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Deep, green eyes roamed randomly through the classroom.
So this is Tokyo, huh? So far, he'd seen nothing new or unusual apart from here and Hokkaido…
Except that this school is way too big, they can't count and that they need to get some flowers on the school premises. So far, he'd only saw one flower - and it was a fake, plastic one.
Sighing, he gazed down at his schedule for the day, knowing that there were a group of girls in the far corner looking and staring at him.
After this class he goes to a health service class, than English, followed by Japanese literacy, lunch, science, history, P.E, and math.
Some schedule.
There must be something about this school that's special. Why else would he left Hokkaido just for…well, this!
Well, his mind though idly, there is her.
His mind wanted him to turn around and take a look at her but his body said otherwise. But from where he sat, which was directly in front of her, he was still able to hear the conversation she was having with three other boys. Aren't we the popular one, ne?
"What?" the black haired one chuckled humorously. "Love notes in your locker already?"
Botan seemed to had smack him in the head. "Oh, shut up, Kuronue." she replied indignantly. "You know that I don't go that way!"
"Yeah, but THEY don't know that obliviously…"
Yomi nodded, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder lightly. "We're here for you, B. Just say the word - we'll handle everything."
"Oh, no, not you," Touya countered, quickly swiping Yomi's hand off of Botan's shoulder nonchalantly. Yomi frowned but remained quiet. "Remember what happened in 7th grade? Thanks to you, the three us got suspended for 2 weeks. Leave it to you to bring a homemade bomb to school."
"For the last time it wasn't my fault!" Yomi hissed, looking away at Touya indignantly. He folded his arms over his chest, rolling his eyes. "That guy, Hiro, was looking at B with that sick look in his eyes. I'm a man - I know that look!"
"Too much information!" Botan sighed tiredly. "Why can't the two of you behave yourselves like Jin-kun, Shishi-kun and Kuronue-kun?"
Kuronue's dark, purple eyes sparkled lovingly as spontaneously reached over and hugged Botan like a little child. "Oh, B! You're so kind!"
"Okay, okay, she's kind," Yomi hissed again, turning to eye evilly at the mischievous, black haired boy, "now you let her go, baka."
Kuronue pouted but nevertheless released his hold on her, muttering something that surprisingly followed the lines of "spoiled-sport."
Botan groaned. "I need to get more female friends."
"Why?" Kuronue chirped happily. "the 6 musketeers are fine the way we are. Hell, we are strong enough to outsmart that stupid prince of the freaking dea--"
"Kuronue! Watch you mouth!"
"Oops. Sorry, Touya-kun!"
A short pause.
Botan cleared her throat. "It's not nice to eavesdrop like this, Minamino-san."
Unexpectedly at her statement, he turned around quickly, waving his hands in front of him, slightly irked. "Iie, no, I'm not, really. I was just viewing my schedule is all and I--"
She smiled. "It's okay, really."
He sighed as he flashed her a smile. "Arigatou…Botan-san, ne?"
She nodded happily. "Aa! And this --" she motioned to a boy with cool, green hair, "is Touya. The one with the long black hair is Kuronue and the one sitting next to him is Yomi."
He smiled all at them politely. "Nice to meet you all."
The three boys all nodded back at him. Kuronue stared back at him interestedly. "So you are a student from Hokkai-"
"Sakuito Botan, is that you!" a deep, masculine voice interfered out of nowhere. All 5 students all looked up to become face-to-face with yet another boy. He was tall, with long, black hair, almost as long as Kuronue or maybe even longer that nearly reached the end of his back. His skin was pale and his body was thin, giving him a mysterious, chilling look.
Botan smiled unevenly, nodding slowly. "Hai. Its nice to see you Karasu-san. How have you been doing?"
"Good, good," came the solemn reply as he gazed around the group of boys that were surrounding the girl. Touya was eyeing him warily, along with Kuronue. Yomi gazed back mutually at him. Of course, he knew all of them; they all attended the same junior high together though they were just merely acquaintances. Botan has been his friend, however, for the past 2 years after he's transfer to Tokyo from American.
His eyes rolled over the new face. Nonchalantly, he pointed at Shuuichi. "Who's this, Bot-chan? Your new boyfriend?"
Shuuichi was about to oppose when he heard Botan's voice, which was surprisingly calm and smooth.
"Iie, Karsau-san. This is Minamino Shuuichi, he just transfer here from Hokkaido. Shuuichi, this is Manatsu Karasu. He's from American who transfer here a few years ago."
Shuuichi gazed at him, nodded politely. "Nice to meet you."
"I like your hair."
He looked slightly taken back. "Pardon?"
"Your hair," Karasu repeated. "I like it."
"Oh…thank you."
Kuronue reached over and tapped the new boy on his back. The nervous red hair looked back as Kuronue leaned in to whisper in his ear. "Don't mind Karasu, he has some kind of a hair-fetish thing going on. I think that's one of the reasons why he's so attracted to B in the first place. Don't take it personally, he's not gay…at least none of us think so. Never been proven."
Shuuichi turned back to look at Karasu where he saw that him and Botan were chatting idly.
"You have been taking care of yourself, ne? And look at yourself! You're so thin now. You haven't been on a crash diet or something stupid, ne?"
"Of course, Botan-chan. Don't worry about it. I am eligible to take care of myself."
"I see," Botan replied. "How's Moki-neko? Haven't see him in a while, that silly cat."
"Fine, fine, but I think that he missed your presence. He keeps on looking at your picture in my bedroom, the poor thing."
"You have a picture of Botan in your room?" Yomi and Touya chided in unison. Karasu smiled brightly.
"So what if I do? There's no rule about me not being able to. And besides, Moki-neko will be out to pounce me if I ever remove it." He turned back to Botan. "Really, you should see the poor thing."
Botan giggled. "Maybe I'll come visit one day."
(A/N - in case you don't know, "neko" means "cat," so basically Moki-neko is a cat name "Moki.")
Smirking, the crow-resembling boy leaned down against her ear. "And I'll be waiting," he whispered, giving her a light peck on the cheek.
"Hey, don't touch her!" Touya hissed, throwing a book at him. Expertly, Karasu dodged, waving goodbye to Botan as he inched away. Angry, stretch marks appeared on Touya's, Kuronue, and Yomi's head.
Shuuichi covered his mouth in attempt to stop him from laughing. "Let me guess," he started to Yomi, "he's not your best friend?"
Yomi sighed. "Nope…oh, yeah! Minamino-san, I know that thisis none of my business and that your name should be self-explanatory but I need to make sure…"
"Yes?"
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
Karasu smirked back as his eyes grazed over the group of five students in the back, chatting randomly to each other. His eyes fell upon the one called "Shuuichi."
He grin lecherously.
'That boy…has such a delicious aura…' He though absentmindedly. 'And he has such beautiful hair to boot! …perfect…! Maybe I'll have a little…talk with him after school?'
He though absentmindedly. 'Reaching back into his back pocket, he pulled out a small package, about the size of a apple that was wrapped in a linen clothe. 'No…I want to talk to him now.'
The pale boy gently threw the package into the floor and watched as it released various smoke. Smirking, he inched away from the scene as another student cried out:
"Fire!"
As every student started to run out of the classroom, Karasu stayed hidden in the corner, waiting for his prey. 'One…two…three…four…' Right before he was able to run out of the room, he grabbed his arm, his long fingers creasing the sleeve of it's uniform.
"Excuse me, Shuuichi-kun, may I have a word with you?"
"My, my, aren't we lucky that they'd decided to cancel school, don't you know?" Jin smiled widely as six teens entered a sparsely decorated, bared, empty apartment. The apartment was very small, that consist of three rooms: a bedroom, a bathroom and a overall larger room that made up the living room, kitchen, dinning room, etc with two small windows. The floors had no carpet, there were hardly any furniture or pictures on the wall. Your basic empty box.
"My, My, Botan-chan, you keep a very…clean room."
The young girl sighed as she entered her room, setting her bag in a corner and sat on the small makeshift that made up her bed. "Nah, just don't own many things is more like it." She reached over and grabbed an extra chemical book on the floor that she'd…required last year. Or stole, whichever way you look at it.
Her room was actually very interesting. Though all she had was a matrix that made up her bed and a small desk. Little stolen trinkets were everywhere, random jewelry and the occasional sword or dagger placed randomly on the floor with a few chest and gold pieces around in the corner or tucked away under her bed.
Like I said, her room was very interesting.
Shishiwakamaru, Jin, Kuronue, Touya and Yomi all slaughtered in, taking random places on the floor, except for Jin who took the book next to the bluette. The jolly red-haired smiled, reaching into his pocket, retrieving a strait-blade dagger.
"Are the plans still up for next week, Botan-chan?"
Looking up from her Chemistry book, her amethyst eyes sparkled happily. "Hai, of course."
Yomi chuckled as Kuronue tossed his pendant necklace into the air and caught it with the tips of his fingers. Meanwhile, Touya and Shishiwakamaru were all polishing various swords and staffs that they'd gotten from the floor.
Smirking at his work, Touya lifted the hilt of a small knife between his fingers. Smirking when he noticed that Botan's back was towards him, he lashed it out towards her neck -
and in a slit second she caught the steel in between her bare fingers.
"Nice try, Touya," she muttered, still reading her book as she placed the small knife down on the bed besides her. "But you got to do better than that."
Shishiwakamaru burst out laughing, placing his sword aside. "Next week, Reikai won't know want hit them!"
Botan's forehead knitted a bit in thought. "What about those new detectives rumors that's going around? Don't we have to prepare for them? Heard that they're tough this time…oi, how troublesome…"
Jin shook his head, grinning jolly-fully as he placed a hand on her back, leaning over to see what she was reading. "Rumors are rumors, the truths are the truths. If there really are some great spirit team working for that brat Koenma, he'll have to deal with the 6 of us."
Botan nodded. "But remember our true purpose for this guys," she murmured softly. Everyone nodded. "We can't forget our true purpose. After all…" Suddenly, she smiled, winking. "revenge is everything…"
Yomi scoff as he removed a rather large gold piece that was wedge in his sides and tossed it aside. "Damn…you would think that you would buy another apartment with all the stolen loot you have…this place is pitiful."
"I was wondering about that, too, B…" Touya sighed. "Maybe it's time you left this place and get a new house. You have thousands of gold and jewels to pay it off. Speaking of which…where the heck do you freaking put it all!"
She winked. "My secret. And besides, I like living here."
Touya sighed. "Suit yourself, but of it was up to me, I wouldn't want to live in a house where my whole family was slaughtered in…" he muttered back as he got up. "I have to run a few errands now. I'll be back tonight then to check up on you."
Before he left, he turned to her and bowed gracefully. "I bid an adieu, madam phantom thief, until we meet again."
Botan laughed. "Very funny - but who knows…" her eyes twinkled mischievously. ""…maybe I'm even better than the legendary demon thief - Youko Kurama…"
Jin chuckled, wrapping an arm around her and pressing his cheek to hers'.
"Come on, Bot-chan. Youko Kurama is just a legend. There's no way that a mere myth can match up to you. You probably are the best phantom thief in Ningenkai! Hell, you're probably the only phantom thief in Ningenkai!"
Botan laughed. "Yeah, sure…"
Arg...yes, I know, that was a pointless chapter but i PROMISE the next chapter will have more drama, romance, action and will be much more...interesting. Actually, looking back on this, I wondered what possessed me to put Karasu-kun in here...:shrugs: oh well!
Next chapter: In gym class, Botan manages to accidentally knock Shuuichi-kun unconscious! Now what happens when the female student body is breathing fire downher back?And why is Karasu acting so...friendly?
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