Where it all Started

Author: The Freak - Freak Moister
Warnings: This story contains yaoi PG - 13 for now.
Disclaimer: All Yu Yu Hakusho characters belong to Yoshihiro Togashi
Also the throne name "Dragon Throne" and territory name "Alaric" belongs to Mina Lightstar
Summary: All great journeys begin with the first step; well here it is my first step in this hopefully interesting expanded series of YYH. See it as YYH book 3 if you want. As the three worlds settle down for a long time in several hundreds of years, new mysterious happenings around the Makai bring about unrest in the Reikai and Makai. Is this just another ambitious lord who wishes the impossible or something more sinister that no one has yet suspect. As the dark menace slowly spreads it's cruel fingers and the people of the three worlds slowly being lured into its grasp can anyone stop it's unrelenting stride or will the darkness once again spread it's poison into the hard won peace.

At that Yusuke seemed to sober and stuttered an answer with more errs and ums than story. Finally giving up, the boy slumped again, "Okay, so she sorta dumped me, but I mean she didn't say she'll blow it you know."

Kurama nodded sympathetically while Botan looked on with interest shinning in her eyes, an idea had just formed in her head and it needed just a few more inspirations to bring it fully to life, said inspiration will hopefully come from her unfortunate friends. Kurama patted his comrade and said, "So tell me what happened?"

"I don't know where to start…"

Kuwabara grinned he liked that question. The first time he saw it was in a book, which he can't remember the name of and wasted no time in supplying the traditional answer, "Ya know the beginning is always a good place."

Yusuke leveled the orange head with a glare that said: That is so original isn't it? Botan stepped in, "It's the cliché because it's true. Now talk!"

So after much urging and threatening and prodding the youth spilled the story of his event full afternoon, eliciting a laugh from the seated when they told of the customers sneaking away when they found Yusuke asleep at the counter. With the story told the raven head boy felt much better, in fact good enough to exact revenge for the telling of such an embarrassing story.

"Okay my turn is over now it's your turn dumbass, now spill"

"Hey I got nothing to spill!"

"Oh yeah, you want me to pound it outta you!"

After a few further comments such as these and Kuwanbara's told the rapt audience of his latest visit to Genkai's temple. That had been this afternoon, when Kuwabara cut the last two classes to make time for his angle. The meeting had gone well at the start, the ice demoness, being the kind lady she was warmly invited her friend inside. Kuwabara had even managed to pick some flowers on the way up the mountain for her vase.

After several minutes of chatting Yukina had proposed a drink of hot tea, naturally Kuwabara chose to help. However though the big boy has no problem swinging his spirit sword during battle, while off the battlefield he was actually a real big klutz. The rest of the story was rather predictable, the tea was spilt and Kuwabara burned himself in the process, made a bigger mess in the process of yelling 'ouch'. Now a boy with as much dignity as Kuwabara Kazuma could not stand such embarrassment so he had left as soon as the mess was cleaned up and was still nursing the slight burn just before Kurama showed up.

With the story finished, Yusuke mercilessly laughed and told Kuwabara that he had thought that was one of his smallest screw ups when faced with the petite Koorime.

Kuwabara didn't seem very pleased with this comment but couldn't disagree either. By now Botan was nearly bursting with her thought but it still needed one last push, eyeing Kurama she realized that the kitsune have yet to get a girlfriend. He didn't even seem to have the slightest interest in any girl. Mmm…time for your story my sly friend…

"Well now since both Kuwa-chan and Yusuke have been thoroughly embarrassed I think it's your turn."

"But Kurama doesn't have a girlfriend." Went Kuwabara, and all Kurama could think of then was Kuwabara and his big mouth.

"Hey what about all those girls from my school?" Yusuke asked.

Kurama suddenly glared at Yusuke, how did he know about that? A few months ago Kurama had received an average of 10 calls a day for about two weeks from girls attending Sarayashiki High. It had been two sleepless weeks as some of the girls had become desperate; some of them threatened suicide if Suiichi didn't become their boyfriend while others became stalkers. Now that was very strange because Kurama, self conscious of his own popularity had kept his phone number a close guarded secret. No one outside his immediate family and close friends know it and they've all swore to not tell anyone in preventing something like that from happening. But it did, now Kurama had the creeping suspicion it was Yusuke.

"How did you know about that?" the voice was perfectly murderous.

Yusuke had the grace to look guilty, I really should engage my brain before moving my mouth… of course it was too late to engage his brain now.

"Were you the one who told them my phone number?"

Yusuke gulped. "Um…" Kurama glared harder, "Um… they were willing to pay."

Kurama's eyelid on the right side twitched, "Continue." Kurama folded his arms.

"Well it was close to Keiko's birthday and I you know as usual don't have any money so…when those girls said that they'd do anything to get your phone number I offered." The raven-haired boy dared a look at the kitsune and continued with his confession.

"At that time I know Keiko had her eyes on one of those text book things so I thought if I had bought it as her birthday present she'll be really happy. So I did. Man you should have seen the storeowner when I showed up, it was so funny, he thought I was going to burn his shop or something. It was even funnier when I bought the book though." Yusuke was grinning at the thought.

"Yeah I'd bet the storeowner pinched himself and wondered whether he was having a nightmare." Kuwabara added.

"Well anyway I gave the book to Keiko and she told me that I got the wrong book, but it was sweet that I'd even try to remember something that's in relation to a school text book." Everyone at the table laughed.