(A Yu Yu Hakusho fanfic for my friend. You know who you are, hopefully! *pats on the back* Hope you like it!

Oh, this is from your point of view Mertak! *glances around* you can't kill from through the computer so I actually can call you that, woot!

Anyway, enjoy!)

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"Ai! There he is! He's with Shuiichi!" A girl screeched. That girl was my friend Amanda, or just 'Manda' as I called her.

"Who?" I asked dumbly. "Arg! Weren't you listening? Hiei, new guy in school. Really short, but cute, for some reason he calls Shuiichi, Kurama; come on! I've been talking about this all through the halls!… I think he skipped a few grades because there's no way someone our age could be so short… Let's go talk to him!"

"Oh… Uh sure I guess but he's with Shuiichi and-" I began, only to be pulled along by Amanda. Sheesh, impatient, isn't she?

"Not her again…" A short, black haired kid muttered. Amanda had been right! He was like, a foot shorter than me!

"Hello, Shuiichi and..." She began then she bent down and pinched Hiei's cheeks. "Short wittle Hiei! How old are you? You are just adorable! Smarty smarty, skipping a few grades, oh you're just so shorty-short!" Shuiichi chuckled at this.

"I'm the same age as you, nit-wit." Hiei growled, attempting to pull away from her cheek pinching. "And would you cut it out, I swear I'll-" Then Shuiichi cut him off.

"Amanda, I think that's enough. I don't think you'd want to make um, 'short wittle Hiei' angry, he's not a very pleasant person most of the time and it's worst when he gets angry." He told her, and she giggled and let go of Hiei's cheeks.

"So, Amanda and uh, Marty, what are you doing? Walking home with anyone?" Shuiichi asked and I sighed. I had liked him for a while and he forgot my name, oh well. At least he tried.

"Martha." I corrected then shrugged. "Not really, I'm just walking with Manda, no guys or anything but, I do believe Manda wanted to ask you two something, right?"

"You mean, Mertak!" Amanda said and I glared at her, then gave her what I called 'The Death Grip' gripping her shoulder tightly. "Ow, ow, ow! Ok, kidding, kidding!" She squealed and I let go. "Anyway, I was wondering if we could walk with you guys, I want to talk with wittle Hiei some more!" We? We who? I couldn't help but wonder if she expected me to go too.

Shuiichi chuckled. "I don't mind, I'm sure 'wittle Hiei' does though, But don't let his decision stop you."

"Yay!" Amanda cheered, then followed after Shuiichi and Hiei. I sighed. 'Might as well tag along, don't want to walk home alone…'

As Amanda talked to Hiei, continuing with her teasing and pinching his cheeks, he looked pretty pissed off but at the same time happy. How weird. Anyway, as she teased Hiei, I walked with Shuiichi, in silence. Wow, bravo, bravo, give me a round of applause! I haven't said a word to one of the cutest, most popular boys in school, I am so impressive. "So…" I choked out, more applause. "How's your mother?"

Shuiichi's mother had been sick recently. I didn't stalk him or anything, almost everyone knew this. How? He's pretty popular, news about his life spreads pretty quickly. "She's alright. She should be coming home from the hospital soon."

"Oh, that's good." It went like this for the whole walk. Question. Answer. Comment. Question. Answer. Comment. Question. Answer. Comment. We didn't stray from that pattern at all, then we reached his house. "See you later, Shuiichi."

"See you, Martha. See you, Amanda." He said, waving to us, then Hiei began to follow after him.

"Wait!" Amanda called, then before he could escape, she pulled him back and pinched his cheeks. "Bye, wittle Hiei!" She giggled, and Hiei grumbled, "Bye, nit-wit." And pulled away, quickly going by Shuiichi.

We continued onwards, and I heard Hiei say, "We need to talk about this 'mission' or whatever, Kurama. I don't really think it's necessary for me to go to that school…" Then Shuiichi replied, "Oh, it's not really that bad. Amanda seems to like you enough. And we still owe Koenma for letting us off the hook for stealing the three artifacts from the spirit world and…" Then we got too far away and his voice drifted off.

'Spirit world? Koenma? Why did Hiei call him Kurama? Artifacts? What's going on?' I wondered, then turned to babbling Amanda and began to explain what I heard…

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"You're so nuts!" Amanda hackled a laugh as we walked and I glared at her. "I'm serious!"

"Really? Come on, 'spirit world', 'Koenma', 'mission'? How can you really prove it's all true? Maybe you just heard them wrong…" She said and I shook my head. "I heard it all, really!"

"Fina, fine… How 'bout we follow them after school tomorrow and see what happens?" Amanda suggested, and I gave her a look of shock.

"What?! You mean stalk them?! What is wrong with you?" I screeched, then she laughed. She laughed! There has to be something wrong with her!

"Then it's a deal! We'll follow them tomorrow and see what happens! Anything suspicious and you're right, nothing out of the ordinary and you're crazy." Amanda said, I assumed she had been ignoring me before, or she would've said something more idiotic. You know, a bad come-back, she tends to do that sometimes.

I just sighed. What had I gotten myself into?

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