poorasdirt: I'm thinking I'll update this every Monday. In the meantime the experiment continues.
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Hate
Keiko tilted her head as she lounged on the loveseat of her living room. Her head was pounding from a headache that only Yusuke could induce. Not for the first time she wondered if it was a very bad idea to let her fiancé know three very male demons were staying at her house.
Although the three gave their word on whatever honor they had that they were completely respectable when dealing with Keiko. But that was only because Keiko would have castrated them if they had tried anything dishonorable. Kuronue almost learned the hard way when he toed the line shortly after regaining his body.
Nevertheless Keiko rubbed her temples for what seemed to be the thousandth time that day. She honestly felt like castrating her fiancé. She never really got what his problem was. Most of the time he ignored her unless she forced herself to be in his face, but as soon as another guy so much as looked at her he was an overbearing jealous belligerent menace.
"Oh! What's this? What's wrong Keiko-san?"
"Not now Karasu, I'm this close to stabbing someone." Keiko said holding up her hand to indicate barely an inch of space with her fingers.
"Now, now, I'm just inquiring as to why you look like someone ran you over." Karasu said as she felt him sit down on the arm of the loveseat.
"Nice to know I'm the epitome of beauty then." Keiko said sarcasm dripping from every word.
"You always have been." Karasu said with a chuckle.
"You're not going to leave me alone until I tell you huh?" Keiko said peering up at the demon hovering near her feet.
"Until you, tell him what, Keiko-chan?"
Keiko groaned slightly as she tried to suffocate herself with the pillow that had been behind her head. She could still hear Karasu chuckling though, as well as the steps of a certain curious bat moving further into the room. Some days she wondered how sane she was to have these three as housemates.
"Keiko-san is upset about something but refuses to divulge the details to me. Perhaps you will have better luck in persuading her to speak, Kuronue." Karasu said even as Keiko tried to smother herself with the pillow.
"Well she doesn't smell like it's that time of month again." Kuronue's eyes widened before he swiftly ducked under the flying pillow. "Hey, don't be violent with me. I didn't do anything to upset you yet."
"Yet," Keiko said sending a glare in the direction of the former thief.
"Okay, just tell us why you're upset so we can fix it. That way you will be happy and we won't be walking on eggshells around you. You're pretty scary when angry after all." Kuronue said sitting on the coffee table to be closer to Keiko. He however put himself out of her reach just in case, he knew despite being a human Keiko could cause damage if she wanted to.
"It's really nothing, I just have a migraine." Keiko said in defeat rubbing her temples.
"And what caused this?" Karasu said crossing his arms to peer down at the master of the house. After all they all lived by her rules.
"Yusuke," Keiko said with a slightly pained moan. The two demons shared a knowing look before turning back to their friend.
"What did the idiot do this time?" Kuronue said dully. He often wondered why the two were together in the first place. They didn't mesh as well as most people thought they should.
"Honestly I think he saw some guy eyeing me while I was eating lunch. One moment I'm happily alone with some of my favorite food, next I have Yusuke hovering over me asking me what I'm doing." Keiko said with a sigh. "It went on from there. Same argument, same results, he's still upset that you three are living here but won't even begin to find a solution for the problem. I even suggested that I move in with him and let you guys rent this place. That was shot down with a negative before it even left my mouth."
"Yea, we've seen one of those fights before. He always ends up unconscious at your feet or with a nice new black eye when you finally snap." Karasu said with a chuckle. "I'm beginning to wonder if he really is masochistic."
"Actually that would explain some things if he was." Kuronue said grinning when he got a weak chuckle from the human female of the group. "So are you moving out? Or are we?"
"No one is going anywhere at the moment that I'm aware of." Keiko said giving him a confused look. "Unless, you guys are planning on leaving."
"Nah, I wouldn't get a better chance of bugging my good friend Kurama if I high tailed it out of here." Kuronue said with a grin.
"Besides, Urameshi-san hasn't challenged us yet about living here. Until he does, what you say goes." Karasu said making Keiko roll her eyes.
"Yea, well until that happens I get to contemplate just how thin the line is between love and hate." Keiko said falling back into her previous position of staring at the ceiling.
"You actually hate him?" Kuronue said sounding slightly shocked. His shock became a sheepish embarrassment when he received a dull rather condescending look from his female friend.
"Hate is a strong word to use." Keiko said before sighing. "I don't know. Some days I just dislike him more than I like him. So far he hasn't crossed the line enough for me to actually want to truly hurt him, so no. I don't hate him."
"Yet," Kuronue said getting a curious look from Karasu and Keiko. "What? He can still mess up enough that you'll hate him. Or at least do something that even you won't forgive for a very long time. He is still very young, especially in hanyou terms."
"You know most of the time I forget you are older than Bui and I, then there are moments like this." Karasu said getting a glare from the bat. "He's right though, unlike Urameshi-san you have a clear code of honor. One Bui, myself, and even Kuronue respect. The moment he does something against your honor, you cannot forgive readily, will be the moment you walk away from him."
Keiko lay in silence as she contemplated those words carefully. For what they were worth both Kuronue and Karasu did offer good advice from time to time. Sighing she sat up. "Yea, and I think I know what he'd do if he ever crossed the line."
"And what would that be?" Karasu asked getting a rather tired chuckle.
"You don't have to worry about it. It really is something personal. But if he does, trust me, you will probably find out rather quickly with how angry it will make me." Keiko said standing up.
"You'll kill him?"
"Don't sound so hopeful. This is the Spirit Detective we're talking about." Kuronue said in a rather scolding tone.
"No, probably won't kill him. I probably won't even touch him. I do know I'll go on a nice long walk though, and Kami have mercy if someone says anything to upset me." Keiko said walking out of the room.
"Something tells me she's not been as pissed off by the idiot as we've thought she's been." Kuronue said getting a nod from the other youkai.
"I just hope for her sake he doesn't cross the line. She would be upset for a very long time if that happened." Karasu said getting a grin from Kuronue. "What?"
"You almost sounded like you cared. Where's that ruthless bloodthirsty terrorist bomber now?" Kuronue said only to yelp and dodge as a rather familiar bomb went off next to him.
"You were saying?"
"Right, figures you'd be a bitch still."
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