Sunset on Paper
By Keo Siph; part one of Sun on Sword on Stone
All Yu Yu Hakusho characters are owned by Togashi Yoshihiro/Sheisha, Fuji TV, Pierrot, and FUNimation.
So, here I am.
Three friends stood around a boy whose body was young and yet aged beyond its years. A small folded something was on the ground, part in the blood, part out. For once, it was the brashest on the ground, nor the most wanted, nor the clumsiest and most devoted. No.
If you're reading this… Well, you know. The usual. I'm having tea and sake with Koenma.
Hiei bent and carefully extracted it from the carnage. They opened and started reading.
Leave a message after the beep, okay?
Koenma wasn't there. Keiko was at home, making dinner. Yukina was at Genkai's. The demons were dead.
Yeah, well. This is my list, anyways. You read, you die.
Kuwabara was still in shock as he opened the rest of the paper as Hiei held the corner. No one moved after that.
Eat a hundred bowls of ramen. Bring Kuwa. Oh, and Hiei to make sure he's not anorexic.
Kiss Yukina to make Kuwa jealous enough to propose, because he's to cowardly to do otherwise.
Learn to skateboard. Make sure you blow it in Kuwa's and Kura's faces.
Skateboard into Koenma's castle, get scuff marks everywhere!
Write a book so Genkai can quit yelling at me. Not that it's going to be published.
Kuwabara was stifling sobs.
Challenge Shishiwakamaru to a sword match.
Correction, learn how to use a sword.
Tell Botan how beautiful she is. Once. Just for saving my… you know.
Tears fell from a million miles up. The paddle finally knew water, and the ferry girl tasted salt of the ocean she yearned for. Anywhere but here. Anything but this.
Buy Spaghetti Girl clothes, the Nurse Lady or whatever. Then, set her and Hiei up.
Run very very fast in the opposite direction.
Tell… What was I going to say? Don't know. Figures.
Grab everyone for dinner in a nice restaurant, and expect a bill for more than food.
Decide on honeymoon island. Cause, we're NOT staying on the mainland.
Get Kurama in black. Freak his parent out. I'm sure the step-dad will take that well.
Help Kurama fight off ensuing fan club.
Try not to step on step-brother.
Challenge Kurama to something. Don't know what, but he's not competitive enough.
Battle Karaoke style! But, not with Kurama. I'd lose.
Kurama clutched his throat.
Tell her… What?! WHAT WAS I GOING TO SAY?
Fight all the oldies again. Jin, Touya, Bui, Hiei, Kuwa, Shishi. Not in that order.
Beat someone to their own birthday candles. Guard mine vigorously.
Learn to cook. Do not self-taste-test.
Train with Yukina. Hopefully, not turn into an ice cube.
Yusuke on ice, please!
Remember to walk off the next thing you have on the rocks.
Start a concert! Sing in front of everyone!
Revision: Start a band.
Visit Jin and Touya on their next visit to the hospital/vet.
Visit EVERYONE at the vet, since no one's allowed at the hospital anymore.
… would Sensui have been allowed in the hospital?
I know! Visit everyone at Koenma's jail!
Hiei carefully flipped the page as Kuwabara was choking himself.
Date around before tying the knot. Otherwise would be boring.
Botan restrained herself from throwing the oar at the dead boy.
Learn CPR and practice on Keiko. Good excuse, ne?
Kurama snickered, but bit his tongue viscously.
Go goth. .
Go saint. .;
Ride a few rollercoasters.
Find a few rollercoasters. Yeah, that's better.
Get Hiei on one and watch him scream. Make sure I'm not behind him, just in case.
Tell… REMEMBER WHAT THE I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY AND TO WHOM!
Go to everyone's wedding. Yes, this sadly involves not going suicidal.
Have a few kids. A boy and a girl. After marriage. Keiko would butcher me otherwise.
Say I respect Koenma to his face once with a straight face and crack when he has a heartattack.
Write a song that doesn't involve an electric guitar. Piano, though...
Hiei held the paper as Kuwabara flipped the page.
Figure out Karasu's mental health issue. Treat accordingly.
Buy Suzuka a therapist. Or psychologist. Or physiatrist… -- Figure it out, first.
Treat Botan to dinner. Once. Just to tick everyone off.
Set her and Kurama up.
Pacify Pacifier Breath with a date with Shizuru.
Tell…oh! Just forget it! Or ruin it! Or burn them!
D) All of the above!
Too many tests for me…
Decide whether Hiei is a pyro or a pyromaniac with belated tendencies.
Play at the park. Just to be nostalgic. And see Keiko in a wet shirt after using the hose.
Play with everyone's kids and grandkids. After marriage, hopefully. . No Suicide Involved.
Live until the day I'm sure I'll have grandkids, then kick the bucket. To heck with babysitting.
Get Kuwa drunk. And Kura, and Hiei (after the whole sister thing), Koenma, Botan, Keiko…
Drink Sake. That'll be interesting! I wonder if I can get drunk.
Tell Keiko I still like her.
Death at the hands of the humans that had loved him, in order to rid themselves of their anguish.
Keiko sat in her living room, two small girls running around in circles trailing yellow and blue and red and pink ribbon. He had left for a year, on a single mission, unknowing that she had his kids. They were married, after all.
Hiei resisted the urge to crumple the paper only by Kurama's force. He was prying the papers from his shorter friends fingers as Kuwabara shook with shock. Kurama pulled back and the fingers crunched together like a landslide as a blue and pink blur grounded herself in Kurama's arms as she wept. She couldn't take his soul now.
The first of the two smiled at her, only two weeks old and still she was already walking. Both had full heads of hair, though they differed drastically.
The youngest by quite a few minutes, with deep blue eyes and her father's short, crisp midnight. She was faster on her feet, but more tentative. She surveyed a scene for a child's eternity before taking action.
The oldest rushed in and made decisions in a flash, though usually decidedly wrong. Brown eyes soaked the candle light and lamp light in like cake to liquid chocolate, burning a disastrous amber. Framed in sun-tinted white, they met her mother's eyes suddenly with crimson striking outwards from their heart. Her sister looked up too, in unison, eyes a pure gray. Neither said anything, made no movement.
This was Mrs. Urameshi's decision.
Kuwabara was the first to move, dragging the couple from the scene and towards the streets where they might return home. The somewhat level-headed Koenma had left a portal in their wake. For a moment Hiei remained, then rushed ahead to their exit, finding the sober Jr. God. Flame met astonishingly sturdy oak.
"Kurama. Kuwabara. They would know!" She rushed to a communicator left by Botan on her last visit.
Before words could spring, Botan started buzzing, and not in her usual manner. Kurama shook his head and reached into her pouch to retrieve the noise-producing device. With a flip and his first glance of the face, he knew he was in trouble.
Hinageshi and Yusuke shared an oar to watch the Tentei proceed to the portal, telling Keiko that they would arrive shortly.