Sakura: GodDAMN!!! It's FREEZING!
Hiei: (shivers) I... know....
Sakura: My house is weird.... it's never warm in the morning- it's probably warmer outside!
Hiei: ...
Kurama: Well, it WAS the coldest night of the year for MA.
Sakura: So?! It's still GODDAMN COLD!!! >
Hiei: Stop (sneezes) complaining and do the disclamer!!
Sakura: You suck Hiei...
Hiei: I know.
Kurama: (big sigh) Anyways...
Disclamer: Me no owny YYH thinks yes. See? I don't. That was Duncan speak- he be my puppy.
Duncan: I have a geeky name!
Sakura: Me know, meh mum named ya. In Ningenkai that is.
Duncan: You were gonna name me Troy!
Sakura: Me like that name!!!!
Hiei: Unique.
Kurama: Interesting! Troy from the myth?
Sakura: Exactly! THANK YOU!
Hiei: (sneezes 3 times) Just... read on...
Sakura: STORY START!
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"You are going to go to school with Kurama."
"NANI?!"
"School....but...I've never been to school before!" muttered Achiko.
"That's why Kurama's going to be there. It's only for a week! Don't worry!" Botan tried reassuring the freaked wolf girl.
"Why though?" she asked, her eyes pooling with confusion and innocence.
"Oh my God... you are too cute, Achiko!" Botan cooed and everyone (Hiei too) nodded in concurrence. They were avoiding the question. Achiko was about to ask when-
"Botan!" shouted the closed laptop.
"Ack! Your laptop is talking!!" shouted Achiko, pointing at the laptop.
"It's just Koenma," muttered Botan, opening the laptop quickly and putting on a false smile for the camera.
"Hello Koenma!" she said.
"Ah, Botan, have you told Achiko the news?" the screen asked, a picture of the child ruler popping on screen.
"Er...yes... she doesn't seem to be taking it as well as you thought, Koenma!" Botan said, smiling sheepishly.
Achiko pushed Botan aside, "School?! Why the hell am I going to school? I'm smart enough already!"
"Good, if you're smart enough then you won't fail." Replied Koenma.
"You suck Koenma!" she retorted, extending her middle finger.
Botan gasped and pulled the hand away from the camera on top of the laptop. Koenma's eyes were popping out of his head.
"Despite your questionable gesture, you are going to school! And that's final, Achiko!" Shouted Koenma, glaring at the wolf girl, and she glared dangerously back- then the screen went blank.
"Damn him!" shouted Achiko, and she stormed out of the room, shortly followed by Hiei and everyone else.
"It's not that bad! Kurama says school is fun!" Botan said, trying to make Achiko feel a bit better.
"Kurama's a genius too though..." Keiko added.
Achiko glared at the wall, "Gods, I hate this!" she shouted, "When do I start?"
"Er...today?" squeaked Botan.
"To...day?!" Achiko instantly ran upstairs to Kurama's room and changed into blue jeans and a black t-shirt.
As she ran downstairs, she noticed everyone else was waking up, she ran back upstairs and brushed her teeth and hair. Again, she ran downstairs and smack into Hiei.
"Ow! Baka!" he shouted.
"Who're you to talk!" she shouted back, frantically searching for her shoes.
She grabbed her skater shoes she had bought on her day out to I Party, and shoved the black shoes on her feet. Achiko hopped over to the living room and pestered Kurama until he was fully awake, then followed him around expectantly.
"She was so pissed about goin' to school- and now she seems so excited!" said Botan, a sweat drop forming on her head.
"That's what I call a major mood-swing!" added Keiko, and Yukina nodded.
"What time does school start?" shouted Achiko.
"7:00 am!" shouted Botan, looking at the clock, '6:55 am'
"Oh... shoot... Achiko! Hurry up!" Keiko shouted, as she started getting ready to go to her own school. Yusuke and Kuwabara followed suit, and Hiei sat back and watched.
"Kurama! HURRY!" Achiko said, pushing him down the stairs, "Bye guys!" She shouted to everyone left in the house, and then ran out the door with Kurama.
"Yusuke! Kuwabara! We're going to be late as well!" said Keiko, running out after Achiko and Kurama.
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As the Achiko and Kurama were running, he clued her in as much as he could.
"My name is Suichi at school! It's okay if you slip up a few times and use the same excuse that you did at the grocery store. Try to stay away from the fan girls- if you can!" he warned, and Achiko nodded.
Finally the pair made it to Meiou School and they quickly made their way inside the school. Kurama sleepily dragged Achiko to the office, shoving her inside the door.
"Good morning!" he greeted the secretary, earning a smile.
"Good morning Minamino-kun!" she replied, and then looked to the girl beside him who was curiously looking around her.
"She's an exchange student- she's been living with me and my mother for a few days, and with Halloween, we totally forgot to tell the school! So sorry!" Kurama flashed another smile at the secretary, who instantly wrote him and her a pass- and giving Achiko a pile of books and notebooks, and a school messenger bag and lastly, a school uniform.
"I'll be needing a name to store into the computer." Spoke the secretary, looking expectantly at Achiko.
"Achiko!" she said smiling.
"And a last name..." the secretary tapped in Achiko's first name.
"Last name? Um... Kokoro?" Achiko thought of the first word that came to mind.
"Kokoro? How unusual." Replied the secretary but typed it in all the same.
And with that the secretary sent them on their way, placing Achiko in the same classes as 'Minamino-kun.'
"Kokoro? That's all you could think of?" asked Kurama as they made their way to homeroom.
"Well, it's cool! It means spirit, or mind. See- it's really cool!" Achiko smiled, shoving her books into the messenger bag and depositing her uniform in Kurama's locker.
"You're going to have to wear that, you know." Kurama pointed out.
"Screw it- I ain't wearin' that!" she said, pointing angrily at the red and cream uniform.
"Oh well," Kurama sighed and then closed and locked his locker.
The pair made their way to homeroom, stepping quickly inside. Achiko was about to follow Kurama to his seat but was stopped by the teacher.
"Well, hello there! Who might you be?" asked the teacher, smiling.
"Ano..." she said, looking over at Kurama for help.
"Her name is Achiko Kokoro, she's an exchange student from somewhere outside of Tokyo." Kurama had saved her! Achiko looked thankfully at her friend and bowed to the class.
"Ano, it's very nice to meet you!" Achiko said, and everyone replied, "O hayou gozaimasu, Kokoro-san!"
Achiko smiled at the greeting and went to sit next to the empty desk next to Kurama.
"So, how's the school so far?" asked the teacher, and Achiko looked at Kurama, then answered.
"Well, it's very nice," she started, and then thought of the one problem... "However, I find the uniforms questionable. Making girls wear short skirts as school uniforms is just some manga-ka's perverse way of pleasure." She glared at the floor.
"Ano... well that's a very unique way of thinking of our uniforms..." said the teacher shakily.
Then the bell rang- causing Achiko to jump three feet in the air.
"It's just the bell, it happens at the end of every class, Achiko-chan." Kurama said.
"She's never heard a bell before?" asked the teacher as they passed.
"She went to a very old school, the bell sounded like a soft alarm clock there." Kurama explained, and the teacher nodded in understanding.
The rest of the day went by pretty quick, Achiko even took a test they were having that day- and passed it with flying colors! A smirk crossed her face when the paper was returned after it's grading, 'That'll show Koenma!' she thought.
Finally, it was lunchtime. Achiko eagerly followed Kurama everywhere he went, and followed his advice on good and bad food. She ended up with an apple and a slice of pizza, food she was already familiar with.
Of course, there were drinks, of which Achiko ended up with a steady addiction to Pink Lemonade.
Achiko and Kurama found a seat at what was an empty table, but it was soon overcrowded with girls. Achiko and Kurama were still squished together- much to the girls dismay, and Achiko peacefully tried to eat her pizza while having her eardrums blown out by the high pitched squeaks of Kurama's rabid fan girls.
"Suichi... my ears are killing me!" Achiko said at the end of lunch, "Will I ever be able to hear again?!"
"Of course you will Achiko-chan! I can still hear after all!" Kurama smiled and walked the wolf girl to their math class.
"Why do you keep calling me that? What's with the 'chan'?" she asked, eyeing her friend.
"Well, if I just called you 'Achiko' you'd get attacked by the fan girls," he sighed.
"Why?"
"Well... If I called you by only your first name, it would mean that we were very, very close friends. As in dating, or married.... Etc." he said, blushing as he explained it.
"Me no gets it... but whatever!" she said and stepped into the math classroom, followed by the smiling Kurama.
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Finally, the day had ended.
"It wasn't that bad, now was it?" Kurama prodded the tired wolf girl.
"Nope, it was a hell of a lot worse!" Achiko retorted.
The walk home was uneventful, Yusuke walked home with the two- going to visit Kurama and Hiei met them at his house.
"Hey Hiei!" Achiko greeted, and everyone else soon after.
"Hn"
"Come on in Hiei!" invited Achiko, smiling as he slowly followed.
They all entered Kurama's room, Kurama working on homework, and Yusuke and Achiko watching TV.
"Achiko, we have homework to do you know." Kurama lazily informed the wolf girl as she stared happily into the TV.
"We didn't have homework at my old school, so I don't know what the hell it is." Achiko replied, still gazing at the TV.
"Homework is work from school that you do at home. It's to make sure you remember stuff you were supposed to learn at school," Kurama mused, stuck on a math problem.
Achiko sighed and crawled over to Kurama, looking over his shoulder.
"You can't do that, Kurama." She said, "You have to take the 6 not the 5 to multiply this... and you get this!" Achiko smiled at her work.
Kurama looked shocked, appalled, scared even.
"That was... amazing!" he said, going over the problem, "You should do the homework, at that rate it would take you but a few minutes."
Achiko sighed, knowing he was right, and grabbed her messenger bag. As she quickly free-styled the sea of homework, her congrats was a cookie.
"Yay! Cookies!" shouted Achiko, smiling and bouncing as Kurama said he'd reward her... hard work...With a batch of cookies.
As Achiko and Yusuke did the Cookie Dance, Kurama put his stuff in his bag, and stood up to make a batch of cookies.
"Cookies!" Achiko was ecstatic (I JUST learned how to spell that word correctly!).
The two followed Kurama into the kitchen and grabbed everything he told them to. All in the name of cookies, for they rock so much. As they were grabbing everything needed for the cookies, Hiei watched with slight amusement.
"C'mon Hiei! Come help us!" said Achiko smiling, and Yusuke ran by, giving the fire demon a strange smile.
"Hiei, get the butter!" ordered Kurama, and grudgingly, Hiei did as he was told.
Finally, they mixed it all together, and put the cookies in the oven. Achiko and Yusuke took the bowl to the other room and feasted on the cookie dough, while, again, watching TV. Finally, once they were done, Yusuke returned the bowl to the kitchen, Achiko going to wash her hands and her face.
When Achiko came back, Kurama had finished the last of his homework, and was watching TV with the other two. A while after watching TV, the timer for the cookies went off, and Achiko was the first in the kitchen.
"Cooooookies!!!" shouted Achiko, nearly howling in delight, her tail wagging and her ears popping up, erect on her head of black hair.
Kurama grabbed oven-mitts and slowly took out the cookies. Achiko and Yusuke nearly drooled at the sight of the hot chocolate chips, melting on the soft, crumby, cookie goodness.
"Heaven must be missing a batch of cookies!" squealed Achiko, grinning as Kurama gave her the biggest cookie.
"Wait for it to cool, or you'll burn your tongue." Warned Kurama, handing out cookies to Yusuke and Hiei as well as taking one for himself.
"Okies Kurama!" said Achiko and she hopped back into the TV room.
After two more batches of cookies, it was getting late and Yusuke had to get home. Achiko went upstairs and brushed her teeth, then changed into her comfy PJ's, smiling at their warmth. Oh, how she loathed the cold. She walked back down stairs only to be greeted by Shiori.
"Good evening, Shiori-san!" Achiko said, smiling sleepily, "We saved you some cookies!"
"How very kind of you, Achiko, Suichi." The woman thanked.
Achiko hopped down the rest of the stairs, and over to the couch where Kurama and Hiei sat. She plopped down in the middle, as usual, and curled up, her knees pulled up to her chest and the crevice between the knees making a comfy pillow.
They watched TV for a bit, Achiko laughing at the comedians they had been watching for the past... few hours. The day had been boring, and nothing but cookies had come of it.
((NEXT MORNING))
Achiko awoke to the shallow breathing of the person she had been sleeping on. Quite comfy, really, the person was. She sat up a bit, taking her heavy head off the shoulder of the person she was on. Hiei.
'Why do I always end up on you?' she thought, smiling softly at the fire demon.
Achiko sat up straight, yawning and rubbing her eyes. She took a peek at the clock, and decided it too early to go to school, but not early enough for breakfast. She hopped to the kitchen, in search of food. Upon finding her prey, she slowly opened the refrigerator, searching its yummy contents for sustenance.
Finally, her prey was found, a small cookie in the back, basically begging to be eaten.
"Hello, my precious cookie!" she whispered tauntingly to the delicious morsel of goodness, "Your time ends now!" she said, reaching for the cookie.
"Hey! No cookies for breakfast!" whispered Kurama, who had suddenly appeared behind her.
Achiko jumped ten feet into the air, her ears and tail erect.
"How the hell.... I was silent!" she whispered, slowly floating down from the frightful height she had achieved.
"You still don't know how to tell time do you?" he asked, smiling.
Achiko sweat dropped, but then pouted, remembering the lost cookie. Kurama was taking out milk, orange juice, and bread- o! And jelly!
"What are you doing?" Achiko asked as she stalked him throughout the kitchen.
"Making toast, what kind of jelly do you want?" he replied, shoving the bread into the toaster.
"Raspberry!" Achiko replied, recognizing a flavor on one of the jars he took out.
The two heard a moan from the other room, and Achiko sneakily went to go see the sleepy fire demon. Hiei was sitting up on the couch, scratching his head, then rubbing his eyes.
"Morning, Mr. Cat!" Achiko said, hugging Hiei from behind.
He blushed considerably, but ceased when Achiko swung herself over the couch and next to Hiei.
"We're having toasts!" Achiko told him, grinning obnoxiously as usual.
Hiei nodded slowly, and Achiko hopped up from the couch and ran up stars to take a shower.
When she came back down, she was fully clean and ready for a new day. Clad in a pair of blackish jeans and a light green tee, she hopped down the stairs, the warm smell of toasting bread in the air. A hint of butter and raspberry came to her sensitive nose, and she almost literally floated into the kitchen.
"Ah! Is breakfast almost ready?" she asked.
"Absolutely, Achiko-chan!" Kurama said, nodding towards the table where Hiei was sitting, nibbling on a bit of toast.
"Yay! Thanks Kurama-kun!" Achiko said, returning the courtesies.
Kurama smiled at the wolf girl, offering her the jelly-covered toast. Hiei continued to thoughtfully nibble at the toast, as Achiko began to chomp in large bites into the bread. She sighed happily at the taste of the slightly sour, but perfectly sweet jelly and the crunchy bread, mixing harmoniously into one, delicious taste. Smiling, she finished off the toast, and brought the plate over to the sink to wash it... and her jelly splattered face...
Finally, Kurama and Achiko walked to school, they waved to Shiori, and Hiei silently tagged along. Upon nearing school, Achiko and Kurama bid farewell to Hiei, knowing he would be watching them through the window anyway. So the two entered the school, Kurama in his uniform, and Achiko... not.
"Young lady! Why aren't you in uniform?" were the first words of greeting Achiko got when she entered homeroom.
"I tripped on the way to school, and landed in this mean old mud puddle!" Achiko said, her crimson eyes bubbling with innocence, "Me only gots one uniform, and I had to change! Me so sorry! Gomen nasai!"
Apparently, the homeroom teacher was a sucker for sob stories- luckily for Achiko- and he let her off, telling the other teachers her tearful story.
"I rule." Achiko whispered to Kurama on the way back to her seat.
Kurama laughed softly, giving her one of those, 'You're so weird, but it's cute' smiles. The girls in the class gasped in horror, Suichi-kun never smiled at them like that! What did that weird chic have that they didn't? Well, the girls didn't know, and that's why they held secret meeting under the school. A secret meeting for the Die-Hard-Suichi-Minamino-Lovers club. And that was one club you just weren't supposed mess with, especially directly with their idol.
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Sakura: Short chappy, me know. Me working on next one! .
Hiei: You forgot to dedicate this to someone...
Sakura: Me did? O- yes!
Kurama: (Big sigh) Oh Sakura
Sakura: Anyyywayyyys.... the story is dedicated to...
(dramatic silence)
Sakura: Deuce and Duncan!
Hiei: Who the hell is Deuce?
Sakura: You forgot!?
Kurama: Deuce is ForestHanyou's doggy.
Sakura: Anyhoo, dogs kick ass, sooooo...
Kurama: (ahem) Aren't you forgettin something Sakura?
Sakura: Oh, yes. Sorry for the cursing.... it's freezing! Cold makes me swear...lol
Kurama: No! Not That!
Sakura: (looks confused) hm.... OH!
Sakura: (gives Hiei part of sign and Kurama part of sign) Hold it up!
Kurama/Hiei: (hold up sign)
Sakura: ALL RIGHT! HHAAAAAAPPY BIIIIIRRTHDAAAAAAY DEEEAR DEUUUUUCCCEEE!!! HAPPY BIIIIRTHDAYYY TOOOOOOOO YOUUUUU!!!!! YAYAYAYA!
Duncan: It would be SOOO cool to meetcha Deuce!
Sakura: . yep! lol
All: Bye bye and Happy Birthdays! lol!
Chapter Ten Fin.