Yusuke's life had turned into a living hell. His classes had gotten exponentially harder, and –being the academic genius that he was- he was failing miserably. It must have been because they were nearing the middle of the year, and that's when all the hard shit started.

"Urameshi! Are you paying attention?" his chemistry teacher, a bitter old man snapped from the front of the room. Yusuke didn't even pick up his head from its perch on his hand.

"Quite frankly, no." He answered, his voice bored. Back in high school, the class would have laughed and the teacher would have thrown him out in the hallway. But here… the same damn thing happened.

"Damn power-tripping bastard…" He muttered, wandering around the empty campus just looking for something to do. Lighting a cigarette- something he hadn't done since he started martial arts- he opted for the giant fountain in the center of the quad. He plopped down on the gray and blue marble, just out of the way of the splashing water and took a drag on his smoke.

"Yusuke? What are you doing out here?" The voice was familiar, but he wasn't quite sure he knew it. Tilting his head back, he saw pale blue hair and soft pink eyes.

"Oh, hey Botan," He said in almost a kind voice. He barely knew his housemate, so she hadn't had the time to piss him of… yet. "I could ask you the same thing." The skinny girl shrugged, her bag nearly falling off her shoulder as she did.

"I'm on my way to Mythology, shouldn't you be in class?" Oh the nagging… why must all women be naggy? He looked up, giving her a blank, yet somehow defiant look. But all she did was roll those pretty eyes of hers in mild annoyance. "You know if you get kicked out of a class, you can't make up that work right?" Again with the blank look. Yusuke found that it was a good defense mechanism against naggy women; after all, it worked on his mother so many times before. Botan let out an angry and all too-familiar huff. He smirked and waved his hand in the air.

"Ah Botan, don't worry so much. I'm not failing anything." Her eyes narrowed and her eyebrows knitted together.

"Yusuke! Is that any way to think?" She snapped, bending down so that they were eye level.

"Quit your worrying, I'm fine." The bell rang overhead, and the two students looked up as though they could see the ringing. Botan let out an angry huff again, stamping her foot in a humorous way.

"Oh Yusuke! You made me late!" She said, her voice cracking slightly in anger. She brushed past him, trying to make it inside the building before the next bell rang. The dark haired boy watched her do her girl run, that on-the-toes hop kinda run that he liked to watch them do.

"Whoa…" Damn, her hips swang nicely when she did that. Then again, all girls' hips did. Damn his male brain and bisexual tendencies.

"She's a cute one huh?" This time the voice came from behind him, making him jump uncharacteristically. Yukara [A/N, yes… remember her from the first chapter?] smiled and stepped back, putting her hands behind her back innocently. He shot her a glare and stood up, noting how she was taller than him. "Ooh, scary face." She teased.

"What do you want Yukara?" He said, annoyed. He didn't really see Yukara as a fragile girl like Botan or Keiko, so he felt like he could yell at her like she was a guy. The silver haired girl cocked her head to the side and smiled those girlish knowing smiles that scared him.

"I heard about you and Kurama." She said simply, her head tilting ever so slightly. He held up his hands in defense, not exactly comfortable discussing person life with almost complete strangers.

"I don't know what you heard but it's-." She mimicked his pose, putting her hands up.

"Hey, I don't judge," Suddenly, she got serious, dropping her hands and making her face solid like stone. "But, Kurama's my friend, we've been through just about everything together, and I don't want to see him get hurt just because some idiot with a hopped up sex drive decided that he wanted to pounce on some prey." She was starting to rant, so Yusuke lightly grabbed her shoulders, shaking her slightly.

"Yukara, calm down," He said, his voice rising. "I'm not pouncing on anyone for any reason. You just gotta trust me, okay?" He had no idea what he even wanted from Kurama… If he wanted anything at all. Yukara gave him a look of pure scrutiny, throwing him off her shoulders.

"Fine. But I swear to God Yusuke, you hurt my Kurama and I will bury you," It was odd the way she said it; almost like she was serious, but it had a joking kind of sting to it. It really didn't help that she was giving him a scary smile. "Still breathing." With that, she wandered away, slinging her bag over her shoulder as she went. Yusuke watched her go, a fearful little glint in his chocolate eyes. It was rare that a girl was able to make him nervous like that, but she just scared him for some reason. Overhead, the next bell rang.

"Ah shit!" He and a few other students began to scramble for the doors, freaking out about being late. Of course, sprinting through hallways did nothing to make him any less late, but it got him noticed by his history teacher.

"Well, well, well. Urameshi's late again…" She muttered into the chalkboard in the front of the room. "What else could be expected from a dimwit like him?" He ignored the crone, taking up his seat next to Jin.

"Well good mornin' ta ya too Urameshi," He said, that usual grin on his face. "No tha' I'm judgin' ya or anythin' but if ya go around talking to pretty girl's yer gonna be late ta class eh?" Yusuke threw him a glare.

"Who's talking to who now?" He said, his voice defensive. Why was everyone so interested about this anyway? The Irishman simply shrugged, looking down at his notes like he was bored.

"Jus' tha' I saw ye talkin' to tha pretty lass with the silver and black hair." He said, looking over with his crystal blue eyes. "It looked intense; tha's all I'm sayin." Damn people to hell. That's all Yusuke was saying… well, thinking.

"Yukara? We were arguing, that's all," He said, jotting down trivial notes. "She was saying something about killing me." Jin laughed, then shut up the second their short teacher whipped around to look at the two of them. When her attention was pulled elsewhere, Jin turned to look at Yusuke again.

"Ya seem ta have good luck with the lasses," He said, serious for once. "Don't be flauntin tha fact, or ya will end up dead eh?" Great…

I love typing Jin's lines, cause it's all underlined in red... Anyway, I felt the need to write more cause I'm at the library, and what the hell right?

Right then, hope you enjoyed, reveiws are what keep me going

Sarang Hae! ~Shitoykachan