Sarasaki High's Gaffe
Chapter 12 - Intersession Trip
[A/n: Please note I decided to push the date up some so you wouldn't have to suffer of the boredom and just get to the good part. Here goes, a week before Mother's day.]
"I don't know why I'm here for." She said knocking on the door. Atsuko came to the door as Botan twisted her face up. "Atsuko, what happened??" Botan said looking at her bruised cheek.
Atsuko smiled a phony smile. "Hey Botan." She said as Yusuke appeared behind his mother, expecting Keiko. "Nothing, um. Just got into a little fight with that guy I went out with that night."
Yusuke sighed, "Mom, I told you to stop going out with those people you didn't know. I knew something like this would happen! And when I get my hands on that creep I-"
"Good bye Yusuke." Atsuko lazily as she closed the door in his face. Yusuke kicked the door and turned back to the pallid headed girl.
"What are you doing here?" He asked sitting on the front step. Botan took a seat next to him.
"Nothing. Can't a friend just come over to see her friend?" She asked patting Yusuke on the back as he shrugged. "So." She said as Yusuke glanced over at her.
"Ya know, you act really weird now that you're not just my Spirit Detective Assistant." He said looking over her face as she looked over his and smiled.
"Well now I'm your friend." She said cheerfully as Yusuke looked away. "There's Keiko." Botan said as she stood. She grabbed her bag and Yusuke's. Yusuke didn't thank her though.
"Hey, what were you doing over Yusuke's?" Keiko asked, knowing Botan over Yusuke's house was kind of weird unless they were talking about business.
"Just wanted to see him." Botan said with a smile. "What movie did you guys see?" She asked as Keiko's hair flew in her face from taking off.
"Um-" Yusuke said looking at Keiko. Botan looked baffled at them.
"We saw Sansui Omni." Keiko lied. Yusuke smirked. Botan laughed,
"I never heard of that movie before." She said as they stopped over at Kuwabara's. Shizuru was busy kicking his butt out of the house as their mother got in the car.
Eventually one of Botan's songs was on as she sung along, "...-jibun no monosashi de.. konna toki ni umaretsuita yo...-" She said as Yusuke gave her a glance and abruptly began shouting when Kuwabara jumped into the car, kicking his seat.
"Hey Shizuru!" Keiko and Botan both shrieked, waving over to their older friend. She smiled and waved back as she got into her car with her Uplay2 uniform.
"Going to work?" Keiko shouted over Shizuru's motor. Shizuru gave her a thumbs up as in 'Yeah.' Keiko and Botan smiled as they waved once again pulling off.
Kuwabara stuck his tongue out at her. Keiko giggled when she saw Kurama trip over his long pants, once again like almost every morning. "Ohayo Kurama-kun." Keiko said as the redhead approached the car.
"Hey Kurama." He heard with an echo as Kuwabara and Yusuke greeted he walked over to the side with Botan as she scooted over. He smiled at her, "Hi." He greeted her with a small kiss on the cheek. The girl's cheeks went ruby.
"Wow! Where did that come from?" Keiko asked, glancing in the mirror just above her head as she positioned it on the two. Kurama chuckled as Yusuke gave him a sneaky smirk.
"It came from his back pocket." Kuwabara said with a snort. Yusuke gave Kuwabara a glance of 'that was just dumb.' Kuwabara kicked the back of his seat.
"Hey!" Keiko said as the two began scuffling. "No fighting in my car." She shouted as she pulled into a parking spot of the school lot. The two jumped out the car and began fighting in the yard.
Keiko sighed and looked at Botan and Kurama with a blush as she saw Kurama trying to give her a hug. "Aw." Keiko said as Botan growled. "Don't be bashful Botan." Keiko said with a smile.
Kurama smiled to Keiko as Botan eschewed with a sigh of frustration. The trio walked onto the school's entrance ground and saw that there were only a few students, the school hardly with anybody there.
"Where is everybody?" Botan asked looking around. "I know we're not early are we?" She said as a teacher hastening to her class came by and was stopped by Botan. "Why aren't anybody here?"
"Because it's intersession." The lady said fixing her glasses on her nose straight before she walked off, continuing to walk rapidly down the hall.
"What's intersession?" Botan turned around, asking Kurama and Keiko as Kurama shrugged. Keiko's eyebrows fell as she watched Kurama shrug.
"You guys don't get two weeks off of school every six weeks?" Keiko asked as Kurama shook his head with a light arch of his red eyebrow. "Hm, well. It's the week teachers do their planning and you have an option."
"An option of what?" He asked.
"Of coming or not." She said as she slapped her forehead. "If I knew that I wouldn't have come to school today!" She shouted as she took her books from her book bag and put them into her locker.
"I think I will go back anyway. I know that's what Yusuke is going to do when he hears this." Keiko said as she picked her book bag back up. "You guys want a ride back home?" Keiko asked.
"No thanks Keiko. I need all the study I can get." Botan said, shocking Keiko. Choosing to go to school over staying out, is very, very weird for someone to do.
"I think I'll stay too." Kurama said, glancing at Botan and back to Keiko unnoticeable. Keiko shrugged her shoulders simply.
"Well then. I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow. No, matte. In two weeks!" She shouted as she walked from the two. Botan lowered her white eye brows.
"Matte Keiko-san!" She said running to the brunette girl. "Two weeks? You know we do know where you live right?" Botan asked laughing nervously from her response.
"Yes but I am going to go on my vacation for the intersession. It's a traditional thing." Keiko said as she turned to leave her friend behind. Botan watched as Yusuke and Kuwabara began dancing from the news.
"Guess they're going with her too." Kurama said from behind as she turned to her scarlet headed friend. Then they watched as Yusuke walked towards them and Keiko got in the car alone.
"What are you doing Yusuke?" Botan asked as Yusuke approached the two. "Keiko's pulling off. And where is Kuwabara going?" She asked as she spotted his friends in a car nearby the school entrance.
"I'm staying." Yusuke said, making Kurama and Botan gasp. "Yeap that's right." He said with his certain smirk. "Hey, I need education as bad as you do and I know I sound really stupid but I need this."
Botan nodded and gave him a peek of her delightful smile. "Well." She said turning to walk with the two behind her. "C'mon." She said, not turning back to see them walking sluggishly behind.
"So Kurama." Yusuke said, breaking wind. "I see you got something planted into Botan's skin. What ya do?" He asked as Kurama shook his head.
"Nothing really."
"Where's the good stuff!" Yusuke said in a higher tone than his usual voice. Kurama chuckled.
All of a sudden, Botan appeared back where they were with her books. "Fine. Have your boy-to-boy talk." She said walking off.
"She didn't just call me a boy!" Yusuke shouted as Kurama became tickled. "I'll show her how much of a man I am." Yusuke said as Kurama only laughed more.
"And I'll tell Keiko all about it." Kurama said as Yusuke gave him that glancing look. They walked into the school and saw only about half of half of half of the people who was there yesterday.
"Damn.." Yusuke said looking around and finding no pretty girls, just Botan and some old geeky guys. Kurama and Yusuke walked to their lockers as Botan stood talking to Emi, who was just about to leave.
"And you chose not to go?" Emi asked as Botan sighed. "Come on girl! This is the time when you go on your vacation and shit." Emi said as Kurama and Yusuke came over with their books.
"Hey guys you know Emi right?" Botan said as Kurama looked at the short haired blondie and smiled, remembering her from the sleep over a few months back.
"I've seen her around." Yusuke said as Emi looked at him as in, 'You better watch it' playfully. "I'm U-"
"Urameshi Yusuke, blah. Duh! Everybody knows you." She said turning back to Botan. "Like I was saying. Come with me." Emi said taking Botan's hand in hers. "Onegai?"
Botan sighed with a smile. "Where do you go?" She asked as Emi slapped her hands together in winning victory.
"Camping out baby!" Emi shouted as Botan gasped and shook her head.
"N-no. I'm not going." Botan said with a trembling voice.
"Aw why?" Emi asked frowning her fake frown that made people melt down inside, even Kurama. Botan sighed.
"I'm not made for that kind of environment." Botan said shaking her head again.
"Ahahaha!!" Yusuke burst out in a fake fit of laughs. "You're not fit for that but you can go to Makai and make it back alive." Yusuke said as Botan sighed. 'Shut it Yusuke before you blow it!'
"There now you're coming, regardless." Emi said with a smirk and walked towards her own locker to put her stuff back.
Botan gaped at Yusuke with a piercing glare. "Why did you say that!" She said in a whispering tone.
Yusuke only glared back, "Because I wanted to." He said, making Botan sigh once again. You can see she was having a depressed day.
Emi came back without her stuff. "Ready B?" She asked and looked to the two guys. "You two can come along if ya want. It'll be me and my brother Taylor." She said.
"T-t-t-" Yusuke said snapping his finger and pointing at her. "Taylor." She repeated as Yusuke's mouth fell to the ground, "That loser!" He shouted. "He has a big ass mouth!" Yusuke insulted.
"So do I! We get it from our dad. Now are you coming or what?" She asked as Yusuke started to do a stupid dance. "Well?" She looked at Kurama.
"Count me in." Kurama said as everybody then looked at Botan, waiting for her answer. Botan caught their gazes, a pair of brown, emerald, and blue eyes staring.
"Yes I guess." She said under her breath as Yusuke and Emi went wild by dancing stupidly again. Botan only smiled a small forced one.
~*~ On their way
"Hey baka, why'd you bring the stupid cat?" Yusuke asked crossing his arms as Kuwabara jumped over Taylor's lap to get to him.
"Hey! Hey! Calm down." Emi said while she concentrated on driving. Botan sat in the passenger side of the car, looking at the beautiful scenery of Ninghenkai she's yet to see so far.
"The scenery is so nice." Botan said looking at a field full of horses groomed perfectly as their thin hairs flew in the wind while running in a pack.
"Yes it is." Kurama said, sitting behind Botan's seat. He sat up and hugged Botan's seat, still watching as the horses ran by.
Kuwabara was interested in the cows, and.. their pies. "I didn't think Ninghenkai was this big." He said, staring at a small calf. Yusuke's
"I hope Keiko can get over me going on a trip without her." Yusuke said and his eyes widened when he heard something beating on the trunk in the back.
"What the heck is that?" Yusuke asked, looking at Taylor and Emi. Taylor smirked, "That's my girlfriend. There wasn't any room in the car." He said as Botan, Kurama, and Yusuke all looked at them bizarrely.
"I told you guys she probably couldn't breathe in there!" Emi said pulling over to an abandoned looking barn yard. She got out and popped open the trunk as a redhead got out coughing.
Taylor, Yusuke, and Kuwabara got out of the car walked around the car to see if she was ok. The crimson headed girl gave them a sly smile as Taylor chuckled.
"You ok Sao?" Taylor asked as he wrapped his arms around the girl and continued to laugh. Yusuke caught Kuwabara gaping at the girl hardly and elbowed him.
Sao, the redhead nodded as they all walked back to the car side to get back in the car. Emi offered Yusuke the front seat, making Botan get out of the front.
"Emi!" Botan shouted as Yusuke pulled Botan out of the seat belt and out the car. Botan saw Yusuke giving Emi looks and she closed her eyes with her arms folded over her chest.
"Oh wait till I tell Keiko this." She said as she walked to the back seat. She crawled in over Kurama and into the middle as Taylor held Sao in his lap. Being the evil Kurama he was, he gave a small glance.
Botan slapped him on the shoulder as Emi sped off. "Ouch." He said rubbing his arm as if it really hurt. "Wha was that for?" He asked chuckling.
"Hey guys, I hope you all got your bug spray cause I don't got any." Emi said as everybody looked at each other. Then they remembered the big bag Botan had drug along with her.
"Of course Botan does." Sao said. "She has some in her bag. Gomen for me going into your bag but something made me really wanna look in there." She said lowering her eyebrows.
"Yes, matter of fact I do have some." Botan said as everybody sighed in relief.
The rest of the ride was silent as they came closer to campgrounds. It had become sundown as it left a sky streaking sunset. Emi pulled up to a gate which was closed and opened when she inserted a card into a slot nearby the drive through.
"Enjoy our campground." An automaton voice said, a bit like it was an old system about to run dead. Emi drove through the narrow entrance and pulled up to the edge of an empty sand parking lot, with a rope gate signaling to stop because of the big verdant lake before it.
"Wow this place looks awesome!" Kuwabara shouted as he looked to see canoes and four small cabins. Then they all spotted a bigger cabin, which was maybe the main cabin with the kitchen.
"It is!" Botan said, falling out of the car, trying to hurry outside. "Look at the huge lake." She said as her pink eyes started to glitter from the reflection the pond gave off from the sunset.
"Lets hurry and get stationed so we can go for a quick dip." Taylor suggested as Sao, Yusuke, Kuwabara and himself began to run. Emi, Kurama, and Botan were busy trying to get the extra stuff inside. (including Eikichi)
"I've never been here." Kurama said as Botan agreed.
"I always come here. Since my dad passed away, me and my brother came here every summer." Emi said, pulling her luggage out of the trunk as Kurama got his and Botan got hers.
Emi struggled to get the trunk down as Kurama gave her a hand. "Thanks Shuichi." Emi said as Botan and her walked on to the cabin as Kurama picked his stuff back up.
"Cabin one, mines." Emi said, walking into the cabin further away from the lake. "Cabin two, Shuichi and Botan's." She said as she heard Botan gasp.
"Emi, no! I do not want to be in a cabin with a guy." Botan said shaking her head. Emi looked at Yusuke walking out of her cabin.
"Yusuke's in mine." Emi said laughing as Yusuke ran towards the lake with Sao and Taylor behind. "You guys should change your clothes!" She shouted as they stripped down while running.
Kuwabara came out last, already wearing his trunks. "Kuwabara can have a cabin to himself." Emi said as she tossed Kurama his and Botan's cabin key. Botan kicked up some dirt.
"No, I have to share mines with Eikichi!" He said as Kurama looked to see Eikichi sitting on top of the car. Emi shrugged as if she didn't care.
"Last cabin's Taylor and Sao's." Emi said, taking her stuff into her and Yusuke's cabin. Kurama looked at Botan, who was still pissed off at being paired with him automatically.
"It's ok Botan." He said handing her the key. "I'll talk Kuwabara into letting me sleep in his cabin." Kurama said taking his stuff towards Kuwabara's cabin.
Botan felt herself frown inside but was relieved by Kurama handing the cabin over to her. Emi came back outside. "Oh Botan." Emi said with a frown. "C'mon." She said as she pulled Kurama away from Kuwabara's cottage.
"Botan, please let Shuichi-chan stay in your hut." She said, making her blue eyes look as sad as they could. Botan sighed.
"But if I do, he has to promise not to bother me." Botan said as Kurama's mouth hung open.
"Botan, I wouldn't mess with you." Kurama said shaking his head. Kurama might be a naughty teen on the outside, but he was a gentlemen inside and wouldn't dare do anything pass flirting around.
"I wish you would stay in my hut." Emi said pouting as Kurama arched his eyebrows. She took off her shirt, revealing a tank top under. "Right now I'm going for a swim!" She said running towards the others.
Botan looked back at Kurama blankly. "Oh Kurama, I'm sorry. You can stay in my cabin. I couldn't think of you doing something like Yusuke. Thank god I didn't have to share a hut with him." She said, walking into the hut as Kurama followed.
Later that evening, after the sun had went down and they all made a camp fire in the middle of the cabin park, they sat in a circle, roasting marshmallows.
"This is good." Kuwabara managed to say as he bit his marshmallow off the wooden stick. It's disgusting if you use an ordinary stick, so.. they brought wooden slayer sticks. Everybody agreed with Kuwabara.
"Hey, I have a great idea." Sao, spoke up as everybody looked at the blue eyed redhead. "Lets play-"
"No, I am not playing any games." Kurama said scooting away from the group. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Taylor agreed. "Yeah."
"What game Sao-chan?" Emi asked as she nibbled on the marshmallow she had been roasting over the fire.
"Truth-"
"No!" Everybody shouted as the redhead frowned. Taylor sighed. "I cannot resist her smile." Taylor said gazing into Sao's puppy eyes. "I'll play whatever you want." Taylor said, making Botan 'aw.'
Emi imitated Taylor and rolled her eyes. "I'll play, I guess." Emi said scooting closer to the fire. "What's it gonna hurt us?" Emi asked.
"It'll hurt our friendship in some way and we'll end up fighting." Botan said as Kuwabara and Yusuke nodded. Kurama had been in a trance.
Emi sighed, "Well." she said. "I know." She said standing up. "Lets play.."
"Duck-duck-goose!" Kuwabara shouted sarcastically as everybody chuckled at the thought of big people playing such a kiddy game.
"No, lets play.." She said looking up at the starry filled sky. "I.. I don't know." She stuttered as everybody fell into a thinking stage.
A/n: *sighs* I've seem to have no ideas of what to play other than Truth or Dare. If you have any good game ideas, please review them to me. (I don't want any games such as 'Spin the Bottle' or 'Name-game' or 'Truth or Dare.') I need a new game. Please, please, give me an idea! ^_^