AN: Time for the Tuesday update! I hope to clarify things a bit in this chapter. FYI one of my fans requested the I wrote this story for her, so things are a bit confusing, but all will become clear soon.
Disclaimer: For the sake of things, look in the first chapter for it! I hate re-typing a little legal thing every time I want to update! I think the readers want to see the story! Because, I didn't disclaim it in the last chapter, I don't own Stand by REM. I don't own I'm Just a Kid by a band that I don't know the name of.
Infamous
Chapter 2: I'm Just a Kid (Xei)
I'm being stalked by three high school boys. I've always been considered older than I actually was and I found myself amazed by the age of my stalkers. They're younger than me!
I had discovered them when I left the apartment to go on a run. Three boys started following me. Since I was running, they were running. At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but after they followed me solid for my first mile, it wasn't. I ran into alleyways and other little spaces randomly, trying to shake them. But those boys kept on.
Even though they knew where I lived, I didn't want them following me home on the off chance that they would start stalking Aoshi. I thought of places that I could go. I could go to Mal's house and hope he didn't mind me dragging a bunch of stalkers with me. He would probably maul me, then maul them…. Bad idea.
I could continue to run and hope I run them into the ground. Wait! They've been chasing me for the past four miles and they aren't anywhere near being done. Damn, that won't work ether! Where to go?
Switch to Yusuke's point of view
Dammit! This woman wouldn't tire! I'm about to keel over and die over here! Then again, so are Kuwabara and Kurama….
Hey! What that cop think he's doing!?
Switch to Xei's point of view
Beeb-be-beeb! I looked over my shoulder to see Aoshi and Hiei in their car. Well, it wasn't a normal car, it was a cop car. The two were partners in the fight against crime. Hiei in the passenger's seat, at the computer. He was probably playing solitaire in his boredom (Aoshi told me this). Aoshi was driving the car with a large, stupid-looking smile on her face.
And that gave me an idea.
I ran to match pace with the car. Hiei was oblivious to me, Aoshi's honking of the horn, and the fact that his window had been rolled down. He was engrossed in a game of pinball. I pulled my headphones off my ears and turned the volume up to max.
"I woke up, it was seven. 'Waited 'til eleven, just to figure out that no-one would call. I think I got a lot of friends, but I don't hear from them. What's another night all alone? When you're spending everyday on your own!" My CD player roared. Hiei jumped when the song got loud. It screwed up his game. He snapped around and glared at me.
"What the hell to you think you are doing onna!? Are you trying to get me to shoot you!?" Hiei stuck his upper body out of the window.
"I've seen people run bikes off the road, but this is the first time I've seen a cop try to maul someone in a moving vehicle…." Aoshi remarked. Hiei was fuming. I smiled and began to laugh.
Switch to Kurama's point of view
She must be that varsity 3000 m. runner I read about in the paper! She's keeping place with a cop car! Hiei stuck his upper body out of the cop car and yelled at his girlfriend. He was wearing the classic cop uniform. So this was his job…. But wait! He can't be driving! Who is?
Switch to Xei's point of view
"Hey, I've got three stalkers that won't give up after four miles! Can you do something about it?" I looked at Aoshi desperately. Hiei looked back at my stalkers.
"What the f---!?" He was clearly startled. He hopped back into the car and turned to Aoshi. "Turn right as soon as you can and pull the car over!" He ordered her. She nodded and turned the car at the next corner, which I also took. Aoshi parked the car and Hiei got out, looking annoyed.
"Go off and finish your run! I'll take care of those bakas!" I nodded and ran off.
Switch to Hiei's point of view
Damn fox! He couldn't keep his mouth shut and now the two bakas convinced him to stalk me yesterday! And the girl they thought was mine today! They are so dead!
"Well, Aoshi, you get to meet my brainless, good-for-nothing friends today." She gave me a sideways glance.
"Why are they stalking Xei?" She asked right as the rounded the corner. I glared at them.
"Hello Hiei!" Kurama looked like he knew what sort of trouble he was in.
"Hey." The other two looked like they were confused.
"Why are you stalking her?" I demanded of them. "I can fine you for that!"
"Isn't she your girlfriend?" Yusuke asked, cutting to his chase.
"NO!!" Aoshi bellowed and got out of the car. I backed away from her- she was scary when she was angry. "He's MINE!!" They all became very small and scared.
"Umm…Aoshi?" I asked her quietly.
"Yes?" She bounced over, happy and chipper as ever. It was as if she hadn't even just made three boys nearly wet their pants. I sweat dropped.
"I don't think we're needed here anymore. They won't be stalking anyone for a while at least…." Personally, they didn't look like they'd even be looking at girls for the next year, let alone stalking them. I heard fast paced steps from behind me. I turned around to see Xei running my way.
"I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare! I'm just a kid I know that it is not fair! Nobody cares 'cause I'm alone and the world is having more fun than me!" Xei sung as she ran by, completely oblivious as to what had happened. I stared at her, unsure what to think.
"Hey Xei!" Aoshi yelled. Xei came running back around the corner, and stood there, running in place.
"What?" She wondered.
"Hiei's mine, right?" Aoshi asked her.
"Yeah, but can you prove it?" Xei taunted her. This was their little teasing thing. But Aoshi's response caught everyone off guard, including myself.
Aoshi spun around, picked me up, and kissed me on the lips.
Switch to Xei's point of view
I don't think Hiei really knows what love is or what you're supposed to do when you get kissed. He was shocked beyond belief, and the stalkers weren't any better off. I had told Aoshi that she would need to be slow with Hiei. I think he might not want to be around her for long bit now.
She set him down and got back into the car. "We're done here!" She yelled at him. Hiei numbly got into the car and the two drove off.
"Why are you guys stalking me?" I asked the boys on the ground.
Switch to Aoshi's point of view
"Hiei are you okay?" He was in shock. He just stared at me. "Look, I'm sorry! Xei's been teasing me about giving you a 'proper' kiss and I just wanted to show her that I could. I know you're still getting the hang of this whole boyfriend-girlfriend thing. But it's not that hard to figure out!" He blinked a few times.
"Hn." He crossed his arms and looked out the window, now lost in thought. I sighed the moment he found out I was a demon he explained himself to me. He'd been stuck in this city on probation for a crime he committed in the Spirit Realm. He'd been working off his sentence by acting as a Spirit Detective and after having been stuck in this world, bored out of his mind, he decided that he wanted to understand the humans better. I believe that he wanted to see what humans really were because his friend Kurama explained to him that he'd wouldn't make so many stupid comments that sounded funny because of his ignorance.
"I love you! Now stop pouting!" I exploded at him. He nearly broke out of his seat belt and jumped out of the window.
"Don't scare me like that!" He yelled at me.
"Good to know you're able to respond, not that you do…." I focused on the road and he went back to his pinball game.
Switch to Yusuke
That was embarrassing! I can't believe we thought she was Hiei's girl. When Kurama asked if we could make it up to her she had said, 'I'm a wrestler, if you would be my dummy for a few minutes, that'd be great.'. Now we were following her back to her house. We ran around the block three times to cool off before we got into the elevator to get to the sixth floor.
"You're lucky we had ran six miles, or we'd be running up to the top floor and down to my floor as a cool down!" She glared at Kuwabara, stalking her having been his idea. I'm glad that we didn't have to run stairs, the apartment had twenty floors and Xei was on floor the sixth floor at the end of the hall.
"Yeah…." Kuwabara huffed. It had been a killer run.
"You guys in high school?" She looked to Kurama for an answer.
"Yes."
"Go out for cross-country. You've got two back-to-back races in you and I think your coach would like that in a runner." She winked.
"We don't have a cross-country team!" I told her.
"I'll train you and you can be the unofficial team and cream their sorry butts! If you ran races like you ran today, you'd letter and win a good few." Xei pointed out. On our way back she had explained that she was an athlete and hoped others would follow in her foot steps.
The elevator came to a stop. We walked down the hall and entered room 666. Xei took off her sweat shirt and sweat pants to reveal a orange leotard (or wrestler's clothes). She smiled as she walked over to the stereo.
"My landlord doesn't like hearing me throw my body unceremoniously to the floor, so I out on loud music to cover it up-" She began.
" 'Unceremoniously'?" Kuwabara raised an eyebrow.
"Without grace or care." Kurama defined it quickly and Xei went on with her explanation.
"Now here's what I want you boys to do," she got into a wrestler's stance, "stand like this and let me do my moves on you. You can resist, but you cannot hit me, that's illegal in wrestling. Would you guys mind if I put on The Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack?" We shook our heads, we all went to see it and thought it was a good movie
"Good, now get into stance and I'll turn the music on!" I got into the position she had showed us. I discovered that it was a bit uncomfortable. The music started blasting and I found myself pretzeled on the ground. After a few agonizing seconds she released me and threw Kuwabara onto her back. In the next moment Kuwabara was being flipped onto his back by, what appeared to be, an extremely painful method (AN: using the arm bar / bar arm technique, yes I do wrestle). She got off of him after five seconds.
Kurama, she just ran him over and left him on the ground to twitch, at least that's what it looked like. "That was a good warm up!" She yelled over the music. I winced, knowing that whatever else she had in store was not going to feel great.
Two hours of senseless, unceremonious throwing to the ground later
"You're done! Go home and take a shower!" Xei all but kicked us out her apartment. My ears were ringing and I wobbled in pain. Ba-san's training had been hard and it hurt, but it was nothing like the pains I felt right now. Xei certainly took her wrestling seriously. When the elevator opened, Hiei was standing their with his real girlfriend in tow.
"She used you as dummies." Hiei concluded. "You look like shit."
"Yeah…." We numbly fumbled into the elevator. Hiei's girl walked down the hall. He stayed in the elevator and sent it to the ground floor.
"Hiei?" Kurama asked him.
"I'm being a good cop and taking you guys home. None of you are in condition to walk in a strait line, let alone down a street!" He snapped. "Sheesh! You should have told her to stop when you were done with it." He rolled his eyes. The elevator reached the it's destination.
"Follow me, I'm diving you." We followed him to the garage. He filed us into the cop car. He put all three of us in the back. For some reason Kuwabara tried to open the door once we were all inside.
"Wait! I can't open the door!" He was startled.
"Kuwabara do you honestly think that we'd let a criminal open that door and get out and away? It opens from the outside only, which is a standard feature in these cars." Hiei turned on the motor and drove everyone home.
AN: Hiei's a cop, Xei's a jock, and Aoshi likes to go overboard! What could I possibly think of next? Suggestions are welcome!
Responses to my wonderful set of reviewers:
Dark-ghost42- I'm sorry about not being able to get to it. eye twitch I hope to have the next chapter up soon.
Donamarine- I hope I explained things to you. As for Jin, I'll consider that.
YYH-Yu-Yu-Hakusho-Fan- Sorry about the confusion, I hope this chapter clarified everything. If not, tell me what is confusing then I will unconfuse you.
Lady-Death-Strike550- I hope this chapter isn't like the last one. I'm trying not to be confusing!
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