Yusuke didn't bother speaking to anyone about anything concerning his actions with the rival team's human girl. That shit wasn't anyone's affair but his own and Yuki's as far as he was concerned. However the second that he and the other's reached their hotel room, he could sense that Kurama and Hiei and Kuwabara wanted to begin interrogating him.

So to distract them from doing so, he promptly began stripping while making his way to the bathroom to get cleaned up while wondering if the island had a floral shop somewhere that he could check out.

If so then he'd like to get Yuki some flowers.

Something nice with white lilies, some pink and cornflower blue bachelor buttons, some pink or green snap dragons and baby's breath all bound together by a nice silk ribbon. After all it was his first date with the girl, even if it did come with chaperones, and he wanted to make a good impression.

The room was quiet, except for Kuwabara's occasional muttering under his breath and Yusuke couldn't help but smirk a little bit since it seemed that his diabolical plan to avoid confrontation with the others was working. Which is a shame really, he'd only managed to lose his shirt and shoes and unbutton his pants in preparation of dropping them when Kurama and Hiei suddenly remembered that they needed to be somewhere else and vanished into thin air.

Leaving the mask fighter and Kuwabara for him to deal with.

The masked fighter wasn't an issue since the little guy seemed to want very much to keep to himself and for all appearances didn't want to snoop in Yusuke's love life.

And with Kuwabara no longer looking like he had something to say, Yusuke merely shrugged his shoulders and went about collecting some clean clothing before realizing that his clothes while comfortable- weren't good enough for him to wear to a five star restaurant. Much less show up with a date.

He'd have to ask Koenma to do him a favor, he sighed as he set his things down and then turned and left, only bending down for a moment to snatch up his jacket from where it had fallen earlier and made his way to the door to leave.

He had just opened the door to step out when he found his way blocked by old pacifier breath himself.

Koenma was standing there in his adult form, with several things in black bags and some shoe boxes in his arms. Yusuke blinked and wondered idly if the guy had decided to go native and was toting bodies around when Koenma thrust the bags and boxes into his empty arms and said, "Here. You'll need these in the days to come." And then turned and walked off.

Leaving Yusuke to stand there with his arms full of something as he disappeared.

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Kurama and Hiei landed deftly on the ledge outside of the hotel rooms of the rival team that they had fought against earlier that day, both demon's feeling an odd combination of curiosity and anger at Yusuke's careless actions.

Did the spirit detective enjoy courting death? They both wondered for perhaps the hundredth time in the past hour or so. Because it was looking more and more to them as if he did. However this time the threat wasn't to him alone- it was to what they held dear as well.

The Toguro brothers had made each member of the team an offer that they simply couldn't refuse.

Fight in the demon world tournament and possibly die in the ring... Or all of their family and friends would perish.

Kuwabara's older sister and friends had been threatened. Hiei's twin sister had been threatened. And for Kurama, well, his mother had been threatened.

And while the two normally didn't let such things bother them- they had been backed into a corner. Hiei had searched and fought his entire life just to find his sister. He would no sooner give her up to the cold grasp of death than Kurama had when his mother had fallen ill months ago.

It was perhaps because of their demon nature's. Or perhaps it was simply because demon's felt emotions more keenly than humans.

Both were unsure. All that they knew was that Yusuke was becoming distracted from their goal and that was placing not only themselves but everyone that they gave a damn about in grave danger.

Which was why both had come to this particular place.

They wished to know just what the girl had done to rob Yusuke of his senses. So they decided to observe her. And if that proved to not be enough- then they would kidnap her. Worst case scenario, they wound up killing her.

It didn't matter to Hiei any. To Kurama however- killing the girl just felt wrong. Even if the deed wasn't being carried out right at that moment- it simply left a bad taste in his mouth.

Shifting on the ledge outside of the bedroom, both males made themselves comfortable so that they could watch the girl.

"What do you think we'll find?" Hiei asked in an almost bored tone as he watched Kurama pull a thin piece of leather chord from his pants pocket and begin to pull his long wild looking mane back into a ponytail at his nape. So that they wouldn't be discovered due to his hair blowing in the wind, Hiei assumed.

"I'm not sure." Kurama finally replied as he slowly lowered his arms and turned his attention back to the window, he could hear someone moving about in the room that they were outside of. Peering around the corner he was using as cover, both he and Hiei saw that the person in the room was the girl that they had come to watch.

And while that was all well and good, Kurama almost threw himself off of the ledge that he was perched upon the second that he realized that the female was standing with her back to them. Her wet hair was up in a twist, held in place by a hair clip and her body...

Dear god- His eyes widened in shock and his mouth went dry. His heart jumped in his chest to almost a painful degree causing the red head to wince slightly and lift a hand to absently rub at the spot through his clothing as he took note of the scars littering the girl's body.

It looked like someone had taken claws to the tender skin of her back! And though he knew that the injuries were old, perhaps even months old, many still looked like they were still on the verge of completely healing.

Even Hiei looked more than a little shell shocked at the small discovery.

After all, they both knew that the likelihood of a demon doing something like that to a human, and then having said human survive- were practically nil.

And yet there she stood, the exception... It was no damn wonder Yusuke was interested in her. Even if he didn't know about the scars by sight, he may have picked up on the wounds with his spirit energy or something. Which Kurama would have to admit, would be rather impressive of the human boy since the only other two reasons he could think of to logically explain away Yusuke's odd behavior since running into the girl were 1) hormones. And then there was 2) A soul mate's bond.

If the reason for Yusuke's interest had anything to do with number two then things were going to get even more messy, fairly quickly since he wouldn't be able to stay away from her. And nothing that he or anyone else would keep him from her unless of course she was killed. And even then- it still might not keep him from her.

Quietly muttering several choice oaths under his breath, he buried his face in his palm for a moment to try and quell his slight panic and when he removed his hand to tell Hiei that he was leaving he found himself-

1) with Hiei suddenly MIA. And of course there was number two (perhaps the worst of either) in his opinion. He found himself staring into the pale aqua eyes of Toya as he peered out the window at him.

His expression a weird combination of curious and unamused.

Son of a bitch- "Hello, Toya." He said with a slightly strained smile and an awkward little wave before stating lamely, "Nice weather we're having..." At which the water and ice demon only narrowed his pale eyes at him, making Kurama wish that he had enough room on the ledge to actually squirm.

And a fire demon to throttle.