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*Hey! My birthday just passed not long ago so I got some new manga and anime! I'm so happy! Just 2 more weeks 'til Christmas, yay! I would like to thank reviewers! You guys rock; enjoy and please review!
*Chapter 3 - Yusuke: Falling*
"Hahaha! Look at me, Shibai! I told you I'd make it! Haha!" A seven year old Yusuke was hanging upside down from the top of the playset by his knees. A young classmate stood beneath him, gawking up in surprise.
'Wow, either Yusuke's really brave or he's just plain stupid....' Shibai thought to himself. Despite their friendship, Shibai came up with a cruel plan. "Oh, I think I hear my mommy calling me! Bye bye, Yusuke....I have to go!" With that, Shibai walked away laughing to himself, leaving the future spirit detective suspending upside down in the air.
"H-Hey! Shibai! Get back here, help me down! You jerk, come back here!" Yusuke yelled at the receding figure. But Shibai didn't look back. "Grrrr.....Shibai, you loser!" The little boy shuddered; the temperature was dropping fast and night was arriving soon. This was it; either jump and risk breaking his neck or stay up there and freeze to death. 'Some choice! Some friend!' Yusuke thought angrily. Suddenly his ears perked up as he heard a cry.
"M-Mommy! Mommy, where are you?!" A girl cried for her mother. Yusuke saw a little brown haired figure walking through the playground. "Mommmmmy!" She bawled.
"Hey you! Girl!" Yusuke yelled out at the sniffling child.
"Huh?" She looked up, confused.
"Yeah, you! Help me please?" Yusuke begged.
"W-Why are you up there?" The girl asked innocently.
"My friend left me up here, that stupid jerk! Whatever, just get me down from here! I'm getting dizzy!"
"H-Hold on!" The girl ran off, searching for something to get him down. She found nothing but her jacket lying on the park bench where she left it. She grabbed it and returned to Yusuke. "Can you jump?"
"What! And crack my head in half? No thanks, lady!" Yusuke sniffled; the cold was getting to him.
"No! Jump onto my jacket! It's soft and puffy; it will catch you!" The young girl explained.
Yusuke pondered the decision. 'Let go? Don't let go. Let go? Don't let go.' While he was choosing, his knees couldn't take anymore. Yusuke let go of the bar, plunging to the ground that looked oh-so-far down. "Aughhhh!!!!!" He clenched his teeth, waiting for the hit. Instead Yusuke felt himself landing on something soft.
The boy was sitting on a blue jacket and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes carefully was the girl's concerned face. "Are you okay?" She asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks lady." Yusuke picked himself off the ground and brushed the grass from his pants.
"You don't need to call me that. I'm only 7...." The girl held up 7 fingers. "By the way, what's your name?"
"I'm the great Yusuke Urameshi!" He replied in a little boy voice.
"Yusuke...." The girl repeated. The young boy started to leave. "I'm....I'm Keiko! Keiko Yukimura!" She shouted after him, hugging her blue jacket. Yusuke stopped in his tracks and turned back.
"I'll remember that.....um, thanks Keiko....." Yusuke said hesistantly.
"Oh, you're welcome. Bye bye, Yusuke." Keiko waved cutely at him.
"Uh....bye....." He began walking away, his footsteps digging into the dirt ground, leaving an imprint on the floor.
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The next day at school, Yusuke met up with Shibai in the hallway. "You stupid jerk! I can't believe you left me up there!" Shibai was surprised as he spun around, looking at little Yusuke in alarm.
"Yu...Yusuke! Wat's up, buddy?" Shibai gave Yusuke an extremely uneasy smile.
"Wat's up?! I was! Don't gimme that crap! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Yusuke grabbed the front of Shibai's striped shirt. But at that moment, a teacher poked her head out of her classroom, having heard all the fuss.
"You! Little boy, put him down this instant!" The teacher shrieked in a high, shrilly voice. Yusuke looked at the teacher then turned back to Shibai, throwing him on the ground angrily. He then stomped away huffily.
Upon reaching his own classroom, his teacher screamed at him for being late then punished poor Yusuke by making him stay after school to air out the blackboard erasers. At 3:00, when every other student was happily skipping home, Yusuke was in the school, practically choking on the dust from the erasers.
"Stupid Shibai! Stupid teacher....stupid school.....!" Yusuke muttered while hurrying through the hallway. "Darn! Mom's going to yell at me again....! Grrrr....!" In his haste, he tripped and stumbled into a figure carrying a load of items. "Owwww!!!" Both shouted in unison as they crashed to the floor.
"Watch where you're going, jerk!" Yusuke rubbed his elbow where it had contacted hard with the floor.
"Maybe we wouldn't have fallen if you kept your eyes on the...." The other figure started to say. She stopped abruptly however. A wide smile came across her face as she squealed,"Yusuke!"
"Huh?" Yusuke stared at the other in confusion. She got to her feet and started picking up the items she dropped.
"It's me....Keiko? Remember....? From yesterday?"
"Ohhhhhh, yeah!" Yusuke said, recognizing the brown haired girl. "You go to this school too?"
"Uh huh!" Keiko nodded, still beaming. "Which class are you in?"
Yusuke scratched his head. "Umm....I don't know?" He replied sheepishly. "My teacher's a total witch though....."
"Teachers are only mean if you misbehave. If you do well in class, then you shouldn't have a problem."
"Whatever." He responded bluntly.
"Well, I've got to go deliver these to my art teacher. I'll see you around school, 'kay?" Keiko picked up the last of her stuff then walked towards the opposite direction in which Yusuke was going to go. He watched her go around the corner.
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***One Year Later***
"Isn't it so awesome we're in the same class this year, Yu-chan?" Keiko smiled.
"Will you leave me alone?! And stop calling me Yu-chan! I have a name and it's Yusuke so use it! Haha! Get it?! YUSuke, USE it? Haha!" Yusuke laughed manically.
"Umm, ok....whatever you say...." Keiko backed away slowly and shot him a look that obviously meant she thought he was crazy.
"Ok, class! Settle down, school has started!" The teacher commanded. "Tomorrow, there's the trip to Chizake River. Have you all turned in your permission slips?"
"Here's mine." Sensei looked up and saw Yusuke standing in front of her, clutching a crumpled up slip of paper. She snatched it from his little hand.
"Yusuke! Why is your form in so late?!" Sensei demanded crossly.
" 'Cause my mum went on a drinking binge for 3 days straight and I couldn't get her to sign it 'til last night." Yusuke gave the teacher a so-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it look. She sighed then stuffed the paper into an envelope. The little boy sat back down in his seat.
"Since tomorrow we are going to Chizake River we will learn some things about it. The Chizake Kawa was a famous site for...." The sensei droned on.
Yusuke yawned widely, disinterest already on his mind. 'It's gonna be a long day...."
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"Wowwwww...." Keiko breathed. "The river's beautiful!" She wasn't exaggerating; the river water was crystal clear and sunlight danced acorss the surface, making it gleam and sparkle. The children knelt down on the bank and, despite their teacher's nagging, took a long drink of the refreshingly cool water.
Yusuke, mischievous as usual, dunked Shibai's head into the cold water. Now Shibai wished he had never played that prank on Yusuke; he had been taking every chance in the past year to humiliate Shibai as revenge.
"Hey, Keiko! Guess what?!" Yusuke yelled at his friend.
"What, Yusuke? Huh?" Keiko peered around in surprise when she didn't see Yusuke anywhere. Suddenly she felt the back of her skirt being lifted for a second. "Arghhhhh!" She growled, spinning around furiously, her hand following her.
"Yusuke, you perverted brat!" Keiko shrieked angrily, her hand contacting with a certain boy's jaw.
"Oof!" Yusuke groaned as he hit the river bank. Keiko began beating him repeatedly with her fists. "Ah! Oof! Ergh!" Yusuke threw his arms up to block against her onslaught. A split second later, he was gone, running as fast as he possibly could away from the enraged girl.
"Yusuke, I'm not done with you yet! Get back here, you jerk!" Keiko cried out as she got to her feet and started chasing him. Yusuke only made a face back at her, still not stopping for an instant. To his surprise however, the persuing girl paused in her tracks; her eyes went wide as she pointed and screamed," Watch out! The river...!"
It was too late; Yusuke stumbled over an unseen rock and went tumbling down the bank, landing in the cold river with a loud splash. Faint cries of "Ahhh! Save him!" were the last thing he heard as his head went under.
The water was colder than anything Yusuke had ever experience before; it prickled his skin, bit at his stinging face and soaked through his uniform. The boy's lungs froze up, unabling him to draw a breath. Despite the thrashing and flinging of his arms, the melodramatic kid knew this was the end.
Numb ran through his body so that he couldn't even feel himself being lifted out of the water until he blinked the freezing water from his eyes. A concerned face swam before Yusuke's eyes.
"Are you okay, kid?" A masculine voice spoke up. It took a while for Yusuke to respond; he had to cough the river water from his lungs.
"Yeah, I think I'll...live..." Yusuke croaked weakily before passing out on the ground, cried of "Yusuke!" echoing in his head.
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The first thing Yusuke saw when he cracked open his eyes was a warm roaring fire. He sat up, groggily rubbing his head. "Ergh... w-where am I?" He uttered outloud.
"Yer in my house, kid. Damn good I hear yer lil classmates screaming othawise ya might've drown..." The same voice from before spoke again.
Yusuke looked around and noticed he was in a homey cabin. "Yusuke! Thank goodness you're alright!" His teacher rushed out and layed a hand on the boy's forehead. "How are you feeling?"
"Huh? Like a fish, ugh...." Yusuke replied, wanting to lay back down.
"Oh my! Your forehead feels warm; let's get you back home to your mother. Everyone else is already waiting on the bus." Sensei grabbed Yusuke's hand and tugged him off the couch he had been resting on. She then directed him to the location of the bus. Near the doorway, the teacher stopped to look back at the man in the cabin. "Thank you for saving him, Mr. Iyasa."
"My pleasure." The brown haired man replied.
On the bus ride back, Yusuke sat sniffling and shivering on the last seat. He was still freezing despite his 4 layers of clothing and an extra blanket covering him. Without warning, he felt someone plop down on the seat next to him.
"What do you want....?" The boy started to say until he realized it was Keiko. "Ah, Keiko! Uh....er...." To be quite honest, Yusuke really didn't know what to say. But the girl simply threw down her own jacket, the same one from the day they met, onto Yusuke, it serving as another blanket. Yusuke stared at her in awe. "Th-thanks...."
Keiko's only response was to look out the window. Finally she spoke up, "You know, Yusuke, today I was so worried..." Yusuke looked at her questioningly. "When you went under, the moment your head disappeared below the surface, I...I couldn't think straight; the only thing I thought of was how you almost got erased from my life." Keiko turned red upon saying this, not bothering to mention that when Yusuke almost drowned, she felt as if her heart was being crushed.
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Atsuko, Yusuke's mother, sat on the floor near her son's bed, shaking her head in disbelief. "My boy....the idiot." Keiko, sitting beside Yusuke too, sniffed loudly. Atsuko looked over at her sympathetically. "Aww, Keiko don't worry. It's getting late, you should go home." The young girl shook her head violently.
"Nuh-uh. Not until his fever goes down. It's my fault he fell in the river." Keiko whimpered.
"No, it's not!" Atsuko argued. "He fell over his own fat feet running away from you after he flipped your skirt. And it serves you right, you klutz!" She yelled at her bed-ridden son.
"Huh! Some comfort you are, mother dear!" Yusuke accused Atsuko irritably.
"Oh, he'll be fine by tomorrow, you'll see." Atsuko reassured Keiko as the young girl headed home.
The next day, Yusuke was up and healthy. Well, not exactly; his nose was runny, his forehead sweaty, his face clammy, you get the point. "Yusuke! Are you sure about this?!" Atsuko asked. "You're still burning up! Usually when any reason to skip school comes your way, you grab it. Why not today?"
Because..." Yusuke replied, walking out the door, "...if i stayed home...she'd stop by, like yesterday. And I don't wanna see...that look on her face again."
When he got outside, Keiko was standing near the door. As soon as she saw him, her dismal face lit up with delight. "Yo." Yusuke greeted her.
"Yusuke! You're up! And you're feeling better?!" The girl squealed.
"You bet! Good as new." Yusuke laughed, his snot dripping down his nose.
Keiko turned away as she replied haughtily, "Good. Then I won't WASTE any more time worrying." Unknowingly to her, Yusuke made a face of disgust as he threatened to slime her with his snot from behind. Atsuko watched as they walked away to school, thinking, 'Oh, Yusuke...she cares for you more than she lets on. I think you do too, son...."
*^_^ Finished! Please review and tell me what you think! Oh yeah, at the last part I took the conversation from the manga so don't sue! (I'm broke (-_-) Oh well, hope you guys enjoyed it; review!
*Hey! My birthday just passed not long ago so I got some new manga and anime! I'm so happy! Just 2 more weeks 'til Christmas, yay! I would like to thank reviewers! You guys rock; enjoy and please review!
*Chapter 3 - Yusuke: Falling*
"Hahaha! Look at me, Shibai! I told you I'd make it! Haha!" A seven year old Yusuke was hanging upside down from the top of the playset by his knees. A young classmate stood beneath him, gawking up in surprise.
'Wow, either Yusuke's really brave or he's just plain stupid....' Shibai thought to himself. Despite their friendship, Shibai came up with a cruel plan. "Oh, I think I hear my mommy calling me! Bye bye, Yusuke....I have to go!" With that, Shibai walked away laughing to himself, leaving the future spirit detective suspending upside down in the air.
"H-Hey! Shibai! Get back here, help me down! You jerk, come back here!" Yusuke yelled at the receding figure. But Shibai didn't look back. "Grrrr.....Shibai, you loser!" The little boy shuddered; the temperature was dropping fast and night was arriving soon. This was it; either jump and risk breaking his neck or stay up there and freeze to death. 'Some choice! Some friend!' Yusuke thought angrily. Suddenly his ears perked up as he heard a cry.
"M-Mommy! Mommy, where are you?!" A girl cried for her mother. Yusuke saw a little brown haired figure walking through the playground. "Mommmmmy!" She bawled.
"Hey you! Girl!" Yusuke yelled out at the sniffling child.
"Huh?" She looked up, confused.
"Yeah, you! Help me please?" Yusuke begged.
"W-Why are you up there?" The girl asked innocently.
"My friend left me up here, that stupid jerk! Whatever, just get me down from here! I'm getting dizzy!"
"H-Hold on!" The girl ran off, searching for something to get him down. She found nothing but her jacket lying on the park bench where she left it. She grabbed it and returned to Yusuke. "Can you jump?"
"What! And crack my head in half? No thanks, lady!" Yusuke sniffled; the cold was getting to him.
"No! Jump onto my jacket! It's soft and puffy; it will catch you!" The young girl explained.
Yusuke pondered the decision. 'Let go? Don't let go. Let go? Don't let go.' While he was choosing, his knees couldn't take anymore. Yusuke let go of the bar, plunging to the ground that looked oh-so-far down. "Aughhhh!!!!!" He clenched his teeth, waiting for the hit. Instead Yusuke felt himself landing on something soft.
The boy was sitting on a blue jacket and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes carefully was the girl's concerned face. "Are you okay?" She asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks lady." Yusuke picked himself off the ground and brushed the grass from his pants.
"You don't need to call me that. I'm only 7...." The girl held up 7 fingers. "By the way, what's your name?"
"I'm the great Yusuke Urameshi!" He replied in a little boy voice.
"Yusuke...." The girl repeated. The young boy started to leave. "I'm....I'm Keiko! Keiko Yukimura!" She shouted after him, hugging her blue jacket. Yusuke stopped in his tracks and turned back.
"I'll remember that.....um, thanks Keiko....." Yusuke said hesistantly.
"Oh, you're welcome. Bye bye, Yusuke." Keiko waved cutely at him.
"Uh....bye....." He began walking away, his footsteps digging into the dirt ground, leaving an imprint on the floor.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The next day at school, Yusuke met up with Shibai in the hallway. "You stupid jerk! I can't believe you left me up there!" Shibai was surprised as he spun around, looking at little Yusuke in alarm.
"Yu...Yusuke! Wat's up, buddy?" Shibai gave Yusuke an extremely uneasy smile.
"Wat's up?! I was! Don't gimme that crap! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Yusuke grabbed the front of Shibai's striped shirt. But at that moment, a teacher poked her head out of her classroom, having heard all the fuss.
"You! Little boy, put him down this instant!" The teacher shrieked in a high, shrilly voice. Yusuke looked at the teacher then turned back to Shibai, throwing him on the ground angrily. He then stomped away huffily.
Upon reaching his own classroom, his teacher screamed at him for being late then punished poor Yusuke by making him stay after school to air out the blackboard erasers. At 3:00, when every other student was happily skipping home, Yusuke was in the school, practically choking on the dust from the erasers.
"Stupid Shibai! Stupid teacher....stupid school.....!" Yusuke muttered while hurrying through the hallway. "Darn! Mom's going to yell at me again....! Grrrr....!" In his haste, he tripped and stumbled into a figure carrying a load of items. "Owwww!!!" Both shouted in unison as they crashed to the floor.
"Watch where you're going, jerk!" Yusuke rubbed his elbow where it had contacted hard with the floor.
"Maybe we wouldn't have fallen if you kept your eyes on the...." The other figure started to say. She stopped abruptly however. A wide smile came across her face as she squealed,"Yusuke!"
"Huh?" Yusuke stared at the other in confusion. She got to her feet and started picking up the items she dropped.
"It's me....Keiko? Remember....? From yesterday?"
"Ohhhhhh, yeah!" Yusuke said, recognizing the brown haired girl. "You go to this school too?"
"Uh huh!" Keiko nodded, still beaming. "Which class are you in?"
Yusuke scratched his head. "Umm....I don't know?" He replied sheepishly. "My teacher's a total witch though....."
"Teachers are only mean if you misbehave. If you do well in class, then you shouldn't have a problem."
"Whatever." He responded bluntly.
"Well, I've got to go deliver these to my art teacher. I'll see you around school, 'kay?" Keiko picked up the last of her stuff then walked towards the opposite direction in which Yusuke was going to go. He watched her go around the corner.
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***One Year Later***
"Isn't it so awesome we're in the same class this year, Yu-chan?" Keiko smiled.
"Will you leave me alone?! And stop calling me Yu-chan! I have a name and it's Yusuke so use it! Haha! Get it?! YUSuke, USE it? Haha!" Yusuke laughed manically.
"Umm, ok....whatever you say...." Keiko backed away slowly and shot him a look that obviously meant she thought he was crazy.
"Ok, class! Settle down, school has started!" The teacher commanded. "Tomorrow, there's the trip to Chizake River. Have you all turned in your permission slips?"
"Here's mine." Sensei looked up and saw Yusuke standing in front of her, clutching a crumpled up slip of paper. She snatched it from his little hand.
"Yusuke! Why is your form in so late?!" Sensei demanded crossly.
" 'Cause my mum went on a drinking binge for 3 days straight and I couldn't get her to sign it 'til last night." Yusuke gave the teacher a so-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it look. She sighed then stuffed the paper into an envelope. The little boy sat back down in his seat.
"Since tomorrow we are going to Chizake River we will learn some things about it. The Chizake Kawa was a famous site for...." The sensei droned on.
Yusuke yawned widely, disinterest already on his mind. 'It's gonna be a long day...."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Wowwwww...." Keiko breathed. "The river's beautiful!" She wasn't exaggerating; the river water was crystal clear and sunlight danced acorss the surface, making it gleam and sparkle. The children knelt down on the bank and, despite their teacher's nagging, took a long drink of the refreshingly cool water.
Yusuke, mischievous as usual, dunked Shibai's head into the cold water. Now Shibai wished he had never played that prank on Yusuke; he had been taking every chance in the past year to humiliate Shibai as revenge.
"Hey, Keiko! Guess what?!" Yusuke yelled at his friend.
"What, Yusuke? Huh?" Keiko peered around in surprise when she didn't see Yusuke anywhere. Suddenly she felt the back of her skirt being lifted for a second. "Arghhhhh!" She growled, spinning around furiously, her hand following her.
"Yusuke, you perverted brat!" Keiko shrieked angrily, her hand contacting with a certain boy's jaw.
"Oof!" Yusuke groaned as he hit the river bank. Keiko began beating him repeatedly with her fists. "Ah! Oof! Ergh!" Yusuke threw his arms up to block against her onslaught. A split second later, he was gone, running as fast as he possibly could away from the enraged girl.
"Yusuke, I'm not done with you yet! Get back here, you jerk!" Keiko cried out as she got to her feet and started chasing him. Yusuke only made a face back at her, still not stopping for an instant. To his surprise however, the persuing girl paused in her tracks; her eyes went wide as she pointed and screamed," Watch out! The river...!"
It was too late; Yusuke stumbled over an unseen rock and went tumbling down the bank, landing in the cold river with a loud splash. Faint cries of "Ahhh! Save him!" were the last thing he heard as his head went under.
The water was colder than anything Yusuke had ever experience before; it prickled his skin, bit at his stinging face and soaked through his uniform. The boy's lungs froze up, unabling him to draw a breath. Despite the thrashing and flinging of his arms, the melodramatic kid knew this was the end.
Numb ran through his body so that he couldn't even feel himself being lifted out of the water until he blinked the freezing water from his eyes. A concerned face swam before Yusuke's eyes.
"Are you okay, kid?" A masculine voice spoke up. It took a while for Yusuke to respond; he had to cough the river water from his lungs.
"Yeah, I think I'll...live..." Yusuke croaked weakily before passing out on the ground, cried of "Yusuke!" echoing in his head.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The first thing Yusuke saw when he cracked open his eyes was a warm roaring fire. He sat up, groggily rubbing his head. "Ergh... w-where am I?" He uttered outloud.
"Yer in my house, kid. Damn good I hear yer lil classmates screaming othawise ya might've drown..." The same voice from before spoke again.
Yusuke looked around and noticed he was in a homey cabin. "Yusuke! Thank goodness you're alright!" His teacher rushed out and layed a hand on the boy's forehead. "How are you feeling?"
"Huh? Like a fish, ugh...." Yusuke replied, wanting to lay back down.
"Oh my! Your forehead feels warm; let's get you back home to your mother. Everyone else is already waiting on the bus." Sensei grabbed Yusuke's hand and tugged him off the couch he had been resting on. She then directed him to the location of the bus. Near the doorway, the teacher stopped to look back at the man in the cabin. "Thank you for saving him, Mr. Iyasa."
"My pleasure." The brown haired man replied.
On the bus ride back, Yusuke sat sniffling and shivering on the last seat. He was still freezing despite his 4 layers of clothing and an extra blanket covering him. Without warning, he felt someone plop down on the seat next to him.
"What do you want....?" The boy started to say until he realized it was Keiko. "Ah, Keiko! Uh....er...." To be quite honest, Yusuke really didn't know what to say. But the girl simply threw down her own jacket, the same one from the day they met, onto Yusuke, it serving as another blanket. Yusuke stared at her in awe. "Th-thanks...."
Keiko's only response was to look out the window. Finally she spoke up, "You know, Yusuke, today I was so worried..." Yusuke looked at her questioningly. "When you went under, the moment your head disappeared below the surface, I...I couldn't think straight; the only thing I thought of was how you almost got erased from my life." Keiko turned red upon saying this, not bothering to mention that when Yusuke almost drowned, she felt as if her heart was being crushed.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Atsuko, Yusuke's mother, sat on the floor near her son's bed, shaking her head in disbelief. "My boy....the idiot." Keiko, sitting beside Yusuke too, sniffed loudly. Atsuko looked over at her sympathetically. "Aww, Keiko don't worry. It's getting late, you should go home." The young girl shook her head violently.
"Nuh-uh. Not until his fever goes down. It's my fault he fell in the river." Keiko whimpered.
"No, it's not!" Atsuko argued. "He fell over his own fat feet running away from you after he flipped your skirt. And it serves you right, you klutz!" She yelled at her bed-ridden son.
"Huh! Some comfort you are, mother dear!" Yusuke accused Atsuko irritably.
"Oh, he'll be fine by tomorrow, you'll see." Atsuko reassured Keiko as the young girl headed home.
The next day, Yusuke was up and healthy. Well, not exactly; his nose was runny, his forehead sweaty, his face clammy, you get the point. "Yusuke! Are you sure about this?!" Atsuko asked. "You're still burning up! Usually when any reason to skip school comes your way, you grab it. Why not today?"
Because..." Yusuke replied, walking out the door, "...if i stayed home...she'd stop by, like yesterday. And I don't wanna see...that look on her face again."
When he got outside, Keiko was standing near the door. As soon as she saw him, her dismal face lit up with delight. "Yo." Yusuke greeted her.
"Yusuke! You're up! And you're feeling better?!" The girl squealed.
"You bet! Good as new." Yusuke laughed, his snot dripping down his nose.
Keiko turned away as she replied haughtily, "Good. Then I won't WASTE any more time worrying." Unknowingly to her, Yusuke made a face of disgust as he threatened to slime her with his snot from behind. Atsuko watched as they walked away to school, thinking, 'Oh, Yusuke...she cares for you more than she lets on. I think you do too, son...."
*^_^ Finished! Please review and tell me what you think! Oh yeah, at the last part I took the conversation from the manga so don't sue! (I'm broke (-_-) Oh well, hope you guys enjoyed it; review!