*is still looking for flames* You can never be too careful but thanks Keiko Urameshi and Jen, Yusuke didn't get a heart attack cause I'm saving that for later, but it involves school work once more.

Pyro: *sigh* Yeah, she hates –

*shushes Pyro up* Don't let the plot bunnies get out of their cage.

~

            As Keiko, Kimi and the others had left; Kuwabara socked Yusuke in the cheek. Yusuke, too busy staring after the girls was caught off guard and was knocked to the sidewalk.  "You little bastard!!" Yusuke hopped up and punched Kuwabara in the gut before realizing Kuwabara was laughing, despite the pain in his stomach.

            "Oh God, Urameshi – "

            "One more word and you'll get a beating so bad you won't be able to get out of bed let alone fight anyone."  The threat was real, even Kuwabara could tell that much about his friend/rival.

            "Jeez, you're so uptight."

            "I said – "

            "Hey, hey. Calm down Urameshi. It's not like I just yelled to the world that you liked Keiko."

            Yusuke once again felt heat spread across his face. "Damn you Kuwabara!!" People on the street turned to stare at the two delinquents before shaking their heads and going back to their business. Typical middle school behavior. From not so typical middle school students. But hey, nobody's perfect.

            Kuwabara, despite knowing what would happen, suddenly burst out laughing at Yusuke's expression. He dangerously teetering on one foot and a little flick from Yusuke was all that was needed to send the taller boy down, but Yusuke decided to punch in with disastrous(for Kuwabara) consequences.

            Kuwabara was sent tumbling into the road, sobering from his laughing outburst. And luck would have it, there were no cars.  'Damn, no cars. I was hoping he would get run over like me, but would stay in Rekai', Yusuke thought bitterly, glaring at a celebrating Kuwabara. ' Next time this kind of thing happens, Kuwabara won't be so lucky. I swear it on the untouched piles of homework from when Keiko managed to catch me.'

~!Flashback!~  

'Six months(?) since training with Genkai and I haven't gotten any homework', Yusuke thought with relief. He wasn't counting the times he didn't attend school since that was pretty much everyday.  Keiko hadn't stopped by his house to deliver homework(or schoolwork) so the boy was home free.  Well, was home free.

Luck would have it, Keiko finally brought him the homework and news that nearly killed him, again.

"Yusuke! Yusuke! I brought the work you missed, skipping school and whatever junk you do," Keiko announced one day, intruding into his room carrying a large stack of papers.

Yusuke stared, half because of Keiko's unusual wording and also because of the size of the pile. "Um, I'm supposed to do all of this? When's the deadline?" 'Like I care,' Yusuke thought, glaring at the papers with contempt. 'I'm sure as hell not going to do that stuff.'

"It's due in two weeks, Mrs. Kayami let you off easy," Keiko answered matter-of-factly, striding out of the room to carry in another, slightly smaller stack of papers.

"Ugh!" Yusuke's mouth dropped. How could he have missed so much in just six months with the added vacation of five weeks from skipping school? "There's no way I'll be able to finish all that in two weeks! Are you people mad?"

Keiko glared at Yusuke, teacher's little helper mood in full force. "If you hadn't skipped –"

"I didn't skip school on purpose!" Yusuke protested quickly, feeling his stomach do loop-de-loops from lying to his best and sometimes only friend.

"Either way you have to finish this and the two piles outside."

Yusuke hopped up from the futon and peeked around the door frame. Sure enough, two stacks of papers were nestled next to the door, lines and typing on the pages staring up at him ominously. "Oh Kami-sama!! Save me from his hellhole." Yusuke headed to the window, planning on opening it and jumping out before realizing that wouldn't do any good. He'd probably just be brought back to life again or kept cooped up in Rekai while his friends (and Keiko) were out having fun. Scrunching his nose up at that idea, Yusuke slammed the window closed.

"And Yusuke, some of my friends and I were going to get a milkshake and some ice cream after school tomorrow, wanna come?"

Good thing Yusuke had closed the window, or else he definitely would've tumbled out. Why would Keiko and her crew of friends invite him? The worse punk in school?? Maybe it had been completely Keiko's idea. Yeah, that made sense, now if only he could calm down his heart, everything would be perfect…

!~End Flashback~!

            Yusuke was brought back to life when pain blossomed in the back of his skull. Kuwabara, obviously freaking out when Yusuke didn't answer his jeers about his rotten luck, had roughly pushed him into the cold brick of the fence behind him. Anger instantly replaced any notion of pain when Yusuke realized this and he quickly retaliated.

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A nice piece of work, right? *looks around for hands* Um, right?

Pyro: *raises hand just to help boost confidence*

Yay!! *huggles Pyro and anyone else that raised their hands* Thankyee. Thou better wait or thou will not read the next chapter. Now ye get out and play, thee should not waste vacation time.

Pyro: oO I never knew she talked like a Quaker.

Shuddup. *grabs Botan's oar and whacks Pyro like Botan whacked Yusuke for looking at her through the Spy Glass*