Alright!! Here's chapter two, everyone! Please R&R!!!
And I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho... just Chantelle and Kristi.
The boys lead the two girls to the cafeteria, aware of Hiei following their movements from the outside of the building, and more than likely using his Jagen eye to take stock of events. Kristi was satisfied, buying a seafood salad from the cafeteria, while Chantelle indulged herself with two hot dogs and a pizza pop.
The blonde girl sweatdropped. "You're gonna get fat eating that stuff..."
Chantelle grinned and shook her head. "It'll never happen. I'm too active for that. Plus I've got a high metabolism," she said, patting her flat belly.
Suichi smiled at her. "If you don't mind my asking, where did you learn to fight like that? It's not very often that you run into a woman with fighting capabilities like yours."
She shrugged. "When I was a kid, I always used to get beaten up and picked on at school. The administration wouldn't do jack shit about it, so my Dad finally got fed up and paid for martial arts courses. I only took them for a couple of years before he decided the cost of them was too much, but I kept training myself whenever I had the time."
Kristi rolled her eyes. "And now instead of getting beaten up, most of the students in our school back in Canada are just afraid of her."
She shook her head. "Correction: the bullies and perverts are afraid of me."
The blonde snorted. "Like I said: Most of the students in our school are afraid of you." Kristi looked at the boys. "She's got a reputation as kinda being the bullies bully. If she sees someone picking on someone who can't defend themselves, she steps in and does something about it. She was the top athlete in our school, and she even had a couple offers to join in the Olympic Games."
Chantelle snorted and waved that off immediately. "Not interested. About all it would be good for would be a free trip to where ever the hell they're being held. I'm not for competition. Besides, I met Olympic Gymnasts before and most of them tell me their coaches are a bunch of tyrannical shitheads who dictate what they eat, how often they practice, and even when they go to bed. I ain't gonna put up with some middle aged hardass telling me what to do."
Suichi blinked a little slowly. "You're... not afraid to speak your mind, are you?" he asked carefully.
Chantelle blinked and then grinned a little sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head. "Sorry. I guess you guys aren't used to girls talking like I do." She shrugged. "I'm a tomboy, despite the way I dress. I hate pussyfooting around and choosing my words carefully. I speak my mind. You'll get used to it."
Yusuke grinned. "I kinda like it. It's better than hearing a girl telling me about the latest outfit she bought, or how she needs to find a purse to match her shoes."
Both Kristi and Chantelle shuddered as one. "That'll NEVER happen with us," they said as one.
Chantelle frowned. "I hate shopping with girls that go through the racks for hours just because something's not quite their color. I go shopping, I grab something I think'll look decent on me and that might fit. I run into the changeroom, try it on, and that's it. I'm outta there. And my purse, on the rare occassion that I actually USE it, is black, so it matches anything."
Kristi nodded. "Mine too.I just wear whatever's comfortable and neutral colors so everything matches everything else. I don't see a point in color coordinating your wardrobe to match the days of the week like some girls do."
The boys looked at the two girls in what could only be described as admiration and relief.
I think... I may be in love... Youko said almost dreamily, looking at the two girls. You should go for one of them, Suichi. It would be a nice change from those others girls that are always chasing you.
The red haired boy smiled at the girls, a slightly mischevious look in his gentle green eyes. "You girls wouldn't happen to be available, would you?"
Kristi looked up in surprise and slowly turned a dark shade of red, while Chantelle looked up with a grin. "That depends on whether YOU guys are available. I don't go for guys who've got girlfriends."
Yusuke and Kuwabara turned a little dreamy eyed. "I've got a girl named Keiko who attends Jonan High, and Kuwabara's got a girl named Yukina."
Chantelle's grin broadened as she looked at Suichi. "Well, I don't have anyone right now, but I'm not really looking either." Then her grin turned mischevious. "But Kristi here's never been with anyone. Little Miss Innocent's never even held hands with a guy, much less been kissed."
Her friends face immediately turned horrified as Youko grinned from within Suichi. The boys eyebrows all elevated in interest hearing this. "CHANTELLE!!!!!"
Her friend just continued to grin mischeviously. "Hey, I told you before we left Canada, that while we were in Japan, I'd find you a boyfriend. I'm only trying to keep that promise."
Suichi smiled at Kristi gently. When the girl caught his look, she almost got a nosebleed. "It's all right, Kristi. If you're not interested, then I won't pursue you. Although I must say that dating a girl like you would be a most welcome change from the other girls that tend to be drawn to me."
She seemed to be deeply relieved to hear this, even though her face was still a dark shade of red.
Oooh... a shy one. I say we go for her, Suichi, Youko said, his voice filled with mischief.
Youko, if she's not interested in having a man in her life, then we can't push it on her. But perhaps with a little time, she could be persuaded to change her mind. I'll work on her a little as time goes on.
Chantelle looked at her watch and quickly wolfed down the rest of her food. "Well, we should get ready for our next class. It's gym, right? What's the first unit?"
Yusuke smiled. "Track and field. Running and Jumping and that kinda stuff. I think Takamoto's gonna give us an obstacle course today."
She grinned. "Sounds like fun." She got to her feet. "Well, I'm headed off to get ready. You coming, Kristi?"
The girl nodded and got to her feet. "Yup! Lead the way."
The boys stood up as well. 'We'll show you which way the girl's locker room is," Suichi said. "The school is large, as you've mentioned before, and we don't want you to get lost. There's quite a few turns to get there."
The girls exchanged a look and shrugged as one. Then they left the cafeteria.
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About ten minutes later, the girls were seated on a gym floor, wearing a blue top and black shorts, each in a designated group. So far Takamoto-sensei seemed to be a very nice and reasonable teacher. Kristi was in a group with Yusuke, while Chantelle was in the group that had both Kuwabara and Suichi.
"Alright, now that I know who is present and accounted for, I'm going to ask you all to get up and follow me outside, where the activity centers are set up."
Moments later, they were all outside as the teacher gave them their instructions. "each group will rotate to different stations: pole vault, the track, long jump and high jump. When everyone has completed those activities, I'll bring you to my newly set up obstacle course."
Chantelle's group wound up at the pole vault first. Only those who truly felt they could pull it off were entitled to do the actual vault itself, over the high bar. Other than that, people just used the bar to see how high they could go and were gradd on that. Only Suichi, Kuwabara, and, to their surprise, Chantelle, volunteered to try the actual vault.
The students watched as Kuwabara made it over, barely touching the bar at the top and landing flat on his face on the mat below, making both Chantelle and Kurama cringe slightly. Then he got up with a huge grin on his face (as well as with a nosebleed), and proclaimed that he was okay, much to everyone's relief.
Suichi went next and went over the bar without breaking a sweat, twisting in the air to ensure he landed on his back on the mat.
Then Chantelle did the exact same, making many eyebrows elevate.
Takamoto-sensei grinned. "I have a feeling our three star atheletes have themselves some female competition."
He proved to be correct. In Chantelle's group, Suichi and herself were always the top two, with Kuwabara being a close third. And when it came time to run around the track, she was right up in the lead with the red haired man, much to his surprise. He wasn't expecting her to be so fast, considering her small stature, but then he thought of Hiei and decided that he really shouldn't be that surprised.
The run ended in a dead tie for first place, the teacher not able to tell which one had crossed the line first. By the time they finished their run, it was time to go to the obstacle couse, which had been set up further in the field.
Takamoto grinned at them. "I'm making a deal with you guys here. The person who gets through my obstacle course in the fastest time will get THIS." He held up a piece of paper. "This affords the winner of this little contest to get a free meal in the cafeteria for the next three days... and it's all on ME!"
Kristi's expression went flat. "Chantelle's going to win."
Yusuke blinked and looked at her. "Don't be so sure. Suichi and myself are the most athletic guys here..."
She shook her head. "Trust me. If she can get something that'll save her just a bit of money... she REALLY gets her game on. Even if it kills her, she'll get that prize, no matter how hard she has to push herself."
Kurama had heard the woman's conversation with Yusuke and cast a glance at Chantelle. He saw her face had lit up for a split second, hearing the proffered prize, and then it set into a hard mask. He had to smirk. He was going to make it hard for her... to see just how hard she was willing to push herself.
The teacher walked them through the obstacle course. There was a 100 meter run before you came to a wall with a launch pad in front of it. The idea was to jump onto the launch pad to get over the wall, which had a carefully padded top and a mat to catch you on the other side. Then you had to run another fifty meters before you climbed up a platform and swung from rope to rop to get to the other side. Below, of course, were more mats set up for safety. And then you had to scale up a climbing rope, touch the top and come back down before racing the last 50 meters to the finishing line.
They went one by one, the teacher calling to them from the finishing line with a stopwatch and a clipboard to write down the scores. The Spirit Detectives, from watching Kristi, saw that she was only slightly above average in the athletic department, except for when it came to running, which got her up among the faster students due to her long legs.
Kristi got through the obstacle course in about two and a half minutes. Kuwabara got through it in one minute fifty six seconds, then Yusuke got through it in one minute thirty seconds. Kurama smirked as he readied himself. He was not going to make this easy for Chantelle. He made it through the course in one minute, fifteen seconds.
Then it was Chantelle's turn.
The Spirit Detectives all watched closely, including Hiei who watched from afar in the trees off to their left as she readied herself, her face hard as she focused. When the teacher yelled 'go', she was off like a shot.
When she reached the launch pad, she leaped upon it, hitting it dead center and leaped high over the wall, flipping through the air to land on her feet on the other side. Then she scrambled up the platform as if her life depended on it and easily went through the ropes. Then she got to the climbing ropes, making several people's eyebrows shoot up when she shimmied up without using her legs, and jumped back down before making a mad dash for the finishing line. When she got there, she was gasping for breath, and looked at Takamoto-sensei hopefully. The students all gathered around.
Takamoto cast a meaningful look from Suichi to Chantelle. He grinned when he looked at the red haired boy. "She just barely beat you... by less than a second."
Kristi cast a look at the now slack jawed Yusuke. "Told you."
Chantelle let out a whoop. "Yes!! Free food for three days!!" Then she blinked and looked at Suichi. "Um... sorry if you wanted it, but..."
He chuckled immediately. "Not at all. Congratulations are in order, I believe. Good job. Very impressive show."
She seemed relieved at this. "Thanks."
The teacher looked at his watch as he handed Chantelle the pass to the cafeteria. "Class is over in five minutes, everyone. Get to the changerooms and then wait for the bell to ring."
Nodding, everyone headed back.
The final class of the day was science, which passed quickly and without incident. The fact that the teacher was a very kind and softspoken Hongo-sensei probably had something to do with it.
Out front of the school, when the final class was over, Chantelle looked at her friend, Kristi. "I've gotta head over to the Immigration Offices to sign a few more papers." She reached into her wallet and handed her friend five thousand yen. "Before you head back home, can you stop by the store and get us some groceries? Just whatever you think'd be good. And the latest issue of Shonen Jump."
Kristi grinned and nodded, accepting the money. "It'll be waiting on your bed when you get home." Then she blinked. "You sure you don't need me to go with you?"
Chantelle shook her head. "You're not legally an adult yet, so I have to do this on my own. Besides, I know everything about you to fill in the forms, so I won't have any problems." She grinned. "See ya later, Kristi!"
The blonde girl nodded. "Later, Chantelle."
Pocketing the money, Kristi started off down the street, heading toward the Tunshi Market. It wasn't long before she suddenly saw several boys cut off her route... and she immediately recognized one of them as Honda. A warning shiver raced down her spine and a sinking sensation rose in the pit of her stomach.
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Yusuke looked around as he met up with Kurama and Kuwabara in front of the school. "Hey, where did Chantelle and Kristi go?"
Kuwabara shrugged. "I dunno. They were gone before I got out here. I never saw them since they got out of science."
Kurama smiled. "I suppose there is always tomorrow then, to continue observing them. In the meantime, let's go."
Kuwabara grinned. "Right on! Let's hit the arcades!"
Yusuke grinned right back at him. "Time for me to kick your ass at Mortal Combat again!"
Kurama chuckled at their juvenile behavior. "While you two are doing THAT, I think I'll go to the flower shop across the street and see if they have any new inventory."
They started walking toward Tunshi Market, talking about this and that and just enjoying the beautiful afternoon, when they heard a terrified scream from up ahead.
Kurama recognized the sound of the scream immediately and shot off, his two companions hot on his trail.
When they reached the source, they saw five boys in an alley, Honda and his group, trying to pin down Kristi.
Yusuke and Kuwabara blew their stacks immediately as they charged forward, tearing the boys away from the terrified girl as they started beating the royal shit right out of them.
"YOU SICK FUCKERS!!! HOW DARE YOU TRY THAT?! DID YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT YOU'D GET AWAY WITH IT YOU BASTARDS?!" Yusuke roared, pounding heads together.
"YOU AIN'T SUPPOSED TA TREAT WOMEN LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!! BY THE TIME I'M THROUGH WITH YOU, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOURSELVES IN THE MIRROR!!!!" Kuwabara raged, throwing the boys around like rag dolls.
Kristi, meanwhile, had made her way to her knees and was watching the sight with wide eyes, trying to stop her trembling. Kurama dropped to her side immediately.
"Kristi! Are you all right?"
Her clothes were still intact, thankfully, which meant they hadn't gotten far. Despite that, she was still trembling as she nodded a little numbly, her eyes still watching Kuwabara and Yusuke as they continued beating on Honda and his gang. "Y... yeah. I'm... okay. They just grabbed me a couple minutes ago and..." She shivered. "Thanks."
Kuwabara and Yusuke finally stopped pounding on the gang when it was evident they wouldn't be getting to their feet until they had a stay in the hospital. Their faces were still more than a little pissed off, but they were confident they'd gotten their message across. The two of them were at Kristi's side in an instant as well.
"She's all right," Suichi told them, before they could voice their concerns. "She's just shaken. They didn't get far with her."
The two of them looked relieved to hear this. Then Yusuke looked around. "Hey, where's Chantelle? She easily could have kicked their asses..."
Kristi finally managed to compose herself. "She went to Immigrations to get the last of our forms filled out. I was on my way to do some shopping for us in Tunshi Market before heading home when they surrounded me."
Kuwabara, Yusuke and Kurama looked at each other for a moment, and then the two humans grinned.
"I didn't feel like getting my ass kicked by you again today anyway, Urameshi."
Yusuke smirked. "The arcade's gettin' old, anyway. They've got the same old games."
Suichi smiled. "Now that I think about it, the flower shop will not receive its stock until friday, so I think I can forego a visit today." He turned his attention to Kristi. "We'll come with you and help you. It will also discourage any further attacks on you. I'm afraid this side of town is not the safest."
Kristi seemed immensely relieved to hear the offer. "If you guys are sure. I mean... I don't want to impose on any of your plans or anything..."
Yusuke snorted. "Our plans are the same old same old. I think it's about time we did something a little different after school."
Suichi nodded, a gentle smile on his face as he helped Kristi to her feet. "I agree. Besides, this is a great opportunity for us to get to know you a little better."
The girl smiled in relief. "Alright, then. If you guys are sure, but..." She cast a look at the boys who were lying unconscious in the alley. "What about them?"
Yusuke smirked. "Just leave 'em be. This isn't the first time we've beaten assholes like them into unconsciousness and I'm sure it won't be the last. They'll be back in school and jumping at shadows before you know it."
The blonde girl blinked and couldn't help but let out a little giggle hearing this. "Okay. Let's head out then."
Okay, there's the end of chapter two! Please R&R everyone!!