Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Season of the Crystal Feather ❯ Operation Spanky ( Chapter 10 )

Dream: Grr...These stupid author's notes are starting to annoy me, especially since I want to get this whole revising thing done as soon as I possibly can. So, from now on I won't put in a beginning author's note. I prolly won't put in an ending note either unless I've added a character and need to add a disclaimer. Well, enjoy the story.

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Operation Spanky:

--Next morning...well technically the same morning but later...around 10...

Flash and Autumn were awake and in the kitchen helping Thorn with breakfast. Thorn was wearing a black Chinese style blouse with long sleeves that covered her hands. Her sleeves did serve a purpose, because on the insides of the sleeves were small pockets where she had tucked small throwing daggers that she could easily access without her enemies knowing they were there. She was also wearing a silver colored belt that hung diagonally across her hips. There was a small silver pocket type compartment attached to the belt which held lock picking tools and things of the sort. She was wearing long black pants. Her hair was tied back into a ponytail with a dark midnight blue ribbon. She had identified it as her "thieving outfit".

Flash was wearing a black T-shirt that said 'I need more money & power and less shit from people like you' on it. She was wearing black pants that had glow in the dark outlines on them. Her trench coat was still in her room and her boots were still by the door with everyone else's shoes. She had her hair down.

Autumn was wearing a black sleeveless shirt that had buttons towards the top and a small pocket on her left. She was wearing dark blue Capri pants and white socks that had pandas on them. She was wearing the glowing pendant around her neck. The golden chain was long so the pendant hung down a bit. Her shoulder length hair was down.

In the dining room, Kurama and Hiei were helping to set the table. Hiei was wearing his black pants and black tank top with four white belts around his waist. Kurama was wearing the outfit that Autumn and Hinote had been arguing about the night before. Yusuke and Kuwabara were still asleep in the other room. Hinote was awake and getting dressed. Margaret was still locked in her room brooding over what Hiei had said to her. Terminator was sleeping lazily on one of the bookcases in the room where the two boys were. Freckles was following Autumn around like a second shadow. He would run circles around her or dart between her legs as she walked. She was stepping over and around him like one who had had much practice walking with the small creature following.

Autumn brought a large plate of different fruits out to the dining room table. She was walking slowly so she wouldn't trip over the rabbit that had decided to run circles around her as she walked. She set the plate down. Kurama smiled at her and pointed at Freckles.

"You have a very funny looking shadow." He said to her.

Autumn looked down at Freckles. He looked up at her. She looked back at Kurama, "He only acts like this when he wants a treat. I call it his 'look how cute I am; Give me treats!' routine."

Kurama laughed slightly, "I see..."

"No, Freckles, you cannot have a treat. You're still in trouble for almost getting yourself killed yesterday." Autumn scolded the rabbit.

Freckles looked down and then back up at her with his big brown eyes. He put his paw on her foot. Autumn sighed and took a grape off the fruit platter. She looked around once before dropping it. "Aw, darn. I dropped a grape. I guess now the rabbit will have to eat it so it doesn't go to waste."

"MUAHAHA! No one can resist the power of cuteness!" Freckles said silently before picking up the grape and running off with it.

Kurama shook his head, "I can't believe how lenient you are with your rabbit. No wonder he ran away from you."

"What can I say? I'm a sucker when it comes to cute animals. Besides, I think that rabbit has mind controlling powers. One moment I'll be sitting down reading something, the next I'll be getting a carrot out of the fridge for him without realizing it." Autumn mused.

Flash grabbed Autumn's hand, "Stop flirting and come back to the kitchen. We still need your help."

"We weren't flirting!!" Autumn yelled out of embarrassment.

Hinote walked into the dining room and stopped the girls. He was wearing khaki pants and a black short sleeved shirt with a red skull on it. "What's going on?"

"We're getting breakfast set up." Autumn answered.

A yawn and stirring sound from the other room drew everyone's attention to Yusuke. He was sitting up and stretching. Kuwabara started stirring too. Yusuke was wearing hot pink eye shadow with blue eyeliner. He had deep red blush and pink lip gloss. Everything had sparkles and looked really preppy. He had a pink feathery boa around his neck and his hair was up in two preppy pig tails that were high on his head and held with sparkly pink hair bands. Kuwabara had deep red blush like Yusuke's and pink lip gloss with sparkles. He had baby blue eye shadow that was sparkly and pink eye liner. He was wearing a feathery blue boa with a large blue hat that had a feather in it. Neither boy noticed anything about their appearance.

Hinote's eyes widened, "Oh...my...god...!"

"Hinote, take a picture!" Autumn hissed.

Hinote nodded and pulled out his camera. He quickly snapped a few pictures of the boys before either one noticed. Hiei was fighting with himself not to smile or start laughing. Kurama was practically in tears from biting his lip so hard in order to keep from laughing. Thorn walked into the dining room and started laughing quietly. Autumn and Flash were smirking at their handy work.

Yusuke and Kuwabara got up and saw everyone staring at them. They blinked as Hinote snapped a few more pictures. They looked at each other and their eyes widened in shock. Both boys pointed at each other and started screaming. Hinote took more pictures while laughing hysterically. Thorn, Autumn, and Flash were in pain from laughing. Kurama finally gave up and started laughing as well. Hiei coughed and went to the room he had been sharing with Kurama and Hinote. Once he was sure nobody would hear or see him, he burst out laughing hysterically.

Hinote stopped taking pictures, "I only have one picture left on this roll of film..."

"What are you saving it for?" Autumn asked.

Hinote pointed at Yusuke and Kuwabara who were both done screaming and both glaring at Autumn and Flash. "This."

Yusuke and Kuwabara stalked over to the girls with murder in their dolled up eyes. Autumn and Flash laughed nervously before deciding to run for the back door. As they started running with Yusuke and Kuwabara in hot pursuit, Hinote took his last picture.

Hiei walked into the dining room and had to avoid Autumn and Flash. He turned to stare at them before getting knocked over by Yusuke and Kuwabara. Hiei got back up and growled in anger before unsheathing his katana and chasing after the bakas. Kurama sighed and decided he better save everyone from Hiei's wrath. He started chasing after the homicidal midget. Hinote carefully changed the film in his camera and ran after them. Thorn went back to preparing breakfast since she knew everyone would be starving once they got back inside.

After an hour of chasing and death threats being screamed, everyone was finally inside again. Yusuke and Kuwabara were trying to get the makeup off their faces. Flash and Autumn were sitting next to each other at the table. Kurama was across from Autumn and Hiei was across from Flash. Hinote was sitting next to Flash. Thorn was trying to get Margaret to come out of the room and eat something. The animals were occupying the living room. Tundra was stretched out next to the couch. Terminator and Freckles were sitting on the couch. Each of the animals had been given their own dish of food and were eating quietly.

Yusuke came into the dining room and sat across from Hinote. He was glaring at Autumn and Flash, "I will have my revenge, you two. Mark my words, I will have revenge!"

"Oh, I'm so scared." Flash rolled her eyes.

Autumn started using a fake frightened voice. She clasped her hands together and looked at the ceiling, "Oh, please don't let the scary cheerleader reject hurt me!"

"KURAMA!" Yusuke yelled.

Kurama looked at him, wondering why the boy was yelling at him, "Yes, Yusuke?"

"Make her stop tormenting me!" Yusuke yelled and pointed at Autumn.

Autumn smiled innocently and waved. Kurama arched an eyebrow, "I'm afraid I have no control over her actions. She is her own person after all."

"Yeah, but she's your girlfriend. Can't you do something?" Yusuke asked.

Kurama and Autumn blushed slightly. Kurama glared, "She's not my girlfriend, Yusuke."

"But it's so obvious that you like each other." Thorn stated as she walked into the room with Margaret.

Margaret sat next to Hinote. Kuwabara walked in and sat across from Margaret. Thorn sat at the head of the table between Kurama and Autumn. They both threw a roll of bread at her. Thorn laughed. Kuwabara and Yusuke started plotting against Autumn and Flash.

Hinote was smiling as he ate his breakfast, "I got some really great pictures today! I can't wait to get them developed!"

"You better destroy those pictures or I will do it for you." Yusuke threatened.

Hinote hugged his camera protectively. Autumn shook her head and said in a scolding voice, "You shouldn't take out your anger on poor Hinote. He was only doing what came natural to him. He had nothing to do with it."

"But if anyone sees those pictures it'll ruin my reputation!" Yusuke whined.

Flash shook her head, "It's alright Yusuke. There's nothing shameful about being a cheerleader wannabe...oh wait...yes there is...HA-HA!"

"I hate this mission. I can't wait for it to be over so I'll never have to see either of you again." Yusuke groaned and set about getting his breakfast.

Autumn thought, "You know, he's right. Once this mission's over, we'll probably never see them again...That means we have to make sure they'll always remember us!"

"I think you've already done that and more." Hinote said.

Flash reached out her hand to Yusuke, "I'll leave you alone and get Autumn to leave you alone, if you give me your wallet and all the money in it."

"Hell no!" Yusuke yelled.

Flash turned to Autumn, "I give you permission to bury all his stuff in mud."

"Yay!" Autumn yelled happily.

Yusuke growled and pulled out his wallet. He tossed it at Flash. Flash caught it and looked through the contents. She smiled and stuck it in her pocket. "It's been a pleasure doing business with you. You are now safe from Autumn for the rest of the morning."

"But...it's almost noon..." Kurama pointed out.

"Exactly." Flash grinned.

Yusuke glared at her and grumbled something about robbery. Autumn smiled evilly at Yusuke.

Hinote looked up at Kurama, "So, we're going to Reikai today?"

"Yes, as soon as everyone's ready." Kurama replied before continuing to eat breakfast.

Flash turned to Autumn and Hinote, "Are we still gonna put Operation Spanky into action?"

"Hell yeah!" Hinote yelled.

Autumn grinned evilly, "Of course."

"Operation Spanky?" Thorn arched an eyebrow.

"You'll see." Hinote, Flash, and Autumn responded at the same time.

Kurama and Thorn exchanged worried glances. Kurama looked at the three, "You aren't going to cause any trouble, are you?"

"Do we look like the kind of kids who would get into trouble?" Autumn asked as she, Flash, and Hinote smiled their most innocent smiles.

Kurama raised an eyebrow, "Why am I now more worried than I was before?"

"Because you know they're planning something?" Hiei suggested.

Kurama sighed and went back to his breakfast. Once everyone was done eating and all the dishes were cleaned up, the people who weren't dressed went to get dressed and the others went to gather up the stuff they brought with them. After all that was done the entire group was back in the sitting room preparing to leave. That's when Botan appeared.

"Hello everyone!" Botan said cheerily as she hopped off her oar.

Yusuke gave a small wave, "Hey Botan."

"Koenma wanted me to tell all of you to hurry to Reikai. Oh, and he also wanted me to take this girl back to the Ningenkai." Botan pointed at Margaret.

"Why?!" Margaret whined.

"Because you aren't involved in this mission and it's too dangerous for you." Botan replied. She grabbed Margaret's arm and disappeared.

Once they were sure that she was really gone, Autumn and Hinote threw their arms around each other and started laughing and dancing around. "WE'RE FREEEEEEE!!!"

Thorn blinked rapidly, "They really don't like her..."

"No shit Sherlock." Flash rolled her eyes.

Kurama coughed to get everyone's attention, "We should get going now."

"Yes ma'am!" Hinote said as he saluted.

Autumn hit Hinote over the head. Hinote rubbed his head, "I mean sir..."

---Later in the vile bowels of hell...I mean Koenma's office in Reikai...::looks around with shifty eyes::

Koenma was sitting at his desk looking the group over. Kurama was standing still and facing forward while waiting patiently for Koenma's explanation. Hiei had his arms crossed and was glaring at Koenma to hurry it up. Yusuke and Kuwabara were completely ignoring Koenma and talking about different fighting techniques. Autumn, Flash, and Hinote were huddled together speaking in whispers. Thorn was watching the three curiously. Tundra, Term, and Freckles were huddled with their humans in order to learn what was going on.

Koenma coughed into his hand to get everyone's attention. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I asked you to come here. We-"

A giggle from Autumn had caused Koenma to stop. Now he and the others were looking at the three huddled teens. Koenma coughed into his hand again. Hinote looked up at him and pointed while saying something to Flash and Autumn. The girls broke the huddle and stood up straight. Koenma glared at them a moment before continuing.

"As I was saying, I called all of you here to tell you that I found out more about the crystal you are looking for. The crystal was kept in a shrine in the middle of a lake. The lake is located in the crater of the tallest of the Mist Mountains." Koenma stated. He pulled a remote out of his desk and pressed a button.

A screen turned on behind the group and they all turned to look at it. There was an image of a ring of five mountains. Four of them were in a circle around the fifth, which was the tallest. They were all flat topped mountains and looked like they would be volcanoes.

"Those are the Mist Mountains?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes." Koenma answered, "Unfortunately, we only have images of them from this view because it's almost impossible to get into those mountains."

"How come?" Kuwabara asked.

Koenma shook his head, "There is strong magic protecting the mountains and only a kitsune that was born in the mountains or carries a pendant infused with the kitsune magic of the area can enter there."

"Something tells me there's more to these mountains than meets the eye." Yusuke stated.

Thorn crossed her arms, "I've read a lot of legends and stories about those mountains. The Mist Mountains were once active volcanoes. They caused a lot of death and destruction. Apparently, some of the local populations summoned a large bird of some sort to cool the magma under the mountains. The bird gave up its life for them. All that was left of the bird afterwards was a single crystallized feather. The locals, a group of Kitsune and Wolf demons, decided to build a shrine for the feather. They built the shrine on the tallest of the now dormant volcanoes.

"Over the next few years, the power of the crystal caused the volcanoes to bloom with life and fertile soil. A lake formed around the shrine. The kitsune were charged with the duty to protect the crystal and the wolf demons split up. A group of them went to live in a large mountain made of crystal where they studied nature and magic arts."

"Is all of that true?" Yusuke asked.

Thorn shrugged, "Nobody really has any definite information on the Mist Mountains or the Mist Mountain Kitsune. You'd have to ask one of the four survivors."

"Four survivors?" Kuwabara asked.

Koenma nodded, "Something happened to the Mist Mountain Kitsune about 719 years ago. All of them died except for four. Two of the survivors had been traveling at the time and the other two actually witnessed the event."

"So what happened?" Yusuke asked.

Kurama decided to speak, "Nobody knows. The two that witnessed it refuse to speak about it."

"So do these kitsune have names?" Hinote asked.

Koenma nodded and picked up his remote again. He pushed a button and an image of an elderly kitsune appeared on the screen. His short hair was gray with age and his ears were white. His eyes were squinted shut and there were wrinkles on his face. "This is one of the witnesses of the event. His name is Ninikinaki. He's the eldest of the survivors. When I asked him about what happened he said he had made a promise not to tell."

"Wow, he looks ancient." Yusuke stated.

Autumn hit him over the head and hissed, "Show some respect for your elders, moron! Besides, he's probably really old since demons don't age like humans do. It takes over a thousand years for most kitsune to start showing signs of aging like that!"

"And how do you know that?" Yusuke glared at her.

"Eh...research?" Autumn answered.

Koenma pushed another button of his remote and the image on the screen changed to a kitsune that looked around 20 years old. He had shoulder length black hair that was cut at an angle with long bangs that covered his eyes at certain points. His eyes were a pale blue in color. Atop his head were two crimson fox ears. Each ear had a black stripe on it. He was smiling a goofy smile.

"Who's that?" Kuwabara asked.

"That is Dariken. He was one of the traveling kitsune when the others were killed. One of his sisters and his mother died with the others. His cousin Viern was traveling with him at the time. This is Viern." Koenma pushed another button.

The image changed again. This time it was the picture of a kitsune with short white hair. He had three gold colored bangs in the center of his forehead. He had two light sky blue fox ears on the top of his head. For all his age, his face looked very much like that of a young boy. He seemed to be about the age of 16. He had large, innocent looking, light yellow eyes. He wasn't really smiling, just staring at the camera.

"Hey, he's kind of cute." Thorn observed, "But not as cute as that Dariken fox...why do kitsune always have to be so damn hot?"

Koenma decided to continue, "Which brings us to the final survivor of the Mist Mountain Kitsune..."

He pushed a button and an image of the kitsune from Autumn's dream appeared on the screen. In the picture, she wasn't facing the camera, but instead was facing to the left. It was night and she was sitting on a tree stump in a forest meadow. There were some fireflies shining around her. The kitsune's head was tilted upwards and her grayish blue eyes were focused on the stars above her. Her black ears were back and her black tail was wrapped around her. She was wearing the same outfit from Autumn's dream. She had a little orange bird in her lap and had her left hand resting on the bird's back. The bird's feathers were all fiery orange and her eyes were pale green. She had a yellow beak and yellow clawed feet. The bird's tail was long and ended in a point. She had some feathers sticking out behind her head.

"This is a picture of Phantom Harmony. She's Dariken's younger sister and is also Viern's cousin. She was the other kitsune that witnessed what happened on the Mist Mountains. She's also the one that made Ninikinaki promise not to talk about the event. After leaving the Mist Mountains, I convinced her to help me and she became a Reikai Tantei. She always succeeded on her missions...except the missions that involved Youko Kurama...she never was able to catch him...." Koenma looked thoughtful.

"Pfft, she could've caught him whenever she wanted. It would've been easy enough since she knew where our lair was. She visited us a lot." Thorn nodded.

Koenma blinked, "Are you saying that she let Youko Kurama get away with his crimes?!"

"Um...yes?" Thorn rubbed the back of her head and laughed nervously.

Koenma stared at her blankly for a moment before bursting out laughing, "That's ridiculous!"

Autumn, Kurama, Flash, and Thorn rolled their eyes. Yusuke was staring at the picture. Kurama stopped and glared at Yusuke, "Stop staring at her picture."

"Why? It's not like you care or anything...unless...was she one of your many lovers too?!" Yusuke asked in bewilderment.

"NO!" Kurama yelled at Yusuke as his face turned bright red.

Thorn shrugged, "Youko fell in love with her."

"Aw...isn't that sweet?" Yusuke snickered.

Kurama glared at the ground and mumbled something about dragons having big mouths. Autumn and Flash joined Yusuke in snickering at Kurama. Koenma cleared his throat.

"You might be wondering how any of this relates to your mission. Well, Phantom was the one that entrusted me with guarding the crystal." Koenma nodded.

"I don't believe that." Flash crossed her arms.

Koenma frowned, "It's true."

--Flashback (Koenma's telling the others what happened)

Koenma was sitting at his desk using an 'Approved' stamp to stamp random papers that were sitting on his desk. He wasn't paying attention to what the papers actually said. He just wanted to be done with the work quickly so he could get back to singing karaoke. He was so absorbed in not doing his work properly that he didn't even hear or see the doors to his office open and close. He didn't notice that anyone was in the room until he saw a dark shadow fall across him from behind. He half turned to see, screamed, and jumped up onto the desk. It was then that he actually saw who it was.

"PHANTOM! Don't do that!" Koenma yelled at the fox girl standing in front of him.

Harmony sat down in Koenma's now vacant chair and rolled her eyes at him, "You're such an idiot. Those doors haven't been oiled in months. They make a lot of noise when someone opens them and yet, you still didn't hear me come in."

"I guess I was so absorbed in my work that I didn't notice. Now why are you here? Didn't I send you on some mission or something?" Koenma asked.

Harmony had stopped listening after the word 'work'. She had picked up a paper off of Koenma's desk and looked at it. She now looked skeptically at the Prince of Reikai, "You're going to let Genghis Khan be reborn as a girl in Ireland so he can fulfill his life-long dream of becoming a professional ballerina and possibly kill a few people along the way?"

"WHAT?! Let me see that!!" Koenma grabbed the paper away from Harmony and quickly tore it up.

Harmony rolled her eyes and pulled something out of her pocket. It was the crystal. She held it up so Koenma could see it. "If there were any other place to put this, I would put it there, but since this is the only place I can think of where it might be safe, I'm leaving this with you."

"Wow! You must really trust me now! Does this mean you'll go on a date with me?!" Koenma looked hopeful.

Harmony faked a smile, "Keep dreaming, Pacifier Breath."

"Oh, come on..."

"I can't stand you. Being in the same room as you for this long is starting to make me sick. That's why I'm going to get this over with as quickly as possible and leave to go visit my friends that happen to be wanted criminals that I'm supposed to be hunting down."

Koenma started laughing, "You're such a joker!"

Harmony rolled her eyes and stood up. She handed the crystal to Koenma and walked past him towards the door. She opened it and looked back at him with a serious expression, "If anything happens to that crystal I will personally put you through the most painful torture imaginable that will never end and will cause you to beg for death, but it won't come because I don't like to kill people. Have a nice day!"

Harmony smiled sweetly at Koenma before leaving and slamming the door behind her. Koenma was left standing on his desk and staring at the door with wide fearful eyes.

--End Flashback

Flash burst out laughing, "Now that's the Harmony I knew!"

"Koenma got rejected!" Yusuke pointed at Koenma and laughed.

Kuwabara was also laughing. Kurama was smirking and Thorn was grinning. Hinote was snickering and Autumn was smiling slyly. Hiei had an amused smile on his face. Koenma was glaring at everyone.

'That's my girl!'Youko announced proudly to his human half.

Koenma looked flustered, "You have to find that crystal before Phantom finds out that I let it get stolen!"

"But Phantom's been missing for over a hundred years." Thorn pointed out.

Koenma nodded, "Yes, but she could still come back and follow through with her threat!"

"Aren't you being a bit paranoid?" Yusuke asked.

Koenma shook his head, "No! She's crazy! Like the time she tied up my feet and hung me upside down from the castle roof because she found out I had been spying on her..."

'Kill him.'Youko said to Shuichi.

I can't! He's our boss! Shuichi responded.

'He was spying on Harmony. For that he must die.'

Oh come on, it's not like she's even really your mate.

'She would've said yes if I'd asked!'

Are you sure?

'Damn logically thinking ningen half...'Youko grumbled before being quiet.

"How was the crystal stolen?" Kurama asked.

Koenma started speaking to them in detail about what happened. As he spoke, Autumn crept over and crouched behind his chair. She lifted Freckles up. From the others' point of view it looked like rabbit ears were randomly sprouting from the top of Koenma's hat. Soon the ears disappeared and reappeared over the edge of the desk. The ears lifted to reveal Freckles' confused face. The rabbit was lifted a bit higher so that everyone could see his front feet and the hands holding him.

Kurama sighed in frustration and ran his hand through his hair. The others were trying hard not to laugh as the rabbit was placed onto Koenma's desk. Freckles immediately started digging at the papers. He sent some flying and ripped holes in others. He then grabbed the corner of one paper and tore it into strips. He left the strips on the desk and started eating some papers out of a manila folder. Autumn quickly crept back to stand near Kurama.

"Did you really have to do that?" Kurama whispered to her.

Autumn nodded and whispered, "Yes."

Koenma noticed that Freckles was on his desk. His eyes widened when he saw the shredded and torn files. He glared at the rabbit. Freckles looked at him innocently while munching on the corner of a file labeled 'Top Secret'. Koenma grabbed one end of the paper and started trying to pull it away from the rabbit. The rabbit bit down and refused to let go of the file. There was a loud rip and Koenma fell backwards with half of the file. Freckles dropped his half of the file and hopped over to Autumn.

Koenma got up and glared at Autumn, "I...will...KILL...YOU!"

"But I didn't do anything." Autumn smiled innocently.

"Fine, then I'll kill the rabbit." Koenma glared at Freckles.

Autumn put herself in front of the rabbit and stated cheerily, "If you do that, I will personally make your life a living hell."

While Koenma was occupied with screaming death threats and curses at Autumn, Flash and Hinote had crept over to some of the stacks of unfinished paperwork that Koenma had in his office. Using the lighters that they both conveniently had brought on the trip, they set the papers on fire. Soon a good section of Koenma's office was in flames. Flash and Hinote walked back over to the others.

Koenma sniffed the air, "Is something burning?"

"Well...since those stacks of papers over there have large flames coming from them, I'd have to say...yes." Autumn pointed behind Koenma and nodded.

Koenma looked and his eyes widened, "FIRE!!! OGRES!!!"

A moment later, a few ogres came running into the room with buckets full of water. The flames were soon extinguished and a few windows were opened so that the office could air out. The files were completely ruined. Koenma turned slowly to glare at Autumn.

Autumn put her hands up palms out, "For once, I really didn't do it."

"Then it must have been you two!" Koenma pointed at Flash and Hinote.

Hinote gave his best hurt face, "I can't believe you would suspect me of doing such a horrible thing! Your lack of trust hurts me! If I had a shoulder angel, he'd be crying! Damn you! You're making my non-existent shoulder angel cry!"

Koenma was about to respond when the phone on his desk rang. He answered it angrily, "What is it?!"

"HOW COULD YOU LET THAT PAPERWORK CATCH FIRE?!" The voice of Emperor Enma rang out over the phone.

Koenma tried to explain but couldn't get a word out over his father's yelling. Once he finally did get off the phone he glared at Hinote, Flash, and Autumn, "Thanks to you three I'm probably going to get spanked."

"But I really didn't do it this time!" Autumn yelled.

Koenma grumbled and stormed out of the room. After a few moments of silence, Flash and Autumn gave each other a high five. Hinote hugged both of them. Flash then went over and sat in Koenma's chair. Autumn sat on the right side of Koenma's desk after pushing papers off and Hinote pushed papers off of the left side before sitting down.

"We are now in charge of this office." Flash smirked.

"Shit." Yusuke looked fearfully at the three.

Kurama frowned and crossed his arms. He glared at the three and spoke in an angry voice, "That was very immature and stupid. You three ought to be ashamed of yourselves for behaving like idiots."

"But they are idiots." Hiei pointed out.

Autumn looked down at the ground and then up at Kurama with sad, hurt eyes, "But we just wanted to have some fun..."

"There are other ways to have fun that don't involve destruction." Kurama said sternly.

Autumn nodded sadly, "You're right...we won't do it again...we'll start acting our age..."

"What?!" Hinote blinked at Autumn.

Autumn rubbed her eye and said sadly, "We did something really stupid here and now Kurama hates me!"

Thorn, Flash, and Hinote glared at Kurama. He looked at all of them while blinking rapidly, "Why are all of you looking at me like that?!"

"Because you're a jerk. Now apologize to the poor girl." Thorn pointed at Autumn.

Kurama sighed, "Autumn...I don't hate you...I'm sorry."

"Really?" Autumn looked at him tearfully.

Kurama nodded. Autumn grinned happily, ran over, and hugged Kurama, "I'm so happy to hear that!"

"Eh..." Kurama was blinking more rapidly than before. He started blushing slightly.

The others snickered at Kurama and Autumn. Hinote noticed a big red button sitting on Koenma's desk. Unable to resist the urge to do a typical comedy gag, he pushed the button. Immediately the ceiling opened up and coconuts fell out onto Yusuke and Kuwabara. Hiei quickly moved away. Kurama pulled Autumn away from the coconuts and Thorn moved the animals away. The coconuts continued to pour out of the ceiling on top of the bakas. Next, sand poured out. Then some water. A movie backdrop of a setting sun, a reclining beach chair, some sunglasses, a beach umbrella, flower necklaces, and an inflatable palm tree soon followed.

Everyone stared in surprise at the pile of beach stuff that was on top of Yusuke and Kuwabara. There was a scream and Botan fell out of the ceiling wearing a grass skirt and a coconut bra. She saw the others, screamed, and ran out of the office. (A.N: I would like to apologize if the previous scene has offended anybody or scarred them for life. I always write scary random things at 1 something in the morning.)

"Well...that was really weird..." Autumn said after a moment and pulled away from Kurama's protective embrace.

Flash coughed, "Well, let's just pretend that never happened, shall we?"

Everyone nodded agreement and started going about their business. Everyone that is, except for Kuwabara and Yusuke. They were still trapped under the pile of beach stuff. They were quickly running out of precious oxygen and were having trouble digging themselves out, but nobody cares about them anyways...except for maybe Kurama.

"Oh my god! Yusuke! Kuwabara!" Kurama yelled as he suddenly remembered that the boys were trapped. He quickly ran over to the pile and started digging to find them.

Once both boys had been dug out, Yusuke grinned at Kurama, "Thanks Kurama! You're such a great friend."

Flash suddenly started laughing insanely. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her. She was holding an envelope full of money that she had taken from one of the drawers of Koenma's desk. She then stuck it in her pocket with Yusuke's and Hinote's wallets, "I now have even more money than before!"

"What are you going to do with all that money? Buy an army of highly trained, killer hamsters and use it to take over the world?" Yusuke started laughing. His laughter soon died when he saw the serious looks on the faces of Autumn, Flash, and Hinote.

Hinote turned to Flash, "He knows our plans!"

"He must be a spy! Kill him!" Autumn hissed.

Yusuke took a step back, "You three are insane!"

"Thank you!" Autumn, Hinote, and Flash said at the same time.

Kurama hid a chuckle behind his hand. Thorn grinned and Hiei smirked. Tundra was asleep, Terminator was using Kuwabara's leg as a scratching post, and Freckles was furiously grooming himself. Yusuke was staring at Flash, Autumn, and Hinote in horror and Kuwabara had a confused look on his face.

"Does anyone else feel a draft?" Kuwabara asked, looking around.

Everyone looked at his leg to see that Terminator had torn his pant leg to shreds. They blinked before starting to snicker at Kuwabara. Kurama opened his mouth to tell Kuwabara about what Terminator did. Autumn, who was still near Kurama, covered his mouth with her hand.

"You must be imagining things, Kuwabara." Autumn smiled at the idiot.

Kurama pulled Autumn's hand off of his mouth and held both her hands so she wouldn't be able to stop him, "Actually, Kuwabara..."

"You might be coming down with a cold!" Thorn interrupted as she put her hand over Kurama's mouth. He glared at her.

Kuwabara blinked at them, "You really think so?"

"Oh, yes, colds are very common during winter!" Thorn nodded.

"But...it's summer..." Autumn pointed out.

Thorn blinked, "Uh...that's what I meant!"

Kurama, taking advantage of the fact that Thorn was no longer covering his mouth, yelled quickly, "Kuwabara! The cat ripped...!"

Yusuke leaned over and covered Kurama's mouth, "The chair! The cat ripped the chair!"

Kurama glared menacingly at Yusuke. He was getting tired of his mouth being covered. All he was trying to do was warn Kuwabara that his pants were ripped. In his mind, Youko was laughing.

Shut up! Shuichi yelled at Youko.

'This is so...priceless!'Youko laughed.

You aren't helping!

'You're point being...?'

Just be quiet.

'You know, if you let go of that girls'hands you'd be able to get Yusuke's hands off your mouth.'Youko mentioned.

...I'm still holding her hands?! Kurama quickly let go of Autumn's hands and turned bright red.

Autumn stared at him questioningly. Kuwabara was wondering why everyone was covering Kurama's mouth. Yusuke and Thorn were smiling innocently at Kuwabara. Flash and Hinote were looking through Koenma's desk drawers. Hiei was off to the side plotting evil plots.

Kuwabara pointed at Yusuke, Thorn, and Autumn, "Why are you three crowding around Kurama like that?"

"Because..." Yusuke looked at Thorn and Autumn for help.

Autumn threw her arms around Kurama, "Because he's our best friend in the whole world and we love him! ...in the friendliest way possible..."

"Except Autumn, she loves him as more than a friend." Thorn added.

Autumn reached over and hit Thorn. Thorn laughed and Yusuke smirked. Kurama took the opportunity to pull Yusuke's hands away.

"KUWABARA YOUR PANTS ARE...!!!" Kurama was interrupted by a whistle from Hinote and Tundra jumping on him.

Autumn, Thorn, and Yusuke looked down at Kurama. Kurama glared up at Tundra. Tundra smiled a dog's smile with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. Kuwabara was even more confused than he usually is. Hiei had one eye open as he watched the others. Hinote walked over and pat Tundra on the head.

"Good boy, Tundra." Hinote told the happy dog.

Kurama shot Hinote a death glare, "Get him off of me."

"But he luffels you!" Hinote protested.

Autumn shrugged, "Why don't you just let him up? I mean Tundra's not covering Kurama's mouth so it's not going to stop him from saying that Kuwabara's pants are shredded..."

"AUTUMN!!!!!!!!" Hinote, Flash, Yusuke, and Thorn yelled at the same time.

Autumn put her hands up so her palms were facing her angry associates. She laughed nervously, "It slipped!"

"No, seriously guys, I really think there's a draft in here." Kuwabara said.

Everyone stared blankly at the idiot. Kurama pushed the dog off of him and stood up. He brushed dog fur off of his clothes and glared at Thorn, Yusuke, and Hinote. Hinote pointed at Autumn.

"Hey, she covered your mouth too!" Hinote yelled.

"Yes, but she said what I wanted to say." Kurama responded.

Flash suddenly interrupted, "Hey, let's get going. This office is starting to make me sick."

"Alright, well, I say we should go to the mountain range near the Mist Mountains." Thorn announced.

Yusuke pointed out the door, "Lead the way!"

Thorn led the group out of Koenma's office and through the hallways. Some of the ogres were staring at Kuwabara as they passed. Kuwabara was confused and wondering why he was being stared at.

"Guys, I still feel a draft." Kuwabara said to the others.

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Credit where credit is due:

Thanks to Winter -iel -o burzum for designing Yusuke and Kuwabara's makeup and to EternalBlackNight for ripping a hole in his pants, thus creating the inspiration for the part with Kuwabara and the draft. I'm pretty sure that's it for thanks...

Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho and its characters belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. Flash and Terminator belong to Winter -iel -o burzum. Hinote and Tundra belong to EternalBlackNight. All other characters and the crystal belong to me unless otherwise noted.