okay it took me a few weeks but i figured out that i loaded the wrong chapter (whoops!) So i guess for those who already read it you got a sneak peak as to what is to come.
but for those who haven't...i fixed my mistake!
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and i don't own YYH, expect for the perverted Zeth and the storyline to this.
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"Hermes!" Cherion breathed his composure failing as his gray eyes took in the god before them, "what are you doing here?"
"Cherion? By Zeus it has been ages! How have ya been?" the easily sidetracked god smiled striking a conversation.
"Well I have been quite busy," the centaur admitted regaining some composure.
"Hey that's great, you know we should get together and have some figs, drink some wine and ya know catch up on old times…"
"Hey flying freak you got a reason for being here?" Yusuke interrupted annoyed that he couldn't get back to bed sooner.
"Where are my manners?" Hermes joked with a wave "no but seriously I've got a message for you." He informed tugging his large brown leather pouch that was spilling out with scrolls. "Let's see, no…nope…. not it…ah ha!" the delivery boy of the gods shouted triumphantly taking out the right scroll.
All stared eagerly and somewhat confused at the god's actions as he unrolled the scroll and began to read from it.
"Greetings mortals! I Dionysus invite you to a celebratory dinner party in this afternoon at my villa for your excellent actions in Aphrodite's trials," a low growl came from the audience at the mention of the goddess's name; Hermes perked an eyebrow looking at the spectators before continuing "The mortals by the names of Usk'oke You-ar-amess'y, Kay-zoma Kuabara, Hi-yay, and You-ko Kou-rayma are permeated to join."
Sweat drops went down everyone's heads as Hermes finished horribly pronouncing all of their names.
"Thanks for bastardizing all of our names, paper boy" Yusuke sniped crossing his arms over his chest clearly agitated. Cherion took this moment to right his neutral messenger god.
"My god Hermes, I give my forgiveness for correcting your memorandum but their names are Yusuke Urameshi, Kazuma Kuwabara, Hiei, and Yoko Kurama," the centaur meekly told.
"Hey that's how it's written on the scroll" Hermes admitted with a shrug, "but you guys are lucky! Dionysus is the biggest party animal Mt. Olympus has ever seen, you must have done something right to impress him. He usually doesn't invite mortals to his dinner parties." He added placing the scroll back into his pouch. Yusuke was about to head back in with the already half asleep Kuwabara,
"Wait! Dionysus also gave me some nice garments to hand over. He wants you to look proper when you arrive, he's very strict about that" the god quietly added the last part as if the host was right behind him. With a simple twist of his left wrist a large white box appeared out of a thin smoky white mist, and then handed it over to Kurama.
"That was very kind of Dionysus" Kurama mentioned to Hermes who just blew it off as if it was nothing.
"Well I'll catch ya mortals later, Cherion we seriously have to have that dinner date" he remarked gesturing over to the centaur.
"Yes we should my god" the scholar nodded politely.
"It's just Hermes," the messenger god blushed a light pink and vanished in a barely visible blur. That act of incredible speed got Hiei's attention,
"My he's fast" Botan replied after the god was officially gone.
"Humph of course he is, Hermes is always on the move. He gives messages to gods, mortals, and the undead. He can move through the living, spiritual world, and the undead world in the blink of an eye. If you can even blink that fast" Ocypete explained in a rut. "And don't think you can outrun him bite size" she spar over to Hiei, his crimson eyes shifting over to her form.
"Yes I suppose that's as good as getting you to shut up" Hiei spoke moving his gaze away from hers. The harpy bared her razor sharp teeth to Hiei as a warning before she flew off into the forest.
"Let's see what this guy gave us," Yusuke announced sauntering over to the box that Kurama carried. The fox demon gave the lid a quick tug opening it to find, "Dresses! This sick ass freak expects us to freaking cross dress!" A small sweat drop went down the back of Kurama's head as Yusuke pulled out all of the clothes Dionysus offered.
"Maybe it's for the girls," Kuwabara suggested looking over the outfits. Sighs came form both Zeth and Cherion at the obliviousness of the present day humans.
"They are tunics and togas Yusuke" Cherion corrected heavily as he picked up the forest green toga with a light green tunic wrapped around it. "It's the traditional dress of both ancient Romans and Greeks."
"You guys went around in dresses?" Kuwabara gaped completely stunned. The centaur rubbed his temples as Kurama neatly laid down all four pieces of attire. All had a shimmering gold lining and were made of the finest fabric,
"These are quite exquisite" Zeth admired taking a chalk white toga in his petite hands. "Dionysus must be very pleased with your performance."
"Nice or not I am not wearing a dress" Yusuke made his ultimatum with Kuwabara in tow.
"Yusuke if Dionysus invited us to a party and provided us with clothing to wear we should respect his wishes" Kurama remarked picking up a lavender toga with a darker violet tunic wrapped around it.
"They also come with these fabulous leather sandals made from the best cattle hide!" Zeth agreed tossing the sandals at the two reluctant boy's feet. "And it is best not to anger a god. Dionysus is a very powerful foe when enraged, not going to one of his parties is very disgraceful." The satyr closed his magenta eyes nodding with his explanation. Both Yusuke and Kuwabara were both unconvinced, "they also have a bountiful banquet and plenty of liquor to drink."
That was the seller for those two teens,
"Hey free food and drinks!" Yusuke beamed taking the green toga and tunic "I'm game! Probably better than what the old hag was gonna cook for us" Smack! "Ow! Hey can't ya take a joke?"
"This old hag isn't cooking for any of you lazy ass boys. You can fend for yourselves," Genkai growled opening the front shoji door and going inside.
"All the better reason to go," Yusuke slyly reminded "guess I choke some of my pride and wear this fruity gid-up" With that Yusuke let out a huge yawn reentering the house and going back to sleep.
"Urameshi's got a good idea" Kuwabara concurred following suit, "wake me when it's time to go." Kurama gathered the outfits put them back into the box and headed back inside the temple.
"Hn, do whatever you wish I am not going nor am I wearing those ridiculous outfits," Hiei barked giving a glare to Cherion. Zeth's jaw dropped open, in awe at what Hiei just said. So much for being a man to idolize,
"And I respect that decision" Cherion nodded making the satyr even more panicked "I actually am considering staying within the temple grounds tonight…"
"You cannot!" Zeth cried outraged "You of all people should know what will happen to a mortal or immortal being who defies the gods! You are putting your very sake at risk Cherion!"
"I have my reasons for not participating," the centaur replied in a cool manner.
"The master of the nymphs I can understand!" Zeth replied gesturing over to Hiei who gave a glare in reply to the uncouth name "but you? It's just incomprehensible!"
"Zeth please!" Cherion shouted losing his temper. The whole forest went silent after that burst, all eyes lying on the centaur. "I…I'm going to take a walk…excuse me" he bowed galloping into the woods.
"You shouldn't have pushed him Zeth" Botan scolded lightly.
"But this is Cherion!" Zeth whined like an infantile child "he is the last person I would see refusing an invitation from a god!"
"Isn't he defying them by trying to overthrow them?" Shiziru mentioned lighting up a cigarette and taking a breath from it.
"Yes but…uh…" Zeth paused caught between a rock and a hard place; sort to say "Cherion…this just isn't like him."
"Maybe something happened between him and Dionysus that he doesn't want to talk about" Keiko suggested perking everyone's curiosity, what could the scholar of the group have to hide?
Not being able to get back to sleep after having Hermes visit, Yusuke sighed falling before one of Genkai's arcade machines trying to beat his teacher's high score. The gentle clacking of hoofs on hard flooring wasn't enough to distract Yusuke from his goal,
"Yusuke may I have a word?" Cherion requested politely, "ahem, I have come to the reluctant conclusion that I do not wish to join you tonight. I feel I am needed here"
"With what?" Yusuke bluntly questioned not tearing his chocolate eyes from the screen. That one meager question threw the centaur off making him stammer as he tried to come up with a solution,
"Well you see, the maidens. I wish to be with the maidens…Zeth will be staying as well and you know how he can get," he explained as tiny droplets of sweat ran down his brow. "Actually Zeth he's not exactly staying…he's been riding me on going…" Yusuke turned his head from the video game after that sentence his face facing Cherion's. The black coated centaur flushed a shade of bright pink catching himself too late, "no what I mean is Zeth wishes for me to go to the dinner arrangement tonight and…" his lips quivered as a simple request ended up crashing and burning within a matter of minutes. Yusuke perked an eyebrow at his ally, "excuse me!" he screamed loudly running out of the gaming room.
Yusuke merely shrugged and continued his game.
Kurama sat outside his mother's room, sipping smoothly on a cup of green tea provided by Genkai.
"Yoko my I speak with you about something?" Cherion asked for as he stepped softly on the wooden planked floors. Kurama gave a curt nod as he led him to a shrine so they could talk.
"What is it you need?" Kurama posed bending down to set his cup down on the floor.
"I…" the centaur could feel his poise failing as he once again tried to work up the courage to ask a simple question. "I…want to stay…here, tonight" he gave an inward sigh, finally able to get the stretch out.
"Do you mean miss the party hosted by one of the gods?" Kurama countered making the centaur flinch inwardly, "I believe it's an insult not to participate, is it not?"
"Well yes in some cases, but if I give a plausible excuse not to join then I think my god would understand" Cherion told but slapped himself realizing the mistake he made,
"An excuse? Cherion is there a reason you do not want to go?" Kurama inquired, that was the query Cherion did not wish to respond. The centaur intertwined his fingers together trying to come up with a practical reply. "Cherion?" the demon fox posed as smoke eyes averted from emerald. "If something happened between you and your god then I want to know what that is…"
"There is nothing wrong you damn kitsune!" Cherion exploded his voice echoing throughout the temple grounds. He covered his mouth with his hand appauled at his words towards his friend and ally. Kurama was also taken back with the bitter tongue. "Kurama, forgive me…I…please excuse me!" Cherion called galloping out of the shrine room, "I am truly sorry!" he yelled as his voice faded.
Hours promptly passed as the time came for the festivities. All of the mortal boys were dressed in the traditional attire: Kurama wore the lavender toga, Yusuke wore the emerald shaded toga, and Kuwabara wore the chalk white one.
"You all look magnificent!" Zeth applauded looking the three over, "My nymph catcher will you please join us?"
"Will you stop giving me those ridiculous names?" Hiei barked from his spot in the tree above them, "and I said I was not going."
"Speaking of" Yusuke mentioned turning towards his group "any of you guys get jumped by Cherion earlier today? Seemed like guy was really worked up about something but wouldn't spill it."
"Yes I ended up getting the brunt of his frustration" Kurama sighed,
"You shant need to worry about me" Cherion emerged from the forest with a more confident smile on his face. "I shall participate, running away from one's problem's is no way to solve them."
"Top notch my friend!" Zeth beamed clambering down the temple steps to meet him. "I shall participate as well!"
"You should get going if your going to go" Botan chided from her spot at the temple steps. "But don't get to crazy okay, we can't have you boys out of commission."
"Don't worry I'll make sure Urameshi will drink responsibly!" Kuwabara announced throwing his arm around Yusuke's neck. Hiei gave a grunt taking a spot besides Kurama,
"Oh so this means you want to join us?" Kurama teased only to get a dark glare in return.
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