Howdy folks! Panja here with chappie number two of my newest fic endeavour!
Apologies for the name change but Narnia fics aren't my main thing anymore like when I started, Panja MySy is a name a friend gave me in college and it stuck fast ever since so I figured it was time for a change :)
Anyway that's not why you're here, is it? Let's get this started!
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"Hey, Kuwabara," Keiko approached her friend a while later after a meeting between the others and Genkai. Their gathering had produced a large amount of ideas on how to get the two love birds together and Keiko was the first to volunteer her idea so here she was, getting the ball rolling.
"Oh, hey, Keiko," Kuwabara returned her greeting with a smile and stopped walking beside Yukina to pay attention, "What's going on?"
"Genkai wants to see you and the other guys in the training area," Keiko reported, trying to sound inconspicuous.
"What for?" Kuwabara pouted, "Yukina is teaching me about flowers."
"It's ok, Kazuma," Yukina said with her soft and always cheery voice, "If Genkai wants you then she must have an important reason."
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Kuwabara agreed with a huff, "Alright, I'm coming."
Keiko turned on her heel and led the way back to the temple, a pleased and wicked grin spread across her face.
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"Practice?!" Kuwabara practically whined the word, "But I don't feel like practicing, Genkai!"
"Well that's too damn bad," Genkai growled, glaring up at the red head with eyes that clearly said he had no choice in the matter, "It's been far too easy for you boys lately, especially you! I want to evaluate you all and make sure you won't utterly fail if we happened to be attacked at some point."
"Psh, that idiot couldn't even touch a low class piece of trash in his current state," the familiar snarky voice of Hiei reached everyone's ears a moment before the demon dropped out of the trees on the edge of the training area, looking very unhappy.
"Grr, you don't know nothin' about nothin', short stack!" Kuwabara growled, clenching his fist as he got down to Hiei's level to glare into his eyes, Hiei calmly glared back. "I happen to be an S Class level human, in case you forgot!"
"S Class human means little more to me than D Class demon," Hiei chuckled darkly, "You simply can't compare the two."
Kuwabara's fist was about to make contact with Hiei's face when Genkai cleared her throat loudly, causing them both to look over at her in interest.
"Just shut up, both of you!" the tiny woman ordered, "Hiei, you can go first."
"Excuse me?" Hiei growled, his voice laced with annoyance. "I train daily in the Makai, old lady. I have not lost a single ounce of my ability. Using my powers here would very likely result in your temple being reduced to a cinder."
Keiko stood off to the side watching, she nudged Botan in the side.
"This isn't going as planned," she whispered.
"Don't worry," Botan replied with a smile, "Genkai knows the plan, she'll make it happen!"
After several minutes of arguing and insulting and Yusuke making snarky comments, the four boys stood back to back in the clearing, ready to take on whatever Genkai sent their way.
Keiko and Botan took up their places on either side of Yukina, Shizuru lounged on the grass, leaning against the trunk of a tree beside Botan and lit up a cigarette. Genkai began releasing energy balls towards the boys, yelling about how defense is just as important as offense. The boys jumped and twisted and flipped and dodged the small energy blasts, but Yusuke got nicked by one on his hip and dropped down to the grass with a moan.
"I know, grandma, I know," he said grimly as he stood back up and examined his hip, "My defense sucks and I need to work on it. I get the point."
"Defense never was your strong point," Kurama agreed, "Maybe Genkai is right about us all needing more training."
The training went on like this for a while until all four of them were panting from the effort of constantly avoiding the energy balls.
"Sure is hot today," Yusuke announced, giving Keiko a wink as he removed his shirt. Keiko gave him a smile and a nod, the plan was in motion.
"It sure is," Kurama agreed, slowly peeling his shirt off and tossing it aside. Shizuru finally took an interest in the training.
"Feels like a sauna out here," Kuwabara agreed, following the lead of the other two and tossing his shirt aside.
Hiei joined in the shirtlessness without a word and Genkai announced it was time to practice individual techniques starting with Yusuke. Keiko was ready.
"Oh my goodness," she sighed dramatically, fanning herself with her hand, "Yusuke looks so good like this. I love watching him fight without his shirt."
Yukina looked at Keiko with interest and then her gaze went to Yusuke. She was looking very pensive.
"I mean, come on," Keiko continued, "Look at those muscles! He is so strong and brave and...well he's sexy!"
Botan and Shizuru stated their agreements to Keiko's statements and they all continued to make comments throughout Yusuke's hand to hand combat with Kurama whom they also admired out loud.
"That boy sure has a beautiful shape," Botan stated about the red haired demon, "His torso is so long and smooth."
"He's a pretty damn good thing to look at," Shizuru said from the ground, her eyes glued on Kurama as he threw punches at Yusuke's abdomen.
Yusuke and Kurama finally broke apart, covered in sweat and laughing at each other good naturedly.
"Your fighting skills have improved, Yusuke," Genkai commented genuinely, "You must not be wasting time when you're away to the Makai."
"Heh! You won't be so impressed once you've seen him take ME on!" Hiei laughed evilly, his sharp teeth glinted in the sunlight as he stepped forward to take Kurama's place.
As the two powerful demons fought, the commenting on the sideline continued.
"Your brother sure is something," Shizuru commented as Hiei shoved a particularly well aimed foot into Yusuke's thigh and knocked him over. "Small but mighty."
Yukina smiled as she watched Hiei pummel Yusuke into the grass. Eventually, Yusuke managed to get into the groove of the fight and it resulted in a stalemate, both demons glaring at eachother with their fists clenched when Genkai called out for them to stop.
"Kuwabara," the old woman called and Kuwabara stepped up immediately, looking highly nervous. "You I want to focus on differently. We'll be working on swordsmanship, because you really need to focus on using your spirit sword in the most effective manner."
Kuwabara grinned and summoned his spirit sword in a flash and walked over to the practice dummy area with Genkai on his heels. The teacher showed him some moves to practice on the dummies and stepped back to evaluate, giving the girls by the tree a wink.
Kuwabara threw himself wholeheartedly into the training and began running though the moves he'd been shown, swinging and thrusting his sword with gusto. The girls by the tree waited silently for Yukina to make a comment but she remained silent as she watched him.
Keiko felt herself deflate, her plan wasn't working as well as she'd hoped. She had figured after hearing the other girls swoon over their boys and admire the boys and their glorious shirtlessness that Yukina might pay attention to what was right in front of her. After all, Kuwabara was very strong and sturdy and well muscled, even Keiko was admiring the way his muscles were straining from the effort of practice and she had no interest in him at all...so why was Yukina simply watching with little to no emotion on her face?
After a while, Genkai announced training complete for the day and walked back in the direction of the temple without another word. Kuwabara released his sword and let it fade away, panting as he eyed the destroyed straw stuffed targets. Keiko, Boton, Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke followed after Genkai while the others remained to collect the remains of the targets and burn them.
Shizuru stood up from the ground and brushed herself off, Yukina began walking into the clearing towards where Kuwabara was already picking up shattered pieces of targets.
"Shizuru," she said quietly, pausing in her walking to look back at her friend. Her red eyes were bright and she had a smile on her face. "Your brother sure is something too."
Shizuru froze in surprise as the short ice maiden happily began picking up wood chunks beside her little brother, both of them smiling at each other. Kazuma made a comment that Shizuru couldn't hear and Yukina started to laugh and placed her hand on his arm to give it a squeeze.
Shizuru realized right then that their little plan may have had some effect after all.
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So, sorry if this didn't quite turn out like I wanted it to :( I'm at work at the ambulance base and it's almost 2 AM so my mind is far from relaxed and far from rested so it may not be up to par...the next chapter will be better, I promise.
After all, it's Yusuke's plan next.
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