Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Addicted To You ❯ Day Two ( Chapter 12 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
"Addicted to You"



Author Note: My writer's block has ended! My brain is free! FREE I say!! Free to come up with all the crazy ideas I am known for...Free to-- er...uh...*cough cough* On with the story. Heh heh.
-Saku

Theme song to chapter: "Black or White" By Micheal Jackson

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By the time Kurama got to school it had begun to rain significantly, causing his rose-coloured hair to hug his head rather heavily as he made his way to the front doors of the building. He had barely touched the door handle when someone from behind called out his name. He turned back to see a dripping wet Yusuke with black hair similarly sticking to his forehead in drowned-rat fashion.

"Kurama, I've been trying to catch up to you since Main Street!"

The exasperated teen leaned over, one hand on his friend's shoulder as he weezed air into his lungs. Kurama chuckled a bit and opened the front door.

"I didn't notice you. Maybe you should have called out to me louder?" he joked, knowing full-well the other had been following him for three whole blocks.

The dark-haired one gave him an incredulous look with his large hazel eyes. "Why were you running? It's not like you're going to miss anything; I mean, zero period doesn't start for another twenty minutes!"

"Yusuke! Kurama! Wait up!"

The two boys turned to see two equally wet girls leaping over puddles as they made their way towards them. Boton and Keiko stopped short at the entrance and Kurama held the door open, letting them inside. "Hi!" Boton panted, nodding to the cute redhead with noticable gentleman qualities holding the door for her.

Keiko followed her bouncy blue-haired friend inside, "Thank you Kurama. YUSUKE! Where are you going? Yusuke, don't try to run away from me, baka!" Keiko ran down the hall after her boy, who cleverly dashed into the men's room at the end of the hall before the tempermental brunette could catch him. Boton hid her giggles behind her hand and informed a confused Kurama of the supposed 'date' Yusuke had with Keiko the night before and how their plans crashed and burned when Yusuke forgot they had any.

"I know Yusuke is not detective material but I have to wonder, where exactly IS that boy's head if not on school work or his girl?" She pondered aloud.

"I honestly don't know, Boton. I'll fill you in when I figure that out, myself. Keiko has every right to be as angry as she is, I suppose." Kurama mused, watching a flustered Keiko bang on the washroom door and threaten Yusuke through it.

"I KNOW he can hear me, too! Yusuke you idiot! How could you forget about our date? I waited for you all night!"

Students wandering the halls stopped to stare at the the shouting Keiko. Others snickered at the fact that the feared 'street thug', Urameshi was being lectured by the infamous Keiko Ukimera. Totally oblivious to the scene she was creating, Keiko continued to pound on the door until it opened unexpectedly. Kurama and Boton watched, wide-eyed as their friend flew forwards into the men's washroom.

"Oh my..." Was all Kurama could think to say. Boton bit her tongue. A second later a blushing Keiko backed out of the washroom, another boy's arms draped around her tightly.

"Yang?!" Keiko croaked, realizing at once who she'd accidentally flung into. Yang tossed his head of navy blue hair back and cackled evily, refusing to let his captive go. "Looks like I caught myself a lovely. Good morning, Keiko. Mind if I ask what you were doing in the guy's washroom? Couldn't wait for me to come out? You don't have to say anything. I understand." He winked.

Keiko, whose arms were pinned against the slightly taller boy's chest, whimpered as he gave her an eskimo kiss.Yusuke decided to come out just in time to witness the pair nose-to-nose at the entrance. He stood there and blinked for a whole two seconds before bonking the shamelessly bold teen on the head. Yang released his captive and rubbed the fresh lump on his noggin. "Oi, Urameshi, it was only an eskimo kiss!" He protested.

" I don't care if it was a redneck kiss! You don't just go around doing that to other guy's girlfrien--"

Boton gasped loudly at Yusuke's almost confession, and pointed at him frantically. Kurama folded his arms, amused at how this was turning out. Everyone knew Keiko and Yusuke were an item. But Yusuke, determined to keep his reputation as the toughest street kid in Tokyo, pulled on his mask of denial whenever possible. The way Keiko and Yusuke interacted on a daily basis was like a good book that simply got more interesting with each page....

Keiko blinked large, brown eyes up at Yusuke and Kurama caught a glimpse of pink flush across her cheeks faintly. Yusuke noticed her hopeful look and coughed, looking away down the hall. Yang laughed and slapped his buddy on the back.

"You know I was just messing around. It's just that the uncontrollable urge to kiss the lovely that's been flung into my arms becomes unbearable. I can't...control....myself!" He put on his trademark crazy-grin and wide eyes and held his hands up like claws in Keiko and Boton's direction. Both girls recognized this look and took off down the hall, giggling and weaving through other students in their attempt to get away from a pursuing Yang.

Yusuke couldn't help but smile as he and Kurama watched them disappear in the mass of students. "Man I love that guy."

"For goodness sake, don't tell him that."

"Heh. Do I LOOK stupid? I guess Keiko forgot about lecturing me afterall. That's great, let's go." Grabbing Kurama by the shirt, Yusuke dragged the other down the hallway in the opposite direction.

"Yusuke, where are we going?"

"To the gym."

"Why?"

"We're gonna shoot some hoops 'till zero."

"Oh."

The gym was dark when they opened the doors. The ray of light from the hallway stetched along the freshly polished flooring like a cat. Kurama ran his hands along the wall, looking for the lightswitches, while Yusuke simply wandered into the darkness.

"You up for a challenge, Kurama?"

"What challenge did you have in mind?" his hands continued to search blindly along the wall, failing miserably to find their target.

"Forget the lights, there's a ball right here. Think you got the skills?" There came a resounding echo of rubber against floor to prove Yusuke's claim and Kurama left the wall to walk down the line of light towards him.

"Check me."

Kurama caught the ball an inch from his face and chest-passed it back to Yusuke who, by the light from the doorway, sunk the ball into the net from no less than half a court away. "Like to see you beat THAT." Yusuke challenged, mochoism radiating.

"Ball please." Kurama rolled up his sleeves and caught it when Yusuke tossed to him. He dribbled the ball once, twice, three times and made a shot. The ball hit the rim of the net and bounced back into the darkness.

"I'll get it."

The ball audiably bounced a few metres then became silent. Kurama used his hearing to find the general direction in which it landed and fumbled around the bleachers for it. His hand reached out blindly and brushed against fabric before hitting the framiliar rubber of the basket ball. Startled as to why there was anything near the bleachers, Kurama snatched up the ball and took a step backwards, staring ahead into darkness in front of him.

"Oi, hurry up Kurama! Did you get lost back there?"

"No, I had to retrieve your renegade ball back there. Not an easy task in the dark, Yusuke." Disregarding his initial concern over whatever he felt, the redhead dribbled the ball up to the net and made a second shot. Score.

"Oh yeah? Watch this." Yusuke retrieved the ball and positioned himself within shooting distance of the net before tossing it backwards over his head. The ball missed by amile, hitting the wall above the net and bouncing to the other end of the gym. Kurama snickered at his friend's freshly bruised ego and Yusuke scratched his head, "Guess I missed."

Running to get their lost ball once more, Kurama found he could no longer hear what should have been the ball bouncing. Yusuke cracked his knuckles loudly and practiced his lay ups with an invisible ball while he waited for the redhead to return. In his head, Yusuke was good enough for the NBA, it was a shame no one else noticed his expert skills with an invisible ball...
He was standing under the net, taking a bow to his invisible fans when the REAL basket ball soared through the darkness and dove through the cotton netting of the hoop, walloping him square on the coconut.

"OW! Cheese and crackers, Kurama, that was uncalled for! Did you make that sot from the other end?"

Kurama stepped out of the darkness and eyed the rolling ball, then his friend's sour face as he nursed his new goose egg. "Not exactly."

"Anyway, it was a nice shot. I swear you save those for when I'm not looking. I need a drink now that you scared the pee outta me." His brown eyes twinkled in fun.

When Yusuke disappeared into the hallway, Kurama turned towards the darkness.

"I know you're there."