Yusuke's a little pee shy in public. Kuwabara's to blame.

Character(s): Yusuke, Kuwabara

genre: Friendship, humor

Yusuke hated peeing in public.

It was all Kuwabara's fault.

Before he met Kuwabara, Yusuke could take a piss anywhere. Piss at home, piss at school, piss on on subway, piss out a moving subway, piss off the side of a bridge, piss at a restaurant, piss at a bar, piss in a bar fight, piss outside the bar, piss on the bar owner, piss in a graveyard, piss in the girl's locker room, piss on some thugs body's, piss in the snow, piss on a tree, piss on the shrine steps, piss on himself while suffering a near fatal injury from Genkai after pissing on said shrine steps-The point was, Yusuke Urameshi used to be able to piss anywhere and not have to think about it.

That changed after he and Kazuma Kuwabara became friends.

Yusuke didn't think he was the type of person to take notice of other people's behaviors... but sure enough after a few missions and a growing friendship, Yusuke began to notice odd things about Kuwabara. Kuwabara hardly ever peed in public. That wasn't too odd, it would have been one thing if Kuwabara never attempted to go, that would probably go unnoticed by the spirit detective. But no, Kuwabara did try to go to the public bathrooms, it was just that Kuwabara would often come running out of the bathroom like he was being chased. Sometimes Kuwabara would get up head towards a bathroom, and then come to a complete stop before reaching the door. After a moment, Kuwabara would turn around and retake his seat.

When Yusuke noticed these weird incidents, the young punk just thought Kuwabara was a little nuts. After all Kuwabara was the weirdo who kept getting back up for more beat downs, no matter how hard Yusuke was on him. So Kuwabara bolting from a bathroom...well that couldn't be too weird right? Clearly Kuwabara was suffering from some kind of head trauma...

But after a while of seeing these weird incidentals, Yusuke one night at some nameless restaurant followed Kuwabara to a bathroom-and before Kuwabara could turn around Yusuke had shouldered them both inside.

There was nothing abnormal about the bathroom. Four urinals in a row, two stalls, three sinks, three mirrors...just a bathroom. It was a little unkempt of course, toilet paper on the floor, dirty jokes scrawled on the wall in permanent marker, and a couple flickering lights. All in all, it wasn't so bad. Yusuke had pissed in worst places. Yusuke turned a cocky eye to Kuwabara, and was surprised to see how pale the taller teen had gotten.

"Come on man...don't you need to go?" Yusuke finally asked as the two stood there. When Kuwabara didn't respond Yusuke jabbed a thumb in Kuwabara's chest, "Come on man! You always chicken out with bathrooms! Got a phobia or something?"

The challenge in Yusuke's voice seemed to snap Kuwabara out of his frozen state and Kuwabara mechanically walked over to a urinal. Satisfied, Yusuke chose a urinal away from Kuwabara, and proceeded to try and go...but the tension radiating off Kuwabara, made Yusuke unable to go.

Another minute of silence ticked away, and Yusuke burst, "Okay man!" Yusuke was frowning completely frustrated, and annoyed at his nagging guilt for shoving Kuwabara in the bathroom, "What's up? What are you so freaked out about?"

Kuwabara frowned and looked down staring hard at the blue urinal deodorizer block. It was almost comical to see a six foot tall guy standing slightly bent in front of a urinal, his flaccid dick held in his slightly trembling hands. But Kuwabara's face was drained of color, and Yusuke was finding it hard to find anything about this situation funny. His face was clearly distressed.

Yusuke knew that there were a few rules about guys in bathrooms-and one of those was surely don't stare at the other guy in the bathroom. Another rule was probably not to stand next to each other in a urinal. Yusuke tucked his penis back in his pants, and stood next to Kuwabara bumping shoulder to elbow with the larger man.

"Hey," Yusuke said in a low voice, "What's going on with you?"

Kuwabara flinched, lips setting into a thin line. Yusuke remained calmly next to Kuwabara, waiting for an answer.

"Come on man...I'm just gonna stand next to you...in a bathroom, side by side...looking like some gay couple-"

Kuwabara snorted...and like that the tension broke into a bit of childish giggles.

"Urameshi...I don't think gay couples stand next to each other, shoulder to shoulder, in a urinal. I think they got a bit more class than that..."

Yusuke shrugged, "I wouldn't be standing next to ya like this if you weren't being such a nut! What's going on? Out with it!"

Kuwabara frowned, and flinched at Yusuke's persistence, but there was a look in his eyes that said he was about to burst. Yusuke nudged Kuwabara again, and finally Kuwabara spoke.

"...You know how sometimes when you're alone in a public bathroom...you get this creepy feeling...like something's not right?" Kuwabara gushed, not waiting for a response from his shorter friend, "Well Urameshi...that's cuz most bathrooms seem to have a lot of pissed off creepy fucking ghosts inside of it!" Kuwabara rushed the last few words out looking like he was waiting for Yusuke to accuse him he was lying or laugh at him.

At first that was exactly what Yusuke wanted to do. Throw up his hands, laugh, call Kuwabara of being an idiot...but Yusuke didn't. Instead he thought about how Kuwabara had been able to sense him when he was dead, and how blue in the face he had gotten. How when Kuwabara went to Genaki's shrine he claimed to see things he never wanted to see and had broken in a sweat. How when they were at the Maze castle, they'd really depended on Kuwabara's growing psychic abilities to see them through the winding halls.

Perhaps for the first time in his life, Yusuke thought before he spoke, and when he did speak he only asked, "What do ya see?"

Kuwabara looked at Yusuke, shock and then instant relief spread all over his face. The look of utter gratitude on Kuwabara's face made Yusuke's throat feel tight.

"Urameshi, I swear to god there's a head in every urinal, and in the corner there's something tall and black slamming its head into the corner!" Kuwabara chatted on, relief and horror mingling in his words, "I swear I'm not making this up and I see these weird things all the time in these places! Sometimes there is nothing...just a real bad feeling...and I..I can't go in man. I'd rather piss on the sidewalk then go inside places like this!"

Kuwabara's eye begged Yusuke to believe him-and Yusuke did. Looking at Kuwabara in the state he was in now, there was no way Kuwabara was making this up... which made the bathroom suddenly very unsettling. Yusuke felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and looking past Kuwabara, just in the corner, he could swear he saw a glimpse of black figure...banging his head against the wall. Yusuke felt his throat tighten, and in the silence of the bathroom, an echoing thud filled the air.

That was it.

Like screaming idiots the two ran shrieking from the bathroom, and far from the restaurant, and only when they were in an alley did Kuwabara realize he hadn't tucked his penis back inside his pants.

Kuwabara cursed, situating himself, sank to the ground with his hands in his hair and groaned, "Ah shit man! I can never go back there again! Ah man!"

"Fuck why would you want to go back?! Especially if you're seeing all that? Jesus man!" Yusuke wheezed his heart racing a mile a minute.

"...it's not like they're there all the time. And most the time they're not gonna do anything to you...it just freaks me out!" Kuwabara sighed. He exhaled hard and whispered, "Thank you man...for believing me. I've never...I've never told anyone that before."

"Shit...well...Yeah..." Yusuke mumbled shrugging his shoulders.

He was new to this male-friendship thing...and it was weird being thanked for standing by Kuwabara, for believing him. It was kind of nice too.

Yusuke sighed, "I kinda wish you hadn't told me all that though! I'm never gonna be able to pee in a public bathroom again!"

And Yusuke was right.

He was now forever pee-shy. And it was all of Kuwabara's fucking fault!

End