Ellen: Here we go with reposting the second chapter! Like I said before, e-mail me if you want a friend!
Fwooshy: What, we aren't enough for you?
Ellen: Yami are different. YOU never go away.
Fwooshy: Don't you love us?
Ellen: I wish I didn't.
Fwooshy: Aw... Ellen loves a girl! Ellen loves a girl!
Ellen: Malecasu?
Malecasu: randomly appears from middle of fanfiction I'm on it.
Fwooshy: runs away
Ellen: Thank you.
Malecasu: randomly disappears
I finished my walk and headed home, noting the house where I had seen the... something, the clover rising and falling under my feet. As I arrived home, I grabbed a quick bite to eat and my schoolbag, got into my uniform, and headed off to my first day of school. I don't know what it was, I blamed it on maybe American schooling, but instinctively I started looking for something. I dismissed it as still being jumpy from earlier, but still I kept a careful eye, wondering.
Demons. Like you.
I gasped. The words had just appeared in my head. I didn't even know what a demon was. (A/N: Talk about a protected childhood!) I subconsciously quickened my pace. I arrived at my new school, Sarayashiki Junior High, without further incident, except for passing a fight between a boy with greasy black hair and an even bigger boy with carrot-orange hair. The smaller boy, who wasn't wearing a school uniform, pounded the red-head into the pavement numerous times. They seemed to be fighting about someone named Eikichi. I despise men who fight over women as if they are possessions. I kept walking, not stopping to watch.
The teachers at school were nice enough. I was introduced to every class as "Nerua Teraf", giving them no end of trouble in pronouncing my name. I still looked around in every class, this time for the 'demons' or whatever, as well as potential friends, enemies, wusses, etc, as I always did. In the last class before lunch, something struck me. There was a boy in one of my classes, apparently named Suichi Minamino. He was sitting next to the two boys who were fighting before school, who were laughing to each other silently and tapping Suichi on the back, but he wasn't paying any attention to them. Suichi was staring straight at me. I returned the stare politely. Some internal sense was raising alarm bells in my brain about all three boys, but particularly Suichi, so I figured I'd better be careful.
At lunch, I sought out the three, only another guy who, by the looks of him, was a Goth, had joined them. He was pretty short, and was wearing sort of a black robe thing that was definitely not a school uniform, so I figured that he didn't go to school here. He didn't share in the laughter of the other three, just barely making it clear that he was with them at all. Also, I felt the same sense towards him that I had felt to Suichi. I approached the group and they stopped laughing to look at me.
"Hello. My name's Nerua. I couldn't help but notice you in the last class. Mind if I join you?" I tossed my waist-length brown hair around my shoulders, the white highlights flashing in the late morning light; the clouds had scuttled away from the sun for just an instant.
"Uhh, sure!" the carrot-head replied. "My name's Kuwabaka - I mean, Kuwabara... heh oops... and this here's Urameshi." He pointed at Suichi, thinking that I didn't know him. "That's Kura- I mean Suichi!"
"Call me Yusuke," Yusuke Urameshi said to me in an irritated tone of voice, then turned to Kuwabara and slugged him on the head. Yusuke whispered something in Kuwabara's ear, and Kuwabara ran off, closely followed by Yusuke, into the men's restroom, where, even in the courtyard, Suichi, the short kid, and I could hear yelling, just not what was being said.
"His name is Hiei," Suichi gestured to the Goth and smiled. "He's a bit antisocial."
"Hn," Hiei replied to this remark coolly, then jumped away to eat his lunch somewhere else, where he might be able to scare some ningen and wouldn't be insulted.
"Well, uh, Suichi, I have a few things to ask you. First off, do you know what a demon is?"
Suichi looked taken aback. "N-no, Nerua, I-I don't... why do you ask?"
"Oh, uh, just, just wondering... second, do you live near 6th avenue?" I had a feeling that I knew what that white and red flash was from this morning.
"Yes, why, Nerua? 6th avenue is the street I live on..." Suichi was puzzled now. His ruby-hued hair glistened even when there was no sunlight.
"Well, I think I saw you this morning, and you saw me doing... something... on the street, and I have to know if it was you, and not someone else whom I don't know," I was almost pleading with him.
"Hm, I guess I'm not as fast as I thought, then. Yes, you are right. I observed you - "He was cut off by the return of Yusuke and Kuwabara. Nice timing, guys, I thought, my crystal blue eyes flashing with impatience. No one noticed except for Suichi.
"Hey Suichi, Nerua! We're back!" Yusuke was grinning nervously. "Where'd Hiei go?"
"That's a good question," Suichi replied. He was spared the trouble of trying to figure that out by the bell, signaling the end of lunch. To me, he murmured quickly, "I'll meet you after school."
Ellen: Yaaaay Suichi! I wonder if I can ever be as smart as him...
Fwooshy: In your dreams.
Ellen: Don't make me have to call Malecasu again! She CAN hurt you, ya know.
Fwooshy: Shutting up.
Cheddar: Good. If we get more reviews, we can do anything you like to any character in YYH, either in these after-word thingies or in a one-shot fic, if they're long enough. Come on, inspiration!