Hello readers! I know on my profile I said I'd update Into The Fire first, but I really can't figure out the chapter for it! I can't decide how to start it, or where it should go; all I know is it's gonna have the kiss...so as an apology, please enjoy this fan fic.
It's going to be HB YukKur, but not until later chapters (it'll be YukKur first, then HB in much later chapters!)
Friends are forever
Botan and Yukina walked down the hallway, ignoring the weird looks from their fellow students. They were the 'fresh meat' so to say, being the new students and all. They had no siblings to stand up for them, but they had each other, which was more than they had had for most of their lives.
Three years ago Botan, the trouble making orphan, and Yukina, the cold, silent orphan, were accepted into the same foster home. Their foster mother was a drunk and their foster father was an abusive son of a bitch, but they became close friends through the hardship, solving their problem together.
Emancipation, it was in their opinion, the gift of the gods to those with less than adequate parental figures. The court had declared them legally adults, which was good news for Botan in more ways than one. Her 'parents', not that she had ever known them, had left her a decent sized fortune for her to collect once she became a legal adult. In other words, she was now filthy stinking rich, and because she liked Yukina, so was she.
With all the money she had inherited, Botan bought a large house-almost a mansion-and two awesome cars. She had been able to afford to send herself and Yukina to this fancy-pants school, usually reserved for celebrities and such. Which led to where they are right now, two young women with blue hair, one with red eyes and the other with lavender eyes, walking down a hallway full of less than accepting celebrity teenagers.
"Oh Botan...couldn't we have just stayed in a public school?" Yukina asked tentively, flinching away from a particularly evil glare. "No, we really couldn't have Yukina. Now quit freaking out and help me find the office on this bloody map." Indeed, this school was so big that the two you women had been given a map for coordinating their way through the halls. "But Botan...we passed the office ten minutes ago..."
Of course Yukina's smart comment earned her a glare from her best friend, or as anyone here was to know, twin sister. But it didn't bother her because at the same time she was glaring, Botan had started to giggle. "Well, I don't suppose you'd remember the way back to it then?" Yukina sighed and grabbed her arm, pulling her back down the hallway they had just been in. But when they rounded the corner they came face-to-face with some of the creepiest looking boys either of them had seen.
"Well," Botan started, racking her memory to see if they had been there a few minutes ago, "I suppose we ought to go the long way instead..." Yukina rolled her eyes at her 'twin' and sighed dejectedly, "Now now Botan, don't be stupid. We'll just walk around them." Botan gave her a plain are-you-nuts look; surely Yukina had not forgotten those...boys, for lack of a better word...which they had been forced to live with in their foster home. People like these, punks, goths, rebels and gangsters, they were all violent, and as far as Botan had ever seen, they would all attack her without reason.
Yukina sighed at the look Botan was giving her and rolled her eyes, painfully aware of the eyes watching them as she attempted to pull Botan past them to the office. "Quit being a baby. Naraku and his bitches aren't here. Now move it, we were supposed to be in the office hours ago." Botan finally gave up and allowed Yukina to pull her along more quickly. The quicker they went, the sooner she was out of danger, at least that's how she figured it.
They turned another corner and let out a sigh of relief when this one was empty, and they could clearly see the large red sign that proclaimed the office was just ahead. Yukina let go of Botan's arm and they walked side by side into the office, remaining oblivious to everything around them.
Yusuke and Kuwabara had been arguing as usual, with Hiei rolling his eyes at them and Koenma trying to break up their fight. This was their normal morning routine, although they found it odd that Kurama had yet to join them, he'd said something about helping the principal with something, but they didn't know all the details. When they'd first seen the two girls walk by, faces buried in their map, they had shrugged them off as new students to bug later.
But when they passed by again, arguing in low voices, with the map securely tucked under the taller one's arm, the whole group stared at them. It wasn't everyday you saw someone you couldn't remember from a magazine or movie walking down these hallways. They could hear little bits of the conversation between the two girls, "...ought to walk the long way..." and "...don't be stupid...walk around them...", and really, that was all their little group needed to hear.
These girls had just marked themselves priority number one on their torture list, they would have ignored them, but they didn't like it when people talked like that around or about them. Hiei and Yusuke shared an evil smirk, while Kuwabara and Koenma looked nearly sympathetic for the girls, Yusuke the punk, and Hiei the goth, what could have gone worse for those poor, unknowing girls?
Botan and Yukina were greeted by an amazing sight when they had entered the office; an elderly woman was sparring with a boy not much older than them. "Well...you don't see that every day, now do you Botan?" Yukina asked in awe as the boy got flung into a wall and stood up like it was nothing. Botan was too stunned by the fight to even voice her answer, so she merely nodded in response.
Genkai and Kurama had become bored waiting for the two new students, and had begun a spar to pass the time. It was part of Kurama's 'training', or so to speak. They noticed the two blue haired girls shortly after the elderly Genkai threw Kurama into the wall. "Hello girls, you are...three hours and fifteen minutes late." Genkai kindly waited for them to come back to their senses, which only took a moment.
"Gomen nasai...we got lost...the map was very confusing..." Botan stumbled over her words a bit, out of old habit she was afraid she was about to be hit for her mistake. Yukina appeared to be thinking the same thing because she moved ever so slightly in front of Botan, she would take the punishment if she had to. But Genkai surprised them both by chuckling softly, in amusement. "No need to fear me ladies. I don't know what kind of people raised you, but it is strictly against my policy to hit my students." They visibly relaxed, but remained alert, they'd heard that line before...
Flash Back
Fourteen year old Botan and Yukina were standing in the doorway of a large purple-brown house, clinging onto their social worker's arms, their new foster parents standing in the doorway. "...we never hit the children, it's against our religion, when they must be punished they must sit in the corner." It was no sooner than the social worker had left that they were beaten.
End Flash Back
Botan flinched in fear at the memory, and Yukina shut her eyes tightly. They knew they should trust the elderly woman, but their common sense told them otherwise, if such lovely couples had beaten them, how could they ever be sure that this woman would not. Genkai and Kurama had noticed the visible flinch from Botan, and well, anyone could have seen Yukina crush her eyelids together as she did.
Apparently, it would not be easy to gain the trust of these two pupils. "Sorry ma'am. We'll try to be on time from now on." No, Genkai thought, it will most definitely not be easy. "Do not worry yourselves over it. Now, this will take only a moment." She pulled several items out of the closest desk, uniforms, books, bags, keys, etc.
"Here's your uniforms...is there something wrong?" As soon as Botan and Yukina had seen the uniforms they had each paled a little. A semi short plaid skirt... that brought back horrible memories...
Flash Back
Two days after their first encounter with their new foster parents, Botan and Yukina were standing in front of a girl's only private religious school. They were in their uniforms, semi-short plaid skirts and a white blouse; they had grey knee length socks and black loafers, with two books in their arms. The person waiting for them was to be their tutor for as long as they were in the school. He looked nice enough, though they found it odd that they had this guy instead of a woman.
Once they saw his eyes roaming hungrily over their forms, they both decided he wasn't nearly as nice as he looked; they were only 14 after all. It turned out they were right, to think he wasn't truly very nice. Through their whole 3 school years, he touched them inappropriately, never going further than touching though, but that didn't make him any better a person.
End Flash Back
Botan was the first to snap out of her daze, and she backed away from the uniforms until she was practically against the wall. "Please...could we get pants instead?" Yukina was snapped out of the horrid memories when Botan spoke and nodded quickly, "Yes, Please Genkai-sensei... could we please have pants instead?"
Normally Genkai would have to say no, but then again, normally her students didn't cower away from their uniforms in terror. "Yes, of course. I'll go make the switch." She walked out of the room, leaving Kurama with the girls, to get two pairs of black pants instead.
When she came back, Botan and Yukina had retreated to the corner furthest away from Kurama, and were eyeing him suspiciously. "Here you go girls. I'll tell our janitor to switch the rest of your uniforms around as well." Botan stepped away from the corner long enough to retrieve the uniforms and bow in thanks, and rushed back to Yukina's side.
"Thank you very much Genkai-sensei." Yukina said as politely as she could while hiding behind Botan, "We'll go change into them in the washroom." They dashed out of the office, and across the hall, where the bathroom was. They locked themselves in their stalls and changed quickly.
"Yukina, you don't think things are going to be the same here, do you?" Botan asked nervously as she exited her stall, pulling her hair back into a pony tail. Yukina followed her out with a small frown on her face, "Perhaps. But we musn't be so scared. We have to make them think we won't be broken. So no more cowering."
"Right. It's just a bad habit we must break." They walked out of the washroom and found themselves surrounded by the boys they had avoided earlier and that Kurama boy. It took all their will power to not scream, "Please move." Yukina said it quietly, but they both knew they'd heard her. However, the boys didn't move, they just stared blankly at them.
Please review! Especially if there's any mistakes my spell check didn't fix!I tried to get out all the mistakes, but I could have missed one or two; I'm not sure.
