Chapter 1: School's Out!

Three month's have gone by since Hiei asked to live with Zukume. And it was the last day of school. During that day, there was a large number of responsibilities- assessing your teachers, turning in books, cleaning out your lockers, and taking a particularly difficult end-of-the-year exam. But once the final exames were over, Zukume and Hiei couldn't wait to leave.

Actually, Hiei only went to school so he coudl spend more time with her. But the more time he was with her, the more he thought about them becoming more than mere first-base girlfriend and boyfriend.

However, every time they'd gotten a little bit... intimate, even just his hand inside her shirt, she would come up with some stupid excuse to leave at that moment. He always let her go but not without wondering why. 'I'll have a talk with Kurama about this,' he thought as he began cleaning otu his locker. Zukume was in their biology class, checking over her exam.

"Hey Hiei." The forbidden child glared at his two-month-old history test. He knew that voice. Yusuke.

"What?" Hiei asked sharply. He didn't want to look at the boy since he didn't want to see his face.

"Whoa! No need to get all barbed wire on me! Look, me and Kuwabara were wondering if we could party at your place?"

His place? Even if he was living there, it wasn't his home. He didn't feel comfortable there since he'd never had a real home before. "Ask Zukume. She's finally finished with her exam."

About three minutes later, the mentioned girl turned into the hallway and went to her locker. "Hey Hiei. Yusuke, what's going on? Does Koenma have a mission for you?"

When Hiei moved in with Zukume, he told her about his job, Koenma, and the Spirit World. However, she hadn't met Botan or Yukina and she rarily hung out with Keiko (who was all about school work) or Shizuru (since she always worked and Shizuru's cigarette smoke annoyed Zukume).

Yusuke shook his head. "No, I was jsut wondering... can me, Kuwabara, and Kurama stay at your place tonight so we can have a little party? Kurama's mom's not as cool as you are, you hate Kuwabara's house, and my place is too small."

"Will there be drinking?" she asked suspiciously.

Yusuke snorted and asked, "What's a party without a little beer?"

"Yusuke..." Hiei growled. He didn't wnat the others there. Kurama, maybe, but only long enough to get some advice out of him.

Zukume sighed. "Fine... on one condition."

"Name it," Yusuke said quickly.
"No porn. I refuse to be in the same house with a group of hormonally-charged, drunken boys who just watched porn... again."

"That happened ONCE! And it was Kuwabara, not me, who brought it!"

"You want beer? Then there has to be some sacrifices. But if you bring ANY porn into our house, the party will be cancelled."

"Cancelled?!"

"Do you want the party or not? If so, quite complaining and agree to the terms."

Hiei had stopped listening at that point. He felt as though he was having a heart murmur. 'She said... "our house." OUR house...' He found himself smiling at the trash bin he was throwing his trash in.

"Having a dirty thought?" Yusuke's voice broke through Hiei's thoguhts as the half-demon whispered his question into his ear.

"No. But you would know that if you knew that my mind is pure of such thoughts."

"Uh-huh... you're a virgin and Zukume runs from intimacy."

"What the--?!"

"That's all I heard from your "purity" statement. By the way, you completely lied about your "pure" mind. No teenage virgin boy thinks about pure thoughts."

Hiei just snorted in irritation and slammed his now clean locker door. Completely forgetting about Zukume being there, he stalked away with a scowl plastered on his face.

"Hie--? Yusuke? What did you say to him?!" she asked, worried about Hiei. Hiei wasn't the type of person to walk away from anything. If it was a stupid thing, he would walk away, but not with such anger.

Yusuke scratched his head. "I probably shouldn't tell you. Hiei'll probably be PMS-ing even more if I do. But I'll send Kurama after him since he's the only one who doesn't really piss him off. I'll warn Kuwabara about your "no porn" rule and we'll bring the beverages. See you later!" Yusuke ran off, leaving a fairly confused Zukume to clean her locker alone.