Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Promise Me Forever ❯ The Stuff Ain't Cheap ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I own- ::lawyers gang up on r.i.p and threaten her with bat:: -nothing! Well, none of the YYH stuff.

Chapter 2: The Stuff Ain't Cheap

The first class bell rang. Suichi and Anastasia exchanged glances and watched the other eighth grade class head down to gym. Two minutes and counting.

"All right, class. Notebooks. Heading, objective, you know the drill." Slowly, Anastasia did as her homeroom teacher, Ms. Michaels, said. Ten seconds. Eight. Six. Four. Two.

"Excuse me, Ms. Michaels?"

"Yes, Anastasia?" The said student walked up to her teacher and began to explain something to her in a hushed voice.

"Is that so? Certainly."

"Thank you so much!"

Suichi admired how sincere that sounded.

Yoko and Hiei waited in the cafegymatorium as Ms. Genkai began to separate them into teams.

Anastasia came running in.

"Ms. Genkai, so sorry to disturb you, but Ms. Michaels needs Hiei for a bit. Something about a make-up test? She said she put a note in your mailbox."

"This note?" Genkai held up the slip of paper that Yoko had doctored and Anastasia had delivered. "Go ahead, Hiei."

It was all up to Hiei now. He bolted out of the school building and ran to the deli across the way.

"One chicken cutlet, mayo, roll. One bologna, ketchup, white. One salami, plain, white. And one tuna, white."

"You're late, young man," Alice the deli lady said, motioning at Hiei's gym uniform.

"Hn. I know. That's why I'd like to get this stuff quickly."

Alice raised an eyebrow, but got the sandwiches together quickly.

"Will that be all?"

"Plus this." Hiei shoved over eight drinks and about sixteen pounds of candy.

Hiei ran as fast as he could back to the school and stashed the bags of food in the secret nook between the kindergarten building and the actual school and the bags of candy into his sweatshirt.

"Hurry up, we've only got about a minute until the bell rings!" Anastasia said as she held the side door open for him. Hiei passed two bags to her.

It was another mission completed.

Kayko watched Anastasia enter the classroom, her sweatshirt balled up in her arms, and wondered why she'd been allowed to leave the room twice already.

It didn't matter anyway. Anastasia hung out with what might be perceived as the wrong people. Sure, Yusuke was bad, but that was because he hadn't had quite the best life. The Minamino brothers and Hiei, however, were bad just for the hell of it, and Anastasia was always caught up in the middle of it somehow. She didn't care about anything anymore, really, and was just a new person altogether.

And the new Anastasia wasn't one of Kayko's friends.

Fast forward a few hours, to recess. In class 8A, Yukina and Kayko tested each other for their test in Social Studies during last period. Suichi and Anastasia were battling each other out at chess, finally giving up when a Nerf ball hit the board and sent the pieces flying.

"Who won?" the idiot who threw it asked.

"Shut up," the two players muttered in unison.

Meanwhile, class 8B was enjoying a rendition of "It's Gonna Be Me" (a.n.: Nsync, remember? I used to love that song!) from Sarah and Michelle. Such a cruel dare! But in the corner of the room, Yoko and Hiei were getting high off sugar.

The math teacher was going to be in for one hell of a class.

"Hey there, Bobby-girl," Yoko greeted Anastasia at lunch. "Awesome preformance."

"Thanks."

"Did you eat all of the candy yet?" asked Suichi.

"Almost."

"You shouldn't have. We're going to have a field trip in a week or two, and I know for a fact that you're broke, Yoko."

"DAMN!" the silver haired one burst out. An idea popped into his head suddenly, and he cleared his throat. "And we'll share our cookies at snacktime forever?"

The other three groaned.

"Why do you always bring that back to haunt us?"

"Talk about it. And you don't have to live with him. It's like perpetual blackmail," Suichi said, and rolled his eyes.

"Well then you shouldn't have made the promise!" said Yoko defensively.

"We were four. Did you remember that?" Hiei asked.

"Extremely well."

"That was the year Suichi broke his arm, you broke your wrist, Paulie broke his nose, I broke my leg, and Bobby-girl sprained her ankle. St. John's had a good year." The three others laughed, remembering how Ms. Genkai, the then kindergarten teacher, had almost been sued by the group of parents.

Flashback

Genkai was stuck with the brats at recess. The worst time to be stuck with them. Paul Martinez and Ker Nalos had decided that climbing the metal gate was a wonderful idea and Yusuke had decided that throwing rocks at them as they neared the top was amusing. Genkai only barely caught them both as they fell, and put Yusuke on The Wall. Yukina, Kayko, and Michelle were lying on their coats or sweaters and either sunbathing or napping (Genkai wasn't sure which) as Kazuma watched them. Anastasia and Sarah were playing with that Shep-Shep bunny thing. Ricardo Garcia was chasing Arielle Stevens around. And finally, Yoko, Suichi, and Hiei were having a private conference about one thing or another.

"Ms. Genkai! Lookit Paulie! He's just lyin' there! I hit him wit the rock when he was climbin' an' now he's just lyin' there!"

Genkai spun around.

End Flashback

Sarah watched her sister and her friends laugh. It seemed like they were always doing that. Laughing. Or making plans.

It wasn't like that with her friends. They were more interested in material things than jokes and reminiscing. Well, except for Michelle, who was on a constant high, and spoke about a thousand words a minute.

"So, he was like, `Get a room,' and Lisa was like, `F- you, SOB. You don't mean anything to me anymore!' and that's how my sister and her ex broke up. Total tragedy, you know, but Lisa just can't keep her mouth off other guys, if you catch my drift." Sarah nodded and began to eat her lunch again.

"Hey, I've been meaning to ask you why you always have to eat school lunch when Ana gets deli."

"She probably gets it before school starts," Sarah replied, making a face at the nasty hamburger.

"Not so, `cause she's one of the first in the building in the mornings. `Once your bus drops you off at school, you must go inside the school building immediately.' Rule two. Plus, there's been a lot of lunch theft going on, remember?"

"Well then it appears out of thin air. I really don't want to know if Ana's engaging in some kind of... criminal activity."

Notes: Never thought I'd see the day that Hiei would laugh. Like, actually laugh. Plus, telling me that the charries are OOC is completely useless for the beginning portion of this story. They're modern-day New Yorkers, remember? Of course they're going to be OOC for a while. But they'll get into character, I swear. All they need is a tiny shove in the right direction. Heh. ::evil planning at work:: Don't get too attatched to Yoko. No, I'm just messing with ya. I may've killed Kurama off in Crimson, but I'd never do it again. I don't think.

Not very reassuring, am I?

And now I, Bobby, as the more responsible alter-ego, will tell you that r.i.p.'s idea of a `cute' flashback had failed miserably. She will be punished for her misjudgment!