A/N: well, just a random little fic, if you like it then review and I'll write more but I'll only write more if you want me to and if I get three reviews.

If you would like to see angst then I can do that.

Sadly enough I love angst.

But oddly enough I love humor too . . .?

AND MIGHT I ADD THAT I AM NO LONGER PISSED AT TOONAMI!!!

WOOH HOOOH!

THEY BROUGH YU YU HAKUSHO BACK!

MAUAHAHAHAHA I'M SO HAPPY! 5:30, OH YEAH BABY!!!

*ahem*

sorry about that little outburst . . .

A/N: (another note thing.) this is me assuming what happened after their team lost the match to team urameshi. I think their team name is like masho or something?

I just stood there, clutching my sides as Reisho (A/N: is that how u spell Reisho? Cuz I don't know.) Stood towering in front of me.

Reisho had a terrible grin on his face. I just took a step away from him in a vain attempt to stop him. Reisho's grin faded and he hit me in the face. I felt my lip crack from it. I took a few steps back and hit a tree with me back.

I looked to Reisho with fearful eyes as my lip bled. Although I tried not to show my fear of him it was still etched in my face. I reached up with one of my hands and wiped the blood away from my lip. Reisho just walked closer to me.

"Come now Touya, why don't you ever fight back? It always makes it more fun. Besides, I almost feel bad beating on someone who refuses to hit back."

"I won't fight you. You're my teammate."

I know that may not have been quite the perfect thing to say but it was the reason. I think . . . ?

"Your choice."

With that Reisho punched me in the stomach and I fell to the ground with some more blood trickling from my broken lip. Or maybe it was from him punching me so hard in the stomach? I don't really know. Reisho just seemingly grinned in delight as I coughed.

"If I didn't need you as a fighter to defeat the weaker demons, I would kill you right now."

I just sat on the ground. I don't believe that's the real reason Reisho kept me around but it's what he always said. Reisho pulled me to my feet by the front of my shirt. He held on to the front and looked to my face.

I was worried about what he was going to do next. But what bewildered me the most was that he seemed to be more examining my face than he was trying to instill fear in me. It's like he wanted something from me.

I realize that I had a line of blood running down my chin and his left cheek was purpling from the blow Reisho had given me. I knew this but I couldn't do much about it.

"You're pitiful."

With that Reisho tossed me aside and walked away. I sat there until I was sure Reisho was gone. After a few minutes I sighed and stood up. I lifted my already red hand wiped away the blood running down my chin and put my hand to my stomach. I could feel it heating up from the blow.

Then I pushed myself into straightening up. I didn't want to look that hurt.

I wasn't hurt that bad, not to mention that I was pretty used to it. But most of all I just didn't want anyone worrying if they saw me.

I mean what would you think if you saw me all hunched over with blood coming from my mouth? You would run over and ask if I was okay. But at least probably nobody would notice if I just had a bruise on my cheek and a scab on my lip.

I then walked back to the hotel that I was staying in for the rest of the tournament. I walked into the room silently, trying not to get anyone's attention. Jin was seemingly out and Bakken was sitting on the couch reading the paper.

I looked to Bakken who had turned briefly to look at me, he smirked, and continued reading.

I just walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror to see if any more blood had dripped down my face.

There was a slight scab on my lip where it had broken with the impact. Then I heard the door open again and peeked out the bathroom door to see who it was, fearing it was Reisho again.

After all Reisho didn't care if Bakken was around, Bakken didn't care. But if Jin were around, he cared and he would stop Reisho. Once before Reisho had made that mistake and shoved me while Jin was there. Well to say the least Reisho regretted it.

I watched Jin walk in the room with his hands behind his head and sit down across from Bakken. I quickly pulled my head back into the bathroom.

What would Jin do if he saw me? He would know it was Reisho and would go to beat on him or something. Maybe he would just think it was from a regular fight? Yeah, what if I told him that I had a little trouble getting rid of a few lower class demons bothering me?

No, Jin's even smart enough to know that I wouldn't even waste my time on lower class demons.

Well, there was no way that I could get out of it if he saw me. So I looked back out of the bathroom to see Jin, still sitting there. He sighed and continued to sit there.

Hey! Maybe I could sneak into my room? Yeah, he wouldn't see me. I don't know why I cared so much about if Jin saw me but I knew it would be a bad thing. Either he would get pissed and beat the snot out of Reisho or I would get one hell of a long lecture.

Like I say, either way it would be a bad thing if Jin saw me. I crept out of the bathroom and Jin just sighed again. Bakken seemed quite annoyed with him being around.

I just continued to creep over to the room, trying to get away from Jin, at least for now. Yet again Jin sighed.

But this time I guess Bakken just snapped and pushed the paper down.

"Can't you go somewhere else and do that?!"

"Oh? I'm sorry 'bout that. Does it bother you?"

"Rrrrr. . . You could go do that outside or something breezy!"

"Been there, done that."

Bakken just continued to growl for a moment. All I could do was stop and hope that Bakken didn't do anything to give me away.

Then I saw Bakken turn to look at me. He smiled at the look on my face. I just winced as Jin turned to see what Bakken was smiling at.

CRAP! Okay so maybe I don't do things like that in real life but I'm thinking them! Jin smiled momentarily as I wiped my face clean of all markings of emotions.

Or at least I hope I did.

"I didn't know you were here! Hey? What happened to your face?" Jin's normally happy exterior seemed to crack apart to show a questionable expression beneath.

"Uh. . ."

"It was that damned it all Reisho wasn't it!?"

I didn't know what to say. It's not like I was protecting Reisho so much as I was trying to stop Jin. I tried to think of a plausible lie to tell him.

Nothing exactly popped up. If only I had thought of something intelligent to say. But unfortunately brainpower was not on the list of things for me to have today.

"No. Um, it was . . ."

Keep thinking. I swear I would rather have jumped out of the window than saying I fell and hit a rock. That would have been the stupidest thing possible to do or say. I mean, what am I? A caveman?

Okay, just breathe and think. Jin was just looking at me as though he were waiting for me to think up a lie. But I had to think of something plausible.

What could have happened to me? Um, um, oh I know! A bee stung me! Oh my god, I must be getting really desperate.

You know, you would think that in my extensive knowledge I would be able to think up a plausible lie. But no, apparently not.

Jin was now just getting annoyed as a stood there scared that he would go kick the crap out of Reisho just so that next week Reisho could return the favor . . . to me.

"It wasn't Reisho. It was . . ."

Then I thought about it. Not just randomly thinking. Hm, what could hit my cheek so that it would bruise. I quickly glanced to Bakken to see what he had to say to me.

Big, dumb, oaf, all he was doing was grinning waiting to see what I could come up with.

Think Touya, think! Oh what the hell! He might think that a lower class demon caught me by surprise? No, he won't but it's worth a shot. Not like I have anything else I can do.

Come to think of it I really should have thought it through more before I walked out of the bathroom.

"It was a couple of lower class demons. They uh, caught me by surprise."

Jin looked really skeptical. He looked to me like there was something else that I was to say.

"Yeah, I was . . . out . . . training . . . in the forest . . . and . . . like I said, they ambushed me . . . so . . . that's what happened to me. Why I'm all beat up and . . . uh . . ."

Whoops. If only I hadn't said 'all beat up' then maybe Jin would have believed me. Oh who am I kidding, it didn't matter.

"So, yer 'all beat up'. Don't mean ta sound like I'm doubtin' ya but I don't think a couple a lower class demons could beat ya up."

I could see Bakken grinning insanely as Jin gave me a look like he was just humoring me. We all knew I was lying. Just some unwilling to admit the others knew.

So maybe I can't lie but the truth is always better right?

I just sighed and closed my eyes. I knew Jin was smiling. But I opened my eyes anyway to see it. He was grinning at me like a fool and I just sat down on the floor.

Letting my aching muscles take a break. Jin got up and Bakken went back to reading. Jin walked over to me on the floor.

"I'm onna get Reisho fer this one."

"No!"

"Why not? It's not anythin' he didn't already have comin'!"

Well, not like I wanted to tell him that Reisho would beat on 'The One and Only Human Punching Bag' if he did that. But I didn't think of anything else at the time.

I think I left my brain somewhere that day. Either that or I needed to hire someone to fix it. Well, I guess head throbbing from a massive beating is a good enough as any to have a broken brain.

I stood up, not wanting to seem weak or anything. But Jin helped me up anyway. I walked into the bedroom and lay down on the bed. I closed my eyes and Jin just walked up to me.

"Ya okay?"

"As fine as ever."

"Ya need help or anythin'?"

"No Jin. I'm fine. I just need to lay down for a while."

"Did he hurt ya very badly?"

"No worse than before."

I regretted saying that. It made Jin think that this had happened many times before. Not that it hadn't, but still it didn't want him to pity me, or anything like that.

"Why don't ya ever fight him off? I'm sure you're plenty strong enough to."

"I don't know. But I don't want to think about it right now. What time is it Jin?"

"I think it's around five."

"Okay."

I started to feel kind of tired. Like I didn't want to open my eyes. I knew Jin was still there. I didn't even have to try to feel his ki. First of all he was right next to me, and secondly he had a fairly large ki too. So it wasn't like it could just blend into the background of everyone else's.

"Hey Jin?"

I'm sure he could tell that I was sleepy. My voice was kind of trailing off and my breathing was shallow.

"Yeah."

"Don't do anything to Reisho."

"Why not?"

I could tell from how quickly Jin reacted to that request that he didn't want to do as a said. But I wasn't about to answer.

I was too drained to answer. I knew in a few more moments I would be asleep and I didn't want to spoil that. I wanted to sleep for a little while.

After all it would bring me away from the pain of the bruises Reisho had given me.

I heard Jin quietly say.

"Yeah, I won't. But that's only because ya told me not to."