A/N: Completely random chapter! Some OOC, some wtf-ness, you know, usual weird stuff. I personally hate this chapter; it's so dumb. Oh well. Please read and review!
7. School's Out Dance and the Sock-Puppet Anti-Depressant
"And in other news," said Keiko, the student council president, over the loudspeaker the next morning, "we will be having an all-school dance in two weeks, celebrating the upcoming end of the school year. It is a formal dance, and all are welcome to attend. Tickets will cost five dollars…"
The students in Kurama's homeroom class all starting talking, drowning Keiko's voice out. Once there was news of a dance, there was always a big race to ask Kurama to it. Kurama sighed, looking away as a group of girls stared at him, their eyes all showing the same desire to be with him. But Kurama already knew who he was going to ask to the dance…. He was going to ask the mysterious stalker girl whom he had grown to take a liking too….
"Suichi! Oh, Suichi!" As Kurama walked out of the classroom for his first class, what seemed like every girl in the universe ran out to confront him. Kurama felt like he needed some mace and a heavy crowbar right about now…
"Suichi! Come to the dance with me!" one girl in red pigtails begged, tugging on his shirtsleeve.
"No! Come with ME!" cried a girl on his other, putting her arms around his shoulders.
"No me! Me!" The shouts of a hundred girls filled the hallways of the school, all of them begging to be the one Kurama took to the dance.
Kurama tried to push them all away, but more just kept coming, all of them asking the same question. Even one of the boys from the next class asked him! Kurama backed away from all the girls, thus trapping himself in a corner. Yusuke stood at the opposite end of the hallway, howling with laughter as Kurama tried to stop the stampede of girls trying to get at him.
"Wait, wait, everybody… STOP!" Kurama shouted, making the whole hall fall silent. "Everybody, I just want to say something."
Every girl crossed her fingers and held her breath, hoping that he would say one of their names as the girl he would take to the dance….
"I'm not taking any of you to the dance," Kurama said. The girls (and boy) all gasped with horror. A few even started crying. "Wait, it's not that I don't… It's not that I don't like any of you," he continued, not wanting to sound mean, "but I'm already taking someone else."
The girls all broke out into an angry mob. "Who? Who are you taking?" they all demanded. "Why won't you take me?"
Kurama just shook his head. "I'm not going to tell," he said simply. "Now if you'll please excuse me, I have to get to class…."
I wish there was some way I could tell the girl I want to meet her… Kurama thought as he waited for everyone to leave the school that afternoon. He didn't want anybody to see him talking to the strange girl….
He went outside, waiting in the parking lot where he had first met her, hoping that she would, by some off chance, happen to be around. He hoped she would come, and quickly; he had made arrangements with Yusuke, Botan, and Keiko to go over to Kuwabara's house and cheer him up. He hadn't been at school; Yusuke said he was too depressed over his breakup with Yukina.
A quarter of an hour passed, and the girl did not show up. Kurama was disappointed. He was so sure that she would come. After all, a dance had been mentioned. Didn't she want to be the first to ask Kurama…?
Sighing, he began walking to Kuwabara's house. Halfway there, his sister, Luna came running up behind him.
Out of breath, Luna grabbed onto his arm and panted, "I've… got… something… for you…" Luna put a crumpled up piece of paper into Kurama's hand and gasped for more breath. "And now, I will die…" Luna pretended to keel over, letting her brother catch her and throw her into a nearby fence.
"Thanks for the note," Kurama said, smiling as he recognized the same stationery that his stalker had used on Monday. "I've gotta go…"
Luna brushed the hair out of her eyes and grumbled, "You didn't have to throw me at the fence…."
Once Luna was out of sight, Kurama opened the note. In the same impeccably neat handwriting, the note said:
Dear Suichi,
I'm sorry I couldn't meet you after school today. I had a dentist appointment. Please meet me later this evening in your backyard at 10:00pm.
Love,
Anonymous.
Dentist appointment? thought Kurama excitedly. Who do I know that had a dentist appointment this afternoon…?
Kurama thought the whole way to Kuwabara's house, but nobody he knew had a dentist appointment today. Sighing, Kurama pushed open the door to Kuwabara's house.
"Kuwabara-kun?" Kurama entered Kuwabara's room where everyone else from school was surrounding Kuwabara's bed where he was lying.
"Hey, Kurama," said Yusuke. "You're nice, maybe you can cheer this guy up…?"
Kurama thought for a minute. "Do you have any socks?"
Botan, Keiko, and Yusuke stared at him oddly. "Socks?" questioned Yusuke.
"That's right." Kurama nodded. Kuwabara heaved himself off of his bed and threw three pairs of old, dirty socks at Kurama. Kurama took a permanent marker and drew three faces on the socks: one resembling Hiei, another resembling Yusuke, and the other resembling Kuwabara. Putting the Kuwabara sock on his left hand and the Hiei sock on another, Kurama began playing with the new sock puppets.
"Day One," he said. "Fire Demon versus Kuwabara."
"Good morning, Hiei," said the Kuwabara puppet.
"You're stupid," said the Hiei puppet.
"Oh yeah? Well take this!" Kurama took an orange highlighter and drew a long line on the sock; it was supposed to be a Spirit Sword. Kurama made the Kuwabara puppet jump on the Hiei puppet and pretend to slash him to pieces with the "Spirit Sword". The Hiei puppet screamed and then fell limp. Kurama pulled off the Hiei puppet, tossed it aside, and said, "Hiei defeated by Kuwabara!"
Kuwabara smiled. Keiko and Botan giggled. Yusuke just stared, thinking, That would never happen… Kurama was thinking the same thing. Good thing Hiei's not watching…
Kurama put the Yusuke sock puppet on his hand and said, "Day Two: The Ultimate Showdown, the REAL Punk at Black Panda High."
Yusuke and Kuwabara both smiled egotistically. Kurama smiled, noting their amusement. The Yusuke sock puppet hopped over to the Kuwabara puppet and said, "Yo, Kuwabara! Wanna fight?"
"Yeah!" said the Kuwabara puppet. "Bring it on, punk!"
Kurama drew a big blue circle on the Yusuke puppet, representing the Shotgun attack. Yusuke whispered to Keiko, "See? I got my attacks just they way you like them. All pretty and stuff like that… Kuwabara's weapon is butt ugly."
"Oh, Yusuke…"
The Yusuke puppet advanced at the Kuwabara one, shouting, "SHOTGUN!" The Kuwabara puppet did a backflip and showed off some more gymnastics that the real Kuwabara could never do in a million years. The Yusuke puppet advanced again, but the Kuwabara puppet was ready. The Kuwabara puppet stuck his Spirit Sword in the Yusuke puppet, and the Yusuke puppet fell over. Kuwabara's puppet hopped up and down shouting, "Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I'm king of the world!"
The real Kuwabara sat up, grinning from ear to ear. "We all know that's true," he said proudly. "I am Kuwabara the Man, Number ONE punk at Black Panda High."
Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say, buddy…"
"Well, it looks like somebody's okay now…" said Botan, giggling.
"Sock puppets…" mused Keiko. "The perfect anti-depressant. Who knew…?"
"That was complete and utter absurdity," said a voice from the windowsill.
Everyone glanced over and saw Hiei sitting on the windowsill, a displeased look on his face. "Kurama, that was the dumbest thing I have ever seen you do," he said. "I can't believe you lowered yourself to such a level as to playing with… what do you humans call them? Sock puppets…?"
"Well, it worked," said Kurama indignantly. "It got Kuwabara out of his depression."
"I think we would have all been better off if Kuwabara stayed home all day, became more depressed and eventually killed himself," Hiei growled.
"Oh, stop it, Hiei," said Botan.
"Um, just to clear things up," Kurama interrupted, spotting the death glare Hiei was giving him. "This was a fictional story…"
NEXT TIME - INVITATION AND KUWABARA'S NEXT VICTIM!
Reviewer Responses!
Deus X Machina: Thanks. This fic is already all the way written out, and it does kind of stray from the main subject every now and then (like now), but I'll keep that in mind for future fics. Also, this is actually a combo of two fic ideas that I had: a Kurama x Stalker and Everyone Else x Everyone Else, if you know what I mean. ;) Thanks for the review!
Sami Kurama's Stalker: Yeah, this chapter was a bit random. :sarcasm: Just a tiny bit random. /sarcasm: I have a few chapters are are quite random… Oo; Thanks for the review!
eilchik: Yep, Yukina is clueless as to Hiei's true identity. I wonder how it all works out… :ponders: Kurama x Genkai is going to bug me all day unless I do something with it… -.- Thanks a lot. Just kiddn'. Thanks for the review!
heartluv: Yep, the day she finds out – IF she finds out – will be rather interesting, no? Could be Shizuru. Could be anybody. Who knows! n.n You'll just have to keep reading to find out. Thanks very much for the review!
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