Stereotypes

By: SanguineFox

Disclaimer: Yup... I still don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. I could probably carry out my 99 step plan to rule the world and still not own them... maybe that'll be step 100...

Warnings: Boy Love! Currently, it's only one sided-ish. Language runs a bit of a muck... I think that's it...



Chapter 3: A Crushed Crush

The next morning in school was probably the best in Kurama's short life. Maya had spread the word that he had dumped her for a guy, which set quite a few peers against him with dark glares as he entered. There was no one to bug him into sitting with them at lunch and no one to bother or cling to him when he was trying to get to class. He couldn't be happier.

Hiei had settled down for lunch with Yusuke and Kuwabara with a heavy sigh. It was more of a habit than the fact that they were friends that he sat at the table with the two teens. They didn't really talk much, well Kuwabara and Yusuke talked enough for twenty people, but for the most part Hiei sat there and barely listened to their conversation.

"So, how was your tutoring yesterday," Kuwabara scoffed at his friends. He had been doing pretty well in all of his classes since Yukina, Hiei's sister, had said that he was smart enough to get better grades than the 'D's and 'F's he had been getting before he started dating her.

"Shut up. Keiko's my tutor, and she's mean enough to me without her getting frustrated about trying to get me to understand the concept of General command from our past wars. I think she hit me at least six times last night."

"Man, your girlfriend is crazy, Urameshi," Kuwabara shuddered at the idea. Keiko was pretty hot, but she knew how to keep the bad boy Yusuke in line.

"What about you, Hiei? Who's your tutor?" Yusuke rubbed his cheek where Keiko had hit him multiple times.

"I bet she got Mukuro to help him. She probably knows about that major crush she has on you."

"Actually I have to deal with Kurama," he grumbled, ignoring the name Mukuro as best he could.

Yusuke and Kuwabara smirked at each other, "Why are you sounding so angry, shrimp? I thought you liked him."

"I did, but it turns out that he's nothing like I thought that he was. He's a complete jerk."

"Sounds perfect for you," Yusuke laughed, "You didn't think that Kurama would be able to put up with you if he really were that perfect angel you thought he was."

"Shut up," the deep voice growled at the taller idiots surrounding him.

"Oh, Hiei, there you are," a familiar alto voice called to the shorter boy happily, as a chipper looking redhead came into the side door from the stairway, "Are we still on for your tutoring today after school?"

The teen answered in a short growl, "I have practice today."

The growl didn't affect the tall teen, who continued to smile brightly, nothing was going to get him down today, "Okay, would you mind staying late? I have some projects that I have to finish anyway. I could wait until you're finished with football."

"…S-sure…"

"Great, I'll see you then," he smiled brilliantly before heading out of the cafeteria, not noticing the confused crimson eyes that followed him out of the room.

"Oh, yeah, he seems like such a jerk," Yusuke said sarcastically, snapping Hiei's attention back to the small group.

"You hate staying late for practice, now you want to stay even later just for tutoring?" Kuwabara raised an eyebrow.

"Shut up."

"Oh, Hiei, I think that you're blushing," Yusuke laughed.

"I am not," he growled.

"Oi, there's the bell," Kuwabara jumped up, and called out as he ran, "got to get to class."

"Yukina's in his next class, isn't she?" Yusuke watched the tallest of their group shot off.

"The fool doesn't even run that fast on the field, of course Yukina's in his next class," Hiei sighed. He didn't really care for it, but it was obvious that his sister liked Kuwabara a lot, so, he allowed him to live.

"So…" Yusuke eyed his short friend as they made their way to their first class, "When are you going to ask him out?"

"What?" he choked, his were eyes so wide that they almost seemed that they were going to fall out.

"You know, I think he was looking for you for a while, he seemed rather happy to see you especially if he just has to tutor you."

"Actually, I told him I'd be his friend," he sighed, rather bored.

"Really? Just a friend?"

"You're really starting to bug me today."

"If you're going to be his friend, why not invite him out to drink with us sometime? Say this Friday?"

"You think that Mr. Perfect Student actually drinks?"

"Not necessarily drink, but if he wants to be friends with you, I'm sure he'd love to be friends with me and Kuwabara, right? Besides, I'm sure you'd love to spend time with him outside of school, right?"

"That's beside the point," he growled.

"Come on, it can't hurt to ask."

"Hn."

"Alright!"

"What are you planning?"

"Nothing, I'm just glad that your love life will finally start to take off soon enough."

"I don't trust you."

"Oh, Hiei, I'm hurt, and after all I've done for you."

"What the hell have you done for me?"

"… I'll think of the answer later, time for class," Yusuke wandered off. Hiei doubted that he was actually going to class.

"You looked really good out there, Hiei," Kurama greeted the shorter boy in the library. It was almost five and the library would probably close in about half an hour, but the boys decided to do what they could.

"You were watching?"

"I get bored, and I guess I do have a need for violence. Watching you guys try to pummel one another gives me a slightly… well, it calms me down a little."

"You? Violence?" Hiei scoffed.

"Hey, I did take some fighting lessons," he defended himself.

"Oh, really? What? Tai-Bo?"

"Haha," he rolled his eyes, "No, I took real karate at some place near my house, but I only made it a few levels of belts before I had to quit so I could focus on my studies and clubs."

"How were you?"

"I'd say I was decent," he smiled, but Hiei knew that with Kurama's personality he was probably the best in his class.

"Hn."

"Didn't we talk about your grunting? Or are you actually a caveman?"

"Ha, you're very funny," he almost snarled his sarcasm.

Twenty minutes later with little actually accomplished as the two continued to bicker more than study, a larger, older man approached their table, "Minamino, the library is closing soon, unless you want to close up the library again."

"No, that's okay, thank you, Mr. Toguro," Kurama doesn't even bother to hide his exacerbated sigh, and leads his his new friend out, "I guess we're done with studying today."

Hiei shrugged.

"Should we try again tomorrow?"

"I still have practice."

"That's fine, I'll just take out the books that we need and we can work at my place, okay?"

"That… that sounds fine," he was being invited over to Kurama's house…

"Great, so we'll meet here after you're done, and head over to my place."

"Yeah… sure…"

"Okay, would you like me to walk you to the bus stop again?"

"If you want," he shrugged.

"You want to know something funny?" the two headed for the double doors.

"Hn?"

With a heavy sigh to ignore the grunt, "This is what got me into trouble with my girlfriend yesterday."

"So it's true that you broke up?"

"You heard, huh?"

"The entire school knows, and every girl thinks that they're the reason why."

"What do you mean?"

"They think that you broke up because you wanted a different girlfriend."

"Oh, that's interesting considering we broke up because of you."

"You what?" a coughing fit started in his throat and he tried to keep from tripping over himself.

"Are you okay?" he rubbed Hiei's back, leaning over to see if he was alright.

"Yeah," he cleared his throat.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"No… it's not like that…" he regained his ability to breathe, "I just never thought I'd be the reason of someone's break up, especially that life long relationship you and Maya had."

"It wasn't life long. It was only three years, and our relationship was ending when it started."

"If you say so."

"It's the truth. Why does nobody believe me?"

"My bus is here," he brushed off the comment.

"I don't like guys!" he suddenly blurted out.

"… What?" Hiei stared at the redhead as his bus stopped in front of them.

"It's… it's nothing," he swallowed hard, "Um, your bus is here."

"Hn, I'll see you tomorrow," he boarded jerkily.

"Okay," he waved and headed home on his own. It was weird finally having peace and quiet while he walked, but it was nice. He could get use to looking around the scenery by himself with no one to distract him from the beauty of the world. Unfortunately there was nothing to keep his mind off of what he had just told Hiei. Where did that come from? Why did he feel the need to affirm his sexuality to him...? Uh-oh, what if Hiei was gay, and he had just completely offended him. No, Hiei couldn't be gay.


'I don't like guys!'

Why had he said it so suddenly? Did he know how Hiei felt?

"Shit," Hiei cursed under his breath as his bus pulled up to his stop, and he made his way back to school the next morning. What if Yusuke had told someone, and they had told Kurama? Oh, Yusuke was going to die.

"Yo, Hiei," speak of the damn devil, "what did your crush say about the party tomorrow?" Yusuke slapped Hiei hard on the back.

"Hn, guess I forgot," he shrugged, rubbing the new sore spot, completely annoyed.

"Yeah, forgot, right, you chickened out didn't ya? You're a wuss," he laughed.

"Right, whatever."

"Oh, Hiei," Kurama approached shyly, "Um, can I talk to you for a little bit?"

"What is it?"

"Well…" his eyes wandered over to Yusuke nervously, "it's a little private, so…"

"Hey, no prob, Hiei'll tell me everything later anyway," the chipper teen laughed and walked off quickly.

"You… you won't actually tell him will you?"

"I don't tell that idiot anything other than my name and age, and even then he still thinks I'm twelve."

"Oh… okay, well… about what I said last night… I wanted to apologize if I had offended you in anyway. I didn't mean anything by it… It just sort of came out."

"I wasn't offended."

"Oh, good, I really wouldn't want our friendship to start off on the wrong foot."

"Don't give me that."

"W-what?"

Hiei huffed in annoyance, "You just don't want it to spread around that you're homophobic."

"I am not a homophobe," Kurama nearly screeched, which caused a few people that were passing by to stop and stare at them both, "Oh, no… I hate when I do that."

"What? Create a scene that makes you look like an idiot?"

Emerald eyes narrowed, "Even if I was gay, I don't see why Maya thought I would go out with you."

"Hn," Hiei smirked, "because I'm dark and mysterious."

Kurama scoffed, "There's nothing mysterious about you, and the only thing dark is your hair and horrible sense of fashion."

"At least my mother doesn't dress me."

"Oh, wipe that cocky grin off your face," the redhead huffed, "Damn jocks, you think you get one 'Mama joke' in to a conversation your the greatest comedian in the world."

"I don't believe I said 'mama'."

"And please don't attempt to do so again."

"I think we're off the subject."

"What subject?"

"That you're homophobic," Hiei reiterated.

"I already told you, I'm fine with gay guys, okay? It doesn't matter to me. You're the jock, you're the one who probably can't stand the thought of two guys being together in a romantic relationship."

A snarl pulled at one side of Hiei's lip, "What does me being a football player have to do with my views on who other people want to fuck?"

"Because all of you jocks are the same. Your thickheaded and slow," he scowled, the normally calm and collected redhead was practically snarling back at the shorter teen.

"What the fuck is your problem?"

Kurama's eyes went wide as he realized what he was saying, "I'm sorry... I'm not really sure where that all came from. I didn't mean it, I swear."

"And you wanted to be friends with me? Fuck you, you damn spoiled little brat," the shorter teen practically spat before heading to his first class, not bothering to look back at the flustered redhead.


TBC

Yup, that's it for now... Thanks to everyone who reviewed, it means a lot to read what other people think. Sorry about that ending, I reread what I had originally wrote and there was one scene that I couldn't stand so I tried to get rid of it, but it played a much larger role in the rest of the story so I tweaked it a little to be less... terrible, but it's still super cheesy in my mind. I really am sorry that Hiei over reacts so much, it's just that it seemed more in character for him to blow up over something stupid rather than have Kurama say what originally pissed him off.