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The Switch
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Little Details
"I don't believe this." Koenma, after hearing the full explanation of Kagome's time traveling up until the point where he had come through the bushes. Everybody was now interested as to what Koenma would do now.
"What's hard to believe?" Kurama asked him.
"After all the years you've lived, and who you are, you should be able to believe this without a second thought." Sesshoumaru commented, eyeing the demi-god warily. Koenma heaved a sigh.
"Yusuke, do you realize how much my father will want to kill me when he finds all of this out?" Yusuke nodded, remembering Enma's wrath...though he did have to admit...his form of punishing his son was quite amusing....
"You would still have four of the spirit detectives with you if Kagome, Yukina, Botan, Keiko, and Shizuru hadn't have begged us to let them be with us to the point where I thought my head was going to explode." Inuyasha grumbled. Yusuke glared at the hanyou for a second before turning back to Koenma.
"So what do you plan on doing?" Hiei asked. "You do realize that you are outnumbered, though I could probably kill you all by myself." Tessa glared disapprovingly at the fire youkai.
"You do realize that what we are doing isn't illegal, you know." Kagura purred. "We are getting rid of a bastard hanyou who should have been dead 500 years ago." Everyone nodded in agreement, even Botan, who was thinking she should probably be quiet at the moment.
Looking closely, Kagome noticed the conflict in Koenma's eyes. "Koenma...you know...you're father doesn't have to know." Koenma looked sharply at Kagome, who didn't falter under his gaze. She's faced worse than him, or at least, in her own mind.
"How would I keep THIS under wraps?" Koenma snapped at Kagome, who glared defiantly back at him.
"Easy. Don't tell him." Koenma sighed.
"It's not that easy."
"Nothing ever is."
Later
Botan sighed as she sat on her oar, hovering above Koenma, unseen by him. 'What will you do?' She thought to him, though she knew he didn't hear her. 'I wish...I could come down and comfort you, like Keiko does to Kurama, or Kagome to Yusuke.'
'Botan...why didn't she tell me?' Koenma thought to himself. 'Am I really that fearful a ruler? Does she only think of me as her boss?' Koenma rested his elbows on his thighs and buried his face in his hands. 'Damn.'
"Koenma, what's wrong?" Yukina came from his left, behind a tree, holding a bracelet with a tear gem on it. "You seem upset."
"Yukina, how do you feel about...Kazuma?" Koenma asked in a mutter. Smiling, Yukina sat across from him.
"He is very special to me. Do you have someone you feel that way about?" Koenma's shoulders sagged.
"You could say that."
"Who is it?" Yukina had a feeling she knew, and glanced up to her friend on the oar, who couldn't hear their conversation. Yukina had known that Botan had been there for a while now.
When Koenma didn't answer, Yukina frowned slightly. "It's Botan, isn't it?" Koenma's form stiffened, and then gradually relaxed again.
"Yeah." Yukina smiled softly.
"You know, you could always just tell her." Yukina said softly, standing up and turning to leave. "I'm pretty sure she would return your feelings." Yukina left. Koenma stared after her.
"Botan would..."
With Kagome and Yusuke
"Well, this sure puts a wrench in our plans." Yusuke muttered. Kagome smiled sweetly at him.
"I don't think Koenma will stop us." Yusuke glanced at her.
"What makes you so sure about that?"
"Oh...things." Kagome could hardly keep herself from grinning. "People..." Yusuke's eyebrows shot up.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Kagome giggled slightly at the expression on his face.
"Oh, well, it's just...women's intuition you could say. If you really want to know, try and pay attention to the little details as well as the big ones." Kagome burst into a fit of giggles at Yusuke's new expression.
"What's so funny?" Yusuke glared at Kagome slightly, who just began to giggle harder.
"Your FACE!" Yusuke was taken aback.
"I'm not that bad looking, am I?" Kagome's giggle fit got more hysterical.
"No...it's not that...!" Kagome held her sides as she laughed now. "So...funny!" Yusuke shook his head and got up.
"I think I'll go talk to KEIKO now." Yusuke grinned as Kagome stopped giggling.
"NO!" Kagome jumped from her position on the ground and wrapped her arms against his waist, since she wasn't on her feet. "MINE!" Yusuke laughed.
"Possessive aren't we?" Yusuke began to walk towards the campfire, dragging a clinging Kagome along with him.
A week later
"I still can't believe..." Yusuke muttered, looking at Koenma. "It's just...so...weird." Kagome smirked slightly and gave Yusuke the 'I-told-you-so' look.
"I told you, pay attention to the small details as well as the big ones!" Kagome wagged her finger at him. Yusuke looked at her, bewildered.
"YOU COULD TELL?"
"Of course she could. You are too much of a dimwit to even recognize your left foot from your right." Genkai smirked. "The majority of us could tell."
"ALL RIGHT GRANDMA! DO YOU WANT TO START SOMETHING RIGHT NOW?" Kagome shook her head as Yusuke continued to shout at Genkai, who just insulted him back, making Yusuke even angrier. Deciding to leave them alone, she jogged up ahead to where Kikyou was leading the group with Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Kagura.
"How much longer?" Kagome asked Kikyou.
"We'll be there by midnight if we keep going." Kikyou said. "We won't stop." Kagome nodded, understanding.
'I only hope...we'll make it out of this...alive.'
End of Chappie
TYN: Well...I'll bet ya'll could guess what happened and what's GOING to happen.
Yusuke: What's going on? I WANT TO KNOW!
TYN: I am so happy I am too tired to burst into a fit of giggles at the moment.
Yusuke: I AM NOT FUNNY!
TYN: YES YOU ARE! You just don't realize it.
Yusuke: Why I oughtta...
TYN: Now Yusuke, you know that's a bad idea.
Yusuke: ...read and review.