Survival Class 101

Disclaimer: The day I finally own Yu Yu Hakusho will be the happiest day of my life... (sighs) It's going to be a long wait.

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Chapter 6 – A matter between life and death...

"Oh, I'm so sorry, Kuwabara. I know you were just worried about Yukina's safety." Said Botan, giving an apologetic smile.

"Thad... okaay..." Kuwabara was having a difficult time speaking well with his swollen cheeks. He now understands how it was like when Yusuke was being slapped by Keiko.

The whole gang was currently sitting in the guest room they had booked. Slight awkwardness could still be felt after the incident at the pools even though the matters had been explained. Yukina was tending to Kuwabara's "severely" wounded face with her healing powers as the carrot-top blushed. Hiei sat by himself in the corner with his head away from the others. (Doesn't he always?) A dim crimson color was lingering over his face as well.

Yukina repositioned her hands back in her laps and looked at the blushing Kuwabara, "I've healed your swelling, Kazuma. But your face looked even redder than before. Are you still hurt?"

"I'm feeling great, babe! Your caring loving touch has given me strength! Now with the power of our love shining through, I shall protect you forever and ever with my life!" exclaimed Kuwabara theatrically as he got a hold of Yukina's hands. Unnoted to him, Hiei's hand is already on his weapon. The reason the orange-head isn't sliced and diced yet because there were TOO MANY witnesses if Hiei killed him.

"Um..." The ice apparition was clearly puzzled by Kuwabara's speech.

"Kuwa-chan, perhaps my pneumatherapy will be some of a help to your face too." Botan cut in before Kuwabara could show more of his love affections for Yukina. (In the manga, "pneumatherapy" means spirit healing)

"No thanks. I think I'm good for now." Said Kuwabara, letting go of the ice apparition.

"Oh, are you sure that you don't need it?"

"Hn, what about me?" Hiei decided to speak up, much too everyone's surprise. They had almost forgotten that he was present. Of course, being the less talkative one he is.

Botan blinked, "What?"

"You hit me twice as hard."

It was true. Botan had slapped him harder than Kuwabara... for paybacks. She dislikes the way Hiei had threatened her. So when the opportunity knocks, the ferry girl wouldn't just let the perfect chance to get revenge slide away.

"I'll heal your injuries for you if you want, Hiei." said Yukina, moving toward the fire demon.

"Don't bother, Yukina. Hmph! Serves him right for peeping at girls." Botan pulled Yukina back.

Hiei's face went pale, shaking his fists. "First of all, baka, I would NEVER 'peep' at Yukina. Second of all, I wouldn't even be intrigued in seeing your naked body. You stu-"

Bonk!

A magazine traveled through the air and landed on Hiei's head. The fire demon glowered around to find the "fool" who had rather signed his death wish. His eyes set on the busying fidgeting her fingers Grim Reaper – guilty!

"...Um, it slipped?" Swallowing hard, Botan fought back the urge of yelling at Hiei when she received the fiercest glare alive ever of the human history.

"Eheheheheh... Oh! Is that a karaoke machine? I love singing!" Botan crawled hurriedly to the television set, far, FAR away from Hiei and his dreadful complexion. She picked up the microphone and tested it and then pressed a few buttons on the remote. "Aah, here we go! This one of my favorite songs."

Yukina and Kuwabara looked in curiosity as Botan jumped to her feet. Hiei could careless and stared with boredom, hoping the ferry girl would humiliate herself. The music came on secondly as the TV screen started showing subtitles...

"I am a dreamer... Hisomu pawa..." Words flowed out of Botan's mouth, creating a well harmony combined with the melody... (That's the song I'm listening to right now as I'm typing this chapter. Can you guess what song it is?)

"Genkai no nai, kanousei ga koko ni aru..."

"... It's gonna be your world!"Botan did a 360-degree twirl excitedly and danced, fully indulged in her own little world as she sang along.

"'Omoi' ga subete wo kaete yuku yo! Kitto... kitto... Odoroku kurai!" As the music itself ceased, Botan finished her song with a wink at everybody in the room. Hiei almost puked at the wink... (Too much sweetness for him! XD)

"That was great, Botan!" Yukina complimented, clapping.

"You really think so?" Botan puts a hand behind her head and laughed shyly. But she then quickly threw a scowl at Hiei, who is at the farthermost corner, when she heard him making a sarcastic hurling sound. Turning back to the ice apparition, Botan asked. "Say, Yukina. Do you want to give it try at this?"

"But I don't know how."

"I'll teach you! Now let's see..." Botan scanned over the menu on the program and smiled. "This song is perfect!"

"Okay, just remember what you've learned." After a round of teaching class, the ferry girl handed the microphone to Yukina. She took it with a bit of timidness.

"You can do it, babe!" Kuwabara was being very supportive and waved eagerly like a fan. Hiei rolled his eyes at the orange-head, also turning face forward to Yukina.

The music came on again as Yukina began, "Massugu na hitomi, itsumo damatteru. Yume o miru tabi ni, soppo muite waratteru..." (Guess which song this is!)

"...Anata ga ni aeta anata to sugoshite. Ima koko ni sotto ukabu. Afureru kono omoi o uke tomete..."

"...Mizu mo, kaze mo, taiyou mo, daichi mo, tsuki mo, hoshi mo, tsutsun de kureru..."

"-Anata ga kureta mirai no kakere ga. Hora koko ni hikatteru kara. Meguri aeta omoi wa hitotsu dake."

The song ended. Yukina put down the microphone and looked at everyone's amazed face in question, "Did I do it right?"

"Are you KIDDING, babe?! That was the most beautiful singing I've ever heard in my whole life!!" Kuwabara ran to Yukina like a breeze of the wind.

"Hn. It was good." Said Hiei as if whispering. Botan rolled her eyes and thought to herself on how she has never gotten a compliment like that out of Hiei.

Yukina smiled, "Thank you, Hiei."

"Alrighty! Now it's my turn!" Kuwabara rushed to the karaoke set...

As another hour was spent, the room was filled with loud singing and laughter. Botan had excused herself when Kuwabara was choosing songs and ran out, then came back with bags of junk food after a few minutes. Now she and the carrot-top were having some sort of competition to see who sings the best after finishing twenty cans of sodas. Hiei was covering his ears to make sure that his eardrums won't get damaged from those two's terrible singings, which he considered to be nothing but more like the discordant howls of wild dogs. It was getting too difficult for him to concentrate. Yukina was just sitting there, looking happier as ever. Botan asked if Hiei wanted to sing also. The fire demon declined immediately. Kuwabara then made fun of him, saying that he can't sing. Hiei was really ticked off when the orange-head laughed at him. He really wanted to kill someone now... Yep, they are definitely having a fun time!

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"This is absolutely pointless!!" Hiei rumbled as he watched Yukina and Kuwabara walking side by side in the front toward the front table of the spa.

The day has ended, and so is the date. The fire demon has done nothing to accomplish his "plans" he originated, but suffering from the fact that he almost went deaf when Kuwabara and Botan were playing with the karaoke machine back there.

"It was at least... hic! Fun." Murmured Botan dizzily, between a few hiccups. She had just broken the record of drinking the highest amount of beverage in one sitting.

Hiei snorted and was about to criticize how pathetic Botan and her stupid plot was, he saw Kuwabara putting an arm around Yukina's shoulder. Seeing Yukina didn't jerk away, Kuwabara grinned happily. But Hiei was already off his toleration for the day and sword drawn, "That's it! The idiot is going down!"

He flew himself at Kuwabara, but somehow fell on his face as he felt a yank below. Hiei cursed, getting up halfway on his hands and looked back to his feet. Botan had her arms around his ankles tightly, preventing him from moving forward.

"So you finally came back to your senses... Now let go!" Hiei waded, dragging Botan along on the ground.

"No! I won't let you hurt Kuwabara!"

"What's wrong with you?!! Now let go before I-"

"No. Never! I won't let you ruin their happy moment!"

Hiei growled angrily and tried to kick Botan's arms off of his legs, but the ferry girl won't even let her hold loose even the slightest bit. He whipped his head around to find Kuwabara and Yukina were getting further and further away, he barked at Botan, "Hurry up and let go of me! Or I'll chop your hands off!"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Fine! You asked for it!" The fire demon raised his sword...

PLOP!

With a gasp, Botan unexpectedly let go of Hiei, making him lose his balance at his current position and fell into a nearby pool. Looking stunned at what she had done, Botan gulped as she got up on her feet and drew close to the side of the pool. It has been a while since Hiei fell into the pool, and there is still no sign of him coming up for air yet. The ferry girl began to worry.

'Could he be drowned? The pool isn't that deep. But then again, Hiei is not that tall...' Botan looked closely in the water. It's getting late, and she couldn't see a thing.

"Hiei?"

SPLASH!

The water suddenly shot up and splattered everywhere. Botan wiped away some water off her face and gazed down. There in the middle of the drained pool, stood a VERY SCARY looking Hiei, right hand holding something that looked awfully familiar to the Fist of the Mortal Flame.

"Onna, I'll give you a ten seconds head start..." His voice was low and dangerous.

"W-what?"

"One,"

"I didn't mean to make you fall, Hiei. It was an accident... hehe."

"Two,"

"Come on, you can't be serious about this!"

"Three,"

"..." It was obvious that Hiei was in the mood for retaliation and some harsh torture. Botan was already panicking to materialize her oar. Out of all the things in her mind, the only one she could think of right now is to RUN FOR HER LIFE!

"-Ten!"

"Hey! That's not fair! You miscounted, you cheat-Oof!"

Just as soon as Botan adjusted herself on her oar, she was being tackled down to the ground eating dirt. She groaned as she felt her whole body ached. Then everything went black...

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A/N:

Whoo! This chapter is longer than usual. I decided that I'd be nice to update earlier than I expected. Who knows how long would it be when I can have the access to the internet again since I'm busying with homework and everything?

So how many of you know the two songs I used in this chapter? The one Botan sang was "Platinum", and Yukina's was "Only One", both from Card Captor Sakura. They are great songs! I really like them!

sailor-z-360: Well, um... What can I say? You do have a point there about the PG

rating has nothing to do with the kissing. But it'll still be a long while

before you see that scene!

tuathafaerie: I wouldn't oppose if you try to do that on the bus though. But to reach

Hiei's level of meanness, I'd say that all of us still need a lot of works.

What do you think? :P

sunshine14586: You thought it was good? Aww, thanks! Good thing you didn't die

literally, or you would miss this chapter and a lot of other good

stuffs that'll be coming along later.

dark-demon-angel: I hope you liked this chapter as well. Thanks!

HieilovesBotan: Another update! Is this ending making you laugh? Well, I certainly

hope it did.

Robin Autumn: Thank you for the compliment. Hey, I checked out your new story!

It's awesome! Yay! More HB stories!

Bar-Ohki: "Worst Case Senario Handbook"? Hm... Tell me where I can buy it...

Doggydude: Such high stake on putting your own life on counting me to write more!

Of course I can't t let a fan down, right? Your idea is very creative! I'll

try and consider it. I agree it would look so cute if Hiei was in love...

BlazingBotan: I hope you haven't lost your patience yet. Here's more!

joisu: I'm really happy that you thought this was good. Thanks!

Vx2: (pokes Vx2) Are you okay? :P

Anichan: I'm terrible? In a good way, or a bad way? Oh well, there is the chapter.

telephone icecream: Aww, thanks. I think I just broke my promise on updating

so regularly. -.-

Mr. Bunny-chan-san: Arigatou! I hope you eat some more sugar if you are to review

again. :P

Silverchild of the winds: Oro? What fake wig? I didn't quite catch that... Oh well,

thanks for the review!

LivingImpared: Yeah! I totally agree with you. It's not like Hiei can control his

height problems. Haha! What you said was kinda funny!

A very sugar-high H/B fanatic: Ooh, long pen name! So we are talking about that

YYH Valentine OAV Special again, aren't we...?

Unfortunately I've never seen it either. Some say

it's a rumor, but others say it's real and long lost.

I would too like to find it someday... if it does exist.

Mitsu Flame: Here is another update! Hope you liked it!

Samurai Ferry Girl: Do you call this update soon? Glad that you thought the story

was cool.

Sillyningengirl: Two reviews in a row, ne? Thanks for adding the story to your

favorites!! Is this chapter as good as you expected?

Hiei's Ice Maiden: I update! Maybe not so soon, but... grr... Thanks for the review!

Somus: I hope you find this chapter funny also. Thank you!

Woah! It took me a while to answer those... I hope I didn't forget anyone. I got more than 20 reviews last time. Thank you all so much! Even it's just a simple comment like "this is good, update soon", it's still so encouraging to me! Okay, my eyes are hurting... See y'all later!