Author's note: Hehe thanks for the reviews everybody! I feel so special! -Sparkles in eyes- Well anyway this chapter goes to the middle of 6th period so we have quite a long way to go! xP
Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho is copyrighted to Yoshihiro Togashi. Yuki and others are copyrighted to me. Take anything and I will kick your ass.
Chapter Five: Detention for Two
Keiko led them to the opposite side of the school where the grass was greener and they could no longer see the busy street in front of them. It was quiet and outside of the chained link fence was a row of little dainty houses; some had little dogs out on the lawn that were sleeping or barking and some had aged humans smiling at them and watering the plants from out of their window.
She suddenly stopped at a doorway of a classroom, straightened herself and dusted her blouse and skirt. They all stared at her curiously, Yuki with one eyebrow up. She then strolled into the class what had a sense of formality and a sharp smell of a new business suit.
"Well what do we have here Keiko?" a small spiffy man, wearing a new business suit, stood in front of her said in an impatient voice.
"Sir these are new foreign exchange students that the principal gave me permission to help these students adjust to this new unfamiliar school," Keiko said respectfully, not looking at her teacher but looking straight ahead.
While the teacher talked to Keiko the classroom was exceptionally quiet and the air was stuffy. All the students were sitting straight in their chairs, looking like a modeled class. Their faces had no expression whatsoever, looking lifeless.
"Hmm...Botan!" the teacher suddenly yelled.
Botan flinched and turned around. "Yes...?" she said slowly.
"Do not slouch and smooth the wrinkles of your uniform! Since this is your first day here and you do not know what my rules and expectations are, you will not be punished! However if you ever make this mistake again I will not be as forgiving is this clear?!" Botan looked scared out of her wits and nodded slowly.
"YUKI!!" Yuki turned around.
"What?" she asked.
The teacher's naturally pale face reddened with anger. "YOU WILL SHOW ME RESPECT AND YOU WILL NEVER SAY 'WHAT' AGAIN IN THIS CLASSROOM!!" he yelled, his yell echoed and all the students flinched.
Yuki just gave him a strange look and a thumbs-up.
"All right, I'll keep that in mind sir."
He looked so angry and red that it wouldn't be surprising if steam came out of his ears. His white mustache quivered dangerously.
"Sit...NOW!!" They found empty sits in the back and quickly sat down. The teacher known as Mr. Barrington, walked to the back and slammed his little soft hands on Yuki's desk.
"Look at what we have here...yes...a smart mouth...stupid one...here's a detention for you...an hour...eh how do you like that miss prissy... I'll let you go this time because it is your first day here...hopefully you learn from your mistakes..." he said madly, spitting all over Yuki. Yuki, who was shielding her face from the spit, looked confused.
"What's a detention?" she asked quietly at Kurama when Mr. Barrington went in front of the room.
"Its a little punishment for human students who have done something wrong and they have to think about what they did for an hour after school," Kurama replied.
"Well that's stupid," Yuki murmured, "I can't think what's wrong at what I just did and that just took me a minute figure that out...an hour...what am I suppose to do?"
"Sleep?" suggested Botan. Her suggestion carried through out the silent room so naturally Mr. Barrington heard her.
"What did you just do?" he whispered harshly. Botan's eyes widened in fear and she shrunk into her chair until only her big eyes and her red forehead covered with strands of sweaty blue hair could be seen.
Mr. Barrington advanced toward Botan who was shivering now. He whipped out the detention papers and a black pen that looked like it had been mistaken for a carrot that had been chewed out thoroughly by a rabbit with long strong front teeth. He scribbled something on one of the pink detention slips and slammed it on Botan's deck.
"Seems that you will join miss prissy in detention Botan..." snarled Mr. Barrington who just give her and Yuki a nasty glare. Yuki glared back while Botan looked like she was trying to sweat the biggest sweat puddle in the world.
Mr. Barrington stomped back to the front and went on about his lecture of how the ladies in the 1800's had to act. He kept glaring at Yuki (who glared back) and Botan during the lecture especially when he was talking about how to keep quiet.
The bell rang, never sounding so sweet to the students who dashed out of there like they were racing in the Olympics. The door was almost ripped off by all the students grabbing it to open and close. Botan was in the lead and looked so happy when she was about fifty feet away from the stuffy classroom and the angry shrimp devil, Mr. Barrington.
"What are you so afraid of him Botan?" Kurama asked when they caught up with her. "He can't do anything to you."
"Well maybe to you because you could beat him up in a minute but I probably can't," she said meekly.
Yuki shrugged and replied carelessly, "Well I could beat him up for you...no problem for me..."
"Yuki!" Keiko said warningly while Kurama chuckled. Hiei allowed himself a small smile.
"What's for 5th period Keiko?" Botan said reddening.
"Writing..." Keiko saw Botan's scared expression, "and this teacher is nice...don't worry Botan..."
The classroom they entered had a friendly atmosphere. The walls were covered with drawings and posters, looking more like an art classroom. The teacher seemed to have not arrived yet so they settled themselves in comfy chairs and desks. As the bell rang, a large woman entered the classroom. She was tall but plump around the edges. She had a friendly face with a big mole at the side of her cheek.
"Sorry that I was late class," she said in a flowing nice voice. The class quieted at once but not of fear but out of respect. "But I was just informed by the principal that we have four new students from the program...where are they...oohhh there they are...stand up please and introduce yourselves!"
All of them went white. They stood up slowly and Botan who was sitting closest to the teacher said shakily, "Um...my name is Botan..." Kurama who was sitting next to Botan said in a calm tone, as always, "Hello my name is Kurama." Hiei and Yuki just grumbled their names.
"Sorry didn't catch that, what did you say?" the teacher said pleasantly to Yuki.
"Yuki," Yuki grumbled but in a clearer tone.
"Oh what a nice name Yuki! My name is Ms. Higashi and I will be your Writing teacher for this year!"
She went to the board and started writing a question down. "We will be doing a timed essay today (audible groans were heard) and here's your essay prompt. Start."
The essay prompt:
What are the uses of a computer and how has it improve the path of writing?
Hiei and Yuki paled.
"…Kurama…"
Yusuke was in PE class and since he skipped so many days he had to climb a rope hanging from the top of the gym as a punishment. He was just in the midway when—
"HOLY SHIT!!!"
His hands slipped and burned as they slid down the rope. He let go and fall onto the mats placed under just in case he fell.
Yusuke landed on his side with a thud.
"Owww…OUCH!"
He happened to fall on his right pocket which contained the Spirit Detector. To check if any damage has fallen upon it, he put out the tiny ring.
"Well everything seems in order…"
He put it back in his pocket, looked up at the swaying rope, and sighed.
They had spent the whole period craning their necks to see Kurama's paper and managed to reword the entire thing before the time was up.
The bell rang again but this time instead of signaling students to go to another class, it was signaling students to go to lunch and a period of freedom. They all scrambled out to find Yusuke and Kuwabara.
Keiko led them to a large gray building that had a brown sign with faded painted letters, which spelled out Cafeteria. Inside there were three long rows of long gray tables filled with noisy students. On the right side there was also a table but it had plastic windows and behind the windows were ladies wearing hairnets, handing out sloppy grub to the students standing in line beside it. They all stood at the doorway, scanning for Yusuke or Kuwabara.
"Hey! HEY YOU GUYS!" a gravelly voice called out jovially. It was Kuwabara, standing up at the table on the other side of the cafeteria. He was waving his long arms as if he was a human windmill. They could see three other guys and Yusuke also sitting at the table.
"So how was your first day?" Yusuke asked when they settled themselves at the table.
"As surprising as it is, Yuki and Botan got detention already," replied Keiko.
"Whoa…" Kuwabara said surprised, "it's no surprise that Yuki got detention (that earned him a steady glare from Yuki) but Botan? Sheesh what did you do?"
"Well that little...umm...man called Mr. Barrington gave me detention for talking," she said sourly.
"Oooh...so Yuki what did you do?" asked Yusuke, joining their conversation.
"I said what."
"I always knew I was lucky to never have him…I probably would have given him a heart attack…"
The other three guys shuffled around uncomfortably for a large pair of pink eyes were staring at them, without blinking.
Kuwabara, noticing Botan's curious stare, introduced them. "Okubo, Jiro, and Tai these are Yuki, Botan, Hiei, and Kurama. Botan, Kurama, Yuki, and Hiei these are Okubo, Jiro, and Tai."
Okubo was the boy who was pleasantly plump with a head of black wavy hair slicked back. Jiro was a skinny boy with a thin layer of blue hair on his head. Tai was the boy with untidy brown hair.
The gang said hi to them and they said hi back, nervously though. They were eyeing Hiei's glaring eyes when Keiko grabbed Botan and Yuki's hand, pulled them off the table and dragged them both to the serving line, Yuki struggling all the way.
"So Kuwabara…" Yusuke said innocently. "How are you and Yukina doing?"
Kuwabara spat out some of the sandwich he was eating. "Argh Kuwabara! Watch it!" Yusuke yelled when some pieces of the slimy sandwich landed on his chest.
"Sorry…" Kuwabara said, grinning sheepishly. "Umm...I can't exactly tell where WE'RE headed but I know she returns my love…"
"Fantasies and dreams don't count."
"Hey shut it! I know it's for real…and no one can stand in my way. Wait…Hiei, you don't like Yukina right? Cuz you keep starin at her in this weird way…"
"What?!" Hiei growled.
"Just to let you know, she's not interested in little mean shrimps like you—"
And the fight began.
"What's the problem, guys?" Botan's voice interrupted while Hiei was grabbing Kuwabara's collar and getting ready to punch him. Botan and Keiko arrived, each carrying a blue metal tray filled up with different colors of lumps.
Yusuke and Kurama teamed up to pulled Hiei away from Kuwabara with extreme difficultly since Hiei was struggling to flat Kuwabara's face. Finally Hiei calmed down and now was glaring daggers at Kuwabara who was edging far away from Hiei.
"Eh where's Yuki?" asked Yusuke.
"What? She's right behind me…" Keiko said and turned around.
"Hey she's over there!" Botan pointed behind her where a big group of boys were.
"Umm...where?" Kuwabara looked also, squinting at the group. Suddenly jeers and yells erupted from the group.
"Fight FIGHT fight!!"
"OOhh…wouldn't do that—ouch that musta hurt…"
"DANG-whoa are you on steroids or something?"
The yells ended abruptly. The distinct voice of Yuki was heard.
"Any of you assholes EVER do that again and I WILL kill you. If you think I'm kidding, try me."
The group parted a path for her and she walked out. Her eyes were very cold and dangerous.
She came over to their table and sat down.
Yusuke was eyeing her eyes to see if he should try his luck.
"Hey…Yuki…feeling…alright?"
Yuki, however, said nothing.
'Yikes!' Turning her attention to her lunch. Botan inspected the food globs on her tray. She tasted a bit of it and gagged, rushing to the trashcan to spit the bit out. She returned and dumped all the globs in the trashcan, like so many other people were doing. She put the tray where everyone else was stacking there and returned again.
"Yusuke," she whispered, "check your Spirit Detector to see if Shorin is here."
Yusuke nodded and searched his pockets. He finally pulled out the golden ring and pressed the button. The transparent screen showed, listing all the spirit energy in the room.
"No...he's not here yet..." Yusuke said, frowning. "Just shows the usual people."
The bell suddenly rang, signaling them to go to their 6th period and their period of freedom was over.
"PE next...we have that with Kuwabara so let's go," said Keiko getting up and walked out of the cafeteria while the others scrambled to their feet and followed her (Yusuke stalked off to Science). She led them to a humongous brick building's front doors, which also had a sign but cheery blue that said Gym.
"Hey Kurama, Hiei, come with me to the boys' lockers," instructed Kuwabara and soon the boys disappeared to the other side of the building.
"Well let's go to the girls' lockers room," Keiko said and turned left where another door was, this time the sign told them that this was the entrance of the girls' lockers rooms.
Botan and Yuki followed Keiko silently to the girls' lockers room where many girls were changing and talking at the same time. There was a little teacher's office on the right, a teensy stairway leading them up into there. Keiko, Yuki, and Botan climbed the stairs and found themselves in a room with four wooden desks with four chairs with teachers sitting on them, staring at them.
Keiko went to the back of the room where a fat woman was sitting on one of the chairs, which looked like it will collapse any minute under her weight. She was wearing sweats with a jacket and above her nose were two big glass circles connecting together and to her ears. The glasses gave them the impression that she was a very large human owl.
"Yes?" she asked in a screechy voice.
Keiko quickly explained the situation and the teacher nodded. She then opened the upper right drawer of her desk and inside was stacks of clothes. She took two identical sets out that had blue shorts and a big white shirt with a large blue lion on it. Separating the shirts away from the shorts, she took out one of the shirts and asked Botan and Yuki what their names were.
After they told her she got out a black marker and wrote their names neatly on the top part just above the lion's head and again on the back. She repeated this process with the shorts and finally handed Yuki and Botan their new PE uniforms.
After a quick tour of the locker room and figuring out which lockers were theirs, they were running late so they hastily changed into their PE uniforms, bounced out of the locker room and searched for the other girls.
They found the other girls and the boys' class sitting at the field in straight lines on the other side of the gym. Quickly and as quietly as they could they snuck to the back of the girls' lines.
Just as they were congratulating themselves for not getting caught, the boys' PE teacher walked behind them and said softly, "Well well who is late today?"
The girls froze and slowly looked up at the looming shadow of a beefy man. There, glaring at them was a muscular man with an alarming large and equally long mustache resting on the space between his upper lip and his nostrils which had little thick black hairs sticking out. He grabbed all their collars and dragged them to the front of the lines. He finally let them go when everyone in the class could see them. They could see Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara staring curiously at them like everyone else was.
"GUESS WHO WAS LATE TODAY, MISS KEIKO AND MISSES...umm...what's your names?" he asked Yuki and Botan, who both mumbled their names.
"OKAY MISS KEIKO, MISS BOTAN, AND MISS YUKI WERE LATE TODAY...well it looks like Miss Botan and Yuki are new...for I have never seen them before but Keiko...never thought to see the day that YOU would be late..."
"Mr. Wakabayashi I was showing Botan and Yuki around because they are new foreign exchange students," Keiko quickly explained.
"Oh then you three are excused...just don't let this happen again, go back to the lines."
They gratefully dashed back to the line. "Well since we have new students in our midst," Mr. Wakabayashi began, "I will like them to come up here to demonstrate how to play the new sport we will be learning today. Miss Botan and Yuki if you please…"
Yuki and Botan, looking downcast, got unwillingly again from their lines and trudged forward. Mr. Wakabayashi, caught Hiei and Kurama from the corner of his beady eye, exclaimed, "You two, the blackhead and red head, not you Kuwabara, the long hair fellow...yes you...are you two new as well?"
Surprised they nodded their heads slightly.
"Then come up too!"
They too joined Yuki and Botan to demonstrate.
"Okay the new sport we will be playing for a month will be football, which I hope most of you are familiar with this awesome sport. Since we have four people up here two of black haired ones will be one team and the other two, one team as well. The objective of the game is to score a touchdown. A person who has the ball will try to pass everyone without being tackled down and go to his or her scoring place, which is a touchdown. Okay...umm...what are your names boys?"
"Hiei."
"Kurama."
"Okay Hiei and Yuki will have the ball and Kurama and Botan will try to tackle them down so they can't score…"
Mr. Wakabayashi threw a football in Hiei's hands and blew on his whistle. Botan and Kurama quickly advanced forward but not quick enough. Hiei passed them and ran all the way to Mr. Wakabayashi, therefore scoring a touchdown.
"Okay now Botan and Kurama are offense and Hiei and Yuki are defense...GO!"
Botan caught the ball and was about to pass it to Kurama but Yuki tackled her down, sending both to the ground. Yuki got up; holding the ball while Botan lay on the ground, groaning.
"GOOD!! GOOD!! SEE THAT? YUKI TACKLED BOTAN DOWN, DISABLING BOTAN FROM SCORING A TOUCHDOWN!! EXCELLENT!!" Mr. Wakabayashi roared gleefully. "Now its time to pick teams, yes you four may sit down, thank you, who wants to be team captain?"
Hands immediately rose up, waving ecstatically. Mr. Wakabayashi chose three team captains while they all sat down. Botan winced every time she moved while Yusuke kept laughing at her.
Kuwabara was chosen as team caption and you can guess who he picked to be on his team.
Games started right afterwards.
"Human sports are pretty fun!" Yuki said happily as she tackled yet another person.
All right I have to clear up a few things. When I wrote this fic I didn't know that Kurama already went to a human school and was called Shuuichi Minamino. So yeah sorry about that. And the other thing was for Kuwabara's pals, Okubo, Jiro, and Tai. I think I got their descriptions wrong for I didn't see The Promise Between Men episode that time yet. And Jiro and Tai aren't their names (probably I wouldn't know) so don't sue me! - -" Oh yes and sorry that no obsessed fangirls for Kurama, hehe didn't know that either back then. Well I think that is all so if you have any questions tell me! R&R [what does R&R mean anyway?]
[[EDIT]] Another chapter done…sheesh the day isn't even OVER and it takes three chapters to end ONE school day…anyway I hope you like this chapter better =P Also Iwamoto and Akashi got fired cuz Takenaka FINALLY got to his senses. Sorry its probably better if they were here eh? But im not a good writer. im sorry if Hiei seems so quiet and stuff...i cant...get his personality right...man the only one i can get almost right is Yusuke.