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Kashaku's bright smile cut through the sorrow like a knife. "I'm hungry!!!" She voiced her random thoughts as always, but even Yusuke could see through her happy façade this time.
Mizuna gave her a wobbly smile in return before walking out of the room. She paused at the door and tilted her head to the side so that she could see them out of the corner of her eye. "I'll be back later... I'm going on a walk..."
Youko brought his arms around Kin and gently rubbed her back as he felt the front of his shirt turn wet with her tears. He waited patiently for the door to shut behind Mizuna before he kicked the chair out from under Hiei and jerked his head to the side telling him to follow her.
The fire apparition growled, sure he had stood up before he fell to the ground, but still! He glared at the fox and gave himself a mental note to kill him later before walking swiftly out of the house and in the direction he felt the water demoness had gone.
Hiei made sure he stayed well behind her and cloaked his presence completely so as not to startle the girl in front of him. After about an hour of walking through town the scenery became different as they passed the city limits.
Mizuna continued walking along the side of the road while Hiei took to the trees that lined the road on either side. The blue-haired teen remained oblivious to her pursuer even as she turned off the road and began to walk into the woods.
Her footsteps made no sense as she went one way only to go back the other, but the entire time she somehow managed to continue going foreword. Hiei was immediately suspicious, she was walking with no pattern, she was just wandering and wandering was something that Mizuna Arishima DIDN'T do.
He was also curious as to why she hadn't detected him; there was nothing in her behavior that said she knew he was there. He dropped his shields and landed directly in front of her and to his utter surprise; she walked right into him without a hint of recognition in her eyes.
She fell down and landed roughly on her butt before stumbling back up to her feet and trying to walk past him again, though this time her shoulder ran into him and all she did was continue walking on her course.
The dark haired teen's hands shot out of their own accord and caught her shoulders in an iron grip, effectively halting her in her path. The couple stood paralyzed in that position for several minutes; both figures standing stalk still with Hiei's hands holding onto her tightly by the shoulders.
Mizuna suddenly whirled around, breaking free of his grasp that had become weaker as the minutes past. Her blue eyes spoke of conviction and she threw herself at him and began pounding his chest with her fists while he stood there looking surprised. Her fists didn't hurt; she was barely putting any strength at all into the blows. Nonetheless he caught her tiny hands in mid attack and used them as leverage to push her back.
He was still clasping her hands as he stared into her angry blue eyes with his emotionless ruby ones. Slowly the anger leaked from her eyes and tumbled silently down her face in the form of crystalline tears. As the tears continued falling, her eyes lost their mask of anger and he could see the sorrow and pain that had lain hidden in their depths.
She took a shaky step towards him; her long dark blue haired swayed slightly and then flew out behind her like a cape as she collapsed into his arms. "I hate you, you know. I hate everything about you."
His eyes widened slightly and a flash of pain went through them before they became guarded again. His face betrayed nothing of his thoughts as he regarded the girl in his arms with a cold air of indifference.
"Everything. Your haunting red eyes... your gothic taste in clothes... but mainly... I hate the way you make me feel." As she murmured these last words she became limp and her eyes fluttered shut as she slipped into blissful unconsciousness.
Hiei remained stoic, not allowing his confusion at her words to show through. He bent down slightly and placing one arm under her knees and one under her back he lifted her up with ease. Jumping lightly into a tree he took of towards civilization at a breakneck speed that would normally be too much for anyone to bear. (A/N: of course Hi-chan isn't normal is he? - Hiei: Stop calling me that bitch. Mizuna: Leave the authoress alone. Hiei: Make me. Leiko: Hehe... um... bye!) Youko waited patiently for his girlfriend to become in control of her emotions. Yusuke and Danielle had already left to go to the arcade to try and relieve themselves of their emotional tension while Kashaku dragged Rando away with surprising strength to do something involving a trip to the park.
As he was contemplating the up coming tournament he absently ran his hand through Kin's hair while he waited for her to snap out of it. About half an hour later he realized that she had drifted off to sleep in his arms. He shook his head with a slight smile and gently shook her awake, which if you know Kin, is NOT an easy thing.
In her sleep she batted his hand away and muttered something about damn perverts and their damn cuteness before snuggling closer to him. He tried it one more time and was rewarded with one sleepy golden eye peering up at him through a curtain of equally golden locks.
"Whatsit?" She mumbled incomprehensibly as she tried to get her bearings. She yawned cutely and revealed two unusually sharp canines before she attempted to rise. Youko released her, but sadly her morning klutziness took over and she ended up tripping over a piece of fuzz and tumbling to the floor in heap.
All she did was yawn and rise once again with a stretch that caused her shirt to rise slightly and give Youko a view of her well toned stomach. Not that she noticed, Kin never fully woke up until she ate something. This time when she yawned she had the dignity to cover her mouth, after which she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and tried to wake up.
"Youko, I'm hungry, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease take me out to eat." Adorable golden puppy dog eyes accentuated her sweetly prodding voice and her lower lip jutted out slightly in a cute pout.
Youko grinned and shrugged, who could say no to that face? Besides, she was asking him to take her out, a pretty good deal considering her pride.
"Sure, how 'bout Wacdonalds?" (A/N: Haha, I thought it was so funny when I saw that sign in Inuyasha!)
Kin nodded vigorously before yanking him off the couch and dragging the more than willing boy to his car. She dropped his hand and ran over to his car as soon as they stepped outside before jumping into the front seat without bothering to open the door.
She smiled at him expectantly as she waited for him to get in the car and go take her out for food.
A few minutes later Youko's silver convertible pulled into the Wacdonalds parking lot. The silver haired teen decided to try his luck and slipped an arm around his girlfriend's waist. Fortunately for him, Kin was to caught up in the thought of a greasy burger and some equally greasy fries to pay attention to something as trivial as some hot guy's hand going around your waist.
Kin walked directly up to the counter, still to hungry to notice anything, including several appreciative glances from the males in the restaurant. But Youko was paying attention, and made sure to glare evilly at all of them, just as his girlfriend would do if she was fully in the world of the living. Aw who was he kidding, he was just jealous. And he was just fine with admitting it.
When the golden haired girl finished placing her order, Youko slipped in his before tossing a few bills down on the counter and grabbing their food. He scanned the room, and factoring out all the girls that were waving him over, there were about 3 tables left empty. One of which was actually a booth.
He tossed a glance back at Kin, silently asking her where she wanted to sit. She caught his gaze and practically dragged him over to the booth seating him directly beside her. What!?! He had the food!
She tore viciously into the meal, she hadn't eaten all day and she was starving. She had woken up to late for breakfast, and Youko and her had skated through lunch, so sue her.
She paused when she realized that the silvered haired teen next to her wasn't eating, he was actually staring at her with an unreadable expression on his face. Kin's cheeks turned light pink as her eyes widened slightly.
To Youko she had never looked cuter, the burger was still half in her mouth where she had yet to take a bite from it and her eyes were widened in surprise and slight embarrassment. He flashed her a heart-melting grin before he turned back to his own food.
Just as Kin took one last sip of her chocolate milkshake, her senses were bombarded by a myriad of strong perfumes making her choke back up the little bit of ice-creamy goodness that had begun to slip down her throat.
Her eyes began to water and she sneezed a couple of times. She pulled her long black sleeve over her hand and held it against her mouth and nose to block out the mingling scents. Normally a high classed Kitsune such as her would be able to stand the perfume, but they were all just wearing so much of it, it was unbearable!!!
Youko noticed her discomfort(who wouldn't she was practically choking on that awful mess of scents) and stood up abruptly.
"Sorry to disappoint you ladies," 'not...' "But me and my girlfriend," Here he paused and pulled Kin up next to him, "Have somewhere to be." He casually slung an arm around her shoulders and led her outside to his car.
The golden-eyed girl wiped her eyes with the back of her hand before shooting a wicked glare in the general direction of the group of girls. "That was awful, how do you stand it!?!"
Youko shrugged vaguely. "Practice I suppose..."
Kin shuddered at the thought of having to get into the 'practice' of drowning in that overwhelming stench. "Okay, enough talk of unpleasant torture of rabid fan girls who can't take a hint, sooo... What do you want to do now?"
Her tall boyfriend shrugged before slipping into the driver seat of his car. Kin followed suit and soon they were tearing down the streets and mauling random passersby. Youko still drove like a drunken maniac, but Kin was now used to his insane daredevil antics and could sit through the entire car ride without blinking an eye... well, she didn't turn green at any rate. "Where did Yusuke go wench?"
Kashaku blinked her eyes owlishly. "I don't think that I know you well enough for you to start calling me pet names..."
Rando glared at her but made no move to do her any bodily harm, and in my books, that's pretty damn good. She smiled sweetly at him... and then she grabbed his hand and dragged him out to his car.
"So, where are you going to take me?"
The pale demon stared at her blankly. "'Take you'? I'm not going to 'take you' anywhere."
"Yes you are, you're going to take me out to eat and then to a movie."
"And I would go on a date with you because...?"
Kashaku shrugged slightly before giving him a dry look. "You're the one who said 'date' not me."
Rando slammed his head into the steering wheel. There was just no winning with this girl. His head jerked up when he felt someone lightly pat him on the back. He met face to face with a smiling redhead.
"Don't feel to bad, I haven't lost an argument yet... Well, except to Mizuna... and Kin... And... Well, Hiei just walks off so I wouldn't call it winning... but I didn't lose. Anyways, no one can ever argue with my logic!!!" She pulled away from him and grinned happily.
"You call that logic?"
She dropped her grin and stared at him blankly. "Do I call what logic?"
"What we were- AUGH!!! Just forget it!!!"
"Forget what?" "Thanks for letting me come with you."
Yusuke shrugged uncaringly. "It was nothing... Besides, I didn't want to go alone. And the others were busy so..." He trailed off while he folded his arms behind his head and looked off to the side.
Danielle glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and smiled. The couple was currently walking through the Makai in search of some random demon that Yusuke had to kill. Hiei and Youko were busy doing. Stuff... And Kuwabaka was... Actually, neither of them had asked where he was.
"What are you smiling at?"
Danielle faced her boyfriend with her smile firmly in place. She laughed lightly before poking him in the cheek. "It's nothing, you just look so cute when you're pouting!"
"I'M NOT POUTING!!!" He glared half-heartedly at the dark haired teen beside him and pouted slightly when she ignored his little outburst. "Fine then, what do you think I'm supposedly pouting about?"
Danielle folded her hands behind her back and faced away from the brown- eyed boy. Flipping a strand of hair from her face she looked at him from the corner of her eye. "You're pouting because I know that you just wanted to be alone with me."
Yusuke smirked and wrapped his arms around her from behind. "Figured me out did ya?" He then sighed and dropped his head onto her shoulder. "Looks like we've got company..."
Reluctantly Yusuke released his girlfriend and faced the oncoming auras.
He powered up and used his spirit energy to keep the small band of demons at a distance of about 10 feet. Amazingly, they didn't take the hint and run for the hills. How very intelligent of them, ne?
Yusuke then proceeded to beat the snot out of the demons while Danielle cheered him on from the sidelines. "First he took me to Chez Pierre(Don't own) and then we went to see I, Robot(still don't own). It was a really good movie! And this one old couple thought we were married and Rando got all red and started denying it and stuff! But he couldn't because I grabbed his arm and dragged him off for popcorn and he was mad!" Kashaku giggled as she remembered the scolding she had gotten. Not that she had actually listened, she was to busy staring at the Nerds Rope situated behind the counter. That reminded her...
"Oh, and then, when he was scolding me, I was staring at this Nerds Rope, and he saw what I was looking at, and he bought it for me!!!!!" Kashaku continued to recount her evening to her two adopted sister.
Kin smiled and nodded, genuinely happy that her bouncy sister had found someone she could love, even though she was slightly jealous that Kashaku had found someone and she hadn't. 'What about Youko...?' She frowned slightly in thought; she was actually considering what the treacherous part of her mind was saying.
Mizuna nodded vaguely whenever she felt it necessary to show that she was listening, and she was, partially. But she was also thinking about what had happened yesterday... For some odd reason she couldn't seem to recall anything that had happened after she told everyone her story. It was really al a blur... she was walking for what seemed like forever... she hit something and fell down. And then she could only remember talking to a blurry outline before her memories cut off and she assumed that she had passed out or something of the sort.
The blue-haired girl's eyes cleared and she began paying attention to her surroundings again. Her eye's briefly flitted over their history teacher before she scribbled something down on a piece of paper. First she passed it to Hiei who was located next to her.
We've been slacking off. Make an excuse and meet me in the hall.
-Mizuna
Hiei glanced up at her and nodded ever so slightly before tossing the note to Youko. As the note was passed around, everyone turned in their seats in the guise of stretching, yawning, ect. and nodded.
Mizuna raised her hand and asked to get a drink of water, Kin asked to go to the bathroom, Kashaku asked to see the nurse because she hurt her foot, and Danielle offered to accompany her. Meanwhile, all four boys just stood up and walked out of the classroom without so much an excuse me. Not that it was really all that expected.
"What's today's plan Mi-chan?" Kashaku grinned in expectation.
All eyes focused on the Blue-eyed girl and she smirked before laying down a layout of the school and it's grounds. "Here's the plan..." She explained what the prank was before assigning everyone their jobs.
"Yusuke, you and Danielle handle the distraction, I don't think this school's had a good food fight in awhile." The said pair grinned evilly at the prospect.
"Kashaku, I want you to handle the hallway. If you need help, find it. Kin, you and Youko get the supplies, if you have any problems, I'm sure you'll figure out a way to handle it. Hiei, you're with me, we're going to handle the sprinklers. This is going off today at noon. Think we can handle it?" Everyone nodded, each one wearing a smirk or an evil grin.
Mizuna nodded to them and they all branched off to get to where they needed to be. This was the last period before lunch and they had approximately 39 minutes to get it ready.
Yusuke and Danielle reluctantly went back to class to await their part in the plan while Kashaku whipped out a cell phone and called in back up. Kin and Youko ran outside and went off to the nearest convenience store while Mizuna and Hiei headed out to the storage shed.
Noon
Yusuke and Danielle waited patiently for the signal from their spot in the crowded cafeteria. They were situated near the door to the hall for a quick exit and they were ready to go with two loaded bowls of pudding and some various other items.
Just as the clock struck 12:00 they heard a light tapping on the wall behind them. Smirking each picked up a scoop of the chocolate pudding before hurling it at a couple of unsuspecting victims. The gooey dessert hit each target dead on and a cry of "FOOD FIGHT" arose from the mass of teenagers who inhabited the room.
The lunch ladies made no move to stop the soon to be battle, opting instead for muttering "Oh crap not again." And ducking down behind the counters to wait it out.
The dark haired couple who had started it all, snickered and ran out of the room before they became covered in random food items. They were going to the opening of a gory movie and they didn't have time to change before it started; besides they wanted to see the fireworks first hand.
They paused as they reached the hall that contained the teachers' lounge and coincidentally the doors to the school. They smirked and hid around the corner as they waited for the inevitable.
First there was the sound of the door slamming open, followed closely by the sound of footsteps and then startled screams. Grinning Yusuke and Danielle peered around the corner and began to snicker quietly, trying desperately not to break out into laughter.
The teachers had all run out into the hall as planned, but before they could get even a few feet they slipped on the honey-covered floor courtesy of Kashaku and Rando, and they were now sliding down the hall towards the doors collecting the honey on their butts as they went along.
They were all spinning out of control, trying to stop, but they couldn't. The pair who had slicked the floor with mass amounts of honey had made plenty sure of that! As the teachers reached the end of the hall, they flew out the doors, which just 'happened' to be wide opened, before tumbling down onto the soft grass of the schoolyard.
Immediately Rando and Kashaku shut the large set of double doors behind them before locking them to ensure that the teachers wouldn't be able to escape. Danielle and Yusuke ran around the corner they had been hiding behind and slid gracefully down the honeyed hall on their feet before the crashed lightly into the closed doors. They laughed at their own klutziness before the four pranksters all crowded around the windows to await the other's handiwork that would top off a perfectly executed prank.
They didn't have to wait long before the sprinkler system turned on and began to wet the lawn. Not with water mind you, where would the fun in that be? Oh no, thanks to Kin and Youko the water had been replaced with beer for smell and red dye for color. Those two pranksters were currently sitting in Youko's car at a safe distance away laughing their heads off at the plan's success. And the master minds of the plan(Hiei helped her come up with it) were perched atop the gardener's shed just out of reach of the foul substance that was spraying all over the lawn and the pissed/frantic looking faculty.
Soon the other kids left the cafeteria, their resources gone and they too crowded around the windows to see what it was everyone was laughing at before they saw and broke into laughter themselves.
Eventually the sprinklers shut off revealing a group of very angry and embarrassed teachers who were shivering because of the cold breeze, gagging because of the horrible stench, or just plain ranting because of the prank.
Youko and Kin continued laughing, but when they regained control and were only breaking out into snickers they drove off, it's not like the teachers would actually teach any classes looking, and smelling, like they did.
The group of pranksters that were inside calmly walked out and headed for their cars, they didn't care if they were caught and identified, they didn't even care if they got in a lot of trouble. They waved cheerily at the teachers before snickering and continuing on their way.
Lastly Hiei and Mizuna slid off the top of the roof and landed gracefully in front of the teachers. Their faces were emotionless as they regarded the faculty before their lips quirked up into identical smirks.
"YOU!!! I'LL HAVE YOU EXPELLED FOR THIS!!!!!!!" The vice principal cried shaking an infuriated finger at the stoic couple.
"For what?" Hiei asked with an arrogant smirk plastered onto his face.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to point at people, it's rude." Mizuna added with a mask of practiced innocence.
"You, you hooligans did this!" Cried out another outraged teacher.
"Maybe, maybe not. Either way you have no proof." The blue-eyed girl smiled sweetly. "No jury in the world would convict us. And if you'll excuse us, we have somewhere more urgent to be."
They both gave one final smirk before going to their vehicles. "Hiei, did you pick up the 'baby' we're supposed to be taking care of?"
An annoyed look passed over his features before he scooped up something round and white from his backpack and tossed to Mizuna.
She held in her hands what appeared to be a baby-sized egg in a diaper. "What do we do with this thing again?"
Hiei shrugged. "We treat it like a regular baby... 'feed' it, wash it, burp it, play with it, all that crap."
She looked at him and they exchanged a glance. "Hack it?"
He nodded affirmation. "Can you do it here or do you need some other tools?"
Mizuna shrugged slightly. "It would be easier if I used my tools. I'll take it to my house and work on it after swim class."
Hiei nodded again before speeding off somewhere. The blue-haired teen watched him as he left before leaving herself. "Good work Kohaku... Just like that..." Mizuna beamed down at the little boy as he expertly kicked through the water. Scooping the adorable little boy out of the water she gently placed him down on the edge of the pool.
"Great job, all of you! You're getting so much better!" The little kids all grinned cutely.
"Do you think we'll ever be as good as you Ms. Mizuna?" One of the younger girls asked.
The water demoness smiled at her and nodded. "If you practice hard enough."
"Ms. Mizuna, Ms. Mizuna!!!" She looked up at the little girl who was waving her arm wildly around in the air.
"Yes, Ren?"
"Ms. Mizuna, can you show us a dive before we haft to go? Pwease!?!" She asked cutely while all the other children nodded frantically in agreement.
"Alright... But just then one, your parents are waiting." She pulled herself out of the water and walked over to the high dive.
Walking confidently to the edge of the board, she jumped once before launching herself into the air. She began with a front flip that ended just as gravity began to pull her down, then she began to spin and just before she hit the water she straightened out and entered the water in a perfect dive as usual.
Coming up a few seconds later she managed to catch a few phrases of what the kids were saying about her dive.
"That one's my favorite!" "No, I liked the one she did yesterday!" "But what about that other one she did last week?"
Walking out of the water by using a ladder, she wrung out her long hair before ushering the children inside to meet up with their parents. Closing the door behind the last one, she began to walk back to the pool for a few laps, only to be stopped by the door opening again.
"Ms. Mizuna-" The secretary was cut short by children's voices chanting. "Ms. Mizuna's got a boyfriend!!!" over and over again.
She sweatdropped before stepping inside to see what they were singing about. Standing in a ring of dancing children stood a very ticked looking fire demon.
"Hiei... meet my class, class, meet Hiei." For a second she was worried that he was going to kill the little kids... But instead he picked two of them up.
"Hn. Mizuna, this is my little sister Yukina, and her best friend Kyoko. They're interested in joining your class..."
She smiled at them. "Of course! I'll get them signed up tomorrow, but for now, what do you two say to some ice cream? Hiei's buying!!!"
'She really is a different person when she's around kids...' Hiei noted mentally. Not that it was a bad thing, just different...
: : fin : :
. :Leiko walks into the room, looks at the lawyers who are sobbing at her statues feet, gives them a weird look but otherwise ignores them: .
Leiko: I'm dooooooone Kin-chan, so you can shut up already!!!Kin: FINALLY!!!
Leiko: Next chapter, Kin vs. Youko fans!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Youko fans: Get ready bitch, no one steals out Youko-chan!!!
Kin: That's it. There's going to be a WWF Smack down up in here!!!
Mizuna: Did you just say "up in here"?
Kin: I hate you.
Kashaku: And I get to meet Rando's ex! How fun!!!
Danielle: You're seriously going to hurt that girl aren't you?
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Kashaku: I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about...
Hiei: Read and review, or I'm sending Kyoko to your house to be your little sister's best friend.
Readers: And that would be bad... how?
. :Kyoko randomly appears on a reader's head: .
Kyoko: Nothing, he's just being melodramatic. Bad, bad melodramatic boy!!!