The next day, Kurama was still limping slightly, but he walked to school along with Hiei and Shadow. When they got there, people kept giving them funny stares. The usual mob of evil prep girls blocked the hallway.

"What happened to you?" the girl asked, looking at Hiei. The most noticeable bandages were on his face, neck, and hands, because he had his hands wrapped, his neck wrapped, and a large bandage over his right cheek.

"I got hit by a bus," Hiei said.

"No you didn't!"

"What makes you so sure, slut?" Hiei asked.

"Nobody survives a bus accident!"

"I did."

"Really?"

"Yes. Now move your sorry asses outta my way," Hiei snapped. Just then, Kurama, who had been talking to his teacher, walked around the corner. The girls all looked like they had just seen their personal fantasy. They had hearts in their eyes and they were smiling at Kurama. He walked up, barely limping anymore, and stood beside Hiei. The girls stared.

"Could you move, please?" Kurama asked politely. The girls all fumbled to move out of the way and clear a path, practically tripping over each other and breaking their necks in the process. In all thsi confusion, a girl walked up to Kurama nervously.

"Excuse me... er... Minamino? Shuuchi? May I call you Shuuichi?" she said.

"No."

"Oh... Are you... doing anything Friday night?"

"Not that I know of."

"Oh! Well, I was wondering if maybe you would... maybe come to the dance with me?"

"No."

"Oh..." the girl looked like she would die. She ran away crying.

"Now why were you so mean to that nice girl?!" the leader girl asked, standing right in front of Kurama.

"I don't appreciate people who lie to the principal about my family," Kurama said, glancing at Hiei for a split second when he said 'family.' Hiei wasn't referred to as family very often and he still wasn't used to it.

"That wasn't her! That was me!"

"So you admit you lied!" Kurama said triumphantly.

"No!"

"I just said she lied, then you told me it wasn't her, it was you. How can you say that's not admitting it?" Kurama asked.

"I didn't lie! These two really were harassing me!" the girl cried.

Kurama glared at her for a minute before walking right past her through the hall that had stayed clear. Hiei and Shadow followed him, glaring at all the girls as they passed them. They rounded the turn in the hallway before they all started laughing.

"That's just what those lousy slimeballs deserve," Hiei said.

"Why do you think I did that?!" Kurama said. "No kidding they deserve it."

"Maybe they'll leave us alone now," Shadow muttered hopefully.

"I doubt it, but maybe that changed their opinion of me," Kurama said. "Maybe they won't obsess anymore."

"You wish. They go for looks, not attitude," Shadow said. "Those ditzy people won't even remember you were mean. They'll probaly still worship you tomorrow."

"Wonderful..."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Well, the next day they didn't still worship him. They seemed to have had a huge meeting after school to decide whether they should add him to their 'We hate the following people and will find out something wrong with them so that we can make fun of them' list. According to their votes, they added Shuuichi Minamino to their hate list. They would have problems finding something wrong with Kurama if they couldn't find something wrong with Hiei and Shadow, so they started immediatly after school, the day after Kurama had denied the the girl's date.

While walking home, Hiei noticed two of the girls, standing across the street watching them. He didn't let on tha he saw them, but he secretly told Kurama through telepathy. Shadow noticed them looking at each other and across the street, and she put two and two together and looked across the street.

"Don't say anything," Kurama said. "Don't let on that you know that they'r ewatching. Since we know they're watching, we can watch them watch us and we'll know what they see and if they do anything stupid we can kill--- er... punish them."

"Kill them?! Wow, that's cool. Okay, well that's cool. I can do that. I won't let on and they'll never suspect me," Shadow said.

"Maybe we should make sure of that. Kurama, you should erase her memory," Hiei teased.

"Hey!" Shadow said, trying to slap him in the back of the head. Hiei dodged and caught her wrist, then gave her indian burn, twisting her skin back and forth until it turned red and burned. She yelped and scratched his already- bandaged face with the fingernails on her free hand.

"You're a lousy person, you know that Hiei?!" Shadow snapped, pulling her wrist back and rubbing the red marks. "Owie... It burns..."

"Children, no fighting," Kurama said.

"Hey, do you think you should let them know where we live? They might egg your house or something," Shadow asked Kurama.

"Good point," Kurama said. He thought for a second. "Well, one of us could cross the street toward them, and they'd most likely leave since they're spying and spies aren't supposed to get caught. Then the other two could get inside while they're hiding."

"Good idea," Shadow said as they came close to Kurama's house. "You go."

"Me?!"

"Yeah, you better go soon or we'll be too far away from your house to get there in time before they see us," Shadow said. They passed up Kurama's house just to make it look like they didn't live there. Kurama sighed and started across the street toward the preppy spies. They scattered, just like he said they would, and they all managed to get inside unseen. They watched from a window while the preps looked around stupidly, then walked back down the street the way they had come.

"We'll have to get rid of them."

"There's only a week of school left, don't worry about it."

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT? You're stupid or something..."

"I'm not stupid!!!"

"Sure ya aren't..."

"My IQ is like... a bazillion! You're is like... not..."

"SO?!"

"STOP ARGUING!!!" Shadow yelled, drawing in Shiori's attention. She walked in and looked at them.

"Is everything okay?" she asked.

"Yes, we're fine, mother," Kurama answered.

"Okay. You didn't get beat up again, did you?"

"No, mother."

"Hiei, are those new cuts on your face?"

Shadow got a halo over her head and Hiei glared at her.

"No, I'm fine," Hiei said. It was partially a lie. He was fine, that much was true, but they were new cuts.

"Okay, well I want you to stay away from those boys who beat you up, all right?" Shiori said.

"We will," they said simultaneously, walking up to their rooms.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Half the week passed of being spied on. The three got confronted by the girls every day in the hallway, which made them late most of the time, which they got detention for (even Kurama), but the girls never spread any rumors or anything. It came to the next to last day of school and the girls stopped them in the hall.

"We know the ultimate truth about you three!" the leader said proudly.

"Really?" Hiei said dryly. He was getting sick of the whole 'we know you're deepest secrets!' routine that the girls pulled every day.

"Yes! You want to know what it is?"

"Well, if it's our secret, I'm sure we already know it, ya dumb shits," Shadow said.

The leader girl pouted. "The truth is... You three aren't really related!"

The three had no change in their expressions.

"It's true, isn't it!" the girl said.

"No," Hiei said. Kurama and Shadow stared at him. He was the last one they would expect to say that they really were family.

"Yes it is! You don't have the same last names!" the girl said.

"Yes we do, idiot. Minamino. It's written in all the school records, on all our papers, everything," Kurama said, playing along with Hiei's evil little plot.

"You aren't related! These two were adopted!" The girl pointed at Hiei and Shadow angrily.

"No we weren't."

"Yes! Then how come you just all of a sudden showed up in school with the same last name!?"

"They lived with our father on the other side of the country," Kurama lied.

The late bell rang. They ignored it.

"Nuh-uh! Then where's your father? Why doesn't he live with you too? They came to your house, why didn't he?" the leader girl asked. She thought she had completely confused the three, but when Kurama's around, confusion seems to be impossible.

"Our father died. That's why they came across the counrty to live with me," Kurama said.

"How'd he die?"

"Cancer," Hiei said.

"Nuh-uh!"

"I think we would know! We lived with the guy, you ugly ditz!" Shadow snapped.

"You did not! You were adopted!"

"Where did you get that idea in the first place, anyway?!" Kurama asked.

"One of the teachers told us!"

"Well how would they know?"

"You had to report all that to the school when you enrolled, didn't you?!" she asked, getting more and more upset with every word. She couldn't believe this final 'ultimate truth' wasn't true either. Even though it was. Kurama, Hiei, and Shadow were just really good liars.

"Our mother decided that it would be a lot easier on us for the other kids to think we were adopted. That way nobody would be asking a bunch of questions," Shadow said, managing not to screw up with the 'our mother' thing. Before the prep girl could reply, the principal walked around the corner.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! THE LATE BELL RANG FIVE MINUTES AGO!" he screamed. He saw Hiei, Shadow, and the leader girl, who still had no name as far as Kurama, Hiei, or Shadow knew. "Oh, it's you three! Are they harassing you again? Oh, I see you have an addition to your group. The Minamino triplets. Losers, punks, and idiots of the school."

Well, as I'm sure you can guess, the three of them were furious, but at being called an idiot, Kurama popped. Not literally, of course. He just got really mad.

"I AM NOT AN IDIOT!" he yelled.

"DON'T YELL AT ME, YOUNG MAN!"

"YOU'RE THE PRINCIPAL, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO THE MOST INTELLIGENT STUDENT IN YOUR WHOLE DAMN SCHOOL IS!!!"

"IT'S NOT ONE OF YOU THREE, THAT'S FOR SURE!"

"BASTARD!"

"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT EVER AGAIN!" the principal yelled, aiming to knock Kurama's head off. He dodged easily. Hiei and Shadow were staring at their friend, completely confused and having no idea such a side of Kurama existed. Kurama wasn't the type to mouth off the the principal.

"STAND STILL AND ACCEPT YOUR PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN!!! NOBODY USES THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE AGAINST ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" the principal screamed.

"I'LL USE WHATEVER KIND OF LANGUAGE I WANT TO IN YOUR STUPID SCHOOL!!!" Kurama screamed. "Now you better move your ass. I'm late for History. Not like we do anything on the next to the last day of school anyway, but it's best if I'm there." Kurama turned and started to walk through the mob of girls, Hiei and Shadow followed him, stunned, and the principal jsut stared, to furious to do anything about it.

"Kurama, what was that?!" Shadow asked once they were out of earshot.

"What?"

"Cussing out the principal! I didn't know you had it in you," Hiei said.

"Hm. Well, I guess when the principal is as stupid as that one is, your bound to explode sometime," Kurama said. They walked into History class and they instantly got screamed at and lectured for being 15 minutes late. Since it was the next to the last day of school, they didn't get any punishment for it, but they still got yelled at.