Hiei sat on the couch watching as once again, young Kuwabara snuck into Yusuke's rooms. For the past three nights he'd been doing that. For the past three nights when they should all be sleeping, Hiei happened to notice Kuwabara would go and sneak into Yusuke's room.
Hiei had followed him, and watched as Yusuke would welcome the small boy with open arms, and curl up to sleep with him.
Now Hiei lay on his "bed" which during the day was called the couch, and starred at the ceiling. He'd been thinking hard on how bad Yusuke was taking this situation. Much worse than himself and Kurama.
That wasn't too surprising, those two where best friends. But what was surprising was that he was mourning more than a friend should...he acted more as if he lost someone he loved...and not in the friendship way either.
Hiei began to realize he may be right. Yusuke could have loved Kuwabara. The two were always close. Closer than he had ever seen. Especially after the dark tournament. Hiei remembered how he had to fight Yusuke to calm him down after Kuwabara was kidnapped.
Now that he really thought about it, he began to notice little signs. Shy touches, soft smile, always gazing at him, and sharply turning away if anyone noticed.
Hiei felt his chest beginning to hurt. He imagined what it'd be like in his shoes. No...if he was Yusuke, and Kuwabara was Kurama...he wouldn't be able to stand it.
Hiei thought hard on this, and the more he thought, he came to another painful conclusion. "Oh no...Kuwabara loved him back..." It was all so painfully clear why hadn't he seen it. "They didn't even know..." Hiei moaned placing his hands on his face. They didn't even know...And now they would never know.
That seemed like a fate worse than anything that had ever happened to them.
Hiei drifted off to sleep, being the first one awake besides Kuwabara. He was helping his sister get ready for work, who was scrambling. Hiei estimated that Shizuru only managed to get 5 hours of sleep a day, maybe less with how much she worked.
"I'll be home soon Kazu-chan." She kissed her brother good-bye, and was off. Hiei watched little Kuwabara shut the door, and felt amused how short this boy was. He was six years old yet he didn't even reach the door knob yet. He was the shortest in hi class, as Shizuru told him.
"How the Hell did he get so tall then?" He asked himself now feeling agitated.
"Mr. Hiei."
The demon looked down to see the small child's face. "Guess what!" Hiei sighed, "What?" Kuwabara smiled proudly, "When I grow up I'm gonna marry 'Usuke!" Hiei acutely fell over, and began to sputter, "Wh-what?!"
Kuwabara smiled innocently, "Hes so sad and he needs someone to take care of him! I can do it! He says I always make him happy!" Hiei sighed at the child's innocence. He of course had no idea yet what he was exactly saying, but still...given the circumstances that Hiei just found out Yusuke and Kuwabara were in love in their time, didn't help.
"What makes you so sure he'd want to marry you?" Hiei asked, eyebrows raised. Kuwabara pouted. "'Cuz I love him Mr. Hiei! Duh!" The boy smiled, and giggled. Hiei was finding it awfully hard to hate him. Kuwabara hugged him around his neck, and marched off determined to go wake up Kurama and Yusuke.
"DamXit...hes so fuXking cute!" Hiei found himself muttering. And then after saying that banged his head on the living room table.
meanwhile
Kurama sat starring at the necklace in his hand. It was working. He was amazed. All he needed to get it back to working again was to offer some of his spirit energy. He was immensely surprised, and felt relieved and horrified that he'd fixed it.
Relieved, because now they could go home, and horrified because they could go home! He wanted to, of course he did. He wanted to see his mother, and step father of course...but...he didn't want to ask Yusuke to leave Kuwabara. He could see it now....Yusuke's sad horrified face.
If they asked him, Kurama was almost certain he would stay. He wouldn't abandon his mother after he'd seen her sob at his death. But again, asking him to return to a place where Kuwabara was no more...seemed an unbearable task. Especially since he didn't want to go himself.
He starred at the artifact and closed his eyes. He saw Kuwabara throwing the necklace screaming, "Take them back to :My: past." Why had Kuwabara said his past? Was it a slip of the tongue? Or was this actually planned out somehow.
Kurama shook his head, none of this made since!!
He turned to open the door when the door opened and a blur of red hair jumped up to hug his waist, feet not touching the floor. "G'morning!! Its time to get up!" Kuwabara smiled at him, and Kurama noticed a tooth was missing.
Kuwabara smiled, and pulled out a tiny plastic cat, "Look what the tooth fairy left me!!" Kuwabara was jumping up and down with excitement. "sis says that when we get more money she'll get us a cat!! Then we can have kittens!!" Kuwabara gave him another hug and ran off.
Kurama watched him run off. He recognized that small toy. Shizuru had gotten it with a meal she was eating. Kurama became painfully aware, that Shizuru didn't have enough money to get Kuwabara proper things, or even spare some for toothfairy money.
Kuwabara had toys and clothes, but the toys were from his parents when they were still living. Shizuru only managed to get him clothes a few times, as well as clothes for himself.
Kurama pursed his lips. He remembered asking Shizuru, in his time, how she could afford to care for Kuwabara and herself with such luxury.
She said, "Having my job helps, but one day there was an accident...we put the man who caused the accident in jail, and managed to get almost 3 million dollars...he was very rich..."
Shizuru had looked Kurama dead in the eyes, "You can almost say that's why my brother isn't as handsome as he should be."
Kurama wasn't sure what she meant, but he did notice scarring on Kuwabara's face around the jaw, temple, nose, eyes, and throat. It was so faint you couldn't see it unless you were standing right next to him.
Kurama looked down the hall which Kuwabara had ran down, and saw him rush into Yusuke's room. A few moments later he heard Yusuke yell, and Kuwabara giggle.
Kurama shook his head, tears filling his eyes, and shoved the necklace in his pocket. It could wait...just a few more days.
Kurama walked into the living room to see Hiei, watching amused as Yusuke chased Kuwabara around, still in his pajamas. Kurama reached out as Kuwabara fell, but Yusuke caught him. Yusuke hugged the boy with relief.
Kurama placed his hands in his pockets and pulled out his wallet. He'd forgotten that was in there...
Kurama leaned down and whispered in Yusuke's ear. Yusuke's eyes lit up and he nodded. Kurama whispered the same thing to Hiei, he frowned but sighed with defeat as Kurama pouted.
"Kuwabara get your coat we're gonna go out."
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Kuwabara squealed when he found himself in a toy store. "Wow!" He bounced up and down, "I haven't been here in a loonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg time!!" Taking Yusuke's hand the he led the group around.
"Kuwabara pick what ever you want, and we'll get it." Kurama said smiling.
"Cool! Thank you Kurama!"
To their surprise he marched towards the video section and pulled out a video. "This is my sisters favorite movie, but her copy got broke..." He held up a tape titled, "Lost Boys." Kurama recognized that tape. Shizuru was often seen watching that movie.
"You want to get her that?" Kurama asked astounded by his selflessness. "Yeah!" Kurama nodded. "Okay...but get something for your self too. You can get more than one too."
Kuwabara bounced up and down, and they found themselves going through the toy store. Hiei found himself enjoying a very gory video game. But stopped playing as Kuwabara watched with wide eyes, and pointed out that the woman on the screen had "two large bumps" on her chest.
The group found them selves having a lot of fun in the store, Kuwabara showing them everything there was.
Kuwabara found two remote control cars he liked so that the group could take turns racing at home. The small boy also bought a giant ball, that was just as tall as him. He laughed when Hiei sat on it, and the ball rolled out from under him causing him to fall.
The last thing Kuwabara got for himself was a stuffed cat. It was a kitten, and bright yellow with green eyes, and pink nose and smile. It was about 12 inches long, and fit nicely in his arms. Kuwabara began to call him his fluffy doll right away.
The group was amused to remember that Shizuru, after the dark tournament had threatened to tell them about his "fluffy doll", for Kuwabara had been making fun of her, and now they knew what it was. (this is true, I got the dvd to prove it, and the download)
He got two more things for his sister, which where in the adult section of the store. A pair of beautiful shoes, he did a good job at picking out. Kurama who only wore size 7's had about the same size foot as Shizuru so Kuwabara would compare the to his feet, which onlookers found amusing, as well as Hiei and Yusuke.
He chose a white pair, with a silver and gold clasp. They would go good with most of her business clothes for one of her jobs as a secretary. He also got her a locket and earring set. The earrings would dangle down from her ears shining gold in the sun, and the necklace had several beautiful blue jewels hanging from the edge.
When this was all done, Shizuru loved her presents, but was upset that they went and spent their money on her and her brother, Kurama just waving it off.
"Hey look." Hiei pointed to Kuwabara who sat in the corner of the couch sleeping, hugging his cat. "Cute." Shizuru laughed, scooping him up, Yusuke following her to place him in bed.
Shizuru blushed looking at him. "Yu...Yusuke-sama?" He jumped a bit at what she called him, but smiled, "Yeah." "If...if it doesn't bother you tell me about Kuwabara...your Kuwabara."
Yusuke looked sadly at her, and led her to the kitchen.
"Kuwabara...he's just like your brother. Copper hair, that he wears gelled up, all curly, and out of control if its not up. Unless you get right in his face you can't tell his eyes are blue, icy blue." Yusuke smiled sadly. "He's got pale skin, and his face isn't much to look at, but something happened to him. We don't know what...he won't say and I don't want to pry."
He laughed, "Though normally I would." Shizuru smiled sadly, though she didn't know him, she felt as if she did know him. Maybe it was because her brother and him had the same name.
"He was a great guy. He believed in honor, more than anyone I ever knew. He was some sort of nut really if you think about it. Once crazy guy...Very crazy! He was slow sometimes, and didn't think things out. But he knew one thing. Those that hurt people, attacked them without any just cause or reason were a disgrace to men.
You don't be respectful to woman, He'd always say that, and never fight them! He believed in not killing, only as a last resort in a fight. Do what you can to just knock them out, don't kill them if you can prevent it.
He was a good guy, my best friend. No one was better. No one could be. No one had his good heart, or had such great honor as him. He was such a good guy. You'd love him if you ever met him. He did what ever he could to make things right. Even if that meant making a jackaXs of him self."
Yusuke's eyes filled with tears and he began to cry. "And...and he died saving our lives, and we don...don't even know where he is anymore." Shizuru put her arms around him. "He's gone...he died saving me...and I doubt he knows how much I care for him...he helped me going through all those tough times..."
"Why was he killed...you told me you had to fight for someone...are you all assassins of some sort?" Yusuke laughed, "No but you could say we're detectives for a higher source."
Shizuru smiled sadly at him, "I see. Yusuke...Kuwabara he's up there now looking down at us. He knew how you felt about him I'm sure..." Yusuke shook his head. "He knew he was my best friend...he just didn't know how much I-I..." Yusuke sobbed again, and Shizuru hugged him.
She let tears fall down her face as well. She could feel his pain as if she could taste it. 'Yusuke...I love you.' She thought miserably. But how to say it?
How could she tell him?
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Preview for next chapter.
Uh-oh! Shizuru has fallen in love with Yusuke, she manages to tell him how will he react? Not only that Yusuke meets his younger self, and Kurama gives him the news about the necklace. But this isn't the worst part of all their problems. Little Kuwabara is-
falls asleep
Kurama: Well...she couldn't just tell you the most important part of the story now could she?
Kuwabara: What's that behind your back?
Kurama: holds up bottle of sleeping pills Well...she needed a little persuasion not to tell the others about the climax.
Kuwabara: TT.TT oh that's creepy.
Yusuke: THE GREAT CONCLUSION IS COMING UP! ONLY TWO MORE CHAPTERS!!
Hiei had followed him, and watched as Yusuke would welcome the small boy with open arms, and curl up to sleep with him.
Now Hiei lay on his "bed" which during the day was called the couch, and starred at the ceiling. He'd been thinking hard on how bad Yusuke was taking this situation. Much worse than himself and Kurama.
That wasn't too surprising, those two where best friends. But what was surprising was that he was mourning more than a friend should...he acted more as if he lost someone he loved...and not in the friendship way either.
Hiei began to realize he may be right. Yusuke could have loved Kuwabara. The two were always close. Closer than he had ever seen. Especially after the dark tournament. Hiei remembered how he had to fight Yusuke to calm him down after Kuwabara was kidnapped.
Now that he really thought about it, he began to notice little signs. Shy touches, soft smile, always gazing at him, and sharply turning away if anyone noticed.
Hiei felt his chest beginning to hurt. He imagined what it'd be like in his shoes. No...if he was Yusuke, and Kuwabara was Kurama...he wouldn't be able to stand it.
Hiei thought hard on this, and the more he thought, he came to another painful conclusion. "Oh no...Kuwabara loved him back..." It was all so painfully clear why hadn't he seen it. "They didn't even know..." Hiei moaned placing his hands on his face. They didn't even know...And now they would never know.
That seemed like a fate worse than anything that had ever happened to them.
Hiei drifted off to sleep, being the first one awake besides Kuwabara. He was helping his sister get ready for work, who was scrambling. Hiei estimated that Shizuru only managed to get 5 hours of sleep a day, maybe less with how much she worked.
"I'll be home soon Kazu-chan." She kissed her brother good-bye, and was off. Hiei watched little Kuwabara shut the door, and felt amused how short this boy was. He was six years old yet he didn't even reach the door knob yet. He was the shortest in hi class, as Shizuru told him.
"How the Hell did he get so tall then?" He asked himself now feeling agitated.
"Mr. Hiei."
The demon looked down to see the small child's face. "Guess what!" Hiei sighed, "What?" Kuwabara smiled proudly, "When I grow up I'm gonna marry 'Usuke!" Hiei acutely fell over, and began to sputter, "Wh-what?!"
Kuwabara smiled innocently, "Hes so sad and he needs someone to take care of him! I can do it! He says I always make him happy!" Hiei sighed at the child's innocence. He of course had no idea yet what he was exactly saying, but still...given the circumstances that Hiei just found out Yusuke and Kuwabara were in love in their time, didn't help.
"What makes you so sure he'd want to marry you?" Hiei asked, eyebrows raised. Kuwabara pouted. "'Cuz I love him Mr. Hiei! Duh!" The boy smiled, and giggled. Hiei was finding it awfully hard to hate him. Kuwabara hugged him around his neck, and marched off determined to go wake up Kurama and Yusuke.
"DamXit...hes so fuXking cute!" Hiei found himself muttering. And then after saying that banged his head on the living room table.
meanwhile
Kurama sat starring at the necklace in his hand. It was working. He was amazed. All he needed to get it back to working again was to offer some of his spirit energy. He was immensely surprised, and felt relieved and horrified that he'd fixed it.
Relieved, because now they could go home, and horrified because they could go home! He wanted to, of course he did. He wanted to see his mother, and step father of course...but...he didn't want to ask Yusuke to leave Kuwabara. He could see it now....Yusuke's sad horrified face.
If they asked him, Kurama was almost certain he would stay. He wouldn't abandon his mother after he'd seen her sob at his death. But again, asking him to return to a place where Kuwabara was no more...seemed an unbearable task. Especially since he didn't want to go himself.
He starred at the artifact and closed his eyes. He saw Kuwabara throwing the necklace screaming, "Take them back to :My: past." Why had Kuwabara said his past? Was it a slip of the tongue? Or was this actually planned out somehow.
Kurama shook his head, none of this made since!!
He turned to open the door when the door opened and a blur of red hair jumped up to hug his waist, feet not touching the floor. "G'morning!! Its time to get up!" Kuwabara smiled at him, and Kurama noticed a tooth was missing.
Kuwabara smiled, and pulled out a tiny plastic cat, "Look what the tooth fairy left me!!" Kuwabara was jumping up and down with excitement. "sis says that when we get more money she'll get us a cat!! Then we can have kittens!!" Kuwabara gave him another hug and ran off.
Kurama watched him run off. He recognized that small toy. Shizuru had gotten it with a meal she was eating. Kurama became painfully aware, that Shizuru didn't have enough money to get Kuwabara proper things, or even spare some for toothfairy money.
Kuwabara had toys and clothes, but the toys were from his parents when they were still living. Shizuru only managed to get him clothes a few times, as well as clothes for himself.
Kurama pursed his lips. He remembered asking Shizuru, in his time, how she could afford to care for Kuwabara and herself with such luxury.
She said, "Having my job helps, but one day there was an accident...we put the man who caused the accident in jail, and managed to get almost 3 million dollars...he was very rich..."
Shizuru had looked Kurama dead in the eyes, "You can almost say that's why my brother isn't as handsome as he should be."
Kurama wasn't sure what she meant, but he did notice scarring on Kuwabara's face around the jaw, temple, nose, eyes, and throat. It was so faint you couldn't see it unless you were standing right next to him.
Kurama looked down the hall which Kuwabara had ran down, and saw him rush into Yusuke's room. A few moments later he heard Yusuke yell, and Kuwabara giggle.
Kurama shook his head, tears filling his eyes, and shoved the necklace in his pocket. It could wait...just a few more days.
Kurama walked into the living room to see Hiei, watching amused as Yusuke chased Kuwabara around, still in his pajamas. Kurama reached out as Kuwabara fell, but Yusuke caught him. Yusuke hugged the boy with relief.
Kurama placed his hands in his pockets and pulled out his wallet. He'd forgotten that was in there...
Kurama leaned down and whispered in Yusuke's ear. Yusuke's eyes lit up and he nodded. Kurama whispered the same thing to Hiei, he frowned but sighed with defeat as Kurama pouted.
"Kuwabara get your coat we're gonna go out."
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Kuwabara squealed when he found himself in a toy store. "Wow!" He bounced up and down, "I haven't been here in a loonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg time!!" Taking Yusuke's hand the he led the group around.
"Kuwabara pick what ever you want, and we'll get it." Kurama said smiling.
"Cool! Thank you Kurama!"
To their surprise he marched towards the video section and pulled out a video. "This is my sisters favorite movie, but her copy got broke..." He held up a tape titled, "Lost Boys." Kurama recognized that tape. Shizuru was often seen watching that movie.
"You want to get her that?" Kurama asked astounded by his selflessness. "Yeah!" Kurama nodded. "Okay...but get something for your self too. You can get more than one too."
Kuwabara bounced up and down, and they found themselves going through the toy store. Hiei found himself enjoying a very gory video game. But stopped playing as Kuwabara watched with wide eyes, and pointed out that the woman on the screen had "two large bumps" on her chest.
The group found them selves having a lot of fun in the store, Kuwabara showing them everything there was.
Kuwabara found two remote control cars he liked so that the group could take turns racing at home. The small boy also bought a giant ball, that was just as tall as him. He laughed when Hiei sat on it, and the ball rolled out from under him causing him to fall.
The last thing Kuwabara got for himself was a stuffed cat. It was a kitten, and bright yellow with green eyes, and pink nose and smile. It was about 12 inches long, and fit nicely in his arms. Kuwabara began to call him his fluffy doll right away.
The group was amused to remember that Shizuru, after the dark tournament had threatened to tell them about his "fluffy doll", for Kuwabara had been making fun of her, and now they knew what it was. (this is true, I got the dvd to prove it, and the download)
He got two more things for his sister, which where in the adult section of the store. A pair of beautiful shoes, he did a good job at picking out. Kurama who only wore size 7's had about the same size foot as Shizuru so Kuwabara would compare the to his feet, which onlookers found amusing, as well as Hiei and Yusuke.
He chose a white pair, with a silver and gold clasp. They would go good with most of her business clothes for one of her jobs as a secretary. He also got her a locket and earring set. The earrings would dangle down from her ears shining gold in the sun, and the necklace had several beautiful blue jewels hanging from the edge.
When this was all done, Shizuru loved her presents, but was upset that they went and spent their money on her and her brother, Kurama just waving it off.
"Hey look." Hiei pointed to Kuwabara who sat in the corner of the couch sleeping, hugging his cat. "Cute." Shizuru laughed, scooping him up, Yusuke following her to place him in bed.
Shizuru blushed looking at him. "Yu...Yusuke-sama?" He jumped a bit at what she called him, but smiled, "Yeah." "If...if it doesn't bother you tell me about Kuwabara...your Kuwabara."
Yusuke looked sadly at her, and led her to the kitchen.
"Kuwabara...he's just like your brother. Copper hair, that he wears gelled up, all curly, and out of control if its not up. Unless you get right in his face you can't tell his eyes are blue, icy blue." Yusuke smiled sadly. "He's got pale skin, and his face isn't much to look at, but something happened to him. We don't know what...he won't say and I don't want to pry."
He laughed, "Though normally I would." Shizuru smiled sadly, though she didn't know him, she felt as if she did know him. Maybe it was because her brother and him had the same name.
"He was a great guy. He believed in honor, more than anyone I ever knew. He was some sort of nut really if you think about it. Once crazy guy...Very crazy! He was slow sometimes, and didn't think things out. But he knew one thing. Those that hurt people, attacked them without any just cause or reason were a disgrace to men.
You don't be respectful to woman, He'd always say that, and never fight them! He believed in not killing, only as a last resort in a fight. Do what you can to just knock them out, don't kill them if you can prevent it.
He was a good guy, my best friend. No one was better. No one could be. No one had his good heart, or had such great honor as him. He was such a good guy. You'd love him if you ever met him. He did what ever he could to make things right. Even if that meant making a jackaXs of him self."
Yusuke's eyes filled with tears and he began to cry. "And...and he died saving our lives, and we don...don't even know where he is anymore." Shizuru put her arms around him. "He's gone...he died saving me...and I doubt he knows how much I care for him...he helped me going through all those tough times..."
"Why was he killed...you told me you had to fight for someone...are you all assassins of some sort?" Yusuke laughed, "No but you could say we're detectives for a higher source."
Shizuru smiled sadly at him, "I see. Yusuke...Kuwabara he's up there now looking down at us. He knew how you felt about him I'm sure..." Yusuke shook his head. "He knew he was my best friend...he just didn't know how much I-I..." Yusuke sobbed again, and Shizuru hugged him.
She let tears fall down her face as well. She could feel his pain as if she could taste it. 'Yusuke...I love you.' She thought miserably. But how to say it?
How could she tell him?
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Preview for next chapter.
Uh-oh! Shizuru has fallen in love with Yusuke, she manages to tell him how will he react? Not only that Yusuke meets his younger self, and Kurama gives him the news about the necklace. But this isn't the worst part of all their problems. Little Kuwabara is-
falls asleep
Kurama: Well...she couldn't just tell you the most important part of the story now could she?
Kuwabara: What's that behind your back?
Kurama: holds up bottle of sleeping pills Well...she needed a little persuasion not to tell the others about the climax.
Kuwabara: TT.TT oh that's creepy.
Yusuke: THE GREAT CONCLUSION IS COMING UP! ONLY TWO MORE CHAPTERS!!