A/N: Sorry for the short chapters, but thanks for the reviews! I was going to make the whole conversation between Kuwabara and Kurama one chapter but it's proving too long, so here's one with a bit of a cliffhanger. I'm moving this weekend, so the next chapter probably won't be up until Monday or Tuesday.

Chapter Two

Yukina hurried through the woods around the temple, trying to figure out where the boys had gone. There was no sign of them.

If only she hadn't spent so long standing there in the clearing, trying to understand what had just happened. She had been so confused she hadn't known what to do; her first thought was to find Genkai and ask for her help, because Genkai was so much better at knowing why people fought than she was. But

even though she didn't understand the whole thing, she had realized that Kazuma-chan was angry with Kurama for something having to do with her. She had to find them and tell Kazuma that Kurama hadn't mistreated her in any way.

If only she was better at tracking people. She had to go slowly through the woods and really look for traces of where they had gone. Luckily Kazuma-chan was big enough that he broke some branches when he passed. After a while she heard a murmur of voices, and moved towards it with renewed hope.

"...complete misunderstanding, Kuwabara. I have no romantic intentions towards Yukina. I would never."

"Oh yeah?" Kazuma's voice responded to Kurama's, so full of anger it made Yukina wince. "Then why are you coming up here and spending all this time with her all of a sudden?"

"Because Hiei asked me to."

Yukina stopped dead in her tracks. What Kurama had said made no sense. Hiei? Why would he ask Kurama to come to the temple?

"He's taking a month or so of extreme training with Mukuro," Kurama was continuing in that calm voice of his. "He won't be able to check on her, and you know how he is. So he asked me to keep an eye on her, make sure she was happy. I'm... sorry if I've been taking it too far..."

"Wait a minute, Kurama. Why does Hiei care about Yukina so much all of a sudden?"

Silence followed Kuwabara's question. Yukina remained frozen, anxious to hear the answer. When Kurama finally spoke again, he sounded distinctly rattled. "I... I forgot you don't... It's nothing, you know Hiei, he's protective of people..."

"Kurama! Tell me what's happening!"

Kurama's voice was defeated. "I can't. I honestly can't, Kuwabara. I promised Hiei. He doesn't wish anyone to know." There was a pause. "Figure it out," Kurama added, in a much softer tone. Yukina could barely hear him. "I can't break my promise, but I think Hiei's wrong; I've always thought he was wrong to keep it a secret."

"Keep what a secret?"

"I can't say," Kurama reminded him, sounding a touch aggravated.

"Okay, okay, I get the point. But if I start guessing you'll help me figure it out?" Yukina was just close enough to see Kurama nod. "Isn't that kinda cheating on your promise?"

"Hiei won't see it that way. He knows I disapprove."

"Okay, lemme think... Hiei wants you to take care of Yukina. But Hiei doesn't usually care about people... so why would he care about Yukina?"

"Kuwabara, have you ever noticed their eyes?"

"Huh?"

"They're the same color."

Yukina's heart stopped.

They are the same color, she realized with sudden clarity. An unusual color. A flood of other details, small but telling, came pouring over her, and she found herself shivering. And we're almost the same height, too. And he spoke to that awful human he almost killed about looking for me with his Jagan Eye. And Kurama always seems to try to get Hiei to spend time with me, I thought it was just because he wanted Hiei to have friends...but maybe he...

"So?" Kuwabara hadn't made the connection Yukina had.

"So," Kurama said tiredly, "who is the one person Yukina has always searched for but never found?"

"Her bro..."

My brother.