Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Sword of Red Blood ❯ Chapter 3: Zan ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 3: Zan

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As the teach announced the arrival of the group of five, Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan watched the 9th grade students whispering among each other.

"Class, these are our new students Yusuke, Kazuma, Botan, Hiei, and Kurama. I'm your teacher Ms. Conan. Please take your seats." Ms. Conan announced.

Ms. Conan had her mouse brown hair in a bun, which made her long neck look longer than any normal adult neck. Ms. Conan had a couple wrinkles on her tan face. Her dark brown eyes were hidden behind her thick glasses. But anyone could tell that she was kind but stern just by looking at her. She had blue earrings, blue bracelet, blue necklace, blue skirt, blue shirt, blue shoes and a blue jacket on. To sum it all up, she was wearing blue, to be more precise, dark navy blue.

The five all went toward the empty seats in the enormous classroom; Kurama in the front row, in the desk at the end of the row, Hiei sat in the desk behind Kurama, Botan sat next to Hiei, Kuwabara sat next to Kurama, and Yusuke sat behind Hiei.

"All right, let's start class now. Please take a look at the brochures on your desks…" Ms. Conan had begun her talk about universities.

On the other side of the room, there were two girls sitting together whispering to each other. They were clearly the most popular in the 9th grade.

"Oh my god, did you see that new student Kurama? He is so fine!" A girl with black hair about shoulder length and dark blue eyes whispered to her friend beside her. She was wearing a dance out fit. Her shoes were with three pink strips on each side of them. Her pants were black. She had a red belt on with cut out stars. Her shirt was also red and had big white letter that said I love dance.

"You are like, so right Yume!" The girl beside her answered. She had pure blonde hair that was shoulder length and had purple streaks in her hair. But unlike Yume, Milkshake's hair was pulled back with a purple hair tie. Her name was Kohaku, but everyone called her Milkshake, due to an incident that happened to her in cooking class. She was wearing the same outfit as Yume except it wasn't red, her outfit was purple.

"But I like that Hiei guy… hm, I think you will get Kurama to like you very much, who doesn't like Yume! All the boys are drooling over you, and if you are taken, that will give me the perfect time to go for Hiei." Milkshake said.

"Yes, Kurama reaches my interests, he is fine enough to go with me. You may have Hiei. We will go for the kill when the time is right. Got that?" Yume told Milkshake.

"Got it. Boys, watch out!" Milkshake replied.

The two girls them sat up straight and pretended to listen to the rest of the lecture about universities that Ms. Conan was giving.

Right before the bell rang for recess, Ms. Conan had an announcement to make.

"Now class, today we have an important announcement to make," said Ms. Conan, "We have got the opportunity of a life time. This week, as you all know, is the annual `theme' dance. This year, the theme is Antarctica. Basically, it is like a Christmas dance in fall. Isn't that convenient. It's formal dress. Turn in 5 dollars at the dance. Which will be from 6:00pm to 11:00 pm. Student council is throwing this dance. Now you be on your best behavior there, we don't want it to end up like last time."

Ring, Ring, Ring. That was the bell for the end of class. All the students started getting up and packing their stuff into their backpacks.

"Ok class, have a good day!" Ms. Conan watched as the students were leaving.

At the lockers Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan, were all together; Kurama: locker number 125, Hiei: locker number 127 (right next to Kurama), Yusuke: locker number 129, Kuwabara locker number 131, and Botan at locker 121. There were only two lockers stacked up on each other, the top, odd numbered lockers, and the bottom, even numbered lockers. After a little while all of them figured out how to open the lockers, and put the books and binders that they have received in it.

"Man, a 30 min recess, well, I guess that's what you get after sitting in one class for 1 and 1/2 hours. That long of a talk about universities makes me feel nauseous. Oh well." Yusuke muttered.

"A dance huh? This would be a perfect chance to try and find our `royal highness'." Kuwabara said.

"Wow Kuwabara, you actually said something almost smart for a change." Yusuke laughed.

"Would you shut up!" Kuwabara looked at Yusuke.

"Boys please. Now, I think the best way to find this person is for all of us to get `dates' for this dance. We can start looking that way."

All four of the guys groaned except for Hiei. He said `hn' and remained silent, but he did look very irritated.

Right at that second, a girl ran across the hall. She almost ran into Yusuke, but managed to not run into anybody. The group of boys didn't have time to take a good look at the girl but they did notice that she was about the same height as Hiei and have long golden hair that was in one braid that ended at about her waist.

"Oh my god, I'm so, busted…" the girl mumbled under her breath as she ran.

"Hey watch where you're going!" Yusuke called after the girl but she was already at the other end of the hall.

"What was that about?" Hiei asked.

"I don't know, but it's obvious she was in a hurry." Kurama sighed as he look over to see some cheerleaders and dance girls looking at him giggling, it was clear they were talking about him and were hinting him to take them to the dance. Yume and Milkshake were in that little group.

All of the sudden, Yusuke, Botan, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara heard Mr. Kitamura yelling. Naturally, the five ran to the place where Mr. Kitamura was. He was near room 19, at the cheerleader's prep room. He was yelling at the girl who almost ran into Yusuke. The five saw that Mr. Kitamura was yelling at her, so they all went to hide. All five of them were far enough to notice, but close enough to hear every word very clearly, but the five were able to only hear what was going on, they couldn't see what was going on.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!! YOU KNOW THAT THE CHEERLEADERS OF THIS SCHOOL HATE SPIDERS AND THESE GIRLS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR SCHOOL!!!" Mr. Kitamura yelled at the girl.

"Mr. Kitamura, I didn't do it! I haven't done any of the things that have happened in the past!" The girl slightly raised her voice.

"I KNOW IT WAS YOU! STOP TRYING TO FIGHT BACK! I KNOW IT WAS YOU! YOU ARE THE TRICKSTER!!!"

"Stop accusing me of doing something I didn't do!!! I didn't write that note! I didn't put the spiders there! I'm not the Trickster, and I never was!!!"

"SHUT UP! I'M NOT ACCUSING YOU OF DOING THIS, I KNOW IT WAS YOU!!! THREE WEEKS DETENTION!!!"

"But it wasn't…"

"I DON'T NEED TO HEAR ANY MORE OF THAT I DIDN'T DO IT CRAP!"

"Why don't you believe me? I swear, I didn't put those spiders there!!!"

"What I said is my final decision! Now leave, you have 25 more minutes of break. Go think about what you have done."

"BUT IT WASN'T ME!!!" the girl yelled at Mr. Kitamura.

"SHUT UP AND LEAVE!!!" Mr. Kitamura punched the girl.

"You deserve that. Now go, or else, I will discipline you more." He turned around and headed toward his office.

The girl sighed and rubbed her cheek that turned red and started to swell.

It seems, to me, everyone is out to get me all the time now. The girl thought.

The spirit detective and he other four came out of there hiding place and went up to the girl who was gathering up her books that fell out of her hands when Mr. Kitamura punched her.

"Are you alright?" Kurama, Yusuke, Botan and Kurama asked together.

The girl turned around after picking up all her books.

The five gasped. This girl looked gorgeous, despite her size. She had long golden hair with two silver streaks near her ears. Her eyes looks just like Kurama's, bright green. Her skin was a light color, to be exact; her skin was about the same color as Kurama's skin. She had pink lips, and long eyelashes. She was wearing black pants, white shoes, with blue stripes on each side of the shoe, and she had a dark navy blue jacket on.

"I'm fine. Thanks for your concern," she looked at the five and saw Yusuke.

"Oh, I'm sorry for almost running into you, um…"

"Yusuke."

"Oh, sorry about that Yusuke. Uh, who are you all?" The girl had a puzzled look on her face.

"My name is Kurama." Kurama smiled at the girl.

"I'm the all mighty Kuwabara, and I am the best fighter in this entire city!"

Hiei smirked and then laughed.

"What are you laughing at shrimp?" Kuwabara yelled at Hiei.

"Oh stop it you two. I'm Botan, and it's a pleasure to meet you, um…" Botan paused.

"The name is Zan. It's a pleasure to meet you all. But, who are you?" Zan looked at Hiei. Hiei looked at Zan, but then quickly looked away.

"That's Hiei." Botan replied.

"Hiei isn't really social, so it's best to leave him alone." Yusuke whispered to Zan.

"Yah, and he is ugly, stupid, and has a bad attitude, if you get to close to him, Hiei will bit your head off." Kuwabara told Zan.

"I'm going to kill you one day soon." Hiei said only loudly enough for Kuwabara to hear him.

"Look, I'd love to chat some more but I got to go so I'll talk to you later." Zan waved to them and ran off.

"We'll see you later!" Botan called after Zan.

"She seems like a really nice girl, I wonder why Mr. Kitamura doesn't like her so much?" Botan wondered.

"It's because teachers just don't like some students, so if they don't like you then you are ready for living hell at school." Yusuke replied.

"Why do you think that?" Kurama asked.

"I just know so ok!" Yusuke raise his voice.

"I wonder where she is heading?" Kuwabara thought out loud.

"I don't know. We best get to class. We only have 3 minutes left." Kurama said, and headed towards his next class. The four followed him.

Something doesn't feel right about that girl… Hiei thought. But then again, what do I care, it's just a girl.

The five got to the lockers and grabbed their bags with their books. Then they went their separate ways to class. Kurama and Hiei were in period 2 together which was science, Yusuke and Kuwabara were in math class, and Botan was in literature class.

All five of them reached their classed in piece. Hiei and Kurama were lab partners and sat in the back, Yusuke and Kuwabara sat in the back of their class too. Botan sat in the front of her class but to the side. And so, the school day continues.

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Zan was running to the schools office to see the nurse. She had finally reached the office after all the interferences.

"Oh, Zan, you are finally hear! You are 3 hours late! Give me those medicines now, I really need them!" The school nurse, Mrs. Redleaf said. Mrs. Redleaf had short brown hair tied up into a bun. She had brown eyes, and tan skin. Mrs. Redleaf had a white nurse outfit on.

"What took you so long? I really need those medicines! What would have I done if a student got sick while you were gone, I mean…" Mrs. Redleaf was interrupted by Zan.

"But what matters is that nobody did get sick. Trust me, it won't happen again. I got to get to class." Zan handed Mrs. Redleaf the medicines.

"I'll write you a note so you won't get in trouble." Mrs. Redleaf wrote Zan a note with a pink pen.

"Thank you Mrs. Redleaf." Zan said to the nurse. Zan took the note and saw the pink ink. Zan thought that black would have looked much nicer, well, that was to be expected, since, hot pink was one of Zan's least favorite colors.

Zan headed out of the office and went to her second period class, which was science.

Zan walked to the science room thinking about all that has happened to her that day. Zan was thinking about how she could get back at the person who set her up for the spider scam.

Zan arrived at room 13, the science room, chemistry to be exact. She pressed her ear to the door and listened if she was about to interrupt anything important. There was not a lot of noise going on. She heard a bunch of students talking.

Hm, they must be getting ready to do an experiment that means Mr. Fuji is probably grading papers right now, he always grades papers when we are getting ready to do an experiment she thought.

Mr. Fuji was a man who had a strange sense of humor. He would find some odd things funny, like the cliques at the school. He thought it was funny how each person had a label rubber stamped on almost everybody.

For example, a kid in a cheerleader group wouldn't be just some random kid; they would be classified as cheerleader, which was one type of classification of a person. Another type of classification is how popular you are. The basic classification would be the most popular kid in school, very popular, popular, above normal, normal, below normal, geek, and then the weird kid in the corner. He found this funny, even though not everyone thought that's how school was. There were a couple of individuals that didn't believe in these classifications. Mr. Fuji and Zan were two of those individuals. Although Zan thought that the system was ridiculous, Mr. Fuji laughed about it. But then again, the whole thing is pretty funny. Zan was under the independent category.

There was an entire category system for teachers too. There were the good teachers, the funny teachers, the bitchy teachers, the strict teachers, the cool teachers, and the geek/nerd teachers. Mr. Fuji was under the cool teacher category. Zan did think that she had a right to categorize teachers, but she didn't put them into any specific category. Mr. Fuji laughed at all of it.

Mr. Fuji was a tall, middle-aged man. He was in his 50's. He had brown hair with so streaks of gray in his hair. His bushy brown eyebrows and his thick glasses hid his piecing blue eyes.

Zan thought about what she was going to say went she goes into the classroom. Then, Zan took a deep breath and opened the door to science. She was clutching the note Mrs. Redleaf gave to her hand.

Zan opened the door. Her prediction was correct except, for one flaw. Mr. Fuji wasn't there in his desk. Guess who was right there glaring at Zan. Mr. Kitamura!

"You are late young lady. Give me an explanation right now." Mr. Kitamura barked at Zan.

All eyes were on Zan. The entire class was staring at her. Hiei and Kurama were sitting at the back watch Zan hesitate.

This will be interesting, Hiei thought.

"Um, here's a note, it explains why I was late." Zan gave the note to Mr. Kitamura.

He took one glimpse at the note. He didn't even read it. He just took it and tore it up.

"Sorry, I bet you just forged that note yourself. I guess you can't explain yourself. Go to your desk, and that would be another week of detention, Trickster." Mr. Kitamura smirked.

"I can explain, I was delivering medicine to…" Zan started, but she was cut off but the principle.

"You missed your chance to explain. Go sit down." Mr. Kitamura told her.

Zan spun around and looked at her desk and saw that there were no open seats. She turned back around to Mr. Kitamura.

"Mr. Kitamura, there are no more open seats." Zan told him.

"Well that is a problem."

"What should I do?"

Zan hated the feeling of asking Mr. Kitamura anything. She loathed taking to him, and yet, she was forced to have a conversation with him. She also despised having her entire class staring at her.

"This." Mr. Kitamura stood up and went to the front of the class.

All the students watched Mr. Kitamura walk to the front of the room.

"Class, I need you attention. It seems, our friend Zan here, is having some trouble locating her seat. Would anybody be generous enough to show Zan her new seat?" Mr. Kitamura asked.

Yume, who was also in that class raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Yume?"

"Mr. Kitamura, there appears to be no open desks. There is no room for the Trickster." Yume smiled evilly at Zan.

"Well then, Miss Yume, will you escort Zan to her seat?"

"Yes sir!" Yume stood up and walked to Zan.

"I wonder what she is doing." Kurama whispered to Hiei.

"Hn." Hiei replied.

Yume told Zan to follow her. Zan at first just looked at her when Yume told Zan to follow her.

"Trickster, follow Yume to your seat." Mr. Kitamura glared at Zan.

Zan just stood there. Then, she turned around and gave Yume a cold stare.

Yume smirked. She went over to the door and opened it. Then, she pulled Zan, and literally threw Zan out before Zan even knew what happened. She ended up on the floor with all her books spread across the floor. When Zan finally realized what happened, the entire class was laughing at her as she picked up her books. Kurama and Hiei stared with a stunned look on their faces.

"Hn, how could she have fallen for that?" Hiei smirked.

Milkshake over heard what Hiei said.

"Hm, Zan, how could you have FALLEN for that!" she announced to the entire classroom. The class roared with laughter.

Zan picked up her books, and put them into her bag. She stood up and brushed all the dirt off herself. She stood tall and acted like nothing happened.

"Well, Trickster, go to your seat!" one of the student from Yume's `clique' yelled at Zan.

Zan just stood there and watch all the students laugh at her.

"Don't move Zan…" Mr. Kitamura laughed.

Zan didn't even have time to blink when Mr. Kitamura got up and slammed the door right in her face.

Hiei and Kurama were stunned.

"This is not what I expected when I came here." Hiei said as he watch Mr. Kitamura and all of the other students laugh.

"Yes, I don't understand how it is humorous to purposefully humiliate a girl who just walked into the classroom, laugh at her and then slam a door in her face." Kurama commented.

Zan could hear the laughter from outside the classroom.

Damn it! Damn that Kitamura! What the hell is wrong with him? What did I ever do!!! I hate this! But, I have to tolerate it, I just have to. If I don't come to school, I won't be safe! Just a couple more months… And I will be all right. Just think of the bright side Zan, those new kids, Hiei and Kurama weren't laughing at you… Zan thought.

Zan put down her book bag next to the classroom, and slide down next it. Then she just sat there and waited for the bell to ring.

Half an hour later, the bell rang. The class was out, and Zan headed to third period, which was math class. She made through the crowd of students that were coming out of the math room and sat herself in the back of the room.

I hope this period will be the up part of my day today Zan thought as she watched all of her class mates walk into the math room, and still laughing at her.

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Black Rosé here! So how was the chapter? Don't worry; the Yu Yu Hakusho gang will be more involved soon!!! Well, the Yu Yu gang is in for it! Next chapter there will be more info on Zan! Is she really the little angle that the Yu Yu gang thinks she is? Read, and you'll know! See ya until next chapter!!!