What I Learned At Genkai's Temple
Chapter 26: Potential Potty Problem

Kohari: Okay guys. Sorry for the long wait in updating. Jacqie and I did get everything straightened out after the Distressing chapter, we just didn't realize how long it had been since we updated...sorry about that. Anyway, I'll be updating since Jacqie has her college applications and stuff to do.

Kurama and Hiei entered the clearing they usually used for training, Kurama dragging Kit by the arm with a powerful grip and Daphne dangling over Hiei's shoulder. Both girls had conveniently forgotten that they had agreed to train daily because of the lab trouble. They had put up a fight at first, but once they realized they had no chance of getting away from the two demons, they were slightly more cooperative.

"You run, you literally lose your heads," Hiei warned, toying with the hilt of his sword. "Understand?" The girls gulped, nodding their understanding. "Good," he continued. "Let's begin with some warm-ups. Push-ups. NOW!"

"How many?" Daphne ventured to ask. A rose whip snapped at her feet in reply. Daphne immediately dropped to the ground and started doing push-ups in sync with Kit.

After losing count of how many push-ups she was doing, Kit spoke. "Seriously, how long are we gonna be doing this?"

"Until I say stop," Hiei answered vaguely.

"Well, in that case, I gotta pee," Daphne announced.

"That's too bad," Hiei said, expressing no sympathy at all.

"No, I'm serious. I really hafta go," Daphne kept on.

"I don't think you quite understood what I said," Hiei told her. "Continue with your push-ups until I say you can stop."

After doing a few more push-ups, Daphne stood up. "But I really gotta go."

"No."

"Please?"

"NO."

"Pretty please smothered with whipped cream and chocolate syrup and a cherry on top?"

"NO! Now do your push-ups!" Hiei shouted.

(Kit is still doing her push-ups, under Kurama's supervision)

"Pleeeeeeeease?" Daphne begged, rocking back and forth with a pained look on her face.

"NO!"

Daphne started jumping, similar to her rocking routine from before. Kit and Kurama tried hard not to look at her for fear of laughing. "I really, really, really gotta go, Hiei!" Daphne pleaded. "Please!"

"NO!"

"I'm doin' a frickin' potty dance here! Please let me go to the bathroom!"

"NO!" With each no, he got more annoyed.

"Dude, I really have to go!" Daphne's tone became more urgent.

"I don't care," Hiei snapped. "Do your push-ups." He didn't realize that Daphne was not joking about having to go to the bathroom. He thought she was just trying to get out of training. Of course, the idea had crossed her mind before he knew, but he had thought she would know better than to use that kind of trick - when the time came that she really did need to go, he wouldn't believe her. Of course, because of the other pranks she and her partners in crime had pulled, he didn't believe her now.

"My eyes are swimming!" Daphne persisted. "I'm seeing yellow!"

By this time, Kit was quietly giggling, and Kurama was supressing the urge to laugh. Kit was no longer really doing push-ups, but Kurama was too amused by Daphne's bathroom distress to do anything about it.

"Daphne, if you don't get back to doing push-ups, so help me, you will be out here until tomorrow morning training your ass off!" Hiei threatened.

"But I really-" Daphne started to protest, but she quieted herself mid-sentence. She looked down at her pants, seeming to be embarassed by the wet spot that had appeared at her crotch area. "Oops...Never mind. I don't hafta go anymore."

There were a few moments of awkward silence. "Go back to the temple and change," Hiei commanded her as she was getting back on the ground to continue push-ups.

"Okay!" Daphne didn't have to be told twice. She happily hopped up and ran back to the temple.

Hiei sighed. "What did I do to deserve this?" he demanded of the sky, ignoring Kit and Kurama's laughter. "I think we're done training for today," he turned to them.

As Kurama walked by him, Hiei told him to make sure he (Hiei) remembered never to let Daphne drink three bottles of tea before training again.

Later, Kit and Daphne met in their shared room. "There's no way you really wet your pants."

"That's just disgusting," Daphne acknowledged, ready to explain to Kit what she had done to get out of training. She pulled a small plastic thing out of her pocket.

"What's that?" Kit asked.

"I call it a squeezer," Daphne said. It was shaped like a circular pouch with a hole on the cylinder-like end. Daphne stuck the end in some water in a nearby cup, then squeezed the circle, slowly releasing it as water filled the pouch. Then she pointed the cylinder at the wall and squeezed the circle again. The "squeezer" acted as a tiny water gun.

"Nice," Kit complimented, high-fiving Daphne for her work.

Kohari: Okay, it's not as cool as the version of this we came up with last semester, but since the rough draft of that got lost, I had to improvise with as much as I could remember. Review please!

Proofread? Sorta.