For the benefit of the fic (all worship fic) Kurama is in the same school as Yusuke and Kuwabara. And they are all now in high school, cause come on.
Disclaimer: You are all very mean people.
"No."
The door slammed in Yusuke's face. He pounded on it. "Come on, Yurika! I hate school too, but you have to go."
She opened the door but did not allow him to fall into the room. "Why should I?"
"Think of it this way, you'll be able to get outside without Genkai breathing down your neck." Kurama offered. He had been trying to be as nice as possible, hoping he would eventually get to know why she had tried to kill him sixty years (which wasn't very long in a demon's mind) ago.
She looked at Kurama. He could have sworn her eyes softened before getting the hard look she always got when he spoke to her. "Will I be allowed to bring my swords?"
"You're not allowed weapons in school." Yusuke said. "Otherwise Taki and his gang would be dead by now."
Yurika cocked her head to one side. "Then how will I protect Kato?"
"Well, Kato will stay here…"
"Absolutely not."
"Yurika! Scar!" Reseph's voice could be heard from inside the room.
Yurika's eyes widened and her breath seemed to have caught in her throat. She took a cleansing breath and closed her eyes. "Fine I agree to all your terms and conditions. Let's go." She walked past them, throwing her swords inside.
Yusuke looked after her confusedly. "She's just gonna come? Just like that?"
Kurama shrugged. "She is indeed a strange girl." He said before following her.
They went down the steps and found Jun and Kuwabara waiting for them. Together the small group walked towards the school. They were in front of the gate when Yurika came to a stop. She frowned and walked across the street.
"Yo! Yukina! School's this way!"
Yukina didn't answer. She disappeared in a small alley between a convenience store and a hardware shop. They started to go after her, but a few minutes later, she appeared again, this time with a lump of orange in her arms.
"Shall we be going?" she said.
A small fox poked his head out of her arms. "You got a fox?" Yusuke asked, dumbfounded.
Yurika stared at him as if he was an alien. "We're still on that. Yes if you must know, I have an affinity for foxes." She seemed to freeze for a second. Kurama and her eyes glanced each other at the same time. She quickly turned away. "Let's go." She started forward.
They hadn't been four steps from where they started when Taki and his gang ran out of the alley. "There she is!" he shouted.
"Oh, it seems they have recovered." She said softly. She began walking again. "Come on, you said we had to get here at seven and we have five minutes. You three aren't being late because of us."
By this time Taki had marched up to her. "Hey! You can't just steal our stuff."
Yurika put a hand on the fox's head. "This fox is a feral creature whose lineage dates back to the first foxes to inhabit this continent. To take care of one of these you would have to have an acre of property fully econozied, so don't see it as stealing as relieving you of a burden."
Taki seemed to have lost interest by time she was finished talking and he was now ogling Jun in her tight kimono. "Hey, cutie. You're new, why don't ya ditch these nerds and come with me. I'll show you around."
"Oh that's very nice of you." Jun said, oblivious to his meaning.
They all sweat dropped. "No, seriously. I share blood with this baka?" She asked Yusuke.
Yusuke didn't respond but dragged the smiling Jun away while Kuwabara got rid of Taki. They stepped into the white polished hallways. Yusuke spread his arms wide.
"Jun, Yurika, welcome to hell."
"Watch the language, Urameshi." A teacher muttered as he walked by.
"Watch your back, Akashi." Yusuke glared at the teacher's back.
"Before you get into trouble, Yusuke, I think we'd best bring the girls to sign in." Kurama said, almost reading the dark ideas flitting through his friend's head.
"Fine."
They brought the girls to the office and surprisingly, they were given schedules and their uniforms as soon as they got in. Suddenly, they hit a snag in the road.
"Girls, I don't seem to have a copy of your transcripts…"
Everyone froze, but Yurika saved them. "I'm sorry, sir, but my cousin and I were unable to get them from our old school, the school wasn't very good and well, it seems that our transcripts have been lost."
He nodded. "Ah, came from that school down south did you? Well, you can start today in regular classes just like the others." (A/N: I know that normally schools don't let you in the first day, but mine actually did. Weird huh?)
"Yes sir." Only Kurama could hear the small incline of her sound waves, indicating she was nervous.
"Fine. Minamino, you'll show these girls around won't you?"
"Yes sir." He nodded in place of a bow.
"Good, girls go change in the bathroom. If you need help, ask Suichi here."
"Hai." The girls said in unison.
They left the office and immediately Yurika sighed in relief. "Thank the gods he I guessed right. I didn't have any idea what I was talking about."
"Could've fooled me."
"What's important is that I fooled him."
Yusuke and Kuwabara went off to class while Kurama waited outside the bathroom.
Suichi? There was amusement in the soft voice that was so unlike the guarded one that the actual person used.
Do I detect a hint of amusement? Kurama tried to keep the conversation light, reminding himself that he needed to gain her favor.
I can't help how the voice in my head sounds.
No, you actually sound nice. Kurama was surprised that his tone was slightly bitter.
You should not be embittered about things you do not understand… There were faint traces of pain in her mind's voice.
I would understand if you told me. And are you all…
WHAT THE HELL!
"What the hell!"
Yurika came stomping out of the bathroom. "Did they create this uniform so that we would look like sluts?" She exploded. Her hand suddenly flew to where her bandage remained.
"Are you all…" Kurama asked again.
"I don't know, I kinda like it." Jun said skipping out and twisting about in her new skirt.
"You would." Yurika muttered.
A/N: Everyone bow down to the tension! Review, tell me your thoughts!!!