Dear, Himeko63 and my other readers-

I'll try to update a bit more in the next weeks, but be patient with me.

I've been running a fever of over a hundred and three for almost a week now. And on top of that, I haven't been sleeping the past few days. So I'm really tired.

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A few hours later-

Team Urameshi had won their first match and defeated their opponents badly. And while Yusuke himself seemed oblivious to the devastation of the demon's. His teammates weren't. Rinku had sat beside the human girl and held her hand through out the entire time. Occasionally shooting her concerned/worried looks.

Making anyone with eyes more than a little curious as to what the human had to do with anything.

But Kuwabara knew.

And when Kurama and Hiei had approached him to ask what he had felt from the other team during his fight, he hadn't told them anything aside from the fact that they needed to keep Yusuke away from the girl. And while Kurama could appreciate the fact that she was too much of an unneeded distraction for the teen, he could also appreciate other specific dilemma's.

His human body was also feeling a little bit of a...pull. Which is the only real way that he could describe it, towards the girl. And human's, being the typically hormone driven beings that they were, seemed to love the thrill of the hunt for their own sort of prey.

Prey of course meaning, females.

So naturally, Kurama could understand the appeal that the girl represented to Yusuke. However unlike him, he had no intentions of getting involved with her on any level since it was a well known fact that kitsune demon's were notorious for attempting to befriend females, and later on down the line winding up mated to them.

And unlike many other species of demon...kitsune's mated for life which was why he planted himself exactly as far away from the ring and the other team and that girl as he could. While somehow managing to keep Yusuke well within sights as the bruised and bloody teen slowly began to walk over to where their day's opponent's had been sitting through most of the fights.

The demon's that his team had fought that day were crowded around the girl, the kid was in her lap quietly sobbing while the two demon's that Kurama and he had fought were both on their knees in front of her.

The demon that Kurama had fought against earlier, Toya, had his head resting on Yuki's leg and she was doing her best to try and comfort him and the kid in her lap while the big guy with the mohawk, Chu, was quietly apologizing over and over again.

It was a peculiar sight to be sure, but one that made Yusuke curious.

Pausing for a moment, several feet away from the small group, he began to silently debate with himself on whether or not this was the wisest course of action to take at the moment. The voice in his head was practically shouting at him to get Yuki alone even if it was just for a few minutes.

Finally one of the demon's, the one that Kuwabara had fought against earlier, noticed he was standing there and let out a furious cat-like hiss and jumped out of Yuki's arms so suddenly that he startled her to the point where if she hadn't have had a demon's head on her knee, she would have surly have fallen backwards off of the bench.

"What are you doing here?!" The kid (Rinku, wasn't it?) spat at him, causing Chu and Toya to turn to him and wait for his reply.

Yusuke thought for a moment, and wondered if he should simply come out and ask the guys if he could steal Yuki for a bit. Maybe take her and go grab some lunch or something? However he was reluctant to say anything right away because they might object to him asking her out.

Then again, maybe it would be okay since despite defeating Chu and Toya- the two held no animosity towards him or Kurama. So maybe things would work out.

He hoped.

"I came to ask if it would be alright if I took your friend out to lunch or something." He said awkwardly as he scratched his cheek and waited for someone to say something when the kid snarled at him and grabbed Yuki around the waist and started shouting,

"No! No way! You beat the crap out of us and then expect us to give Yuki to you. Are you insane?! You've ruined everything!"

"Rinku, shut up!" Toya finally snapped at the boy when he finally managed to shake himself of his stupor. "We may be on friendlier terms with team Urameshi but that doesn't mean that we should embarrass Yuki publicly by acting like savages... She's worked hard to knock some manners into your thick skull boy, so you better damn well use them."

Rinku fell silent and began sniffling a bit as Chu finally said, "What Toya said may be true Urameshi, but we're wary of letting our favorite little sheila out of our sight. After all, this island is a sanctuary for demons. And unlike us guys, Yuki is a defenseless human girl-"

"I know. And I understand what your saying. Really I do. Now I need you guys to know something, I'm interested in your girl. I know that she has spiritual awareness that is much greater than an average person, and yeah, that would sort of cause some issues with some of the natives around here. And I also know that she's...uh..." He paused for a moment and hesitated to go any further without first figuring out what to say to them to explain how he knew of her condition before figuring that he could just say it was something he figured out either from being around women in the family way, or because he could sense the little tyke's energy.

Technically speaking he wouldn't be lying either way.

"I-I know that Yuki's pregnant. I can sort of sense the little one so I know that there are specific things that expectant mother's need."

Chu and Rinku and Toya all gaped at him with horrified expressions on their faces. Which was a little bit of a bummer since he hadn't totally expected their reactions to him knowing such a thing would be quite so- so peculiar.

"Anyways, I'm not planning to back down on this or run away or give up. I want to get to know Yuki whether as a friend or something else- I haven't exactly figured out yet since I thought that maybe she could meet me half way on that particular subject. And I know you guy want to protect her, I even respect that. So much so that if you really feel that you can't trust her alone with me then I want you guys to join us. We can meet in an hour or two in the hotel lobby and we can either eat there, or someplace else on the island. I'll pay for everything, so no one has to worry about that..."

"That's a very kind and...very peculiar offer Urameshi." Toya began before Chu cut in.

"And we do appreciate it. However-"

Rinku was the one who cut in next, "It's Yuki's call. We simply follow her lead."

Everyone looked at Yuki and noted the deer-in-the-headlights look on her pretty face before she quickly masked it and gave everyone an somewhat nervous looking smile before she said in a soft and husky sounding voice that Yusuke found mesmerizing to hear, "T-That sounds nice..."

Yusuke tilted his head slightly to the side and studied her for a moment before asking, just to make sure. "So you're in?"

"Uh...yeah, I-I guess."

He smiled at her and stuffed his hands in his pants pockets and rocked back on his heels for a moment before asking, "Okay. So when do you wanna meet?"

"Two hours?" She said it as a question after taking a quick glance around at her friends and frowning a bit. She would need at least that long to patch them all up and coax at least Rinku and Chu into taking a shower. And then she would have to see about letting Jin know so that he could join them.

Sighing, she already felt exhausted and she hadn't even done anything yet.

"Cool," Yusuke said with a grin. "That'll give us all some time to hopefully take care of our injuries and get cleaned up and change our clothes. Do you wanna meet in the hotel lobby?"

"Uh...sure. That would be fine." Yuki said as she felt herself beginning to blush a bit.

Yusuke smiled at her and gave a small wave as he turned and walked away from them. He had a lot to do in a short amount of time if he was going to 'wow' Yuki.