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Things you should know before you read-
This is a Yusuke/Jin story, That's a guy/guy pairing, don't like, don't read.
Also, this story is a combination of stuff from the anime and the manga, though mostly the manga. But to make it quick all you really need to know is...
Genkai's lands are being used for demons to immigrate into living world and she's still alive, Yukina lives at Genkai's, Koenma got his dad 'impeached' and now runs spirit world, Yusuke runs his ramen shop in the city at night that's the front for his 'problem solving business' and lives with his mom, the 'cult trio' Koto, Juri and Ruka are on TV in the living world and the demon and spirit worlds are slowly making themselves known to the humans. All of this stuff is from the manga except Genkai still being alive and Yukina living at Genkai's like they were in the anime. I personally think the old lady would live forever and she's hella fun to write for anyway.
Sorry if I spoiled the manga for ya, but you should go read it anyway. You might ask, where does Yukina live in the manga if she's not at Genkai's? Well you should go find out! ^_- I'll give you a hint, she does live in the human world, and she lives with others, just not Genkai. You can read the whole thing and tons of other manga for free at sunmanga .com so I suggest you go do that at some point if you haven't already.
I know the first section sounds a lot like a list but I really wanted to put up front what everyone was doing nowadays :P
Standard Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. If I did Jin and the demon boys would show up more often.
Now on with the story!
Life on Genkai's land was pretty good for the demon's there. The days were spent building a small village of sorts out in a clearing nearby the temple and fairly close to the nearest portal to Makai. Many of the demon's preferred to simply sleep in trees or wherever they felt when they were tired, but some wanted a place to call their own.
Each week at the temple there were casual classes for the demons to learn about human culture and the few humans from the city that ventured to the temple to learn about demons, Makai and Reikai. These were taught by whoever felt like it at the time, though Botan and Keiko were the usual teachers.
With the new things going on between the three worlds, the former pilot of the River Styx had been allowed to play the role of an ambassador by Koenma. After several centuries of ferrying dead people she was thankful for the career change.
Keiko and Kuwabara helped every weekend when they weren't swamped in their college homework. They'd spend their time there teaching or building. As Keiko was actually going to college to become a teacher, she always looked forward to the weekly classes she and Botan held.
Yanagisawa, Kaito and Kido all practically lived at the temple these days, helping out the visitors from Makai. Even Matari and Amanuma would come by whenever they could.
Kurama was busy working at his step father's business. Patiently waiting for the day when knowing about demons was commonplace so he could reveal to his beloved mother the truth about who she'd thought she'd been raising all these years. He felt it was the right thing to do and if she accepted it, would allow him to be closer to her like he'd never been able to be before.
Hiei had yet to tell Yukina who he was but he came every so often to visit her just the same, though under the guise of stopping by just to see what was going on out of his boredom from patrol duty.
Overall, the transition into this new era for the three worlds was starting very smoothly. Everyone seemed to be congregating at Genkai's, much to her secret delight as well as her outspoken misery.
When she offered her lands to be used as a halfway house for demons, she didn't think it would happen so quickly. Demon's lived thousands of years after all, why the hell did they have to be so quick when it came to changing their lifestyles? She now had at least fifty demons living in her backyard, causing a ruckus when all she wanted was some peace.
Sighing, she figured that it was just such an abrupt change of pace from the solitude most of her life, it would just take some getting used to.
She looked at the calender, today was Saturday, most of their group would be over today no doubt.
She sighed again as she thought aloud, "I sure hope they don't get wasted in my house again tonight".
Yusuke was walking up the temple steps with a few grocery bags of liquor and food in his hands when he felt an abnormally strong wind blow up behind him.
"Hey Jin! How's it going? You guys finished building your place yet?"
The aforementioned red head appeared in front of him, "Oi, Urameshi, how you be knowin' it was me an not just some gust o' wind? I masked me youki an everything!"
Yusuke just smirked, "Well, duh, cus you always greet me when I come visit. Both you and-"
"Urameshi! What's up boyo! How's that little food cart o' yours doin?" Greeted Chuu heartily, waving his ever present liquor bottle in his hand.
The former detective laughed, "well the food part is going pretty well, but my 'problem solving business' is getting annoying. That's part of the reason I'm here, I got another middle aged weirdo wanting the Cult Girls autographs."
Since the start of their TV show in the human world the 'Cult Trio' Koto, Juri, and Ruka were always getting hounded by humans for autographs, handshakes, articles of clothing and whatever else. Living in Genkai's demon village made it easier for Yusuke to get stuff from the girls for his customers, but he was getting pissed off about it, since that's all he seemed to be doing lately.
The wind demon grinned and the drunken master laughed heartily and slapped the Toushin on the back, "'Nother one o' them humans asking for Foxy's autograph again? Sounds like you need to quit the 'problem solving business' and just start an autograph service."
Yusuke continued toward the temple again followed by Chuu and the floating Jin, "yeah well I think after I'm done with this one I'm gonna say screw it. I've actually been thinking of using the old room at Genkai's place and helping out everyone here. You know, that one room I got to sleep in those very few times when I was actually allowed to sleep in a bed."
Being submitted to the old psychic's torture methods that she liked to call 'training', the older demons laughed in sympathy, "Just be glad ye didna hafta go through trainin with biggie here and the rest o' them guys. Hoo-wee ya think she make ya sweat enough yeself, just be thinking about hafin to smell five other guys stink in a cave fer months!" Jin's face screwed up in disgust at the memories of his training with the other demons of his usual fighting group, then he burst out laughing, "an I tain't even as bothered by it as Shishi or Suzuka, they was bitchin' most o' the time we be there."
The three of them burst out laughing again as they continued to walk up to the front of the temple. The floating demon sobered slightly as he said, "but seriously Urameshi! If ya came to live here tha' be great! We can fight whenever we want!"
"Aye! That'd be ripper! You should stay 'ere, mate! If'n the ol' lady won't let ya stay at the temple ya can stay with us! We should be finished with the building part o' our place next week an all that'd be left is the paintin' and putting in furniture after that."
Jin enthusiastically agreed while Yusuke smiled at them gratefully, "that'd be awesome guys. Thanks. I think living among demons again would be exactly what I want." He made a face then, "Would definitely be better than living with my mom and working nights getting autographs for weirdos."
"Aye its settled then! An I'm bettin' ya could start our wee village's first restaurant! For goodness' sake we be needin' one I'm thinking. Getting tired o' running through the hole to Makai fer food or huntin all the time."
Yusuke nodded and gave a thumbs up before shoving his bags into the nearest persons hands, which happened to be Jin, before taking his shoes off and leaving them in front of the porch.
As he started to take the bags back he asked, "You guys wanna come in with me to see grandma?"
"Nah bloke, I best be getting back to building our abode. I'm getting tired of listening to everyone but Frosty and this bludger here complaining about sleepin' in the woods. You comin' Jin?"
As Yusuke tried to take back the last bag from the wind master he continued to hang on to it, "nah, I'll be there in a few, I wanna stop by and see the ol' lady. Hadna seen her fer a few days. Figure might as well while I'm here."
The tallest of the three started to walk off toward the village, "alright, but ya best be getting a move on. I'm sure we'll already get griped out for skipping the few minutes we did to greet Urameshi." He turned back to Yusuke as he continued to walk, "ya best come by and see everyone before ya head out again mate!"
The mazoku called back, "you bet!"
As Chu vanished from sight Jin floated up to the porch and started to head into the temple still carrying the last bag. Obviously, he intended on just floating around indoors instead of bothering to take his footwear off. He slid open the door and the ex-detective followed him inside.
"So are all six of you really going to live in one house? Why don't you guys each build your own houses?"
The long eared demon smiled, "well, Rinku thought the idea up and we all just kinda agreed. The lot o' us just sorta became a bunch o' brothers I guess. I'm betting one day we'll get sick o' each other and build our own places when the wee village grows more, but for now we're ok as is ya know?" He stopped to grin, "Besides, we figure when we all decide to split we could rent out our six bedroom house as an inn or somethin' an make some money offin it."
The dark haired teen chuckled, "sounds like you guys got a plan."
They got to the kitchen and Yusuke started putting the food and liquor on the counter and in the fridge and Jin set his bag on the counter next to the others. The ramen chef brought enough food from his cart to make dinner for all his friends tonight.
The wind master continued to float in the air beside him, silently watching him put his items away when the other said, "I'm surprised Genkai hasn't come to greet us by now, she must be in the middle of a boss fight on one of her games or something."
The red head tilted his head to the side as he looked at the brunette, "ye still hadna the chance to show me these 'video games' Urameshi, and the old woman don wanna bother teaching me."
"So you haven't played any before?" the horned demon just shook his head from where he floated cross legged in the air. "well that's no biggie, if grandma lets me hang around her place I'll teach you. Though I set the record for sucking on most of them" he laughed.
"You sure as hell do, and what's this about you hanging around?" Genkai called from the entrance to the kitchen.
The two demons spun around to face the old psychic immediately followed by the youngest speaking, "Well I was thinking about staying around here and helping out." Yusuke actually kept his tone and words lacking in attitude and juvenile comments since he was wanting something out of her and all.
Knowing the youth's personality and all the events that had been happening at the temple, she knew that this would come up eventually but still wanted to milk the situation for all it's worth, "and? What do you want from me, slacker?"
The teen scowled, "Well my old room might be nice. If ye olde bitch might allow me to stay!" Suddenly remembering he was trying to win her over he added. "er-um.. please?" He cringed and his eye twitched as Jin snorted behind him trying not to laugh.
Genkai raised an eyebrow, amused but not wanting to show it, she already made up her mind before he even knew he would want to stay, but that didn't mean she couldn't get something out of him. "If I were to let you stay here what would I get out of this deal? Hmm?"
The detective thought for a minute, what would a house guest do in return for staying? "um, I guess I could clean and stuff like that?" As an afterthought he quickly added, "Sometimes."
Smiling the old woman jumped on the opportunity, "Good! My game room in the back needs cleaning! You can start right away."
The youth's eyes nearly popped out of his head, "Now wait just a minute! I just got here and this agreement got made like five seconds ago and I wanted to go hang out with Jin and the guys and-" he suddenly stopped mid-sentence with his eyebrows reaching his hairline as he asked, "You mean the huge game room that's as large as a casino? By myself?"
The elder merely smiled and started to walk off in the direction she had come from when she showed up in the kitchen, "Yes and when you're finished with that you can clean out the gutters. The cleaning supplies are in the closet in the hall, I'll see you at dinner. You'll be cooking right?"
As she left, the young demon made obscene hand gestures in her direction and muttered something about blowing his nose in her food when the floating demon that had been quiet the whole time suddenly started laughing out loud.
"Haha Urameshi ya been here fer ten minutes and ya already got a place ta stay, plans fer a restaurant an turned inta a maid!" the red head laughed as Yusuke whipped his head around to glare half heartily at Jin and flipped him off.
"Yeah well, shit happening all of a sudden out of nowhere seems to be the story of my life." Suddenly a thought popped in his head and he added, "I mean my lives."
"Aye truer words never been said Urameshi," the floating demon laughed. "I guess I be seeing ya at eatin time then? I best be leaving ya to get yer work done and back to me own."
As he started to float toward the door, the young mazoku called out to him, "It's Yusuke."
The wind youkai turned around with an eyebrow quirked, "eh?"
The other only smiled at him and replied, "You know that's my name. You can call me it instead of my family name you know." He waved over his shoulder while he turned around to head down the hallway to get the cleaning stuff as he left Jin floating by the door wondering what brought that sudden conversation on.
AN
That's it for chapter 1! I only have a vague sense of where this story is going but if you couldn't tell by the last paragraph, it will be a Yusuke/Jin story, because I love the pairing and feel it needs more fics!
See you next time. Please Review!
