Saturday, February 5, 2005

chapter 6
posting this now, cause I'll be out and about all day.....

Authors Note Lovaitar: Heyhey! I'd love to take the credit for this chapter, but I can't. A buddy of ours used the outline I did for the chapter and fleshed it out rather nicely. Also, I figured I'd tell you we have the whole story planned, but we are just to lazy to write it.....so stick with us. And to the co-author from H&L we write long chapters because if we broke them up, new ideas would keep poping into our heads. Complete missions and all that.

Red Wolf, Black Fox, Beck, Death, Crow, and Shadow stood in front of the movie theatre with their bags slung over their shoulders. "Thanks for getting us the tickets, Crow!" said Red Wolf.

"Tch!" said Black Fox, "but you didn’t need to get tickets for the whole damn theatre!"

"So sue me," muttered Crow, "at least I got a deal on the tickets."

"Death!" said Death.

They all filed into the theatre, and Crow found a perch high in the rafters, and Shadow sat in the row behind everyone else. The rest of them took their seats in the fifth row back with Beck in the seat nearest the wall and Death beside him. Black Fox and Red Wolf sat together on the end.

"Hey Beck," said Red Wolf, "You wanna go get us some snacks?"

"Yeah," Shadow added, "We’re hungry!"

"Oh come on!" Beck answered, "Why can’t you get them, Black Fox? You’re in the aisle seat!"

"Because I’m lazy, that’s why."

Crow called down from the ceiling, "Death, don’t you think your minion should get the snacks?"

"Death!" agreed Death.

"Okay, fine. Excuse me, Em." He made his way out of the row and back to the lobby.

Meanwhile………

"LET GO OF ME!" shouted Yuske, struggling against Botan and Kuwabara, who each had him by one arm, dragging him across the parking lot toward the movie theatre. Hiei and Kurama walked calmly beside them.

"Quit squirmin, Urameshi!" Kuwabara grunted from the effort it was taking to hold Yuske.

"Yes, honestly, what’s the big deal about going to a movie?" scolded Botan, "Calm down and behave yourself! You’re embarrassing us!"

Kurama looked toward Yuske. "You should have mentioned that it was your birthday, Yuske. We may have been able to plan something more festive."

"Festive?! YOU?!" shouted Yuske.

"Seriously, Urameshi! My sister works here and now I owe her big time for getting us these tickets, so we’re treating you to this movie whether you like it or not!"

Hiei harrumphed as they stepped up to the door. "I don’t understand why you humans enjoy these movie things so much! They’re nothing but a complete waste of time and money!"

"You’re entitled to your opinion, Hiei, but you can get raisinets here, you know. I know how fond of those you are," said Kurama in level tones. At the thought, one corner of Hiei’s mouth curled up ever so slightly in an actual smile.

"Alright! Let’s go buy some snacks!" cried Kuwabara, immediately heading for the counter, but someone was already there.

Botan pointed at Beck. "Isn’t that Death’s Minion?"

"It sure is," growled Yuske, "I told you this was a bad idea!"

"And I’ll have four boxes of junior mints, five jumbo-sized popcorn buckets," the concessionaire stared at Beck wide-eyed. "Ten large sodas, fifteen bags of M&M’s, twelve boxes of nerds, fourteen bags of raisinets…"

"Um, sir?" said the concessionaire, "we only have nine bags of raisinets left."

"Oh," said Beck with a frown, "Then I guess only nine bags of raisinets."

Hiei’s eyes widened. "No! That’s the last one!" He whimpered.

Beck walked back into the theatre with Yuske and his friends in tow. He returned to his seat and started passing out the snacks. But it turned out that he had one package of raisinets left over and he stuffed them in his pocket.

The group then began reaching into their backpacks and pulling out things that they had smuggled in. Death had brought rum, Crow had brought several vials of blood, Shadow had brought the vodka she snuck back from her trip to Russia, Black Fox had brought S2, and Red Wolf had brought a cooler filled with steaks and a grill.

Black Fox blinked a few times in shock. "I’m not going to ask."

Beck looked surprised too, but then they started passing the food around to everyone.

Just then, Kuwabara’s sister entered in her uniform.

"Hey, look! It’s Shizuru!" cried Crow.

"Hiya Shizuru! What’s up?" Shadow called, waving enthusiastically.

"How’s it going?"

"Great to see ya!"

Shizuru looked over at them, very blasé. "Hey."

Yuske leaned over and whispered to Kuwabara, "How do they know your sister?"

Kuwabara shrugged. "Beats me. Just ignore ‘em."

"Hah! Easier said than done!"

"Quiet everybody," said Crow, "It’s starting."

Of course, Death, Beck, Shadow, Black Fox, Red Wolf, nor even Crow were quiet for the "Let’s All Go To The Lobby" cartoon. They all sang right along, much to the irritation of the Yu-Yu Hakusho gang. "Let’s all go to the lobby! Let’s all go to the lobby! Let’s all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat! Delicious things to eat! The popcorn can’t be beat! The sparkling drinks are just Dandy! the chocolate bars and the candy! So let’s all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat!"

Red Wolf gave an excited squeak. "Previews! My favorite part of the movie!"

"Rum!" said Death.

Beck heard Hiei sobbing and leaned forward to tap him on the shoulder. "Hey, what’s the matter?"

"You took the last of the raisinets, you bastard!" Hiei hissed.

"You want some? Why didn’t you just say so? I’ve got an extra bag, all you had to do was ask. Here." Beck tossed Hiei the last bag of raisinets and Hiei’s face lit up. (Oh the love!)

The next preview to be shown was for a movie called "Red And Black: The Colors Of Death."

"Hey B! Look! It’s your movie!"

"What?!" cried Crow, "They have a movie?! How come they made a movie about them and not me?!"

"Death!" Death answered.

"She’s got a point, Crow," said Shadow.

"Shut up! You’re not in it either!"

"Sure I am, see? Right there!" Shadow pointed at a shadow on the wall behind the actress playing Black Fox.

"That’s not you!"

"Yes it is, see? The light is coming from behind her, so if it weren’t me, it’d be in front of her."

"You’re so full of crap!" cried Crow, "The light is in front of her!"

Yuske and his friends glanced at each other nervously in the front row, and then turned around and saw Red Wolf and Black Fox. Yuske jumped out of his seat and pointed his finger, ready to charge up his spirit gun.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Easy there, killer!" said Shadow.

"Yeah, movie theatres are neutral ground," added Crow.

"So no fighting here," Red Wolf said sternly.

"Kapeesh?" asked Black Fox.

"Death!" Death concurred.

Yuske and his friends reluctantly agreed and took their seats as the movie began. It was a remake of "The Dark Tournament" staring Johnny Depp as the evil boss, Vin Desil as Toguro, John Travolta as Yuske Urameshi, Warwick Davis as Hiei, Orlando Bloom as Kurama, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Kuwabara.

As the movie came to an end, Red Wolf, Black Fox, Shadow, and Death made their way to the ladies’ room, and as they came out, they found themselves face-to-face with Yuske, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama.

"Neutral territory my ass!" said Yuske.

"I think these little girls are scared, as well they should be," Hiei added tauntingly.

"Hey c’mon, you guys!" scolded Kuwabara, "You can’t fight girls!"

"Kuwabara, we will have to fight them eventually," said Kurama coolly, "but you are right, if they do not wish to fight, I don’t think it wise to provoke them."

"B.S. Kurama, they don’t wanna pick a fight because they’re afraid, meaning we can easily wipe the floor with them!" shouted Yuske.

Just then, Crow and Beck approached behind them from behind. "Excuse me," said Crow, "Is there a problem, girls?"

"Yes!" said Red Wolf angrily, "Take care of these people, minion!"

"Stop calling me that!" Crow cried indignantly.

Black Fox shrugged. "Fine, lackey."

Crow sighed and turned to Yuske and his friends. "Alright, alright, let’s take this outside."

Both groups filed out of the theatre to the parking lot. The girls all sat atop a nearby car and watched, munching what was left of the popcorn, and Botan, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama stood back and observed as Yuske and Crow went at each other.

"Ouch!" they winced.

"That’ll leave a mark!"

"Ooh…"

"Youch!"

"He’ll feel that one tomorrow!"

"Get him, minion!"

"DON’T CALL ME MINION!"

"SPIRIT GUN!" Yuske fired his spirit gun with deadly accuracy right through Crow’s stomach. Yuske cackled and turned to his friends and bowed as Crow fell to the ground.

"Um, I wouldn’t laugh yet if I were you, Urameshi."

"Oh, and why not?" said Yuske, still chuckling to himself as he turned to look at her. Then his eyes widened. "WHAT THE HELL?! YOU’VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!"

Crow was climbing to his feet, and the hole in his stomach was closing.

"Okay," said Shadow brightly, "now you can laugh if you want."

"You can’t kill me," said Crow, "I’m already dead!"

The battle went on for about ten minutes with neither winning nor losing. But then, Yuske made a foolish mistake by powering up his spirit gun again, but Crow was ready. He took advantage of the brief opening and pinned Yuske down on the pavement. He raised his talon and began to bring it in for the kill…

When Death’s cell phone went off. "DEATH!" she cried in panick!

"WE’RE LATE!"

Crow flew off, Katie turn into her shadow form and zipped along the ground. Death and her minion vanished and Red Wolf and Black Fox darted away in the blink of an eye.

Yuske, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama and Botan all stood gaping for the longest time."

"Uh…What just happened?" said Kuwabara, bewildered, "Where’d they go?"

Just then, Shizuru poked her head out of the theatre doorway and said nonchalantly to Kuwabara, "It’s time to go, you moron. If you and your friends are gonna pick fights, go somewhere else before you get me fired," and with that, she went back to work.

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