Insert Numerous Disclaimers.

"Isn't the fair wonderful, Kazuma-san?" Yukina asked.

"Hai, Yukina-san!" Kuwabara said enthusiastically.

"Wasn't it so nice of Anne to get us tickets?"

"Hai, Yukina-san!"

"What is the point of this stupid place anyway?" Hiei growled.

Kurama sighed and prepared to explain the whole thing for the millionth time. "The Renaissance Pleasure Fair is supposed to recreate the atmosphere of a sixteenth century market in England."

"Nani?" said Yusuke. "Ya mean this is supposed to be educational?! That's it, I'm outta here!" However, before he could fulfill that last statement, Keiko grabbed his arm.

"You're not going anywhere!" she growled. (Once again, what is up with Annabelle and the word 'growled'?)

"This is stupid" Hiei muttered.

"Hi there, no da!" Jean's voice cut through the crowd. She ran to them dressed in clothes like Chichiri's and her new kasa. (And what a kasa!) Behind her were Anne and Mary. Mary was dressed in a grey Irish dress with a piece of cloth tied around her head. (It's called a kirch!) Anne was wearing a blue bodice and a brown skirt. Her long brown hair had been braided and her head was covered with a bonnet-like thingie.

"Wow, Mary," Yuskue said, staring at her chest. "Put those things away!" Kieko smacked him. Mary just looked down at her bosom, which had been pushed up by the drew she was wearing, then smiled at Yusuke.

"Welcome to the Renessaince Pleasure Fair," Anne said. "I know where just about everything is, so what do you want to see first?"

"The Maypole!" Yukina said.

"The giant swings!" Keiko cried

"The sword fights!" Kuwabara moaned.

"The girls with big hooters in English bodices!" Yusuke yelled looking over at Mary, whom was only wearing an Irish bodice, which covers up far more than the English bodices.

"Yusuke no baka!" Keiko yelled, and smacked him as hard as she could.

Yusuke yelped as he toppled towards the lake. However, just before he fell in, Anne and Mary lunged and grabbed him, hauling him to safety. "You be careful," Mary said in her bad immitation of an Irish, Scottish and English accent all rolled into one. (Anne finally didn't make Mary say no da! after every sentence. Victory, Glory, Triumph! Anne: Hey! That's my line! Mary: Ahh!) "Who knows what evil lurks at the bottom of the lake."

"What's so bad about the lake?" Yukina asked.

"Let's just say, the water is green for a reason," Anne said, "I would hate to see that reason all over you."

"Now as you all know," said the man on stage announcing the dances for the Clan MacColin Dance show, "Irish dancing is a contact sport. Now we will be sending our folk among you to beat you up and steal your goods in the guise of a dance."

While he was talking, Anne, Mary and several of the other dancers hopped off the stage and headed towards the group on the hay bales. Anne murmered to her fellow dancers, and a large group of them headed over to where Yusuke, Keiko, Kurama, Jean, Hiei, Yukina and Kuwabara were sitting.

"Would you like to dance?" a small dancer in a green Irish dress asked Yukina.

"I'd love to!" Yukina said.

Anne had grabbed Jean, and the other dancers were picking partners out of the group as well. Hiei growled at the tall dancer in the blue Irish dress in front of him. She backed off, casting a doubtful glance at Anne.

Anne walked over to Hiei. "I will have you know," she growled in his ear, " that all the dancers in the show are personal friends of mine! If you harm Corina or any of them, I will be forced to hurt you!"

""I'd love to see you try!" Hiei snarled back. Never the less, he submitted and let Corina lead him through the dance.

Things went okay, until the set where Kuwabara and Hieie were across from each other. As they changed places, Kuwabara, being the klutz that he is, stepped on Hiei's feet. (idiot)

"Argh!" Hiei yelled. "You stupid KLUTZ!!!" An all of a sudden, black flames sprang up around him. (Annabelle's note: Of course, Hiei wouldn't really call Kuwabara a klutz, he'd call him something worse, but the language has been toned down for the purpose of this fic.)

Anne and Jean, seeing a potentially dangerous situation, ran over to where Mary, who'd paired up with Kuwabara, (Why Not Yusuke, and after that comment I was sure that I'd have...) was trying to drag a rather confussed Corina out of the set. Jean whacked both Hiei and Kuwabara with her staff.

"Knock it off, both of you!" Anne yelled.

Hiei could hardly kill Kuwabara in the middle of a dance set with three Weird Seishi there to restrain him (especially Mary). He settled for glaring at Kuwabara and growling, "You will pay for this!"

Thankfully, the dance ended then. As the Urameshi team headed back to their seats, Mandy appeared. "Ha ha!" she said (but wait, there's more!). "I managed to get out of the stupid audience participation dance!"

"Never mind that," Anne said. Then an evil gleam appeared in here eye as she said, "I'll get you again second show."

"What do you think of our new garlands?" Keiko asked as she and Yukina showed them off to the rest of the group.

"You look lovely, Yukina-san!" Kuwabara replied.

Yukina yelped suddenly as a young boy bunped into her. A girl with red hair in a green dress was running after him, yelling, "Come back here, you brat!" Yukina stumbled from the impact and her garland fell off.

"Hey, cool, a garland," the boy said as he picked it up.

"Give my that!" the girl hotly demanded. "It's not yours!"

The boy grinned at her, then prepaired to hurl the garland out over the lake.

"No, Christopher!" Anne, Mary and the strange girl all yelled, but it was too late. The garland sailed up over the lake and caught on a pole across the lake from which a tight rope extended.

Hiei quickly glanced back at his sister, who was still confused by the speed at which all these events had occured. "Don't worry Yukina-san," Kuwabara said, "I'll get it for you." But before he could move, Hiei made a nimble leap on top of the pole, and the next moment he was walking the tightrope over the lake.

"Hey, be careful!" the girl who was chasing Christopher yelled at him. Hiei ignored her. He was accustomed to spending his time in trees and other high places where balance is essential, and he had no problem walking the tightrope. He reached the other side, grabbed Yukina's garland, then calmly walked back across and leaped down to the ground where Yukina was standing.

"Oh, thank you Hiei-san!" Yukina said as he handed her her garland, amidst applause from onlookers.

"Why did he have to get it?" Kuwabara grumbled.

"Hn. After your screw-up in the dance earlier, you couldn't have gotten halfway across without falling in that lake." Hiei said.

"Oh yes I could!" Kuwabara yelled.

Hiei smirked at him. "I'd love to see you try."

And with that, he climbed the pole and stepped out onto the rope.

"Kuwabara, you idiot, get back down here!" Anne yelled.

Hiei wouldn't slip, but Kuwabara had the grace of an elephant, and she didn't even want to think of what would happen if he fell.

"I can make it worth your while." Mary said trying to sound innocent.

However, Anne was to worried about Kuwabara falling into the lake to notice the meaning of Mary's comment.

Kuwabara didn't listen to either of them. <That baka> he thought. <I'll prove him wrong if it's the last thing I do!>

It was at about this point that Yusuke made a discovery. "Hey, cool! Black powder!"

"Leave that alon! It's for the gunners!" Anne was feeling more than a little haried (i have no idea what that word is...) by trying to keep order.

It wasn't working either. Yusuke had pored a bit of the black powder on the ground. "They say black powder explodes when lit," he said, producing a lighter. (Keiko: Hey, where'd he get the lighter from? Rapunzel: From Mary. Keiko: Why did she give it to him?! She's trusting Yusuke with fire?! HAS SHE GONE COMPLETELY INSANE?!?! Rapunzel: She had it conveniently in her bodice. Don't ask. Besides, it's essential to the story line. Keiko: We're doomed, I tells ya, DOOMED!) Yusuke prepaired to light the pile on fire. "We'll just have to see if that's true. In the name of science!" he yelled before touching the flame to the powder.

"More like in the name of Pyromania," Mandy added before the powder exploded with a BOOM!!

Out on the tightrope, Kuwabara jumped at the sudden noise. He came down again only to find that the rope was no longer beneath his feet. With a yell, he plunged head first into the lake. (Poor guy, just glad that it wasn't me!)

With a scream, Yukina ran over to the edge of the lake. Hiei grabbed her arm to make sure she wouldn't try jumping in the water to get him. She didn't; she simply stood on the shoreline calling, "Kuwabara-san?!"

Suddenly, the water next to her began to bubble. With a splash, something large and green jumped out of the water and landed next to the group. It looked like something that could have starred in The Blob. "Kazuma-san" Yukina asked in a trembling voice, "is that you?"

The blob turned to look at her. It made a gurgling noise that sounded like "Yukina?" Then it began to hop around, gurgling "Yukina!Yukina!Yukina!" What looked like tenticles made out of seaweed waved around it.

Yukina fainted.

Groaning slightly, (We all know what Mary is thinking, right?) Yukina opened her eyes. The first face she saw above her was Hiei's. She thought he looked worried, but the expression vanished almost immediatly.

"Hiei-san, I had the most horrible nightmare," she said.

"Hn."

"I dreamed tha Kuwabara fell into a green lake and turned into some horrible seaweed moster."

"Algae, actually," Anne said, "seaweed doesn't grow in fresh water lakes."

"Thank you, Ms. Scientist," Hiei growled sarcastically.

"Yukina looked sad. "It wasn't a dream was it?" she asked.

Anne and Hiei both shook their heads. "Nope, it wasn't. I always knew it was dangerous to touch the lake water," Anne said. "Now it's turned Kuwabara into some kind of monster."

Sitting up, Yukina looked around her. She was sitting on a bench in the shad of Celt Camp. She saw Yusuke, Keiko, Kurama and Jean sitting on some near by hay bales, Mandy and Mary were wandering around camp; Mary flirting with almost (Anne crossed that 'almost' out, but only Mary knows the truth!) every man in a kilt and Mandy just looking around. But she didn't see Kuwabara.

Suddenly, he popped up in front of her gurgling, "Yukina?" She shrieked in surprise and nearly fell off the hay bale.

Refrainning from actually touching Kuwabara the Blob, lest he turn into a blob as well, Hiei grabbed a near by stick and whacked Kuwabara so hard that he went sailing out of the camp. "Beat it! You're scaring her!" he snarled.

Yukina looked up at the hill where Kuwabara had landed with a thump that could have fractured bones. "Isn't there anyway to change him back to normal?" she asked tearfully.

Inwardly, Hiei flinched. In another moment she was going to cry, and if there was one thing he hated more than Kuwabara, it was seeing his sister in tears. In despiration, he turned to the person who was, in fact, the least likly to help him. "Mandy, you always claim you're smart. Can't you think of some way to change that idiot back to normal?!"

"Why should I?" Mandy queried. (I love that word!) "And what do mean I 'claim' to be smart?! I am smart! CARROT..."

"Mandy!" Anne yelled, "You're not helping! Stop it!" she (foolishly) tried to stop her friend. She failed.

"BALL!!" THOIP

Hiei cautiously opened his eyes. He wasn't a carrot! He couldn't believe it! But why...? His brain didn't even bother to complete the question when he looked up and saw a carrot with limbs, cat ears and a cat tail.

"Mandy,"Anne said quietly, "you'll pay for this later." She turned to Hiei and added, "You owe me big for this."

Hiei snorted, "I don't owe you a thing."

"Now, about changing Kuwabara from The green slime covered thing back to himself," Jean interjected trying to change the subject. "I could try fire balling him to burn it off,"

Hiei's face lit up with an evil smile. "Try it,"he said. "I'll help you."

Hearing this, Kuwabara tried to start running, but Jean and Hiei caught up to him. "FIREBALL!!" Jean yelled as she and Hiei released flames at him.

When the smoke cleared, Kuwabara was still an algae-covered blob. A bit of the green stuff had been singed, but other than that, the fire ball had had no effect. "Damn, it didn't work!" Jean muttered.

Anne sighed. "I didn'think it would. Does anyone have my bleach?"

"No, but I can liberate some!" Mary was obviously just looking for a chance to steal something. There was a streak of grey as Mary used her super speed to run off, the a moment later, another streak returned, bottle of bleach in hand. Anne took the bleach from her and the the group behing the kitchen. The she started to douse Kuwabara with the bleach.

" 'Tis time to rest your weary voices, Put your wares away. Good buyers make your final choices, Just at the end of the day."

"Oh, Fred," Anne muttered. "That's closing parade, and we're still not done." Maybe they weren't done, but they had made progress. The bleach had killed some of the algae, and at least they could sort of see Kuwabara through the green muck.

"This would go faster if we used the showers up in tent city," Mary suggested.

"Number one, a pass is required to get up to tent city, Number two, there are things in those showers that would only make our problem worse." Anne pointed out.

Sighing, Mary, Anne, Yukina, Kurama and Jean put on the rubber gloves they had borrowed from the candle making booth and went to work on attacking Kuwabara with the bleach and hot water. All of the men, aside from Kurama, had argued that washing was a woman's work, and Anne was unwilling to draft any of the women in the camp to do the dirty work, so it was just them. One again, Mandy had managed to get away before Anne could draft her.

Finally, about half and hour later...

"Finished," Kurama said to a red faced and rather embarrassed Kuwabara. (Double pun, em barr assed, Gillan would have my head for that pun!)

"Did you have to clean my up this much?" the latter asked.

"Don't worry," Jean said as she bundled up Kuwabara's clothes, "We aren't looking."

"There are some things we don't need nor want to see." Anne added.

"I beg to differ!" A blindfolded Mary said, struggling against Anne and Jean who were hold her arms to restrain her.

"Ano," Kuwabara said through chattering teeth, "What am I going to wear while you guys are busy washing my clothes?"

"Hm, that is a slight problem," Anne mused. "We don't have any spare clothes that would fit you. On the other hand, since this is just temporary..." Suddenly, her face brightened. "I know, you could wear a kilt!"

"Me, Kuwabara Kazuma the man, wearing a skirt?!" Kuwabara was truely horrified by the suggestion.

"You don't have to wear it like a skirt, just wrap up in it," Anne said. "Hold on a minute" She nodded to Jean to let Mary go. Mary, having excellent listening skills, knew what had to be done. She ran up to a youth with black hair, braided back. He gave her an enormous pile of wool. She hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Mary rushed back behind the kitchen only to be blindfolded again. Kurama took the kilt out of Mary's flailing arms and stuck a relativly clean sock in her swearing mouth.

"Just wrap up in it, "Anne repeated.

"NO WAY!!!!"

"I'm taking the blindfold off of Mary in 5 seconds." Jean said, "And if you don't want her to see anything..."

"Hey, you can't do that!" Kuwabara yelled.

"Au contriare," Anne said.

"TAKE OFF THE BLOODY BLINDFOLD!!!!!!!!" Mary screamed.

"I'm wrapping up, I'm wrapping up, I'm wrapped up!" Kuwabara said.

Jean turned around to make sure he was before taking the blindfold off of Mary and Yukina. (Annabelle's Note: Yukina, of course, would have had the decency to not look even without the blindfold, but Hiei insisted that she wear one.) "Great," Jean said, "Kuwabara's clean, so now we can go and get dinner."

After the group had eaten dinner, they played go fish, since it was only card game everyone knew how to play. Anne insisted that they stay in camp, since she and Mary were that only ones in the group with passes. Hiei had declined to play cards, and was sitting on the fence. Suddenly, he flitted over next to Anne and asked, "You know just about everything that goes on in this faire, right?"

Anne blinked in surprise at the sudden question, "Well, no, not quite. But I do knowa lot of what goes on."

"Then do you know what those are?" Hiei pointed over the fence to where two men were walking. They had on brightly colored striped tights that were pulled up over their shoulders so it looked like they had no arms. They wore odd hats that clashed with their tights.

"Oh," Anne said, "those are Vo-Veeps."

"What!?" everyone else exclaimed, except Mary who said "COOL! Now here comes the fun!" She also had an evil gleam in her eye.

"Vo-Veeps. They are characters in a Dr. Seuss story. They have no arms, only legs, and they wear odd hats. Sometimes the Germans pull their tights up over their shoulders and play Vo-Veeps. However, the Vo-Veeps they represent aren't innocents." Anne stopped a second to check what Mary was up to. "They like to rub up against women and purr and run around yelling 'Veep!" At that moment, Anne saw Mary pick Kurama up and place him directly next to the Vo-Veeps without being spotted.

The Vo-Veeps turned around and said "Veep! Veep!" When they got close enough to Kurama, they started to rub up against him and purr.

"Wait a sec..." he started to say, "I'm not a girl! I'm a guy! Really I am!" And with that he began to run. Both ran after Kurama yelling "Veep! Veep!".

Meanwhile, back at the table where everyone was watching Kurama's plight, Hiei and Jean were the only two not laughing. Hiei kept a straight face, while Jean was livid.

"How dare you!!" Jean yelled, "SILVER DRAGON WAVE!" However, she couldn't incinerate the Vo-Veeps wtihout burning Kurama to crisp as well.

"Look at him!" Mary managed to gasp between her laughter. "He could run the 440 in record time with a Vo-Veep behind him." Luckily only Anne and Hiei knew what Mary had done.

"Help me!" Kurama cried as he circled around the camp for the third time. The others only laughed harder.

"It's. Not. Funny!" Jean shrieked with rage. She ran over and grabbed one of the Vo-Veeps, trying to pull his tights off his shoulders.

"Veep!" the Vo-Veep cried as it ran away from her.

"Hey, Jean!" Mary called. "What use your hands when there's a weapons rack right there?" She pointed not more than ten feet from where Jean stood.

An evil gleam lit up in Jean's eye. She walked calmly over to the weapons rack.

Now, the people playing Vo-Veeps are not necessarily intellegent. In fact, an argument could be made that if they're running around in nothing but tights and a hat on that they are downright idiotic. However, even a Vo-Veep can figure out that it's in trouble when there's a woman standing there looking at it with a gleam in her eye and an axe in her hand.

"I'll get you!!" Jean yelled as she chased the fleeing Vo-Veeps.

"Hey, come back with my axe!" Dan yelled.

Kurama took one look at the running Vo-Veeps, Jean chasing them and Dan chasing after Jean. This was too much. He collapsed panting on the ground amidst more laughter from his friends. What a Day!

Mary: HA! I'm finally done typing up your fic Rapunzel! And it only took me 3 hours!

Rapunzel: You messed up my fic!

Mary: Did not!

Rapunzel: Did to! You totally altered it. You put yourself in more!!!!

Mary: I did, oh, what a surprise. But it was funny...hee hee.

Rapunzel: Well, sort of. You wanna know something Mary?

Mary: What?

Rapunzel: You are evil.

Mary: Isn't it truely wonderful.

Rapunzel: Yes, it is <giggles>

Jean, Kurama, Kuwabara, Vo-Veeps come in: NO IT WASN'T!!!!!

Mary/Rapunzel: <Sweatdrop>