Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Farewell Butterfli ❯ At the End of the Day ( Chapter 5 )

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Farewell Butterfli

By Ryoken

"Lemme get this straight: if we disrupt the cannibal bird, we get sent to the time-out corner?" Yusuke asked.

"It seems so," Kurama replied, smiling.

"Riiiiight..."

Mizu sat drawing in the nearby dirt with a twig, still in that corner.

Suddenly, the bell rang, and the Reikai headed towards their next classes.

"Hey, Mizu! I'll race you!" VT shouted at the lone student gathering her things. VT began running.

"VT, that's not fair, you got a head start!" She shouted back. Mizu didn't bother trying to play catch-up with her friend; she knew that even if SHE had gotten the head start, she wouldn't have remained in the lead for very long: VT was very agile.

"Not up for a race?" Kurama asked as Mizu walked alongside them.

"What's the point?" She sighed. "She always seems to beat me..."Mizu said, scratching her head in thought. Mizu turned a corner and waved goodbye to them.

"Well, I'd say we're off to a pretty good staaaaaaa..." Yusuke was saying before he walked into his second to last class of the day, Kurama and Hiei walking beside him. In front of them was the mischievous VT, sitting on her stool with her feet up. "Oh...great..." He muttered under his breath.

VT noticed them and bounded off of her stool and into their faces. "HI AGAIN!!!!"

"Konichiwa, VT," Yusuke said shakily, raising an arm in greeting.

"What's the matter, you're not getting sick or anything, are you?" She asked.

"Iie, iie(no, no)!!" Yusuke said, firmly shaking his head back and forth.

"Good! I want to show you some of the things I've done, come on!!" She said, and she dragged him away from Kurama and Hiei. He looked back at them for some sign of mercy, but Kurama merely smiled and Hiei smirked.

"We'll see you later, Shinzui," Kurama said as he left Yusuke's range of sight.

"Heh, have fun, Onmitsu," Hiei remarked as he too, left the art studio. This was going to be a long period...

VT sat Yusuke down on the stool next to the one she had been previously occupying and hurried over to her drawer where she undid the lock and pulled it open. She took out a few pieces of paper, and then brought them back to the table.

"This one I did a few weeks ago," VT said as she held up the first pastel piece of art. It was a picture of a gray brick wall, and green vines were growing in every nook and cranny. At the bottom were some of the bricks that had been pushed out of the wall, and where there were only a few cracks, a blue sky pierced through. Yusuke thought it was a little on the boring side, but it wasn't half bad for someone who he thought was weirder than Jin.

"This one I started yesterday, so it isn't finished yet," she stated. She held up the beginnings of an evergreen forest and shining streams. Where the chalk hadn't been used yet were light pencil drawings of butterflies floating along the banks of the streams. Something in it just seemed to catch Yusuke's eye, but he couldn't place his finger on what. Yusuke almost showed his surprise when the picture moved from where it was to where VT moved it, facing down on the table.

VT showed him a few other pastel drawings she had done before class began, but none of them interested him as much as that drawing of the streams and butterflies. Something about it just seemed familiar to him. It stayed with Yusuke throughout the class as he watched VT use her pastel to finish up the drawing.

VT noticed Yusuke's intense stare out of the corner of her eye and decided it was time to introduce him to her "master." Out of the blue, VT practically shoved a rubber duck with sunglasses on in Yusuke's face. "This is BOB! He tells me everything!! He tells me when to eat mashed potatoes, when to scare peoples, when to glomp people..."She said, a sadistic grin on her face as she continued to rattle off the infinite list of things that her lord and master told her. Yusuke fell off his stool.

Suddenly, VT grabbed Yusuke's bag and started to rummage through it.

"HEY!!!! That's my stuff!!!!" He said in Japanese, but he didn't want to stop a psycho such as VT. He was too afraid of what she might concoct next. Not finding what she was looking for, she put the bag on the ground and jumped on Yusuke. It wasn't long before the teacher, Ms. Phillips, heard the ruckus of shouts going on from the corner of the room.

"You two! I suggest if you don't want to get sent to the principle, that you stop this rough-housing immediately," she said as she found VT sitting up triumphantly with a piece of paper in her hand and Yusuke rubbing the side of his head.

"Yes, Ms. Phillips!" VT said happily. She sat in her seat and opened up the piece of paper she had wrenched from Yusuke's pants pocket. It was his schedule. "Oooooooo, you have seventh period with me next!! Isn't that weird?!?" She said to him as he got off of the floor. She put the schedule on his half of the desk.

"Eeto, hai...(Uh, yes...)" Yusuke said slowly. When he looked back at what VT was doing, she was silently using the pastel again, as if nothing had ever happened. Yusuke was right. It was going to be a long period...

"Come on, Shinzui, let's go, let's go!!" VT said, almost shouting. Yusuke had seen VT smuggle some sort of candy into her mouth and was reluctant to find out just what the sugary stuff would tell her already-insane mind to do.

Finally, a possible savior appeared around the corner. Yusuke ran to catch up with Kuwabara, who was staring intently at his schedule, thinking that at any moment, he'd be able to interpret where he was supposed to go next.

"Gimme that," Yusuke said, snatching it from his grasp.

"Hey!!"

Yusuke started to look pale. He quickly took out his own schedule and lined them up. The typing looked the same, and so Yusuke figured that he, Kuwabara, and VT must have the exact same class. Yusuke groaned as VT stole the schedules.

"Heh heh, so, we all have the same last period, huh? Sounds like fun to me!!!" VT said. She grabbed Yusuke's hand and dragged him towards seventh period: chemistry.

When the three got there, Kuwabara lagging behind, they found Kurama already seated.

"Eeto, Koujou, nazemaru korede?(Um, Plant, why you here?)" Yusuke asked. "Kokimi douyou ato baka zeniza(Feeling like an idiot right now)." Kurama chuckled.

"Wha'd he say, wha'd he say!?!?" VT said to Kurama.

"He asked if I too, had this class, and that Chijin also has chemistry," Kurama said quickly. "And to answer that question, yes, I do."

"I don't see the shrimp anywhere, what's he got now?" Kuwabara asked, under the guise of his native language.

"Gym," Kurama responded in English.

"You guys talking about Hinote?" VT asked. Kurama nodded. "Mizu has gym this period, I wonder if he's in her class."

"Oh great, I've got her again," Hiei muttered under his breath as he noticed Mizu walking out of the girl's locker room, speaking to another ningen that was beside her.

"Rebye Highnote? Rebye Highnote!!" A woman from behind yelled. Hiei turned rolled his eyes as he started to correct her when someone else spoke out.

"That's Hinote Reibai, Mrs. Stuart. And he's right there," Mizu said.

"Oh. Well why didn't you say so?!?" The instructor said, turning her back and walking towards the track.

"Baka ningen..." Hiei muttered.

"Hello again, Hinote," Mizu said politely.

"Hn."

"'Hn...' now, where have I heard that before..." Mizu pondered out loud.

"Why are you named 'water'?" Came a question out of the blue. (Bad pun not intended.)

"Huh? Oh, VT just started calling me it one day, so it just sort of stuck," she answered as she began walking towards the track for the usual warm up. "I've never liked to use my real name anyway; I hate it," she added.

Hiei raised an eyebrow. He'd figured as much, but he'd never heard of anyone hating the name they were given. 'Hn, ningens.'

"What are you just standing around for, Hinote? You don't want to be docked points, do you?" She shouted. Hiei sighed under his breath and silently followed Mizu to the track, making it there before the teacher without using his incredible speed.

"No, no, no; that's not what you do to make it go boom in yer face!!" VT said, adding an Irish accent to her voice as she mixed in a chemical and placed the one Kurama had in his hand on the table.

"I thought that the objective was to NOT have it explode in our faces?" Kurama said.

"Where's the fun in that?!!?" VT exclaimed. She picked up some various vials and poured in the potions inside, some fast, others slower than slow. "Stand back," she said at last; they all backed up way more than VT had expected them to. VT slowly poured a drop of the last ingredient and crouched back with the rest of them. A puff of smoke came out like a mushroom cloud, and then after about a minute, a sound like a shotgun came from the vial, leaving scorch marks around the rim and a ghastly smell wafting from the inside.

"Now THAT was cool," Yusuke said, a grin on his face.

"Yes, well, let's just hope that little stunt of hers won't get us into trouble," Kurama prayed.

"Don't you mean you into trouble?" Yusuke asked.

"I suppose you could put it that way..." Kurama began to say as the teacher walked over to them.

"Miss VT, may I have a word with you?" Mr. Berrian asked as he raised a finger, indicating with it that she should follow him.

"Guess you got your wish, huh, Kurama?" Yusuke said when VT was out of earshot.

"Don't use that name around here!" Kurama whispered.

"Right, right," Yusuke said as he and the other two began the experiment over again, this time the right way.

Hiei wished that with all the blasted ningen clothing Botan had bought, she had bought him a watch. He'd never needed to know what time it was before, but this period felt like it was never going to end! He was tired of not being able to use his speed and he was sick of playing this stupid ningen game, what was it called again? Sock her?

"Hinote, heads up!!" Mizu shouted quickly as the ball came flying at him. He finally took notice, and his first reaction was to slice the ball with his katana...which he remembered was left with Botan when he reached for it. So instead he batted the ball away from himself with his arm. The ball flew high into the sky; after he hit it, there was a slight tingle in his arm. A whistle blew.

"Use of hands; ball turns over to the yellow team," the coach yelled as groans ensued. She tossed a spare ball towards a member of the yellow team, and blew the whistle.

"I don't know if you had soccer in Japan, Shorty, but we don't use our hands, and that includes arms, smart-ass!!" A boy said, not exactly happy with the fact that his team had lost possession of the ball. He was a real jerk named David, and the school "bully". He made fun of everyone, and was the leader of his own little circle of friends.

"What'd you say?!?!?!?" Hiei shouted angrily. "Come here and say that to my-ow!" The ball had come back into the atmosphere and landed straight on Hiei's head.

"Hinote! Are you all right?" Mizu asked as she came up to him.

"He's dead," he said. He was about lunge at bulky kid when Mizu grabbed his arm. "Don't touch me, baka ningen!!" He said, pulling his arm away.

"EXCUSE ME!?!?!?!?!? You did NOT just call me a stupid human, you chikai fugainai painappuru!!" Mizu shouted back at him.

Hiei wasn't sure if he should fight with her or laugh at her. He'd been called mouse, half-pint, shrimp, and all sorts of other things by the baka, but he'd never been called a pineapple before... His smart-ass attitude returned as he said. "Well, I just did, onna (woman)!"

"Oh yeah?!" Mizu said. 'Good, he's focused on me. Maybe now he won't get suspended for fighting.'

"Yeah!"

"Oh yeah?!?"

"Yeah, oba-san (little girl)?!

"OBA-SAN?!!?!? OMAE O KOROSU(I will kill you), you Oompa Loompa!!!!!!!!!!"

"Oompa what?"

"Oompa loompa. They're these short little orange munchkins with green hair, they're actually quite weird."

"Oh. Are you calling me a munchkin!??"

"That's right, Oompa loompa!!"

"Oh yeah-"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!!!" The teacher shouted. "Mizu, Hinote, fifty push ups; now!"

"WHAT?!?!" They both said at once.

"You heard me!! And no girly ones either!!!" She said. Mizu and Hiei grumbled to themselves as they both got on the ground and started doing push ups. They could both hear David's stupid laughter from the goal where he was playing as the goalkeeper, and both would have liked to punch his face in. But on the inside, Mizu was just glad that the guy didn't get suspended or anything. He was kinda cute.

"I...hate...you..." Hiei said when he got to fifteen.

"Awww, I...hate...you too," Mizu replied.

"Urusei(shut up)!" He said quickly.

"No, you...urusei!" Mizu said. "If it...weren't for...me...you'd be...on your...way to the...principle's...office...right now..." She was on twenty-five.

"What are...you talking...about?!"

"If you...had fought...that worthless...piece of...crap...you would...have gotten...suspended...on your...first day...of school." Forty-one.

"So what...do you...care?"

"Somebody...has to..." She said. Mizu gave him a smile right before she reached fifty and collapsed on the ground, panting. Hiei had hardly broken into a sweat as he sat down on the grass.

"What do you mean 'somebody has to'?" He asked plainly.

"Exactly what I said. 'Somebody has to care.' I don't ask questions like 'why should I care?' to myself. I ask 'why shouldn't I care?'" Mizu said. The final bell rang and Mizu stood up. "Great, school's out for the day. Took long enough, huh?" She joked.

"Hn," he replied. 'kaiki ningen...(weird human)' he thought to himself as they walked back to the locker rooms.

Sorry it took me so long to update and that it's kinda slow right now, gomen ne!!