Kuwabara Birthday Celebration Week prompts as given by thekazumakuwabara on tumblr. These are listed as daily prompts from February 25th to March 3rd. I have set a limit for myself for each prompt to be less than 1,000 words.

Day 1, Prompt 1: Pre-YYH, any period of time before the series (childhood, first fight with Yusuke, etc). There's a ton to explore about his past!

Pink and Blue

Slumping his shoulders, he sighed at being told she wasn't going to play in favor of completing her schoolwork. Irritation and endearment flashed through her. She snappily offered he could do his own with her. A bright smile filled his face, scampering across the room to grab his supplies. Little brat, she thought with faint amusement, then went back to her work.

After finishing up math, Shizuru leaned in her chair, glancing to see what her little brother was doing.

Laying on the floor, Kazuma's fingers fumbled before managing to grasp a hold of the tiny nub of brown and carefully worked it onto his paper. Rampant strands of frizzy and a tad too long hair blocked her view his current crayon masterpiece. Shizuru shifted and smiled at catching his bottom lip jutted out in concentration. When he set the brown down, he paused. Then, he snatched up the longer pink crayon, feet happily swishing back and forth. He began humming.

A laugh rumbled up the older girl's throat. It seemed her little brother was finally going to go to town with the two colors he had been saving. She went back to her schoolwork.

"All right." Shizuru dropped her pencil on the desk upon finishing. The girl turned, eager to see his finished creation using all the colors. "What do you got for today?"

Kazuma beamed, displaying two missing bottom teeth, thrusting the paper up in front of his face.

"Well. Those are some nice looking trees and birds. Much better than my stick ones kiddo." Bare feet danced in place, reminiscent of a younger need to use the toilet. He stuck it up farther in the air and whined loudly. She chuckled, then stopped teasing to compliment the focal point of his artwork. "She's pretty."

"She's happy," he pipped in the correction. "This is her happy place she likes being at, see Shizuru?"

"Yeah. I see."

A bird of blue rested on the girl's outstretched arm, clothed in brown. A brown cardigan would be Shizuru's guess over the pink dress. A dash of red was on her hand, possibly a ring. Her mouth was thick and too wide on the face. Clearly a smile though. A girl in a forested area, surrounded by several birds, under a clear blue sky, and an ocean in the distance.

For a kid his age, the care and detail paired with being a fully colored page was impressive.

"It's awesome, right?" He peered up from under the paper covered in bright wax. Her younger brother still got that hopeful look in his eyes when he was fishing her for a compliment and trying to do the best. Despite her responding improvement was always possible to keep him working hard.

Shizuru broke from her usual words this time.

"What's with the blue hair? Go overboard in using the color or did she dye her hair one of your favorite colors?"

Guilelessly, he stared up at her. "No. That's just the color of her hair."