Survival Class 101
Disclaimer: If you're still reading this, you've got a problem. Why do you think I'm here writing fictional stories, hm? Anyways, I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
I know, I know, I said I would be updating once a week. But I'm currently suffering/recovering from sunburns and exhaustion of standing for a whole four hours under the sun on the Liberation Day Parade. Feh, and my mom had to drag me there... Next update will be faster though, I think. I'll work on it after I post this chapter up. R & R! (--Blahs--) = my annoying talking in the story.
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Chapter 4 – Getting acquainted with the future "in-laws"
Shooting cold glares to whoever that seemed to be staring at his strange way of clothing was something Hiei has been doing ever since he set a step on the ningen place. Botan was trying to keep her profile as low as possible and also Hiei's. But the fire demon was not following her lead at all as they were agreed on before. He walked through the crowds with head high and up, as if gracing all the pitiful souls with his holy presence. The blue-head shook her head and looked at Hiei in the corner of her eye while avoiding the embarrassing looks from the people. She couldn't help but admitting the demon should get something new to wear, something... let's say... more colorful. The "all-black state of fashion" made him look like he was attending a funeral, not to mention his complexion too. (The only question is, whose funeral will it be?)
"Hello, Kuwabara, Yukina! I had absolutely no idea that I would see you two here." Botan gave her greetings and a fake smile when the sight of the colors orange and aqua came into view.
"Hi, Botan!" Yukina was the first one to notice.
Tilting his head up, Kuwabara stopped from chewing on his food when he discovered who was also standing beside the ferry girl, "And... shrimpy??! What the heck are you doing here?!" (Haha, shrimpy...)
A small growl was heard from the short fire demon as he reaches for his sword. Botan noticed Hiei's move and stepped on his foot purposefully. Hiei yelped silently and glared daggers at her in return. Botan immediately moved away from him a little bit and faced Kuwabara's surprising expression, "Oh, I was going for something to eat. And I met Hiei on the way, so we decided to come here since he's hungry too... heh, I guess. But we can't see to find any empty seats here."
Kuwabara was not listening, but only locked up in a glaring competition with the short demon.
"Botan, you can sit with us if you want to." Yukina offered in a delightful tone.
"Thanks, Yukina, you're such a sweetie."
"What?! There's no way I'm letting Hiei sit here! There's a lot of empty seats right over there!" Kuwabara exclaimed after hearing the news.
"Aah, Kuwa-chan, that's the smoking area; Hiei doesn't smoke. And you have to know secondhand smoke is not good for your health either." Botan had already placed herself next to the delicate ice apparition, leaving Hiei no choice but to sit next to Kuwabara. Hiei scowled at Botan. The blue- haired girl just pretended to not see his killer look.
"What's wrong, Hiei? Why don't you sit? There's plenty of room here."
Glancing over Yukina as she spoke, Hiei reluctantly sat near the very edge beside the carrot-top. He quietly mumbled something about "baka ningen... ferry girl... make them pay..." Kuwabara was quite oblivious to Hiei's muttering, while Botan, sitting the opposite of Hiei across the table, let out an anxious squeak and quickly hid herself behind a menu.
"Um, let's see what do they have on here..."
"Botan, you should try this refreshment Kazuma got for me. It tastes like snow, only sweeter, and it melts in your mouth too. It's delicious." Yukina said as she took a spoonful of her sundae. The look on her face was out of sheer joy. Hiei somehow found it to his liking to see his sister like this.
"Sundae does sound good to me, even if it's only almost the middle of February out there. What about you, Hiei? Would you like one too?"
"Hn, no."
By listening to Yukina's detailed description on the fare, Hiei was also interested in trying one. But he restrained the urge, because he was still thinking on how to take revenge on Kuwabara for 'stimulating' Yukina's feelings to make her feel attracted to the ugly fool.
"Suit yourself then... Excuse me, Miss, can I get a strawberry sundae here?" Botan waved to the waitress.
"Sure thing, hon."
As they waited, Kuwabara was staring outside the window, seemed very grumpy due to the fact that he couldn't have some alone time with Yukina. Hiei closed his eyes, still engaged with his 'evil' thoughts. Yukina was complimenting to Botan on the restaurant's design...
"Here is your strawberry sundae, enjoy."
The waitress came back after several minutes and set the order on the table. Botan was more than happy to see her dessert to finally arrive. When she was about to dig in with her spoon, the cup suddenly lifted itself up and flew right toward Kuwabara. Botan shrieked as the carrot-top turned in time just to find scoops of strawberry sundae dumped all on his shirt.
"Eek, this is a new shirt-OW!" Standing up abruptly, Kuwabara's forehead hit the lamp that's been hanging down from the ceiling.
"Kazuma, are you alright?" Yukina leaned over worriedly.
"I s-see stars... I'll be fine, babe. Be right back..." Kuwabara dizzily answered and crawled out of his seat and ran for the restroom to save his shirt.
While Yukina was busying looking at the direction of the restroom concerned, Botan retrieved back the empty cup from the other side of table. She examined it carefully, and then eyed Hiei skeptically. The fire demon was staring at some invisible object innocently.
'Could it be that the cup accidentally slipped from my hand?' Botan thought with doubt, eyes never left off of Hiei.
After a short while, the great Kuwabara has finally returned with a large stain on the chest area of his shirt, and also a huge bump on his head. Grumbling something, he sat back down with a small frown while Botan was still mourning over the loss of one of her favorite pastime snacks. Yukina then made sure Kuwabara was fine and eventually looked relieved. And just as the unlucky carrot-top reached down to his plate and picked up his food...
"YUCK! Eewww, what is this stuff?!"
Again everybody's attention was drawn to the carrot-top at the table. He started spitting, trying to get out whatever that was in his mouth.
"Kuwabara, you're spitting on me! What's gotten into you now?" Botan wiped some saliva off her face with her sleeve, feeling sickened.
"Sorry, Botan! It's just that my fries is tasting weird."
"Hm?" Both Botan and Yukina bent over to see what's in Kuwabara's plate. There was this blackish, dry, most unappetizing mass of 'thing' they'd ever seen.
"Kuwabara, are you sure you ordered the right thing?"
"Yeah! It wasn't like this when I first got them. Now, it looks all burned up... Do you think this restaurant is haunted?!"
"You fool, maybe that's why it is called 'fries'." The quiet Hiei now decided to speak up.
"But, it's- I-grr..." Kuwabara was a little upset that he couldn't think of any comebacks at Hiei. Rather than arguing with the demon, he crossed his arms and sat in displeasing gag until his brain just clicked as he turned back to the now smirking Hiei.
"Shorty! It was you! Wasn't it?! First you spilled sundae on me, causing me to get a concussion when I stood up; then you tried to poison my food, making me to have indigestion. You tried to kill me, didn't you?!" Hearing a smirk from Hiei, the orange head grabbed short fire demon by his collar and shook him roughly.
"Wow, I'm shocked to see you're still alive and as irksome as ever, after all those murdering attempts you accused me of putting you through."
"You runt! Stop acting like you didn't do this! I'm gonna-"
"Kazuma, please stop. Botan and I were here the whole time. We didn't see Hiei does anything wrong." Yukina extended out her hand on Kuwabara's arm, indicating him to end his dispute with the fire demon.
"Of course, Yukina. Whatever you say!"
Kuwabara let go of Hiei immediately and grinned at Yukina. Hiei threw a disgust glare at him and went back staring at intangible objects again. Botan was just more confused. She was beginning to think that Hiei was most likely the 'wicked' mastermind behind all the bad happenings to Kuwabara.
"Pssst, Hiei!" Whispering to the fire demon, Botan wanted to get a hold of his attention unknown to her other two companions. But Hiei didn't seem to hear, so she tried again, louder than the last time, "Psssssst! Hiei!"
Hiei was still in the trance of self-isolationism as Botan became more and more hopeless. Secretly, she kicked Hiei lightly on the shin under the table. It was no use. Then she began to kick him repeatedly on the same spot, harder than every previous ones. By the eleventh time, when Botan was starting to think if she had probably laid some serious bruises on his leg, Hiei snarled:
"WHAT?!"
Yukina and Kuwbara watched strangely as Botan gave a "Heh, heh, I need to have a word with Hiei for a moment in private." She said and dragged a very infuriated Hiei away to a corner.
"What do you want?!" Hiei fumed while stealing some glances at Kuwabara who was now looking festive that the obnoxious fire demon was gone, and started a pleasant conversation with Yukina at the table.
"You know, Hiei, you really should get a hint. I was trying to talk to you, and you didn't even hear me. So I had to use some desperate measures. You're even denser than I thought." Said Botan, seriously testing Hiei's tolerance.
"Get a hint?! Hn, maybe you should do that. Baka, did it ever come across your mind that perhaps I was ignoring you on purpose?! You're lucky that I don't usually hit females, but then again I've never considered you one but a lousy blabbermouth!!"
Fists clenched in tight balls, Hiei looked as if he was barely on the tip of wanting to torture someone so badly. (Run! Botan! O.o)
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Survival Class 101 Tutorials – Today's Lesson:
Never trust someone you don't very well know with. (Cough, Hiei, cough) Sometimes, even your best friend betrays you. Okay, so never trust anybody completely!! Regard people with some determination and be on your guard at all times.
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A/N:
Okies, fans, above is some advices on how to survive in this CRUCIAL world with danger lurking everywhere. It was something I should have wrote ever since the first chapter. (Why do you think this story is called 'Survival CLASS 101' anyway?) I guess it kinda slipped my mind. From now on, there will be one every chapter, I think...
Oh, before I forget again, I have a note for my dear reviewer "sailor- z-360" if you're still reading this:
Romance, extremely descriptive kissing?! My, aren't you just in a bit of rush. This is only the fourth chapter of the story. There will be romance, of course. But the kissing part probably won't happen until the last chappie. Besides, what can you expect from a rated PG story, hm? Man, you crack me up! Thanks for the review, peace out!
I feel beloved! Ahem, I mean- I had no idea you people think this story was good. (I thought I'd hardly get more than 20 reviews.) Oh, you've made me so happy! (Crying tears of joy) ARIGATOU GOZAI MASU!
Disclaimer: If you're still reading this, you've got a problem. Why do you think I'm here writing fictional stories, hm? Anyways, I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
I know, I know, I said I would be updating once a week. But I'm currently suffering/recovering from sunburns and exhaustion of standing for a whole four hours under the sun on the Liberation Day Parade. Feh, and my mom had to drag me there... Next update will be faster though, I think. I'll work on it after I post this chapter up. R & R! (--Blahs--) = my annoying talking in the story.
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Chapter 4 – Getting acquainted with the future "in-laws"
Shooting cold glares to whoever that seemed to be staring at his strange way of clothing was something Hiei has been doing ever since he set a step on the ningen place. Botan was trying to keep her profile as low as possible and also Hiei's. But the fire demon was not following her lead at all as they were agreed on before. He walked through the crowds with head high and up, as if gracing all the pitiful souls with his holy presence. The blue-head shook her head and looked at Hiei in the corner of her eye while avoiding the embarrassing looks from the people. She couldn't help but admitting the demon should get something new to wear, something... let's say... more colorful. The "all-black state of fashion" made him look like he was attending a funeral, not to mention his complexion too. (The only question is, whose funeral will it be?)
"Hello, Kuwabara, Yukina! I had absolutely no idea that I would see you two here." Botan gave her greetings and a fake smile when the sight of the colors orange and aqua came into view.
"Hi, Botan!" Yukina was the first one to notice.
Tilting his head up, Kuwabara stopped from chewing on his food when he discovered who was also standing beside the ferry girl, "And... shrimpy??! What the heck are you doing here?!" (Haha, shrimpy...)
A small growl was heard from the short fire demon as he reaches for his sword. Botan noticed Hiei's move and stepped on his foot purposefully. Hiei yelped silently and glared daggers at her in return. Botan immediately moved away from him a little bit and faced Kuwabara's surprising expression, "Oh, I was going for something to eat. And I met Hiei on the way, so we decided to come here since he's hungry too... heh, I guess. But we can't see to find any empty seats here."
Kuwabara was not listening, but only locked up in a glaring competition with the short demon.
"Botan, you can sit with us if you want to." Yukina offered in a delightful tone.
"Thanks, Yukina, you're such a sweetie."
"What?! There's no way I'm letting Hiei sit here! There's a lot of empty seats right over there!" Kuwabara exclaimed after hearing the news.
"Aah, Kuwa-chan, that's the smoking area; Hiei doesn't smoke. And you have to know secondhand smoke is not good for your health either." Botan had already placed herself next to the delicate ice apparition, leaving Hiei no choice but to sit next to Kuwabara. Hiei scowled at Botan. The blue- haired girl just pretended to not see his killer look.
"What's wrong, Hiei? Why don't you sit? There's plenty of room here."
Glancing over Yukina as she spoke, Hiei reluctantly sat near the very edge beside the carrot-top. He quietly mumbled something about "baka ningen... ferry girl... make them pay..." Kuwabara was quite oblivious to Hiei's muttering, while Botan, sitting the opposite of Hiei across the table, let out an anxious squeak and quickly hid herself behind a menu.
"Um, let's see what do they have on here..."
"Botan, you should try this refreshment Kazuma got for me. It tastes like snow, only sweeter, and it melts in your mouth too. It's delicious." Yukina said as she took a spoonful of her sundae. The look on her face was out of sheer joy. Hiei somehow found it to his liking to see his sister like this.
"Sundae does sound good to me, even if it's only almost the middle of February out there. What about you, Hiei? Would you like one too?"
"Hn, no."
By listening to Yukina's detailed description on the fare, Hiei was also interested in trying one. But he restrained the urge, because he was still thinking on how to take revenge on Kuwabara for 'stimulating' Yukina's feelings to make her feel attracted to the ugly fool.
"Suit yourself then... Excuse me, Miss, can I get a strawberry sundae here?" Botan waved to the waitress.
"Sure thing, hon."
As they waited, Kuwabara was staring outside the window, seemed very grumpy due to the fact that he couldn't have some alone time with Yukina. Hiei closed his eyes, still engaged with his 'evil' thoughts. Yukina was complimenting to Botan on the restaurant's design...
"Here is your strawberry sundae, enjoy."
The waitress came back after several minutes and set the order on the table. Botan was more than happy to see her dessert to finally arrive. When she was about to dig in with her spoon, the cup suddenly lifted itself up and flew right toward Kuwabara. Botan shrieked as the carrot-top turned in time just to find scoops of strawberry sundae dumped all on his shirt.
"Eek, this is a new shirt-OW!" Standing up abruptly, Kuwabara's forehead hit the lamp that's been hanging down from the ceiling.
"Kazuma, are you alright?" Yukina leaned over worriedly.
"I s-see stars... I'll be fine, babe. Be right back..." Kuwabara dizzily answered and crawled out of his seat and ran for the restroom to save his shirt.
While Yukina was busying looking at the direction of the restroom concerned, Botan retrieved back the empty cup from the other side of table. She examined it carefully, and then eyed Hiei skeptically. The fire demon was staring at some invisible object innocently.
'Could it be that the cup accidentally slipped from my hand?' Botan thought with doubt, eyes never left off of Hiei.
After a short while, the great Kuwabara has finally returned with a large stain on the chest area of his shirt, and also a huge bump on his head. Grumbling something, he sat back down with a small frown while Botan was still mourning over the loss of one of her favorite pastime snacks. Yukina then made sure Kuwabara was fine and eventually looked relieved. And just as the unlucky carrot-top reached down to his plate and picked up his food...
"YUCK! Eewww, what is this stuff?!"
Again everybody's attention was drawn to the carrot-top at the table. He started spitting, trying to get out whatever that was in his mouth.
"Kuwabara, you're spitting on me! What's gotten into you now?" Botan wiped some saliva off her face with her sleeve, feeling sickened.
"Sorry, Botan! It's just that my fries is tasting weird."
"Hm?" Both Botan and Yukina bent over to see what's in Kuwabara's plate. There was this blackish, dry, most unappetizing mass of 'thing' they'd ever seen.
"Kuwabara, are you sure you ordered the right thing?"
"Yeah! It wasn't like this when I first got them. Now, it looks all burned up... Do you think this restaurant is haunted?!"
"You fool, maybe that's why it is called 'fries'." The quiet Hiei now decided to speak up.
"But, it's- I-grr..." Kuwabara was a little upset that he couldn't think of any comebacks at Hiei. Rather than arguing with the demon, he crossed his arms and sat in displeasing gag until his brain just clicked as he turned back to the now smirking Hiei.
"Shorty! It was you! Wasn't it?! First you spilled sundae on me, causing me to get a concussion when I stood up; then you tried to poison my food, making me to have indigestion. You tried to kill me, didn't you?!" Hearing a smirk from Hiei, the orange head grabbed short fire demon by his collar and shook him roughly.
"Wow, I'm shocked to see you're still alive and as irksome as ever, after all those murdering attempts you accused me of putting you through."
"You runt! Stop acting like you didn't do this! I'm gonna-"
"Kazuma, please stop. Botan and I were here the whole time. We didn't see Hiei does anything wrong." Yukina extended out her hand on Kuwabara's arm, indicating him to end his dispute with the fire demon.
"Of course, Yukina. Whatever you say!"
Kuwabara let go of Hiei immediately and grinned at Yukina. Hiei threw a disgust glare at him and went back staring at intangible objects again. Botan was just more confused. She was beginning to think that Hiei was most likely the 'wicked' mastermind behind all the bad happenings to Kuwabara.
"Pssst, Hiei!" Whispering to the fire demon, Botan wanted to get a hold of his attention unknown to her other two companions. But Hiei didn't seem to hear, so she tried again, louder than the last time, "Psssssst! Hiei!"
Hiei was still in the trance of self-isolationism as Botan became more and more hopeless. Secretly, she kicked Hiei lightly on the shin under the table. It was no use. Then she began to kick him repeatedly on the same spot, harder than every previous ones. By the eleventh time, when Botan was starting to think if she had probably laid some serious bruises on his leg, Hiei snarled:
"WHAT?!"
Yukina and Kuwbara watched strangely as Botan gave a "Heh, heh, I need to have a word with Hiei for a moment in private." She said and dragged a very infuriated Hiei away to a corner.
"What do you want?!" Hiei fumed while stealing some glances at Kuwabara who was now looking festive that the obnoxious fire demon was gone, and started a pleasant conversation with Yukina at the table.
"You know, Hiei, you really should get a hint. I was trying to talk to you, and you didn't even hear me. So I had to use some desperate measures. You're even denser than I thought." Said Botan, seriously testing Hiei's tolerance.
"Get a hint?! Hn, maybe you should do that. Baka, did it ever come across your mind that perhaps I was ignoring you on purpose?! You're lucky that I don't usually hit females, but then again I've never considered you one but a lousy blabbermouth!!"
Fists clenched in tight balls, Hiei looked as if he was barely on the tip of wanting to torture someone so badly. (Run! Botan! O.o)
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Survival Class 101 Tutorials – Today's Lesson:
Never trust someone you don't very well know with. (Cough, Hiei, cough) Sometimes, even your best friend betrays you. Okay, so never trust anybody completely!! Regard people with some determination and be on your guard at all times.
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A/N:
Okies, fans, above is some advices on how to survive in this CRUCIAL world with danger lurking everywhere. It was something I should have wrote ever since the first chapter. (Why do you think this story is called 'Survival CLASS 101' anyway?) I guess it kinda slipped my mind. From now on, there will be one every chapter, I think...
Oh, before I forget again, I have a note for my dear reviewer "sailor- z-360" if you're still reading this:
Romance, extremely descriptive kissing?! My, aren't you just in a bit of rush. This is only the fourth chapter of the story. There will be romance, of course. But the kissing part probably won't happen until the last chappie. Besides, what can you expect from a rated PG story, hm? Man, you crack me up! Thanks for the review, peace out!
I feel beloved! Ahem, I mean- I had no idea you people think this story was good. (I thought I'd hardly get more than 20 reviews.) Oh, you've made me so happy! (Crying tears of joy) ARIGATOU GOZAI MASU!
