"How come your dad drives you to school now?" Urameshi asked one day during recess.
Kuwabara glared at him. "Cause I tried to skip and he caught me."
Urameshi laughed. "What did you do, go home when you skipped?"
Kuwabara blushed. "What else was I supposed to do?"
"Go anywhere but home!" Urameshi said. "Geez, you're such a moron!"
Kuwabara straightened, insulted by Urameshi's words. "I challenge you, Urameshi! After school today!"
Urameshi grinned. "Sure, why not? What's the count now? Forty to zero?"
"Forty-three to zero," Sawamura corrected him, in what Kuwabara felt was an unnecessary display of helpfulness.
Urameshi waved when the bell rang for them to go back to class. "Don't chicken out and try to sneak away, Kuwabara."
The end of school couldn't come soon enough. When school finally let out, they walked a little ways away so none of the teachers would see them and went to it with a will. For the forty-fourth time, Kuwabara lost.
"I don't know why you bother, Kuwabara," Urameshi said. "You're never going to beat me."
Kuwabara glared at him, but he refused to admit that a part of him was very much afraid that Urameshi was right.
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