Pinocchio, a Romance.

Or the more interesting title "I Salute You, Takahashi Couple!"

Also here's a quote from a random band for no reason, "The only suicidal thing here is the doors/ We had a good run; even I have to admit/ Life's just a pace-call on death, only less diligent"

It just so happened that one day, Mukuro had joined Yukina at Genkai's temple just as a visit. (And possibly to find some way to try and troll Hiei into confessing his relation to the poor girl for once.) In one particular moment, Yukina happened to shift a little as she brought the tea down.

"What's troubling you?" Mukuro asked.

"Oh, it's nothing really!" Yukina replied a bit too quickly.

"Yukina. Really."

"Oh… Well… Um…"

Mukuro stared at her until she finally gave the answer.

"Um… I don't know if you're the person to ask, but… How do you make a man leave you alone?"

"What do you mean? Is he breaking in? do you want me to kill him because I will and I can make it look like an acci-" She stopped herself because she knew Yukina was giving her a deer in the headlights look. Or what people said was. She wouldn't know personally, not having a driver's license or anything.

"Well, he just…"

At that moment, the door opened and in stepped a man with shoulder length hair and a puppet nose holding an old assortment of flowers wrapped in some Christmas wrapping paper. He said, "Hello, my dear, I come for your heart!"

Mukuro stared at the man. And the man stared at him.

"…Is this the one?" Mukuro asked Yukina, who nodded sheepishly. "Okay, I'll take care of him for you."

"Just don't kill him!"

"…Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiine." So she took the man outside. "Okay, you see here, nose man."

"Excuse me?" asked nose man.

"You have an interesting nose. Anyway-"

"My name is Risho! I don't refer to you Scarface Nobreasts, do I?"

"ANYWAY, I think you should leave Yukina alone. She doesn't like you and you should leave her alone."

"But, I brought her flowers. If there's anything that brings love from a woman, it's flowers."

"Let me see those." She took them from him and threw them over her shoulder. Just to be sure, she also spat in their general direction.

"You monster! Well, I hope you're happy. That's the one and last time you'll ever get flowers from a man."

"Get out of here, Puppet Nose!" And so Puppet Nose, I mean, Risho, ran away. That takes care of that.

….Except not, because the next time she visited Yukina, he burst in the room again with another bouquet of flowers. Once again Mukuro took him outside, with one leg ready to give him a swift kick in the ass straight to the moon, as she happened to have wanted to do to Hiei after he sassed about… whatever the fuck he's bitching about again. (The point is she has a high threshold for his crap but it condenses until she has to kick someone's ass.)

"What the hell is your problem?" Mukuro asked.

"Can't you understand what it means to be in love with someone?" Risho asked.

"….Negative."

"This is why you're so… I will show you!"

"Whoa, whoa, wait…"

Risho grabbed her. He positioned himself over her, holding her arms. "I'll show you what it means to feel…"

"Hold on, right now! I can't kiss you! You're a dog! A human dog!"

"I'M A FUCKING DEMON OKAY?!"

"Oh. Well, you're a human. A human demon."

"…Shut up." And so he kissed her.

Then Yukina walked over. She felt awkward. But she supposed this was what Mukuro meant when she said she wanted to take care of this.