Disclaimer: I don't own any Yu Yu Hakusho character! It would be really nice to, but I don't! I do own however, Kairos…she's my character! Nor do I own Rise & Fall by Craig David, and Still Frame by Trapt.
Author's Note: I don't feel like making the YYH characters go to different Japanese schools and so they are now in the same school in America…it's a PUBLIC SCHOOL! So SSHH! Oh, yeah…the gang is in eleventh grade in HS.
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Chapter 1 – Transfer StudentKairos got off the horrible yellow school bus and onto the even more terrible school grounds. Her CD player blasted into her ears and she was happy for the fact that she had something that she was used to with her. It was a beautiful autumn day, but it was also the first day of school, and Kairos' first day in a new school again. Just about everyone else was having a great time catching up with old friends, and chattering into the school building. Kairos hitched her black messenger bag higher on her shoulder and walked slowly into the school building. It reeked of the smelled of paint, new tiles, and something along the lines of musty books. Kairos trudged silently into the cafeteria that contained all the eleventh graders going to the school. The place was packed with students and Kairos found a quiet place, detached from the crowds by the windows. Thoughts of her older brother's death flooded into her mind, but she pushed them back before tears formed. She closed her eyes and breathed, trying to clear her thoughts. When the bell rang, she walked off into homeroom, and sat in the back behind a boy with slicked back black hair.
"You hear bout the new kid?" Slicked-Hair asked his friends sitting around him.
"I think the 'new kid' is sitting right behind you Yusuke," a boy with long red hair replied.
"Yeah, nice going Urameshi…call the new kid names," a boy with hair styled almost like Elvis, but much pointier said.
"Oh, shut up that both of you!" Yusuke said. Yusuke turned around in his seat to face Kairos. She turned her face to face him, and pulled the headphones down from her ears. "Didn't mean to call you new kid. It's just a habit I have."
"A bad one at that," a girl with an English accent and blue hair interjected.
"Oh, be quiet Botan," Yusuke said with a hint understanding.
"It doesn't matter, happens all the time," Kairos replied and pulled her headphones back on. She began to mouth the words to the songs that played and stared out the window. A hand shook her shoulder and she turned to face the person. The boy with the Elvis-like hair was jostling her shoulder. "What?"
"Just thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Kuwabara," he said proudly.
"And I should this why?" Kairos asked staring through Kuwabara. Before Kuwabara had a chance to replied Kairos put on her headphones again. She mouthed to Craig David's Rise & Fall before the teacher walked in.
"Class," the teacher, who had blonde hair and a stupid accent, said. "You in the back, please take off the headphones and pay attention," she waited a moment to see whether Kairos had heard but found she hadn't. "Uh, Kuwabara can you get that girl to pay attention?"
Kuwabara shook Kairos' shoulder again, and she pulled down her headphones. "What do you want now?" she asked as Kuwabara pointed to the teacher at the front of the room.
"Are you finished now?" the teacher asked and Kairos nodded. "Good, then maybe I can begin roll call." The teacher called off names of the students and Kairos barely paid attention. All she caught was that the girl with blue hair and the English accent was Botan Vian, and the girl with brown hair who sat next to Yusuke was Kayko Nuru. The boy with the red Elvis-like hair was Kuwabara Kazuina, the boy with red hair and green eyes that had pointed out that Kairos was behind Yusuke was named Shuichi Minamino, and a boy with black hair and a white bandana thing across his forehead was Hiei Pyralis. When the teacher said Kairos' name she just raised her hand and then teacher said, "So…you're the new student that just transferred?"
"Yes," Kairos said in a flat voice.
"Why don't you tell the class about yourself?" the teacher asked, acting perky.
Sighing, Kairos spoke, "My na–"
The teacher cut her short by saying, "Why don't you stand up and introduce yourself?"
Yeah, and why don't you shut the hell up? Kairos thought bitterly as she stood up. "My name is Kairos, I just transferred here." She sat back down and the teacher spoke again.
"Tell us a little more about yourself, like what other schools you've been to?"
"Way to many to count."
"How many times have you moved?"
"More than you, obviously," and she heard the class snicker at her remark.
"Settle down! Ok, Kairos then what are some of your favorite things?"
"Favorite things…a teacher who doesn't pry into other people's lives would be one, and for a teacher to get the picture after they've been shot down a few times would be another," the class burst out laughing at Kairos' bold remarks and Kairos met the teacher's look. Kairos silently challenged the teacher to make a comeback, and she thought the teacher recognized the challenge that flared in her eyes.
The teacher cleared her throat and resumed to the normal homeroom procedures. Yusuke turned around and smiled at Kairos. "That's a first…I've never seen someone talk back to the teacher like that."
"That's nice," Kairos said in a flat voice again. Papers were being handed back along the rows and Kairos skimmed the papers over quickly and shoved the papers into her bag. She took out her schedule and glanced at what she had for first period.
"You guys have specials next period, for those whose last name begin with A to M, will go to tech. ed. first, and those N to Z will go to home ec. That shouldn't be too hard," the teacher said. Kairos noticed that a name was scrawled on the board. Ms. Raynen. Kairos thought that it was the name of the teacher and didn't pay any mind to it.
The bell rang and everyone left the room. Kairos pulled out a map of the school building and walked a few corridors away to the tech. ed. rooms. She sat down in the main room, with chairs and computers, in a little alcove between the television and the windows. She saw students filing into the room talking with each other and saw the boy…Shuichi walk in. Isn't that the kid who hangs out with Yusuke? She thought as he walked towards her.
"Is this seat taken?" he asked Kairos.
"No," Kairos replied and pulled her legs off the chair next to her.
"Hi, my name is Shuichi Minamino," he introduced himself and held out a hand.
"Kairos, I dropped my last name," she extended out her hand to his and saw out of the corner of her eye, a flash of Elvis-like hair. "What's with your hair?" she asked when Kuwabara came into view.
"You got a problem with it?" Kuwabara stated sounding offended.
"You think bout it," Kairos said to him. She thought she saw him stuck out his tongue before she looked at what Shuichi was talking about.
"Do you always make friends this way?" Shuichi asked.
"Actually in the past I've never had friends," Kairos replied acting as though it wasn't a big deal. "God, I'm used to it," she added when she saw Kuwabara and Shuichi look at one another. "There's nothing wrong with being a loner, quit looking at me like I'm insane."
The both of them quit staring at Kairos and Shuichi spoke up, "We're only looking at you strangely because…well we're used to being with people that have…friends. And well, you seem like someone who could blend in with a crowd quickly, so we would have thought that you had friends."
"Screw the explanation, I really don't need it," Kairos said as the teacher walked into the room.
"Ok, we're heading down to the computer labs…come on," the teacher ordered.
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Later that day during flex the students were sent back to homeroom, and the gang met up again. "Hey, Urameshi, you know the new kid…Kairos?" Kuwabara asked before Kairos entered the room.
"Yeah, Kuwabara, she's the only one that would talk back to a teacher like that. Why wouldn't I?" Yusuke replied with some joy in his voice.
"Yeah, well do you know that she doesn't have friends?" Kuwabara whispered as Kairos walked into the room.
"Why does it matter? She doesn't have friends…big whoop!" Yusuke throw his hands in the air to exaggerate how much he was supposed to care about the topic. Kayko, who was sitting in front of Yusuke, waved Kairos over to their little area in the back left hand corner. "Kayko!"
"What?! She doesn't have any friends, I think that maybe we should be her friends," Kayko said sounding a little bit guilty.
"Kayko don't sound guilty, you have done anything to her yet!" Yusuke practically shouted.
"I'm not feeling guilty, I actually feel a little bit sorry for her, I mean she's all alone," Kayko explained as Kairos walked up to them.
"Yes?" Kairos said, shifting foot to foot. She obviously wasn't used to being near a crowd like theirs, even if it was a small crowd.
"Why don't you sit with us Kairos?!" Botan was practically beaming now.
"Yeah, sit next to me," Kayko moved over one seat and Kairos just stood there, blinking at the girl. "Sit!" Kayko pulled down on Kairos' left arm and practically dragged her into the seat between her and Shuichi.
"Uh, ok," Kairos uttered as she plopped down into the seat. "Why exactly did you drag me over here?"
"Cause we wanted you to sit with us!" Botan was literally beaming.
"Okk…" Kairos said turning around. When she saw Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara she turned around again. Kayko really put me in a seat where I can't see anything, without seeing them first…this is going to be a long period. Kairos thought as she placed her in chin into her right palm.
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At the end of the day when Yusuke and gang were departing, they noticed Kairos just a little way away from them. Yusuke, and Hiei had noticed Kairos in their social studies class but made no move to try to befriend her the entire class period. Now, Kayko was pushing Yusuke over to Kairos. Hiei was following them just to laugh at what Kayko was going to make Yusuke do.
"Hey, Kairos," Yusuke said trying to act tough.
Kairos pulled down her headphones, and looked at Yusuke. She blinked, almost as though she was just registering the fact that Yusuke was standing right in front of her. "Hey," she left the headphones hanging around her neck but turned the must up more. The song Still Frame by Trapt blasted through the headphones.
"Nice music," Yusuke said not knowing what to say exactly.
"Yeah…whatever," Kairos said, looking away from Yusuke. Her face went dreadfully white, and Yusuke touched her shoulder. Kairos jumped from Yusuke's touched, and looked at him.
He withdrew his hand and asked, "What happened to you?" Kairos saw concern in his eyes but she couldn't remember who he was for the moment. "Your face lost all color, and it looked like you zoned out."
"It's nothing…I just thought I saw something…" Kairos said, regaining composure. I thought I saw my brother again…but this time he was cut and bleeding everywhere. Kairos thought as she heard Kayko call her name.
"Kairos, do you want to come over my house?" Kayko asked as a bus pulled up. "Everyone else is, and I think it'll be good for you."
"Uh, sure. I guess, I really don't have anything else to do anyway," Kairos said before she even knew the words had left her mouth. Actually, Kairos didn't know what she was doing at the moment. Her feet climbed aboard the bus after Kayko, and sat down near the back of the bus with everyone else. She sat by the window, pulled on her headphones, and watched everything roll by the window.
