Hello everyone did you miss me? Alright my goal is to make this the longest chapter in Excuses so far. You should be happy because truthfully I wanted to avoid this a little because I had to do a bit of research on some of the characters.

May: Just admit you forgot their names.

Akira: It's not my fault I don't pay attention to most of the humans' names. I have selective hearing and the humans are usually a waist of time so I ignore them unless they're like Shizuru. She kicks ass!

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Chapter 5

The sun was shining, the birds were singing and everything was perfect, unless of course you're Yusuke, who hadn't gotten a wink of sleep the other night. The purple-grayish bags under his eyes showed he had only gotten maybe an hour or two's worth of sleep, and his hair was a mess making it clear as day he had been tossing and turning the night before while he tried to get as much rest as he possibly could. Hiei had kissed him again and he hadn't fought back, what on earth was wrong with him? He could take Hiei, he knew that for a fact, but when the fire demon had kissed him he couldn't pull away, let alone push him away.

Groaning the spirit detective turned around in his messy bed, facing away from the filthy window, which sunlight was pouring out of. He had to contemplate what to do next. Kuwabara would be there any moment to figure out what happened between him and Hiei, and if he knew the orange-head as well as he thought he did that would make the whole miserable situation worse. Then there was the Botan factor, when Botan came to give his next assignment she would probably notice his change in attitude and question him on it, and since he can't put up with the blue-haired girl for more then a few minutes he would most likely spill his guts just to get her to leave. Doing that would then lead to another factor in this problem, Keiko.

Botan had always wanted them to hook up and learning that Hiei had feelings for him would make her upset and she would go tell Keiko so the other girl would be aware of what the fire demon was up to. Yusuke sighed in frustration at the thought. He may have had feelings for Keiko at one point but recently she had been acting too motherly for his tastes and she had never actually treated like a boyfriend. In fact as Yusuke looked back on his relationship with the brunette girl she had always been more of a mother than a girlfriend for him.

A loud and annoying knock on his front door interrupted the raven-haired boys thoughts and he glared at his own bedroom door as if by glaring at it the person at his front door would leave. No such luck. After a few seconds of silence there was an even louder knock on the door and an even louder and more annoying voice calling, "Urameshi, I know you're there! Open up! Remember you have to tell me what happened between you and the shrimp!"

A low deadly growl erupted from Yusuke's throat as he took his sweet time to push himself out of his damn bed, tossing blankets and sheets off of it in the process. Slamming his bedroom door open with such a force it made the walls rattle he stomped all the way over to the front door muttering curses and pushing whatever was in his way to the side. With His teeth clenched and his fist balled he threw open the door and before Kuwabara had a chance, he punched the idiot in the face with enough strength that if it had been anyone other than Kuwabara, or a demon, they would be laying dead on the ground. "God Damn it! What are you some schoolgirl, cause that is exactly how you sound! Some stupid school girl who wants to know what happened on her best friend's date!" Yusuke shouted at the top of his lungs as his brown eyes took on a redder shade.

"Damn Urameshi!" Kuwabara shouted back with just as much force as Yusuke. Pushing himself off the ground and rubbing his now bruised cheek the orange-head glared at the pissed off black-haired boy in front of him. "Jeez, I was just wondering how everything went. Most people think of that as being courteous, not being a school girl!" Kuwabara's voice grew a little more loud and harsh as he spat out the last part. Yusuke and him had a love-hate relationship, or more precisely, they had a like-dislike-and-pound-the-crap-out-of-each-relationship.

Ignoring the comment Yusuke went back inside leaving the door open, knowing the moron would enter on his own with or without permission. Just as the spirit detective had predicted he could hear his friend's footsteps behind him as he made his way to what was supposed to be a kitchen but it was hard to tell what it was since there was so much crap in it. Searching through cupboards while the spirit sword wielder sat at the table watching him he finally found what he was looking for, and possibly the only edible thing in the house, pocky.

(Akira: I want Pocky! T.T but sadly I don't have any)

Struggling to open the infernal package which held the precious and ever so sweet pocky sticks, Yusuke took a seat at the table across Kuwabara, who was staring at Yusuke as if he had gone insane. Finally opening the package with a grunt the spirit detective pulled a stick out of it and put it in his mouth as if it were a cigarette. After he settled in he glared across the table at the idiot who had forced him out of bed and glared. "Okay so what do you want?" Yusuke asked irritated with having to put up with Kuwabara and his damn annoying questions.

Taken aback a little with Yusuke's put-off tone, Kuwabara remained silent for a while until he could find his voice again. "Well I was hoping you would tell me all the important facts like, how did you ask him, what his response was, did he kiss you or anything, or did he attack you, you know that kind of stuff."

Taking a deep breath the spirit detective tried to calm himself down. All those questions were the ones he had desperately been hoping Kuwabara wouldn't ask, and normally he wouldn't answer, but he was starting to feel bad for hitting the moron earlier. "I didn't really ask him if he liked me, instead I asked him other questions, which at this point are pointless. Then he kissed me and left, but I think he only kissed me because he wanted me to stop asking 'questions I already know the answers to' as he put it."

Kuwabara stared at his friend in shock and horror. Sure he had sent Yusuke to figure out if Hiei had a crush on him but he had never expected the fire demon to kiss his friend again. It was insane, and clearly it was confusing the hell out of Yusuke. Eyeing his friend with concern Kuwabara asked one more question. "Yusuke is it possible that Hiei could actually like you like that?"

Yusuke jumped out of his seat and slammed his hands on the table, while spiting out his pocky. The same look of anger and hatred that had been on his face earlier came back twice as bad and in a tone of voice Kuwabara had never heard Yusuke use before he hissed out through clenched teeth, "No! No damn it! Hiei is my best friend and would never have feelings for me like that! Besides we're both guys! No he can't care about me like that!" Yusuke's childish rant continued until it started to sound more like he was convincing himself than Kuwabara. As the rant continued Yusuke's face softened until Kuwabara was able to see the deflated look on his friend's face.

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The sun was now setting, Kuwabara had left hours ago and once he was gone Yusuke went back to bed in hopes of getting some sleep but thoughts kept plaguing his mind and making it impossible, so now he was sitting by his open window feeling the cool breeze that blew in every now and then. He hated this. He hated not knowing what to think. Sure there had been other times when he wasn't sure what to think or believe but never like this. He had built this image of Hiei in his mind and just when he thought he had figured the little fire demon out he got the shock of his life.

Looking out into the distance the raven-haired boy could see something in the sky. It wasn't a cloud, and it wasn't an airplane so what could it be? As the object got closer Yusuke's eyes widened and in a breathy voice he muttered, "Shit."

Botan was flying closer to his home by the second and she seemed a little distress for her normal cheerful self. When she saw him by his window she flew even faster to catch him and when she was floating in front of him she shouted, "Terrible news Yusuke! Kido, Yanagisawa, and Kaitou were all attacked today by a demon!"

Leaning on the window edge Yusuke cocked his eyebrow in amusement. "And your point Botan? They have powers they can defend themselves."

Frowning at Yusuke's cockiness Botan explained the situation further. "They do have powers Yusuke but when the demon, who escaped by the way, attacked nothing hurt it. At one point Kido tried to use his shadow powers to stop it from moving but instead the demon absorbed his powers and disappeared."

Now Yusuke was in shock, and when he is shocked it comes out as anger. "What the fuck do you mean it absorbed his power?"

Shaking her head in disapproval of his language she tried to explain more clearly, "That's just it Yusuke, the demon absorbed his powers and now Kido is powerless. We'll have everyone on the look out for the demon except Hiei."

"Why not Hiei?" Asked Yusuke.

Tilting her head to the side Botan responded, "Didn't anyone tell you? Mukuro asked for Hiei's assistance in Mikai. He's in Demon World right now."

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Ha I did it!

May: Or so you say.

Akira: Shut up! See this why I'm going to get a new muse.

May: Doesn't mean you're going to get rid of me.

Akira: Whatever.

Attention: Since Hiei is gone I might be willing to have someone else flirt with Yusuke for a little bit. Any suggestions on who would flirt with him or do you guys not want anyone flirting with him while Hiei is away?