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oh yes, I thought I would mention something. As you're surely aware, Genkai's temple is huge and has many building spread throughout the compound (remember her tournament?), so it stands to reason that she probably has many rooms too. So Botan, Yukina, Puu, Yanagisawa, Kaito, Kido and now Yusuke all live with her at the temple, and she still has tons of rooms to spare! Seriously, she could run a hotel...
Oh and if you hadn't figured it out already all the humans (except Amanuma/game master) are out of high school and some are in college.
Standard Disclaimer: I don't own Jin! *sniff *...
To say that the demon village was in Genkai's backyard was only a half truth. Yes, it was well within her lands, but everything the eye can see was her lands, and yes it was behind her temple, however it was probably about a whole mile away from it.
As Jin floated slowly back in that direction, none too eager to get back to building, he wondered why the young demon lord suddenly asked him to call him by his given name. As far as he knew he never asked the same of Chuu or even Kuwabara, whom had known him years longer.
He shrugged it off and continued onward, wondering what would be for dinner and what color he was going to paint his new room. He thought absentmindedly that green sounded good.
As the afternoon wore on, Keiko and the Kuwabara siblings eventually came to the temple, with the girls heading off immediately to find Botan and the younger Kuwabara starting to walk off in the direction of the clearing to continue to help with the building.
As he passed by the temple he saw his long time rival on the roof. Curious, he stopped and waved up to the other getting his attention, "Hey Urameshi! What the hell are you doing up there?"
Turning around from atop his perch, Yusuke looked down at the human psychic and waved before jumping off to land by the other. He grumbled, "Grandma's making me be her cleaning crew today."
Mouth slightly ajar he could only ask, "And you agreed? I'm surprised you didn't just tell her to stuff it and head to the guy's place."
He only rolled his eyes and snarled, "well, I figure I'd do her bidding this time since I'm wanting to stay at her place and all. I'm thinking I'll move my ramen cart out to the demon village and give up on the 'problem solving business'."
"Sounds like a good idea to me. You've only been getting autographs from the cult girls and solving lame school pranks anyway."
The demon boy growled, "thanks for reminding me Kuwabara. I still have to get those three's autographs again before I head back tonight."
The redhead laughed and decided to change the subject. He pointed to the roof, "So what exactly were you doing up there anyway?"
"I was cleaning out the gutters. I don't think she's done it for years." He crossed his arms and scowled, "probably been waiting for me to do it the whole time she's known me." He uncrossed his arms and started to walk in the direction of the small village. "You were headed out to build again right? I'll go with you, I was close enough to being done anyway."
Kuwabara followed behind, as they started walking down the newly beaten path through the forest to the clearing.
"I know Genkai wants to leave the forest alone as much as possible but I think we should at least make a proper walkway out of this path. Put some gravel down and a few lights by the side at least."
Yusuke smirked, "Well since it's a path to the place where demons live it's not really necessary. After all, most can see in the dark and many would rather fly or jump through the trees anyway."
The human agreed, "Yeah, that's true but since we're supposed to be bridging the gap between demons and humans we might want to make it a little easier for any normal humans to walk from the temple to the village, you know?"
The young demon lord nodded, "Yeah your right. I guess we should talk to Genkai about it. It could be kind of expensive to build a proper path that stretches a mile though." He put his finger on his chin and looked off to the side, "but you know what? I heard from Yana that she's loaded with money too and she's been giving those three an allowance for helping her out around here." He suddenly stopped with eyes wide and yelled, "Hey! What the hell! I forgot about that! If those three are staying at her place and doing stuff and getting paid for it, why the hell didn't she make them clean her house!"
Kuwabara turned around to laugh at the former, "sounds like you got suckered Urameshi."
They continued to walk as the ex-detective grumbled about sneaky old bitches and really having to blow his nose in her food now.
As they walked out of the woods and into the clearing, Yusuke whistled, "Man they sure made good progress this week. Last time I was here I swear there was only like fifteen houses."
The little village in the clearing had about twenty buildings in various sizes, shapes, styles and stages of completion. As the demons living there had come from all three of the former Makai territories, everyone had their own idea of housing. Some even trying to adopt human culture and had Ningenkai styled buildings.
Of those types of houses and one of the buildings that had been finished first was the house that the cult trio shared together. Being such attention-getters, all the spare males around clamored together and built their house for them in record time. Which is why it was one of the very few that was completely finished including paint, decorations and even hand-made furniture.
As Yusuke walked up to the door with Kuwabara still following he mumbled something about, 'getting this over with quick.' Before he could knock on the door, however, it was pulled open to reveal none other than the loud mouth herself.
The champion of the dark tournament scowled, sometimes he really hated that all the demons could sense him coming, especially those he didn't care for that much. "Hi fox girl."
Koto nodded at him and waved them inside, "Hello Yusuke, I assume you're here because of another human fan right? Which one of us do you need something from this time? If it's from me I'm not selling you any more of my underwear. I'm starting to doubt that they're really for these 'customers' of yours."
The young demon snarled as he walked into the house, still followed by Kuwabara. "Of course they're for those weirdos! What the hell would I do with them? What are you complaining about anyway? You get paid a huge amount to go out and buy a new pair of panties, wear them once and sell them to your freaky fan boys!"
"WHAT?" Obviously this was news to Kuwabara, "You've been selling Koto's underwear? Urameshi you pervert!"
"What the hell? I'm not the one who's asking for them! Why get pissed at me?"
"Well... anyway its a good thing you're quitting that. Sounds like no good to me." Kuwabara mumbled with his face still red as his hair.
"Oh? You quit your little 'problem solving business'?" Koto offered them a seat on the living room couch, "then what are you here for? And what are you going to do now?"
The brunette turned to her, "Well I'm quitting, but I still have one more errand to do before I close the shop in the city, and I've decided to come out here and help with the immigrations when I'm done, and this last job doesn't require handling any of your undergarments. You still have some of those photos with all three of you guys right?"
The fox eared girl nodded, "yup, we always keep some of those around. I take it this person wants all three of our signatures right?" She got up from her seat to go to a nearby chest of drawers and pulled out an 8 x 10 photo of herself, Juri and Ruka.
"Yeah, where are your two shadows anyway?"
Koto sat back down and pulled her ever present signature tools out of her pocket and picked the magic marker over the pen and put the photo on the coffee table in front of them. Beginning to sign her name by the picture of herself she replied, "Ruka is over with Touya and the boys showing them furniture out of a catalog she found, and Juri is down at the lake. Being a water nymph she goes for a swim everyday you know."
She handed the photo out for Yusuke to take, but when he tried to grab it she moved it out of his reach.
"Where's my pay for this?"
"Oh come on Koto." the would-be demon king tried to coax her, " This being the last time I get an autograph from you I thought you might let me have a freebie."
She snorted and merely held out her other hand next to the one holding the photograph in front of her.
"Fine, it's not like I'd do anything with it but sell it anyway." He reached into the oversized pocket on the leg of his cargo pants and pulled out a karaoke cd and handed it to her. "Apparently a new one of the latest hits right now just came out and I figured you wouldn't have it yet."
She giggled girlishly and handed him the photo, hurriedly thanking him and rushing them both out the door. Not ten second after she slammed the door behind them they heard her karaoke machine turn on as she put the new disc into it and they headed off in the direction of Jin's house before they could hear her singing.
"You pay her in karaoke music?" Kuwabara asked as they walked away.
Yusuke turned back to him and smirked, "yeah, well, only for the autographs. Its like we always thought, she really likes to hear the sound of her own voice."
When the two arrived at the house of Jin and the others, they found them with Ruka sitting on the newly built front porch looking over some furniture catalog. Well it was mostly her, Suzuka and Shishiwakamaru looking through it, with the rest looking at the pictures when one of the three pointed something particular out to one of them and chatting about how they would decorate their house and arguing over the details.
As soon as Jin noticed the two approaching he stopped playing the role of referee between Chuu and Rinku's bickering match over the choice between a dry bar or a ping pong table in the den and came over to greet them.
"Howdy lads! Ya come to help us with the house have ya?" The red head greeted cheerily.
Yusuke shook his head, "nah I'll help you guys out later though. Actually I needed that autograph from Ruka."
Hearing her name the enchantress looked up, "another autograph for your so called 'Problem Solving Business' Yusuke?" she handed the catalog over to Suzuka who had the imp form of Shishi sitting on his shoulder. The enchantress then stood up and walked over to them. "When are you ever going to give that up?"
The ex-detective frowned, "Is everyone on my case about my failing business today? For your information this is thankfully the last job I'm doing before I close up shop and drag my shit up here so I can help everyone out." He crossed his arms and growled, "Though, now that I think about it I'm not sure why I want to put myself through looking at you every freaking day."
The wind master beside him patted his shoulder, "Oi, don't let the lassies get to ya. Ya know the rest o' us be excited ya finally decided to come up here to stay fer good."
Yusuke smiled gratefully at Jin, probably a few seconds longer than he should have before turning back on the female red head, holding out the photograph to her, "Look, Ruka can you just sign this so I can be on my way to ask fish face for her part of this job?"
The demoness smiled wickedly looking to the ex-detective and his two friends next to him that were well within hearing range and he kicked himself for forgetting what he needed to give her in exchange. "But Yusuke," she spoke almost... coyly. "Where's my usual payment for an autograph?"
The brunette cringed when the other two looked to him curiously. "ah, can I give it to you later?"
"No, I want it now. I know you already have it."
Jin had noticed the redness creeping up on the young demon's face, but Kuwabara was as oblivious as usual, "What's she want Urameshi? Cd's like Koto wanted?"
He didn't have to wait long to find out what it was she wanted as he snapped out a "Fine!" and once again reached into his cargo pants pocket, this time pulling out a paper back book. He quickly shoved it into the demoness's hands, but not before the master of wind saw the picture of two people half naked in a bed on the front cover.
"You got your damn book now sign this stupid ugly ass picture so I can be on my way."
Not one to pass up tormenting Yusuke when it was so easy, after all teasing him was a group past time at Genkai's, she furthered his distress by lifting the book up and pretending to inspect it. Though obvious she was holding it up so the other two could easily see it was a romance manga, and not just any romance manga, but a yaoi romance manga. "what's this? It looks like someone made dog ears on these pages."
She looked him straight in the face completely unashamed of her choice of reading material and smiled, he knew he was screwed now, "Why is it every time I ask you to get me the latest volume of this series it seems as though someone has already read it?"
Jin still floating beside him quirked an eyebrow as he turned his face slightly to look at the detective. This was interesting. The horned demon had always assumed that since the teen had been born and raised as a human, that he would only have an interest in females since most humans thought of same sex relations as taboo. 'This requires more lookin inta.'
Only a split second after Ruka had made her statement and while Jin was having his thought, Yusuke automatically spat out an excuse before Kuwabara had a chance to have a thought of his own on the matter. "I told you before! I get 'em from used book stores ok! Just sign the damn picture so I can be on my freaking way!"
Luckily for the detective the human psychic believed him and rounded on the enchantress, "Hey Ruka, that's not very nice trying to embarrass Urameshi like that when he went out of his way to get you your fangirly book." He stopped and thought a moment, "Even if the only reason he got it for you is cus he needs your autograph."
Ruka looked at him with an eyebrow raised, astounded by his stupidity and was about to tell him as much when she spotted the detective and the wind master. Yusuke was giving her a 'you say one more word and I'll kill you with my pinky finger' look and Jin was glancing at the demon heir out of the corner of his eye with a look of interest that clearly showed he was currently reevaluating everything he knew about the mazoku.
She figured she'd made enough mischief and conceded, "Alright fine. Give me that picture."
She pulled her marker out of her dress pocket and using her new book as a writing surface, she signed the photo nearby her face and handed it back. "There you go." She sighed, "I guess I'll just have to go get my own books from now on."
He snatched the picture back out of her hands and growled, still embarrassed, "You do that. I'm sure as hell not doing it anymore."
She waved him off and went back to sit next to Suzuka and Shishi, showing them her new prize. Of which the blonde promptly snatched out of her hand and started flipping through it with the imp still on his shoulder, looking at the manga as the inventor skimmed through the pages searching for the good parts.
Chuu having just won his fight with Rinku, and thus won the argument on having a dry bar in the den, left the child demon sitting on the porch rubbing the new bruise on his head to come over to the three still standing the slight distance away.
"Aye mates, how's it going? Ya come back to help us finish the house Kuwabara?"
The human agreed, "yeah that's what I was heading here to do, but now I gotta stick around Urameshi to see what it is he has to give Juri for her payment." He grinned cheekily as the previously mentioned teen glared at him but he continued on anyway. "It's gotta be something funny I bet."
Feeling triumphant at not having to give Juri anything he thought was embarrassing, he blurted out, "Hah! You may as well stay here. The only thing Juri ever asks me for in exchange for autographs is new colors of fingernail polish and makeup." As soon as he said this and looked at Kuwabara he knew he was wrong about not having to be embarrassed.
The dopey grin on the human's face was definitely a sign of what was about to come out of his mouth, "You mean you go to the store and buy makeup for Juri?"
The detective was incredibly glad this was the last time he ever had to ask these girls for their stupid autographs. "I have my mom go get it for her ok? Like I'd know what the hell kind of make up to buy!"
Continuing on with his smile getting even bigger the spirit sword wielder continued to tease, "So you mean, that if you knew what kind to get you'd go buy girly stuff yourself right?"
Jin swiftly flew out of the way as Yusuke reached past him to put Kuwabara in a head lock. "Is this torment Yusuke day or something? Why the hell is everyone picking on me? It's not like I had any new dopey looking spirit beasts hatch or anything."
As they continued to wrestle each other the wind master's ears picked up some noise behind him. When he turned around he saw Juri heading in their direction. No doubt she was heading back to her house after her swim as the boys' house was between the girls' and the lake. Chuu saw her too, and instead of watching the usual routine between the two teens he walked over to talk to her.
The red headed demon turned back toward the wrestling duo and while getting the spirit detective's attention he forgot about their conversation earlier in the day. "Oi Urameshi, Juri's headin this way. You may as well get your last job done now."
The mazoku looked up at the wind master from where he had Kuwabara in a sleeper hold and glanced over at the approaching water nymph before releasing the taller teen. He stood up and dusted himself off and as he walked nearby Jin on his way over to Juri he reminded the demon, "I told you already," He smiled handsomely, "you can call me Yusuke."
As the wind master's eyes widened fractionally at that radiant smile, he heard Kuwabara call from where he still lay on the ground. "How come you want him to call you by your given name and you've never asked me?" As he got up he continued with, "I've known you way longer."
Yusuke made a face at him, stating matter-of-factly, "If you called me by my given name would you want me to call you Kazuma?"
The answer was automatic, "No way! Only my darling Yukina and my family call me Kazuma!"
The detective crossed his arms and nodded triumphant, "See? That's the reason." He set off in the direction of Chuu and Juri, intent on getting his last signature.
As Kuwabara headed up to the porch and the others and Yusuke walked off, Jin was left in the front yard thinking. He knew there was more to the toushin insisting on him using his given name. After all, he didn't insist that Chuu call him by it. He thought to himself, 'If it weren't for the fact that I know Urames- Yusuke were in love with that Keiko lass, I'd be thinking he were interested in me.'
A/N
So in the manga, Yusuke really does end up having to get autographs from the girls a lot. Enough so that he thinks 'not again' when he gets a job and already has a price list involving the girls and 'autographs, handshakes and with articles of clothing being a topic on which 'we'll have to talk' about the price.
The cult girls are almost like mischievous, and annoying sisters to poor Yusuke in this story. I will definitely have to come up with something else they can torment him with now that he doesn't need to ask for autographs anymore lol. Oh wait! I already have new stuff they can torment him about *laughs evilly*