Quick Author's Note: Hey everybody. Thanks for being patient with me, Summer School is single-handedly reminding me that I have nothing to live for. If this gets rushed and choppy at the end, it's sort of supposed to... but if it needs editing please feel free to tell me.
Thanks so much to fallen, Chibi-Roy-Chan, and Supreme Baka for their kind reviews!
"They're like a bunch of hawks, I tell you."
Kurama smirked. "Yusuke, you're being ridiculous."
"Won't even give the poor kid room to breathe."
"He does look a tad uncomfortable."
"He needs a guy to go even things out."
"Perhaps you should introduce yourself."
"Oh that's funny."
Kuwabara leaned in carefully to the close conversation between his two friends. "What are we talking about?" he whispered hoarsely.
Kurama turned to look at him. "It seems our friend here has developed a crush on the heir to the Daio Advertising company."
Kuwabara glanced at Yusuke, who was watching Koenma carefully, and then glanced at said heir, his nervous smile shining through and causing his current fan girl circle to giggle. He just groaned. "Well good luck with that."
Yusuke sighed and tossed his head backwards. "He's pretty and he's rich- kid will have a girlfriend before the week is over." the words made the athlete's head hurt.
Kurama smiled and patted his friend's hand. "Now, now, that's no way to think. Have hope."
The brunette bit his bottom lip as he watched with envy as the girls one by one gleefully introduced themselves. And with a shaky tenor he heard the beauty reply with "I-I'm Koenma. Nice to meet you."
Although it was stupid and really corny, Yusuke admitted to himself that the boy's voice was captivating. It was cute but sharp, and the slight highness of it gave him a sense of innocence.
"Koenma." Kurama tried the name out while Yusuke continued to observe. "That's a lovely name." he lightly tossed his hair behind his shoulders and grinned widely at Hiei, who had remained silent ever since Yusuke's evident defeat about an hour ago. "We should say hello, boys."
Yusuke broke from his trance on cue. "Hell no!"
Kuwabara smacked the back of his best friend's head. "You're such a puss, Urameshi!"
"He's just pissed because those chicks got to him before he did."
Hiei's insult made Yusuke grit his teeth. "Fine! Assholes! I'll talk to him later- No, I'll ask him out." the three just kind of stared at him. Yusuke suddenly felt his blood run a little faster. The idea was put out there to shut the other three up but it actually sounded like a good plan. "Yeah… yeah! I'll ask him out!"
Kuwabara laughed for a short moment, but when he focused on Yusuke his eyes grew wide. "I know that look. You're serious aren't you?"
Hiei chuckled. "It'll all go down in flames once he actually has to do it." Kurama refrained from commenting but couldn't help but silently agree.
Yusuke suddenly bolted upright in his chair and threw a cocky thumbs up in the direction of his chest like a cheesy cartoon character. "When was the last time someone rejected me, huh?" Kuwabara searched his brain, but could only remember one time that he knew of that Yusuke was even sort of rejected.
"Well, there was Keiko…"
"Keiko doesn't count, Kuwabara." he said quickly, glaring down at his best friend and not giving the subject a chance to overtake the conversation. Knowing that it was a tender subject, his three friends let it pass without argument.
"But this is different, Yusuke. This is a boy." Kurama said in a warning tone, trying to bring Yusuke back to reality.
"So?" the brunette shot a suspicious glare at the red-head. "Just a second ago you were cheering me on!"
"Yusuke, if you bring up all this confidence you'll get yourself hurt." Yusuke knew a genuinely worried expression on the redhead when he saw one. "A simple hello will suffice just fine."
"Ah, sorry. Made up my mind." he smiled widely. "Don't worry about me, red, I'll do fine!" he punched his shoulder lightly. "Look at this face. How could he say no?" He couldn't hold his grin for long before he could feel Hiei's glare into his back for touching Kurama.
Kuwabara sighed. "You're bipolar, dude."
Yusuke ignored the comment and looked upward. "Rich boy wont know what hit him! He'll be speechless just like all the other pursuits of Yusuke Urameshi!"
Hiei gave him some light applause and Kuwabara gave him a half-hearted Woo. Kurama laughed as Yusuke slapped them both hard.
"What's all the commotion back there?" asked a light-green haired girl in Koenma's audience. The heir couldn't help but look back behind him at the brunette teenager that had suddenly started a volumized ruckus, his uniform messily donned and his dark brunette hair greased back, him cursing at an orange-headed brute that was holding his head in pain and a teen with crazy black hair that was simply staring at him degradingly. A gorgeous young man with long red hair sat behind them, laughing.
The green-haired female… Juri…? Yeah, Juri… suddenly had a change of heart at seeing the gentlemen in question, but Koenma could only tell from her excited "Oh, them!" for he couldn't take his eyes from the spectacle taking place- never had he seen such a loud yet handsome bad-boy stereotype in reality before. He had only seen someone that fit the yelling boy's description in movies.
"That's Yusuke." she said the boy's name as if it were the most decadent of candies. "Yusuke Urameshi. He's so… bad." never had Koenma heard a negative adjective said with so much lust.
The girl with curly red-headed hair, Koto, scoffed at her friend. "Puh-lease!" she replied. "Yusuke's cute, but he's nothing compared to Kurama." she sighed softly. "His uniform, hair, etecetra, it's all always perfect." she went silent, obviously taking in the sights of her crush.
"Oh give it a rest, Koto, your just mad that Yusuke dumped you after two weeks." a low growl came from Koto's throat. "He dumped you too, Juri. You guys didn't even date a month."
Messy uniform, check. Messy hair, check. Threatening presence, check. Total player, check. This guy had literally crawled out from the pits of the bad boy label.
Juri bit back. "Well you could at least find someone else to crush on for revenge besides Kurama… he's totally gay." Koto gave a shocked, high pitched "Ugh!" and apparently pinched Juri judging by the "OW!" that followed. Trying to follow along with strictly audible evidence was giving Koenma a head ache and he really wanted to pay attention but damn it all he just could not look away from this kid.
"He is not!" Koto spat, stomping her foot. "There's no way, he's way too gorgeous!"
"He is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is NOT!"
"Is TOO!"
The affair carried on like that for some time with little to no intervention from the other girls. Koenma watched for a short time more before finally tearing his eyes away and focusing on the clock, seeing he had literally two minutes left in class.
Botan sped down the hall, her homework in between her teeth, and Shizuru in tow by her wrist. She looked in every direction and checked every head in the throng of students for that all-to-familiar greased back hair do. Gotta find Yusuke, gotta find Yusuke…
"Botan, what the hell is your deal?" Shizuru called loudly from behind her as she was unwillingly being drugged by her wrist at lightning speed. The third-year had showed up with a big smile to meet Botan at her class room when suddenly she was grabbed and running to desperately keep up with her girlfriend.
"Where's Yusuke?" she shouted. Shizuru just raised an eyebrow. "Yusuke? Why Yusuke?"
"No time to explain, I've gotta- YUSUKE! BOOOOOOSSS!"
The old childhood nickname still failed to get Yusuke's attention as she saw him checking out his hair in a reflective surface. "Typical dumbass!" she scowled. "Boss! YUSUKE!"
As she ran closer to him the brunette saw her in the reflection of the trophy case. He turned with a big cheesy grin. "How's my hair look?"
Botan and Shizuru were both bent over, gasping for breath. Botan tried to speak hurriedly but found herself exhaling deeply in between words "Fine… Yusuke… Listen, I…"
"You didn't even look."
The blue-headed female bolted upright. "No time for that! I have to tell you something!"
"It's gonna have to wait, buddy." He patted her shoulder. "I've gotta go ask someone out."
Her pink eyes widened. "Is it… who I think it is…?"
Yusuke raised a quizzical eyebrow. "The heir to the Daio Advertising company?"
"Oh, no I- wait, WHAT?"
"There he is." he gave her a cocky grin. "How do I look?"
"Like a douche." Shizuru chimed in.
Botan, speechless from Yusuke's stupidity, couldn't even bring herself to get angry when her brunette friend shot a middle finger at her girlfriend. "Fuck you, Shizzy. Wish me luck, ladies!"
"Wha- what is he… heir to what?"
She heard a tired sigh from behind her. "Koenma Daio transferred here today." Botan turned swiftly to see Kurama, his bright green eyes looking worriedly at his friend. "And Yusuke went from shy, lovesick girl to cocky, overconfident… erm…"
"Douche." Shizuru finished for him.
"Thank you." the red-head couldn't bring himself to utter insults of that degree. "So…" Kurama sighed once again. "He's decided he's going to ask him out on a date."
Botan's face stayed in a consistant state of shock with wide eyes, her right one twitching, her mouth in an awful shape.
"Today." Kurama added.
"They've never spoken." he added on top of that.
"And, basically… it's going to be-"
"Hilarious." Hiei finished. Kurama wasn't enjoying have his sentences finished for him.
"A disaster." Kurama repaired the end of his statement, glaring at Hiei. "Yusuke's going to get hurt."
Botan collected herself and leaned tiredly on Shizuru. The older of the two smiled reassuringly at Kurama. "He's just gonna have to learn the hard way. And he met this guy… today? How hard can he fall?"
Kurama should've replied with one of his infamous deep, intellectual replies. He should've explained how he saw the look in Yusuke's eyes when he first saw Koenma, and he should've said that yes, while it was comical, Kurama knew that it was something different then just a high school crush. That Kurama knew that look from a mile away, that he knew- that he knew what love was, and Yusuke could very well be in it, or something dangerously close.
But he stayed quiet. That might've been a mistake, but it was done as he saw the group moving towards where Yusuke was walking- straight for his target.
Hiei gently brushed the back of his hand with Kurama's, his way of saying "calm down."
Kurama sighed deeply and looked forward uncertainly, his way of saying that that was easier said, or implied, rather, then done.
Yusuke had dramatically stopped the brown-eyed heir, the two of them close to the lockers. The taller of the two brunettes had his arm extended to lean against the lockers, his hand pressed against it with weirdly intimidating bad boy charm. Kuwabara and Yukina were watching from a distance at the other side of the encounter, with Kurama, Hiei, Shizuru and Botan facing Yusuke's back, seeing the strange, slightly frightened, slightly offended look in Koenma's eyes. Yukina and Kuwabara were on the side where they could easily see Yusuke's face, and Botan wondered if his smile was covering up his whole face yet.
"They meet at last." Hiei said deeply and sarcastically.
"Koenma right?" of course Yusuke would open with the classic yeah, I know your name. That good huh? act. Botan could've killed him.
The heir gulped and tried to keep his gaze fierce. "Yes." but he was clearly failing. "Y-Yusuke, right?" though the reply wasn't nearly as savvy, it was still somewhat impressive that the kid knew Yusuke's name as well. There was something in the kid's voice, though- those girls must have told him about Yusuke, because he was being extremely cautious.
"Fame catching up to me, I see." Shizuru snorted back a laugh. Botan didn't know if she could watch anymore.
"So!" Yusuke straightened up and looked slightly downward, and the slight height difference between them was now evident. "I have a question."
Here it comes… Kurama and Botan thought with a wince each.
Here it comes. Hiei and Shizuru thought with evil smiles.
"This Friday, ok? How 'bout you and me go out. See something. Eat something. I'll even let you pick."
The group of six all held their breath. Except Hiei, who was just in it for the potential comedy and didn't really care about the outcome. But Kurama witnessed Koenma's eyes suddenly turn darker and more serious.
The nervousness and fright in Koenma's glare all melted away in that instant, and all the group could see was anger and irritation. "I'd rather chew off my own foot." he barked. And with that, the heir turned up his nose and stormed pass.
Yusuke didn't comment further, instead he just stood frozen, his face red with embarrassment. The other six in the group all had wide eyes, some with dropped jaws. It was silent among the seven of them for a seemingly painfully long time.
The sudden wave of a familiar voice breaking through their silent shock gave them all chills. "Hey guys. What was that all about?"
Yusuke didn't want to turn around. That voice sounded very familiar. Dare he turn to see who had just witnessed the most embarrassing thing of his life? He slowly turned his head to see the girl in question.
Where had he heard that voice before? Was this an ex-girlfriend? It wasn't Koto was it? The voice was high and young but really professional-sounding, so who could possibly oh, fuck no.
"H-hi, Keiko." Botan whimpered. "Look, Yusuke- it's… Keiko."
No one dared to say anything. The brunette looked closely at his… ex-best-friend-slash-girlfriend-slash-not-really… And Keiko just stared back, not really knowing what to say.
It surprised no one when Kuwabara was the one to break the silence. "Sick burn."
Uh, yeah. I like it. I think.
Yeeeah, YYHA ref there at the end, I couldn't help myself. I'm sorry, I'M SORRY!
R&R, beautifuls!
