Strange Love

(I know, you must hate Kuwa-chan, but then why are you reading this?! If you are reading this just to flame me for liking the idiot, don't. Get something else to fill up the time in your life.)

(::glomps OKTfan and throws plushies at her:: I love you!!!! And iCy-dRaGoN-MiStReSs and kit-kit! You guys are the greatest! ::showers you with plushies of your fave chars:: All you others, enjoy the chappie and review!)

Yusuke was sleeping and Gun was watching over him while Kuwabara made sandwiches for everyone. Gun had finally gotten to meet Shizuru, and she rocked! Shizuru and she had hit it off nicely.

Kurama and Kuwabara walked into the room with pop and sandwiches.

"You want something?" the orange haired boy asked. Gun smiled and nodded.

"A turkey sandwich and a coke." She replied. Kurama handed them to her and she resumed her post at Yusuke's side.

"You're really worried about him aren't you?" The fox asked. Gun nodded.

"He's my bro, I gotta take care of him. Who once said,

'Am I my brother's keeper'? I am Yusuke's and he is mine. What if he goes comatose? What if, what if he never wakes up? He's part of my small family of four." She replied softly. Kuwabara nodded.

"I know Shizuru and I would do the same." He said. Gun looked at him.

"Oh Kazuma, what if he never wakes up? What if he leaves me?" she cried. Kuwabara hugged her.

"Urameshi won't do that. You're his world. You and Hiei." He soothed. Gun gave a sniffle and nodded as he let go. She resumed her post once more. Kurama touched her shoulder.

"Maybe you should sleep. You've been up since yesterday. I'll watch him and wake you if he shows any signs of waking." He suggested. Gun bit her lip, looked at Yusuke once more, and nodded. Kuwabara led her to his sister's room so she could sleep on her bed.

"Sleep tight, Gun-chan." He said and tucked her worn out body into the covers. She yawned.

"Mmm, night Kazu-chan." She mumbled and practically passed out. Kuwabara smiled and, kissing her cheek, left the room. Gun's eyes opened warily a few seconds after the door closed and she held her cheek.

"Maybe he does care." She said hopefully and really fell asleep.

(A few days later)

"Yusuke? Yusuke!?" Gun asked as said boy's eyelids fluttered open.

"Gun?" he asked sleepily. Gun's face lit up and she jumped onto the bed to hug him.

"Hey there, sleepy head." She whispered, eyes tearing up in happiness.

"Oh Yusuke, you really woke up." She said and muffled it into his shirt. Kuwabara and Kurama walked in and smiled.

"She's been waiting for you to wake up. At first she wouldn't leave your side, stayed awake for two days. We had to make her go to sleep." Kurama said. Yusuke furrowed his brow.

"You should have slept more. And taken better care of yourself. How much have you eaten in the days I've been asleep?" he asked worriedly.

"Well, I ate a sandwich, drank a coke, and ate some spaghetti." She replied nervously.

"You're eating a full meal right now. And I mean now, now. I'm getting up and forcing four courses down your throat if I have to. Besides, I'm hungry too." Yusuke said and his stomach growled. He glared at Kuwabara.

"Why didn't you make sure she was eating?" he asked.

"I didn't want to force her. It's not polite." Replied the boy. Gun smiled.

"He was kind enough to offer every hour on the hour." She replied. Yusuke sighed. Well, Kuwabara had tried.

"Let's go. Shizuru cooks pretty good." Gun said and got up, cheery demeanor back. Her appetite had come back as soon as her brother had woken up.

The brother and sister sat and scarfed down every edible thing in sight.

"They sure are alike, related through blood or no."

A few days later, Yusuke was walking to school since Atsuko kicked him out of the apartment when Hiei flitted in front of him. Yusuke hadn't seen him since before the fight with Suzaku.

"Hey Hiei." He said. Hiei nodded and said 'Hn'.

"The brat upstairs sends this." Hiei said and handed him the tape.

"Why didn't Botan bring it? I have no trouble with you bringing it though." Yusuke asked.

"Dunno. I have to be going but, here." Hiei kissed Yusuke on the cheek and flitted away, leaving a blushing teen. He was happy all that day. He walked into school, smiling like a fool. (I just rymed!)

"Why are you smiling, Yusuke?" Gun asked, sitting on his lap. The school was looking in awe of the two.

"Because this morning, Hiei kissed me on the cheek!" he said softly but over joyed.

"YEAH! Go Sano, go Sano, it's you're birthday, it's your birthday. We gun partay like it's your birthday." Gun said and moon walked around the room. Everyone looked at her and she glared at them before sitting back down on Yusuke's lap.

"I am so happy for you. I'm still waiting for the courage to tell Kazuma." She said.

"Or the courage to ask to be fuck buddies." Yusuke snickered.

"Hmmm, I'm sure you're little Kenshin would like to be fuck buddies with you, Sano." Gun teased and watched as Yusuke's face flushed bright red. Akashi walked into the classroom at that moment.

"If the lovely couple at the back of the room would separate themselves, we'll begin." He sneered. The punks looked disgusted.

"Ah! I don't date family you rat bastard! She's my little sister!" Yusuke said.

"Impossible. She's a Mektei, another scum of the school. She's not a Urameshi." Akashi replied.

"Yes well, you are incredibly disgusting and idiotic ya fucker. I bet your brother is your son." Gun snickered and Akashi's face turned red, along with the class.

"Detention for both of you!" he yelled.

"And? It's not like we ain't skippin it anyway." Yusuke said lazily.

"Two detentions!" Akashi shouted. Kuwabara walked in at that moment.

"Sorry I'm late. Hey Gun, Urameshi. Hey wait a second." He saw Gun in Yusuke's lap.

"Since when do you fuck girls Urameshi?" he asked as Gun got up and hugged him.

"Good day Kazuma-kun. My class is actually down the hall." She called as she walked out. Yusuke was still recovering from the gay comment.

"You know I don't fuck girls, much less my sister." He said. Kuwabara smirked.

"Yes, little virgin. Save yourself for your beloved Hiei." He laughed as Yusuke turned cherry red.

"If you would kindly SIT DOWN, we can begin class!!" Akashi screamed. The punks raised eyebrows at him.

"Wow, you know I think he thinks we care. Amazing." Yusuke said.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Well, I might as well sit down." Kuwabara did so and class went on for almost all of its time, until they heard shouting out of the window they sat by. The class ran to see the commotion. Gun was shouting at two older boys, Kuwabara sensed they were demons. One struck her and Yusuke hopped from their first story classroom with Kuwabara.

"Don't you touch her!" they yelled and did a double kick. Gun was wiping the blood off of her chin.

"Thanks. I wasn't expecting them." She said and slipped into fighting stance.

"You bastards are going to die for punching me." She growled and knocked the demons around before decapitating them with her punches. The kids in the room looked like they were going to barf as blood spewed over the small girl.

"Ah! Distaste!" Gun cried and stretched out her tank to wring the blood out of it. (I know, sometimes they talk weird and stuff, but I've been watching the subtitles and it's stuck in my head.)

"I suggest we go home." Yusuke piped.

"I agree." Kuwabara chirped. And so they skipped down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. Err, sorry, sugar high moment (I actually wrote that without even thinking). They walked to Yusuke's house and waited for Gun to get cleaned up. She walked in, in her white fighting gi.

"C'mon, let's go to Kuwabara's and watch the tape Hiei gave me." Yusuke said and they walked to Kuwabara's house to watch the movie. They were watching the new mission when they saw Yukina, Kuwabara jumped up and did the worse thing Gun thought he could do.

"She's beautiful!" he cried. Gun couldn't blame him. She was only a blue haired, blue eyed punk with glasses and Yukina was a sea green haired, lovely crimson eyed geisha like girl. Any boy would pick Yukina over her. She got up.

"I, suddenly don't feel well." She said and walked swiftly from the room. Kuwabara didn't notice since he was focused on Yukina and getting to her. Yusuke glared at him as he left and Shizuru looked sadly at the screen.

"He said she was pretty and hurt Gun's feelings didn't he?" she asked. Yusuke and Botan nodded and watched the rest of the tape before getting Gun, who had tear stained cheeks and red eyes, and leaving. They met up with Kuwabara and walked on. When they got lost, Kuwabara deepened the wound by talking about the red string of fate and his love for the koorime. Botan was right beside the heartbroken Gun, helping her take the next step and helping her make her feet move.

"You're really lovely, underneath it all." Gun choked while singing.

"You want to love me. Underneath it all." She sobbed once softly.

"I'm really lovely, underneath it all." She sniffled and didn't sound convinced she was lovely at all.

"You're really, lovely." She said and almost broke down again. Botan kept supporting her while Yusuke glared furiously at Kuwabara, who was oblivious.

"I swear, I'll kill him." Yusuke snarled, but was kept back by Botan's efforts to keep his sister upright in her stumbling.

"Yusuke, don't. I love him, no matter what." Came Gun's whispery reply. Yusuke would go to charge forward until Gun would place a hand on his arm and tell him,

"I love him too much to lose him. But if he's happy I'll let him have her" she would always say the pronoun in distaste. Contrary to popular belief, Kuwabara heard it all.

'She loves me? So much she'd let me go with out even telling me she loved me, so I could go on living blissfully unaware how I was hurting her?' he asked himself.

'What a terrible thing I've done. I wondered if she loved me and would get jealous, as I would if she found someone else, but I've hurt her beyond words. I need to make it right.' He said to himself determinedly. He walked back to them.

"May I talk privately to Gun for a minute?" he asked. Yusuke looked at him as if sizing him up to see if he was worthy to talk to his precious treasure, but Gun nodded and stepped forward.

"Of course, come on Kazuma. We'll call you if we get into trouble Yusuke." She said, keeping her head bowed. Kuwabara and she walked a little east so they were out of whisper shot, but in yelling distance and could find their way back.

"Gun, look at me." Kuwabara demanded and tilted her unwilling chin upward so he could see her red puffy eyes and her cheeks that had tears running down them. He frowned and gently wiped away her crystalline rivers before kissing her eyelids.

"Why?" she asked softly.

"So many answers for that, please specify which why." Kuwabara joked softly.

"Why are you doing this? I don't have to ask why you chose her, she's much prettier than I." Gun said and tried to turn her head away. Kuwabara shook his head and kept her chin still with his strong, steady hand. He then carefully lowered his lips to her, catching them and kissing her sweetly. When he pulled away, he looked tenderly into her eyes.

"I love you and only you. I was awful, and, not knowing you loved me, I decided to do a test of jealousy. Yukina merely popped up. I never cared for her, like I love you. Please, forgive me." He pleaded. Gun looked at him, ready to chew him out, but decided she could do that later and threw her arms around him. (:Starts singing the rest of the song: But I'm so full of forgiveness I guess it's meant to be!! Mwahahaha!!)

"Oh Kazuma, I've waited forever for you to say you love me. I love you!" she cried. Kuwabara's arms held her tightly but gently.

"I love you too." He said and sat down with her in his lap.

"We have to leave soon or they'll come looking for us." Gun said absently, not wanting to leave Kuwabara's embrace for the world.

"Yeah." He replied, just as absently.

"How long have you loved me?" Gun asked suddenly. Kuwabara thought for awhile, and then nodded his head.

"I have loved you since the Rando incident. Since when have you loved me?" he inquired.

"Every since I saw you when we were on a class field trip to the museum last year. I saw you and the feminine part of my mind said 'Girl, he's the one.' I've loved you ever since." She took the opportunity to kiss him and smiled as they broke.

"You know, you should really try for an acting career. You had everybody fooled." She said. Kuwabara grinned.

"What can I say, I'm talented." He said, faking bragging.

"I'm sure in more ways than one." Gun said and giggled at his red face as they walked back to Botan and Yusuke.