Chapter 3
This hit Yusuke hard... him... a demon? Ever since he first learned about being a spirit detective he basically learned that demons are bad, with a few exceptions, and he always told himself that even though he liked Kurama and Hiei, he loved being human. Technically speaking, yes he is still human, but finding out his has demon blood running through his body. Kurama and Hiei both went back with him to the human world. "Yusuke... we're sorry that we couldn't tell you that was the reason that we told you about the Makai." Kurama said. "But if you don't take rule in the Makai, it will have a tournament, like the dark tournament, and that means that someone that is evil could gain control of the Makai? Do you know what that means? That means that demons of all sorts could escape to the Ningenkai. They could hurt the people you love here... what do you think is worse? The chance of being the cause of the deaths of the one's you love, or taking control and never being able to see them, but knowing they are safe?"
"THEN YOU DO THE TOURNAMENT! WHY DON'T YOU TAKE CONTROL KURAMA! YOU'D BE A HELL OF A LOT BETTER RULER THAN I WOULD!" Yusuke screamed. "I CAN'T LEAVE MY MOTHER AGAIN! YOU DIDN'T SEE HER AT MY WAKE, NOW DID YOU? YOU WEREN'T THERE AFTER I CAME BACK, WERE YOU?"
"Well, that would make sense because that would mean I'd have to leave my mother as well!" Kurama said, starting to get mad. Then, he took in a deep breath. "Listen, you're Makai's true heir to the throne."
"Stop being a big baby spirit detective." Hiei said. "Trust me, those other two guys know what they're doing, but it takes 3 demons to run this world. Think of others before yourself. I know if Genkai heard you right now she'd beat you over the head and tell you to go to the Makai and make her proud."
"I HONOSTLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT!" Yusuke said. "WHAT HAS THE MAKAI EVER DONE FOR ME? I'VE BEEN THERE ONCE AND WHAT HAS IT DONE FOR ME? REVEAL MY PAST!" Yusuke said, walking away. "IT DID WHAT I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW! I WAS SATISFIED WITH THE STORY OF MY DAD BEING A BASTARD WHO WANTED A PIECE OF ASS AND THEN LEFT MY FAMILY!" Kurama & Hiei stood there in silence. Kurama realizing that must have been hard, especially with having a mother who was drunk all the time.
"Kurama, if you wouldn't mind giving me and the spirit detective a few minutes alone." Hiei said, as Kurama nodded and went around the corner, waiting for them to finish. "Look, I know exactly what you're going through. My mom, was like Yukina. That's how me and Yukina are related, by mother. Her name was Hina, and I was known as the forbidden child. My father was an unknown fire demon. I never found out his name. I was exhiled as a baby, not wanted by the Koorime. I grew up with a group of demons who were robbers and stuff, I killed them all eventually. They left me at one point because i had grown so powerful, but I found them and killed them eventually in time." He said, smirking. "I had my tear drop that my mom had teared the day she found out I was to be exhiled. Well, I went back and I found out the truth about everything from the woman who dropped me off that cliff. I spared her life, and she told me I had a sister, so ever since then I had been watching over Yukina, making sure nothing bad would happen to her. Listen Yusuke, you have a chance to know you're relatives. Don't waste that. Oh yea, another thing. You share this bit of information with anyone else, I will kill you, and that's a promise." Hiei leaped away, Yusuke standing there speechless.
'I'll go talk to my mom, see why the fuck she never could tell me that my father was demon.' he thought to himself.
"Wow... I never realized how hard this could be on a person." I said, Koenma looking at me. "And Hiei too, he has a really bad case of it."
"Yes, Hiei has a very rough up bringing. I think that's what lead him to crimes."
"Poor Hiei. And geeze, same with Yusuke... learning that information has to be hard on a person."
"That's not even the half of it Botan."
"MOM! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!" He screamed, Atsuko popping up from her bed. "GET YOUR LAZY ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!" Suddenly, he felt a rush of pain hit the back of his head. He rubbed his head and turned around to see Atsuko looking at him.
"Don't talk to me that way." She said. "Now, what the hell do you want? Come to tell me you joined a gang or something?"
"No... but I just found out that I'm the heir to a throne because you couldn't keep your hormones at ease!" She looked at him, then sat down and started crying. "Mom, sorry I didn't mean to put it that way."
"You know Yusuke, I look at you and I see him. I swear if you had blonde hair you'd look just like him." She paused, taking a deep breath, holding back tears. "I don't know where the hell he came from... he said it was called Makai. I figured it was a town somewhere. He took you there once, and then you almost got killed! Why the hell would I want to reveal you to a place like that?" Yusuke looked at her, realizing she made a good decision. "How the hell did you find out? And what the hell do you mean heir to a throne?"
He sat down, and explained everything to her. He told her what the Makai was, he told her everything that he's been doing lately since he came back to life, and told her that his father was in fact a demon, and that's why he wasn't able to be here, and he told her everything Raizen did. She looked hurt, not only by Yusuke, but by the man who had lied to her.
"Yusuke... you have to go there and you have to take control. I don't care if I'll only get to see you once a month or so, you have to go and take control of those demons. Do it for my sake, do it for Keiko's sake too.
"But mom, I can't leave you again. I've done it once already, I can't do it again."
"I don't care Yusuke!" she said, very sternly. "Yusuke, this is your destiny, don't you see that? You got killed like that for a reason so that you could come back. You can't ignore this, I knew you were meant for greater things. I stopped believing that for a while since all you would do is get in fights, but now it's clear that it's your destiny to go back there."
"I'm not leaving you yet bitch!" He screamed, grabbing her by the shoulers. "I'M NOT LEAVING FOR ANOTHER MONTH! HE GAVE ME A FULL MONTH TO THINK ABOUT IT, I HAVE TO TALK TO KEIKO. I CAN'T LEAVE HER AGAIN EITHER!" He sat on the ground. "I would go right now again if all that mattered was just you, since I might try and talk to Raizen to get you to come with me... but I don't know what to do with Keiko... I promised her I'd be back, and that we'd get married and have a family together..."
"YUSUKE ARE YOU STUPID!" She screamed at him, hitting him on the head. "OBVIOUSLY IF YOU HAD A FEELING ABOUT THE MAKAI YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THAT INSTEAD OF YOUR HORMONES!"
"SHUT UP YOU OLD BITCH!" He screamed at her. "I FINALLY FOUND THE PERSON WHO I KNOW I'M MEANT TO BE WITH, AND I CAN'T BREAK THAT PROMISE TO HER!"
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT YUSUKE! YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO RAIZEN! WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER DO? SEE THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE DIE, OR KNOW THAT THEY'RE ALIVE EVEN IF YOU CAN'T BE WITH THEM! I LOST YOUR FATHER, I DON'T WANT YOU TO LOSE KEIKO!"
"EITHER WAY I LOSE KEIKO! I CAN'T HURT HER AGAIN!"
"YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE! I'M SORRY YUSUKE I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND I'M SORRY THAT I CAN'T TAKE BACK THE PAST BUT I KNOW YOU'RE THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME. I LOST YOUR FATHER, BUT I GOT YOU IN RETURN ANYWAY. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE WAS A DEMON I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!" She took a deep breath, and they turned in silence. "Raizen was going to let your father visit once a month as it was... maybe he'll let you do that too. You have to claim your destiny. If you don't go for it, then Raizen might be replaced by someone who can destroy the rest of the world. Please yusuke. If you don't take it you might be killed too, and you don't want to have to see me go through that twice, do you?" He nodded, realizing that he doesn't want to see anyone else die either.
Damn it Yusuke, he thought to himself. What is keiko going to say about this.
"Koenma... does Yusuke know that he's going to have a son?" I asked, shaking vigarously, unsure of what Yusuke was going to do.
"Not at this point, no." He said. "He knew that he has to go to Keiko, and he knew right at this moment that Keiko was the most important thing to him right now. He honostly couldn't care less for anyone but Keiko and Atsuko. If either of them died because of him, he'd go crazy, almost like when Kuwabara almost died from the younger Toguro during the dark tournament."
He got up, giving his mother a hug, telling her that he'd be back after he talked to Keiko.
Once again, he found himself walking to Keiko's house to give her even more bad news. She was going to kill him for this... no... not kill him. She would break down. This would emotionally get her. She wouldn't be able to handle this. It's been over 2 months since he had seen her. It took a while to get to the Makai and back, as well as they stayed there for additional training that I didn't mention in the story, but it happened. He had his hands in his pocket, this time not having anything there to play with for his nervousness, except for some lint and a quarter.
Why does this have to happen to me, he thought to himself. Out of all this bullshit i've been through, it doesn't get much worse than it is right now. Keiko... I don't want to do this to you, I don't. I don't know how I'm ever going to leave you right now. I'll still keep my promise. Yea... that's it. I know I'll still keep my promise. I don't need to have an offspring with anyone, I'm just ruling. Therefore after I'm dead and in the undead with Keiko, then I won't give a shit who takes over the Makai. Maybe I can talk to Raizen about making Keiko a demon so that she can come live with me there... that can work.
He reached her house, and knocked on the door. He opened up to see a very upset looking Mr. Yukimura. His face was flushed, his eyes were red and bloodshot. He looked like she had lost a lot of weight too since the last time he had seen him. "Hi Mr. Yukimura. Is Keiko there?"
He looked at Yusuke, and it stabbed him in the heart. He felt crushed, this look of such pain seeped into his body as he left the door open and walked inside. Yusuke wasn't sure wether to follow him in or not, so he stayed where he was.
"Are you coming in? If not shut the door." He turned around and remarked. He walked in, closing the door behind him. Mr. Yukimura went upstairs, tears in his eyes, shouting "Why..." He didn't understand at all. He walked into the living room, the first room of the house as soon as you entered the house. He saw Keiko lying there on the couch, in all black, looking very upset. He ran in, and came towards her, grabbing her hand. Then, he felt a liquid on his hand, and he looked down, seeing keiko's hands covered with blood.
"Keiko... what's wrong?" She looked at him, her eyes almost as bloodshot as mrs. yukimura's, her face looking much more hurt than anything. Her eyes suddenly closed, as he felt her pressure on his hand decrease. "KEIKO!"
This hit Yusuke hard... him... a demon? Ever since he first learned about being a spirit detective he basically learned that demons are bad, with a few exceptions, and he always told himself that even though he liked Kurama and Hiei, he loved being human. Technically speaking, yes he is still human, but finding out his has demon blood running through his body. Kurama and Hiei both went back with him to the human world. "Yusuke... we're sorry that we couldn't tell you that was the reason that we told you about the Makai." Kurama said. "But if you don't take rule in the Makai, it will have a tournament, like the dark tournament, and that means that someone that is evil could gain control of the Makai? Do you know what that means? That means that demons of all sorts could escape to the Ningenkai. They could hurt the people you love here... what do you think is worse? The chance of being the cause of the deaths of the one's you love, or taking control and never being able to see them, but knowing they are safe?"
"THEN YOU DO THE TOURNAMENT! WHY DON'T YOU TAKE CONTROL KURAMA! YOU'D BE A HELL OF A LOT BETTER RULER THAN I WOULD!" Yusuke screamed. "I CAN'T LEAVE MY MOTHER AGAIN! YOU DIDN'T SEE HER AT MY WAKE, NOW DID YOU? YOU WEREN'T THERE AFTER I CAME BACK, WERE YOU?"
"Well, that would make sense because that would mean I'd have to leave my mother as well!" Kurama said, starting to get mad. Then, he took in a deep breath. "Listen, you're Makai's true heir to the throne."
"Stop being a big baby spirit detective." Hiei said. "Trust me, those other two guys know what they're doing, but it takes 3 demons to run this world. Think of others before yourself. I know if Genkai heard you right now she'd beat you over the head and tell you to go to the Makai and make her proud."
"I HONOSTLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT!" Yusuke said. "WHAT HAS THE MAKAI EVER DONE FOR ME? I'VE BEEN THERE ONCE AND WHAT HAS IT DONE FOR ME? REVEAL MY PAST!" Yusuke said, walking away. "IT DID WHAT I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW! I WAS SATISFIED WITH THE STORY OF MY DAD BEING A BASTARD WHO WANTED A PIECE OF ASS AND THEN LEFT MY FAMILY!" Kurama & Hiei stood there in silence. Kurama realizing that must have been hard, especially with having a mother who was drunk all the time.
"Kurama, if you wouldn't mind giving me and the spirit detective a few minutes alone." Hiei said, as Kurama nodded and went around the corner, waiting for them to finish. "Look, I know exactly what you're going through. My mom, was like Yukina. That's how me and Yukina are related, by mother. Her name was Hina, and I was known as the forbidden child. My father was an unknown fire demon. I never found out his name. I was exhiled as a baby, not wanted by the Koorime. I grew up with a group of demons who were robbers and stuff, I killed them all eventually. They left me at one point because i had grown so powerful, but I found them and killed them eventually in time." He said, smirking. "I had my tear drop that my mom had teared the day she found out I was to be exhiled. Well, I went back and I found out the truth about everything from the woman who dropped me off that cliff. I spared her life, and she told me I had a sister, so ever since then I had been watching over Yukina, making sure nothing bad would happen to her. Listen Yusuke, you have a chance to know you're relatives. Don't waste that. Oh yea, another thing. You share this bit of information with anyone else, I will kill you, and that's a promise." Hiei leaped away, Yusuke standing there speechless.
'I'll go talk to my mom, see why the fuck she never could tell me that my father was demon.' he thought to himself.
"Wow... I never realized how hard this could be on a person." I said, Koenma looking at me. "And Hiei too, he has a really bad case of it."
"Yes, Hiei has a very rough up bringing. I think that's what lead him to crimes."
"Poor Hiei. And geeze, same with Yusuke... learning that information has to be hard on a person."
"That's not even the half of it Botan."
"MOM! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!" He screamed, Atsuko popping up from her bed. "GET YOUR LAZY ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!" Suddenly, he felt a rush of pain hit the back of his head. He rubbed his head and turned around to see Atsuko looking at him.
"Don't talk to me that way." She said. "Now, what the hell do you want? Come to tell me you joined a gang or something?"
"No... but I just found out that I'm the heir to a throne because you couldn't keep your hormones at ease!" She looked at him, then sat down and started crying. "Mom, sorry I didn't mean to put it that way."
"You know Yusuke, I look at you and I see him. I swear if you had blonde hair you'd look just like him." She paused, taking a deep breath, holding back tears. "I don't know where the hell he came from... he said it was called Makai. I figured it was a town somewhere. He took you there once, and then you almost got killed! Why the hell would I want to reveal you to a place like that?" Yusuke looked at her, realizing she made a good decision. "How the hell did you find out? And what the hell do you mean heir to a throne?"
He sat down, and explained everything to her. He told her what the Makai was, he told her everything that he's been doing lately since he came back to life, and told her that his father was in fact a demon, and that's why he wasn't able to be here, and he told her everything Raizen did. She looked hurt, not only by Yusuke, but by the man who had lied to her.
"Yusuke... you have to go there and you have to take control. I don't care if I'll only get to see you once a month or so, you have to go and take control of those demons. Do it for my sake, do it for Keiko's sake too.
"But mom, I can't leave you again. I've done it once already, I can't do it again."
"I don't care Yusuke!" she said, very sternly. "Yusuke, this is your destiny, don't you see that? You got killed like that for a reason so that you could come back. You can't ignore this, I knew you were meant for greater things. I stopped believing that for a while since all you would do is get in fights, but now it's clear that it's your destiny to go back there."
"I'm not leaving you yet bitch!" He screamed, grabbing her by the shoulers. "I'M NOT LEAVING FOR ANOTHER MONTH! HE GAVE ME A FULL MONTH TO THINK ABOUT IT, I HAVE TO TALK TO KEIKO. I CAN'T LEAVE HER AGAIN EITHER!" He sat on the ground. "I would go right now again if all that mattered was just you, since I might try and talk to Raizen to get you to come with me... but I don't know what to do with Keiko... I promised her I'd be back, and that we'd get married and have a family together..."
"YUSUKE ARE YOU STUPID!" She screamed at him, hitting him on the head. "OBVIOUSLY IF YOU HAD A FEELING ABOUT THE MAKAI YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THAT INSTEAD OF YOUR HORMONES!"
"SHUT UP YOU OLD BITCH!" He screamed at her. "I FINALLY FOUND THE PERSON WHO I KNOW I'M MEANT TO BE WITH, AND I CAN'T BREAK THAT PROMISE TO HER!"
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT YUSUKE! YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO RAIZEN! WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER DO? SEE THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE DIE, OR KNOW THAT THEY'RE ALIVE EVEN IF YOU CAN'T BE WITH THEM! I LOST YOUR FATHER, I DON'T WANT YOU TO LOSE KEIKO!"
"EITHER WAY I LOSE KEIKO! I CAN'T HURT HER AGAIN!"
"YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE! I'M SORRY YUSUKE I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND I'M SORRY THAT I CAN'T TAKE BACK THE PAST BUT I KNOW YOU'RE THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME. I LOST YOUR FATHER, BUT I GOT YOU IN RETURN ANYWAY. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE WAS A DEMON I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!" She took a deep breath, and they turned in silence. "Raizen was going to let your father visit once a month as it was... maybe he'll let you do that too. You have to claim your destiny. If you don't go for it, then Raizen might be replaced by someone who can destroy the rest of the world. Please yusuke. If you don't take it you might be killed too, and you don't want to have to see me go through that twice, do you?" He nodded, realizing that he doesn't want to see anyone else die either.
Damn it Yusuke, he thought to himself. What is keiko going to say about this.
"Koenma... does Yusuke know that he's going to have a son?" I asked, shaking vigarously, unsure of what Yusuke was going to do.
"Not at this point, no." He said. "He knew that he has to go to Keiko, and he knew right at this moment that Keiko was the most important thing to him right now. He honostly couldn't care less for anyone but Keiko and Atsuko. If either of them died because of him, he'd go crazy, almost like when Kuwabara almost died from the younger Toguro during the dark tournament."
He got up, giving his mother a hug, telling her that he'd be back after he talked to Keiko.
Once again, he found himself walking to Keiko's house to give her even more bad news. She was going to kill him for this... no... not kill him. She would break down. This would emotionally get her. She wouldn't be able to handle this. It's been over 2 months since he had seen her. It took a while to get to the Makai and back, as well as they stayed there for additional training that I didn't mention in the story, but it happened. He had his hands in his pocket, this time not having anything there to play with for his nervousness, except for some lint and a quarter.
Why does this have to happen to me, he thought to himself. Out of all this bullshit i've been through, it doesn't get much worse than it is right now. Keiko... I don't want to do this to you, I don't. I don't know how I'm ever going to leave you right now. I'll still keep my promise. Yea... that's it. I know I'll still keep my promise. I don't need to have an offspring with anyone, I'm just ruling. Therefore after I'm dead and in the undead with Keiko, then I won't give a shit who takes over the Makai. Maybe I can talk to Raizen about making Keiko a demon so that she can come live with me there... that can work.
He reached her house, and knocked on the door. He opened up to see a very upset looking Mr. Yukimura. His face was flushed, his eyes were red and bloodshot. He looked like she had lost a lot of weight too since the last time he had seen him. "Hi Mr. Yukimura. Is Keiko there?"
He looked at Yusuke, and it stabbed him in the heart. He felt crushed, this look of such pain seeped into his body as he left the door open and walked inside. Yusuke wasn't sure wether to follow him in or not, so he stayed where he was.
"Are you coming in? If not shut the door." He turned around and remarked. He walked in, closing the door behind him. Mr. Yukimura went upstairs, tears in his eyes, shouting "Why..." He didn't understand at all. He walked into the living room, the first room of the house as soon as you entered the house. He saw Keiko lying there on the couch, in all black, looking very upset. He ran in, and came towards her, grabbing her hand. Then, he felt a liquid on his hand, and he looked down, seeing keiko's hands covered with blood.
"Keiko... what's wrong?" She looked at him, her eyes almost as bloodshot as mrs. yukimura's, her face looking much more hurt than anything. Her eyes suddenly closed, as he felt her pressure on his hand decrease. "KEIKO!"