"Okubo! And Mitarai-san?" Kuwabara asked in shock.

"Hey you haven't seen me since high school and this is how you treat me?" Okubo asked with false anger, Mitarai just stood there looking sheepish.

"First off we only finished high school 2 years ago and I did see you at the supermarket once!" Kuwabara complained

"Well that's not the point, I came to visit you after I heard you were in the hospital! Oh and Mitarai-san tagged along I swear you're like his idol or something." Okubo said playfully.

Mitarai huffed angrily but then turned to Kuwabara with a small smile, " Long time no see 'ne Kazuma-san?"

" Yeah, how you been doing? You're graduating soon aren't you?" Kuwabara asked eagerly.

"Actually I graduated a year ago, I set invitations to everyone and got a call from Kurama 6 months later saying he had just gotten it, I suppose the others got lost in the mail; right now I got into college I'm studying physics and marine biology. I supposed my 'special talents' would help a lot." Said Mitarai hinting the special talents so only Kuwabara would understand. "How about you, I heard you also got into college."

Kuwabara nodded " Medicine. I wanted vetnary but my sis convinced me to go with pediatrics, besides helping little kids is like a dream job."

Okubo's brows were furrowed, " You guys got into such cool careers I only got into business administration, luckily my friend from Kyoto father runs a company and has me working in the central here. That's why I have the ridiculous penguin suit." He grumped unhappily.

Kuwabara only just noticed the suit, " Okubo I'm so glad for you!" he exclaimed happily.

His unhappiness was replaced with a smirk, " Pretty impressive for a dump guy like me huh?"

Kuwabara nodded, "Yup, I the unlucky med student get to practice only after my fourth year, they're afraid I'll kill someone, how about you Mitarai?"

"Oh well I was taken on an excursion for the registration of mammalian and aquatic life in Papua New Guinea, which reminds me. Here." He said giving Kuwabara a medium sized package.

He eagerly opened it to find another two packages inside. He opened one of the and found two more inside, he repeated the process about 3 more times until he finally got to the actual package sighing in frustration along the way.

He opened the first one to find many pieces of coral and other sea related objects. He fingered the in amazement.

The second one contained a kit against kidnappers. Pepper spray, multi-use knife and other things like that. He laughed and put it away.

The third contained a genuine leather wallet handmade by sailors in Papua New Guinea.

The last contained an… oyster? Kuwabara looked at it in confusion until he noticed a scalpel in the package.

"Open it." Mitarai said nonchalantly.

He did, he opened it to find a bottle green pearl.

"Wow, this must have cost a fortune thank you so much!"

"Actually" Mitarai began " they were given to me as gifts so the didn't cost anything."

"I wonder how the die them?" Kuwabara said distractedly.

"They don't, its natural." Mitarai replied smartly.

"Wow thanks so much!" Kuwabara said loudly hugging the startled water psychic.

Okubo tapped him on the shoulder. " Here its not as fancy as his." He said rather grumpily " but I got you somethin' anyways."

Kuwabara eagerly opened one of the two packages and found something very special. It was a baseball, the baseball that had started the "gang". They were all 11 when they saw a classmate playing; a few moments later a 16-year-old came and stole it from him. Kuwabara being the honorable guy he was of course tried to beat him up. He was failing miserably until Okubo and two of his friends came and helped him out. When they got it back their classmate told them to keep it as thanks for helping him, soon the four boys formed a friendship.

The ball was signed with special notes from Komada, Kirishima and Okubo. Kuwabara fingered it with admiration and gently set it down. " Those were the days, when we all wanted to become policeman huh?"

Okubo had a fond smile, "Kirishima became a policeman, Komada is studying to be a teacher he says he wants to be a proper one unlike Iwamoto."

Kuwabara nodded and sighed, he went on to the next package. He opened it to find a collar made completely out of bottle caps. Another fond smile lit his face " I remember this, this is from when I wanted the collar for Eikichi and couldn't afford it so you guys made one for me, you guys are the best." Tears slowly dropped down his face.

"Hey don't get soft on us now." Okubo said playfully, although he too had tears in his eyes.

Mitarai gave a sad smile he wished he could have had such good friends while he was growing up. " I have to go now, I have the night shift at college today and I need to sleep. Please get well soon Kazuma-san I will visit you soon."

"Hai study a lot Kiyoshi-san! Sayonara!" Kuwabara said happily.

"Ja ne." and he softly left.

Kuwabara turned slowly to Okubo and noticed he was picking up his things. "Leaving too?"

" Yup. I came here on break and I'm gonna be late if I don't get a move on." Okubo said nonchalantly.

Kuwabara was shocked " You slacker!"

Okubo stuck his tongue out at him, " Two years since we last saw each other and you treat me like this? I'm hurt Kuwabara-kun."

" See you tomorrow." Kuwabara said with a smile.

" Yeah have fun opening your gifts." And he sped off.

" Hey what gifts?" he called after him.

"These gifts." Replied a familiar voice.

He turned to see Sora carrying a rather large stack of gifts. " They arrived for you before but I didn't want to interrupt."

"Hai, thank you Sora-chan." The youth thanked her.

She gave a radiant smile that reminded him much of Botan, her ebony hair was also in a high ponytail and her green eyes radiated the same kind of happiness. The similarities were almost too many for that moment.

"Here." She said handing the first one.

He looked down; the note said ' To a good friend and noble and kind person, I hope someday you'll forgive me.' Kuwabara was puzzled but he opened it nonetheless. It was a Metallica CD and Walkman. " All right! Now I wont be bored out of my mind!" He set it apart and continued to look through the presents.

The next had no name only a 'Hn.' Printed on it which Kuwabara imagined was only worthy of Hiei. He was shocked to find a dark looking Hiruseki stone inside. Didn't those cost a fortune? He admired its beauty and simplicity and slowly tied it around his neck.

" Wow it so beautiful." Sora complimented.

"Isn't it?" and he moved onto the next one. It was from Keiko, a book on pediatrics. The note said:

I know from experience that hospitals are boring so I got you a book than I thought, isn't a book boring? So I got this for you too. I hope you like it!

It was a DVD of his favorite cartoon.

"WE have DVD players here, you can watch it" Sora said happily, she obviously watched it too.

"Yeah thanks, we'll watch it together ne?"

"If you don't mind" Sora replied, a soft blush on her cheeks.

The next gift was from Yusuke. It had a long note:

At first I told myself, I'm going to kill Kuwabara if he dies because if this until I realized it was my fault. Sure in your letter you said that the teasing and lack of love was the main reason for this happening, but I know better. Ha. If I learned something about you during these 5 years is that if there is something you hate, it's to feel helpless or useless. You're such a noble person, you always want to help everyone and not let them help in return. Your stubbornness helps that don't you think? But moving back to what I said before, I know those are the things you hate the most. But you know what? I always feel like that too. Like I'm useless and that I cant do anything to help I know how terrible it is. And do you know what was the time I felt the most uselessness? That time when you sacrificed yourself so I could beat Toguro. I felt like I had lost my best friend, my brother one of the few people that understood me and I couldn't do anything to get revenge or to bring you back. If you think no one cares about you or that everyone hates you, you're fucking wrong. I care. I worry. I do. And just so you know, I cried all over the fucking sheet about twice and had to write the letter about 6 more fucking times. I know you wont talk to me, but I hope you like my gift. And if you wont get better for us do it for someone you care about. I don't care if you never talk to me again, but I want to see you live and be happy. Just pull through.

Your best friend,

Yusuke Urameshi.

He slowly unwrapped the gift, he knew he was crying a river in front of Sora but didn't care.

He gasped when he saw what it was. It was the rarest manga volume of his favorite manga, along with his favorite sweets and the eraser he had given Yusuke about 7 years ago. Although it wouldn't mean much to most people, that eraser pretty much was the whole history of their first fight and friendship.

He softly wiped his eyes and opened the gift from his sister, which contained a simple yet endearing note that said ' I love you, get better or else' It was… another med book.

He laughed; he knew his sister would make him study even on the verge of death.

The last gift was a large cake, which he recognized as Yukina's; the words sorry were written on it. It contained a note as well:

I'm sorry I really am. I've never been like this and I'm afraid I'll do it again. I've gone back to Makai and I hope to be back in a year or so. If I'm not I just want you to know I do care and that I do love you. I hope you'll forgive me someday.

Kuwabara gave a sad smile, she had left and he hadn't been able to mend the situation. That sucked.

"Sora-chan?"

" Yes Kazuma-kun?"

"Tell Yusuke and my sis that they can visit me, but only them."

She gave a bright smile." Sure"

(End Chapter)

Kuwabara goodness huzzah!

I can't help that he worries about Yukina; he's too caring to not care! Oh and Yukina is doing something important. Can anyone guess?

I brought Okubo and Mitarai to the story huzzah! I love Okubo he's so chubby and cute. And I feel he has the strongest relation with Kuwabara out of the whole group. And Mitarai is like his fan, but in a good non-obsessed way but he sooo cute too!

Well here you go! R and R please!