Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Suicide ❯ Chapter Ten ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter Ten
Yuusuke watched, bored, as Hiei glared at him from the front of the room. He hated this class. It wasn't really the subject, even though English was one of his worst, but he really hated the teacher, Iwamoto-sensei [1]. It probably didn't help that Iwamoto hated him and wanted him expelled.

"Introduce yourself to the class, young man."

Hiei scowled. "Urameshi Hiei . . . Yoroshiku [2]." He spat the phrase at the class.

Yuusuke suppressed a sigh as one of the girls in the class, Keiko's four-eyed friend, giggled like a lovesick teenager. What am I thinking? She is a lovesick teenager! The girl had immediately tried to latch onto Hiei, who had immediately used Yuusuke as a shield. Lucky she's scared of me . . .

Iwamoto smirked at Hiei. "Looks like you already have a girlfriend, Urameshi-chan." He smacked Hiei on the shoulder, and the fire demon's eyes widened. He seemed caught between the urge to run and the urge to kill. Yuusuke winced, hoping to hell that he didn't have to run up to the front of the class to save the bastard's life. Iwamoto grinned cruelly. "Go to your seat, Urameshi-chan."

Hiei finally settled on growling low in his throat and giving the teacher a death glare, much to Yuusuke's relief. The fire demon stalked to the seat behind him, glowering at him the entire way. "Sorry; I should have warned you," Yuusuke barely whispered as he went past, inaudible to anyone but Hiei. The sanjiyan responded by glaring even harder, right before sitting down.

Iwamoto shot them another nasty look before beginning their English lesson, calling on Hiei at every opportunity. Yuusuke couldn't help but smirk as Hiei answered every question in flawless English, sometimes forming complex sentences that had everyone scurrying to translate.

It wasn't fair. Takenaka had quietly informed him that he'd called a teacher's meeting to explain the situation. Everyone knew that Hiei was supposed to be emotionally fragile, so they should be kind and understanding. They also knew that they weren't to touch him, and Iwamoto had done so anyway, and quite deliberately. He was going to have to have a talk with Takenaka about this.

Yuusuke sighed. Today was really not going well. First they'd had to explain what was going on to Keiko before she ruined everything. Keiko had been less than pleased, but had agreed to keep quiet about it. Then they'd had to deal with Rat-Face in science class. Akashi had pestered Hiei the entire time, and had been extremely annoyed when Hiei knew the answers to his questions. Which, of course, led to the bastard forming a grudge, though it hadn't helped that Hiei had answered in a bored, condescending manner. Yuusuke was going to have to watch out for him, especially after knowing what he did to people who thwarted his plans. Hiei pissing Akashi off had definitely been worth it, if only for the sight of the ratface turning purple with rage as he fired off questions one right after another at Hiei. The entire class could tell that Hiei was being singled out by the end, which didn't bode well for Akashi. The rumor mill was going to have a field day about it, and Takenaka would definitely hear about it on his own.

"I will not tolerate such disrespect!" Iwamoto's yell suddenly cut through Yuusuke's thoughts.

Yuusuke blinked, quickly realizing that Iwamoto was screaming at Hiei, who was just leaning back and smirking in a manner that was definitely disrespectful. The human suppressed a snicker as Hiei responded in English, his voice drawling, bored, and very impertinent.

Yuusuke had no idea what he'd said--nor did most of the rest of the class--but it had obviously been bad, because Iwamoto turned an even deeper purple than Akashi had. "OUT!" the teacher pointed a shaking finger toward the classroom door.

Hiei smirked and grabbed his books, saying something else in English that infuriated Iwamoto further.

Yuusuke gathered his books as well. "Where do you think you're going, Urameshi Yuusuke?!"

He grinned at the teacher. "I go where my cousin goes. Besides, I certainly wouldn't want you to have someone else to pick on. You do have a class to teach, and I don't want you to forget that because you're too busy bullying."

"OUT!!" The teacher had totally lost it, by this point.

"I'm going. That's what you were yelling at me about in the first place. You must be getting senile in your old age." Yuusuke shot a grin at Hiei, who smirked back. "Let's go. We should prolly stop and have a chat with Takenaka on our way home."

They headed toward the door, and Hiei threw another smart-assed comment over his shoulder in English as Yuusuke slid the door shut, provoking another enraged bellow from the ego-wounded teacher.

"Holy shit, Hiei . . . What'd you say?"

"He made comments about my dead family, so I retorted with statements about his family and how screwed up they must be to have raised a git like him." The fire demon smirked. "Then when he yelled about disrespect, I informed him that he was nothing but a bully and that Enma would judge his soul on that, whether he managed to fool the living or not."

Yuusuke stared at him. "He's definitely going to hold a grudge . . ."

Hiei shrugged. "He also commented about my name not fitting because I'm short."

"What a jerk." Yuusuke rolled his eyes. "I guess we'd better go talk to Takenaka and head home, eh?"

Hiei shrugged and looked away, and Yuusuke winced as he saw that the fire demon was closing up again. Damnit . . . And here I thought I'd gotten through to him or something. He's much more animated at school. That's so weird . . .

Yuusuke nearly jumped out of his skin as a hand fell on his shoulder. "Takenaka!"

He gently cuffed Yuusuke on the arm. "Takenaka-sensei, to you." He looked between them. "What the heck are you two doing out of class?"

Yuusuke scowled and crossed his arms behind his head. "Iwamoto kicked us out after provoking Hiei into giving him a tongue-lashing in English."

The teacher frowned. "What exactly happened?"

"Eh . . . He teased Hiei in front of the entire class, then hit him on the shoulder. Then he grilled Hiei in English for most of the class. He never called on anyone else." Yuusuke glanced at Hiei. "What else'd he say?"

Hiei shrugged. "That my parents were no good losers like Atsuko, and that I wasn't man enough to deserve my name."

Takenaka's eyes widened. "I'd heard through the rumor mill about Akashi's behavior, and it seems that Iwamoto is worse."

Yuusuke rolled his eyes. "They don't like me and they're trying to take it out on Hiei, and he ain't having none of it." The human snickered. "Iwamoto certainly regretted it. I don't think he understood half the shit you said, Hiei."

The fire demon shrugged again. "Doesn't matter."

The bell rang and students filtered from the classrooms. Takenaka smiled at them. "I'll go speak to our problem teacher. Go wait in my office." He disappeared into the throng of students.

Keiko stomped up to them. "What did you think you were doing, being belligerent like that?!"

"Aw, Keiko, you know he deserved it after what he said to Hiei."

Keiko blinked, then looked sheepish. "Oh? What did he say?"

Hiei scowled. "This is stupid. She comes to yell at us without even knowing what happened. Here I thought you were supposed to be smart, Keiko."

The brunette fumed at him. "I am smart, you jerk! I also get along better with my classmates than the both of you put together! Poor Natsuko-chan [3] has a crush on you, and you're just going to be mean to her!"

Hiei rolled his eyes and shoved his hands in his pocket. "So? It's not my problem that she's a hormone-controlled teenager. I want nothing to do with her."

Keiko glared. "Natsuko-chan is a nice girl!"

Hiei snorted. "If she's a menopausal bitch like you, I beg to differ."

SLAP!

She lowered her hand, her breathing erratic and angry. Yuusuke stared. Then she seemed to snap out of it. Her hand flew to her mouth. "Oh! I'm sorry, Hiei!"

Hiei turned and walked away, and Yuusuke followed him, shocked. Keiko had actually slapped him! Across the face! And Hiei's only reaction had been to walk away! What the . . . He'd expected Hiei to kill Keiko.

They rounded the corner, into an empty corridor, and Hiei's fist flashed out, slamming into the wall and putting a hole into the brick. The fire demon licked his bleeding hand, not looking at Yuusuke. "Next time she touches me, she dies."

Yuusuke nodded. "I'll let her know," he said quietly.

Hiei turned toward him, and Yuusuke flinched under his charge's infuriated gaze. "We're leaving. Now."

"But, Takenaka . . ."

"Now! If I have to deal with one more human, someone is going to die, and it obviously won't be me." Hiei was speaking between clenched teeth. He did an about-face and stalked down the hall. Yuusuke had no choice but to follow him.

He couldn't help but feel a flicker of relief. One down, four more to go.

It was going to be a very long week . . .

[1] I actually have no idea what Iwamoto teaches. I looked, and I couldn't find it, so I gave up and made something up. This fit what I wanted to do with the fic, so I ran with it.

[2] Yoroshiku = A pleasure to make your acquaintance. Obviously, Hiei does not consider it such.

[3] I have no idea what Keiko's short little friend with glasses is named, so I made one up that sounded like it might fit. I looked in the manga, even, but I may have missed it. If anyone knows, please tell me so I can change it. Never mind. Found it. It's in the April issue. -.-;

This is . . . odd. I had the hardest time writing the last chapter, and here's the second one, less than 24 hours after the first and written all in one sitting. Short, though it is, I felt it was finished.

In any case, it's short, but it's here. My birthday is Monday, so I'm going out of town for a bit. Parents and such. ^^;

In any case, many thanks go to Quoth the Raven and RuBarabaDom for the quick beta-reading. You two rock!