Affirmation: True to Life
Disclaimer: I do not own Savage Garden nor YuYuHakusho or the song.
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Yusuke (Abeko)
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Yusuke sighed as he watched his mother stumble in, alcohol dripping off her breath. Grumbling, he looked to who had decided to drag his mother home.
"Damn brat!" Yelling as she entered, Kuwabara's sister propped his mother into the nearest chair. Glaring at Yusuke's lazy face. Shizura was now a bartender at Abeko's favorite bar and no was often the one bringing the reveling woman home to him.
"Nice night out, isn't it, Shizura?" A glare told him to shove it. She was, obviously, having a bad night because of what she heard from Kurama. The fox demon had turned down her advice to quit being so devoted to a "married" couple and deliberately shut her attentions down.
"Sure, if you're a bat." Dropping her off, Shizura turned around to leave. "Her debt was raised by fifty dollars. If she doesn't pay the five-seventy-three she owes my bar then she won't be welcomed. I like your mom but this is the truth from the boss. If she doesn't pay up for her debts then all the bars and Tokyo will be closed to her." With that said the older woman exited, shutting the door softly behind her.
Sighing, Yusuke only shook his head at his alcoholic mother. Picking her inert body from the chair, he took her shoes off and disrobed her to her night shirt. Waking up, a bit more sober than before she'd fallen asleep in the chair, Abeko looked up towards her son, smiling foolishly.
"Yuuusuuke!" Being drunk, she leaned heavily on him. "Honeeeey…." Raising her hand to cling to him as he laid her down onto the futon, she sometimes used. "Pleeeeeease siiiiing my song." Biting down on a tart reply, Yusuke only shook his head.
"You better cook me some food later." With a look of disblief, Yusuke began to sing a lullaby from his own infancy that his mother had whispered from the dark to him.
"Lay down your sweet and weary head…….Night is falling" Placing her on the futon, he realized his mother's lullaby was something she never allowed anyone to sing except for his grandmother, Atsuki.
"You have come to journey's end. Sleep no." His mother's eyes were filled with a simplicity that was unmeasured. She loved the deep baritone that he sang to her with, smooth and casual to her drunken heart.
"Yusuuuke……..do you think I'm wooorth anyyything? I know I'm useless, never cooould keep a steeeeady job…..neveer home much……." The tears feel from her eyes as she reached out towards him. Grasping her hand, Yusuke wiped the tears away with a brush of his thumb.
"I never cared about that, mom. I don't care how much you owe, we'll pay it off somehow. I believe that family is worth more than money or gold." Kissing her cheek and drawing away, Yusuke saw the semblance of love in her eyes. "We'll get through this together, like how we normally do."
"Thank you……" Nodding, Yusuke held onto her hand while she fell asleep. Yusuke smiled and held her for once in his sixteen year old life.
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