"Hey, Touya! Come down here!" Yusuke's voice rang clear and Touya's eyes opened in thin slits, blinking at the golden light that seeped in from the window. For a moment, Touya forgot where he was, and his training and youkai instincts took over, he leaped from Yusuke's bed; glancing about frantically a moment. "Touya! Hurry up!" Touya calmed, remembering - he was at Yusuke's house. He sighed, and then a new thought struck him. Why was it so late in the day? He normally woke with the dawn. However, judging by the sunlight, it had to be about midday.
Quite fully awake now, Touya quickly went downstairs where Yusuke was in the kitchen. "What do you want to eat?" Yusuke asked. He was wearing jeans, a white t-shirt, and a cooking apron. His hair was unbrushed and the clothes looked wrinkled like they hadn't been washed since he last wore them. The overall effect was rather comical.
Still slightly out of sorts from his panic attack a moment ago, Touya said the first ningen food that came to mind. "Pizza." The humor of the situation had yet to dawn on him.
Yusuke snickered. "I guess it's late enough in the day to have it, but for the first thing you eat? We did just have some last night." Yusuke crossed his arms over his chest, and bore an extreme resemblance to a scolding mother who couldn't help but be amused by their child's latest antics.
"Pizza," was the resolute response Touya gave to this declaration. "What time is it?" He then added. Touya glanced around and spotted a clock, but he didn't understand the ningen numbers.
"Umm...." Yusuke followed Touya's glance to the oven clock and quickly realized Touya's loss for its meaning. "About 1:30."
"1:30? Why did you let me sleep so late?" Touya asked. He didn't want to get into bad habits.
"Well, we stayed up real late last night, and I figured a little more time would help you feel better when you woke up." Yusuke responded. Touya shook his head slightly. "Besides, you did have that nightmare interrupt your sleep and I know you stayed awake a while after that happened, although I don't think you had anymore nightmares." Yusuke hurried to elaborate; Touya clearly was not fully pleased with his first answer. "Oh, also, Koenma told me he's having trouble with a small group of rebellious youkai at the border. Normally he'd have another group take care of it, but all his other detectives are busy apparently. SO! He's sending me and the others to go take care of it. Which means that you will either be here, or you can go stay at Genkai's temple with Yukina. I'll warn you though, if you stay here, chances are that you'll mostly be alone. My mom might drop in occasionally, but she probably won't be much use. She'll be too drunk or hungover to do much of anything."
Touya stared at Yusuke. They'd barely just got back and he already had to run off? "How long?"
"Not long-a week at most I'd bet. Koenma made it sound like these guys were pretty wimpy, just a bit tricky and he didn't have anyone else free. And Hiei and Kurama can take care of any traps or something these little fucks can come up with."
Touya knew better, even with his short acquaintance, than to ask Yusuke if he would be all right. After all, Yusuke had clearly proven himself in the Dark Tournament, and would only be insulted if Touya asked. "Right," was, therefore, all he said.
Yusuke grinned. "K. I'll put another pizza in and you can practice some more while it cooks. I want to give you a few more of the basics to practice while I'm away." Touya nodded, feeling strangely upset. As he said he would, Yusuke put another frozen pizza in the oven, and the two of them went to the garage.
"Here." Yusuke handed one of the guitars to Touya, to whom it already felt natural. They briefly reviewed what Touya had learned the last night, and then Yusuke went to check the pizza while Touya practiced alone for a few moments.
The pizza was done cooking, so Yusuke called Touya out, and Touya carefully put the guitar away. Touya walked back into the kitchen, still slightly dispirited. Everything else was bad enough, but now his savior was leaving. Even though it shouldn't be long and there shouldn't be any problems... What if something went wrong? What would happen to him? He took the plate Yusuke offered and sat down. He didn't say word, and ate with much less 'enthusiasm' than the night before. Yusuke attributed it to Touya's thought's wandering back to his rape and decided for the moment all he could say was nothing.