Epilogue
The matched ended with a score of 55-45 Kurama's team won. Keiko sighed and turned to her teammates to congratulate them. Just as she did that, she noticed that they were talking amongst themselves. As she listened she heard them saying something about how Kurama must have been cheating. "Don't bother you guys. Ku…Suichi wouldn't cheat at this sort of thing."
Hana replied, "How would you know? You are probably just covering up for him since he is your friend!" The rest of the team nodded in agreement. They went over to talk to the moderator and told him their suspicions. As he listened to them he nodded knowingly. He then went over to where Kurama was standing with his teammates congratulating him.
"Mr. Minamino, the other team has accused you of cheating… I must agree with them, there seems to be no way for you to know the questions before hand, so unless you can demonstrate that you did not cheat… you will have to give up your win."
"I understand. What do you want me to do?" Kurama replied.
"Um… sir, how about you take him outside and have him tell you all about the plants that are out there?" Keiko suggested.
"Seems like a sound idea to me. Let's go."
The whole audience wanted to see what would happen. Almost all of them figured that he was cheating, and they wanted to see him stumble over some simple fact. The moderator lead them to the school's garden. He pointed at a yellow rose, "tell me everything you can about this species of plant."
Kurama nodded showing that he understood. Most of the audience smirked. "The shurb rose is useful as specimens in shrubberies or as medium to tall hedges. Many shrub rose varieties serve as excellent porch borders. Prune shrub roses in late winter or very early spring. For a more restrained form, cut them back to about 2-feet. Otherwise, many varieties will truly grow in to good sized shrubs. Most shrub roses perform best with a minimum of six hours of sun, in a well-drained soil with monthly feedings March through August. The Latin name for the shrub rose is Rosa Hugonis. Do you want me to carry on, or is that good?" Kurama asked.
"No…no that is good. But I am amazed, even I didn't know half of that stuff…." The moderator drifted off into lala land.
Meanwhile the audience had all face-faulted. With the exception of Keiko, she knew what would happen. She just sighed. She turned to her teammates again. "I told you not to do that, now we look like the bad guys!" She sighed and walked away. As she exited the school she saw Yuusuke, she ran up to him. "We lost. So you wanna go out for ice cream." Yuusuke just smiled and walked towards the nearest ice cream shop. They walked on into the sunset talking… suddenly there was a scream of "YUUSUKE!" and the sound of a hand hitting a face. I never said it was peaceful..
Kurama's teammates gathered around him, once again smothering him. After he had declined a celebration he headed home. He had a feeling that he was forgetting something… he shrugged it off nothing that it was probably nothing.
That nagging feeling just so happened to be a certain little fire demon. Right now he was sitting in his cell smoldering with rage. The guards were getting nervous and decided to shave Hiei's head just to be on the safe side. However, one look at the fire demon was enough to scare even Spirit World's most battle hardened warrior. Hiei had commenced shouting death threats to his former comrades. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU KURAMA! ESPECIALLY YOU SPIRIT DETECTIVE!! I ALWAYS WANTED TO KILL YOU KUWABARA! I SWEAR KOEMA WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE NOT EVEN YOUR PACIFER WILL BE LEFT!!!" All of the guards promptly took a step back.
Author's note
the information about shrub roses came from a search on google. Please do not kill if the info is not correct. I have a limited knowledge when it comes to flowers….
