BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty

Written on January 2nd, 2005

Chapter Twenty-Two: Trying to Catch a Fox

"Hey, I have a right to talk to Shuichi if I want. After all I am his-" Rei began but was caught off by Kurama who said, "She's my girlfriend, Maya. And I would appreciate it if you would let go of me." Rei stood there in shock. She was going to say that she was his friend but no, he had to say that she was his girlfriend. What the hell was that all about? She did not remember agreeing to anything or even becoming his girlfriend. Was she drunk when this happened or something? No, that could not be it since she did not drink. Anyways, Rei sighed as she looked at Kurama who was now Maya free and the prep was in a corner crying, as her friends tried to comfort her. "Uh, Kurama, what was that about? I am not your girlfriend. I don't ever remember anything like that happening between us, after all, I just met you."

Before Kurama could explain himself, the bell rang which began class. He smiled innocently at her then took her seat. Rei looked at him in disbelief and went to her seat. 'What a sneaky little fox. He planned this! This is going to be hell now. Kurama said I am his girlfriend now I am going to have to deal with that stupid Maya and most likely everyone else in his fan club. This is definitely going to make some problems.' Rei thought to herself as the teacher began to teach the lesson.

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"Miss Takashi, could you possibly tell me the answer to my question?" Mrs. Mitsuragi, the Ceramics Teacher, asked. Kari immediately sat up in her chair wiping the drool off of the side of her mouth. Yes, Kari Takashi had been caught sleeping during class. Kari laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her neck. "Uh,well.....(RING!) ...There is the bell! Later!"

With that, Kari ran out of the room with her things before the teacher was able to stop her. Rei sighed and shook her head at her sister's actions as she stood up and gathered her things. Everyone else was gathering their things as well except for a select few who were Maya and her friends. They went directly over to Kurama and started talking to him. Rei did not even realize that they were talking to him until her name was mention and Maya began to talk shit on her trying to get Kurama to take back what he had said. Rei's right eye twitched. 'She talking shit about me. Well, two can play at that.'

With that, Rei swung her bag over her shoulder then walked up to Kurama. She and Maya exchanged glares before Rei took a hold of Kurama's arm. Kurama looked at her with a questioning gaze but she was too busy glaring at Maya. "Come on, Shuichi. You said that you would walk me to my next class."

"Oh, that's right. I'm sorry but Rei and I have to go now." Kurama said as he caught onto what Rei was doing. The two left the group of preps and heading out of the classroom. Just as they were about to leave, Rei grabbed onto Hiei's hand and dragged him along with them. Once they were out of the classroom, Rei let go of both Kurama and Hiei then let out a huge sigh. "Man, I hate her! How dare she talk shit about me when she doesn't even know me!" Rei began to rant about how she hated preps and such, as she led the two down the hallways towards her next class. She suddenly turned around and began to walk backwards. She pointed her finger at Kurama. "That reminds me, Fox boy. I got a bone to pick with you."

Kurama chuckled and nervously rubbed the back at her neck. Rei gave him a dirty look before she looked down at her watch. "Oh, god damn it! Well, I am going to have to yell at you later, Fox Boy. I gotta get to my next class. You don't mind showing Hiei where his next class is, do you? Of course, not since you owe me now. Catch you guys at break!" Rei told them quickly before she turned and ran down the hallway, disappearing from their sight.

Kurama let out a relieved sigh then turned and looked at Hiei who was glaring at all the other students looking at him. Kurama had looked over Hiei's schedule sometime during class and knew that the fire apparition had the same class as him. Kari and Toga was also in his class. Kurama led Hiei to their next class, which was another art class. When they entered the room, Kari and Toga came up to them and looked at Kurama with a questioning gaze. "Hey, there's a rumor going around school that you're going out with Rei. You guys haven't even gone out on a date yet!"

"Talking about Rei, what class does she have this hour? I thought she would try to have the same schedule as you." Kurama said as he tried to changed the subject. Kari thought about it and shrugged her shoulders. "You know, I don't really know what she has this hour. She's never really talked about her classes except the ones we share."

"You really know a lot about your sister, baka." Hiei told her sarcastically. Kari glared at him. "Shut it, Shorty. Anyways since none of us know what class my twin has...we're going to go find out!" Kari told them happily and shoved Kurama, Hiei, and Toga out the door before they or the teacher just object. Kurama turned to Kari to tell her it was not such a good idea to look for her sister during class but he stopped when he saw her and Toga. The two of them were now wearing CIA agents' outfits including the black sunglasses. They made fake guns out of their hands and began to walk down the hallway, humming the 007 theme song. Kurama sweatdropped while Hiei just stared at the two like they were idiots.

So that is what they did, Kari and Toga went around acting like idiots while Kurama and Hiei looked into the each of the classroom through the classroom door windows looking for Rei. Finally, they got to the hallway where the band room and choir room were located. Kari and Toga stopped their secret agent act and stared down the hallway with mouths agape. "No way. Rei so would not be in one of these classes. Last time I checked, she didn't like choir and she quit being in band when we moved to America."

"Well, these are the only class rooms that we haven't checked on the first floor of the school." Toga said as he readjusted the sunglasses on his face. Kari shrugged her shoulders and sighed. "I guess we might as well as check in these rooms but I'll be surprised if she really is in one of these rooms."

The four of them went over to the band room and looked in. The class was going on like nothing was out of the ordinary. In fact, they were having a play test as we speak and one person was playing the flute. The sound was soothing to Kurama and Hiei. It was Garnet's theme from Final Fantasy Nine. (A/N: Do not own, wish I did. I only a copy of FF9! WOot!) The four of them just stood there looking through the window until the person was done playing the flute. The band teacher stood up and clapped his hands. "Very good, Miss Takashi. I must say that would have to be the best I've heard that piece of music played."

"Uh, thank you, Mr. Brightup." The person replied. (A/N: Mr. Brightup is a real person so I do not own him. Oh, and Rei plays the flute since she is based on me and I can play the flute.) The four outside the classroom just stood there in silence. They had just found Rei. Kari and the others got away from the door and started walking towards their classroom. "Wow, I never knew that Rei would start playing the flute. Especially not tell me about it."

" How could you not know?! You live with the girl!! You should hear her if she's practicing or see her flute in her room!" Toga pointed out as he took off his sunglasses and placed them in the front pocket of his secret agent outfit. Kari just glared at him. "Hey, we're allowed to keep secrets from each other. In fact there are in fact plenty of things that Rei doesn't know like the fact that I have almost every single InuYasha action figure including Sesshomaru and I know she would kill to have that."

Suddenly, Toga was tackled from behind and the next thing everyone knew Rei was standing on the Toga's back looking around frantically. "I heard the word Sesshomaru." Rei said as she continued to look around. Kari and Kurama sweatdropped while Toga frantically tried to get Rei off of his back. Kari finally just knocked her sister off of Toga and gave her a questioning look. "How the hell did you know that we were out here and how the hell did you hear me talking about Sesshomaru?"

"Well, I wouldn't have even known that you guys were out here if Hiei didn't have to throw in his own opinion about my play test. What the hell were you guys doing outside the band room in the first place? Were you spying on me?" Rei asked as she looked at Kari and Toga's outfits. Kari looked around with shifty eyes. "No....Anyways, why didn't you ever tell us that you were in band. It's not like it's that big of deal."

"Uh, well, I didn't want anyone to know because I'm not good at playing the flute plus it would just give Maya another thing to start crap on." Rei said then began to mutter about stupid preps. After a while, Rei stopped muttering and went back to talking to the group. "Anyways, to get to the real subject, where the hell is Sesshomaru? Or are you talking about Sesshomaru? Confused yet? Anyways, where is it? You're hiding something from me and I know it."

"Uh, no, you're just paranoid." Kari told her and the two of them got into another argument. Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke just watched the three of them while Toga was muttering about his sunglasses as he removed them from his front pocket only to find them to be broken. Suddenly, a beeping noise and they all went quite. The beeping noise was coming from Yusuke's pocket so everyone looked at him. Kari raised an eyebrow. "Hey, Yusuke, your pants are beeping."

End of Chapter Twenty-Two

HieiKitty: ::Looks out the window:: Man, I hate the winter.

Youko: Hey, at least the power has came back on. Man, it was so fucking cold in this house.

HieiKitty: Yeah, I know.

Kuronue: How would you know if you weren't even here until the power did come back on? You were at work.

Hiei: Stop complaining.

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