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Chapter 4: Singing Buses

Field trips were a good thing for Sarah. A wonderful learning experience mixed in with a lot of social time. Dress down, too. Excellent. And even better, this was a trip to a colonial thingamabob.

The bus ride was fun, too. She and her friends sung songs the whole way, much to the chagrin of their homeroom teacher.

Halloween. Hiei's most favorite holiday of the year. It was wonderful. Dressing up like an idiot, well, no, that wasn't all that much fun. But getting candy was only the BEST thing in the world. Especially since it was free. Hiei only had to dig out that ugly gorilla mask that he wore every year and JACKPOT! Enough candy to last him through to Thanksgiving. If you knew where to go, of course. And where the Minaminos, Hiei, and Ana went trick-or-treating, whoa. Candy GALORE.

Memory

Hiei, Yukina, Yoko, Suichi, Anastasia, and Sarah ran around, ringing about a hundred doorbells and waiting for people to answer.

Yukina was dressed in a pretty blue dress and a tiara was perched on her head; she was a beautiful little princess, dainty and smiling. Just about every candy-giver commented on how gorgeous she looked. Hiei, on the other hand, had his face was hidden behind a black scarf, and only his eyes showed. In his hands was a play-sword that he hit doors with, making the owners of those doors laugh in delight at the cute little kid. Nevermind that he wasn't dressed up as anything in particular, he was cute!

Sarah was dressed as a genie, her bellybutton showing in her two-piece outfit. Every so often, one of the three mothers would poke her in the tummy and laugh as she squirmed. Anastasia was a different kind of princess from Yukina. She was dressed more like a fairy princess, with a crown of flowers and a layered dress of fiery red and orange, multicolored wings sprouting from her back.

Yoko was dressed almost as extravagantly as a fox. He wore a headband of cute fox ears and his toga-like garments were all white, even though his mother had tried to tell him that foxes were usually reddish-brown. Poking out of the back of his pants was a cute little silver tail that kept on falling out of place and dragging on the floor. Sarah had offered to "pull it out of your butt" several times already (which was hilarious to all three mothers), and Yoko had pulled her hair at the very suggestion. And last but not least, Suichi was dressed as his own type of hero, who used a whip and who didn't wear those weird superhero outfits. In fact, this hero wore a long tunic over pants, which was a lot better than underwear over women's tights.

"Yo! Wassup, ma homies?" Yusuke called from the doorway. He was dressed like- like a pimp! With the floppy, furry purple hat and the ten pounds of bling-bling, not to mention the cane that he leaned on, it was hard for the three mothers not to roll on the floor laughing.

"Yusuke, you look dumb," was what Hiei said. "But you always look dumb, so-"

"Hiei!"

End Memory

Hiei and Yoko cringed when the entire bus began to sing, both of them jolted out of daydreams of CANDY. Thankfully, both had brought their CD players, and turned them waaay up. Yoko also took out his cell phone and texted his brother.

Bus is singing.

To which Suichi replied: 'Where's it's mouth?'

"Cell phone away, Yoko!" Mrs. Fernandez yelled abruptly when she caught sight of the object.

"Dammit."

"WHAT WAS THAT, YOUNG MAN?!"

"I think Yoko's in trouble," Suichi said mildly to Anastasia, and showed her his brother's latest text.

Ug.

"Ah well. Oh, no, here he is."

In deep shit. g2g.

"Wonderful."

"Yukina, what are you staring at?" Kayko asked her friend worriedly.

"Oh, nothing, Kayko. Just the ducks, I guess. The tiny ones are cute, aren't they?"

"Yeah. Listen, are you sure that you're not feeling bad about what happened last week? With Kazuma, I mean?"

"I'm okay with it, I guess. I just need some time to get over it, I think."

"Damn, pigs smell," Anastasia said, her voice muffled behind her sweatshirt, which was pushed up to cover her nose.

"When are we going to the graveyard, though? Wonder if they have a few open pits I can push Miss Kentucky into," Yoko muttered, referring to the teacher that had just issued him two detentions. "I don't think I'm going to get valedictorian this year."

"I thought you didn't want to be valedictorian," Suichi pointed out, and sniffed the air tentatively before choking.

"You always want what you can never have," was Yoko's reply as he patted his brother's back. "Are you going out for it, Hiei?"

"Hell no. I'm a slacker with issues, remember?"

"Bobby-girl?"

"Yup. If it means shocking the shit out of the rest of the school, then hell yeah."

"Are you sure this has nothing to do with sibling rivalry?" Suichi asked.

"Not completely."

Yusuke and Paul had gathered by the gift shop, and were only waiting for Kazuma to arrive.

"Guys, I'm not sure about this," the carrot-haired one said once he'd finally gotten there.

"Then don't do it. But you'd better not snitch, got it?" Yusuke told him, the threat in his eyes evident. You tell and I'll smash your face into the damn pavement.

"Whatever. Hey, the chick at the counter's pretty cute."

"There you go, Kazuma. You distract her and we'll get on with our- ahem- business." Paul ran a hand through his tightly curled brown hair. Kazuma still hesitated.

"All right. But be quick."

"Sure thing." Slowly, the three ambled into the gift shop. Kuwabara immediately went to the cashier. Thankfully, at nearly 6', Kazuma didn't look 13, and his rather deep voice completely led the cashier to believe that she was being wooed by a 17 year old, at least.

Meanwhile, Yusuke and Paul were snatching up wooden pop guns, rock candy, and other such goods, depositing them in the pockets of their sweatshirts.

"Hey Kazuma! We're finished looking. Let's go!"

"Oh, fine. Seeya!" When they'd gotten out of the shop, the three gave each other triumphant smiles.

Michelle watched Paul, Kazuma, and Yusuke celebrate and shook her head. She'd seen them shoplift. And she hadn't said a thing. What was wrong with her? She was supposed to be responsible, that was why she'd been chosen for the Almighty Job of Door Guardian. Maybe she thought that they didn't really mean it all. Maybe she thought that they didn't deserve to be suspended, or even expelled. Maybe she thought they deserved another chance.

But one of these days, they'd overstep their bounds and Michelle would run out of second chances to give them.

Can you imagine Yusuke as a pimp? There was a little kid who was the brother of a jerk in my grade, and on Halloween, he came in decked out like a little pimp! He had the $ necklace and everything. It was beyond cute!

Oh, and about the overall lack of a definite plot... Um, well, I'm working on it. By the way, just so you know, I put this up at Media Miner. I dunno why, I guess just because I've got nothing else to do.

Responses:

slave2anime, Lobs-StAcEy-Ters—Thanks!!

Shives (And anyone else who wanted an explanation)—Okay, so about the plan: Hiei went out to get food from the local deli in the middle of the day. Usually, if you do this, you can get: detention for MONTHS, a dress-down ban, suspended from school, or expelled if you do it more than once. Umm... is there anything else you're confused about? Or was I explaining the wrong thing altogether?

Oh, and I might take you up on your offer of an OC. The e-mail address got cut off, though, so could you re-send it to me? And thanks for reviewing!

poltergeist report—Oh, my bad! My apologies! I get carried away with the disclaimer sometimes, don't I? Thanks!!