Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Past Encounters ❯ Sakura Blossoms ( Prologue )

Past Encounters

Written by: Sakura Harusame

Disclaimer: Okay, if owned Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama would be tied up in my room right now and I wouldn't be typing this.

Okay, this is how things are written: "…"-talking, /…/-thinking, […]-telepathy

Prologue: Sakura blossoms

"Hiei, how long will it be before I get to see you again this time?" A young girl stood in the middle of the makai, facing a man she had seen as her onee-san for decades.

"I'm not sure Sakura. It may be a while." He heard a rustle in the brush and sense the reiki he had been running from for days. He had to leave, now. "I have to leave. Take care Sakura."

Hiei took off at top speed, only pausing for a moment to look at the girl was forced to leave behind. /Goodbye, my Sakura blossom…/

/Goodbye, my chibi ryu…/

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Twenty-two years later…

"Sakura! Sakura! Get up or you'll be late to school!" A woman's voice floated up the stairs and into Sakura's room.

"I'm up! I'm up!" She rolled over, throwing her feet off the bed. Sakura looked at her alarm clock. 7:45 am. "Kuso! I'm going to be late!"

Less then ten minutes later, Sakura was in her uniform with her hair done and teeth brushed. She dashed down the stairs, keys and backpack in hand.

"Sayonara okaa-san!" She jumped into her car and sped off to school, not even hearing her mother's reply.

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SCREECH

Sakura came to a halt infront of Keiko's house. The girl was standing outside, looking at her watch.

"Keiko! Hurry, get in the car!"

"Sakura?! It's about time you showed up!" Keiko jumped into the rose red convertible and Sakura once again took off at an alarming speed.

"So, do I go and get that shitsuko boyfriend of yours?" Keiko blushed. She knew Sakura was talking about Yusuke.

"We better, or he'll never show up for school. And he's not my boyfriend!"

Sakura just laughed. The junior high girl next to her always denied any sort of relationship with Urameshi, but Sakura could tell Keiko had a thing for him. Just like she could tell he had a thing for her as well.

"Hold on!" She took a sharp turn to the right and skidded to a halt infront of Yusuke's house.

"Hey, Yusuke!! Get your lazy ass out here!"

He opened the window and looked out to see Keiko and Sakura in Sakura's convertible. "What the Hell do you want?!"

"Get in the car! I'm not being late again because of you!"

"I'm comin'!" Yusuke dashed out the door and jumped into the backseat next to Keiko.

Sakura pulled out and shot off for Sarayashiki Junior High. She looked down at her radio. 7:58am. "Fuck! I'm gonna be late!"

"Well, you shouldn't have come after me if your this worried about being late!" Yusuke barked.

"And have Keiko pissed `cause I left her precious boyfriend at his house?! Fat chance dumbass!" Sakura said with a laugh.

Keiko just blushed and Yusuke practically growled. "We're not dating!" They both yelled at her.

"Ya, sure your not!" She slammed on the brakes and motioned for the two to get out. "I'll pick you guys up this afternoon, like usual!" Sakura screamed as she took off again.

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8:01am. One minute late. /Kuso! I'm gonna get a detention for sure this time! / She slowly made her way up to her classroom.

"Miss Harusame, I'm glad to see you could join us today." Sakura's teacher, Akuma-sensei, hated her.

"Konichiwa, Akuma-sensei." Sakura casually walked over to her seat and sat down.

"What do you think you're doing? Go to the principal's office, now."

"Hai, Akuma-sensei…" She grabbed her bag and walked out of the room just as casually as she walked in.

After about twenty minutes in the principal's office, she had talked her way out of yet another detention. That's what made life at Meio Academy easy- that she had the ability to talk her way out of anything, except when it came to Akuma-sensei. Kami, did that women hate her.

The rest of the morning flew by. Sakura quickly found herself outside eating lunch at her usual table. She and her friends, Nami, Kaya, and Akari loved to sit and make fun of all the girls that fawned over the hottest guy in school, Shuichi Minamino. But in reality, the four of them had the biggest crushes on him out of any girl at Meio Academy.

"Kami, he's so hot…" Nami sighed.

"Just look at those girls! All over him like he's some piece of meat!" Sakura exclaimed.

"But what I wouldn't give for a taste of that!" Akari practically squealed. All of the girls nodded in agreement and giggled.

"You know Sakura." Kaya had a mischievous look in her eyes. "Rumor has it Shuichi-kun has a crush on you!"

"N-nani?! Shuichi-kun could have any girl in school! What makes you think he has a crush on me?!" She stressed the word `me' as she spoke.

"Because, everyday I see him glancing over at our table. And I have a feeling he ain't staring at Nami, Akari, or me." Kaya's voice told Sakura she thought that was the end of this discussion.

"Well Kaya, you're not exactly the brightest crayon in the box, if you know what I mean…" Sakura said with a laugh. Nami and Akari giggled.

"She's got you their Kaya!" Nami said between giggles.

"Oh, shut up!" Kaya crossed her arms infront of her chest and turned her head away from the table.

"Um, excuse me?" A boy was standing next to Sakura, his voice cracking nervously.

"Hai?" Akari spoke up, see as no one else would.

"Which one of you is Harusame-san?"

"That would be me." Sakura said, her voice growing more polite with every word.

The boy shoved a note in her hand. "I was told to give this to you and to tell you do not let anyone else read it." With that, he ran off to his friends.

"I wonder what it says!" Nami, Akari, and Kaya exclaimed.

"Well, let me read it!" Sakura quickly unfolded he note and began to read it.

<Sakura, It's been a long time, at least twenty years. I will be at your house tonight, be there alone. Tell no one of this. -Hiei>

/Hiei!? Oh my…/ Sakura was in shock. She hadn't seen or heard from Hiei in years, sense she left the makai.

"Sakura? Earth to Sakura, this is Nami, do you read?" Akari waved her hand infront of Sakura's face while Nami spoke.

"Huh? Oh, um… What were you saying?"

Kaya sighed. "We were asking you what that note said."

"Oh… I can't tell you guys. The sender asked me not to." Sakura folded the note back up and put it in her pocket.

She was suddenly assaulted by her friends begging and pleading to read the note or to at least know who sent it to her.

"Ne! I told you guys, you can't read it!"

"But Sakura!"

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/Saved by the bell!/ "Well, we better get to class! Ja ne you guys!" Sakura ran off to her next class, biology. She was always there early. It was one of the three classes she had with Shuichi.

"Ohayo class." Sensei Hen walked in, setting his briefcase on his desk.

"Ohayo Sensei." The class responded in unison.

"Now today we have a lab with plants." Sakura and Shuichi both half-smiled at this. They loved plants, and were very good with them. (A/N: Hm, I wonder why Shuichi is good with plants…?) "You'll need one partner for this project, and it will last for a week or two. Now, pick your partners."

Every girl in classroom, except Sakura, rushed over to Shuichi. He just smiled that smile of his that made any girl weak in the knees. Sakura was about to walk over to her best friend, Yu Kaitou, when she decided to listen in on Shuichi trying to pick a partner and not hurt any of his adoring fangirls at the same time.

"It seems Minamino-san has quite a bit on his hands." Yu spoke as he walked up to Sakura, laughter and malice both filling his voice.

"So it seems…" Sakura knew not to bother telling Yu off for sounding so cruel. She knew that Kaitou and Shuichi never really got along.

"Why is it that you are never one of those girls? I know you are attracted to him." Yu said, taking the seat next to her. His words sounded bitter but Sakura just let it pass, chalking it up to her growing headache.

"I have no intention of throwing myself at a man who is nothing more then eye candy with a brain." Sakura said. She sat up a little more as to add to the effect of her words.

"Nothing more then eye candy with a brain, hm? Why is it I cannot bring myself to believe that last comment?"

"Because you can read me like a book, Yu, why else." It was a statement, not a question, and Yu knew it. "I can't help but like him… he's so adorable and intelligent."

"Um, girls? I already have a partner." Shuichi said in a shy voice.

"Who?" All of them asked in unison, all 12 of them.

"Harusame-chan is my partner." He looked over to her with a smile, but his eyes said `onegai?'.

Every one of those girls was glaring at her. How dare she be his partner?!

"Uh..." Sakura said intelligently.

"Go ahead, I'll be someone else's partner. It will give you a chance to talk to him." Kaitou whispered to Sakura, getting up from the seat he was in and walking up to another classmate.

"Um… h-hai. I'm Minamino-kun's partner…" She muttered half-heartedly.

Shuichi got up and walked over to Sakura, taking the seat previously occupied by Kaitou. He smiled that smile of his, the one that melted the heart of so many women. One of which was Sakura. She looked over to Yu, the look in her eyes asking if he was really okay with this. Yu just smiled and nodded before turning back to his lab partner.

/Alright, if you say so Yu… /

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All right, I've changed things a bit to make it more interesting later on in the story line. I hope you guys like this! Oh, and before I forget, please review. Like I said in my other fics, reviews help to tell me if I'm doing things wrong, what I can make better, what stupid mistakes I didn't catch, etc. So please help me become a better writer, review.