Lesson 9

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Yoruichi listened to Lisa read from a guide-book as they entered class on Friday. Kisuke was straightening his desk and didn't look up. He didn't look at or address Yoruichi once, which she didn't mind, for the most part.

The morning was uneventful. No one noticed the battle of wills going on. Yoruichi didn't look at him, Kisuke couldn't look at her.

Yoruichi wanted to disappear, better yet she wanted him to disappear. She didn't have a hold of her thoughts or emotions. Always on the verge of tears. The end of classes couldn't come fast enough.

Lunch came and went Yoruichi was barely present. Lisa was going on and on excitedly about Greece. Hiyori yelling at she and Lisa for being left out. Isane trying to keep the peace.

Yoruichi absently agreed to go shopping with them after school in hopes to appease or at least quiet Hiyori for awhile.

Afternoon classes were as dull and uneventful as the morning. Yoruichi glanced at the clock.

Kisuke came back into the class at the end of the day.

"I have some news to give you guys before you leave. Because of our class rotations, I'm sorry you guys are going to be the last to know." He looked concerned, a nervous smile on his face. The class settled down fairly quickly wanting to know what was going on.

"Well... Best to just get it all out. After you come back from summer break you'll have a new homeroom teacher."

"What?"

"Why?"

Murmuring broke out over the class, that got increasingly louder and frantic, the students hughly concerned over the news. His whole class as well as quite a few others loved having Kisuke as a teacher.

"Alright. Alright, quiet down." He waved his hands over the class. His face trying to stay calm and happy, though he was quite upset. "I'm taking a job at Kurotsuchi Industries..."

"What?"

"WHY?" several students said in unison, the chatter in the class rose to a roar.

Yoruichi was stunned and breathless for just a moment. His announcement had sent a jolt through her. And unexpected panic filled her. Thoughts swirling almost violently as she looked at him. But he was leaning in front of his desk addressing frantic questions that were being shot at him from around the room. Her feelings were in a quicksand-like turmoil even more so than when she had come to class that morning.

"You can't leave us, Urahara Sensei. You're the best."

"Please, don't leave Urahara-sensei."

"Its been fun. More fun and more joy teaching you than you'll ever know."

Sad groans and chatter broke out through out the room agian.

"That's good money, Urahara sensei." Momohara said not seeing how such a cool guy could be a teacher in the first place.

"Also challenging work, Momohara."

"Why didn't you tell us at the start of class? We could have done something. Thrown a going away party."

"I don't like saying goodbye. I didn't even want to tell you now really, but I thought I owed it to you all."

"When do you start?"

"In a couple of weeks."

"Will you come back and visit?"

"I'll try, but you guys are gonna be graduating and going to your choice of universities soon and you wont be worrying about me." Kisuke purposely avoided Yoruichi's gaze, though he could feeling it burning into him like a laser.

It was almost half an hour before he could get the class to calm down.

The bell rung but he was still surrounded by students asking questions, still begging him to stay as he left the classroom. He laughed and smiled, happy that he did mean so much to most of them.

Yoruichi was paralyzed. Stuck in her desk since he made his announcement. Not knowing how she should feel.

A panic in the pit of her stomach, that had been steadily growing since he gave his announcement, jolted her from her desk and down the hall to the faculty room, before she even knew what she was doing. She stood at the door, her heart pounding. She wanted to know why? Why he was leaving ? Was it because of her? She wouldn't tell. Not about anything they had done. She didn't want him to think that she would.

Her ears pounded with the sound of her own heartbeat. She could feel throbbing in her temples, her body was heavy and she couldn't move.

"Shihouin-san."

Yoruichi stumbled back from the door as Hachigen-sensei swung the door open as he was exiting.

"Was there something you needed?" His voice was deep but soft and kind. Yoruichi was scrambling for her thoughts glancing in the room as Hachigen held the door open, she saw Kisuke surrounded by several female teachers all hugging and kissing him goodbye.

Instantly her face heated with anger and embarrassment.

"No…. I'm sorry, no." she turned running.

"I can't believe he's leaving."

"I'm gonna so miss that man. There's hardly any other hot teachers here now that he's leaving." Lisa moaned.

"I bet it has something to do with that Shiba woman who came up here to visit him. He was all nervous when she was here and now he's leaving."

"What?" Lisa said incredulously. "Whatever."

"Lets go." Yoruichi said briskly flying past the girls and heading to the limo.

As the limo headed for their shopping destination, the chatter was all Hiyori and Lisa with Isane trying to calm them. Yoruichi was in her own world. Soi Fon watching her wishing Yoruichi would let her in.

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"Are you done yet, Yoruichi?" Lisa shouted through the dressing room door.

"No, not yet…." Yoruichi looked around at the 10 or so outfits she had picked out, then disappeared into the dressing room with them just to get some time to herself.

She sat despondent. Her head in her hands.

"Are you even looking?"

"Yeah." Isane's soft voice answered Lisa.

"No you're not! What am I gonna do? I won't have anything to wear. What do you think, Hiyori?

"I don't give a fuck. I'm not going." the short angry blonde sucked roughly on the straw of her drink and turned going through the aisles of clothes.

"We can come back tomorrow." Isane continued.

"But what if this is gone tomorrow. I'm gonna get it." There voices drifted off into the back of the store.

Yoruichi wasn't listening. The great debate was playing out in her head.

What if I never see him again. Who cares, he's a liar? But why would he lie, he could have said anything. He blackmailed you for sex. So, if he was dating her, why would he lie about it. Because all men are dogs. Soi Fon says so. But…

"Yoru-Chan!"

"What?"

"Are you sure you're okay in there? Are you finding anything good?"

"I'm getting close." Yoruichi tried to smile into her words.

Lisa's excited voice became more distant again as she went looking for new clothes to try.

Then a familiar boisterous laugh filled the store. Yoruichi sat straight up in the dressing room. Anger brimming immediately. She'd never forget that laugh.

Shiba-san.

"Damn store filled with high schoolers." Kuukaku complained

"So these are the kind of girls Urahara-san is around all the time." A female voice said. The voices were growing closer, practically in front of the dressing room.

"Not anymore. Thank god. He got that position at work."

"So now your going to be working with him. Working with your boyfriend? That can only be trouble."

"He's not my boyfriend. I never said I wanted that goof as my boyfriend again. I said I just wanted to fuck him."

"Ohh, I see." the girl said, giggling at Kuukaku boldness.

"I was trying to get a quickie on his desk last week. That is so hot to do it in school. Always wanted to do it on my teacher's desk."

The girl giggled, again. "You're so bad, Kuukaku."

Yoruichi walked quickly to the door of the dressing room, pressing her ear to the door.

"He is sooo fucking great in bed. And I really need it." There was a sense of lewd urgency in Kuukaku's voice.

"Was it as good as you remember?"

"Hphm. I didn't get any." She said angrily.

"What?"

"Yeah, that asshole turned me down. Turned me down. And I was wearing that red skirt that fits just right-..."

Suddenly a paralyzing realization came over Yoruichi. He turned her down. He turned her down. He was leaving no doubt because of her, and now she may never see him again.

"He's probably doing some high school girl and just doesn't want your old wrinkled ass." the girl said laughing.

"Shut up, bitch." They both chuckled. "No high school girl can do what I can. Anyway, I do have ways of wearing him down and when I do then I can have him any time I want. He's always up for it."

"Not if he turned you down."

"Shut. Up. Bitch."

Yoruichi flung open the door to the dressing room, pushing past Kuukaku and pulling out her cell. She began texting Kisuke repeatedly, if only she had known that phone lay in pieces at the bottom of his kitchen trash can when he smashed it against the wall in frustration before calling and setting an interview with Kurotsuchi Ind.

She was leaving for Greece on Monday. At the very least she had to apologize and the most...

She had sent some 20 text messages in the 30 seconds it took for her to get to the back of the store where her friends were still arguing about clothes.

Then she dialed Soi Fon, who was a few blocks away in the limo waiting for the girls to finish shopping.

"Soi Fon, I'm staying at Lisa's tonight." Lisa looked a her from her conversation with Hiyori.

"You are?" Lisa asked, Yoruichi slapped her on the arm, motioning for her to be quiet.

"Yoruichi-sama ... " concern rising immediately in Soi Fon's voice.

"You owe me this ...please. I'll be back Sunday. Father's already gone I know, so its just you…. And you can let me go Soi Fon .. we both know it's because of you that I'm not staying In Karakura for the summer." She stated it plainly hoping any little bit of guilt would hurry this along. "Please?"

Soi Fon, still anguishing over convincing Mr. Shihouin to take Yoruichi to Greece, relented.

"Alright."

"Oh, thank you, Soi Fon. Thank you."

Soi Fon smiled bitterly, she heard the joy come back to Yoruichi's voice as she ended the call but then why did it break her heart.

"So we're going to pick out clothes?" Lisa asked happily expectant.

"No. I need your phone and you can use mine. I have some business to take care of. At the very least I'll be at your place in a few hours. At the most.. maybe Sunday."

"Why do we have to exchange phones?"

"Soi Fon can track me on it and I need her to think I'm with you."

"If you're not gonna be with me then.."

"You're going to see a boy?" Isane excitedly squealed, her eyes flashing with joy. They all looked at Isane then back at Yoruichi.

"Who is he?" Hiyori demanded, realizing it was true.

"I can't say. Not yet." She was smiling now, for the first time in days. "I don't even know If I have him at all, but I do owe him an apology. He's not exactly perfect.. Neither am I ." She stopped for a moment with a far away look in her eyes. "But ... I do love him."

"Oooooooh, you're in love. That's so wonderful." Isane said dreamily with stars on her eyes , her hands clasped at her chest.

"I'm so jealous." Lisa said, now feeling that shopping wasn't as important as this boy that she was just now finding out about.

"Are you going to confess?" the still starry-eyed Isane asked.

"Does he have a brother or a friend?" Lisa asked hopefully. "We can do a whole couples thing in Greece."

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To be concluded…