Title: Visiting Hours
Author: MK
Pairing: Sawada Shin x Yamaguchi Kumiko
Fandom: Gokusen
Theme: #14, Radio-Cassette Player
Disclaimer: I don't own Gokusen.  Has anyone ever questioned the cassette 
player? It seems a lot harder to me to put music on Ðtape- than on an MP3. >_>

	Yankumi stretched her arms high over her head and grinned widely.  All of 
3-D had passed their exams, and she'd given them their marks with pride. Shin's 
marks were, of course, stellar, but the others had really out-done themselves. She 
felt full to bursting with pride.   

	It was weird to be in Shin's apartment during the day though. The black 
walls and dim lighting had made it seem smaller at night, even with only two 
people. During the day with five people, the one-room space seemed larger, but 
emptier.  "What should we start with?"  

	"We'll need to cover the mattress with something so it doesn't get dirty," 
Shinohara replied.  "Then we'll put it in last, on top of everything else."  Tetsu 
nodded. 

	"And the kitchen stuffÑ" He opened one cupboard and scowled at what 
little there was, "Well, we should pack it with newspaper."  

	Kyo was assessing the bed-frame.  "Red Lion and I will take this down 
together. Shouldn't be too hard."  And there in the middle of it, Shin looked a 
little awkward, but moving day usually had that affect on people from what she 
knew.  He turned and flicked on the radio then looked around the space 
awkwardly.  

	"Thank you," he said simply, and Shinohara beamed.  Kyo simply laughed 
at Tetsu's scowl, and Yankumi held her hand palm down in front of herself.

	"Faito!"

	"O~!"



	They were halfway through boxing everything up when the knock came at 
the door.  Yankumi had expected it to be the landlord, and maybe Shin did too, 
because he looked awfully surprised to find Kuma, Uchi, Noda and Minami 
outside.  

	"What are you guys doing here?"  
	
	Kuma grinned. "We'd never been to your apartment so we looked you up! 
But why's Yankumi here? And these otherÉ" Kuma trailed off as he caught sight 
of Kyo, and blanched.  "Ya-YakuÑ" Shin slapped a hand over Kuma's mouth and 
Shinohara stepped forward.

	"Oh, the 3-D students!  Congratulations on passing your exams!"  Uchi, 
oblivious as always puffed up with pride while Yankumi freaked out.  Kuma had 
been there the night he and Shin had "rescued" her from the Ooedo group, and 
supposedly she owed a scary Kyo money for her father's debts!  

	Shin said something to Kuma off to one side in a mutter while Yankumi 
forced a grin. "We're helping Shin move!"  

	"Eh? But I thought Shin said he never wanted to be anywhere near his 
father?"  

	"Aa. I'm just moving closer to the college," he lied.  Or maybe it wasn't 
exactly a lieÑShe did actually live closer to Kikawa than he did. By a fraction.  

	"Oi," Tetsu spoke up. "This kidÉ looks like Minoru."  He was staring at 
Kuma, and Kuma stared back looking as though he might once again wet his 
pants.  Then Tetsu grinned.  "You'll help me with the kitchen stuff."  

	"Aa, then I'll take these two to help wrap the mattress up," Shinohara 
added, gesturing to Uchi and Noda.  It was good to keep those two close to the 
police officer. If she was lucky, they wouldn't catch on.  

	Kyo was showing Uchi his shark face.  Uchi was oblivious.  "Blondie, you're 
with Red Lion and me."  


	
	So things went on normally as if her students and her yakuza family 
weren't all in one room helping Shin move, while Shinohara made eyes at Tetsu 
occasionally.  She relaxed a tiny bit.  The only real danger was that Kuma jumped 
every time he caught sight of Kyo, which, in a small apartment like this, was fairly 
often.  Soon enough they had boxed up most of Shin's things, and Kyo, Shin and 
Minami had slowly gotten the bad frame down the stairs and outside into the 
truck.  (Kyo said he had 'borrowed' it from a friend, but Yankumi had some 
doubts.)   

	They piled the boxes inside the bed frame, then the wrapped mattress on 
top of that.  Kyo likely wouldn't be able to see out the back window while he 
drove, but it should work out pretty well, especially if Shinohara went with him.  

	The nine of them collapsed on the floor of Shin's now completely bare 
apartment, and Minami produced a bag of canned drinks that he had bought at 
the nearby convenience store.  They drank deeply and stared at the empty walls, 
the bare space.  It was sad, but even with all his things missing, not much had 
changed in the apartment.  Shin's life had probably been very empty for a long 
time, and Yankumi felt sad to see it so clear before her.  

	"What's your new place like, Shin-chan?"

	"Yeah! Invite us to visit sometime!"

	"It'sÉ interesting," he replied with a small smile, and really, that was the 
highest compliment.  She exchanged a glance with him and felt warm.  In the 
end, everything would work out.