Inu-rose: Thanks for your reviews everyone! I didn't expect this many! O.O"

Anyway, just to make one thing clear: Lizzi is seriously NOT a Marysue! Heck, she's not even paired with an origanal characterin this fic.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.

Inu-rose: On with the story!

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When lunch time rolled around, Lizzi was petrified.

She had spent most of the day thinking out in her head why Yume was asking her to sit with her and her friends.

Not many good thoughts entered her mind, I'll tell you what.

Lizzi mentally shuddered and scurried to her locker. After opening it, she grabbed her afternoon books, her lunch money and quickly made her way into the cafeteria.

After buying her lunch, she looked around the lunch room. Yume was nowhere in sight. That was a good sign.

She glanced around and felt her stomach lurch. Spoke too soon! Yume and three other girls were striding into the room now!

What didn't surprise Lizzi is thatYume's 'posse' were like clones of her, only with different eye colors.

They all had long brown hair in the same hair style, but one girl had brown eyes, one girl had blue eyes, and the last one had hazel eyes.

Becoming more and more self-conscious of herself, Lizzi glanced around again for an exit. An idea came to her and she went over to the lunch monitor.

"Can I use the lavatory?" she squeaked.

The lunch monitor nodded and wrote out a pass. "What's your name, kid?"

"Lizzi."

The monitor handed her the pass and Lizzi rushed to the bathroom. 'Thank God I've seen the movie Mean Girls.'

She found an empty stall that wasn't too dirty and sat on top of the toilet seat.

She then heard a soft knock on the stall. "Lizzi?" it was Keiko's voice.

"K-Keiko?"

"Yeah, it's me. Lizzi, what are you doing in there?" Obviously Keiko realized that Lizzi really wasn't using the toilet.

Lizzi unlocked the stall door just a crack. "Hiding."

Keiko blinked. "From what?"

"Yume and her gang. Wait, how did you know I came in here anyway?"

Keiko giggled. "I saw you racing to the bathroom from the lunchroom. I thought that maybe the cafeteria food didn't agree with your system or something." (Hehehe....)

Lizzi couldn't help but grin at Keiko's statement.

Keiko smiled right back at her. "C'mon. Why don't you eat lunch with me and my friends?"

The grinning girl quickly felt self-conscious all over again. "Uh… n-no thanks. I'll eat in here…"

Keiko frowned. "Aww… c'mon, Lizzi. Most of the people in this school are so nice."

'Yeah to you. You don't look like a freaking pig.' Lizzi thought sadly in her mind. "Nah… thanks anyway, Keiko."

Keiko blinked, but then she smiled half-heartedly. "You're welcome."

With that, Keiko left the black-haired girl alone to eat her food.

---------- 9th period --------------

Lizzi grimaced.

Social Studies… her worst subject yet.

She hated social studies! She always tried studying, yet 70's were always stamped on the top of her test in thick, red ink.

Sinking down low in her seat, she tried thinking about what her parents would say whenever she came home with a low test score.

--- Flashback ---

"Aww… Lizzi! Another one?" her father groaned when Lizzi showed him the 73 she got on her test.

Her mother nudged her in the arm reassuringly with a wink. "We'll have to get those social studies grades up, huh?"

"Yeah." Lizzi said with a smile. Her father signed the test and she kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks, daddy!"

"You're welcome, Lizzi."

--- End Of Flashback ---

Lizzi grinned remembering the expression on her father's face.

"A-hem!"

The cough from the social studies teacher caused her to rouse from her daydream.

"Anyway, I would like you all to study for the next test on Monday."

'Wow, have I really been daydreaming that long?' Lizzi thought, looking at the clock.

Apparently she had been! The bell was going to ring in 3… 2…

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!

…1.

She gathered her books up in her arms and made her way towards the door.

When she stepped into the cold air of outside, she shivered and looked around for Tom's car.

She sat on the curb after standing for at least 20 minutes and frowned. Where was he?

The principal of the school came over to her. "Lizzi White?" he asked.

Lizzi nodded. "Yes…?"

"We got a phone call from the hospital…"

-------- At The Hospital ----------

Tom looked terrible. An I.V. tube was going down his arm and a cast was around his neck. Cuts were all over his face - not to mention a few bruises.

"He will live, Lizzi. But he will be paralyzed." That's what the doctor had said.

Lizzi wiped her eyes and drew in a quivering breath.

Tom had been walking around town, taking photographs of random things, trying to find some sort of inspiration. Then it happened.

He was crossing the street, when he tripped. Over what, who knows, but just his luck that a car was coming up fast with no sign of slowing down.

Tom stood up and tried to dodge the vehicle. He was hit, but luckily he had moved in the right angle so he wouldn't be killed on impact.

So, here he was.

Lizzi grabbed his hand. "C'mon Tom… c'mon wake up…"

Tom seemed to hear her; his eyes shut tighter and then relaxed. His hand grasped Lizzi's gently. "I'm up, I'm up…" he whispered hoarsely.

Lizzi felt a few tears roll down her cheeks, but she wiped them away. "Good."

An awkward silence passed, aside from Lizzi's sniffling and mangled sobs that is. She then decided to break the stillness. "So much for being a genius, huh Tom?"

Tom laughed weakly, squeezing her hand. "Keep that sense of humor, kiddo."

Lizzi laughed herself and stared out the window. 'Between this and school, it seems like God is out to get me or something…'

--- A Few Days Later ---

Lizzi calmly pushed Tom out of the hospital in his new wheel-chair. He was back to himself for the most part - sweet and a jokester, but it was strange to him and Lizzi both.

Lizzi never talked about it in school when the teachers sent her to counselors. 'Why can't everyone just leave me alone?' she thought angrily.

"Lizzi?" she gazed down at Tom and smiled.

"Yeah?"

Tom grinned back at her. "Thanks a lot kiddo."

Lizzi smiled again. "You're welcome."

---- At Lizzi's School ----

Lizzi sat in her math chair, sighing to herself. Another day of being picked on…

And it was going to continue. With Tom's being paralyzed, Lizzi and her guardian were going to live in Japan permanently.

Lizzi got sick thinking about it. She was sure that Yume was going to be thrilled having the "fat kid" staying instead of leaving in a few weeks.

It was also going to be strange. Lizzi wasn't used to living in one place - particularly those where people picked on her. It was a big change. 'A change,' thought Lizzi, 'That I'll never get used to…'

'Why me?' Lizzi thought as Yume walked over to her.

Yume smiled that 'million dollar' smile. "Oh, Lizzi. I heard about your dad. It's horrible. It really is. But look on the bright side!" she grinned brighter. "You get to stay here with me and all of your friends."

Lizzi gulped. "Yeah… great…"

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Inu-rose: Well, that was chapter three. And no, I didn't just make Tom paralyzed for the Hell of it. I made him paralyzed so they would be stuck in Japan. (I shouldn't really be saying 'stuck,' but you know what I mean.) Anyway, thank you for the reviews! Mind doing it again? Please?