The Reactions
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Note: All quotes from the video will be in italics...And all footnotes are in chapter 1. Disclaimer and credits are still in effect.
Koenma strolled into the office, a videotape clenched in his hand. In a semi-circle of chairsin front of his desksat Yukina, Botan, Kurama, Kuwabara, Keiko,Yusuke, and Genkai, respectively. Hiei leaned against the corner of two walls, apart from the group, as always. His arms were crossed, as was his usual stance.
Their toddler-like boss popped the video into the device below the screen and hopped onto his desk, sitting with his back facing the team so that he could watch it, too.
Everyone was (somewhat) smiling, expectant of what their apprentices had learned and eager to see the display.
After a moment of static, the image of the three girls showed up. Some of the watchers glanced at one another, ready to see what was going to happen.
"So…what we learned at Genkai's temple," Kai stated.
Again, looks were passed, anxious to see the tape's contents.
"There are some things you just don't do," Kit said.
"And some things you learn along the way," Daphne added.
Looks were once again passed around, this time of confusion.
Kit started them off. "I learned that you should never watch an English fox hunt in front of a kitsune…" The others burst into laughter upon hearing this, but Kit didn't lose her calm composure. "Yeah…you just don't do that."
All turned to look at Kurama, whose visage, which clearly showed that he was appalled.
"It's not a wise idea to throw a party and/or talk about love and kindness when the only one around is a fire slash ice apparition whose parents tried to throw him off a cliff when he was born," Kai told the viewers.
Eyes were now turned to Hiei. "What'd you do to them, man?" Yusuke joked.
"When did this happen?" Genkai demanded. But they didn't have time for discussion. The tape rolled onas they spoke.
"Learned that the hard way?" Kit asked her.
"Yeah."
"Don't ask the ferry girl if she's on crack," Daphne advised, and the others couldn't resist a few snickers.
"Botan!" Yusuke cried, leaning forward to see her reaction.
"I had no idea, Botan!" Koenma exclaimed. "Explain yourself!"
"Are you on drugs?" Kurama asked in earnest.
Botan blushed. "Well, I tried sniffing coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose..."
Everyone burst into laughter, but were brought back to reality by Daphne's next comment.
"And don't ask the Goth guy if his powers make him psycho. The word is psychic. Learn the difference. Trust me, it'll make your life a LOT easier."
"There IS a fine line there," Genkai agreed. (She IS psychic, so she'd know...)
"I think Hiei's both," Kuwabara let slip out stupidly. Hiei disappeared from the corner, but was back before you could blink. Kuwabara now sported a gargantuan lump on his head. "Oww..."
"Baka," Hiei mumbled.
"Use caution when messing with 'nature-boy's' lab test tubes," Kit commented, "especially the ones marked 'dangerous.'"
They once again burst into giggles in remembrance of that occasion.
Kurama's hand covered his face, though whether it was in embarassment or disappoint, they didn't know. (you decide)
"Also avoid reference to babies…" Kai supplemented.
"How dare they!" came an outburst from Koenma.
"Oh, I think they dare," Yusuke told him, receiving a whack from his instructor.
"Be quiet, dimwit!"
"Yes, ma'am."
"I learned the hard way not to be nice to idiots," Daphne informed them.
"I know," Kit sympathized. "I told Kuwabara 'hello' and now he won't leave me alone."
Kuwabara looked hurt.
"Oh, Kazuma," Yukina pitied.
"Haha! Proof that nobody likes you!" Yusuke laughed.
"The truth hurts," Hiei spat.
While Yukina was trying to console Kuwabara, everyone else kept going on about it and snickering. They almost missed the next few lines.
It was Kai's turn. "Always wake up at precisely 5:00 a.m. For two reasons. One…"
Kit filled in the blank, "Otherwise you'll get a rude awakening at 5:00:01."
"And two, when you go to breakfast, you'll find that what's left resembles a jungle floor after a stampede."
"Hey!" Yusuke protested. "We're not pigs!"
"She didn't say she was talking about you directly, Yusuke," Kurama tried to conceal an amused smirk. "However, if you want to admit to it..."
"I didn't say that!"
"Never, I repeat, NEVER," Daphne began, "ask an over-century-old lady her age."
"That'll kick-start your morning," Kai remarked.
It was Genkai's turn for the spotlight. "I remember that."
"What happened?" Botan wondered aloud.
"You don't wanna know," Yusuke assured her. "But it was painful."
"And loud," added Kuwabara.
"Extra training for a week," Genkai answered. "Supplementary chores and a knock upside the head."
Kit stated, "A spirit gun has approximately 50 times the force of an actual bullet."
"Katanas are very sharp…" Daphne informed them.
"How they discovered this, I'm not sure I would like to find out," Kurama once again restrained the urge to snigger.
Laughter consumed the room. (Hey, a rhyme!)
"Never use the word 'fight' in front of the school punks," Kai cautioned.
"We're not THAT obsessive," Yusuke whispered to Kuwabara.
"Demons under Koenma's employment have a reaction time of .000003 seconds," Kit said.
They heard the sound of Hiei cracking his knuckles, recalling the joke they tried to play on him. NOBODY sneaks up on Hiei.
"It takes an estimated 5 minutes to run 20 laps around the temple when encouraged by a VERY angry apparition," Kai told them.
Nobody could resist laughing at this. While the girls went on discussing records, the team teased Hiei.
"My God, Hiei. You scared the crap out of them!" Yusuke observed.
"Was it really necessary?" (Kurama)
"Annoying little pranksters," Hiei muttered.
"Resist the temptation to touch the 'pretty flower'," Kit advised, using the quotation hand gestures.
"It's not a flower, it's a man-eating plant from Planet I-Have-No-Idea-What," Kai added. They all faked a panic for a few moments, then remembered what they were supposed to be doing.
"They're not all dangerous," Kurama defended himself.
"Most of them are, Kurama," Koenma reminded him.
"Yeah. That little pink one tried to bite my head off," Kuwabara informed them.
"Well, I told them to stay out of there..." Kurama tried again.
"Pink is not Hiei's color," Kit commented randomly.
This got their attention. All heads snapped back to the direction of the screen.
"However, purple is," Kai pointed out.
"Is it really, Hiei?" Yukina inquired, not trying to be funny, but that was the effect it produced. "Purple is a pretty color," she said, not understanding why people were laughing.
"I think it would look very nice on you, Hiei," teased Botan, wiping the tears from her eyes, still giggling.
"Red nail polish enhances the red in Hiei's face when he's royally ticked off and wearing purple," Daphne finished off.
Everyone except Hiei laughed even louder at this one. Genkai couldn't resist a smile. Hiei snorted in anger and scowled before disappearing once again.
"There are at least 9,714 known steps in Genkai's temple," Kit told the viewers.
"Actually, there are 11, 426," the psychic master corrected, causing jaws to drop.
"Do NOT wear skirts, no matter what length, in the presence of a certain black-haired pervert."
All of the girls coughed, sounding suspiciously like "Yusuke."
"Yusuke!" Keiko yelled threateningly.
"It wasn't like that! I didn't do anything, I swear!"
His pleas fell on deaf ears. He was forced to retreat out of the office as she began to beat him with Botan's oar, which she had discreetly handed her for the purpose. She wished she had it back, however, when she heard what Kit had to say.
"Don't tell the messenger that the salon worker really screwed up her hightlights."
"Oooooh," the ferrygirl steamed. "When I see that little brat again, I'll -." She balled her hands into a fist, ready to pummel the prep.
"And let's not forget…Mating season actually happens TWICE a year," Kai presented her discovery.
Kurama couldn't escape blushing, and they discovered Hiei's location when he let out another angry "Hn."
"What are they talking about? What's that supposed to mean?" Kuwabara asked, being stupid once again.
"Shut up, Kuwabara," Hiei advised. He was about to reveal his latest threat, but the girls went on.
"A kitsune's digestive tract does not like chocolate," Daphne reported her findings.
Kurama turned away, red, unable to face the others.
"A sweet-snow-addicted apparition, however, does," Kit added.
Kurama didn't have to sit in the hot-seat for long. It was Hiei's turn.
"Sugar-high apparitions are scary," they all chorused.
Laughter. Once again, Hiei is angered.
"Gosh, Hiei," Kuwabara commented in between spurts.
"It's true, too, isn't it?" Yusuke panted, free from Keiko and having slipped back into the office after the chocolate joke. Keiko was downstairs somewhere, lost, calling out for him.
"You can see the whole grounds when tied to a rope dangling from the roof," Kit told them. She paused. "It only takes 5 ft of rope to tie up an average-sized teenage girl."
"Ropes are surprisingly very durable," Daphne said.
"It is in this situation that a demon's response time becomes six hours," Kit continued.
'So I'm not the only one who noticed,' thought Kuwabara about the grounds.
"So it was you!" Botan accused Kurama and Hiei, not sure which one had actually committed the crime. And of course, neither was about to confess.
"How did they get up there?" Yukina pondered aloud, not realizing that the girls had answered that. They had never discovered how the girls had gotten up there in the first place...
"Somehow, I don't think this is what Koenma had in mind when he asked us to video-tape what we learned," Kit observed.
"No, it IS NOT!" Koenma hollered, angry at what the girls had turned this into.
"This is gonna be hilarious when they see this," Daphne thought aloud as she got up and turned the camera off.
"Oh, it's going to be hilarious," Koenma promised the girls that disappeared from the screen as the static returned. "All three of them are in serious trouble."
'They will be when we get there,' thought Kurama and Hiei.
Kit, Kai, and Daphne shrieked with laughter, aloft in a tree in the forest outside the temple, watching on a handheld the entire thing. It pays to have bought a camera-probe...
GGF Jacqie: Well, there it is! Y'all know what to do!
GGF Kohari: We're seriously thinking about a prequel.
GGF Jacqie: I'm surprised no one asked about that.
GGF Kohari: Prequel goes up once we get...
GGF Jacqie: Let's say 13 reviews total.
GGF Kohari: I hope we get more than that, though.
TOOTALUKERS 'TIL NEXT TIME!