"Wakey-wakey knucklehead! We're here to see if you're really alive or not."

Kuwabara groaned and tried to roll over, then hissed in pain and opened his eyes slowly to look directly into the face of his best friend, who's brown eyes were blinking with amusement.

"Hey look! The old lady was right! How's it goin Kuwa?"

"Urameshi…?"

"Hello Kuwabara, you're looking a lot better. The color is beginning to return in your cheeks."

"Oh, hey Kurama."

"So are ya feelin better?" Kuwabara grunted as Yusuke plopped down beside him on the bed, poking at his curls as they fell onto the pillow. "I didn't know your hair was so long man! You must really grease that stuff up."

"I'm alright…kinda tired."

"That's what Master Genkai told us. It's completely natural to be fatigued. You're still healing after all," the Kitsune replied, stepping up closer to the bed now that the Spirit Detective was out of the way.

"So who's the guy who whacked ya Kuwa? Anybody we know?"

"I…I don't know."

Both visitors blinked. "What?"

Kuwabara felt a blush curling up into his cheeks and he looked off into the other direction. "Well…I-I was kind of distracted is all."

They both knew who was with him when he was attacked, and it didn't take either of them that long to figure out what could've diverted the nigen's attention.

"Ohhhh…you mean you and Yukina were-"

"Iie! We weren't doin anything!"

Kurama chuckled softly to himself and ran one of his slender hands through his hair, leaning back against the wall. "Then what was keeping you sidetracked?" He just couldn't resist.

"I uh…err…w-we were just-"

"Just getting it on, right?"

"No! She just kissed my cheek, that's it!"

"Eh-heh, right."

Kuwabara growled and tried to jump off of the bed to strangle his friend, but only made it to a half sitting up stance and then fell back onto the bed, panting. "Shut up Urameshi…don't you talk about her like that."

"Alright, sheesh! I was just kidding around," Yusuke countered, lifting his hands defensively. He then smiled and clapped his buddy on the shoulder. "It's good that you're doin alright man. We were starting to get worried. You got a big ass scratch on your gut y'know."

"Yes it was very deep. Yukina didn't even have enough energy to heal you fully. She needed both Master Genkai and myself to help."

"Really? That bad huh…?"

"Yep, you were almost cut in half! I mean it was like a big razorblade just came down and- oomph!" Yusuke grunted and doubled-over after Kurama elbowed him harshly in the neck, knocking him off of the bed and back onto the floor where he sat there twitching for a moment before he got back up. "Okay, sorry…Just getter better soon alright Kuwa? Kurama and me need to jet. You're supposed to be sleeping anyway."

"Um, alright…thanks."

"No problem."

"If you need any assistance Kuwabara, feel free to call and we'll see if I can put together any pain relief mixtures for you."

"Okay."

Nodding to them both Kuwabara smiled weakly and watched them go to the door.

"Hey, and don't go looking through Yukina's room klutz. Just lay there and be a good boy."

"Ha, very funny Urameshi…Ja guys."

"Ja ne."

After the two had left the tall nigen let out another long sigh. They woke him up in the middle of a perfectly good dream. But now he couldn't remember it.

"Great…"