BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty
Written on November 6th, 2005
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Back at School
"Argh! Where the hell can they be! School starts any minute and if Rei doesn't get here on time, she won't come at all!" Kari said as she looked from the classroom clock and the classroom door. She, Toga, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and even Hiei were sitting in their desk waiting. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Toga were discussing something while Hiei sat by himself, annoyed as ever. Kari just sat there, waiting for the arrival of her sister impatiently. Toga turned to her with a smirk. "Hey, Kari, you're acting like a mom again."
Kari growled and glared at him. She turned her attention back to the classroom door when Toga just shook his head and went back to talking with Yusuke and Kuwabara. A relieved but peeved look came on to her look when two familiar faces came through the door just as the bell rang. It also seemed that Kari wasn't the only person relieved to see them, or at least one of them. All the girls in the class who admired Kurama, sighed and almost immediately started to get his attention. He just smiled at them and took his seat. Behind him, Rei walked slowly to her seat, looking down at the ground.
"Hey, where the hell have you been!" Kari asked her twin with a questioning and peeved look. Rei looked up at her and her sister could see that her face was flushed. The younger twin, Rei, rubbed the back of her neck nervously. "Well, I slept in again so we had to run here. Sorry about worrying you, Kari."
"Hmph. I wasn't worried. I knew that would happen." Kari said with a scoff and looked away. Yusuke just laughed and came up beside Kari, throwing an arm around her shoulder. "Don't listen to this liar. She was fussing about the whole situation. Like Toga said earlier, she was sounding like a mother again."
"Yusuke..." Kari growled as she turned her head and glared at him, one eye twitching slightly. Yusuke took his arm away from her and back away to his seat. Rei sweatdropped and turned her attention onto the teacher as class began. As she and the rest of the class did this, none of them saw that two people didn't follow them. Once again, Kurama and Hiei were throwing glares at each other.
After three hours of three classes, it was time for lunch. And of course there was a few people who were excited about this; the twins especially. They danced and sang the whole to the cafeteria with Toga while the others just followed them. Once in the cafeteria, they quickly ordered their food and then waited impatiently for the others to get theirs. "Come on, we're hungry!"
"What she said!" Rei agreed with her sister. Toga probably would have agreed if he hadn't already started pigging out while just standing there. Once their entire group had their food, they headed for the outside tables. Yusuke, Kari, and Kuwabara sat on one side of the table while Toga, Rei, and Kurama sat on the other. Hiei, on the other hand, immediately took off to who know where. Kuwabara made a face when he saw this. "Where the hell is Shorty going? He couldn't at least stay and eat?"
"Wow, Kuwabara. I didn't know that you cared so much for Hiei." Yusuke joked which got Kari and Toga laughing while Kuwabara started arguing with him. During the whole time, both Rei and Kurama stayed quiet. Neither had told them what had happened the night before concerning Hiei. When she didn't hear her sister laugh along, Kari looked over at Rei. "Hey, Rei, is something wrong? You're being quiet today. It's kind of creepy."
"Well, thanks, Kari. At least now I know that it's creepy when I'm quiet. And no, nothing's wrong. I'm just still a little tired." Rei told her sister in a convincing manner. Kari stared at her for a little bit longer before going back to talk to Yusuke and Kuwabara. Since Kari brought this to attention, now Toga was looking over at Rei questioningly. He leaned over to her and whispered in her ear. "Does this have something to do with Hiei? Maybe Kurama? Or another guy?"
"What makes you think that!" Rei suddenly squeaked and everyone turned to look at her. She laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her neck. She then punched Toga in the arm and threw him a glare. Toga just responded with an expression that looked as if he didn't know what he had done. Suddenly, a smile crept on to Yusuke's face. "Oh, I got why Rei's acting so weird today. She and Kurama must have had done IT last night. No wonder why we couldn't find them."
"WHAT!" Rei, Kari, and Kurama all said in unison and with wide eyes. The three others cracked up laughing and the twins made faces. "It's so scary how those three are alike, huh, Rei?"
"Yup. They're like brothers." Rei muttered as she tried to erase what Yusuke said out of her mind. She slept with Kurama last night but she didn't SLEEP with him. Err..No matter how you worded it, it still sounded wrong and gave the wrong expression. At least only she and Kurama knew about what happened in her apartment last night. And that last thought made it sound ever more wrong.
"Hey, she's blushing. It must be true!" Yusuke said laughing while he pointed at Rei's face. Rei was indeed blushing slightly but now she looked like she was about to tear Yusuke limb from limb. A hand rested on her shoulder to stop her from doing anything and Kurama spoke up. "Yusuke, I can assure you that nothing happened like that last night. We were in two different places last night. I went home and then Rei went back to her apartment."
Both twins made faces. 'Liar.'
"Hmph. You, of course, have to ruin our fun, Kurama." Yusuke said with a scoff not noticing the looks on the faces of Kari and Rei. Almost immediately, Yusuke went onto a different subject and Rei was safe from being accused of doing anything else. But still, her sister was ONCE AGAIN looking at her suspiciously. Kari knew, of course, that Kurama stayed at the apartment with Rei but she didn't know anything that could have happened after the doors closed. With this thought, her eyes went wide. Rei, noticing the looks she was receiving from her sister, kicked Kari slightly underneath the table. "Kari, I need to talk to you."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming." Kari muttered as the both of them stood up with their trash and left the boys behind. Throwing away their trash as they entered the building, the two walked back towards the classroom. Kari burped and then rested her hands on the back of her head. "So, Rei, what did you want to talk to me about? Just don't tell me if Yusuke was actually right about you and Kurama."
"Hey, what kind of person do you think I am? I'm not going to do that so early in my life and so recklessly. I'm not stupid." Rei said with a scoff. Kari just rolled her eyes and waited for her sister to start talking. Rei sighed and started. "Well, last night when we had that attack on the temple and that girl cast my mind into darkness or something like that, I learned things that I don't want to believe. You see, it basically all comes done to Hiei."
Kari wanted to say something here but didn't. She knew that her sister didn't need it at the moment so she kept her mouth shut and just listened.
"Well, I know that you told me that he wasn't good for me and part of me feels like I should agree. Last night, I found out that Hiei doesn't see me when he looks at me. He sees his ex-lover, the person I'm the reincarnation of; Dusk. At first, I couldn't believe what I found out and I didn't want to. But when I told this to Kurama and he didn't respond, not even to comfort me or to reassure me, I knew it must be true. So I guess in the end, you were right, Kari. And I'm sorry." By now, Rei was looking down at the ground as she talked and walked. Kari looked at her sister in a sympathic way then smiled slightly.
"Hey, what kind of sister would I be if I shoved everything I was right about in your face. Don't worry about it. The only advice that I can give you right now is that you should probably try to forget about it as much as you can. There's no denying that you'll probably have to be around Hiei for a while and you don't want to feel down every time." Kari told her as she thought about it. Her small smile grew bigger. "Hey, I got it! Why don't we go out tonight to have some fun? You know, just the two of us. We haven't done anything like that since we moved here."
"Sound's great. As long as you don't think that you're going to make me pay for everything." Rei said as she gave her sister a look. Kari laughed nervously and waved her off. "Of course not. I'll just hit up one of our friends for money. I bet Toga will lend me some."
"Doubt it." Rei muttered with a smirk. Kari glared at her and hit her in the arm. The two rounded around the corner and immediately Kari ran into someone. And it wasn't exactly the kind of person the twins like to talk to. In fact, Kari had run into the editor of the school newspaper. There was nothing wrong with that, of course. It was just that this editor was an extremely peppy girl who loved to be friends with everyone.
"Oh! I'm so sorry! ...wait...You're those two new girls! Do you mind me asking you some question for an article for the next issue of the newspaper? I'm Mina Haruno by the way." The girl told them as looked at them hopefully. Rei nodded her head in agreement as she grabbed a hold of her sister who was trying to get away quietly. "Sure, go ahead."
Mina smiled happily as she produced a tape recorder from her bag. "Okay, first things first. Your names?"
"Reina Takashi."
"Hikari Takashi."
"You're both second years, right?"
"Yup."
"Okay, as the whole school knows, the Halloween Dance is just a week away. Are you two going to go?"
"Duh." Both twins said in unison.
"Do you two have dates?"
"Nope." They once again answered at the same time. Mina nodded at this and was about to go on with the next question when she actually realized what they said. She then looked at them questioningly. "Wait, I thought you were going out with Yusuke, and you with Shuichi."
"Wait just a second. I can understand about Rei and Shuichi, but who said anything about me and Yusuke going out?" Kari asked while Rei threw her a look. Mina opened her mouth to say something but shut it.
"I told her that." A voice from behind her said. Kari's right eye began to twitch as she recognized the voice. She slowly turned around and saw that Yusuke and Kuwabara were standing there. Kari gave him a questioning look then glared at him while pointing. "LIES!"
"Well, you are going to go o the dance with me, right?" Yusuke asked with a raised brow. Kari scoffed and looked away. "I guess."
"But what about you?" Mina said as she turned her attention onto the younger twin. "I heard that you were dating Shuichi but you were going to the dance with one of the new students...uh, what was his name? Um...Jaganshi, isn't it?"
Rei just stood there for a moment before smiling slightly. "I can't say anything right now about Shuichi's and mine relationship. He's taking Maya to the dance while I was SUPPOSED to go with Hiei. Since me and Hiei have had some disagreements, I decided that I'm just going to go alone. Hiei didn't want to go at all anyways. Shuichi already had a date so I can't just ask him, can I?"
"I guess...well, thanks for letting me interview you." Mina said before running off somewhere, most likely to tell someone what she had just learned. Rei sighed before turning to the others. Kari was just looking at her, not knowing what she was supposed to do, while Yusuke and Kuwabara looked as clueless as ever. "Well, let's go to our next class. We still have about five minutes so let's just hang out in there."
"Lead the way, Rei." Kari said as she bowed mockingly. Rei threw her a look and hit her in the head then ran off down the hall when Kari started chasing her. Yusuke and Kuwabara just exchanged confused looks before going after the twins. When they caught up with the two, they were outside the classroom, just standing there in the doorway. Kuwabara looked over the two, being the tallest, to see that Hiei was standing before them, inside the classroom. It seemed that Hiei didn't really care that the others were there since his attention was on Rei, who he was glaring at. "Why were you with the kitsune last night?"
End of Chapter Thirty-Nine
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