4poorasdirt: Okay this is a rather strange drabble fic. Basically I found this random word generator online and got a few randomly generated words. I took a concept and ran with it.
There will be crossovers!
IMPORTANT: Also if you happen to see an element or two from other fanfics in this. It's NOT because I blatantly ripped them off. I respect every writer on this site and admire what each and everyone of us writers are doing. Take it as a high form of flattery that their ideas and concepts have lodged themselves in my mind enough that they spew forth into this. NOTE: If you are an originator of a concept or idea that wishes I remove them from this please contact me and I shall do so immediately!
That said, this is basically a random test of my creativity. It started as a vague idea and with one word I have tried to give it direction.
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Alcoholic
"I'm telling you he is. It's the funniest thing ever."
"I still don't believe you."
"Now Karasu, you have to take into account that it wouldn't take that long, especially with how much body mass he has."
Keiko raised an eyebrow as she stood still. She had paused in her attempt to sort through her mail on the way to the kitchen. Really it was a letter addressed to her from her aunt that had made her pause. Otherwise she wouldn't have bothered with what the three youkai living with her were up to.
Slowly her brown eyes took in the scene in front of her. Bui was sitting in the large recliner she got so he had a comfortable seat in the living room. Karasu was lounging on the couch, looking like some over grown cat. The third and final youkai, Kuronue, was sprawled out in a rather undignified position on the loveseat.
Judging from the bowl of popcorn cornels and empty glasses on the table, she figured they had sat down to watch a movie. She didn't mind since it was one of the least destructive things they've done in a while, ever since Yusuke and his friends found out who exactly her roommates were. The distinct lack of a certain red haired fox meant the chances of a brawl in the living room were fairly low as well. So like they had done a few months ago, the three youkai obviously helped themselves to her rather extensive collection of movies.
"Well yea, the guy was almost seven foot, but not exactly bulky." Kuronue said thoughtfully as he tapped a claw against his chin.
"Yet he was a master thief. Somehow I doubt you two had only a few parties. It would have built up his tolerance." Karasu said dully his eyes on Kuronue.
"He does have a point there, especially with how old he is." Bui said with a sigh before turning to Kuronue. "How do you explain that?"
"While I admit he did gain more tolerance over time, it wasn't much." Kuronue said with a chuckle.
"Probably because he didn't drink past his limit very often, Kurama doesn't strike me as the type." Keiko said easily putting the pieces of the conversation together. It helped that she spotted the case of Beerfest sitting on the table. She mentally smirked when all three youkai jumped.
"Well there is that." Kuronue said after the three recovered. "When did you get there, Keiko-chan?"
"Around the time of, 'I'm telling you he is'." Keiko said slipping the envelope of her aunt's letter back into the stack in her hand. "Do I want to know why you three are discussing Kurama's tolerance to alcohol?"
"We were watching this movie. Kuronue said Kurama would be under the table five minutes in with how much alcohol they were drinking." Bui said motioning to the case on the table.
"Ah," Keiko said before turning to Kuronue with a raised eyebrow. "He'd really be under the table?"
"Oh yes, the guy is a great thief but a cheap date. He usually would only have one bottle of sake while we partied. Otherwise he made sure things didn't get too rowdy. It took only a little more to get him completely wasted." Kuronue said with a grin.
"Do you think he'd last against you Keiko-san?" Karasu said a smirk in his voice making Keiko roll her eyes.
"No, he'd probably be suffering from alcohol poisoning by the time I got drunk." Keiko said with a sigh as she went to put down the mail.
"Now that, I doubt." Kuronue said with a snort.
"It's true. If you want you can talk to Shizuru and Atsuko about it, they've only seen me get drunk once. All the other times they hadn't staid sober or conscious enough to keep me drinking." Keiko said as she walked back into the living room.
"Once? But they can both out drink almost every one of Kurama's friends." Kuronue said in awe as she rolled her eyes.
"Yes, once, mostly because by the time Atsuko was passing out Shizuru showed up with more vodka." Keiko said with a sigh as she pushed Kuronue's legs off of the loveseat enough for her to sit down.
"You were drinking vodka?" Bui said his eyebrows shooting up in surprise.
"Vodka, tequila, whiskey, and a few beers, but Atsuko and Shizuru drank most of the beers. They both get hangovers if they drink hard liquor." Keiko said with a shrug getting a whistle from Karasu.
"I'd never peg you as the type to have such a high tolerance to alcohol." Karasu said eyeing her curiously.
"Alcoholism runs in my mother's side of the family, she used to joke that I was born with a shot of vodka in my blood. It doesn't help that whenever we had a family reunion, my uncle would spike all the drinks." Keiko said rubbing the bridge of her nose. "I'm kind of glad I'm no longer obligated to go to those. I really don't want to see my grandmother stripping because she got too drunk."
"Yea, that would be traumatizing." Kuronue said with a chuckle.
"You have no idea." Keiko said giving Kuronue a dry look.
"But back to the topic at hand," Karasu said drawing attention to him. "How can you prove he doesn't have a high tolerance to alcohol?"
"Well that's easy," Keiko said with a grin. "We can get him drunk!"
"That won't be easy." Kuronue said with a snort. "He's pretty stingy when it comes to anything remotely alcoholic. If he so much as smells a whiff of it he gets all suspicious."
"And why would that be?" Bui said eyeing Kuronue curiously. The bat gave a shaky laugh as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Well, I used to try to spike his drinks. So, if I'm anywhere near he always checks to make sure his drinks are clean." Kuronue said making Keiko tilt her head.
"Then we'll just have to outfox the fox." Keiko said a calculating gleam entering her eyes. The three males shifted slightly as they shared nervous looks. They didn't like that gleam in her eyes, it always spelled trouble.
A few days later found Keiko sitting on the porch of Genkai's temple. A smirk was playing on her lips as she peered over the rim of her tea cup. Oh, Kurama had indeed been a little suspicious with Kuronue around, but it wasn't the bat the fox had to worry about.
Her eyes slid over to the others within the temple. Already the ones with a low tolerance were showing the effects of the alcohol she slipped into the tea. It was tricky to slip sake into warm tea after all, but she learned her mother's tricks well. Now everyone drinking tea in the temple was slowly and surely falling under the spell of the alcohol.
Kurama, Genkai, Yukina, Botan, and she had been drinking tea for a while now. Enough for Botan to be less bubbly and more sedate, Yukina was giggling over nothing, and Genkai was contently smiling into her cup. Kurama on the other hand was flushed and his speech was a little bit slurred. The greatest thing was only Karasu, Kuronue, and Bui were aware anything was different with the tea.
By the time the others had started drinking the tea, Keiko was practically grinning. Of course it would be at that moment Shizuru would shoot her a knowing look. Keiko simply winked at the older woman a smirk not quite leaving her lips. The fact that Shizuru started to chuckle seemed to be missed by all those present, except for Keiko.
"Kurama, are you okay? You look a little," Shizuru said but paused to think, "drunk."
"I'm fine." Kurama slurred slightly catching the attention of Yusuke.
The spirit detective blinked a few times, but even he was starting to feel slightly tipsy. His brow furrowed before he looked down into his tea cup like it had all the answers in the universe. Suddenly he snorted and looked up with a grin.
"Hey guys, let's have a few drinks!" Yusuke said jumping up to raid the kitchen for Genkai's stash of alcohol.
It didn't take long after that for Kurama to be extremely wasted. The sight of the drunken fox was so hilarious it brought Yukina to tears just from laughter. Even Hiei got a good laugh out of the whole event. In the meantime Keiko simply sat off to the side, though she changed locations to be next to Bui, calmly drinking tea with a content smile on her face.
"What do you know? He was right." Keiko said to the blue haired youkai by her side who snorted.
"He'll want an explanation when we get home you know." Bui said as he took a sip of sake.
"Yes, but it's a trade secret." Keiko said with a smirk. In the end Kuronue didn't find out how she pulled it off. But everyone did get a laugh when Kurama showed up suffering from a major hangover the next day. The fox swore vengeance on the person responsible. The trio of demons also swore never to tell the fox just who outfoxed him.
YAY! So it begins. Please tell me what you think and bare in mind things may change direction when you least expect it.
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