Promises
chapter 1
"Yusuke! Why did you have to leave me you son of a bitch!" She screamed, throwing an empty bottle of liquor at a picture of Yusuke, ducking herself down into her knees, crawled up by the wall. "Wasn't I good enough for you? TELL ME YUSUKE! WASN'T I GOOD ENOUGH! WHY DID YOU HAVE... TO... Leave... me..." she took a deep breath trying to hold back tears. "alone... I thought... you loved me... I thought... you would love our child...What is Ronin supposed to do... when he's older... without... a... Kasaan..." she balled, letting it all out. A few words came out as she spoke. "I... promised... that I'd... be your only one... forever... and you... promised me too..."
"Koenma, why do we have to make her go through all this?" I said, feeling horrible seeing my friend down there like that. "Keiko doesn't drink, doesn't do anything like that. What happened? What did Yusuke do now?"
"This is the way it goes Botan." Koenma said, looking at me worriedly. "This is what's supposed to happen." I looked at Koenma, and I nodded. "It all started when I had called Yusuke to see me. I was supposed to kill him, but I didn't have the heart to. He had a past that he didn't even know about, and I didn't have the heart to. So I called Kurama and Hiei up, and ordered them to have some way to get Yusuke go to the Makai. Maybe after he knew his past he might be more ready to die. Then..."
Yusuke was on his way to leave to go to the Makai. He had a feeling that something was there, and after Hiei had told him about how much he couldn't wait to go back, Yusuke felt a need to go with him. He had a week to be in the human world until him and Hiei were ready to leave. Kurama would be joining them, but Kuwabara had to stay here, he wasn't ready to face this world of demons. Yusuke was on his way to go see Keiko, telling her the news that she was going there. He knocked on the door, as Mrs. Yukimura opened the door, calling Keiko downstairs. "Yusuke! What are you doing here?" She said cheerfully. Then, she looked at him. She saw such a depression on his face. He hadn't seen that face since he thought Kuwabara died.
"I need to talk to you Keiko. It's really important." He spoke, and they started walking towards the park by their old elementary school. He was really quiet, and Keiko was really worried. 'Please, don't tell me he has to do another dark tournament. I wouldn't be able to forgive him if he went back to that island.' The whole walk there, Yusuke looked down at the ground, trying to put the truth into words that would hurt her. He put his hand in his pocket and played around with something a few times, and then pulled his hand back out.
She was in a beautiful skirt with a white blouse, and he kept glancing over at her once in a while as they walked. He had a yellow shirt and a pair of blue pants. The yellow shirt was ripped a little bit from the dark tournament, but at least it was clean was all he could say about that. 'God, could she look any more beautiful at such a perfect moment?' He said to himself.
They finally got at the school, and they went over to the swings and sat down. Keiko remembered the first time that they had been here. He was all alone, and she walked over to him and asked him if he would be her best friend. From that moment on, they had been best friends.
"Ok Yusuke, tell me what is going on." She said, looking at him. He took a deep breath and looked at her. He put his hand by her cheek, then looked down. 'I can't look at her when I tell her this.' he thought to himself.
"I'm going away for a little while, but I'm not sure when I'm going to be back. But you can't get mad at me for where I'm going, it's drawing me to it... and I have to go. Something is telling me that there is something there I need to know... it's like... a place that seems so familiar." He stopped for a minute, and took another deep breath. "Hiei told me about it. It's called Makai. It's the demon world. There's just something that seems like there's a part of me there... which I don't understand because I've never actually been there." He looked at her, and she looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"YOU HAVE TO GO TO A PLACE WHERE THOSE MONSTERS LIVE!" She cried, tears coming out. "YUSUKE, YOU'LL GET KILLED THERE! PLEASE LISTEN TO ME, YUSUKE. I HAD TO SEE YOU GO THROUGH THAT ONCE, DON'T DO IT AGAIN!" she said.
"You won't have to. I promise you I won't be there long. Before you know it, I'll be back here." He said, getting on his knee infront of her. "Just to guarentee not losing you to some great, amazing guy who has everything I don't while I'm away, I have something to ask you." He took out a beautiful box, a blue box with satin on it. He looked at her the whole time he spoke. "Yukimura Keiko, When I return, I was hoping that you would be my wife, and spend the rest of our lives together. Will you be my wife?" He took her hand, held it in his. She looked at him, smiling.
"Yes... I accept." She said. He stood up, and she jumped into his arms, knocking them both down to the ground. "Did you plan on being in the exact spot I asked you to be my best friend mr. urameshi?" She said, as she played with his hair. She liked it like this, when it wasn't jelled up. She could play with it, plus she thought he looked better this way anyway.
"Maybe... that's something I'll always know, now won't it?" He said, pulling her closer to him, kissing her gently on the lips. That was their second kiss. Their first kiss was to save his life, but this was different. It wasn't rushed like the first one, and she felt it all the way at the bottom of her knees. They finally pulled back, he pulled her closer to him, holding her tight, his arms by her waist. Then, they both sat up, him sitting, her sitting on his legs facing him.
"Yusuke, promise me one thing."
"Hm.. what's that?"
"Promise me that I'll be the last girl you ever kiss, and promise me you'll come back from the Makai in one piece."
"That's a promise I'll take to the grave." He said, cupping her face in his hands, pulling her into another kiss.
"I didn't expect Yusuke to show Keiko how much he actually cared for her." Koenma told me. "It's not like him to tell someone his emotions."
"Well, Koenma, Yusuke surprises us all again, yet I guess it's a good thing, because Keiko deserves this." I said, smiling. "I don't understand why she's so upset though... and saying yusuke left her. How could he possibly leave her with this?"
"Well... I didn't finish the story now did I?" Koenma said, smirking, I laughed. "Well, then..."
The next few days Keiko and Yusuke went on many dates, hung out, spent all their time together. One night, Keiko was home all alone. Her parents had to work all night at their restaurant. They wouldn't be home until about 5 oclock the next day. Keiko called Yusuke, and told him to come over to hang out, have a movie marathon or something. It would be the last day that Yusuke would be in town before he went to the Makai. Keiko waited for the second that Yusuke would come in the door. She couldn't wait to see him, and wanted him to stay all night with her, never leave her side, so she would know how it felt to wake up seeing him next to her when she'd wake up in the morning. She heard the door bell ring, and she ran down the stairs, opening the door, seeing him there. "Hey Keiko." He said. She looked at him, beaming, jumping into his arms, kissing him. He was caught by surprise, and grabbed her right before she fell, and kissed her back. "Wow." was all he could stammer out, as he set her back on the ground.
"Too much for you?" she said. He was still speechless. "For such a tough guy, you can't handle kisses very well now can you?" she said, giggling a little bit. He grabbed her around the waist, scooping her in his arms.
"Oh, you wish Keiko." He said, kissing her. They fell back onto the couch in the living room, caressing each others skins. She grabbed the bottom of his shirt, pulling it over his head as he unbuttoned her beautiful pink blouse. She unzipped his pants, helping them off until they hit the floor. Her blouse fell to the floor as well, hitting his pants. She kept thinking how great this was that they were going to be a happy married couple. She knew that he was her destiny, no matter what happens in between, and he knew that they would be together in the end. This Makai trip will just make their love grow stronger.
"Yusuke, lets go upstairs." She said, her in her undergarments, walking up the stairs. Yusuke, trailing along in his boxers followed her. 'Damn, does she have to be so fucking hot?' he thought to himself. 'I'm such a lucky one.' They walked into her bedroom, closing the door. She put a song on, a beautiful song that he's never heard before.
"What is this shit?" He said, laughing at her. "Since when do you listen to boy bands?" She slapped him on the face. He laughed, rubbing the spot she hit him.
"Yusuke, this is american music. My aunt went to America, and heard this song and brought it back to me. Before she died, she told me to play this song when I met the person who I knew was my destiny. She also told me he'd probably give me some wise ass remark. She probably figured that it would be you, just as much. But I heard this song, and the first thing I think of is you." She smiled, as she softly sang along to the words. He was sitting on the bed, and she walked over to him. He put his arms around her hips, massaging her skin. She put on of her legs on one side of him, let the other one fall on the other side, and they fell ontop of one another.
"Koenma... They didn't... did they? Please tell me they didn't."
"I'm sorry to inform you, but they did." I cried, how could Yusuke be so irrisponsible? Going to the Makai, leaving her alone, and springing this on her now! "no wonder why Keiko was so depressed."
"But more about what happened that night will show up later on. There's more before I finish that."
Yusuke woke up, seeing Keiko sleeping next to him. He put his arms around her, kissing her gently on the cheek. Keiko sturred, waking up to feel Yusuke's arms around her body. They looked at the clock and it was 10am. They still had 7 more hours till her parents came home, although they only had 3 hours until Yusuke left to the Makai. They both got up, and Yusuke walked downstairs to grab his clothes. Keiko got changed upstairs since she wanted a new thing to wear. As she was about to get changed, Yusuke walked upstairs, her clothes as well as his in her hand. They got changed, and then Keiko looked at her bed. "I think we better put this in the wash before my parents get home." She said, laughing, as Yusuke wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her cheek. "Well, give me your clothes and I'll wash them for you too."
"You'll have to get them off me first." He said, laughing.
Yusuke was all dressed, everything washed and it was 11:30. They both started walking to his house so that she could help him start to pack. She didn't want to help him pack, she wanted it to be last night all over again. She loved him too much to see him leave again. 'At least he's telling me he's leaving this time.' she thought to herself, thinking of the way they went to the dark tournament. They got to Yusuke's house and saw Yusuke's mom.
"Where have you been all night?" Atsuko remarked.
Yusuke smiled. "Oh, I was out." He said, and Keiko and Yusuke ran to his room to start packing his things. "Hiei will be here in an hour and a half. How much do you think we can pack by then?" He said, laughing.
"You didn't pack at all?" She said, not surprised, come to think of it. "Go figure. How could my future husband be responsible!" She said, as Yusuke grabbed her by the waist and started tickling her. She fell on his bed, and they kissed. Then Yusuke jumped, knowing that more time had just passed.
"Damn it keiko! I got to pack now!" He said, grabbing a duffle bag as he started going through his closet grabbing clothes and throwing them into the bag. She sat there, looking like she was about to cry. He threw a shirt at her, and it hit her in the head. He looked at her, smirking, and she tried to smile so he wouldn't realize she was crying. He grabbed a few more shirts and another pair of pants and walked over to her. "Keiko, I'm sorry. But the sooner I pack and the quicker I do it, the more time we can spend just talking and relaxing so we can forget about Makai or anything. I wish I didn't have to go..."
"but you don't have to!" she interupted. "You said you were going because you had a feeling... Koenma didn't tell you to. Why do you have to?" A tear ran down her cheek. He wiped it away.
"Keiko, don't cry. I told you that I never wanted to see you cry, didn't I?" He said, and she recalled it when he was in her dream one time.
"But... that was a dream... how would you know?" She said. He smiled, and she nodded her head remembering that he was dead at the time. "Yusuke. Just remember the promise you made me."
"I will. Don't worry." He said, grabbing her hand, kissing it gently.
"Are you ready spirit detective?" Hiei said, popping up by the window. Yusuke looked over, and nodded. Hiei kept his eyes locked on him.
"Give him time to say goodbye Hiei." Another voice said. Kurama appeared next to him. "Lets meet him downstairs by the door. Goodbye Keiko."
"Bye Kurama, bye Hiei." She said, waving as they disappeared. Then she looked at him, backing up. Her head was down, and tears were coming down. He picked her head up, to look into her eyes.
"Hey Keiko, what did I tell you. As soon as you know it, I'll be back." He said, looking at her. "You're beautiful Keiko, and you'll always be in my thoughts." He said. He kissed her on the cheek lightly, "I love you." He whispered in her ears. She wiped a tear.
"I love you too, Yusuke Urameshi." They hugged, holding each other in a tight embrace. "I always will, forever. I could wait around forever to see those beautiful brown eyes again." Keiko felt such a safeness in his eyes. Many people saw cruelelty, hatred, but she saw warmth, protection, and passion. He stepped back, seeing her eyes start to water. He hated goodbyes, and then they left the room, heading downstairs.