Sweetheart and Enemy

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, but I do own Kuraiya, Hatsune, Riho, and Katsuya.

Summary: A Japanese student returns from a foreign exchange program in America and enrolls in her first year of high school. She is unaware of the close tabs being kept on her, but chaos returns to her home and flips her life upside down.

Chapter Two: There's This Thing at School

I heard people moving and pots banging as I rolled over. I sat up slowly and wiped the gooey gunk from the inner point of my eye. Yawning, I stretched and hopped up off the floor.

"Good morning," said Riho from the kitchen.

Wow, whatever she's making smells amazing.

I walked toward the kitchen and looked in. There was nothing going on. "Riho…" I began. "Where are you?"

"Porch."

I made my way to the area and saw the cousins eating pancakes, eggs, and bacon with orange juice.

"You want some, Hatsune?" Kuraiya asked.

I shook my head no. I'm not the breakfast type to begin with, and even when I do eat it, it's not those kinds of food I like to chew on. "I think I'm going to splash water on my face." I walked back in and toward the bathroom in order to begin my morning ritual.

Oh, the morning ritual… How I love it so.

I got soap in my eye after I put my contacts in, so it stung like a bitch. Other than that, everything went fine. I got dressed in something that resembled a uniform because I didn't know if the school required one or if you just wore whatever you felt like. Though, I imagine they do have one. I walked out of the bathroom and grabbed my purse. It was kind of cute; a black and yellow polka dotted barrel.

I looked at the clock on the floor and no kidding it was only five thirty.

"Hey, when are we supposed to be there?" I asked.

"Six thirty," said Riho.

"Six," said Kuraiya at the same time as Riho.

"Uh… which one?" I replied to their different answers.

"It's six for pre-registration and six thirty for class," said Kuraiya.

Riho pouted as Kuraiya gave her that smile. She didn't like being wrong too often, but more than often, she was a little off. She gathered the plates and walked in to set them in the sink. "Well, if we have to be there in thirty minutes, then we better leave now." She grabbed her stuff and walked out.

I walked over to Kuraiya. "Does she know where she is going?"

"I actually don't know," he replied. "But, let's go. It might take us a while to find it."

We walked for a few blocks before I spoke. "Where are we going to school?"

Kuraiya took a few papers out of his pocket and opened a few of them. He read a few of them before speaking. "I think it's called Meiou… Not too sure. But, I do know where it is located."

Not even ten minutes later we came to the school and Riho was waiting for us at the gates that just opened. "What took you two so long?"

Kuraiya smiled that peachy, innocent grin. "Oh, nothing… Just a really long make-out session."

"He lies," said I.

We three walked to the front doors, which were massive, and entered. The school was very clean, and for the moment, quiet. We looked around only to see a few people walking in the halls. They stopped and stared at us like we were foreign.

Kuraiya stepped up to them and began small talk. After about a minute, he thanked them and motioned for us to follow him. We just did what he motioned for us to. We did end up in the correct place, and it shocked Riho and I. That didn't happen too often when he was leading us.

It was the head master's office, principal in my mind, really. But, we had to wait a little while- there was a sign that basically said preoccupied and something about waiting ten minutes.

While waiting, Kuraiya and I were discussing what might go on in there and what the principal might look like. We were discussing other options when a student walked out of the office. He was a rather tall young man. He was pretty- not handsome. His long red hair went with his luscious green eyes. He seemed very calm as he left and didn't even notice us.

Riho practically drooled over herself. "Wow…" she trailed off.

"Riho," I said sternly, but she knew I was playing with her. I have to admit myself that he was good-looking, but he definitely had to be my senior somehow.

While Riho and I were distracted the principal walked out to greet Kuraiya, then us. I popped out of my mini trance and said hello and such while Riho still spaced. I had to wake up up, so to speak, in order for her to greet the administrator. We walked into the office after the outside meet.

It didn't take us long to register, sign, and etcetera. We each got a schedule, and of course, we compared. I had more classes with Kuraiya than Riho, but I had physical education with Riho. That would make it fun. We smiled at the thought of all of the trouble we could cause, but today, we figured we would be good. Just for today, anyway.

While we were comparing, we didn't take notice that the principal had sent for student guides to show us to our first class. We were laughing as two guides came in. That same red-headed boy came in and another we hadn't previously seen. He was about the same height as the cute one, but he definitely didn't have the looks. His hair was like that orange-headed boy's we saw at the ramen house yesterday, but it was black. His glasses were something else, too, and his eyes were unattractive.

I want my guide to be the cute one.

"Okay, so…" the principal began to fumble around in his speech and papers. "Minamino, you'll be taking Katsuragi and Kurosawa."

Riho and Kuraiya looked back and forth. They pointed at each other then themselves.

"Oh, sorry, uh, you'll take… Kuraiya."

Again, Kuraiya gave his cousin that smile, only this time, Riho stuck her tongue out in his general direction. However, her plan to show him some disdain ended up in her tongue landing on my face. She was that close to me.

It was a little embarrassing, but I tried to remain nonchalant as Riho blushed and looked in the other direction. Kuraiya laughed and I sighed. That was going to be very interesting or very boring.

"Yuu Kaito, you'll take the other Kurosawa…" said the principal.

As if we couldn't figure that part out.

We picked up our stuff and headed out in our nonuniforms. We barely took a step out before the principal stopped us. He nearly forgot to give us our uniforms.

Riho and I snickered as Kuraiya looked at his pink uniform. He glared at us.

Our uniforms were not that bad, but I wasn't rooting for them either.

There was a bathroom down the hall, so we changed there as our guides waited for us. We didn't hear them talk much, but we didn't care that much either.

I walked out of the bathroom before Riho but after Kuraiya. We left before Riho came out.

Kuraiya pulled at his uniform all the way to our main room. Honestly, that annoyed me. "Stop it," I said calmly. He immediately stopped flinching physically, but his mind still wandered about the uniform.

Our guide didn't say much to us. I was a little curious is he was one of those outcasts or smart, geeky kind of kids. But, he was WAY too cute to be the outcast… Maybe he was mean? Eventually, I would find out. I would, even if I had to pry.

He stopped walking and said, "This is your room." His voice was rather plain and detached.

"Uh, thank you?" I said choppily and with some curious question in my voice.

He looked at me awkwardly. I didn't realize that my Japanese had been choppy and slightly americanized. I looked down as I thought about how I was going to cover it up.

He slid the door open and let us walk in. He followed us in and took his seat.

Haha, Riho! I'm in the same class as the cute one. Score!

The teacher looked at us as she smiled. She began talking really fast, and I had a hard time keeping up with her. Luckily, I have Kuraiya. He was the one that communicated the most.

I did catch the last few words though. I thought it was very kindergarten. She wanted us to introduce ourselves and tell the class a little bit about ourselves. Kuraiya took the lead, as usual… when he wasn't lazy, rather.

"Uh, hi. My name is Kurosawa Kuraiya. This is my first year in high school, well, in Japan anyway. I'm originally from Nasushiobara. I was in Chicago for about two years with the foreign exchange program. And… I don't know what else to mention."

The teacher thanked him and some of the girls were already mesmerized by him. She motioned for me to do the same, and I pretty much took his format.

"I'm Katsuragi Hatsune. I'm from Sunagawa, and I was also in the foreign exchange program. I spent two years in Philadelphia. And, yeah…"

I ran out of thoughts for the moment because I was trying to figure out how to say something in Japanese. Philadelphia and Japan didn't quite meet, so English was the primary language I spoke. It came back to bite me in the butt.

The teacher looked a little nervous, but happy. I guess she was expecting the two of us to be more talkative, but whatever. It was not my main concern. She showed us to the only two open seats in the room. Kuraiya sat two rows from the window, and I sat one row from the door on the opposite side of the room.

Aw, I don't have my translator near me. Crap.

But there was an upside. Red-headed cutie was right in front of me. I didn't think he would help me out, but I could be wrong.

I looked up from my book. Physics. Disgusting. But, I guess we got there right after she finished, so it was on to math. That I could do. Kuraiya, however… That was something he needed my help on.

For the next hour and a half, she drew triangles and explained basic to moderate trigonometry. This was boring. This was simple. But, I knew Kuraiya would be hounding me for help later on.

The allotted time passed quickly, and she placed her math book on the corner of her desk. She smiled warmly and began speaking English.

Woah… I thought this was civics, not English.

I wasn't going to complain, though. There was something that I could finally understand. That made me happy. Until she mentioned a team project that is.

Honestly, this is like the first week of school and she's talking about a project. What a devil lady. She began explaining it as she walked around the room passing out the syllabus and other information needed for the project.

When I received mine, I looked through the packet and smiled. It was not hard at all. I grasped it well, and I didn't need three weeks to do it, especially with a partner.

But, of course, there was a catch. We had to partner up with someone we didn't know, which wasn't hard for me or Kuraiya… I mean, really. But, she made us pull names out of a hat. Every other person got to pull, and neither I nor Kuraiya got to, so that idea was shot. Even though she said someone new, I'm sure we could have pulled some strings.

I was slightly disappointed. Now, I was really going to get someone I had no clue about. That kind of sucked because my Japanese was not up to par. That was the scary part for me.

By the time my thought process was complete, every other had pulled a name. The teacher asked them to find that person and everyone with a stub of paper began to move about the room. The red-head cutie in front of me stayed seated. I wondered about it. I thought for a while he was just waiting for the room to get less congested, but after a while I realized he had drawn my name.

Oh, wow. I don't know if this is good or bad.

The teacher gave us our last instructions and gave us the rest of the class time to organize the project seeing as that was the only class time she had planned to give us to work on the project.

Before I could ask his name, he had paper and pencil out and was ready to organize the project. He was speaking in a low voice, which was hard to hear and understand seeing as everyone else was being very loud. I tried to concentrate hard, but after a while I think I subconsciously gave up and zoned out a little bit.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was moved slightly and I woke up, so to speak. I felt a little stupid and apologized. Honestly, I just couldn't hear him. I couldn't even hear myself speak, so I got up to ask the teacher if we could plan outside the room because I couldn't hear anything other than noise. She didn't have a problem apparently and I motioned for him to follow me.

That went well. I asked him to repeat everything he said after I explained that I am slightly hard of hearing. I think he bought it. He nodded anyway.

So back to planning. We got everything organized including what book we were going to do. We both decided the Inferno would be a good choice, seeing as we both have read it multiple times. Basically, we had to do a report and try to live life through the book for about a week. We had to video tape or record or do something live for a portion of the project.

There were thirty minutes left. We just sat outside the door. We had all of our ideas together for the project, but we have yet to discuss when and where. I brought it up casually.

"So, when and where are we going to do this?" I asked. I really hoped he answered.

"Well," he began, "do you know of a place outside the main city?"

I nodded. "That's basically where I live."

He looked at me oddly. "What?"

"What I mean is, I live on the outskirts in a bunch of trees and stuff. It's a really old house and there's not much lighting around it, so it would be more hellish that the city lights."

He nodded and thought a little more. "Do you mind if I come by later today to see the area?"

"Not at all. It just depends on what time."

"About seven?"

"I think I can do that. If I'm not there at seven, then Kuraiya and his cousin will be in the house. You can chill with them for a while."

He really looked at me oddly.

"Yeah, I live with my friends," I said flatly. "Hey, what's your name?"

"Minamino Shuichi."

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you and work with you."

The teacher opened the doors and asked us to step in. There were only five more minutes of class left. That time was spent walking in, gathering stuff, and trying not to get trampled on the way out.

Before I left, I walked over to Kuraiya and inquired him about his project. He told me everything including his slightly crazy partner. He wasn't crazy about him, but maybe he would warm up to him. Just maybe…

We ran into unexpectedly, and she was asking us all about our first half of the first day. Honestly, it wasn't that great, but we made it out to be amazing. She was thrilled. She told us all about her part of the day. Luckily it was lunch or we would have been WAY late. She pulled us over to a tree and we sat under it as we spoke.

We weren't there long when a group of girls walked in our general direction. They looked at us and stopped about a foot short of the spot where we sat. Kuraiya looked up.

"May we help you?" he asked them.

The 'main' girl smirked and stated bluntly, "You're in our spot, now leave."

Kuriaya looked at her with his other look. It was the classic 'who the hell do you think you are?'

She wasn't happy that we didn't move, so she had her ugly boyfriend come over and attempt to remove the three of us. It didn't work so well. He was obviously weak- physically and mentally.

But, a physical altercation never occurred because the first bell rang. That meant lunch was over. Riho and I had physical education together and Kuraiya had it in the courtyard over. So, it was the girl's time to hang out.

We had no trouble finding the locker room. We quickly changed into our uniforms, and neither one of us liked them one bit. We dealt with it though.

We walked outside and there were a bunch of prissy preps in one corner, bulky body builders in another and outcasts in a third. The fourth corner was filled with pocket-protector loving girls.

We had no clue where we fit in, but we knew we didn't belong with the prissy girls considering we just pissed one of them off. And, we weren't body builders, so… we had a choice between geeks and outcasts.

Outcasts were looking pretty good right now.

We sighed and walked over to that corner. It was slightly awkward, but we didn't get beaten up or anything, so it didn't really suck.

The second bell rang, and no sooner did it stop when the whistle blew. Apparently that meant run because everyone took off. But, before we could do that, the physical education coaches came over and told us the basic drill for warm-ups and stuff. We were exempt from the mile run for today, but only today. We were supposed to go through the basic physical exam of pull-ups, push-ups, etceteras. I fared well, but Riho struggled with the pull-ups just a little.

By the time we went through all of that, we had only twenty minutes left, and we found out that was shower time and changing time.

The showers were downright disgusting, but we were forced to be plain. We jumped out of the showers first and fast in order to change and get out of there. P.E. was not the highlight of the day. Riho made it tolerable, though.

Now, I had civics and foreign language. Those went by so fast. I went back to the same class as before and sat behind Shuichi. I didn't care much for civics. It wasn't hard or anything- I just wasn't interested, especially after the P.E. experience. Luckily civics and language flew by fast and before I knew it, school was over. It really was three thirty. I got my book and other stuff together and Kuraiya and I went to Riho's classroom. We walked out together.

It was not long before we got home. Four in the afternoon meant hitting the couch and resting for at least an hour.

I had to pick up Katsuya in about an hour and a half, so I planned to leave at five, get there at five thirty and get home by six. That is, if all went as planned.

When we opened the door, Kuraiya pushed past the two of us and jumped onto the couch. He hogged it, so we decided the floor would work. The sleeping bags weren't horrific.

I set my alarm for five o'clock and plopped onto the floor. I closed my eyes and rested for that one hour I had. It was going to be a busy night.