Yusuke had a question about Hiei.

notes: Takes place after the end of the series.

"...You ever hear Hiei fart?" Yusuke asked out of the blue over a game of Street Fighter.

Kuwabara slowly blinked, his brain seeming to come to a halt. As his brain imploded, Yusuke used this moment to deliver the finishing move on Sakura, Kuwabara's selected character.

"What?"

"You ever hear Hiei fart?" Yusuke asked again, pausing their game and reaching for a bag of opened potato chips.

"No...no..."

"You think Hiei can fart?"

"...I don't even know if he sweats man!" Kuwabara finally exasperated, rubbing his temples as he tried to restart his brain.

"In all our time of knowing Hiei, I've never heard him fart! Not even an accidental sneeze fart!" Yusuke declared.

"Do demons fart then?" Kuwabara snorted into laughter, giving in to the weird conversation of the day.

"Of course we fart! You've heard me fart! Hell even Kurama farts!" Yusuke snorted, rolling his eyes.

In the kitchen there was a couple of fumbling sounds, followed by a few choked coughs. Though not interested in the video games, Kurama had come over to Kuwabara's apartment to spend time with his companions. He was sort of regretting that now after hearing this sudden and strange conversation. Setting down a bowl of popcorn, and a half empty soda can, Kurama scrambled for a dish towel.

"I do not fart!" Kurama seethed, color brightening up his face.

"Dude you may be a demon on the inside, but you got a human body now! You totally fart!" Yusuke persisted as Kuwabara dissolved into laughter.

Kurama was mortified.

Yusuke dismissed Kurama's sputters with a wave of his hand, "But that's not what we're talking about here! Who cares if the Rose Queen-"

"Rose Queen!? Yusuke-"

"WHO CARES IF THE ROSE QUEEN," Yusuke continued loudly, "pops a fart off every now and then. I'm talking about Hiei here. Has anyone ever heard him fart?"

Kuwabara was a mess of childish giggles, but Kurama was frowning with thought. "You know," Kurama admitted, "I've known Hiei an awfully long time...and I can't say that I recall ever hearing him fart."

"Maybe...maybe he has silent farts?" Kuwabara offered, voice weak from laughter.

"Never smelt them either...and I have a strong nose," Kurama pointed out.

Kuwabara lost it again. Dropping his controller completely he collapsed onto the floor and shielded his head with with hands as he wheezed in delight.

Yusuke seeming pleased by the ridiculousness he had caused continued, "Maybe when he's running fast he lets it all out. Farting at the speed of sound!"

Kurama was next to give in to laughter, abandoning cleaning up his soda spill, and instead holding his stomach as he let the hilarity overtake him.

Yusuke grinned at the damage he had done, his smile only spreading as the window adjacent from them opened. Hiei, as quiet as ever slipped into the apartment, but his presence was just as noticed as if he'd stormed in. When Hiei noticed Yusuke grinning like an idiot as Kurama and Kuwabara where gasping for air in between guffaws, he cocked one thin black brow up.

"What's going on?"

"Hiei do you fart?"

Hiei answered Yusuke with a kick to the face.

End