Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Promise Me Forever ❯ First Things First ( Chapter 1 )

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Chapter 1: First Things First

Dream Sequence

"Hi, Kazuma!"

Slowly, the said child reached down to hold the hand of his favorite girl, Yukina, and was about to plant a nice little kiss on her cheek when her twin brother broke them up.

"DON'T YOU TOUCH MY SISTER! I'LL KILL YOU!" Hiei yelled at the top of his lungs (and a magnificent pair of lungs they were). With that, he pulled the wooden play-katana from out of his belt and began to poke Kazuma with it.

"Hiei!" the Minamino twins cried out, and ran to pull their friend back. It was too late, however, and Kazuma had begun to cry.

"HIEI! CORNER! NOW!" Genkai roared.

End Dream Sequence

Hiei Koorime-Jaganshi woke to the annoying beeping made by his stupid alarm clock. He reached out and slammed his hand on the snooze button, but knew that his mother would be in soon to tell him to get his lazy butt out of bed.

School needed to die. Preferably before he graduated this year. And it needed to die a slow, horrible death by mutilation. Or, like, be dissolved by acid.

Yeah.

"Hiei, get up. NOW."

"Hn." The boy rolled out of bed and slipped into his normal routine. His normal, hated, stupid routine. Wash up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush his teeth, and catch the bus to school with his twin sister, Yukina.

Thankfully, the Minamino twins were already there and saving him a seat, having gotten on two stops before. Yoko was watching his brother scrawl something on a piece of paper and motioned for Hiei to sit on the other side of Suichi. It was almost impossible to tell that they were twins, just as it was almost impossible to tell that Hiei and Yukina were twins. One was silver and gold and the other was a rose- red and green. They had the same voice, though, wore their hair short to fit in with the stupid school rules, and their minds were incredible. Not to mention that they were perfectionists.

"Latest plan," was all that the silver-haired Yoko said.

Hiei nodded in understanding.

~

Kayko Yukimura and her best friend Yukina Koorime-Jaganshi were talking animatedly at the front of the bus as they flipped through the newest issue of Teen Lady. They weren't interested in the latest clothing styles shown so much as the waaay cute actors and singers that were featured.

"Hey Yukina, look. It's Kazuma," Kayko whispered, giggling, as she pointed to the red-head who was currently running to the bus stop.

"Kayko! Stop!" Yukina panicked when her best friend couldn't stop giggling. "And anyway, look at who's with him!"

"Yusuke? Urg, he's so infuriating. Like a little brother that you wish you didn't have."

"That's not what you said yesterday!" Now it was Yukina who was the one giggling, and Kayko who was blushing.

~

The Carroll twins were the ones who boarded the bus next. Yes. Another set. They were the youngest of the three pairs, and the ones who looked the most alike. They wore their brown hair the same length and had the same dark brown eyes and were the same height. The only thing that separated them was the fact that Anastasia wore glasses, and those were temporary, as she was going to get contacts when she was old enough.

Their personalities, however, were quite different. Both had above average intelligence, but Sarah was the one who was outwardly brilliant and popular. Anastasia was the twin who couldn't care less and who usually ran with Yoko, Hiei, and Suichi. Now, in fact, she was sitting right across from the three.

"Plan?"

Suichi handed it to her silently.

"Backup plan?"

"Don't need one. This one's fool-proof," Yoko said.

Anastasia studied the paper for a moment, considering all of the possibilities, and then nodded.

"When?"

"First period. We have gym. It's 29° out."

"Wonderful. Who's going?"

"Hiei. He's the fastest."

"Funds?"

"Ours are in."

Anastasia tossed a small black pouch to Hiei, who caught it neatly.

"Brilliant."

~

"Yusuke Urameshi, where did you think you were going?!" Vice-Principal Koenma asked as he hauled the squirming 8th grader back into the school. Oh, the joys of having his father as the principal of the school. Why on earth couldn't he have chosen another occupation? Troublesome kids, troublesome kids, and more troublesome kids. Not to mention the parents! If there was hell on Earth, then this was it.

"And you!" Koenma said, rounding on the Door Guardians- 8th graders with the duty of making sure no strangers came into the building, a duty that ended at 8:15. "Why didn't you tell him to stop?!"

"Sorry, Koenma, sir. Yusuke told me that he was going to the library to pay his late fee," Michelle Liu lied smoothly. She didn't look once at her partner, Sarah Carroll. "Was I hearing wrong, Yusuke?"

"No. Jeez, you can be so paranoid, VP." Koenma would've hit Yusuke if it hadn't been against the law.

Koenma looked from one Door Guardian to the other and then to Yusuke.

"Fine. But next time I catch you going out of the building during school hours, you'd better have a note from your teacher, got it, Yusuke?"

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

When Koenma had finally tramped upstairs and back to his office, Paul Martinez and Kazuma Kuwabara came out of hiding in the staircase leading down to the cafegymatorium (1).

"Is he gone yet?" they whispered, and Michelle nodded.

"You cowards!" Yusuke accused, but reserved any hitting until they were off school grounds.

"Whatever. It's a hide or be caught world, Yusuke. We just chose the better one. Now let's go," Paul said, and bolted into the biting October air. Kazuma and Yusuke quickly followed.

"Why do you lie for them?" Sarah asked Michelle.

"Just `cause."

Sarah sighed. "If you say so."

~

Notes: (1) Cafegymatorium- A large room, usually in the basement of a school, that is used as a cafeteria, gymnasium, and auditorium.

The good stuff isn't quite here, though I did enjoy this chapter. Suspenseful? Yes? No? No. Tell me in the review I know you're writing out. Right now. ::narrows eyes:: Aren't you?

Bobby: And this is the part where I outline r.i.p.'s plans insofar. Firstly, she's going to try to have a "flashback nine years!" moment in each chapter because she wants to add an element of cuteness to her story. On that note (either F or G; I haven't been practicing my flute often enough), r.i.p. says that she can't guarantee that she won't kill off a character. Or two. Heck, for all she knows, they might all die. But she is going to plan this all out very carefully and will tell you if she intends to create a pairing. She has some parts written clearly in her mind (visualized, actually) and believes deeply that this is going to be like one of those WB teen drama-ish things. In other words: Be prepared for about a hundred plot twists. So there. Now go ahead and flame her please. I can't stand her ego much longer.

But Bobby, I named someone after you!

...Please don't flame her.