Too late to go back
A/n – I WILL post this chapter!! HURRAY! It took me WAY too long! So much has been going on! sorry!! Well, this story IS coming to a close, and the next one will be much shorter compared to this one, so, enjoy! (I hope.)
Yusuke, bored out of his mind from the fight with Toguro, made a final attempt to punch him in the face. To his luck, he made a direct hit. (hurray!) Sadly, in the process, he got a kick in the stomach. (BOO!!! GR! DIE!)
"…Yusuke. I'm sick and tired of this. I know that you're strong enough, but you're holding back. In you're life, you're going to face greater opponents than me. I think of you like a son, or at my age, a grandson. So I'm going to teach you a lesson."
"Wow, that's really touching! It's so cute that you think that I need a figure in my life! My mom's a drunk, I have no other family and my dad's a no-show! I've grown up alone! All the lessons that I ever needed to know in my life I'll learn by myself, or Genkai would have taught me! But no! You had to go and murder her! You don't care about me, and you didn't care about her! You're an emotionless beast, and I'll take you out, no matter what!" Yusuke screamed with such rage that it rattled his own bones.
There was a moment of silence.
"You are, without a doubt, right. That's why, I chose you to kill me. Your heart would avenge the one you loved. But I did care for her. It hurt me that she left me after I changed into- this- this- THING! But I do accept that it was my fault. It should have never come to what it did. But I promise you, with every last fiber of my being, that I will bring her back. I'll bring her back to you, and to all those that still need her guidance. And I hope that you won't make the same mistakes that I have. Yusuke, use your rage to your advantage, channel it, focus it all in your spirit gun and fire it at me. Devote yourself to something and protect it with all that you have, don't hold back, if you do, all that you have once loved will be gone forever… don't lose what you have like I did. Don't take the bad in your life and try to get back at it, just protect what you have left…"
Toguro's word dwindled into nothingness. Yusuke stood there for a moment. Was he for real? Did he really want to die that badly?
"Don't you think you should be taking your own advice? Look at what you're doing, instead of protecting what you have left, you choose the easy way out."
"It's true, but however, once I lost one thing dear to me, I start to devote myself to the wrong things. Now all that I ever held dear is gone, so in order to protect them and all that anyone has left, I must do this."
"You're a horrible creature, you have no respect for anything. But you do have moral, and for that, I'll do what you ask. Hold still, this will hurt.pause a lot."
Closing his eyes, he concentrated on all the things that meant even a speck to him. His mom, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, Keiko, Botan, Shizuru, Yukina, his country, his religion, (HA HA! Yusuke going to a church!? I would so pay a ton of money to see that! Oh well.) all the people he had been protecting, even Takenaka! He thought, and pondered what would happen if all the sudden, he lost it all… that it was all gone. But than he realized that he didn't deal with what if's. he dealt with what is. And what is, is that if he didn't win, he would let everyone down, everyone and everything, especially himself. He would be leaving Keiko to the psycho and that didn't sit to well with him… so he had only one option. To let it all go.
"SPIRIT GUN!" He yelled as a brilliant blue light shout out of his index finger. It smashed into Toguro's heart and through, going on for all that the light could see…
"-My mom's a drunk, I have no other family and my dad's a no-show! I've grown up alone! All the lessons that I ever needed to know in my life I'll learn by myself, or Genkai would have taught me! But no! You had to go and murder her! You don't care about me, and you didn't care about her! You're an emotionless beast, and I'll take you out, no matter what!"
'I'm sorry I was never there to teach you these things Yusuke, I'm sorry that I left you for the reasons that I did. And I'll make it right, even if it kills me.'
Toguro fell to the ground. Dead. It was over, it was finally over. At least, it seemed.
Keiko woke up right in time to see the final act.
"Well, he did it." A crackling voice called out. Keiko looked over to see the elder of the two brothers watching the whole thing from a monitor in the room.
Keiko smiled and jumped up to see if it was true. And it was. She watched the very end, Koto and Jury declaring the winner of the climactic battle. Keiko glanced to see Toguro watching intensely.
"I was sure that you would have killed me by now." She said quietly.
"I wanted to. But you have a stronger force on your side." He said, not turning his gaze away from the screen.
"You mean Yusuke and the others?" She questioned.
"No. The boy's father of coarse."
"…Whose father?"
"Who do you think?" He hissed.
"Uriameshi's!" He growled.
"You must be mistaken, Yusuke doesn't have a father." She said, she wasn't sure if that was true or not, but after all the years he had known him, she had never seen him and not Atsuko or Yusuke ever mentioned him. The subject was taboo.
"Shut up girl! He does. And I find it quite sad that you don't realize it's him… it's actually very amusing…"
"You mean to say that I actually know him? That's impossible, Yusuke doesn't even know him!"
"Of coarse he does! And like a true father son relationship, they don't seem to get along all to well."
"What are you talking about?"
"Keiko!" a new voice called. They both turned to see Shizuru, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, and Yukina.
"Are you harmed?" Kurama asked, setting down Shizuru, who he was carrying bridal style for some reason… and taking out his rose whip.
"No. Not at all." She replied, turning her attention to Toguro again.
"Keiko! We've been looking everywhere for you!" Koenma yelled as he and Botan flew in together.
"Shizuru! What happened to you?" Botan questioned.
"Oh, we ran into a few guards and ya know, there was a little fist fight and I tripped and sprained my ankle, that's when they found us." She said motioning to the guys.
"Come on! Let's go already and join Uriameshi!" Kuwabara shouted.
"Yes, I agree with the fool." Hiei said.
"Let's go."
Keiko motioned them to hold on for a moment.
"Who is Yusuke's father?" She asked sternly. That got all everyone's attention.
"The boy's father? Simple. It's-"
Sayko stepped up to Yusuke as he was about to go look for Keiko.
"Well done Yusuke. I always knew you could do it."
"Get away from me." He growled.
"I know you know where Keiko is so tell me before I kill you!" He threatened.
"You're friends are getting her, so why don't we talk for a while?"
"Why the heck should I talk with you?"
"I heard your speech back there, very touching. It really hit home, ya know?"
"No, I don't know."
"Yusuke, let me show you my family." He said as he reached into his pocket to get out his brown leather wallet.
"Ha! You have a family? Who would be crazy enough to marry you? And really I could care less about your family. You're wasting my time, so bye old man." He said as he turned around to the entrance where the whole gang was running, he could barely see them, but he could tell that Keiko's outfit was torn and ripped and blood was visible. He picked up his legs, ready to run when a firm, tight grip grasped his arm. Turning around, ready to clobber anyone who dared touch him now, his eyes met Sayko's.
"You have already said that you cared, remember it was in your little speech!" He hissed as he shoved the open wallet in Yusuke's face.
Yusuke, whose eyes screamed let me go or die, widened in shock. It was a picture of a woman, who was holding a tiny body in a blanket. She was smiling, and a man who was smiling as he was kissing her forehead. His arm was wrapped around her shoulder, and they seemed like the perfect family, the background look classy and sophisticated. There was question about who was in the blanket, but there was no doubt that the man was Sayko, and the woman, was Atsuko. Yusuke's mother. Yusuke snatched the wallet and flipped the picture over. On the back, it read, 'Sakyo, Atsuko, and baby Yusuke at Kewanamie resort; one month after Yusuke's birth.'
"I've been waiting a long time for this, son." Sayko whispered in his ear as he pulled him into a tight hug.
A/n- whoa! Who saw that coming? Anyone? If you review me, I will love you forever!!! It only takes a few minutes right? Spread the love by reviewing me!!