Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the tenth revised chapter of Lioness. Sorry for the wait. Now that school is ending I'm going to try to update once a week at least. I really need to get these revisions done…but once regents start coming around I won't be updating at all.
Wisdom: 'Cause she needs to study her American History.
Winter: Bah to history! It only repeats itself. At one point we thought the world was flat but when we found out that we were wrong no one admitted that they were. We're going through the same thing only that we know the world isn't flat….I blame Bush.
Wisdom: Uh, right…anyway…Winter thanks you all for the reviews. And now for the disclaimer.
Hiei: Winter doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity and Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight.
Chapter Ten: Rain, Rain Go Away Come Again Another Day:
The next morning Flash woke up to her alarm clock. Slowly she reached out from underneath her blankets to turn it off. After a minute of wild searching with her hand, it made contact with the button.
Happy that the alarm had stopped Flash smiled and rolled over to go back to sleep. That was until a pair of hands yanked all of the blankets off the bed.
Flash rolled up into a little ball trying to get warm again since her bikini like bra with a skull pattern and matching shorts didn't do much to keep her warm. With one free hand she reached around her feeling for her blankets.
Once she realized her blankets was nowhere in reach she sat up and opened her eyes to see Hiei standing in front of her glaring down at her.
Flash glared right back at him. "What do you want?"
"It's time for school," said Hiei. "If you don't do well I get blamed. So get your ass in gear."
"Give me back my blankets," demanded Flash.
"No," said Hiei. "Now go get ready."
"Make me," growled Flash.
Hiei smirked and let the corner of the blanket he was holding fall to the floor. Flash got a somewhat confused look on her face. Before she knew it Hiei flung her over his shoulder walked into the bathroom turned the shower on to the coldest temperature and opened the door and dropped Flash into the freezing water.
She screamed and lunged for him but Hiei used his speed to run out the door into Flash's room and jumped off her balcony. Flash let out a curse and stormed back into the bathroom to take a proper shower.
Once Flash was dressed in her school uniform and had her hair and makeup done she grabbed her shoes and bag before heading downstairs into the kitchen.
Just like every morning Mary and Hoshi both dressed in their suits were sitting across from each other at the small square table with a half eaten plate of breakfast and the paper in front of their faces.
Trish was pouring Mary more coffee when she noticed Flash walk in. Flash put her bag and shoes down by the doorframe. Flash walked over to the cupboard and grabbed a coffee cup before sitting down in her seat at the table.
Trish walked over and poured coffee into Flash's cup for her then walked back over to the counter to stick the pot back in the brewer.
"So how are you this morning Flash?" Hoshi asked his daughter not looking up from the paper.
"Fine," answered Flash taking a sip of her coffee.
"And school?" asked Mary.
"Counting the days for it to end," answered Flash.
The couple chuckled.
"Value it while it lasts," said Mary. "Only responsibilities await you."
"That's right," said Hoshi. "One day my company will be yours to run."
"Me?" asked Flash.
"But of course," said Hoshi putting his paper done. "We want the best for you Flash. And with the raise of technology Takizawa Software will be a million dollar company."
"Wouldn't it be nice to have all that power and money?" asked Mary leaning forward.
Flash looked alarmed. "Uh I gotta get to school. Can't be late!"
Quickly Flash got up grabbed the money Trish was getting out of her pocket for her before grabbing her shoes and bag and running out the front door leaving it open behind her.
"Oh dear, do you think we frightened her?" Mary asked alarmed.
"Don't worry about it," comforted Hoshi. "She's only fourteen. She has plenty of time to let this seep into her head."
Flash ran a block and a half before stopping outside a coffee house with a big sign that said SHO'S COFFEE HOUSE and sat down on the bench outside of the building. As she caught her breath she slipped on her shoes and tied the laces before walking into the coffee house.
The house was relatively small room with hard wood flooring and red walls. Right by the door was a large window two wood tables that seated two. Towards the front of the house was a red couch that could seat four with a large wooden coffee table in front of it. On the coffee table were various magazines. On each of the far ends of the coffee tables were two red lounge chairs. Over on the other side of the wall was the counter where people would order their coffee. There were also a couple more wood tables with chairs and the decorations were set up as needed.
Flash walked over to the counter and ordered a medium coffee to go. When she got her coffee she gave the cashier the money owed and left for school.
When she got to school she saw Yusuke and Kuwabara talking to Keiko. Curious of what they could be in such deep conversation of Flash walked over.
"Hey guys," she said then taking a sip of her coffee.
"Hey," the three said in union.
"How you feel?" asked Keiko.
"What do you mean?" questioned Flash.
"We told Keiko what happened the past day," replied Yusuke. "She knows about my job and stuff. Don't worry your secret is safe with her."
"Oh…all right," said Flash.
She was about to say something else but the bell had cut her off. "Well I guess I'll se you guys at lunch then."
Everyone said their byes and headed in different directions to their first period class.
Flash walked up to the second floor of the school for English level 7. When she got to the classroom she took her seat among the other students who's last names started with T.
A moment after the late bell rang the teacher walked in. He was a short American man with blond hair and blue eyes. Besides his ethnic background he spoke Japanese as if he had grown up speaking the language.
He set up his desk for the period and took out his grade book reading off students' names. When they didn't reply he put an A for absent in red pen next to their name under the current date.
"Takizawa, Flash?" he called.
"Here," said Flash.
Her teacher looked up. "And where were you for the past day? We didn't get any note about you being sick."
"I was in America visiting some of my mother's family," answered Flash.
"Oh? What state?" he asked curious.
"Um….New York….?" Answered Flash.
"Oh really? That's neat," he said. "I grew up on Long Island."
Flash gave a little smile and nod to show she cared. The teacher sighed and returned back to reading names from his book. Flash sunk deep into her chair already wishing the day were over.
Lunch had finally rolled around. Flash was at her locker putting away unneeded books and getting her Math and Global History books. Once she slammed her locker shut and closed the lock Flash headed off for the cafeteria.
She found Kuwabara, Yusuke and Keiko at a table in the corner by a window. Outside the clouds were dark gray and thunder roared as rain poured down. Yusuke Kuwabara was stuffing nachos in their mouths while Keiko carefully ate a set of cucumber rolls.
Flash took a seat next to Keiko.
"Hey," said Yusuke when he noticed her.
"Hey," Flash said back.
"Man would you look at that rain? It's really coming down," said Keiko.
Everyone turned to look out the window to see rain coming down hard and fast. Flash slumped down on the table.
"Is school over yet?" she moaned.
"I wish," said Yusuke.
The rest of the school day continued on without anything of interest. Flash was at her locker again putting back unneeded backs. As she was doing this her phone rang. She took the silver flip phone out of her bag and opened it as she put it to her ear.
"Hello?---Oh hi----okay----I'll be outside in a minute."
Flash closed her locker and walked to the doors. Trish had called her phone; she was waiting outside of the school in her car and offered to drive Flash home since the rain didn't lighten up at all.
As Flash was walking out she bumped into Yusuke and Kuwabara.
"Aw man," grumbled Yusuke. "I don't want to walk home in this weather. And my mom isn't gonna pick me up."
"If you want you can come to my place for a while," offered Flash. "Hoshi and Mary won't be home and we can just go in the basement or something."
"Sure!" said Yusuke and Kuwabara in union. "We never saw your place. Is Hiei gonna be there?"
"Unfortunately," muttered Flash.
"Don't worry," said Yusuke. "He's not so bad once you get used to him. Right Kuwabara?"
"No," said Kuwabara. "Shorty is an annoying little prick."
"I agree," said Flash. "Anyway Trish is waiting outside in the car so lets go."
Yusuke and Kuwabara followed Flash outside running through the rain to Trish's silver truck. Flash had to open the front door in order for the back door to open. Once Yusuke and Kuwabara were sitting in the back seat she closed the smaller door and hoped into the front seat and closed her door.
Trish turned around in the seat to face Yusuke and Kuwabara. "I'm Trish, Flash's house keeper."
"That's Yusuke and that's Kuwabara," said Flash pushing her wet hair out of her face.
"Are you boys coming back to the house with us?" Trish asked them.
"If you don't mind," said Kuwabara.
"Not at all," said Trish pulling out of her parking spot.
"Hey Flash," said Yusuke.
"Yeah?" asked Flash.
"Why don't we call Kurama and the others and we can all hang out?" said Yusuke.
"Okay, just call him," said Flash.
Yusuke took out his cell phone and called Kurama inviting him, Autumn and Hinote over Flash's. When they needed directions he handed Flash his phone. Once Flash gave them directions she hung up and handed the phone back.
Once they were inside Flash's house they all took off their shoes. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked around in awe.
"Holy shit," said Kuwabara. "This place is huge!"
"I guess," said Flash picking up her shoes. "Leave your shoes by the door and I'll show you around."
The boys followed directions and waited for Flash.
"This is the living room," began Flash. "Through the two doors are the kitchen and the dinning room." She walked up the stairs to the second floor. "Up here is Hoshi's den, the study, Mary and Hoshi's bedroom and a spare bedroom and a bathroom."
"Where's your room?" asked Kuwabara.
"Up on the third floor," answered Flash. "C'mon I'll show you." She walked down the rest of the hall to a small set up stairs. "Up here is my room, a spare, a bathroom and a smaller library that's really turned into a storage room."
"Damn," said Yusuke. "It's must be nice having all this money."
Flash shrugged as she opened her bedroom door. "Well Hoshi owns his own company and Mary is a lawyer."
The three walked in to see Hiei sitting on the bed rather bored.
"It's about time you got home," he growled.
"Hey screw you," said Flash. "I had school and if you haven't noticed it's raining."
Flash and Hiei were at it again, their faces inches apart as they glared each other down daring each other to muttered another insult.
"Oh c'mon guys," said Yusuke. "Can't you two get along?"
Flash grumbled and walked over to her dresser and pulled out a pair of jeans with rips in them and a gray T-Shirt.
"I'm gonna go change," she said then walked into the bathroom locking the door behind her.
"Man this place is awesome," said Yusuke taking a seat at Flash's desk.
"Tell me about it," said Kuwabara.
The three talked about random things. Flash walked in and looked at them. "So what did you guys wanna do?"
"Let's play video games!" said Kuwabara.
"All right," said Flash. "But we gotta go in the basement."
"You mean we have to walk all the way down to the first floor?" cried Yusuke.
"Yeah," said Flash leaving her room but she hung onto the doorframe. "Just as a warning watch out for Mary's cat Fluffy. For some reason she hates males. I've come to the conclusion she's either a lesbian or going through PMS twenty-four hours a day."
"Can cats even be lesbians?" Yusuke asked himself as he followed the others to the basement.
End Chapter:
Winter: Sorry for the long wait. But one week and a day of school then I have three tests and four days of testing and I'm officially done with my junior year of high school.
Hiei: So review or else!
Wisdom: Please review!
Winter: Later fools.
::Credits start going::