Hi! I'm Deus X Machina with my first Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction.
Of course, I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho
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Beaten again.
Yuu Kaitou looked at his name on the board with the number two above it. 'Number two,' he thought. 'I'll always be second to that bastard.' He watched as the red-haired Shuichi Minamino glanced at his name in the scoreboard's number one spot and walked off with hardly a second thought. Kaitou gritted his teeth.
It wasn't being beaten that bothered him. It was being beaten by someone like Shuichi Minamino. Brains and popularity? It wasn't right for someone to be so perfect. 'I'll beat you someday, Minamino. Someday I'll prove that you're not perfect.'
It seemed that everywhere Kaitou looked, intelligence was ground into the dirt while imbeciles ruled the world by good looks or brute strength. These people became gods who could force anyone to do anything. Kaitou was disgusted at a world controlled by these barbarians. Like the three cretins who were approaching him now.
"Hey, Kaitou," said Seichi, the leader of the trio.
"Hello, Seichi," said Kaitou. He sounded bored, annoyed at being interrupted by such lowly beings.
"Watch your tone with us, Yuu," said Jiro, the second of Seichi's group.
"Uh, yeah!" said Kenji.
"Uh, yeah," Kaitou said, mocking Kenji unenthusiastically.
"We're pretty sick of you, you know that?" said Seichi.
"The feeling is mutual," said Kaitou.
"Mutual?" said Kenji. "Don't go confusing us with big words!"
Somewhere in Jiro's brain, one electron hit another and suddenly he had one of those things that people called "ideas". He reached out and snatched away Kaitou's glasses. "Keep away!"
Jiro threw the glasses to Seichi, who dropped them on the ground and started kicking them across the floor to Kenji. Kaitou crawled to retrieve his glasses, but just before he could reach them, Kenji kicked them back to Jiro.
This game of keep-away was more humiliating than normal, forcing the once dignified Kaitou to scurry like a bug from one point to another, chasing his glasses. During this, the frame was bent and the lenses were scratched. Other students passing through the hallway stopped to watch and laugh.
"I'm surprised we didn't think of this sooner," laughed Seichi.
"I'm not," said Kaitou.
"What?"
"I'm not surprised you didn't think to attack my glasses, even if they were such obvious targets."
"Hey," grunted Jiro. "I-I think we've just been insulted."
"Gee, you think?" said Kaitou.
Seichi gave the glasses one final kick to a spot far from all three bullies. Kaitou crawled towards them, thinking that his torment was finally over. But just before he could get his glasses back, Seichi leaped into the air and stomped on them. He looked back at his victim. Kaitou's mouth was hanging open, his beady eyes round with shock.
"You've been givin' us a lotta crap, Kaitou. This is payback." Seichi and his gang walked away laughing.
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Asato Kido and Mitsunari "Yana" Yanagisawa were waiting for Kaitou at the gate of Meiou School. Kido glanced at his watch. "Where is he?"
"Maybe he got a detention," said Yana.
"Idiot. Guys like Kaitou don't get detention. Look, there he is now."
Yana looked at his normally bespectacled friend. "Hey, Kaitou. Where're your glasses?"
"Broken," Kaitou said simply.
"How?"
"Some bastards broke them."
"Where are they?" Kido said angrily. "I'll kick all their asses."
"No, Kido," said Kaitou. "I don't want anyone fighting my fights for me."
"No offense, but I doubt that you can fight just one of these guys," said Kido.
"Believe it or not, Kido, there are kinds of strength besides brute force." Kaitou's tone became bitter. "The real world is run by the intelligent. In the real world, guys like them can either shut up or fall. And when we get to the real world, I swear I'll make their lives miserable."
As the three friends walked towards the arcade, Yana whispered to Kido, "I hate it when he gets all twisted and evil like that."
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Kido, Kaitou, and Yana sat at the game consoles, fighting their way through Goblin City. "C'mon, high score! Almost there- Damn!" Kido swore as the screen read "Game Over. Would you like to play again?"
"Too bad, Kido," said Yana. "Almost got it that time."
"If you had gotten those three sevens at the top of the screen, you would have won," said Kaitou.
"Aw, whatever. Got any more tokens?"
"Hey, Kido!" shouted an unfriendly and familiar voice.
Kido turned. "Seichi and his boys."
"And Kaitou too," said Seichi. "I didn't know you two were together."
Kido ignored the remark. "So, what brings you low-lifes out here?"
"We came to play games, of course, but since you're here, we might as well settle the score with you."
"Hey, Kaitou," Yana asked. "Are these the guys that broke your glasses?"
Kaitou looked away. "Yeah." The three bullies laughed at his embarrassment.
"Well, then. I'll beat them up for the both of us," Kido said with a smirk.
"I told you, Kido. Don't fight my battles for me," said Kaitou.
Kido turned towards his friend with a small smile. "Hey, man. When you get to the real world, where you geniuses rule, I know you can throw them into the gutter and keep 'em there. But until then, let me handle these guys."
The other guests at the arcade stopped playing and moved to the side, eager to watch the four boys brawl. Kido started the fight, landing a solid blow on Seichi.
Seichi swung at Kido, but spoke to Kaitou. "It must suck, having to hide behind tough friends. You're too much of a wimp to fight me. You'd rather risk Kido getting hurt, huh?"
"Shut up!" said Kido, belting him in the stomach.
Seichi kicked Kido in the chest. "I know how much of a pussy you are Kaitou. You can't give us any more crap. You know why?"
Kaitou's stomach clenched. 'Don't mention my glasses,' Kaitou thought. 'Whatever you do, don't you dare talk about my glasses.'
"It's because I broke your precious glasses." The last word seemed to echo in Kaitou's ears.
Suddenly Seichi stiffened. "Hey, Seichi," said Jiro. "You having a heart attack?"
A brilliant aura of light enveloped his body. It concentrated into an orb of dark yellow light that hovered over Seichi's now petrified body.
Everyone paused, staring silently at the boy turned to stone and the strange light hovering over it. It started with one screaming girl running out the door. She was soon followed by a stampede of panicking gamers, trampling Seichi's body as they ran.
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Well, there's the first chapter. Hope you liked it. Don't forget to review.