Yusuke smiled, upon seeing that Touya had quitted his room to join Yusuke in the kitchen. "Anything you want to eat in particular?" he asked of Touya.
"It doesn't matter," was Touya's quiet reply. 'I'm so glad he's finally talking again. Creeped me out, when he wouldn't say a word like that,' thought Yusuke. Touya had not spoken till his question about Yusuke's picture.
"All right, how about... erm..." Yusuke began going through the fridge and pantry, looking for something to make. "Guess I'll throw some frozen pizza in the oven." he said. Touya frowned.
"Pizza? That ningen food with the bread and cheese and tomato sauce?"
"Yeah. But this one's got pepperonis and sausage on it too. I hate sausage... Oh well, it's the only type we got right now. I need to go buy some more," said Yusuke. Touya simply nodded; fascinated by the way Yusuke used the oven, and the apparent intensity of heat it emitted when Yusuke opened it. ((He's spent all his long youkai life in the woods separated from any sort of modern ningen technology. He's not seen an oven or anything before! LOL))
Touya finally sat down, toeing the floor in the awkward silence. He didn't want to talk, just listen to Yusuke. But Yusuke was at a loss. Eventually, Yusuke began talking. "I'm trying to start a punk band, but not having much success. Actually, scratch that, I'm having some success, its just not all coming together immediately. I like things to just work out and be done with it. Oh well. Anyhow, I figure on being the drummer, and Kuwabara says he can play bass guitar, but I haven't heard him yet so who knows. Kurama's too refined to join a punk band, so I wasn't surprised when he said no thanks. I was able to get Hiei interested, though I'm not sure why he said yes. But I don't think he's even seen an electric guitar, since he said I'd need to teach him. I think he'd be good though, once he learned. He could pry come up with some good angsty songs!" said Yusuke with a laugh.
Touya had no idea what punk rock, or a guitar was, or much of anything else, but he was fairly content to just listen. He perked up a little when Yusuke mentioned that he thought Hiei would likely be good once he learned. "Would I be good if I learned?" Touya asked quietly.
((For the record, I'm about to talk about Yusuke seeing how good Touya is, and I don't really know anything about electric guitars, or any other kind of guitar for that matter. I probably will have tons of errors, though I'm gonna try to stay sort of ambiguous. Anyhow, please forgive me if you happen to know how to play a guitar and see errors, and possibly even e-mail me a short descip of how to fix it. It would be appreciated, even if I don't have many mistakes now, because I want to make this a somewhat large part of the story. No, its not just a whim, I actually have an idea for this, it will be an important, if somewhat unnecessary part of the story. Whether I incorporate the rest of my idea, who knows? ((a/n-i did incorporate it, you'll see later!)) LOL god this was a long little note thing. Gonna have to put this at the end, stead of next to the area being discussed, as it is now... ((a/n-I never did, and i never will! -;;)) ))
Yusuke grinned at him. "Only one way to find out, I guess." he said, leading Touya to his garage after checking the oven timer and seeing he still had ten minutes before the pizza would be ready. Turning the lights on, a drum set, several guitars, and a few mics ((SP?)) even, were found. Further inspection found a stereo and recording set. Touya, naturally, didn't recognize any of it. "I'm something of a Jack-of-All trades when it comes to the music world." said Yusuke, picking up a couple electric guitars and handing one to Touya. "And Koenma put up for the instruments and equipment when I asked if I would get anything for my help in the spirit world and stuff. He was a bit mad at first, said that I got my life back, wasn't that enough? But eventually he decided I would be less annoying if he just bought me some equipment and got on with life. or death. or whatever." Yusuke grinned jauntily, helping Touya adjust his guitar. Yusuke scooped up a couple guitar picks, giving one to Touya, who looked at it oddly.
"What's this for?" Touya asked.
Yusuke grinned again. "You use it when you play a guitar so that you don't cut up your fingers and bleed on the equipment. 'cause that would really suck. And it might mess up the guitar, too, if you bled on it. And plus, pics are a bit more specific, it gives you more control when you're playing."
Touya nodded, still bewildered. Yusuke adjusted Touya's grasp on the pick, before taking his own, and playing a short simple tune on his guitar. It was a good thing Touya had been watching, fascinated, because Yusuke then asked him to play it back. Touya did, somewhat shakily. Yusuke repeated this act several times more, and Touya repeated each short phrase with varying degrees of success until Yusuke decided the pizza would probably be done soon, if not already.
As they walked back to the kitchen, Yusuke congratulated Touya, "You did really good for a beginner. Most people are much more awkward than that, and normally they can't play anything back like you did. Once you get the basics and what not, you could definitely be great."
Touya blushed slightly. No one had ever told him he was good at something. Not even Jin, though Touya did have a few compliments from Jin that he could recall, but they were all superficial, at least, most of them. Never had anyone complimented him on his abilities or character. People feared him for both and acknowledged his strength and skill, but not appreciated it. And his master, who taught him his ice skills, never thought he was good enough, always pushing him and smirking, scowling, snickering with each defeat, defiance, disgrace.
The pizza was ready, and Yusuke took it out of the oven, cutting it into eight slices and fetching a couple plates. He placed three slices on each, handing one to Touya. "Be careful-it's still hot yet." Yusuke carefully picked up a slice, blowing on it to cool it off before taking a hesitant bite and wincing at the heat.
Touya watched this process, and then raised his own piece of pizza, blowing on it as well, and having considerably more success then Yusuke at cooling it, as a few tiny ice crystals condensed on his breath and landed on the now lukewarm pizza. Not at all surprised or upset about such a happening, Touya calmly took a bite of the pizza. His eyes positively lit up, and he quite nearly shoved the rest of the slice in his mouth and picked up the next piece, forgetting to blow it off in his eagerness, then yelping and flapping a hand in front of his mouth as, big surprise, the pizza was still too hot. Yusuke laughed and got Touya a glass of water.
"Here, you might find this helpful." said Yusuke as Touya swiped the glass and gulped a swig, setting it down, and blowing on the pizza before finishing it off. With the third piece he was more careful, being sure to blow it off and testing it with his tongue before he practically inhaled it too. Touya raced back to the oven and took the other two slices, carefully cooling them and eating them. Yusuke laughed again at Touya's well-pleased expression, then noticed that Touya's gaze had fallen on his unfinished third slice, which he quickly shoved in his mouth. 'If this is all it takes to make him happy again, he'll be over that dick-head in a week!' observed Yusuke joyfully.