I like to thank my only reviewer ,yokonyomi398,very much. You are the one that inspires me to finish this. I see the errors in the first chapter and I'll have to get to revise it sometime in the near future. I'm glad you like the second the chapter so much! The thing held in Hiei's hand was the tear gem that was given to him by Yukina. And about not seeing the rest of the series, I understand. I didn't have cable for awhile and had to buy most of the episodes, I missed quite a bit anyway.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.

Now on to the chapter!

Kuwabara sighed to himself silently. It was a beautiful day outside, and here he was in school taking an exam. He looked down at the sheet of paper that filled with equations that made just as much sense to him as Latin words and at the few miserable answers he managed to put down. His left eye twitched in annoyance and he looked up quickly at the clock in front of the class. Great…he only had about 20 more minutes and he wasn't even near half-way down with the test. His teacher gave him a look and Kuwabara suppressed an irated growl and looked back down at his test.

He had studied his ass off for this test. Hours of studying, cram school and late night drills reminded his weary body of all that time spent. He had left his house that morning, confident that he would pass this test with flying colors. But now…

He looked down at his still blank paper. He put the tip of his pencil to the paper, stracthing the lead to the paper to make a little mark.

What was keeping his mind from focusing on the test? Nothing was wrong, nothing had gone wrong in the past couple months. In reality it had a bit boring. There weren't any real problems with Demon World anymore and the Human World wasn't thrown into any great perils that the great Kuwabara Kazuma had to right.

Maybe that was it. Maybe the fact that there really anymore danger that he felt the need to take care off, made his mind drift off into la la land. He would have thought that, that would have been a good thing. He'll admit that it was great playing the hero and that his chest swelled with pride anytime he and the others had overcome an adversary in victory.

On that thought when was the last he had even fought with anyone? It had been all school work for the carrot-top. He hadn't been in much contact with any of the guys really. Only with Keiko and Botan every once in awhile but that was because of his weekend visits with his Yukina. He talked to Kurama every once in awhile but it was usually through the phone and he was usually asking the red head about a school related topic. And he hadn't talked to Yusuke at all. The raven haired punk seemed to be busy with something or other.

He had to snort at that. How could a person be busy if you didn't go to school and or worked? As far as he knew the other boy was loafing around the town.

His teacher announced that there was only ten minutes left and Kuwabara hurriedly scribbled some type of answer for a few problems. But soon after that his thoughts drifted again.

He wondered how Uremashi has been. He had talked to Keiko and she hadn't acted or spoken of anything going wrong with him. In his opinion Yusuke was exactly the same. It was weird. Here everything had changed from when he was fourteen. He was in a pretty good school, going regularly getting decent grades and yet the one person that shaped what his life had been up till recently was exactly the same. It didn't make sense, like a paradox or a rip in time, or something that only a person like Kurama could say out loud and still get was he was saying.

He had to wonder how it all made Uremashi feel. To live in a world that had changed so much since the last time you were there and to have everyone that know have and changed and yet you stay the same. Despite his ruff attitude towards the other guy, Kuwabara did consider him a close friend. He may have even gone as far as considering him his best friend. His actions said that all by themselves. From the time he gave him his last bit of energy when they fought the Saint Beasts, to the time he faked his death to get Yusuke to be stronger, and finally to the time with Sensui and the way he acted after watching him die.

Yeah, the two of them were friends. Though they would never admit it to anyone.

"Time is up, please put down your pencils and turn your test paper faced down. The test is over, you may all leave."

He cursed, this time not so quietly and quickly scribbled something down for the last answers. He got up from his seat and exited the class and followed the other students as they walked towards the doors of the schools. He passed by several people, discussing what they thought that would possible get on the test and talking about the relief that it was over. Kuwabara had passed a few people in his class that had asked him the same, and he put on his bravado act for them before saying his goodbyes and heading home.

He sure as hell hoped he got a passing grade. If not he could kiss his hide goodbye, because his sister would sure as hell, murder him for spacing out during a test.

Even with that thought in mind, he left school in a slightly happy note, him musing over his adventures and the people he began relationships with.

Kurama, the sly fox demon who was as deadly as he was attractive. Despite his looks Kuwabara knew not to ever see him as weak. He knew that he could always count on the red head and considered him a very good friend.

Hiei, the short pain in the ass fire demon. He and the demon butted heads plenty of times and there were instances when he was ready to strangle the other man. If he could have ever caught him. But despite the dislike they both held for each other, Kuwabara knew that there were some redeemable qualities to him. Yukina seemed to think he was okay and how could his lovely Yukina be wrong in a judgment of character?

And last but definitely not least was Uremashi. His forever rival and friend. It didn't matter if he would never defeat Yusuke in a fight, winning was never his reason for trading blows with him.

A grin came to his face and he looked up at the sky that was turning from a sky blue to a fiery orange. The sky, like his life was every changing going from one to the next. But no matter how many times it changed you could always count on it always being there…

He quickened his pace to home, eager to drop his stuff off and get done his homework. The quicker he got that done the more time he would have for more pleasurable things.

And what was more pleasurable than having a good old rumble with Uremashi? If he called at the right time the raven haired punk just might answer his phone and at least listen to his request.

And that's the end of the third installment. I definitely got two at least two more planed. I can't forget our raven haired hero and I'm definitely doing one where the boys meet. But I'm wondering if I should another in the perspective another character.

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