Thank you for the reviews! It makes me want to write more! Heh... So.. Could you review again? THANK YOU! Oh, and I'd also like to say (to.. uhm.. forgot who), but yeah the ending -kun is for a classmate. Sorry this took so long! Yeah.. uhm I forgot a lot of the other stuff... Thank you for everyone who reviewed:
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Would you allow me to prove myself?

Am I nothing but a flower on your wall?

To watch you blossom in the spotlight,

While I grow old and gray on the side?


Hiei leaned against the window, momentarily glancing out at Mukuro's retreating figure, but quickly glanced away at the sound of approaching footsteps.

"Master, there is someone here to see you.", the tall servant-demon called out.

Hiei let out a grunt of recognition and sent the servant away before growling at the sudden pulse of energy in the next room. Hiei himself had not had to deal with many high ranked demons since he became part of Mukuro's territory, and it bothered him greatly. Mukuro had promised him a whole land of strong demons to demolish, but so far Hiei had found the results.. displeasing.

Shoving his hands into his pockets, Hiei advanced forward to the entrance hall where the aura was pulsing; yet when he entered he found no one. The aura itself had vanished from this room and was catching up to a different aura; Mukuro's. Hiei felt an unknown feeling pass his gut; perhaps his loyalty to Mukuro had grown indeed too strong?

Calmly Hiei stepped out of Mukuro's headquarters and glanced around the premises; everything was where it should be. Not a branch was out of place, as the hot sun scorched the outer sand dunes surrounding the forest. Nothing was out of place except for someone.

Mukuro and some of the loyalist demons were currently fighting on the dunes against the weaker demons of the revolt, causing Hiei's mouth to curl into a smirk, while striding forward towards the battle.

Thud

Within a moment, Hiei had unsheathed his katana, and sliced the throat of another demon, causing it to slump against the sand behind Mukuro.

"You decided to show up." Mukuro stated in an almost jokingly like manner while round-kicking a demon into a nearby rock, but Hiei didn't need to reply as he expertly cut the demons surrounding him.

Mukuro sighed but said nothing; it was obvious that Hiei was merely there for fighting, not for any-said emotion.


"Come on Yusuke!" Keiko prodded Yusuke on across the sidewalk, intent on getting him to last an entire day at school.

"-But Keiko! Why do I need to go to school! Koenma already gave the school my stupid credits, so why should I show up!"

"-Because, that way I can keep an eye on you Yusuke Urameshi!" Keiko fumed, her cheeks tinting slightly from the rays of the hot sun, but Yusuke merely smirked while placing his hands nonchalantly behind his head.

"Yeah yeah... Whatever, it's not like they make seniors work that hard..", Yusuke muttered while allowing Keiko to shove him all the way to the front doors of school.

Keiko continued lecturing him about the importance of the last month of school, and yadda yaddah yaddah; but all Yusuke could think about was how familiar this all felt, and he liked it too. Having the most sweet girl in the world shove him off to school was something that he knew he would cherish for all his life. No matter how mad Keiko might have seemed while she was complaining about him being late and such, he knew that Keiko would always be there.

"-Yusuke, are you listening to me?" Keiko asked. She had finally stopped shoving Yusuke, and he was walking absentmindedly through the halls; like a zombie.

"huh?"

Keiko let out a sigh, "Well, I hope you remember your classes; after all you haven't been here for so long!" With that, Keiko turned on her heel and headed off to her first period, leaving Yusuke in a daze. '...what... just.. happened here?' Yusuke asked himself silently.

To think that a mere day ago he was in spirit world begging for Koenma to let him go to school! 'No.', Yusuke corrected himself, 'to let me be with Keiko..'

"Hey Urameshi! What's this, the second day of school you've been here this year?"

Yusuke turned around and glared smartly at Kuwabara's laughing face, "I'll have you know this is my fifth day of school this year!"

Kuwabara rolled his eyes and shoved past Yusuke, "Yeah? Well I bet you don't remember your first class punk!"

Yusuke rolled his eyes and muttered, ".. I'll let him get away with that today since I'm in such a good mood...", yet this still left Yusuke with a predicament; where was his first class? Yusuke slapped his head and started wandering around the halls, trying to jog his memory of his first class, but nothing was really working.

"Oh screw it.." Yusuke muttered incoherently, "I'll just skip the day, it's not like anybody'd notice.."

"On the contrary Yusuke; I am quite sure many students would notice your absence."

"Nah they wouldn't, I bet all the stupid kids were having a party since the 'big bad Urameshi kid' hasn't been showing up." Yusuke replied while staring back at Kurama.

"Yusuke, I would think wisely before upsetting Keiko further; you know how much it has pained her for you to be away this entire year." Kurama chuckled while leaning against the wall, waiting for Yusuke to answer.

Yusuke rolled his eyes and dismissed Kurama's comment, "Yeah? Well how come you're not in class right now, huh smart-guy?"

"Yusuke, I graduated last year."

"...Oh.. Yeah..." Yusuke mumbled feeling slightly stupid for not remembering that; he had missed Kurama's graduation last year, and Keiko was upset since they were all close friends with Kurama, heck she even threatened not to speak to Yusuke anymore!

Kurama straightened up and started walking past Yusuke, "Well, you'd best get to class Yusuke, you wouldn't want to be late for your fifth day of class." With that said, Kurama strode away elegantly and made a turn past the next corner; dropping a slip of paper behind him.

"Hey! Hold up a minu-" Yusuke paused as he picked up the piece of paper Kurama had dropped next to Yusuke while passing by, it read:

Rm. 301B: Mr. Sato; Math

Yusuke grinned and held the sheet with the map of the school close to him, 'heh.. Kurama's still the smart guy he used to be..'


"Keiko-kun? Keikoooooooo... Anyone there?" Mitarai snapped his fingers in front of Keiko, dazed face.

"Huh?" Keiko snapped out of her daydream and focused on the board, desperately trying to jot down some notes that she had fallen behind on.

Beside her, Mitarai chuckled at her desperate attempt; "Keiko-kun, we wrote those notes down last week! We have a free period remember?"

"Oh!" Keiko giggled with alongside with Mitarai, as she placed her pencil down and leaned back in her chair to grab her bag.

"You seem kind of out there today, what's up?" Mitarai asked in a concerned tone; not seeing the connection between her happiness and Yusuke coming back.

"Oh nothing, It's just that I need to get the final touches on the prom before Yamamoto-san tries to strangle me!"

Mitarai chuckled, just happy that Keiko was smiling now; after all, just yesterday she looked so depressed it hurt Mitarai unimaginably. Keiko was one of his truest friends, and seeing her sad made him feel responsible; after that incident with Sensui he always felt slightly ashamed of his deeds on trying to eradicate the human race.

Mitarai leaned over Keiko's shoulder and tried to steal a glance at her prom-plans, but she quickly folded it up and glared teasingly at Mitarai, "No Peaking Mitarai-kun! You'll ruin the surprise!"

"Oh fine... Hey, don't you need to meet with Yamamoto-san and Kurama about the prom-stuff?"

Keiko's eyes widened in remembrance, "Oh no!" she exclaimed while quickly shoving items into her bag and rushing out of the classroom, leaving Mitarai's papers all in a disarray. Mitarai frowned at the mess he needed to pick up now, but at the same time grinned knowing that Keiko was back to her usual mindful self.

"Kiyoshi! You didn't turn in the notes for last week! Detention!" Mitarai glanced up warily at his teacher who had just returned from his 1 hour 'coffee break'. Mitarai slapped himself mentally knowing that he had turned the notes in, but to the substitute; and usually substitutes simply tossed away papers that were turned in.

"Hai Morimoto-san." Mitarai mumbled annoyed.


Koenma paced his desk, fumbling with the figures in his head; it was obvious that Mukuro had told Yusuke about Keiko's special ability of purifying hearts, but he had never expected Yusuke to take it so personally! Koenma himself was going to tell Yusuke about Keiko's powers the same day, but since Yusuke had gotten so upset and simply left for his territory, Koenma was unable to get the information out.

"Oh great Kami... How in the world did I end up with this kind of predicament!"

Since Keiko's powers hadn't peaked, Koenma wasn't all too worried about anyone trying to 'hurt' her, but it was obvious that Mukuro must have told Yusuke something in the wrong context. 'He wasn't supposed to freak out like that!'

A chirp voice broke through Koenma's mental scolding,

"Koenma-sama?" Botan clicked the door open and stepped in, smiling happily at her employer.

Koenma sighed and glanced warily up at Botan, "Yes? What is it Botan?"

"Oh nothing really Sir, I just came to inform you on the progress of the revolts near Mukuro and Yusuke's territory!"

Koenma plopped down in his chair and folded his hands, nodding at her to start.

"Alright... Let's see here, well there have been some small break outs along the borderlines of Yusuke's territory, but nothing that his troops were unable to handle.. There was a rather large encounter near the edges of Mukuro and Hiei's Headquarters, but they were able to subdue it... Our scouts have been able to plug the flow of spirits through the portal, so now only extremely low class demons are able to escape into ningenkai; but nothing to worry! They're completely visible to the human eye, so we can rely on the military forces of the ningens.." Botan paused for a moment glancing up to see if Koenma wanted to hear anymore; it was obvious he was happy with what she had said.

"Very good Botan, sounds like everything's working out like it should!" Koenma exclaimed happily.

"Yes it is Sir! Want me to go to Ningenkai and retrieve Yusuke for him to return to his duties then?"

Koenma placed a contemplative finger on his chin but then shook his head, "No, I think Yusuke can spend a month down there don't you?"

Botan nodded happily, "Oh yes sir! I think that's quite alright, after all we don't want to mess with his graduation right?"

Botan bowed towards Koenma and then retreated out of his room and into the office of scurrying ogres...


"Yukimura! Why are you late?" The principal of the school snapped at Keiko for arriving a mere 3 minutes late for a meeting that hadn't even begun yet.

Keiko lowered her head trying to redeem herself, "Forgive me Yamamoto-san... It must have slipped my mind.."

" 'slipped your mind'! Do you know what your foolishness could have cost me!"

Keiko inwardly glared at her principal for being so vain, 'Why does everyone love Kurama so much? Enough to toss me aside as a rag doll?'

Ms. Yamamoto paced the office halls for the seventh time, continuing to glance up at her watch, and then the door, until finally there was a knock on the door. Ms. Yamamoto quickly straightened up her posture, glared at Keiko, and then smiled towards the door.

"Hai? Please come in." Ms. Yamamoto chirped out in an oddly happy tone.

The door clicked open and there stood Kurama, in all his grandeur, he nodded curtly towards Ms. Yamamoto in a sign of recognition and then smiled warmly at Keiko. Kurama closed the door behind him and walked toward the chair adjacent to Keiko, rather then the one next to Ms. Yamamoto.

"Shall we begin then Yamamoto-san?" Kurama stated in a business-like tone while clasping his hands in his lap, and eyeing the plethora of make-up strewn across her face.

Ms. Yamamoto nodded eagerly and then faced Kurama, "Shuichi, would it be alright if simply you and I go over Yukimura's plans? I'm sure you have classes this period, correct Yukimura?"

"No Yamamoto-san, I have a free-period right now." Keiko giggled inwardly at the expression on her face; it was one of utter shock and annoyance. It was more then obvious she wanted to get rid of Keiko, but Keiko felt it necessary to annoy her as much as possible without being to disrespectful.

"Oh.. I see then..." she muttered lowly while shooting a quick glare in Keiko's direction.

"Yamamoto-san, I would most appreciate it if you would still address me as a business associate. I do not appreciate the-"

"-Of course! I do not wish to displease you Minamino-sama!"

Kurama cocked an eyebrow momentarily but continued with his fluid speech, "Hai Yamamoto-san. Arigatou, now unfortunately, I have not had enough time to assess Keiko's plans, but I will make sure of it that I have time to review it tomorrow with her."

"B-But she has classes! I'm sure you and I could plan much more wisely for the prom then-"

"I'm sure Keiko has a free period again tomorrow, so you needn't worry about the interruption of her education Yamamoto-san."

"Y-yes Minamino-sama... I suppose this meeting shall conclude then. I will meet with both of you next week to check on the progress of the planning, you are free to leave Yukimura."

"Arigatou Yamamoto-san." Keiko murmured while bowing and making her way out the door just in time to hear the last bit of her conversation with Kurama.

"Minamino-sama... I was wondering if-if you could perhaps- that is if you- well could you-"

"Yamamoto-san. I appreciate your willingness to allow me to assist Keiko with the planning, but we needn't-"

"NO! I-I mean, I would most appreciate it if I were able to view your plans for the new hospital in Mushiyori-"

"Then I shall be in contact with you Yamamoto-san." With that Kurama excused himself from the room and made his way out of the school without having more then a dozen of them practically fling themselves at him.

Once outside the school, Kurama leaned against the wall and let out a sigh of relief; while unknowingly striking a model's pose. 'To enter that school again is just like it was a year ago...' Kurama though to himself as he peacefully left the premises and started to walk over to a nearby park.


"Mr. Urameshi!" Yusuke's teacher snapped while slamming a ruler down onto his desk, "I told you to pay attention! You are far more behind in class then your 'foreign credits' claim you to be!"

"Yeah yeah yeah, I think maybe you need to shut the he-"

"That's it! Detention Urameshi! Report after school to room 444C! Or can you even remember the classrooms on this campus!"

Yusuke scowled at his teacher before shoving his desk aside and glaring straight into the eyes of his teacher, "Well I don't have to see your ugly face after this month, so shove off!" with that Yusuke stalked out of the room, slammed the door and fumed his way out the hallways.

"I didn't even have to come to this stupid school, so why do I bother!" Yusuke let out another frustrated growl and had to hold himself back from punching the wall, when he remembered his old haunt up on the roof. Half smirking, Yusuke made his way up the stairs and clicked the door open to the roof.

"Ahh... This is much more like it! Screw stupid school.. I'm only here for a month more and I never have to come back here again!"

Yusuke stretched his arms out and yawned, just being in school made his body feel more tired than he did while training. Of course in training he didn't have to deal with death glares from his peers, hatred from his teachers, and all the other crap he had to deal with in school.

"Hm... I might have to be here, but that doesn't mean I have to actually pay attention in class.." Yusuke muttered while shutting his eyes and beginning to doze off.

"Yusuke! What are you doing!"

"What!"

Yusuke snapped his eyes open and prepared himself for a lecture. He shielded his eyes to see Keiko standing in front of him with her hands on her hips, the wind causing her skirt to drift upward. '...hehehe.. .I'm beginning to remember why I liked coming to school every so often-'

"Yusuke you pervert! Stop staring at my skirt!"

"Hey! Who ever said I was looking at your skirt!" Yusuke mentally punched himself for answering that kind of stupid answer.

"I know you are! What else would you be staring at!"

"For one thing your brea-"

SLAP

"You are the most perverted boyfriend I have ever-"

Yusuke recovered from the tremendous slap and brightly pointed out, " 'boyfriend'! That means you're my girlfriend and-"

"Yusuke would you give it a rest?"

"No! You said it! Not me! Yes!"

Yusuke leapt up from the ground, let out a laugh and hugged her, at first Keiko was slightly resistant to the sudden change in atmosphere, but quickly adapted and melted into his warm embrace.

"...Hey Keiko?"

"...yes?"

"Do you think you could... go to the pr-"

"Yusuke, there you are!"

Yusuke loosened his grip on Keiko and glanced up to see Kurama out of breath at the door.

"What is it?" Yusuke asked seriously, now holding Keiko with his arms tightly; his eyes were filled with determination, ready for anything Kurama could say, well just about anything...

"Koenma's been kidnapped, the old team needs to reassemble."

"What! But what about that new recruit Koenma was ranting abou-"

"-Lies. Koenma was forced into a position to try and get you back to be Spirit Detective, and the only way he presumed he could reach you was through jealousy."

"... that was low..."

"Yes, I'm sure it is Yusuke, but we truly must go, now. They left a threatening letter as well if you would like to read-"

" 'they'? All of a sudden it's they? Well, let's go then!" Yusuke hugged Keiko one more time before gently letting go and running out the door, while Keiko stood there quietly holding in tears.

Just before Kurama turned to go, Kurama hugged Keiko sincerely, "Keiko, you must get to somewhere safe.. I fear your life as well as many others may be in danger right now.."

"H-Hai Kurama-kun.."

Kurama let go of her and raced after Yusuke, making sure to leave the door open for Keiko to use on her way off of the roof. Keiko walked to the edge of the roof just in time to see Yusuke and Kurama meet with Kuwabara at the bottom of the school. They spoke for a moment and then dashed off out of sight, leaving Keiko all alone..

On the sidelines..

As always...