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Awaiting Destiny chapter four

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Ten Years Later

Hiei was on his way to school when he heard a familiar sound behind him.

"Yo, wait up man." His friend known as Urameshi Yusuke yelled as he finally reached Hiei's side. They met in Hiei's first year of Meikai University. He wanted a change of scenery, so after high school, he applied to most colleges away from Miyagi providence. He was accepted in many but finally chose this one here in Urayasu Chiba and now he was a third year student studying engineering. He chose Chiba because here was were the location of the orphanage and he wanted to start visiting Genkai-sensei and Enki-sama.

"You see you, if I keep waiting for you, you'll make me late." Hiei's deep smooth voice snapped at the new comer.

"Man, relax; it's the first day of school. You know they don't do anything, just hand out syllabus and say a whole bunch of crap about not plagiarising and absence lead to failure." Yusuke said as he tried to ruffle Hiei's spiky hair but Hiei dodged it.

"Let's hurry, Koenma is waiting for us, remember." Hiei said as he watched his friend. Every semester he wondered how Yusuke kept up his grade to stay in their major.

"Fine, so did you check out the Professors yet?" Yusuke asked and Hiei shook his head.

"So they could be mean this semester." He clarified and Hiei nodded.

"Awe man." Yusuke whined while pouting.

"You should at least try asking Botan for help." Hiei suggested.

"NO, I can't stand to hear her talk about how great Koenma is." Yusuke yelled as he made a face. "No guy wants to hear that." He finished.

"Hush, Koenma is coming." Hiei said as he nudged Yusuke.

"Yo." Was all Koenma said.

"Why don't you take out that damn lollipop, don't you think you're too big to be sucking on that." Hiei said. It was degrading when he was around them with that thing in his mouth.

"No." He said childishly. "It comforts me, that's why I am doing better than Yusuke." Koenma informed.

"It is because of your bubbly and annoying female." Hiei interjected before Yusuke could give a crude rebuttal.

When they reached their class, this class room was in an amphitheatre style, so they had to walk up a few steps to get to a seat as they sat down and looked down onto the board.

"IT IS SO FAR!" Yusuke said as he squinted his eyes trying to see the white board.

"Open your damn eyes." Hiei said as he took out his binder.

"I am, I think I need glasses." He said still squinting.

"Let's go closer." Hiei said as he took his stuff and went down two stairs to the third row of the class.

"Man, it's too close now." Yusuke whined and Koenma sighed.

"Shut up." Hiei snapped as he put him seated on the chair next to him. "You should be disciplined." He added.

"Oh, I would gladly accepted it if you do the honours." Yusuke said in a playful seductive tone as he pushed his rare in the air and Koenma just turned around embarrassed to see if anyone saw Yusuke's crude behaviour. Luckily it was only them in the class so far.

Hiei looked at the butt in his face and gave it a really hard slap, it echoed loudly in the classroom.

"Gosh! Man that was hard." Yusuke said as he rubbed his butt to prevent himself from feeling the stinging sensation.

"Serves you right, Yusuke. Never put your butt in Hiei's face, and I thought you were smarter than you let on." Koenma said amused as the other students filed in one by one.

"Man, this is not funny. I would not be able to sit for the whole day." He whined

"Shut up now Yusuke, people are around now." Hiei said as he made sure he had his pen out with the binder that was full with clean file papers ready for notes.

"Hey, man. Can I have a clean sheet of paper? I forgot mine home." Yusuke said sheepishly and Koenma sighed.

"NO." Hiei bluntly said.

"Fine. I'll ask someone else." He informed as he turned to the table behind him.

"Hi, can I..." he was cut off but the beauty that graced his vision.

"Yes?" The girl asked kindly as she turned and looked at him with a radiant smile.

'I think I'm in love.' He thought as he kept staring dumbfounded at the brown haired classmate.

"Idiot, the girl is talking to you." Hiei's deep voice snapped him out of his daze.

"Can I borrow a piece of paper please, uh.." He paused.

"Yoroshiku, Yukimura Keiko desu." She stood and bow. 'His awkwardness is kind of cute.' She said inwardly as she handed him a paper.

"Hajimemashite, Urameshi Yusuke desu." He stood and bowed before accepting the paper. "Arigatou gozaimasu." He finished as he turned sharply and she settled next to Hiei breathing hard.

"What's wrong?" Koenma asked as he saw a flushed look on Yusuke's face.

"I think I'm in love." He sighed out softly and that caught Hiei's attention, who was ignoring him up until this point.

"I doubt you have a chance with Yukimura." He said seriously.

"Wait you know her?" Yusuke jumped on him.

"No, she was in one of my classes a few semesters ago." He said nonchalantly.

"Set me up, nah." He whined as he shook Hiei vigorously. "Please."

"I don't know her like that, but if you want her attention, you better focus in class. She doesn't seem as the type to go after guys like you." Hiei said truthfully.

"Great, well now I have found my Muse. I shall excel." Yusuke said confidently.

"Let's hope so because we engineers major cannot have a grade point average below 2.5." Koenma informed.

"Wait, so that means she is one of us." Yusuke said happily.

"Not really. This class is open to all majors." Hiei informed.

"AWE man." He sighed defeated.

"But you will get to see her twice a week in this class." Koenma added.

"Can you two hush now, the professor is here." Hiei said as they began to pay attention. When Koenma and Hiei looked at Yusuke, they realised that he was serious. He was actually taking notes on the first day of class. The only time he would do that is about a week or so before an exam. They watched each other with disbelief as they turned back to pay attention.

After two classes, they decide to have lunch on the green lawn behind the engineering building. You can always assume what major someone was by seeing which building they hung out in and the location of the classes.

"Man, we should have invited her." Yusuke said. For the whole morning, he was acting like a love struck puppy.

"I think he really has it bad." Koenma pointed out and Hiei nodded. They were all sitting on the grass with their lunch in front of them.

"She's an angel." He sighed out dreamingly with the gentlest look on his face and Hiei and Koenma watched each other for a while then burst out laughing.

"What! What's so funny?" Yusuke asked.

"Nothing, let's just eat we have one more class today." Koenma said.

"I am so glad we all have the same schedule so if I forget you guys can help me." Yusuke said in an almost serious note.

"Let's eat please." Hiei said as he began eating.

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The second day of school, they only had one class that day and the teacher cancelled it for the week because he was sick. Yusuke wanted to throw a feast in celebration of this momentous occasion. For all their years in college, they professors were the ones to show up for class even in the most difficult weather.

For the whole week they only had five out of their six scheduled classes and Yusuke couldn't wait for Monday so he could see the Yukimura girl again. This time Yusuke worked up the courage to ask her to have lunch with them. When she said yes, he fainted, and of course Hiei kicked him awake. When Keiko saw that, Koenma reassured her that he will be fine.

"I can't wait to see my beautiful brunette." He chirped as they sat down on the grass.

"Well here she comes." Koenma said. "But she is not alone; I think that is her boyfriend." He said and Hiei and Yusuke looked behind them to see.

"How you know that. It could be a girl with all that long hair." Yusuke defended.

"I saw his face, very nice, but definitely a guy, no chest." Koenma said as he took some yakitori and put it in his mouth.

Hiei was still looking at the long haired boy who walked away from Keiko. 'There was only person with that colour hair.' He thought about his childhood friend. 'What's wrong with me, there must be so many people with that colour hair nowadays.' He reasoned as he turned away.

"Hello guys." Keiko greeted as she sat next to Yusuke and took out her lunch.

"Hey, Keiko was that your boyfriend? Maybe he can come have lunch with us sometime." Koenma said hoping to help Yusuke a bit.

She almost choked when she heard him. "Oh no Koenma, that's my brother and I did invite him but he had to go do something in the research centre." She paused and she shook her head. "I wish that boy could come out once in a while from that cold place and hang out sometimes. Could you believe he forced our parents to buy him an electron microscope for his birthday?" She said as she shook his head smiling.

"Wow, that thing is expensive." Hiei said with mild surprise.

"Really?" Yusuke and Koenma asked oblivious to what it really was.

"Yes, it can run well into the million yen easily." Hiei informed.

"WOW."

"Yea, but he took a full time job a few times to help pay for it." She smiled gently at the thought of her brother. "Anyway I know you didn't invite me here to talk about my brother." She changed the subject.

"So what do you do for fun?" Yusuke asked gently. "What's your major?"

"Oh well I am doing Human Resources and management with a minor in hospitality, very easy." She giggled.

"WHAT, THEY HAVE A HOSPITALITY MAJOR." Yusuke shrieked. "Why didn't I know this?" He said throwing daggers at his two friends.

"You'd fail that too Yusuke." Hiei said seriously with a hint of smile.

"Keiko giggled. "It is tedious, easy but tedious. What's your major anyway?"

"We are all engineering majors." Yusuke announced happily.

"Wow, a difficult major. I don't know how you do it. My brother has a difficult major too." She informed smiling.

"Oh really?" Yusuke asked loving the fact that he was talking to her.

"Yes, Biotechnology with a minor in Biomechanics. I didn't even know what that was before, or if that major ever exixted." She giggled.

"Wow." They all said in unison.

"Yes" She said as she began to eat her food. "Guys, eat before the food gets cold." She scolded lightly.

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The next day, Tuesday, they were not lucky as last week to have their class cancelled. They went to their class and groaned. The teacher was late though and Yusuke was not eager to start this Theoretical Physics class, mechanical was bad enough.

"I'm going outside for a while." Hiei said as he left his folder there to claim his seat as Yusuke and Koenma followed.

"Why did you leave?" Yusuke asked. "I was going to do that."

"I want to stand for a while. My butt is sore from sitting so long in mechanics this morning. That class wasn't even schedule for today. These Physics professors are too much." Hiei informed as he leaned against the wall by the door and jabbed his hands in his black baggy pants.

"Yea, that man never knows how to keep time. Luckily we didn't have this class right after." Koenma sighed as he leaned his shoulder on the wall adjacent from Hiei.

"Yea, I mean in every class we had, that dude goes over. Remember last semester in advance physics he almost made us late for our calculus three class." Yusuke said who was standing in front of Hiei.

"And it is not as if he is lively. He drags on so much. He should retire." Hiei said exasperatedly.

As he said that someone came up to them and Yusuke turned to see who it was.

"Sumimasan, is this Theoretical Physics?" The soft voice asked timidly.

The newcomer looked at all three of them but stopped on Hiei and stared a bit with a creased brow as if in thought. Hiei looked at the redhead in front of him and stared with a bit of shock but composed himself and did not say anything.

"Yes." Koenma said and the redhead browed went into the class still watching Hiei with a strange look. They all looked at him enter the class as a light breeze delayed his long hair from entering as fast as the body did.

"Hiei, you act as if you've seen a ghost or something." Koenma pointed out.

"It's nothing, he's here." Hiei said as he leaned his head over to the fast approaching professor.

"Let's go and get over this boring class." They groaned as they followed the Professor in.

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End of chapter four