A/n: Yet another chapter ready for the reading. But for some reason I don't have anything to say, so you guys can just get strait to the reading.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. I don't own anything or anyone. HintHint People

Warning: Yaoi (Male/Male relationships) Mention of Rape

Koenma led them outside and the three waited patiently while the Prince of Spirit World started pacing. After a few minutes of silence Yusuke decided to speak up.

"Did you have something you wanted to tell us, or are we just out here to observe your pacing technique?"

Koenma sighed. "I just feel like… there should be something between us before I say this."

"Umm… okay…" Yusuke said and took Kurama's arm and moved him between them. "There. Now talk."

Koenma fidgeted with his shirt. "I was thinking more of something like a brick wall, or a continent… or two."

Kurama sighed and turned around to face him. "Whatever it is, I'm sure it can't be all that bad."

Koenma still looked kind of pale.

"Just spit it out!" Yusuke yelled, loosing his patience.

"Okay, okay," he took a deep breath and started talking. "Do you guys remember a while back when we gave you those marks to get the demon we were trying to track down to be drawn to you?" The three nodded. "Well, they worked."

"Then that's great," Yusuke said, "We have our demon, so what's the problem."

"But wait, if it worked, why weren't we approached by it?"

Koenma bit his lip. "You were," he said looking kind of sick. "Or rather, Kurama was."

None of them said anything, but instead just looked at him, their brains processing what he had just said.

"So you mean that…"

SMACK!

Koenma toppled down to the ground, rubbing his face where a fist had just connected with his jaw.

"Yusuke!" Kurama gripped the fuming boy's arm to keep him from doing something else stupid.

Yusuke's eyes flashed with anger and he towered over the Prince of Spirit World, his whole body trembling with fury. "Are you telling me… that because of you… Kurama was…"

Hiei had to grab of his other arm and assist Kurama in keeping Yusuke from pounding Koenma into the pavement.

"Yusuke, calm down!" Kurama ordered, struggling to hold him back. "Just wait a minute."

"Are you kidding me! I'm gonna kill him!

"Yusuke, no!"

"Let him go." The two demons holding him back looked at Koenma who was back on his feet. "Whatever he's going to do, I probably deserve it."

With the other two distracted he released himself from their grip and grabbed Koenma by the collar. "What happened," he growled his voice dangerously low. "How could you let this happen!" he shouted.

Koenma didn't respond, but just waited for the beating he knew was coming. Yusuke's eyes narrowed and pushed him back to the ground and stormed away.

Kurama watched him leave before reaching down and helping Koenma to his feet.

"Well," Koenma said, "he took that better than I expected. So, aren't you two going to do anything to harm my physical being?"

"No. If we were going to do that we would have let Yusuke go sooner, right Hiei?" But the Fire demon was gone, wanting to put as much distance as possible between himself and Koenma before he finished what Yusuke started.

Kurama sighed. "Speaking of Yusuke, I better find him before he kills something."

He started to head in the direction Yusuke went off to, when Koenma called out to him. "Kurama!" He turned around to look at him. "I'm sorry."

Kurama smiled and shook his head. "Don't even think about it. It's not your fault I'm just so darn attractive." (1)
Yusuke shoved his hands into his pockets and stormed down the street. He was seriously pissed off right now, although he couldn't quite say at what. Sure, Koenma was this far away from getting his face implanted into the ground, but somehow he wasn't what made him so mad.

"Yusuke, wait!" He turned around to see Kurama running after him. He stopped and let his boyfriend catch up to him before resuming his walk, Kurama now at his side. The two walked in silence for a while, heading in the general direction of the ever popular park. Eventually Kurama broke the silence.

"Yusuke, I know it's completely in your nature to lose it like that, but I think I should tell you that what you did was just a tad out of line."

Yusuke sighed.

"Hey, don't sigh at me!" he scolded playfully, trying to lighten the mood. "Come on. Talk to me."

Yusuke sighed again and sat himself down on one of the park benches. Kurama took his place next to him and the Spirit Detective rested his head against the redhead's shoulder. He took Yusuke's hand in his own and laced their fingers together.

"You weren't exactly mad at Koenma back there, were you?" he asked softly, although it was more of a statement than a question.

"Of course I was mad at Koenma!" he said defensively. "I was just… more upset with myself." Kurama tilted his head to see the face of the boy that was leaning against him.

"Why? What's going on in that mind of yours?"

"I was just thinking about some things. Like, what would have happened if I hadn't died that day? I would have never become Spirit Detective and then never met you. I couldn't imagine never meeting you or any of the others for that matter, but then, you wouldn't have been involved with the Spirit Detectives and in the long run never gotten...you know. So then where would you be now?"

Kurama sighed and wrapped an arm around Yusuke who closed his eyes. "Were would I be? Well, it true that I wouldn't have been hurt. Because I would have been dead if not for you."

Yusuke snorted. "Yeah, because of all the battles, missions, and tournaments that put your life on the line because you got involved with me?"

The other shook his head. "No, before all that. Before any tournament, mission, or battle. Remember? We were on the roof of the hospital and I was going to give up my life for my mother. We must have known each other for, oh I'd say twenty minutes, and you were ready to die for me right there. It's not your fault that got involved with the Spirit Detectives. It's because I wanted to repay you."

Yusuke smiled. "You repaid me when you got stabbed by Hiei's sword. So why did you stay?"

"Meh, I was bored of course! I obviously didn't stick around because I trusted you, admired your loyalty, and thought of you as a great friend," he said sarcastically. "Surely not."

Yusuke grinned before a sad look returned to his face. "But however you look at it, it was because of me that you got involved which ultimately to this mission and you getting hurt. And even though it -is-mostly Koenma's fault," Kurama couldn't help but giggle at this, "I can't help but feel a little responsible, and you can't change my mind."

The other smiled and pulled Yusuke onto his lap. "Okay. Just as long as you don't go beating yourself up over it."

He leaned back and nodded. "Okay. Can I at least beat Koenma up over it?"

"No."

"Not even if…"

"No."

"You didn't even let me finish."

"Don't care."

"And suddenly you're about as talkative as Hiei."

"Hn."

"Very funny."

"I thought so."

"You're mean."

"I love you too."

With that little exchange over, the two settled back into silence.

"It's getting late," Yusuke mumbled after a peaceful period of doing nothing.

"Yeah…"

"Walk me home?" he asked.

"Sure."

As the two got up and walked home hand in hand, a figure watched them from behind a tree. "So that's the one…" she whispered to herself. "Such a shame. They make a cute couple." There was a gust of wind and she was gone, as if she had never been there in the first place.

A/n: Chapter 8 done. Now I know you people out there are capable of reviewing (I've seen you do it before) so come on! Tell me what you think.

(1) I couldn't help myself! I had to put that in.True, it's really more like something that Yusuke would say, but there'snothing wrong with Kurama getting to be playful from time to time, right?