Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ American Beauty ❯ I Feel Pretty ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17

I Feel Pretty

 

In the morning, Kayko knocks on Gold's door, “Wake up, Gold.” She enters the room and shakes Gold, attempting to wake her up.

 

“Yea” Gold groans, as she stretches and then closes her eyes.

 

“Gold, you must wake up or Yusuke won't go.” Kayko begs.

 

“That damn bastard.” Gold mumbles as Kayko shakes her again.

 

With disparity Kayko asks Hiei, “Hiei, can't you help me?”

 

With that command, Hiei gets up and walks away from the couch, dragging Gold with him. Hiei purposely makes Gold bump her head on things. After a while, Gold starts to really feel a bump forming on her head. She finally stands up, “I hate you both!” She says in a grumpy tone.

 

“Yusuke, she's up. Now let's go to school.” She says to Yusuke.

 

Gold gets in her uniform and they head to school. At school Mr. Takanaka stops them. “Yusuke and Gold, I want to see you in my office later.” He walks past them to do other business.

They stare at him walking away. “Hey, I didn't do anything this time, so it must be for Gold.” Says Yusuke in a cocky voice.

 

“Yusuke,” Kayko replies, “You've skipped more days of school than you have been to school, so shut up.” They go to homeroom. This is the second time Gold is in school in Japan. They take their seats in the back and everyone is staring at Gold. After homeroom, Gold does to math. She doesn't have math with anyone she knows except Kuwabara, so she spaces out. Hiei doesn't make any conversation. Gold glances at Hiei, but Hiei doesn't seem to care. She had forgotten that she was mad at him for yesterday. Gold doesn't seem to be herself either.

 

“Gold” someone whispers to her. “Gold” Gold doesn't answer. After waiting a minute the girl gets a little annoyed so she kicks her chair to get her attention. “Gold!” She yells quietly.

 

“Gold finally turns around, “Yea.” She answers.

 

“Are you really Yusuke Urameshi's sister?” She says curiously.

 

“Yea. Why?” Gold says while yawning.

 

“I just wanted to know if it was true or not. I'm Kakoto. Nice to meet you.” She puts her hand out and Gold shakes it.

 

“Nice to meet you too, I guess, Kakoto.”

 

Art, science, and social studies go by slowly. At lunch, Gold sits with Kayko and her friends. Halfway during lunch, something doesn't seem right, but she doesn't know why, “Kayko, I'll be right back.” Gold and Hiei go into a secluded area on school grounds with no one around. “Let's see, yesterday what did I do? I went on that mission. Holy Crap!” Gold just remembered what happened yesterday between her and Hiei. “You kissed me and then you turned into an asshole. Why the hell did you do that! Why? Why? Why?” She screams. “Why would you kiss me? You hate me!”

 

“If you think that I love you, then I hate to break it to you, but I don't.” Hiei says while smirking.

 

Gold just remembers what Yusuke and Kurama said to her. They said that Hiei doesn't hate her and he can't express his feelings. Hiei is not going to express his true feelings to her is she asks so she drops it and goes back to lunch with Kayko. The rest of the school day stays as boring as the rest of the school day.

 

The last five minutes of school, Takanaka talking on the loud speaker. “Yusuke, Gold Urameshi, and Kuwabara Kazuma, come to the principles office after school.”

 

“Damn, I don't want to talk to him.” Gold says as the bell rings. Her, Yusuke, and Kuwabara meet at Takanaka's office.

 

The office is brightly lit. Pictures of him and his achievements as principle are hung up on the wall. In the center of the room there is a desk with three chairs on one side and an office chair on the other side with Takanaka sitting in it. “Please, sit down. Oh I forgot about Gold's guest.” He gets a chair for Hiei and he sits. “I know you are all wondering why I called you to come here. Since all of you, including Gold, has missed so much school, I decided it's time for all of you to take part in some extra curricular activities. You will take part in the school's production of “The Little Mermaid.” This will count for the grades you miss.”

 

Yusuke, Kuwabara and Gold didn't here the last part because they were to busy complaining. “That's not fair!” Gold says while standing up in rage.

 

“Further more,” Takanaka continues, “you will all have an important role to do in the play. Yusuke will be Eric, the heroic prince charming. Gold will play Ursula, the traitorous sea witch. Kuwabara will play Sebastian, the crab who watches over Ariel.”

 

“This is crap. Why would anyone want to be in a play with mermaids, let alone a play.” Yusuke says as the door opens behind him.

 

“You know Yusuke, I'm in that play and I am Ariel. Kayko walks through the door with a stack of papers in her hand. “I copied these as you asked.” She puts a stack of fliers on the desk. On them said in big letters “The Little Mermaid.' Yusuke takes a flier and reads it. “Don't be an unfortunate soul, come see the middle school's production of `The Little Mermaid' Kayko Yukimura as Ariel, Yusuke Urameshi as Eric, and Gold Urameshi as Ursula.” He doesn't finish the flier. “You are not gonna get me in the play.”

 

“You have to Yusuke, because we made everything already. The student counceil got your costume and I did the fliers.” Kayko says while Mr. Takanaka hands them their scripts.

 

“You will find everything you need to know in there, but if you have any questions, then talk to Ms. Yukimura or I.”

 

Gold flips through the script. She sees that there are songs and comes to the conclution that this is a musical. “I hope I don't have to sing.” She flips through about ten more pages and finds out she has to sing. “WHAT! I have to sing! No, I'm not doing it! You can't make me!”

 

Takanaka calms her down, “Gold, it's only one song.”

 

She turns to the end of the script and reads a little bit. “Are you kidding? I have to try to marry my brother. That's gross!” Yusuke and Gold shutter and the thought of it.

 

“But you don't get married. Ariel stops you. Ariel and Eric get married at the end and Ursula dies. Oh I almost forgot to tell you, Kuwabara, you have to sing the most besides Ariel, so I hope you can sing.” Gold and Yusuke crack up when they hear this. Even Hiei chuckles a little. “This play will be preformed five weeks from today, so you better reherse on your own time and when we have rehersal. You may leave now.”

 

“Whatever.” Yusuke carelessly says as he and the others walk out the door, leaving Kayko in Mr. Kakanaka's office.

 

On the way home, Gold starts to sing “Hey miss murder can I, Hey miss murder can I, May beauty Stay if I , take my life” ((A/N - AFI miss murder for those who don't know. It's a great song))

 

“What the hell is that?” Yusuke asks while looking at Gold in confusion.

 

Gold chuckles a little, “I have an idea. We should have a party. Invite everyone we know. We can do karaoke, play a couple of games, relax, watch a movie, and other things like that. I got the perfect movie; you just leave it to me. Just tell everyone tonight at 7:00 come to our house.” They depart from Kuwabara and venture home. As Yusuke calls everyone that he knows, which isn't a lot. Gold goes to her room with the intent to find clothes. She rummages through her clothes and finds a light blue tank top with a flower design across the top of the shirt. She then finds light and dark blue skirts that a zigzag that goes across it separates the different shades.

 

Gold and Hiei enter the living room just as everyone gets there. Kayko, Yukina, Shizuru, Kuwabara, and Kurama enter. They greet each other and the party starts. As the host of the party, Gold starts things off. “First, we are going to play bull crap. This is also known as bullshit, but I just call it bull crap. To play the game, the dealer hands out all the cards to the players. The person with the ace of spades goes first and the going clockwise, and the next player puts face down the 2, and then the next person puts face down the 3 and then it keeps going in chronological order. They could put down as many as they have, say if they have three 5s then they put all three of them. If they don't have the card that they have to put down than they have to use a different card, but it's pretending to be the card it's supposes to be, hence bull crap. If you believe another player is bull crapping, then you say `bull crap' before the next person puts a card down. If someone says bull crap and the person is telling the truth then the person who bull crapped the other person takes all the cards in the pile and puts it in their hands. To win the game, you have to get rid of all your cards. The game goes on till there is only one person left. Let's play a couple round and then when everyone gets the hang of it, we will make some sort of bet. Got it? Ok, let's play.” They all sit at the table. “Ok since there are a lot of people here, we will have groups of 2. I'll be with Hiei, of course. Yusuke will be with Kayko, Kuwabara with Yukina, and Shizuru with Kurama.”

 

Gold passes out all the cards. Kuwabara has the Ace of Spades so they go first. Then after that, Yusuke and Kayko go and put down their 2s. Next, Kurama and Shizuru put down two 3s. Taking a chance, Yusuke says bull crap. While saying it, he flips over the card Shizuru put down. The last two cards, to everyone's surprise, they find a jack and a 4. Disappointed, Kurama picks up the cards. “Damn you guys.” Shizuru says while Gold puts down a 4. A half hour later, Yusuke and Yukina's teams are left. Gold and Hiei came in first within 20 minutes, and Kurama and Shizuru's team comes next. “2 Jacks, and we are out.” Kayko says in victory.

 

In disbelief, Kuwabara says, “Bull crap you guys, I don't believe you.” He picks the cards up. Discouraged, he finds 2 jacks.

 

“Don't worry, Kazuma. We'll win next time.” Yukina says while wearing the sweetest smile on her face.

 

They finish 2 more games. “Ok, since we got the hang of this, let's make this last game of bull crap interesting. Like I said before, we are going to have a bet. Agreed?” Gold waits for them to respond. When they shake their heads yes, she continues, “Ok since we are going to do Karaoke next, the bet should be that whoever wins gets to pick a song for the losing team to sing. It could be a song that humiliates the team singing. How does that sound?” Everyone nods their head simultaneously and Gold begins to deal. She deals to the left starting with Kuwabara and ending with herself. Finished dealing them out, she puts her cards in order. Her and Hiei have the Ace of Spades so they go first, then Kuwabara, Yusuke, and lastly Kurama's group. An hour and a half passes; so far no one has won. Inching their way to victory, Gold and Hiei put down their second to last card. ~Ok if we make it after this card, then we are home free cause I have the 8, which would be our last card. Please don't bull crap this card.~ She puts the card down on the pile of cards that looks about half the cards. Yukina puts down her card and says it's a 5 and that they won. “No, I don't believe you!” Gold flips over the card and it's a five. Gold frustrated screams, “Crap!” Loud enough that Yusuke has to cover his ears. Hiei, not saying a word, picks up the cards and snaps Gold out of her temper tantrum by putting his hand over her mouth. Enthusiastic that they won, Kuwabara pulls Yukina up and spins her around. No one pays attention to them. While Gold calms down, the others take their turn. 15 minutes pass and Kurama and Shizuru go out. Now it's left to Yusuke and Kayko vs. Gold and Hiei. Yusuke has about half the deck and so does Gold. They go back and forth until Yusuke puts down his last card that he's not bull crapping. Gold and Hiei loose the game, so it means that Kuwabara and Yukina get to pick a song for them to sing. “God Damn it! Hiei. I told you to bull crap them the turn before, but you said `no I won't loose to these people. We will win in 2 turns because our last card is a three'.” Gold says infuriated with Hiei. He just `hn's at her bickering.

 

Interrupting Gold's yelling, Kuwabara says, “Gold and Hiei, Yukina and I have picked a song for you to sing. It's the `I Feel Pretty' song from West Side Story. We have parts for you to sing.” Kuwabara hands them the lyrics. “Gold, you sing these parts and Hiei, you sing these parts.” He points to their parts as he says it

 

“Baka, I'm not doing this. It's ridiculous.” Hiei complains, while throwing the piece of paper away.

 

“As much as I hate this, I will go through this ridiculous thing as Hiei said. But know this, Kuwabara, if you piss me off, I will cut your throat and spill all your blood.” Gold threatens and then practices her lines. She finally gets Hiei to corroborate with it. They get on `stage' and Gold starts off, “bmm bmm bmm.” She acts like a drum. Hiei misses his entrance, so Gold begins again, “bmm bmm bmm.” Again, Hiei doesn't enter. “bmm bmm bmm.”

 

Finally, Hiei gets the nerve to start. He mumbles, “I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I feel pretty and witty and gayyyyyy!” He pauses for a second. “And I pity any girl who isn't me today.”

 

Getting in the spirit, Gold sings, “ La la la la la la la la la lalaaaa.”

 

A little louder, Hiei sings, “I feel charming, oh so charming. It's alarming how charming I feel. And so pretty that I hardly can't believe I'm real.”

 

“La la la la la la la la la lalaaaa.”

 

Faster and louder he sings, “See that pretty girl in the mirror there.”

 

“What mirror? Where?”

 

“Who can that attractive girl be?”

 

“Which one? Where? Hmm…” faster and louder at the same time they sing.

 

“Such a pretty face.”

 

“Hmmmm”

 

“Such a pretty face.”

 

“Hmmmm.”

 

“Such a pretty face. Such a pretty face!”

 

“Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.”

 

They pause for a second and then Hiei starts off, “I feel stunning.”

 

“You feel stunning.”

 

“And entrancing.”

 

”And entrancing.”

 

In unison, they sing, “feel like running and dancing for joy. For I'm loved by a pretty wonderful boy!”

 

They finish the song as everyone laughs at them. Everyone is cracking up hysterically as Hiei rushes Gold off the stage as she laughs along with them. Hiei sits down and doesn't say a word. Kayko asks Gold is she can sing the next one and Gold says yes Kayko finds the song she is looking for, which is `Someone to Call My Lover.” By Janet Jackson. She puts it on so she can sing along to it. She sings it amazingly. She has many talents and singing is one of them. She looks at Yusuke most of the time. She finishes and they applaud her. Next is Yukina, she gets on stage and sings `Butterfly' by Alicia Keys. Yukina matches Alicia's voice perfectly. She gets embarrassed through the beginning, but calms down. She finishes. Kuwabara claps the loudest and he gets up on stage and says, “This song is dedicated to the woman I love.” He blushes and looks at Yukina. `Here's to the Night' by Eve 6 comes on and she sings decently. During the song, he grabs Yukina's hands and sings to her. When he sings, “Here's a toast to all those who here me all to well…” He raises his glass along with everyone except Hiei and Yukina and makes a toast. Yukina is too embarrassed and Hiei doesn't want Kuwabara to get with his sister. He finishes and Kurama goes up. He sings `Kiss by a rose' by seal. He sings it amazingly. He takes out a rose while singing, and throws it. Gold catches it. He finishes with applause and Yusuke gets up. He puts on `Echo' by Trapt. While singing, Gold gives him a smirk saying `who would have thought that my brother could hold a note let alone sing a Trapt song. He finishes. Gold is just about to go up on stage, but Shizuru finishes her cigarette and gets on stage. She notices Gold was just about to go up so she asks her if she could take this one and Gold'll get the next one. Gold nods and Shizuru puts on her song. She sings `Obvious' by Christina Aguilera. She sings so beautiful and the song is beautiful that it stuns everyone. It makes them feel the pain just from the way she sings it. When she finishes, she notices that Yukina and Kayko have little tears in their eyes. After they calm down, Gold goes up. She puts on “Give unto Me' by Evanescence and starts to sing. “Give unto me your troubles/ I'll endure your suffering/ Place onto me your burden/ I'll drink your deadly poison…” she wants Hiei to know that she is here for him. Hopefully, Hiei gets her message. Throughout most of the song, she closes her eyes not realizing Hiei is paying attention. She sings it with such passion that it's hard not to really listen to her.

 

They go through a couple more rounds of karaoke. Kayko sings `I want you to want me', and `But I do love you'. Kurama sings `Smooth'. Shizuru sings `Unfaithful'. Gold sings “And I' and `running'. Yusuke singing `Hanging by a moment', `bodies', and `bat country'. Kuwabara sings `Truly, madly, deeply' and `wake me up when September ends'. They also do group songs. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama sing `Barbara Anne'. At the beginning, they slide in on the parts they sing. Yukina and Kuwabara sing `All I have'. And the last performance of the night is the girls singing `Love this way'.

 

They finish and go in the living room. “Ok, we are going to watch a movie. You don't get to pick the movie, but trust me, it's a great movie and it's one of a kind. It's an old movie, but it's different.” Gold explains.

 

“If it's a musical, I'm out then.” Yusuke says, remembering he has to participate in one.

 

“Yusuke, it's different kind of musical. It was made in the 1970's and it's amazing.” Gold says with a huge smile on her face.

 

“What is the movie about” Kurama asks.

 

Gold gets an even bigger smile on her face, “It has many fans in America. It's only supposed to be shown at midnight in theaters. People dress up for it sometimes.”

 

“Yea, but what's it about.” Kuwabara says.

 

“Do you really want to know?”

 

“Yea.” Everyone says except Hiei. Gold Figures he read her mind since he gets a little embarrassed.

 

“Are you sure?” Gold says frightfully.

 

“Yea.” They say fast.

 

“Positive?”

 

“Yes!” Impatiently, they say.

 

“Fine, I'll tell you. It's about an engaged couple and their car breaks down on a dreary rode. They spot a castle and go in it. They find strange people there. It's a party and the doctor is trying to create a human life without birth and he succeeds.”

 

“What is the name? If I may ask.” Kurama asks.

 

“Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Gold answers.

 

“I think I've heard of it.” Kurama thanks for a minute. He gasps when he realizes, “Is that with the tran-“

 

“Yea.” Gold cuts him off before he could ruin it. He was about to say transvestites. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is about transvestites. “Ok come on. I want you to see this movie.” They sit and turn the movie on. Music comes on and red lips floats on the black while singing. The lips sing about late night double feature picture show. “I told you it was strange.”

 

“No, you didn't, Gold.” Yusuke says in a scared tone.

 

“Ok fine. If you think that was weird, than just wait.”

 

“Great.” Yusuke says in a sarcastic way.”

 

“I knew I know this movie. I love it.” Shizuru says. I'm gonna sing to it if you do Gold.”

 

“Yea, of course.” Gold says with excitement. The lips finish and a church comes on screen. It's a wedding. In the movie everyone except Brad and Janet leaves. Brad proposes to Janet by breaking into a sing. Gold and Shizuru sing along to it.

---~Brad: The river was deep but I swam it. (Janet) /The future is ours so let's plan it. (Janet)
So please, don't tell me to can it. (Janet) /I've one thing to say and that's Dammit, Janet, I love you. The road was long but I ran it. (Janet) /There's a fire in my heart and you fan it. (Janet) / If there's one fool for you then I am it. (Janet) / I've one thing to say and that's Dammit, Janet, I love you. Here's a ring to prove that I'm no joker. /There's three ways that Love can grow. / That's good, bad, and mediocre. /Oh, J-A-N-E-T I love you so.

Janet:
Oh, it's nicer than Betty Munroe had. (Oh, Brad) / Now we're engaged and I'm so glad. (Oh, Brad) / That you met Mom and you know Dad. (Oh, Brad)/ There's one thing to say and that's Brad, I'm mad, for you too.

Oh, Brad.... /Brad: Oh...Dammit! / Janet: I'm mad... / Brad: Oh, Janet. /Janet: For You. /Brad: I love you too. / Brad & Janet: There's one thing left to do-ah-oo. /Brad:
And that's go see the man who began it. (Janet) / When we met in his science exam-it. (Janet) / Made me give you the eye and then panic. (Janet) / Now I've one thing to say and that's Dammit, Janet, I love you. / Dammit Janet> / Janet: Oh, Brad, I'm mad. /Brad: Dammit, Janet. / Brad & Janet: I love you. ~---

The song finishes and Brad and Janet get caught in a storm, so they go in the castle. The butler that answers the door breaks into a song and Gold and Shizuru sing to the Time Warp. During the song, they dance with everyone in the movie. When the song finishes, Yusuke Kurama, Kayko and Yukina get even more frightened. The next scene, someone is coming down in high heels. The person has it's back to us. It gets to the bottom and turns around. It's a guy in the hooker outfit with the stockings, black corset looking shirt, gloves, high heels, and black tighty-whitties. He breaks out in a song about Transsexual Transylvania. And of course, Gold and Shizuru sing along. The sing finishes and Gold looks at everyone's expression. Everyone's jaw is dropped. “Gold, what the hell?”

“Yusuke, just watch the rest and Hiei,” Hiei looks like he's going to run out of there. “Hiei, you have no choice, you have stay because I'm staying.” He just `hn's at Gold. “Thanks.” Gold gives him a warm smile.

When the movie finishes, Yusuke says, “Gold, you are one freaky bitch, but the movie was great.” Everyone agrees with Yusuke.

“I'm so glad you like it. Actually, I thought you wouldn't like it.”

For the rest of the night, they talk about different things. After a while, they start to get tired so they say their goodbyes and leave. Gold and Hiei go to bed on the couch and fall asleep.

End chapter