Title: Family Problem
Chapter: 4
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha

Questions:

Is Yusuke a Toushin in this fic?
This one is a definite one I want to answer. There have not been any canon missions, from the series, since the DT. So the answer? Nope. Not yet anyway.

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Chapter 4 - "They need a talk. Or at least to scream at each other a bit."

It had been about one week since the boys had followed Kagome home, and Kurama had finally found time to have a real talk with Keiko. He should have had it earlier after the little get together at Kagome's house, but when that had ended badly with Touya and Yusuke actually fighting, Kurama had been busy trying to calm all the assorted parties down, especially his cousin.

It was earlier in the day than most people would have thought to be an appropriate time to talk. In fact, most people didn't have talks at eight o'clock in the morning, most of them slept. But neither Kurama nor Keiko was particularly slothful and Kurama had invited Keiko to a more obscure part of a nearby park when they'd bumped into each other as they wandered around the early mornings streets.

"I suppose this is about... Well... everything that's happened since your cousin appeared." Keiko said before he could even open his mouth. She seemed a bit bitter towards Kagome, but not nearly as much as he would have expected.

"Actually I was going to more focus on the us aspect than everything else, but if you want to talk about everything..." Kurama trailed off and let Keiko begin.

"Oh. Well, it's just... I don't know what to think. I was always so stuck on that me and Yusuke would be together, that when I did start liking you, I just shoved it off as a silly crush since Yusuke and I... We were supposed to be the perfect couple! The one that knows each other, grows up together and gets married! What happened to that?" Keiko stopped then continued after a beat. "Don't answer that. I can't even blame it on Kagome because as admiring of her as he'd been I'd been looking at you. We took each other for granted and I didn't even see the line that tied us together being strained until your cousin cut it with a kiss. I didn't even ever kiss him! She kissed him before I did! But... Was it wrong of me to be slightly glad that it had been them who'd done it and not me? To feel relief? What kind of person am I Kurama?" Keiko was beginning to cry again and despite the pain he felt at some of her words he pulled her against him, arranging it so they were sitting with her back to his front with his legs on either side as he put his arms around her soothingly.

"A normal one. No one ever wants to be the one to be the one to end something even when they want it to end. Did you?" Kurama had to ask; he didn't want this just to be her turning to the closest boy for comfort.

"I did. Deep down, I sort of did. I can't really blame Yusuke or myself because..." Keiko hesitated but was confused when he chuckled. He could feel his relief like it was a real handheld object.

"Because Kagome took care of it for both of you." Kurama said. "I have to ask you a question Keiko. Was it selfish of me to be glad my cousin did what she so that I had the opportunity to be with you?"

Keiko was silent before turning in his arms and staring into his emerald green eyes with her own shining brown ones. "Only if it's wrong of me to think the same thing sometimes."

Kurama's smile held more relief that Keiko had ever thought to see on his face. He was always confident of himself, yet she had put him off balance? She smiled and laid her head against his chest, only to have her face gently pulled away and to see the sweetest smile on the kitsune's face before he tilted his head slightly and leaned his head towards hers.

It wasn't like the distraction that he had used as an excuse to kiss her. That had been more spur of the moment, less meaningful, and quicker. There had been less passion and more surprise in both of them. This time Kurama was quick to tilt her head back and allow the kiss to deepen. Anyone catching them would have seen two teenagers making out, just like any other couple. For once normal and without any friends or distractions to interrupt them.

Of course, the plants wouldn't allow anyone to interrupt them anyway. One of them wasn't as normal as they were pretending to be after all.

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It was nine o'clock when Keiko and Kurama climbed the steps to Genkai's shrine, hand in hand as they reached the top. They went inside and were met with the most astonishing sight. It was something they would have thought would have been impossible, an abomination for how the world worked.

Yusuke was awake and alert of his own free will on a Saturday morning before noon. He didn't even seem to notice them at first and both of them raised an eyebrow as they saw him drinking some tea that Genkai had apparently made. "Um, Yusuke?"

The teenager jumped halfway out of his seat and almost spilled his cup as he looked up at them. Both of them were staring at him and Keiko raised her hand that wasn't connected to Kurama and pointed at him. "Your up. And drinking tea. Are you sick?"

Yusuke glared at them both and crossed his arms. "It's just what Genkai gave me. And I'm waiting for Kagome."

"She's meeting you here?" Kurama asked, a bit amused by the shifty look on his friend's face as he knew very well Kagome had done no such thing since he had called her last night and found out she and Yusuke were still having their mini spat over Touya. And of course, there was the fact she was already here with Yukina and Botan and had in fact slept over.

"Well... She doesn't know I'm here. But when she gets here we will be having a talk." Yusuke was obviously proud of his idea. Genkai came in at that moment and nodded to the two teenagers.

"Kurama, Keiko. At least now someone else can attempt to keep the dimwit occupied. He's been here since seven o'clock." Kurama and Keiko's jaws dropped open. Yusuke looked offended. "What? I can't get up early?"

"You've been up since seven o'clock?" Keiko asked faintly.

"Actually six, I didn't decide to start coming here until quarter of seven," Yusuke mumbled into his cup of tea. There were more stares as Genkai took up her own cup of tea and Kurama asked curiously, "How did you get Yusuke to drink tea anyway?"

Genkai raised an eyebrow at a suddenly wide-eyed and squirming spirit detective. "He made the tea, why wouldn't he drink it? I'm surprised he has any useful skills, but apparently he can make some tea."

Brown and green gazes swung around to the teenager again who scowled warningly at them. "Tea's good for hangovers. I learned to make it for my Mom when I was younger, that's all."

Kurama simply raised an eyebrow at the defensive gestures and inclined his head, hiding his smile. Keiko looked at the clock and frowned. "What makes you think Kagome would be here this early? And why didn't you just ask Yukina to call her and ask when she'd be over?"

"Genkai said she was still asleep and not to wake her. And Kagome's been here even earlier than this sometimes according to Botan," Yusuke said smugly, having already thought ahead of Keiko.

"Yes, being awoken by three overtired teenage girls at three o'clock in the morning because on of them had a nightmare and they invited her over when she called is not fun." Genkai took another sip of her tea.

Kurama looked around, sniffed the air, and then said as he turned to try a cup of Yusuke made tea, "I don't see why you're waiting, you could just wake her up. She's only a couple of rooms over."

Kurama grinned as he felt the room freeze as Yusuke gaped at the back of his head. "WHAT?"

"Oh, didn't you know? Kagome slept over here last night. She called me briefly before she left her house to talk and told me. I can smell her as well." Kurama was pleased with the angry fuming Yusuke was doing. He had a feeling Kagome was about to get an interesting awakening.

By the time he turned around with two cups of tea Yusuke was striding down towards the door. Kurama gave one to Keiko who smiled at him gratefully. "Sure you should have done that?"

"They need a talk. Or at least to scream at each other a bit. We may want to go outside. Coming Genkai?" The old woman took one glance at the opening door and followed the couple outside. Hopefully Botan and Yukina would have the common sense to get away from there as soon as possible once they awoke.

Yusuke actually was lucky on the first door he tried. He opened it to find himself looking at three lumps curled up on a few mattresses, blankets, and overly large, small, and normal sized pillows. He looked around the room and grimaced. "Definitely a girl's room. The pastels and dark purple's prove it."

Yusuke looked around, raising his eyebrow at the collection of video games and DVDs near the TV. He hadn't even known Genkai owned a TV, never mind a large one with a DVD player and game consoles. The girls always got the best out of life.

The teenager studied the three lumps and saw that on the two farthest away from him, there was some blue and green hair peeking out from underneath the blankets. That meant that the third body was Kagome. He took a few steps forward and eyed the three. So, how was he going to wake them up? With a shrug Yusuke lifted the closest blanket and found Kagome happily sleeping on. He threw the blanket over his shoulder and crouched down.

Without actually taking the time out to notice what she was wearing, he poked her in the ribs, trying to get her to wake up. Perhaps not the kindest wake, but actually all she did was give a sleepy giggle and squirm away. He raised an eyebrow. Was Kagome ticklish? New things were learned every day. He poked her bare ribs again and this time there was more movement just as he frowned. Bare ribs?

He looked over her outfit as she slowly woke up and almost choked. Her pajama top was a tank top that had ridden up so her whole stomach was bare during the night. Fortunately she did have pajama shorts on, even if those were pretty short too. Yusuke raised an eyebrow and grinned as he looked her over again. If she wore this every night he'd been missing out on a lot of things. Now he wished he could come to sleep overs too.

He grinned a bit maliciously as she began to wake up and leaned over her as she opened her eyes. She looked up at him sleepily. "What time is it?"

"Just after nine A.M." He answered cheerily.

"Then I'm hallucinating. Be a good hallucination and let me sleep." Kagome tried to roll over and found there was a hand on her bare stomach preventing it. She sucked in a breath at the mischievous grin on his face. "Not hallucinating?"

"Nope. I came over to wait for you two hours ago and Kurama revealed to me you were already here. Time for you to get up!" Yusuke expected her to glare at him and say something nasty since he assumed she was still mad at him. He was surprised.

"No it's not. Go 'way and let me sleep." Yusuke rolled his eyes as she squirmed under his hand and turned away, her back facing him as she quickly began to attempt going back to sleep. "Depends. Can I sleep with you?"

"Sure. Just give me my blanket back," She mumbled as she started drifting off again, just trying to get him away. Yusuke stared at the half-asleep girl and debated his option. Let's see, her two best friends were only a few feet away and her cousin was out back awaiting the sounds of them talking. On the other hand... Yusuke's eyes narrowed and his smile turned a bit sly. She had said it was ok. They couldn't possibly fault him.

He snickered, tried to grab the blanket and found someone was already holding it. He blinked and looked up to meet the stern red eyes of Yukina. She let him have the blanket but her gaze held a warning echoed by Botan's sleepy pink ones. "Wake her up and talk to her Yusuke. While I'm sure she'd enjoy sleeping beside a warm body she'd never forgive us if she woke up that way. And try to actually lift your eyes up to her face while you talk to her."

Yusuke glared as they left, taking some blankets and pillows with them. He had the strangest urge to stick his tongue out at them. Too much time around the more immature members of the group apparently. Yusuke looked down at Kagome and grimaced before taking her by the shoulders and sitting her up. Apparently the movement woke her up and it was impossible to roll over and fall asleep while he was holding her.

"Wake up Kagome. We need to talk."

"Wha...? Yusuke? What are you...?" She stopped abruptly and glared at him. "No we don't."

"Yes, we do."

"No, we really don't."

"Do to."

"Do not."

"Do to."

"Not."

"To."

"Not"

"T- Oh for kami's sake, we're going to talk whether you like it or not!" Yusuke and Kagome exchanged glares for a few moments before Kagome looked away. Yusuke resisted the immature impulse to cheer. She had looked away first.

"There's nothing to talk about," Kagome muttered. Her arms were crossed stubbornly and she wasn't about to change her stance anytime soon. Yusuke glared at her.

"Is too. You've been avoiding me. Hell, you've been avoiding me by going out of your way a few miles! Why?" Kagome gave him an incredulous look. "How can you ask that? You punched Touya!"

"He tried to kiss you!" Yusuke said defensively.

"On the cheek! Besides, I don't see what right you have to punch anyone who tries to kiss me." Instantly Kagome's eyes widened. By the faint hurt quickly hidden by defensive anger, that was the wrong thing to say.

"You're right then. We don't have anything to talk about." Kagome winced at the cold tone and was on her feet. "Yusuke, I didn't..."

"Then what the fuck did you mean Kagome? Maybe you do just going around kissing every boy since by your attitude obviously I don't mean anything." Yusuke glared down into gray-blue eyes that were quickly turning from guilty back to angry.

"Well excuse me, you haven't exactly given any hints that you want to mean anything and punching Touya doesn't count. Hell, over protective brothers would've done that." Kagome glared up the couple of inches as he glared down.

"I'm not you brother, I'm not related to you, and I sure as hell don't think of you any sister, otherwise the scenarios you play a part of in my head would be called incest," Yusuke hissed angrily. Kagome blinked at him, the anger briefly gone from her gaze as she attempted to recover from the shock he'd just given her.

"Oh," Kagome said stupidly, blushing furiously. She tried to remember what she was angry about again and tried again. "Well, you still shouldn't have hit Touya. He's a nice boy."

"He's not a boy Kagome, he's a demon." Kagome grinned as Yusuke grumbled at her. "So you're saying he's a girl?"

"... I wouldn't be surprised." Yusuke muttered, loud enough for her to hear and watching her eyes flash again. To divert her attention from the rant he looked her up and down and smirked at her as he met her eyes again after lingering on his way up.

"Nice pajamas by the way. If they can be called that being that small. They don't leave much to the imagination you know." Yusuke only had to wait a few seconds for his comment to register and a shriek split the air. Kagome dove back under her blankets, looking back out at him from three layers so all he could see was angry blue-gray eyes.

"Get. Out." Kagome glared at him as he smirked and then cleared his face to the best innocent look he could muster.

"You sure you don't need help getting dressed? I'm sure I could-" Yusuke was swiftly interrupted.

"Out! Now! Shoo!" Kagome stupidly actually batted at his chest with her hand, bringing it out from the safety of the blankets. Immediately Yusuke grasped her wrist and smirked as her eyes widened. There was suddenly no trace of innocence in on his face.

"Nah. I like it better here." Yusuke tugged her forward. She yipped and clung to the blankets with one hand. He didn't mind and used his free hand to move the material near her face away. His other hand moved from her wrist to the small of her back.

Outside the building, the other girls had gotten dressed and gone outside, leaving their blankets and pillows on the floor inside. A couple minutes before Kagome would dive back into the blankets everyone began to worry about the pair inside. "Should they be yelling more by now? They've only raised their voices a couple of times."

Kurama agreed with Keiko's sentiment as he looked inside Genkai's shrine worriedly. "I hope they didn't say anything too bad. I don't think Yusuke would hurt Kagome physically either."

"What about the other way around? Kagome has quite a temper," Yukina reminded him quietly.

Everyone exchanged glances for a few long silent moments and then everyone began to move towards the building. Genkai stayed behind and watched them go, a knowing smile creasing her face. "Teenagers."

Even Keiko was looking at the door they stopped in front of with an anxious expression. Kurama frowned as he heard nothing from inside, not even quiet hissing voices. He looked around again and everyone shrugged. The kitsune opened the door and everyone stood silent for a few moments at the familiar scene before a low growl became known to everyone but the oblivious couple which had made it down to the floor this time.

"Kurama, maybe we should..." Keiko began, but she saw the protective fury in his eyes and decided to not interfere, especially when he snarled quietly, "His hand is up her top."

All three girls blinked, looked towards Kagome and Yusuke making out among the pillows, mattresses, and blankets on the floor and then blush as one and backed away as Kurama strode forward, being purposefully quiet. Then again, if they hadn't heard the door opening or the voices, it was unlikely anything else would get their attention.

There was a yell of surprise and protest as Kurama grabbed Yusuke by the collar of his shirt and pulled him to his feet and away from Kagome. Then they realized who was standing by them and Kagome's eyes went wide as she attempted to recover her breath. Her flushed skin didn't look to be returning to its normal coloring anytime soon as it turned from a heated blush to an embarrassed and guilty one. Yusuke tried to step away from the kitsune radiating protective rage and found Kurama's hand was still fisted in the back of his shirt, keeping him in place.

"Yusuke," Kurama began, sounding oddly calm. "Didn't we have a conversation about you and Kagome a couple of weeks ago?"

Yusuke blinked and scratched at the back of his head as he looked thoughtful. "Maybe? What were we doing at the time?"

Kagome looked between them and took a hesitant step forward. "Kurama?" The growl stopped her and she stood still as angry green-gold eyes stared at her. They softened briefly. "I should yell at you to, and I shall, but I think I'll let you get dressed first, right?"

Kagome was a bit relieved if he was just going to yell at Yusuke. She hesitated, and then shook her head ruefully. It only would take her a couple minutes to get dressed and Kurama seemed calmer than he had been when he broke them up. What could happen in two minutes anyway?

"I believe that I said," Kurama began softly after Kagome had left, "that I wanted you two to have a real relationship, not just making out every time you two saw each other. Isn't that what I said?"

Yusuke wondered if Kurama was going to let him go anytime soon, because despite the soft tone of voice, he'd rather be having this conversation a few feet away from the possibly enraged to the point of insanity kitsune. "Uh, yes? Look, Kurama, we were having a fight! And then... we weren't."

The girls outside exchanged glances at Yusuke's articulate explanation and Botan shook her head. "He's dead. Youko's near the surface too, so it won't be a very fast death either."

"Um, I think I'll go tell Kagome to hurry up," Yukina murmured, hurrying down the hallway towards where Kagome was getting dressed. Right as she reached the door there were a few crashes from where the boys had been beginning to argue and Yukina's eyes widened.

"Kagome!" Kagome jerked the door open at the frantic knocking and frightened voice of Yukina and looked out, running a brush through her hair quickly before exiting the room dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "What's wrong Yukina? And where's all that crashing coming from?"

After taking one good look at Yukina's face, Kagome had a feeling she already knew who Yukina was going to say it was. "I believe that would be Kurama and Yusuke."

Kagome groaned and began to sprint down the hallway just as there was the sound of breaking glass. In but moments Genkai was there too, glaring at the shards of broken glass from the window Kurama had thrown Yusuke through. "I hope they know they're paying for that."

Kagome stared at the room, but besides the window she couldn't find anything really wrong with it. Well, there was the potted plant writhing about in one corner. Kagome's blue-gray eyes focused on that for a few moments, ignoring the swearing detective and silent kitsune rolling about on the grass outside.

Kagome went towards the plant and before anyone had an inkling of what she was doing, her hand was wrapped around it. A soft pink glow emanated from her fingers and Kagome purified the demon aura around it. She'd known that many of the plants outside and around the house were demonic, including this one, but now it was being fed, and would, to a lesser extent at least surprise if not harm the one feeding it and almost all the plants outside energy.

Kurama jerked backward from the all out fist fight he and Yusuke had been having after Yusuke had said something particularly crude. Perhaps he had overreacted a bit. "What was your hand doing up her shirt?" Kurama had asked, snarling and with his eyes glinting almost totally gold.

"What, should I have had it down her pants instead?" Obviously by the way Yusuke had winced afterwards he had realized that wasn't the nicest thing to say and hadn't actually meant to say it. Of course, that hadn't helped since Kurama had forgotten all about Rose Whip at that point and just lashed out. Which had led them to going through the window.

Yusuke was staring at Kurama warily as the other boy hissed and shook his head, more green seeping in. He turned his head at the sound of breaking glass and saw Kagome hopping out the window, glass crunching under her feet. He stared at the window. Had they done that? Genkai was going to kill them!

Kagome looked at the two boys, briefly recoiling in shock. It wasn't so much Kurama, who she would have expected to have bruises since Yusuke's main weapon was his fists, but that Yusuke also had bruises instead of cuts. Well, besides the cuts from glass. Kagome tilted her head and frowned thoughtfully at both of them. Despite that the aura was mostly Youko, she had a feeling it was Shuichi's anger behind it. Or, at least, that the human part of Kurama was even more angry than the kitsune. Youko would have used some sort of plant, not rolled around like any common schoolboy.

She looked them over again and was relieved to see that despite how viciously they'd been fighting they'd managed not to use their energy on each other, though by the much healthier looking plants, Kurama's energy had been leaking. She skirted around some of the taller plants and walked towards the two boys, kneeling in front of her crouched cousin and looked him over in concern, not needing to look over her shoulder to see Yusuke's offended look at her ignoring him.

"You ok, Shuichi?" His eyes turned almost back to their normal green coloring and Kagome was sure she was right. It was Youko's power and part of his anger supplying Shuichi in his rage. That would explain the golden eyes. She desperately wanted to ask what had happened but decided it was either going to hurt her, them, or there would end up a three-way fight in which they would all get hurt.

"Of course. I heal quickly and we didn't do that much damage," Kurama said, glancing at Yusuke and himself. A few bruises, but they could take many more normal punches than they had.

"Not to each other anyway. The plants are a bit bigger, and the window's a bit broken. Genkai's going to kill you two." Kagome stood up and held out her hand to her embarrassed cousin, watching as he looked away as he accepted her hand, managing to find the ground very interesting.

Kagome turned to find Yusuke already on his feet and half pouting from her lack of attention and half looking at her nervously. With a sigh she sidled over to him and looked at his bruises and cuts. Fortunately they healed well, but Kurama would probably heal faster. She briefly wondered if this was a good time to cheat. The healing part of her powers weren't the best and almost never worked on her, but on others she could at least heal minor cuts and take away the pain.

She shook her hair, deciding that it was their fight and they could both live with bruises from it. If she wasn't going to find out what had started it she certainly wasn't going to help them get over it. Still... Kagome frowned at a spot on Yusuke's arm where the glass had cut through his shirt.

From the lack of scratches on Kurama, she was guessing it had been Yusuke who'd gone through the window first. She ignored Yusuke's protests that he was fine and peered at the scratch. Long, but not too deep.

"Can't anyone solve anything without violence?" Kagome muttered. Yusuke raised an eyebrow at her down turned head as she traced the scratch with a small frown on her face. "You aren't exactly a pacifist yourself."

Kagome smiled and then reached over to Kurama and threaded one arm through his, her other through Yusuke. Both glared at each other over her head as she began walking towards them house, one sulkily keeping stride the other smoothly walking as he bared canines that were a bit too long.

"Stop that, both of you. I left you two alone for five minutes. Who can get in so much trouble in five minutes?" Both boys managed to look a bit sheepish and guilty until Botan's amused voice interrupted them.

"Remembering the story you told us, and the stories Inuyasha and the others added on, I believe the answer to that is 'you'." Botan giggled at Kagome's flush as the three of them went by her through the doorway. Kagome stayed in between them, noticing the way there was still the slightest angry glint in his eyes.

"Perhaps all of you should try Yusuke's tea. It's chamomile. Very calming." Yukina's sweet and innocent face at the faintest look of mischief in her eyes and it was a rueful Kurama who said what Yusuke, Keiko, and he himself were all thinking. "You and Botan are definitely spending too much time with Kagome."

Kagome had her head tilted to one side again as she gave Yusuke the briefest of appraising looks. "You can make tea?"

"Yeah. What of it?" He asked a bit defensively.

"Neat. I can't make tea if my life depends on it." Kagome left it alone, pretending not to notice everyone blinking a bit at her in his or her shock.

"Don't you want to know what started the fight?" Keiko asked, angry with Yusuke and curious about why the miko was practically ignoring the fight.

"Yes and no. I really do want to know what got Kurama riled up enough to throw Yusuke out a window, but I think if I ask I'm going to end up angry with Yusuke. Again. And possibly Kurama. Kitsunes are supposed to be all about words and the best at verbal matches. What happened to that?" Kagome looked over her shoulder curiously at her red headed cousin as she went to pour herself some tea.

"I lost my temper. I apologize for the damage caused." Kurama sighed and added on in frustration, "I just wish you two would do something more than kiss. Can't you two go on a date like normal teenagers?"

Kagome looked thoughtfully at Yusuke who was scowling at the floor. She sighed a bit and put down the cup of tea before she'd even taken a sip. She looked up at the ceiling, smiling slightly as she watched Yusuke out of the corner of her eye. "You know, there was this movie I wanted to see that came out in the theaters recently."

Yusuke and Kurama's head snapped to hers as Botan put a hand over her mouth to hide a smile. Yukina didn't bother, smiling sweetly at her friend. Keiko was a bit surprised, but after looking at the boys face she was struggling with a smile herself.

"I haven't seen any good movies recently," Yusuke offered. "Keep in mind if it's a dumb chick flick I swear I'll Spirit Gun the screen."

Kagome giggled and shook her head. "Agreed. No horror either. It's action." She smirked and noticed Kurama's slightly relieved expression before she continued. "So, barring either of us having to go frolicking off to fight demons, should we go to the movies in a couple of days?"

"Sure. And Yusuke Urameshi does not frolic." There was a snort from Keiko's general direction. When Yusuke turned to glare at her Kagome kicked Kurama and he clenched his teeth and turned to glare at her. She looked pointedly at Keiko, having seen the slightest flicker in her eyes when she and Yusuke had decided to go to the movies.

When Kagome whispered a few things under her breath, Kurama understood and turned just as the Keiko vs. Yusuke glaring match finished up. "Keiko, I was wondering if you would do me a favor?"

Trusting but puzzled by the look in Kurama's eyes she glanced at him curiously before nodding. "Of course. What is it?"

"Well, my mother has been complaining a bit at her lack of female company... and my own lack of female company as well. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to have dinner with Mother and myself tomorrow evening?" Kurama's smile was his most charming, and the most open. There was the slightest nervous look in his eyes that Keiko couldn't believe was there. Wasn't this the same confident kitsune from the Dark Tournament?

"I'd be pleased to join you and your mother for dinner Kurama." They smiled at each other and both looked more than just happy. They were delighted and Kagome was idly wondering if the plants were going to begin taking over the world if Kurama became too happy.

"Are we all done playing normal teens for today?" Kagome said, sipping her tea. Everyone except Yusuke looked at her expectantly as she finished her first sip. He just rolled his eyes at everyone else.

After a few moments of getting stared at, Kagome glared in exasperation. "What now?"

"How's the tea?" Botan asked eagerly.

Kagome gave her a strange look and Yusuke was barely keeping from snickering at how everyone else was acting. At least one person thought that him making tea wasn't strange. "It's good," Kagome said slowly, as if unsure of her friend's intelligence.

"Well, it was made by Yusuke. We just had to wonder how you would respond to it," Keiko explained with a shrug.

Kagome looked at them all in exasperation and shook her head. "Everyone has useful skills besides fighting you know."

She scowled as she shook her head, finishing up the tea as she walked back towards her room to collect her stuff. She stopped and looked back at the room, which was gaping a bit sheepishly at her besides the snickering detective in one corner.

"It's just tea."

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Let's see, too long to do responses for all of you, so I'll do some general thank yous and a couple of individual responses. Oh, and anything in parenthesis is a smaller individual response. Thank you for reviewing to: Choas Babe, Amara, inu. -sess fan(grins), silverkitsunekagome, ShadowStone, Night-Owl123, Suisei, Jessyca, inuyuyurrk, uspoken, Sora the Taske, Shinigami Clara, and Cheeza-13.

Concrete Tenshi: grins Wow, thanks for such a nice long review. It's ok if you didn't think it was good, or even still don't, Kagome having a cousin is a clichéd fic anyway, which is a bit of the reason I started it and a few other overused ideas, most which aren't up yet. This chapter was less fluffy and maybe a bit OOC, and I definitely need to do a bit more with Hiei and Kuwabara soon. The fluff part was more on Kurama and Keiko this chapter but there will be plenty more Yus/Kag soon, now that Kurama and Yusuke have both gotten some of their ill hidden anger out of their system.

Winged Knight: Thank you! Actually, always thank you, I always like your reviews. Not as much humor as I would have liked this chapter, but I thought Kurama fighting like any normal school boy was funny. No more Touya this chapter, probably not for a couple more where there will be more Touya and Yusuke snarling at each other. Just not literally. Yet. I don't think you asked before, but no, Yusuke isn't a Toushin yet. He will be eventually.