Just to let you know, I didn't reread this one or doublecheck it or
anything, so it might have a lot of errors... This chapter was an idea that
popped into my mind while I was on a sugar high as a school dance last
week... It was incredibly boring so I spent my time wishing I was not
suffering through the horrible music and that I was at home writing. So
when I got home, I started writing this. I think it's the longest chapter
of this story... So far.
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CHAPTER FOUR
School Dance
The next week passed completely eventlessly (If that's a word...). Eclipse didn't say anything about their substitute teacher being a demon, and Shadow and Kurama actually started being friends with her. Hiei still hated her for kicking him in the crotch.
On Friday of Kurama's second week as teacher (yes, he survived that long), there was a school dance. Somehow, Shadow managed to drag Hiei and Kurama in as semi-chaperones (I say semi because they weren't really regarded as chaperones once they got there...).
"How long is this dance thing?" Hiei asked. Shadow smiled.
"Two hours."
"WHAT?!"
"Yup. Two hours of---" Shadow's words were cut off as they walked inside and were nearly knocked over backwards by soundwaves. The music was so loud it threatened to put their heartbeat into an irregular pattern.
"TWO HOURS OF ~THIS~!!!" Shadow screamed. Hiei turned around and attempted to walk right back out the door. Shadow caught him by the back of his cloak and dragged him back in. They hung around on the edge of the dance floor, watching the people doing very strange... annoyingly strange dances, and listening to annoying pop music.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TALKED US INTO THIS!" Kurama yelled.
"THIS IS STUPID! I'M GOING HOME!" Hiei yelled. He turned around and started walking away again. And, yet again, Shadow dragged him back.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, HIEI? YOU'RE A REAL SPOILSPORT, YOU KNOW THAT!? YOU COULD AT LEAST SMILE OR SOMETHING!!!"
Hiei gave a quick fake smile and started walking away again. Well, at least trying to walk away... Shadow still had a firm grip on his arm.
"STAY! YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE, OR I WILL PERSONALLY CATCH YOUR HAIR ON FIRE WHEN I FIND YOU!"
"THEN I'LL MAKE SURE YOU DON'T FIND ME!!!" Hiei retorted. Shadow glared.
"MUST YOU HAVE A STUPID COMEBACK FOR EVERYTHING?"
"YES I MUST! LET GO OF MY ARM!"
"NO!!"
"DON'T MAKE ME HURT YOU!"
"LIKE YOU'D HURT ~ME~, HIEI! I'D KILL YOU!"
"NOT IF YOU WERE HURT BAD ENOUGH THAT YOU COULDN'T!"
"OH, SHUTUP!"
"ARE YOU GUYS ENJOYING YOURSELVES?!" somebody yelled. Shadow turned around.
"HELLO, ECLIPSE! HOW ARE YOU??? FINE AND DANDY?"
"NO, NOT REALLY! THIS MUSIC IS REAAALLLYYY LOUD!!!"
"WELL YOU'RE JUST SOOOO OBSERVANT!"
"I KNOW! AREN'T I?!"
"SARCASM AGAIN!"
"OH. HEY, WHERE IS KURAMA?"
"RIGHT THERE!!!" Shadow turned and pointed to where Kurama had been standing. He wasn't there anymore.
"NO HE'S NOT! SEE?"
"I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT!"
"WHERE'S HIEI?"
"WHAT?! OHHHH, *^&%!!!" Shadow looked around and took off running towards a little black shape sitting in the corner. Eclipse followed her.
"HELLO, HIEI!" Eclipse yelled. Hiei pulled his fingers out of his ears.
"WHAT?!"
"I SAID, 'HELLO, HIEI!!'"
"OH! OKAY! WELL I COULDN'T HEAR YOU BECAUSE THIS ^*%&ING MUSIC IS SO LOUD!"
"COOL, ISN'T IT?!"
"NO, NOT PARTICULARLY! IN FACT, IT KIND OF MAKES ME WANT TO KILL SOMETHING!"
"YOU DIDN'T BRING YOUR KATANA, DID YOU?" Shadow asked. Hiei smiled. "HIEI!!! YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BRING A WEAPON TO A SCHOOL DANCE! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DANCE AT A SCHOOL DANCE! NOW GET OUT THERE AND START DANCIN'!!!"
Shadow grabbed his arm, pulled him to his feet, and flung him out into the middle of the dance floor. He slid backwards on his feet and nearly ran into a group of girls. They grabbed his arms and started swinging him around and attempting to make him dance.
'I HATE YOU, SHADOW!!!' Hiei screamed telepathically.
'You don't need to shout in my head, Hiei...' Shadow replied, completely ignoring what he'd actually said.
'WELL I'M MAD!'
'Boohoo. A single tear runs down my face...'
'OH, SHUT UP!'
"SHADOW! THERE'S KURAMA!" Eclipse yelled, pointing across the room. Shadow spun around and looked for him. Somebody had beaten her to him. He was already enduring the same 'torture' as Hiei. Shadow laughed.
"THOSE GUYS ARE GOING TO BRUTALLY MURDER ME WHEN WE GET HOME!!!"
"GOOD LUCK!!"
"THEY MIGHT JUST GO AHEAD AND BRUTALLY MURDER ME RIGHT HERE!"
"HAVE FUN!"
"IF YOU FIND MY DEAD BODY FLOATING IN THE RIVER TOMORROW, DRAG ME OUT AND BURY ME IN A NICE PLACE!!!"
"O-KAY!"
"I'M GOING TO GO SAVE HIEI!"
"What?! But..."
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! SPEAK UP!"
"BUT YOU'RE THE ONE WHO THREW HIM OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, GENIUS!!!"
"YES, WELL I'M GOING TO SAVE HIM, THEN I'M GOING TO TORTURE HIM SOME MORE!!!"
"OH! YOU'RE SO FRIENDLY!"
"I KNOW! AREN'T I?" Shadow yelled. She laughed and walked out to where Hiei was standing there fuming while some girl swung his arms around in an attempt to make it look like he was dancing. He noticed Shadow coming towards him and tried to get away from the insane lunatic dancey girl that was swinging his arms around, but she wouldn't let go.
"SHADOW! I HATE YOU!" Hiei yelled. Shadow stood there smiling innocently and looking back and forth between Hiei and the girl, who barely seemd to notice her.
"DON'T WORRY, THOUGH. I'VE COME TO SAVE YOU!"
"WHAT? BUT YOU THREW ME OUT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE! WHY WOULD YOU SAVE ME?"
"I HAVE MY REASONS!" Shadow yelled. She turned to the girl. "HANDS OFF, LITTLE GIRL!"
"MAKE ME!" the girl screamed.
"I'D LIKE TO, BUT I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDER RIGHT NOW! HIEI IS MINE! LET GO!" Shadow shouted back.
"YOURS? YOU CAN'T OWN PEOPLE!" the girl snapped.
"I CAN IF I SAY I CAN, BECAUSE I AM GOD!"
"YEAH RIGHT!"
"SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MY HIEI BACK!"
"I'M NOT YOURS, WOULD YOU STOP SAYING I AM YOURS!" Hiei yelled.
"YOU'RE MINE! I OWN YOU! NOW SHUT UP AND FOLLOW ME!"
"I CAN'T! THIS GIRL STILL HASN'T LET GO!"
Shadow spun and glared at the girl. "LET GO! NOW!"
"MAKE ME!"
Shadow muttered something under her breath that nobody heard, but it was something like, "For God's sake, people, I don't want to repeat myself again... I'll just kill you and get it over with..." Well of course she didn't kill the girl.
"HIEI IS MINE, GIVE HIM BACK BEFORE WE BRUTALLY MURDER YOU AND THROW YOUR WEIGHTED BODY INTO THE RIVER, NEVER TO BE FOUND UNTIL THE WORLD DRIES UP AND THEN THEY'LL FIND YOUR BODY WITH A SUICIDE NOTE SEALED INSIDE A WATERPROOF CASE, JAMMED INSIDE YOUR RIBCAGE SO IT WON'T FLOAT AWAY!" Shadow screamed.
"Pleasant thoughts, Shadow," Eclipse muttered from behind her.
Shadow didn't hear her. She grabbed the girl's wrists and dug in her fingernails (that's the most extremely painful pain that Shadow can cause without actually hurting the person... But it actually does hurt them... Oh well.). The girl screamed and let go of Hiei's wrists. Shadow grabbed Hiei's sleeve and dragged him off to the side of the dance floor.
"FEELING BETTER NOW, HIEI?"
"YES, A BIT, BUT I STILL HATE YOU FOR PUTTING ME OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
"TYPICAL! THERE'S THIS THING CALLED FORGIVENESS, HIEI!"
"YEAH, yeah, whatever..." Hiei said, walking away.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!"
"I'M GOING TO FIND KURAMA!"
"OH! WELL HE'S BEING TORTURED T--- NEVER MIND!"
Kurama came running around the edge of the room and slid to a stop beside Hiei.
"I'M GOING TO DIEEEE!!!" he screamed.
"Oh? Well that's nothing new..." Hiei muttered.
"I HEARD THAT, YOU!"
"GOOD FOR YOU! WHY ARE YOU GOING TO DIE?"
"THAT GIRL OVER THERE IS HITTING ON ME!!!"
Shadow, Eclipse, and Hiei all burst out laughing at the same time. Kurama sulked and glared at them.
"SHUT UP, GUYS! IT'S NOT RIGHT!"
"BOO HOO, A SINGLE TEAR RUNS DOWN MY CHEEK!" Shadow yelled.
"GRR!" Kurama shouted. He walked into the corner and made an attempt to hide in the shadows. Lucky thing he did that, because a second later, a girl came running up to Shadow.
"SHADOW, HAVE YOU SEEN SHUUICHI?" she shouted.
"WHAT?"
"HAVE. YOU. SEEN. SHUUICHI?!" the girl repeated.
"OH! UM... WAIT, WHO ARE YOU? YOU AREN'T THE GIRL THAT WAS HITTING ON HIM, ARE YOU?" Shadow asked. Kurama flattened himself against the wall, hoping she wouldn't notice him.
"HITTING ON HIM? DID HE TELL YOU THAT?"
"POSSIBLY."
"WELL, FINE! I'LL JUST GO LOOK FOR HIM SOMEWHERE ELSE!" The girl ran away. Once he was sure she was gone, Kurama walked out of the corner.
"THANK YOU, SHADOW!"
"WHAT FOR?"
"FOR NOT BEING AN IDIOT!"
"OH, NO PROBLEM! I HAVE MY MOMENTS!"
"YES, SO WE NOTICED."
Suddenly, the DJ spoke over a microphone. "Everybody find yourselves a dance partner! We're gonna play some slow songs just for all you coupleses out there!"
"Uh.. oh..." Kurama muttered, spotting the girl (the one who'd been hitting on him, supposedly) looking at him.
A slow song started playing and the girl dashed over.
"Hello, Shuuichi," she said, batting her eyelashes.
"Uh... Hi."
Shadow, Eclipse, and Hiei were leaning against the wall snickering.
"You wanna dance?" the girl asked. Kurama sweatdropped.
"I... uh... can't," Kurama lied.
"Can't?! Why?"
"I... uh... I'm... uh... already dancing with somebody!" Kurama lied, grabbing Shadow's arm and dragging her over to him.
"AH! What the...?" Shadow yelped. Hiei bit his lip to keep from laughing. Eclipse just got buggy eyes the size of dinner plates. The girl pouted.
"Well FINE!" she snapped, stomping off to harass some other boy.
"What the heck did you do this for?" Shadow asked. She was now slow dancing with Kurama, which is not something she would have chosen to do on her own free will.
"To get rid of her. Don't worry, I'm not slipping into some perverted frame of mind..." Kurama said. In his mind, Youko was whispering semi-perverted things that he would do if he was the one on the outside. Kurama did his best to ignore it.
"Right... She's gone, can we stop now?" Shadow asked.
"Aww, is Shadow embarrassed?!" Hiei asked.
"Shut up, Hiei," Shadow said. "Why don't you just go ahead and dance with Eclipse and see how embarassed you get?"
Hiei narrowed his eyes. "I don't dance."
"Well I don't either!" Shadow snapped.
Hiei looked her over. "Sure looks like you are now."
"Oh, shut up. Go murder some demons."
"Okay!" Hiei started walking away. Shadow lunged to catch him and nearly knocked both herself and Kurama over. But hey, she caught Hiei!
"We still have an hour and a half of this miserable crap, Hiei, and I intend for you to suffer through the entire thing!" Shadow snapped. Suddenly, a camera flashed. Kurama looked around to see where it came from and saw Hiroshi Nakada standing a few feet away with a camera.
"Oh, crud."
"What?" Shadow asked.
"Oh, nothing..." Kurama said dryly, glaring at Hiroshi. Before Shadow could turn around, Hiroshi came up and stood beside them.
"Oooh, what's this?! Teacher boy got a girlfriend?" he said. Two boys behind him (his little gang) laughed.
"Oooh, what's this?! Hiroshi Nakada jealous of his teacher now?" Shadow shot back. "Where's your girlfriend, kid?"
"Shut up, bitch."
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call my friend a bitch?!" Kurama snapped.
"Tell me all you want. It won't stop me."
"You're full of crap, Nakada," Hiei said from behind him.
"I still say he's jealous," Shadow said. "He hasn't got a girlfriend so he's gonna go and bitch on somebody who does."
"What are you saying, Shadow? You're my girlfriend?" Kurama asked quietly.
"For the moment, I suppose I am. And there is a special emphasis on the words 'for the moment,' just to get that completely through to you, fox," Shadow said under her breath. Hiroshi didn't hear either of them. He was glaring.
"My girlfriend couldn't come," he lied (he didn't have a girlfriend).
"Yeah right! Everybody in the school is here, baka," Shadow answered. "You're jealous! JEAL-LOUS!"
"SHUT UP, BITCH!"
The slow song stopped and Kurama and Shadow stepped apart, both of them glaring at Hiroshi and his little gang. The DJ started playing incredibly loud music again.
"IF YOU DON'T STOP CALLING ME A BITCH, I'M GONNA WHIP ON YOUR ASS!" Shadow screamed.
"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi shot back. Kurama made an attempt to step between the two, but Shadow pushed him back.
"JUST BECAUSE YOUR TALLER THAN ME DOESN'T MAKE ME LITTLE! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! AS FAR AS YOU ARE CONCERNED, WE THREE DON'T EXIST!" Shadow screamed, pointing at Kurama and Hiei.
"YEAH RIGHT, THEN WHY ARE YOU STANDING IN FRONT OF ME?!"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE DILLUSIONAL!"
"YEAH RIGHT, LITTLE BITCH!"
"OH, THAT IS ~IT~!!! OUTSIDE!!!" Shadow screamed.
"SHADOW!" Eclipse yelled. "DON'T GO PICKING FIGHTS WITH PEOPLE! IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PERSON IS ABOUT 3 TIMES YOUR SIZE!!!"
"SHUT UP ECLIPSE!"
"SHADOW!!! DON'T MAKE ME CHAIN YOU UP!" Hiei screamed.
"OH, YOU'D LIKE THAT, WOULDN'T YOU!" Hiroshi yelled. Hiei's jaw dropped.
"PERVERT! NEVER MIND, SHADOW, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO KILL HIM!" Hiei said, suddenly changing his mind.
"THANK YOU!"
"NOT LIKE SHE COULD!" Hiroshi yelled. "SHE'S SCRAWNY!"
"AAAGHHHHHH!!! WERE WE OR WERE WE NOT GOING TO GO OUTSIDE AND SETTLE THIS?!" Shadow asked.
"WE ARE. COME ON, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi led the way to the door. His little gang followed. Shadow followed them with Hiei, Kurama, and Eclipse trailing nervously (except for Hiei, cuz he wasn't nervous, he was mad) behind her.
There was nobody outside, except a few couples making out, which the two groups ignored. The seven angry (or nervous, in Eclipse's case) people stomped out onto the sidewalk. Hiroshi and Shadow left their little groups there and walked into the middle of the road, which had been closed as a safety precaution for the school dance, so Hiroshi and Shadow had no risk of getting flattened.
"You get the first move," Shadow said. "Make it a good one, cuz it'll be the only one you make."
"Somehow I doubt that, little girl. But if you want to die, sure, I'll go first," Hiroshi said, rolling up his sleeves.
"You want to place a bet?" one of Hiroshi's thugs asked Hiei.
"Bet? Pfft. No. You'll end up living in a back alley completely naked," Hiei said airily. The guy's jaw dropped.
"Yeah right! Hiroshi is the strongest guy in the school! After he mauls your little girlfriend, he'll come after you three next!"
"Hiei, maybe we should just, like... Call her back?" Eclipse suggested. Hiei laughed.
"Nah. She likes turning people into putty. Can't you tell?"
"But... How many people has she actually succeeded in turning into putty?"
"I stopped counting around fifty. And those weren't stupid street kids... Wait... She fed some of those to the weasels, so that wasn't her turning them into putty... Oh well, she's seen enough fights to know a good bit about fighting..." Hiei said, shrugging. "I don't think she'll just randomly wave her arms around like every other girl I've ever seen fight."
"Ready?! GO!!!" Hiroshi shouted. He ran towards Shadow.
"Oh, honestly, tell me you can run faster than that! Like, slow mo times eight billion! You run as fast as an old man with one leg and arthritis!!!" Shadow taunted.
"SHUT UP, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi screamed, swinging at her. She dodged, dropped to the ground, swung her leg up, and kicked him square in the groin. He screamed and fell flat on his face. Hiei and Kurama laughed and applauded. Eclipse stared at her like she was nuts.
"YOU CAN'T BEAT HIROSHI LIKE THAT! HE'S INVINCIBLE!!!" one boy screamed. Hiroshi's two cronies ran out and attempted to tackle Shadow in the middle of her little victory dance. She dodged. They pulled out knives.
"Oh... %&*^..." Shadow muttered. The two came at her with the knives. She turned and took off down the street with them behind her. She hurdle-jumped the 'road closed' bar and kept running. After she went around a corner, Hiroshi's group let her go. They turned and folded their knives back down and put them into their pockets.
They had just gotten over the road-closed 'hurdles' and were about 6 feet away when Shadow came flying back down the street with an insane smile on her face. She stepped on the road closed bar and pushed off, doing some sort of flip in midair and coming down on top of one of the two boys. Hiei smiled evilly.
"STOP IT, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi screamed. He was still on the ground.
"What, whipping your sissy-friends butts?" Shadow asked. The third one had taken off running in fear. "Hiei, what wonderful torturous things should I do to this kid while I've got him? You're in to that kind of thing, aren't you?"
The boy Shadow was sitting on was trembling in fear. She continued to sit on him and didn't move. Hiei smiled and walked into the road, crossing to Shadow. Hiei smiled and jabbed the kid with his boot.
"I don't know, Shadow. I suppose you could just take his knife, let him up, and chase him till he dies of exhaustion," he said, grinning sadistically. Shadow grinned.
"Nice idea. Isn't that a nice idea, boy?" she asked the boy. He shuddered.
"BITCH!!!" Hiroshi screamed, finally recovering from his little kick in the crotch. He charged down the street towards the two sadistic lunatics.
"Oops. Here comes Hiroshi. Beat him up for me, will you, Hiei?"
"Me? I couldn't touch him! He'd die with the slightest bump!"
"WELL THEN JUST MAKE HIM RUN TILL HE'S EXHAUSTED! I DON'T CARE! Do whatever, just keep him away from me and my victim," Shadow intsructed. She stood up and the boy scrambled to his feet. "Start running, boy."
"DON'T LISTEN TO HER! SHE CAN'T HURT YOU!" Hiroshi screamed, still sticking to his sexist frame of mind.
"Ass..." Shadow muttered. Just as she was about to punch Hiroshi's thug, police sirens screamed up the street. Hoping they weren't for her, but cautious anyway, Shadow walked away, back to Kurama.
"Cops're coming," she said.
"Yes, obvioulsy," Kurama said dryly. The police car slammed on its brakes and two officers piled out.
"What's going on here?!" one yelled. Hiroshi hadn't heard the cops until they were practically on top of him, so he was still standing next to the road cloased signs, where the cops had stopped.
He pointed at Shadow, Kurama, Eclipse, and Hiei, standing innocently on the sidewalk, watching the world go by. "That girl there picked a fight with me and my friend here! For no reason!"
Shadow was about to protest that there was a reason, but Kurama slapped his hand over her mouth and whispered, "Don't say anything. If you don't say anything about fighting, then they'll think that Hiroshi is just some kid, full of hot air."
Shadow nodded. "Ah."
'Ah' seemed to be Shadow's favorite word. She said it a lot. It was her substitute for, 'I understand,' and similar terms. The reason she used it so much was because she was stupid and constantly had to have something or other explained to her. Usually by Kurama (who, by the way, almost never said, 'Ah,' because his IQ was about 4,000 points above Shadow's and he never had to have anything explained to him).
"Is that true, girl?" the cop asked. Shadow shook her head.
"No," she lied.
"Can you prove what you claim?" the cop asked Hiroshi.
"I have witnesses!" he whined. "This boy here, and the other one... ran away."
"I have witnesses too, and they're all still here!" Shadow yelled.
"Did she pick a fight?" the cop asked. Shadow's friends shook their heads no.
"Well of course they'd say that! She's dating one, and cheating on him with the other! And that girl---"
"EXCUSE ME?! DATING WHO?!" Shadow screamed.
"You know who," Hiroshi snapped.
"No I don't. Please inform me," Shadow said, crossing her arms.
"You're dating Shuuichi, but you live with Hiei, so it's obvious that you're cheating on him," the boy said, sounding proud of his deduction.
Shadow nearly burst into flames. Being as she was a half-breed fire demon, it probably wouldn't have affected her much if she had.
Hiei had a bit less control (either that or he was even more angry than Shadow was, which was doubtful). Several people nearby screamed and ran away as the bench they had been sitting on burst into flames.
Kurama didn't make anything burst into flames (because that wasn't in his powers) and he didn't make any blood-sucking plants explode out of nowhere. He stood there with his eyes closed and his fists clenched.
"First, I am not dating Shuuichi. And if I was, then I wouldn't cheat on him with Hiei. And second, even if I was dating one of them and cheating on him with the other... WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS?!" Shadow said, exploding at the last part. A few leaves on the ground around her burst into flames. Eclipse backed away slowly, hoping to get back inside the school before the police officers noticed that stuff was bursting into flames and arrested the four of them.
"I believe that is called adultry," one officer said.
"BUT IT'S NOT EVEN TRUE! AND BESIDES, I'M ONLY FIFTEEN, HOW COULD IT BE ADULTRY?! I AM NOT EVEN AN ADULT YET! DUR!"
Dur is a variation on duh, in case you thought it was some strange foreign word from some place other than where ever you live.
"OKAY, YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL!!!" the cop shouted.
"As far as I can tell, there's nothing going on here," the second officer said. By now, there was a nice sized ring of little flames around Shadow. The bench that Hiei had set on fire was still burning, and had caught the branch of the tree above it on fire. The tree was burning. Eclipse was still backing away. Kurama had calmed down a bit, but he was backing away as well, being as every single leaf in the street of on the sidewalk was now burning.
These police officers seem to have a pretty twisted idea of 'nothing.' They seemed the type to stand there and watch somebody get robbed and brutally murdered, then not say anything about it. This was either because of sheer laziness, or because their IQs (combined) were approximately equal to that of a rock, or perhaps a braindead hamster.
Needless to say, these were some really stupid fellows, and in this case, it was a good thing. Messing with some pyromaniac demons isn't something you wanna do, police officer or not.
"Let's go." The two cops turned, got in their car, and left. Hiroshi stood there stammering and sputtering stupidly. He watched the cops go before turning around and seeing the fire, which was, in itself, scary. It was exploding at least 7 feet high behind Hiei, outlining him, making him nothing more than a black silhouette.
Shadow was standing in the center of a ring of 6-inch-high flames. It looked like she was standing in the flames and not being affected. Hiroshi screamed.
"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF LUNATICS! RAVING LUNATICS! YOU PYROMANIAC FREAKS! YOU'RE INSANE! INSANE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU'RE STANDING IN FIRE! HOW CAN YOU STAND IN FIRE! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! AHHHHHHHH!!!" he ran straight at the 'road closed' bars, tripped over them, knocked one over, broke his ankle, and limped away screaming. His little cronie followed, but being as he didn't break his ankle, he quickly passed Hiroshi.
"Well this was quite fun," Shadow said cheerfully. The flames around her and on the street shrunk down to nearly nothing, stayed that way for a second, then vanished. "Hiei, put out those flames. The bench and the tree."
Instantly, the flames vanished. All that was left was a huge charred circle where the ground had burned, and a pile of ashed that had, at one point, been a bench.
"Let's go home. This stupid dance thing isn't turning out too great," Kurama suggested. "Wait. Where's Eclipse?"
"I dunno," Shadow muttered, looking around. "Ah! There she is."
Eclipse was pressed up against the wall, giving her three newest friends that look. This time it said, 'I am SOOOO not believing that just happened.'
"Let's go, Eclipse. You've got to get to your house, and we're all going to mine. G'Bye!" she said, spinning on her heel and walking down the sidewalk. Hiei and Kurama followed. Eclipse trailed about five feet behind them nervously, half expecting something else to explode into flames. Like perhaps her hair.
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It wasn't too incredibly horrible and stupid, was it? I think the next chapter will involve a good bit of explosions, fire, and other such stuff... Not to mention a bit of hurting Eclipse... Eclipse is my best friend's character, and sorry to her when she reads this if she does not approve of Eclipse's intelligence level... It's not my fault! Blame... uh... Kurama! Or Hiei! Anyone but me!!! ^_^;;
I'm an angel. 0:)
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CHAPTER FOUR
School Dance
The next week passed completely eventlessly (If that's a word...). Eclipse didn't say anything about their substitute teacher being a demon, and Shadow and Kurama actually started being friends with her. Hiei still hated her for kicking him in the crotch.
On Friday of Kurama's second week as teacher (yes, he survived that long), there was a school dance. Somehow, Shadow managed to drag Hiei and Kurama in as semi-chaperones (I say semi because they weren't really regarded as chaperones once they got there...).
"How long is this dance thing?" Hiei asked. Shadow smiled.
"Two hours."
"WHAT?!"
"Yup. Two hours of---" Shadow's words were cut off as they walked inside and were nearly knocked over backwards by soundwaves. The music was so loud it threatened to put their heartbeat into an irregular pattern.
"TWO HOURS OF ~THIS~!!!" Shadow screamed. Hiei turned around and attempted to walk right back out the door. Shadow caught him by the back of his cloak and dragged him back in. They hung around on the edge of the dance floor, watching the people doing very strange... annoyingly strange dances, and listening to annoying pop music.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TALKED US INTO THIS!" Kurama yelled.
"THIS IS STUPID! I'M GOING HOME!" Hiei yelled. He turned around and started walking away again. And, yet again, Shadow dragged him back.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, HIEI? YOU'RE A REAL SPOILSPORT, YOU KNOW THAT!? YOU COULD AT LEAST SMILE OR SOMETHING!!!"
Hiei gave a quick fake smile and started walking away again. Well, at least trying to walk away... Shadow still had a firm grip on his arm.
"STAY! YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE, OR I WILL PERSONALLY CATCH YOUR HAIR ON FIRE WHEN I FIND YOU!"
"THEN I'LL MAKE SURE YOU DON'T FIND ME!!!" Hiei retorted. Shadow glared.
"MUST YOU HAVE A STUPID COMEBACK FOR EVERYTHING?"
"YES I MUST! LET GO OF MY ARM!"
"NO!!"
"DON'T MAKE ME HURT YOU!"
"LIKE YOU'D HURT ~ME~, HIEI! I'D KILL YOU!"
"NOT IF YOU WERE HURT BAD ENOUGH THAT YOU COULDN'T!"
"OH, SHUTUP!"
"ARE YOU GUYS ENJOYING YOURSELVES?!" somebody yelled. Shadow turned around.
"HELLO, ECLIPSE! HOW ARE YOU??? FINE AND DANDY?"
"NO, NOT REALLY! THIS MUSIC IS REAAALLLYYY LOUD!!!"
"WELL YOU'RE JUST SOOOO OBSERVANT!"
"I KNOW! AREN'T I?!"
"SARCASM AGAIN!"
"OH. HEY, WHERE IS KURAMA?"
"RIGHT THERE!!!" Shadow turned and pointed to where Kurama had been standing. He wasn't there anymore.
"NO HE'S NOT! SEE?"
"I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT!"
"WHERE'S HIEI?"
"WHAT?! OHHHH, *^&%!!!" Shadow looked around and took off running towards a little black shape sitting in the corner. Eclipse followed her.
"HELLO, HIEI!" Eclipse yelled. Hiei pulled his fingers out of his ears.
"WHAT?!"
"I SAID, 'HELLO, HIEI!!'"
"OH! OKAY! WELL I COULDN'T HEAR YOU BECAUSE THIS ^*%&ING MUSIC IS SO LOUD!"
"COOL, ISN'T IT?!"
"NO, NOT PARTICULARLY! IN FACT, IT KIND OF MAKES ME WANT TO KILL SOMETHING!"
"YOU DIDN'T BRING YOUR KATANA, DID YOU?" Shadow asked. Hiei smiled. "HIEI!!! YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BRING A WEAPON TO A SCHOOL DANCE! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DANCE AT A SCHOOL DANCE! NOW GET OUT THERE AND START DANCIN'!!!"
Shadow grabbed his arm, pulled him to his feet, and flung him out into the middle of the dance floor. He slid backwards on his feet and nearly ran into a group of girls. They grabbed his arms and started swinging him around and attempting to make him dance.
'I HATE YOU, SHADOW!!!' Hiei screamed telepathically.
'You don't need to shout in my head, Hiei...' Shadow replied, completely ignoring what he'd actually said.
'WELL I'M MAD!'
'Boohoo. A single tear runs down my face...'
'OH, SHUT UP!'
"SHADOW! THERE'S KURAMA!" Eclipse yelled, pointing across the room. Shadow spun around and looked for him. Somebody had beaten her to him. He was already enduring the same 'torture' as Hiei. Shadow laughed.
"THOSE GUYS ARE GOING TO BRUTALLY MURDER ME WHEN WE GET HOME!!!"
"GOOD LUCK!!"
"THEY MIGHT JUST GO AHEAD AND BRUTALLY MURDER ME RIGHT HERE!"
"HAVE FUN!"
"IF YOU FIND MY DEAD BODY FLOATING IN THE RIVER TOMORROW, DRAG ME OUT AND BURY ME IN A NICE PLACE!!!"
"O-KAY!"
"I'M GOING TO GO SAVE HIEI!"
"What?! But..."
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! SPEAK UP!"
"BUT YOU'RE THE ONE WHO THREW HIM OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, GENIUS!!!"
"YES, WELL I'M GOING TO SAVE HIM, THEN I'M GOING TO TORTURE HIM SOME MORE!!!"
"OH! YOU'RE SO FRIENDLY!"
"I KNOW! AREN'T I?" Shadow yelled. She laughed and walked out to where Hiei was standing there fuming while some girl swung his arms around in an attempt to make it look like he was dancing. He noticed Shadow coming towards him and tried to get away from the insane lunatic dancey girl that was swinging his arms around, but she wouldn't let go.
"SHADOW! I HATE YOU!" Hiei yelled. Shadow stood there smiling innocently and looking back and forth between Hiei and the girl, who barely seemd to notice her.
"DON'T WORRY, THOUGH. I'VE COME TO SAVE YOU!"
"WHAT? BUT YOU THREW ME OUT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE! WHY WOULD YOU SAVE ME?"
"I HAVE MY REASONS!" Shadow yelled. She turned to the girl. "HANDS OFF, LITTLE GIRL!"
"MAKE ME!" the girl screamed.
"I'D LIKE TO, BUT I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDER RIGHT NOW! HIEI IS MINE! LET GO!" Shadow shouted back.
"YOURS? YOU CAN'T OWN PEOPLE!" the girl snapped.
"I CAN IF I SAY I CAN, BECAUSE I AM GOD!"
"YEAH RIGHT!"
"SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MY HIEI BACK!"
"I'M NOT YOURS, WOULD YOU STOP SAYING I AM YOURS!" Hiei yelled.
"YOU'RE MINE! I OWN YOU! NOW SHUT UP AND FOLLOW ME!"
"I CAN'T! THIS GIRL STILL HASN'T LET GO!"
Shadow spun and glared at the girl. "LET GO! NOW!"
"MAKE ME!"
Shadow muttered something under her breath that nobody heard, but it was something like, "For God's sake, people, I don't want to repeat myself again... I'll just kill you and get it over with..." Well of course she didn't kill the girl.
"HIEI IS MINE, GIVE HIM BACK BEFORE WE BRUTALLY MURDER YOU AND THROW YOUR WEIGHTED BODY INTO THE RIVER, NEVER TO BE FOUND UNTIL THE WORLD DRIES UP AND THEN THEY'LL FIND YOUR BODY WITH A SUICIDE NOTE SEALED INSIDE A WATERPROOF CASE, JAMMED INSIDE YOUR RIBCAGE SO IT WON'T FLOAT AWAY!" Shadow screamed.
"Pleasant thoughts, Shadow," Eclipse muttered from behind her.
Shadow didn't hear her. She grabbed the girl's wrists and dug in her fingernails (that's the most extremely painful pain that Shadow can cause without actually hurting the person... But it actually does hurt them... Oh well.). The girl screamed and let go of Hiei's wrists. Shadow grabbed Hiei's sleeve and dragged him off to the side of the dance floor.
"FEELING BETTER NOW, HIEI?"
"YES, A BIT, BUT I STILL HATE YOU FOR PUTTING ME OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
"TYPICAL! THERE'S THIS THING CALLED FORGIVENESS, HIEI!"
"YEAH, yeah, whatever..." Hiei said, walking away.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!"
"I'M GOING TO FIND KURAMA!"
"OH! WELL HE'S BEING TORTURED T--- NEVER MIND!"
Kurama came running around the edge of the room and slid to a stop beside Hiei.
"I'M GOING TO DIEEEE!!!" he screamed.
"Oh? Well that's nothing new..." Hiei muttered.
"I HEARD THAT, YOU!"
"GOOD FOR YOU! WHY ARE YOU GOING TO DIE?"
"THAT GIRL OVER THERE IS HITTING ON ME!!!"
Shadow, Eclipse, and Hiei all burst out laughing at the same time. Kurama sulked and glared at them.
"SHUT UP, GUYS! IT'S NOT RIGHT!"
"BOO HOO, A SINGLE TEAR RUNS DOWN MY CHEEK!" Shadow yelled.
"GRR!" Kurama shouted. He walked into the corner and made an attempt to hide in the shadows. Lucky thing he did that, because a second later, a girl came running up to Shadow.
"SHADOW, HAVE YOU SEEN SHUUICHI?" she shouted.
"WHAT?"
"HAVE. YOU. SEEN. SHUUICHI?!" the girl repeated.
"OH! UM... WAIT, WHO ARE YOU? YOU AREN'T THE GIRL THAT WAS HITTING ON HIM, ARE YOU?" Shadow asked. Kurama flattened himself against the wall, hoping she wouldn't notice him.
"HITTING ON HIM? DID HE TELL YOU THAT?"
"POSSIBLY."
"WELL, FINE! I'LL JUST GO LOOK FOR HIM SOMEWHERE ELSE!" The girl ran away. Once he was sure she was gone, Kurama walked out of the corner.
"THANK YOU, SHADOW!"
"WHAT FOR?"
"FOR NOT BEING AN IDIOT!"
"OH, NO PROBLEM! I HAVE MY MOMENTS!"
"YES, SO WE NOTICED."
Suddenly, the DJ spoke over a microphone. "Everybody find yourselves a dance partner! We're gonna play some slow songs just for all you coupleses out there!"
"Uh.. oh..." Kurama muttered, spotting the girl (the one who'd been hitting on him, supposedly) looking at him.
A slow song started playing and the girl dashed over.
"Hello, Shuuichi," she said, batting her eyelashes.
"Uh... Hi."
Shadow, Eclipse, and Hiei were leaning against the wall snickering.
"You wanna dance?" the girl asked. Kurama sweatdropped.
"I... uh... can't," Kurama lied.
"Can't?! Why?"
"I... uh... I'm... uh... already dancing with somebody!" Kurama lied, grabbing Shadow's arm and dragging her over to him.
"AH! What the...?" Shadow yelped. Hiei bit his lip to keep from laughing. Eclipse just got buggy eyes the size of dinner plates. The girl pouted.
"Well FINE!" she snapped, stomping off to harass some other boy.
"What the heck did you do this for?" Shadow asked. She was now slow dancing with Kurama, which is not something she would have chosen to do on her own free will.
"To get rid of her. Don't worry, I'm not slipping into some perverted frame of mind..." Kurama said. In his mind, Youko was whispering semi-perverted things that he would do if he was the one on the outside. Kurama did his best to ignore it.
"Right... She's gone, can we stop now?" Shadow asked.
"Aww, is Shadow embarrassed?!" Hiei asked.
"Shut up, Hiei," Shadow said. "Why don't you just go ahead and dance with Eclipse and see how embarassed you get?"
Hiei narrowed his eyes. "I don't dance."
"Well I don't either!" Shadow snapped.
Hiei looked her over. "Sure looks like you are now."
"Oh, shut up. Go murder some demons."
"Okay!" Hiei started walking away. Shadow lunged to catch him and nearly knocked both herself and Kurama over. But hey, she caught Hiei!
"We still have an hour and a half of this miserable crap, Hiei, and I intend for you to suffer through the entire thing!" Shadow snapped. Suddenly, a camera flashed. Kurama looked around to see where it came from and saw Hiroshi Nakada standing a few feet away with a camera.
"Oh, crud."
"What?" Shadow asked.
"Oh, nothing..." Kurama said dryly, glaring at Hiroshi. Before Shadow could turn around, Hiroshi came up and stood beside them.
"Oooh, what's this?! Teacher boy got a girlfriend?" he said. Two boys behind him (his little gang) laughed.
"Oooh, what's this?! Hiroshi Nakada jealous of his teacher now?" Shadow shot back. "Where's your girlfriend, kid?"
"Shut up, bitch."
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call my friend a bitch?!" Kurama snapped.
"Tell me all you want. It won't stop me."
"You're full of crap, Nakada," Hiei said from behind him.
"I still say he's jealous," Shadow said. "He hasn't got a girlfriend so he's gonna go and bitch on somebody who does."
"What are you saying, Shadow? You're my girlfriend?" Kurama asked quietly.
"For the moment, I suppose I am. And there is a special emphasis on the words 'for the moment,' just to get that completely through to you, fox," Shadow said under her breath. Hiroshi didn't hear either of them. He was glaring.
"My girlfriend couldn't come," he lied (he didn't have a girlfriend).
"Yeah right! Everybody in the school is here, baka," Shadow answered. "You're jealous! JEAL-LOUS!"
"SHUT UP, BITCH!"
The slow song stopped and Kurama and Shadow stepped apart, both of them glaring at Hiroshi and his little gang. The DJ started playing incredibly loud music again.
"IF YOU DON'T STOP CALLING ME A BITCH, I'M GONNA WHIP ON YOUR ASS!" Shadow screamed.
"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi shot back. Kurama made an attempt to step between the two, but Shadow pushed him back.
"JUST BECAUSE YOUR TALLER THAN ME DOESN'T MAKE ME LITTLE! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! AS FAR AS YOU ARE CONCERNED, WE THREE DON'T EXIST!" Shadow screamed, pointing at Kurama and Hiei.
"YEAH RIGHT, THEN WHY ARE YOU STANDING IN FRONT OF ME?!"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE DILLUSIONAL!"
"YEAH RIGHT, LITTLE BITCH!"
"OH, THAT IS ~IT~!!! OUTSIDE!!!" Shadow screamed.
"SHADOW!" Eclipse yelled. "DON'T GO PICKING FIGHTS WITH PEOPLE! IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PERSON IS ABOUT 3 TIMES YOUR SIZE!!!"
"SHUT UP ECLIPSE!"
"SHADOW!!! DON'T MAKE ME CHAIN YOU UP!" Hiei screamed.
"OH, YOU'D LIKE THAT, WOULDN'T YOU!" Hiroshi yelled. Hiei's jaw dropped.
"PERVERT! NEVER MIND, SHADOW, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO KILL HIM!" Hiei said, suddenly changing his mind.
"THANK YOU!"
"NOT LIKE SHE COULD!" Hiroshi yelled. "SHE'S SCRAWNY!"
"AAAGHHHHHH!!! WERE WE OR WERE WE NOT GOING TO GO OUTSIDE AND SETTLE THIS?!" Shadow asked.
"WE ARE. COME ON, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi led the way to the door. His little gang followed. Shadow followed them with Hiei, Kurama, and Eclipse trailing nervously (except for Hiei, cuz he wasn't nervous, he was mad) behind her.
There was nobody outside, except a few couples making out, which the two groups ignored. The seven angry (or nervous, in Eclipse's case) people stomped out onto the sidewalk. Hiroshi and Shadow left their little groups there and walked into the middle of the road, which had been closed as a safety precaution for the school dance, so Hiroshi and Shadow had no risk of getting flattened.
"You get the first move," Shadow said. "Make it a good one, cuz it'll be the only one you make."
"Somehow I doubt that, little girl. But if you want to die, sure, I'll go first," Hiroshi said, rolling up his sleeves.
"You want to place a bet?" one of Hiroshi's thugs asked Hiei.
"Bet? Pfft. No. You'll end up living in a back alley completely naked," Hiei said airily. The guy's jaw dropped.
"Yeah right! Hiroshi is the strongest guy in the school! After he mauls your little girlfriend, he'll come after you three next!"
"Hiei, maybe we should just, like... Call her back?" Eclipse suggested. Hiei laughed.
"Nah. She likes turning people into putty. Can't you tell?"
"But... How many people has she actually succeeded in turning into putty?"
"I stopped counting around fifty. And those weren't stupid street kids... Wait... She fed some of those to the weasels, so that wasn't her turning them into putty... Oh well, she's seen enough fights to know a good bit about fighting..." Hiei said, shrugging. "I don't think she'll just randomly wave her arms around like every other girl I've ever seen fight."
"Ready?! GO!!!" Hiroshi shouted. He ran towards Shadow.
"Oh, honestly, tell me you can run faster than that! Like, slow mo times eight billion! You run as fast as an old man with one leg and arthritis!!!" Shadow taunted.
"SHUT UP, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi screamed, swinging at her. She dodged, dropped to the ground, swung her leg up, and kicked him square in the groin. He screamed and fell flat on his face. Hiei and Kurama laughed and applauded. Eclipse stared at her like she was nuts.
"YOU CAN'T BEAT HIROSHI LIKE THAT! HE'S INVINCIBLE!!!" one boy screamed. Hiroshi's two cronies ran out and attempted to tackle Shadow in the middle of her little victory dance. She dodged. They pulled out knives.
"Oh... %&*^..." Shadow muttered. The two came at her with the knives. She turned and took off down the street with them behind her. She hurdle-jumped the 'road closed' bar and kept running. After she went around a corner, Hiroshi's group let her go. They turned and folded their knives back down and put them into their pockets.
They had just gotten over the road-closed 'hurdles' and were about 6 feet away when Shadow came flying back down the street with an insane smile on her face. She stepped on the road closed bar and pushed off, doing some sort of flip in midair and coming down on top of one of the two boys. Hiei smiled evilly.
"STOP IT, LITTLE GIRL!" Hiroshi screamed. He was still on the ground.
"What, whipping your sissy-friends butts?" Shadow asked. The third one had taken off running in fear. "Hiei, what wonderful torturous things should I do to this kid while I've got him? You're in to that kind of thing, aren't you?"
The boy Shadow was sitting on was trembling in fear. She continued to sit on him and didn't move. Hiei smiled and walked into the road, crossing to Shadow. Hiei smiled and jabbed the kid with his boot.
"I don't know, Shadow. I suppose you could just take his knife, let him up, and chase him till he dies of exhaustion," he said, grinning sadistically. Shadow grinned.
"Nice idea. Isn't that a nice idea, boy?" she asked the boy. He shuddered.
"BITCH!!!" Hiroshi screamed, finally recovering from his little kick in the crotch. He charged down the street towards the two sadistic lunatics.
"Oops. Here comes Hiroshi. Beat him up for me, will you, Hiei?"
"Me? I couldn't touch him! He'd die with the slightest bump!"
"WELL THEN JUST MAKE HIM RUN TILL HE'S EXHAUSTED! I DON'T CARE! Do whatever, just keep him away from me and my victim," Shadow intsructed. She stood up and the boy scrambled to his feet. "Start running, boy."
"DON'T LISTEN TO HER! SHE CAN'T HURT YOU!" Hiroshi screamed, still sticking to his sexist frame of mind.
"Ass..." Shadow muttered. Just as she was about to punch Hiroshi's thug, police sirens screamed up the street. Hoping they weren't for her, but cautious anyway, Shadow walked away, back to Kurama.
"Cops're coming," she said.
"Yes, obvioulsy," Kurama said dryly. The police car slammed on its brakes and two officers piled out.
"What's going on here?!" one yelled. Hiroshi hadn't heard the cops until they were practically on top of him, so he was still standing next to the road cloased signs, where the cops had stopped.
He pointed at Shadow, Kurama, Eclipse, and Hiei, standing innocently on the sidewalk, watching the world go by. "That girl there picked a fight with me and my friend here! For no reason!"
Shadow was about to protest that there was a reason, but Kurama slapped his hand over her mouth and whispered, "Don't say anything. If you don't say anything about fighting, then they'll think that Hiroshi is just some kid, full of hot air."
Shadow nodded. "Ah."
'Ah' seemed to be Shadow's favorite word. She said it a lot. It was her substitute for, 'I understand,' and similar terms. The reason she used it so much was because she was stupid and constantly had to have something or other explained to her. Usually by Kurama (who, by the way, almost never said, 'Ah,' because his IQ was about 4,000 points above Shadow's and he never had to have anything explained to him).
"Is that true, girl?" the cop asked. Shadow shook her head.
"No," she lied.
"Can you prove what you claim?" the cop asked Hiroshi.
"I have witnesses!" he whined. "This boy here, and the other one... ran away."
"I have witnesses too, and they're all still here!" Shadow yelled.
"Did she pick a fight?" the cop asked. Shadow's friends shook their heads no.
"Well of course they'd say that! She's dating one, and cheating on him with the other! And that girl---"
"EXCUSE ME?! DATING WHO?!" Shadow screamed.
"You know who," Hiroshi snapped.
"No I don't. Please inform me," Shadow said, crossing her arms.
"You're dating Shuuichi, but you live with Hiei, so it's obvious that you're cheating on him," the boy said, sounding proud of his deduction.
Shadow nearly burst into flames. Being as she was a half-breed fire demon, it probably wouldn't have affected her much if she had.
Hiei had a bit less control (either that or he was even more angry than Shadow was, which was doubtful). Several people nearby screamed and ran away as the bench they had been sitting on burst into flames.
Kurama didn't make anything burst into flames (because that wasn't in his powers) and he didn't make any blood-sucking plants explode out of nowhere. He stood there with his eyes closed and his fists clenched.
"First, I am not dating Shuuichi. And if I was, then I wouldn't cheat on him with Hiei. And second, even if I was dating one of them and cheating on him with the other... WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS?!" Shadow said, exploding at the last part. A few leaves on the ground around her burst into flames. Eclipse backed away slowly, hoping to get back inside the school before the police officers noticed that stuff was bursting into flames and arrested the four of them.
"I believe that is called adultry," one officer said.
"BUT IT'S NOT EVEN TRUE! AND BESIDES, I'M ONLY FIFTEEN, HOW COULD IT BE ADULTRY?! I AM NOT EVEN AN ADULT YET! DUR!"
Dur is a variation on duh, in case you thought it was some strange foreign word from some place other than where ever you live.
"OKAY, YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL!!!" the cop shouted.
"As far as I can tell, there's nothing going on here," the second officer said. By now, there was a nice sized ring of little flames around Shadow. The bench that Hiei had set on fire was still burning, and had caught the branch of the tree above it on fire. The tree was burning. Eclipse was still backing away. Kurama had calmed down a bit, but he was backing away as well, being as every single leaf in the street of on the sidewalk was now burning.
These police officers seem to have a pretty twisted idea of 'nothing.' They seemed the type to stand there and watch somebody get robbed and brutally murdered, then not say anything about it. This was either because of sheer laziness, or because their IQs (combined) were approximately equal to that of a rock, or perhaps a braindead hamster.
Needless to say, these were some really stupid fellows, and in this case, it was a good thing. Messing with some pyromaniac demons isn't something you wanna do, police officer or not.
"Let's go." The two cops turned, got in their car, and left. Hiroshi stood there stammering and sputtering stupidly. He watched the cops go before turning around and seeing the fire, which was, in itself, scary. It was exploding at least 7 feet high behind Hiei, outlining him, making him nothing more than a black silhouette.
Shadow was standing in the center of a ring of 6-inch-high flames. It looked like she was standing in the flames and not being affected. Hiroshi screamed.
"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF LUNATICS! RAVING LUNATICS! YOU PYROMANIAC FREAKS! YOU'RE INSANE! INSANE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU'RE STANDING IN FIRE! HOW CAN YOU STAND IN FIRE! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! AHHHHHHHH!!!" he ran straight at the 'road closed' bars, tripped over them, knocked one over, broke his ankle, and limped away screaming. His little cronie followed, but being as he didn't break his ankle, he quickly passed Hiroshi.
"Well this was quite fun," Shadow said cheerfully. The flames around her and on the street shrunk down to nearly nothing, stayed that way for a second, then vanished. "Hiei, put out those flames. The bench and the tree."
Instantly, the flames vanished. All that was left was a huge charred circle where the ground had burned, and a pile of ashed that had, at one point, been a bench.
"Let's go home. This stupid dance thing isn't turning out too great," Kurama suggested. "Wait. Where's Eclipse?"
"I dunno," Shadow muttered, looking around. "Ah! There she is."
Eclipse was pressed up against the wall, giving her three newest friends that look. This time it said, 'I am SOOOO not believing that just happened.'
"Let's go, Eclipse. You've got to get to your house, and we're all going to mine. G'Bye!" she said, spinning on her heel and walking down the sidewalk. Hiei and Kurama followed. Eclipse trailed about five feet behind them nervously, half expecting something else to explode into flames. Like perhaps her hair.
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It wasn't too incredibly horrible and stupid, was it? I think the next chapter will involve a good bit of explosions, fire, and other such stuff... Not to mention a bit of hurting Eclipse... Eclipse is my best friend's character, and sorry to her when she reads this if she does not approve of Eclipse's intelligence level... It's not my fault! Blame... uh... Kurama! Or Hiei! Anyone but me!!! ^_^;;
I'm an angel. 0:)