CH: 1

"Well here's your new assignment." Koenma said and pressed a little button on his desk. An image of three youkai appeared on the video screen on the wall of his office. "They've gotten loose and are now in ningenkai. There is some good news though."

"Which is?" Botan asked.

"Apparently two of them aren't that strong, but then there's the bad news." Koenma said and looked at the pathetic depressed form of Yusuke.

"Well, are you gonna tell us the bad news or not?" Kuwabara asked in an annoyed tone.

"Oh yes. All three of them seem to have some sort of vendetta against Yusuke. With him in the state he seems to be in now, I think he'll need some help. What happened to him by the way?" Koenma asked wondering why Yusuke hadn't started ranting like usual or called him a baby.

"It would seem Keiko has broken up with him." Kurama stated.

"Yeah now he's lying around like chump not wanting to do anything." Kuwabara said.

"He's just heart broken. I think he really loved her." Botan threw in her two cents.

"Stupid ningen emotions." Hiei muttered.

"Well excuse me. We can't all be emotionless demons you know." Kuwabara said. Hiei just glared back at the red head.

"I wish you guys would stop talking like I'm not in the room." Yusuke said dejectedly. Everyone turned and looked at him, since it was the first time he had spoken since they'd gotten there. "Can we go back now?"

Koenma nodded and Yusuke left the room. The rest of them started to file out as well the last being Hiei, but he was stopped by Koenma. "Hiei, I would like you to enroll in Yusuke's school to keep an eye on him." Hiei glared at Koenma. "Look, Yusuke isn't really as attentive as usual and usually he's pretty bad to begin with." At that Hiei snorted and his glare told the child looking kami to hurry up. "I just want you there to watch out for him. Kurama and Kuwabara already go to their own respective schools so unfortunately that only leaves you." Hiei gave an almost imperceptible nod and left.

'One of these days I swear he's going to jump over my desk and attack me.' Koenma gave a sigh of relief when Hiei had left the room.

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'Great now because that stupid ningen has been overwhelmed by his emotions I'm forced to be in the vicinity of more humans than I would like.' Hiei thought as he followed Yusuke. Yusuke was walking home from their meeting. His eyes never seemed to leave the ground as he walked and Hiei was silently wondering if Yusuke would be hit by a car before he even reached his home.

Yusuke was lost in thought while he waked back home. All he could think about was the last time he had seen Keiko, when she had dumped him.

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"What is it Keiko? I really need to go, I've got a case." Yusuke said in a hurry.

"That's just it. You always have a case and you never tell me anything. I worry about you, you know." Keiko said with a saddened look.

"Can't we talk about this when I get back?" Yusuke said and was turning to leave.

"I'm not waiting for you anymore." Keiko said softly, but Yusuke caught it. He turned back to her and gave a quizzical look. "I'm sorry Yusuke, but I can't take it anymore. I'm always waiting for you to get back and never knowing if you really will. I can't wait like a lovesick puppy any longer Yusuke. I'm sorry, but it's obvious that with your responsibilities there's no time for me and that girl, Botan, gets to see you more than I do. I can't take it anymore." Tears began to trickle down Keiko's face. "I'm sorry." She whispered and then turned and ran in the opposite direction Yusuke was going in.

Yusuke was just in shock. He had never imagined that Keiko would ever not be there for him when he got back. He needed her. She was his strength whenever he thought he couldn't keep going. "Keiko..." Yusuke stood where she had left him for an unknown amount of time before Botan showed up to see why he hadn't shown.

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Yusuke sighed. He knew he had to get over it, but it seemed that without Keiko there his strength had left him. 'Kami, when am I going to get over it?' Yusuke finally made it to his room without getting himself hurt and collapsed on his bed. 'I don't think I want to go to school tomorrow.' He didn't want to face Keiko, but he knew he'd have to sooner or later.

Hiei inconspicuously watched Yusuke from his window. 'Stupid ningen. We have a mission and he's still thinking about that foolish girl.' Hiei left the pitiful scene and went to the park where he would often spend the night.

Hiei sat on a tree branch wondering why he was so bothered by Yusuke's show of weakness. He knew he shouldn't have expected anything better than such a show of emotion from a ningen, but Yusuke was supposed to be different. 'Why is he supposed to be different? He's just like every other ningen vermin that walks this earth.' Hiei thought to himself.

An image of Yusuke outsmarting him the first time they had fought came back to him. Hiei was reminded of how much stronger Yusuke kept getting when he had threatened Keiko's well being. He also remembered how willing Yusuke was to lose his life when they had been fighting the saint beasts. 'All to save that wretched girl.' Hiei just didn't understand. He also didn't understand the strange feeling he was getting every time he thought of how hard Yusuke had fought when Keiko's life was on the line. It was like a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach and he couldn't pinpoint what it was. He had never felt anything like it before. 'Perhaps I should speak to Kurama. He's lived long enough in this fooling ningen world to understand their useless emotions.'

Hiei landed on the branch outside Kurama's window and waiting knowing the kitsune would sense him. Sure enough the window opened and Hiei entered Kurama's room. "What can I do for you today Hiei?" Kurama asked.

Hiei spoke briefly as he normally did, but got out all the things he had wanted to say. Kurama just sat at his desk and listened with great interest. 'If I didn't know any better I'd say Hiei has developed a crush on Yusuke. Then again he did seem to be getting fond of Yusuke back when we fought the saint beasts, but that seemed merely like friendship, but now it seems like that has grown to something more. I don't think Hiei knows the depths of his feelings or if he's ready for them.' Kurama thought as he listened to Hiei's explanation.

"So what is this feeling, kitsune?" Hiei finally asked.

"It would seem to me that you're jealous of Keiko, Hiei." Kurama answered straight to the point.

"Jealous of a ningen?" Hiei questioned. The only time Hiei had ever been jealous of anything was when he saw kids playing in the park he would often inhabit and remembered the childhood that had been stolen from him and the little sister who could never know of their connection. But this was greatly different. If he was understanding Kurama correctly he was jealous of Keiko because of Yusuke's feelings for her. Hiei didn't give Kurama time to answer his question and left through the window and went back to the park.

Hiei sat in the same tree as before and thought over what insight Kurama had given him. 'Jealousy? If I am jealous of this Keiko girl because of Yusuke's feelings for her then would this not mean that I have feelings for the stupid rekai tantei. What foolishness.' Hiei thought to himself.

He sat the rest of the day in the tree thinking. He was sure that because Koenma had been so adamant about him going to the ningen school that he would have worked out all the details already and sent Botan to do everything that would be required. He had been right and the next morning he was met by Botan handing him a school uniform.

Hiei looked at the suspiciously. "It's not going to bite, Hiei." Botan said, but then quickly regretted her words as she found herself on the receiving end of one of the fire youkai's infamous glares. Hiei just took the clothing and disappeared from sight leaving Botan to hope that he would actually go through with it.

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Yusuke pulled himself out of bed and actually got ready for school though he still looked like hell warmed over. 'Go to school, don't look at Keiko. Whatever I do, don't look at Keiko.' Yusuke kept telling himself as he walked down the sidewalk. He felt a familiar aura following him, but didn't pay it any mind since it was obviously wasn't there to hurt him.

Hiei followed Yusuke on his way to school. He hated the ningen clothing he had been forced to wear and swore when this mission was over he would burn them. As he watched the rekai tantei walk down the sidewalk he was reminded of all the thoughts he had the day before. He couldn't argue with Kurama's knowledge and deny that he was jealous, but instead he told himself he was not jealous of the feeling Yusuke had for Keiko. Instead he believed he was jealous of Keiko because she had succeeded in breaking Yusuke, where he and many others had failed. The idea did not feel right, but it was the best he could come up with and still stay in denial of his feelings for Yusuke.

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"Well there he is." A shadowed figure said to two others as they saw Yuske walk by.

"I still don't see why we just don't try to kill him right now." Another spoke.

"Because for what he did, his demise shall be slow and agonizing." The first responded. They both turned to the third and sweat dropped. "What are you wearing?"

"I just thought I'd have a little fun with the boy before we kill him. I came up with a rather interesting idea."

"Which would be?"

"No time to explain, but trust me you guys just keep watching him and you'll see the sparks that are about to fly." With that said the third figure disappeared from sight.

"Remind me why we allowed him along?" The first figure spoke again.

"He's just are scapegoat should anything go wrong." The first nodded in agreement and they continued their stalking of their prey.

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Keiko ran to school in hurry. She was no where close to being late, but she didn't want to run into Yusuke. She felt it would just be too painful at this moment to have to face him. It was almost a week and still she thought of him a lot. She still worried, but she was adamant in getting over him. Keiko was so lost in thought that she ran straight into someone while going through the school gates.

"I'm so sorry." Keiko said as she realized what had happened.

The boy she had run into brushed of his pants and offered her his hand to help her up off the ground. He was only a bit taller than her and had short gelled back black hair and very dark eyes. "Don't be sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going either." The boy said. "I'm actually a bit lost." He stated and gave a nervous laugh while scratching the back of his head.

"Are you new here?" Keiko asked and the boy nodded. "Well, I'm Keiko, I'll help show you to your first period." Keiko said with a smile.

"Thanks, but you don't have to." The boy responded, but Keiko took the schedule out of his hand.

"You have almost all the same classes with me." Keiko said. "Come on I'll show to the room. It's the least I can do for running into you."

The boy nodded and followed Keiko to the room. "Thanks Keiko."

"You're welcome, umm..." Keiko never had gotten the boy's name.

"Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Kenichi."

"Well, it's nice to meet you Kenichi." Keiko said and they sat next to each other for the first class.

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'So far so good.' Yusuke thought to himself as he hadn't ran into Keiko as he entered his first period. 'Now if I could just avoid her for the rest of the day. It shouldn't be too hard, we have mostly different classes.'

Yusuke was so lost in thought that he didn't notice who had just walked into the room. He heard the bell ring and the teacher announce that they had a new student. 'Great, probably another know it all who will be out of these stupid classes and into the upper divisions in no time.' Yusuke thought seeing as though he was in the lower class of the whole education spectrum. He did look up however, and forgot everything that he had been thinking. 'Hiei...?'

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