A/N: Aren't you lucky. Two chapters at once. But this doesn't happen often though.
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Chapter 3
It was Monday again… which meant school would start once more. The house was filled with chaos as the five girls bustled about getting ready for school. "Khana-chan, hurry up! We're going to be late!" Jen said to her best friend.
"All right, all right, I'm coming. I just needed to make sure I looked okay," Khana replied. Standing there with a white skirt that came up mid thigh and a baby blue top. Khana looked more than okay. Jen rolled her eyes and dragged her along. All the girls managed to be ready and got on the bus.
If there was one class that she thought was boring, it was physics. Khana subconsciously tapped her fingers on the table as the teacher drowned on and on about something. She stopped listening after the first fifteen minutes. She couldn't wait till next period. It was World Geography and also the one class where she and all four of her friends were in the same class.
"Finally!" exclaimed Khana once the bell rang to dismiss the physics class.
"Eager to leave Khana? I thought you enjoyed the lesson today," said Yusuke smoothly, from behind her. Khana's breath hitched. She could fee her breath on her neck as he spoke. His word ringing in her ears. His sooth, sexy voice enveloped her senses, so that she couldn't even think.
"Oh my gosh! What do I do now? Flirt back, she idiot!" she thought mentally slapping herself.
"Well, I would've been more interested in class, if there were any hot guys," she replied.
"Ho guys?" he questioned, "what do you think I am?" he replied in the same tone.
"I dunno. I thought you were mentally retarded at first, but now, I dunno. You'd have to convince me that you're a hot guy," she added thoughtfully.
"I can do that," he said as he resumed his sexy voice, as they finally arrived at Khana's next class. "Well, I guess this is where I leave you," he said turning to go.
"Yeah, see ya around," Khana sighed, when he was out of hearing range.
"What was that?!" gasped Sakura, once Khana sat in her seat.
"What was what?" asked Khana innocently.
"That whole flirting exchange going on," she exclaiming.
"Oh," giggled Khana, "that. Well, it wasn't what you think-"
"Oh," interrupted Sakura, "then what was it?"
"I admit that were flirting, but-"
"Aha! I knew it!" she interrupted again.
"Will you stop interrupting me?!" exclaimed Khana frustratingly. "As I was saying-"
"Hey, guys," greeted Jen, as she, Willow, and Ai just barely made it before the bell rang.
"Ugh! Can't people not interrupt me, for once?" she asked them through gritted teeth.
"Sooory! What crawled up your butt and died?" Ai asked bluntly.
Tuesday morning… every day was hectic. However, today was different from every other Tuesday. Subtle differences, like today it was Sakura not Khana spending an hour getting ready, small things. After making sure the baby was okay with the house keeper, the five girls left.
Sakura 's day drowned on, first Algebra. She usually liked Algebra. Not today. She was restless.
Not really paying attention to anything, she ran into someone while oon her way to second period.
"Oh, gomen!" gasped Sakura.
"Don't worry about it," replied a smooth tenor voice.
Sakura looked up. "I thought you had been expelled," she said to Suzaku.
"Now, where did you hear that rumor?"
Sakura's cheeks were as red as roses as she avoided his eyes as best as she could.
"The school board reconsidered the expulsion."
"Oh," muttered Sakura.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
"Oh no! I'm late for chemistry!" cried Sakura.
"Relax, it isn't as if you've never been late to a class before," said Suzaku.
Sakura's blush deepened.
"You have been late to a class before, right?"
Sakura shook her head, then ran to chemistry, and in her rush she left her planner on the floor beside Suzaku.
Later that day in geography the five girls chatted about their day.
"Yusuke walked me to class again today," said Khana sighing deeply causing Jen and Sakura to roll their eyes.
"Oh my gosh, you won't believe this. I literally ran into…"
"Hello, ladies," said four voices from behind them.
The girls turned around and their hearts leapt for joy at the sight of Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama and Suzaku.
"It looks like we will be joining this class from now on," said Hiei.
Sakura about melted in her shoes at the sound of his voice.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
"Okay class take your seats," ordered the professor. "Today we start a new lesson. Get into groups of twos and threes, then I will explain."
Willow immediately bee lined for Yusuke along with Ai., but before Willow got to Yusuke she was confronted by Hiei.
"Want to be my partner?" he asked.
"No." The time for delicacy was up.
Hiei's amber eyes darkened into despair.
"Hiei, do you want to be my partner?' asked Sakura quietly.
"What ever."
Meanwhile Jen and Kurama got together and the last ones Khana and Suzaku were partners.
"All right, is everyone in groups of tow or three? Good. Here is the project. Choose a subject, any subject, and collect information and data. Then write a collective paper and turn it in by the end of term."
After class the groups were walking together.
"Hey girls, want to come by my place and have a food tasting project?" asked Yusuke.
"Okay," sighed Willow.
"Whatever," said Ai pretending to be impressive.
"Kurama, since we both like plants, why don't we do a plants of local Japan classification project?" asked Jen, her eyes pleading.
"That would be a wonderful project," he replied.
"Swords," Hiei suggested in a low sad voice.
"Sure," Sakura said, getting angry at Willow for making Hiei act like this.
"Hey what should our project be about?" asked Khana.
"Birds, I like birds," said Suzaku.
"Great!"
As the end of the week rolled in, the girls and their overly handsome partners decided this weekend would be a perfect time to start their semester long project that would determine if they pass or fail the semester.
"Well, I'm going to a … a botanical garden with Kurama-kun today," declared Jen. A huge grin slowly appeared upon her face as she began to picture a whole day with the one man who had infatuated her for so long now. How they would spend the day alone… in a flower garden… how romantic!
"Lucky you," grumbled Sakura. A look of utter annoyance was ever present upon her face.
"What's wrong with her? She's been like this, this whole week," muttered Khana to Ai.
"I have no idea. I think something happened between her and Hiei-kun… or something," whispered Ai.
Sakura twitched. Her eyes darkened to their most intense form of midnight blue ever imaginable. "Nothing! Nothing's the matter. Actually… actually that's the problem here… no thanks to somebody." Sakura turned… her evil eye glazed deep into Willow's very soul… as if she was trying to rip it out. The other three girls twitched… before turning to look at Willow who was current oblivious to everything as she was currently brushing through her long brown hair that sparkled in the sunlight when angled just right. Feeling that people were looking at her funny, the Colombian overly talented singer looked up innocently.
"What? What? Did I miss something?" asked the girl in a voice of pure innocence.
"Oh no, don't try being cute with me. You… YOU DESTROYED MY ONLY CHANCE WITH HIEI!" screamed Sakura. Her normal peaceful and almost nerdy self at that instant vanished into thin air… forever shattered.
"But, but I didn't… I didn't do anything. I told Hiei I wasn't interested… just like I promised… really… he seemed okay with it… really." But deep down she knew that Sakura didn't buy it. She wasn't interested in her explanation… she only had one thought running in her mind at that moment and that was the fact that she believed that she had taken her only chance to be with Hiei away from her forever. "Really… maybe it's something else. You know some guy thing."
A small scoff left Jen's lips followed by a persistent but from Khana.
"Don't speak," commanded Jen, Ai, and Sakura.
"But…"
"Ilie," said Jen… her voice firm even though deep down was trying to hold down her laugh.
"Demo."
"Jen-chan… listen. I'm sure Hiei-kun, Kurama-kun, and Yusuke-kun won't appreciate what you have to say," added Ai. She too was trying hard not to laugh.
"No, ilie, it's not that. It's… just that… that we got to go. It's ten already. Isn't that when we're suppose to meet up with those incredibly hot partners of ours?" Tiny stars lit up in Khana's bright emerald eyes as she just imagined being in a pet shop with kind of guy like Suzaku.
"Crap, she's right. We'll settle this later Willow. I don't have time to deal with this sort of thing right now." With that said Sakura grabbed her school bag and ran out the room quickly followed by Jen and Khana, which left Ai and Willow alone in an overly awkward state.
Willow sighed as she sank deeper into her chair. "Puu… that was close. Saved by the bell and quite literally too." Upon looking up she noticed the facial feature that Ai was suddenly giving her. "What?"
"You really know how to stir up trouble don't you, Willow-chan? Sometimes I wonder which one of you guys is more dense."
"Hey!" Willow shouted before a small pout slowly started to appear upon her face causing Ai to burst out laughing.
"Well, come on. We have to go meet Yusuke-kun at the bakery."
"Hai!" Shouted Willow before popping another slice of bread into her mouth.
One haour later, Jen stepped out of the magnet train. She hadn't expected the train ride to be so long… but deep down she knew it was worth it… just to see Kurama in his territory. Now that was worth anything.
"Jen-kun!" A voice broke her mental image of Kurama surrounded by roses and broken up petals.
"Kurama-kun!" Jen shouted seeing Kurama in an absolutely adorable outfit. A plastic bag in one hand and a school bag in the other. Jen ran to him and immediately fell into step beside him.
"Well, let's go."
"Hai!" replied Jen happily.
"Oh… uh… Jen-kun?" muttered Kurama… lightly scratching the side of his face.
"Yeah."
"I was wondering… if you would mind if we changed out topic a little."
"To what?" asked Jen.
"Nothing drastic… you know… to a more broad of a topic then just the plants in Japan. I was thinking more like all the plants in the world and what they symbolize. Would do you think?"
"Symbolize?"
"Yeah, flowers and even plants symbolize different things to different groups of people. I'll show you what I mean when we get there."
"Okay," said Jen skeptically, but the way Kurama's eyes shown when he ask her. She knew it wouldn't be a bad idea at all. It wasn't like she knew anything about Japan's plants that well either… and she definitely didn't know anything about plant classification. At least with this new topic she didn't have to rely on taxonomy that much… something which she hated with a great passion.
"We're here," announced Kurama twenty minutes later.
"Really," gasped Jen as she let out a long breath. It turned out this garden was in the middle of no where. How exactly did Kurama manage to find this place in the first place was beyond her knowledge. There were no roads leading to this place, and trees covered it on all the sides.
"Come on."
"Okay," Jen said eagerly as Kurama dragged her into the garden, yet the way he pulled on her hand. It didn't hurt at all. It was nice… just as she had imagined it to be the day she fell for him so long ago.
"Here, look at that flower. Isn't it beautiful?" asked Kurama pointing to a flower blooming in a small pond. Jen nodded captivated by the petals… each one with water drops encrusted into them.
"Yeah… it's… I've never seen something like this before. It's much more prettier than lilies are that's for sure."
"Yeah." The young man smiled. "It's called a lotus flower."
"Lotus," muttered Jen.
"Yep. It's pretty isn't it?"
"Uh huh," muttered Jen.
"It should be. Ancient Egyptians used it as a sign of love. It symbolized love to them."
"Really?" gasped Jen.
"Yep, hard to believe that such a beautiful flower can survive in a hot, desert climate like Egypt huh?"
"Yeah. We… we got to record this."
"We will. Now come on. I go some more plants I really want to show you… especially this one. I hope they still have it. It's really, really interesting."
"Okay." Jen's eyes sparkled as Kurama once again grabbed her hand. Once again she felt as if she had floated into ecstasy as he brought her to another spot. A brunch of flowers planted below a gigantic willow… but only one caught Kurama's eyes. The one that he had been looking for.
"There is it. That's pretty white one?"
"Uh huh."
"It's called a morning glory."
"It… it's pretty. I just love the white petals." "Especially since they remind me of you," thought Jen not daring to say the last part out since she wasn't sure if Kurama actually liked her like that since they obviously were friends now.
"Yeah… it is pretty isn't it? But… such prettiness also comes with a price... unfortunately for many it also means anything but happiness."
"What do you mean?" asked Jen startled.
"For many, morning glories are associated with death."
"Death?! But it's such a beautiful flower through. It… it can't."
"Things aren't always what they appear. You know that right, Jen-kun? Sure by now."
"Hai, demo…"
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