This has been bouncing around in my head for AGES. And since I could leave this fic without a proper ending (and by 'proper ending' I mean 'sexytimes') I realized it would be the perfect epilogue. Yusuke's point of view.
It's not explicit, but this chapter is a little more raunchy than the others.
"Shhhhhhh!"
"What the f-"
"Shhh!"
"Kuwabara, what the hell are you doing back here?"
I know the guy has a crush on Yukina, but he's going a little too far, spying on her from behind a wall in Genkai's garden. He's even hiding his energy signature; I only noticed him after I hopped the wall and nearly landed on top of him. What can I say - I'll train for weeks straight, I'll climb a goddamn mountain, but nothing short of Enma himself is gonna make me walk all the way around on these stupid windy paths.
"Shh! Be quiet and hide your energy!"
"Fine, but what the hell are you doing?"
"I can see it now!"
What the-? He's not even looking at Yukina; he's on his hands and knees, staring at the grass.
"You lose a contact lens or something?"
"Don't be stupid, Urameshi. I've been training all month - I can finally see that fake Red Thread of Destiny connected to Yukina! It's gotta be some evil spell or something. I'm gonna follow it and beat up whoever's trying to hurt my Yukina!"
Great. That's just great. Now I have to make sure the idiot doesn't do anything stupid.
"Err... well, let's not be too hasty. Maybe it's not fake. Maybe it's a relative or something."
"Nuh-uh. I've never seen a Red Thread of Destiny between relatives, not even Kurama and his mother. Besides, Yukina's family must all be in the demon world, right?"
"...right."
Just my luck, Kuwabara's never met a set of twins.
"So where's this thread leading us?"
"Over to the woods. It, uh, it takes a while 'cause I have to concentrate really hard."
"Uh huh."
I follow Kuwabara for what seems like days - it's gotta be at least an hour - trying to distract him from his stupid thread. Even my best insults don't work. Then I feel it - a weird energy signature several yards away. It feels like I'm seeing double, like I've got Genkai whacking me upside the head again. It's demon energy, only... not. There's another presence, feels like a regular demon, but the creepy not-quite-demon-sort-of-human energy is drowning out everything else in the area. Kinda like Gokui after he ate a bunch of human souls, but not exactly.
"Kuwabara," I hiss, "don't freak out, but I'm sensing two demons up ahead, maybe three. Something's not right. Let's see if we can sneak up on them, okay?"
"Uh, okay..."
We get closer, and I start hearing the sounds of a fight. Maybe Kuwabara is right after all - or maybe that second presence is Hiei, and he's found someone interesting to kill today. But it doesn't sound like fighting exactly, it sounds more like - oh, shit.
Long silver hair. A very wide, very naked back. Ears. A tail.
"Ohmygod-"Kuwabara's jaw hits the ground "-th- tha- that's-"
Youko Kurama, every inch as tall and solid as he was at the Dark Tournament - and wow, did not need to know what he looks like naked. He's got someone pinned to the ground underneath him, their legs hitched up around his waist. Very masculine legs... with a very familiar black boot hanging off of one foot.
A heavily warded hand slides up and buries itself in Kurama's hair.
Oh god, my eyes. One of them lets out a groan, and Kuwabara squeaks - he's managed to turn ghost white and blush beet red at the same time. The noise makes Kurama's fox ears twitch, and suddenly we're pinned by narrow yellow eyes.
You'd think that'd be the end of it, he'd either murder us or disappear into the forest, but no. He shifts his weight onto one arm (a really big, really long arm) and turns to look at us, and we can see - yup, that's Hiei alright, no mistaking that murderous glare. I can't see anything too nasty, thank god - Kurama's easily twice as big as him and blocking most of the view - but he's got bites and bruises all down his neck and grass stains on his knees.
Kurama's got the biggest, smuggest, most self-satisfied look on his face.
Then the tree next to us explodes, and I don't wait around to see which one of them is responsible. I grab Kuwabara by the collar and yank him back the way we came, dodging trees and rocks and Kuwabara's flailing limbs.
That was way more than I ever needed to see, but hey, at least they're happy. Plus they can't kill us, since we're kind of the reason they got together. Which reminds me-
"HEY HIEI! I TOLD YOU 'GOOD AT SEX' WAS ON THE LIST!"
I crack myself up. But seriously, I should write a lemon version of this.
