Narrator: Previously on YuYu…no wait. We are in that cartoon, but the title is…um…secret. Yeah, secret! Where Sally Sue has organized the Cartoon Cops Dating Service sending Kurama and Raven out thinking they are working for the Division of Spies. Currently they have made their way into the Tower of Terror and survived friendly memories of traumatic childhoods and located Hiei. For a brief moment, one could see them starting to like each other, but that was short lived when Raven left to rescue Hiei…only to leave Kurama in a trap!
*Title “Into the Pits” sparkles onto the screen with the music*
Raven: *gasp* No!
Hiei: What were you thinking leaving him by himself?
Raven: He’s keeping watch while I come down to free you. Or at least that is what I thought.
Hiei: Hn. Don’t get your scrolls in a bunch. Maybe he is all right. But this is the Tower of Terror; being alone makes an easy target for him.
Raven: For who?
Hiei: The leader gathering all the demons into here. But don’t you think questions would be more appropriate after we get out of here?
Raven: Right. *The bubble surrounding Raven and Hiei ascend up, through the ceiling, and into the hall where Kurama was but now he is nowhere to be seen* He’s gone.
Hiei: There is no sign of where they came from or where they took him.
Raven: There isn’t even a sign of a struggle. Perhaps he went somewhere and will be back soon.
Hiei: You should have brought him down with you. Now I have to bother to rescue him from this place of madness.
Raven: *hiding worry* There is no sense in getting angry about this. He is gone we will find him.
Hiei: Hm. I will find him; you will only get in my way. Go home. *closes eye and the Jagan glows through headband*
Raven: I got him into this. I’ll help too. Just try and stop me.
Hiei: *stops using Jagan and starts walking* Suit yourself if you have a death wish.
*Raven follows closely behind Hiei around the silent corridors in silence for a long time*
Raven: Although…I have to wonder. Are you the real thing this time?
Hiei: What kind of absurd question is that?
Raven: …Never mind. You haven’t by chance seen an orange blob around this tower have you?
Hiei: Is that why you and Kurama came here?
Raven: We were sent on a mission to find a creature called Ditz. *pause* We saw him once, but he got away. He was disguised as you and even Kurama couldn’t tell he was a fake until after *still straight voice but turns head and blushes* calling me Kurama’s girlfriend, *face back to normal* saying something weird was happening here, and *faces forward again* falling in love with ice cream.
Hiei: Hn. Ice cream. Worthless stuff. That would have been a dead give away it wasn’t really me.
Raven: He seemed real enough until he started morphing back into his own self.
Hiei: Hn. So, is it true?
Raven: What?
Hiei: *Jagan twinkles at catching her averted blush* Are you Kurama’s girlfriend now?
Raven: *Really blushing now* um, I…don’t know.
Hiei: Look. Either you are or you aren’t. If so, it is only a matter of time before he erases your memory.
Raven: You lie! Why would he do that?
Hiei: He says it is a protection from his enemies. And I don’t lie. I’ve seen him do it before.
Raven: And does he erase his own memories as well?
Hiei: Don’t be ridiculous.
Raven: Then I don’t see the point. If he still likes someone, his enemies could go after them whether they know about it or not.
Hiei: *smirk* Well you better let him know that before he uses the Dream Flower Pollen.
Raven: And what about you? Do you erase the memories of all your girlfriends too?
Hiei: *turns and gives a sinister smile* I don’t have ‘girlfriends’. *continues walking*
Raven: *stands and stares while stating flatly* Probably because you’re jerk.
*After a moment Raven continues to follow the progressing Hiei in silence.*
Botan voiceover: Even though Raven desired to ask Hiei more about the man, demon, alien, or whoever was behind the operation, her mind was now filled with what she knew so far about Kurama and what Hiei had just revealed. *Botan appears on the screen* She wanted to ask for a meditation stop, but knew that Hiei would not honor it like Kurama did. *Hiei-headed bats pop out behind Botan* Ewu x-x
IN SOME DARK ROOM OF THE CASTLE
*Kurama is strapped to a slanted table facing a monitor following Hiei and Raven’s actions. A pair of sinister eyes gleam from behind him in the shadows*
Sinister Voice: Isn’t that sweet? I think he is trying to steal your girl. But then, you don’t really care about her do you? …Or do you? *small sinister laugh* At least they both care enough about you to come save you. But then again, the labyrinth of this Tower can mess up even Hiei’s Jagan! *medium sinister laugh* Labyrinth, ah, that is a good idea. Let us help Hiei in his little cause shall we? Help him in his courtship? *big sinister laugh*
BACK WITH HIEI AND RAVEN
*The room starts to shake and random rocks start falling even though they leave no holes in the ceiling or debris on the ground. Hiei and Raven attempt to keep their footing but the room tilts sending Raven falling onto Hiei who looses his footing and they fall down a hole. They fall and fall and hear music.*
David Bowie: You remind me of the Babe! {What babe?} The babe with the power! {What power?} The power of VooDoo! {Who-doo?} You do! {Do what?} Remind me of the babe. *singing* I saw my baby, crying hard as babes could cry. What could I do? My baby’s love had gone. And left my baby blu-ue nOOOObody knew.
*A light appears below them and they quickly fall through it out of a side of a cliff. As they continue down, Hiei grabs a jutting rock to stop their descent. Now hanging, Raven opens her eyes to find her arms braced against Hiei’s chest, holding onto his collar and his free arm around her waist.*
Raven: Where are we?
Hiei: In another one of the Tower’s traps.
Raven: I thought there was strength in numbers.
Hiei: Apparently this was a trap built for two.
Raven: It shouldn’t be too hard to get out of. Azarath Metrion Zinthos! *nothing happens* hm, My magic won’t work here. Not even to manipulate the air.
Hiei: No wonder. This place isn’t even animated. *starts swinging* Grab that ledge.
*Raven reaches out and catches the nearby ledge and pulls herself onto it. Hiei swings back to grab it himself and pulls himself up. They now take the opportunity to observe their surroundings. But the ledge they are standing on breaks off and they ride the slab until it hits the ground, close to a black pit of what looks like tar with sounds of a whoopee cushion army at a banquet emerging from its bubbles. Quickly they both plug their noses*
Raven: What is that horrible smell?
Hiei: I think it is coming from this bog.
*A deep resonating scream is heard overhead. A big fur ball lands on top of Hiei*
Furball: Awwww.
Raven: Where did you come from?
Furball: Ludo fell.
Raven: Nice…Where did Hiei go?
*Raven notices Hiei’s legs protruding from behind where Ludo sits, kicking wildly while a muffled “getoffofme” can be heard. Raven pulls on Ludo’s arm so he stands up and frees Hiei.*
Hiei: My demon powers and strength don’t work here either.
Ludo: Smeeeeellllll baaaaaaaad.
Hiei: Thanks for stating the obvious. I think we found Kuwabara’s counter for this place.
Raven: Heh. And I was thinking it was Beast Boy’s cousin.
Ludo: Smeeeeeeeellllllllllll baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Outside of their beloved world of cartoons yet still inside the Tower of Terror that is inside the YYH cartoon Raven and Hiei are threatened by a stinky bog from a movie that does not have a “to be continued/next time” segment to designate the cliché ending of this section of the date that is no longer a date since the date-ees have been separated. Can Raven and Hiei avoid the eternal stench? Will Raven be reunited with Kurama or will Hiei’s woo-less woos un-charmingly charm her? And who on earth was that Sinister Voice with the sinister eyes and the sinister laughs?
