(A/N: Hey there. Just warning you. It get's a little depressing towards the end, but real life isn't all happiness, sunshine and rainbows. At any rate, I hope you enjoy this chappie.)
"Okay, what the hell happened here?" Yoru asked, restraining Kuwabara from going after Jin, who currently was hovering behind Touya's head and sticking out his tongue, by gripping the back of his now far too large tee.
"The same thing that happened to me, Yamina…Yoru-san." Touya replied, holding both Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki in the air by their oversized collars, both of whom were writhing and twisting, frantically trying to get free so they could resume fighting.
The only ones currently not fighting were Yusuke, Keiko and Chuu, who had wandered over to the T.V., Yusuke turning it on and flipping it over to Blues Clues, ultimately distracting the three.
"I see." Yoru replied, removing her hands from the back of Kuwabara's t-shirt freeing him up to perform a very impressive diving tackle.
"Not the wisest of moves." Touya sighed, switching Suzuki into his left hand with Shishiwakamaru, before turning to break up the fight before they broke something…only to find his path blocked by Yoru's arm.
"Wait, wait, wait." She smirked, crouching down and staring at the brawling pair who began slowing as they felt her eyes burning a hole through them.
Soon they stopped, Jin's fist poised mid-punch and Kuwabara mouth readied to chomp on the Kaze Tsukai's wrist.
"Well go on." Yoru said patiently, resting her hand on her chin, giving the boys the indication that she was going no where.
Slowly, they pulled away from each other and crept to opposite sides of the room, looking rather nervous as the ningen girl rose up from her squatting position.
"Gawd. I don't need this." Yoru groaned, massaging a crick in her back, "Don't you have anyone else you could call?"
"Whaddabout Kuwama?" Yusuke suggested, hopping off the sofa to tug Touya's pant leg, peering up at him through huge, chocolate brown eyes.
"Who?" Yoru blinked.
"Kurama." Touya said, finally tiring of holding Suzuki and Shishi aloft, settled on hanging them from the hat rack by the door, "You met him earlier. The yoko in ningen form. Green eyes?"
"OH Right, right. The one who had hair I would kill for. Right." Yoru supplied, as Yusuke grabbed a hold of Touya's leg, waiting for the youkai to move, "Do you think he could handle this mess?"
"Perhaps." Touya shrugged, joggling his leg slightly, hoping that Yusuke would get the hint and get off, but this only cause Yusuke to hold on tighter and a smile to appear on his face.
"What was it he called himself again?" she mumbled aloud to herself, "Shun? Shunsaku? I know it's Shu something."
"It doesn't matter." Touya sighed, "I can locate Kurama through his youki trail, if you will help me escort this bunch to his current location."
"Fine. If helps me rid myself of you." Yoru snorted.
"You really don't like me, do you?" Touya remarked, stating it as a fact, rather than a question.
"I despise your kind." Yoru replied casually, walking into the kitchen and her cell, "It doesn't matter where you go. At the core of them, all men are the same."
"Whuh's thah'?" Jin asked curiously, peeking out from his hiding place under the sofa.
"Just something in case my mom needs t' reach me." Yoru said giving the chibified wind imp the tiniest of smiles, "At any rate, we better get you to this Shunichi guy's place."
"Why're w' goin' there?" Chuu asked, tugging at the leg of her jeans to get her attention, "What's at this Shun blokes house?"
"Help." Touya replied truthfully striding over to the couch to pluck up Keiko, "Hopefully, he can assist me long enough until you return to your proper selves."
"Well Miya-chan, it looks as though we got to you just in time." a nurse said cheerfully as she entered the hospital room, chart in hand, "Your white blood cell count was dangerously low."
"Lovely." Miyasu said sarcastically, rolling her eyes, "So, you're moving me into Yuhi's room when?"
"Later today, Miya-chan." The nurse, who after the many years of treating the woman, was far past using honorifics, smirked, "Until then, you rest up ya hear?"
"Alright, alright, yeesh. You're as big a nag as my musume." Miyasu snorted, making the nurse laugh as she turned to leave.
"Oh! That reminds me. You have a visitor." Nurse called, already out the door, "Should I send him in?"
"Unless you want me to die of boredom." Miyasu shot back. flopping back on her bed with a loud, exasperated groan.
"As incorrigible as ever I see." A painfully familiar voice remarked mirthfully from the doorway.
"Aoshi." Miyasu murmured, forcing herself to not look at him, as heat rose into her face "What are you doing here?"
"Can't a man worry about his co-worker?" Aoshi asked innocently, "How quickly you seem to forget that we work for the same firm."
"I DIDN'T-! I mean…" Miyasu paused to take a breath and calm herself, "I didn't forget, Aoshi. But after the…incident, I didn't think you'd actually have the balls to show your face in front of me."
"Ah, yes. The Nozomi Affair." Aoshi nodded, moving forward to sit on the edge of the gurney, "So tell me, is Yoru still angry?"
"You warped her entire perception of the male populous." Miyasu replied offhandedly, "Your daughter believes all men are trash, thanks to your act of infidelity."
"And what about you?" Aoshi asked, turning her face to look at him, "Do you hate all men like Yoru? Are you still angry?"
"Water under the bridge." Miyasu remarked calmly, "Being angry at you doesn't make me any less sick."
"And what about us? Do you think there's any chance we could…" Aoshi slid his large, rough-palmed hand over Miyasu's much smaller one.
Miyasu's face colored and she found that she had become temporarily mute rendering her incapable of replying.
"How much farther?" Yoru asked, doing her best to restrain an enraged, pint-sized Shishiwakamaru from launching himself at the Kaze Tsukai perched on her back, "They may be chibified versions of their former selves, but they're still just as strong."
"Not too much farther." Touya replied, a rather sulky Yusuke slung over his shoulder after flipping Keiko's skirt for the forth time, Keiko herself holding Touya's hand and crying as they walked along, "We are closing in on his current location."
"Closing in on who now?" a terse voice asked from the tree limbs above, "What is all this, Juhyou Tsukai?"
"The Idunn Box." Touya replied in an 'isn't it obvious' tone, "Kuwabara didn't recognize and…this is the end result."
"He asked me to help herd the little guys here." Yoru replied evenly, returning Hiei's piercing glare with one of her own, "So where's this, Suekichi guy?"
"If you are referring to Kurama, his residence is two more dwelling's down." Hiei retorted coolly, "And his ningen alias is Shuichi."
"Touya! Touyaaaa!" Kuwabara cried frantically, tugging desperately at the Juhyou Tsukai's fishnet sleeve, "Chuu's makin' faces at me!"
"Ah am nawt!" Chuu called from behind Yoru's legs, before sticking his tongue out and pulling down the sides of his lips at Kuwabara.
"OI! Dun' lie!" Jin cried, leaping off of Yoru's back to sucker punch Chuu in the chin, Chuu retaliating with an elbow to the nose, causing both boys to start bawling.
"Ha ha! Stoopey heads!" Shishiwakamaru laughed as he was off loaded to Touya so the ningen girl could deal with the boys.
"Like yer any smarder." Suzuki retorted kicking Shishi in the shin, Shishiwakamaru responding in kind by biting Suzuki's wrist.
"I can see where extra help would be necessary." Hiei muttered, before turning on his heel and flitzing away.
"Well, this is quite the mess, now isn't it." Kurama remarked offhandedly at the site of the fussy, crying, generally annoyed party on his doorstep.
"Noooo, really?" Yoru said sarcastically, having sacrificed the hem of her favorite Rammstein concert tee for the greater good of staunching Jin's bloody nose and Chuu's split lip.
"I require your assistance, Kurama-san." Touya said ruefully, his pride as a man being crushed from uttering those words but his shoulder bone being pulverized even more so as Yusuke thrashed about wildly to free himself.
"Well, I've done my civic duty as a child care provider." Yoru said shrewdly, plucking Jin from her back, Chuu from her shoulder and Suzuki from her leg, "I'll be moseying on home n-"
Hikaru kaze wo oikoshitara
Kimi ni kitto aeru ne
Atarashii kagayaki HAPPY READY GO!!
"Who could that be?" Kurama asked as Yoru frenetically dug through her pocket for the phone.
"Yuhi." She supplied shortly, as she lifted the cell out of her pocket and slid it open, "It's the tone I set for when he texts me…SOS? What the hell?"
She dialed in a number on speed dial and started tapping her foot, the caller on the other line answering on the first ring.
"Hey shrimp. What's the big emergency?" she drawled, "I've already had one today, so this had better be g-…"
Kurama and Touya's demonic ears picked up Yuhi's voice frantically shouting about a man in the next room, cozying up with their mother.
"Oh…really?" Yoru said coolly, eyes fixing themselves in a glare, "Tell me…what does he look like?"
"B-brown eyes…sorta like yours, hair pulled into a ponytail, and a tattoo of a scorpion on his neck." Yuhi supplied, describing his own father to the letter.
"I'll be there in ten minutes." Yoru ground out, hanging up abruptly, turning on her heel hissing, "Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit!" under her breath.
"Hiei, I believe Touya-san and myself can handle this lot." Kurama said serenely, "Why don't you ensure Yaminade-chan arrives at the hospital unharmed? She's is in a rather emotional frame of mind…and I know Yusuke and Keiko would not be pleased if she was hurt."
"No need for a long winded speech, kitsune." Hiei muttered from the porch roof, "I ensure she arrives intact."
"Arigato, Hiei." Kurama replied with a smile as he felt the familiar energy signature vanish from his roof top.
"Haa…huhh…haa…" Yoru stood in the middle of the hall wheezing for breath, only a few feet away from her mother's hospital room.
She broken her previous record of nine minutes and twenty-two seconds by three minutes.
The old record had been set when Yuhi had come down with tonsillitis and the school had chosen to inform her while in gym that he was in critical condition.
Upon reaching Miyasu's door, she heard voice's speaking in hushed tones as she approached and slid the door open slightly to hear.
"…I don't know, Aoshi." Miyasu murmured doubtfully, eyes downcast, "What will the children think? What will Yoru think?"
"We'll deal with it as it comes." Aoshi replied, lifting her chin so she was forced to look at him, "They're going to find out we've gotten back together sooner or later. I'm sure Yoru will be mature about it, and Yuhi will follow suit."
"Do really think?" Miyasu asked, not noticing Aoshi had moved in closer.
"I know." Aoshi said huskily, kissing his former wife, only to have her start away with a gasp.
"Y-Yoru!" she cried softly, hands flying to her mouth, Aoshi turning to find the girl from the corner store standing in the door, no expression on her face.
Wordlessly, she slid the door shut.
"Oh god…what have I done?" Miyasu whispered, burying her face in her hands.
"She's…she's grown so much." Aoshi muttered numbly, speaking his thoughts without realizing, "I don't even recognize her. She's not the little girl I left…is she?"
Hiei was mildly surprised. The ningen hadn't pent even two minutes within the hospital before exiting again, looking a bit more disoriented than when she entered.
Knowing the Reikai Tantei would beat him black and green if anything should happen to the bakabakashi ningen girl, he begrudgingly followed after her.
A good thing too, because not two seconds later, she ignored a traffic signal and wandered into the crosswalk while light was red.
Darting between the human road blocks, he easily grabbed her wrist and pulled her back onto the sidewalk.
Grumbling under his breath he marched over to a bench and forced her to sit, not that it took much coercion in the state she was in.
"I guess this tears it." she mumbled bleakly, "If all men are genetically encoded to be manipulative jackasses…then all women must be genetically predisposed to being stupid enough to believe them."
With those words she slumped forward, fingers gripping the fabric of her jeans tightly as she began to sob.
"Kurama." Hiei thought quickly, sending the telepathic message the spirit fox who had just manage to force Kuwabara back to his normal self.
"What is it Hiei? You sound troubled." Kurama's voice remarked in the jaganshi's mind, as Kurama himself finished Keiko reversion and moved on to Chuu.
"The girl is crying." Hiei said flatly in his mind, sending Kurama the obvious message, 'Do Something About It Cause I'm Not Touchin' That With A Twenty Ft. Pole' by his tone.
"Well I've just finished assisting Keiko." Kurama replied calmly, "I'll have Jin fly her over when I'm finished with him."
"Very well. But do hurry." Hiei muttered, noting how many disapproving stares he was getting, "These ningens are truly becoming bothersome."
"So impatient." Kurama remarked, "Very well, I'll have Touya bring her by land since you don't seem to want to wait."
(A/N: Aoshi moves in, Yoru moves out. How long will Yoru last supporting herself? Will Miyasu chose her old flame over her children? And what of Yoru's man-hating ways? Will they continue? Or will an event occur that shifts her whole perspective? R&R!)