Detective Who? CH. 4: Return To The Scene Of The Crime

Disclaimer: You're really hopeless if you didn't know I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.



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"Yusuke! You have a letter!"

"Who's it from?"

"Keiko." Atsuko dropped the letter on the floor outside Yusuke's bedroom and left. Yusuke opened the door and picked it up.

Yusuke,

I apologize for acting the way I did when I found out you couldn't remember me. It wasn't your fault. Anyways, to make it up to you, I'm taking you to a movie and restaurant. Don't worry, I promise I'll buy this time. Even if you can't remember me, we can still get to know each other all over again.

X's and O's,

Keiko Yukimura

"Oh yeah, that's right." Yusuke thought. "Keiko's coming back from the mountains with her parents tomorrow." They had left the day after Yusuke had gotten out of the hospital. Keiko had been late to see him because her parents were on the verge of leaving, but delayed their trip when they got the call from the hospital. Yusuke walked back into his room and looked at Kuwabara, who was engrossed in Yusuke's Play station.

"Hey Kuwabara," Kuwabara paused the game and turned his lopsided face to Yusuke. "What does 'X's and O's' mean?" Yusuke asked. With a look of horror on his face, Kuwabara jumped up and wrestled Yusuke for the letter.

"Burn it! BURN IT!!"

"Kuwabara, calm down! Are you nuts?!"

"Do you even know what this means?!"

"Yeah, that's why I asked, idiot. Do you know what it means?" Kuwabara stopped and looked around the room nervously.

"...er... not exactly, but I know it's bad!"

"Kuwabara, I've bet you've never even seen one." Now Yusuke muttered. "Much less even a single letter from a girl." Overhearing this last statement, Kuwabara's face distorted in anger, making it even less attractive than before (if possible).

"I resent that!"

"No, you resemble that."

"I could get so much more girls than you, Urameshi!"

"Really? Well I don't exactly see a crowd of fan girls chasing after you."

"...er...well..." Kuwabara began to sweat. "Well, there would be if they weren't all chasing after that pansy little rose boy!"

"Pansy? This coming from the guy that had to have one of our enemies defeat Byakko for him!"

"That guy just wouldn't die!"

"Excuses are for cowards." Yusuke and Kuwabara turned abruptly to see that Hiei had let himself in through the window.

"Hello Hiei!" Yusuke greeted sarcastically. "Thanks so very much for knocking!" Hiei simply raised an eyebrow at him as he closed the window.

"Hey, shrimp, what's with your obsession with windows?" Kuwabara asked. Ignoring him, Hiei turned to Yusuke.

"Koenma sent me. He's waiting for you at Genkai's temple."

"Ah. And he couldn't tell me...because?"

"Why don't you ask him when you get there."

"Hey Yusuke?" Kuwabara asked from the bag he was digging in. "Can you take care of Eikichi (Spelling?)(Do I even have the right name?) for me for a while?" He produced a rather ruffled kitten from his backpack.

"You had this thing in your backpack the whole time?!"

"Well, er, I forgot she was in there..."

Yusuke slapped his forehead. "Urgh. Why do you want me to take care of it?"

"I can't sleep with her anymore." Hiei raised an eyebrow and smirked when Kuwabara said this, who continued without noticing. "She's decided to start licking the skin off my face every time I try to sleep."

"So put her in another room!" Yusuke yelled as Kuwabara dumped the cat into his arms.

"I can't do that! It's so cruel! Besides, she yowls like heck until I let her back in."

"Argh! Fine. How long?"

"Just until the weekend. Er, next weekend I mean. Then uncle Kuwa will come and pick you up, yes he will." He cooed to Eikichi and scratched her under her chin as Hiei rolled his eyes.

"Uncle? Why uncle?" Yusuke asked.

"Well, it would be daddy, but that would make me a cat."

"And uncle makes you what, a monkey?"

"Kuwabara stared at him blankly, until Yusuke shoved him out the door.

"Go. Go! I'll take care of your stupid cat for you!" With that he slammed the door on Kuwabara's face and tossed the cat onto the bed where Hiei was sitting.

"So, shall we go?"

"You're just going to leave the cat here to piss on everything?"

Yusuke blinked for a moment, and then suddenly sighed and sagged his shoulders. "Crap."

















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