Kuwabara and Yukina.

"Sure!" Botan said, and with a snap of her fingers, the food appeared on the table.

Everyone started eating, except Kura and Hiei. Kura wasn't exactly hungry, and, apparently, neither was Hiei. Sakura, after a few moments, looked at her friend.

"What's up?" She questioned.

"Nothing. I'm just suddenly not very hungry." Hiei stood up after she said that. He quietly left the room.

"He's so bitter sometimes!" Briar said.

"yeah. No duh, bubble brain!" Sakura said, then received a glare from her sister.

"No touchie." Sakura said, in a high voice. Kurama held in a laugh. Botan just didn't pay attention, neither did Jin.

After about an hour, everyone got up from the table. Kura and Sakura headed up to their room, on the top floor. On their way, Kura asked,

"Who else is gonna share the room with us?"

"I dunno!- Rinku! Definitely Rinku!"

"I know that much, dummy." Kura said, rolling her eyes.

"What about Hiei?" Sakura then suggested, out of the blue.

"What! That's like saying let's have Jin stay the night! You would love that, wouldn't you? I wouldn't say a word the whole time we're in this room!" Kura said, as they entered their room.

Sakura plopped down on her bed. "Hm... I still think that Hiei should share a room with us!"

"He'd get annoyed. FAST." Kura said, taking off her black hoodie.

"Y'know... we should go to the Demon World with him one day. I bet it'd be fun."

"Like hell it would! He'd work us half to death if anything! He'd probably try to kill me!" Sakura said, trying not to think about the bad, horrible things Hiei would make her do.

"What? Can't take the heat, Sakura? Come on! You should be able to take it!Besides... I don't know what he'd do. He'd probably try to loose us in one of the forests or something. That would make me mad. Besides... I want to stay with him all the time."

"I've noticed! You only think about him all day!"

"That's not true!okay.. m-m-maybe it is!" Kura blushed.

"Hahahaha! Yes it is!" Sakura poked fun at her bestest butt buddy.

"Oh yeah, well.." Kura started.

"What about you and Jin? Eh? Or.. you and Matari! yeah.. I've met Matari and I've seen the way you act around him too!" Sakura threw a pillow at her. It missed because Kura fell off the bed backwards when she was trying to dodge it.

"Owwwww! My butt! Owww!" Kura "cried".

Then, Sakura fell off her bed from laughing. "Thatwasfreakin'hilarious!" Sakura managed to say between laughs.

"FunnyveryfunnySakura.I'm telling Briar!" Kura went into playful little 2 year old mode. "Just kidding!" She said, coming out of her 2 year old mode.

"0o0. Wow!" Sakura said, still laughing at Kura falling off the bed backwards.

"I wish Rinku could've seen that! He'd never let you live that down!" "You're never going to let me live it down!" Kura mumbled, as she stood up.

Sakura still laughed.

OOC:

Kura- Ya know.. Sakura, you're acting like Shigure from Fruits Basket! Like the time when he was laughing at Tohru living in a tent on the Sohma property.

Sakura- 0o0! That was funny! I love Yuki!

Kura- Yes yes yes. We know. We all know. I LOVE KYO-KYO!

Sakura- :mocks: Yes yes yes. We know. We all know.

Briar and Kurama: GET ON WITH IT!

Kura: 0o0! Now you two are acting like the people from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when Zoot's identical twin sister wouldn't shut up!

Sakura:laughs:

"GIRLS! GET BACK DOWN HERE!" Briar shouted.

"WHAT! WHAT DO YOU WANT!" Sakura yelled from the top of the first flight of stairs, the ones leading to the second floor. Kura stood behind her.

"Get your butts back down here! We're going for a walk in the snow!" Briar shouted again.

"WOOHOO!" Sakura and Kura said, in small and sarcastic voices.

"Hurry up lazy bums!" Botan shouted from the door, ready to go.

Kura and Sakura put their shoes on and their "jackets", which for Kura it was a hoodie ((OOC: yet we're still unsure of what Sakura has put on: a jacket or a hoodie.. Hm...? 0o0 .)).

Hiei wasn't there with the group, he had already left. Touya, Jin, Rinku, Chu, Uncle Yu Yu, Kayko, Yukina, Kuwabara, Botan, Kurama and Briar were all in the group with Kura and Sakura. It was like a huge search party, yet they weren't searching for anything.

We should have a snowball fight! Kura said to Sakura, Jin, and Rinku, through their own minds.

Yeah! That'd be great! Rinku smiled as he told Kura in his mind.

Jin and Sakura had aggreed to it also. And who shall we fire upon first... I wonder... Sakura's face had a smile growing on it as she looked at Hiei.

Kura was busy picking up a hand full of snow and balling it into a ball to notice that Sakura was smirking wildly.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura shouted as she launched a ball at Hiei.

It landed on his head, right in the back of the head. Sakura laughed her butt off, along with Rinku and Jin.

Kura's mouthed dropped open and she quickly dropped her snowball, holding in laughs.

Sakura saw Hiei's face grow with anger and she quickly ran behind Kura. "HIDE MEEEEEEEEEEE!" She yelled. Hiei's face "burned" with anger and annoyance as he turned and shot glares at Sakura.

He couldn't shoot glares through Kura and to Sakura, so he stopped as soon as he saw Kura's eyes on him.

He turned around and sighed, "I truly hate the way she does that." He sighed to himself. Sakura and Kura turned to each other and gave each other high fives. "good shot." Kura whispered to her friend.

Sakura smirked wickedly. "Thankies!"

The two giggled again.