Pumping out chapters as fast as highschoolers pump out babies in my hometown!
*clears throat* Um...anyway...next chapter O.o
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Shizuru looked up from the book she was reading on the couch at the sound of the front door opening and the sound of Kazuma thundering up the stairs immediately, Yukina stood in the door way looking utterly lost.
"What's his problem?" Shizuru inquired as Yukina walked into the living room.
"I don't know," Yukina admitted, "I told him some things I overheard at school and he got really awkward and told me to come talk to you."
"Uh oh," Shizuru peeked over the top of her book, knowing almost exactly what was coming, "What did you hear?"
Yukina related the entire story over again and Shizuru closed her book with a sigh and patted the couch next to her.
"Come sit down," she said wearily, "There's some things you need to know about humans, honey. Let me go call Keiko and Botan, they'll be able to help explain it too. There's some topics I just really would rather not talk about, my little brother's "hardware" is one of them..."
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Botan and Keiko sat on the edge of the couch a half hour after Shizuru's desperate phone call, looking amused and awkward.
"Why is everyone looking at me like that?" Yukina asked, her eyes flicking around the group.
"I brought this," Keiko offered, handing Shizuru a small book. Shizuru eyed it with amusement and shook her head with a laugh.
"I never thought I'd have to do this ever again," she muttered, "It was hard enough explaining this to Kazuma when he was little."
Yukina wanted to scream in frustration but luckily Keiko decided to start things off by handing the book to her. Yukina looked at the title on the front cover: Boys and Girls are Different.
"Um...just read this and we'll answer any questions you have," Shizuru explained, lighting a cigarette.
Yukina sighed and leaned back on the couch, opening the book and beginning to read. The other three girls watched from the kitchen as Yukina's expressions changed throughout the process of reading the information in the book. A while later, Yukina sat up straight and laid the book on the coffee table in front of her, the others filed back into the living room and waited for her to speak.
"So...that was...that explains a lot of things," Yukina sputtered nervously, completely unsure of what to do with the information she just learned.
"Anything you need to ask us?" Keiko asked gently.
"So...those girls were talking about...when they said hardware...?" Yukina started to realize now why Kazuma had reacted the way he did at her story.
"Yeah," Shizuru confirmed her suspicion.
"But...if all boys have...this," Yukina vaguely pointed to the book, "Why would that make him an animal like they said?"
Shizuru choked on the smoke of her cigarette and excused herself from the conversation, heading outside as quick as she could muttering "nope, nope, nope".
Keiko rolled her eyes and turned to focus on Yukina, someone had to enlighten this poor girl.
"Um, Yukina, may I ask how demons, um..." she looked to Botan for help.
"Mate?" Botan offered.
"Yeah, sure, how demons mate?" Keiko didn't like that term but if it helped Yukina understand better...
"Ice apparitions are forbidden to mate," Yukina stated grimly, "It's a terrible offense punishable by death and banishment. We are able to bear children on our own."
"Oh dear..." Botan swallowed thickly, "So if an ice apparition and a human...?"
"That would be the highest offense of all," Yukina said quickly, and it started to dawn on her face where this conversation was going.
"So do you know how humans...um...mate?" Keiko really hated that term.
"No..." Yukina admitted, "I don't even know how demons mate."
"It's basically the same with less blood and broken bones," Botan offered helpfully. Keiko felt like she was going to throw up.
"Oh, good grief," Keiko stood up and went to the phone, a few moments later she returned. "Yusuke is coming over. He's not shy at all about this stuff."
Yukina rolled her eyes and sighed. She felt like she was never going to get the truth.
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Keiko was right though, Yusuke told Yukina everything and then some without any hesitation. Yukina knew the basics and many of the finer points and various techniques of human sexuality in a very short amount of time, even Keiko and Botan learned a few things.
"So, are you confused anymore?" Yusuke asked, kicking his feet up on the coffee table and leaning back looking proud of himself.
"No..." Yukina said softly, "Now I'm overwhelmed..."
"We'll leave you to mull it over," Botan tugged on Keiko's arm and they made their way to the door, "If you have anything else you need to know...ask Yusuke!"
Yukina and Yusuke sat in awkward silence.
"I guess I'll go too," Yusuke announced, standing and stretching his arms over his head, "Welcome to the human world."
"Yusuke?" Yukina had one last question on her mind, she was afraid to ask it because she already knew the answer deep inside, "Does...does Kazuma want to do those things to me?"
"Of course," Yusuke shrugged, "He's a human, it's something all humans require at some point."
"Thanks for your honesty, Yusuke," Yukina sighed, "I have a lot to think about."
Yusuke gave her a two fingered salute and then sauntered to the doorway for his shoes and left.
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Shizuru finally came back inside and peeked around the corner of the doorway.
"Are you educated now?" she asked snarkily.
"I think so," Yukina replied, blushing brightly. "I...had no idea..."
"Of course not," Shizuru shrugged and plopped down on the couch, "You're not human, how were you supposed to know?"
"Apparently it's basically the same for demons..." Yukina mused, "No wonder Hiei hates Kazuma being around me."
"Us older siblings are very protective our little siblings," Shizuru admitted, "But you have my permission to do whatever you two decide to do. I won't kill you like Hiei might kill Kazu."
"You...you want us to?" Yukina asked nervously.
"You two are old enough to make your own choices," Shizuru said with a sigh, "But don't worry, I know for a fact Kazu will never make you do anything you don't want to do."
"But I'm going to have to," Yukina stated, thinking of Yusuke's statement of all humans needing this 'sex' thing. "He said I had to."
Shizuru shot off the couch with a furious howl.
"HE DID WHAT!?"
Yukina's eyes went wide and she wondered what had set Shizuru off, but she nodded.
"I'm going to pound his ass into an early grave," Shizuru's face got terrifyingly dark very quickly and Yukina found herself wondering what Yusuke had said that was so wrong. But Shizuru spun on her heels and made for the stairs with alarming speed and Yukina jumped up to follow her to see what was going on.
Before she even reached the foot of the stairs she heard a very loud bang of a door being flung open into the wall and the terrified shriek of Kazuma...and she realized her mistake. She hadn't specified that YUSUKE had told her she had to, not him!
"Oh no! Shizuru, wait!" she immediately ran up the stairs and practically slid into Kazuma's room.
Shizuru had her hands clasped tightly around her brother's neck and she was shaking him roughly against his bed, Kazuma's eyes were bugging from loss of oxygen but Yukina noticed he wasn't even trying to fight back. Surely Kazuma, being as large and strong as he was could easily fight a girl! He did, however, finally managed to pry her fingers off his neck and he sucked in a lungful of air.
"Sis, what are you doing?!" he gasped, he sounded terrified.
"You hypocritical pig!" Shizuru roared, her knee rose quickly and would have connected very painfully if Kazuma hadn't known it was coming and yanked Shizuru backwards with him onto the bed, he gained the upper hand and rolled over to pin her down by her wrists.
"Shizu! Calm the fuck down and tell me what you think I did!" he yelled firmly. Yukina had never heard him use that tone of voice before and, apparently, neither had Shizuru because she halted her attack and looked at him in surprise.
"I can't believe you," she muttered through her teeth, "All that big talk about being a man and treating girls with respect and your code..."
"Shizuru..." Yukina tried to get a word in but Shizuru was quicker.
"You told her she had to have sex with you!?"
Kazuma didn't move for a second, he just stared at his sister in disbelief, then he quickly stood up and looked over at Yukina in utter shock and confusion.
"I...what? I never..." he sputtered, his face blushing brightly.
"He didn't!" Yukina finally said, loudly, "Yusuke told me that, not Kazuma!"
Kazuma's jaw dropped and Shizuru smacked her palm to her forehead.
"Oh my god, Yukina, did Yusuke come over here and talk to you about this?" she asked grimly.
Yukina nodded.
"Oh, that's just great," Kazuma groaned, he went to the mirror and examined the handprints forming on his neck, "Damn, Shizu, how do I explain this to the teachers tomorrow?"
Shizuru sat up, looking extremely sheepish.
"Well...I just...misunderstood is all," she argued, "I...should have known better...I'm sorry, Kazu."
Kazuma sighed and turned around to smile at his sister.
"It's ok, Shizu," he said graciously, "I get it."
Shizuru nodded and left quickly, obviously not having anything else to say. Yukina stood in the middle of the room, suddenly feeling extremely awkward at being alone with Kazuma now that she knew what she knew.
"So...um...Yusuke explained everything?" Kazuma asked, rubbing the back of his next like he always did when he was nervous. "I hope he didn't just make shit up."
"Keiko assured me he told me the right things," Yukina replied quickly, maybe too quickly. "Sorry about that...I didn't think about how that sounded when I told her that."
"So...Yusuke told you that you have to sleep with me?" Kazuma asked quietly.
Yukina nodded quietly and she saw Kazuma start to chew his bottom lip like he always did when thinking deeply. But he finally seemed to come to a decision and he walked over to her and leaned down slightly to cup her chin in his hand.
"You do realize that...you don't have to, right?" he asked quietly.
"You don't want to?" Yukina wasn't sure why, but that thought kind of hurt.
"Oh no, I do," he corrected her quickly, "I love you, I've told you that over and over again. But I would NEVER tell you that you have to do anything. If you ever decide you want to then I absolutely want to, but it's not a requirement."
"But Yusuke said every human needs it," Yukina explained, so badly confused. Yusuke made it sound like sex was something every human just ran around doing for fun, but when Kazuma talked it sounded far more serious.
"Well...I don't know about that," Kazuma admitted, "I guess maybe it's true in a way, but it wouldn't kill a human to never do it."
Yukina blinked, unsure.
"Oh, and can I make a request?" Kazuma's eyes twinkled with amusement, "Don't assume Urimeshi is the expert on romance, because he doesn't know a thing about it. If you have a question or need to know something, don't be afraid to talk to me."
"But you wouldn't explain THIS to me," Yukina reminded him, making him blush and straighten back up.
"Well...yeah...because I figured you should probably hear it from a girl," he said in his defense, "I had no idea Urimeshi was gonna get involved!"
Yukina suddenly felt very tired and she yawned widely, she hadn't realized how tense she had been all day and it all suddenly melted away. The mystery was solved, the feeling of confusion was gone, she didn't feel pressured, and Kazuma wasn't acting any different to her now than he had...in fact, he even seemed more relaxed as well.
"All this new information wear you out, love?" Kazuma's voice sounded very soothing in her ear and she swayed on her feet, but his hand was there in an instant to steady her. She blinked slowly up at him and felt suddenly very bold and very sure of something.
"Can I sleep with you?" she asked softly, "Not like THAT but just sleep...you can do homework next to me. I just feel like...I need to be close to you. Does that make any sense?"
Kazuma smiled down at her and nodded.
"Makes sense to me, what do you think I've been doing for these last few years?" he wiggled his eyebrow at her, "I just wanted to be close to you too."
Suddenly, a piece fell into place for Yukina in this huge puzzle known as love.
"So...when you love someone, being with them, even just in the same room, makes everything feel better?" she asked in awe.
"You're finally getting it, aren't you?"
"I think...I think I'm starting to," Yukina smiled softly, "So can I...lay next to you while you study?"
"The term is cuddle," Kazuma informed her, "And, yes, you definitely can!"
Cuddle? The word was odd in Yukina's ears but she laid down on the bed while he collected his homework and textbooks from his deck. He flopped down on the bed next to Yukina so hard that she actually bounced into the air with a shriek.
"That was weird," Yukina laughed as she pushed her now messy hair out of her face, "So...laying next to each other is cuddling?"
"Sort of," Kazuma grinned at her and then he put his arm around her and pulled her closer so she was pressed firmly to his side, her head on his shoulder and her arm draped over his stomach. "Cuddling is more like this."
"I like cuddling," Yukina whispered as she felt her eyelids getting undeniably heavy, but she had one more thing to say, "Kazuma?"
"Mmhm?"
"You always call me 'your girl', right?" she asked softly.
"Yeah, I mean, I know you're not really, but..."
"I want to be."
The silence that followed that statement was heavy and full of emotion, Yukina reached out to his mind with hers and she felt an overwhelming surge of absolute happiness pulsing from him.
"I can't believe this is actually happening..." was the last thing she heard him say before she fell into a deep and peaceful sleep.
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Awwwww, yay! She's finally starting to understand! All that undying perseverance on Kuwabara's part SHOULD have paid off in the manga and anime...I choose to believe it did.
Anyway, there is more to come so keep checking up and I'll keep updating!