Chapter 2 Kurama walked into his house and Shori greeted him. " You have a young lady here to see you, Suuichi. I'm glad to finally meet one of your lady friends." Kurama smiled at his mother and saw the young lady in question and pointed towards his room. "We're going to my room, Ooaka-san" he said then lead the way to his room and shut the door.

"So. So. What did he say?" Keiko leapt at Kurama, grabbing the tops of his arms, as soon as the door was closed. Kurama grabbed Keiko's hand and brought them down from his arms. Still holding them he told her exactly what Yusuke had told him on the way to Kurama's house.

After hearing everything, she smiled. "Wasn't interested? If I had known that then I wouldn't have had to come up with that whole pregnant bit. Whew." Keiko swiped a hand across her forehead and sat down on Kurama's bed. Kurama sat down next to her and asked a question he had been wondering since Yusuke had first told him.

"Um, Keiko?" Keiko looked at him. "Uh, why did you bring up the subject of sex any way? With Yusuke? He said you brought up the subject. Why?"

"Oh. Um. Oh, I know had guys are, especially teenage ones. They all wanna have sex. I wasn't interested in Yusuke but I knew, or actually I thought, that Yusuke would wanna have sex to. I just wanted to tell him that I didn't want to without hurting him."

She sighed then turned around on the bed so her body was facing Kurama's with one leg laying bent on the bed. She sighed again."See, it's not that I don't love Yusuke cause I do, it's just that, it's just that, ughhh," she threw up her hands. "Ughh, I don't know how to explain it. Yusuke, he, he, ugghh. I don't even know what I'm trying to say, ugghhh" She looked up at Kurama when he put a hand on her shoulder.

"Is it that you feel more like a sister, type of thing?" She looked at him questioningly, Keiko was an only child. He elaborated. 'Do you feel like you want to comfort him and be there for him, like you worry about him but when you find him don't want to kiss him, like REALLY kiss him. Is that how it is?"

Keiko thought to herself and then nodded. Yeah, I guess that's how it is. You know how Yusuke is, goes off with out notice?" Kurama nodded.

"Well, when he finally does show up I just get angry. I do feel relieved but it's only to know that he's safe. I've spoken to Yukina about it, not detail like but I asked her a few questions, like about her and Kuwabara. She says that when Kuwabara shows up she's relieved to but it's more to the fact that he's near her than because he's safe. She doesn't get that angry.

Sometimes I feel more like Yusuke's mother then his girlfriend. I guess is because I've always tried to take care of him. His mother is awful and he needs someone. Ever since his death, the first one, and his mother wasn't able to wake him so I had to," Kurama nodded at her questioning look before she went back to examining her hands.

"Ever since then I've , well, I've been acting more and more like his mother. Yeah, I think it's more of a mother than a sister feeling."

Keiko looked back up from the spot she had been examining on her hands the entire speech. "Kurama, thank you! Thank you so much. I should talk to you more often."

She leaned over and gave Kurama a hug. She smiled at him and was about to get up when Kurama laid a hand on her arm. She settled back down again.

"Can I ask you another question, it'll be kinda personal? Is that Ok? You don't have to answer it if you don't want to." At her nod he continued. "Well, is it just Yusuke or," he paused then continued "or is it guys in general?"

Keiko looked taken aback then looked back down at her hands. "Um, I believe it guys in general." She started to cry. "What's my Ma and Dad going to say? What's the gand going to say?" She cried harder, with Kurama rubbing her back. When she finally stopped he asked her another question.

"Is there a girl? A girl in your life?" She remained silent, her head still on his shoulder where she had cried, but she nodded.

He pushed her back into a sitting position to look into her face." Can you tell me who it is?" he asked her softly she shook her head no. He smiled at her. "It's ok, you don't have to. I'm just glad you have someone." He pulled her head back on his shoulder and rocked her back and forth, comforting her in his silence.

"Shizuru" the whispered name came almost to softly for him to hear but hear it he did. He didn't move, knowing that if she truly meant to tell him she would say it again. Surly enough a minuet later she pulled out of his grip. "Shizuru" she repeated. "It's Shizuru"

Kurama smiled. "Do you love her"

"Stop asking me questions, please." She asked him, her eyes begging.

He nodded and she smiled back at him.

"I've gotta get to Yusuke's soon. Um, what are we going to do about to night? Is the plan still on?"

Kurama nodded again. Except for one thing, instead of going to that school thing i want you to go to Shizuru's. It'll make you feel better, I promise. Tell her what you told me, I mean about you and Yusuke, it'll probably make her feel better too."

Keiko nodded at his reply then something hit. "Did you know about us? Me and Shizuru, I mean?"

"Not officially" he said slowly. "I suspected. I saw how you two were and I knew Yusuke was with me."

"Oh. Did you speak to Shizuru?"

"Yea...before you walked in on us."

"What did she say?"

"She didn't confirm it...she told me to speak to you. It didn't help that she was drunk, again." He laughed. "At the end of our conversation, I thought I was going to have to carry her to her bed."

"Oh, OK. Well I best be off so I'm not late for Yusuke's scolding." She smiled and then left.