Truth Be Told
By: Anikara

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its characters.

Hello all, first of all I want to apologize for chapter 5; it sucked. I made so many errors and overdid things a bit; please forgive me. The p.m. was a mistake, it supposed to be a.m. and the whole blushing matter, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize how much I overexerted it. It has taken me two weeks to update, reason being is because I had so much to do. At the moment I have some spare time so I decided to do an update. Hope you enjoy and that it's a better improvement then my last.

Chapter Six: Realization
"Keiko, sheesh, I said I was sorry. I swear I was coming this morning but some bastards decided to come pick on me, but like always I kicked their sorry asses," Yusuke said gruffly.

"So tell me Yusuke, does it take you more than seven hours just to fight some weak demons and get to my house?"

"Uh, yeah, about that, you see…I got kinda…distracted," he said as he hanged on his last word.

"What got you distracted Yusuke Urameshi," she said dangerously.

"Keiko you got to understand, the latest game came out in the arcade, I couldn't resist."

"You ditched me to go to some arcade," she said angrily with hurt evident in her voice.

"…Kieko," he said lightly. "That's not what I meant, I didn't ditch you. After fighting those demons I kinda forgot about our meeting when I saw the sign on the arcade. I even ditched Kuwabara's offer to the arcade cause I promised you I'd see you," he said with guilt. ' Damn…I hurt her again,' he thought in the back of his head.

Keiko looked up at him as her frown was replaced with a small smile. "Okay Yusuke, I believe you…just don't do it again or I'll really be mad next time," she said cheerfully.

Yusuke grinned at her. "Sure thing."

"Uh, Yusuke, didn't you say that you were going to Genkai's temple for some reason. Now that I mention it, why are you going, is this another mission," she asked worriedly.

Yusuke's eyes widened as his mouth dropped open. "Damn…I forgot about the old hag, damn toddler and his bossy demands," he yelled. Hurriedly, he closed his mouth as he turned towards Keiko. 'Oh shit, I wasn't going to tell her, she's definitely going to catch the slip off,' he cursed to himself.

"Its another mission, isn't it, Yusuke," she said anxiously as her eyes glinted with the tears that dared to come soon.

Yusuke looked up at her as he met her eyes. "Keiko…this ones not that serious, they're just probably some weak demons just begging for their asses to be kicked, I can handle it. No big deal, so don't get all teary eyed with me."

Keiko smiled feeling a little relieved, but fear sill lurked in her smooth features. "Okay Yusuke," she said quietly. "Just don't die on me. That day you faced Sensui scared me…I thought you'd never back to me."

Yusuke's eyes softened temporally, but changed back to his normal mischievous eyes. "C'mon Keiko, you don't have to worry about me. I've come back from the dead twice already and stronger than ever, no one can beat me," he said with a grin shinning upon his face.

"I sure do hope so, now you should head to Genkai's temple."

"Oh yeah," he yelled in realization. "The old hag."

"Yusuke, you should show more respect towards Genkai."

"Oh, grandma doesn't mind," he said with a playful smile.

"You should still show some respect. Uhm, Yusuke, may I join you?" she said carefully before bending her head down.

"Uh, I guess you can, Yukina will be there and she could use someone to talk to," he said thoughtfully.

Keiko burst into a big smile. "Then lets go already," she said as she began to run the direction of the train station with Yusuke right behind her.

Kuwabara was strolling down the sidewalk towards the train station. Looking from right to left for any sign of cars, seeing none he crossed the street to the next.

Holding up a bouquet of red roses, he looks down at them, as he help them gingerly with a goofy smile written over his face.

"I hope my Yukina likes these, it'll be a token of our love. That, Yukina, is the power of love," he said devotedly to himself.

Turning the corner he got hit and was thrown against a pole. He growled as he lifted himself hastily, keeping the roses protected from any damage that might come.

"You're gonna regret that…" he stopped as he saw a dark haired teen on the floor with a worried teenage girl by his side.

"Man Kuwabara, you have a soft delicate body, ya know, barely tickled me when I bumped into you."

"Shut up Urameshi, you should watch where you're going!" Kuwabara spat out.

As Yusuke picked himself up he gave Kuwabara a grin before his companion hit him. In result he met the concrete floor once again.

"Damn, why did you have to go doing that Keiko," he exclaimed loudly.

"Yusuke, you could have hurt Kuwabara and that's what you tell him. You were the one running, imagine if it had been someone else," Keiko scolded.

Picking himself up he faced Kuwabara and took note of the roses. Before he got the chance to comment, Keiko had beaten him to it.

"Kuwabara, are those roses for Yukina?" she asked with a huge smile across her face.

Kuwabara gave a deep blush as he admitted that they were. Looking over at them he adjusted the plastic that sheltered them.

Yusuke smirked. "Aahhh, I see. So Kuwabara…"

"That's so sweet of you Kuwabara, I know she'll love them," Keiko cut Yusuke off before he could unleash his impish remark.

Yusuke sent a glare towards Keiko. 'Thanks for ruining the perfect moment to completely embarrass Kuwabara.'

Keiko gave him a knowing smile. Turning towards Kuwabara she realized that he wasn't heading towards the train station.

"Uhm, Kuwabara, are you going to Genkai's?" Keiko asked inquisitively.

Kuwabara gave her a bank expression. "Uh, yeah, why do you ask?"

She giggled and answered, "You're going the wrong way."

Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at Keiko as their eyes widened in realization. Yusuke looked over at Kuwabara and began laughing.

"You're that love-struck that you didn't realize where you were going," he said as he dropped down into intense laughing. "Oh man, this is priceless."

Kuwabara turned beat red and frowned at the laughing teenage boy.

"That's not funny!"

"Yusuke, be quiet, you're causing people to look at us."

Yusuke calmed down as he wiped his eyes from the tears the laughter brought. Looking around him he noticed that people were indeed looking over at them, shrugging it off he gathered himself.

"Yeah, whatever."

Walking the right direction Keiko asked Kuwabara if he had seen either Kurama or Hiei.

"No, I haven't seen the shrimp or Kurama. Hiei went to get Kurama at school, so they'll be here."

"Oh yes, I forgot that students at the school Kurama goes end classes two weeks later than ours, so that means he has one more week to go."

"Ch, smart school," Yusuke muttered.

"Wow, Kurama has to stay there two extra weeks," Kuwabara said.

"Uh, you guys, I'd love to carry a conversation, but we're almost late and by the time we get there we will be late."

Both Keiko and Kuwabara stared dumfounded, but nodded in understanding hurriedly.

Yusuke went into a slow sprint, slow enough for humans to keep up.

"That's not fair Urameshi, I'm carrying my Yukina's flowers!"

"Then you're going to face a angry toddler."

Kuwabara scowled as he burst running, carefully guarding the flowers. Keiko smiled at the two friends. 'They never learn,' she thought to herself.

Yukina was sitting elegantly on the grass with a bird at the tip of her index finger. Anyone looking would have thought this weird for no wild bird ever let a human hold him or her. Yukina looked gently at the bird as she scratched the bottom neck of the bird. She giggled to herself as the bird laid against her finger in enjoyment.

Bringing her hand up gently the bird took that as a sign to its departure, thus flying off into the dark forest that surrounded Genkai's temple.

A soft breeze passed Yukina, making her hair fly nicely with the wind. Closing her eyes she let loose a small amount of her youki. Suddenly, the surrounding area was encased in cold temperature and the winds became colder.

She smiled warmly as memories flooded her. The new temperature reminded her of home, the floating island of the koorimes. A sad look came upon her. She still missed her it dearly, but now she had a new home, perhaps a better home.

Lifting up her hand she let ice slowly grow over her arm. Being an ice apparition, this didn't affect her at all; she quite enjoyed the feeling of it.

Hearing noise behind her with her keen senses she quickly let the ice vanish swiftly before anyone could notice.

Standing up she turned around to see two slightly, breathless demons jumping down from separate trees, landing on the floor in equal time.

"I believe we both won," the tallest of the two answered with amusement.

"You cheated fox, you used your youki, and this was intentionally supposed to be a race," the shortest one answered with amusement that rivaled the redhead.

Kurama chucked gently. "I never said that I wasn't going to use youki, besides you joined in as well, call it even, if you will.

"Hn," Hiei answered.

Kurama looked over at the smiling Yukina and walked towards her, bowing as he said his hello politely. Kurama looked at her carefully, noting that there was a small tint of sadness on her face, barely noticeable and open to those with expert perception. Hiei stood beside Kurama, looking at Yukina with softened eyes that quickly faded.

Yukina bowed at both Kurama and Hiei. "Good afternoon Kurama and Hiei."

Hiei nodded. Yukina understood Hiei's nod as a greeting and gave Hiei one of her innocent smiles of joy, making Hiei somewhat wince.

"Have the others arrived Yukina?" Kurama asked when he noticed Hiei's slight discomfort.

"No, they haven't. Shall we walk to Genkai's temple, they should be arriving soon."

Kurama nodded as they all began to walk towards it.

"Would you two prefer some water than tea when we get there since I see that you've been racing?"

"Yes, that would be perfect," Kurama, replied warmly.

"Yukina?"

Both Kurama and Yukina were both startled when they heard Hiei speak. Noticing this, Hiei wished he never had spoken.

Changing his reaction, Kurama gave a reassuring smile that encouraged Hiei to continue. Yukina looked over at Hiei. "Yes Hiei?"

"Before I arrived I noticed there was a raise in youki, your youki. It was more than you've ever used, did something happen?" he asked in a straight voice. Kurama grinned inwardly as he noticed a tint of concern.

Yukina looked down at the floor almost shamefully.

Seeing this Hiei regretted ever asked and quickly said. "You don't have to answer."

Yukina hesitated as she spoke, "I-I…I didn't mean to alarm you Hiei."

Kurama looked over at the two siblings. "I shall run over to the temple, there is something that I wish to say to Genkai. I had planned to come earlier, but time flew by and it's best that I do this as early as possible. I'll meet you two at the there," he said and speedily raced into the many trees.

'Liar kitsune,' Hiei thought.

"Bye Kurama," Yukina yelled out before he disappeared from view.

Hiei remained quiet. Yukina turned towards Hiei and looked at him momentarily.

"Hiei, thank you for worrying about me…earlier I used some of my ice abilities, I guess I just wanted a little bit of home.

Hiei inwardly was disgusted about the place; he despised it, but kept that to himself.

"You used a large amount of youki, are you tired?" he asked and was a bit surprised that Yukina was fine after the amount she used. He didn't know that she carried that much power within her.

Yukina looked down at the floor for comfort.

"I…well…I do have more energy than most people believe…I once went to a wise koorime, she had great power…she was gifted with the power to see within…and tell those their strengths, all her predictions became true…alls strengths and weaknesses were true. She told me that I held great power…more than a koorime should have…she thought it was because of my father. She seemed shocked of this news…she-she…didn't get to tell anyone of it…she was already old…and she died the following day of a natural death, but I feel like I'm the one who led her to her death…she was so shocked and gave me…such a dirty look…and told me I wasn't one of them…that I carried the blood of a fire demon," she cried out, revealing a burden that she kept locked within herself for so long. By now she fell to her knees and began sobbing immensely, causing many tear gems to scatter.

Hiei was taken aback by this information. He looked at his sobbing sister in shock. Quickly, he composed himself as he kneeled down in front her. Grabbing her chin, he lifted it up to make eye contact with his expressionless eyes.

"The elder's death was not of your fault, she died naturally, and her time was near. Even if you didn't go to her, she still would have dies, her predestined death lied near, you couldn't alter that," he said reassuringly.

Yukina wiped her tear-streaked face and stood up. Once calmed down she turned towards Hiei. Hiei kneeled down to the ground and picked all the gems that were cried. He took out a small pouch that he carried in his cloak. After putting them in he handed it to Yukina.

"Thank you Hiei," she said kindly as she took hold of the bag. Opening it she took one out and handed it to Hiei. "Please accept this Hiei."

Hiei grabbed the tear gem and looked at curiously and slowly mumbled a thank you that Yukina barely heard but identified.

Kurama sat down on the floor as he drank the reminding of his cold water.

"Thank you Genkai-san for the water, it was greatly appreciated."

"So the twins are still out, the dimwit and oaf haven't yet arrived and not to mention Koenma," she said ignoring Kurama's comment.

"They should be arriving shortly."

Hearing the door open they turned to see Yukina and Hiei enter together.

Genkai picked herself up and walked out of the room. "I'll be return when the meeting begins," she said before she left.

When Genkai vanished Yukina turned to Kurama and Hiei. "Would you like anything to drink?"

Kurama smiled and told her that he already had his drink and Hiei shook his head for he didn't want to make his sister go to such troubles for the sake of him.

"Okay, everybody should be coming, so I'm going to prepare something for dinner," she said cheerfully.

"That'll be fine, I'll be awaiting the rest of the teams appearance outside." Turning to Hiei he asked, "Will you be joining me Hiei?"

"Hn," Hiei said as he walked outside ahead of Kurama outside.

Kurama got up and trailed right behind Hiei. Both walked towards a large oak tree that provided decent shade. Kurama sat down with his back supported by the tree. Hiei looked at the redhead for a moment deciding whether he should sit alongside the kitsune. Within seconds he sat down beside the kitsune, close enough where every movement they made would cause them to make contact.

"I'm hoping you don't mind that I forced the invitation, I just presumed that you wouldn't want to be inside."

"Hn."

Kurama smiled as he stared at Hiei, looking at his features. He didn't understand what made him want to be so close to Hiei, he always longed his company and couldn't help but feel a piece of him missing when Hiei was gone.

Hiei took out a tear gem from his cloak, the one that Yukina gave him earlier. He handed it to the fox and asked, "Fox, do you see anything abnormal about the gem."

Kurama took a careful gaze, but didn't see anything wrong with it. It looked normal, the way the gem of a koorime should look.

"No, but I could be mistaken, why do you ask about Yukina's tear gem?" Kurama asked as he handed back the tear gem.

"She cried earlier. According to her an old hag in the past told her that she was tainted with the blood of a fire demon and had power that surpassed a koorime," he said in hatred. Hiei trusted the fox, with anybody else he would never say as much.

"It isn't very surprising, Yukina and you are twins. She had to carry some blood of your father. The koorime elders were too dense to realize that piece of information, but it was fortunate that they did. You shouldn't dwell on it. Are you worried about it?"

"No, she was only a mere, damn old hag."

Changing the subject Hiei asked, "Are you still hurting fox?"

"No, as a matter of fact, I feel better. Hiei, what exactly did you put on me?"

Hiei grinned. "A rare potion by the name of machuke."

Kurama was in shock by this piece of information. "Where did you get that, its extremely rare? Hiei, you should not have used it on me."

"…Hn."

Kurama smiled kindly as he realized he couldn't argue with the fire demon. "Thank you Hiei."

Hiei began to feel the blood rise to his face when he heard Kurama's tone of voice and when he looked up at him his cheeks blazed redder.

Kurama looked at Hiei, he wanted to grab him. He couldn't resist him anymore. He wanted to lean towards him, hug him tight, and kiss him passionately. He would have done so if it weren't for the loud yell of Yusuke's.

Kurama fell out of his little trance. Cold realization struck him hard when he collected all his thoughts, his cravings, and desires that all linked to Hiei. 'I…I'm beginning to have feelings for… Hiei." He looked down as his heart began to ache. He knew he could never have Hiei for Hiei wasn't the type for such things. '…This is bad,' was his last thought.

"Hey Kurama and Hiei, ya coming," he heard Yusuke call out. Everybody was already at the entrance of the temple.

Kurama was deep in thought that he failed to realize that everybody was there and the entire ruckus they had made while Kurama was thinking. Hiei looked at Kurama curiously with some concern.

"Care to share what's gotten you so nervous,"

Kurama looked at Hiei as his cheeks glowed a light shade of pink. "It's nothing, really, we shall go inside."

Hiei detected Kurama's lie, but shrugged it off as he followed the redhead inside.

Two brothers walked into a cold dark room where their master sat waiting. They stood in front of him covered in injuries from the day before. They smoothly bent down to bow. Looking up they see their master looking at them in disapproval.

"You've left me waiting impatient. Did you find any new information and get rid of the detectives?"

Standing straight again one answered. "No, but we did get some information of the one you're looking for, Yoko Kurama. We didn't know of his exact location or of his appearance. We found out that he's linked up with one of the detectives, the fire demon. Kurama is now around fifteen to sixteen years of age, not sure which. He has bright red hair that's past his shoulders with locks and green eyes. Slender body that looks like a female. He's a ningen, looks and feels weak, but he's talented with his whip. He wears the same uniform that Kamari wears so its now clarified that he goes to that school," Kokuyo answered.

"Are you sure of this, I want no mistakes, if there are you're lives will be taken away with pure pain."

"Yes master," the other brother answered.

"Very well Sakobe, I'll take your word for it."

Sakobe the other brother, nodded faintly as he went to go stand next to Kokuyo.

"It's declared that the group of demons you sent have all been destroyed."

"I see. Kamari, come forth," their master said expressionless.

A teenage girl came out with a grin over her face. She wasn't disguised as a ningen no more. This time she had the dark raven hair that was straight with curly tips. Her eyes were black with tints of red. She still had the same fair skin with the perfect body, but with an addition of bat wings; she was a bat demon.

"I heard the description that they gave, I know exactly who they're talking about. He goes by the name of Shuuichi Minamino at his ningen school. I had him today, but I had no idea it was he. He's not what I expected; I thought you said he was a sex god, he rejected me," she said the last words coldly. She was hoping to play with the youko once he was found, but it seemed that would be hard to accomplish.

"This is very interesting," their master said with excitement. "After all these years and I've found him. He hid well and now he has this slip up, very unlike him, you all are dismissed. We plan tomorrow.

All three walked out to their master's wishes with pleased satisfaction.

"At last Yoko, You act carelessly again, just like the time you died," the master said. "I'm coming for you, its time you paid for what you did."

To Be Continued…

Okay, I finished yet another chapter and its longer, I hope I can keep this up O.O. If it sounds weird it's because I don't know where exactly I'm going with this story for I'm making it up as I go. I've noticed that my story progresses too slow, that I'm doing every single moment of the day. Do you think I should continue like this or make it a bit faster? Give me your opinions. Well, I hope this chapter was okay, I really doubt it though. Please reply, I would really appreciate your replies, all replies are welcomed. Thank you

Anikara