Disclaimer: Don't own the YYH characters or the show. Just my OCs and the plot.
By the way, I hope you enjoy this chapter. There will be guest appearances from the majority of the YYH characters :) That's right, I took it up a notch.
"Wow," Kuronue said when he looked around the city where Kara lived.
"What? Too much?" she asked.
"Wow," he said again. He was so used to living in suburban areas. Even the college was near a beach community and he never went into the nearby cities. "Just wow."
Kara laughed at how amazed he was by the buildings. "You would think that you've never been in a city before."
"I haven't," he replied.
"But I thought you and Kurama went traveling before you came to school."
"Um, about that…since you figured everything out, I should probably tell you the truth about that."
"What do you mean?" Kara asked.
"My father doesn't know I was going to college with Kurama…he doesn't even know Kurama. He came home early when we were packing up the car and I had Kurama stay hidden. He had his men follow the car as I drove it to see where I was going and I managed to lose them. Then Kurama took over from there and we decided it would be best to stay away from the campus for a while so we hung out in some random town."
"Wow, all of that to avoid your father?" Kara asked in shock. "I'm so sorry."
"It's not a big deal," Kuronue stated. "Avoiding my father and hiding my friends has become second nature. Well, that is until you attempted to talk to me when his thugs were still around…not that I'm not grateful or anything. I'm glad you did, but those guys…when they come back will be watching you closely."
"Eh, so what? I've already been poisoned before. What's the worst-?"
"Don't!" Kuronue yelled desperately.
"What?"
"You never ask that question," he stated. "Because when you do something always happens."
She brought his attention back to the buildings to distract him; and, to her surprise, it worked. Kara chuckled a little and smiled at how excited Kuronue was. She thought he'd freak with how crowded the roads were and stuff like that but not even two minutes within city limits and he was acting like a kid in a candy store. She admitted to herself that this side of him was endearing and then mentally scolded herself before thinking, Eh, screw it. I've already admitted to myself that I like him.
"Hey, Kurama!" Yusuke called.
Kurama looked surprised for a minute and then smiled. "Hello, Yusuke. Long time no see. What brings you across the country?"
"Well, it's not just me that's here," Yusuke explained.
"What?" Kurama asked.
"Hey, Kurama!" Kuwabara yelled over. He, Hiei, and Yukina were walking over. Hiei glared at Kuwabara as he walked next to his sister.
"What are you all doing here?"
"Well," Hiei started, "your mother says 'hi,' we were bored, and we saw Kuronue's father."
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah and don't worry. He still doesn't know who we are or anything, but we overheard him talking to those stupid guards he always sends after Kuronue," Yusuke explained.
"Yeah, why didn't you tell us Kuronue had a girlfriend?" Kuwabara asked. "That's big news. Sucks that his dad found out, though."
"His what?" Kurama questioned, stunned by the information.
"Those thugs said that he's secretly seeing some girl here," Hiei told Kurama. "This was about a week ago. Then he told them to follow Kuronue in secret and see what he was up to. He sent them back out right away with instructions on not being seen."
"We just wanted to warn him," Yukina piped in.
Kurama looked over to Hiei who didn't look pleased. He answered the unasked question, "She wanted to come with us and the idiot let her."
"Hey!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Oh, get over it," Yusuke griped. "Anyway, where is Kuronue? Please tell me he hasn't been hanging out with that girl. I'm sure those guys have been watching his every move."
Kurama paled. If that was the case, his friends would be in danger.
"So you want to help us deal with the girl?" one of the thugs asked. They were driving a small distance behind Kara and Kuronue.
"That bitch made me fail a test, bro," Jesse said. He crossed his arms and pouted angrily.
"Well, then welcome to the club," the other guy said. "We would have asked you back at the school, but we wanted information."
"All I know is that they're friends, but that they're really close. She cancelled a date on me. I think it was because of him. I hate that guy and his friend who's getting way too close to one of my friends."
"Interesting development," Jesse's brother stated. "I thought Kuronue had no friends. I knew it was a front. He doesn't want the boss knowing of his attachments."
"Well, too bad for him then," the other thug replied.
"Okay, this building is where you're apartment is?" Kuronue asked in surprise. "It's huge."
"Yeah, and we live like a million floors up," Kara explained. "So I always take the elevator."
"I don't mind the elevator so much," Kuronue stated noticing her concern. "It's not like we'll be in there for more than a few minutes."
"Well, alright then. We have to take the elevator on the left."
"Why so specific?" Kuronue questioned.
"Because these types of buildings have stairs and two elevators. One elevator is all the even floors and the other is all of the odd numbered floors."
Kuronue laughed. "Now who in their right mind would design a building like that?"
"Like my mom always jokes, a man," Kara answered causing Kuronue to laugh and jokingly look like he'd been hurt by the comment.
Kara took his hand and they went into the elevator. Little did they know they were being watched.
"Jen, do you have Kara's number?" Kurama asked rushing into the kitchen area.
"Whoa, Kurama, calm down. Why do you need her number? Isn't she with Kuronue?"
"Kuronue doesn't have a cell phone and we need to get in contact with him now," Kurama explained quickly.
"We?" Jen asked. It was then that she saw Kurama's four friends from back home enter the room. "Oh, who are you guys?"
"No time to explain," Kurama said. "What is Kara's number?"
"Wow, this place looks awesome," Kuronue stated.
"Thanks," Kara said. "I'm surprised my mom isn't home. I told her I'd be bringing a friend back home with me so I at least expected her to be here to say hello. Sorry."
Kuronue smiled and came up from behind Kara and hugged her. "That's fine," he said.
Kara smiled at the weird relationship the two of them had with each other.
Suddenly the door burst open.
"Oh my God, it's true!" a girl Kuronue didn't know exclaimed. Kuronue let go of Kara before the girl jumped at her and knocked her down. "Kara!"
"Oh my God, Stephanie! How old are you?" Kara teased.
Stephanie let Kara up and the Kara's mother and another girl entered the apartment.
"Hi, Kara," the brunette said.
"Hi, Keiko," Kara replied. "Hey, mom."
"Hey, sweetie. Is this the friend you were telling me about?"
"Yeah, this is Kuronue," Kara said.
"Isn't that the name of that boy you wrote letters to way back when?" her mother asked.
Kara smiled. "Yeah, small world, huh?"
"Oh that's great!" her mom said. "It's very nice to meet you, Kuronue."
Kuronue blushed and shook her outstretched hand. "Um, nice to meet you too, ma'am."
"Wow, he's polite," Stephanie said. "You don't find guys like that too often, right sis?"
"Yeah," Keiko answered her older sister.
"So we're all still single, huh?" Kara asked.
"What, it's only been a few weeks since you left," Stephanie said. "But I must admit it's been dull here without you."
"Like you said, it's only been a few weeks," Kara teased.
"Well, anyway Kara, I invited Stephanie and Keiko to stay to dinner."
"Okay, I'm just going to go show Kuronue to the guest room and unpack, kay?"
"Sure. I'll let you know when dinner is ready."
"We'll be waiting, Kar," Stephanie called out.
"You have some interesting friends," Kuronue said.
"Yeah, we became friends because we have no life," Kara joked. "I met Stephanie in honors classes and a whole bunch of clubs we were both in and her sister, Keiko, at all of the same clubs. Keiko is about a year and a half younger than us."
"Hey, we should probably let Kurama know that we got here okay," Kuronue suggested.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to turn up the volume once we got here," Kara said taking out her phone. "Oh, it looks like Jen called. I better see what she wanted."
Kara dialed the number but no one answered. "Huh, that's weird."
"What is?" Kuronue asked.
"I tried Jen's number but she didn't answer."
"Maybe she's busy or her phone is off," Kuronue guessed.
"Probably."
"Seriously, how did we all fit in this van?" Yusuke asked.
"It seats seven, Yusuke," Kurama stated monotonously. Sometimes Yusuke could be so dense.
"It's a nice car, Jen," Kuwabara said.
"Thanks," Jen replied. "Now let's just work on getting to Kara and Kuronue before something bad happens."
A/N: So I guess this chapter explains how Jesse found out about Kuronue's life. Anyway, yay, more characters. Now everyone is going to Kara's hometown; however, those thugs got there first. Wonder what'll happen next.