Hello everyone! Sorry I took so long to write this...I'm getting lazy...again (ha). Anywho, instead of writing, I've taken up drawing again, which some of my friends will be glad to hear. YUMI - BAKA: I did one of edward elric for you (yes you!) anywho...I reread all my old fanfics...ah man. I wanted to bash my head thru a wall...geeze. "Losing Grip" was especially disturbing caz I depressed (on meds and all) when I wrote it...but its all good now! Yes, I'm hyper and happy! (this could lead to crazy fanfic ideas...beware!)

DiScLaImEr:
me: I own Yu Yu Hakusho! mwahahaha!
hiei: no you don't
me: /tosses him a lollipop/ what was that?
hiei: /lick lick/
me: seriously, I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.../sigh/

Seven Days

Chapter 5: (Thursday) Beach Bash

Keiko slipped on her sunglasses as she stepped out of the car into the hot sunlight. She turned and smiled at Rokuro, who was loaded down with beach bags. Together, the two made their way down through the sand to a random spot on the empty beach.

"Wow," Rokuro said, setting down the bags and squinting in the sun, "Nobody's here."

"That's because I reserved this entire stretch of beach for only us today." The two jumped and turned to find six people behind them, dropping their own bags down on the sand.

"Can you really do that?" Rokuro asked suspiciously.

Koenma, who had spoken before, nodded. "I can and I did."

Rokuro shook his head, "That really wasn't necessary..."

"Koenma's royalty!" Kuwabara joked, "He can do whatever the hell he wants!"

Rokuro raised his eyebrows. "Royalty?"

Kuwabara stared at Keiko's fiancee like he was an idiot. "Uh, yea. Yusuke is too, now that I think about it..."

Rokuro's jaw dropped. "Yusuke? Yusuke is...royalty!" He turned to Keiko and gripped her shoulders. "All this time you've been friends with royalty? Why didn't you say something?"

Keiko brushed his hands off, "I didn't think it was important. Yusuke lost the competition for the crown so its not a big deal, really."

"Crown? So he's not royalty?"

Botan drifted over between the two and explained. "Yusuke's...father was one of three kings. When his father died, there was a shift in power and a huge tournament was held to decide the next king."

Rokuro studied Yusuke from the corner of his eye. "What was the land he was going to rule over?"

"Makai."

"What in the world in Makai?"

"That's just it," Botan said brightly. "It's not from this world–" At that moment, Koenma, who had been about to set up a large red umbrella, "accidently" dropped in, hitting Botan on the head and knocking her unconscious.

"Oops, sorry," Koenma said, not really sounding sorry. Rokuro opened his mouth, but he was cut off by a large beach ball hitting him in the face.

"Oh...sorry," Yusuke said, sounding much like Koenma. "So...who wants to play some water volleyball?" Kurama and Kuwabara nodded and headed down to the water after Yusuke. Koenma dragged Botan down with him and woke her by dunking her in the icy ocean water. Even Hiei slowly headed down after the others.

Keiko grabbed the ball and turned to Rokuro. "Are you coming?"

"Naw," he replied lazily, laying down on a towel in the sun. "I don't want the water to mess up my hair..." Keiko snorted before running down to the water with the others.

The game was a fierce one–Yusuke, Koenma, and Kuwabara vs. Keiko, Botan, and Kurama. Hiei had decided to sit on the sand and watch as the two teams battled it out, all the while making snide comments about Kuwabara not-so-admirable skills. Botan used her ore to smack the ball at Koenma, barely missing his face by inches. She claimed it was an accident, but everyone knew it was revenge for being knocked out by the umbrella. Kurama used his powers to make the seaweed under the other team's feet grow and pull them under every time the ball flew to over to their side. The game finally ended when Yusuke fired his rei gun and blew up the ball.

As the group trudged up back up the beach, an ice cream vender wheeled his cart their way. Hiei, having no idea what this "sugar snow" was, cautiously licked his mint chocolate chip cone. Almost immediately, he shoved the rest of it into his mouth and demanded more, even going as far as to whip out his katana and threaten the poor, confused ice cream man. With Hiei happily eating an entire container of ice cream, the vender quickly fled the beach as the others laughed, licking their own cones.

As the others ate ice cream, Yusuke slipped off to where Rokuro was now sleeping on the beach. Hastily, he buried the man up to his chin in sand before casually tossing a towel overtop of him, hiding him from view.

"Psst! Keiko!"

Keiko turned and looked to find Yusuke hiding behind a very large rock. He motioned her to come over. Glancing over her shoulder, she quietly tip-toed over to where Yusuke was hiding. None of the others noticed her leave; they were all too busy restraining Hiei from hunting down the ice cream man for more "sugar snow".

"What are you doing?" Keiko demanding once she was out of site and earshot of the others.

Yusuke smiled mischievously and pulled out Botan's ore from behind his back. "Wanna ride?"

Keiko stared at him. "Are you serious?" She paused. "Rokuro can't see us flying...he doesn't know about the whole spirit world thing."

"So I've noticed," Yusuke said dryly. Then he brightened, "But don't worry...he's asleep."

Keiko nodded slowly. "And Botan's actually gunna let you do that?"

Yusuke shrugged. "Sure; why not?"

Keiko crossed her arms. "You didn't ask, did you?"

Yusuke twiddled his thumbs innocently. "What she doesn't know can't hurt her, right?"

Keiko opened her mouth to protest, but Yusuke grabbed her arm and dragged her onto the ore behind him.

"Hold on to me tight...unless you wanna to flying." Keiko nodded and wrapped her arms around Yusuke's waist. He smiled smugly, imagining Rokuro's face if he say them now. He kicked off the sandy ground, straight up into the endless blue sky.

"Wow," Keiko said, awe-struck. "Just...wow."

They zoomed up higher, riding just above the clouds, using them as cover to hide them from the world below. Keiko felt a tingling sensation flow through her as her feet lightly dragged across the fluffy white clouds. She felt a sense of freedom, up so high above the world. It was as if she had left her trouble, worries, and anxieties behind her along with the solid ground below.

The sense of lightness left her as Yusuke suddenly went into a nosedive, dropping quickly through the clouds, hurtling down faster and faster toward the deep blue ocean. At the last second, he pulled out of the dive and Keiko finally stopped screaming. Their feet skimmed the top of the water as they rode along, watching small fish jump occasionally above the water.

Yusuke took the ore up again, but not quite as high. They rode just below the expanse of white fluffiness, using it as a shield for the bright sun. Keiko took a deep breath before easing her hands off of Yusuke's waist and reached above her head, grasping a handful of cloud. The cloud spiraled out of her hands as thet dropped down toward the water again, nearer to the beach. Immediately, her hands snapped back to Yusuke waist as they made their way toward the sandy shore.

Their smooth glide down ended when the ore suddenly vanished, sending the two tumbling down into the cold ocean water. When they finally popped their heads up and swam toward the beach, they found everyone roaring with laughter, including Botan, who was twirling her ore around her hand.

"Keiko, are you all rig–" Yusuke cut off as he turned around and stared at Keiko. She had stood up, arms clasped tightly across her chest as she shivered. Her top floated slowly over to him. With a shaky smile, Yusuke lifted it out of the water and offered it to her. Keiko, her face burning, snatched her top and ducked under the water and quickly put it back on.

Yusuke couldn't contain himself any longer– he burst into laugher, doubling over and nearly falling back. Furiously, Keiko splashed him; the cold water entering his mouth and nearly choking him. Yusuke retaliated by splashing back, but Keiko lunged to the side to avoid it. Koenma, Kuwabara, Botan, Kurama, and even Hiei dashed down into the water, joining in the splash war.

The sun set quickly, darkening the sandy shore and ocean. As the moon began to peek through the clouds, a fire was started and hotdogs roasted. Kuwabara and Keiko filled Rokuro in on what had happened while he had slept in his bed of sand. When dinner was finished, Botan pulled out marshmallows and everyone made smores. This was another sweet treat Hiei was unfamiliar with, but immediately fell in love with. Kuwabara and Yusuke began teasing Hiei about his sweet tooth, which wasn't the smartest idea. The end result of that brilliant idea was molten marshmallows on a few heads, a quick dunk in the ocean to put the flames out of some hair, and a dozen or so priceless photos.

By eleven, the group was exhausted from their beach bash celebration. Yusuke heart soared when Keiko practically ignored Rokuro the entire day, and even chose to sit next to him, rather than her fiancee. Just when they thought the fun was over, Koenma produced a large pile of fireworks. As the fireworks lit up the dark night sky, Kurama gave Yusuke a wink as he dragged Rokuro off and away from Keiko. Taking the hint, Yusuke grabbed Keiko's arm and gently pulled her off to a reclusive spot beyond the vision of the rest of the group.

Taking a deep breath, Yusuke pulled out a dark violet, velvet box and handed it to Keiko.

"What's this?" she asked, studying the box in the bright moonlight.

"A gift," he answered. "Go on...open it."

Keiko gently lifted the lid and took out the treasure inside. Gasping, she dropped the box into the sand. In her hand she held a golden chain necklace. A teardrop shaped jewel dipped down from the chain and sparkled brilliantly in the glow from the moon.

"Its from spirit world," Yusuke explained, lightly taking the necklace from Keiko's hand, "Botan told me it's a very special jewel...it lights up and glows brightest in the light of the moon." He undid the clasp and helped Keiko put it on.

Keiko stared from Yusuke to the jewel and back again. "But...why? Why give this to me?"

Yusuke shrugged. "Why not?"

Keiko sighed and gazed down at the glowing, multi-colored jewel hanging from her neck. Yusuke smiled down at her, patting her shoulder gently as he walked back toward the group.

"Something so beautiful...for someone so beautiful."

Keiko blushed and jogged to catch up to Yusuke. "Yusuke," she whispered softly. He stopped and turned to her. She suddenly leaned forward and pecked him gently on the cheek. "Thank you."

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