Kurama's Spring Flower

Chapter Twelve

"Hey, nice skirt." 

The wind blows the girls long skirt to the side as she folds her arm and glares at him as she speaks, "All the girls have these." Yusuke looks away he flicks a small sweet in the air and opens his mouth to try and catch it, but the teen girl catches it and moves it away from him as she looks him in the eye and continues, "Just like all the boys have to wear blue jumpsuits, which I noticed you're not!" Yusuke pulls a tired yet annoyed face and looks off to the side as he groans, "Oh give me a break, Keiko. Both me and Akina agreed I look better in green." This further angered the girl as she raises her voice, "Maybe I'd be more tolerant, Yusuke, if I could see more of you in school more than once every ten days! And you can't keep using Akina as an excuse even though I worry for her too, I still come to school!" Yusuke just yawns and leans back as he is use to people bringing up his extremely sick sister as a weapon to make him do as he's told, but it doesn't work. Keiko then turns away from him as she continues to speak, "You give our class a horrible attendance average, which gets me in trouble as a class representative! And plus you won't even be able to graduate middle school!" She slightly turns in his direction, but has her eyes closed. "Sometimes I think you don't care about anyone but yourself, and then you don't even do THAT right!" She then raises her voice even more as she leans over to where Yusuke was chilling with angry eyes as she shouts. "You hear me!" 

She then looks at the empty area in shock, especially as she hears Yusuke chuckle from behind her as he speaks, "Nice uniform." She then feels her skirt being lifted as Yusuke takes a look under the long skirt. "It's lacey." Keiko blushes and yet her blood bubble with anger as she then sends him a powerful slap that Akina once taught her when they were kids. Yusuke is now away from her wearing a smile whilst looking like he is in pain as his right cheek swells and has a large red hand print marked on him, whilst Keiko continues to shout at him, "Yusuke, you perv! People like you should be strung up in the street!" Yusuke seems to be walking off in a strange daze as he giggles and stumbles side to side. "Dumb boy! Hasn't grown up a bit since he was four years old!"

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Meanwhile, Akina received a surprise visit from Shiori, who looked down guilty and the tired looking girl, who was being helped in drinking a glass of water by her nurse. When Akina notices her, she stops drinking the soothing cool liquid and moves away from the glass and smiles at the woman, "Why Shiori, I'm happy that you have come." Shiori smiles at the girl, whilst the nurse starts clearing away the girls breakfast, which has been left to the side with very little been eaten, worrying both the nurse and Shiori. The nurse then leaves, allowing Shiori to take a seat beside Akina, who seems to sense the guilt the woman is feeling and asks, "What's wrong Shiori, has the date been called off or is it something to do with Shuichi?" Shiori then leans forward and gently places her hand on Akina's shoulder and lightly rubs whilst saying, "Oh no no no, sweetie, nothing's wrong with Shuichi or with the upcoming date. It's just that...well I've noticed your symptoms and I believe that I somehow passed on my illness to you before it miraculously went away!" Shiori starts sobbing at the end of her sentence and covers her face with both her hands, making the teen look at her with sadness, before putting on a fake cheery voice and says, "No, I don't think so, Shiori. You just got lucky whilst I sadly am not. So please, stop crying." 

Neither of them were aware that Chiharu was standing outside the room, wearing a nurse uniform and was looking into a folder labelled Minamino Shiori, whilst listening to Akina clearly making up a lie to calm down the sobbing healthy adult. 'Her abilities are slowly coming through, but her healing ability hasn't yet developed. She needs a cure and sadly my healing remedies weren't work for her.' She then closes the file before opening one that has Akina's name on it before her eyes widen and think, 'I think I need to visit a certain fox demon.' Before she walks off to return the medical files, to then prepare to leave.

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"It figures, that the one day I feel like going to school everyone wants to push onme and give me their stupid lectures!" Yusuke whines as he enters his street where his home is. "I hate that school! I hate this town!" He then opens the door to his house to see his mother smoking as she mopes in bed, still in her pyjamas, making him say with a sarcastic tone, "Oh great, mother of the year." The woman doesn't look at him as she knows that she will see the features he shares with her sick daughter, as she says, "Get me coffee." Yusuke makes his way over into the kitchen space whilst mumbling, "Can't believe she's still in bed." Whilst his back is faced towards her, she looks over at him and asks, "Why aren't you in school?" He keeps his gaze on the kettle whilst replying, "I left because they were pissing me off." Atsuko puts her hand in her hair as she speaks, "Well, if you're never going to go there, you might as well quit and go get a job." Yusuke finally turns away from the kettle as he snaps, "Are you gonna give me a lecture too, mom, while you're in your pyjamas?" She puts on the TV and lay down before speaking, "Dear, if you hate preaching so much, you should live on your own. You can't do that can you?" Yusuke was tempted to hit his mother but didn't as he can't help but recall what made her turn to alcohol and ignoring him, depression over what's happening with Akina. 'Please sis, get well soon.' He mentally prays as he storms out, deciding to go on a walk to calm down before he plans on visiting Akina. But he was still raging.

"I SWEAR COULD THIS DAY POSSIBLY GET ANY STUPIDER!!" He shouts whilst kicking a can on the path, scaring some people to run away from him, before Yusuke then notices two boys from his school appear a ways in front of him and one behind him, before another boy wearing a lighter blue uniform also joins the boy behind Yusuke. When Yusuke senses this new presence, he turns his head slightly to see a boy that kept coming at him no matter how many times he kicked  his ass. "Urameshi." The boy speaks to him, for Yusuke to narrow his eyes at him as he greets back, "Hey, Kuwabara you're conscious. I'm not used to that." This angers Kuwabara as he grabs Yusuke by the collar and shouts, "That was a cheap shot last time, and I was only knocked out for a little bit, okay?! Now I'm back and I'm going to beat your face up so bad, not even kittens will look at ya!" Yusuke smirks at him, making Kuwabara sweat a bit. "So sorry you caught me on such a bad day, it makes me a real jerk." Yusuke says before he somehow gets out of Kuwabara's hold fast, to then throw a punch at his face before then kneeing him in the chin to then kick the side of his face, and then elbow his kneck. And as Kuwabara fell to the ground in pain, Yusuke took hold of Kuwabara's right arm and pulled at it as he landed, to then land a harsh kick on Kuwabara's back, before punching him in the air. All of this was done extremely fast, scaring the teens that were surrounding the two and instantly surrender, making Yusuke smile and breath out, "I feel better." Before he decides to make his way to the hospital.

Hello fellow stars. I hope you are all keeping safe, including those poor souls in Ukraine or evacuating Ukraine. I have updated a day early because tomorrow I am having a stress free day (or that's what I'm aiming for) as University, hospitals, family and friends have been filling me up with stress that I am close to breaking. If you are in a similar position to me in terms of stress then I encourage you to also have a stress free day when you can. Till next time. 🙋🏻‍♀️🌹🥀🌹