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[nightwalker]

I have THREE news sites up and constantly refreshing (CNN, Huffington Post and Time.com) and haven’t moved from this spot in HOURS. Meanwhile my roommate is upstairs reading fanfic. I went up a minute ago to tell her that they were calling Obama to win and she was all “Really? That’s nice

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[kahn]

"Okay." Yuusuke shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels. "Um, so what do we do now? You two are supposed to be the experts. Of, you know, thinky-things that need experts. Demon things, I guess. Have you done the...thing that expertly needs doing so we can find Kuwabara? The sooner we get him back the better."

"Yuusuke," Hiei growled, and Kurama was surprised that the fire demon was on first-name basis with the boy already. "Stop being an idiot. Think."

Yuusuke frowned at him, "You don't get to call me that if you haven't explained anything to me, yet."

"Then let me explain," Kurama said, voice a bit sharper than intended, but he had felt off balance since Yuusuke had interrupted his fight with Hiei and he it wasn't a feeling he was used to. He didn't like it. "Everyone assembled for this mission thus far are killers, except for you and you are inexperienced. Does that seem like a team REIKAI would put together if the were interested in saving your friend?"

Yuusuke blinked. "Everyone?"

"Did you even read the files Boton gave you?"

"Reading?" Yuusuke said with real horror in his voice.

Hiei huffed a quiet sigh. Kurama gritted his teeth.

"But--wait." Yuusuke rubbed a hand over his hair, making it stick up in a way that was not at all adorable. "Koenma wouldn't allow that. He's the god of--of Fair Judgement and Paperwork or something. And Shizuru. I know she wouldn't join a mission meant to hurt Kuwabara, possessed by evil or not."

"Shizuru wasn't originally slated to join," Hiei said. "She pulled strings. She may have her own agenda."

"And Koenma takes orders from Enma. The God of Death. Where do you think his power comes from? Not rainbows and kittens."

Yuusuke chewed his lip in silence, eyeing one of the floating charts, which graphed Toguro's power levels before and after laying claim to the most powerful telepath on the planet, though Kurama doubted Yuusuke was actually seeing it.

"We'll know for certain once KURONUE is finished slogging through REIKAI's database."

The things I do for you, darling. All this crap makes me feel like a need a shower.

Yuusuke straightened, eyes sharpening as he headed for the door. Kurama shivered as he felt Yuusuke's power slam hard against the barrier. "Um, yeah. Okay, you do that. I'm going to go do...something. That doesn't at all involve punching a god in the head. At all."

Hiei and Kurama exchanged another glance as Yuusuke made his exit.

"THAT'S Koenma's golden boy who's going to save us all?" Kurama asked. "Maybe they should've left him in the afterlife."

Then Yuusuke was back in the doorway with a vaguely confused expression. "Do you guys know how to get to Koenma's office from here?"

Kurama pointed back in the opposite direction from Yuusuke's original path.

"Oh, thanks!" the boy said and disappeared down the hallway again.

"We're doomed," said Hiei.

[nightwalker]

More now? Okay? Yes?

...pleeeeaaase?