Hiei snorted, "Your bi, Yusuke? You sure don't act the part."

"Shut-up Hiei! Besides, we all know your gay!" Yusuke scowled. He wasn't bi- but something kept him from denying it....

Hiei's grin widened. "Since you didn't deny it I suppose I can finally tell you all the fantasies I've had about you..." Yusuke, Kuwabara and Yukina all stared at him. Hiei shook his head. "Just kidding." He stood and sat back on the windowsill.

"That was weird.... Shortie made a joke...." Kuwabara said, and Yusuke snickered. Yukina sighed and began tending Touya's burns again. "Back to the important issues.... The Great Urameshi Yusuke is Bi!!!!" Kuwabara laughed like it was the funniest thing in the world and soon found Yusuke's fist buried in what once was a working, if not good, face.

"Both of you, SHUT THE BLOODY FUCK UP!" said Yusuke with a menacing scowl. "I can kick both yall's asses, and you both know it!" Hiei and Kuwabara were quiet, but still couldn't suppress the occasional snicker. Yusuke sighed. "So, Yukina, anything yet?"

"Well, he's stable, breathing, he has a good pulse, etc. There's not much I can do until Kurama cooks up some sort of restorative. I would, but he's just as good at that kind of thing, so I might as well work on these burns." Yusuke cringed, if he'd just been faster!

"Let me help then," he said. Yukina nodded and Hiei and Kuwabara laughed again. They were silenced by a glare, as Yusuke began rubbing the aloe on Touya's burned skin, then wrapping it with the gauze bandages. Moron, why didn't you put aloe on him before? You panicked and didn't bother to see if he was breathing or anything and ran out right away. Yusuke thought to himself dejectedly. If something happened to Touya....

Kurama came in holding a vial of crimson liquid after about 20 minutes. Touya was the same as before, and the room was silent. Kurama looked around wondrously and nearly dropped his vile at the wide grin on Hiei's face, and the fact the he and Kuwabara were actually talking to each other quietly occasionally and laughing. "What happened?" he murmured, kneeling next to Touya and tipping the eerie liquid down Touya's throat. Yusuke watched somewhat apprehensively as the stuff slid thickly out of the glass vile and down Touya's throat. Kurama followed it with a glass of water he pulled from god only knows where ((possibly from his hair snicker snicker ))

Touya coughed and his eyes sprang open then painfully shut again. Slowly they opened again, much less wider than before. "Uhg, what... What happened to me, Yusuke?" Touya asked.

Yusuke sighed gratefully. "Not sure. You fainted and fell on the oven door. That's why your left arm, hand, and the left side of your face are all burnt. You had us worried. I've seen you unconscious before, I'd rather not again, unless you're just sleeping..." Yusuke amended. Hiei and Kuwabara snickered again, drawing another glare from Yusuke.

"Oh..." Touya sighed, looking at the bandaged arm and wincing. He brought his right hand to his face and found it sticky. Aloe. It stung just thinking about it, so Touya tried to think of something else, rather unsuccessfully at first.

"You're okay, right?" Yukina asked. Touya nodded. "Well, you were lucky, kind of. Your burns are few and they're not strong because Yusuke pulled you off the oven before you had time to get burned very badly. And you came to easily, also." Yukina grinned weakly.

"We should go," Yusuke and Touya said in union. Hiei and Kuwabara burst out laughing. This time Yukina silenced Hiei and Kuwabara with her own glare, and the added intensity of Kurama's had Hiei quaking, Yusuke satisfactorily had Kuwabara nearly pissing his pants.

Touya's face reflected puzzlement. "Why are they laughing?" He asked. Yusuke just shook his head and grabbed Touya's good hand, rather roughly pulling him up. Touya wavered a moment before gaining balance. Yusuke's face showed slight apprehension when Touya wavered, relieved when Touya was okay. They walked out, Touya practically dragged by Yusuke who wanted to get AWAY from Kuwabara's and Hiei's taunting and laughing.

After they were a ways off Yusuke let go of Touya's hand, angry with Touya in a vague, reasonless way, more angry with Hiei and Kuwabara, most angry with himself. Yusuke looked back at Touya and regret himself; the poor, abused little ice demon was clearly upset. Yusuke sighed. "I'm sorry Touya, I shouldn't have been rough on you like that. I just took some of my anger out on you, which was wrong," Yusuke said. Touya nodded, silent. Yusuke shook his head. "Look, please, don't you be upset with me too! Keiko's mad, mom's mad, Hiei and Kuwabara think they found something new to tease me about, course it's not true but.... I don't have many people left to talk to, and I didn't have many to start out with!"

Touya smiled weakly. "What are they saying?"

"That I'm Bi." Yusuke said after a pause. Touya stopped a moment then scrambled to catch back up to Yusuke. "Why'd you stop?"

"No reason." Touya said.

Yusuke looked at him oddly. "You're lying again, Touya."

Touya grinned. "Caught."

"C'mon, we'll stop at a fast food place somewhere on the way to get something to eat. The lasagna you made will have long since gotten burnt, probably." Yusuke said after a while. They stopped at a Burger King and ate before returning to home and going to bed. Yusuke offered to share but Touya refused, saying it was a bit small for the both of them- he would stay on the futon tonight.