CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: SCHOOL, DAY 1
"Uh Bakura what are you doing?" Ryou looked down the stairs.
Bakura had a huge pile of newspapers that he was leafing through. He gave Ryou such an evil look that the hikari seriously considered running back to bed.
"I am looking for a job, if you must ask," he said in annoyance.
"Well, excuse me," Ryou muttered and went downstairs.
"Yami, Raven is coming over for breakfast this morning."
".why?"
"It's Monday and I need to take Suboshi, Amiboshi and Nuriko around school."
Yami turned around and looked at Ryou, at the same time giving Seto a "say-a-single-word-and-you-will-regret-it" glare over Ryou's shoulder.
"What does that have to do with Raven?" Yami flipped a piece of French toast in a pan and then smacked Seto's hand with the spatula. "Stop that."
"Um, he's coming over so we can walk down to the House of Fushigi Yuugi and pick them up."
"I see. And I am supposed to drive all of you, I take it."
"Well, yeah."
There was a knock at the door. Raven entered.
"Raven," Ryou said, "You need to brush your hair."
Raven's normally perfect hair looked rather knotted.
"I know," Raven sighed in disappointment, "I didn't have time to do it before I left."
"Here I have a brush somewhere." Ryou ran upstairs and returned with a bright pink hair brush.
Seto gave Ryou a Look.
"Nuriko left it," Ryou said by way of explanation.
"I see."
"Here you go," Yami said, handing Raven and Ryou plates of French toast.
They all ate breakfast quickly. Seto's new blue car was sitting in the driveway, so he drove off before anyone else left. Bakura was still looking through newspapers. Ryou glanced out the window and frowned.
"Yami would you please drive us to the House of Fushigi Yuugi?"
"It's half a block Ryou!!"
"I know, but it's raining!"
Yami looked at Raven's hair which had been perfectly done with the hairbrush.
"I think I see . sure."
Nuriko, Amiboshi and Suboshi were waiting outside. Amiboshi and Suboshi were wearing jeans and shirts. Nuriko was wearing purple pajama pants and a pink shirt with a butterfly on it. His hair was in its typical braid and perfectly matched his pants.
"Uh-oh," Yami muttered.
By general consent, Raven and Ryou sat in the back seat, Amiboshi and Suboshi in the middle and Nuriko in the front (although Yami wasn't too happy about that).
Nuriko had a pink backpack with all pink supplies. Apparently, the efforts of the other Fushigi Yuugi characters to convince him to purchase a more masculine color had been in vain.
"Amiboshi and Suboshi," Ryou said, "you have all my classes and your lockers are next to mine. The same thing goes for Nuriko and Raven."
Raven gave Ryou an accusing look.
"How come I don't get to be with Amibishi and Subishi?" Nuriko asked.
"Nuriko!" The twins said in unison.
"Sorry."
"Anyway," Ryou continued, "You have your schedules. Just stick with us and you'll be OK. And, Nuriko."
Amiboshi and Suboshi had identically evil grins on their faces. "I know," Nuriko said. He did, however, look slightly disappointed.
Yami pulled up to the school. "OK, have a good day everyone!"
"You too Yami!" Ryou said. Raven, Ryou, Amiboshi, and Suboshi left the car. Nuriko left last, leaving an odor of perfume behind.
*
"See you at lunch Raven," Ryou said cheerfully as he turned a corner with the twins.
Raven gave Ryou an I'm-going-to-get-you-for-this look and went the other way, followed (a little too closely followed) by Nuriko.
*
Amiboshi and Suboshi had lockers right next to Ryou, which was fortunate. They had no idea what they were doing. In the ten minutes or so they were allowed at their lockers, Ryou organized his locker and then put everything in those of the twins. They then went to their first class - science - where they were dissecting frogs.
Ryou and the twins took one look at the dead frogs and turned rather green.
"You three really don't look so good," the teacher said in concern. "Why don't you go to the nurse and I will give you notes tomorrow."
The three of them went to the nurse and spent the whole period doing math homework that had mysteriously been forgotten over the weekend.
"Eww that was sick Ryou!" Amiboshi said in dismay as they left science.
"I know, I think sometimes our teacher has a warped sense of humor. That's OK though, next class is English, and you'll like that."
In English, the teacher was working on analyzing things. They were instructed to write an essay that analyzed a book or TV show. Ryou, Amiboshi and Suboshi left with evil grins on their faces.
"I wonder how Raven and Nuriko are doing," Ryou mused.
*
Raven hurried to his locker, thinking of rather evil things to do to Ryou for making him take care of Nuriko. When he got to his locker he opened it and looked over at Nuriko. Nuriko was staring at the locker in confusion. "How do you open these things?"
"Haven't you had lockers before?"
"No."
Raven shrugged. "Here I'll open it, watch."
He took the locker combination from Nuriko and began to open the locker when Nuriko began to stroke his hair.
"What are you doing?" Raven said in shock, jumping several feet away.
"You told me to watch bishi." Nuriko replied quickly.
Raven was understandably freaked out, not realizing that Nuriko indiscriminately called all other guys bishis. Luckily the bell had already rung and everyone was running to their lockers.
"Never mind . we have math next, come on." Raven finally ended up carrying all of Nuriko's books as well as his own. He slammed the lockers shut and walked to math with Nuriko behind.
"Hello Raven!" The math teacher said as he entered. "Ah, here's Nuriko . I'm glad you're going to be showing him around for this week! I gave him a seat next to you, by the way."
Raven nearly dropped his stack of books in horror. A week? Numbly, he sat down with Nuriko *very* close to him.
Math went without incident - that is, Raven had to endure Nuriko continually asking to explain things and then leaning on Raven when he pointed things out, supposedly so he could see better, but other than that he was all right (more or less).
Their next class was science. By then Raven was fervently wishing that the Fushigi Yuugi characters would go back to their Universe of the Four Gods and leave him alone.
Raven found out that Ryou and the twins managed to get out of science by looking sick the period before, which didn't improve his mood. Dissecting rats was not quite as bad as math, as Nuriko was so busy trying not to throw up that he didn't have that much of a chance to bother Raven.
By the time he reached lunch, Raven was about to explode and was privately swearing that the next time Nuriko touched him he was going to turn around and rip the other boy's long purple braid from his head. He was entertaining graphic images of doing evil things to Nuriko in the hallway leading to the cafeteria when someone tapped him from behind.
He whirled around. "What is it now?"
Ryou stood behind him, looking shocked. The twins were grinning.
"Oh." Raven said, feeling stupid.
"Sorry about that. Hi, Nuriko."
"Hello!" Nuriko took that opportunity to *subtly* trip Raven, causing him to fall. Nuriko quickly bent, picked him up and dusted him off.
"Are you all right?"
Raven gave Ryou a look that was more like one that belonged on the face of Marik rather than that of an innocent-looking high school teenager.
"Come on," he mumbled and entered the cafeteria line.
"Uh Bakura what are you doing?" Ryou looked down the stairs.
Bakura had a huge pile of newspapers that he was leafing through. He gave Ryou such an evil look that the hikari seriously considered running back to bed.
"I am looking for a job, if you must ask," he said in annoyance.
"Well, excuse me," Ryou muttered and went downstairs.
"Yami, Raven is coming over for breakfast this morning."
".why?"
"It's Monday and I need to take Suboshi, Amiboshi and Nuriko around school."
Yami turned around and looked at Ryou, at the same time giving Seto a "say-a-single-word-and-you-will-regret-it" glare over Ryou's shoulder.
"What does that have to do with Raven?" Yami flipped a piece of French toast in a pan and then smacked Seto's hand with the spatula. "Stop that."
"Um, he's coming over so we can walk down to the House of Fushigi Yuugi and pick them up."
"I see. And I am supposed to drive all of you, I take it."
"Well, yeah."
There was a knock at the door. Raven entered.
"Raven," Ryou said, "You need to brush your hair."
Raven's normally perfect hair looked rather knotted.
"I know," Raven sighed in disappointment, "I didn't have time to do it before I left."
"Here I have a brush somewhere." Ryou ran upstairs and returned with a bright pink hair brush.
Seto gave Ryou a Look.
"Nuriko left it," Ryou said by way of explanation.
"I see."
"Here you go," Yami said, handing Raven and Ryou plates of French toast.
They all ate breakfast quickly. Seto's new blue car was sitting in the driveway, so he drove off before anyone else left. Bakura was still looking through newspapers. Ryou glanced out the window and frowned.
"Yami would you please drive us to the House of Fushigi Yuugi?"
"It's half a block Ryou!!"
"I know, but it's raining!"
Yami looked at Raven's hair which had been perfectly done with the hairbrush.
"I think I see . sure."
Nuriko, Amiboshi and Suboshi were waiting outside. Amiboshi and Suboshi were wearing jeans and shirts. Nuriko was wearing purple pajama pants and a pink shirt with a butterfly on it. His hair was in its typical braid and perfectly matched his pants.
"Uh-oh," Yami muttered.
By general consent, Raven and Ryou sat in the back seat, Amiboshi and Suboshi in the middle and Nuriko in the front (although Yami wasn't too happy about that).
Nuriko had a pink backpack with all pink supplies. Apparently, the efforts of the other Fushigi Yuugi characters to convince him to purchase a more masculine color had been in vain.
"Amiboshi and Suboshi," Ryou said, "you have all my classes and your lockers are next to mine. The same thing goes for Nuriko and Raven."
Raven gave Ryou an accusing look.
"How come I don't get to be with Amibishi and Subishi?" Nuriko asked.
"Nuriko!" The twins said in unison.
"Sorry."
"Anyway," Ryou continued, "You have your schedules. Just stick with us and you'll be OK. And, Nuriko."
Amiboshi and Suboshi had identically evil grins on their faces. "I know," Nuriko said. He did, however, look slightly disappointed.
Yami pulled up to the school. "OK, have a good day everyone!"
"You too Yami!" Ryou said. Raven, Ryou, Amiboshi, and Suboshi left the car. Nuriko left last, leaving an odor of perfume behind.
*
"See you at lunch Raven," Ryou said cheerfully as he turned a corner with the twins.
Raven gave Ryou an I'm-going-to-get-you-for-this look and went the other way, followed (a little too closely followed) by Nuriko.
*
Amiboshi and Suboshi had lockers right next to Ryou, which was fortunate. They had no idea what they were doing. In the ten minutes or so they were allowed at their lockers, Ryou organized his locker and then put everything in those of the twins. They then went to their first class - science - where they were dissecting frogs.
Ryou and the twins took one look at the dead frogs and turned rather green.
"You three really don't look so good," the teacher said in concern. "Why don't you go to the nurse and I will give you notes tomorrow."
The three of them went to the nurse and spent the whole period doing math homework that had mysteriously been forgotten over the weekend.
"Eww that was sick Ryou!" Amiboshi said in dismay as they left science.
"I know, I think sometimes our teacher has a warped sense of humor. That's OK though, next class is English, and you'll like that."
In English, the teacher was working on analyzing things. They were instructed to write an essay that analyzed a book or TV show. Ryou, Amiboshi and Suboshi left with evil grins on their faces.
"I wonder how Raven and Nuriko are doing," Ryou mused.
*
Raven hurried to his locker, thinking of rather evil things to do to Ryou for making him take care of Nuriko. When he got to his locker he opened it and looked over at Nuriko. Nuriko was staring at the locker in confusion. "How do you open these things?"
"Haven't you had lockers before?"
"No."
Raven shrugged. "Here I'll open it, watch."
He took the locker combination from Nuriko and began to open the locker when Nuriko began to stroke his hair.
"What are you doing?" Raven said in shock, jumping several feet away.
"You told me to watch bishi." Nuriko replied quickly.
Raven was understandably freaked out, not realizing that Nuriko indiscriminately called all other guys bishis. Luckily the bell had already rung and everyone was running to their lockers.
"Never mind . we have math next, come on." Raven finally ended up carrying all of Nuriko's books as well as his own. He slammed the lockers shut and walked to math with Nuriko behind.
"Hello Raven!" The math teacher said as he entered. "Ah, here's Nuriko . I'm glad you're going to be showing him around for this week! I gave him a seat next to you, by the way."
Raven nearly dropped his stack of books in horror. A week? Numbly, he sat down with Nuriko *very* close to him.
Math went without incident - that is, Raven had to endure Nuriko continually asking to explain things and then leaning on Raven when he pointed things out, supposedly so he could see better, but other than that he was all right (more or less).
Their next class was science. By then Raven was fervently wishing that the Fushigi Yuugi characters would go back to their Universe of the Four Gods and leave him alone.
Raven found out that Ryou and the twins managed to get out of science by looking sick the period before, which didn't improve his mood. Dissecting rats was not quite as bad as math, as Nuriko was so busy trying not to throw up that he didn't have that much of a chance to bother Raven.
By the time he reached lunch, Raven was about to explode and was privately swearing that the next time Nuriko touched him he was going to turn around and rip the other boy's long purple braid from his head. He was entertaining graphic images of doing evil things to Nuriko in the hallway leading to the cafeteria when someone tapped him from behind.
He whirled around. "What is it now?"
Ryou stood behind him, looking shocked. The twins were grinning.
"Oh." Raven said, feeling stupid.
"Sorry about that. Hi, Nuriko."
"Hello!" Nuriko took that opportunity to *subtly* trip Raven, causing him to fall. Nuriko quickly bent, picked him up and dusted him off.
"Are you all right?"
Raven gave Ryou a look that was more like one that belonged on the face of Marik rather than that of an innocent-looking high school teenager.
"Come on," he mumbled and entered the cafeteria line.