Yoshiko: Hey there my loyal YYH readers! This would be my 4th Yu Yu Hakusho story. This one is an alternate universe type of thing. Which I think is cool (and unusual for my fics I think) because it's funny to imagine what life would have been like if none of them had met, weren't demons, and went to high school together. Plus, this fic is more serious than my previous YYH stories and focuses mainly on the romantic relationship of Hiei and Kurama. Beware anti-shounen ai people, you have been warned. So I hope you all enjoy it. Hiei, be a dear and say the disclaimer for me!
Hiei: Yoshiko doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho and we're lucky she doesn't because everything would be screwed up.
Yoshiko: Nicely put!
Fiery RosesChapter One: A new year, a new high school
The bad thing about being a freshman in high school is that to others you are fresh meat for the grinder. Not only that, but everyone is taller than you. Plus it doesn't help that our friend Hiei is short anyways. Yeah, he's the shortest goddamn freshman in the whole damn school! Not only that, but his day just wasn't off to a good start…
Most people were now heading to first period. Hiei's locker just happened to be on the opposite end of the school from first hour. Not that it really bothered him because he was the fastest person he knew. If there was one thing that was nice about high school (American public high schools anyway) is that there is no uniform or dress code. Hiei enjoyed wearing jeans and a loose black shirt instead of the old and stiff uniform. Up ahead were some lockers with a group of older guys hanging around, looking for mischief.
"Hey looky over there! That guy's puny! He'd have plenty of room to move around in if we stuffed him in a locker." One of the tallest sophomores in school pointed and laughed at Hiei, who wished looks could kill… After all, he can give some of the evilest of death glares. The big bloat walked over to him with his lame groupies. "Who are you, shrimp?"
Hiei ignored him for the most part; didn't even look at him but kept walking until he blocked Hiei's path. His blood red eyes met this guy's tiny black ones. "Don't you have any manners you fool? You should do the introducing before asking for someone else's name." Hiei glared.
"Kazuma Kuwabara and don't ya forget it shrimp or I'll pound ya!" Kuwabara cracked his knuckles just to prove his point.
"Hiei…" The spiky black-haired freshman pushed his way past Kuwabara and continued to first hour.
"Hey Kuwabara, I don't think you made a big enough impression on the little guy." One of Kuwabara's flunkies laughed.
"Oh yeah, then I'll just have to make one on his face!" Kuwabara turned Hiei around, grabbing the shirt collar of his black shirt, and pulled back his fist. Hiei immediately dropped his books, letting his right hand dig into his jean pocket so he could pull out something to make Kuwabara pay.
"Put him down right now before I make you regret the very day you were born and hit you so hard and deform your face so much that even your mother will hate you but she probably does anyway." A fast talking pink haired freshman ordered.
"Hiei would probably do the job faster than you could get over there, Jin." Another freshman with blue hair and spiky slightly green bangs laughed.
Kuwabara froze and glared at the other two. Hiei couldn't help but smirk. Touya was right; if Kuwabara had proceeded to hit him, Hiei would have pulled out the lighter in his pocket and burned the idiot's face off.
"Stop staring at us like a mindless fool and put our friend down or we will beat you senseless if there is even any sense left in that little brain of yours." Jin put his hands on his hips.
Kuwabara released his grip and dropped Hiei, who kneeled down and picked up the books he had dropped. With one last smirk at Kuwabara Hiei followed Jin and Touya to wherever first period was.
"I didn't need your help you know." Hiei muttered to Jin and Touya.
"Ah we know but friends stick up for each other, right? Besides, that oaf looked so stupid that he probably wouldn't even notice if his hair was on fire!" Jin laughed.
Touya snickered.
"Pay no mind when I say this but for some reason it's almost as if the air around him is thick with stupidity!" Jin pondered this.
"Like he lives in a constant haze of stupidity?" Hiei questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes! That's it exactly! Where do you come up with this stuff anyway, Hiei?" Jin peered down at him curiously.
Hiei shrugged. Besides it felt as if he had said that to Kuwabara before but that couldn't be possible for he didn't recall ever seeing him before in his entire life.
Leaning against some nearby lockers was a redheaded sophomore, wearing loose khakis and an un-tucked red button up shirt, who had been watching the whole scenario. If need had been, Kurama would've stepped in but he usually didn't like to involve himself with the quarrels of others. Letting out a low sigh Kurama joined his own friend, Yusuke and his girlfriend Keiko.
"Kuwabara picking another fight?" Yusuke asked, already guessing the answer. He draped his arm around Keiko's waist and she shoved his arm away.
"Yes." Kurama answered with no hint of emotion to his voice.
"That guy needs a hobby." Yusuke shook his head.
Keiko grabbed Yusuke's arm and started pulling him to their first class. "Come on, Yusuke! I don't want to get in trouble just because you were loitering in the halls and made me late!"
As Yusuke was dragged away by force, he was yelling, "I don't care if I'm late! Let go of me, Keiko! Kurama, help me!" Kurama couldn't help but chuckle.
When his two friends disappeared from sight, Kurama sighed and began walking up the stairs to his own class. It was a shame that he didn't share the same first hour as Yusuke and Keiko. No, instead he had first hour with…
"Hello Kurama…" Came the cool and calm voice much like his own.
Speak of the devil! Kurama narrowed his eyes at the lean guy with lengthy black hair, leaning against the next flight of stairs. "Karasu, to you I am Shuuichi. You have no right to call me Kurama as if we were well acquainted."
"All right then, Shuuichi. I apologize." Karasu mocked.
"What do you want?" Kurama sighed and quickened his pace; he really wished Karasu would go to hell or drown himself and just leave Kurama alone.
"You know what I want." Karasu laughed lightly while wrapping an arm around Kurama and leaning close to his fair face.
Kurama jerked his face away and pushed Karasu into a wall. The red-head's stubbornness only seemed to make Karasu want him even more. Flinging the classroom door wide open, Kurama stomped into class. Everyone had ceased what they were doing upon his arrival. Students glanced up from their note-taking. The social studies teacher was very displeased at having his lecture interrupted.
"You're late, Shuuichi." The teacher glared. "Karasu…" He added when Karasu entered the room.
"Sorry Mr. Hall. It won't happen again." Kurama reassured and took a vacant seat at the back of the class.
"It was his fault." Karasu teased and pointed towards the enraged Kurama.
"Whatever, just take a seat." Mr. Hall sighed. Mush to the displeasure of Karasu (and to Kurama's relief) the only unoccupied seat available was in the very front of the class.
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"BUT IT'S MY NATURAL COLOR!!!" Jin pleaded.
The three of them had been sent to detention first thing on account of their hair being 'unacceptable'.
"The nerve of you three to come to school like that! And on your very first day, too!" The evil principle named Ms. Goodwin argued with Jin. Touya and Hiei sat there quietly.
"I tell ya it's my natural hair color! You can even look at my roots!!!" Jin jumped up and down like a little kid and shoved his hair into Ms. Goodwin's face to show her, which only pissed her off more. "Ask my mother! Ask Hiei or Touya! Ask their parents! But please don't expel us!!!" Jin got down on his knees and begged.
Hiei and Touya sweat dropped anime style while the principle was taken aback by Jin's desperation.
"Okay, okay! I'll let it slide! Let go of my leg, Jin!" Ms. Goodwin yelled at the boy clinging to her leg for forgiveness. "First Kurama and Yukina… now these three…" She mumbled quietly.
"Whoopee!" Jin released her leg and jumped up and down again. "You won't regret it Ms. G! Thank you! Well we'll be outta your office faster than a tornado ripping a house from its foundations! See ya! Gotta go! Bye bye!" Jin grabbed the other two and raced out of the principle's office.
"Uh… right…" Ms. Goodwin went back to doing paperwork and plotting how she could ruin the lives of her students.
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"How was the social studies from hell?" Yusuke asked when Kurama approached him and Keiko.
"It could have gone better." Kurama responded in a monotone. "Did you enjoy Family Consumer Sciences?"
"Yusuke burnt the pretzels we were cooking!" Keiko grumbled.
"They didn't look done!" Yusuke retorted.
"So your idea of done is crispy and BLACK?!" Keiko shouted.
"It added a UNIQUE flavor to it!" Argued Yusuke. Passerby's started to stop and stare at the violent couple.
"A lover's spat…" Kurama chuckled.
Over the intercom, Ms. Goodwin ordered all freshmen and sophomores to the auditorium for an announcement.
"What's that about?" Yusuke wondered.
"I heard from a student council meeting that she is setting up a program for the first years and sophomores to be partnered together." Keiko recalled.
"She's just trying to ruin our lives, isn't she?!"
Yes Yusuke, yes she is…
.TO BE CONTINUED.
Next time, everyone finds out what the evil principle is planning and the freshmen and sophomores get to spend a little quality time getting to know each other. Review please.