CHAPTER TWO
Day One
Kurama's first day of teaching was upon him in no time. After he got up, it took an hour before they were finally leaving. Thank you very much, Shadow. Ahem. Despite the fact that Shadow delayed them by at least 25 minutes, the group got to school half an hour before the first class period began.
On the way up to the biology room, a teacher stopped Kurama and his group in the hall.
"Shuuichi, we have a new student coming to school today. She's going to be in one of your biology classes, so you'd best explain to her that you're not the normal teacher, and do your best to make her feel okay here," the man said.
"Yes sir," Kurama answered. The teacher looked curiously at Hiei and Shadow.
"Who are these two?"
"My friends. They're going to be helping me out for a while. If that's okay."
"Oh, sure... You know, they look kind of familiar..." the teacher muttered, squinting at Shadow and Hiei.
"Well, I'm sure you never met them," Kurama lied. "They've never been here before." [1]
"Really? Oh well. I guess you would know." The teacher walked down the hall.
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Kurama watched the students file into the room. He watched their faces as they saw him. He enjoyed every single confused expression. This was his class, which he had been in just last Friday, and now he was in charge.
Most of the looks he was getting, he knew, were not because he was the teacher. The class had already known about that. The strange looks he was getting were because of the two people leaning against his desk.
Shadow Jaganshi [2], dressed in all black, was leaning against the right front corner of Kurama's desk. Hiei Jaganshi, wearing all black as well as his black cloak, was leaning against the left front corner of Kurama's desk. While Hiei was scowling, Shadow had a smile on her face, accompanied by an evil glint in her eyes, giving a quite confusing first impression.
Kurama waited for the late bell, and after everyone got settled, he got up and walked around to the front of his desk. He stood dead-center between Shadow and Hiei. Kurama was wearing black as well, making a very bright contrast between his clothing and his hair.
"Hi everyone," he said. Everyone mumbled something, because that was the respectful thing to do, but Kurama only distinguished four different people who actually said 'hello.' He looked around for the new student. He spotted her in the back of the room.
"We have a new student," Kurama said. Everybody turned and looked at the girl. "Sorry to call attention to you, but would you please come up to the front?"
The girl stood up and walked toward Kurama. She wasn't very tall, probably a few inches over five feet, making her about Hiei's height. She had brown hair with a blonde streak on the left side, much like Shadow's silver streak.
"What's your name?" Kurama asked. "They don't inform me with these things."
"Eclipse Shinomori," the girl answered, looking at Shadow and Hiei suspiciously. Kurama noticed this and smiled.
"Hiei doesn't bite, but I'd stay away from Shadow. Just don't make her mad and you'll be okay," Kurama said quietly. Shadow heard anyway and kicked Kurama in the back of his leg.
"Shut up, fox boy!" she hissed. Eclipse's jaw dropped. The class laughed.
"Good going, Shadow. Now they're laughing at me," Kurama whispered back. Shadow smiled innocently.
"Would you stop it?" Hiei snapped. "Isn't this supposed to be a non-violent school or something? Honestly, you're setting a horrible example."
Eclipse's first impression of Hiei was all twisted around. She really had no clue what he was like, because he looked evil and violent, but then he yelled at somebody for bending rules. Shadow, she thought, was some kind of violent, lunatic girl who looked like the type of person who would buy a motorcycle for the sheer fun of breaking the speed limit and having a high- speed police chase. Kurama, she thought, (although she didn't know his real name was Kurama) was a polite, calm, friendly person, who wouldn't break rules of any sort. Ever.
Overall, she only had Shadow completely right.
"Right. Sorry, Hiei. Didn't know you cared so much about such things," Kurama teased. Hiei glared at him. Still smiling, Kurama turned to the class. "Okay, everyone, this is Eclipse Shinomori. Obviously, she's a new student."
Once again, there was a ripple of mumbles through the room. Hiroshi spoke up.
"Hey, girl! He's not the real teacher, you know! Has he told you that yet?"
"Shut up, kid!" Shadow snapped.
"You wanna make me, little girl?"
The entire class let out some sort of 'ooooooh' or gasped, or made other such noises. Shadow narrowed her eyes, but Kurama slapped his hand over her mouth before she could come back with anything.
"No, I have not told her that. But if you would have shut up I WOULD HAVE GOT AROUND TO IT IN A SECOND!" Kurama snapped. The class looked surprised. Hiei laughed. Shadow still had Kurama's hand firmly over her mouth, so therefore could not say anything.
"What's that supposed to mean? That you're not the real teacher?" Eclipse asked.
"God... Okay, the real teacher went on vacation. I'm taking his place. I'm normally a student," Kurama said. "In fact... You were sitting in my seat..."
"Oh. I thought you looked too young to be a teacher," Eclipse said, inspecting Kurama's face. "Why would a student become a teacher?"
"Cuz he's smart," Shadow answered, prying Kurama's hand off her face. "His IQ is like... 300 or something..."
"Jealous much?" Hiei whispered.
"Wow... really?" Eclipse said.
"I think 300 is a bit of an exaggeration... But it's a lot higher than normal peoples'..." Kurama replied with an almost undetectable hint of arrogance.
"Gloat, gloat," Hiei teased under his breath. Only Kurama heard this.
"OKay, well, you go ahead back to your seat for now. I'll talk to you after class," Kurama said. While Eclipse went to sit down, Kurama spoke to the class.
"Don't go thinking that just because I'm 16 and that I'll be lenient on homework. Or class work. Or work of any kind, actually... I'm going to be exactly like any ~old~ teacher that you've had. Lucky you," Kurama said, smiling.
"CONTROL FREAK!" Hiroshi shouted.
"No, you're confused, kid. That's ~me~ that's a control freak. If ~I~ was your teacher..." Shadow let the sentence trail off as she burst out laughing evilly.
'I was right. She's nuts,' Eclipse thought. 'Why would they allow a lunatic like that into a school building?'
Hiei burst out laughing at her thoughts.
"Hiei! Keep your eye to yourself," Kurama whispered. "You've got to act like a normal human if you're going to be here."
Eclipse, not being a total airhead like the rest of the class, also noticed the purple glow on Hiei's forehead. At that second, she decided that Hiei, Shadow, and Kurama (thought she didn't know his name was Kurama), were a small group of some abnormal lunatics. Like, aliens, or criminals, or devil children.
The class had no clue what was going on. Shadow was still laughing evilly for absolutely no reason, Hiei was laughing for no reason apparent to them, and Kurama was just standing there with his eyes closed, waiting for them to stop.
"SHUT UP, YOU TWO LITTLE TWITS!!!" somebody yelled. "CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE?"
Shadow and Hiei stopped instantly, glaring at the kid who had just spoken. Kurama sighed.
"You can't just blow up on these two like that, okay?" Kurama warned the kid. "I appreciate it and all, but I've known them both a LOT longer than you have, and my advice is to just not mess with them."
"Why not?" Hiroshi challenged. Kurama rolled his eyes. He knew half the class time was already gone with all this pointlessness, and he was getting rather sick of it.
"Hiroshi, you don't need to know the reason, because if you knew, you would be either dead or maimed severly. Happy?" Kurama asked. HIs voice had taken on a cold, angry tone. Hiroshi noticed this and laughed.
"Gettin' mad, Shuuichi? Is the little genius teacher's pet not able to handle teaching? Poor baby."
Kurama nearly had steam rising off his head. Shadow's eyes hadn't left Hiroshi since he had said, 'why not.' Thousands of images of violent homocide danced through her head. Hiei was having fun reading all the people's thoughts. Until he got to Shadow. Then he almost screamed and quickly moved on to read Kurama's thoughts. They were going something like this:
'Why in the name of everything good in this world did I agree to take this *%$&ing job in the first place? Oh well, at least now I get to punish them. Muwahahaha... I can't believe I took this job. I'm not even getting paid! Oooh, that's a good idea. Maybe I should make them all run 20 laps around the city... What? I have to make a good first impression on that Eclipse girl... Pyeh. She already probably thinks I'm insane. I wonder if I have steam billowing out of my ears yet. Maybe I could get Hiei to mess with their minds so they all obey and are like... my little servants. But I don't want servants! I want students! Dur. Genius. Yes, I know I am. Right! Back to punishment. I guess the most horrible thing I can do to them is pull a pop quiz. Yeah, good idea. They won't like that. And maybe I'll make it a large part of their grade. Like... 90%. I can't do that! It'll just count as a normal grade... I still like the idea of servants better. No I don't. One pop quiz coming right up!'
Hiei smiled evilly. The class was still waiting for Kurama's reaction. They knew it would come, since he ~did~ have steam coming out of his ears, they just weren't sure how horrible it would be.
"Pop quiz!" Hiei announced. Kurama spun around, at first confused, then he realized how Hiei had known and he nearly knocked him over.
"WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT?!"
Hiei smiled evilly. The class had no idea what he was talking about.
"Stop doing what?" one kid asked.
"Never mind," Kurama answered. "But you ~do~ have a pop quiz. Get out a paper and pencil. If you have anything to say, say it to Hiroshi, not me, beause he's the one who brought this down on you all." He waited until everybody had stopped complaining and shooting evil glances around the room.
"Do I need to do this?" Eclipse asked from the back of the room.
"No. Come up here. I'll talk to you now, and that way you won't need to stay after class. Everybody else, start naming the bones in the human body. All of them," Kurama said. He smiled as the entire class had a simultaneous jaw-drop/sweatdrop/fall-out-of-their-chairs combination. Kurama walked around and sat down in the cushioned swivel-chair behind the teachers desk. Eclipse walked up and stood between Shadow and Hiei, casting nervous glances out of the corners of her eyes at them. Kurama was just about to start talking when one girl raised her hand.
"Yes?" Kurama asked, peering around Eclipse to look at the girl.
"How many bones are in the human body?"
Slowly, Kurama fell sideways out of his chair. Shadow and Hiei sweatdropped.
"Don't expect an A on your test," Shadow said as she pulled Kurama upright. "There's two hundred six."
"Though there might be more once I'm through with you," Hiei muttered under his breath.
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[1]-If you never read my story "YYH:The Meeting," then you'll have no clue what I'm talking about. If you have, then you do understand. If you haven't noticed, my stories are almost like a continuing story. They occasionally have references to each other, but if there's anything like that I usually explain it in a little note thing, like I am doing right now... Duh.
[2]- Once again a ref. to "YYH: The Meeting." When the Spirit Detective gang first met Shadow, she decided to steal Hiei's last name for lack of having her own.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Okay, so I admit now that this story has a partial purpose of introducing another original character to my stories. Deal with it. ^_^ Though I can't say that I'd know why you would mind... I don't want to go and overflow my stories with OCs. There can't be more OCs than there are real YYH characters. I won't do that, so don't worry.
Day One
Kurama's first day of teaching was upon him in no time. After he got up, it took an hour before they were finally leaving. Thank you very much, Shadow. Ahem. Despite the fact that Shadow delayed them by at least 25 minutes, the group got to school half an hour before the first class period began.
On the way up to the biology room, a teacher stopped Kurama and his group in the hall.
"Shuuichi, we have a new student coming to school today. She's going to be in one of your biology classes, so you'd best explain to her that you're not the normal teacher, and do your best to make her feel okay here," the man said.
"Yes sir," Kurama answered. The teacher looked curiously at Hiei and Shadow.
"Who are these two?"
"My friends. They're going to be helping me out for a while. If that's okay."
"Oh, sure... You know, they look kind of familiar..." the teacher muttered, squinting at Shadow and Hiei.
"Well, I'm sure you never met them," Kurama lied. "They've never been here before." [1]
"Really? Oh well. I guess you would know." The teacher walked down the hall.
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Kurama watched the students file into the room. He watched their faces as they saw him. He enjoyed every single confused expression. This was his class, which he had been in just last Friday, and now he was in charge.
Most of the looks he was getting, he knew, were not because he was the teacher. The class had already known about that. The strange looks he was getting were because of the two people leaning against his desk.
Shadow Jaganshi [2], dressed in all black, was leaning against the right front corner of Kurama's desk. Hiei Jaganshi, wearing all black as well as his black cloak, was leaning against the left front corner of Kurama's desk. While Hiei was scowling, Shadow had a smile on her face, accompanied by an evil glint in her eyes, giving a quite confusing first impression.
Kurama waited for the late bell, and after everyone got settled, he got up and walked around to the front of his desk. He stood dead-center between Shadow and Hiei. Kurama was wearing black as well, making a very bright contrast between his clothing and his hair.
"Hi everyone," he said. Everyone mumbled something, because that was the respectful thing to do, but Kurama only distinguished four different people who actually said 'hello.' He looked around for the new student. He spotted her in the back of the room.
"We have a new student," Kurama said. Everybody turned and looked at the girl. "Sorry to call attention to you, but would you please come up to the front?"
The girl stood up and walked toward Kurama. She wasn't very tall, probably a few inches over five feet, making her about Hiei's height. She had brown hair with a blonde streak on the left side, much like Shadow's silver streak.
"What's your name?" Kurama asked. "They don't inform me with these things."
"Eclipse Shinomori," the girl answered, looking at Shadow and Hiei suspiciously. Kurama noticed this and smiled.
"Hiei doesn't bite, but I'd stay away from Shadow. Just don't make her mad and you'll be okay," Kurama said quietly. Shadow heard anyway and kicked Kurama in the back of his leg.
"Shut up, fox boy!" she hissed. Eclipse's jaw dropped. The class laughed.
"Good going, Shadow. Now they're laughing at me," Kurama whispered back. Shadow smiled innocently.
"Would you stop it?" Hiei snapped. "Isn't this supposed to be a non-violent school or something? Honestly, you're setting a horrible example."
Eclipse's first impression of Hiei was all twisted around. She really had no clue what he was like, because he looked evil and violent, but then he yelled at somebody for bending rules. Shadow, she thought, was some kind of violent, lunatic girl who looked like the type of person who would buy a motorcycle for the sheer fun of breaking the speed limit and having a high- speed police chase. Kurama, she thought, (although she didn't know his real name was Kurama) was a polite, calm, friendly person, who wouldn't break rules of any sort. Ever.
Overall, she only had Shadow completely right.
"Right. Sorry, Hiei. Didn't know you cared so much about such things," Kurama teased. Hiei glared at him. Still smiling, Kurama turned to the class. "Okay, everyone, this is Eclipse Shinomori. Obviously, she's a new student."
Once again, there was a ripple of mumbles through the room. Hiroshi spoke up.
"Hey, girl! He's not the real teacher, you know! Has he told you that yet?"
"Shut up, kid!" Shadow snapped.
"You wanna make me, little girl?"
The entire class let out some sort of 'ooooooh' or gasped, or made other such noises. Shadow narrowed her eyes, but Kurama slapped his hand over her mouth before she could come back with anything.
"No, I have not told her that. But if you would have shut up I WOULD HAVE GOT AROUND TO IT IN A SECOND!" Kurama snapped. The class looked surprised. Hiei laughed. Shadow still had Kurama's hand firmly over her mouth, so therefore could not say anything.
"What's that supposed to mean? That you're not the real teacher?" Eclipse asked.
"God... Okay, the real teacher went on vacation. I'm taking his place. I'm normally a student," Kurama said. "In fact... You were sitting in my seat..."
"Oh. I thought you looked too young to be a teacher," Eclipse said, inspecting Kurama's face. "Why would a student become a teacher?"
"Cuz he's smart," Shadow answered, prying Kurama's hand off her face. "His IQ is like... 300 or something..."
"Jealous much?" Hiei whispered.
"Wow... really?" Eclipse said.
"I think 300 is a bit of an exaggeration... But it's a lot higher than normal peoples'..." Kurama replied with an almost undetectable hint of arrogance.
"Gloat, gloat," Hiei teased under his breath. Only Kurama heard this.
"OKay, well, you go ahead back to your seat for now. I'll talk to you after class," Kurama said. While Eclipse went to sit down, Kurama spoke to the class.
"Don't go thinking that just because I'm 16 and that I'll be lenient on homework. Or class work. Or work of any kind, actually... I'm going to be exactly like any ~old~ teacher that you've had. Lucky you," Kurama said, smiling.
"CONTROL FREAK!" Hiroshi shouted.
"No, you're confused, kid. That's ~me~ that's a control freak. If ~I~ was your teacher..." Shadow let the sentence trail off as she burst out laughing evilly.
'I was right. She's nuts,' Eclipse thought. 'Why would they allow a lunatic like that into a school building?'
Hiei burst out laughing at her thoughts.
"Hiei! Keep your eye to yourself," Kurama whispered. "You've got to act like a normal human if you're going to be here."
Eclipse, not being a total airhead like the rest of the class, also noticed the purple glow on Hiei's forehead. At that second, she decided that Hiei, Shadow, and Kurama (thought she didn't know his name was Kurama), were a small group of some abnormal lunatics. Like, aliens, or criminals, or devil children.
The class had no clue what was going on. Shadow was still laughing evilly for absolutely no reason, Hiei was laughing for no reason apparent to them, and Kurama was just standing there with his eyes closed, waiting for them to stop.
"SHUT UP, YOU TWO LITTLE TWITS!!!" somebody yelled. "CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE?"
Shadow and Hiei stopped instantly, glaring at the kid who had just spoken. Kurama sighed.
"You can't just blow up on these two like that, okay?" Kurama warned the kid. "I appreciate it and all, but I've known them both a LOT longer than you have, and my advice is to just not mess with them."
"Why not?" Hiroshi challenged. Kurama rolled his eyes. He knew half the class time was already gone with all this pointlessness, and he was getting rather sick of it.
"Hiroshi, you don't need to know the reason, because if you knew, you would be either dead or maimed severly. Happy?" Kurama asked. HIs voice had taken on a cold, angry tone. Hiroshi noticed this and laughed.
"Gettin' mad, Shuuichi? Is the little genius teacher's pet not able to handle teaching? Poor baby."
Kurama nearly had steam rising off his head. Shadow's eyes hadn't left Hiroshi since he had said, 'why not.' Thousands of images of violent homocide danced through her head. Hiei was having fun reading all the people's thoughts. Until he got to Shadow. Then he almost screamed and quickly moved on to read Kurama's thoughts. They were going something like this:
'Why in the name of everything good in this world did I agree to take this *%$&ing job in the first place? Oh well, at least now I get to punish them. Muwahahaha... I can't believe I took this job. I'm not even getting paid! Oooh, that's a good idea. Maybe I should make them all run 20 laps around the city... What? I have to make a good first impression on that Eclipse girl... Pyeh. She already probably thinks I'm insane. I wonder if I have steam billowing out of my ears yet. Maybe I could get Hiei to mess with their minds so they all obey and are like... my little servants. But I don't want servants! I want students! Dur. Genius. Yes, I know I am. Right! Back to punishment. I guess the most horrible thing I can do to them is pull a pop quiz. Yeah, good idea. They won't like that. And maybe I'll make it a large part of their grade. Like... 90%. I can't do that! It'll just count as a normal grade... I still like the idea of servants better. No I don't. One pop quiz coming right up!'
Hiei smiled evilly. The class was still waiting for Kurama's reaction. They knew it would come, since he ~did~ have steam coming out of his ears, they just weren't sure how horrible it would be.
"Pop quiz!" Hiei announced. Kurama spun around, at first confused, then he realized how Hiei had known and he nearly knocked him over.
"WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT?!"
Hiei smiled evilly. The class had no idea what he was talking about.
"Stop doing what?" one kid asked.
"Never mind," Kurama answered. "But you ~do~ have a pop quiz. Get out a paper and pencil. If you have anything to say, say it to Hiroshi, not me, beause he's the one who brought this down on you all." He waited until everybody had stopped complaining and shooting evil glances around the room.
"Do I need to do this?" Eclipse asked from the back of the room.
"No. Come up here. I'll talk to you now, and that way you won't need to stay after class. Everybody else, start naming the bones in the human body. All of them," Kurama said. He smiled as the entire class had a simultaneous jaw-drop/sweatdrop/fall-out-of-their-chairs combination. Kurama walked around and sat down in the cushioned swivel-chair behind the teachers desk. Eclipse walked up and stood between Shadow and Hiei, casting nervous glances out of the corners of her eyes at them. Kurama was just about to start talking when one girl raised her hand.
"Yes?" Kurama asked, peering around Eclipse to look at the girl.
"How many bones are in the human body?"
Slowly, Kurama fell sideways out of his chair. Shadow and Hiei sweatdropped.
"Don't expect an A on your test," Shadow said as she pulled Kurama upright. "There's two hundred six."
"Though there might be more once I'm through with you," Hiei muttered under his breath.
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[1]-If you never read my story "YYH:The Meeting," then you'll have no clue what I'm talking about. If you have, then you do understand. If you haven't noticed, my stories are almost like a continuing story. They occasionally have references to each other, but if there's anything like that I usually explain it in a little note thing, like I am doing right now... Duh.
[2]- Once again a ref. to "YYH: The Meeting." When the Spirit Detective gang first met Shadow, she decided to steal Hiei's last name for lack of having her own.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Okay, so I admit now that this story has a partial purpose of introducing another original character to my stories. Deal with it. ^_^ Though I can't say that I'd know why you would mind... I don't want to go and overflow my stories with OCs. There can't be more OCs than there are real YYH characters. I won't do that, so don't worry.