Chapter 5: First Day of School: Part 2
The next class was chemistry, and Yusuke, Keiko, Kurt, Kitty, Evan, and Kurama had the class together. It seems that the freshmen, sophomore, and junior classes had this class together for some reason. Keiko had decided to sit next to Kitty, Kurama was sitting with Yusuke, and Evan was sitting with another student. This was also, Hank McCoy's former class.
"So, who's the teacher here?" Keiko asked Kitty.
"Well, there have been a string of substitutes ever since Hank's…uh…accidental transformation…" Kitty replied, and then looked over to the desk, "He was a really good teacher too."
"I heard there was a new teacher coming in soon," Evan told his friends, "Just hope he isn't too stingy."
The students continued to chat, and then Principal Kelly walked in followed by a man, probably in his thirties, he had brown hair, had glasses, orange shirt and a green tie, and business pants. Yusuke tried to hide a snicker, because this guy looked like a total dork!
"This is your new teacher, he was a former physicist for the government, you probably heard of him. His name is Dr. Robert Bruce Banner," Principal Kelly explained, "Please, show him the up most respect, and try to learn something."
Principal Kelly walked out the door, leaving Mr. Banner with his new class. The new teacher put his books down, and pushed his glasses up.
"Hello, class, my name is Robert Bruce Banner, but you can leave out the Robert part if you will," Mr. Banner began, making the class chuckle, "I heard you had a pretty good teacher here before, Henry McCoy, I read some of his papers back at the lab I used to work at. I hope I can be as good of a teacher as him."
Bruce went to his desk, and took out the attendance list, "Well, it looks like I'm not the only new person here today, will you three introduce yourselves please?"
"Yusuke Urameshi, number one punk of Sarayashiki Junior High," Yusuke announced, and the whole class laughed.
""My name is Keiko Yukimura, nice to meet you all," Keiko got out of her seat, and bowed in respect to Mr. Banner.
"Thank you, Miss Yukimura, but you don't need to bow," Mr. Banner said respectively, "Now please, take your seat."
"My name is Shuichi Minamino, Mr. Banner," Kurama informed the new teacher.
"Thank you, Shuichi, now please everyone, let's get started," Mr. Banner then passed a chemistry book to all three of his new students, "Turn to chapter 3, and review the table of elements. Then, take the rest of the class to do other work from other classes, or you can listen to music."
"Hey, I think I like this guy," Yusuke whispered to Kurama, after he put his name into the text book, "He's definitely better then the teachers back at home."
"Indeed," Kurama said, "Even at my old school, there were bad teachers, more concerned with test scores and the school's reputation more than the students."
"Tell me about it," Yusuke added, "Iwamoto always got on my case, even when I did nothing wrong. He even sunk so low to steal a kid's expensive pen then try to frame me for doing the theft."
"Like, sounds like a teacher I wouldn't like to have," Kitty whispered, and Yusuke nodded.
"Hope he's on the streets now, since he and his buddy Akashi were fired the yesterday," Yusuke then snickered, "Ha, they deserved it. They mocked me at my wake!"
"Okay, Yusuke, let's just finish this section and we can talk some more," Kurama told Yusuke, who sighed and just continued reading his book.
The school day was almost over, and when the period bell rang, Yusuke met with Kuwabara and they started walking down the hall to their next class. Kuwabara had to pick up something at his locker, and Yusuke tagged along with him. Before they left the four guys that were with Tabitha during lunch appeared behind them.
"So, you guys are the new X-Geeks, huh?" the big one, Fred Dukes grinned while cracking his knuckles.
"Yeah, so what?" Yusuke retorted, since he was not intimidated by Fred's size, "Just move out of our way, wide load."
"Tabitha said you guys have some pretty cool powers; want to test them against us?" the one with brown hair, Lance Alvers asked with a smart look on his face.
"Anytime," Yusuke replied, then the smell from the one crouching hit him, "Whoa…gross…do you ever wash man? I've smelt demons that lived in the sewers better than you!"
"Yeah, so what? I don't bathe, yo," the grungy one, Todd Tolansky replied, "I did take a shower yesterday, and I only do that once a month."
"I…suggest…you…should…shower…more…" Kuwabara said between coughs, "You stink!"
"Well, you get used to it," the white haired one, Pietro Maximoff, told Kuwabara and Yusuke, who were still cringing, and then he ran over to their backsides at super speed, "But, if you do beat them up, you won't be able to touch me…"
"I'm not so sure about that, because you're not nearly as fast as Hiei," Yusuke said ominously, and he followed Pietro's movements easily, "I could follow you."
"Yeah, you want to bet on that?" Pietro started, then the bell rang, "Urameshi was it, we'll settle this after school."
"Sure, whatever," Yusuke said, not caring, and he and Kuwabara walked off to their last class.
Kurama was walking with Rogue, and Scott, since they all had class together. It was English III, and the new book that they were starting was Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Kurama smirked, his favorite titles were written by the great Shakespeare.
"Now, you will all be excited to know, we have a new student in the class," the teacher told them, "His name is Shuichi Minamino, and he comes from Sarayashiki Senior High in Tokyo Japan. I hope you will enjoy my class."
"Sure hope I will," Kurama bowed in respect, and the teacher did the same, "He seems to respect his students."
"Yeah, he's the best here now, since Hank…uh…left…" Rogue whispered to him, "Mr. Michael's does the school plays…ah was paired with Scott before…"
"Sounds like you had fun," Kurama joked quietly, and she shed a small smile.
"Well, it was before she joined our side," Scott interjected, "Even though we had fun, she still regarded us, and me, as an enemy."
"You weren't always on the same side?" Kurama asked, getting confused.
"Well, Mystique tricked meh," Rogue started, "She's a shape shifter, and took tha forms of tha X-Men, and attacked meh. She deceived meh into believin' they were my enemies, but, during a field trip she tried to kill both meh and Scott, and Ah had to drive her off. After that, I joined the X-Men at tha Institute."
"What happened to her? Where is she now?" Kurama asked, starting to want to learn more about his new friends.
"Did the Professor, Hank, or the others tell you about Asteroid M?" Scott replied, and he nodded.
"I only know that Asteroid M was created by Magneto, and had a facility in it using special crystals to enhance mutant abilities," Kurama told him, and Scott gave a sigh of relief.
"Well, while we were fleeing from M, Magneto had locked Mystique in the enhancing chamber, and to save the world from extinction, my brother, Alex, used both our enhanced powers to completely destroy the asteroid," Scott continued, "We think that she died in the explosion of the asteroid. But, Mystique is, or was crafty, she could've escaped."
"Hopefully she has," Kurama said, and his fox senses started acting up, "Some one approaches…"
"Hey Rogue, how's it doing?" the person, Risty Wilde, who was best friends with Rogue, "Who's tha new guy?"
"Uh, his name's Shuichi, just arrived last night at tha Institute," Rogue told her friend, "There were two otha guys as well, and one gal. They're freshmen, and come from Sarayah…iki…Junior High in Japan, and Shuichi comes from the senior high in Japan."
"Cool," Risty interjected, then faced Kurama, "Hello love, my name's Risty."
"Nice to meet you…" Kurama said cautiously, and he shook Risty's hand, waiting for his spirit and fox senses to go off, which they did, but it was only when the extremely smelly kid from lunch hopped in, 'Guess he's been setting me off…'
"Where's tha teacher, yo?" the smelly toad like Todd Tolansky asked, carrying some papers, "Mrs. Kari needs him to sign some papers for him yo."
"Mr. Tolansky, I'm over here, now bring the papers over here and please return to class."
Todd walked over, and dropped the sheets of paper, and hopped out of the room like a frog.
The class passed on slowly, but Kurama didn't seem to notice. He thought that Yusuke and Kuwabara were sure noticing, since they hated school. Flipping the page in his book, he took a glance at Rogue for a second, and then went back to his reading. He couldn't place it, but there was…a connection…of some sorts between them. It was the same type of connection that Scott felt whenever Jean was around, and it was worrying him.
At 2:30 PM, the last bell rang, signaling that school was done for the day. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Keiko met Kurama, Scott, and Rogue in the parking lot. Kurt, Kitty, and Evan came walking up to them a few minutes later.
"So, Yusuke, Kuwabara, how was your first day at Bayville High?" Keiko asked, as she looked over to them.
"Fine, I guess. Sure is a hell of a lot better than Sarayashiki, teachers actually want to help you learn something," Yusuke replied, "Hey, Scott, where's Jean?"
"Soccer practice just going to wait here if she wants a ride. Duncan probably won't do it, probably hanging out with his friends," Scott shrugged, and then he started walking to the field, "I'm going to watch her…hey, she needs someone to support her."
As Scott walked off, both Yusuke and Kuwabara nodded. They saw Duncan and his friends were following Scott, and went to help out their new friend. Yusuke told the others to go, since they wanted to see Jean practice.
Jean was too busy practicing with her teammates to notice who was watching her. From a nearby tree, Yusuke and Kuwabara watched her, Scott, and Duncan and his friends. Scott hadn't noticed Duncan, and Yusuke didn't like the look on the jock's face. Duncan and his friends chuckled, and one was cracking his knuckles. Scott had got up, and was walking back to the school because he forgotten something, and Duncan and his friends slowly took chase, not to draw suspicion from the coaches.
"Looks like the low-lives are going to make their move," Kuwabara said to Yusuke.
"Yeah…let's go," Yusuke and Kuwabara both leapt off the branches of the tree with ease, and began tailing Duncan and his friends.
When Scott walked out of the school, he was carrying a book. Then, out of nowhere, a punch made contact with his face sending him crashing to the ground. He then looked up to see the grinning face of Duncan Matthews.
"Say Summers, we have a little score to settle," Duncan grinned, as his friends picked Scott up, and put him in a head lock, "Now, let's see how you look without your fancy glasses."
Scott grimaced as Duncan pulled his ruby quartz sun-glasses off, "Matthews, give those back!"
"Hey, maybe Jean will like me even more with shades like these," Duncan grinned, "They're too good for you, Summers."
Duncan then uppercutted Scott in the solar plexus, making the vision impaired mutant cough up some blood. The football star smirked, and then threw a hook punch aimed at Scott's face.
"Come on, Summers, this can't be all you are!" Duncan sneered, and then picked up Scott by his chin, "She is always talking about you, and I am tired of it. I can see why that airhead would like you, but let me see those eyes. I like the sorry assed guys to look at me when I am beating on them."
The airhead comment about Jean struck a nerve, but Summers refused to open his eyes, "Just get a life, Duncan, and leave me alone."
"But that would be no fun, hey, why don't my friends join in on your beating?" Duncan nodded, but before he and his other friends who weren't holding Scott could, he saw two people standing behind them, "Looks like we have an audience."
"I don't like it when my friends are jumped," the one with slick backed black hair, Yusuke Urameshi commented.
"You call yourselves men? Ambushes are for the weak and cowardly," the tall one with orange hair, Kazuma Kuwabara added.
"So, I guess you two want some too?" Duncan smirked, "Deal with them; I'm not done with Summers."
Duncan's cronies then charged Yusuke and Kuwabara head on. They easily avoided the charge by moving out of the way and slamming their fists into the jocks' stomachs. They were one hit knockouts, and more of Duncan's friends went to attack Yusuke and Kuwabara. Blocking a punch, Yusuke knocked out one with a back fist. Kuwabara stepped back, and knocked two of their heads together. In a matter of minutes, Duncan's friends, except the ones holding Scott were bloodied and knocked out.
"You think you could beat us? We've been street fighting ever since we could walk," Kuwabara announced, still cracking his knuckles.
"Now, are you going to leave Scott alone and give him back his glasses, or do I have to beat your face in?" Yusuke asked sternly, and he began to walk to the captain of the football team.
"Hell no! Like a freshman like you could beat me!" Duncan then threw Scott's glasses to one of his friends, "Keep these safe, I'm going to mess this punk up."
Yusuke didn't even take a guard as Duncan charged him. The jock threw out a reverse punch, and the spirit detective caught his fist. Duncan grimaced as Yusuke began to squeeze, and the jock reached into his pocket.
"I admit, you're good," Duncan commented, and he stepped back, and took out a switchblade, "But not good enough, kid."
"Weapons on school grounds, guess this is more like home than I thought," Yusuke retorted, dodging the swift jabs from the switchblade, "Guess you never learned how to knife fight."
"What?" Duncan asked as Yusuke's fist plowed into his eye, "Agh!"
Duncan fell to the ground, and his eye swelled up immediately. He rubbed it, and went to grab the knife. Yusuke stomped on it, and broke the blade.
"You could poke an eye out, you know," Yusuke joked, and Kuwabara went to deal with the guys holding Scott.
"Hey, Scott, want some help?" Kuwabara asked as Scott smirked.
"No thanks, I can deal with these guys," Scott replied, as he threw out his elbows into the two jocks' ribs, making them let go of him and fall to the ground. Scott then bent down and took his glasses out of the jock's hand, "I think these belong to me."
Principal Kelly then walked out of the front door, and was shocked at what he saw, "Mr. Summers, Mr. Urameshi, Mr. Kuwabara, what happened here?"
"Th-they attacked me…" Duncan started, "Me and my f-friends were doing nothing…"
"I didn't address you, Mr. Matthews," Principal Kelly said sternly, "Now, what happened here?"
"Scott went back to the school to get a book while Jean was practicing," Yusuke began, "Kuwabara and I noticed Duncan and his gang here start to follow him, and we wanted to see what was up."
"Continue," Principal Kelly told Yusuke.
"Well, we saw that Duncan and his gang here had ambushed and ganged up on Scott, and Duncan was beating the crap out of him," Kuwabara continued, "My gang at home would never do that by the way, we had honor, and promises between men."
"Okay," Principal Kelly then walked over to Yusuke, who had his foot over a knife, "Whose is this?"
"T-Theirs Mr. Kelly!" Duncan pointed, trying not to have more of the blame on him.
"Is that so?" Principal Kelly asked suspiciously, then he looked at the two initials on the hilt, "Then why is your name on it?"
"Uh…"
"Mr. Matthews, you and your gang report first thing in the morning to my office for punishment, and you will have a few days dealing with police for this," Principal Kelly told the jock sternly, "Your coach will know that he needs a new captain by the way."
Duncan and his gang stripped of their team jackets by Principal Kelly, who then turned to Yusuke and Kuwabara, "Now, although I don't approve of your methods at stopping them, I won't be punishing you. Like I said, if you didn't start the fight, you won't get penalized. Now, Jean's practice is almost over, you can go over to pick her up now, Mr. Summers."
"Thank you, Mr. Kelly," Scott said gratefully, and he, Yusuke, and Kuwabara walked back to the field.
Jean was sitting on the bench and was drinking water when she noticed Scott, Yusuke, and Kuwabara. She was a little tired from a hard day of practice, and wondered where Duncan was, since he usually gave her an ride back to the Institute.
"Hey…guys, how are-Scott, what happened?" Jean asked as she went up to her friend.
"He was ambushed," Yusuke told her, "By Duncan and his gang. If it wasn't for us, he would be much worse off."
"Duncan ambushed you? Why?" Jean asked, and then she read her friend's mind, "No…I…couldn't see who he really was…"
"If I didn't know better, Duncan looked like he was going to kill Scott today," Kuwabara told her, "He had a switchblade which he tried to use against Yusuke."
"He didn't know how to knife fight, but to a guy who couldn't fight back, it would have been enough to seriously injure Scott or even worse," Yusuke told her, and Jean looked over to him.
"He had no honor. He wasn't a man," Kuwabara told her, "Real men to attack with overwhelming numbers like cowards. They fight one on one, no matter what."
Jean then gulped, and looked over to the school, where there were sirens. None of the boys that Duncan had brought along with him were seriously hurt by Yusuke and Kuwabara, and were being escorted into the cop cars.
"He called you an airhead, and it looked like he only wanted you for your body, Jean," Scott said to her, and she softly cried into his shoulder, "Let's…go home."
They all got into Scott's car, and drove off for the Institute. It was a big day for all of them.