Terri: Okay, okay. I know I always say I hate when authors make a story and leave it for a long time. But now I understand. Writer's block is a bitch. And things pile up. So to the few readers I have, gomen!!!! Let's see...in this chapter...well, read! But I must say thanks to my friends-- they've helped with some ideas, whether it was thinking them up or just fixing them so they made sense. So, thank you Grey, Katherine, and Jessica!!
Disclaimer: I don't own them... sulks Oh, yes, and YAOI. If you don't like it, don't read. If you flame me for it, I will laugh and dance in the warmth of the fire. But be open-minded—the YAOI adds to the humor.
With Nicole safely resting in the nurse's office, Kurama headed back to art class. He still had a lot to do with his mask before he could hand it in. As he walked through the halls, he sighed and pulled out some strawberry pocky. He knew he wasn't supposed to eat in the halls, but thought he deserved a small treat in preparation for whatever Hiei would do today. As he was coming back into the art room, Kurama heard Mr. Howe announce they were to postpone finishing their masks and trace the template for their next project, as the templates were needed by the other classes. Kurama rolled his eyes slightly, annoyed that his progress was once again disrupted. Following a fellow classmate to the front of the room, Kurama picked up two templates; one for Hiei and one for himself.
"Hiei! Come on, the light tables in this room are full. We'll need to go next door to Ms. Maur's room and use hers."
Hiei followed silently, staring at the art projects of students past. Kurama and Hiei slipped into Ms. Maur's room quietly, as to not disturb her class in progress. Kurama briefly explained what had to be done to Hiei, but paused nervously when he thought he saw a look on Hiei's face that was shown on very rare occasions. Ignoring his gut, Kurama gave Hiei his tools to trace the template and began working on his own. After a few minutes, Kurama heard Hiei's pencil drop, but thought nothing of it.
"...HIEI!" Kurama half-yelled and half-whispered. Hiei came out from under the light table, with his attempt at an innocent face on.
"What?"
"That is NOT appropriate for school!" Kurama scolded, blushing slightly. Hiei shrugged it off and finished tracing his template; Kurama now keeping a nervous eye on the little jaganshi.
At long last, the bell rang for first period to end. Sighing a breath of relief, Kurama left the art room with Hiei, glad one period was over with without any trouble... ...or, at least, as little trouble as possible with Hiei. As the two demons made their way slowly through the sea of ningen teens, Kurama noticed Hiei seemed to be getting slightly annoyed. This was proven when, due to his small size, the fire demon was pushed to the side of the hallway. Kurama could see Hiei getting angrier by the second.
"Don't push back, Hiei. You'll hurt someone... ..." Kurama whispered, showing fear of what might happen if Hiei got too upset. But just as he finished warning Hiei to watch his strength, a tall, sluggish-looking football player knocked the jaganshi into a locker to clear the way to his girlfriend waiting in the corner. Before Kurama could say a word to stop him, Hiei gave the football player a small push—at least by it was small by Hiei's standards. The football player flew down the hall, crashing into his waiting girlfriend, as well as the wall that she was against. Kurama sweat-dropped and caught up to Hiei who was heading upstairs, now fully annoyed.
"Hiei... ... I told you not to push back. What if you had really hurt him?"
"Hn. Baka shouldn't have challenged me. Besides, we have to get to our next class."
Kurama chuckled to himself. Of course Hiei had seen it as a challenge; Kurama should have known to explain things more to him.
"You don't have to worry. We do have five-minute intervals between classes. It's very hard to be late to one, even if the halls are crowded." Kurama offered a small smile to Hiei.
"Hn."
"Well, I guess it's a good thing you want to get to class, but do you know where, or even what class it is that you have next?" Hiei shot Kurama a glare for the smug tone he had.
After a moment, Hiei retorted "Well? Are you going to tell me or do I have to take the paper from you?" Surpressing his urge to toy with Hiei, Kurama informed him the next class would be Chemistry with Ms. Kelly, luckily, another class they had together. A moment went by before it really hit Kurama that Hiei would be around dangerous chemicals. All along the way to Ms. Kelly's room, Kurama's mind was racing with all that could happen—and all that he could do to prevent it.
Terri: So...this is shorter. Sorry guys. For some reason, this isn't very good in my eyes. Well, I'll hear from you all, so you can tell me what you liked, didn't like, and please feel free to give any suggestions you have for Chemistry class! I already have some stuff, but you all might have something better! Again, shounen ai/ yaoi WILL be appearing more throughout the story. You have your warning. And speaking of which...you all did get what Hiei was after during Art class, ne? It wasn't my idea, for those of you who are thinking "you sick perv!" XD Anyway, hope you enjoyed this, and as it's summer, I promise to work hard to bring you the next chapters as quickly as possible!!