Note: This is short. Ungodly short. But there's a serious dearth of Touya-related works out there, so I'm posting it up here anyway. Maybe someday I'll actually write up a full-fledged Touya/Jin yaoi. The idea is tempting...

Water
a Yu Yu Hakusho vignette
by Iris Amergin

Water.

He preferred to fight with ice; he found few things as effective in persuading another of his viewpoint than a blade of frozen material with the sharp edge of a surgical scalpel. But water...water was something else. So frequently underestimated, yet so powerful. Fluid, yielding, yet strong...perhaps the true power of water lay in its flexibility. There was no stone so massive that it could not be worn away over the eons by a simple stream of water.

Yet for all its power, it was at the same time graceful...gentle. The tranquility of an isolated stream; the soothing rhythm of a spring rainstorm; the steady pulse of the ocean waves; in these forms water was not a tool of destruction, but a source of comfort. And despite this, the source of comfort could easily be altered to a tool of destruction with sheer persistence and a bit of youki.

Touya sighed and shook his head, his gaze sweeping across the rows of spectators filling the cavernous stadium. They didn't understand either, he was sure. None of them did. Rishou didn't get it, either...

Jin noticed the look in Touya's eyes and flashed him a smile of understanding. Jin perhaps understood Touya better than anyone else; what Touya felt about water, Jin felt about the wind. And Jin, too, was constantly underestimated by those who did not believe that such a compliant force of nature could be a mighty weapon.

Touya nodded to Jin, returning the smile. "Looking forward to it?"

"Absolutely!" said Jin cheerily. "They won't know what hit them!"

"I agree. Hard to believe a team containing ningens made it this far, really," Touya replied, carefully scrutinizing their opponents. Urameshi Team, he believed they were? It mattered little, really; he was sure of victory.

"This should be fun," Jin said, a carefree grin crossing his face.

"Indeed," murmured Touya. "Fun...indeed."