FW: …(glaring at nothing)
Yusuke: What's her deal?
FW: Sola! She's MAKING me update, when she knows full well I'm injured!
Sola: Suck it up and keep writing.
FW: Yes, "master"….
Sola: And don't be so dramatic! You cut yourself on a CAN OF CAT FOOD!
Kuwabara: Really? Cat food? Man, that's pathetic!
Hiei: And she always brags about fighting.
FW: ……
Sola: (cracks whip) Work faster.
FW: ………
Sola: So everyone who's reading this, you've really got ME to thank that this was written right now.
FW: Once my hand heals, I will kill you.
Yusuke: (taunting) Is that any way to talk to your master?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, The Song That Never Ends, and I guess I don't own the Rooster song from last chapter, in case anyone's taking notes….
STARTThrough the weekend, the thrill of being the most important flutiest stayed with Botan. There wasn't much else she'd even talk about! Yusuke had bought himself a cd player, just for the headphones to try and block her out, while Kuwabara and Kurama would hurry off, claiming they had somewhere else to be. Hiei was just always out of sight.
Luckily, the weekend never lasts long for a teenager, and this case was no exeption. They were all back in school for first block on Monday, where everyone felt the need to congratulate Botan AGAIN.
"Class, please take you seats…" Mr. Nesul whispered. Unsurpirsingly to the newcomers now, he was obeyed without a problem. "Now, we're going to practice Madriva…"
Unexpectedly, the class started and ended without incident. Or at least, without SERIOUS incident. There was the occasional flying mouthpiece or reed, and the custom death threat, but nothing really out of the ordinary.
As they were leaving class, Mr. Nesul stopped them.
He turned to face them, opening his mouth to speak. It wasn't his voice heard though.
"I DIDN'T DO IT!" Yusuke yelled imidiately.
"The most common way out of trouble, yet it never works," Kurama mused quietly.
"It's safe to assume whatever it is was the oaf's fault."
"YOU GOT A DEATHWISH, SHRIMP?"
"I don't need one."
Mr. Nesul turned to Botan, seeing how she had been the only one to hold her tongue. "Do they do this often?" He asked, curious.
She nodded. "All the time. Annoys the other orphans." She next turned to the closest detective, Yusuke, and punched him off the top of his head. "We having a big boy conversation over here you might want to be part of!" She heaved.
The teacher nodded his apriciation for her handling the situation. All the focus was now on him. "I've been given notice that you are all failing your other classes. In fact," his brow furrowed over the report he was reading, "it doesn't look like you've even attended any of your other classes."
"…So?"
Mr. Nesul sighed. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you aren't passing all your classes with a C- or better, you can't be part of any school activities, including band."
No reaction.
"You'd best get to your next classes. I'll give you a pass…."
"Can you give us an hour?" Yusuke asked, surprisingly calm. "We'll have to run back to the orphanage for our backpacks."
Mr. Nesul nodded. "Of course."
A few minutes later….
"WHAT THE F#CK WERE YOU THINKING!" Yusuke now exploded to Koenma. Botan shuddered, regretting her decision to take them all here. It WAS Yusuke's idea, so now all the blame could be pinned on her, but still.
"I already GO to a school, in case you've forgotten! How am I supposed to be in two places at once!" Kurama said with barely controlled anger.
"I REFUSE to go to a HUMAN school!" Hiei added, threateningly.
"GOING TO BAND IS ONE THING, BUT GOING TO SCHOOL IS ANOTHER!" Kuwabara put in his two sence… make that one.
Koenma cowered behind his desk. "I… didn't realize…" he said softly, terrified.
Sadly, that wasn't enough for the enraged boys. "YOU'D BETTER FIND A WAY TO GET US OUT OF THIS!" Yusuke roared, grabbing Koenma by the front of his shirt.
"Th- there's nothing I can do!" The scared ruler stuttered. "I can't change the school rules! You'll, just have to put up with it!"
Glancing at a wall clock, Botan broke into the conversation. "This pass is only good for 15 more minutes," she cut in, looking at the colored piece of paper Mr. Nesul gave them.
Kurama sent a final steely glare at the toddler, a left over trait from Youko, before turning to leave. "Today, we will endure. But you'd best find a loophole. I cannot restrain Hiei for long." With that, he placed a hang on said fire demon's shoulder, indicating it was time to go. The demon duo turned and left without another word, waiting outside the office for Botan.
"Yeah! What he said!" Kuwabara said, also turning with a huffing Yusuke trailing behind him. Botan shrugged apologetically to her boss, before hurrying out herself.
"Each class is an hour and a half long," Kurama said, calm again now that they were inside the school preparing to go their separate ways. "We've all just wasted an hour, so that means we only need to get through half an hour of whatever we have next," he reasoned.
"We were all given schedules when we met Mr. Nesul," Botan added, remembering. "Let's see, I've got it somewhere…" she said absently, searching through her jeans pockets. "Ah ha! Here it is! I've got… algebra 1 now."
Kurama nodded, already holding his own sschedule. "My next class is health," he said.
Yusuke gagged. Seeing how calm the fox was, he obviously didn't know what they taught in health…. (FW: Sick, sick class…. They teach HUMAN REPRODUCTION!)
Having lost their schedules, or burned it, Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara were forced to go to the main office to find where they were supposed to be. Wishing them luck, the remaining two set off to find their rooms.
Botan found her room without a problem. She walked in waving to the class, bouncy as ever. "Decided to join as after all, Ms. Jaganshi? Very well, take a seat next to Mr. Resserd." Botan's smile was wiped off her face immediately. The seat her teacher had indicated was right next to Joane!
She sat down slowly, disappointed. "You're hot…."
This would be a loooong class….
Kurama had more trouble finding the health room, but he found it eventually. The students on either side of him were none other than Tac and Mia. Neither one was very interested in his sudden coming, just continued what they'd been doing.
For Mia, that was plotting world domination. For Tac, that was singing "This is the song that never ends" and like the title, she had no intension of stopping. Ever.
"You HAVE to have a last name!" The bat looking secretary said dully.
The other three detectives had been standing there for about 10 minutes. Yusuke and Kuwabara had gotten their schedules fine, but the secretary demanded Hiei's last name.
"I don't have one," the demon seethed again.
"I can't help you until you tell me," she said, folding her arms across her chest. "A lot of students go here. Without your last name, we could end up giving you someone else's schedule."
"Yeah, like there's another kid here named Hiei," Yusuke muttered, bored. He and Kuwabara could leave whenever they wanted, but then they'd have to go to class….
"Stupid human."
The two human boys glanced at each other, nodding. They'd be here for a while….
"This is the song that never ends… it just goes on and on my friends!"
"YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS!" Mia finally snapped, and considering how… messed up she was, it was impressive she held her tongue so long.
It worked though, because Tac finally stopped singing. "I have friends!"
"Name one!"
"Uh… Kurama!" The fox's eyes widened.
"I don't even know you!" He protested, now wanting to get involved.
"Are you saying you don't like me?" She asked, sadly, tears brimming her dark eyes.
"No one likes you!" Mia made the situation worse.
"Well at least I'm not a mass murderer!" The other girl retaliated, sadness forgotten.
"Shut up you worthless… trumpet," Mia spat the word, making it into a horrible insult.
Kurama turned to Mia, taking offense too. "That was very uncalled for," he stated.
"Put a stopper in it, trumpet," Mia didn't know when to quit.
Tac stood up, hands balled into fists, ready to punch the darker haired girl. Kurama stood also, prepared to break up any fights. This turned out to not be such a good idea, for it got the attention of the rest of the class, which happened to have trumpeters and percussion members.
"Tac, Mia, Kurama, what's going on?" Flactem walked over, a good sight to Kurama. Now there was someone with higher band authority to break them up.
"Stay out of this, King Crap!" Mia said, making Flactem stop short of his destination in shock.
"You do NOT insult Flactem!" Tac roared, letting those fists fly.
The percussion, sensing one of their own in danger, immidiately went to help. In return, all of the trumpets, except Kurama, joined the fray. Before long, there was perfect mayhem, the trumpets fighting for their dignity, and the percussion fighting for their own.
Kurama backed up against the wall. There was no way he'd be able to stop them without using his powers, and he wasn't going to fight too. The teacher was screaming for them to stop, running around like a madman, and the non-band members just sat/stood were they were, watching.
Only non-band people and Kurama weren't involved. Everyone with an instrument, from clarinet to trombone, had chosen a side, and was fighting too, dividing everyone up.
Finally, the teacher pulled the fire alarm, and everyone in the entire school marched outside, effectively ending the battle through fear of fire.
The five detectives rejoined outside, Yusuke, Hiei, and Kuwabara already being together, seeing how they never went to their classes.
Kurama quickly explained what had happened, leaving worried looks on the faces of some of his friends. As always, Hiei didn't care, and Yusuke was carefree. "No one will remember in the morning," the top detective assured him.
It's amazing how wrong he was.
Flactem and Mia, coming from different directions, took hold of their section members' arm, and dragged them away from their friends and each other.
"What's the big idea?" Yusuke demanded, heated.
"The "big idea" is that you're a percussion! If you haven't heard yet, you can be forgiven, but from now on, no contact with trumpets, or whoever their allies are outside of band," she ordered.
"This is stupid!" He yelled at her.
Her eyes narrowed. "Maybe, but this is war now! From here on out, you're with us, or against us." She led him away to stand with the other percussion, who welcomed him with open arms.
In the meantime, similar events were taking place with Flactem and Kurama, though less hostile. He too was now standing with fellow section members.
He glanced at Tac, who had a bloody lip, but looked very proud of herself for defending what she believed in. He glanced skyward next, "Now what?" He asked himself silently.
END CHAPTER 10FW: Can't… write… anymore! (fingers bleeding)
Sola: (cracks whip) Deal with it.
FW: I'll write this after-chapter thing, BUT THAT'S IT!
Sola: Fine, but face my wrath after.
FW: Ok, this isn't really very funny anymore, but remember, it IS general category ahead of humor.
Hiei: What do you mean "funny anymore"? It was never funny to begin with.
FW: And that section leader voting thing, was for this. I needed a section leader to start the war. In case you didn't guess, it was Mia.
Mia: (flashing the victory sign)
FW: So review if it floats your boat, don't if it sinks ya, and if you think this chapter bites, by all means, flame! I'll take it in stride!
