Chapter 4

"KEIKO DIDN'T DIE DID SHE?" I screamed, feeling very confused.
"You'll see." He said to me. I took a deep breath, trying to contain myself. "Well, as soon as Yusuke saw that..."

He checked for a pulse, still feeling one. 'Thank God.' He thought. He ran in the kitchen grabbing a cold cloth, putting it on her head. He wiped off the blood off of her hands too. She fainted, she'll be concious in a little while. What happened while he was gone? Was it that bad? Something must have happened in the Yukimura house. Something was wrong with Mr. Yukimura as well, and he wanted to know what was going on. 'Yusuke... why the hell did you have to leave?' Then he remembered that I would have to kill him if he didn't. 'Damn it Koenma! Why are you doing this.' I popped up, seeing Keiko in her unconcious state right now.
"I'm doing this for your own good. I should have told you that this was going to happen, but I couldn't. I didn't think that you were going to have to make a choice and that you would just leave. That's what it said you were supposed to do. You weren't supposed to have sex with Keiko, but you were supposed to propose to her. You if you wouldn't have had sex you would have saved her from encountering something different."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU SPOILED BRAT!" Yusuke screamed. "WHY IS IT THAT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING! CAN'T YOU JUST DEAL WITH IT AND MOVE ON?"
"Yusuke, you don't understand something. Remember when you died, how if you wouldn't have gotten in the way that the kid would have survived without a scratch?" Yusuke shook his head. I took a deep breath. "Well, I don't want to be the one to tell you this, so I'm going to leave out details and wait for Keiko to tell you, which will be in about 10 minutes if my clock is right." I took a deep breath, and started. "You having sex with Keiko led to one thing which happened, which led to another thing happening. Understand this Yusuke, When you're born, you have a destiny that is picked for you, and what is going to become of your situation. No matter what path you take, it always ends up to your destiny no matter what happens. So, if you wouldn't have had sex with Keiko, something wouldn't have happened, but since this event wasn't a big importance in your destiny or in hers, it didn't matter so it was allowed to happen. But since you did, something worse happened."
"AHHHHH!" Keiko screamed as she woke up.
"DAMN IT!" I screamed. "My clock is off. You'll find out now." I vanished, as I heard him say quickly
"KOENMA GET BACK HERE!" He screamed, and then looked over to Keiko. "Are you alright?"
"IT'S STILL THERE... WHY IS THIS HAPPENING! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME?" She cried, tears flowing as quickly as a stream from her eyes. "STOP HAUNTING ME!"
"KEIKO! IT'S YUSUKE! I'M RIGHT HERE!" He said. She looked at him, and jumped into his arms. "It's ok... I'm here Keiko. I'm here... right now."
"I'm so happy you're here. I need you so much right now. When did you get back?"
"Just today, actually last night at like 2 in the morning, but oh well. What's going on."
He felt her dig her face into his chest, as he tightened her grip on him. "Well... I was in the car with my brother, Shonin, and we were going..." she stopped for a second, then started a second. "To the grocery store to pick up something for Kasaan. We got what we needed and we were on our way off to come back here. We got stopped at a traffic light, as this car pulled up next to us. The guy in the car next to us was about 18, and was reving the car, challenging my brother. He started reving the car, and I told him not to. I said that I was in the car and that there was a chance that you could hurt my..." She stopped again, then looked to him and said. "um... life, as well as his. So he ignored me and started the car. It was going so fast, it was insane. I was in tears, I was having trouble breathing, I was so afraid. I closed my window because the gust of wind was hurting my cheeks. I tightened my seatbelt and grabbed the groceries from the back, which was actually a bunch of paper towels, and toilet paper, as well as... um... tampons for my mom, which i took out and threw in the back seat. I turned to the side, ducked my head and put the paper towels and toilet paper on the side of my body, which hit to the side of the car so if he did crash, I wouldn't be thrusted forward and hit in the stomach. I couldn't see anything, I kept my head down, and started crying. Shonin kept telling me to stop being such a baby. Suddenly, at that moment I felt the car shake, and i felt pressure go against me. When I finally felt it stopped, I wiped my ears and saw blood coming from my brother's forehead. It was gushing out, going everyone.. But he was alive, he looked over to me, making sure I was alright. I didn't have a scratch on me and I felt fine, except a little pain on the side of my body, but I wasn't worried about that, I was worried about the front of my body so I was ok. I took some of the paper towels and handed them to him, so he could stop the blood. He looked out the windshield which was completely shattered, and saw the car infront of him. He stopped, looked at in in complete horror. I put the stuff back in the back of the car, and looked out the shattered windshield as well. The car infront of us was a silver car, flames coming out from the front as it was crushed completely. It looked like it got struck as it was turning, right in the spot where the door started, very close to it's engine. I ran out of the car along with Shonin to try and help the people. We tried to open the door, we heard one person screaming, saying 'Help! She's badly injured! someone get help!' We tried to open the door, he went to go for the one that wasn't opening, I ran to the other side, where that door was able to be opened... and... and..." She started histerically crying. She couldn't hold it in. She firmed her grip on him, in tears. Her grip was so tight on him that it opened the cut again on her hand, as blood began dripping onto his arms, flowing down his back as well. He grabbed the wet cloth that he had on her head and put it on her hand, wrapping it firmly.
"What keiko! What happened!"
"It was... on the other side... I saw her dead... it was..." She took a deep breath, as you could hear her pain in her voice as she tried to stammer out the word. "It was... mm..mm..mm.."
I didn't want her to finish it.. I had a feeling what she was going to say.
"It was my mom..." She said. "Shonin killed his very own mom... the one woman who gave him life... he took away hers... he took it away from us... I could have stopped him... I could have told him to let me out which would have bought a few more seconds which might have spared her life... OH YUSUKE." She said, pressing so hard into his body, as Yusuke started crying too.
"Keiko... it's ok."
"The blood... it was everywhere. I tried to save her, but by the time we got there, she had already lost too much blood. She got hit too hard... there was nothing we could do to save her...the ambulance came and all shonin could say was 'I'm fine, go help my kaachan! Please.' Shonin's ok, but he's being put on trial this afternoon. Please come with me Yusuke. I need someone there with me. I hope they let him off easy, I know that seeing his own mother dead is more than anyone could handle, especially if they were the one who killed her. I have no idea how Shonin is feeling right now, he's in jail right now, cold and alone. I should be there with him." She bursted out crying again.
"Keiko... no. You didn't do anything wrong. He didn't mean to either." Now he knew what I meant when I told him that if he did one thing, something would happen to someone else. She must have gotten in a fight with her mother about me... about where I have been since she saw me so much for the past week. She must have told her mother what we did... then her mother got upset and left. Because I had sex with Keiko... she lost her mother. I grasped Keiko in my arms. "I'll be with you, during the trial. I'll be there."

"Koenma..." Was all I could say to that.
"Botan... listen. I didn't want this to happen, but it said that if Keiko and Yusuke were to have a kid, that her mother would die, and Keiko is indeed pregnant right now. She hasn't told Yusuke yet. She kind of lied to him at the same time though."
"How so?" I asked
"Well, they did go to the grocery store, to pick up the toilet paper and the paper towels, but also to pick up a kit to see if she was pregnant. They weren't going home though, they were going to the doctors. Keiko's mom didn't know that she was pregnant, but she knew something happened between them. She ran out of the house, hopped in her car, and went to her friend's house. Keiko and Shonin went to run errands for their father, and that's how it happened."
"Oh my god..." Was all I could stammer out.
"It gets worse." he said, as he walked over to me, instead of being in his toddler form, he turned into his teenage form so he could put his arms around me. "I'm only going to finish if you want me to though.
I looked at him. "I have to know."
"Ok... well, here it goes..."

They went to the trial, dressed in suits and dresses. Keiko had a black button down dress that had a strap on her shoulder, and another strap that was on her arm. It went to her knees, and had a v-neck top. Yusuke didn't gel up his hair, but had dress pants and a dress shirt on. He held Keiko's hand as they went into the courtroom, as he could feel how nervous they were. They sat down, Mr. Yukimura sitting next to them. Suddenly we saw Shorin as he approached the bench. He sat down, looking back at Yusuke and Keiko. She grasped his hand tighter, as he moved closer to him for emotional support. "ALL RISE for the honorable Judge Wakimuru." Everyone stood as the Judge entered the room.
"Please be seated." He said, as everyone sat down. "Now, you got in an accident while drag racing down a main road. Please explain what happened."
"It's true, I was drag racing and the other car turned, and I didn't realize it and I wasn't looking, so I hit a car." Shorin said, very quietly.
"Is it true the car you hit was your very own mothers?"
"Yes sir, it is." He said, tears forming in his eyes. The judge looked at him with sympathy.
"How do you pleed?"
"Guilty as charged." Shorin said, tears coming down now. Keiko started crying too, as Yusuke held her in his arms, as he looked at shorin. What courage this man must have, having to admitt infront of all these people that he had killed his own mother because of drag racing.
"That is an awfully tough experience to go through, and I bet it has taught you not to do it again, incase you hit another car while doing it. But, the law says that you get 20 years in prison for this, and honostly I think you have suffered enough. If I don't give you something though, I will get complaints, so lets even it out. You'll get 4 years in prison, and 20 years of probation. Your drivers license will be taken from you at the end of this, and you will have to re-take another test at the end of your probation. Case is closed." The Judge got up and left, as you saw tears in his eyes too. Shorin was upset, you could tell. Yusuke & Keiko ran up to Shorin, unlike Mr. Yukimura who started towards the exit.
"Is Dad never talking to me again?" Shonin asked. "I deserve it I guess. I'm sorry Keiko for making you go through this. I should have listened to you, then I wouldn't be in this situation. I thought I deserved a lot more than the judge had given me."
"No, you didn't." Keiko said. "I think that it's more than enough what you're going through right now." She hugged him, and then the guards came to take Shonin to prison.
"Yusuke, it's nice seeing you." Shonin said. "Thank you for coming, you better take care of Keiko, she's told me everything. Congrats by the way!" He said.
"Shonin, we'll come visit you!" Keiko said, taking Yusuke by the hand as they were leaving. Keiko had tears in her eyes and she didn't want to see her brother being taken away by guards. "SHONIN!" She screamed, as they had just left the courthouse. "WHY DID THIS HAPPEN... YOU WERE THE ONE FAMILY MEMBER WHO UNDERSTANDS ME..." Yusuke kneeled down, taking her in his arms.
"Keiko, I'm here for you. I am here for you right now, I'm not going anywhere. I love you."

Authors Note:

Sorry I haven't updated in a long time. This chapter was based on a true story I heard when watching Opera (believe it or not) with my mom. I know I know weird, me watching opera. I was helping my mom with stuff since she just got surgery on her foot and it was on so we watched it. I wanted to have something to make Yusuke want to stay more with Keiko, and I thought, this would fit in perfectly. My deepest sympathy to the family that this happened to, and so you know you're in my prayers that you get through this while the son is in jail. I'm honoring your strength to get through this in this chapter xoxo.

Jess Pete