Winter: Hey there everyone. Welcome to the new and improved first chapter to Lioness. Since now I am revising fanfics these new chapters are the only updates I will be making besides Jet's Lost Niece (I should really finish that). Once the Yu Yu Hakusho updates are finished I will revise Reflections in the Water and then write the sequel to that.
Wisdom: You may find the revised stories a bit different from the original. That is because Winter changed the story around and in her opinion it is better.
Winter: Yup. So with out further wait glare at Hiei to make him do the disclaimer.
Hiei: Winter doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity and Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight.
Chapter One: The New Girl:
A boy who was at the age of fourteen with black hair and chocolate colored eyes hid his head under the pillow wanting to go back to sleep as his alarm clock went off.
The beeping sound was very annoying especially at six in the morning. He reached out his hand to find the clock to shut it off; finally he found the clock and pushed the button to stop the beeping. He was about to doze back off to sleep when his mother came into the room and pulled to covers off of him yelling at him to get up.
His mother had light brown hair and eyes. Her cheeks were red and her eyes were swollen from the nights before drinking. Her summer dress had cresses in it from falling asleep without getting changed.
"Yusuke," she hollered. "Get up for school right now!"
The boy, Yusuke mumbled objections from under the pillow. His mother sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Yusuke if you don't start going to school they'll take you away from me," she said softly. "I know I don't show it but I do want you to stay with me, I can't afford to lose you again…not like last year. Please just go to school, you don't want to be late for your first day of high school."
Yusuke didn't say anything or move for a few minutes. Finally he sat up with the pillow on his lap. "Fine, I'll go."
His mother smiled and left the room for him to get ready. Yusuke sighed and rubbed the sleep away from his eyes before getting changed into a green jump suit. Once he slicked back his hair with some gel and brushed his teeth he grabbed his black leather bag and walked out the door.
He turned right and began to walk to the high school. He finally reached the huge building after turning onto some streets. Unlike the junior high school, that only held seventh and eighth graders, this held freshman through seniors.
The high school itself was three floors with all of the sports fields and courts in the back. The front of the school had to flights of stairs leading up to the doors. In the middle of the stairs was a small waterfall that fell into a pond with fat fish in it. To block people from disturbing it a small wall was set up in front of it which students sat on in the morning before the first bell rang.
Standing by the wall was a boy dressed in a pair of tan pants with a white blouse that was untucked from his pants and a blue tie. He had strawberry orange hair that curled at the end in its own style. He took a few inches taller then Yusuke.
When he spotted Yusuke he waved his black leather bag in the air calling his name. "Hey! Urameshi!"
Yusuke looked over and met his friend half way. "Hey Kuwabara."
"What classes do you have?" asked Kuwabara pulling out his schedule.
Yusuke fumbled through his pocket to find his, once he found it he handed the schedule to his friend. Kuwabara scanned over both of them.
"We have homeroom, lunch and English together," said Kuwabara handing Yusuke back his schedule.
Before Yusuke could say anything the bell rang ushering students into the building. Yusuke and Kuwabara headed to their homeroom saying hi to their friends who passed and waved.
As they walked they passed to main office and saw a girl standing there listening to the secretary. She stood about five foot, two with long black-layered hair and l silver side bangs that neatly fell over her eyes. Her figure was slim and slender which went well with the blue skirt that ended a little bit above the knees. For a shirt she wore a white blouse that angled at the end, which fit neatly over the top of the skirt for a short bit. The top two buttons were open and a blue tie hung around her neck. For shoes she wore white knee socks with black shoes that had boot heels.
She looked very out of place in the school uniform especially when the boys noticed her silver lip ring.
"You think she's new?" asked Kuwabara. "I never saw her last year and by the looks of it she doesn't look any older then us."
Yusuke shrugged sticking his hands in his pockets. "Come on, the sooner we get to class the sooner the day will be over."
Both the boys walked off towards homeroom. Yusuke and Kuwabara took seats in the back sitting among with their other friends goofing off as the principle made the announcements. The teacher who was assigned the room for the day since homeroom is only once in a while for important days sat at the desk reading a book not having a care in the world.
Once the announcements were over there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," called their teacher in a high-pitched voice.
The girl from the office before walked into the room and handed the teacher a piece of paper. She took at and tossed it aside.
"Well you can go sit in that empty seat over there, you," she said and then went back to reading her book.
The girl looked over and walked to the empty seat that was in front of Yusuke and sat down pulling out a small sketchbook and sketching pencil from her black leather bag and began to sketch a picture.
Yusuke watched the girl draw for a while over her shoulder without making it obvious. He had to hand it to her she was really good. Kuwabara had caught his attention.
"Hey, Urameshi," whispered Kuwabara. "Is it me or is she a little freaky? I can't seem to place it, but something is weird about her."
Yusuke had to agree spotting her lip ring. He also noticed that her slightly pointed ears were pierced when she pulled her hair back behind her ears. Her left ear had the industrial bar in her cartilage with two earrings in her earlobe. Her right ear had three earrings in her earlobe and one piercing in the cartilage.
"Yeah well you're ugly, but you're still a nice guy," said Yusuke.
Kuwabara glared at Yusuke and punched him in the back of the head right when the bell rang and the class filed out into the halls.
The rest of the day lagged on until sixth period, which was lunch. Yusuke and Kuwabara walked outside to some tables that were set up under trees in the back for students to eat outside on a nice day if they choose to.
A girl dressed in the school's uniform with brown hair down to the mid of her back with light brown eyes that stood a few inches shorter then Yusuke waved them over from a table.
"Yusuke! Kuwabara!" she called them over.
The boys walked over to her. She greeted them both. "Wow Yusuke, you actually showed up to school for once."
"Ahaha, very funny Keiko," snorted Yusuke as they sat down at the table.
"Is that girl new?" asked the girl looking to a tree.
Yusuke and Kuwabara followed her gaze.
"We're guessing so," said Kuwabara.
"She's in our homeroom," finished Yusuke.
"She looks lonely," she said. "I'm going to go talk to her."
The boys jumped in objection but it was too late. Yusuke shouted after her.
"Keiko! Get back here!" he shouted.
Keiko ignored the boy's complaints and walked over to the girl. She stood in front of her blocking her light from under to the tree making her stop drawing.
"Hi," said Keiko. "I uh…noticed you were sitting alone and wanted to know if you would like to sit with me and my two friends."
The girl looked up at her with her dull gold eyes that stood out against her black eyeliner and mascara.
"You don't have to if you don't want to," said Keiko not taking any notice of her eyes thinking they were contacts.
The girl looked over at Yusuke and Kuwabara then back up at Keiko. She stood up putting her sketchbook and pencil in her back and smiled at Keiko.
"Sure."
"Excellent!" exclaimed Keiko happily clapping her hands together. "I'm Yukimura, Keiko, and you are?"
"Takizawa, Flash," answered the girl following Keiko over to the table.
"Flash," repeated Keiko. "That's a cool name. Well this is Urameshi, Yusuke and Kuwabara, Kazuma."
Flash gave a small wave, Kuwabara grinned and Yusuke gave a nod as he stuffed his mouth. Keiko took her seat next to Yusuke and gestured for Flash to sit next to Kuwabara.
The three began to talk asking Flash questions from where she was from and everything. Suddenly a ring came from Yusuke's pocket. He laughed nervously and excused himself from the table going behind a tree.
Yusuke opened his pink communicator that would look like a compact to someone who didn't know better. "What's up Botan?"
A girl with a light blue ponytail in a pink kimono appeared on the screen. "Yusuke, Koenma needs you in his office right away. Kurama and Hiei are already on their way. Bring Kuwabara with you. This is very urgent!"
"Alright have Koenma open up a portal near by and we'll be there in a few minutes," said Yusuke before closing the communicator.
"Hey guys," said Yusuke walking back over. "Sorry to break up the party but Kuwabara and I need to split. See ya!
He grabbed Kuwabara by the back of the shirt and took off running before Keiko could say anything in disapproval.
"Ugh, it's so annoying when they do that, how they made it to high school is beyond me. Rice ball?" asked Keiko as she offered Flash one.
"No thanks," answered Flash.
"But you have nothing to eat," said Keiko.
"I eat before I came...plus I'm not hungry."
"Oh okay...so what do you have next?"
"Um, Home Ekk? If that's what you call it," answered Flash.
"You mean Home Ech. Cool! You have it with me!" exclaimed Keiko happily.
"Great," said Flash trying to sound as thrilled as Keiko.
When the bell rang the girls packed up there stuff then Keiko showed Flash where the Home Ech. room was. Class had only been going on for twenty minutes and Flash already burnt two trays of cookies, had a bowl of doe go all over the place due to the fact she didn't know how to use the mixer.
The teacher was tired of dealing with her mess ups she put Flash in charge of washing the dishes so she rolled up her blouse sleeves and pulled up her hair then started washing dishes.
Keiko was the best baker in the class and was prancing around the room helping out all of the other students as she baked her cookies. When the bell rang Flash dried her hands and rolled down her sleeves and the buttoned at the end.
"Well that was fun," said Keiko as they walked out of the classroom.
Flash stared at her. Keiko tilted her head.
"What?"
"Fun?" asked Flash. "More like a trip to hell."
Keiko laughed then asked Flash what she had next.
"Oh um...hold on," said Flash as she pulled out her schedule. "Math."
"Oh, well I don't have class with you this period or any others for the rest of the day," answer Keiko looking at Flash's schedule and handing it back to her. "Would you like to go shopping after school? I was supposed to go with Yusuke but he bailed already."
"I can't," said Flash. "The folks who took me in are having their parents over and I need to meet them or something of that sort."
"Oh, okay," said Keiko. "So I'll see you tomorrow then."
Flash said goodbye to Keiko and went off to find her next period class. Keiko went to opposite way from Flash thinking to herself.
It must be hard for her…being adopted. She seems to handle herself well though.
End Chapter:
Winter: Well I think this is a lot better. Anyway let me know what you think. So please review. Bye for now.
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