((I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, and I am not making money off of this story. But enjoy!))
Botan flew done and found Kuwabara on a park bench, talking to Yukina. "Come on. Genkai wants to see you. Yukina, I'll drop you off at the dojo if you want me to."
"Please?" Yukina asked nicely.
The couple got on, with Kuwabara on the back. His arm wrapped itself around Yukina's back, as she was also riding sidesaddle, and she smiled sweetly at him.
Botan made her way towards the dojo, and dropped Yukina off like promised, the procedded to fly towards a building that Kuwabara had never seen before on Genkai's property. She dropped him off, slightly greenfaced, and said, "Go on in. She's waiting for you."
This new building looked like a more modern version of a dojo. It was black, and smaller, the ouside demensions gave him the idea that it couldn't be bigger than his living room at home. There were no signs that it had been created recently, but that didn't mean anything with Genkai.
Kuwabara opened the door, and found Genkai kneeling on the floor, sipping tea. The door cosled automatically behind him as he madehis way to the small table. There was a plate for him on her right hand side; there was a screen on the wall in front of him that contrasted the black walls. There were small windows near the ceiling that let in enough light, as well as candles placed in the corners of the room.
The screen flickered to life the moment he kneeled next to her.
There he was at the age of six, losing his first fist fight with Yusuke over a little red truck. He had to suffer two very embarrassing talks with the principal that week, one over the turck, and one the next day when Yusuke had 'accidentally' tripped him on the playground. Kuwabara had punched Yusuke that time, right on the jaw, who wasn't even fazed.
Ten years old, now, having just discovered hair jel that his sister had given to him for his birthday. He had spent all afternoon learning how to get his hair in the perfect gelled-back hair style. Ever since then, he couldn't park with his 'Elvis'-like look.
Then there was the day that he had some spirit power. He and his siter had been fooling around - she had started throwing dirty socks around at him. She tossed an easy, slow one at him. He swung at it with the wooden spoon they were using as a bat, and something on the spoon flared up. The sock was cut cleanly in half. He hadn't rememberd much of it afterwards; Kuwavara had slept nearly two days, and was weak for nearly a week after that.
He had gotten a worksheet with a red zero on it. The teacher had asked him to stay behind. "Every answer's wrong!" the teacher exclaimed. "I know," Kuwabara said, "I checked it all myself."
Genkai snorted softly in the background.
"I, Kuwabara Kazuma, am going to save her!" he yelled, before running off towards the mountians, to where Yukina was beind held captive.
The screen flickered out.
He looked at Genkai.
She spoke up before he could ask anything. "Given the power to change anything, or anyone in your lifetime, what would you change?"
The words were out of his mouth before he had a chance to think. "I wish those men had never hurt my sweet Yukina like they did." It had only been recently that Yukina had been telling him little snippets of things that they had done to her. It would only be a little, as she would then clam up again, changing the subject.
Genkai nodded, taking another sip of tea.
The movie screen flickered on again, rewinding to before Koenma had sent Botan to get them for the mission, before they kidnapped her. No kidnapping, no mission, no Botan, no finding her, no Yukina, no nothing.
Yukina eventually, showed the screen, did show up in his part of Japan, but it was only for a few hours, and only to Koenma. Finding no answers to who her brother was, she left, never meeting, and changing, Kuwabara's life. Their paths would never cross, not then, not ever.
"You're saying -showing- if she never got hurt by them we'd never met?"
Genkai just nodded. There was a momentary pause before she said, "If there were no sadness to darken our days, there would't be any way to tell when you're truly happy. Wouldn't you agree?"
Kuwabara nodded, smiling.
"Now leave, you bumbling idiot."