By: Hokata Yuy
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As they started approaching Yusuke's house Botan thought of something, "Are you sure she's going to be home tonight? She didn't come home last night.."
He didn't look toward her, just straight ahead and nodded, "Yeah, she leaves for the bar a lot, but she never spends two nights in a row without coming home. She may be irresponsible… but she's not uncaring."
"I see… She's not as bad as I thought. That's good," she said with a nod, then thought of something else, "Yusuke… I don't think I've ever heard you say something about you're father. What was he like?"
"I don't want to talk about it," he said sharply, speeding ahead of her. 'I didn't know he was so touchy about that subject,' she thought curiously, not realizing she'd slowed to a stop. "C'mon! I don't have all night you know!" he yelled over his shoulder when he noticed she stopped following him. "Oh! Right, sorry," she jumped slightly and flew after him.
When they got close to the window they could barely see inside, all the lights were out and from what they could see, nothing had changed from last night. "Um.." Botan started.
"Look," he sighed, "remember what my house looked like before it burned down? She doesn't exactly do housework. Well… here goes." He slowly floated through the window into his mother's room. Taking a look around her noticed an empty bottle of brandy next to her bed, "Aw crap.. I just hope you're sober in your dreams," he muttered, putting his hand on her forehead.
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"Huh..? What the hell is this?" Yusuke asked, scratching his head. He had expected to be in another field, or a bar, or something. But what he entered was a white room, with only two things inside it, his mother in a chair… looking over the bed his body had been laying in. "Mom…? What's going on?" he said looking around the room.
"Just when I thought… you were coming back," she softly said, not looking away from the empty bed, "I lose you again…"
"H-how'd you know? I mean... that's why I came, to tell you that."
She looked over her shoulder, her eyes were blood-shot and her cheeks puffy, signs that she'd been crying. "Y-Yusuke!" she cried, standing up hard enough to knock the chair over and ran over to him, squeezing him tightly. "You're back! I was so scared! Keiko said we'd lost you, that'd you'd never be able to come back!" she bawled.
Slowly he put his arms around her and patted her back, "Yeah yeah, you didn't loose me, I can come back. But there's a problem…"
She put her hands on his shoulders and held him at arm's length, staring hard at him, "If its you don't want to come back, then… I'll kick your ass until your senses come back!" she yelled, getting him in a headlock.
"Own ow ow!! Let go! That's not it!" he yelled, squirming out of her grasp and moved a few feet away, "It's that, because of some energy-type wave pattern… thing. Apparently everyone has one and mine's the screwiest of them all. So… it won't be aligned or charged or something for a long time."
"What's 'a long time'? A few weeks? Months? Years?"
"Yeah, years. 55 years to be exact…" he said with a sad smirk.
"55 years… I'll be 84 by the time you come back!" she cried, putting her hands on the sides of her face.
"More like 90, I did the math," he commented, arms crossed over his chest. He ended up with a lump on the back of his head before he knew it was coming.
"Don't talk back," she growled, clenching her fist in front of her, "but what am I suppose to do for 50 years? Just keep you locked in some backroom in the house? Hmm.. maybe I could just bury you in the cemetery with a little air hole? Yeah… Then I wouldn't have to get a bigger place and I'd only pay for it once!"
"Hey!! That's my body, not some statue you can just put in storage!!" he screamed, "If you do that I swear I'll break out of my coffin and piss on your grave!"
After another lightning-fast lump on his head, "Don't interrupt."
"Whatever," he growled, rubbing his head.
She turned to him, serious this time, "So what's going to happen to the you I'm talking to? Are you just going to float around here and haunt me forever?"
He looked to the sides and put his hands in his pockets, scowling, "I wish. I have to go to a place called 'Spirit World,' it's where every human goes when they die. Once I get there, they're going to give me a job, A JOB! Can you believe that crap? You die and get put to work!"
She started laughing, "With you're attitude I bet you'll get to be a janitor or a garbage man!" Picturing Yusuke (in the crayon drawings we all love) scrubbing toilets and picking up bags of trash made her laugh even harder.
"Oh very funny, not like you'll get any better," he growled, "That's it, I'm leaving, I said what I wanted to." With that he turned around and started walking off, but was stopped by her grabbing onto the back of his collar.
"You're going to leave your mother without saying goodbye? Haven't I taught you better than that…?" she said, putting her arms around his shoulders. "Be safe and come back to us Yusuke.." she whispered, starting to cry.
"Don't worry, I will… but mom… can you lay off the drinking for now? I mean, it's not like you have me here anymore to pick you up when you pass out on the floor. So be safe," he said, smiling just a little.
"I know, that's why I quit tonight, I poured out everything in the apartment as soon as I got home. After all, I don't want to see you for 55 years, not until you sit up in bed and say 'Did you miss me?'"
He simply nodded, "Goodbye, mom. I love you." He slowly broke out of her hug and started walking towards the door of the white room.
"I love you too son… make me proud, I want to hear the Urameshi name as famous as King Yama when I die," she grinned, the tears building in her eyes.
He looked back at her, his hand on the doorknob, "Don't worry about that, I'll tell you all about it when I get back." With a tearful smile he opened the door.
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"How did it go?" Botan asked as the floated out of the apartment and back towards her.
"I just hope she doesn't bury my body like she said," he smirked.
"W-what!? You've got to stop her! I mean really!" she fumed and started flying towards his window, about to give her a piece of her mind.
"Hey whoa!" he laughed, putting his hands on her shoulders before she past him, "I'm just kidding, I know she won't do anything like that."
"Don't scare me like that! I really thought she was going to," she pouted and floated away. "Besides, you wouldn't look cute covered in dirt," she looked over her shoulder with a wink.
Yusuke blinked, "…What do you mean by that!? Hey get back here! And stop laughing!" he yelled and chased after the giggling reaper, yelling at her all the way as they made their way towards their final target; Keiko's house.
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Sorry about missing my update times the past two nights ^^; got stuck talking all night. Anyways, can anyone guess what I have planned in the more long-run yet?
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