Kira: It's Chapter Two!! screams
Kurama: I'm delighted you're so happy. smiles at Kira's excitement Perhaps you can be persuaded to lessen Hiei-san's punishment?
Kira: Nope!
Kurama: Why do I have a bad feeling about this chapter?
Kira: Why, Kurama-kun, you and Hiei-kun are going to answer a very important question today!
Hiei and Kurama: Which one?
Kira: Boxers, briefs, or thongs?
Yuusuke: Uhhh, Kira-chan?
Kira: Yes, Yuusuke-san?
Yuusuke: Guys don't wear thongs.
Kira: They don't?
Yuusuke and Kurama: No.
Kira: Oh, no! cries I'm so sorry, Kurama-kun.
Kurama: suddenly realizes what Kira had intended You were going to put me in a thong?
Kira: recognizing Kurama's anger I was going to put Hiei-kun in granny-panties!
Hiei: stunned into speaking WHAT?!?!
Yuusuke: calmer than Hiei What?
Hiei: You are so dead.
Kira: holds up folder I have pictures of you and Binky....
Hiei: pales You wouldn't.
Kira: nods I would. Ask anyone.
Kurama and Yuusuke: She'd do anything.
Hiei: angry outburst I HATE YOU MORE THAN THE BAKA!!! thoughtful silence No, never mind. I still hate the Baka more than you.
Kurama: You know, Kira-chan, that you're asking a very personal question, right?
Kira: I know! grins happily We'll find out anyway!!
Yuusuke: grins and pats Hiei and Kurama's backs You have my pity, boys.
Kira: smirks evilly Oh, Yuusuke-san, you're going to get it this chapter, too.
Yuusuke: sighs Damn! silent for a second Wait, everyone knows that Kuwabara and I wear boxers. How am I getting it?
Kira: Remember Cherile-chan?
Yuusuke: hangs head Awww, shit!
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Chapter Two- School, Koenma, and Gym
Cherile walked into class and sat at her desk, staring out the window to her left blankly. She didn't like Iwomoto-sensei anymore than she had liked her autocratic, maniac prick of a grandmother of her father's side.
Iwomoto-sensei walked in and looked at the class. "Good morning, assholes. For the next couple of weeks, we shall be hosting the students of Meiou Junior High at Sarayashiki. Any of you piss me off, you'll have detention for a month, just like Cheyenne's group and the Meiou Pep Squad."
Cherile smiled viciously, violet eyes glittering as she heard Cheyenne's punishment.
"Now, ten students are going to be joining us. Come in and introduce yourself," Iwomoto-sensei barked.
Several students entered the room, among which were Shuuichi and Hiei. Cherile smiled at the duo. Shuuichi smiled back, acknowledging her with a slight wave.
All of the Meiou students introduced themselves and were assigned seats. Coincidentally, Hiei and Shuuichi were given the seats in front of and behind her.
"Listen up, dumbasses! The grandson of the founder of this school has come to visit us! You do one thing he disapproves of, I'll kill you!"
"Not likely," she heard Hiei snort.
The door opened and a teenager in strange clothing stepped in. Cherile began to choke with laughter when she saw the pacifier in the corner of his mouth.
"Gomen... gomen nasai, sensei!" she gasped between laughs.
Yuusuke fell to his knees. "Why, God? Why, oh why, must I be so tortured?!"
"Shut up, Yuusuke."
"Make me, Pacifier Breath!"
Iwomoto-sensei glared at Yuusuke so coldly that it would have killed a lesser mortal.
"As I was about to say, I'm Koenma Daioh. I need to see Yuusuke Urameshi, Kazuma Kuwabara, Shuuichi Minamino, and Hiei Jaganshi. And, before you ask, Yuusuke, yes, I will drag you from the room, if necessary."
They all rose and, as Yuusuke passed, Cherile heard him muttering about evil, demented babies, leather belts, youki, and dead evil, demented babies.
After the door closed behind them, Cherile stood, smiling. "Sleep, all of you." She had an odd suspicion about those four.
After all, it wasn't every day that you heard a ningen mention youki.
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"So, toddler, you have the ability to lie? The grandson of the founder of Sarayashiki? Bull shit!"
"Yes, I do."
"So, runt, what brings you to this Hell?" Hiei inquired.
"I have a new mission and Botan was out. This is urgent."
"What is it? You need a new pacifier?" Yuusuke smarted off, obviously still insulted from Cherile-san's laughter.
"No. I-"
"Need a diaper change?" Hiei suggested.
"No. I need-"
"A life?" Yuusuke queried.
"Shut up, dammit! I need the four of you to find the reincarnation of a very powerful princess. Even though she was referred to as 'Princess,' she was actually a goddess."
"Okay, then why not call a spade a spade and say 'Goddess?'" Yuusuke asked, voice tired.
"Because of her heritage. She was half-goddess, half-demoness," Koenma stated, looking away.
"A forbidden mix. Just as forbidden as the mixing of fire and ice or fox and bird," Kurama said, trailing off.
"So, she wasn't considered a goddess. She was barely treated like a living, sentient being," Hiei finished, slightly angered.
"Precisely. However, her beauty is legendary, so she was treated with respect by most. Or, at least, that's how it looked from the outside.
"She was alive when my father was very young. Because of her, most of the Reikai had to be reborn."
"I remember that story! It was told to me as a kit! The princess was beautiful, but sad with her life as a goddess. She was so sad that her demonic nature, something she had learned how to control and suppress, overpowered her. She went on a spree of destruction and death that made demons and Gods respect her in a new light. She only left a few of the Gods to recreate what she had destroyed.
"Someone cornered her after she had sent everything and everyone who had hurt her into Oblivion and confronted her. The goddess in her rose up and she killed herself to aide the rebirth of the Reikai," Kurama said.
"That's the basic story," Koenma murmured, shaking his head. "My father says that she was honorable like that."
"How can we find her? She can kill everyone in the school with a thought with that kind of power!" Kuwabara exclaimed, eyes wide.
"Her reincarnation should have an unusual energy emitting from her."
"That reminds me, Detective. What do you know of the girl, Cherile Garrett?" Hiei queried.
"Very little, actually. She was born and raised in Japan for the first four years of her life. Then, her family moved to the United States. She lived there for a couple of months until DCFS shipped her back to Tokyo. That's about it. Why?"
"Why was she shipped back here?" Kurama inquired.
"Something about abusive parents. She never talks about it. She's a good fighter. She's handed me my ass a couple of times." Yuusuke smiled. "Now, why all the questions about a ningen?"
"Hiei and I both felt a strong energy emission from her."
"That's odd. I've went to school with her for nine years and sensed nothing," Yuusuke said, face thoughtful.
"Same here, Urameshi."
"I don't feel anything. I presume that she was the one sitting between you?" Koenma looked very concerned.
Kurama and Hiei nodded.
Koenma shook his head. "I sense nothing abnormal from the classroom."
"How come only Hiei and I can feel it? We felt it on the bus, before we even saw her!" Kurama muttered.
Koenma continued to shake his head while Yuusuke grinned.
"Perhaps the two of you have a crush?" he suggested.
"I don't know her at all!" the two youkai protested in unison.
"And you never shall," said a new voice. A feminine voice.
/How did she sneak up on us?!?/ Kurama asked, stunned.
"You ditchin'?" Yuusuke queried.
"Hell no! Class is over, dumbass," Cherile snapped. "It's gym time."
"What are we playing?"
"Volleyball. Duh, Urameshi! We've only been playing for the last two weeks! If you ever bothered to show up for school, you'd know!"
"Oh, joy. We get to play the girly sport! What fun!"
"You only think it's 'girly' because you're too stupid to hit the ball over the damned net, Urameshi."
"Whatever. Let's go, guys. I'll show you where the guys' locker room is," Yuusuke said, glaring at the human girl who matched it.
"It's beside the girls' locker room. That's the only reason you like gym. You can watch the girls changing. Hentai," she said, shaking her head. Then, she walked away.
"She got that part right," Yuusuke snorted, staring at the girl.
"Girls change? Into what?" Kuwabara queried.
"Women," Yuusuke replied smugly.
Kuwabara was still ignorant.
We'll have to watch her very carefully, kitsune. Something isn't right.
/I know, Hiei. I know./
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Cherile had played by herself for over thirty minutes before carefully looking around. She shook her head and continued to play.
Hiei brought this to Kurama's attention right as Yuusuke asked, "So, what do you really think of Sarayashiki?", serving the ball.
Kurama spiked it, saying, "It's very nice, Yuusuke."
The spike failed and Hiei saved the ball, hitting it over the net easily. "It sucks."
Kuwabara was knocked unconscious when the ball hit him on the head.
"Stupid," Yuusuke muttered, shaking his head.
Movement caught Hiei's eye and he got Kurama's attention.
Cherile's leaving. Class doesn't end for another twenty-five minutes, Hiei said.
The two left and barely heard Yuusuke say, "I swear, those two are so gay."
After restraining Hiei from going to kill Yuusuke, they followed Cherile. Doing so discreetly proved to be an unusually difficult task. All of the teachers ignored her, but stopped to question them extensively as to what they were doing.
They managed to glimpse her entering the girls' locker room.
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She sighed happily as she slid into the sparkling clean hot tub. She knew exactly what time the janitorial staff cleaned the girls' hot tub, thus, her reason for ditching half of class.
"Mmm... this is why I love ditching gym. No arguing over the clean hot tub," she said aloud for no other reason than to hear the words echo in the otherwise empty room.
She closed her eyes, sliding in deeper. She valued this time alone highly.
The sound of cracking plaster caught her attention.
"What the-"
She saw Shuuichi clutching the lamp for dear life and had the sense to jump out of the hot tub.
There was a big splash. Once her eyes cleared and she brushed hair from her face, she saw a towel floating in the water.
Shuuichi stood and looked at her. "Listen... I was... err... told to watch you. Please... my boss.... Erm...."
She was glaring through narrowed eyes, but listening. Then, she realized what the towel in the water meant.
Immediately, she spun and grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her, shoving a second one in his hands. Then, she stared at the lockers, blushing.
"Get out of here before I change my mind about killing you, Kurama," she growled dangerously.
"What did you just call me?"
"Kurama. Yuusuke told me it was your nickname," she said.
He climbed up the boxes lining the wall separating the locker rooms. "Thanks for understanding."
"It's nothing. Oh, and the lamp merely fell. You never saw the girls' locker room, or anything, clear?"
"Of course."
"And the conversation we just had never took place."
He nodded.
"And remember, I have ears in every clique in this school, even the Meiou group. I hear anything, I'm handing you your balls after they've been chopped up and deep-fried."
"Right."
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Kurama and Hiei exited the locker room, both blushing furiously.
Yuusuke patted their backs. "It's okay. We're all perverts inside. So, how big were they?"
"I beg your pardon?" Kurama choked.
"How big were Cherile's- ITAI!!!" A rather large textbook had hit Yuusuke on the head with some force. "WHO THE HELL----?"
"Me. You got beef? Cherile demanded, eyes narrowed.
"Where are you headed?"
"Martial arts. Like I said before, do you got beef, Urameshi? We can handle it right now, if you do."
"Since when did you take martial arts?"
"Oh... since I was... three years old!" Cherile replied, tossing half-dry hair over her shoulder and quickly braiding. "Perhaps if you showed up for school more often, you'd know. You're so stupid, Urameshi. You'll never be anything more than a Yakuza shi-tappa. I don't know what Ukimura-san sees in you."
She stalked away.
"Ummm.... Hiei, Kurama.... How come you don't have on any clothes but your boxers?" Kuwabara inquired.
The two demons blushed an even deeper red and dashed to the changing room.
"One wears roses, the other dragons... who does their boxers? Those are, obviously, custom designs," Yuusuke murmured.
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Yuusuke: You are a sick, sick soul, Kira-chan.
Kira: laughs Another 16 pages, handwritten. That means 6 pages on Word.
Yuusuke: Did you hear me?
Kira: Yes. Did you expect a reply?
Yuusuke: Yes.
Kurama: still blushing What did I ever do to you, Kira-chan?
Kira: Gomen nasai, Kurama-kun.
Hiei: trying to burn fire-proofed rope
Kira: Hiei-kun had to be punished and friends don't left friends suffer alone.
Yuusuke: voice thoughtful So, all of the guys wear boxers. I wonder what you wear, Kira-chan?
Kira: I'd have to kill you, Yuusuke.
Yuusuke: cry
Kira: smiles Ah, the good double standards of modesty for women. I discovered recently, by the way, that Kazuma-baka wears boxers with suspicious streaks.
Yuusuke, Kurama, and Hiei: Gross!
Kira: Anyway, no matter what I know of my dear boys, they will never know all about me! laughs