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"Class," Mrs. Kade announced to the rest of the class as Kurama took a tentative step forward. "This is your new classmate, Shuichi Minamino."
Kurama stepped into the brightly lit classroom. The room was a medium size with about twenty or so students. Most of them had dark colored hair, and it was impossible to tell their height, for they were all sitting at small, brown desks.
When he entered, a few of the students gasped in surprise and made whispered comments behind their hands. With his acute hearing, Kurama was able to make out a couple of the comments.
"Wow! Isn't he the guy who beat up Usho and boys?" one boy whispered to his friend.
"Yeah," the other boy whispered back. "He's supposed to be like, brutally strong, or something."
"You know Mana from class 1-C?" one girl asked the girl sitting next to her. At the girls nod, she told her, "well, Mana saw the whole thing! She said that, like, the entire time he was fighting Usho, he was totally calm. Like ice. He didn't even wince at the blood or anything."
Another girl from behind her leaned forward to join their conversation. "Yeah, but afterwards, I heard that he was acting really weird or something. People say he was like two totally different people."
A girl in the back row leaned over to her friend next to her and whispered behind her hand, "well, he may be brutally strong, but I think he's really cute!" This made Kurama blush furiously.
"Well, Shuichi," the teacher said, smiling down at Kurama. "Would you like to tell the class anything about yourself?"
Kurama looked around the class a little as all the students became quiet to listen. "Um-m-m," he stuttered nervously. 'What can I say that will get these other children to have a better impression of me?' he thought to himself.
"Just say it already!" yelled one of the boys from the back of the room.
"Shh!" the girl next to him hushed. "Do you want him to beat you up too?" The boy immediately sobered up.
"Um, my name is Shuichi Minamino," he said quietly, still a little nervous. When someone groaned, annoyed, Kurama blurted out, "I like to garden!"
"What?!?!" one of the girls broke out laughing. Turning to the boy next to her, she asked humorously, "Are you sure this is the boy who got Usho?"
Mrs. Kade, taking pity on Kurama, told him kindly, "That's very interesting. Why don't you have a seat there in the back row?" Kurama nodded.
When he passed, he got a mixture of looks from the students. Some looked afraid still, and some looked like they were going to burst out laughing at any moment. Not one looked sympathetic. Kurama kept his head down as he took his seat in the back row.
"Well, class," Mrs. Kade told them. "Less begin our math lesson for the day. Take out your textbooks and flip to page…."
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When lunchtime came, no one made any effort to befriend the poor demon gone human. He sat by himself in his corner desk, silently eating his lunch.
The other children looked over at him once in a while, laughing and giggling with each other. Kurama had a feeling it was him they were laughing. He just kept his head hunched down, trying to be as invisible as possible.
It was hard to think about anything else aside from the other kids and the fact he was being treated like a fool, but he was finally able to concentrate on something else. Something he needed to figure out how to control, and fast. He needed to find a way to keep his demon self inside.
'I know it's about my lack of control,' he thought to himself. 'I need to learn how to control my anger and fear. It seems that those are the two emotions that let him come forth.'
'I need to learn meditation or something like that,' he realized, leaning back in his chair. 'If I could learn how to train my mind to remain calm, it should be no problem.'
'Maybe I should join a martial arts class,' he thought wonderingly. 'I know they stress control there, so I should be able to learn to keep my true self inside. Mr. Toto didn't want me to be in a martial arts class, but I'm not violent because of it. It would really help me.'
'That's it!' he realized, hitting his fist on the palm of his hand. 'I can say it will help me get my anger out. Mother might not believe me, but Mr. Toto certainly will.' And with that it was decided. He would go to Mr. Toto this very afternoon and ask.
Suddenly, a touch on his shoulder jolted him out of his thoughts. "Excuse me?" a soft voice asked.
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Hey peeps!
Dream fox back with my new chapter. Actually I'm not horribly fond of this chapter. It's just kind of a connecting chapter to the next couple of chapters, which should be much better (I hope…).
My fellow YYH crazed fan, Lugiamania, asked me why isn't Hiei in here and when will he be included? Actually, Kurama doesn't meet Hiei until just before the anime series meets him. It says so when you first meet Yoko Kurama in his true form. I might include him in later chapters though, if he fits in.
Thank you for the grammatical corrections and the name of his mother. Actually with the whole, "principal" and "principle" thing, I thought I might be wrong, but I was to lazy to check.
And Usho is not Yusuke, as you find out in this story. Actually, Yusuke probably won't enter this story at all, because I don't want to change the anime story at all, just add onto it.
I think that's it….
Dream Fox