Where it all Started - 15
Author: The Freak - Freak Moister
Warnings: This story contains yaoi PG - 13 for now.
AN: I'm sad no one reads my story. Oh well, I'll just keep writing.
"What makes you think that something is wrong?" Kuwabara retorted indigently, swinging around to look out the kitchen window and continued to bit his apple.
"Well for starters if you didn't have a problem you would have ate all the left-over in the fridge regardless of whether you've eaten anything before and..."
"Hey can't I diet or something!?" the boy answered back and immediately realized how stupid that answer was. Turning beat red the orange head turned away and sulked.
"You?! Diet?! Ha! I'd sooner see pigs fly. Now come on tell your onee-chan what's wrong." Shizuru coax and pulled over a chair for herself. "Come on Kuwa, I haven't got all day."
"Aww, come on sis I don't have a problem..." Kuwabara wined and looked pleadingly at his sister.
"Yeah and I'm a cows' sster. Come on I'll bet you five dinner duties that there's a problem."
"How can you be so sure, I mean I could be acting you know."
"Don't be stupid Kuwa, you wouldn't knoew how to act even if your life depended on it. Now spill."
Kuwabara of course had a deajavu when Shizuru said 'spill', she sounded too much like Botan that afternoon interrogating them about their social life. "Okay okay, so I do."
Shizuru waited patiently for Kuwabara to continue, when he made it clear that he was not going to say more, Shizuru slapped his head, "Alright so it's something about Yukina-san right?"
Kuwabara grudgingly nodded.
"You made a fool of your self again?"
Shake head.
"You ruined her cooking?"
Shake head.
"You stepped on her flowers again?"
Shake head.
Shizuru frowned,what could be the problem this time? Kuwa's too dumb to even think of new problems... The other option for a problem with Yukina-cahn is interference from Hiei, but that's not the case this time as if it was, Kuwabara would most likely come home complaining at the top his his lungs. "Say something Kuwa!" she sighed rapping the top of the boy's head.
"You think I'd stand a chance nee-chan." Kuwabara asked forlornly.
"Stand a chance at what?"
"You know with Yukina-chan. I mean I know I'm not smart or nice looking or anything but I really like her!" The boy looked up at his sister before sighing and slumping back down, "I wish Botan never made tht bet."
"A bet?" Shizuru's interest quirked up. If anything this young lady loved a bet, and enjoyed winning them. "Go on..." Kuwabara glanced at his siter before he slowly relayed what happened at the ramen shop to his sister.
"Ha! I knew it! That damned fox thinks he can hid everything well I showed him!" Kuwabara watched as his sister did the "I the great empathic lord" rant. "Well now that wasn't so hard was it Kuwa?"
"Ya what ever you say sis." the reply wad dry and flat.
"Now it's pretty clear to me that you're definitely going to loose this bet without help. You're going to need help and lots of it and more specifically my help." Walking towards the fridge Shizuru took a paper pad and snatched a pen from the kitchen bar stand before returning to the dinning table where Kuwabara sat slumped watching her with his beadya black eyes. Said eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Now we agree on the fact that you need help right?"
Kuwabara nodded carefully.
"Well I'm going to offer you my help, but... at a price."
Kuwabara sat up and scrutinized his older sister. As dumb as Kuwavara is he knows it when his sister is up to something. He'd been living with her for long enough to know that. "What price?"
"Two weeks dinner duty and chores."
"No way!"
"Yes way! You don't really want to pay for four people for dinner at an expensive French restaurant do you?"
"What makes you think that I can't go a date with Yukina-chan and not make my self look stupid?"
"The fact that you've been trying for the last three years and failed. Also your competition is Kurama and Yusuke."
"..."
Kuwabara opened and closed his mouth but coudn't find a response to that very true statement. Kurama was the charming prince of the area. In Kuwabara's mind you'd have to be as blind as Hiei to not notice. As for Yusuke and Keiko, they were already if not officially engaged. It was just a matter in formality. The boy groaned and buried his head in his hands. Life was s unfair, why cound't he have a better sister, like one that would do things for him without demanding a payback.
"So do we agree on two weeks of dinner duty and chores for me to help you win this bet?" Shizuru asked voice dripping with suppressed glee as she prepared the writing pad. "If so then I'll write the terms and you can sign them."
"..."
"I'll take that as a yes then." Shizuru smiled and began to scribble out the contract. It was quite a usual thing to see Shizuru and Kuwabara write such contract to each other. It was more of keeping with tradition than it actually something to make sure the other kept up their end of the bargain. Note finished Shizuru tore off the section and Kuwabara signed without bother to look at the writing, it'll only depress him more. Shizuru happily stood up and stuck it to the fridge with a magnet.
"Well I guess you should start noew brother dear of mine. I'll be nice and mek this the first day." Shizuru smiled and headed out to the living room and back to her TV. Shouting over her back Shizuru said, "If you need me I'm watching TV."
Kuwabara groaned and headed towards the cupboards.
Yusuke strolled downed the footpath not really bothering to direct where they were leading him. He was still rather shocked at what happened that afternoon and hadn't really digested what had happened yet. However the stroll was helping. Stopping at a crossing to wait for a car to pass, Yusuke looked up and realized that he was standing across the street from Keiko's house. A large tree and street stood between him and the side of the girl's house. Just as Yusuke was about to cross the street the front gate of the Yukimura house opened and a boy and Keiko came out.
Yusuke seeing this quickly pasted himself to the tree trunk and stuck his hed out to see. Keiko stood just outside the gates and the boy stood before her. She seemed to be seeing the boy off. Yusuke watched as the boy said a few words to Keiko who replied and they both laughed. The boy was about Yusuke's age and Yusuke realized with a start that he was from his school. Sarayashiki was the only senior high around that had an indigo uniform. Yusuke looked closer and found the boy to have spiked short black hair a rathe rplain looking face but one you wouldn't lable studious and is rather bulkily built.
Yusuke watched as they bowed to each other and they boy walked down the street towards Yusuke's right. As soon as the boy was out of sight Yusuke raced across the street and caught Keiko before she could close the gate.
"Keiko!"
"What."
"Um... about this afternoon I'm really sorry. I really didnt' mean it."
"I know your sorry Yusuke. But that doesn't mean you'll not do it again." Keiko hushed Yusuke as he was about to say something, "I know Yusuke but you just have to make yourself more responsible, it not good enough that you'll try. I knoew you will but... until you can do it I don't see how we'll get the approval of my parents."
"I can do it but I need your help, I need to know that you'll help me." Yusuke looked up with hope.
Keiko sighed, she knew that Yusuke was a good person, a bit lazy and careless but nonetheless he's good at heart and always wished the boest for people. "I am helping you."
Yusuke smiled, "Does that mean you forgive me for this afternoon."
"Yes and no." Keiko answered, "Yusuke this is not a joke..."
"Oh that's okay then hehe..., um.. who was that guy?"
Keiko looked at Yusuke, she was annoyed at him, even at a time like this he wouldn't address the probelm properly. "That was Kamada Kenji-san." Keiko replied not very pleased with Yusuke.
"What was he doing here?"
"Yusuke are you investigating me?" Keiko snapped. "If you really want to know he was returning my book, which which he borrow yesterday to study." Keiko turned and headed back behind the gates. "I have to go in now."
"Is that all he was doing? Hey Keiko!" Yusuke shouted as Keiko closed the gate in his face. "I'm just asking, I mean he's not one of the good boys, I'd bet he's part of a gang..."
Keiko sighed she really didn't like the attitude that Yusuke was taking now. She had made up her mind that if Yusuke didn't change for the better she would not hang around with him anylonger. Sure he loved her and would probably do anything and everything for her except become more responsible. Living in the real world required more than just good fighting skills.
"Well your not much different are you." She shot back and entered the house.
Yusuke stood outside the gates and stared at the retreating figure of Keiko he really didn't know what to do. Sighing he turned, stuck his hands deep in his uniform pockets and headed home kicking every pebble he came across.
AN: I seemed to have forgoten how this story is going to progress from here on... However I believe I may be able to findout when I find the story board...
end chapter 15