Chapter 9

Who Is The Princess?

Ok... again I will say I am sorry if Hiei, Kurama, or Yusuke are out of character... thanks to all who have reviewed... I shall make you all a pie... lol... let me know what kind of pie you want...lol... I saw someone had cookies... so I'll make pies... lol... In the spirit of Thanksgiving... which is coming up... so have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING... and now for the disclaimer... I do not own any of the characters from YYH... If there is anything wrong with my story like spelling, grammer, or it doesn't make sence let me know...k... Thanks for reading, and continue to R&R (read and review)

A day like every other, the boys waiting impatiently outside of Rio's brick house, while the girls took forever to get ready for school. Yusuke was leaning against the house. His eyes seemed really heavy and he was having difficulties keeping them from falling and him dozing off.

The night before was rough. Yusuke was having an intricacy time sleeping on the hard, bare, wooden floor. He would never consider asking his friend to sleep on the floor, but a bed was sounding marvelous to him. The thought of the notorious bed underneath him send him into a deep sleep.

Hiei rolled his eyes, after noticing Yusuke sleeping against the wall. He never understood why Koenma would choose such a worthless human for such a mission. He turned his glare to Kurama.

"Why must we go to that idiotic school?"

"We must fulfill our mission, and we must stay undercover in order to find the princess. Remember she isn't the easiest person to find." Answered Kurama.

"Does Koenma even have an idea of who the princess is?"

"Well…. He doesn't…. but I do have a few ideas."

"A few? As in two?" Hiei looked up to the window where the conversation was seeping into the cool morning air.

"Actually…. Yes!" Kurama looked at the window then to Hiei.

"There is no way." Hiei looked at Kurama. "Neither one of those girls could be the princess."

"And of course you would know, because you spent the most time with her." Kurama of course meant this sarcastically, but Kurama couldn't have been closer to the truth, that Hiei tried to hide so desperately. When Kurama said the words a feeling he hadn't felt in awhile filled his body. Kurama looked at Hiei with a question looked. Hiei had a shocked face that had fallen on his face with out him even knowing it had.

After the disappearance of their princess, he said nothing about her, and they never knew what was going on between them.

"Hn." Hiei turned away from Kurama. He never told anyone about him and the princess's plans.

The door opened with the giggling they had been waiting for. The girls walked out arm in arm, Rio seemed to be the one laughing, and Kira's face was red.

"Go ahead." Rio tried to push Kira off of her arm, and into the direction of Hiei, and Kurama. Kira slowly let go of Rio's arm and she stared took one step closer to Hiei, and Kurama. She took another step, but tripped over something. The ground came closer to her face, and she squeezed her eyes shut. Her face grew redder as she knew she had just made a fool of herself. The ground stopped, and she felt arms around her waist. She opened her eyes, to see Yusuke with his arm around her waist holding her up.

Kira let out a sigh of relief.

"Hn. You should have let the wench fall flat on her face that would have been funny." Not a trace of laughter crossed his face, and she didn't like the fact that he was now mocking her. She stood up, and fixed her skirt that had messed up when Yusuke had caught her.

She was boiling with anger. She took a step towards the ignorant Hiei, when Yusuke stood in front of her. He crossed his arms over his chest. Kira couldn't disobey him, they had been friends for to long. "I hate it, when you make me promise things." Kira went to turn around when she notice the new watch Yusuke had gotten from Keiko.

She had been sending him presents for the past month hoping they would get back together, but Yusuke knew she had to stay in France to get a good job, and she wouldn't get one here.

"Crap!" Kira grabbed Yusuke's watch to get a closer look at the time. "We're going to be late." Kira grabbed Rio's arm knowing the boys would follow, not like any of them cared to go to school.

They made it to school in time to hear the late bell. Kira and Rio raced up the small, concrete steps, and in the door. The morning announcements echoed through the empty hallway. They walked into their first class just in time to hear the annoying "good bye, and good news till tomorrow" that got so monotonous after listening to it just two times.

They sat in their seat, and so began the day.

School seemed to never end, but the last two minutes were the worst. Kira sat in her seat glaring at the clock move slowly. The teacher was still teaching and assigning more and more homework to the insubordinate students who glared at the clock, nonstop. The teacher hated it when they did that, it was her pet peeve, and they all knew it.

The bell rang, and Kira raced out the door, completely forgetting about the mile long homework list on the board.

Kira was determined to get revenge on Hiei for his rude behavior earlier in the morning, and to get on Yusuke's case for not showing up to school. Normally, she wouldn't care, but if she had to go, then so did he. Kira made it to her locker and put in the combination. She turned it quickly to the right a few dozen times, then to her first number; 2, then turned it violently to the left past the number 18 the first time and caught it the next time around, finally she turned it to the right till it reached 35. She lifted up the handle and opened the locker door. She trough her books in the locker, and grabbed her book bag, forgetting to put her book, and notebook in the bag. She slammed it shut, in time for Rio to come to her locker.

"Kira! Yusuke told me to tell you that he, Hiei, and Kurama had to go to get some kind of papers from someone named Koenma." Kira, and Rio knew what Yusuke did, and all of the dangerous missions that he went on, but they never got to see them or meet his boss, even though they had seen Botan.

Yusuke was suppose to tell her something at the movies, and according to him it was important, and he wanted to tell her in private. He was always doing that to her.

When they were younger, Kira had a huge crush on Yusuke, and he wanted to take her to the movies to tell her something 'important', but all he wanted was to know if Keiko would go out with him. Kira was crushed by her crush, but she never told him her feelings that she used to have. Now, of course her feelings had changed for him. The love she used to have, turned into a brotherly love, that she shared with her siblings.

Rio, and Kira decided to walk home together, since they weren't going to wait all day for Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke. Plus, it was getting dark. (In my story school starts at 9am – 5pm) Rio, and Kira wanted to get home before it got dark, and they lived 1 ½ miles away. By that time it would get dark. It would take about 45 minutes to get home, and it got dark at 5:30pm, because of daylights savings time.

"Men are losers." Kira didn't like how her day was going.

"Yeah they are." Rio's voice wasn't the same as it normally was. She kind of seemed down, and looked as if she was contemplating something.

"What's wrong?" Kira, and Rio shared the same bond they shared with Yusuke, when one was down they all knew it.

"Nothing, but I think I like someone."

"REALLY! Who?" Kira loved it when Rio went out with someone. She always had this special glow in her smile when she was with one of her closer guy friends.

"Well…you're going to find it funny, but…. I like Kurama."

"What?" The shock hit Kira. She didn't see that one. She noticed anytime when Rio would start to have feelings for someone, but this time she missed it.

The walk went silent for a couple blocks. Kira didn't know what to say. She hadn't known Kurama for long, so she had no clue what he was into, or even if he was the right for Rio. The sun had set, and it was getting darker by the second.

Suddenly, a man jumped from a tree, and in front of Rio and Kira.

"Hello Princess." The voice was low, and could send a shiver up anyone's spine. The man was dressed in black, and had his faced covered with some kind of cloth. His eyes were the only thing that was visible. Just two brown circles in a sea of darkness. The streetlights flashed on.

"Princess?" answered Rio and Kira at the same time, confused.