Chapter 9: over the night and into a new day

It was already midnight and still none of the boys, with the exception of Kuwabara, could get to sleep especially not with the mental image that Yusuke had forever burned into their minds.

Yusuke: My God, I'm sooooooo bored!

The others just glared at the dark haired boy lying on the floor, he'd been going on about boredom for about an hour now and it was growing rather irritating. It was kind of sad how bored they all actually were though; about thirty minutes ago they had gone to bother the girls as a means of entertainment. Needless to say, there was a lot of yelling and a few of the boys had even been captured and 'punished'…..Those few would most likely never speak of that moment again. Now they were exactly back where they had begun.

Kurama: How about we play a board game?

The room went utterly silent; obviously he had their attention, even Hiei and Sesshomaru glanced up from where they were plotting..err, talking.

Inu Yasha: -whispering to Miroku- What's a board game?

Miroku: -shrug-

Yusuke: Do we even have any games here?

Kurama: I remember seeing a few on the shelf in the living room. There should be at least one good one.

Yusuke: I guess it'll be interesting, if no one objects. –quickly scans the faces of the others-

Finding no objections Kurama left to get the games while Yusuke filled Inu Yasha and Miroku in on what a board game is; Hiei explaining to Sesshomaru about the foolish entertainment of the humans and board games, though he still saw as a way to play mind games with and dominate the others. After about five minutes the red-head returned with an armful of games.

Miroku: So, which one are we playing?

Immediately everyone's eyes went to Clue, mostly because it had murder weapons on the cover.

(thirty minutes into the game)

Inu Yasha: I say Mrs. White did it in the library with a candlestick!

Miroku: What a lonely woman!

And for the hundredth time or so Miroku was thrown into a fit of laughter, teaching us that perverts should not be allowed to play Clue.

Yusuke: Okay, I quit already. That's just getting annoying.

After watching Inu Yasha hit the young monk over the hit everyone decided to play a new game. Digging through all the games they somehow landed on the decision of Candy Land, which Hiei soon after preceded to burn because of the overly cute board. Starting the process of choosing a game all over again they picked Life, which Sesshomaru bluntly refused to play saying that he didn't even want to be involved in a game that forced him to be a human.

It hadn't even gotten that far into the game before everyone had already gotten mad because Kurama had gotten the job as the doctor and everyone kept having to pay him insanely large amounts of money. There was also the fact that Hiei had already melted two of the little vans and his little blue guy, and he was now eyeing the spinner.

Before anything got any worse they put the game up made Kurama choose the next. Kurama stared at the games, there were only two left: Monopoly and Bonkers. Though refused both; the last they had played Monopoly Yusuke had gotten mad and thrown the board and as for Bonkers Kurama didn't even want to see how infuriating that game would be for everyone.

Kurama: It seems that we're out of options.

Everyone stared; boredom was not something to look forward to again. However, a strange moaning sound broke their eerie silence.

Sesshomaru: I'm sure that I don't even want to know what that was.

Hiei: Well, it wasn't the oaf it seems he's already snoring. –looking disgustedly at the carrot top-

To their unease the sound came again, though a little louder this time.

Miroku: I think it came from Charles's, or whatever his name is, room.

Yusuke: -a little freaked out- Do we even want to know what he's doing in there.

Inu Yasha: Doubtfully…

Hiei: Humans are utterly disgusting.

Kurama: -looking around uncertainly- Maybe he's just having a nightmare or something…

Miroku: -slightly smirks- Sure, whatever helps you sleep at night.

Inu Yasha: -looks at Miroku- Pervert…

And so the night went on, no one brave enough to see what the older man was doing in his room and everyone trying to find some sort of way to ignore it and go to sleep.

(7:00 in the morning)

The groggy children woke up to the sound of humming and the smell of eggs and bacon wafting through the apartment. Yawning and stretching both the boys and girls, with the exception of two missing demons, made their way into the kitchen, last night completely forgotten at the sight of a table full of breakfast items and their clearly challenged babysitter standing over the stove with a pan of eggs.

Everyone wearily took their seats at the table, Kagome clearing her throat to get the man's attention.

Charlie: Oh, good morning you little darlings! I made breakfast for everyone, so don't be afraid to help yourselves!

Clearly last night's basket case, better known as Charles, had reverted back to the overly happy Charlie. Everyone stared a while before digging into the food, they couldn't care less as to who the man was before them at this moment, though the boys were still disturbed by the sounds from the night before.

Botan: -looking up from her plate of food- Uhm, Charlie, do you know where Hiei and Sesshomaru are?

The others stared expectantly at the older man, waiting for some sort of outburst at the mentioning of the two demons. However, none came.

Charlie: Oh those two? Why they left for school earlier, hoping to get an early start!

At the sound of Charlie's chipper answer everyone stared quite disbelievingly, though no one said a thing, and once they were finished with breakfast Charlie wished them a wonderful day and they headed out the door.